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‘I know where I'm going and I know the truth,and I don't have to be what you want me to

be. I'm free to be what I want.’ Muhammed Aliwas not just a boxing legend: he was a man

who inspired millions

PRETTY IN FACE, GRITTY IN FIGHT, WITTY WITH WORDS

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The former championtrounced Argentina’s GiselaDulko 6-0, 6-1 in less thanan hour in the first round ofthe Australian Open.

P30 ANOTHER TEMPLEHEIST

In the sixth case reportedin three months a temple

in Kukatpally wasburgled last night

PREITY’S CAR DENTEDAT OPRAH PARTY The party to welcome inter-national talk show queenOprah Winfrey turned uglywhen paparazzi damagedthe car of Preity Zinta.

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Students are not drums forpoliticians and police to beaton. We’re no longer goingto take it lying down,student leader KrishankManne tells Postnoon

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012 2Spirit of Twin CitiesPage Two

Big Cinemas, Ameerpet, 30581470; Cinemax, Banjara Hills, 44565555; Cine Planet , Kompally, 61606060; INOX, Banjara Hills, 447677770,Prasads, Tank Bund Rd, 23448888; PVR, Punjagutta, 08800900009; Talkie Town, Miyapur, 40214175; Tivoli, Secunderabad 27844973CINEMAS

Mississippi BurningMississippi Burning is a 1988American crime drama filmloosely based on the FBI investi-gation into the real-life murdersof three civil rights workers inthe US state of Mississippi in1964. The film focuses on twofictional FBI agents (portrayedby Gene Hackman and WillemDafoe) who investigate the mur-ders.

Where: Prasad Labs Preview Theatre, Banjara Hills

When: January 17, 6.30pmContact: (040) 23608015

Childhood memoryKites are a childhood memory ofcarefree life, of cheery sunnydays .They have become ametaphor of soaring freedom, offlights sky-high, towering abovethe humdrum of life. Artkitesare such an expression of festivi-ty and creative vision.

Where: Iconart, Banjara HillsWhen: OngoingContact: (040) 32411554

One loveOne Love is an International exhibition by artists fromaround the world who aim atpromoting humanity and love allover the world.

Where: State Gallery Of Fine Arts ,

When: Ongoing, 11amContact: (040) 32913922

Different strokesTo witness strokes of variouskinds head to Gallery Space. It’san exhibition presenting paint-ings and drawings by variousartists and is being held atGallery Space from December 24.

Where: Gallery Space, Banjara Hills

When: Ongoing, 11am to 7pmContact: (040) 65541836

Martini ‘n musicEnjoy the winter evenings withgrey goose martinis and croonerKelly dishing out your favouritenumbers.

Where: Taj Krishna, Banjara Hills

When: Every EveningContact: (040) 66662323

Cognac and CigarThe Seasons Bar opens up again asa Cigar and Cognac lounge with awide selection of cognac, rarewhiskies, single malts and cigars.

Where: Taj Krishna, Banjara Hills

When: Ongoing, 7pmContact: (040) 66662323

Visual artAn exhibition cum sale ofpaintings by Hari Srinivas. Theexhibition is on display till January30 2012.

Where: VSL Visual ArtGallery, Plot no 100,AP Text Book Colony,Gun Rock Enclave

When: OngoingContact: 9247175135

NumaishA childhood favourite of everyHyderabadi, The All IndiaIndustrial Exhibition is on.

Where: Exhibition Grounds, Nampally

When: Ongoing

My name is MinnuIt is the first solo Art show byactor Kamal Kamaraju on aseries of paintings he has done

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on ‘Minnu’ in 2011. The showwill also launch calendars withKamal’s paintings andwill be exclusively on sale at theMuse gallery. The proceeds fromthis show will be donated to CAPFoundation.

Where: Marriott hotel & Convention Centre, Tank Bund

When: Ongoing, 6pmContact: (040) 27522999

Eat in the darkHave you ever wondered how itfeels to eat in the dark? Comeand experience this. Pay `499 toenjoy a 4-course meal worth`1,000 at Dialogue in the Dark.

Where: Dialogue in the Dark, Inorbit Mall, Hitech City

When: Ongoing, 12.30pmContact: (040) 64603341

Controlled freedomCatch Controlled Freedom, anexhibition of portrait photogra-phy that showcases the works oftwo photographers with contrast-ing approaches to capturing peo-ple — Sucharitha Rao andLakshmi Prabhala.

Where: Alankritha Art Gallery, Kavuri Hills

When: Ongoing, 6.30pmContact: (040) 23113709

DarshanamCatch the “Darshanam” - (AnOde to the Eye). It’s a classicaldance performance by Dr.Ananda Shankar Jayant &ensemble live at TaramatiBaradari.

Where: Taramati Baradari, Ibrahim Bagh

When: January 17, 7.30pmContact: 9848192874

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On entering the Nampallyexhibition ground youwill find people bar-gaining with vendors

over prices on various articles. This is the sceneat the 72nd All India IndustrialExhibition, popularly known asNumaish.

The ambience here is unique.There are many stalls which offercarpets, mats, cushions, bedsheets, pillow covers and otherdecorative items. Tucked amonga series of stalls are specialKashmiri stalls displayingexquisitely embroidered cloth-

selling silk saris, scarves, pashmina shawls, table spread,ethnic bed sheets and lot more.The exhibition boasts of morethan 200 such Kashmiri stallswith variety of products.

Izaz Ali, owner of KashmirHandicrafts, hailing fromSrinagar calls Hyderabad his sec-

ond home. “Numaish is close tomy heart. I used to visitHyderabad with my grandfatherand father in my childhood. Theexhibition was started in PublicGardens and since then, the fam-ily has been buying a stall yearafter year. It’s a three-day longtrain journey to come to the city

of Nizam’s. The hospitality we getfrom the people of Hyderabadmakes our 45 days stay fruitful.Round the year we keep partici-pating in trade fairs throughoutIndia but Hyderabad is close toour hearts because of theresponse we get here”.

