UdupiĂƌƌLJŝŶŐŽŶƚŚĞƚƌĂĚŝƟŽŶfor over hundred years, the folk of Shankarpura are very much dependent on their jasmine (malligeͿĐƵůƟǀĂƟŶŐĂŶĚŵĂƌŬĞƚ-ing business. Charging Rs. 310 ĨŽƌŽŶĞĂƩĞŽĨ :ĂƐŵŝŶĞŇŽǁĞƌƐƚŚĞǁŚŽůĞǀŝůůĂŐĞŝƐůŝǀŝŶŐŽŶǀĂƌ-ying economy. Shankarpura is situ-ated not far from Udupi. tŚĞŶ ƚŚĞ ǁŚŽůĞ ƐƚĂƚĞŝƐ ƐƟůů ĂƐůĞĞƉ ƚŚĞ ǀŝůůĂŐ-ĞƌƐ ĐŽůůĞĐƚ ŇŽǁĞƌƐ ĨƌŽŵtheir thota ;ĮĞůĚƐͿ ĂŶĚstring them together us-ing plantain stalk, into ĂƩĞƐ. One ĂƩĞǁŝůůŚĂǀĞϰĐŚĞŶĚƵƐ and each chendu is made using 800 jas-ŵŝŶĞŇŽǁĞƌƐdŚĂƚŵĂŬĞƐϯϮϬϬŇŽǁĞƌƐŝŶŽŶĞĂƩĞ. dŚĞLJŚĂǀĞĂƌŽƵŶĚϭϬϬϬϬĨĂŵŝůŝĞƐ ĨƌŽŵ ǁŚŽŵ ƚŚĞĨŽƵƌ ŵĂŝŶ ǁŚŽůĞƐĂůĞƌƐďƵLJ ƚŚĞ ŇŽǁĞƌƐ ,ĂǀŝŶŐƐƵīĞƌĞĚ Ă ŚƵŐĞ ůŽƐƐ ĂĐŽƵƉůĞ ŽĨ LJĞĂƌƐ ďĂĐŬ ǁŚĞŶ ƚŚĞũĂƐŵŝŶĞ ƉůĂŶƚƐ ďĞŐĂŶ ƚŽǁŝƚŚĞƌ the inhabitants of Shankarpura ƐŚŽǁĞĚ ƚƌĞŵĞŶĚŽƵƐ ĐŽƵƌĂŐĞand climbed out of the dump, ƵŶƐĐĂƚŚĞĚEŽǁǁŝƚŚƚŚĞŝƌďƵƐŝ-ness thriving again, they support their families and keep alive their ancestors’ visions.^ŚĂŶŬĂƌƉƵƌĂ ŝƐ ƚŚĞ ƉůĂĐĞǁŚĞƌĞƚŚŝƐƉƌĂĐƟĐĞĮƌƐƚŽƌŝŐŝŶĂƚĞĚdŚĞĨŽƵƌŵĂŝŶǁŚŽůĞƐĂůĞƌƐŵĞĞƚĂŶĚĚĞĐŝĚĞƵƉŽŶƚŚĞƌĂƚĞĂƚǁŚŝĐŚƚŚĞjasmine ĂƩĞƐƐŚŽƵůĚďĞƐŽůĚdŚĞprice of these ĂƩĞƐ varies from Rs. 820 to mere Rs. 28 depend-ing on the supply, season and

ĚĞŵĂŶĚ dŚĞ ůŽĐĂů ŵĞƌĐŚĂŶƚƐsend their produce to retailers in Karkala, Kundapur, Udupi and DĂŶŐĂůŽƌĞĂŶĚƐŽŵĞƟŵĞƐĞǀĞŶƚŽDƵŵďĂŝĂŶĚ<ĞƌĂůĂƚƟŵĞƐmerchants in Mumbai buy Rs. 5 ůĂŬŚǁŽƌƚŚŽĨŇŽǁĞƌƐĚƵƌŝŶŐĨĞƐ-ƟǀĞ ƐĞĂƐŽŶ ǀĞŶŝƐŚǁĂƌLJĂZĂŝ

ĂĐŚĐŚĂŶ ŽƌĚĞƌĞĚ ŇŽǁĞƌƐ ĨƌŽŵŚĞƌĞĨŽƌŚĞƌǁĞĚĚŝŶŐdŚĞLJ ŚĂǀĞ ŚŝŐŚ ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ ĚƵƌ-ŝŶŐƐƵŵŵĞƌĂŶĚƐŝŶĐĞǁĞĚĚŝŶŐƐĂŶĚŽƚŚĞƌƐŝŵŝůĂƌ ĨƵŶĐƟŽŶƐ ƚĂŬĞƉůĂĐĞ ĂƌŽƵŶĚ ƚŚĞ ƐĂŵĞ ƟŵĞƚŚĞƉƌŝĐĞƐŐŽƵƉǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞǁŚŝŵand demand. In South India, no ŵĂƌƌŝĂŐĞ ĐŽŵĞƐ ƚŽ ƉĂƐƐ ǁŝƚŚ-out abundant supply of jasmine ŇŽǁĞƌƐ ǀĞƌLJ ǁŽŵĂŶ ŝƐ ƐĞĞŶǁŝƚŚĂƐŵĂůůŶĞƐƚŽĨũĂƐŵŝŶĞƌĞƐƚ-ŝŶŐ ŽŶ ƚŚĞŝƌ ŚĞĂĚƐ dŚĞƐĞ ŇŽǁ-ĞƌƐƐƉƌĞĂĚĂƐǁĞĞƚŶĂƚƵƌĂůƐĐĞŶƚĂŶĚĂƌĞĂůƐŽƵƐĞĚƚŽŵĂŬĞĂƩĂƌ a kind of perfume. In the rainy season, jaaji, another type of

ũĂƐŵŝŶĞ ŝƐ ŐƌŽǁŶŵŽƌĞ dŚŽƵŐŚũĂĂũŝƐ are more fragrant than jas-mine itself, they are less fancied. tĂƚĞƌŝŶŐĂũĂƐŵŝŶĞƉůĂŶƚƚǁŝĐĞa day is more than enough to get ŚĞĂůƚŚLJ ďĞĂƵƟĨƵů ƐŵĞůůŝŶŐŇŽǁ-ers,” said Raina Preethi D’Mello, the daughter of Manuel D’Mello,

Ă ǁŚŽůĞƐĂůĞ ŵĞƌĐŚĂŶƚdŚŽƵŐŚ ƚŚĞŵĂŝŶƚĞŶĂŶĐĞsounds simple, some sorts of chemicals have to be brought in use par-ƟĐƵůĂƌůLJǁŚĞŶ ƚŚĞǁŚŽůĞǀŝůůĂŐĞ ůŝǀĞƐ Žī ŽĨ ŝƚ dŚĞvillagers in Shankarpura ƵƐĞ ƉĞƐƟĐŝĚĞƐ ƐƵĐŚ ĂƐblue copper.ǀĞƌLJ ĨĂŵŝůLJ ŝŶ ^ŚĂŶŬĂƌ-pura is involved directly or indirectly in this busi-ness. Around 98 percent of all the families living ƚŚĞƌĞ ŚĂǀĞ Ă ƐŵĂůů ĮĞůĚŽĨƚŚĞŝƌŽǁŶǁŚĞƌĞƚŚĞLJĐƵůƟǀĂƚĞũĂƐŵŝŶĞƐĂŶĚƐĞůůit to the merchants on a

ƌĞŐƵůĂƌďĂƐŝƐǁŚŽƚŚĞŶƉĂĐŬƚŚĞŇŽǁĞƌƐŝŶďĂŶĂŶĂůĞĂǀĞƐĂŶĚŐĞƚƚŚĞŵ ƌĞĂĚLJ ĨŽƌ ƚƌĂŶƐƉŽƌƚĂƟŽŶRamakrishna Sharma Bantakallu, the president of Mallige Bel-egaarara SanghaŚŝŵƐĞůĨŐƌŽǁƐjasmine on 25 cents of land and harvests almost 20 ĐŚĞŶĚƵƐ dai-ůLJ dŚĞŐŽǀĞƌŶŵĞŶƚ ƐƚĂLJƐŽƵƚŽĨƚŚĞ ǁŚŽůĞ ŽƉĞƌĂƟŽŶ ƐŝŶĐĞ ƚŚĞproduce, though in large scale, ŝƐ ĐƵůƟǀĂƚĞĚ ŽŶ ƐŵĂůů ƉŝĞĐĞƐ ŽĨůĂŶĚdŚĞLJƉĂLJŶŽƐƉĞĐŝĂůƚĂdžĨŽƌthis business of theirs.Shankarpura has been the mal-lige hub for the past 100 years ĂŶĚŝƚĐŽŶƟŶƵĞƐƚŽďĞƚŚĞƐĂŵĞ

Century of jasmine lovers

Packed jasmine ready to be transported

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Manipal raids receive mixed reactions

