Hyderabad’s first compact afternoon newspaper `2 MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011 HYDERABAD WWW.POSTNOON.COM WEATHER: CLEAR WITH CLOUDY SPELLS; 20°C 32 PAGES Bradley Cooper ACCEPTS PARADISE LOST MOVIE VERSION P24 Beckinsale WONʼT MIND DOING A NUDE SCENE P25 The saying actions speak louder than words, stands true for veteran actor Dilip Kumar. And as the superstar enters his 90th year, we take a look back at a stellar career. P21 YOUNG CITY AT ITS CAMPUS HQ Today we begin our Campus page; dedicated to the lead- ers and thinkers of tomor- row. If you’re not on it, ask yourself why. THE STORY OF A LEGEND ALONE IN THE DARK KIWI’S LUCKY NUMBER 7 New Zealand beat Australia by seven runs in the second and final Test in Hobart to level the series at 1-1. That bodes well for our boys as they head Down Under PECIAL S The Telangana agitation and government apathy has left the City gasping for power. And it’s the common man who’s bear- ing the brunt of a city heading into the dark ages REPORT ON PG 4 P20 P13
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Hyderabad’s first compact afternoon newspaper
`2MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011 HYDERABAD WWW.POSTNOON.COM WEATHER: CLEAR WITH CLOUDY SPELLS; 20°C 32 PAGES
Bradley CooperACCEPTS PARADISELOST MOVIE VERSION
P24
BeckinsaleWONʼT MIND DOING
A NUDE SCENEP25
The saying actions speak louder than words,stands true for veteran actor Dilip Kumar. Andas the superstar enters his 90th year, we take alook back at a stellar career.
P21
YOUNG CITY ATITS CAMPUS HQToday we begin our Campuspage; dedicated to the lead-ers and thinkers of tomor-row. If you’re not on it, ask yourself why.
THESTORY OFA LEGEND
ALONEIN THEDARK
KIWI’S LUCKY NUMBER 7New Zealand beat Australia by seven runsin the second and final Test in Hobart to levelthe series at 1-1. That bodes well for ourboys as they head Down Under
PECIALS
The Telangana agitationand government apathyhas left the City gasping
for power. And it’s thecommon man who’s bear-
ing the brunt of a cityheading into the dark ages
REPORT ON PG 4
P20
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Myriad ReflectionsView a collection of paintings at AlankrithaArt Gallery by Ramachandra B Pokale at anexhibition titled “ Myriad Reflections”.His work depicts the youth.
Awriter, a gymnast, envi-ronmentalist, a cricketenthusiast, a soccerplayer, Dinesh Godke
wears many caps.A management graduate from
IIT Mumbai, Dinesh is one of thedirectors of WAYE (World Alliancefor Youth Empowerment). His jobis to tackle issues relating to theyouth and support them on ini-tiatives that help make a differ-ence to themselves and the worldaround them.
In four years, WAYE has madeits presence felt in about 50 citiesin India and has a pool of about250 trainers and 2,000 youngdedicated volunteers!
We interview Dinesh aboutWAYE’s objectives, interests andmissions.
WAYE addresses iss ues which con-cern the youth to day, so wheredoes environment fit in?
Environment is one of ourforemost concerns and as a youthNGO we have adopted severalmethods to tackle damage toenvironment. To begin with, weeducated the youth on how theyneed to proactively avoid usingplastic. There are several alterna-tives like using jute and clothbags. We have designed a fewtrendy cloth bags which are beingcirculated widely in the country.
What are the environment pro-jects WAYE has been part of?Two years ago, in Hyderabad wehad organised an event calledUTSAV in which more than 1000youth from various engineeringcolleges had participated. In col-laboration with the GHMC abouta 1 lakh trees were planted in the
City. And what is interesting isthat most of the participantshave adopted the trees and are tilldate nurturing them. In anattempt to follow up volunteersin Bengaluru have create a web-site called www.itsmytree.net,were people could put up pic-tures of their adopted tree. Apart
from this, we have several pro-jects like Mission Green Earth:Stand Up and Take Action,wherein youth from various uni-versities in Hyderabad took apledge to create awareness aboutglobal warming. In Barsana nearMathura, WAYE partnered withNokia for afforestation of Rithodavillage in the district. In Delhi wedid the Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna(MDMY) campaign. During thespan of the campaign, six ghatswere cleaned with the efforts of20,000 volunteers.
Why do you think laws like theplastic ban became ineffective?
We can’t legalise people’s con-sciousness. We can have manylaws but unless one does not feelfor the environment it’s not goingto help.
What measures do you suggestto improve environment con-sciousness? The biggest cause of environ-ment pollution and emission ofgreenhouse gases is the meatindustry. It’s not politically cor-rect for me to talk about this. Butyes, we need to be aware and letthe youth do more research andcreatively spread the knowledge.
Why are environment initiativesnot encouraging in Hyderabad ?
“If there is darkness in a roomit takes one lamp to dispel thedarkness. Likewise, for severalyears nothing concrete has beendone in Hyderabad. But now wecan walk together and bring a lotof change,” he con-cludes.
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WAYE shows the way A little effort on our part can do wonders tothe world around us, social activist DineshGhodke explains in a candid conversationwith Postnoon
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HYDERABAD: The GreaterHyderabad MunicipalCorporation (GHMC), alreadyreeling under severe corruptioncharges, is believed to be the hubof another scam.
A resolution passed by thestanding committee (ResolutionNo 31, dated July 16, 2011) of thecorporation reveals what canonly be described as shockingdetails of many a leased proper-ties of the corporation.
The committee had directedthe GHMC commissioner andestates officer to make a detailedsurvey of all the leased-out prop-erties of the corporation.According to the estate wing of the
corporation, GHMC has leasedout 274 properties to various firmsand individuals of the city, most ofthem decades ago.
The list of beneficiariesincludes charitable organisations,educational and health institu-tions and residential and com-mercial ventures.
The survey further revealedsome astonishing information.Many of these leased propertiesdo not even exist. That is, they nolonger belong to the corporation.
Speaking to Postnoon, GHMCEstate Officer ChandrasekharReddy stated that during theinvestigation they realised that
only 109 properties have cleartitle deeds, 29 properties have double entries, while theother 136 properties do not existat all.
“We were surprised when wefound that there was no trace of136 properties. We could not lo -cate these properties at all,” hesaid.
He said the misappropriati oncould not have happened with-out involvement of earlier offi-cials of the estate wing, whichclearly indicates foul play bysomeone from within the corpo-ration.
According to sources in thecorporation, many of these properties have either beenencroa ched upon or sold awayillegally.
Superstar Rajinikanth is cele-brating his 62nd birthdaytoday. Thousands of his fans
have been celebrating the occa-sion all over the world.
Born as Shivaji Rao Gaikwad in1950 in Bangalore, Rajinikanth'sbreakthrough in cinema happenedin 1975 with K Balachander'sApoorva Ragangal. However it wasBilla which catapulted him into astar and the rest is history.
Over the next three decades, heacted in more than 150 films out ofwhich films such as Thillu Mullu,Moondra Mugam, Dalapathy,Baasha, Muthu, Narasimha, Sivajiand Robot were huge hits.
Known for his modesty,Rajinikanth is a phenomenon andeverything he says becomes news.Back in late 90s, there was a lot ofspeculation that he might join apolitical party and after keepingpeople guessing he stuck to films.
In this career spanning 36years, he has been part of Tamil,Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada,Hindi and English films.
Affectionately called as Tha -laivar, Rajinikanth is an icon forthose who understand him and forothers, who can't make sense of hisstyle, he still remains as a myth.
Few days ago, his fans startedan online campaign to celebratehis birthday as World Style Day.Having recovered from a kidney
ailment earlier this year,Rajinikanth will soon be seen in a3D film titled Kochadaiyaan.
62 turns to Rajinikanth
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HYDERABAD: The Congressis expecting to corner its break-away group, the YSR Congressled by YS Jaganmohan Reddy, byconducting elections to thecivic bodies and local govern-ments. The tenure of local gov-ernments and civic bodies hasended almost two years agoacross the State.
With these elections, theruling party believes will bene-fit not one but two advantages.Explaining the twin advan-tages, an APCC senior func-tionary told Postnoon that thiswould force the Jagan’s group tocontest as independents andthey might not get a uniformsymbol across the State.
Apart from this, Jagan wouldbe ‘constrained to pronounce’his party’s stand on a separateTelangana, which would cornerhim. If he supports theTelangana cause, his perceivedsupport base in coastal Andhraand Rayalaseema will erode. Ifhe opposes it, he may not evenbe able to enter the Telanganaregion. This would weaken theformation of Jagan to contest theby-elections that would arisedue to the ‘disqualification’ ofthe MLAs owing allegiance toJagan.
What’s more? The rulingparty would then enjoy the sup-port from more people — forthey would elect representativesof the ruling party at the civicbodies and local governmentsfor obvious reasons.
APCC President BotsaSatyanarayana, who ought to
have left for Delhi on Saturdayevening, cancelled that pro-gramme and had confabulationswith the chief minister instead.Though on paper it is projectedthat they met to decide on thestrategy to seek disqualificationof four ‘impudent’ Congressmembers of the State LegislativeCouncil, the agenda is said todelve much deeper.
The Congress high com-
mand had almost decided to bidadieu to the 16 rebel Congresslegislators by seeking their dis-qualification. It made sure thatthe entire media discussed theissue of disqualification ofMLAs. But none came aroundand gave in to the party leader-ship. In fact, the CongressLegislature Party should havemet tomorrow to do the formali-ties. But now, the fate of the 16MLAs sailing with Jagan will bedecided only after the return ofBotsa from New Delhi.
The Congress is also keenon conducting the local bodyelections, as the TDP’s supportbase was severely affected inthe Telangana region and thenatural advantage of the rulingparty would cast its shadow onthe prospects of the mainopposition.
Meanwhile, MLC JupudiPrabhakar Rao, owning up loyal-ty to the YSR Congress, said thatthe ruling party could not initi-ate any action against the fourMLCs, as legal issues wouldcome in the way. The electionprocess undergone and who waselected from which constituen-cy would have to be examinedby the Chairman of the Council,he said.
A senior TDP leader, howev-er, said that their party was not atrifle worried about the electionsand they were geared up to meetthe challenge. Meanwhile, min-ister Erasu Pratap Reddy saidthat the Congress would ensurethe victory of its candidates evenin the by-elections to theAssembly, after the legislatorswere disqualified.
Congress wants localpolls to counter Jagan
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HYDERABAD: Syed ToufiqHussain, who works as a softwareengineer in a multinational ITcompany and stays in Nizampet,changed his daily routine threemonths ago. He now gets up at 5am to excercise on the tread mill ,do household chores and getready for office well before 8 am.Earlier, he used to be up at 6 amand be ready for office before 9 amfor two years. However, the agita-tion for a seperate Telangana state,that started about three monthsago, has led to frequent power cutsin the city and altered his routine.Toufiq has been facing regularunscheduled power cuts at his res-idence everyday between 8 am to10 am even after the end of theGeneral Strike one-and-a-halfmonth ago.
Toufiq is not the only oneaffected by frequent power cuts:almost everyone in the capital is.Officials of the Central PowerDistribution Company Limited(CPDCL), at the end of GeneralStrike, had announced that theywere withdrawing restrictions onpower supply and scheduledpower cuts. But in realityunscheduled power cuts havebecome an order of the day.
“ When the strike was on, therewere four to six hour scheduledpower cuts everyday. But after thestrike got over and despite the tallclaims of electricity departmentofficials, we are still facing thisproblem," Jubilee Hills CorporatorMamidi Laxmi told Postnoon.
Banjara Hills Corporator BBharathi expressed similar views.Ironically, Jubilee Hills andBanjara Hills — where many VVIPsof the state like Chief Minister NKiran Kumar Reddy, OppositionLeader N Chandra Babu Naiduand Assembly speaker N Manoharhave their residences — have notbeen spared.
However, Chief GeneralManager (Master Plan) CPDCLDRK Prasad, speaking to Postnoon,claimed that there was nounscheduled power cuts inHyderabad. He added that what-ever power cuts that are beingreported are for operation andmaintenance works. But manyother officials of the departmenthave a different story to say. Theseofficials, on the condition ofanonymity, said that the depart-ment is still suffering from meet-ing the power demands, which isleading to unscheduled powercuts.
Power cuts have also hit thecity’s street-lighting system. “Fewdays ago, street lights in manyparts of Jubilee Hills and BanjaraHills went off inconveniencing
many,” Superintendent Engineer(SE) of GHMC B Murali Krishnatold Postnoon. The power crisishas also hit the drinking watersupply schedule of the MetroWater Board.
City cries foul aspower crisis gets personal
Details of Power con-sumption in GreaterHyderabad in the lastfive days
Production loss per day due fre-quent power cuts` 200 crore
DemandTotal loss incurred so far
` 1800 crore
Scheduled power cuts per day 4 hours
Power Holiday once in a week
City short of 400MW
Various other sectors inGHMC are also hit by
frequent power cuts.According to official fig-ures, the city is short ofabout 400 MW of electricityevery day. As against thedaily electricity demand of38 MU in GHMC, APCentral Power DistributionCompany Limited (APCPD-CL) is only able to supplyonly 35 MU - 36 MU perday.
