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'Saint Teresa of Calcutta'

On September 4, Nobel Peace Laureate Mother Teresa
will be declared a saint at the Vatican by the Pope.
New Delhi: Known to generations
of Indians as a diminutive but
determined woman in a bluebor
dered white sari who cared for the
poor and destitute, Mother Teresa
is due to become the Roman
Catholic Church's latest saint on
Sept 4.
"By blood, I am Albanian. By citi
zenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a
Catholic nun. As to my calling, I
belong to the world. As to my heart,
I belong entirely to the Heart of
Jesus," once said the Mother, who
came to India in 1929 and stayed
the rest of her 87yearlong life
mostly in Calcutta. She founded the
Missionaries of Charity in 1948,
which today has about 4,500 sis
Sushma Swaraj is leading a

delegation to Vatican for Mother
Teresas canonization
ters worldwide continuing her
work, serving in hospices, orphan
ages, homes for people with AIDS

and drug addictions, unwed moth
ers, etc.
For her humanitarian service,
Mother Teresa was bestowed
numerous honors, including the
1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2003 she was beatified as
"Blessed Teresa of Calcutta." A sec
ond miracle was credited to her
intercession by Pope Francis in
December last year, paving way for
her to be recognized as a saint by
the Roman Catholic Church.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
on Sunday paid tributes to Mother
Continued on page 4
See detailed story on pg 19.
After tough talk, Trump

claims softening
on immigration
Washington: Hours after reviving his hardline rheto
ric on immigration at a Phoenix, AZ rally, Donald
Trump said on
T hursday there
was "softening" in
his immigration
plans.
"Oh, there's soft
ening. Look, we do
it in a very
humane way, and
we're going to see
with the people
that are in the
Donald Trump speaking after his country," said the
meeting with President of
Republican presi
Mexico, who later said Mexico will dential nominee
not pay for the wall on the border in a radio inter
that Trump harps on.
view hours after
he outlined a 10point immigration proposals in his
policy speech on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency
reported. "Obviously I want to Continued on page 4
See related stories on pg 9.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh

Chouhan (left) at a meet and greet program
organized by OFBJP in New Jersey on Aug 30.
Chouhan pitches
MP transformation
to woo US investors
By SATimes Team
New York: During his 5day whirlwind visit to the
US this week, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
met several investors and industry leaders, outlining
the advantages they have in investing in Madhya
Pradesh. And addressing community get togethers he
detailed the amazing development in his state in the
past decade as he has transformed Madhya Pradesh
into one of the top performing states in India. The
program to meet and greet the Continued on page 4
Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar & US Defense Secretary Ashton

Carter signed the pact in DC on Aug 29 even as Secretary of State John
Kerry in Delhi highlighted India's role as strategic partner of US.
LANDMARK DEFENSE PACT
India, US to share
logistics & bases
New Delhi/Washington: After
nearly a decade of painstaking dis
cussions, India and the United
States signed a landmark defense
agreement that will increase mili
tary cooperation between two of
the world's largest democracies.
T he
Log ist ics
Exchange
Memorandum of Ag reement
allows for reciprocal exchange of
logistic support, supplies, and
services between the two armed
forces. This includes food, water,
fuel, spare parts, repair, trans
portation, communication and
medical services.
T he agreement was finalized
during an ongoing visit by Indian
De fense Minister Manohar
Parrikar to Washington, D.C. In a
joint statement, Parrikar and the
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton
Carter said discussions ranged
from "increased strategic and
regional cooperation, to deepened
militarytomilitary exchanges, to
expanded collaboration on defense
technology and innovation."
In spite of the growing strategic
proximity between the two

nations, New Delhi has had deep
reservations about this agreement
for nearly a decade.
Many security of ficers and
politicians in the previous govern
ment in India had warned that it
could lock India into a formal and
irreversible military alliance and
push New Delhi into supporting
American conflicts, a move that
may upset countries like Russia,
China and friendly nations in the
Middle East.
"We resisted this agreement for
long because we didn't want to
give the perception that we are
g ang ing up w ith Americans
against somebody else, in particu
lar China," said Pallam Raju, for
mer junior minister for defense in
the previous government, as
quoted by AP.
After several decades of Cold
War era suspicion and chill, rela
tions between India and the United
Continued on page 4
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Jain trade body to hold global

business meet in California
Santa Clara, CA: T he
Jain
Internat ional
Trade Org anizat ion
(JITO), in association
w ith Jain Center of
Northern California
(JCNC), and Federation
of Jain Associations in
North America (JAINA),
is organizing its 2nd
international business
Keynote speakers at JITOs 2nd business conference titled
conference G2GGoing
G2GGoing Global 2016: John T. Chambers, Gururaj Desh Deshpande,
Global 2016 at Santa
Vinod Dham, and Prof Dipak C. Jain
Clara Marriott, Santa
Clara, CA, on September 1718, enjoyed meteoric rise in the cor keynote speakers: John T.
porate world.
Chambers, Executive Chairman
2016.
The conference promises two of Cisco Systems & Chairman of
G2G Going Global Initiative fos
ters entrepreneurship and pro full days of learning, discovering, US India Business Council
Gururaj
Desh
vides an opportunity to its mem and networking with hundreds of (USIBC);
bers of global networking as business professionals, entrepre Deshpande, Founder of Sycamore
well as interaction with the com neurs, and venture capitalists Networks; Vino d Dham, the
famed father of Pentium chip
panies, thoug ht leaders and from India and the US.
G2G
2016
boasts
four
famous
and founder of Indo US Venture;
industry experts who have
75% of Americans think

women are still discriminated
Washington: Threefourths of
impact of the countrys
Americans think discrimina
rst female nominee is
tion against women continues
perceived dif ferently
to be an issue today, even
across the e lectorate
when the country has wit
including how Hillary
nessed the historic nomina
Clintons gender w ill
tion of Hillary Clinton as the
impact her chances of
rst woman candidate for the
being elected and what the
US Presidential bid. However,
longterm ef fects will be
an
equal
number
of
on gender discrimination,
Americans also say that dis
said Trevor Tompson,
crimination for many women
Director of the APNORC
has decreased in the past 25
Center a USbased social
In the survey, Americans
years, reveals a national poll
science research organiza
are divided on whether
conducted by the Associated
tion. Seven in 10 revealed
Hillary Clintons gender is
PressNORC Center for Public
that the historic nature of
an advantage, a hindrance
Affairs Research.
Clintons candidacy has no
or neither for her election
The survey revealed that
bearing on their own vote
prospects this fall.
while 75 per cent nd men
choice this year.
and women are equally good at being
While nearly 20 per cent said that the
political leaders, 53 per cent think women opportunity to elect the rst woman
have fewer opportunities in politics than President makes them more inclined to
men.
vote for Clinton in November, about 10 per
Thus, American citizens are divided on cent said that it makes them less likely to
whether Clintons gender is an advantage, vote for her.
a hindrance or neither for her election
Six in 10 do not expect a Clinton
prospects this fall.
Administration to have any effect on the
Men are more inclined to say that her level of discrimination against women,
gender is a benet to her campaign, while a quarter anticipate a reduction in
whereas women are more likely to say it is the amount of discrimination women
a barrier, the researchers said. The would face if Clinton is elected.
The key takeaways from G2G meet are:

4 Promote Indo US business investments, partnerships & collabora
tions
4Learning from inspirational business success stories
4Opportunity to Pitch Your Business Plan
4Emerging Technologies
4Global networking
Pitch Your Business Plan is a competition for entrepreneurs to present
their business plan, receive feedback and mentoring along with an
opportunity for funding. Jain International Trade Organization (JITO) is
a multistakeholder community of visionary Jain industrialists, business
men /women & professionals who share a vision of economic and spiri
tual upliftment of the community and society at large. JITO envisages
many concrete projects under its core objectives Economic
Empowerment, Knowledge, and Service.
To register for the conference, go to http://www.jito.org/g2gconfer
enceregister/
and Professor Dipak C. Jain,
Director of Sasin, and Former
Dean, INSEAD & Kellogg School

of Management.
Trumps hardcore supporters

welcome his immigration policy
New York: IndianAmerican supporters of
Donald Trump have welcomed the Republican
presidential nominee's immigration policy, say
ing it will strengthen his base. "The address
denitely strengthens his base and, we read
that once his message is assimilated by the
Latino population interested in keeping the
illegal immigrants in the USA, his approval
among them will increase somewhat," said A.D.
Amar, president of IndianAmericans for
Trump 2016. "What we read from this policy
address by Trump is that if the illegal immi
grants who have not committed crime contin
ue to live in the shadow, there will be no
rounding up of them by any deportation task
force that he promised to enlarge if elected the
next president," Amar said, commenting on the
major policy speech on immigration Trump
gave in Phoenix, AZ. "We see this as a soften
ing, and showing heart for the immigrants liv

ing in the USA. Nevertheless, he was very clear
that if they wanted path to citizenship, they
will have to go back to the country they came
from and go through the process to be legal
ized," Amar said. Satya Dosapati, a Trump sup
porter who lives in Marlboro, NJ, said Trump's
speech showed he was fair and inclusive. He
called Trump's visit to Mexico "presidential."
"Donald Trump's statesmanship and digni
ed comments in Mexico showed that he is
very presidential and sees issues from a
humanitarian perspective, starting with our
own people," he said. Dosapati said Democrats
need to "stop putting down people of other
races and stop treating them in a patronizing
manner based on their skin color and learn
from Trump on how to treat all people with
dignity."
Woman Fatally stabbed in Possible hate crime

Jamaica Hills, NY: The 60yearold aunt of an NYPD cop, moments after walking ahead of
her asthmastricken husband, was fatally stabbed in Queens, police sources said Thursday.
The husband of Nazma Khanam rushed up Normal Rd. in Jamaica Hills Wednesday evening
after hearing her screams. The Bangladeshiborn victim was rushed to Jamaica Hospital
where she was pronounced dead. Khanam was wearing Muslim garb when she was
ambushed prompting some of her relatives to denounce the savage slaying as a hate
crime. The couple, who have three children, were just a couple of blocks away from their
home. Khanams transit cop nephew, identied as Humayun Kabir, was among the ofcers
who responded to the scene, sources said. Kabir has been on the force since 2008.
September 3-9, 2016
Facebook's mission to
spread internet fails as
SpaceX rocket explodes
Washington: Facebook's mission to spread the
internet across subSaharan Africa received a
major setback after the rocket due to launch the
communication satellite exploded in routine tests.
The launch, which had been set for Friday faces
significant delays after the blast on Thursday on
the launch pad of the Kennedy Space Center in
Florida, inews.co.uk reported.
Nobody is thought to have been hurt in the
explosion, which occurred in a routine test firing
ahead of a planned launch to take a satellite into
space this weekend.
The cause is unknown and has been put down
to "an anomaly" by the satellite's owner, Elon
Musk's SpaceX company.
The satellite was due to become the first in
Facebook's project to spread internet to the devel
oping world.
But the Amos6 communication satellite, which
would have allowed Facebook to spotbeam
broadband for its Internet.org initiative, and the
rocket have both been destroyed in the blast,
which shook buildings several miles away and
sent a thick plume of smoke into the air.
Florida braces for 'lifethreatening' hurricane

Washington: Tropical Storm Hermine strength
ened into a hurricane and steamed toward
Florida's Gulf Coast, where people put up shutters,
nailed plywood across store windows and braced
for the first direct hit on the state from a hurri
cane in over a decade. The National Hurricane
Centre said the storm's winds reached about 75
mph in the afternoon, just above the 74 mph hur
ricane threshold.
Hermine was expected to blow ashore late
Thursday or early Friday along the state's Big
Bend the mostly rural and lightly populated
corner where the Florida peninsula meets the
Panhandle then drop back down to a tropical
storm and push into Georgia, the Carolinas and up
the East Coast with the potential for drenching
rain and deadly flooding.
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India, US to share
logistics & bases
Continued from page 1
States have transformed in the past decade
with deepening commercial and strategic
partnership after they signed the land
mark civilian nuclear cooperation deal in
2008.
The process has speeded up under Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's government,
which over the past two years has strived
to transform the bilateral ties between
India and the US from just a buyerseller
defense relationship into a deeper strate
gic alliance in the Asia Pacific and Indian
Ocean Region.
New Delhi has stressed the need for joint
research and joint production of defense
equipment. Washington, which has signed
more than 100 such agreements with part
ner nations, promoted the deal as a way of
building interoperability between the two
militaries.
Earlier this year, senior military officer
Adm. Harry Harris said at an event in New
Delhi that During the negotiations, the
United States sought to address Indian
concerns about being drawn into U.S. con
flicts and tweaked the agreement accord
ingly. The agreement, reached Aug. 30,
"does not create any obligations on either
party to carry out any joint activity. It does
not provide for the establishment of any
bases or basing arrangements," said the
Indian government statement.
The agreement applies exclusively to
authorized port visits, joint exercises, joint
training, and humanitarian assistance and
disaster relief efforts.
The agreement streamlines relations
between the two militaries, for instance,
allowing refueling without having to come
up with a new agreement each time, said
analysts.
IANS added that the agreement, viewed
as part of the Obama administration's
Pivot to Asia strategy, was criticized by a
leading Chinese staterun daily, which
warned that New Delhi may irritate Beijing
if it "joins the U.S. alliance system.
Concerns over the agreement have been
voiced by political parties in India who say
it will lead to the country being seen as a
military ally of the U.S. However, some
experts have welcomed the 'long delayed'
agreement that has been in discussions

since 2004.
On Sept 4, she will become 'St.

Teresa of Calcutta'
Teresa, saying every Indian must feel
proud as she has officially been recognized
as a saint. His government was sending an
official delegation led by External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj to the ceremony at
Vatican.
After tough talk, Trump claims

softening on immigration
get the gang members out, the drug ped
dlers out, I want to get the drug dealers
out," said Trump. "We' ve got a lot of peo
ple in this country that you can't have, and
those people we'll get out."
During his Phoenix speech, Trump again
resorted to incendiary language after days
of flirtation with amnesty for undocument
ed immigrants in the country, proclaiming
that there would not be amnesty for illegal
immigrants under his presidency.
"Our message to the world will be this.
You cannot obtain legal status or become a
citizen of the US by illegally entering our
country. Can't do it," said Trump on
Wednesday. During his 90minute long
speech, Trump railed against illegal immi
grants as a whole for posing a security and
economic threat to Americans, pledging
that "anyone who has entered the US ille
gally is subject to deportation."
W hile professing toug h stance on
deporting any illegal immigrants with
criminal records, however, Trump in a
major departure from his stance in the pri
mary season shelved his plan to create a
"deportation force" to deport 11 million
illegal immigrants.
He also continued his promise that a US
Mexican border wall would be built and
Mexico would pay for it.
Chouhan pitches MP
transformation to woo US investors
chief minister organized by the Overseas
Friends of BJP (OFBJPUSA) at Royal
Alberts Palace on Aug 28 attracted hun
dreds of party supporters, and NRIs. On
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Nilima Madan, Melvin Durai,
Dr Prem Kumar Sharma, Ashok Vyas,
Dr Akshat Jain, Ashok Ojha
President: Arjit Mehta
Tuesday, the Friends of Madhya Pradesh
hosted a dinner reception for him at the
Indian Consulate in New York.
Speaking in Hindi, Chouhan said what
was once called a sick and backward state
has shown double digit growth consistent
ly and had won awards not only during the
current NDA rule but also during UPA
regime. The state has good road connec
tivity, 24x7 power, good law and order and
stability, and a government that is working
round the clock for the welfare of its peo
ple. Madhya Pradesh has already realized
exPM Atal Bihari Vajpayees dream of
linking Indian rivers by connecting the
states major rivers like Narmada, Chipra
and others and help bring over 16 lakh
hectares of land under irrigation, the chief
minister stated.
The allround development, stable law
and order and good governance has made
Madhya Pradesh the best destination for
investment, Chouhan asserted. The state
has already attracted investments worth
few lakh crores.
At the consulate event, Chouhan said his
aim is to ensure the bright young boys and
girls of his state have access to education
and are given the opportunities and sup
port to be able to set up their own compa
nies. I want to ensure that Madhya
Pradesh gives India the Tatas and Ambanis
of the future, he said. He called on the
states diaspora settled in the US and
across the world to remain connected with
their roots and continue to bring the two
nations closer with their contributions and
achievements. He also invited all to the
Madhya Pradesh Global Investor Summit
to be held in Indore on October 2223.
Measures taken by the Madhya Pradesh
government to improve ease of doing busi
ness and ratification of the Goods and
Services Bill will help it reap economic
bene fits, President of the USIndia
Business Council (USIBC) Mukesh Aghi
said at another event.
The central location of the state, skilled
manpower, robust industries spanning
every sector of the economy makes it an
ideal destination for investment, Aghi
said. During Chouhans visits, MoUs were
signed between the state government and
US firms as well as between private com
panies.
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ParyushanA soul purifying experience

New York: Jains around the world
celebrated eight days of Paryushan
and Das Laxana Parva from Aug
28Sept 5. This observance falls
normally every year in August
September during monsoon sea
son in India when Jain monks stay
at one place to avoid hurting small
insects during rainy season. They
would give discourses to strength
en the belief, propagate knowledge
and help purify conduct of the lis
teners.
During Paryushan, Kalpa Sutra is
read in the morning. It is one of
the oldest scriptures describing
the life of Bhagwan Mahavir
Swami, the 24the Tirthankar. It
depicts the coming in human life
(Garbh), birth, and life of Bhagwan.
The scripture also tells about Lord
Parshvanath,
Neminath,
Rishabnath, and all other
Tirthankars. In the evening
Samayik and Pratikraman is done
and monks/scholars give discours
es to the devout.
Fasting is done to the extent pos
sible, even by children. On the 8th
day, Samvatsari Pratikraman is
done to ask forgiveness from all
living beings in the universe. The
Pratikraman has recitation of
Navkaar Mantra (vandan of
President Obamas message

on Paryushana/Das Lakshana
Arihants, Sidd ha, Acharya,

Upad hyaya, and Saints) and
Log assa
(vandan
of
24
Tirthankars). Navkaar Mantra
brings highest quality to a person.
Logassa, Navkar recital, and repen
tance, also called Chaturvishtistva,
Vandan, and Pratikraman respec
tively are part of six necessary and
required conducts of Jains.
Recitation of 160 Navkaar Mantra
or 40 Logassa is done by all, sit
ting in Samvatsari Pratikraman.
Next day Parna is done by those
who were fasting. At the end of
Paryushan everyone feels more
purified. During eight days of
Paryushana, this higher level of
consciousness is achieved by read

ing of Kalpa Sutra, pravachana,
Navkaar Mantra and Log assa
Uccharan, Deep Bhakti, austerity
(Tapa) and learning and staying
with our pure soul.
During Das Laxana, the devout
strive to remove anger, deceit, ego,
and greed from their conduct, try
to be truthful, keeping senses in
check, austerity, giving up worldly
things, and staying with soul.
The Paryushan Parv is celebrat
ed in all Jain centers of America.
Many Jain saints and scholars are
invited to Jain centers.
Jains whether Shwetambar or
Digambar, in big numbers worship
Donald Trump-branded coats come

from India: new Clinton TV ad
Washington, DC: Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clintons campaign is
accusing rival Donald Trump of outsourc
ing his clothing brands overseas, includ
ing his coats to India, in a new television
commercial set to air this week. In the
past, the Clinton Campaign has accused
Trump of outsourcing jobs to India and
other countries. The latest television com
mercial is part of a series. The ad Shirts
joins a previously released commercial
Some Place in spotlighting Trumps long
history of making Trumpbranded prod
ucts outside of the US, as part of an effort
over the past month to contrast the 70
yearold tycoons hypocritical business
record with Clintons agenda to make the
economy work for everyone, not just those
at the top.
Robert Kidder, owner of New England
Shirt Company, in the ad released by
Clinton Campaign alleges that this facto
ry has been here since 1883. We have
over 60 people here making shirts
labelled Made in America, but Donald
Trumps brand of shirts come from China,

his suits from Mexico, his coats from
India. Donald Trump says hell make
America great again while hes taking the
shirts right off our backs, Kidder says as
he closes the ad. The company is based in
Massachusetts, which in the past has been
central to Americas textile industry. It
remains the oldest operating readyto
wear shirt manufacturer in the US. The
new ad follows Clintons announcement
yesterday of new plans to jumpstart small
business startups and strengthen small
business growth. She has accused Trump
of making a career out of stiffing small
businesses and driving some of them out
of business. Citing an independent analy
sis, the former secretary of state has
claimed Trumps ideas would cost 3.4 mil
lion jobs while her plan would create over
10 million new jobs. Clinton, the 68year
old Senator from New York, is leading
Trump by considerable margin in several
US polls. The general election is scheduled
(PTI)
for November 8.
extend my warm regards to all those observing Paryushan across the

United States and throughout the world.
Paryushan is a time for reflection, humili
ty, and repentance. Embodying the enduring,
universal truth that, in our short time on
earth, each moment we have represents a
chance to take care of one another and shape
a better tomorrow, this sacred festival
reflects the hope and compassion that bind
us in our common humanity.
On this occasion, we are also reminded that
the richness of our world comes from the
vibrant multitudes of experiences, voices, and
origins that define us and from the ability to be true to who we are and
what we believe securely, free from harm, and while knowing the fullest
measure of dignity and respect.
Throughout these eight days, you have my best wishes for continued
blessings and harmony.
This was perhaps President Obama's first message specific for the Jain
community, and was made possible through the efforts of Ajay Jain
Bhutoria, an entrepreneur in California who is active in Hillary Clinton's
campaign for President, and other prominent Jains.
together at the temple, showing
unity in the community.
Paryushan epitomizes the Jain
principles of ahimsa and forgive
ness as propounded by Lord

Mahavir and the promotion of
friendliness among the human
family as well as all living beings.
Purvi Patel to be released