Manipal: dŚĞ ƌĞĐĞŶƚ DĂŶŝ-ƉĂů WŽůŝĐĞ ƌĂŝĚƐ ŚĂǀĞ ůĞŌŵŽƐƚƌĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ĂŶĚ ƉƵď ŽǁŶĞƌƐŵŝīĞĚ ǁŚĞƌĞĂƐ ƚŚĞ ĚĞĐŝƐŝŽŶŚĂƐ ƌĞĐĞŝǀĞĚ ŵŝdžĞĚ ƌĞĂĐƟŽŶƐfrom the student body. Popular ƉůĂĐĞƐ ůŝŬĞĞĞdĞĞdĞĞͲƐƉŝƌŝƚƐ;KͿ WůĂŶĞƚ ĂĨĞ :ĞǁĞů ƌŽĐŬŽĐŬƐ ĂŶĚ DŽĐŬƐ ĂŶĚ dǁŝƐƚhave been under the scanner.DĂŶŝƉĂů WŽůŝĐĞ ^ƚĂƟŽŶ ǁĂƐĐŽŶƚĂĐƚĞĚ ƚŽ ĮŶĚ ŽƵƚ ƚŚĞ ƌĞĂ-son behind the sudden raids. dŚĞƌĞŚĂǀĞďĞĞŶŶŽƵŶƚŽǁĂƌĚaccidents that have prompted ƵƐ ƚŽ ŝŵƉůĞŵĞŶƚ ƚŚĞƌƵůĞdŚŝƐƌƵůĞ ŚĂƐ ďĞĞŶ ŝŶ ĞīĞĐƚ ĨŽƌ ĂǀĞƌLJůŽŶŐƟŵĞŶŽǁďƵƚŽŶůLJƌĞ-ĐĞŶƚůLJĚŝĚǁĞĚĞĐŝĚĞƚŽƐƚƌŝĐƚůLJenforce this rule”, said Inspec-tor Kulkarni of Manipal Police ^ƚĂƟŽŶAll establishments selling al-ĐŽŚŽů ŚĂǀĞ ƚŽ ƐŚƵƚ ĚŽǁŶ ďLJ11.30 p.m. and eateries at 11 Ɖŵ ƐƚĂďůŝƐŚŵĞŶƚƐ ƚŚĂƚ ƐĞĞŬĞdžƚĞŶĚĞĚ ƉĞƌŵŝƐƐŝŽŶ ŚĂǀĞ ƚŽapply for a ‘Class 7’ permit that ĂůůŽǁƐ ŽŶĞ ƚŽ ŬĞĞƉ ƚŚĞ ĞƐƚĂď-ůŝƐŚŵĞŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ Ɵůů ŵŝĚŶŝŐŚƚĂŶĚ ŶŽƚŚŝŶŐ ďĞLJŽŶĚ ƚŚĂƚ dŚĞmain reason behind imposing ƐƵĐŚ ƐƚƌŝĐƚ ƌĞŐƵůĂƟŽŶƐ ǁĂƐ ƚŽcurb the nuisance created by drunk students.dŚŝƐ ƟŵĞ ĐŽŶƐƚƌĂŝŶƚ ĂůƐŽ ĂƉ-plies to home deliveries from various establishments. No de-ůŝǀĞƌŝĞƐĂƌĞĂůůŽǁĞĚƉĂƐƚϭϮϯϬam. Inspector Kulkarni added ƚŚĂƚ ŶŝŐŚƚ ƉĂƚƌŽůŵĞŶ ǁŽƵůĚcatch hold of any such perpe-

ƚƌĂƚŽƌƐǁŚŽĚŝƐŽďĞLJĞĚƚŚĞĐƵƌ-ĨĞǁ ŝŵƉŽƐĞĚ ƐƚĂďůŝƐŚŵĞŶƚƐƐƟůůĮŶĚĂůŽŽƉŚŽůĞŝŶƚŚŝƐƌƵůĞas most establishments have ĚĞůŝǀĞƌŝĞƐŽƉĞŶĨŽƌƐƚƵĚĞŶƚƐƟůůϰĂŵǁŚŝĐŚƚŚĞƉŽůŝĐĞĂƌĞƵŶĂ-ǁĂƌĞŽĨtŚĞŶ ƋƵĞƐƟŽŶĞĚ ĂďŽƵƚ ƚŚĞeateries not having drunken students around them, the As-sistant Sub-Inspector K. Prab-hakar, quickly amended that ŝƚ ǁĂƐ Ă ůŽŶŐ ƐƚĂŶĚŝŶŐ ƌƵůĞthat had to be implemented soon because it involved stu-ĚĞŶƚ ƐĂĨĞƚLJ WƵď ŽǁŶĞƌƐ ŚĂǀĞĂĐŽŵƉůĞƚĞůLJĚŝīĞƌĞŶƚ ƐƚŽƌLJ ƚŽƚĞůů dŚĞƌĞǁĂƐĂƌĂŝĚŚĞƌĞĨĞǁĚĂLJƐ ďĂĐŬ ďƵƚ ŝƚ ǁĂƐ ďĞĐĂƵƐĞthe police think that Manipal ƐƚƵĚĞŶƚƐĂƌĞĐƌĞĂƟŶŐŶƵŝƐĂŶĐĞdŚĞ ŵĂŝŶ ƌĞĂƐŽŶ ŝƐ ƉƌĞƐƐƵƌĞfrom the Bajrang Dal”, said Ashiq, manager of Planet Cafe, Manipal.dŚĞ ƐƚƵĚĞŶƚ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚLJ ŚĂƐŵŝdžĞĚŽƉŝŶŝŽŶ<ĞǀŝŶZŽĚƌŝŐƵĞnja second-year student of De-partment of Commerce (DOC) ƚŚŝŶŬƐ ƚŚĂƚ ƚŚĞ ůĂǁ ƉĂƐƐĞĚ ŝƐin the best interests of stu-ĚĞŶƚƐ/ƚ ƐďĞƩĞƌƚŽŚĂǀĞƐƵĐŚƌĞŐƵůĂƟŽŶƐ ƚŚĂŶŚĂǀĞĚƌƵŶŬĞŶpeople and stoned guys loiter-ŝŶŐĂƌŽƵŶĚĂƚŶŝŐŚƚ,ŽǁŵĂŶLJincidents of drinking and driv-ing have happened? Something had to be done soon,” he said./ƚŝƐƐƟůůƚŽďĞƐĞĞŶƚŚĂƚƌĞŐƵůĂ-ƟŽŶǁŝůůƐƚĂLJŽƌǁŝůůŝƚĚŝĞĚŽǁŶůŝŬĞƚŚĞŵĂŶLJŽƚŚĞƌĨĂŝůĞĚŝŶŝƟĂ-ƟǀĞƐŽĨDĂŶŝƉĂůWŽůŝĐĞ

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History on a Coin

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A talk with Raghu Dixit

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Sports Fiesta: ƚŚůĞƟĐƐDĞĞƚ

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Manipal: The Chemical Engineer-ing Department, of Manipal Ins!-tute of Technology has organizeda Two Days Na!onal workshop onEnergy E"ciency and Environ-mental Impact (EEEI) on 14th and15th October 2011. The eventwas inaugurated by Dr. KumkumGarg, Director of MIT on the 14thin A/C Seminar Hall, MIT. It wassponsored by MRPL (ONGC), CSIRand Oil India Limited. Industrial-ists, Academicians and Studentsfrom all over India rigorously par-!cipated in the event.The schedule of the event waspacked as there were speakersfrom the renowned ins!tu!onslike Na!onal Ins!tute of Technol-ogy, Suratkal and Tiruchirappalli;ONGC, Dehradun; Petroleum

Conversa!on Research Associa-!on (PCRA), Bangalore; Govern-ment College of Engineering,Amrava!; Mangalore Chemicalsand Fer!lizers Limited, Manga-lore and Manipal Ins!tute ofTechnology, Manipal.In the era of global warming andclimate change, the workshopprovides a pla#orm to discuss thevarious issues and suggests suit-able energy e"ciency op!ons tosolve the energy and environ-mental issues. Now a day’s En-ergy conserva!on and Energye"ciency are the most powerfultools in our transi!on to a cleanenergy future. There is a need formaximizing the energy e"ciencyof industrial opera!ons, buildingand infrastructure through the

use of renewable resources, de-centralized co-genera!on and en-ergy cascading techniques in amanner which op!mizes inte-grated energy flows and mini-mizes poten!al globalenvironmental collisions such asgreenhouse gas emissions. Im-plemen!ng these solu!ons willenable people to step into a newera of energy, one that will bringeconomic growth, new jobs,technological innova!on andmost importantly environmentalprotec!on. Energy e"ciency im-provements and renewable en-ergy resources can playimportant roles in controlling andreducing environmental impact.Energy consump!on is also amajor contributor to climate

change, which is the cause ofever increasing concern over thepast few years.The workshop held it’s valedic-!on on the last day withShri.A.G.Pai, Group General Man-ager-Safety, Health and Environ-ment, MRPL, Mangalore. Dr.Shanmuga Priya, Convener ofEEEI said, “We’ve received 42par!cipants, prominent speakersand industrialists from all overIndia. The theme of the work-shop was very well appreciatedand the students were thor-oughly interac!ve throughoutthe sessions.”This two day na!onal workshopwas extremely informa!ve, per-cep!ve and well organised; all inall a successful one.

EEEI discusses international issuesAmara Sai

AAINA : ‘What do you have tohyde?’ by Aaina. Date: 30th

Oct. Venue: MIT Auditorium.

Futsal 16 aside, an Ar!cle-19pre-event, by MIC. Date: 22nd& 23rd Oct, 5pm. Venue: 10thBlock basketball court. Cash

prize worth Rs.3000 to be won.

‘Dhol Bhaje’ by Rotaract Club.Date: 23rd Oct. Venue: KMC

Greens.

WGSHA Silver Jubilee celebra-!ons. Date: 28th Oct.

‘Balakalakaar’ by AIESEC, forunderprivileged children. Date:1st Nov. Venue: KMC Greens.