HYDERABAD: Frequent powercuts in GHMC have not only been agreat inconvenience to lakhs of res-idents in the city, but to the indus-trial sector in and aroundHyderabad too. The result of thesepower outages led to a huge rev-enue loss to the industrial sectorwhich consists of major industrieslike pharama, cement, ferro alloys,steel and thousands of other microand Medium Enterprises. Accordingto Federation of Chambers ofCommerce and Industries(FAPCII),the industrial sector has sofar lost `1,800 crore owing toreduction in production of variousproducts because of these frequentpower cuts. Speaking to PostnoonFAPCII President VS Raju said theindustrial sector had recorded 40percent production loss since thestart of the power crisis. Heinformed over 1.85 lakh MSMEslocated in and around the city havebeen hit by the power cuts andadded they are still facing four-hourpower cuts everyday. He added that
the huge gap between demand andsupply of electricity is resulting inpower cuts and added that theyhad requested the state govern-ment to supply power to the MSMEsector on priority basis as it is beingdone in the case of IT sector. “Thiswould help the sector from incur-ring losses and contributing moretowards industrial growth of thestate,” Raju said. A delegation ofJeedimetla Industries Associationmet TDP President N. Chandra BabuNaidu and sought his interventionto solve the problem of power cri-sis. According to this association,the electricity department hasreduced power supply to industrialsector by 61 percent in the monthsof September, October andNovember. It further said thatCPDCL had reduced the supply by45 percent so far. The association isholding Dharnas at allSuperintendent Engineers (SE)offices on Tuesday (December 13,2011) and a Hunger Strike relayprogramme on December15.
Industrial sector feels the heat too
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Nizam’s Institute of Me -dical Sciences (NIMS),one of the most presti-gious medical institutes
in India, is ailing. Myriad prob-lems that began as teething trou-bles now attained gigantic pro-portions. From poor sanitation toscarcity of medicines, to shortageof paramedics to dysfunctionalCT scanner and lack of properdisposal of waste water andsewage, everything is sick inNIMS. Recent raids by senior offi-cials of the Pollution ControlBoard on the prestigious hospitalonce again exposed the worsen-ing situation. Though planned tobe developed on the lines as AllIndia Institute of Medical Scien -ces, Delhi, things don’t seem to beworking that way for NIMS.
The hospital, preferred bythousands of patients for treat-ment, lacks in some major areas— some glaringly visible, othersare well wrapped secrets. AsPostnoon reporters dug deepmore shocking details emerged.
Only two ambulancesA hospital as big as NIMS, whichsees a massive flow of 1,000 out-patients and close 100 patientsadmitted every day, there areonly two ambulances and neitherof them are used for emergencies.In fact, they are only used forclinical purposes and aren’t ade-quately equipped.
The situation is so hopelessthat there are over 70 privateambulances that are hired by thehospital. This practice finds itssupport from the staff as they
earn a large commission fromthese ambulances. “If a staffmember recommends a privateambulance service, they earn acommission from the transactionbetween the patients and theambulance driver,” said a formeremployee of the hospital.
Desperate need formore staffIn 1992, NIMS was a 600-bed med-ical institute. But over the years, itssize has more than doubled. Thecurrent number of beds in NIMS is
1,200, but the manpower haslargely remained the same. NIMSisn’t equipped enough to handlethe ever-increasing number ofemergency cases. A staff memberlaments only one person does thework of four people. “So we areseverely strained with our work-
load. As a result the camaraderiethat we need to establish with ourpatients is not happening.Therefore patients do not feelcomfortable in such a hospitalenvironment,” he said.
Another nurse says, “Typicallyan ICU requires a patient-nurseratio to be 1:1 and in some emer-gency cases, it may even requirethe ratio to be 1:2. But alarminglydue to severe short staffing, theratio is only 8:1 now.”
The numbers speak volumesabout the alarming situation
Water woesA basic necessity of any hos-
pital is supply of drinking water.Along with the patient, manyattenders and are left waiting incorridors for a long time. Theonly option that they have whenthey feel thirsty is either to buywater from the canteen or remainthirsty. There is no drinking waterprovided on the campus.
No space for attendantsWhether it’s rain or shine, theattenders who come along withpatients literally have no roof overtheir head. There are plenty ofbenches scattered around the gro -unds but it is not enough for theincreasing number of attendants.One can see many of them sittingon footpaths and ledges or wherev-er they find place. Some can beseen lying down the road due tounavailability of space. “One of thebiggest problems with NIMS isthat there is no proper block forattenders to stay in. They comefrom places even far off asKarnataka and Mahar ashtra.Each patient has at least fourattenders with them and theydon’t have place to rest.” said amember of the Employees Union.
(To be concluded tomorrow)
Ailing NIMS needs major surgery
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Prominent cartoonistMario Miranda can beconsidered as the manwho introduced Goa to
the world on a canvas, throughwhich the world was then intro-duced to India. The 85-year-oldbreathed his last in his sleep inhis ancestral home at Loutolim,Goa, in the early hours of Sunday.
Mario was known to capturevignettes of Goan life, his car-toons made famous with theirtrademark style and generalsatire. His cartoons appearedwith the Illustrated Weekly ofIndia and his two memorable
characters, Miss Nimbupani andMiss Fonseca were quite popular.
Friends, associates andmembers of the art fraternityremember him for his warm,gentle and calm nature.Managing Trustee of the IndianInstitute of Cartoonists, based inBengaluru, VG Narendra said heknew Mario for the past 20 years.“I had met him on several occa-sions and whenever he was intown, he would give me a ring orjust come see me. He was theperfect gentleman but also had awicked sense of humor,” saidNarendra.
Keshav, one of the finest car-toonists of the Hindu recallsMario as a man who was com-passionate and caring. “I had methim a couple of times but for thefirst time at the Israel show. I lovehis work which depicted the kindof person that he is. Mario in onesense was a social cartoonist andcreated travelogues, comment-ing on the Goan and Mumbailife,” said Keshav.
Mario’s illustrations were awork of art; they were much joy-ful and restrained from ridicule.
Mario started his career withthe Times of India Group in 1953and that is where he met andworked with noted cartoonist RKLaxman. A recipient of manynational and internationalawards, Mario had also illustrat-ed many books.
Mario’s cartoons depictedsensibility and were distinctlymore urban and cosmopolitan Remembering Mario
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DURBAN: An impassionedspeech by environment ministerJayanthi Natarajan capped thefinale of the UN climate summitthat ended here early on Sundaywith a Durban Package, after shewarned that India “will never beintimidated by any threat or pres-sure”.
Natarajan’s speech ensuredthat India’s main concern — theinclusion of the concept of equityin the fight against climate change— became part of the package.
According to the DurbanPackage, countries have agreed towork towards a new regime thatensures all countries take legalemissions cuts. The countries alsocommitted to a second term ofKyoto Protocol — the existingregime.
Natarajan ensured there was athird option — “an agreed out-come with legal force” — apartfrom protocol or a legal instru-ment.
The plenary session of the UNFramework Convention onClimate Change summit came to ahalt following a row betweenNatarajan and European Union(EU) Climate Commissioner
Connie Hedegaard after objectionover agreements reached behindclosed doors. The conferenceended a day-and-a-half behindschedule because of intense nego-tiations over contentious issues.
India had wanted a “legal out-come” as the third option, butHedegaard said this would putcountries’ sincerity in doubt.
That set off Natarajan, whoroared: “We have shown more flex-ibility than virtually any othercountry. But equity is the centre-piece, it cannot be shifted. This isnot about India.
“Does fighting climate change
mean we have to give up on equi-ty? We have agreed to protocol andlegal instrument. What’s the prob-lem in having one more option?India will never be intimidated byany threat or any kind of pressure.What’s this legal instrument? Howdo I give a blank cheque?, she said.
As Natarajan finished herspeech amid a thunderous ovationfrom a hall packed with thousandsof delegates from 194 govern-ments, observers and the media,some countries backed the EU butChina strongly supported India.
Xie Zhenhua, the vice ministerof the National Development andReform Commission, pointed outthat the developing countries likeIndia and China were “alreadydoing much more than developedcountries” against global warm-ing. Then some countries support-ed India and China, while othersstill supported EU.
Conference president andSouth Africa’s foreign ministerMaite Nkoane Mashabane thenhalted the session and asked EUand India to go into a huddle thereand then.
Unprecedented scenes fol-lowed beyond midnight as nego-
tiators from all countries mobbedNatarajan and Hedegaard andsnapped photographs, with nosign of exhaustion even at 2 in themorning.
US and Chinese chief negotia-tors joined the huddle too. Morefrenzied applause indicated anagreement had finally beenreached. When the session recon-vened, Natarajan announced thatIndia had agreed to a change ofwording in the third option “in aspirit of flexibility and accommo-dation”. Hedegaard thanked India.
Under the four-prongedDurban Package, rich nations havenow agreed to reduce their GHGemissions from 2013 under theKyoto Protocol, a key demand ofdeveloping countries. The enddate of that commitment periodhas not been fixed, though.Negotiators will now have tochoose between 2017 and 2020.
In return, all countries haveagreed to be part of the globaltreaty, which is supposed to benegotiated by 2015 and to comeinto force in 2020. The packageincluded operationalisation of$100 billion Green Climate Fundto help the poor cope with cli-
mate change. Achim Steiner, United NEP
executive director, said: “The out-comes of Durban provide a wel-come boost for global climateaction. The big question many willask is how this will translate intoactual emission reductions and bywhen?” IANS
India gets its way at climate meetKey agreementsat Durbann The rich nations agreed to
reduce their GHG emissionsfrom 2013 under the KyotoProtocol
n All countries have agreed tobe part of the global treaty,which is supposed to benegotiated by 2015 and tocome into force in 2020
n Operationalisation of $100-billion Green Climate Fund
n Countries agreed to worktowards a new regime thatensures all countries takelegal emissions cuts based onequity.
Jaya convenes special Housesession on Mullaperiyar rowCHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister JJayalalithaa on Sunday announced that aspecial session of the Assembly will beconvened on December 15 to pass a reso-lution that the State will not give up itsrights over Mullaperiyar Dam in Keralabecause of the “imaginary threat to itssafety”.
While the dam is located in Kerala, itscontrol is with Tamil Nadu and its watersserves the state.
In a statement issued here,Jayalalithaa said: “To express the solidari-ty of the people of Tamil Nadu and all thepolitical parties, a Special AssemblySession will be convened on December 15
at 11am to pass a resolution that this Statewill not give up our rights over MullaiPeriyar because of the imaginary threat tothe safety and security of the MullaiPeriyar Dam.”
The decision for a special session is areversal of stand for Jayalalithaa, who hadearlier ruled out such a plan citing theunited stand of the State’s political partieson the issue.
On December 9, the Kerala Assemblypassed a resolution that the Central gov-ernment should sanction a new dam andtill this happens, the storage level in theexisting dam should be brought down to120 feet.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011 8India unveiled India‑View
NEW DELHI: Leaders of variouspolitical parties on Sunday cameout strongly in support of socialactivist Anna Hazare, who was ona day-long fast for a strong anti-corruption Lokpal that wouldinclude the prime minister andentire bureaucracy under itspurview.
But the support to the 74-year-old anti-graft crusader,protesting in the heart of theCapital, came with a word of cau-tion. Hazare was asked not to berigid about acceptance of his JanLokpal Bill and not to expectParliament to accept every singleword of his proposed ombuds-man law.
Thousands flocked to thevenue, Jantar Mantar, againstwhat Hazare believes is a tooth-less Lokpal recommended by aparliamentary standing commit-tee.
They were joined in by BJP’sArun Jaitley, CPM’s Brinda Karat,CPI’s AB Bardhan, Sharad Yadavof the JDU and other leaders ofregional parties including SP,BJD, the Akali Dal and the TDP.
The politicians favoured astrong Lokpal Bill and trashed therecommendations of the parlia-mentary panel.
Jaitley, like others, accusedthe panel of going against thesense of the Parliament anddemanded that the prime minis-ter, the CBI and the lower bureau-cracy be brought under thepurview of a proposed ombuds-man.
Bardhan said his party was inagreement with Team Anna onseveral issues but cautionedagainst the rigidity on acceptanceof their version of the Bill. “Don’texpect that every word, full stopand comma of Jan Lokpal Bill willbe accepted, be flexible. Youshould also have the patience tolisten to others,” Bardhan said.
This led to howls of protest bythe crowds which were repeatedwhen other politicians also cau-tioned Hazare against his rigidstance.
JDU leader Sharad Yadavlashed out at the parliamentarypanel and accused it of neglect-ing the sense of the House thatwas adopted in a resolution afterHazare’s August hunger strike.
The resolution said: “TheHouse agrees ‘in principle’” on astrong Lokpal with provisions forCitizen’s Charter, setting up ofLokayuktas and including entirebureaucracy under the ombuds-man through an appropriatemechanism.
Karat agreed that the recom-
mendations of the panel wereweak and “are equivalent to nothaving the Lokpal at all”. Sheasked “what kind of drama was itto go against the resolution”.
Hazare, winding up thedebate and ending his token fast,threatened to intensify protests ifhis version of the Lokpal was notaccepted by Parliament. IANS
Support for Anna, Left and Right
Insult to House:Congress
The Congress refused to joinSunday’s debate on Lokpal,
saying Lokpal “cannot be framedin Jantar Mantar”. The rulingparty termed the hunger strike as“preemptive” and “premature”and an “insult to Parliament”.
“The Lokpal Bill report hasbeen submitted. There will bedebate and decision will betaken. Laws cannot be made atJantar Mantar,” Congressspokesperson Rashid Alvi said.
Hazare 2011’s topnewsmaker
Anna Hazare, whose agitationfor a strong authority to curb
corruption has struck a respon-sive chord among thousands ofIndians, has been named YahooIndia’s top newsmaker of 2011.The rest on the list are:
n Hazare was also the mostsearched person of the yearand Lokpal bill the mostsearched word.
n Sachin Tendulkar was the mostsearched sportsperson andKatrina Kaif, the most soughtafter celebrity.