Washington, DC: An IndianAmerican woman
whose feticide conviction for a selfinduced
abortion was overturned should be released
from prison immediately, a judge said, after she
was resentenced to less time than she already
has served behind bars.
In a brief ruling, St Joseph Superior Court
Judge Elizabeth C Hurley also said a sentence
of 18 months for Purvi Patel was appropriate
for a felony charge of neglect of a dependent
and that Patel does not have to be placed on
parole. Indiana Department of Corrections
spokesman Isaac Randolph said late
Wednesday that of ficials were reviewing the
situation and that Patels release from prison in
the immediate future is possible.
Wednesdays ruling comes less than two
months after the Indiana Court of Appeals
overturned Patels 2015 conviction and 20
year prison sentence on a charge of killing her
premature infant by taking abortioninducing
drugs, saying that the states law was not
intended to be used to prosecute women for
their own abortions.
The states attorney general decided not to
appeal the ruling and let pass the deadline by
which he had to ask the Indiana Supreme Court
Feticide conviction of
Purvi Patel was overturned
to take up the case. Patel was 32 when she was
arrested in July 2013. She had sought treat
ment at a hospital for profuse bleeding after
de livering a one and half pound boy.
According to court records, Patel bought the
abortioninducing drugs online, took the drugs
and then delivered the premature baby that
died in the home she shared with her parents
and g randparents in the community of
Granger, northeast of South Bend. She then
placed the body in a trash bin behind her fami
lys restaurant.
September 3-9, 2016
TRISTATE COMMUNITY
IN BRIEF
ICFNJ organizes successful

health fair in South Brunswick
NY sways to Radha Govind Dham

NY Janmashtami block party
Dilip Chauhan Director of South East/ Asian Affairs for Nassau County
Comptroller George Maragos seen with Swami Nikhilanandji (right) Four
thousand devotees attended the event on a weeknight.
More than 10000 people have benefited though IHCNJ health fairs
n August 28 from 8:30 a.m. to 1

p.m., a health screening and dis
ease awareness and prevention
fair was held at Durga Temple on 4240
Route 27, South Brunswick, NJ 08540.
The health fair was organized by the In
dian Health Camp of New Jersey in col
laboration with Durga Temple. IHCNJ
held this health fair for the fifth consec
utive year at this location in South
Brunswick township. This year it was or
ganizations 18th consecutive year of
providing health screening services and
todate more than 10,000 people have
benefitted from this free health screen
ing and disease prevention fair.
The health fair was attended by more
than 125 people above the age of 40
who were uninsured or underinsured.
The health screening services included
blood test, EKG, vision screening for
glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy,
physical examination, cardiology, neu

rology and physical therapy counseling,
various types of cancer screening and
prevention education, chronic disease
selfmanagement for diabetes and
stroke education, dietary counseling,
pharmacy counseling, flu shots and
many other ancillary services to prereg
istered qualified participants.
Indian Health Camp of New Jersey will
hold their last health fair of 2016 on
Sunday, November 13, 2016, at Shree
Swaminarayan Temple in Secaucus, NJ.
The registration form to participate in
this health fair will be available on or
ganization web site at www.IHCNJ.org
or Gujarat Darpan and Tiranga newspa
per in the near future. The influenza vac
cination will be offered to qualified par
ticipants with a nominal administrative
cost during the Secaucus temple
health fair.
The Garden of LoveLight Poems of Sri

Chinmoy in BengaliEnglish launched
anmashtami is that time of the year

which millions of Krishna devotees
across the globe await with bated
breath. While the center of Krishnas di
vine pastimes, Braj and Vrindavan, are
renowned for their unique celebrations
of Krishnas appearance day, temples in
New York too celebrated this auspicious
occasion with mirth and enthusiasm.
Particularly spellbinding was the block
party hosted by Radha Govind Dham NY
(RGDNY) in Glen Oaks, New York which
saw an attendance of over four thousand
devotees on a weeknight.
While the idea of a party in the busy
blocks of Queens is indeed pretty bold,
even more amazing is being able to pull
an event of such a large scale as
RGDNYs. This being their third annual
Janmashtami block party, the stakes
were high but the organizers looked
more than prepared to host their biggest
block party yet. While the first half of the
day was invested in adorning the beauti
ful deities of Radha Krishna and the
mandir apart from stage and stall setup,
the latter half of the day boasted of ac
tivities that would keep you engaged till
the end of the day. The program was
Workshop on Alcoholism
among South Asians in
Iselin on Sept 17th
n inspired, interna
Chinmoys earliest poetry
tional audience of
and yet the epiphanies with
over 700 greeted the
in are dawning ever anew,
release of the bilingual Ben
within the self and within
galiEnglish edition of Sri
mankind. The book in
Chinmoys classic poetry
cludes 140 of Sri Chinmoys
collection The Garden of
original Bengali poems cap
LoveLight at the annual Sri
tured in both Bengali script
Chinmoy Poetry Festival,
and Western transliteration,
held on August 20 at Aspi
as well as Sri Chinmoys own
rationGround Meditation
English translations. Ms.
Sri Chinmoy
Garden in Jamaica Hills, NY.
Ghose also read out a letter
Main presenters included Ambassador from President Mikhail Gorbachev on the
Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Professor Neeli occasion of the authors birth anniversary.
ma ShuklaBhatt, and vocalist and musi
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, in
cians Debashree Bhattacharya, Premik his opening remarks, offered insights
Russell Tubbs and Parichayaka Hammerl. about the author, and told the audience
The allwomen London based group Tem that I am here, not as an Ambassador, not
pleSong Hearts performed a musical as a UN official, but as a person who has
prelude. The Festival and book launch tremendous respect for Sri Chinmoy as a
were part of a twoweek cultural offering spiritual leader of the world. I was privi
celebrating the birth anniversary of Sri leged to be always his BrotherFriend. I
Chinmoy on August 27. Sri Chinmoy Po am very happy that his spirituality, his
etry Festival Director Ranjana K. Ghose work for peace, his humanism, his belief
noted that: The Garden of LoveLight Po in the oneness of humanity has continued
ems of Sri Chinmoy is a work of immortal to inspire me in my work over many,
vintage poems. We find herein some of Sri many years.
scheduled to start at 5pm and go until

midnight, which is also the time Lord Kr
ishna had appeared at.
The program started with dinner
prasadam 5pm, which included a variety
of Indian delicacies. The actual program
started at 6pm. The enthusiasm of the
participants was evident from the fact
that even rain showers couldnt hold
them back from dancing in joy to wel
come their beloved Krishna. Kirtans
were followed by a speech on the signif
icance of Janmashtami by Swami Nikhi
lanand ji, a sanyasi preacher and disciple
of Jagadguru Shri Kripaluji Maharaj.
There were a few classical and semi clas
sical performances by kids who hap
pened to be students at RGDNYs educa
tional wing, SHIKSHA. There was also a
Radha Krishna dress up contest for kids,
and all the participants received gifts
from the sponsors. This was followed by
breaking the dahihandi which signifies
Krishnas childhood pastime of breaking
pots to steal butter. One of the major
highlights of the night was the dandi
yaraas which went on for hours while
the abhishek and kirtanwas going on in
side the mandir.
lcoholism is a growing problem in

the South Asian community in the
U.S. People are often unaware of
the issues caused by excessive drinking.
Myths about alcohol use in our commu
nity prevail. They obscure facts about
the consequences of alcoholism while
destroying lives, careers and families.
Shame and embarrassment often pre
vent those most in need from seeking
treatment.
The South Asian Mental Health Initia
tive and Network (SAMHIN at
www.samhin.org), recognizes the prob
lem of alcoholism in our community. In
addition to other events and programs,
they have created freeofcharge South
Asian Alcoholics Anonymous meetings
to help those with drinking problems.
The meetings are held every Thursday
8pm9pm. at the First Presbyterian

Church in Iselin, New Jersey.
On September 17th, 2016, SAMHIN
will be holding a free 3hour workshop
titled "Alcoholism in South Asians
Myths & Realities." The purpose of this
workshop is to bring to light the issue of
alcoholism in the South Asian communi
ty. Attendees will have the opportunity
to listen to personal stories of alco
holism, recovery and hope.
They will gain a deeper understanding
of the serious public health problem of
drinking among adolescents and the
devastating cycle of addiction. They will
receive valuable information about
available treatment resources and solu
tions.
The program is free. The presenta
tions will be followed by dinner.
NATIONAL COMMUNITY
September 3-9, 2016
Illinois Gov declares Sept 16

Software industry veteran Ajei
as MS Subbulakshmi Day
Gopal named CEO of Ansys
New York: An IIT Bombay
ence at large software and
alumnus and software
technology companies. He
industry veteran has been
has held leadership roles at
named CEO of a leading US
companies
including
company that pro duces
Symantec, HewlettPackard
eng ineering simulat ion
and IBM.
software used for testing
Gopal has served as inter
product designs across a
im president and COO at
wide spectrum of industries
Californiabased technolo
including rockets and wear
g y company Symantec,
able technology.
leading the company
Ajei Gopal, 54, w ill
through the recruitment of
become the CEO of
a permanent CEO.
Pennsylvaniabased ANSYS
He was senior vice presi
Ajei Gopal
with effect from January 1 (Image courtesy: yespunjab.com) dent and general manager
next year.
at HewlettPackard from
Gopal, a 25year technology industry vet 2011 and has worked at IBM from 1991 to
eran who has served as a member of the 2000.
ANSYS Board since 2011, has been appoint
He began his career as a member of the
ed President and Chief Operating Ofcer of technical staf f at Bell Communications
the company effective immediately and will Research.
continue to serve on the Board.
Gopal has 23 US patents to his name and
James Cashman, who has served as ANSYS' has a doctorate in computer science from
Chief Executive Ofcer since 2000, will Cornell University and a bachelor's degree
become Chairman of the Board of Directors, from the Indian Institute of Technology
effective from January 2017.
Bombay.
ANSYS said Gopal has extensive manage
The company said having Gopal on board
ment and business development experi is "a huge win for ANSYS."
Chicago: Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner

has declared September 16 as MS
Subbulakshmi Day to commemorate the
music legend's birth centenary day that
is being celebrated by US based nonprof
it organization Sankara Nethralaya Om
Trust across the US.
The SN Om Trust is organizing a musi
cal homage to the legend with a Carnatic
music concert by Padma Bhushan
awardee Sudha Raghunathan and her
troupe at Hindu Temple of Greater
Chicago on September 10. Through this
concert, the Chicago chapter of SN OM
Trust plan to raise money for 2000 free
surgeries $130,000.
USbased Sankara Nethralaya
Ophthalmic Mission Trust (SN OM Trust)
is also planning six concerts by Sudha
Ragunathan in Atlanta, Los Angeles,
Houston, Dallas, Chicago and
Washington DC during September 2016
under Voice for Vision musical series
to raise funds for its charitable activities.
The proclamation issued by the Gov
Rauner praised the contribution of
Subbulakshmi to the world of music and
said she was a celebrated musician, a
philanthropist and a patriot who joined
the leaders of the nation to inspire mil
Clinton aide Huma Abedin separates

from husband amid texting scandal
New York: Longt ime Hillary
Clinton aide Huma Abedin has won
plaudits for her campaign
instincts, her deeprooted loyalty
and her glamorous personal style.
But she has been thrust into the
spotlight for another attribute
as a wronged political wife.
Abedin, who is expected to play a
major behindthe scenes role if her
boss is e lected president,
announced Aug. 29 she was sepa
rating from her husband, Anthony
Weiner, after the former New York
congressman was accused of send
ing lewd photographs and mes
sages to yet another woman.
The New York Post published
photos late Aug. 28 that Weiner
allegedly sent last year to a woman
ident ied as a "40something
divorcee. It wasn't the rst time
Abedin who is of Indian descent
but grew up in Saudi Arabia was
confronted with her husband's
raunchy recklessness. Weiner, a
Huma Abedin with Anthony Weiner in happier times

(Image courtesy: vanityfair.com)
Democrat, resigned his seat amid a
2011 media restorm that erupted
after he texted suggestive photos
of himse lf to several women.
When he ran for mayor of New
York City two years later, his cam
paign stumbled when it was
revealed he was st ill sext ing
women who were not his wife.

Declaring the marriage over,
Abedin said in a statement that she
had decided to separate from
Weiner "after long and painful
consideration and work on my
marriage." The couple has a young
son, Jordan.
Celebrated singer M S Subbulakshmi

lions of Indians during the countrys
struggle for independence. Born into
humble beginnings in Madurai, deep in
South India, she rose from regional
prominence to national and internation
al recognition through her many awards
and accolades, he said.
He also praised the notforprot eye
inst itut ion Sankara Nethralaya of
Chennai for sponsoring and celebrating
the legends birth centenary for the ben
et of her Illinois fans and admirers.
As a nale to the global celebrations,
Sankara Nethralaya is organizing a musi
cal concert featuring world renowned
Indianorigin composer Zubin Mehta,
Anoushka Shankar and the New York
Philharmonic Orchestra at Lincoln
Center in New York City on November 5.
Hindu culture saves

Kansas man jail term
Houston: A 46yearold Indianori
gin man in the US who stabbed his
'overweight' wife twice in the
abdomen has been spared a prison
sentence because the judge agreed
that his family would face
"ostracism" as part of their Hindu
culture.
Navinkumar Patel, from Kansas
City, stabbed his wife with a pock
etknife as she ate a bowl of cereal,
and subsequently told police he
had done it because his wife was
"overweight."
T he cultural considerat ions
weighed into his sentencing deci
sion for Patel, Douglas County
District Judge Robert Fairchild was
quoted as saying by the local
newspaper LJWorld. Patel was
arrested in June 2015 after he
stabbed his wife at Lawrence's
Super 8 Motel, which he owns. He
pleaded no contest to fe lony
charges of attempted second
degree murder and criminal threat
in March. Patel's attorney John
Kerns called the case "unusual to

say the least."
Kerns, told the judge that in the
Hindu culture of Patel's family, his
wife and children would suf fer if
he were sentenced to prison. They
would essentially be "ostracized,"
he said.
"The cultural part of it is very
signicant in this case," Judge
Fairchild said. He sentenced Patel
to probation but will not announce
the terms until next month.
In court, the doctor who evaluat
ed him, Bradley Grinage, testied
that Patel suffers from bipolar dis
order, an illness that was exacer
bated by alcohol addiction.
If Patel stops drinking and con
tinues to take his medication,
Grinage said he is at a low risk for
a repeat offence.
More than a dozen family mem
bers, including his wife, appeared
in court to support him, while oth
ers wrote letters to Judge Fairchild
asking for a lenient sentence.
September 3-9, 2016
NATIONAL COMMUNITY
Virginia couple pleads guilty

to $20 m H1B visa fraud
Washington, DC: An IndianAmer
ican couple from Virginia has
pleaded guilty to the charges of
20 million US dollars visa fraud
involving Indian workers, the Jus
tice Department has said.
Raju Kosuri, 44, and Smriti
Jharia, 45, a married couple from
Ashburn, Virginia were indicted
on April 27.
According to the statement of
facts filed with the plea agree
ment, Kosuri, Jharia and their co
conspirators fraudulently applied
for more than 900 illegal immi
gration benefits under the H1B
visa program. Since 2008, and at

much greater scale since 2011,
Kosuri has built a staffing busi
ness that amounts to a visafor
sale system, in violation of feder
al law, the Justice Department
said. Kosuri and Jharia also ad
mitted to defrauding the Small
Business Administration in con
nection with a scheme to obtain
HUBZone certification for a busi
ness named EcomNets Federal So
lutions. Kosuri agreed to forfeit
proceeds of his fraud schemes in
the amount of $20,900,000, a
media release said. (PTI)
FESTIVAL OF GLOBE
SCALES NEW HEIGHTS
California: Keeping its tradition of
community and cultural integra
tion, Festival of Globe (FOG) has
expanded its annual pageant to
embrace multiple facets of global
community by organizing colossal
community events that integrate
the social fabric.
This year, Festival of Globe
(FOG) Extravaganza was a 10day
jubilant celebration from Aug 5th
to 14th in the Silicon Valley and
included FOG Movie Fest, FOG
Awards, FOG Music Fest, FOG
Summit, FOG Fashion Fest, FOG
FoodFest, Famous India Day Fair
and Grand Parade. Surpassing

previous turnout records, this
year attracted largest ever gather
ing in the bay area. Over 200,000
people participated in FOG Grand
Parade. Actor Randeep Hooda was
the star attraction and Grand
Marshal in the parade this year
to engage and entertain the com
munity. Dr. Romesh Japra,
founder and convener FOG, said,
"Over the past 24 years, FOG has
made great strides in including all
parts of community and carrying
out its mission to help communi
ties better integrate."
Bernie Sanders endorses Indian

American Congressional candidate
Washington, DC: Democratic
Senator Bernie Sanders has
endorsed IndianAmerican social
worker Peter Jacob, who is run
ning for the US House of
Representat ives seat in New
Jersey which is known to be a
strong Republican bastion.
Sanders's endorsement is
expected to give a big boost to
the election campaign of 30
yearold Jacob, who is seeking to
unseat incumbent Republican
Leonard Lance who has repre
sented Congressional District 7
of New Jersey since 2009.
Jacob's names figures in the list
of 60 other liberal Democrat can
didates running for local, state
and Cong ressional of fice in
November's election.
The list has been posted on
Sander's new init iat ive Our
Revolution website.
"Raised in Union, New Jersey,
in an IndianAmerican family,
Peter understands how impor
tant a safe and caring community
is to success," the website said.
Through various community
organizations, Peter has helped
fight the ongoing scourges of
child abuse, human traf ficking,
and disastrous Iraq War," it said.
"Meanwhile, he has continued
to proudly campaign for health
care reform, environmental sus
tainability, and immigrant inte
IndianAmerican narrowly loses

Florida Congressional Primary
Washington, DC:
Indian Together we will work to Make
America Great Again.
American Mary T homas, a
Thank you to our many
government attorney in
volunteers who were so
Florida, narrowly lost her
passionate about our
bid to enter the US House
conservative cause,"
of Representatives in the
Thomas wrote on her
closely contested Florida
Facebook page after
R e p u b l i c a n
conceding
her
Congressional primary.
defeat.
38yearold Thomas,
If elected, she
lost the party's primary
would
have
in Congressional
District 2 of Florida,
Attorney Mary Thomas made history as
the first Indian
by just 1700 votes, to
American woman to serve in
surgeon Neal Dunn.
"Congratulations to our next Congress. Her parents arrived in
Congressman Neal Dunn. America from India in 1972.
The Thomas family eventually

settled in Pinellas County, where
they started a successful small
business.
Born in Charleston, South
Carolina, Ms Thomas has been a
member of Governor Rick Scott's
administration since he was
sworn into of fice in January
2011.
She currently serves as the
General Counse l at the
Department of Elder Af fairs
where she manages and oversees
the legal department of an
agency that administers a $ 900
million budget.
(PTI)
gration back here

in the US. If elect
ed, Peter will con
tinue to serve not
just as a politi
cian, but as a true
public servant,
and will fight to
instill progressive
values into New
Jersey's legisla
tion," the website
said.
Indian
American Pramila Jayapal is
other candidate who was
endorsed by Sanders earlier.
Jayapal is running for Congress
from Washington State. Sanders
has also endorsed Tulsi Gabbard,
the first Hindu Congresswoman,
who is seeking her third term
from Hawaii. Jacob, whose par
ents immigrated from India in
1986, hoped that this would help
him enter the Congress.
"Everyone at our campaign is
incredibly touched and thankful
for where we are at right now,
however, we have a long way to
go. With the backing of Senator
Sanders, the Our Revolution cam
paign, and your help, we can
bring the people's voices back to
Washington," he said in a state
ment. Jacob is the only campaign
selected by Sanders in the State
of New Jersey.
This is the same Congressional
(Image :
thehindu.com)
district from where Upendra

Chivukula the first Indian
American to be elected to the
New Jersey State Assembly
tried his luck in 2012 and lost to
Lance by more than 50,000
votes.
The 7th Congressional District
of New Jersey is said to be a
strong Republican bastion. The
party has retained this seat for
the last 100 years, except for six
years between 19751981.
After attending Union County
College, in New Jersey, Jacob
continued undergraduate studies
in Sociology at Kean University.
Soon after, Peter studied at
Washington University in St
Louis, earning a Master of Social
Work from the topranked pro
gram in the nation.
During his undergraduate and
graduate years, Peter was a stu
dent activist and leader.
(PTI)
IndianAmerican running for

key educational ofce in NJ
first IndianAmerican in the
Washington, DC: An Indian
Jersey City Board of
American 9/11 historian docent
Education. His campaign
is running for a key educational
gained momentum after he
office in New Jersey and if elect
received top endorsements
ed the position could help him
in New Jersey, including by
play a key role in the US state's
Ron Greco, president of the
education system. Sudhan
Jersey City Education
Thomas, a business profession
al who has been active in the Sudhan Thomas Association. "In vision, in
IndianAmerican community, is (Image courtesy: experience and in leader
ship, Sudhan Thomas is the
running for the Jersey City
news18.com)
champion that our students
Board of Education.
Thomas is one of the 180 certified need and believes in the promise of pub
9/11 historian docents who educates lic education," Greco said. College
visitors at the National September 11 Democrats of New Jersey has also
Memorial & Museum, where his work endorsed Thomas describing him as a
has impacted millions of visitors and stu parent, educator, business professional,
dents. He has also been actively involved and a taxpayer who possesses that skill
in supporting veterans and LGBTQ set which will significantly benefit stu
equality. If elected, Thomas would be the dents.
(PTI)
US AFFAIRS
September 3-9, 2016
Trump doubles down on

extreme stand on immigration
Return home and apply for re-entry like everybody else under
the rules of the new legal immigration system, that is the only
route to stay in America, clarifies the GOP nominee,
but waffles on deporting all undocumented.
Phoenix, AZ: Republican presi
dential nominee Donald Trump
has stated clearly that there
would be "no amnesty" for
undocumented immigrants living
in the US and they would be
deported if he was elected in the
November 8 elections.
"For those here illegally today
who are seeking legal status,
they will have one route and one
route only. To return home and
apply for reentry like everybody
else under the rules of the new
legal immigration system that I
have outlined," Trump said while
delivering his major speech on
immig rat ion in Arizona on
Wednesday night,
"There will be no amnesty,"
CNN quoted the Manhattan real
estate magnate as saying.
"People will know that you
can't just smuggle in, hunker
down and wait to be legalized
it's not going to work that way.
T hose days are over," Trump
said.
He did not commit to deporting
every undocumented immigrant
living in the US as he previously
had, but vowed that immigrants
living in the US illegally would
never have a path to legal status
under his presidency.
Trump also pledged to create a
"deportation task force" within
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto disputed Trump's claim & said that
he had made it clear that Mexico would not pay for the wall. (Photo: IANS)
Who'll pay for wall not discussed

with Mexican president: Trump
During his immigration speech in Phoenix, Donald Trump lined up

parents of children killed by illegal aliens. (Photo : New York Times)
the Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) division
"fo cused on ident ify ing and
quickly removing the most dan
gerous criminal illegal aliens in
America".
"Maybe they'll be able to
deport her," Trump joked that
the task force could deport his
Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Just hours after meeting with
the Mexican President Enrique
Pena
Nieto
earlier
on
Wednesday, Trump reasserted
his pledge to build a wall along
the USMexico border and force
Mexico to pay for the wall.
"Mexico will pay for the wall.