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21st century public diplomacyManipal: The presence of world-wide debate about Arab Springswas experienced in Manipal on 7October at Manipal Center forPhilosophy and Humani!es(MCPH) . The lecture was led byMr. Navdeep Suri, Indian ForeignServices and Joint Secretary ofthe Public Diplomacy Division atthe Ministry of External A$airs onthe topic ‘Lessons from ArabSpring - Role and relevance ofPublic Diplomacy in the 21st cen-tury’ conducted by the Depart-ment of Geopoli!cs andInterna!onal Rela!ons.He elucidates the public about

the impact of social media inEgypt; while he also spoke abouthow social media like Twi%er andFacebook comprise of the mainmode of communica!on in thepresent day. He also gave an ideaabout Public Diplomacy, usingSo& power na!on branding,strategic communica!on, digitaldiplomacy tools. He then statedthe various developmental ven-tures that the Ministry of Exter-nal A$airs has taken up incountries abroad including the In-dian Technical and EconomicalCoopera!on (ITEC) programmeand India Future of Change.

He ended the speech by awaken-ing the gathering to the deep im-pact of social media on masses.The speech was carried over byan interac!ve session among thegathering followed by a conclu-sion, on the u!lisa!on of socialmedia by the government to in-fluence the youth.The occasion was profoundlygraced by the presence of Dr.M.V. Kamath, Honorary Directorof Manipal Ins!tute of Communi-ca!on and Dr. Arvind Kumar,Head of Department of Geopoli-!cs and Interna!onal Rela!ons ofManipal University.

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SSPPIICC MMAACCAAYY oorrggaanniisseess VVIIRRAASSAATT Manipal: The “O%anthullal” pro-gram was held at the Counsellinghall, Manipal University buildingon 15 October 2011. It was con-ducted by the Manipal CulturalCoordina!on Commi%ee alongwith the Manipal Chapter of So-ciety for Promo!on of IndianClassical Music and Cultureamong Youth Commi%ee (SPICMACAY). The event was held at 6.30 in theevening headed by the chairmanof the cultural commi%ee Dr. Mu-ralidhar Pai. Amongst the guestsincluded Dr. Radha Krishnan, the

Associate Director of Manipal In-s!tute of Technology (MIT).A&er a brief introductory session,researcher and performer by thename of Upendra K.R. from Ban-galore was called upon to give aninsight into the meaning of “Ot-tanthullal”. O%anthullal is a sto-rytelling art form from Kerala,with vibrant, colourful costumesand make up. O%anthullal is a unique form ofart where the performing ar!stturns around characters in theplay and connects with the audi-ence. The play consists of dance,

music, ac!ng, narra!ng and com-posi!on of the required story.The lead performing ar!st of thisunique art form of Kerala wasKalamandalam Mohanakrishnanand his assemblage from Kala-mandalam University. They per-formed the ‘KalyanSaugandhikam’, an excep!onalstory from the popular mythol-ogy, Ramayana about a fight be-tween Lord Hanuman and Bhima.The programme was a completecomposite of culture and withoutstanding performances andenthralled the audience.

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Gujarat’s ethnicity enjoyed at MIC during dandiya night

“Power Crisis” againRagini Du!a

Udupi: The solu!on to the powercrisis seems to be having a zero-sum outcome with the State gov-ernment and center indulging intalks that are proving to be coun-terproduc!ve. The UPCL is facinga major shortage in providing forpower. Due to the Telangana cri-sis, and the hence the dearth incoal, Karnataka is facing a majorchallenge in supplying power toits populace.Throughout the country manymajor states such as AndhraPradesh, Maharashtra, PaschimBanga and Delhi have also wit-nessed acute power shortagedue to an anomaly in the supplylines that feed the di"erentpower sta!ons.This situa!on has compelled theUnion Government to to find asolu!on. The Karnataka stategovernment on its part has takenpro ac!ve steps to curtail thisshor#all. The Chief MinisterSadananda Gowda himself haswri$en a le$er to Union Ministerfor Power Sushil Shinde to ensure

adequate coal supply to its ther-mal power plant at Raichur andallot 500 MW from the unallo-cated share of Central Genera!ngSta!ons to overcome the crisis.An o%cial, Mohandas said, “Theprivate sector is taking up the ini-!a!ve to provide for power andhelp deal with the crippled stateof things. Some proposals havecome up.” Hopefully the UPCLsecond phase will address thepower woes.“Power cuts are very hazardousand !resome. Customers have towait for long hours; I have a gen-erator, but it won’t run the aircondi!oner,” said a shopkeeper.Power situa!on may improve in afew days, but the strike in Telan-gana con!nues bringing thewhole na!on to a stop. Karnatakais especially a"ected, and thereare regular power cuts.Karnataka which has already seena ‘power’ crisis poli!cally nowfaces another power crisis, willthere be light at the end of thiscrisis?

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Udupi: The residence of Khan Ba-hadur Haji Abdullah Haji KasimSaheb Bahadur, who founded Ca-nara Banking Corpora!on in 1906which is now known as Corpora-!on Bank, transformedinto a museum, show-casing coins that peoplebarely knew existed. TheHeritage Museum nar-rates the history of Indiain numisma!c language.The museum holds ondisplay, some of therarest, oldest coins any-one has laid eyes on. Itranges from the punchmarked silver and cop-per coins to those dur-ing the period of Cholas,from coins of Mughal !mes tothe Bri!sh !me, from coins of in-dependent India to those in usenow. The large glass cases hold

proof of the intangible distantpast. The collec!on also has cur-rency notes. Even a pictographicexplana!on of how coins cameinto existence is available for

viewing. Some coins which cap!-vated the visitors were thetwenty, fi&y and hundred rupee

coins of the bygone eras.Heritage Museum gets around 50to 60 visitors every day, most ofthem being the youth. The wel-coming sta" of the Corpora!on

Bank assist the visitorsby explaining to themthe history behindeach coin. M. K. Krish-nayya is a re!redbanker and a numis-ma!st. Having donatedRepublic of India coinsand all the currencynotes, he is also incharge of the museum.He has also begun acollec!on of stamps.The rest of the coinhave been given by K.

Radhakrishna. “We have mee!ngonce in a while in Mangalore andexchange coins to maintain bal-ance ,” said Krishnayya.

Display of coins at Heritage Museum, Udupi

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Udupi: To parallel the growingpopula!on and consequent in-crease in the demand for waterthe Udupi City Municipal Council(CMC) intends to take up thethird stage of Swarna River Drink-ing Water Project.The third stage of this project willinclude the building of a venteddam at Yarlapady, about 24 kmfrom Udupi, at an es!mated costof Rs. 3 crore. This dam wouldhave a storage capacity of 350 to400 million gallons of water.This ini!a!ve comes at a !mewhen there is a growing shortageof water in the Udupi district andhence will help removing suchshor#alls and increased demand

for water especially during thesummer months, a point reiter-ated by CMC CommissionerGokuldas Nayak.The CMC also aims to remove allpublic taps, nine of which remainin the Malpe region, by the endof October. The reason for such amove is to cut down on waterwastage and prolifera!on of dis-eases that emerge out of stag-nant water. Mr. Nayak on thisma$er has outlined that the aimof CMC is to provide pure andgood quality water to each andevery household. Mohandas, ano%cial at CMC said, “The first andsecond stages were extremelysuccessful in providing water to

the surrounding areas.”At present, drinking water is sup-plied to the city from the first andsecond Stages of Swarna River atBaje and Shiroor, respec!vely.The third stage will include build-ing a overhead tank in Manipal tosupply water to areas such asManjushri Nagar, Manchikumeri,Dashrath Nagar and Duglipadavuapart from the areas that are al-ready covered like the neigh-bouring villages of Ambalpady,Kadekar, Yemba$u Badagabe$uand On!be$u. Not only this, anumber of vented dams are alsobeing built to meet irriga!onneeds of farmers in Udupi andDakshin Kannada districts.

Udupi: The 28th Karnataka StateJunior and Senior Athle!c Cham-pionship-2011, presented by theCorpora!on Bank, was held atMahatma Gandhi district Sta-dium in Aijadkad, Udupi, fromOctober 13 to 16. Around 2,500athletes from 32 districts of thestate took part in the compe!-!on. Teams such as M.R.P.L. andSai South were also present. Sucha sports event was held for thevery first !me in Udupi.

Higher Educa!onMinister Dr V SAcharya inauguratedthe games, whileGeneral Manager ofthe Corpora!onBank, B.R.Bhatpresided over it. Thechampionship waspreceded by a colour-ful parade, while cul-tural programmesand dazzling fire-works marked the en-tertainment bonanzafor the three-daytrack and field events.

Olympian Ashwini Nachappahanded over the torch tosportsperson Sneha.

Over 200 compe!!ons wereheld under di"erent categories,and over 300 sports o%cialsworked towards the success ofthe event. The three days werevery well organised and high-lighted excellent talent. Thebudget reserved for the champi-onship was Rs.23 lakhs, of which,Rs.10 lakhs was sponsored by the

Corpora!on Bank. Other o%cialslike the Secretary of the Kar-nataka State Athle!c Associa!onSatyanarayan and the Presidentof the Udupi District Athle!c As-socia!on Balakrishna Hegde werepresent.Teams from all over the statecame down to Udupi at MahatmaGandhi district grounds and puttheir best players forward andthe four days of athele!cs meetpresented itself in a grand culmi-na!on of talent and stealth.