Kashmir minister escapesbid on life, cop killed SRINAGAR: Jammu andKashmir law minister AliMuhammad Sagar on Sundayescaped a bid on his life when mil-itants attacked him in Srinagar.One security guard was killed inthe attack.
Senior police and CRPF offi-cers rushed with reinforcementsto the densely populated old cityNawa Bazar locality to escort theminister safely to his residence.
The minister had gone to his
ancestral home in connectionwith a social function there. This isthe first major separatist guerrillaattack in Srinagar in many monthsand triggered panic in the area.
The attack occurred at a timewhen CM Omar Abdullah hasbeen advocating the revocation ofthe Armed Forces Special PowersAct (AFSPA) from Srinagar districtas well as Badgam district in theValley and Jammu and Samba districts in the Jammu region. IANS
BSY lobbies to get buddy CM electedHASSAN (KARNATAKA):Seeking to ensure unanimouselection of Chief MinisterSadananda Gowda in theDecember 22 Legislative Councilbye-election, his predecessor BSYeddyurappa said he hadrequested leaders of the JDS andCongress not to field their candi-dates in the poll.
“I have called up JD-S supre-mo Deve Gowda, state PCC chiefG Parameshwar and Oppositionleader in the AssemblySiddaramaiah, requesting themnot to field their candidates and
elect Sadananda Gowda unani-mously to the Upper House,” hesaid. He, however, refused todivulge what the reactions ofthese leaders were to his request.
Siddaramaiah reportedly
told Yeddyurappa the CongressHigh Command would takedecision on the matter and hewould abide by it.
Yeddyurappa’s request cameamidst speculation that BJPrebel leader B Sreeramulu, whohas claimed he has 22 legislatorswith him, would join hands withCongress and JDS to defeat hisclose aide.
Gowda, sworn in CM inAugust, is an MP and has to getelected to the legislature withinsix months to fulfil aConstitutional requirement. PTI
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011 9Around the World Beyond Borders
GLOBE AT A GLANCETWO TELECOM SATELLITESLAUNCHED BY RUSSIAMOSCOW: Russia Sunday launched twotelecommunications satellites -Luch-5A andAmos-5 from the Baikonur space centre inKazakhstan. A Proton-M carrier rocket withtwo telecommunications satellites onboardblasted off from the Baikonur space centre inKazakhstan.The separation of Russia’s Luch-5A spacecraft is scheduled for 00:11 Monday(Moscow time), while Israel’s Amos-5 satellitewill separate at 00:52 (Moscow time).
UAE-US OFFICIALS DISCUSSMILITARY COOPERATIONABU DHABI: The UAE and US have dis-cussed ways for mutual cooperation in thefields of military coordination, training andexchange of expertiseduring a meetingbetween Chief of Staff of armed forces Lt.General Hamad Mohammed Thani Al Rumaithiand General John R. Allen, Commander,International Security Assistance Force.
PRESIDENT ZARDARI’S HEALTHIS IMPROVING: GILANIISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime MinisterYousuf Raza Gilani has said President Asif AliZardari’s health is improving as he is feelingcomfortable and resting in a Dubai hospital asadvised by doctors. “said Gilani. Zardariabruptly left Pakistan for Dubai on December6 after reportedly suffering a stroke thatcaused bleeding in the brain and facial paraly-sis. Thus triggered speculation about hishealth and also rumours of a military coup.
WE ARE DETERMINED TOFIGHT CORRUPTION : KARZAIKABUL: Afghanistan President HamidKarzai on Sunday vowed to fight corruption-while acknowledging implementation of lawswas significant in curbing the menace.Afghanistan has been ranked the second mostcorrupted nation.”We are determined to fightcorruption and implement the law to curb thissocial evil,” said President Karzai on theInternational Anti-Corruption Day.
US President Obama at the taping ofChristmas in Washington , in DC AFP
Argentina’s reelected PresidentCristina Fernandez de Kirchner (L)during her inauguration ceremony. AFP
The Russian leadership has sought tocalm tensions following anunprecedented protest againstVladimir Putin that brought tens of
thousands of demonstrators on to thestreets of Moscow.
The Prime Minister has yet to commenton the protest, but his spokesman, DmitryPeskov, said: “We respect the point of viewof the protesters. We are hearing what isbeing said. We will continue to listen tothem.”
Up to 50,000 people demonstrated in
Moscow on Saturday following the disputedparliamentary election in which Putin’sUnited Russia party won nearly 50% of thevote amid widespread allegations of fraud.
Protests took place in more than 50cities, with a reported 7,000 people gather-ing in St Petersburg and up to 4,000 in theSiberian city of Novosibirsk, despite thetemperature of -20C.
Protesters have promised to gatheragain in two weeks’ time if the Kremlinrefuses to annul the result, which was con-firmed by the election commission on
Friday. Peskov said: “In the past few days, wealso witnessed demonstrations by othersegments of the population who were sup-porting those results.” United Russia is rally-ing supporters for a protest on Monday insupport of Putin and President DmitryMedvedev. Medvedev, seen as politicallyirrelevant since Putin announced his inten-tion to return to the presidency, took to hisFacebook page to say that vote violationswould be investigated.
“I do not agree with the slogans orspeeches made at the protests,” Medvedevwrote. “Nonetheless, I have given theinstruction to investigate all messages frompolling stations related to the following ofelectoral law.” The message – which did notsay which state body would carry out theinvestigation, the time limit or potentialconsequences – provoked thousands ofmocking comments within minutes.
“Dmitry Anatolievich, are you kidding?There were no elections! There was ballotstuffing!” wrote one user.
“This is called separation from reality –you need to see a psychiatrist,” wroteanother. The Kremlin has been struggling tocome to terms with its new politically activepopulation. State-run televisioncovered theprotests. Officials, however, continue toattempt to portray the protesters as traitors,following Putin’s charge that Hillary Clinton,the US secretary of state, prompted theshow of discontent.
The unprecedented show of discontentcomes just three months before the presi-dential elections.
Pak continues convoy blockade Pakistan’s blockade of
Nato convoys intoAfghanistan may contin-
ue for several weeks, PrimeMinister Yousuf Raza Gilanirevealed today.
Pakistan stopped the con-voys in protest at US airstrikes which killed 24 of itstroops at two checkpoints onthe Afghan border last month.
Mr Gilani refused to ruleout closing Pakistan’s airspaceto the US.
He also denied rumoursPresident Asif Ali Zardari hadsuffered a stroke and the armywas trying to oust him.
Mr Gilani said Mr Zardariwas making a rapid improve-ment in hospital in Dubai, butwould need two weeks’ restbefore returning home.
an interview with the BBC,Mr Gilani said: ‘Yes there is acredibility gap, we are workingtogether and still we don’ttrust each other.
‘I think we have toimprove our relationship sothat we should have moreconfidence in each other.’
Nato forces in Afghanistanrely significantly on overlandsupply routes from thePakistani sea port of Karachi,where Hundreds of lorrieshave been camped out next toborder crossings, waiting forthe crisis to blow over.
Nato has apologised forthe air strikes, calling them a‘tragic unintended incident’.
President Barack Obamacalled Pakistan’s President lastweek to offer condolencesover the deaths.Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton also
offered condolences.Mr Obama told President
Asif Ali Zardari that the sol-diers’ deaths were ‘regrettable’and accidental, according to aWhite House statement.
The comments stoppedshort of a formal apology butwere aimed at soothingPakistani fury over theNovember 26 incident.
Explanation? Amidalready strained tensions withPakistan, President Obamacalled the Nato strike ‘regret-table’ but also accidental
The Nato air strike hasadded to strains in relationswith Islamabad, whose coop-eration Washington views ascrucial to helping to stabilizethe region before foreigncombat troops leaveAfghanistan in 2014.
U.S.-Pakistani relationswere already frayed after thesecret U.S. raid in May thatkilled Al Qaeda leader OsamaBin Laden.
Pakistan is boycotting aninternational conference dueto the air strikes.
Russian leaders aim tocalm ‘anti-Putin’ protests
Nick Clegg promised torebuild the government’s
shattered relationship withthe rest of Europe and riskedopening a coalition rift byexpressing “bitter disappoint-ment” at David Cameron’sdecision to block a new EUagreement.
The deputy PM said thatBritain risked becoming “iso-lated and marginalised” fromthe European mainstreamground”, according to a seniorgovernment source.Clegg wasbiting in his critique of devel-opments in Brussels butspoke of correcting the pathchosen by Cameron.
Clegg vowsto correctPM’s path
Russian opposition activists protesting against alleged fraud in the 4 Decemberelections carry posters with photos of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin AFP
Twelve-year-old TaranaAkbari looks on during aninterview
Tarana (R) sits in the sun outside her home as shechats with relatives
Tarana Akbari (R) sits in a hospital as she visitsher sister who was wounded in the bombattack
Photographerrecounts horrorABUL: , December 12, 2011(AFP) - Massoud Hossaini’s pic-ture of an Afghan girl standingamong a pile of dead bodiescaptured the devastation in theimmediate aftermath of anunprecedented suicide attack ona Shiite shrine in Kabul.
The 30-year-old AFP pho-tographer was just metres(yards) away when the bombwent off on December 6, killingat least 70 people.
Here he describes whathappened and what it means tobe an Afghan photographerworking in his war-torn country.n Tell us what happened
on the day.“I was just looking at my cam-era when suddenly there was abig explosion. For a moment Ididn’t know anything, I just feltthe wave of the explosion as apain inside my body. I fell downon the ground.
“I saw everybody runningaway from the smoke. I sat upand saw my hand was bleedingbut I didn’t feel any pain.
“I ran in the opposite direc-tion to everybody else.
“When the smoke wentaway I saw I was standing inthe centre of a circle of deadbodies. They were all togetheron top of each other. I wasstanding exactly where the sui-cide attacker had been.”n How did you react?“I was in shock. I didn’t knowwhat to do. I just started click-ing. I know that I was crying. Itwas really weird crying, I’venever reacted like that before.
“I didn’t help anybody,because I couldn’t, I was reallyin shock. I knew I should coverthis, record everything, all thepain, the people running, crying,shouting, beating their chests,shouting: ‘Death to Al-Qaeda,death to the Taliban!’”n How did you get the pic-
ture of Tarana, the 10-year-old girl?
“I turned a bit to the right and Isaw the girl. When Tarana sawwhat had happened to herbrother, her cousins, uncles,mother, grandmother, the peo-ple around her, she was justshouting.
“She did a lot of things, butif you see my pictures she wasjust shouting. This shocked reac-tion was the main thing I want-ed to capture.”n How has this incident
affected you?“I felt everything 100 percent. Iwas there before, at the sametime. It was a really big experi-ence”. AFP
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201110Around the World Beyond borders
Katherine Haddon andMushtaq Mojaddidi
KABUL:Tarana dressed up for theholiday in a specially tailoredbright green robe, a 12-year-oldAfghan girl excited to set off withher family for a religious festivalthat a decade of war had so farspared.
After a suicide bomber rippedapart the lives of Tarana’s familyand scores of others, the image ofher standing horrified in theblood-stained outfit came formany to symbolise Afghanistan’sviolent present and its uncertainfuture.
“Suddenly there was an explo-sion. It was as if the world hadoverturned, as if all the walls hadcollapsed on me,” Tarana Akbarisurrounded by tearful relativestold AFP.
“When I could stand up, I sawthat everybody was around me onthe ground, really bloody. I wasreally, really scared,” said the girl,whose name means “melody” inEnglish.
Out of 17 women and childrenfrom her family who went to ariverside shrine in Kabul a weekago to mark the Shiite holy day ofAshura, seven died including herseven-year-old brother Shoaib.
More than 70 people lost theirlives in all, and at least nine othermembers of Tarana’s family werewounded.
Like millions of people inAfghanistan, the family lives handto mouth in a mud-brick house,struggling to survive in a countryripped asunder by decades of con-flict. During Tarana’s young life, aninsurgency against US-led troopshas grimly escalated as the Talibanbattle to regain their lost power.
Refugees to Pakistan duringthe darkest days of the 1992-96civil war that turned Kabul into abattlefield, the family returned in2002, full of hope for peace andprosperity after a US-led invasionbrought down the Taliban.
That hope has slowly ebbedaway since, eroded by the insur-gency and the lack of progressunder a government led byPresident Hamid Karzai thatstands accused of gross corruptionand cronyism.
Their dreams finally disinte-grated on December 6 when theIslamist insurgency destroyed afamily that had never imagined itwould die for its faith, the minoritybranch of Islam in a nation that is80-percent Sunni.
“I have a broken heart now,the family won’t be able to gathertogether again and that’s a reallysad feeling,” Tarana’s mother, 30-year-old Bibi Hava, said at theirtwo room house, which is sharedbetween seven people. “I hate thiscountry, because everybody justdies.”
A scream heard aroundthe worldTarana’s scream was captured byAFP photographer MassoudHossaini, another Shiite whosefamily are wearily familiar withexile. He had already seen her inthe crowd and been struck by thevibrancy of her outfit earlier thatday.
A week later, Tarana’s familyare mourning their dead. Relatives
gathered at their modest homes,clustered together around a small,muddy yard in the poor neigh-bourhood of Murad Khani, wherethe stench of open sewers lacesthe winter air and children scam-per among piles of rubbish.
Tarana likes to play hide andseek, and marbles. But for now,she nestles under a thick blanketat home, where a small electricheater is the only source ofwarmth, her sad, brown eyes peek-ing over the top.
She spent three days in hospi-tal. She has bandages on her legs,and limps when she tries to walk.
Bibi Hava’s two other daugh-ters, Sunita, 15, and Sweeta, four,are still in hospital. She herself hasball-bearings from the bomblodged in her neck and arm, and isbadly bruised.
Her anguish over the death ofher son Shoaib, Tarana’s littlebrother, is still raw.