100 per cent. They don't know it
yet but they're going to pay for
the wall," Trump said as his sup
porters roared.
The wall, Trump said, will be
"beautiful" and "impenetrable"
and will include hightech tech
nologies to prevent illegal border
crossings.
Trump noted that any undocu
mented immig rants who are
caught crossing into the US will
be "detained unt il they are
removed from our country" and
sent back to their country of
origin.
Washington: Republican presiden

tial candidate Donald Trump has
defended the right of the US to
build a wall along its southern bor
der during his visit to Mexico, but
stirred controversy after his claim
of not having discussed who would
pay for it was disputed by Mexican
President Enrique Pena Nieto.
"We did discuss the wall. We did
n't discuss payment of the wall.
That'll be for a later date. This was a
very preliminary meeting," Trump
told reporters at a joint news con
ference with Nieto after the meeting
between the two leaders yesterday.
The Mexican president did not
respond at that point, but later
tweeted, "At the start of the conver
sation with Donald Trump, I made it
clear that Mexico will not pay for
the wall." Building a massive wall
along the US border with Mexico
and forcing the southern neighbor
to pay for it has been a frequent
promise during Trump's divisive
election campaign. He argued yes
terday that having a secure border
is a sovereign right and is mutually
beneficial for both countries. "We
recognize and respect the right of
either country to build a physical
barrier or wall on any of its borders

to stop the illegal movement of peo
ple,
drugs
and
weapons.
Cooperation toward achieving the
shared objective to both the United
States and to Mexico," he said.
The 70yearold real estate baron
has previously made controversial
statements about Mexico, terming
migrants from the country as
"rapists" and "murderers".
Pena Nieto, who in the past has
compared Trump to Adolf Hitler,
said Mexicans had been hurt by
some of the Republican's comments
but said he believed he now gen
uinely wanted to build relations.
"That there has been a misinter
pretation or assertions that regret
tably had hurt and has af fected
Mexicans and it's perception of his
candidacy of which I am fully
respectful," Pena Nieto said.
"Mexican people have felt hurt by
the comments that have been made.
But I am sure that his genuine inter
est is to build a relationship that
will give both of our society's better
we lfare," he said. T he US and
Mexico share a 2,000mile border
and a half a trillion dollars in annu
(PTI)
al trade.
McCain, Rubio win primary fights for Senate

HILLARY DISMISSES
TRUMP'S MEXICO
JAUNT AS 'PHOTO OP'
Washington: Democratic presi
dential nominee Hillary Clinton
has dismissed Donald Trump's trip
to Mexico as a "photo op" that will
do little to free him from a history
of coarse rhetoric directed at the
US ally.
In a speech at the American
Legion's national convention in
Cincinnati on Wednesday, the for
mer Secretary of State said
America's status as a global power
could be imperiled by Republican
presidential nominee Trump's
intemperate behavior as she cast
the fall election not as one about
ideology, but about who was best
suited to assume the mantle of
global leadership, Los Angeles
Times reported. Clinton declared
that the idea that the US is an
exceptional nation has been a core

be lief that "has guided and
inspired me every step of the
way." Trump, she said, agreed with
Russian President Vladimir Putin
when he criticized that notion as
insulting to the rest of the world.
"No matter how hard it gets, no
matter how great the challenge,
America must lead," she said. "The
question is how we lead. What
kind of ideas, strategies, and tac
tics we bring to our leadership.
American leadership means stand
ing with our allies because our
network of allies is part of what
makes us exceptional." As secre
tary of State, Clinton said she
worked every day to build coali
tions that served US interests and
maintained global stability.
Washington: Three big political

players were facing stiff competi
tion and angry bases.
And all three brushed those
opponents aside with relative
ease Tuesday night.
Arizona's Senator John McCain,
Florida's Senator Marco Rubio
and embattled former Democratic
National Committee Chairwoman
Debbie Wasserman Schultz all
won their parties' nominations to
be elected for another term in
Congress.
It once again shows the power
of the incumbency. Money and
familiarity can be high hurdles to
overcome.
Now, as McCain and Rubio seek
reelection to the Senate, they
have a hurdle of their own
Donald Trump. McCain and Rubio
are favored to win reelection and
are not considered the highest
tier targets for Democrats, who, if
Hillary Clinton wins the presiden
cy, would need to pick up four
seats to take back control of the
Marco Rubio and John McCain are

also tipped to win reelection
to the US Senate.
Senate. But they are potentially
vulnerable if the presidential elec
t ion turns into a landslide.
Arizona, with its sizable Latino
population, has become more of a
competitive presidential battle
ground given Trump's rhetoric.
McCain is girding for the "race of
his life," say ing in May that
Trump could damage his reelec
tion chances.
McCain, seeking his sixth term,
now faces off in what's expected
to be a tough generalelection
matchup this fall against Rep. Ann
Kirkpatrick. She ran uncontested
in the primary, and Democrats

are excited about her candidacy.
Even Republicans say Kirkpatrick
could be a formidable candidate.
Rubio de feated a wealthy
Trumplike supporter who poured
millions of his own money into
the race. That sets up another key
Senate race that could determine
control of the U.S. Senate. Rubio
w ill face Demo crat Patrick
Murphy, who also easily won his
primary against controversial
Rep. Alan Grayson.
T he
embattled
former
Democratic National Committee
chairwoman, Shultz, defeated a
political novice backed by Bernie
Sanders and funded by his sup
porters. The incumbent congress
woman held off college professor
Tim Canova, 5743 percent. Rep.
Wasserman Schultz stepped
down from the DNC near the start
of the Demo crat ic Nat ional
Convention this summer after an
email hack fueled criticism that
she was favoring Hillary
10
September 3-9, 2016
OP-ED
Asian-Americans playing key role in presidential election

Asian Americans overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton (66 percent to 23
percent for Trump) as her policies are meant to help immigrants succeed.
By Ajay Jain Bhutoria
illary Clinton continues to hold a
large national lead over Donald
Trump, 50 percent to 42 percent,
weeks after the Democratic National
Convention. Her 8point advantage has virtu
ally remained unchanged since the end of
July. Results from the latest tracking poll
show 87 percent of black voters support
Clinton and that only 8 percent of them will
vote Trump, who is also behind among
Hispanic voters with 22 percent compared
to 73 percent who support Clinton.
I want to point out that Asian Americans
also overwhelmingly support Clinton, 66
percent to 23 percent for Trump.
Several recent surveys show that Asian
Americans are the nations fastestgrowing
racial group. More than nine million of them
will be eligible to vote in November, up 16%
from four years ago. In some key battle
ground states the impact of Asian Americans
will be significantly larger, including in
Virginia and Nevada. In Nevada, they make
up 9% of the electorate, 7% in New Jersey
and in California, almost 15%. Donald Trump
built his campaign on demonizing immi
grants and their families. We heard him loud
and clear the first time. (And the second
time, third time, fourth time). Trump said,
Youre going to have a deportation force,
and youre going to do it humanely. I will
immediately terminate President Obamas
illegal executive order on immigration.
Immediately."
Despite the socalled softening, Trumps
dangerous immigration stance is still the
same. Trump and his team may be trying to
have it both ways, but we take him at his
word throughout this campaign. He has
Ajay Jain Bhutoria has been inducted

into the AsianAmerican Pacific Islander
(AAPI) National Leadership Council for
Hillary Clinton.
demeaned immigrants and called for tearing
apart families and deporting 16 million peo
ple.
Helping hand for immigrants

Hillary Clintons policies and fact sheets are
very supportive to help immigrants succeed,
I believe. This election is about the values of
America as a nation. Ask any elementary
school students and theyll tell you the val
ues spelled out in the Constitution or implied
in American culture. Among them: justice,
freedom, equality, democracy, compassion.
These are not values only held by citizens
whose families have been here for genera
tions. Theyre the same values embraced by
immigrants and refugees as they assimilate
into their new country.
For every racist bully, there are tens of
thousands of decent, compassionate, cre
ative, brave, openhearted Samaritans in
America providing a critical mass of kind
ness and understanding to the character of

each and every day. These American values
will be critical in this time of global unrest
for our economic progress and national
security. No other country has it woven into
its fiber the way that we do. This is true
America. Freedom, Equality, Justice and
Liberty for all. It may be that the best thing
that could happen to American values would
be an overwhelming defeat for Trump in
November. It would send a clear message to
the world that the country still does have
faith in itself and its principles, and that
Donald Trump isnt what America is all
about. That would be the optimistic view to
take in a country that seems to have lost its
optimism. Furthermore, on immigration, I
want to elucidate that Hillary Clinton has
vowed to reduce the visa backlog and help
unauthorized immigrants with deep commu
nity ties who deserve the chance to stay.
Applicants from the AsiaPacific region
make up about 40 percent of the family visa
backlog. Some from India have been waiting
for a visa for 1214 years. If youre a US citi
zen and your brother lives in India, it will
take at least 12 15 years to get a green card
for him. Hillary has been strongly fighting
for comprehensive immigration reform to fix
all such issues.
Promoting small business

Next, we cannot ignore the importance of
small businesses that are the engines for US
economy. They create nearly twothirds of
new American jobs, fuel innovation, and
offer crucial ladders to prosperity. But small
businesses were hit hard by the recession of
last decade, and there are still too many
obstacles to success. New business forma
tion has fallen 15% since 2007, and the
jay Jain Bhutoria is a leader on the AsianAmerican

Pacific Islander (AAPI) National Leadership Council for
Hillary for America, a Hillblazer in the exclusive 270
Circle, and a member of the Democratic
National Finance Committee. The 44yar
old has quietly established himself as a
major fundraiser and campaigner for
the former Secretary of State and
Democratic nominee for President.
Ajay is one of a handful of Indian
American Hillblazers, or individu
als who have raised more than
$100,000 for the Clinton campaign
in this election cycle.
Based in Fremont, CA, Ajay hosted
President Bill Clinton at his home in May
for a fundraiser and cohosted several
fundraisers for Hillary in Bay Area, attended by notables
including Apples CEO Tim Cook.
AAPI for Hillary Leadership Council is a group of over 150
elected officials, community, and grassroots leaders who are
helping build a grassrootsdriven volunteer team helping
Hillary Clinton engage, energize and organize support in the
AAPI community. Ajays involvement in this Leadership
Council is another example of top Indian Americans moving
into mainstream US politics and their contributions to
American social and political life in general.
Ajay
Bhutoria
is a
Hillblazer
Based in Fremont, CA, Ajay Bhutoria hosted

President Bill Clinton at his Fremont, CA home in
May for a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton.
He joins other members which include Congressman,

Senators and elected officials and leaders from communities
such as Japanese, Chinese, Pakistani, Filipino, and
Vietnamese.
Ajay is a recognized author, speaker, educator, entrepre
neur, and community leader. Ajay has established and
founded several companies and organizations, including the
Young Leaders Academy, which focuses on providing leader
ship and communication education to kids and youth in the
SF Bay Area. He is also cofounder of the South Asian radio
gains weve seen have been isolated:

between 2010 and 2014, just 20 counties
represented half of the growth in new busi
nesses for the entire country.
Small business is personal for Hillary. Her
dad ran a small business that provided her
with a middle class life. And during this cam
paign, shes visited with small business own
ers across the country to better understand
the barriers that are holding them back
and what smart public policy can do to break
those barriers down. Hillary was scheduled
to release a plan to make life easier for small
business at every step of the way. She will
make it easier to start a business and
become profitable, get financing and find
investors, file taxes in a cheaper and faster
way and provide tax relief, offer health care
and other benefits to employees, and make it
easier to work with the federal government.
For Hillary, this is just the beginning of the
conversation. Small businesses and entrepre
neurs will have a seat at the table in her
administration.
Hillary Clinton is ready on day one to be
CommanderinChief Donald Trump is sim
ply temperamentally unfit and unqualified
for the job. The choice in this election is
clear. We can either come together to tackle
the big challenges facing the country or let
Donald Trump keep tearing us apart with his
divisive rhetoric and dangerous ideas.
Hillary Clinton be lieves that we are
stronger together. America succeeds when
we work together to solve our problems and
when everyone shares in the rewards
when we build an economy that works for
everyone, not just those at the top. She
believes that were stronger when we lift
each other up so that everybody plays a role
in creating Americas future.
station network Radio Zindagi.

Ajays Global Business Consulting Services (GBCS) pro
vides strategic guidance and technology consultancy servic
es to many public sector and Fortune 500 corporations.
Earlier, he served in leadership roles in companies such as
Walt Disney, Cadence Design, IBM, and Price Waterhouse
Consulting, managing global multimillion dollar projects.
He is also Director of PR & Community Outreach for
Northwestern Polytechnic University (NPU), located in
Fremont, CA with over 6,000 students.
He has served and led various community organizations
including Rajasthan Association of North America, GOPIO
Silicon Valley and Global Organization for Community
Services. Furthermore, he has worked with Art of Living
Foundation and San Francisco Sheriff to bring meditation
training to prisoners.
Ajay has been honored with numerous awards by major
organizations such as the California State Assembly, the
California State Senate, and the US Congress. In 2016 he
was awarded and recognized by Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi for his contributions to the advancement of
the Indian community in the USA.
Inspired by the Dalia Lama, Ajay has authored the best
selling book 100 Life Management Tools for a Happy Life,
inspiring readers to focus on fulfilling positive factors in
their lives to increase happiness, spirituality, mindfulness,
and selfawareness in their lives.
The views expressed in Op Eds are not necessarily those of The South Asian Times.
INDIA
September 3-9, 2016
11
Kerry highlights India's role as strategic partner of US

Kerry to head for
China G-20 from India
New Delhi: India is a key strategic

partner of the US with the war
against terror and stability of the
Indian Ocean Region in focus, US
Secretary of State John Kerry said
this week as he interacted with stu
dents at the premier Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) here.
Kerry, who reached Delhi early
this week, faced Delhi's rain woes
for the second time, as his motor
cade had to negotiate a waterlogged
road right in front of the institute.
He, however, chose to joke about
it and asked the audience in the
almost packed IIT hall if they had
come by boats. "I don't know if you
came in boats or amphibious vehi
cles of some kind," Kerry asked, pro
voking laughter.
His program to visit a few holy
places in the national capital was,
meanwhile, canceled even as the
American Embassy preferred to say
it was "postponed" because of the
torrential rain.
In a lighter vein again, Kerry also
said that the Computer Science pro
gram at the IIT was so competitive
that those rejected here were taken
by institutes like MIT.
At the same time, he chose the
platform to send out a strong mes
sage to China asking it to abide by
an international tribunal's decision
on claims to some reefs and atolls
in the South China Sea, citing India
New Delhi: India and the US have

reasserted the urgent necessity for
Pakistan to dismantle safe havens
for terrorist groups and criminal
networks and said there can be no
difference between good terrorists
and bad terrorists.
"Secretary (John) Kerry and I dis
cussed at length the issue of terror
ism, which is the key challenge to
the international community, and
the foremost threat to international
peace and security," External
Af fairs Minister Sushma Swaraj
said in a joint press interaction with
US Secretary of State John Kerry,
Minister of State for Commerce and
Industry Nirmala Sitharaman and
US Secretary of Commerce Penny
Pritzker after the conclusion of the
Second IndiaUS Strategic and
Commercial Dialogue here.
"I am happy to note that there
was a meeting of minds on this
issue," she said.
Sushma Swaraj said that she
briefed Kerry on the continuing
problem of crossborder terrorism
John Kerry addressing students at the premier Indian Institute of

Technology (IIT), New Delhi. (Photo: IANS)
as an example. "India's decision to
accept an international tribunal's
judgment over its maritime border
with Bangladesh actually stands
apart from other choices made by
other countries," Kerry said.
"It is a model how a potentially
dangerous dispute can be resolved
peacefully, including the South
China Sea where the US continues
to call on China and the Philippines
to abide by the tribunal's recent
decision which is final and legally
binding on both parties," Kerry
added. Beijing has rejected the deci
sion by T he Haguebased
Permanent Court of Arbitration
over strategic reefs and atolls in the
South China Sea. The judgment was

in favour of the Philippines.
He also mentioned Pakistan and
stressed it needs to work more
against the terror network there.
"I have had many conversations
with the Pakistan President, Prime
Minister, particularly Prime
Minister (Nawaz Sharif), about how
to focus on sanctuaries in the west
ern part of the country, how to deal
with the Haqqani network, deal
with LashkareTaiba," Kerry said.
"It is clear that Pakistan has work
to do in order to push harder
against its indigenous groups that
are engaged in extremist terrorist
activities.... "And it must work with
Washington: US Secretary of State

John Kerry, who arrived in India
on Monday on a threeday visit,
has cance led his return to
Washington scheduled, and will
extend his stay in India before
leaving for China to join President
Barack Obama at the G20
Summit.
US State Department spokesper
son John Kirby said in his daily
press briefing here on Wednesday
that Kerry's of ficial schedule for
the next couple of days was "still
forming up" citing logistical rea
sons.
After cochairing the Second US
India Strategic and Commercial
Dialogue with Indian External
us to help clear sanctuaries that are
af fecting relationship between
Pakistan and India and also our
ability to achieve peace and stability
in Afghanistan," said Kerry. He
emphasized that India has a larger
role in resolving global conflicts.
"Rising India will play a very criti
cal role in resolving global chal
lenges," Kerry said adding that the
Af fairs Minister Sushma Swaraj

on Tuesday, Kerry addressed a
town hall meeting at the Indian
Institute of Technology in New
Delhi, met with Indian opposition
political party leaders and visited
the American embassy school
before calling on Prime Minister
Narendra Modi to discuss climate
change issues and the deepening
USIndia partnership.
Following heavy rains, Kerry
postponed his scheduled visits to
the Sisganj Gurdwara, the Jama
Masjid and a Hindu temple in New
Delhi.
The G20 summit in Hangzhou
will take place from September 4
to 5.
challenges included extremism, ter
rorism, extreme poverty, uneven
and unsustainable growth, among
others. In his around 40minute
long speech, which was followed by
a 30minutelong questionand
answer session, Kerry also wel
comed the passage of the bill on
Goods and Services Tax and bank
ruptcy law in Parliament.
Pak must dismantle

safe terror havens: US
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and US Secretary of State John
F Kerry during a joint press conference in New Delhi. (Photo: IANS)
that India and the larger region
faces from Pakistan.
"We both agreed that nations
must not maintain double stan
dards, such as the categorisation of
good and bad terrorists, nor must
they act as sanctuaries and safe
havens for terrorist organisations,"
she stated.
"We reaffirmed the urgent neces
sity for Pakistan to dismantle safe
havens for terrorists and criminal
networks including Lashkare
Toiba, JaisheMohammad and D
Company. Secretary Kerry and I
also ag reed on the need for

Pakistan to do more to bring the
perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai
and 2016 Pathankot terrorist
attacks to justice quickly." Sushma
Swaraj said that she and Kerry also
discussed the need to strengthen
the international legal regime to
counter terrorism.
Kerry said the US continued to
support all efforts to bring the per
petrators of the Mumbai and
Pathankot terror attacks to justice.
"Let me be clear... United States
continues to support all efforts to
bring the perpetrators of Mumbai

and the Pathankot attacks to justice
and we cannot and will not make
distinction between good and bad
terrorism," he stated
"Terror is terror no matter where
it comes from and who carries it
out."
Kerry also said that the two coun
tries have agreed to exchange "ter
rorist screening information" to
deepen cooperation in designating
terrorist groups at the UN.
To a question on resumption of
IndiaPakistan talks, Sushma Swaraj
said that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi visited Pakistan in December
2015 "and we got Pathankot in
return". "Talks and terrorism can
not go together," she reiterated.
Kerry also said that the US, India
and Afghanistan would hold a tri

lateral meeting in the UN General
Assembly session next month in
which Indian investments in major
Afghan infrastructure projects
would be discussed.
Attacks by the Taliban on Afghan
territory from across the border in
Pakistan would also come up for
discussion, he said.
Sushma Swaraj also thanked the
US for its continued support for
India's membership in the Nuclear
Suppliers Group (NSG) and a per
manent seat in the UN Security
Council.
"We also had a detailed exchange
of views on climate change and
clean energy issues," she said.
India also raised the issue of hike
in fees of US H1B and L1 visas.
12
September 3-9, 2016
INDIA
Jio users will never pay for domestic India dismisses

Iranian news
voice calls: Mukesh Ambani
Mumbai: Taking the current
tariff war and competition in
India's telecom space to a
new
leve l,
Re liance
Industries Chairman Mukesh
Ambani announced that
domestic voice calls on the
Jio network will be free for
ever, and unveiled a four
month introductory offer for
everyone of free voice and
data services beginning on
September 5.
"T he era of pay ing for
voice calls is ending,"
Ambani told the 39th Annual
General Meeting of the com
pany, post its listing. "No Jio
customer will ever have to
pay for voice calls again." he
added, devoting around an
hour of his 90 minute speech
to Jio.
In ef fect, the announce
ments on Thursday point to
a commercial launch from
January 1 next year even
though no specific mention
was made in this regard.
This was also keenly awited
Reliance
Industries
Chairman
Mukesh Ambani.
since Reliance Industries has
invested as much as $21 bil
lion on Jio its largest ever
capital expenditure on a sin
gle project.
T he Chairman said the
data plans will also reflect
the af fordability for cus
tomers, with an ef fective
base rate of 5 paise per MB
or Rs 50 per GB. "Jio will
have a base rate which is
more than 90 per cent dis
count over the industry," he
said. He said based on the
usage, the tariff could go to

as low as Rs 25 per GB. He
said the free domestic voice
calls will also come with free
roaming while international
ones too will be affordable.
"We Indians have come to
appreciate and applaud
Gandhigiri. Now, we can all
do 'Datagiri', which is an
opportunity for every Indian
to do unlimited good things
with unlimited data."
The announcements came
against the backdrop of a
Ms. Penny Pritzker, US Secretary of Commerce, called on the Finance Minister