“People from all parts of Indiacome here for shopping and forbusiness. But for me, this exhibi-tion is like a winter holiday-cum-business trip. When I am in Hyd erabad for these two months, Iwill be away from severe wintercold of Kashmir and at the sametime it gives me good business,”said Ahmed Rias a dry fruit vendorfrom Kashmir

Canaud House is the oldestkashmiri stall in the exhibition.Surender Kaul, 65, the owner whohas come from Srinagar has madeHyderabad his home. Apart from

the stall in Numaish his family hasa permanent Kashmiri store at L BStadium. “Hyderabad is a part oflife. The culture of Hyderabad isalmost similar to Kashmir. I call itApna Hyderabad. People here arekind hearted. Now the exhibitionis flooded with Kashmiri stalls so now there is much more competition.”

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Kashmiri’s love this ‘Numaish’The culture of Hy de rabad is almostsimilar to Kashmir I callit as Apna Hyderabad.People here are kindhearted.

Surender Kaul, stall owner

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Andhra Pradesh has failed torepresent in the prestigiousRepublic Day celebrations

for the third time in a row.This is the third successive

year that the government hasfailed miserably even after tryingtwice in vain. The informationdepartment which was responsi-ble for presenting the tableau’s forthe State failed to convinceauthorities as they argued that theState has no new theme to present.Last year, the judges for tableauobserved that the theme wasfocusing on the Telangana and itwas not representing the state. TheState Government presented fourthe mes which were rejected.

Sankranthi was the maintheme but the judges did not likeit. The in-charge of the programme of the informationand public relations departmentconfirmed that they did not get theselection this year also. Even in thesecond meet held recently the

state officials could not impressupon the Delhi judges.

Last year, the theme based onCharminar, Bonalu, Ghusadidance by tribal’s and Etikoppakadance from Visakhapatnam werepresented, but the judges opinedthat the theme must represententire Andhra and not one region

or city. In 2010, Lambada dancewas the theme presented. It wasalso rejected. In 2009, Annamayatheme was presented. But thejudges rejected it as it just signifiedRayalseema Region.

Some sources said that morethan the theme, the late submission was the reason.

Covering their lack of creativityone of the officials said that APdoes not have proper lobbying.But the reality is that we lack creativity and freshness in thetheme.

Changes inCabinet soonPostnoon News

Chief Minister N Kiran KumarReddy is in New Delhi for yet

another bid to convince the highcommand for a Cabinet reshuffle.

The PRP of Chiranjeevi is onhis shoulders. But, more stickingpoints are the question of sometroublesome ministers and induc-tion of new faces. And, he has totake into consideration the hostilityof his rival and APCC chief BotsaSatsyanarayana.

Those whom Kiran wants outare: minister for textiles P ShankarRao, minister for minority welfareAhmedulla and stamps and minis-ter for health DL Ravindra, it isreported. While Shankar Rao’s criti-cism of the CM is an open secret,Kiran wants Ahmedulla out so thathe can induct Mohammed Jani,MLC from Guntur. In RavindraReddy’s place, Kiran wants toinduct MLA T Jayaprakash Reddy.The CM has sought an appoint-ment with AICC general secretaryin-charge of AP Gulam Nabi Azadand the CM may leave for Delhi onTuesday evening, sources said. Ifthe CM returns on Wednesday, onecan expect changes on Thursday.

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Governor ESL Narasimhan appearsbusy with two things: the pro-posed Cabinet expansion and the

other is appointment of VCs. The files pertaining to Krishn -

adevaraya University, Pottisree RamuluUniversity, Nannaya University arepending with the chief minister’s office.Appointments to Higher Educationcouncil are also pending. The chief min-ister is fully tied up with the cabinetinclusion, expansion or the reshuffle.

The files of Acharya NagarjunaUniversity, JNTU fine arts, College ofarchitecture are still with the DeputyChief Minister Damodar Raja Narsimha.

The Ministers are already beingpressurised by professors from variousdistricts for these appointments. SomeBC leaders have already represented tothe CM and also the Deputy CM fortheir appointments in the Universities.

Sources with Principal SecretaryEducation, MG Gopal said that thedepartment officials and the Deputychief minister’s office are flooded withrepresentations from various quartersfor the posts in Education Department.

One of the relatives of Deputychief minister in education depart-ment is angling for the post of

Secretary with AP state of HigherEducation council. MG Gopal hasreceived a lot of recommendation let-ters from various quarters to some ofthe positions.

AP’s miserable failure to secure a slot for its tableau in the coveted national Republic Day Parade2012 for the third year in a row has put the entire State and its eight crore populace to shame

REPUBLIC DAY

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State to remain in audience

Lobbying in full swingfor vice-chancellorship

The files of AcharyaNagarjuna University,JNTU fine arts, College of architecture are still withthe Deputy ChiefMinister Damodar RajaNarsimha. The Ministersare being pressurised byprofessors from variousdistricts for theseappointments.

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TNGO leader Swamy Goud was on the forefront of the agitation during the Sakala Janula Samme. This time, he is on the backfoot

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Sudeshna Kokasudeshna.k@postnoon.com

“Iam an Osmania Univ -ersity student and not aterrorist or a Maoist,”spat Krishank Manne,

OU Students Joint Action Council(JAC) spokesperson. “Whateverdemonstration we stage is withinthe campus, why then target uslike criminals?”

But, he does not know that thestretch from the NCC gates to theback gate of OU is often consid-ered a battle ground. This battlebegan in November 2009 in OUand has seen some bloody warsbetween the students and lawenforcers. But, of late it has lost itssteam. Q. OU is a prestigious university.How then did it earn such abloody name for itself?

On November 29, 2009 KCRbegan his fast and we took out arally. It was all peaceful untilStephen Ravindra, IPS officer,lathi-charged us hitting, each stu-dent more than 25 times. That iswhen we retaliated. They had lath-is, teargas and rubber bullets.What did students have? Nothing,except good old stones. We haveclear evidence and visuals frommedia clips that show the policewere the first to start. And, todefend ourselves, we resorted tostone pelting.