Representatives of Udupi district atthe MG Stadium

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There has been a tremendousfurore over a book on the Ma-hatma, wri!en by a former edi-tor of New York Times, JosephLelyveld, en"tled: Great Soul:Mahatma Gandhi and His Strug-gle with India in which some ad-verse remarks have beensupposedly made over Gandhi’s‘bi-sexual’ rela"ons with a Ger-man Jewish architect called Her-mann Kallenbach. It is as ifLelyveld has made some surpris-ing discovery. If only our cri"cshave read two books, one writ-ten by Mahatma’s own grand-son, Rajmohan Gandhi, en"tledMohandas: The True Story of aMan, His people and His Empire(Penguin/Viking, 2006) and an-other by Jad Adams, Gandhi:Naked Ambi"on (Quercus 2010),Lelyveld’s alleged remarks onGandhi seem like old hat.The following are lines takenstraight out of RajmohanGandhi’s book that has over 25references to Gandhi-Kallenbach:•In his friendship with Kallen-bach, Gandhi set aside his cau-"on against in"mate or exclusiverela"onships. O#ering Kallen-bach a rela"onship that waswarm, in"mate, frank and men-toring, he received an excep-"onal friendship in return. InJune 1909 Gandhi wrote toKallenbach that he did not un-derstand the la!er’s ‘extraordi-nary love’ for him.•Two years later, when Kallen-bach went to England, he drewup his Ar"cles of Agreementwith Gandhi in which he prom-ised that he would neithermarry, nor look lus$ully upon awoman. The return, the twoagreed, would be ‘more love andyet more love’ between them-‘such love as, they hope, theworld has not yet seen’.•Gandhi would write that hefound par"ngs from Kallenbachdi%cult yet inevitable. Also,Kallenbach should watch Gandhi‘not with a friendly eye but witha cri"cal and fault-finding eye’. Itwas foolish, Gandhi urged, to

turn him into an idol. Gandhiwould o&en not sa"sfy and theresult would be a hurt ‘as if adagger had gone throughyou...let the idol be broken. Theresidue will be a pure thing’.•On 22 July 1915, Gandhi wroteto Kallenbach: “I have unpackedour goods and as a perpetual re-minder, I am using your favouritewooden pillow... I am trying toreduce things to order, I everthink of you, I ever miss you. Butfor be!er or worse, we must liveforsome"meinphysicalsepara"on.”Now take Jad Adam’s bookGandhi: Naked Ambi"on (Quer-cus 2010) in which, also thereare several references:•Kallenbach’s le!ers may havebeen even more a#ec"onate;Gandhi described them as‘charming love notes’. He de-stroyed them as he knew Kallen-bach would not want them readby anyone else-‘everyone con-siders that your love for me is ex-cessive’.•Writes Adam: “There has to bea suspicion of a homo-ero"c at-tachment on the party of Kallen-bach who was two yearsyounger than Gandhi and nevermarried, but there is no evi-dence that his a#ec"on forGandhi ever approached thephysical”.All this is not to say that Lelyveldhas done no wrong: according toRajmohan Gandhi, the la!er“damns Gandhi not with directa!acks but with an overdose ofscep"cism.” Rajmohan himselfhas given us insights into theGandhi-Kallenbach’s rela"onshipwith u!er frankness. Gandhi andKallenbach surely admired eachother. But Gandhi did not wantto be treated as an ‘idol’ but thatwas obviously how Kallenbachtreated Gandhi.In the circumstances one canonly dismiss Lelyveld’s com-ments. As another of Gandhi’sgrandsons, Gopalkrishna says:Gandhi is protected by thestrength of his own words. Soright he is.

GUEST COLUMN

Dr Madhav Vi!al KamathHonarary Director of ManipalIns"tute of Communica"on

Manipal University

THE FURORE OVER GANDHI: OLD HAT

With the Planning commission’sa%davit to the Supreme Court on20 September defining thepoverty line, the poor do not getto be poor anymore and thosele& below poverty line are thehomeless. But what does thegovernment think they will dowith the ever-increasing poverty?The a%davit to the SupremeCourt, in mere expressions, isbizarre covering up the povertyra"o in India. In "mes when alitre of petrol costs Rs. 67,poverty line income es"matesare fixed at a lowly Rs. 32 a dayfor people in urban areas, and Rs.26 a day for the rural regions.Matching up to the progress ofthe na"on, the Indian bureau-cracy wants the “above povertyline” poor Indians to survive onmashed potatoes since foodprice infla"on is on the rise andthe average calorie consump"onis also increasing. Why was suchan a%davit presented? Was thePlanning Commission, whilepassing this a%davit, totally un-aware of the economic condi-

"ons of the people and that thiswould be highly opposed? Or isthe Government too unaware ofthe condi"ons prevailing in ruralIndia?Poli"cians have always had a so&corner for the poor in India, if notfor whom, they wouldn’t be gain-ing major support through minorchari"es. Legalisa"on of a pillionrider on a bicycle, made peoplein Tamil Nadu believe that theirthen Chief Minister was the truehero of the poor. A heroic act or acall to sa"sfy the vote bank?The redefined poverty line s"llplaces around 34 percent of Indi-ans below poverty line; the per-centage however less than theactual percentage of the poor inIndia leaves the government tohandle 400 million out of morethan a billion Indians, leaving outmost of those s"ll poor abovepoverty line. Delivering sub-sidised food grains and othergoods, through the Public Distri-bu"on System (PDS) to only thepoorest of the poor, doesn’t domuch good. The Unique Iden"fi-

ca"on system will probably be ofgreat help to the Central Govern-ment, enabling every ci"zen,even those who cannot legallyprove that they exist, to open abank account.The states will demand for biggersubsidies for supplying to theirdenizens, a direct consequenceto the Planning Commission’s af-fidavit. But could we have donewithout the BPL cards? The gov-ernment should provide banks fi-nances in rural India, with theflexibility of loan amount. Mi-croenterprises and self-helpgroups could be set up to facili-tate employment. The govern-ment should start alloca"ng landto a community where the peo-ple could work on, manage astock and distribute the foodgrains amongst themselves.There are millions living a life ofu!er hardship. Poverty has al-ways been a problem. The Gov-ernment cannot reduce thenumber of people “belowpoverty line” to make it easier forthem to handle the situa"on.

The seventh of this monthmarked a decade of the longestwar in the history of America, theAfghan war on terror. Has onewondered how Afghanistan wasbefore the soviet intrusion, be-fore Taliban put their foot in, orbefore interrup"on by the Amer-icans? No.“Chaos is the only ally,” said for-mer President of United States ofAmerica, George Bush in the year2007. To elaborate, he meantthat tragedy needs to be created,and he did prove himself right.The outcome is seen a&er tenyears. At what price did the longwar lasted or has been going on?Is it the sexual violence, whichbecame an endemic malady? Is itthe deaths of the thousandsAfghanis who had wished for alife as normal as a person sippingco#ee in Arizona? Is it the illiter-acy of youths? War and povertyclaims more and more Afghanlives every day. Every single daybrings destruc"on and morebombs. And then the US wants

us to believe that war is for ‘theirsafety’.Afghanistan has become the hubof the warfare between Talibanand US. The Americans s"ll arguewhether Afghan is worth the ef-fort while Taliban claim that theyare figh"ng for their home.Some Afghanis think that theirlivelihood has become be!erthan before, while the rest thinkthat the situa"on will becomeworse if the interna"onal troopsstay. It is not hard not to blamethe other Afghanis who supportthe war because many of themsee Taliban as defenders of theirindependence from the West.The Taliban who took two yearsto establish themselves in Afghanhave ins"gated not only the civil-ians but also the teenagers thatUS must be defeated, and victoryis their hope. Afghanistan hasone of the youngest popula"onsin the world. Over the last 10years, there has been a forcefulchange in the age of fighters. Theyoung fighters are aged between

14-18 years. Last year in mid-July,the US soldiers claimed that ‘theyare too young to kill’ and had be-come big news on this dynamicchange. quotes Washington Posta young fighter named Asha, “Iwould be on my motorbike, butI’d be going over the informa"onin my head: how to make thebomb work, how to connect allthe part.” We have to understandthat the Taliban are religious ex-tremists, and it is their job to in-s"gate youngsters bymisinterpre"ng the Koran.The youngsters are Taliban’slifeblood. The young minds havebeen corrupted by the extremistswith the misinterpre"ng themessages from Koran. The USsoldier might have a reason to goback from the war but a youngAfghani fighter has no homecomfort to miss, their idyllic lifeis with a gun and a holy cause tofight. The bundle of young mindscannot be changed as this ‘aim-less war’ has more prices to paythan just death.

AArree tthhee hhoommeelleessss tthhee oonnllyy ppoooorr lleefftt iinn IInnddiiaa??

A decade of aimless warfareAmerica’s longest war lasted longer than First and Second World Wars combined

‘‘AAPPPPLLEE’’ WWIITTHHOOUUTT SSTTEEVVEE JJOOBBSS“DEATH IS VERY LIKELY THE SINGLE BEST INVENTION OF LIFE. IT IS LIFE’SCHANGE AGENT. IT CLEARS OUT THE OLD TO MAKE WAY FOR THE NEW.”