Arun Jaitley on Aug 29 in New Delhi, when they discussed measures
to increase bilateral trade among the two countries.
Kejriwal removes his minister

over objectionable CD
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal removed his Social Welfare
Minister Sandeep Kumar, saying that he
had received an "objectionable" CD on
him and there cannot be any compromise
with propriety in public life."Received
"object ionable" CD of minister
Sandeep Kumar.
AAP stands for proprietyin public life that
can't be compromised. Removing him
from Cabinet with immediate ef fect,"
Kejriwal tweeted.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
series of discounts and free

bies of fered by existing lay
ers like Airtel, Vodafone and
Idea during the past month,
ostensibly to ensure cus
tomers stay with them, even
after the commercial launch
of Jio. During the speech,
Mukesh
Ambani
also
appealed to incumbent oper
ators not to block Jio calls
and ensure adequate points
of interconnect. "In the last
week alone, Jio customers
suf fered over five crore call
failures to other networks
because of insufficient inter
connect capacity provided by
incumbents."
As for the stock markets,
the shares of Re liance
Industries fluctuated in a
w ide range during the
course of the speech from
a high of Rs 1,072.55 to a
low of Rs 1,045.60. Soon
after it was quoting at Rs
1,047.50, down Rs 10.50, or
0.99 per cent, over the previ
ous close.
report
on Sushma
New Delhi: The External Af fairs Ministry

described as "totally false" a report carried
by an Iranian news website which, citing an
Indian media outlet, quoted Minister of
External Af fairs Sushma Swaraj as saying
that China should be cautious of a visit by
Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman Al Saud.
"The report is completely false and base
less," External Af fairs Ministry spokesper
son Vikas Swarup stated when contacted by
IANS.
"EAM has given no such interview, nor has
she made any such comment," he tweeted.
The Iranian report on Alalam.ir came
ahead of Deputy Crown Prince
Mohammad's visits to Pakistan, China and
Japan.
Citing the Hindustan Times Indian media
outlet, it quoted Sushma Swaraj as saying
that the Crown Prince's visit was of no
strategic concern and that Chinese ofcials
be advised to be cautious of the "USbacked
visit". When contacted, Hindustan Times
denied carrying any such report.
September 3-9, 2016
OP-ED
13
Is all lost for Mehbooba Mufti & her party?
By Sheikh Qayoom
he trail of death and

destruction left behind by
nearly four weeks of unrest
in the Kashmir Valley has dealt a
serious blow to the political base
of the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).
T he worst af fected south
Kashmir districts of Anantnag,
Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam
the political bastion of the PDP
have turned into the party's
Waterloo.
The cycle of violence has left
71 people dead and over 11,000
injured. And most of casualties in
the deadliest unrest the valley
has seen in six years are from the
south. In fact, the unrest started
from there after Hizbul com
mander Burhan Wani was killed
in Bamdoora village of Anantnag
on July 8 in a gunfight with the
security forces. Wani belonged to
Tral town also in the south.
W hile violence and public
demonstrations have been wide
spread in the valley after Wani's
death, the magnitude of anger
and protests has been massive in
this PDP stronghold. Out of 28
In the given situation the only way out for Mehbooba is to remain in
power, work for peace and normalcy, and then try to rebuild her person
al image as well as that of her party.
seats the PDP won in the 2014
elections, most were from the
south. Chief Minister Mehbooba
Mufti and her late father Mufti
Muhammad Sayeed themselves
belong to the town of Bijbehara
in Anantnag. In fact, Mehbooba
has won all her elections from
south Kashmir.
But today the space seems to
have shrunk not only for
Mehbooba and her PDP col
leagues, but also for all main

stream politicians. None of the
PDP or opposit ion Nat ional
Conference (NC) MLAs has been
able to hold a single public meet
ing since the unrest started. In
fact, none of these political rep
resentatives is reportedly living
in their homes in these con
stituencies at present. They have
shifted to the safety of their gov
ernment accommo dat ion in
Srinagar or Jammu.
Except for an odd political
statement, all mainstream politi
cians are conspicuous by their
absence from the constituencies.
Anger against the PDP is palpa
ble because the party is in power
and the people blame it for their
sufferings.
Given the proseparat ist
groundswell that followed the
unrest, mainstream politics
especially that of the ruling party
has been confined to of ficial
meetings and drawing rooms.
The separatists, once believed to
be somewhat "sympathet ic
towards the PDP", are today gun
ning for the party.
Known for her soft posturing
towards the separatists in the
past, Mehbooba is now taking
them headon. The Chief Minister
has blamed them for pushing
innocent youths into stone pelt
ing while warning them that vio
lence would yield no positive
result except to bring more mis
ery for the common man.
Under these circumstances, the
PDP is battling anger from the
very people who voted it in as an
alternative to the NC. Logically,
the PDP's loss should have been

the NC's gain. But, given the com
plexities of the Kashmir situation,
this has not been the case.
Former Chief Minister and work
ing President of the NC, Omar
Abdullah, has been issuing state
ments to stage a political come
back in a situation where his
rivals are shrinking fast.
The BJP has decided to contin
ue the alliance with the PDP
despite the alarming situation in
Kashmir. The central government
would not like to intervene by
imposing Governor's Rule in
Jammu and Kashmir because
that would mean removal of the
only political interface between
the security forces and the peo
ple. In the given situation the
only way out for Mehbooba is to
remain in power, work for peace
and normalcy, and then try to
rebuild her personal image as
well as that of her party.
W hile peace and normalcy
remain the main agenda of gov
ernance in Jammu and Kashmir
at the moment, the PDP and
Mehbooba need much more than
good luck to regain lost political
ground in Kashmir.
PRIME MINISTER'S OLYMPIC ROAD

MAP CAN WORK
By Veturi Srivatsa
he only Prime Minister who showed

an apparent interest in Indian sports
before Narendra Modi was Rajiv
Gandhi. It was to Gandhis credit that the
1982 Asian Games could be organised out
without any real hassles as Indira Gandhi
had entrusted the job of overseeing work
on infrastructure to him. It was he who, in
principle, also agreed to India hosting the
Commonwealth Games.
Le ft to two other Prime Ministers,
Morarji Desai and Chaudhary Charan
Singh, the funding for the Asian Games
would have been too tightfisted. The latter
thought the money earmarked for the
Games could have been better spent on
rural reconstruction and wanted the Games
to be conducted on a shoestring budget,
without wasting money on so many new
flyovers to ease the traffic congestions in
the national capital. After the Games, the
flyovers were more in use than the stadi
ums which turned out to be white ele
phants.
Modi's Mann ki Baat on Sunday touched
upon almost all key performances and per
formers. He must have instructed his
speechwriter to cover all aspects of the
Games.
Importantly, he pointed out that some of
the athletes "could not even touch during
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Arjuna Award winners in New Delhi. Also seen is
Union MoS Youth Affairs and Sports Vijay Goel. (Photo: IANS/PIB)
the Games their own performance level
which they had achieved during the domes
tic events".
The Prime Minister sounded serious
about the roadmap for the next three
Olympic Games by calling upon all the
stakeholders to provide inputs to him per
sonally and to the task force he is going to
create for the purpose.
This is another first for an Indian Prime
Minister and his of f hand suggestion to
states to adopt one or two sports can easily

be taken up. With the kind of interest he is
taking, the Olympic road map can work
well and Indian sports persons can really
hope for ache din.
The neverending debate over foreign
and Indian coaches should end with Prime
Minister saluting Pullela Gopichand as a
"great teacher" and his dedication in
becoming a role model, though he did not
mention about overseas coaches. Modi pro
fusely hailed woman power in Indian sport

and congratulated badminton silver medal
list Pusarla Venkata Sindhu and bronze
winning wrestler Sakshi Malik.
He did not forget to compliment all those
who have performed well even if they did
not get the medal and named Abhinav
Bndra, Dipa Kamakar, Sania Mirza and
Rohan Bopanna and Lalita Babar, specifi
cally mentioning about the Indian athlete
who entered the Olympic final after P.T.
Usha 32 years ago. And that the men's
hockey team entered the knockout round
after 36 years just as the women's team
returned to the Games after the 1980
Moscow Olympics!
He talked of boxer Vikas Krishna Yadav
missing the bronze and the performances
of golfer Aditi Ashok, rower Dattu Bhokanal
and archer Atanu Das. They all must have
felt good and encouraged with the Prime
Minister remembering them so fondly and
referring to their good deeds, just as
Sindhu was thrilled to meet him.
Sindhu need not have worried going to
meet the Prime Minister in a skirt as she
was driven straight there from the airport,
though she wanted to change into a formal
attire like a sari or a salwar kameez, per
haps. "Just wish I had time to change as I
was being rushed from the airport," said
her post on social media talking about her
incredible experience meeting Modi.
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September 3-9, 2016
OP-ED
THE DOWNFALL OF US COMPETITIVENESS

AND THE LESSONS FOR INDIA
One factor is the idea of financialization and focus on balance sheet solutions rather than solving realworld problems for customers and people.
By Amit Kapoor
recent book by Time business
columnist Rana Foroohar
of fers interesting insights
about economies in general in the
postcrisis world and about the
American economy in specific. It
also can be seen to offer some les
sons for countries like India, which
want to become globally competi
tive in sectors like manufacturing.
The book has interesting tales
from the world of finance and busi
ness and tries to do soul searching
for the fundamental reasons for the
2008 financial crisis. The book also
has some jargon with terms like
'makers' and 'takers' for people who
produce tangible and intangible
goods and services and financiers.
That's in fact the title of the book.
Overall, the narrative is relatively
well thought through with personal
anecdotes and interviews making it
an enjoyable read. The book has
many ideas worth discussing but
three stand out in the current con
text.
The first is the idea of financial
ization and focus on balance sheet
solutions rather than solving real
world problems for customers and
people. The mindset is pervasive,
from defense establishments to
business corporations, and the
author does well to provide a his
torical account of how America
came to be this way. The time stud
ies of Winslow Taylor (18561915,
Even Apple, a shining example of corporate excellence for many, has not
invested in R&D, innovation, factories and productcentric exercises in
spite of having more than $200 billion of cash overseas.
considered one of the first manage
ment consultant) and an overt focus
on imperfect mathematical models
to look at complex reality have been
the basis of this sort of mathemati
cal thinking.
The "efficient market hypothesis"
and focus on unfettered markets for
every problem have caused much of
the troubles that came to rock the
Wall Street in the runup to the
2008 crisis according to the author,
who is also critical of the "markets
know all" approach that has
wreaked havoc on not just the way
business is done but also on how
common citizens live.
Financialization of business has
meant that it is the takers who
called the shots at major corpora
tions, which has actually led compa
nies to not focus on goods and serv

ices but on shareholder returns.
Here, the author also takes up the
example of several of America's cor
porations and financial firms like
GM, GE, and Citibank to reflect on
the kind of decisions 'takers' made
in the runup to the financial crisis.
Though the situation today does
not appear to be similar in India's
case, it does of fer some clues to
Indian companies and markets to
not mimic the American scenario.
The second idea extends the logic
to focus on the financialization of
education. This includes a critique
of business education today. The
author here cites the Chicago
school and influence on both busi
ness education and corporate
America. Also, the fundamental
issues facing businesses are often

those faced by companies which
produce goods and service that are
core to the business.
The author opines that in busi
ness education, the focus today is
on tools and techniques rather than
thinking about real world problems
and how to solve them. This has
meant that most business people
today have backgrounds in finance
and rarely know about products
and processes. This has caused the
paradigm of 'shareholder wealth
maximization' at the expense of
society at large. This also brings in
the related issue of the role of busi
ness or corporation in society. The
author rues how financial thinking
is harming various sectors of the
economy from pharmaceuticals to
automobiles to petrochemicals to
consumer electronics.
Third, there is also the issue of
how America lost its competitive
ness in sectors like automobile,
industrial goods, consumer elec
tronics and the like. Here, the
author brings in the historical view
with Project Socrates of the Reagan
Administration that sought to iden
tify the reasons for the downfall of
American competitiveness.
Apart from costs, offshoring and
the like and not investing in facto
ries, R&D and innovation are seen
as major reasons for the downside.
Even Apple, a shining example of
corporate excellence for many, has
not invested in R&D, innovation,
factories and productcentric exer

cises in spite of having more than
$200 billion of cash overseas.
This again brings us to regulation
and focusing on cutting the loop
holes that businesses use to create
value for just stakeholders but not
society at large where they operate.
This has important implications for
developing countries like India,
where regulation is still not as deep
as it is in the US. Investing in R&D
and innovation as well as factories
by Indian and global corporations
could be seen as a way to improve
Indian competitiveness in the years
to come.
Finally, the book proposes some
solutions for America's current eco
nomic woes. These include simpler
but betterimplemented regulation,
less focus on corporate debt as
compared to equity, rethinking the
role of corporations in society and
building a new growth model where
the focus is on all stakeholders, not
just a few shareholders. The book
ends by recommending empower
ing of 'makers' who produce goods
and services and make the company
and the American economy compet
itive. It can well serve as a lesson
for India to empower its 'makers' to
make its companies, sectors and the
Indian Economy as a whole compet
itive.
The article is coauthored with
Sankalp Sharma, Senior Researcher
at the Institute for Competitiveness,
India, where Amit Kapoor is Chair.
Embracing Cloud can help India master digital era: Oracle
By Nishant Arora
ndia is poised to become the

world's leading market for
Cloud, and for US software
major Oracle, Cloud is a forcemul
tiplier that the country must
embrace to leapfrog into the digital
era, a top company executive has
said. India is uniquely positioned to
benefit from Cloudbased solutions
for three reasons. First, there are
more than 200 million connected
mobile users with 100 million on
social media in the country; this
is an essential building block for a
shift to Cloud.
"Secondly, the ecommerce will
ingness in this market. Lastly, India
has the largest IT service business
es in the world across SIs (systems
integrators) and they are now look
ing at adjacent revenue streams
like the Cloud to take cost out,"
Shailender Kumar, MD, Oracle
India, told IANS.
"The government's 'Digital India'

initiative can only be successful if
Cloud plays a key role. This makes
the opportunity huge," Kumar
added.
Cloud computing accounted for
about 33 percent of the total IT
expenditure in 2015 across the
world. In India, the overall Cloud
computing market reached $1.08
billion by the end of last year and
IT/ITeS, telecom, manufacturing
and government sectors accounted
for a bulk of this.
Among one of the first MNCs to
invest in the country nearly 25
years back, Oracle is bullish on
Cloud.
"We are witnessing a strong
demand for our Cloud solutions
here. Oracle's Software as a Service
(SaaS) business is witnessing the
fastest adoption rate with three
segments that have the highest
growth Human Capital
Management (HCM), Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) and

Customer Experience led by mar
keting cloud, service cloud, etc.
Platform as a Service (Paas) and
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
are fast catching up," Kumar noted.
In April, Oracle CEO Safra Catz
announced $400 million of invest
ment in a technology hub
Bengaluru, with the opening of the
first "Oracle Startup Cloud
Acce lerator" in India's Silicon
Valley. Several more such centers
are slated to be launched later in
Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad,
Mumbai,
Noida,
Pune,
T hiruvananthapuram
and
Vijayawada.
"Oracle is witnessing a huge
appetite for its SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
of ferings in India even without a
physical data center here. Banks,
telecom companies and govern
ment agencies are working with us
and owing to the strong security
infrastructure Oracle provides, we
have been able to dispel security

concerns," Kumar said.
While there are a few regulated
industries that require data centers
in India, there are also customers
who are more focused on choosing
the right applications and plat
forms as opposed to where the
data centre lies.
To alleviate data security fears,
the company recently announced
the "Oracle Cloud at Customer"
solution.
"The announcement strengthens
our play in the market because
companies (including those bound
by regulatory pressures), can now
leverage the Cloud and speed up
their business transformation with
complete control over their data,"
Kumar said.
"Oracle Cloud at Customer"
equips organizations to reap all of
the benefits of the Cloud agility,
simplicity and subscription pricing
at their data centers and behind
their firewall, providing access to

the latest Cloud innovations.
"W hile there are concerns
around data security in the coun
try, a lot of the technologists in the
India are quite skilled and are
aware of what needs to be done. By
following practices such as segre
gation of duties, ondisk encryp
tion, data redaction and robust
identity management, India can
tackle security constraints," Kumar
pointed out.
The real security issue is when
customers take older products that
were not built for the internet, rack
them and put them on the Internet.
This makes those products vulner
able.
"But sometimes, security is also
used as a reason to avoid change
because shifting to the Cloud
involves change. Though worrying,
companies that adopt the Cloud
can emerge as winners," Kumar
Source: IANS
added.
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September 03-09, 2016
Art & Culture
Many Indias is an ode to
indigenous art forms in the country

The exhibition displayed art forms like Bhil, Gond, Kalamkari, Kalighat, Rogan, Warli, Patchitra,
Saura, Madhubani and Sanjhi art.
ifferent genres that represent harmony within the

diverse culture of India all
came together in an art exhibition
that showcased tribal forms like
Gond, Kalamkari and Madhubani.
Organized by Must Art Gallery
and AK Gallerie, the week-long
Many Indias art show ran at Visual Art Gallery in end August.
Indigenous tribal artists from
all over India showcased the language of 12 different genres of
folk and tribal art of the land,
said curator Alka Pande.
The theoretical underpinnings
of the writings of Ramachandra
Guha, Arjun Appardurai and Dipesh Chakraborty, cultural historians like Jyotindra Jain, Sirish
Rao, Gita Wolf and Ayyappa Paniker led me to conceive the idea of
the show, she added.
The colorful palette with which
these art works are embellished
bear the roots of multiplicity in India. The art works, replete with traditional knowledge, carry the hues
and finesse of ancient art which are
passed from one generation to the
next, the curator explained.
The exhibition displayed forms
of art like Bhil, Gond, Kalamkari, Kalighat, Rogan, Warli, Patchitra, Saura, Madhubani and Sanjhi art. Saura
Artist Manas Das said: As a child, I
was fascinated by tribal art. I painted the walls of a house which was
liked by many and hence took this

as a profession. These exhibitions
give me a much bigger buyer base.
The show was an ode to indigenous art through which the audience sees an inner India and
artists get exposure and promote
their business.
I tried hands on many occupations. A carpenter by trade, I was
not able to make much money and
was uncomfortable with the job,
hence took to painting and these
exhibitions for me are a good
source of income, said Gond artist Shiv Prasad Malviya.
The indigenous art expresses
a view of life which has symbiotic
relationship with nature and is far
removed from the structured and
formal trained language. The visual representation through flora
and fauna drawing ecological balance is an attempt to immortalize
the beauty of nature, said Must
Art Gallery founder Tulika Kedia.
The tribal works at the exhibition, using traditional techniques
of tempera and gouache, made it
more interesting because each of
these works were simple yet ethnically rich with aesthetic sensibility and authenticity.
The audience identified with
the motifs that carry strong symbols from nature and were originally painted in vegetable dyes
and natural pigments.
Warli art titled Tsunami

by artist Anil Chaitya Vangad
Kalighat art titled Recreation

at the Many Indias show
Gond art by Mayank Shyam
Dance-drama Meera comes to New York
Meera- the Soul divine, choreographed by Chitra Visweswaran and music by Oscar
nominee Bombay Jayashri, will be presented on Sept 9 at the CUNY-Queens Borough
Performing Arts Center in Bayside, NY. In New Jersey there will be a show on
Sept 11at Raritan Valley Community College, Somerville, NJ.
minent Bharatanatyam dancer

and guru of south India, Chitra Visweswaran is presenting a dance production Meera- the
Soul Divine, on the life of Indias
greatest saint-poetess Meera Bai
in New York on September 9.
Starting from India and the UK,
the dance-drama is now being presented in all major US cities.
Visweswaran, a Padma Shri
awardee, has choreographed and
directed the dance production to
the music of Bombay Jaishri. It is
presented by Chidambaram Dance
Company, the professional repertory of Chidambaram Academy of
Performing Arts for AIM for Seva.
The production portrays the
spiritual quest of Meera and her
unshakable faith in Lord Krishna.
Born a princess into the lap of

luxury, Meera renounced it all
to live and sing for her beloved
Giridhari, and came to be known
for posterity as one of the greatest saint poetesses of India and an
epitome of bhakti.
The show is free but donations
are expected. The All India Movement (AIM) for SEVA, a non-profit
organization in the US, helps
needy students in rural India access education. It was started in
2000 by the late Swami Dayananda Saraswati, and 14,000 needy
students have benefitted already.
At no cost to parents, children are
provided boarding and lodging,
clothing, medical care, education,
after-school coaching and extracurricular activities.
Contact: Ananda Iyer, [email protected]
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September 3-9, 2016
ULTIMATE BOLLYWOOD
I live every day like

Dont allow my son it's
my last: Ranveer
to watch TV: Shilpa E
ollywoo d actress Shilpa
Shetty says she is a strict
parent and doesn't allow her
fouryearold son to watch TV but
will make an exception for a
children's dance reality show.
"My son doesn't watch tele
vision. We don't allow him. I
am a very strict parent. He
is four years old. But I
would like him to watch
this show. Honestly, I will
encourage him to watch this
one," she said at the press confer
ence of kids dance reality show
"Dance Ka KalSuper Dancer".
She will be judging the show along
with choreographer Geeta Kapoor
and filmmaker Anurag Basu.
"So this will be his first tryst with
television. This is a pure and clean
show. We even have taken care of
the language we used with the
children. Because sometimes in

shows, content becomes aggressive
for children and you have to really
monitor when a child watch the tele
vision. So as a parent I would def
initely say that this show would
be an introduction to Hindi
television for my child," she
said.
Shilpa said the talented
kids in the show really sur
prised her and reveals her
son is a 'Tapori Dancer' as
he is not trained.
Ranveers next big

screen outing is
"Befikre".
The actress will be judging a

kids dance reality show on TV.
ollywood actor Shahid Kapoor
and his wife Mira Rajput wel
comed their first child, a daugh
ter, with utmost joy. Shahid took to
Twitter to share the news with his
fans.
"She has arrived and words fall short
to express our happiness. Thank you
for all your wishes," Shahid tweeted.
T he 35yearold, son of veteran
actor Pankaj Kapur, married
Delhibased Mira, 22, last
year. Cong ratulatory
messages came the
couple's way from
Bollywood celebri
t ies soon after
Shahid announced
the arrival of his
bundle of joy.
Actor
Riteish
Deshmukh tweeted:
"Congratulations
@shahidkapoor and
Mira on birth of an angel.
We lcome to the club my
friend. Love and blessings to the
little one." Shahid and Mira had met at
Shahid
Kapoor,
Mira Rajput
blessed
with
daughter
Vishal Dadlani booked

over Jain monk remarks
Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput entered matrimony

on July 7 last year.
a 'satsang' as both
their families are
followers of the reli
gious group Radha Soami
Satsang Beas, a philosophical organi
zation based on the spiritual teachings

of all religions.
In April this year, Shahid had
announced that he was going to be a
dad soon.
Song, dance sequences filthy in

Bollywood: Victor Banerjee
eteran actor Victor Banerjee, who is known for his roles

in films like "A Passage to India", "Kalyug", "Joggers'
Park" and "My Brother... Nikhil", believes that
some song and dance sequences are "filthy" in
Bollywood. The 69yearold, who has worked
made to look filthy," Victor told reporters at a press
with creme de la creme directors like Satyajit
conference of the forthcoming film "Thinking of
Ray, Shyam Benegal, Roman Polanski, Mrinal
Him".
Sen and Ram Gopal Varma, says that steps
"I have not had a foreign visitor that has come to
performed by the King of Pop, Michael
our country and has seen a Hindi film that hasn't
Jackson, never looked crude the way it does
come out saying 'Victor my god this is soft porn, how
on "our boys or girls". "Films don't pull me, I
can you let small children see it', I ask what? 'The song
don't even watch my own films. I hardly see
sequences'... Every foreigner... You think they
films. I keep saying that when MJ
The veteran actor will essay the are foreigners so xrated... everyone is nude and
(Michael Jackson) performed a dance, it
role of Rabindranath Tagore in they have sex... I mean when they see Hindi
doesn't look crude, but when the same
film, "Thinking of Him".
movies, they are horrified," he added.
thing is done by our girls or boys, it is
nergy, exuberance, ef fervescence and

enthusiasm. Bollywood star Ranveer Singh
has emerged synonymous with these adjec
tives, and he says it's the "Take it easy" policy
that helps him to live each day as if it's his last.
"I have an immense love for life, I have a
great zeal for life, I have a great lust
for life, you could say, and there
fore I live every day like it's
my last and I do everything
like it's either the first
time I'm doing it or the
last time I'm doing it. So, I
really go after it with
everything I've got,"
Ranveer said in an exclu
sive interaction as the
ambassador of toothpaste
brand Colgate MaxFresh.
"I try and live in the
moment as much as possible,
and I think essentially that might
very well be the secret of my energy
high energy," he said, flashing
his pearly whites and look
ing cool in a pair of
funky shades.
Often, due
to this
percep
t i o n
about Ranveer and his ability to take over a stage
whenever he performs live or makes an appearance
for a TV show, one would think he is a better per
former than an actor even though one knows how
he has showcased his versatility across films as var
ied as a "Band Baaja Baaraat", "Lootera", "Goliyon Ki
Raasleela RamLeela", "Gunday", "Dil Dhadakne Do"
and "Bajirao Mastani".
What does he say about that?
"There are different kinds of performances you
do different characters, you're a part of different sto
ries, each filmmaker has a certain energy that the
character requires, you know, it's different.
he Haryana Police booked Bollywood music

director Vishal Dadlani and Congress leader
Tehseen Poonawalla for making "objection
able" remarks against Jain religious leader Tarun
Sagar. Both of them
were booked by the
police in Haryana's
Ambala city, 45 km
from Chandigarh, fol
low ing complaints
received from the
members of the Jain
community and others.
Dadlani had tweeted
Dadlani has quit the Aam
against
the Jain leader
Aadmi Party after offend
the
ing the Jain community. addressing
Haryana assembly.
Tarun Sagar is a Digambar Jain community monk
and the monks in Digambara sect of Jainism do not
wear clothes. Following widespread condemnation,
including from Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal,
Dadlani removed his tweet and apologized. Dadlani
and Poonawala have been booked under Sections
153A (promoting enmity between different groups
on religious lines) and 295A (hurting religious sen
timents) of the Indian Penal Code.
ULTIMATE BOLLYWOOD
Don't take anyone's advice:

Karisma's tip to Kareena
or actress Kareena Kapoor Khan, her
sister Karisma has always given her the
best life lessons. Now that Kareena is
expecting her first child, her older sibling
has suggested to her to stay away from
everyone's advice and to follow her instinct.
"Well, my advice (to Kareena) is, 'Don't take
advice from anyone because everyone has
some sort of advice to give to a motherto
be'. I think you should just learn from own
instinct and experiences," Karisma, a mother
of two, said when asked if she has given
some tips to her younger sister during this
phase of her life.
Karisma has earlier penned a book, "My
Yummy Mummy Guide: From Getting
Pregnant to losing all the weight and
beyond", in which she shared advice ranging
from finding the perfect maternity outfits to
decorating children's rooms and juggling
work with motherhood to even planning the
most stylish kiddie parties.
Kareena is said to be due for delivery in
December with her first child with actorhus
band Saif Ali Khan. Breaking convention,
Kareena took to the ramp for designer
Sabyasachi Mukherjee at the finale of Lakme
Fashion Week (LFW) Winter/Festive 2016
here on Sunday night. She was glowing.
September 3-9, 2016
17
Will Smith enjoys

Bollywood night
out in Mumbai
he not only broke the stereotypical

image of the Bollywood heroine with
her role in films like ""Phobia",
"Badlapur", "Manjhi The
Mountain Man" and short
film "Ahalya", but is also
vocal about her strong opin
ions on social issues. Actress
Radhika Apte says she always
does those things that she
believes in, without being
scared of the consequences.
Radhika was at the Lakme Fashion Week
(LFW) Winter/Festive 2016 where she
walked as showstopper for designer Saroj
Kareena walks
the ramp for
fashion designer
Sabyasachi
Mukherjee.
Actor Akshay Kumar with Hollywood actor

Will Smith during success party of
Rustom in Mumbai.
I can't
have double
standards:
Radhika
Review
ollywood icon Will Smith is in

India, and he got a taste of
Bollywood glamour when he
joined a starstudded party hosted by
actor Akshay Kumar in Mumbai. The
American actorsingerproducer, best
known for films like "Independence Day"
and "Men In Black", is all smiles in some
of the photographs that have emerged
online, from the party.
Akshay and Smith seem to be at ease in
each other's company, and look happy to
pose for the cameras. Their jovial mood
reflects in the images.
Akshay is seen dressed smartly in a
black shirt teamed up with a white
trouser, while the "Suicide Squad" star is
seen wearing a striped tshirt in hues of
red, black and white.
While the social media is abuzz with
Smith's party hopping in India, the actor
has not shared anything about his trip to
the country in the virtual world.
Radhika was recently in the news for her

leaked lovemaking scene in "Parched".
Jalan. Asked if she is not scared of nega
tive feedback for her opinion on social
issues, Radhika said: "You get negative

comments even if you are not talking. So
you can't be scared of negative comments
from people. I can't have double standards,
so I do what I believe in."
Radhika believes she hasn't reached a
level of "stardom".
She was recently in the news for her
leaked lovemaking scene in "Parched", but
she says that it wasn't leaked.
"That wasn't leaked by the way. The film
has released in many countries abroad and
it's also on the US Netflix," she said and
added that "society needs to grow" in
terms of accepting such films.
'A Flying Jatt': An agonizing shtick
Flying Jatt", is the story of the

local superhero of the same name.
Apart from the name, there is
nothing original about the film. The
character, chiseled on the lines of the DC
Comics fictional character Superman, is
an Indianized version of the superhero
which includes his traits and costume.
It is the story of a reluctant martial
arts teacher, Aman Dhillon ( Tiger
Shroff ) who is forced to fight a promi
nent and powerful industrialist, Mr.
Malhotra and his goons, when they
forcibly try to usurp a track of land
which his mother, Mrs. Dhillon (Amrita
Singh) owns.
How Aman transforms from a meek
person to the local crusader "A Flying
Jatt", forms the crux of the tale.
The film is director Remo D'Souza's
pretentious plea to save the planet.
Pretentious because the film, in all sin
The film stars actors Jacqueline Fernandez, Tiger Shroff and Nathan Jones in lead roles.
cerity, is treated with an artificiality
which includes his direct appeal
"Everything has an alternative, except

Mother Earth." The film is replete with
tellandshow expositions, halfbaked

characters, plot holes galore and inter
planetary fight sequences. Tiger Shroff
in the titular role is sincere and charm
ing. With a stubble and turban he is
striking and he lights up the screen with
his presence. His character is designed
like a satire and he excels in its carica
ture, but the poorly scripted drama does
not back him enoug h. Jacque line
Fernandez in a relatively small role is
competent as Aman's love interest, the
giggly headed Kriti.
T he hulk Nathan Jones plays the
stereotypical henchman with aplomb
and elevates the character to the rank of
an antagonist. Kay Kay Menon as the
pivotal bad man essays his role in a
hackneyed manner.
Technically, the film boasts of ace pro
duction values, but the spirit is diluted
with poor craftsmanship.
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September 03-09, 2016
Fashion
Diversity in fashion takes the stage

The 22nd Lakme Fashion Week was held in Mumbai last week
By Nivedita
Made in Assam show, northeastern models, stalls from

Arunachal Pradesh, a plussize show, inspiration from Benaras
and textiles from different parts of
India -- the Winter/Festive edition
of Lakme Fashion Week (LFW)
showcased the increasing diversity
in the Indian fashion industry.
The five-day fashion extravaganza that took place at St. Regis in
Mumbai, started with a Gen Next
show -- a platform which launched
currently celebrated designers like
Masaba Gupta, Nachiket Barve and
Rahul Mishra. The 22nd batch of
this platform saw six new talents
showing their creativity.
Day 1 ended with veteran designer Manish Malhotras show
where Sushant Singh Rajput made
his ramp debut along with Shraddha Kapoor, who is now a regular
at fashion runways.
Day 2 saw the best of creativity
coming alive on the ramp with Indian textiles. On a day dedicated to
sustainable fashion and Indian textiles, the event started with a Made
in Assam show titled Halodhi.
Three top designers of the region showcased their work and labels: Anuradha Pedu, Pranami Kalita and Aditi Holani. A stall from
Yana Ngoba Chakpu, an Arunachal Pradesh brand, was a highpoint
of the fashion week.
Two models from northeast also
took to the ramp. Jahnavi Deori, 21,
one of the two models appreciated
their inclusion.
Interestingly, some designers
moved away from western inspirations and focused on Indian textiles
from Benaras and other regions.
Using her key handwoven, specially developed textiles from Benaras, designer Payal Khandwala used
the gold threads that illuminated
the jewel tones on clothes and were
reminiscent of vintage heirlooms.
Ajay Kumar, Another designer,
gave a fashionable ode to Benaras
with a vibrant collection of mens
and womens wear titled Banaras The Golden Dawn of Time Eternal.
Apart from out-of-box creativity
on ramp, Bollywood glamour was
ever-present with the likes of Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Kriti
Sanon, Emraan Hashmi, Dia Mirza, Radhika Apte, Ileana DCruz,
Karishma and Kareena Kapoor.
Actress Sarah Jane Dias displays the fashion brand Aagor by NGO Ants Craft of designer
Aditi Holani on Day 2 dedicated to sustainable fashion and Indian textiles. (Photos: IANS)
Celebrated fashion designer Manish Malhotra with actors

Shraddha Kapoor & Sushant Singh Rajput during his show at LFW.
Actress Radhika Apte shines in near weightless wedding lehenga by Saroj Jalan at LFW.
She looked no less than a bride in a red lehenga teamed up with a maang tikka.
September 3-9, 2016
RELIGION
19
Vatican prepares for Mother

Teresas Canonization
An official logo is accompanying
the canonization, designed by
Mumbai graphic designer Karen
Vaswani. The blueandgold
image bears the typical pose of
Mother Teresa, gazing lovingly at
a child she is carrying in her arms.
The words on the logo read:
Mother Teresa: Carrier of Gods
Tender and Merciful Love.
asses, prayer vigils, exhibi

tions and even a musical
will be some of the many
events taking place in Rome to cel
ebrate the canonization of Blessed
Mother Teresa on Sept. 4.
Not only will Pope Francis be
raising Mother Teresa to the altars
at a canonizat ion Mass in St.
Peters Square on Sept. 4, the
entire week Sept. 18 will be
devoted to ce le brat ing the
Albanian re lig ious sister who
became known as the angel of the
slums.
The events begin on Sept. 1, with
the opening of an Exposition of

the Life, Spirit and Message of
Mother Teresa at the LUMSA uni
versity in Rome. The exposition
w ill last unt il Sept. 7. On the
evening of Sept. 1, the
Missionaries of Charity will pro
vide a family feast for the poor
under their care at the Santa
Cecilia auditorium on the Via della
Conciliazione. Part of the evenings
highlights: Mother Teresa: The
Musical by the Italian musician,
author, singer and actor Michele
Paulicelli.
T hree consecutive Masses to
honor Mother Teresa are sched
uled for the following day in three
languages English, Spanish and
Italian at the Basilica of St.
Anastasia,
close
to
the
Missionaries of Charity mother
house and Romes Circus Maximus,
with veneration of the relics of
Blessed Teresa of Kolkata after
each Mass.
Mercy is a major theme of the

canonization, and the sacrament of
reconciliation will be available dur
ing the Masses. In the afternoon,
pilgrims are free to pass through
the holy doors of the basilica or
see an exhibit ion ce le brat ing
Mother Teresas life.
A prayer vigil with solemn ado
rat ion w ill take place in the
evening at St. John Lateran
Basilica, led by Cardinal Agostino
Vallini, the vicar of Rome. The
theme is Radiating the Light of
Christ: A Call to Holiness, praying
for holy families, holy consecrated
men and women and, especially,
for holy priests, ministers of
mercy. The faithful will also given
the opportunity to go to confes
sion during adoration.
Sept. 3 will begin with a special
papal audience in St. Peters
Square, with Pope Francis deliver
ing a catechesis for the jubilee for
workers and volunteers of mercy.
(Image courtesy: salesianity.blogspot.in)

In the afternoon, a prayer and
meditation in music is scheduled to
honor Blessed Teresa at the
Basilica of SantAndrea della Valle
in the center of Rome, with venera
tion of relics and Mass at 7pm.
The canonization Mass on Sept.
4 will begin at 10am, followed by
the Angelus at noon. Hundreds of
thousands of pilgrims are expect
Mother Teresa: A Holy Life

M
other Teresa was born Gonxha

(Agnes) Bojaxhiu in Skopje,
Yugoslavia, on August 27,
1910. Five children were born to Nikola
and Dronda Bojaxhiu, yet only three sur
vived. Gonxha was the youngest, with an
older sister, Aga, and brother, Lazar.
This brother describes the family's early
years as "welloff," not the life of peas
ants reported inaccurately by some. "We
lacked for nothing." In fact, the family
lived in one of the two houses they
owned.
Nikola was a contractor, working with
a partner in a successful construction
business. He was also heavily involved
in the politics of the day. Lazar tells of
his father's rather sudden and shocking
death, which may have been due to poi
soning because of his political involve
ment. With this event, life changed
overnight as their mother assumed total
responsibility for the family, Aga, only
14, Lazar, 9, and Gonxha, 7.
Though so much of her young life was
centered in the Church, Mother Teresa
later revealed that until she reached 18,
she had never thought of being a nun.
During her early years, however, she
was fascinated with stories of mission
ary life and service. She could locate any
number of missions on the map, and tell
others of the service being given in each
place.
At 18, Gonxha decided to follow the
path that seems to have been uncon
sciously unfolding throughout her life.
She chose the Loreto Sisters of Dublin,
missionaries and educators founded in
the 17th century to educate young girls.
In 1928, the future Mother Teresa
began her religious life in Ireland, far
(Image credit:
Radiovaticana.va)
SUSHMA SWARAJ TO LEAD

INDIAN DELEGATION TO
MOTHER TERESA'S
CANONIZATION AT THE
VATICAN
ushma Swaraj to lead Indian delega
tion to Mother Teresa's canonization
at the Vat ican External Af fairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj will lead a 12
member delegation to represent India at
canonization ceremony of Mother Teresa
in Vatican on September 4. External
Af fairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas
Swarup said two delegations led by chief
ministers had sought political clearance
from the Ministry of External Af fairs to
attend the event and it has been granted.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee will also be traveling to Rome to
attend the canonization ceremony of
Mother Teresa where she will be declared
a saint.
Swaraj's de leg at ion w ill comprise
Minister for Food Processing Industries
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Lok Sabha MPs
Prof K V T homas, Jose K Mani, Anto
Anthony, Conrad K Sangma and Deputy
Chief Minister of Goa Francis D'Souza,
Judge of Supreme Court Justice Kurian
Joseph, eminent lawyer Harish Salve,
Secretary General of Catholic Bishops'
Conference
of
India
T heo dore
Mascarenhas, K J Alphons, who was
tipped to be appointed the administrator
of Chandigarh. His appointment could not
materialize.
Secretary ( West) in the Ministry of
External Affairs Sujata Mehta will also be
part of the delegation.
from her family and the life she'd

known, never seeing her mother again
in this life, speaking a language few
understood.
One year later, in 1929, Gonxha was
sent to Darjeeling to the novitiate of the
Sisters of Loreto. In 1931, she made her
first vows there, choosing the name of
Teresa, honoring both saints of the
same name, Teresa of Avila and Therese
of Lisieux. In keeping with the usual
procedures of the congregation and her
deepest desires, it was time for the new
Sister Teresa to begin her years of serv
ice to God's people. She was sent to St.
Mary's, a high school for girls in a dis
trict of Calcutta.
Here she began a career teaching his
tory and geography, which she reported
ly did with dedication and enjoyment
for the next 15 years.
During the next two years, Teresa pur
sued every avenue to follow what she
"never doubted" was the direction God
was pointing her. She was "to give up

even Loreto where I was very happy and
to go out in the streets."
Teresa first went to Patna for a few
months to prepare for her future work
by taking a nursing course. In 1948 she
received permission from Pius XII to
leave her community and live as an
independent nun. So back to Calcutta
she went and found a small hovel to
rent to begin her new undertaking.
Teresa was not alone for long. Within
a year, she found more help than she
anticipated. Many seemed to have been
waiting for her example to open their
own floodgates of charity and compas
sion. Young women came to volunteer
their services and later became the core
of her Missionaries of Charity.
Unt il her death in 1997, Mother
Teresa continued her work among the
poorest of the poor, depending on God
for all of her needs. (source: american
catholic.org)
ed, probably exceeding the

300,000 who attended Blessed
Teresas beatification in 2003.
Many bishops from both India and
Albania, where Mother Teresa was
born are also expected to attend,
as well as state leaders.
As usual after a canonization, a
Mass of thanksgiving will be held.
(Source: ncregister.com)
20
September 3-9, 2016
Controversial Gupta family to

sell all South African interests
Johannesburg: Beleaguered Gupta
family, one of South Africa's wealth
iest and most influential with ties to
President Jacob Zuma, has
announced to relinquish all their
business interests in the country by
the end of this year.
The brothers Ajay, Atul and Anil,
who arrived from India at the
advent of democracy under Nelson
Mandela in the 1990's, had estab
lished a huge information technolo
gy company, Sahara Computers,
before branching into a wide range
of businesses as diverse as mining
and media, including The New Age
daily newspaper and the television
channel ANN7, both in partnership
with Indian media houses.
Since our decision to step down
from all executive and nonexecu
tive positions in all our South
African business in April 2016, the
local management team has grown
our businesses from strength to
strength, with turnover and profits
showing good growth and more
jobs created," a statement issued by
Gupta family spokesman Gary
Naidoo said. In recent years, the
Gupta family has been the subject of
The Gupta brothers have been in

the eye of storm for their
allegedly closeness with
President Zuma and top leaders.
(Image : hindustantimes.com)
many controversies, most of them
linked to their allegedly close rela
tionship with President Zuma and
other top African National Congress
leaders, but no charges had been
brought against them.
Several top government of ficials
made public statements about
allegedly being of fered ministerial
positions by the Guptas, while oth
ers claimed that the family had
knowledge of such appointments
even before they were made public.
Concerns were also expressed
about companies owned by the
Guptas employing close relatives of
Australian Police
arrests wife, lover for
murder of husband
Melbourne: Ten months after
the death of an Indianorigin
man, Australian police have
arrested his wife and her para
mour for allegedly poisoning her
husband with cyanide.
Sam Abraham died of cyanide
poisoning at his Epping home in
October last year. His death came
just three months after he was
attacked in what police allege
was an attempted murder.
After several months of sophis
ticated covert investigations,
detectives have arrested his wife
Sofia Sam and her lover alleging
poison plot, T he Herald Sun
reported.
All the three hailed from
Kerala. The police have charged
Arun Kamalasanan, 34, of Port
Melbourne, with attempted mur

der and a separate charge of
murder while 32yearold Sofia
Sam has been charged with mur
der.
In a hearing recently,
Melbourne Magistrates' Court
heard that police had intercepted
phone calls throughout their
covert probe and had about three
months of phone recordings to
transcribe.
In July last year, Abraham was
also attacked and stabbed by a
balaclavaclad man who had
been hiding in the footwell of
his car at Lalor train station.
Cable ties, material scraps and
handcuffs were found in his car.
Abraham had received injuries to
the neck, temple and cheek.
DIASPORA
Zuma, with one of his young sons

being a major partner in several
companies owned by the family.
Earlier this year, all major South
African banks and multinational
auditing company KPMG refused to
do any business with Guptaowned
companies, despite interventions by
top government officials because of
the possible effect on thousands of
employees who would not receive
salaries. The family moved to Dubai
a few months ago, with the brothers
stepping down from all positions at
their various companies.
"As a family, we now believe that
the time is right for us to exit our
shareholding of the South African
businesses which we believe will
benefit our existing employees and
lead to further growth in the busi
nesses.
"As such, we have announced our
intention to sell all of our share
holding in South Africa by the end
of the year. We are already in dis
cussions with several international
prospective buyers and will soon be
in a position to make further
announcements," the statement
(PTI)
added.
Pravasi Bharatiya
Divas to be held in
Bengaluru from Jan 7
New Delhi: The 14th edition of
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD)
will be held in Bengaluru January
7 to 9, 2017, and around 3,000
people are likely to participate in
the event, it was announced on
Friday.
Launching a new logo and a
portal for the threeday event
here, External Af fairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj told a press con
ference that format of the annual
function has been changed and
the event will now be "resultori
ented" instead of a cultural func
t ion. "T he format has been
changed. The event will now be
resultoriented," she said.
The participants can register
themselves through the portal
that also gives all the information
and details about the event. The
registration fee has been reduced
this time and fixed as $100 for
the January 9 event, she said.
The main function of the event
will be on January 9 that would
see a participative session with
the diaspora.
There would also be a Youth

PBD on January 7.
Sushma Swaraj said that Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's fervent
engagement with the Indian dias
pora has had an impact and the
number of participants in this
year's event has gone up.
"Till a few years ago, the num
ber of participants was in hun
dreds. Last year it was around
2,500 and this year we are
expecting around 3,000 people
and the actual number may go
up," she said.
The participants can withdraw
with full refunds by December 7
this year, the Minister said.
Karanataka Chie f Minister
Siddaramaiah said his state was
keen to host the event and was
preparing to make it "a huge suc
cess".
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is cele
brated in India each year to mark
the contribution of the overseas
Indian community to the devel
opment of India.
(IANS)
No difference between Hindus and

Muslims in Trinidad: Author Aliyyah Eniath
New Delhi: Debuting with a book
that gives voice to the lives of peo
ple of Indian origin in Trinidad and
Tobago, author Aliyyah Eniath
believes there is a strong need to
convey the stories of the diaspora
to the world.
People in this Caribbean nation
where nearly 40 percent of the 1.3
million population is of Indian ori
gin "still tightly hold on to a lot
of cultural practices. Diwali is a
huge festival which is a weeklong
celebration in Trinidad. There is
no difference between Hindus and
Muslims back home. Conflicts
between India and Pakistan do not
affect our lives", Eniath stated.
"It is very important that we get
our stories to the world. We have
so many stories to tell. It is impor
tant that our voices are heard, that
the world should know about us
Author Aliyaah
Eniath (inset)
book cover
too because India has a huge popu
lation and is a significant part of
the world population. And it is not
all about American writing it
should be about Indian writing

too," Eniath, the author of "The
Yard" told IANS in an interview
during a visit here.
Although Eniath was born and
bought up in Trinidad and Tobago,
her roots lie in Uttar Pradesh.
As an author, she believes it is
"unfortunate" that publishers in
Britain and the US are not too keen
on stories about the Indian diaspo
ra. But the Indian publishing indus
try is doing its bit to fill the gaps.
"When I got the of fer from the
Indian publishing house, I could
not refuse as I see India as a big
platform for diaspora writers,"
added Eniath, who is director of a
lifestyle magazine.
For her, the book and its charac
ters are a medium for telling the
world how the diaspora has been
living in Trinidad and Tobago.
Pak special envoys to

highlight Kashmir globally
Islamabad: Pakistan decided to
escalate its diplomatic lobbying
on Kashmir, with 22 parliamen
tarians to go as special envoys to
various countries to apprise them
about the "brutalities and human
rig hts abuses committed by
Indian forces" in Jammu and
Kashmir.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
nominated the 22 envoys.
"I have decided to send these
parliamentarians to fight the case
of Kashmir in dif ferent parts of
the world," a statement issued by
the Prime Minister's office quoted
Sharif as saying.
"I am standing behind these spe
cial envoys to ensure their toil for
highlighting the Kashmir cause
resonates across the world so that
I can shake the collective con
science of the international com
munity during my address at
United Nations this September,"
Sharif said. He said Pakistan
would remind the United Nations
of its longheld promise of "right
of se lfdeterminat ion for the
Kashmiri people" and would make
it clear to India that it was they
who had approached the UN sev
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has

nominated the 22 envoys.
eral decades back on the Kashmir
issue but were not fulfilling its
promise. The parliamentarians
who have been nominated include
Ijazul Haq and Malik Uzair for
Belgium, Khusro Bakhtiar and
Alamdad Laleka for China, Raza
Hayat Hiraj, Junaid Anwar
Chaudhry and Nawab Ali Wassan
for Russia.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Major
(retd) Tahir Iqbal and Muhammad
Afzal Khokhar will visit Saudi
Arabia, Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha
and Malik Pervaiz for Turkey, Lt
General (retd) Abdul Qayyum and
Qaiser Sheikh will go to Britain.
SUBCONTINENT
Former Maldivian President