“I will never see my childagain. He used to walk in here forhis breakfast and go out with his
father to work,” Bibi Hava said.“This morning I woke up and sawhe wasn’t there, and I just cried.”
Dressed in black velourmourning with gold braceletsaround her wrists, Bibi Hava looksfar older than her 30 years as shedescribes what happened themoment the suicide bomberstruck. She blacked out briefly, butas she came around, she realisedshe was surrounded by peoplecovered in blood.
“Little by little, I started torecognise my relatives,” she said,welling up. “I screamed andwatched as they died.”
The extended family livescommunally - a common arrange-ment in Afghanistan, particularlyin neighbourhoods like theirs,which is impoverished even by thestandards of one of the least devel-oped countries on Earth.
The family’s roots in the areaare deep and strong, which mem-bers said makes it even harder toaccept such a huge loss of life soclose to home. AFP
This file picture shows 12-year-old Afghan girl Tarana Akbari (C) standing among bodies and injuredpeople shortly after a bomb explosion Pics: MASSOUD HOSSAINI\AFP
The day that hope died
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201111Matters of saving and spendingBusiness
Concerns were raised bysenior IT professionals onbarring of internet in the
offices of IT companies. This is notonly affecting the productivity ofemployees, but research and inno-vation too.
When Postnoon took a peakinto the perceptions of the seniorIT staffers across companies at theHyderabad Software Process Imp -rovement Network, some laidemp hasis on quality of delivery,while some focussed on produc-tivity. Quality is evolving. Industryshould mature from offering func-tional products and services tomore customer-centric productsand services. The whole notionand buzz of industry is aroundclient or customer-centric experi-ence. It is not sufficient anymoreto deliver defect-free codes.Companies should understandwhat end-user wants and try to get
there. Only this will drive businessexcellence. People or companiesare willing to pay a premium, ifthey get the experience which theyhaven’t even dreamt of, SamirDhir, senior vice-president, globaldelivery, Virtusa, said in his inter-action at HYDSPIN.
“Every metric has to result inhappier client. The frustration ofthe client should not be ignoredeven if it is negligible and try toprovide services that deliver cus-tomer delight,” Dhir said, whileChandra Sekhar, senior projectmanager, Polaris, raised the con-cerns of the employees in theforum. Some companies arerestricting employees from havingaccess to the internet. The devel-opers are undergoing a lot of pres-sure working 14 to 15 hours andgoing all the way home for infor-mation. This kind of environmentis restricting the productivity of
the employee. There is a need toreform in the information securitypractice. He wanted the softwaregiants to do away with the practiceof restricting internet. Instead,they could take measures thatwould bar a few sites that wouldaffect the productivity of the staff.
Employees should spend 20per cent of time on research andinnovation and 80 per cent timeon the on-going project. However,the time for innovation andresearch has been entirely takenby the most of the companies. It isa cost to the company but helpfulin using new technologies for theupcoming projects. ChandraSekhar told Postnoon.
Technology standards are notavailable at the starting time of theproject. Companies should comeup with basic technology stan-dards that are used by the projectleaders, he felt.
‘Don’t bar internet in IT companies’
Sensex swingsup and downMUMBAI: The BSE Sensex roseby nearly 147 points in openingtrade on Monday on fresh buy-ing influenced by a firming trendin Asian markets after Europeanleaders made a commitment fordeeper fiscal integration as afirst step toward resolving theregion’s debt crisis.
However, the index wasdown by 126 points by 11.30 amdue to slump in IIP.
The Indian rupee fell by 23paise to ` 52.26 against a US dol-lar in early trade today, extend-ing its slide for the fifth straightday as the dollar gained againstother rivals overseas amidincreased demand for theAmerican currency fromimporters.
IIP nosedivesHYDERABAD: The draggingeconomy received yet another jolton Monday with the Index ofIndustrial Production (IIP) for themonth of October contracting to5.1 per cent as opposed to agrowth of 1.9 per cent inSeptember. IIP was dragged downby fall in capital goods, manufac-turing and mining sector.
The growth of capital goodswas at -25 per cent compared to -6.8 per cent in September.Electricity growth was at 5.6 percent compared to 9 per cent inSeptember. Manufacturing was at-6 per cent versus 2.1 per cent inSeptember, while mining was at -7.2 per cent compared to -5.6 percent in September. Postnoon News
HYDERABAD: By 2014, we aimto do a business of `1 lakh crorewith 8,000 employees, 800 branch-es and 800 ATMs, said V.A Joseph,MD & CEO, South Indian Bank,inaugurating 15 new branchesacross Hyderabad.
With the result, the number ofbranches went up to 32 in the twincities and 44 in entire AndhraPradesh and 674 in India. “We aredoing a business of ` 3,000 crore inAndhra Pradesh and want to reach` 5,000 crore in two years of time,”he said.
South Indian Bank was cuttingdown its operating costs by replac-ing senior people with youngerones. It has 2,600 employee-base(44 per cent) of the age below 30years and wants to hire another1,000 employees making it to3,600.
The function is attended byGovernor ESL Narismhan, MinisterTG Venkatesh and Amitabh Guha,Chairman, South Indian Bank.
South Indian Bank targets`1 lakh crore biz by 2014
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha hasstopped iron ore exports fromthe state through two privateports in Andhra Pradesh, anofficial said Monday. The stategovernment in October had
asked all the ports exportingiron ore from Odisha to provideoperational details and themechanism they follow tocheck illegal exports. “We havestopped issuing permits for the
exports through the Gangava -ram and Kakinada ports inAndhra Pradesh after the portauthorities did not respond toour queries,” said an official ofthe steel and mines depart-
ment. Odisha initiated steps tocheck illegal mining and expo -rts of iron ore from the stateafter some politicians alleged inJuly 2009 that some mines wereoperating without licences.
Odisha stops iron ore exports through 2 Andhra ports
Governor ESL Narasimhan inaugurated 15 new branches of South Indian Bank on Monday.Chairman of the bank Amiabha Guha (extreme right) also participated.
Samir Dhir,Sr. Vice
PresidentVirtusa
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201112The games people playPlaying Field
The Spurs striker repliedto Matthew Etherin -gton’s first-half doublefrom the penalty spot
at the Britannia Stadium buthad a second contentiouslyruled out by an offside flag.
The visitors could also havehad another penalty when RyanShawcross cleared off the linewith his arm in a frantic secondhalf but Stoke held on after thedismissal of Younes Kaboul.
Stoke claimed a deservedlead. A Ryan Shotton throwwas not dealt with by the Spursdefence and Shawcross failedto connect when well placed atthe back post.
The ball was worked backto Shotton and his deflectedcross was flicked into PeterCrouch’s path by Jon Walters.Crouch chested down and firedagainst the near post andEtherington followed up to
turn in.The Potters grabbed a sec-
ond in typical fashion justbefore the break. Walters againflicked on another long throwfrom Shotton and Etheringtonarrived unmarked to scoredespite not hitting the cleanestof strikes.
Spurs began to assertthemselves, and referee ChrisFoy pointed to the penalty spotafter adjudging Glenn Whelanto have caught Luka Modricafter 64 minutes. Adebayormade no mistake as he clini-cally dispatched his spot-kick.
There was further drama inthe Stoke box when, afterJermain Defoe went downappealing for a penalty, aKaboul shot was cleared off theline by the arm of Shawcross.
Again Foy saw nothinguntoward and then blew foroffside as Adebayor tucked theball in, when replays indicatedhe may have been onside.
Stoke were clearly hangingon but they may have breatheda sigh of relief as Kaboulreceived a second yellow cardfor bringing down Walters on arare counter-attack.
EVENING STANDARD
Stoke stop Spurswinning streak
Adebayor was denied an equaliser as Stoke ended Tottenham’sunbeaten run in the Barclays Premier League with a 2-1 victory
Manager Andre Villas-Boashas dismissed sugges-tions he has tried to
change too much, too soon atChelsea as he ponders whether tostick or twist for Monday’s crunchBarclays Premier League withManchester City.
Some critics accused him ofrushing Chelsea’s transformationfrom a side who defend deep andrely heavily on power and pace toone who mirror the style ofEuropean champions Barcelona.Despite a run of five defeats in ninegames, Villas-Boas has repeatedlyinsisted the Blues’ new cavalier phi-losophy would not be abandoned.
It duly was during Tuesdaynight’s Champions League winover Valencia, although Villas-Boasrevealed that was down to eventson the field rather than a deliberateploy, rejecting the obvious implica-tion Chelsea were not yet ready tofully implement his instructions.
Asked if he had changed too manythings, too quickly, he said: “No, Idon’t say that.”
Yet, whether by accident or bydesign, the spectacular success ofChelsea’s approach against Vale -ncia has given Villas-Boas a dilem-ma ahead of another possible do-or-die game. The Portuguese hasadmitted his side must “find a way”to beat City, who are perfectlycapable of holding onto the ball inthe same way as Valencia.
Games between the PremierLeague top six have been nothingshort of spectacular this season,but with Chelsea having lost alltheir encounters with ManchesterUnited, Arsenal and Liverpool, atighter affair might suit them.
“We don’t know what is goingto happen,” Villas-Boas said.”Weknow last year it was a difficult,tight game, solved in the last min-
utes with a 2-0win.” ES
AVB stands by his plans
Manchester City bossRoberto Mancini claimsChelsea remain serious
title rivals. The Barclays PremierLeague leaders travel to StamfordBridge to face Andre Villas-Boas’side on Monday. The Londonersdropped out of the top four overthe weekend, but they haveemerged from a difficult spellover the past week, winning atNewcastle before beatingValencia to reach the last 16 ofthe Champions League.
Those results have eased anypressure on Villas-Boas and,while they remain 10 points
behind City, Mancini feelsChelsea should know from theirown experience that large deficitscan be overhauled. Mancini said,“Last year Chelsea had a big leadover (Manchester) United but inthe end United won the title byseven or eight points plus[nine].”
He continued, “The BarclaysPremier League is very difficultand in these two months, all theteams that play every three dayswill find it difficult.
“I think they can win it. Theyhave 10 points less than us butwe play two times against them
and there are 24 games until theend of the season.”
Mancini has also backedVillas-Boas to deliver for RomanAbramovich’s club.
The 34-year-old Portuguesecoach has had a rocky start sincesucceeding Mancini’s compatriotCarlo Ancelotti in the summer,but the City boss thinks Chelseahave found a good man.
Mancini himself needed timeto establish his current position of strength at the Etihad andfeels Chelsea just need to bepatient.
He said, “I think that has
shown in the last year he is agood manager. He did well atPorto, he won trophies.Chelsea did well to get him.“Carlo Anc elotti is a fantasticmanager and I was sorry forhim when Chelsea decided tosack him, but I think Villas-Boas is a good manager forhem.”
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Mancini not ruling out Chelsea
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201113The games people playPlaying Field
Luke Donald pointed his twoindex fingers to the sky on Su -
nday after completing an unp re -cedented double — a doublethat has earned the Englishworld nu mber one an amazing£8million
When Rory McIlroy failed towin the Dubai World Champ -ionship — he finished “only”joint 11th — Donald knew he hadadded the European Tour moneylist title to the PGA Tour crown inAmerica. ES
CHENNAI:While expressing hap-piness over India’s 4-1 series winagainst the West Indies here onSun day, stand-in captain GautamGambhir ca u ti oned that the for -thcoming tour of Australia wouldbe a “different ball game” that willput to test both the technique andmental toughness of the players.
“It always helps to get runsunder your belt, but in Australia,those are different conditions. Weall know this is not what we aregoing to get in Australia. TheAustralians are tough nuts to crackand will come hard at us,” he saidat a post-match media interactionhere after India beat the WestIndies in the fifth and concludinggame. “In Australia, your mentaltoughness will be tested the maxi-mum. You will be getting a qualityatta ck and they will be coming
hard at you. I think one good thingis the guys that have gone early (toAustralia) will be able to acclima-tise. And we’re playing two prac-tice games this time,” he said.
Gambhir sought to play downhis captaincy record of six wins outof six by saying that he was only asgood as the teams he had. “I’ll stickto the saying that the captain is asgood as his team. One captaincan’t win you the game; it is still 11people on the park,” he said. IANS
HOBART: Doug Bracewell bowl -ed New Zealand to a sensationalseven-run victory over Australiain the second Test in Hobart onMonday for the Kiwis’ first win inAustralia for 26 years.
The Black Caps claimed eightwickets for 74 runs to claim a dra-matic victory midway throughthe fourth day of an extraordi-
nary Test match at Bellerive Oval.Bracewell finished with 6-40
off 16.4 overs in a match-winningperformance to stun theAustralians, who appeared ontrack for victory at 159 for twochasing 241 runs to win.
But the Australians foldedspectacularly and David Warner’sunbeaten maiden Test century
went in vain as wickets tumbledaround him and last man NathanLyon was bowled by Bracewell inthe 64th over to claim victory.
It was the Black Caps’ first vic-tory in Australia since 1985 andthey tied the two-Test series aftercomprehensively losing the firstGabba Test by nine wickets.
Bracewell turned the matcharound with the wickets of RickyPonting (16), Michael Clarke (0),Mike Hussey (0), James Pattinson(4), Mitchell Starc (0) and Lyon (9).Warner finished unbeaten on 123off 170 balls with 14 boundaries tocement his position in the Testside after fellow opener PhillipHughes was out again cheaply.
Warner edged out Bracewellas official man-of-the-match in atelevision viewers’ poll.
The Australian reached hiscentury when he tucked Brac -ewell behind square leg for twoshortly after lunch and greetedhis achievement with a leap intothe air and a kiss on his helmet.