There were days when womenconstables were not there and yetthey would drag girls to the wait-ing van. Policemen themselvestorched our vehicles parked in thecampus. On February 14, 2011,when I was examining my bikethat had been damaged by thepolice, a couple of them suddenlycame up from behind and beat meup.

The police force had also dam-aged media vehicles and mediapersonnel as well. The home min-ister accepted their mistake andissued compensation but not oncehave they enquired or heard outour side of the story. Q. Recently, when a few OU stu-dents were watching the movieAarakshan the police arrestedthem. Is it true?

Yes. We went for theIndependence Day celebrationeven out there we were notallowed. Anywhere we go we werebeing chased and arrested. Why?Even at the recent Hyderabad 10 K

run, 400 OU students went for themarch and were arrested. We didnot cause any violence. Seeing usthe public started shouting ‘JaiTelangana’, apart from that we didnot create any ruckus or resort toany violence. But yet we werearrested. Why? Q. Who was responsible for thedamage during the one millionmarch?

Around 500 students camemarching from the OU campus tothe Tank Bund. If we wanted wecould have vandalised the wholeCity but we did not resort to vio-lence. Later, when KCR walked in,the violence started. Students,advocates and general public werethere for four hours and nothinghappened. However, only once thepolitical force arrived all problemsstarted. This is something that oneneeds to think about.Q. Why do we see so many jointaction committees today?

When KCR started his fast,simultaneously many studentcommunities came together andcreated a JAC for the sake of unity.Students emerging as a politicalpower is what politicians did notwant. They wanted students toremain only as pressure groups.Hence to split the power theycame up with different joint actioncommittees.

On Dec 23, 2010 they createdpolitical joint action committees.This joint action committee hasonly TRS and very few BJP leaders.No other party is a part of politicalJAC. Secondly, there are severaldifferences between KCR andKodandaram who is heading thepolitical JAC.

In a democracy power shouldbe vested in all parts of a move-ment. Ideally, there shouldn’t beone leader. However, here by mak-ing small units, we are givingpower to one person who, in thename of democracy is creatinganarchy. KCR and his sons are cre-ating numerous JACs and are drift-ing away from the main move-ment. Today, everybody is workingtowards their own motives and

interests. I strongly believe thatany revolution can be achievedonly when there is unity.Q. Why do OU students have anegative image in the society?

On media channels there arepanel discussions every day, politi-cians from all party are called butstudents are always ignored. Be it anegotiation or a discussion, it isonly politicians at the forefront.Stude nt leaders are never a part ofany of these activities. That’s howwe have been projected by themedia.

The name university itself isvery universal in nature. Anyonecan enter a university but politi-cians are misusing this freedom.They are the ones who haveturned OU into a battle field.Headlines in the media read, ‘agi-tation at OU campus.’ They do notinvestigate who is responsible forthis. Today the OU campus andstudents have a bad name.Because of this we the students arerestricted only to the campusgates. We are being treated like ter-rorists. We are scholars, we do notwant to hold stones, we want a micbut the media has not portrayedthis image.Q. Why do you think there is adelay in achieving a separatestate?

I blamed the Congress party

for this delay. They are draggingthe issue. And also because ofKCR’s double standards. He is con-tradicting his own statements. Heoscillates between strikes andelections.Q. Professor Kodandaram, whomis he supporting?

Being an OU professor he sup-ports politicians and not his ownstudents. What morals is he teach-ing his students by supporting thepoliticians and not us.

One of the primary reasons forthe failure of rail roko is him. Hestands only at one place and dic-tates terms. He is using our shoul-ders to rest his guns and fire. He isnot our head but yet, he is dictat-ing terms to us.Q. What’s the January 17 agitationplan?

In the past, we have been atthe fore front in declaring bandhs,but now we will wait and notblindly agree to whatever thepoliticians order us to do.

We are students we can doanything for a separate state butbefore all that we need to finishour exams. Both a separate stateand our academics are importantto us. Nearly 90 per cent of stu-dents in OU are from a poor back-ground. We cannot risk our aca-demics. We have international stu-dents and the bandh affects themas well.

As a student community werealised that bandhs are not need-ed and we will not support them.

This time we want politiciansto fall in one line and take up theagitation, something that theyhave not been doing. Our supportis there with them but first ouracademics will be given priority.We will support all the parties butnot any one party. Post exams wewill be part of the agitation.Secondly, we will take this move-ment out of the OU campus. Wewill spread it all over.

Plan for OU student JACKrishank says, “There is a civic

war happening via various forms.We will make it a mob agitation,we have done this earlier too butthis time we have decided to act ina mature manner. Very soon citi-zens will lash back at politicians,everyone will be on the streets. Weare just waiting for the frustrationto reach its peak. We may be downbut not completely out.”

He adds, “We have been on thefore front of the agitation and oncea separate Telangana is achievedwe will float a separate party.”

Politicians and police have cheatedus, says Telangana students JAC chief

Students are made fodder for politicking politicians and their minions, the police, says Krishank Manne who suffered police brutalities and political chicanery. He opens his mind to Postnoon

POLITICS

We have been on thefore front of the

agitation and once aseparate Telangana is

achievedwe stu-

dents willfloat a

separateparty

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012 6Campaigns, hard news and spirit of Twin CitiesHyper Local

FABRICATION

CLASSIFIEDS

Indira AtluriIndira.a@postnoon.com

Christopher Kloeble, notedGerman author and screen-play writer takes inspiration

from even the most mundaneobjects, people, or even a sentencehe reads in a book. In a tete-a-tetewith Postnoon, he reveals his pas-sion for writing, and how buildingwords into sentences balances himmentally.

“When I was in the US to partic-ipate in a writing program, I met anIndian journalist who invited me tocome to India — that is whatbrought me here," he explains hisvisit to the country.