Mohamed Nasheed.
(MDP) who refused to obey August
4 police summons that ordered
their return to the country within
two weeks for questioning over
unspecified charges.
T he police had attempted to
summon the pair in June on sus
Dhaka: Bangladesh police said they

have killed the mastermind of last
month's terror attack on a Dhaka
cafe and two other militants during
a raid on a house outside the
Bangladeshi capital.
Tamim
Chowdhury,
a
BangladeshiCanadian citizen with
alleged Islamic State links, was
killed in a raid on a threestoried
house in Paikpara Baro Masjid area
of Narayanganj, outside Dhaka.
Inspector General of police, A.K.M.
Shahidul Hoque, and counterterror
ism unit chief Monirul Islam con
firmed the death of Tamim
Chowdhury after the raid, code
named 'Operation Hit Strong 27'. A
joint team of security forces, includ
ing counterterrorism forces and
the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB),
had cordoned of f the building
around 9.36 a.m. and the operation
lasted an hour.
According to police of ficials, a
team of counter terrorism and
transnational unit conducted the
drive in plainclothes.
T here was heavy exchange of
gunfire and the militants also
lobbed some grenades at the securi
ty forces. After the operation, police
pected links to a forged warrant

for President Abdulla Yameen's
arrest. Nasheed and other opposi
tion leaders travelled to Sri Lanka
after several months of exile in
Britain, fuelling speculation of
Yameen's imminent ouster.
Nasheed was granted political
asylum in Britain in May 2015
after he was authorized to travel
for medical treatment. The opposi
tion leader's imprisonment on
charge of terrorism in March 2015
drew widespread international
condemnation and triggered an
ongoing political crisis.
The police said that Nasheed is
wanted in connection with an
investigation of "a case involving
more than MVR1.8 million that
was flagged in a 2011 audit
report."
Pakistan to get eight new submarines from China

Beijing: Pakistan is to receive eight
modified dieselelectric attack sub
marines from China by 2028, media
reports said. The head of Pakistan's
nextgeneration submarine pro
gramme made the announcement
to the country's National Assembly
Standing Committee on Defence on
August 26, Sputnik News
International reported.
The agreement between the two
nations is valued at $4$5 billion
and it is anticipated that China will

extend a low interest rate loan.
T he announcement also con
firmed that the project was moving
ahead, but was not clear whether a
contract has been signed.
Rear Admiral Syed Hassan Nasir
Shah announced in April that a con
tract had been secured by the
Karachi Shipyard & Engineering
Works (KSEW) to construct four of
the eight submarines, with the
21
Dhaka cafe terror attack

mastermind killed in raid
Arrest warrant issued for

former Maldives President
Male: A Maldives criminal court

issued arrest warrants for exiled
leaders of the Maldives United
Opposition (MUO), including for
mer President Mohamed Nasheed.
The warrant for Nasheed's arrest
was sought over an investigation
into the alleged misuse of state
funds during his term as the
Pesident, Maldives Independent
reported a police official as saying.
The prisons authority has also
asked the police to bring Nasheed
back to Maldives to serve the
remainder of his 13year jail term
on a terror conviction.
The court also authorized the
police to arrest and bring back for
mer Vice President Mohamed
Jameel and Akram Kamaldeen, a
senior official of the main opposi
tion Maldivian Democratic Party
September 3-9, 2016
other four being built by the China

Shipbuilding Trading Company
(CSTC). The submarines will be fit
ted with airindependent propulsion
(AIP) systems. According to reports,
Pakistan will also build two types of
submarines with Chinese assis
tance: the Project S26 and Project
S30. These are to be built at the
Submarine Rebuild Complex (SRC)
facility being developed at Ormara,
west of Karachi.
Bangladeshi police killed the mastermind of the July terror attack in

Dhaka after an hourlong battle.
entered the house and found three
bodies inside the house, the police
said. The raid was carried out on
information extracted from one of
those arrested following the July 1
attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery
in Gulshan area, police sources said.
The IGP said law enforcers had
given the militants scope to surren
der but they did not take it, and
instead opened fire and hurled
grenades.
Police confirmed the identity of
one of the three dead as Tamim
after matching photos, the IGP said.
The other two militants killed in an

earlier raid were identified as
Manik, 35, and Iqbal 25.
Tamim, who was believed to be
the local coordinator for Islamic
State (IS) in Bangladesh was a high
ranking member of the local mili
tant group called the "New
Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh
(JMB)". Tamim's name came up on
the list of 10 missing people
released by police after it emerged
that the cafe killers and Sholakia
attackers had been reported miss
ing by their families.
Couple kidnapped by Taliban beg

for life in latest video clip
Taliban fighters attend a ceremony in

DaraeSuf Payan district (file photo).
Islamabad: An AmericanCanadian
couple kidnapped by the Taliban
in 2012 said in a latest video clip
that has surfaced that their cap
tors would execute them if the
Afghanistan government did not
change its policies with regard to
the Taliban prisoners, media
reported.
On a backpacking trip to
Afghanistan in 2012, American
Joshua Boyle and his Canadian
wife Caitlan Coleman were kid
napped by the Taliban and held
hostage ever since. A video clip of
the two shared by SITE
Intelligence group showed the
couple beg for their lives, urging
the Afghanistan government to
stop execution of Taliban prison
ers, the News reported.

"They will execute us, women
and children included, if the poli
cies of the Afghan government are
not overturned either by the
Afghan government or by Canada
somehow, or US," said Joshua in
the video.
"Our captors are terried at the
thought of their own mortality
approaching and are saying that
they will take reprisals on our
family," he added in the video clip.
In the video, Boyle can be seen
sporting an unkempt beard while
his wife Caitlan appears to be
dressed in black clothing that also
covers her face. Both slowly read
out the words, possibly from a
script not featured in the camera.
22 September 3-9, 2016
INTERNATIONAL
South China Sea: Respect

international law, say India, US
North Korea
executes vice
premier: Seoul
Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jongun
ordered the execution of Vice Premier Kim
Yongjin for
being an "anti
revolutionary
element", South
K o r e a ' s
Unification
Ministry said.
The 63year
old politician
was allegedly
executed by a
firing squad in
July, a ministry
North Korean leader Kim
source told EFE
Jongun.
news. Yongjin
had reportedly displayed a negative attitude
during an important parliamentary meeting at
the end of July, after which his execution was
ordered, according to the official. The source
said the information reached Seoul's unifica
tion ministry through various channe ls
although it is impossible to confirm the news
owing to the extreme opacity of the regime.
According to Seoul, other two important North
Korean politicians 71yearold Kim Yong
chol, Director of the United Front Department
(UFD), the North Korean organization respon
sible for relations with neighboring South
Korea, and Choi Hwi, First Deputy Director of
the Central Committee of the Korean Workers'
Party were also sent to reeducation camps
in recent months.
New Delhi: In the wake of the ruling by an

international arbitration tribunal in favor
of the Philippines in a dispute with China
over the South China Sea, India and the US
urged all parties concerned to respect
international law.
In a joint statement issued following
Second IndiaUS Strategic and Commercial
Dialogue, the two sides "stressed the
importance of maintaining freedom of nav
igation, freedom of overflight, and unim
peded lawful commerce throughout the
region, including in the South China Sea".
The talks were cochaired by External
Af fairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and US
Secretary of State John Kerry with Minister
of State for Commerce and Industry
Nirmala Sitharaman and US Secretary of
Commerce Penny Pritzker also in atten
dance.
"T hey (India and the US) urged the
utmost respect for international law, as
reflected in the UN Convention on the Law
of the Sea (Unclos)," the statement said.
"T hey reiterated that states should
resolve disputes through peaceful means,
and exercise selfrestraint in the conduct of
activities that could complicate or escalate
disputes affecting peace and stability." An
international arbitration tribunal in the
Permanent Court of Arbitration in the The
Hague ruled on July 12 that China violated
the Philippines' rights in the South China
Sea, one of the busiest commercial ship
ping routes in the world. The court accused
Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong Un.
China of interfering with the Philippines'
fishing and petroleum exploration, building
artificial islands in the waters and failing to
prevent Chinese fishermen from fishing in
the zone. The tribunal held that fishermen
from the Philippines had traditional fishing
rights in Scarborough Shoal in the South
China Sea and that China had interfered
with these rights by restricting their
access.
The court held that Chinese law enforce
ment vessels unlawfully created a serious
risk of collision when they physically
obstructed Philippine vessels in the region.
China is locked in disputes over the
Spratly and Paracel groups of islands in
the South China Sea with other countries of
the region. The most heavily contested are

the Spratlys, a group of 14 islands, islets
and cays and more than 100 reefs that are
strategically located.
The South China Sea is a resourcerich
strategic waterway through which more
than $5 trillion worth of world trade is
shipped each year.
The Philippines, which brought the dis
pute to the tribunal in 2013, welcomed the
ruling while China reacted angrily.
China said it has historic rights over the
resourcerich sea and declared that the tri
bunal award "is null and void and has no
binding force".
"China neither accepts nor recognizes it,"
Beijing stated.
ASSASSINATION
Will change French constitution to
ban burkini if reelected: Sarkozy ATTEMPT ON ANGELA
Paris: Former French President
Nicolas Sarkozy said he will change
the constitution to ban the burkini
if he is reelected as President of
France. His comments come in
response to the French interior min
isters statement that a nationwide
burkini ban would be unconstitu
tional.
In an interview with La Croix,
French Interior Minister Bernard
Cazeneuve said that banning the
burkini fullbody swimwear worn
by Muslim women nationwide
would be "ineffective and unconsti
tutional".
Sarkozy, however, did not hesitate
to respond to a reporter's question
on the issue, saying: "Well, then we
change the constitution (to allow a
burkini ban). We've changed it 30
odd times, it's not a problem."
A survey published by France's
TNS Sofres showed that about 34
per cent of supporters of the centre
right Les Republicains party would
vote for Sarkozy in the first round
of the presidential primary set to
take place in late November.
T he burkini issue has ignited
fierce debate in France, with divi
sions among politicians and the
public over whether the swimwear
MERKEL FOILED
The burkini issue has ignited fierce debate in France.

should be banned.
Last week, France's top adminis
trative court suspended a burkini
ban imposed by the southern town
of VilleneuveLoubet. Cases were
launched against four more towns
to scrap the ban.
Dozens of other French towns and
regions which also imposed a ban
on burkinis have expressed their

outrage over the VilleneuveLoubet
ruling, saying their restrictions
remain in force.
Many have defended the ban, say
ing it is justified by the fear and
insecurity felt in the light of terror
ist attacks, and that France is above
all a secular state.
Prague: An assas
sination attempt
on
German
Chancellor
Ange la Merke l
has reportedly
been foiled here
as Czech police
detained
an
armed man who
tried to join her
motorcade dur
ing visit to the
capital. "The per
The incident comes as Europe remains on high
petrator
has
alert after a series of terror attacks.
been detained,"
the Mirror quoted police driver refused to obey orders
spokesman Josef Bocan as say coming from the police cars
ing. "He is suspected of attempt accompany ing the German
ing to cause a crime specifical Chancellor.
The suspect tried to enter the
ly an attempt to use violence
motorcade and cut off a police
against an official," he said.
"T he incident is currently vehicle that was trying to stop
being investigated by Prague him. He only stopped and got
detectives." Markel, who was in out of the vehicle after the
Prague to meet Czech Prime police warned of shooting him.
The incident comes as Europe
Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, was
remains
on high alert after a
travelling from the airport to
series
of
terror
attacks over the
the city when the suspicious
Black Mercedes appeared. The past 12 months.
SC quashes Singur land

acquisition for Tata Nano
New Delhi: In a set back to the
Tatas, the Supreme Court has set
aside the land acquired by the pre
vious Left Front government in
West Bengal for the Nano car
plant, saying due processes and
procedures were not followed.
The land was acquired in 2006
for the car project, which was
vehemently protested by the
Trinamool Congress currently in
power in the state with Mamata
Banerjee as Chie f Minister.
Eventually, the project was shifted
to Sanad in Gujarat.
The apex court bench of Justice
V. Gopal Gowda and Justice Arun
Mishra also said that all those
farmers who have taken the com
pensation in lieu of the acquisition
need not return it as they have
been deprived of their lands and
its fruits for last 10 years.
The court also said those farm
ers who had not taken the com
pensation may withdraw it and
that land be returned to the own
ers within 12 weeks.
While agreeing on the quashing
of the acquisition, allowing farm
ers to retain the amount of com
pensation and directing that the
land be returned in 12 weeks, both
September 3-9, 2016
BUSINESS
The land was acquired in 2006 for the car project, which was
vehemently protested by the Trinamool Congress currently in power.
Justice Gowda and Justice Mishra
gave different reasons.
"I'm of the view that an acquisi
tion of land in favour of a company
cannot be fulfilled as a public pur
pose," Justice Gowda said in his
judgement, adding that due proce
dures were not followed while
acquiring the land in favour of the
company.
Justice Mishra, in his reasoning,
said acquisition in favour of a com
pany is valid as long as it is for a

public purpose and the funds for
the same are used from the public
exchequer.
Having said this, he added that:
"I'm exercising the power under
Article 142 of the Constitution to
quash the acquisition since the
Nano car project has been shifted
to Gujarat and the land is not
being utilised for the purpose for
which it was acquired."
23
EU ruling on Apple
unfair: White House
Washington: The White House
has termed the European
Commission's order for tech
giant Apple to pay 13 billion
euros in taxes to Ire land as
unfair.
According to W hite House
Press Secretary Josh Earnest, the
decision is amounted to a "trans
fer of revenue from US taxpayers
to the EU".
Earnest said the White House
was concerned about a "unilater
al approach" that threatened to
undermine progress that had
been made to try to make the
international taxation system
"fair", rte.ie reported on
Wednesday.
The White House will continue
to monitor the case and others
being invest ig ated by "the
Europeans", he added.
Apple of ficials have been in
contact with the Obama adminis
tration on the issue.
In a setback to Apple just
before the muchawaited launch
of iPhone 7, the European
Commission announced that
Ireland must demand 13 billion
euros in taxes from the
Cupertino, San Franciscobased
The European Commission

announced that Ireland must
demand 13 billion euros in
taxes from the Cupertino, San
Franciscobased company.
company. "We have concluded
that Ireland granted undue tax
benefits of up to 13 billion euros
to Apple. This is illegal under EU
state aid rules, because it allowed
Apple to pay substantially less
tax than other businesses.
Ireland must now recover the
illegal aid," an EU statement read.
Following an indepth state aid
investigation launched in June
2014, the European Commission
concluded that two tax rulings
issued by Ireland to Apple have
substantially and artificially low
ered the tax paid by Apple in
Ireland since 1991.
Sony Pictures to
Historic DellEMC $67 bn deal
acquire sports channels
to close on September 7
of Zee for $385 mn
New Delhi: Sony Pictures Networks
India announced it is acquiring the
sports broadcasting business of Zee
Entertainment for $385 million in an
allcash deal. "Zee's TEN Sports chan
nels being acquired include TEN 1,
TEN 1 HD, TEN 2, TEN 3, TEN Golf HD,
TEN Cricket, TEN Sports that operate
in several countries including the
Indian subcont inent, Maldives,
Singapore, Hong Kong, Middle East,
Caribbean," a company statement said.
TEN Sports holds cricket rights in
South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West
Indies and Zimbabwe.
It also holds the rights for world
wrestling, some football leagues, WTA
and ATP tennis events, golf tours,
Asian and Commonwealth Games ath

letics, motor sports and cycling events,
includig Tour de France.
"T he acquisit ion of TEN Sports
Network will strengthen SPN's of fer
ing for viewers of cricket, football and
fight sports, complementing our exist
ing portfolio of international and
domestic sporting properties," said NP
Singh, CEO, Sony Pictures Networks
India.
"This is a landmark deal for ZEE and
a step towards a strategic portfolio
shuffle as we grow our general enter
tainment business both in the domes
tic and overseas markets," added Punit
Goenka, Manag ing Director, Zee
Entertainment Enterprises.
New York: The world's largest $67 billion tech

nology merger between EMC Corporation and
De ll Technolog ies is all set to close on
September 7 after China granted the regulato
ry clearance.
Dell Technologies, the name of the new com
bined company, will begin operating immedi
ately following the close of the transaction,
Dell said in a statement.
The announcement follows the regulatory
approval of the Dell and EMC transaction by
China's Ministry of Commerce which has
granted clearance for the companies' proposed
combination.
EMC shareholders had approved the transac
tion on July 19, with approximately 98 percent
of voting EMC shareholders casting their votes
in favour of the merger, representing approxi
mately 74 percent of EMC's outstanding com
mon stock.
"This is an historic moment for both Dell and
EMC. Combined, we will be exceptionally well

positioned for growth in the most strategic
areas of next generation IT including digital
transformation, softwaredefined data center,
converged infrastructure, hybrid cloud, mobile
and security," said Michael Dell, chairman and
CEO of Dell Technologies.
24 September 3-9, 2016
SPORTS
Sindhu, Sakshi, Dipa, Jitu conferred Khel Ratna awards

New Delhi: Rio Olympics medal
lists shuttler P.V. Sindhu and
wrestler Sakshi Malik and gym
nast Dipa Karmakar along with
shooter Jitu Rai were conferred
the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Ratna awards the country's
highest sporting honour here
on Monday.
President Pranab Mukherjee
presented the awards amid thun
derous applause at the Darbar
Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan on the
occasion of National Sports Day.
This was the first time in the
history of the National Sports
Awards that four athletes were
chosen for the Khel Ratna award.
In 2009, boxers Vijender Singh
and M.C. Mary Kom and wrestler
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award awardees Sakshi Malik,

Jitu Rai, Dipa Karmakar and PV Sindhu at Rashtrapati Bhavan
in New Delhi. (Photo: Partha Sarkar /IANS)
Sushil Kumar were given the
award together. Sindhu scripted
Dhoni praises Mishra, Ashwin for

fantastic bowling effort
Lauderhill (Florida):
India
skipper
Mahendra
Singh
Dhoni heaped praise
on
of fspinner
Ravichandran
Ashwin and legspin
ner Amit Mishra for
putting up a "fantas
tic ef fort" to bowl out the West
Indies for a low score in the sec
ond Twenty20 International crick
et match here. After the onerun
defeat in the highscoring first
game, Indian bowlers came back
well to bowl out West Indies for
143. Mishra picked up three wick
ets for 24 runs in his four overs,
while Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah and
Mohammad Shami picked up two
wickets each to restrict the reign
ing T20 champions to a belowpar
total. But the second match was
abandoned due to
rain and West Indies
bagged the two
match series 10. "I
felt bowlers executed
plans very well; 150
was a good score to
achieve. I'm not say
ing we would have
definitely won, but a good batting
ef fort would have seen us
through. If you compare the two
games, you'd wonder if we were
playing on the same wicket!"
Dhoni told reporters here.
"We did take a bit of risk with
Mishra coming in, replacing
(Stuart) Binny, because we were
one batsman short. We realise on
a wicket like this, we needed an
extra bowler and a legspinner
can give you wickets," the 35
yearold added.
history by winning the silver in

women's singles badminton in
the recently concluded Rio

Olympics, while Sakshi took
bronze in the women's 58kg
freestyle category at the Games.
Sind hu's
coach
Pulle la
Gopichand has already received
the Arjuna Award in 1999. He
has also been conferrd with the
Dronacharya Award in 2009 and
the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
Shooter Jitu failed to impress at
the Rio Games, but the 2014
Commonwealth Games gold
medallist had won numerous
tournaments, including a gold at
the Asian Games in Incheon.
All the Khel Ratna awardees
received a medal, certificate and
cash prize of Rs.7.5 lakh each.
President Mukherjee also gave
away the Dronacharya awards to

Dipa's mentor Bisweshwar Nandi,
along with Indian cricket Test
skipper Virat Kohli's coach Raj
Kumar Sharma, athletics coach
Nagapuri Ramesh, boxing coach
Sag ar Mal Dhayal, Pradeep
Kumar (Swimming, lifetime) and
Mahabir Singh (wrestling, life
time).
They were given certificates
and a cheque of Rs.5 lakh each.
Apart from this, 15 sportsper
sons were g iven the Arjuna
Awards. Among them were
Olympian runner Lalita Babar,
boxer Shiva T hapa, shooter
Apurvi Chandela, and hockey
players V.R. Raghunath and Rani
Rampal.
Paes, Mirza, Bopanna win at US Open

New York: Indian tennis stars
Leander Paes, Sania Mirza and
Rohan Bopanna began their US
Open campaign on a sound note,
winning their respective opening
round matches at Flushing
Meadows here.
Bopanna kicked of f India's day
with a sweatinducing 63, 67 (3),
63 win with his Danish partner
Frederik Nielsen over 16th seeds
Radek Stepanek and Nenad
Zimonjic in the first round men's
doubles. Seventh seeds Sania Mirza
and her Czech partner Barbora
Strycova defeated unseeded
American pairing of Jada Myii Hart
and Ena Shibahara 62, 63 in a fair
ly comfortable fashion in women's
doubles. Veteran Paes and his
mixed doubles partner Martina
Hingis also had a light workout at
the court, securing a 63, 62 win
against Americans Sachia Vickery
and Frances Tiafoe. The unseeded
IndoDanish pair of Bopanna and
Indian tennis star Leander Paes,

Nielsen fought 1 hour and 53 min
utes to seal the win at Court 6.
BopannaNielsen were up against
a more experienced CzechSerbian
combination but began confidently
to win the first set 63.
StepanekZimonjic used all of
their experience to claim the sec
ond set in a tiebreak to pull level.
But BopannaNielsen kept a hold
on their nerves to win the decider

63. They converted four out of
eight break points won, while their
opponents only won 2 from 9,
which ultimately created the differ
ence among two teams.
They will now take on the US
New Zealand combination of Brian
Baker and Marcus Daniell for a
place in the prequarterfinals.
Seventh seeds Sania Mirza and
her Czech partner Barbora Strycova
defeated unseeded American pair
ing of Jada Myii Hart and Ena
Shibahara 62, 63 in a fairly com
fortable fashion in women's dou
bles. They need an hour and nine
minutes to complete the victory at
Court 4.
World No.1 women's doubles
player Sania and Barbora carved
out five break points throughout
the course of the match, converting
three of them to secure the win.
They won 65 out of the total 116
points played.
Yogeshwar wants Kudukhov's kin to retain Olympic silver