In a tense climax, Lyon sur-vived two reviews for lbw asWarner went after the runs. AFP
Amir Khan has challengedLamont Peterson to showhe has the “balls” to give
him a rematch in England aftercontroversially losing his titles to the American in his Washing -ton hometown.
The Briton lost his IBF andWBA light-welterweight belts ona split decision to Peterson onSaturday night after a sloppy per-formance which saw himdragged into a scrap by the localfan favourite.
Khan said, “In my eyes the ref-eree (Joseph Cooper) was a bit onhis side and it’s true what BernardHopkins (veteran light-heavy-weight champion) said that whenyou come to DC, to someone’shometown, you are two pointsdown before the fight starts. Ithink that’s what happened.
Peterson won the fight but I’mready for the rematch anywhere.”
Khan — who lost after twojudges awarded the contest toPeterson with scores of 113-112— preferred to focus on a per-ceived injustice at the Walter EWashington Convention Center,blaming Cooper’s decision to dockhim a point on two occasionswhile also disputing the judges’scoring of the bout.
Indeed, there was an air ofconfusion at the end of the fightas ring announcer Michael Buffernot only read out an incorrectscore but also wrongly announcedPeterson’s method of victory as amajority decision rather than asplit decision.
Khan’s team have vowed totake their grievance through theofficial channels and while in real-ity little is likely to come fromthose complaints officially, thefight was close and excitingenough to warrant a rematch.
Khan added, “I came to DC sonow let’s take the fight to the UKand see if he has got the sameballs as me. We all know whowon the fight. I’ve even had a fewof the commissioners coming upto me and saying that was a dis-gusting decision.” ES
Khan for rematch
Sunil Chhetri(L) kisses thetrophy thatIndia wonafter beatingAfghanistan4-0 in theSAFF soccerChampionship in NewDelhi onSunday PTI
WE CAN DO IT TOODonald delightwith double‘Australia series a
different ball game’
Bracewell bowlsKiwis to exciting win
Doug Bracewell of Kiwisappeals during day four of theSecond Test match betweenAustralia and New Zealand
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201114Fun and frolic in a flat world Wacky World
A hotel for the dead,now that’s some-thing. This one is forreal, actual corpses.
And it’s pretty luxurious, goingfrom the pictures.
It’s a place where your folkscheck you in, and you wait it outuntil it’s time for you to be cre-mated. Also, it’s pretty luxurious.
The hotel Lastel run byHisayoshi Teramura in Japan’sYokohama suburbs, looks likeany other building from theoutside.
In fact, young couples mis-take it for a regular hotel andcome asking for accommoda-tion. But the place is not meantfor lovers, or for weary travel-
ers. Only for those who havealready made their final exitfrom this world. The need forsuch a hotel very much existsin Japan, where there is a waittime of at least four days for acrematorium.
With a total of 1.2 milliondeaths in the country in 2010,the annual death rate is at
0.95%, while the global averageis only 0.84%. The Japanesealso apparently tend to splurgeon funerals, on the cost of flow-ers, coffins and memorial ser-vices. Mr. Teramura seems tohave found a business oppor-tunity in the area of death.
Apparently, entry into thebusiness is not all that diffi-cult with the absence of
mandatory qualifications orlicenses. An office and a tele-phone will suffice to get start-ed. Mr. Teramura has plans toexpand. His second branchwill be a bigger space, able tohold up to 40 corpses. Hisneighbours however, have noteven the slightest inkling thatthey sleep eve ry night next to agroup of dead bodies!
Leila Cohoon ofIndependence, Missouri is aretired hairdresser. She now
teaches hair weaving and runsher own cosmetology school.She is however linked to hair inmore ways than apparent. Leilacollects hair art, and puts it allon display in her museum.
What is hair art, you ask? Wewondered the same. Contraryto expectations, the museum
does not display human hair inbunches, like the hair museumof Avanos, nor is the hair takenfrom the heads of the dead. AskLeila, and she explains that hairart consists of intricate wreathsof hair set in frames to createbeautiful designs. Theseframes were frequently used todecorate Victorian homes.Leila’s collection started in1956, with wreaths and jewelrymade from hair.
Initially she stored hercollection in her house, underthe bed. Around 20 years ago,she decided to display them andstarted a one-room museum
in her cosmetology school.She later rented out a commer-cial space and runs hermuseum there.
The walls of Leila’s HairMuseum are completely coveredfrom floor to ceiling, with hairart. Apart from the art, Leila alsohas on display strands of hairfrom the heads of some veryfamous personalities, includingGeorge Washington, AbrahamLincoln, John F. Kennedy andRonald Reagan.
While she is fond of allthe pieces in her collection, herlatest discovery is somethingshe’s excited about. It’s an oldengraving that she’s had formany years, that she liked. Itlooks like it’s just a finelycross-hatched pen and ink illus-tration. That’s what Leila thoughttoo, until she removed it fromthe frame recently. On closeinspection, she realized that itwas created painstakingly withpulverized hair.
Some of the art pieces on dis-play are indeed, exquisitelybeautiful. Which makes us won-der, what made humans cut andcollect their hair in this manner?Was it way of remembering theirloved ones before cameras wereinvented? Or was it simplyanother creative, artistic expres-sion? We may never really know!
Hair tales !
HOTEL FORTHE DEAD!
The latest in bizarre dress-es has arrived. Afterpaper napkins and news-
papers, we now have a dressmade of tea bags. This one wasmade by a 16-year-old fromKuala Lumpur, and she used awhopping 4,000 tea bags tocreate her masterpiece. Shewon the top prize at the GreenAwards 2011 held in KualaLumpur in October.
Suraya Mohd Zairin is a sci-ence student from SMK BukitJelutong, Shah Alam. She saysthat she chose to make a dressout of tea bags because theywere easily available to her.With the help of her friends,she was able to collect the4,000 bags and then it took herthree months to complete thedress. The theme followed by
the budding designer was ‘flow-ers’, because their shapes havealways mesmerized her.
Suraya says that peopletend to take flowers for grant-ed, and through her dress shewanted to highlight the signifi-cance of nature, especially thatof flowers. She receivedRM4000, which is approximate-ly $1,700, along with a trophy.
Bizarre dress
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201115From the world of science & researchBrave New World
Antibodies that will fight Alzheimer’sR
esearchers at RensselaerPolytechnic Institutehave developed a newmethod to design anti-
bodies aimed at combating dis-ease. The surprisingly simpleprocess was used to make anti-bodies that neutralise the harm-ful protein particles that lead toAlzheimer’s disease.
The process is reported inthe journal Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences(PNAS). The process, outlined inthe paper, titled “Structure-based design of conformation-and sequence-specific antibod-ies against amyloid,” could beused as a tool to understandcomplex disease pathology anddevelop new antibody-baseddrugs in the future.
Antibodies are large proteinsproduced by the immune systemto combat infection and disease.They are comprised of a large Y-shaped protein topped withsmall peptide loops. These loopsbind to harmful invaders in the
body, such as a viruses or bacte-ria. Once an antibody is boundto its target, the immune systemsends cells to destroy the invad-er. Finding the right antibodycan determine the differencebetween death and recovery.
Scientists have long soughtmethods for designing antibod-
ies to combat specific ailments.However, the incredible com-plexity of designing antibodiesthat only attached to a targetmolecule of interest has pre-vented scientists from realisingthis ambitious goal.
When trying to design anantibody, the arrangement and
sequence of the antibody loopsis of utmost importance. Only avery specific combination ofantibody loops will bind to andneutralise each target. And withbillions of different possibleloop arrangements andsequences, it is seeminglyimpossible to predict whichantibody loops will bind to aspecific target molecule.
The new antibody designprocess was used to create anti-bodies that target a devastatingmolecule in the body: theAlzheimer’s protein. Theresearch, which was led byAssistant Professor of Chemicaland Biological Engineering PeterTessier, uses the same molecularinteractions that cause theAlzheimer’s proteins to sticktogether and form the toxic par-ticles that are a hallmark of the
disease. “We are actually exploit-ing the same protein interac-tions that cause the disease inthe brain to mediate binding ofantibodies to toxic Alzheimer’sprotein particles,” Tessier said.
Alzheimer’s disease is due toa specific protein — the Alzh -eimer’s protein — sticking toge -ther to form protein particles.Th ese particles then damagethe normal, healthy functions ofthe brain. The formation of sim-ilar toxic protein particles iscentral to diseases such as Par -kinson’s and mad cow disease.
Importantly, the newAlzheimer’s antibodies devel-oped by Tessier and his col-leagues only latched on to theharmful clumped proteins andnot the harmless monomers orsingle peptides that are notassociated with disease.
By a surprisingly simple methodthat will target harmful proteins
Erythropoietin or EPO mightbe considered a “performa -nce enhancing” substa nce
for athletes, but new research pub-lished online in The FASEB Journalshows that these enhancementsco me at a high cost — incr easedrisk of vascular problems in thebrain. According to the study, sh -ort- or long-term use of EPO rai sesblood pressure by constrictingarteries, which reduces the flow ofblood to the brain. This finding al -so contradicts earlier evidence su -g gesting that EPO may be a viableearly treatment for stroke victims.
“The new findings of this stu dyurge to scrutinise present indica-tions for EPO, and so help to betterdelineate positive versus ad -
versary health effects of EPO foreach patient,” said Peter Ras m u -ssen, PhD, a researcher invol ved inthe work from the Zurich Centrefor Integrative Hu m an Ph ysiologyat the Uni versity of Zur ich. “Futureres ear ch should aim at developingan EPO-based agent for treatmentth at does not have a negative ef -fect on blood vessels of the brain.”
To make this discovery,Rasmus sen and colleagues evalu-ated the effects of acute high dosesof EPO for three days and chroniclow doses of EPO for 13 weeks intwo groups of healthy males.Responsiveness of brain vesselsduring rest and during bike-ridingexercise, with and without hypox-ia, was examined. Blood vesselswere also analysed using ultra-sound measurements and by mea-suring how much oxygen reachedthe brain. They found that pro-longed EPO administration incre -ased hematocrit, while acuteadministration did not. Bothgroups had higher blood pressure.
“EPO is used by doctors toincrease red blood cells in sickpeople who can’t make enough ofthem: it’s called honest medicine.When EPO is used by healthy bik-ers and runners to boost their per-formance, it’s called cheating. Nowwe know that folks who use EPOcovertly are cheating not only thetime-clock, but themselves,” saidWeissmann, of The FASEB Journal.
New research suggests that EPO poses a riskto blood vessels in the brain and body
Identify blood poisoning quicklyIs the patient suffering from
blood poisoning? To answerthis question, the doctor
draws a blood sample and sendsit to a central laboratory for test-ing. This takes up valuable time,which could cost the patient hislife. In future, physicians will beable to analyse blood there andthen and have the results withintwenty minutes. This is madepo s sible by a biochip, developedby scientists at the FraunhoferInstitute for Physical Measur e -ment Techniques IPM in Frei -burg. “To analyse the biochip wehave also designed a fully auto-matic device to carry out all theexamination steps,” explains DrA Brandenburg, group managerat the IPM. “All the doctor has todo is place the sample in the ap -paratus and wait for the results.”
Meanwhile, within the devicethere’s plenty going on: it startsby preparing the blood sample.Red blood cells are separatedfrom the blood and the plasmathat remains is guided onto thebiochip. When patients are suf-fering from sepsis, their immunesystem reacts by producing cer-tain proteins. The biochip usesthese in its diagnosis: there areantibodies positioned on thechip which fit these proteins likea key fits a lock. If the proteinsare present in the blood, theantibodies fish them out of thefluid and bind them to the chip.But how does the apparatusknow if proteins have beencaught? “The chip is rinsed witha solution containing the appro-priate antibodies, which have in
turn been marked with a fluores-cent dye,” explains IPM scientistDr Manuel Kemmler. “Thesebind to the proteins — meaningantibodies, protein and markedantibodies are all firmly linked toeach other and to the chip’s sur-face. When the chip is illuminat-ed, the dye lights up.” The appa-ratus sees lots of little illuminat-ed dots that show the proteinwas in the blood. If the patient ishealthy, the chip remains dark.
The researchers can even testfor different proteins at the sametime in one cycle. This is done byplacing various different catchermolecules on the chip, to whichspecific molecules in the bloodattach themselves. A cunningselection of proven proteinmarkers allows the scientists to
obtain additional importantinformation about the severityand cause of the illness.
Together with colleaguesfrom a university hospital, theresearchers have already suc-cessfully tested prototypes of thedevice and biochip. Each biochipcan only be used once — so theyhave to be affordable. “We pre-dict that in the long run, withproduction on a large enoughscale, each chip will cost nomore than one euro,” saysBrandenburg. There are variouspossible applications: other con-ditions such as heart attacks orcancers can also be investigatedthis way. What’s more, the chipfacilitates doping and urine test-ing as well as the quality assess-ment of foodstuffs.
Performance raisers upblood pressure in the brain
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201118Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor
Chemotherapyholds the key
Dr P Raghu Ram
What is Chemotherapy and why is itgiven?Chemotherapy is a form of treatmentthat uses a combination of anti can-cer (cytotoxic) drugs. The aim is todestroy cancer cells that may havespread from the breast into the bloodstream or the lymphatic system. Thisis known as systemic treatment, asthe whole body is exposed to theeffect of the prescribed drugs. Variousfactors such as size of the breast can-cer, grade of the cancer, lymph nodesinvolvement, age of the patient andgeneral health are taken into consid-eration before prescribingchemotherapy. Primary breast cancer affects thebreast and/or lymph nodes (glands)under the arm.
In most situations, chemotherapyis given after surgery and beforeradiotherapy. This is called adjuvantchemotherapy. It usually starts threeto four weeks after surgery, so thatthe body has ample time to recover.In some cases, chemotherapy is initi-ated before surgery to sh rink largetumours. This is known as neo adju-vant or primary chemotherapy.