He shares his tryst with writingand tells, "My father Til Erwig was anactor and a screenwriter himself. Sohe was open to me becoming a writ-er, and chart my own course of life."

Chri stopher believes that he islucky being German because of thespace that one gives to professionslike writing, as compared to manyothers. "In Germany, the govern-ment supports you, and that makesit easier for one to decide tobecome a writer one fine morning,

and five years later, to do some-thing else," he says.

Interestingly, Chri st opher doesnot like to plan his stories. He says,"Each day is a new day, and I like tosee what comes the next day. I like tostudy the psychology of people andhow they react to different situa-tions."

Christopher has also forayedinto screenplay writing with the filmInclusion and contributes to theGerman newspapers Die Zeit andTageszeitung.

This winner of numerous laurelsand awards sha res his experienceson his first visit to Hyderabad. "Iwent to a show yesterday where twoindividuals were competing witheach other in dance. It was interest-ing to me, as in the country I comefrom, people are more tense — theyare conscious of who might be look-ing at them. And here, I sensed peo-ple having a lighter approachtowards life. I have also visited theCharminar and seen people fromdifferent religions there. Now, I get abetter idea of the problems in bring-ing people tog ether when I see thesheer magnitude of the numbers.

However, after coming here

from New Delhi, I see that the city isless polluted and much warmerthan the Capital." The author ofAmong Loners, If someone knocks,and 'The eternal three', is all set tolaunch his new book AlmostEverything Very Fast in March thisyear, at the Leipzig Book Fair inGermany.

Einstein once said, 'I have no special talent, I am onlypassionately curious'. Novelist and screenwriterChristopher Kloeble is a picture of humility as hedescribes his life and City experience to Postnoon.

THE FACES OF HYDERABADRamachandriah, Corn Seller, Tankbund

Ramachandriah has been selling makka butta(maize corn) at Tankbund for the last 10years and is a familiar face to Hyderabadis

who frequent the area. Ramachandriah was a farmer in

Mahbubnagar. As drought destroyed his crops andeven bore wells failed him, he was forced to bringhis family of four daugh-ters and a son toHyderabad to eke out aliving. Since then thefamily has been living ina rented house inKhairatabad andRamachandriah hasbecome a fixture atTankbund.

Though he makesgood money on Sundaysand holidays a sizeableamount is lost in bribesto traffic police and MCH to let him vend his ware.With great difficulty he got two daughters marriedand the other three children are in a hostel atDilsukhnagar. One of his daughters, Sarswati, hastaken leave from school and hostel and is helpinghim.

He has a debt of around `4 lakh. So far hecould repay about `2 lakh and is hounded by theprivate financers.

PIC: SHIVA KUMAR

A city is defined by thepeople who live andwork in it. Here wetake a look at the

human threads thatmake up our urban

tapestry

GUNTUR: Three senior citizensof same family froze to death dueto severe cold in Gudipudi villageunder Sattenapalli mandal in thisdistrict. The deceased were iden-tified as Kantheti Eshwaramma,Kantheti Mabhu and KanthetiKoteswara Rao.

Meanwhile, theMeteorological Department hadon Sunday warned of continua-tion of cold wave to severe coldwave conditions across the Statein the next two days.

The Director General ofPolice will be availablefor public to representtheir grievances between3 pm and 4 pm on allworking days except incases of his non-avail-ability in PoliceHeadquarters or due toimportant meetings. Itwas also clarified thatthis timing does notapply to those who areseeking prior appoint-ment to meet the DGP.The public is requested toavail the opportunity toget their grievancesredressed.

DGP to hearpublicgrievancesfrom 3 to 4pm

3 of family freezeto death in Guntur

U.Srinivas

Traffic restrictions for PC recruimentThe City will see some traffic

restrictions from tomorrowbetween 4 am and 12 noon fromJanuary 18 to 21 on Necklace Roadin view of the police constablerecruitment.

Traffic coming from VV Statue,Imax and Telugu Talli inten ding toproceed towards Secunderabadvia Jala Vihar, PV Ghat andSanjeevaiah Park will not beallowed at Necklace Rotary andwill be diverted towards Telu guTalli, Ambedkar Statue, Upp erTank Bund, Karbala Maidan.

Traffic coming from Nalla guttaX Road towards Necklace Rotaryvia Necklace Road, SanjeevaiahPark, PV Ghat and Jala Vihar willnot be allowed at NallaguttaBridge and will be divertedtowards Karbala Maid an, UpperTank Bund. Police commissioner AK Khan appea led to the people ofHyderabad to start early and takealternative routes to reach theirdestination.

Memoirs of a multifaceted man

Jagan aide sent tojudicial custodyPostnoon News

The CBI court sent to VijaySai Reddy, the vice-chair-man of Jagati Publications

Pvt. Ltd., promoted by YSJaganmohan Reddy, to judicialcustody till January 31.

Vijay Sai Reddy was namedas the accused no. 2 in the dis-proportionate assets case ofjagan. The CBI special courtextended the custody. The courtposted the hearing on the peti-tion seeking permission to usehis laptop in Jail to January 20.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012 8SpotlightPICS: SRINIVAS SETTY

On Monday night, thehalls of Taramati

Baradari were echoing withthe sounds of sweet music.Hyderabad Literary Festivalorganisers and the GoetheZentrum Hyder abad present-ed to the city Triotonos, aworld jazz band fromFrankfurt, Germany.Triotonos is the merging ofgood-handmade-music from around the globe.

A date

with jazz

Kushmeet and Neha

Sonali

Devendra Surana, Namrita, Nivriti and Mitali

Forging new bonds

Guests at theengagement partyorganised by Arunand Sunita Gaggarfor her daughter

Rupal at TajKrishna on

Monday night.