Asuave old man, walking onthe stage with a !midsmile in his classic Levi’s

black turtle neck ou"it is going toshow the world the next revolu-!onary device. Nobody knewthat it’s going to alter the smart-phone market ra!o immensely injust a couple of years. He madeeach of his product shine withnothing but simplicity and mini-malism, be it a Macintosh, aniPod or an iPad. One can imaginethe level of reliability the in-vestors have in Apple by the factthat apple’s stock price is evenhigher than it was before SteveJobs death. In the last two yearswhere Microso# and Intel’s stockprices have risen to 5% and 14%respec!vely, Apple’s shares havemore than doubled. Steve Jobs was considered a‘super-salesman’. It’s not like thatApple made flawless, irresis!bleproducts every!me; but Jobs wasable to sell them despite theirflaws. He made people crave for amac like they would crave for a

BMW, he brought Apple to such alevel where it can’t be called acomputer company anymore.The biggest problem for appleright now would be to keep upwith the demand of iPads, whenthere compe!tor product aregathering dust on sale. To makethis phenomena evident Amazonrecently released their ‘Fire’tablet at less than half the priceof an iPad to match up to thecompe!!on.His death has le# Apple withoutits founder and one of the great-est visionary of this century. Nowapple is in the hands of Tim Cook.People have great expecta!onsfrom him though Steve Jobs’shoes are impossibly large to fill.Tim Cook along with Jonathan Ivehave been Jobs’ two right handsover the last few years. Tim Cookhad his first keynote recently atthe launch of iPhone 4S. “This ismy first public launch since be-coming CEO, I am sure you didn’tknow that,” he said. “I love Appleand what a privilege it is to have

worked here for 14 years.” Therewere no drama!c, breath holdingpauses, he focused on the growthof iPhone rather than focusing oncompe!tors. He was muchcalmer and more composed thanSteve Jobs.Steve Jobs, a perfec!onist, likedto have his iron grip over every-thing going on, and there havebeen stories of him firing em-ployees in the elevator. Thatsurely tells about the sort ofspontaneity he had. According tosome employees at Apple, TimCook is considered easier to workwith. Though having millions ofexpecta!ons over him to becomelike Jobs everyone at the latestkeynote could tell that he wasnothing like Jobs.To end on a lighter note – Manyemployees in India couldn’tGoogle for Steve Jobs a#er hisdeath just because the keyword‘Jobs’ was blocked by the compa-nies which don’t want their em-ployees to go out looking for‘Jobs’ over the internet.

Let there only be light

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EditorsTanu SinghTasneem Jivi

Sub-EditorsTheja RamNatasha MendonVarshita RaoPriyanka KumbhatSameer JhaNancy KumarArash DumasiaAbhijit PrasadMichael EdegarManvendra Chauhan

ReportersRagini Du$aNamratha BhatAthif V PSudaksh So!Deepak FranklinNicholas NunesAmara SaiNyurka Frenandes

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Taming the dragon

There was a time when thereused to be a simpler way tosee which country was

stronger: they fought wars. Todayhowever, in the age of technol-ogy, of a global economy and na-tional debt, it is not about whocan deliver the better punch, butmore about who can flex his mus-cles to scare the other guy off,Diplomacy. The last of communism wasrouted in India, courtesy MamataBannerjee. However, the pres-ence of it in neighbouring coun-tries was increasing alarmingly.That, and in light of China’s op-position to India’s inclusionamong the big guys on the Secu-rity Council means, the elephantshould start going to the gym.India is currently several years be-hind the Chinese, who grewfaster in the last nine years thanIndia possibly could. Its time willcome, but for now the right di-rection is a priority. Throughoutthe world, there are several are-nas where India’s strength as amajor player in the world econ-omy will be tested.Step one has been achieved.

India’s GDP outpaced China’smarginally by the end of 2010.The Chinese boast of a whopping$3 trillion in foreign exchange asopposed to our own $307 billion.They have an external legion of6000 diplomats. India, on theother hand, currently employsonly 750. They are on the brink ofa growth slowdown owing to themanpower transfer of the agri-cultural sector into the industrialsector. Whereas, India is growingfaster than Pinocchio’s nose grewwhen his mum asked him if he’dnicked the cookies on the shelf.In Myanmar, China has been in-strumental in currying favour bythe construction of a gas pipelineall the way to the Bay of Bengal.As for Indian ambitions on thatfront, there is little hope unlessSuu Kyi, the only liberal politicianwidely known in the west, isfreed and put in power. .For a country that boasts of oneof the finest examples of a liberalmodern democracy, India hasbeen meek in external affairs.That needs to change if it has anyambitions to be among the mostpowerful countries.

Diwali, the fes!val of lights ,celebrated in India andacross a number of na-

!ons for centuries. It is typifiedby the ligh!ng of lamps to markthe triumph of good over evil. Itis considered the single most im-portant fes!val across the con-tours of Indian diversity beingcelebrated across India withsome regional nuances. Over the last two decades or so anumber of emergent issues suchas environmental pollu!on andglobalisa!on have been linked toDiwali. This grandeur associatedwith the celebra!ons of Diwaliand the usages of firecrackersemi%ng toxic gases and crea!ngsound pollu!on have been sub-ject to the ire of various environ-mental groups. This has led to aheated debate where customsand tradi!ons have been placedjuxtaposed to the issues of theenvironment. Historically Diwali has never quitebeen the ‘fes!val of firecrackers’as it is today. The environmental

ac!vists say Diwali was ini!allycelebrated by ligh!ng ‘diyas’ andperforming rituals to mark theoccasion without much of apredicament. Diwali has evolved,firecrackers have become an in-tegral part of the celebra!ons.This is where the fes!val hascome at loggerheads with the en-vironment. Each year alarming levels of pol-lu!on are recorded all across thecountry, the genesis of this pollu-!on being the burs!ng of crack-ers. The firecrackers industryintrinsically linked with the Diwalicelebra!ons have also caught theire of child rights groups whohave alleged that child labor isbeing rampantly used in the man-ufacturing units exploi!ng andexposing them to inhumaneworking condi!ons which lead topermanent psychological andphysical harm. However, on the flipside, the ma-jority of the people who cele-brate Diwali believe that the waycelebra!ons are against arbitrary

limita!ons upon the celebra!ons.They believe that instead of try-ing to curb pollu!on on a singleday it is be$er to address theissue of environmental pollu!onon an everyday basis. The rela-!onship between the rates ofpollu!on and growing popula!onas whole should be controlledand awareness should be spread,making sure that laws are abidedby and benchmarks are met. Thus, it is evident that the envi-ronment pays a price for cultureand vice versa. Electronic lightsthat run on green energy to makeDiwali eco-friendly can be used.The maximum pollu!on duringDiwali happens due to the smokethe crackers. Diwali is best de-scribed as the fes!val of light andnot unbearable sounds. All theplas!c and non-explosivegarbage separately should be col-lected so that it can be disposedappropriately.May this Diwali burn all the bad!mes and enter us into good!mes.

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Boris Yeltsin once said, “It isespecially important to en-courage unorthodox think-

ing when the situation is critical.At such moments, every newword and fresh thought is moreprecious than gold.” Here is a per-sonal experience of how educa-tion is always a blend of bothintelligence and character.The rigorous and challenging cur-riculum at school has alwaystaught me to think critically in allmy subjects and projects. Wehave been trained to reason,analyse and evaluate in all oursubjects. However, the true expe-rience of critical thinking cameabout when I was part of a socialservice project called ‘PlaybackTheatre’, an interactive, sponta-neous form of art between theaudience, the stage actors andthe musicians.My school in Delhi had organisedone such event where we had toperform with an audience ofpoor workers, living in a shelter.Most of them had been laid offdue to recession and were penni-less and homeless. Their moodwas one of despair and sorrow. Inoticed that while charitabletrusts came forward with dona-tions in cash and kind, there wasno emotional support for them.They could not unburden them-selves to a mental health expertbecause of lack of funds. Beingtold to watch a play was not veryexciting for them.We had received minimal trainingon this kind of drama and therehad been no rehearsals. There

was a musician on one side and afew actors on stage, in a minimalsetting. We invited a member ofthe audience to come and sharehis life story with us. He was un-comfortable at first but graduallywarmed up and began his heartrending tale of abject poverty inhis village, of paying an un-scrupulous agent to get him a jobin Delhi, of leaving his sick child

and wife behind and of being re-moved from his job and not hav-ing the means to go back home.The story spoke of inner grief andhopelessness. We had to enactthe scenes as he spoke. It was anextremely challenging task for meas an actor.The first step was listening. I hadto focus, to concentrate and tolisten with my mind and body. Ihad to put aside my ownthoughts and think from the par-ticipant’s point of view. It was noteasy to think afresh especiallysince I had never experienced thekind of life he was describing.The next step was improvising. Ilearnt to plunge into the storyand enact the scenes by lettinggo of my own ideas and breath-ing a new life into the story. I hadto think on my feet to keep pacewith the other man’s thoughtsand speech. I had to figure outthe essence of the story, under-stand its pathos, analyse it and

convey it to the audience effec-tively. I became my ownscriptwriter, my own choreogra-pher and my own director. Theentire process had to be done onthe spot. I had to think out of thebox to do justice to the story. En-acting the story of the unfortu-nate person was a characterbuilding exercise for me. I learntto value my own privileged up-bringing as well as feeling a senseof achievement because as manysad stories were brought to life,the audience connected witheach other and built humanitar-ian relationships with everyonepresent. They were able to sheda bit of their suffering because itwas cathartic for them to talkabout their lives in a safe unpres-sured environment. The entireconcept of Playback Theatre wasto foster community support andbring about a social change.As a performer and as a person,this kind of acting sharpened mymind, made me look for hiddendepths in another person andtune in to a lot of unspoken yetimportant things in a man’s life.Improvisation and acting extem-pore have honed my skills of per-ception and memory. I learnt toempathise with the underprivi-leged members of society as I ac-tually lived out their stories withthem. I realised that it was notenough to send impersonal do-nations but to personally get in-volved and put in great effort toalleviate their suffering. My focusshifted from friends and collegeto society as a whole.