Secondary, or metast atic, breastcancer is when the cancerous cellsha ve spread from the breast to otherpa rts of the body. Chemotherapy isused to curb the growth of secondarybreast cancer. Chemotherapy mustbe administered by a qualified medi-cal oncologist. It can be done inmany ways. For breast cancer, thedrugs are intravenously adminis-tered. Chemotherapy comprisesseries of treatments between inter-vals of three to four weeks for sixmonths. The period between eachsession gives the body time to recov-er from any short-term side effects.Patients are usually allowed to gohome the same day they undergo asession. The amount of benefit willdepend on many factors such as age,whether lymph nodes are involvedand the type, size and grade of thecancer. In some cases the benefits ofchemotherapy are clear. In othersthey are quite small and it can be dif-ficult to decide whether or notchemotherapy is needed.
(The writer is the director andconsultant oncoplastic breast surgeonpractising at KIMS-UshalakshmiCentre for Breast Diseases,Hyderabad)
Anew method to boostthe number of immunece lls in umbilical cordblood prior to cord blo -
od transplants for cancer pa t ie -nts appears to lead to a qui ckerrebuilding of a new immune sys-tem in the patient’s body thanwith a conventional cord bloodtra nsplant procedure, accordingto new research from the Pere -lman School of Medicine at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. Thetechnique also paves the way forthe development of a way to pro-vide these patients with a salvagetherapy from the same donor iftheir cancer returns.
“Umbilical cord blood is apo t ential cancer therapy that isthrown away every day,” saidlead author Elizabeth Hexner,MD, an assistant professor in thedivision of Hematology-Oncolo -gy in Penn’s Abramson CancerCentre. “Our findings point to apromising method to make bet-ter use of scarce cord bloodresources available through pub-lic banks, which offer the onlytransplant option for patientswho have no suitably matchedblood or bone marrow donorprospects.” Though cord bloodhas a larger number of stem cellsby volume than blood or marrowfrom living donors, the actualamount of blood available percord is smaller — about onetenth the number of cells collect-ed from living donors.
That deficit typically leads toa slower rebuilding of a sickpatient’s new immune systemfollowing transplant, leavingpatients vulnerable to severe,even life-threatening infections.
On the other hand, because
immune cells in cord blood areless developed and have notbeen fully “educated” to attackperceived invaders in the body,patients who undergo cordblood transplants are less likelyto suffer graft-versus-host dis-ease, a common, dangerouscomplication in which the newcells assault healthy organs likethe liver and skin. Doctors sayimprovements to the transplantprocedure hold great potential.
The procedure used in thePenn trial, involving four pati e -nts, began with cord blood don -ations that had been separatedinto two parts — typically an 80per cent fraction and a 20 percent fraction — prior to freezing.
Then, the team thawed thesmaller fraction two weeks priorto transplant, activated and grewthe number of donated T cells —which are a key driver for recov-ery of transplant patients’immune system and play a rolein fighting infections — using theco-stimulatory compounds CD3and CD28 in Penn’s Clinical Celland Vaccine Production Facility.
Following a chemotherapyand radiation regimen to dest roy
patients’ remaining cancer cellsand the administration ofimmunosuppression drugs toprevent rejection of the donorcells, patients then received thethawed, larger fraction of thecord blood first (a standard, sin-gle cord blood transplant). Aninfusion of the newly activatedand expanded T cells followed,with a portion of those cellsbeing reserved and frozen forpotential future use as immu -notherapy in the event of a can-cer relapse or transplant failure.
“Donor lymphocyte infu-sions (DLI) are frequently givento patients who need them fol-lowing stem cell transplants fr -om living donors, but until now,we have been unable to offer thistherapy to cord blood tra nsplantpatients because the source oftheir cells is used up at the timeof transplant,” Hexner says.
“Our results show that we areable to grow sufficient numbersof T cells to be available both forthat use as well as to buoy thenumber of cells that patientsreceive during the transplantitself, which seems to havehelped their immune systemscome back online more quicklythan is typically seen in umbili-cal cord blood transplants.”
Three of the patients enroll ed
on the study experienced rela-tively early neutrophil engraft-ment — the point at which thesecritical infection fighting cells inour body reach 500 per micr -olitre. This milestone is impor-tant because above this thresh-old, the risk of life-threateninginfections is drastically lower. Forthese three patients, engraftmentwas achieved on days 12, 20, and17 post-transplant. This wasapproximately half the time thisprocess has historically takenwith this type of transplant, sub-stantially narrowing the windowin which patients have the great-est risk of death from transplantcomplications. Research hasshown that using two cords pertransplant can also speed thisprocess, but that tactic also dou-bles the cost of the procedure, tomore than $60,000. The fourthtrial patient’s umbilical cordblood graft failed, and they weresubsequently treated with anot -her stem cell transplant. Therewere no infusion-related adverseevents observed during the trial,and three of the four expansionsamples yielded eno ugh cells forfuture immuno therapeutic DLIuse. Next, the team hopes to testthe optimal expan ded T cell dosenecessary for speeding the pro-cess of immune recovery anddevelop a method to performDLI after transplant. The Penn te -am says their work also sheds lig -ht on the need to buoy the num-ber of public cord blood banksthrough which new parents canopt to donate their newbor ns’cord blood for use treating si ckpatients. Commercial, privatecord blood banks have prolifer-ated in the US in rec ent years,despite a lack of evide nce prov-ing the utility of this so-called“biological insurance” and state-ments from the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics and othergroups discouraging new par-ents from paying for the service.
Since cord blood stored inpu b lic banks is already frozenand awaiting use, it offers a lesslabor intensive, quicker way tomatch patients for transplantthan the two to three month tim -eframe for locating and obtainingcells from a matching unrelateddonor through the National Ma -rrow Donor Progr am. Blood stor -ed in private ban ks, however, isnot available for treatment ofunrelated donors for whom adonor cannot be located.
“Greater investment in publicbanks and more opportunitiesfor parents to donate to thesebanks are a necessary compo-nent of improving care forpatients with blood cancers,”Hexner added.
Immunity-packed cord bloodpromises better cancer cure
Umbilical cord bloodis a potential cancertherapy that is thro -wn away every day
Lead authorElizabeth Hexner
Jump, it
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201119Because you are what you wearF‑Folio
Gwen Stefani’s always been a trendsetter butwill the singer convince fans to try this comb-over-meets-lopsided-hair-knot hanging off her
forehead?The effect’s actually quite elegant — it looks like a
tiny fascinator perched on the side of her head. PlusGwen’s make-up is a glam combo of cat eye and rubyred lips!
So, what do you think? Is Gwen’s hair sculpturetrendy or just too funky for anywhere but the
red carpet? E!online.com
Could this bethe new LBD?Fashion criticsdefinitely seethe little blackjumpsuit trying to overtake it.And sinceChristmas isaround thecorner and sois the partyseason, this littlenumber issure tomake youthe starof theevening
Forgive me forbeing a mod-ern-dayScrooge here
but there’s somethingI have to get off my
chest. I hate sequins.The small, sparkly skin-
scratchers might be syn-onymous with the silly sea-son but I’ve always seenthem as parasites on theirhost, spoiling otherwiseperfectly lovely party dresses.
So this winter’s prevail-ing party trend is a sooth-ing sight for those of us
with sore, sequin-dazzledeyes. Chic, streamlined and,most importantly, free ofthe shimmery stuff, the lit-tle black jumpsuit (or LBJ)is proving to be a huge hitamong pared-down party-goers. Championed by
Phoebe Philo who, true toform, was a country mileahead of the pack lastDecember when shestepped out in a straplessLBJ, part of her latest col-lection for Celine, the sim-ply cut, all-in-one style hasgained a host of newambassadors this winter.
At last week’s BritishFashion Awards, Model ofthe Year Stella Tennant wasa walking example of the‘less is more’ philosophy asshe took to the stage to col-lect her award wearing anLBJ by Philo, while actressTilda Swinton — a dedicat-ed fan of the androgynouslook — dazzled in a long-sleeved incarnation. SingerJade Williams, aka theSunday Girl, chose a blackwide-leg jumpsuit with avibrant blue collar to attend
an event at StellaMcCartney’s shop onTuesday night. Other LBJwearers include Kylie, whofavours a sleeveless jump-suit from Yves SaintLaurent, and GwynethPaltrow. The jumpsuit’sgreatest appeal is that itcomes with no age limit, sowhether you’re 15 or 50 youneedn’t shy away from one.A wide-leg style is flatteringfor those who wish to keeptheir pins out of the lime-light, while long sleevesensure your bingo wingsremain off the menu at theoffice party. On the highstreet, Whistles has a rea-sonably priced LBJ up forgrabs. But for an upmarketoption that’s certain to lasta lifetime, I suggest youmake a beeline for Celine.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201120Campus
Students from St Mary’s College, Yousufguda, can be found inevery major institution in the country and abroad. It was a mod-est beginning but soon St Mary’s broke all barriers and becamethe ‘most sought after’ college in the twin cities. Shiba Minaispoke to students to see why St Mary’s stood out from the rest
ON BUILDING LEADERSFOCUSSED
The college was choc-a-blocwith hundreds of studentshigh on the festive spirit. It
was after all, the last day of Prerna,the annual college fest ofHyderabad’s ‘trendiest’ college, StMary’s, Yousufguda. As one entersthe college gates, one is greetedwith loud music, constant cheersand hooting. One might think thatcollege fests mean only fun andgames but a peek into the processshows otherwise.
The two-day fest requiredtwo months of sweat and blood,say the student organisers. “Wehad to sit down and decide whowould be in the core committeeto organise the fest. We thoughtpitching the idea to the principalwould be difficult but luckily hehas been very supportive. Wewere appointed two lecturers toassist us. This was when an out-line was made,” recalls NisarAhmed, a member of the corecommittee.
That was the easy part.Getting resources and marketingthe brand is always the hardest.Nisar then gives us an example.“Acquiring sponsorships is likegoing around town with a beg-ging bowl,” he quips. “Jokesapart, it was a quite tough togather sponsors,” he says.
They had aimed for abudget of Rs4–5 lakh. The firstfew weeks, they experiencedsevere disappointment becausethey were unable to find spon-sors. Luckily, everything fellinto place and they found twomajor sponsors.
“The next step was marketingthe fest. We have invited 77 col-leges for the fest. This yearthough, we went online as well.Prerna tickets were availableonline,” echos Rahul, anothercommittee member.
The amount of work thatwent into organising the fest wasso gigantic that the committeedecided to split the workbetween different departments.
But the organisers of Prernaare not complaining at all. Theyseemed to have overcome all thechallenges thrown their way andemerged winners with all thelearning and practical knowl-edge that they have clocked upthrough this experience. Finallywhen the day of the eventarrived, it was a smooth ride.
By Osama Salman andAishwarya Yerra
Coolest thing aboutcollege
The faculty is extremelyfriendly and the students and
lecturers share a great rapport.Students are allowed to remain
in their element and that iswhat makes it really cool.
Fashion trend The mantra in college is to
dress comfortably. One of the popular trends
among boys and girls alike isbaggy jeans and cargos.
Another fad is fitting tees pairedwith sneakers or flip flops.
Dog tags are a commonaccessory for these fashion-conscious teenagers; almostevery third student is found
sporting them.Unlike most other colleges,
a lot of students here are foundwearing beanies. The best thing
about these caps is that theylook good with any outfit.
Coolest hangoutsin college
The canteen has alwaysbeen a popular hangout.
Another place to gettogether, is the staircase near the
administration office.
What would studentswant to change about
their college?The closed-gate policy
should be changed. We areasked to be in college before
8.30am and are not allowed toleave until 2.30pm. We would
appreciate it if the system was alittle bit more flexible
and easy-going!
Highlight ofthe college
This college has one of themost active anti-ragging
committees in the city.Through this campaign, thestudent volunteers not only
address the students of theircollege, but also try and spread
awareness to other colleges aswell — spread across the twin
cities. They try to educate themabout the ill-effects and
consequences of ragging.
Students Speak
The principal of St Mary’s College,Mahender Reddy says, “We are oneof the most flexible and progressive
colleges. However, we are bound by uni-versity rules. I feel that the present edu-cation system has not changed much inthe last two-three decades, but the cul-ture and generation has evolved greatly.Today’s curriculum does not have any
credits for subjects like photography orstudents who are active in activities likecollege fests etc. We don’t seem to befocussing in building leaders, wejust restrain students’ credibility tonumbers!
Mahender Reddyoffers a very helpful tipfor college students.
He says, “Every student must imbibe thehabit of either playing sports or pursu-ing a hobby. This should become a partof their daily or weekly routine.” He con-tinues, “I say so, as today's world hasbecome very competitive and if you
don't have something to de-stressyou, sooner or later it will have
adverse effects.”Prin
cipa
l spe
aks
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Tragedy King, Devdas, theultimate method actor...and the list just goes on.Yes, it is impossible to
stop raving about legend DilipKumar or Muhammad YusufKhan who has blessed cinemalovers with some of his notewor-thy performances. Some remem-ber him as a young lad trying towoo Vyjayantimala in the songUde jab jab zulfein teri, from themovie Naya Daur, while othersremember his unforgettable per-formance of a lovestruck heart-broken man in the eternal clas-
sic, Devdas, a term that becamesynonymous with men who havesuffered a heartbreak. An inspira-tion for many and an idol formost, Dilip Saab completed 88years of his life on Sunday, welook back at his contribution toIndian cinema.
Born in a Peshawari family toLala Ghulam Sarwar, Yusuf grewup among 12 siblings. When hewas still a young boy, Yusuf’sfamily shifted base to Mumbai inthe 1930s. He then decided toventure out on his own and setup a canteen business in Pune.