Aditya and Rupal Kritika, Krithi,Tanvi, Nidhi, Sonal and Chivi Usha Badruka

Amita Desai

Monika Hirmer watchingthe performance

Ramana Gogulaand family

Guests at the concert

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012 9India unveiled India‑View

Actor Amitabh Bachchan drives a car along with son AbhishekBachchan as daughter-in-law and actress Aishwarya RaiBachchan sits with US talk show host Oprah Winfrey in Mumbaion Monday. AFP

MUMBAI: It was an action-packed evening for B-town,thanks to a party to welcomeinternational talk show queenOprah Winfrey here. Preity Zinta,who was on the star-studdedguest list too, enjoyed the party,but it turned into a bad experi-ence when her car ended up get-ting damaged due to paparazzi.

“Would have been a perfectevening until the press jumpedall over the car n nearly gotsome1 killed n my car damagedn scratc hed.. Bachaao! (sic),” shetweeted after coming out of theparty. The damage to her carhappened while she was on herway back home from the bash,which was organised by socialiteParmeshwar Godrej in honour of

Winfrey, who is on her maidenvisit to India. She landed here onMonday. IANS

KOLKATA: Nearly eight months into her stint, WestBengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Mondayinducted two new ministers and reshuffled of portfo-lios, triggering shrill protests from alliance partnerCongress after secretariat sources revealed that wingsof two of its ministers had been clipped.

However, no list of ministerial portfolio was madeavailable to the media till late at night.

According to secretariat sources, Congress minister of state Manoj Chakraborty who hadattacked the chief minister when she asked his partyto walk out of the alliance if it so desired, lost his twoportfolios parliamentary affairs and small and cottage industries.

Chakraborty’s party colleague Abu Hena, the cab-inet minister for fisheries and food processing, wasdivested of the food processing portfolio which wentto Trinamool’s Ujjal Biswas who presently is in chargeof youth affairs.

Both Chakraborty and Hena are fromMurshidabad district, a Congress stronghold whereBanerjee's bete noire and Congress MP AdhirChowdhury holds sway.

Chowdhury, along with Raiganj MP DeepaDasmunshi had led the verbal assault on the chiefminister during the recent Congress-Trinamool spatover renaming of Indira Bahvan, death of farmersand beating of a college principal by Trinamoolactivists in Raganj.

“This is completely unwarranted and unaccept-able to us. We have been sent to the cabinet by thehigh authorities of our party, by (Congress chief)Sonia Gandhi and not by any Tom, Dick or Harry.There is too much dictatorship, it is high time wemoved out of the alliance,” he said.

Chakrabarty also said Congress will contest theupcoming Panchayat elections in West Bengal on itsown.

“There is no question of alliance for thePanchayat elections. We will contest on our own”.

“I had dared to oppose the government’s move torename the Indira Bhavan, that’s why I have beenmeted out this treatment. No matter what I will con-tinue to oppose anything unjust,” said Chakrabartyadding that he will consult his leaders before deciding on accepting whatever the ministry offeredto him. IANS

IMAGE CLEANSING?

A worker washes the picture of Congress President Sonia Gandhi outside AICC headquarters inNew Delhi after a dozen of Ramdev supporters allegedly threw ink on Sonia Gandhi’s poster. PTI

Ayodhya case accusedoppose CBI pleaNEW DELHI: Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) leader L K Advani andhis colleagues accused in the1992 Babri Masjid demolitioncase have told the SupremeCourt that a CBI plea that chal-lenged the quashing of conspira-cy charges against them amou -nted to abuse of process of law.

The Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI) has chal-lenged an Allahabad High Courtorder that upheld the quashingof conspiracy charges againstthem by a Lucknow SpecialCourt (Ayodhya Prakaran).

In their common reply,Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi,Uma Bharti, Vinay Kathiyar andother accused contended thatthe filing of the appeal by the CBIwas barred by time and was anabuse of the process of law.

The apex court bench ofJustice HL Dattu and Justice C KPrasad took exception toAdditional Solicitor GeneralVivek Tankha describing thematter as a famous Babri Masjidcase and said that “it was neitherfamous nor infamous but anincident that had happened”.

The case would come up forfinal hearing March 27.

As senior counsel RaviShankar Prasad, appearing forAdvani and other BJP leaders,told the court that the matterwas barred by time, the courtsaid it would hear the matter.

The Allahabad High CourtMay 20, 2010, upheld the May 4,2001, order of the special court(Ayodhya Prakaran) droppingthe conspiracy charge againstthe former deputy prime minis-ter and his party colleagues inv -olved in the Ayodhya agitation.

The high court had also dis-missed the revision petition bythe CBI.

The CBI challenged beforethe apex court the high courtorder that rejected its plea forslapping conspiracy charges ag -a inst Advani and others. The pr -o be agency moved the apex co -urt after a delay of nine months.

Notice to Advani and otherson the CBI plea was issuedMarch 4, 2011.Following thedemolition of Babri Masjid onDecember 6, 1992, police hadregistered two cases. IANS

Paparazzi dents Preity’scar at Oprah party venue

Would have been aperfect evening until

the pressjumped

over my car nnearly got

someone killedn my car

damaged

Reshuffle likely to spurCongress-Trinamool feud

Trinamool Congress MLA Arup Biswas seeksblessings of West Bengal Chief Minister MamataBanerjee in Kolkata on Monday. PTI

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201210Around the World Beyond Borders

GLOBE AT A GLANCE‘Not ruling out militaryaction against Iran’LONDON: Britain has not ruled out military action against Iran because of thecountry’s “increasingly dangerous” development of nuclear weapons, ForeignSecretary William Hague has said. Haguetold Sky News that all options remainedon the table and that Britain was notadvocating military action but was insteadintensifying sanctions in a bid to bringTehran to the negotiating table.

China gas leak kills 1,injures 30BEIJING: One person was killed andnearly 30 were injured after carbonmonoxide gas leaked in a steel company innortheast China late on Monday night,said local authorities. The leakage occurredin Harbin, capital city of Heilongjiangprovince at around 10 p.m. in Acheng Iron& Steel Co., Ltd., Xinhua quoted a government official as saying.