New Delhi: Yogeshwar Dutt has
made a sporting gesture, saying
that he wants wrestler Besik
Kudukhov's family to retain the
2012 London Olympics silver of
which the Russian was stripped
after testing positive for banned
substances.
Yogeshwar had lost to
Kudukhov in the prequarterfinals
of the men's 60kg freestyle cate
gory at the London Olympics in
2012. The Russian went on to
reach the final which allowed
Yogeshwar to compete in the
repechage rounds.
The Haryana grappler defeated
Franklin Gomez of Puerto Rico,
Masoud Esmaeilpour of Iran and
Ri Jongmyong of North Korea in
the repechage rounds to claim
bronze. However, the World Anti
Doping Agency (WADA) recently
Yogeshwar Dutt.
decided to retest samples from
the 2008 Beijing Olympics and
the 2012 Games which returned
several positive results. Kudukhov,
who died on December 29, 2013,
in a car crash on a federal high

way in southern Russia, may now
be stripped of his silver medal
after his sample also tested posi
tive for a banned substance.
As a result, Yogeshwar's bronze

could now be upgraded to silver.
The 33yearold will now join fel
low Haryana wrestler Sushil
Kumar as the second Indian silver
medalist from the 2012 Olympics.
Yogeshwar however, said that
he remembers Kudukhov with
respect despite his positive dope
test.
"Besik Kudukhov was a great
wrestler. The fact that he failed a
dope test after his death is really
sad. I respect him as a sportsman,"
is the English rendering of what
Yogeshwar wrote in Hindi on his
Twitter account.
"If possible, he should be
allowed to keep his medal. That
will be honourable for his family
as well. Human emotions come
first for me," he added.
The results however, are yet to
be of ficially confirmed by the

United World Wrestling (UWW)
and the International Olympic
Committee (IOC).
Yogeshwar's silver medal will
only be confirmed when the UWW
rat ifies it in writ ing to the
Wrestling Federation of India
(WFI). Kudukhov is considered to
be one of the greatest icons of
modern wrestling.
He was a fourtime world cham
pion across two weight divisions
and had won gold in every World
Championship he competed in
from 2007 to 2011.
He burst onto the international
stage in sensational style at the
age of 20 when he reached the
final of the 2006 World
Championships in Guangzhou,
China. He also became European
Champion in 2007.
September 3-9, 2016
SCI-TECH
25
Indian tourists at greater cyber fraud risk abroad: Study

New Delhi: More than one out of three
Indians 36 percent share personal data or
sensitive information using public WiFi
while travelling which can lead to data steal
ing, a study by Intel Security revealed on
Tuesday.
T he 'Digital Detox: Unplugging on
Vacation' study was conducted across 14
countries (including India) with 14,000 peo
ple to understand consumer behavior when
travelling.
With 36 percent, India leads the pack
when it comes to sharing information online.
"Through this survey, we wanted to raise
awareness about the need to adopt safe digi
tal habits and share security measures to
prevent personal information from being
compromised while travelling," said Venkat
Krishnapur, Head, Operations, Inte l
Security's India Development Centre, in a
statement.
Nearly 37 percent of Indians could not last
a day on vacation without checking social
media. This was second only to Japan (45
percent) when compared globally.
Majority of Indians (54 percent) were not

willing to leave their smartphone at home
while on vacation.
"Travelers can be targets for cybercrimi
nals who count on human and device vulner

abilities to provide them with a point of
access to consumers' data and devices. They
can gain access to sensitive information via
Rain no more threat to US Open

Flushing, NY: The roof was closed, then it opened, and
thousands cheered.
And therein a major milestone was reached Monday
by the United States Tennis Association on the first day
of the US Open at the Billie Jean King National Tennis
Center here.
The $150 million retractable roof over Arthur Ashe
Stadium in Flushing MeadowsCorona Park, two years
in the making, is finished and players and fans can
finally expect matches to begin and end on time, not up
to threeandahalf hours late, as when Roger Federer
and Novak Djokovic played in last years mens final.
Danny Zausner, the COO of the USTA, said the roof
which is comprised of two 800ton fabric panels and
will only be used during inclement weather is
designed for players and fans to feel like theyre in an
outdoor tournament without the weather problems.
It is not really a roof over Arthur Ashe stadium, but

retractable panels.
Zuckerberg wants you to

visit his AIcontrolled home
London: While his social networking company is busy
with research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI),
FacebookCEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to unveil his
home from inside which is powered by machine intelli
gence. Addressing a live Facebook town hall Q&A ses
sion in Rome late on Monday, he said: "I hope to have a
demo, hopefully next month."
According to Zuckerberg, he credits a lot of the AI's
success to his engineering team at work.
"I programmed it so now, when I walk up to my door,
my gate, I don't have to put in a code or something like
that to get in put in a key it just sees my face and
lets me in," tech website Engadget quoted him as say
ing. In January this year, Zuckerberg revealed that he is
thinking of a simple AI to run his home and workplace
like the famous Jarvis character in the Hollywood
movie "Iron Man".
"My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple
AI to run my home and help me with my work. You can
think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man," he had post
ed on Facebook.
"I am going to start by exploring what technology is
already out there. Then I'll start teaching it to under
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergs inspiration

is Tony Stark character in Iron Man series.
stand my voice to control everything in our home
music, lights, temperature and so on. I'll teach it to let
friends in by looking at their faces when they ring the
doorbell," the Facebook CEO posted.
"I will teach it to let me know if anything is going on
in Max's (his daughter) room that I need to check on
when I'm not with her. On the work side, it'll help me
visualise data in VR (virtual reality) to help me build
better services and lead my organisations more effec
tively," he further wrote.
unsecured smartphones, laptops and even

wearables, while also collecting data from
social channels," the findings showed.
Connecting to unprotected WiFi and
Bluetooth devices can expose personal infor
mation to a cybercriminal. One should be
especially careful when exchanging payment
information.
"With this in mind, make sure to update
your Bluetooth and WiFi history by remov
ing previously 'remembered' wireless net
works, like 'cafewifi,'" the study noted.
Whether it's your location or selfie, crimi
nals are more able to monitor your where
abouts via social activity and take advantage
of you when you have the weakest protec
tion.
The pervasive use of technology in our
daytoday lives and popularity of bring
yourowndevice (BYOD) ties our personal
and work lives more closely than ever before
especially on vacation.
"This can put travelers at risk as they share
their personal/confidential information
online," the study noted.
India takes a baby step in developing

scramjet engine: ISRO official
Chennai: The successful testing of
scramjet, or air breathing engine,
by India on Sunday is a baby step
in space transportation and would
take more than a decade to have
such an engine to power a full
fledged rocket, said a senior offi
cial of Indian space agency.
"This is a baby step for us. It will
take more than a decade to devel
op an engine to power a rocket.
Currently no other country flies its
rocket powered by a scramjet
engine," K.Sivan, Director, Vikram
Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) told
reporters here on Sunday.
He said the testing of the scram
jet engine is part of India's Make
in India program and Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) has
developed several technologies
like a reusable launch vehicle and
others as a part of this scheme.
On Sunday morning, the ISRO
testfired its scramjet engine fixed
atop its highpowered sounding
rocket RH560. The rocket flew
from the rocket port at Sriharikota
at 6 a.m. Sivan said that the entire
mission lasted just 300 seconds.
Queried about the use of scram
jet engine in ISRO's rockets carry
ing satellites, he said several steps
have to be taken before that.
"The engine that was tested was
burnt only for five seconds. But in
a rocket, the engine has to burn
for over 1,000 seconds. The speed
at which it has to burn would also
vary. We have to conduct various
tests for that before getting ready
an engine that can fly a rocket,"
Sivan said. He said currently
Indian rockets carry a huge quan
tity of oxygen say 200 tons in a
geosynchronous satellite launch

vehicle (GSLV) which gets burnt
during the atmospheric flight
phase of the rocket.
"The scramjet engine will suck
the atmospheric oxygen and use
that to burn the fuel. As a result
the weight of the rocket will come
down drastically which in turn can
be used to increase the rocket's
carrying capacity. T he cost of
rocket will also come down," Sivan
said. According to him, the total
cost of developing this technology
is estimated at Rs 35 crore.
He said the scramjet engine can
be used to augment ISRO's
reusable launch vehicle.
As a part of testing the technolo
gy ISRO tested two scramjet
engines that were hugging the
sounding rocket.
Sivan said: "With this flight, criti
cal technologies such as ignition of
air breathing engines at superson
ic speed, holding the flame at
supersonic speed, air intake mech
anism and fuel injection systems
have been successfully demon
strated."
The scramjet engine designed by
ISRO uses hydrogen as fuel and
the oxygen from the atmospheric
air as the oxidizer.
The test flight was the maiden
short duration experimental test
of ISRO's scramjet engine with a
hypersonic flight at Mach 6.
ISRO's Advanced Technology
Vehicle (ATV ), which is an
advanced sounding rocket, was
the solid rocket booster used for
testing the air breathing engine.
The rocket weighed 3,277 kg at
liftoff.
26
September 3-9 , 2016
By Tarun Basu
s modern civilization contin
ues to reel under a battery of
murderous attacks from
Islamic extremists, many of who
now claim to owe allegiance to the
contemporary quasistate terror
entity called the Islamic State (IS),
the world looks increasingly vul
nerable to ordinary citizens, who
wonder at the impunity with which
militarized attackers are able to
operate freely and spread mayhem,
penetrating security shields of
cities and countries that have spent
billions of dollars to fortify them
selves.
There are conflicting explana
tions to the ISIS phenomenon, and
reasons for its emergence on the
global scene are as varied as can be
expected from a divided world
order that seems more intent on
downsizing each other than joining
forces against a common global
enemy. Throwing some light and
plenty of fresh insight into a tan
gled web of misjudged decisions by
the West is Hardeep Singh Puri,
who was one of India's outstanding
plenipotentiaries in key global capi
tals. As India's Permanent
Representative to the UN between
2009 and 2013, coinciding with
the 201112 period when India
was nonpermanent member of
UNSC, Puri was witness and often
participant in the select club of
diplomatic parleying at the horse
shoeshaped table of global negoti
ations.
In a book he has penned within
three years of his retirement, Puri
rips the veil of faux altruism of
these "highend decisionmaking,
often over $80 per head lunch" and
BOOKS
BLUNDERS OF INTERVENTION:
Policies the world is paying for
talks of how a small group of the

world's most empowered diplomats
represented on the Security Council
discuss the use of force on other
nations to ef fect regime change
and how this "illthought out itch"
to intervene results in disastrous
consequence for the country, the
region and the world.
"Perilous Intervent ions: T he
Security Council and the politics of
chaos" is an insider's account and
interpretation of the West's "desire
for geopolitical domination" which
has often resulted in recent years
in theatres of conflict from Iraq to
Libya in policy decisions that
have set in motion a "vicious cycle
of terrorism and chaos" that shows
no signs of ebbing or being tamed.
The West's penchant to be self
righteous and assume the high
moral ground in the pursuit of
Western values (..."their desire to
be presumptive, to set norms for
everybody that reflect the views of
the West, has always been evident")

has led to decisions being taken by
people with little knowledge of the
social dynamics of the region, with
unforeseen and trag ic conse
quences. It has, as Puri says in the
book based on meticulous notes he
maintained during his years at the
UN, his last diplomatic posting in
an illustrious career with the Indian
Foreign Service, "invariably led to
the rise of terrorists and nonstate
military actors..." like the ISIS phe
nomenon.
Puri dubs ISIS "the unwanted
child of failed interventions" and
traces its genesis to "costly policy
mistakes" which often get repeated
when policymakers ignore the les
sons of history.
The migration crisis, which is a
humanitarian disaster and is lead
ing to unpredictable economic,
political and social conflicts in
Western societies, was never con
sidered by Western decisionmak
Perilous Interventions:
The Security Council
and the Politics of Chaos
By Hardeep Singh Puri;
Publisher: HarperCollins;
Pages: 263;
Price: Rs 599
ers, and has, as Puri suggests,
"upset delicate social, ethnic, tribal
and sectarian balances and the sec
ular ethos often maintained by
authoritarian regimes". Iraq, Libya
and Syria are prime examples of
this. Puri's conclusions are devas
tating in their forthrightness and
he says categorically that ill
advised military interventions
which are even now being pro
pounded, often in moralistic terms,
for a fractured Syria by Western

leaders, academics and think
tankers are not the answer to
poor governance whose ideological
underpinnings may not be in sync
with Western philosophies. What is
more worrying and reinforces the
argument of nonSecurity Council
countries like India on the need for
urgent UN reforms and restructur
ing, is that the Security Council, the
highest decisionmaking body that
has been mandated by a global
order to preserve world peace and
stability and protect citizens from
statesponsored atrocities, has been
manipulated by a clutch of coun
tries and is often unable to perform
its expected global peacemaking
role. Nearer home, Puri dwells on
the Indian military mission in Sri
Lanka in the late eighties, in the
form of the Indian Peacekeeping
Force (IPKF), but rationalizes "out
side intervention" in this case to the
persistent "mistreatment of the
Tamil minority" with whom sec
tions of Indians had social and cul
tural links through the ages.
A book that must be read by
those interested in global af fairs
and in understanding the complex
interplay of political, diplomatic
and economic impulses that goes
into making crucial decisions that
have consequences for the world
for years and decades to come.
Tarun Basu is the former chief
editor of IANS.
How Jayalalithaa inched her way to the top

W
hen she entered Tamil cine

ma, she was another strug
gling actress. But luck
and the legendary MGRs blessings
were on her side. Once she was rec
ognized as a cine star, Jayalalithaa
plunged into politics with just one
benefactor in the whole of Tamil
Nadu. And after MGR died, she
emerged out of his shadows to con
solidate herself in a male domain
and became the first woman chief
minister of Tamil Nadu, that too a
Brahmin woman at the helm of a
Dravidian party!
This is probably the most exhaus
tive life story of Jayalalithaa ever
published, at least in English. For
one who doesnt allow intrusions
into her private life, weaving togeth
er the biography would not have
been easy for Vaasanthi, an accom
plished Tamil writer and author. But
vital gaps remain.
Vaasanthi first met Jayalalithaa in
1984 in Delhi, where the writer
lived and where the actressturned
politician had found a place after
MGR put her in the Rajya Sabha.
The first thing that struck me was
Jayalalithaa
with garlanded
statue of MGR,
her costar in
her early years
who became
her political
mentor
her simple and elegant attire and

the fact that she wore no makeup.
One could hardly believe that she
had once been the most sought after
glamour queen of the South Indian
film world.
Yet, here was a young woman who
was sure of herself, even if that con
fidence in part came from her con
troversial proximity to MGR, the
demi God. Having lost her father at a
very young age, Ammu as she was
then known was raised by her
mother, an actress in her own right.
And although studious and with
dreams of becoming a doctor or
lawyer, destiny took her to the film
world anyway. Her arangetram

took place when she was barely 12
the chief guest being Shivaji
Ganesan, the most talented actor
then. Her first movie was
Aayiraththil Oruvan with MGR. It
was a runaway success. MGR and
Jayalalithaa would soon become the
most popular pair he in his early
50s and she in her teens. And pro
ducer R.M. Veerappan or RMV, the
film producer, was determined to
break
this
re lationship.
Jayalalithaas reeltoreal story had
begun. Vaasanthi takes readers
along the numerous ups and downs
Jayalalithaa faced and overcame
Amma Jayalalithaas
Journey from Movie Star
to Political Queen
By Vaasanthi,
Publisher: Juggernaut,
Pages: 175;
Price: Rs 299
as she made her switch to politics,
her envy visavis MGRs wife Janaki,
her early years as a speaker, MGRs
lovehate relationship with her, the
humiliation she bore after MGR
died, how Janaki conceded that

Jayalalithaa was the true inheritor
of the MGR legacy, and how finally
Jayalalithaa emerged as the undis
puted queen of the AIADMK as well
as Tamil Nadu politics.
It has not been a bed of roses even
after reaching the top. Charges of
corruption and nepotism have con
stantly pursued her. She has been
accused of being intolerant of criti
cism. And though many credit her
with administrative acumen, the
quality was missing when unprece
dented floods ravaged Chennai. A
once shy girl, who complained about
the looks men gave her when she
went to film studios, eventually saw
male politicians fall at her feet! But
Vaasanthi feels Amma doesnt real
ize how Tamil Nadu has changed
since she first entered politics, how
there is a huge social churning
going on among the youth, and how
new voices are rising in Tamil Nadu
against the two main Dravidian par
ties. Jayalalithaa may have returned
to power in a most unexpected man
ner in 2016 but she has many more
hurdles to cross.
September 3-9, 2016
LIFESTYLE
Popular with kids, but

beware of crocs
By Akshat Jain, MD, MPH
New York: They are everywhere,
they are colorful, they adorn the
rich and the poor they are the
new clich, but they come at a
price!
Wearable clogs were first
introduced for boat men at
an expo in Florida, for peo
ple who wanted their
footwear to provide a
channel for the water out
let like they would want for
their boats . Boats!
T hey named the pro duct
Crocs after the famed amphib
ians of the Florida water bodies
that are these days found roam
ing golf courses freely.
These wearable clogs, accord
ing to most recent expert
reviews, are not healthy for your
children and certainly not for
you in the manner they are being
abused.
The lackluster Achilles support
in the form of a weak reinforce
ment to the back of your foot
gives way for a wobbly forefoot,
thus leading to tendinitis.
Unfortunately, Crocs are not

suitable for allday use, Dr.
Megan Leahy, a Chicagobased
podiatrist with the Illinois Bone
and Joint Inst itute, told the
Huf fington Post. These
shoes do not ade
quate ly secure
the hee l.
W h e n
t h e
h ee l
i
s
u n s t a b l e,
toes tend to grip,
which can lead to tendinitis,
worsening of toe deformities,
nail problems, corns and callus
es. The same thing can happen
with flipflops or any backless
shoes as the heel is not secured.
as reported by the New York Post
recently.
Although crocs provide ade
quate arch support but at the

cost of a misaligned foot that
leads to pain in the heel, frequent
swelling, poor posture, issues
with nail development and cal
lous formation due to misaligned
forefeet are all presenting symp
toms that you are wearing crocs
for too long .
The key word is "long duration"
. When worn for more than 68
hours a day, they have these
detrimental effects.
Especially worrisome
is children wearing
crocs while going to
the mall that have
escalators. There have
been instances and sub
sequently the company
has been sued due to the poor
architecture of these clogs that
have led to trapping of the tiny
tender feet of growing children
leading to serious skin loss and
joint damage.
So I don't advice you to throw
away your expensive crocs but
be mindful of appropriate usage
of those for a better feet, stance,
posture and a confident stride.
Models barely get one fashion

magazine cover a year in India
Mumbai:
Watching
Bollywoo d actresses
instead of mo de ls on
fashion magazine covers
makes
Kanishtha
Dhankar, a former Miss
India and now a popular
face in the mo de ling
industry, sad. She feels
models aren't given their
rig htful place in the
industry, but says it
could be partly because
Indian masses aren't
much aware of models.
When IANS caught up
with the 27yearold sharp featured
model and asked her views on actresses
grabbing prominence on fashion maga
zine covers, she said: "I think that is part
ly because our masses are not aware of
who the girls are in this modeling indus
try. But I think slowly eople have started
recognizing the fashion girls or models.
"But yes, I think it makes all of us sad
because we aren't given our place in the
industry as you can see that we barely
get one cover in a year. Also people who
work in a magazine know that they have
to pitch Bollywood actresses because
they are beautiful women, they are influ
ential and which is why they are on the
cover. But I wish that the fashion indus
try grows further and be able to do what
they need to." T he Mumbaibased
To sell, even fashion

magazines usually turn
to Bollywood actresses,
and not models.
model was crowned Pantaloons Miss

India 2011. She later represented India
at the Miss World 2011 pageant.
As far as films are concerned, she made
a brie f appearance in Mad hur
Bhandarkar's film "Fashion" as a model
with Kangana Ranaut and Priyanka
Chopra.
Asked if she considers modeling a step
ping stone to films, she said: "Modelling
is a stepping stone to many things
whether you want to be in Bollywood or
go international."
She also walked the ramp of Lakme
Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2016. She
enjoyed the designers' love for Indian
models from dif ferent regions now,
unlike a few years ago when roping in
foreign models was a big trend.
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Men willing to go
green if products
are 'masculine'
Washington: Men are not open to
purchasing environmentfriendly
products as compared to women.
However, they can be persuaded
to go green by branding prod
ucts in a more masculine way,
says a study.
Both men and women find
green products to be feminine
but reframing environmental
products in a masculine way
might increase the possibility of
men endorsing them, the study
found.
Instead of using traditional
marketing messages about green
products (which are typically
perceived as feminine), we
changed the messages to be
more masculine in nature by
changing the phrasing, colors.
When we did that, we found that
men were more willing to go
g reen, said James Wilkie,
Assistant Professor at the
University of Notre Dame in
Indiana, US.
Shoppers who eng aged in
g reen behavior were found
stereotyped by others as more
feminine and also saw them

selves as more feminine, the
researchers said.
Previous research shows that
men tend to be more concerned
about maintaining a masculine
identity than women are with
their feminine identity.
We, therefore, thought that
men might be more open to envi
ronmental products if we made
them feel secure in their mas
culinity, so that they are less
threatened by adopting a green
product, Wilkie added.
In a series of seven studies, the
team manipulated small details
about the products, attempting
to change mens attitudes and
behaviors.
Green products can be success
fully marketed by using more
masculine fonts and colors in
packaging as well as hiring a
masculine spokesmen, which will
explicitly state that the product
is for men only, the researchers
suggested.
The study is forthcoming in the
Journal of Consumer Research.
Tips to avoid getting duped

while buying gold
New Delhi: When you step out to buy gold
jewelry, be wary of getting duped. Check for
purity and hallmark besides buyback policy,
says an expert. Jewelry designer Akassh K
Aggarwal has shared a few tips that can help
consumers avoid getting tricked:
4Gold purity: When it comes to purity,
most gold jewelry has markings inside that
indicate its Caratage. Pure gold is too soft to
use for jewelry. So it is alloyed with a mix
ture of metals like silver, copper, nickel, and
zinc to give it strength and durability. The
most common Carat options are 18K, 22K
or 24K.
4Hallmarkings: All pieces of jewelry are
stamped with the specific karat quality,
called a hallmark. The hallmark is usually
found on the inside part of each piece, and
will indicate the gold content. Every piece of
gold should have a Bureau of Indian
Standards (BIS) hallmark.
The value of your jewelry is determined by
the certification it carries. The Indian gov
ernment has identified BIS as the sole agency
for certifying gold. Ensure that the gold jew
elry you are purchasing has the BIS hallmark
on it.
4Weight: Gold jewelry is usually weighed
in grams. The higher the gram weight, the
more expensive the piece. Heavier, thicker
pieces of gold jewelry also withstand daily
wear and tear, especially in rings, bangles,
chains and bracelets.
4Buyback policies: Ask the jeweler or
salesperson about return policies as to what
amount of labour wastage percentage they
The Bureau of Indian Standards is

working to give a unique ID to each piece
of hallmarked jewelry sold through
registered jewelrs and BIS
recognized hallmarking centers.
deduct when you come back to return the
piece and if there are some other ways to
reinvent the old piece of jewelry and by not
selling it off.
4Certificate of authenticity: If you are
buying gold studded with diamonds, having
a certificate of authenticity ensures that you
are purchasing a quality piece of jewelry. It
should also indicate the briefing about the
piece you purchase, so every detail regarding
the product is given on the authenticity card.
4Bills: Retaining a record of purchase is
important while buying and selling gold jew
elry. The invoice doubles as a record of gold
purity. In case of doubt regarding the purity
of gold, the retailer cannot contest the case
after you produce an invoice. A good jeweler
usually demands an invoice when you want
to sell gold.
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September 3-9, 2016
HUMOR
Funny Side by Nury Vittachi
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH

RECENTLY SENT ME BACK
TO MY YOUTH
S
omeone showed me a random
video in which people put
cucumbers near cats, and the
horrified cats leapt away in sheer
terror, sometimes leaping out of
windows.
Watching it, I relived my
teenage attempts at dat ing.
Cucumbers: I feel your pain.
***
Your columnist was further
thrown back to childhood by an
Indian newspaper report that
police officers are using catapults
to fire balls of chili powder as a
crowd control technique.
We ll I did the EXACT SAME
THING as a kid and my teacher
denounced me as a troublesome
brat who would achieve nothing in
life.
Okay, so her prediction was
accurate, but I should STILL get
royalties, right?
***
I was feeling stung about that

when a reader sent in a news item
about a guy in France who is suing
his boss for boring him.
He claims that the four years he
spent at one company were so stu
pefyingly dull that they caused
him physical harm, damaging his
joints and brain.
My high school history teacher
Mr. Mohan was so boring that you
could actually feel your brain fos
silizing during the class.
Once he scheduled a history dou
bleperiod and not even the brainy
kids turned up, knowing he would
induce comas and then brain
death.
***
Yet it is only now, FINALLY, that
so ciety is seeing child hoo d
episo des as things to take
seriously.
Following the success of The
Anger Room in Texas, several

countries of fer tantrum spaces
where adults can scream and
shout and smash up stuff.
They quote psychologists saying
that destroying property is a vital
outlet for emotional release blah
blah blah.
Well THANK YOU VERY MUCH,
world, for realizing this DECADES
after I spent my childhood being
punished for doing what needed to
be done.
At last modern kids have the ter
minology to argue their case.
TEACHER: You just burned down
the school.
KID: Destruction is a vital outlet
for emotional release blah blah
blah.
TEACHER: Good point: here, have
this gold merit star.
***
Readers may have seen the US
news
item
about an inci
dent
in
Colorado when
police used pepperspray to sub

due an outofcontrol kid aged
eight.
Some people said they should
have just reasoned with him, but
that only makes sense to people
whove never had to deal with
eightyearolds.
Pepperspray is the MINIMUM
force necessary.
A preferable option would be to
approach the kid with a bomb dis
posal robot fitted with a speaker.
Put down the axe and we will
send an adult in a hazmat suit to
read WinniethePooh book to
you.
***
I reckon Asian boys grow up
with the trickiest challenges these
days. In China, the folk tradition

called FuJi requires children to
use a Chinese ouijaboard to sum
mon a female evil spirit.
But Chinese law says males have
to wait until they are at least 22 to
get married.
So its fine for a boy to call up a
demonic shedevil, but marrying
an actual physical woman whoah,
guys, this might be dangerous, lets
wait at least ten more years.
(Not sure if that is bizarre or
actually very smart.)
***
Whatever. Now excuse me while
I go dig up my catapult. My kids
are running amok and I need to do
some crowd control.
***
Laughter is the Best Medicine
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AND
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September 3-9, 2016
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By Dr Prem Kumar Sharma
SEPTEMBER 39, 2016

ARIES: Professional attitude at work
brings success. Relatives are likely to
give some valuable advice regarding
personal life. A very successful week as far as
monetary position is concerned. Your gener
ous attitude would contribute much in your
love life this week. Good time to divert atten
tion to spirituality to enhance mental tough
ness. Time for a vacation, sit back and relax.
Investing on a ship or a cruise is an exciting
venture to be made. Involvement in voluntary
work brings popularity.
TAURUS: Seniors colleagues are likely
to lend a helping hand. You receive
care and af fection from family mem
bers. Indications of earning financial profits
through commissions, dividends or royalties.
Extremely supportive & loving partner would
help in withering away your troubles. A pleas
ure trip gives the muchneeded tonic to health.
If you are thinking of escaping from the hectic
daily routine plan a trip. The best ideas for
investment are to on invest on real estate busi
ness. You feel on top of the world as many
good things are happening at a same time.
GEMINI: Hard work & dedication would
w in the trust of seniors at work.
Matrimonial alliance for eligible bache
lor in family brings joy to all. Important people
will be ready to finance anything that has a
special class to it. Romantic vibrations from
someone unknown would lift your spirits tak
ing imaginations to scaling heights. Cutting
down the number of parties and pleasure
jaunts would help in keeping in good mood.
Your travel experience is going to be an extent
of sharing your knowledge and communica
tion. Are you longing to buy a farmhouse, try
for it? Engaging yourself in some humanitari
an work would bring unlimited joy.
CANCER: Mental clarity would remove

past business confusions. A new out
look will be the source of laughter at
family front this week. Property dealings
would materialize helping in bringing fabulous
gains. Love life brings immense romantic
pleasure. A beneficial week to work on things
that will improve your health. Its time for a
vacation after a long and hard year at work. If
you want to invest on property, then go for
residential one. Your communication skills in a
social gathering would be impressive.
LEO: Travel undertaken for establishing
new contacts and business expansion
will be very fruitful. Enjoying a picnic
with family will not only bring joy but also help
in clearing misunderstandings. You are likely
to earn monetary gains through various
sources. Traveling proves a blessing in disguise
by bringing a love in your life. Your confidence
and energy will be high this week. Time to
relax and unwind for few weeks. Selling your
home privately can be an excellent way of sav
ing on costs. Your kind & sublime behaviour
will spread the message of love.
VIRGO: Your artistic and creative abili
ty would attract a lot of appreciation.
Charming nature and pleasant person
ality would make you the attraction of family
function this week. Increase in income from
past investment is foreseen. You are likely to
get a new friendship opportunity in the
evening. A week when smile will perpetually
be on your face and strangers will seem famil
iar. Weekend getaway to enjoy pubs and clubs
is on your way. Offplan property investment
is one of the easiest and most profitable meth
ods to maximize gains in the real estate mar
ket. Travelling brings pleasure much more
than your expectation.
LIBRA: A long pending decision gets

finalized at professional front. Family
members appreciate the changes
made in & around the house. Monetary gains
from unplanned sources will brighten your
week. New romance that some of you are
going to experience would take the worries off
mind. Your energy level will be high. Better to
channelise it in a positive direction. A short
trip with lavishing experiences is the right
thing for you.
Your property prices will boost in the coming
period. Dont be surprised, if your unrealisable
dreams start coming true.
SCORPIO: Plans for new ventures get
streamlined with the help of seniors.
Friends and family members would
encourage to work harder. New moneymaking
opportunities will be lucrative. You enjoy a
memorable time with partner to cement the
lovely bond. Positive outlook impresses those
around you besides keeping you fit & fine.
Pack your bags and be ready for an amazing
holiday.
Buying property can lead to gains as property
prices continue to increase. Your sense of
humor will save the situation for you in a
social gathering.
SAGITTARIUS: Female colleagues lend
a helping hand in completing impor
tant assignments. You are likely to
hear a good news from close relatives. You get
some financial rewards as dedication & hard
work gets noticed. You will be attracted to
someone special. Charity work undertaken will
bring mental peace & comfort. Just take a
walk in the countryside and experience new
things. You could buy the property that you
are looking for. You are likely to lay the
foundation of a new construction.
CAPRICORN: At work you will be a part

of something big, bringing apprecia
tion & rewards. An old friend makes a
pleasant visit later in the week. Monetary
gains are likely to be from more than one
source.
Warm romant ic thoug hts o ccupy mind.
Meditation and selfrealization prove benefi
cial. Time to go for a memorable trip. Investing
on properties which are under developed will
be profitable. Participating in quiz/game
shows would enable to strike your luck.
AQUARIUS: You are likely to establish
yourself a good manager on manag
ing people and situation without any
problem. Evening enjoyed with family and
close relatives brings immense pleasure. A
new financial deal gets finalized paving the
way for fresh money. Your charm & generosity
bring new romantic opportunities for you. You
will have ample time to do things to improve
your health. Time to spend money on not a
vacation but a luxury vacation. Whether
young or old, now is the t ime to start
investing.
You will enjoy your interaction with likemind
ed people.
PISCES: You will be successful in real
ising your targets at professional front.
You are likely to plan a short trip with
family. Financial position will improve later in
the week. Love life brightens your week.
Sound physical health will enable to partici
pate in outdoor activities. If adventure is your
style of holidaying, then plan it and move
around.
Looking for good long term investments, then
go for a property which is under construction.
Your flair to convince others will pay rich
dividends.
ANNUAL PREDICTIONS: FOR THOSE BORN IN THIS WEEK

3rd September, 2016
Ruled planet: Jupiter Ruled by no: 3
Traits in you: Being ruled by Jupiter, you are courteous,
courageous, decisive, ambitious, disciplined, and realis
tic. You are gifted with high imagination power, opti
mism, and enthusiasm. However, behaving restless and
dominating may hamper your characteristics at times.
You need to work on your personality to make yourself
better as an individual.
Health this year: Your health will remain good through
out the year. You need to take utmost care of your
health to maintain it and remain fit. The health of your
family members might be a concern for you this year.
Try and avoid your bad habits and start practicing yoga
for the betterment of your health.
Finance this year: Monetary benefits will be tough to
achieve this year. You may not get expected financial
support from your family. Your past investments will
not work this year as expected. However, you may go
for new short term investments, which will gain you
enough money. If you are planning to set up a business,
it is advisable not to go for any partnerships.
Career this year: You will be highly appreciated by your
employer for your excellent performance. With the
increased workload, you may also be of fered an
increased salary. You should learn to handle pressure
situations from your seniors. You may go for a job
change later this year.
Romance this year: Your romantic life will become stag
nant this year as you may not give enough time to your
beloved. If you are unmarried and planning to marry
this year, it may not happen because of the negative
movements of your stars and planets.
4th September, 2016
Ruled planet: Uranus Ruled by no: 4
Traits in you: Uranus, being your dominating planet
helps you become dynamic and creative. You are posi
tive, realistic, responsive, and sincere. You need to work
and overcome the weaknesses in your personality to
attract more people towards you.
Health this year: Your health would remain very good
this year. However, you need to go for regular yoga
exercises. You should not ignore your healthy diet plan
to remain in shape. Go for regular medical checkups to
avoid any hiccups further.
Finance this year: You may go for a property transac
tion this year and this will bring you a lot of money. You
need to be decisive to invest on real estate or gold as
there are risks involved. Do not trust any of your new
partners as they may cheat you. You may spend enough
money on buying a vehicle or renovating your property.
Career this year: Being a hardworking professional,

you may create wonders for your organization. You
need to learn more and look for better options. You
may not get your expected promotion or salary hike in
spite of your hard work and efficiency.
Romance this year: If you are yet to be in a relationship,
this year is the ideal time to find a partner. You will get
ample support from your spouse in any critical decision
you have to take. You should show your love to your
partner as it strengthens your relationship.
5th September, 2016
Ruled planet: Mercury Ruled by no: 5
Traits in you: Your ruling planet Mercury makes you
realistic, reliable, sincere, and optimistic. You are the
master of an excellent memory power and charismatic
characteristics. You need not get nervous at tough time
as it may create a question mark on your capabilities.
Health this year: You need to stop your bad habits such
as smoking and consuming alcohol to remain healthy.
You should take expert advice from a doctor to avoid
health related issues. You should take your medicines at
time to avoid further complicacy in your health. Take
care of the health of your spouse and parents as well.
Finance this year: You will earn a lot of money from
your past investment this year. However, you should
invest your money after going through the market thor
oughly. Do not lend or money this year. You may spend
a lot of money on buying comfort and luxury for your
family members.
Career this year: This year you will reach to the peak of
your professional career and it will offer you huge finan
cial benefits. This year will be pretty rewarding for female
employees. You may get a better performance appraisal
as well as salary hike as compared to your expectations.
Romance this year: For your marital relationship, this
year will be pretty fruitful for you. If you are still single,
you may get into a romantic alliance towards the end of
the year. If you are already in a relationship, you may
plan to convert your relationship into marriage.
6th September, 2016
Ruled planet: Venus Ruled by no: 6
Traits in you: Your ruling planet Venus makes opti
mistic, ambitious, caring, aspiring, and determined. You
are very social and love to make new friends and get
into new relationships. You are a huge follower of intel
ligence and education.
Health this year: Your health would not cause much
worries for you this year. However, the health of your
family member s may require extra care. Provide your
parents with proper medication as they may fall sick
often due to old age. You may start taking a balanced
diet. You should stop consuming alcohol and smoking

cigarettes for the betterment of your health.
Finance this year: You will be able to stabilize your finan
cial condition by reaping profits from your past invest
ments. You may also plan for new investments this year.
You will find enough new opportunities to start up a new
business that would yield money for you. You should
invest in real estate or stock market for better returns.
Career this year: You will be establishing yourself as a
very efficient and important resource in your organiza
tion this year. Your performance will influence your
peers, seniors and higher management. It is the best
time to look out for a new job as it will help you grow
both professionally and financially.
Romance this year: You may get some good news from
your spouse or partner later this week. This will make
your relationship grow stronger. You may have to trav
el to distant places to spend time youre your partner
and maintain a good relationship.
7th September, 2016
Ruled planet: Neptune Ruled by no: 7
Traits in you: As you are governed by planet Neptune,
you are blessed with various positive characters. You
are confident, decisive, generous, humorous, honest,
modest and optimistic. You are not an admirer of argu
ments or silly fights. You should work on your nature of
being selfish, pessimistic, and arrogant.
Health this year: You will enjoy a better health this year
as compared to last year. However, the health of an
aged family member may deteriorate and that will
make you bothered. You may end up spending lot of
money for the health issues of your family members.
Finance this year: Though you will be able to improve
your financial status, you may end up spending a lot of
money in buying luxury and comfort for yourself and
your family. You may put your money in real estate for
better returns.
Career this year: Your interest and enthusiasm to per
form will make you an extraordinary performer in your
professional circuit. You will be respected and rewarded
for your work. You need to take the leadership respon
sibility to cement your position in your organization.
Romance this year: Your plans to go for holidays with
your partner may not work because of huge work pres
sure and this may create disturbance in your marital
life. You need to take care of the emotional require
ments of your partner to lead a peaceful life this year.
8th September, 2016
Ruled planet: Saturn Ruled by no: 8
Traits in you: Your ruling planet Saturn makes you hum
ble, honest, focused, practical, realistic and enthusiastic.
You are blessed with enormous talent and imagination.

Along with the positive characters in you, there are some
negative aspects in your nature. You need to work on
your nature of being envious, unreliable, and indiscipline.
Health this year: Though you would not face any major
health related issues, you should take extra care of your
health. Do not take unwanted risk of putting your
health in stake. Go for regular medical checkups.
Finance this year: You may try your entrepreneurship
skills this year and you will be successful unexpectedly.
You will be able to get many projects, which you help
you establish as a good businessperson. You should go
for investments in real estate and stock market.
Career this year: Your confidence will convert you into a
winner. You will be capable enough to overcome any
challenge you need to face. The chances of your promo
tion & transfer are high due to the organizational change.
Romance this year: Your relationship with your spouse
or partner will blossom this year. If you are not mar
ried, you may have to wait for few more years though
you are eligible for marriage.
9th September, 2016
Ruled planet: Mars Ruled by no: 9
Traits in you: Your ruling planet Mars makes you
strong, determined, courageous, enthusiastic, intelli
gent, ambitious, and motivated. You have a strong dis
like towards fake people and fake emotions. You are a
huge fan of truth and cleanliness. You need to work on
your nature of showing dictatorship and being rude and
stubborn at times.
Health this year: You will enjoy a better health this year
as compared to last year. However, the health of an
aged family member may deteriorate and that will
make you bothered. You may end up spending lot of
money for the health issues of your family members.
Finance this year: Your financial conditions will be very
stagnant this year. As you will not earn much or spend
much, you will lead a peaceful life in money matters.
You may invest for future. Do not lend or borrow
money from your friends or colleagues.
Career this year: You will enjoy a good professional
atmosphere this year. You will be appreciated by your
seniors and higher management. This may bring you
promotions and salary hike. You need to concentrate
more on your work to get a better position in your pro
fession. You may go for a job change this year.
However, you should not decide anything hastily.
Romance this year: Your relationship with your spouse
or partner will blossom this year. If you are not mar
ried, you may have to wait for few more years though
you are eligible for marriage.
30
September 3-9, 2016
SPIRITUAL AWARENESS
Benefits of Being A Vegetarian
By Sant Rajinder Singh

Ji Maharaj
n the last decade, we have wit

nessed an explosion of scien
tific knowledge that has made
more information available to
humanity than in all previously
recorded history. Due to the dedi
cated research of scientists and
do ctors, we now understand
more than ever before about our
physical body and what measures
promote good health. As more
evidence is coming to light about
the beneficial effects of maintain
ing a vegetarian diet, the number
of vegetarians around the world
is steadily on the rise.
T hroug hout history, many
g reat philosophers, myst ics,
saints, and enlightened thinkers
have recognized the value of veg
etarianism. It is only recently that
science has confirmed the views
on vegetarianism explained by
these great people. More and
more people are realizing that
this diet can increase the health
and wellbeing of our body, mind,
soul, and the planet.
Books, journals, magazines, and
newspaper articles have pub
lished research on the health ben
efits of a vegetarian diet. Doctors
and nutritionists widely recom
mend that people reduce their
consumption of meat, highfat
foods, and eggs as a health meas
ure. T hey encourage the
increased use of vegetables,
fruits, and whole grains in ones
diet to cut down on cholesterol in
the body and to minimize the
risks of heart attacks, high blood
pressure, strokes, and cancer.
The results of medical findings
have already had a farreaching
impact on the food and restau
rant industries. We find more
foods are being produced with
out animal products. If we look
back even twenty years, a vege
tarian eating at a restaurant
hardly had any choices of fered
on the menu. Today, we can find
a variety of delicious vegetarian
dishes at most restaurants.
Natural food stores and vegetari
an restaurants abound in most
cities. Even large grocery chain
stores carry a large variety of
vegetarian foods. T hose who
carefully consider the advantages
of vegetarianism will see that the
quality of their life and health

can be greatly improved on such
a diet.
Longtime vegetarians have tes
tified to the changes they experi
enced when they gave up meat.
Many have reported that they felt
more energetic, not only physi
cally, but also mentally. Animals
that do not eat meat, such as the
elephant, the horse, the mule, and
the ox, are known for their great
strength and endurance. Having
more stamina, vegetarians tend
to exhibit improved ef ficiency
and concentration in their physi
cal as well as intellectual work.
There is an expression, You
are what you eat. In countries of
the East where vegetarianism has
been the diet for thousands of
years, people recognize that
whatever they eat forms a part of
their body and also influences
their thoughts. They believe that
if they eat the flesh of an animal
that the mental and emotional
vibrations or characteristics of
the animal will form a part of
their own nature. Today, science

is researching the effect that our
own stress hormones have on our
body and the damage that long
term stress does to our organs.
Imagine eating animals whose
last days or minutes of life on
earth were drenched with the
hormones released in their state
of fear they were in when they
were about to be slaughtered.
Those who eat meat are ingesting
not only the flesh, but all the hor
mones of stress that are released
due to the animals fear as well.
Thus, many people brought up in
the traditions of the East prefer
to live on plant foods, which are
more conducive to mental
equipoise.
Many enlig htened beings,
saints, mystics, and spiritual
teachers have traditionally advo
cated a vegetarian diet for spiri
tual and moral reasons. For those
pursuing a spiritual path, a vege
tarian diet is essential for several
important reasons. First, spiritual
teachers have always taught that
we are more than just a body and

a mind; we are also soul. They
have also taug ht people the
process of meditation to help
rediscover our true nature as
soul. To help gain proficiency in
the spiritual practices, vegetari
anism is a helping factor. To be
able to concentrate in meditation,
we need to be calm and collected.
If we eat the flesh of dead ani
mals, our own consciousness will
be affected.
In the East, vegetarianism has
been considered essential to spir
itual deve lopment. Spiritual
teachers promote a life of nonvio
lence. Helping factors for spiritu
al growth include developing the
ethical virtues of nonviolence,
truthfulness, purity, humility, and
selfless service. The vegetarian
diet is a natural byproduct of
nonviolence, in which no harm is
done to any living creature. That
is why saints through the ages
have recommended a vegetarian
diet, avoiding meat, fish, fowl,
and eggs.
In the East, vegetarianism has been considered

essential to spiritual development. Spiritual teachers
promote a life of nonviolence. Helping factors for
spiritual growth include developing the ethical virtues
of nonviolence, truthfulness, purity, humility, and
selfless service. The vegetarian diet is a natural
byproduct of nonviolence, in which no harm is
done to any living creature. That is why saints
through the ages have recommended a vegetarian
diet, avoiding meat, fish, fowl and eggs.
Vegetarianism also improves

the health of the planet.
Ecologists and environmentalists
are concerned about protecting
the living creatures on earth.
Environmentalists have pointed
out that one solution to the prob
lem of food shortages is better
utilization of our resources. For
example, the amount of grain
needed to feed one cow to pro
vide meat for one person could
feed many times that number of
people. Ecolog ists have also
shown that raising cattle and pro
cessing meat requires much more
fuel, water, and energy than is
used to produce grains and veg
etables.
Vegetarianism is one ef fective
means of conserving our vital
resources.
People around the world are
becoming more enlightened and
concerned about obtaining the
highest quality of life. They are
more interested in solving the
mysteries of the universe and
more keen to find personal fulfill
ment and lasting happiness. We
are simultaneously concerned
about the welfare of our global
community and the preservation
of our planet.
How we maintain the health of
our body, mind, soul, and planet
is a choice each has to make. A
balanced vegetarian diet will
result in improved health and fit
ness, greater mental equipoise,
and higher spiritual attainment.
Following the vegetarian diet can
help us achieve the health and
purity of our body, mind, soul,
and planet. We will not only be
contributing to peace for our
selves and all life, but we will also
be doing our part toward making
Planet Earth a haven of joy and
peace.
Being a vegetarian can help us
attain a healthier body, mind,
soul, and planet. Along with this,
we can augment our wellbeing
throug h
meditat ion.
Vegetarianism prepares the
groundwork for the health of
body, mind, and soul. Meditation
can add to our overall health by
reducing stress to our body and
mind, and can put us in touch
w ith the soul. If we sit in
meditation we can take steps
towards a healthier state of well
being.
Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj

is an internationally recognized
spiritual leader and Master of
Jyoti Meditation who affirms the
transcendent oneness at the heart
of all religions and mystic traditions, emphasizing ethical living
and meditation as building blocks
for achieving inner and outer
peace. www.sos.org.
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