An education: Critical thinkingVarshita Rao

“Everybody is a genius. But if youjudge a fish by its ability to climba tree, it will live its whole life be-lieving that it is stupid.” - AlbertEinstein.Creativity is at the heart of every-thing we seek in an individual.The students of Manipal Univer-sity express their creative ca-dences through Insight. As thename suggests, Insight is an or-ganisation that was establishedby two students of Manipal Insti-tute of Technology to fill in the

gap between the civil communityand the businessmen. Nitin Agar-wal and Kanishka Prakash spear-headed Insight. The idea wassparked in April 2011 and sincethen these two guys have beenworking rigorously on the idea.Nitin Agarwal said, “It took a lotof hard work, patience and per-severance to make this idea liveand feasible in front of us”. It’s anorganisation that places empha-sis on all age groups. Until now,Manipal and Udupi have benefit-

ted through Insight. Moreover,Insight is eco- friendly as the ad-vertising is only done online andthe use of flyers is prohibited. Atpresent, Insight comprises of

seven members and seeks mem-bership of more participants. Asquoted from Nitin Agarwal, Co-founder, "We have a very com-

mitted team here at Insight andwe are lucky enough to work withsuch personalities". Also KanishkaPrakash was quoted saying,"Nothing is impossible if you havea vision and you set your goalsand head towards it".Insight over these few monthshas also developed into an activeplatform where the businessmenand the civil community could in-teract on a regular basis. Thishelps them to foster their ties forbetter understanding and coop-

eration in the society. The mem-bers of Insight have pledged to dothe same. However, the numberof members in Insight is minis-cule.Insight has also spread itself onthe cyber space to get in touchwith more students who wouldrender their services. They con-duct online events such as Quizand many more. Insight hasproven enough to be resourcefulentrepreneurial experience tomany.

Students initiative into an ‘Insight’ of creative cadences

My favourite hobby, isreading. The sentencecolloquially is about as

frequently heard as the class-fishmarket analogy is in the class.We’ve all read Rowling. We’ve allread Coelho. We’ve all readChetan Bhagat. We’ve all gonethrough the enchantment thatonly Blyton could provide. How-ever, not everyone is well read.Ipso facto, there is obviouslysomething missing in our readingculture.Possibly the biggest reason forthis is that a person today is notthe same person who would befound on the streets of VictorianLondon (and get mauled by Jackthe Ripper). People are differentnow. With every single bit oftechnology aimed squarely atmaking man lazier, the attentionspan of an average person todayis also shrinking along with theworld itself. What could an ideabe? It varies from book to book.For Edmond Dantes, it took sev-eral years to learn how pointlessvengeance really is. For Athos,Porthos and Aramis, it was Unity.Dorian Gray had to learn thehardest lesson of them all: Vanityis a sin we can do without.Tithonus had to suffer for eter-

nity by gaining immortality, andChanakya designed an ideal state.Books impart wisdom, which initself, is cheap at any price.Come to think of it, a three-hourmovie sounds much more ap-pealing than the book it’s basedon. The bit we forget is that film isa cheap substitute for the humanimagination.Aristotle opposedthe entire concept of a script ashe felt that ‘no word can substi-tute a thought’.Most small towns in India aremissing books. The average num-ber of books in a household is 10,which is a sad number to look at.Reading sessions are a thing ofthe past, and the word ‘philoso-phy’ is more of a synonym to theword ‘boring’.Manipal is a perfect example ofthe ‘Reading Needed’ syndrome.The college library at MIT, a col-lege with thousands of students,does not have a single book of lit-erature. It’s not the fact that text-books don’t teach, or that theyare useless, but the whole pointof a textbook is to study to dowell. The perspective changesand the purpose of reading de-feated. Before ‘Bookmark’opened up, the only places onecould grab something to readwere Nehru Library, a couple ofbooksellers near Tiger Circle, andhawker selling pirated copies op-posite the KMC Trauma Centre.A book can teach, it can en-lighten. But it can do so only if weuse it in such a way. Otherwise itis just a bunch of papers boundtogether to kill boredom.

Plight of the BookAbhijit Prasad

“ Educa!on is always ablend of both intelligenceand character ”

Team am Plus

My journey to TriundThis was my journey up !ll

the laps of Himalayas. Itstarted from my home

town New Delhi !ll Dharamshala.We took a bus from Delhi; it tookus twelve and a half hours toreach there.My friends and I took abus from New Delhi toDharamshala. Westayed in Mcleodganjfor two days, visitedsome amazing placesout there, saw somebeau!ful nature aroundus and also visited DalaiLama temple inDharamshala. On thethird day we all startedour trek to Triund whichwas the basic highlightof our trip. Triund is some 3000feet above sea level. We startedour trek at 9 in the morning and ittook us five and a half to six hoursto complete the trek. It was oneof the most adventurous treks Iever had. Walking on the narrow-est of the paths and climbingrocks was one of the best experi-ences I had. Our trek was pre"ydi#cult and !ring but all of us

were so excited to be at Triund sowe kept moving. We took pausesin between to drink water andtake some rest. A$er that 5 and ahalf hour trek everyone was soexhausted but once we reachedTriund, all our pains just disap-

peared in a second because ofthe sight we saw.Once we reached Triund, westarted organising for our stay be-cause it is a tough job to get ac-commoda!on where there are nohotels , lodges ,etc . All we couldmanage was 2 tents. In Triundthere is only one shop which haseverything on it from chocolatesto chips. In that shop you only get

Maggie, dal and rice for food.The surrounding was white as allthe mountains were covered byclouds. We all prayed that itwouldn’t rain because theweather gets very aggressivewhen it rains and blizzard is a pos-

sibility. Once we reached,all of us had tea and im-mediately le$ to hunt forwood for bonfire in thenight. As the night camecloser it started becom-ing very cold, so westarted our bonfire.The feeling was one of akind. But nature didn’tcooperate and we had toface a blizzard. We sat inour tents and waited forthe blizzard to pass, and

a$er half an hour it got clear. Weall got out of our tents and lookedup and it was a ‘bed of stars’. Itfelt like we could touch them.Waking up at dawn and lookingthe orange snow was one of thebest mornings I ever had. A$er aquick pause for snack we alltrekked back to Dharamshala.And that was the end of our ad-venturous trip.

Manvendra chauhan

FIFA 2012 hits Manipal gaming zone

The orange snow at Triund

With the launch of FIFA12, one of the mostawaited !tles in the

FIFA franchise, all enthusias!cfans of the long running seriescan now finally get their hands ona copy. There has been wide-spread an!cipa!on to see if thepublishers, EA Games, have deliv-ered what they promised. Andthe result is nothing short of rev-olu!onary. With this new releasea few new features have been in-troduced.The graphics have been consider-ably improved and player realismhas been taken to a new levelwith facial anima!ons and playerbehaviour cranked up. With theall new close control feature, theplayer now has the ability to havebe"er control over the ball andcan now get out of !ght situa-!ons with a li"le skill applied.The player Impact Engine is aphysics engine built to deliverreal-world physicality in every in-terac!on on the pitch. And the

most important new feature istac!cal defending which makesdefending harder and realis!c.Defending against the CPU AI(CPU Opponent) is now tougherand incudes the use of tac!cs andpa!ence. And overall the CPU AIis more intelligent and organised,making decisions on the spot ac-cording to the situa!on. The on-line game modes too have had amajor revamp with a new addi-

!on being the EA Sports FootballClub, the new social networkingservice for FIFA players.With the Indian release coincid-ing with the interna!onal release,fans of the game can grab theircopy to get into the ac!on rightaway. It is available on all majorpla%orms including PC, XBOX 360and the PS3. It retails at Rs 999for the PC version and Rs. 2499for the console versions.

Siddharth Naidu

The latest edition of the long running series

Courtesy: Internet

Rain, gloom and doomNicholas Nunes

Alot of things have changedover the few years in Mani-pal and Udupi. But their

factor of rainfall has been veryconsistent. The case is very di&er-ent this year. As compared to lastyear, or be"er yet, the past fewyears for that ma"er, the rainfallreceived this year has been notonly inconsistent in pa"ern, butalso very less.From what can be seen in the sta-!s!cs, it is pre"y clear that closeto consistent pa"erns in rainfallover the district have followedover the past few years (2006-2010). Rainfall has been verysteady and some point, in veryhuge amounts too. This yearhowever, the rainfall in the dis-trict has seen a massive declineand a very inconsistent pa"ern ofrainfall and the weather.The !me between July and De-cember in the Udupi district areconsidered to be the coolestmonths in the region rangingfrom temperatures of 19 degreesup to a highest of 30 degrees. Theclimate is usually backed by agloomy atmosphere. But this yearhas seen less rain with an in-crease in climate temperature thehighest reaching 36 degrees andthe lowest being 27 degrees justbefore midnight.“The climate and weather this!me around is horrible,” says

Jacob, a student from Mexico.“It’s been very di&erent as com-pared to the last two years that Ihave been studying here”. He alsostates that the weather condi-!ons this !me makes him very!red and he is disappointed tooas this is the !me he looks for-ward to the most when here.The cobbler who works in theTiger Circle junc!on said, “It isvery di&erent this !me becausethe same !me last year, I wasstruggling to remove the waterthat flooded my shop and got allshoes wet. This !me it is be"erfor me as it rains very less, but theclimate is too hot for me to workin. So I get !red soon”.The change in climate has alsobrought about sickness in the stu-dents residing in the area. Stu-dents are a&ected by commoncold and a fever. “During my firstmonth in Manipal, I was excitedas it rained almost every day”,says Aparna, a first year studentfrom MIT. “But now the changein climate and the sudden heathas caused me to catch an an-noying cold”.However, on a bright side, the dis-trict has seen a change in the lastweek as it has started to rainagain. But whether it is a goodthing or not, considering the in-consistency of the weather pat-terns this year, only !me will tell.