29 still missing in Italiancruise shipwreckROME: The number of people missingin the Italian cruise shipwreck near thecoast of Tuscany rose to 29, Tgcom24television reported citing local portauthorities.The Costa Concordia liner withover 4,200 passengers on board, ranaground off the Isola del Giglio islandlate on Friday. Earlier reports said at least16 people were missing.

NATO warship rescuesIranian vessel

Sunset on Monday, over the cruiseliner Costa Concordia aground infront of the harbour of Isola delGiglio. AFP

A protester runs with a Romanianflag during an anti-presidentialrally in Piata Universitatii squareBucharest. AFP

BRUSSELS: A NATO warship rescuedan Iranian-flagged vessel over the week-end just days after the vessel was freedfrom pirates by another NATO ship, themilitary alliance stated. According to aNATO statement, the Italian warship ITSGrecale provided help to the Iranian vessel, which reported an engine failure.

BAGHDAD: While thechances of an all-out sectarianwar in Iraq appear slim, vio-lence will remain high and atrisk of worsening if the coun-try’s leaders do not end theirpolitical standoff, experts say.

Iraq has suffered severalmass-casualty attacks directlytargeting communities or sectsin the wake of last month’s USwithdrawal and coincidingwith a political row that haspitted the Shiite-led govern-ment against the main Sunni-backed bloc.

But though the threat ofcivil war is often raised in talkson the country’s future, analystssay an improved Iraqi securityforce coupled with greaterSunni Arab participation in pol-itics and popular opposition tocommunal violence make sucha scenario unlikely.

“This conflict between theleaders will continue,”Mahmud Othman, an indepen-dent MP from the autonomousKurdish region said.

“But fortunately, the peopleare more responsible than theleaders, so I don’t think that’s areal possibility.”

“They have failed the test —they cannot rule the country,

they do not care about nationalinterests ... In the last year, wehave had what was called apartnership government, butreally it has been a crisis.”

Othman warned that secu-rity in Iraq was “much better atthis time last year” and that theattacks would carry on if thepolitical row festered.

Politics and violence areoften seen as linked in Iraq, asinsurgents exploit political fis-sures to exacerbate instability.

Shortly after US forces com-pleted their withdrawal on

December 18, authoritiescharged Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Arab, withrunning a death squad.

Hashemi’s Iraqiya bloc hassince largely boycotted parlia-ment and cabinet, while he hasstayed put in the autonomousKurdish region of northern Iraqthat has so far declined to handhim over to Baghdad.

In the weeks since the rowerupted, Iraq has suffered aspate of violence that has killedmore than 200 people, includ-ing high-casualty attacks on

December 22, January 5 andJanuary 14. The latter two solelytargeted Iraq’s majority Shiitecommunity.

Such attacks, which result inmass deaths, pose a greaterthreat to security than targetedassassinations that insurgentsand militias have pursued inthe past because of emotionsthey stir, according to JohnDrake, a security analyst withprivate security firm AKEGroup.

AKE figures indicate thenumber of attacks in the pastsix weeks are around 50 percenthigher than in the same perioda year ago, but Drake cautionedthat last year’s figure did notinclude the Shiite mourning rit-uals of Arbaeen or the after-math of the US pullout.

The London-based analystwarned: “It’s still a fragile politi-cal system. If people have faithin it, then they will engage in itto resolve their grievances anddisputes.”

“If they feel the politiciansare ineffectual or corrupt theywill try other methods. Themethods that are tried and test-ed in Iraq are tribal methods,which are incompatible withthe state, and violence.” AFP

WASHINGTON: JFormerUtah Governor JonHuntsman has end ed hispresidential campaign, say-ing that “negative and per-sonal attacks” have marredthe Republican race.

Speaking in South Caro li na, Mr Huntsmanendorsed the candidacy offormer Mas sa chusettsGovernor Mitt Romney.

Mr Huntsman receivedjust 17% of the vote in theNew Hampshire primarydespite campaigning there.

He has struggled to buildmomentum in South Carolina,where the conservative vote istraditionally strong.

The Palmetto State goes to

the polls on Saturday to pick acandidate for the Republicannomination.

The Huntsman campaignhad difficulty gaining tractionnationally, attracting about 1%to 2% in most opinion polls.

As he announced his with-drawal from the race, MrHuntsman, who pitched himself at his campaign launchas a “civil” candidate whowould not play dirty,bemoaned the state of theRepublican contest.

“This race has degenerat-ed into an onslaught of nega-tive and personal attacks,” hesaid, calling on theRepublican party to unitebehind a candidate. BBC

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’sNational Assembly onMonday evening passed a resolution supporting democracy in the country,which gave a breather tobeleaguered Prime MinisterYousuf Raza Gilani againstwhom the Supreme Courtissued a contempt notice fornot acting against PresidentAsif Ali Zardari for corruption.

The lower house of parliament passed the pro-democracy resolutionmoved by Awami NationalParty (ANP) leader AsfandyarWali, Geo News reported.

Gilani congratulated theMPs on passage of the resolution. Gilani told the

house he would appear beforethe Supreme Court as he wasdirected to appear personallybefore it January 19.

He said the governmentwanted no confrontation withany institution, including thejudiciary, and that no oneshould degrade the mandateof the elected government.

“We need no certificate toprove our patriotism,” Gilanisaid, citing sacrifices renderedby leaders of the ruling PPPfor the cause of democracy inthe country.

Gilani offered to resign onMonday after the SupremeCourt issued him a contemptnotice for not implementing adirective to act againstPresident Asif Ali Zardari forcorruption.

Zardari, accused of graft,had been granted amnestyunder the NationalReconciliation Ordinance(NRO), which was issued in2007 by then president PervezMusharraf to facilitate thereturn of former prime minis-ter Benazir Bhutto and herhusband Zardari. PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chiefImran Khan on Monday saidthat the country would standby the Supreme Court. IANS

Pro-democracy resolution,a breather for Gilani

People visiting the site of the Republican presidentialprimary debate, stand in front of a large sand sculpture ofRomney, Gingrich and Huntsman. AFP

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a blast in Bartala in theNineveh province, north of Baghdad. AFP

‘Leaders row increasing violence’

Huntsman pulls outof presidential race

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DOLLARTUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201211Matters of saving and spendingBusiness

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The concept of Aakash con-cept was designed Prem KKalra, Director, IIT Jodhpur.