It was the year 1943 whenDevika Rani, the wife of the erst-while owner of Bombay Talkiesintroduced him to the arc lights.Yusuf started his career in 1944with Jwar Bhata and a screen
name, Dilip Kumar. Though thefilm did not do well, he wasnoticed. His big break came in1947 when his film Jugnubecame a major hit and afterthat there was no looking back.He gave remarkable perfor-mances after Jugnu but it was hisrole in Daag that fetched himFilmfare’s Best Actor award.
He then went on to giveexcellent performances of whichsome of his characters likeDevdas, Prince Salim in Mughal-e-Azam and the flamboyantlover boy Shankar in Naya Daurare most talked about. This ver-satile actor did not restrict him-self to one role. Be it tragedy,romance or comedy, he signedall movies and grabbed everyopportunity that came by.
In the year 1966, yet anotherbeautiful phase in his life began,when he tied the knot withactress and beauty queen SairaBano. He was 44 and she wasjust 22. The two have beentogether since. Their’s is a longlasting relationship in Bollywoodbut it too, had its share ofcontroversies.
On the star’s birth-day, Bollywoodmegastar AmitabhBachchan penned afew lines in his blogwhich read, "It is a cel-ebration for the greatest,on the eve of his birthday.He turned 89, the 11th ofDecember. Exactly 20 yearsolder to me by birth andexactly 2,000 yearsahead of me in ourcommon vocation.He is my idol andhas been sincethe day I firstsaw hiswork."Amitabh
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worked with the legendary actorin 1982, in Shakti, which wenton to gross big at the box-office.Reminisc ing about the film, BigB revealed that it was quite diffi-cult for him to stand in front ofhis idol and act.
Shah Rukh Khan, who isquite close to Dilip Saab foryears now, tweeted saying, “Satwith Dilipkumar sahib...it washis birthday...sairaji...amazingsongs so much love...my parentswould be so happy. Allah hasblessed me.”
Dilip Kumar returned to thebig screen after taking a sabbati-cal from the year 1976 to 1981,starting his comeback with thebiggest hit of the year, Krantiwhich was followed by a list ofhits like Shakti, Vidhaata,Mashaal and Karma. His lastsuccessful act on screen was inSaudagar with veteran actor RajKumar. His last film, Qila howev-er doomed at the box-office.
Apart from receiving themaximum number of Filmfareawards, Dilip Kumar alsoreceived other honoraries likethe Padma Bhushan in 1991, theDada Saheb Phalkey in 1994 andwas also bestowed with theNishan-e-Pakistan by the gov-ernment of Pakistan in 1998, forhis efforts to bridge the gapbetween the two countries.
Though not a common facein the public eye, this all-timelegend does not need to makehis presence felt. His contribu-tion to Indian cinema is irre-placeable. As Sr Bachchan men-tions in his tweet, “He still at 89exudes that magical power of hispresence .. never before, neverafter .. the finest ..blessed to bein his presence.”
The saying actions speak louderthan words, stands true for vet-
eran actor Dilip Kumar. On his89th birthday, we wish the leg-end many more beautiful years
Thestory ofa legend
Sat with Dilip Kumarsahib...it was his
birthday...sairaji...amazing songs so much
love...my parentswould be so happy.
Allah has blessed me
Shah Rukh Khan
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@rampalarjunPut up our X’mas tree athome with the girls,so muchfun,as they sang X’mas carolsin their lovely voices whilethey decorated.Heartwarming.
@NeilNMukesh I think I’ve given LOVE a lotof importance. Now the bestthing.To do is Let go of itcompletely. What’s got tohappen will happen.Whatsay?
@realprietyzinta I think I just fell in love....Yesss... With Morrocco ! I hadthe best time there. Hoping 2come back soon 4 a holiday, ashoot. Anything !
@SrBachchanT 586 -A sportingly goodly dayfor the country .. won the soccerSAFF tournament and won thelast ODI against WIndies .. andnow Australia !
@iamsrkFun watching Don2. Tomstart the marathon travels tobring the film closer to view-ers...hope all like seeing it asmuch as we did making it.
@ajaydevgn Kajol wnt 4 d loomba trustdinner in delhi last night. Bothof us support an believe thtevery1 deserves it regardlessof circumstance.
@juniorbachchan Spent the morning at theDilkhush school for the spe-cially abled in juhu. The kidsknow how to put a smile onyour face.
@udaychopra Just saw “New Year’sEve”...what a movie..whata movie..what a movie!!! Ya,had to say it 3 times it’s thatgood..feel good film of theyear
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011 22The glamour behind the glitzMagic ScreenNila Madhab Panda
Even as his debut fea-ture film I Am Kalamcontinues to earn lau-rels, the latest being
the Best Film, Best Directorand Best Actor awards at therecent Silent River FilmFestival in the USA, NewDelhi-based director NilaMadhab Panda is launchinghis next feature film, whichwill be a children’s adventurethriller set in northern India.
The Hindi feature film,tentatively titled Jal BinJalpari, is being produced by
Ultra Distributors Pvt Ltd,the Rs-3-billion film produc-tion, distribution andrestoration company head-quartered in Mumbai.Starring an eclectic castcomprising Parvin Dabas,Tannishtha Chatterjee,Suhasini Mulay, V M Badola,Rahul Singh and HarshMayar (who won theNational Award for the BestChild Actor in I Am Kalam),the film will go on the floorsin the 2nd week ofNovember.
DJ Suketu was the only resident DJmanning the consoles at theTom Cruise welcome bash that
took place over the weekend inMumbai. Attended by not just the who’swho but the ‘rarely-seen’ in the Boll -ywood fraternity, the night came alivenot just for Cruise’s ardent fans but forCruise himself who was quite bowledover by Suketu’s prowess with music.
The one remix that Tom was takenin by was Suketu’s version of DhinkaChika. Cru ise spent his time on hisflight listening to Bollywood musicand he loved Sal man’s steps to it. Thiswas brought to Suketu’s attention whopromptly play ed the song especiallyfor Cruise. The Ghost Protocol leadactress Paula Patton took to the dancefloor to Suketu’s next remix forChammak Challo and urged Mumbaito come out and party.
“It was an extremely adrenalin-pumping experience for me. Since thetime I was told I would be DJing for theHollywood Megastar, I’ve been dream-
ing songs that would appeal to him andmake him love Bollywood. My top threesongs for the night were Dhinka Chika,Chammak Challo and Sadi Gali andCruise loved them all. When talking to
me, he mentioned his love forBollywood music and thanked me formaking his night a memorable andexciting one filled with the right Indianflavours,” said Suketu.
Shabana is sucha perfectionist
He is a wizard of wordsand she the face of paral-lel Indian cinema —
Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmimake an enviable couple.
After almost three decades ofmarriage, the writer-lyricist
adm its he is still in awe ofhis ‘perfectionist’ wifewhom he lovingly calls‘Dr.No’.
“Shabana is a perfec-tionist. A lot of peoplethink she is extremelypicky and choosy abouther work, but that’s hert e m p e ra m e n t . . . s h ewon’t say yes to a scriptunless she is totallyconvinced. If she reads100 scripts, she says noto all except maybethree or four! That’swhy I call her Dr.No,”said Javed, who tied the
knot with Shabana in 1984.Javed, 66, says even though
Shabana has too many criteriafor zeroing in on her films, shegives the projects her all onceshe gives the nod. “It is amazinghow much she dedicates herselfto her work. When she takes upa film, she takes her role veryseriously and goes into smalldetails to get the role right.
“I remember Shankar Maha -devan saw Shabana’s MorningRaga in which she has played aCarnatic singer, and he told methat looking at her poise in themovie, no one could ever tellthat she didn’t know classicalsinging. So that is what Shabanadoes...she perfects everything!”he said. The writer-lyricist, whois hosting Zee Classic’s newshow Classic Legends, said evenin their personal life, Shabana is‘perfection personified’. IANS
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CINEMA
Actor Bradley Cooper is so fascinated byJohn Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lostthat he immediately grabbed the chanceto star in its movie adaptation. The actor
is set to play Lucifer in the film, which revolvesaround the biblical tale of Adam and Eve’s expul-
sion from the Garden of Eden. Cooper feels thefilm is likely to court controversy.
“I can really relate to the story ofParadise Lost. I did a Milton course
as part of my English degree andfell in love with that characterbecause I couldn’t believe howappetising he is in that poem.Satan is the hero,’ Cooper told awebsite.
“It’s a story we can all relateto — Dad’s gone crazy and hewants us to worship the dog andthen his brother says: ‘Dad’sright.’ It’s about the fatherbetraying the character.
“You bet it’s going to becriticised. You’re taking one ofthe greatest pieces of litera-ture of the past 300 years butwho cares? It really is a won-derful experiment,” headded. IANS
Renner wants Bournefilm with Matt Damon
Actor JeremyRenner
replaced MattDamon as JasonBourne in the fo -u rth instalmentof the Bourneseries. “We’vekept the name,the style, toneand format ofwhat the firstthree Bournemovies are...maybe eventually Mattand I could doone together.That would bekick-ass! I loveMatt,” Rennertold Shortlistmagazine. IANS
Cooper accepts ParadiseLost movie version
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won’t mind doing
a nude sceneBeckinsale
The Pearl Harbor
actress Kate
Beckinsale has
always shied
away from going nude
on the big screen, but
she says she won’t mind
it if the role is good.
Beckinsale says the
role should be some-
thing her daughter
should be proud of,
reports a website.”
“I’m not averse to
doing a nude scene, but
it would have to be
something I felt I could
really argue in front of
my daughter, and so far
that hasn’t happened,”
she said.The 38-year-old has
a 12-year-old daughter
Lily with ex-husband
Michael Sheen. She is
now married to director,
Len Wiseman. IANS
Singer Kelly Rowlandthinks one of thereasons why she is
still single is because shecan be very bossy ondates.
The Down forWhatever singer admitsshe has ruined dates withher determination to bein control at all times andthinks she needs to learnto let men be gentlemenand look after her, reports
a website.“The desire to be in
control and decide every-thing myself as much aspossible gets in the wayof things,” she said.
“That’s probably oneof the reasons why I’msingle. I get in the way ofmyself when it comes tomen. The fact that I canact a little bossy hasruined quite a few dates,”she added. IANS
Rowland’s bossy dates
Move aside Angelia Jolie, becauseAmerica’s Sweetheart is now
officially America’s hottest — well,according to Men’s Health that is.The Friends actress topped the mag’slist of the 100 hottest women of alltime, out-sizzling Megan Fox,Cameron Diaz and yup, Brad Pitt’sgal Angie! Rounding out the Top 5with Aniston are Madonna, BritneySpears, Marilyn Monroe and RaquelWelch. As for who Jen thinks is thesexiest woman of all time? Theactress couldn’t hand it to just onegal, admitting: “It’s a tie betweenBridgitte Bardot and Gloria Steinem.But if I had to choose one, I’d sayGloria because, well, she’s the fullpackage. That’s sexy.” And as forbeating out Angelina? To us, that’srevenge. Which in this case is bestserved hot!
Aniston crownedhottest woman
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Actress Jessica Biel admits she was a shy girl during her teenagedays. The 29-year-old actress who is in a relationship with
Justin Timberlake insists she didn’t get much attention fromguys when she was younger because her insecurities had made her
aloof, reports a website. “I never got chased by guys as much as peoplemight think. I’m quite shy, so sometimes guys would find me aloof
because they’d think I was acting cool when it was just my nerves,” shesaid. “It always takes me a while to feel comfortable in social situations
or when I’m with new people,” she added. IANS
I was a shyteen: Biel
Roberts isprotectiveabout Adele
Actress Julia Robertshas is sued a strongwarning to any man
wishing to date Adele, sayingshe will come after anyonewho breaks her heart. ThePretty Woman actress is ahuge fan of the SomeoneLike You singer, reports awebsite. “Anybody that’sgoing to date her is a brave,brave man. Yo u’re going toget a whole lot of love, butyou’d better treat her right,or we’re all coming afteryou,” she said.
Roberts says the reasonAdele, 23, has become aworldwide star is becausepeople can relate to her andthe pain and heartache she’sgoing through. “Adele’s musicis so personal that you getinvested in her life,” sheadded. IANSArnold Schwarze -
negger is hoping toreclaim his title as
action-hero superstar inthe upcoming flick The LastStand, his first post-gover-nor of California film role.After all those scandals andthe ongoing rough patchwith wife Maris Shriver, willArnold be able to give hisbest?
“It’s his big comeback,”Schwarzenegger’s Last
Stand co-star GenesisRodriguez told a website atthe HFPA’s A Night of Firstsparty in West Hollywood. “Itis his film.” In the flick,Arnie plays a small-townsheriff who must stop adrug kingpin from escapingacross the border toMexico. Rodriguez plays anFBI agent . “Arnold is thecoolest guy I’ve ever met,”she said. “He is so funnyand he is such a trouper
doing his own stunts. Hedoes it all. He’s literallysuperman.”
He certainly didn’tlet the bloody injury herecently suffered whileshooting slow him down.“I saw that in person,”Rodriguez dished. “Hegot stitches and that sameday he went back to work.I would not go back towork after I got stitchesin my face!”
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201127The glamour behind the glitzMagic ScreenA career in the tinsel world iseveryone’s dream. Some get abreak but are not able to sustainit. A comeback then, becomes anoption. Here's our list ofcomeback queens of 2011
She was one of the most sought-after actressesfor a long time and then she dropped the bomb
about quitting films altogether. Post the release of Simhain 2010, Nayanthara didn't sign a single Telugu film for a
very long time and finally agreed to play the role of Seetha inBapu's mythological film Sri Rama Rajyam. The film and
Nayanthara's performance garneredrave reviews. It was her comeback
film of 2011, but it might very wellbe her last film as an actress
unless she changes her mind inthe near future. Her decisionwill break a lot of hearts but
there couldn't have been abetter graceful exit from
her eight-year-old career.