Opp. MIT, Below CCD, Manipal. Contact- 0820 4295434

This man with a colourfullungi and a guitar in handnever fails to impress the

audience when he is on stage.With a personality just as colour-ful, Raghu Dixit has followersfrom world over. He has a Mas-ter’s degree in Microbiology andis a trained Bharatnatyam dancer(Vidwat in Bharatanatyam). He isthe founder of the band RaghuDixit Project and Antaragni. Hetalks to Natasha Mendon aboutthe music release of his first Bol-lywood movie ‘Mujhse Fraand-ship Karoge’. Here are excerptsfrom the interview.

You are a trainedBharatanatyam dancer andhave a masters in microbiology,why the switch to music consid-ering your conservative back-ground?My love for music grew out of apetty argument in college. I learntto play the guitar on my own, thechords, everything for just onesong. I won the challenge thatwas thrown at me, but in theprocess I realised the joy of musicand this is what got me hookedon to it.You do a lot of fusion music. Howimportant is it to fuse elementsfrom different genres of music?Is the ethnic flavor is lost some-where during the process?I disagree with your last question.There is no fusing of elements –just what we all are today. Cul-tures come together and we canstill hold on to our roots. The in-

ternet revolution tells us about somany different cultures and wetake elements from that and usethem in our music. The ethnic fla-vor doesn’t get diluted. It’s allabout adapting and adopting. Wepresent traditional poetry in acontemporary format.Is ‘Antaragni’ different from the‘Raghu Dixit Project’ in terms ofmusic?The Raghu Dixit Project is moreor less an extension of Antaragni.Members changed and so did thesense of music. The Raghu DixitProject has a very tribal, folk rockfusion kind of music.How was your journey from theKannada industry to Bollywood?Satisfying I’d say. We have done alot of hard work and it’s beenfrustrating. It’s been a patientwait with perseverance, whichworks out for me. Bollywood isjust the beginning. I’ll take up

whatever big opportunities comemy way.Was it disheartening that youdidn’t get a break in Bollywoodearlier on despite your interna-tional fame?I never tried for film work. ‘Psy-cho’ happened by accident. Allbig opportunities came my waythemselves. Performing live iswhat I do. No frustration regard-ing the lack of film song offers.How did ‘ Mujhse FraandshipKaroge’ happen? How do youthink the audience has receivedthe songs?The youth have received it verywell. It is a generation thatspends so much time on Face-book. Oh, very good response thesongs got. The movie appeals tothe sensibilities of that agegroup. Most have appreciated mywork. Fans asked me to not sellout in Bollywood. (He laughs)

‘Mysore se aayi’ is a popularsong. Is it dedicated to anyone?It’s a cheap mish mash of varioussongs. None of them are original.But now when I look back,Mysore is like my girl. It’s myhometown.What inspires your lyrics?I do not write lyrics anymore. Pro-fessional lyricists do that for mebecause I exhausted my Hindi vo-cabulary after 2 songs itself. Iwork with the lyricists and tellthem what concept they need towork with.You’re a folk rock star. Is yourtarget audience mainly theyouth or other age groups aswell?People from 8 to 80 listen to mysongs. We have fans from everygroup. The youth loves the musicand the older crowd like the factthat we are using traditional po-etry for our lyrics.

Manipal is a steadilygrowing town. Of latethe area to undergo the

fastest evolution has arguablybeen the Manipal-Udupi Road.Lots of shops, branded retail out-lets and vehicle dealerships dotthe place. One such node of evo-lution is ‘Attill’, a family restaurantthat opened up next to L’Oreal Fsalon.For a town that runs on its stu-dent population, a new place toeat is about as exciting as a newtoy is to a four year old. Attill, inthis case does more than its bit toincrease it alarmingly with itsdecor, so that when you take yourseat as the waiter pulls out thechair for you (which to me is an-other pleasant first in Manipal),you begin to think that this tod-dler of a town may just havelearnt to walk. Good, snug seat-ing, ample light, plush interiors,and well groomed and uniformedstaff, Attill reminds one of whatrestaurants are really like. Theambience scored.The culinary selection at Attill ismostly Indian and Chinese. Wedecided to start our food de-cathlon by ordering a plate of

Chicken Lollypops. It took eter-nity but turned out to be worththe wait. They were pleasantlygenerous with the schezwansauce, which made them deli-cious. For the main course we de-cided to shift to Indian andordered a Chicken Nawabi, aChicken Butter Masala, a PaneerPasanda and a Chicken DumBiryani. This took even longer toprepare. The long wait gave ustime to reflect on some of thecons at Attill.There turned out to be manythings we had missed. The bar,for instance, was just a counterwith a guy surrounded by bottlesof punch and mocktails. Maybethey are biding their time till theymanage to get a liquor license.But then in Manipal and Udupi,wines are colour coded andCabernets and Merlots are thesame thing.Reading the mocktail menu, Icame to the conclusion that theguy who named the drinks did itto play a prank. I could almost seehim leering at me if someone de-cided to call the waiter and askedhim to ‘Give it to me baby’. Whywould anyone name a non alco-

holic beverage THAT?Thankfully, my thoughts were in-terrupted by the aroma of thefood, which just came. We divedright in. The chicken was ex-tremely tender, and the gravywas just right in flavour. However,it would have been much betterhad the pieces not been bone-less. The pasanda was made well,but was a tad bit too sweet,maybe they use pineapple in-stead of papaya skin to tenderiseit, but you are your best judge.After taking care of the curries, Iturned my hungry eye towardsthe Chicken Dum Biryani that wasbeing brought in innocently. Itturned out to be delicious, andmore than made up for the slightproblems the place really had.All in all, Attill’s a decent place.Great food, good ambience, andgood value for money if youaren’t a student living on a pocketallowance. Oh, and I almost for-got. In case you order a fruit milk-shake, make sure you tell them tomake it sweet since they don’tadd sugar on their own. Also,they don’t accept Master/Mae-stro cards. That said, do visit At-till. Happy Snacking!

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The Ghazal maestro’s deathwas the no. 1 trending topicon the popular site- Twitter,

for quite some time. That provesthat his music was not just popu-lar with the older generation.Used to the Bollywood beats, thedepth of a Jagjit Singh ghazalwere not exactly appreciated bymy young, untrained ears. Cer-tain experiences of life made meappreciate the legend.When I found out about hisdeath, I wasn’t shocked. He washaving medical problems for awhile and his fans were preparedfor the deep void in Indian musicthat his loss would create. Still,the news did have its sting.How can one not feel good, lis-tening to the explanation thatyou hear from the maestro aboutillogical love in ‘Hoshwalon...‘?

How can one listen to ‘TumkoDekha toh yeh khayaal aaya…‘without day dreaming? How canone not feel the longing and painof ‘Woh Kaagaz ki kashti... ?’How can one suddenly not feelthe deep empathy coupled witha little bit of humour in while lis-tening to, ‘Tum itna jo muskuraarahe ho…‘? The list of variousfeelings and emotions that hisvarious songs evoke are endless.In spite of giving the world excel-lent gifts in the form of his voice,Jagjit Singh himself did not havea very pleasant encounter withlife. On 28 July 1990 his only 21-year old son died in an accident.Soon after, Jagjit Singh’s wife,Chitra Singh (also a renownedGhazal singer) quit singing.Jagjit Singh had very strong opin-ions on the state of Indian musicin the current scenario. He saidthat there was no shape to thekind of music that was now pro-duced.The Ghazal maestro’s death doesnot mean his music is dead.That’s the thing with artists. Theyare immortal through their bodyof work. I sincerely hope andpray that his soul finds peace.

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The 2011-12 Barclays PremierLeague season kicked offearly in August adding three

new teams replacing the rele-gated West Ham United, Black-pool and Birmingham City. TheFootball League Championshipwinners, Queens Park Rangersalong with runners-up NorwichCity were given automatic pro-motion. Swansea City was pro-moted only after beating ReadingF.C in the Championship play-offfinal.The top of the league table hassuffered instability amongst the‘Big 4’. Manchester City is tryinghard to pave its way within the‘Big 4’ of the EPL, namely, Man-chester United, Chelsea, Arsenaland Liverpool. Dethroning Liver-pool from last seasons’ fourthspot, Manchester City made clearthat they ought to be taken seri-ously. This season isn’t any differ-ent! Starting off brilliantly,Manchester City is currently atthe top of the league table aheadof Manchester United only bytwo points. In the third spot isChelsea who hasn’t really startedoff the way they would havehoped for. Their new Manager

André Villas-Boas has only justbegun working his magic andafter a rather slow start, every-thing seems to be picking up forChelsea. Newcastle United cur-rently fourth in the league tablehas caught everyone’s attentionas they didn’t make it to top halfof the league table last

Manchester United’s drawwith Liverpool has left themat the second spot, behind

Manchester City who domi-nated against Aston Villa in

their 4-0 home victory.

season. Fifth place Liverpool hashad its ups and downs but lately,

they have been playing somequality football. Tottenham Hot-spur, Aston Villa, Stoke City, Nor-

wich City and Arsenal sum upthe top half of the league table.