They gave the contract to

Datawind, a UK-based company,for integration. Quad Electronicsbased out of Hyderabad is thesole manufacturer of Aakash forDatawind.

As of now, the product is ontrial. Certain number of unitswere given to students to findout how the product is behaving.The product will be fine-tunedAakash will be made betterbased on the feedback, saidRaminder Singh Soin, ManagingDirector, QUAD ElectronicSolutions.

Initially, IIT Jodhpur liked theAakash. They are looking for arugged and upgraded productnow after the feedback. They do

not want Aakash asa brand to fail.They want a betterprocessor for high-

er speeds andcapacitive screen.It doesn’t cost

more than $50even after water

resistance is taken into consideration, he

added.

He said, the initial order forQuad Electronics is one lakhunits. Out of which, it has manu-factured 30,000 units fromOctober. These units are sup-plied to the Datawind. It is soongoing to start manufacturing ofupgraded version according tothe requirements of Datawind.The upgraded version is on thedesign stage and may come outin March.

Talking about the expansion,Quad Electronics has the infras-tructure to support manufactur-ing up to 5,000 units from its pre-sent 700 units a day. It alldepends on how fast theyarrange the money for theworking capital. Talks aregoing on and hope thiswill happen soon. Ifthings get late, thedemand for theproduct may go off.“We all should workfast to get the productout at the earliest possible.”

The supply chain andfinance costs are the biggestproblems for electronics manu-

facturing services (EMS) industryin India. Manufacturers aredependent on countries likeChina and South East Asiancountries for the componentsmanufacturing.

This is raising the costs to thecompanies. There is a need tocreate an ecosystem for manu-facturing and supplying of parts.Otherwise, India cannot grow ina bigger way in the EMS indus-try. The work-ing capital

costs andinterest

rates are muchlower in countries

like Taiwan, Korea

and China than the interest ratesin India. The companies in Indiapay four times higher interestrates and have to compete withthem on a global scale, Singhadded.

“India has strong intellectual,human resource. The govern-ment has to invest in ‘Researchand Development’ to give a lot ofsupport to innovation. Indiansare working for global electron-ics and space companies andproving themselves. A tabletdoes not cost more than 10 dol-lars in high volumes if right

ecosystem is created. We aretrying to indigenous theproduct and bring downthe costs with local LCD

and other component manu-facturing,” he added.

Talking about the QuadElectronics, he said, it is a Rs.100crore company with 1,000employees. The growth rate is 20to 25 per cent year after year. Italso manufactures lighting prod-ucts and computer peripheralsfor multinational companies andexport to Europe and the USA.

NEW DELHI: IT company HCLTechnologies on Tuesday posted43.3 per cent jump in net profit toRs 572.7 crore for the quarterended on December 31, 2011.

The company’s net profitstood at Rs 399.7 crore in theOctober-December quarter of2010, HCL Technologies said in astatement. The company followsJuly-June fiscal year.

HCL Tech’s revenues stood atRs 5,245.2 crore during the report-ing quarter, up 34.9 percent fromRs 3,888.4 crore in the same quar-ter of FY11.

“HCL continues to increase itsmarket share both qualitativelyand quantitatively by leveraging itsmulti-service capability …Thiscombined with 18 new transfor-mational deal wins bears testimo-ny to the uniqueness of HCL’s busi-ness model in the current environ-ment,” company’s Vice-Chairmanand CEO Vineet Nayar said.

The board has declared aninterim dividend of Rs 2 per equityshare of Rs 2 face value.

The company’s cash and cash-equivalents stood at Rs 601 croreas on 31 December, 2011.

“The sequential margin expan-sion of 150 basis points and EBITand EPS growth of 42.6 per centand 29 per cent year-on-year resp -e ctively in this quarter is a result ofour continued investment in busi-

ness that has resulted in higherreturns for our shareholders,” HCLTech CFO Anil Chanana said.

Going forward, the companyremains watchful of the volatilecurrency movements and will con-tinue with its layered hedging pol-icy, he added.

“As the uncertainty aroundeconomic environment contin-ues, the world will demand com-panies to be deeply conscious ofthe accompanying social sensitivi-ties,” HCL Tech Chairman andChief Strategy Officer Shiv Nadarsaid. “As economies contract andthe job environment remainschallenged, we at HCL are com-

mitted to creating local jobs, con-tributing to the welfare of localcommunities and pushing thepedal on enterprise philanthropyin continuing cognizance of oursocial responsibility,” Nadar said.

During the quarter, the com-pany added 7,804 (gross) and2,556 (net) employees, taking itstotal headcount to 83,076 by theend of 31 December, 2011.

HCL signed 18 deals withtotal contract value exceedingUSD 1 billion this quarter. Thesedeals were across sectors likeBFSI, Healthcare and Aerospaceand include AstraZeneca, BDand CEVA.

MUMBAI: The BSE benchmarkSensex rose by 198 points in earlytrade on Tuesday on sustainedbuying by funds and retailinvestors, buoyed by easinginflation and a firming trend onother Asian bourses.

The 30-share BSE index,which gained almost 152 pointsin the previous two sessions, ral-lied further by 198.14 points, or1.22 per cent, to 16,387.50, withall sectoral indices, led by autoand capital goods, trading in thepositive zone. The wide-basedNational Stock Exchange NiftyIndex moved up by 61.30 pointsto 4,935.20 points.

Brokers said continued buy-ing by participants triggered byeasing inflation which fell to atwo-year low of 7.47 per cent in

December and reports of a firm-ing trend on the other Asianbourses following China's faster-than-expected growth in thefourth quarter, supported theupside in stock prices.