Tamannaah
Tamannaah is undoubt-edly the comeback queen
of the year. After a gap of twoyears, she made her comeback in
100% Love that was a huge success.Later she played the lead role in Allu
Arjun's Badrinath. Although the film did-n't do too well at the box-office,
Tamannaah sizzled in her glamorous role.By the time the film had hit screens, she
had already signed up Oosaravelli, Rachchaand Endhukante Premanta. Later, she
replaced Anushka in Prabhas' Rebel. Newsis that she might play the lead role inupcoming Mahesh Babu's film in
Sukumar's direction. Irrespective ofthe box-office result of her films,
2011 has been a dream year forthe actress with back-to-back
big-ticket projects.
She was nowhere to be seen for more than threeyears. But she was back in limelight this year,
thanks to her cameo in the box-office monsterDookudu. All it took was 4 minutes and 14 seconds of
fame, where Parvati Melton danced to a raunchy item songPoovai Poovai along with Mahesh Babu in the film. Everyone
began talking about her after watching the film and shequoted in quite a few interviews that she's
being approached by several filmmakers postthe success of Dookudu. Currently, she's
playing the lead role in Yamaho Yama anda little bird informs us that she has been
signed up for one of Balakrishna'supcoming films to be directed by Ravi
Kumar Chavali, which will go onfloors early next year.
Kriti Kharbanda's career in Telugu cinema gotalmost derailed post the release of her debut
film, Boni. The film, which was released in 2009, sank atthe box-office and then in 2010, she went back to
Kannada cinema where she acted in a film titled Chiru.She made her comeback in Telugu films with a cameo inNandini Reddy's Ala Modalaindi. But the biggest breakin her career so far was bagging an important rolein Teen Maar opposite Pawan Kalyan. Althoughthe film didn't really make a noise at the box-office, she was in the limelight for playing
a soft character in the film. Currentlyshe's awaiting the release of Mr
Nokia where she's playingthe lead role opposite
Manchu Manoj.
Lakshmi Rai
Lakshmi Rai's presence hasbeen minimal over the years.
Back in 2005, she acted in a Telugufilm Kanchanamala Cable TV and after
that few of her Tamil films like DhaamDhoom and Irumbukkottai Murattu
Singam were dubbed in Telugu in recenttimes. However, her role in RaghavaLawrence's Kanchana brought her to
the limelight once again in 2011.Although it was a dubbed film, the
Telugu audience lapped it up and thefilm was a big hit. Soon, she played an
important role in Venkat Prabhu'sMankatha, which was dubbed in
Telugu as Gambler. Her Telugu filmcareer took off once again and shebagged one of the lead roles in
Balakrishna's Adhinayakudu,which will hit the screens
early next year.
Parvati Melton
Kriti Kharbanda
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@iamnagarjunaMy favourite song in rajanna isgijigadu/just can't stop hum-ming it/Wish I could sing :(
@themohanbabuDeepest condolences to theFamily of Sri. MS Reddy garu.Legendary producer Goodhearted man. Outspoken andstraight Forward. RIP Reddygaru.
@Actor_SiddharthWorked with @AnupamPkhertoday after years..what do icall this man?A mentor?Astrong influence?A friend? Ithink "Kher Saab" covers itall!
@HansikaWatching dhoom 2 n I totallylove udhay chopra's character... Ist hilarious .hving a Sundayoff is boring.
@shrutihaasanSo blessed to have friendslike @NatashaaBhalla withfriends like this who needsbodyguards?!?;)
@sneha_ullalWatching my fav show greysanatomy and crying..moviesmakes me cry more than reali-ty..what scenes..ufff.
@LakshmiManchuSpoke in front of 1000 teluguwomen at UTAA in NJ. Thankyou all for having me. Youwere all truly inspiring. Off toIndia tomorrow. #UKUP
@Isumanth#Sherlock on BBC entertain-ment. Quite a brilliant reinven-tion of one of my favorite lit-erary characters.
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Mr. Nokiareleasing inJanuaryM
anch
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anoj
’s
Manchu Manoj’s upcomingMr.Nokia has finally completedits shoot. Ani is directing the filmand D S Rao is producing the film
which has been on the sets for a very longtime. Kriti Kharbanda and Sana Khan areplaying the lead roles in the film.Initially, Shriya Saran was consideredfor the role; however she walked outof the project citing date issues andlater was replaced by KritiKharbanda. Yuvan Shankar Raja iscomposing the music and news isthat he used a couple of tracksfrom the Tamil film Vaanamsince Manoj liked the songs.The film is expected to hitthe screens in January.
The second season ofCelebrity Cricket League(CCL) promises to be big-
ger and better. Buoyed by thesuccess of the inaugural editionof CCL, the organising commit-tee has decided to expand thenumber of teams to six. Apartfrom the four existing teamscomprising celebrities fromHindi, Telugu, Tamil andKannada film industries, CCL-IIwill feature teams from Bengaliand Malayalam film industries aswell. Boney Kapoor and Sri Deviown the Bengal Tigers franchise
and Mohan Lal and LizzyPriyadarshan own the KeralaStrikers team. The curtain raiserwill be held on December 19 inHICC, Novotel and the firstmatch will be played betweenMumbai Heroes and ChennaiRhinos on January 13 in Sharjah.Around 100 heroes from the sixfilm industries are expected totake part in CCL-II and 16 hero-ines will cheer for their respec-tive teams. The organisers arealso planning to launch a calen-der ‘Girls of CCL 2012’ later thismonth.
CCL-II promises tobe bigger and better
Adhinayakudupulls out ofSankranti raceBalakrishna’s upcoming film
Adhinayakudu will not releasefor Sankranti. Directed by ParachuriMurali, the film has Balakrishnaplaying triple roles spanning threegenerations. Jayasudha, Lakshmi Raiand Saloni are playing lead roles inthe film and it’s the first timeJayasudha is pairing up withBalakrishna. The film’s talkie por-tions have been shot and some songswill be shot later in the month.Kalyani Malik has composed themusic and producer, M L KumarChowdary is planning to release theaudio by the end of this month.Earlier, the film was supposed torelease on January 12; however, thelatest buzz is that Adhinayakudumight hit screens in the last week ofJanuary.
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 201130Chai Time
How to Play KakuroKakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is alsosuitably different. The key question: “How do you play Kakuro?”, wellhere are the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike insudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells likein a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells willcontain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.
However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro,the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in therow or column referenced by the number.
Within each collection of cells - called a run - any of the numbers 1to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.
Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly:In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you
will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. Thismeans that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14.Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on...
So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this is donethrough elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as you work outthe answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limit the valid com-binations, and hence the answer for this particular run.
Note the second cell in row two - it contains two numbers, 30 and11. The 30 refers to the vertical run underneath the number 30 and the11 refers to the two cells to the right, horizontally, of the number 11.
Wallace14 Spirit of “The Tempest”15 Usher in16 Author Wolfert or Levin17 Golf course named
after a Flintstone?19 “Don’t give up!”20 Thug at work21 Singing John from
Middlesex23 Auction off24 Window grate25 Big sister?28 Cop’s order30 Ho Chi Minh Trail locale31 Game or battle site32 Apply knuckles to wood35 It might give you chills36 Two-footed38 Southern college nick-
name: ___ Miss39 End of a school pledge40 Consumers41 Garbage hauler42 The ‘70s, e.g.44 Strokes of unanticipat-
ed luck46 Like a ninja48 Basketball crowd-pleas-
er49 Garcon’s list50 Island group giant tor-
toises55 Arithmetic directive56 The first U.S. National
Park58 Fjord relative59 Exhilarate60 Demonstrating good
posture61 Exist, to Popeye?62 Some vending machine
selections63 Accepts a challenge
DOWN1 Nickname for Haydn2 Aphrodite’s love
3 Calligrapher’s finepoints?
4 Lowers in dignity5 Axis opponents in WWII6 Bunch of schemers7 “East of ___”8 “I ___ my wit’s end”9 [not my mistake]10 Otherworldly11 Arkansas capital12 He playd Robin13 Batman, really18 Old measures equal to45 inches22 Actress Taylor, to
tabloids24 Actress Rowlands25 First radio code word?26 Debutante’s party27 Project for giant
beavers?28 “___ Jacques”29 Professional team in
Ohio31 Copied33 Plant with medicinal
qualities34 They’re positioned in
the church36 Ohio State players37 “Gosh!” to an
Englishman41 Large Indonesian island43 ___, drink
and bemerry
44 Imperfection45 Was notrenewed46 Spine-tin-gling47 Olympic
gymnastComaneci
48 Fruits of theblackthorn
50 Word before “hand” or“rags”51 Utah ski haven52 Attendee53 Twice from thrice54 Places for makingsoaps?57 “Telephone Line” group
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“Money is neither my
god nor my devil. It is
a form of energy that
tends to make us
more of who we
already are, whether
it’s greedy or loving.”
THOUGHT OFTHE DAY
Take a shot at the brain game while sipping your cuppa
QUICK CROSSWORD
PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER
– Dan Millman
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TAROT READ
The High Priestess –You discover some‑thing new about theoccult and are keen togo down that mysteri‑ous road. You realizethere are many peoplewhoʼre just like you.
Justice – Thereʼs confu‑sion about whatʼs rightand whatʼs wrong. Yourbeliefs and perceptionsof morality will under‑go major changes inthe near future withnew experiences.
Ace of Swords – Th ‑ere are clouds of con‑fusion. Despite that,youʼre able to displayclarity of thought. Yo ‑uʼre very clear aboutwhat you need andwhere youʼre headed.
ARIES TAURUS GEMINIARIESAvoid open talk with unknown persons;chances to fall in to their trap and repu‑tation might spoil. Indirect enemies tar‑getting to defame you; be alert and cau‑tious. Good will happen if you act wisely.
CANCER
LIBRAYour approach brings success as all willsupport you because of your adjustingnature. Your energy levels will be at ahigh and you will look attractive today.Unexpected fortunes possible.
CAPRICORNEmployees look very comfortable andget work completed as planned. Yourcolleagues too, are very supportive.Artists will receive good inflow of moneyand reward. Self‑assessment needed.
TAURUSReal‑estate deals will bring decent pro ‑fits. Selling alone is recommended; av o ‑id making any new investments. Co up ‑les need to put behind their egos andbe cordial. Lovers should be patient.
LEOExpenses will increase and you may incurloss in some financial deals too. Be carefulto avoid such events happening. A goodnews is expected soon. Friends and rela‑tives will extend their help in time of need.
SCORPIOAvoid speculative deals as the time is notfavourable. Your influence and social sta‑tus is set to improve. Businessmen are infor a prosperous time and will make goodprofits. Comforts will increase in family.
AQUARIUSThough you might face hurdles anddiscouragement, do not stop; keepmarching ahead till you achieve thegoals. Businessmen need to take areview about signing contracts.
GEMINIAvoid getting into legal issues or any dis‑putes; time is not at all favourable. Financialposition too, looks very bleak. You need toremain frank with relatives and friends, dis‑cuss issues and make use of their help.
VIRGOYou will look cheerful and family membe ‑rs also will add to that. Artists will have agood time as their good work gets ap pre ‑ciation by all. Employees may be mentallyupset as superiors are not supportive.
SAGITTARIUSYou might face some adverse situa‑tion; but keep your patience and don'tgive up. Soon the situation will change.Un expected financial gains possiblefor those who make serious efforts.
PISCESThink different and implement the sameto see how far you are successful andcontinue with it if results are good. Youwill undertake challenges and achievesuccess. Keep your actions shrewd.
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Strength – No matterhow difficult the cir‑cumstances you comeup trumps. You feelgood about your abili‑ty to fight the oddsand emerge tri‑umphant each time.
Four of Wands – Goodfortune strikes and youdeserve it. Youʼve beenworking very hard oflately and lady luck hasbeen eluding you. Thistime, sheʼll give you allyou want.
The Chariot –Overseas travel to anexotic location isindicated. Thoughitʼs work related, youend up having quitea good time duringyour free hours.
CANCER LEO VIRGO
Six of Swords – Ove ‑rseas contacts give yousomething to thinkabout. It changes youperception of where theworld is headed andhow economies arechanging.
Nine of Wands –Success is imminent.Youʼve worked hardfor it and youʼre alm ‑ost there. Just one lasttest remains and youget everything that yo ‑uʼve ever wished for.
Two of Cups –Listenup, singles. You meetsomeone from the op ‑posite sex and the ch ‑emistry is immediate.You might deepen yo ‑ur commitment to en ‑gagement or marriage.
LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS
Two of Pentacles –Youʼll be forced to dothe balancing act. Youmust admit that youactually quite enjoy iteven. Work and fami‑ly lives are intersect‑ing in many ways.
The Emperor – Love isin the air. You discovera new love for yourpartner and this keepsyou going in the mar‑riage. Do somethingnice like throwing asurprise.
The Wheel ofFortune – Times arenot going to be thesame all the time. Iftheyʼre bad now,things will look up.This card urges youto keep your chin up.
Slow‑and‑steady policy to be adopted. Busi ‑nessmen can plan expansion to focus ongrowth. Chances for some to buy a house orvehicle. While expressing your views, becareful as you might me misunderstood.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2011Your tomorrow today̶Star Power and Tarot
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The opening of the Seven Oven cafeand hookah lounge at Jubilee Hills on
Road no 36 on Sunday was a star-studded affair. Seen at the event were
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THE NEWSMOKIN’ JOINT
British director GuyRitchie kisses part-ner Jacqui Ainsleyat the premiere of