Now you may be wonderingwhatever happened to ArsenalF.C. Well, unlike what their namesuggests, Arsenal has run out ofammunition. Currently at thetenth spot, Arsenal manager Ar-sene Wenger faced a lot of criti-cism after the departure oftalented players, Francesc Fabre-

gas and Samir Nasri. To pipedown the heat he faced fromangry fans after the humiliating 8-2 defeat at the hands of United,Wenger bought experienced play-ers like Mikel Arteta, Yossi Benay-oun and Per Mertesacker into thesquad. With this addition, Arsenalhas managed to pick up threewins. Wigan Athletic, BlackburnRovers and Bolton Wanderers arecurrently in the relegation zone.So much for the season details,now how is Manipal dealing withthe EPL? You would find your an-swer every weekend at crampedup pubs where you would find aninfuriated Chelsea fan flipping offa Manchester United fan only be-cause his team failed to win. Gen-erally, people take small doses ofdrugs for momentary adrenalinerush, which probably lasts 20minutes but in Manipal, all youhave to do is walk in to a pub ona weekend during an intense rivalfootball match and I assure you,you will get your adrenaline boostwhich will last you 90 minutesand the doctors’ approve of it.The imbalance amongst the top 4league standings guarantees anexciting season.

MMoorree aaccttiioonn,, mmoorree ddrraammaa iinn EEPPLLNeale Saldanha

Manipal: This weekend Manipalfelt an adrenaline surge, as theannual athle!cs meet was organ-ised by the Manipal College ofNursing on 15 and 16 September.Mr. S. D. Ishan the 12-!me na-!onal shot-put champion encour-aged and inspired the younggathering by his words of wisdomand the likes of Registrar Dr. G. K.Prabhu made their enthusias!cpresence felt throughout the pro-ceedings.The lamp was lit, na!onal anthemsung with vigour and the girlssweated it out at 9 a.m. in themorning for the 3000 metresrace, while the boys pumped itout for the 5000 metres and the

tempo was up with nice musicblaring in the background and re-freshments at hand. The meetwent on for two days with stu-dents of all colleges under Mani-pal University par!cipa!ng togive their best.There was Javelin throw, Shot Put

, Relay for both men and women,Long Jump, Triple Jump,800 me-tres – just to name a few, and thestudents made it look like a carni-val. Few old records weresmashed and they include the800 metres race, Long Jump(which was a whooping 12.89

metres), and both the records formen and women in 400 metreswent down. Girls stole the showin the 1500-metre race takingdown the previous record, whilethe boys just stormed in the 5000metres.The 100 metres was the lastevent; Sujatha (MCON) stole theshow clocking in at 14.53 sec-onds, while Lean (MIT) followedwith 14.63 seconds. MICianNishara clocked in 14.76 seconds.The finale was a scorcher with the!tans clashing to be the fastestaround, it was the perfect climaxfor the ac!on packed event withYasin (MIC) at lane 1, Arpan(WGSHA) lane 2, Nanjappa (MIM)

lane 3, Alden (MIT) lane 4, Nabeel(MUTD) lane 5, Madhana(MCOAHS) lane 6, Emmanuel(MCOAHS) lane 7 and Yashraj(MIT) on lane 8. Alden was thefastest with 11.82 seconds, whileNanjappa and Arpan clocked in at11.85 seconds and 11.90 secondsrespec!vely.The prizes were distributed by thedignitaries. Mrs. Sulochana, headof Sports council, MCON, o"eredthe vote of thanks and accordingto the overall points tally amongstboys, MIT was the victor. MCONbagged the same for its girls’team and due to their overall per-formance, MCON athle!c teamwas the overall champion.

SSppoorrttss FFiieessttaa:: MMUU iinntteerr--ccoolllleeggee AAtthhlleettiiccss MMeeeettMichael Edegar

Manipal: The Manipal University(MU) Inter Collegiate BadmintonMen & Women Tournament2010-11, was held from 7-8 Octo-ber 2011 at the Manipal Instituteof Technology’s (MIT) BadmintonCourt. There were21 teams(Men) and 17 teams (Women)from various colleges of ManipalUniversity.Winners were from MIT - Team A(Men) and MMMC (Women),who stand victorious amongsttheir opponents MUTD (Men)and MIT – Team A (Women). Thewinners from the tournament willbe selected to be a part of theMU Team. Dr. H.B. Kemparaj, Di-rector of Physical Education, MIT

says, “There is not much differ-ence between last year’s and thisyear’s tournament. The newteams seem to be good this year.”The best 8-10 players for the finalselection of the Manipal Teamshall be called. There will be acoaching camp for players andonly six of them will be selected.” Women’s Category: Thelma Betsyand Aizan Izzati, 3rd of MMMC,played well versus the MIT - TeamA (Scores: 2-0) in the women’scategory. Betsy says that shepractices once a week and whenthere is a competition close athand. Izzati says, “I am not plan-ning to play for Manipal Univer-sity Team because my study herefinishes by February 2012.” “I feelreally happy,” Izzati commented.Raksha Pai, first-year of MIT, whoplayed as the opponent said, “Mymain weakness was my nervesand I’ll try to improve on that andplay many tournaments in thecoming years.” Men’s Category:Shravan Sashank,first-year of M.Tech, had a veryclose match versus MUTD(Scores: 3-2).Sashank said, “In thefinals, we made a strategy to beatthe opponent and it was success-ful.” He goes on to say, “I am inthe first year of M.Tech, so I wantto get into the university teamnow itself, because next year Imight not get a chance as I will bebusy with my project work.”

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Arash Dumasia

Enthusiast sprinters at the annual MU athletics meet

A player in action at theMIT Recreation Centre

Nicholas Nunes

Anand Mathad

Manipal hosts a variety of cui-sine including its own plethoraof street food delicacies rangingfrom Mumbai style vadapav toKolkota style puchkas. Manipal

street food menu has it all. Thepopular street food joints areo!en seen swarming andbuzzing with students espe-cially in the evening "me.

This food is delicious, a goodsnack and budget friendly. Thesimple, yet exo"c flavours ofstreet food make street foodhighly popular. Thus, the cul-tural importance of the flavoursof street food is fragile.Press Cart is a small cart situatedclose to Manipal Ins"tute ofCommunica"on and ManipalPress. It’s open from 4 pm to12:30 am making it popularamongst students who feel hun-gry at night.It o#ers a range of food fromKeshto, idli-sambar to its special-ity of cheese bun samosa andbun masala. Star"ng with Rs 10for mixture masala to Rs 30 fromcheese bun samosa, it is reason-able and tasty and is accompa-nied with an ever smiling Presscart Anna, as the students callhim lovingly.

Priyanka Kumbhat goes on a food expedi"on to "ngle her taste buds, explore the thriving streetsof Manipal and experience the street food culture in this student town.

Cornered food stall of Press Cart AnnaSituated on the road leading toMIT gate from Kamath circle, it isa chaat and sweets corner. Verypopular amongst students espe-cially the ones residing in the hos-tels. This chaat corner is alwaysseen buzzing with students. Frompani-puri to bhelpuri, you don’thave to spend over Rs 20 for onedish. Samosa chat being the con-stant favourite amongst the stu-dents is really filling.. “As aforeigner, I get to taste the Indianjunk food at a minimal cost. It

makes me happy” says SamarthShukla, MUTD who is a big TiwariChat fan and a regular. “I go therejust to eat the mouth mel"nggulab jamuns.”Why forget sweets? Street foodo#ers mouth mel"ng gulaba ndkala jamuns. Even hot jalebis withmilk and rasmalai to thandathanda cool ice golas and limesodas. I like to have pani puri onthe streets. Dia Mirza likes it in a5 star hotel becauseit’s hygienic.You choose now!

Mouth watering chaats at Tiwari

A new addi"on to Manipal streetfood, it’s a guy with a handcartselling ice golas all around Mani-pal. Since he’s moving all around,there’s no fixed place to find him,but this cart is usually spo$edoutside CCD around 8 everyday.Star"ng from Rs 10, the ice golasare really popular especially asthe help kill the heat.Kala kha!a , rose to lemon and

orange. This handcart has all theflavours. “Good quality golas forcheap reminds me of Juhu Chow-pa".” says Vinoda Mendon, ateacher in Infant Jesus school.The colours on the cart a$ractnot only children but also college-going students and the locals ofManipal. The gola guy gets hisraw materials specially fromMumbai to maintain originality.

Bombay Famous ice gola

Situated at Tiger Circle, next to Amita bakery, aretwo vadapav stalls face to face giving each othertough compe""on. This place opens by four o’clockand is so popular amongst students that you don’tget vadapavs by seven o’clock.Bhaji’s vadapavs, onion pakodas and madhurvada,you can have it all. You can have a vadapav for Rs 5or a plate of bhajis for Rs 10.Though, street food is a cheap, tasty and an alter-na"ve when you’re low on cash; it should not beconsumed on a daily basis keeping ones health in

mind as it can make one lethargic. According to theFood and Agriculture Organisa"on, nearly 2.5 billionpeople consume street food on a daily basis.Manipal o#ers a wide variety of street food from allover India and Nepal which sa"sfies and "ngles thehuge interna"oal crowd taste buds. From frankies,vadapavs, bun masalas, idli to puchkas, chaats,momos and sweets.One gets a huge variety of chatpata food when it

comes to the Manipal street food and can never bedisappointed with what Manipal o#ers.

Exquisite indian burger at vada pav wala