In the Asian region, HongKong's Hang Seng Index rose by0.93 per cent and Japan's NikkeiIndex by 0.63 per cent in morn-ing trade on Tuesday. The rupeestrengthened by 32 paise to 51.05per dollar on the InterbankForeign Exchange market inearly trade today, supported bycontinued foreign fund inflows.The rupee had gained 15 paise toclose at nearly one-and-a-halfmonth high of 51.37/38 againstthe dollar on Monday on theback of late recovery in equitiesand mild dollar selling.

Upgraded version of Akash by March

HCL’s net jumps 43 pc

Sensex bullish

TALK BACKSad storyThe story on Tirupataiah’s fate was indeedheart breaking. It’s a pity thatpeople like him are beingpushed towards committingcrimes to fend for themselves.Now, I am not sure if one shouldpraise Pistol Patel for shooting atTirupataiah or take pity on the lat-ter for attempting such crimes outof desperation. I am sure there arethousands like him in Hyderabad who areliving on the edge everyday. I feel that wewill all be collectively responsible for theirfate and unless we, as a society, do some-thing about it, I don’t see how such issuescan be solved.

HK ShivkumarMehdipatnam

Populist budgetAfter failing people’s expec-

tations in almost all depart-ments, the government is nowtrying to stave off disaster atupcoming byelections by pre-senting a populist budget.The CM must first get hishouse in order by stoppingthe ministers from fighting

amongst themselves. All the alle-gations against each presents a verybad picture before people who wantto invest in the State. The CM mustalso firmly deal with the Telanganaagitation so that life of the public isnot affected.

RamaiahHyderabad

Prisoners department?I was a bit confused by ‘PrisonersDepartment’ stall atthe numaish, as men-tioned in the story onthe issue dated 14-1-2012. Who is it thatactually makes all thatstuff, the prisoners or thewardens? That too whenthe name of the depart-ment is prominently dis-played at the front portion of the stall. Younewspapers poke fun at people who makemistakes despite all their best efforts to do agood job. What do you have to same aboutthe confusion you create? Shyam Srinivas

Krishnanagar

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201212Fair, free and forthrightComment

Its’ the stuff legends are made of — theidea that you wish for something, sendthat wish out into the cosmos and believethat the universe takes charge to make it

happen for you. I spent the last day of 2011thinking of wishes, legends, stories that livedown the generations and, of course, of thatstring of hope each of us invariably learns tohold on to. We befriend this hope in the mosttrying of circumstances and draw strengthfrom it to survive the mundane of daily life.Though life is largely made up of the mun-dane, opportunities to let the faith within ustake over are not that common.

Amid the restless history and stark beautyI came face to face with in north Karnatakavillage Hampi, I was struck by how believershad not missed an opportunity to perpetuatea myth. They were taking a chance but losingnothing in the bargain. The place was theLotus Mahal on a largely cloudy Saturdayafternoon, overcrowded with troupes ofschoolchildren on, perhaps, their annual pic-nic from the nearby village.

I walked through the temple and palacecomplexes imagining stories of the kings andqueens of the Vijayanagar Empire hiding inthe folds of the ruins — behind the carvedstone pillars, beneath intricate structures andin the many layers that make up the soul ofHampi. At one corner of this very large com-plex stood the magnificent Lotus Mahal. Iwalked around the structure, trying to imag-ine what the place might have looked like inits heyday – with kings and queens strollinghere majestically in their royal silk robes. I lin-gered for some time and found a corner fromwhere I could get a strategic view of theMahal.

At the corner, I spotted somethingstrange. Small stones (mostly picked up fromthe ruins) were stacked up in piles of 3 and 4all over what once might have been a largeroom. It was not a huge pit and every fewinches, stones were piled up. I overheard agentleman passing by say that the belief is tomake a wish, stack up some stones here, and

the wish will come true.With me were four friends, of which two

decided not to do anything about it. Twoother friends made a wish and, in a ritual ofsorts, stacked the stones. I wasn’t sure. Herewe were, listening to a passerby and taking hisword for it. What if it was one big sham? Ibegan wondering: even then, so what if it is?It’s faith that makes it or mars it. We’re only

using the stones as a physical, outer worldexpression of our inner belief system.

The romance of this idea got a grip on me.I went back, stacked three stones one on topof the other, made a wish and walked away.The fact now, however, is that I cannotremember what I wished for. And that’s prob-ably how faith works best. If it’s meant to be, itwill be. On this, I have complete faith.

SOUL CURRYSumaa Tekur

Editorials The reluctant believerand faith cast in stone

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CHINA-LIKE CENSORwill take us backward

Social networking websitesare being pulled up by

the Delhi High Court fortheir non-compliance with

orders to remove ‘objectionable’content that may hurt feelings

of religious communities or per-sons. The court has also warned

of a ‘China-like censorship’ ifthey fail to do so. We have

come a long way since the pre-Independence British censorshipand the Emergency era censor-

ship. Every opinion in publicdomain is for or against someentity or the other. China is a

real life example of anOrwellian 1984 system —

where projected image is a farcry from the rot within. Insteadof allowing wafer-thin sensitivi-ties to dictate the limits of criti-

cism, we should emulate themodel of Scandinavian nationswhere freedom of expression is

paramount. Suppressing criti-cism doesn’t bode well for a

democracy, and China definitelyis not the way.

WHY WE LOVEMartin Scorsese

When Marty accepted theGolden Globe for Best

Director for his animat-ed film Hugo, he thanked his

wife for telling him: “Why don’tyou make a movie that our

daughter can watch for achange.” With this win Martyhas proven, beyond a shadow

of doubt, that the medium doesnot matter, only the auteur

does. We loved him when hemade Mean Streets, we adored

Raging Bull, we danced in tri-umph with The Last Waltz, and

we were awe-struck byGoodfellas. All we hope is that

his Midas touch is eternal.

CORRECTIONSCLARIFICATIONS&n In the story, A Room of One’s

Own dated January7, a quotewas wrongly attributed toSridala Swami. The error isdeeply regretted.

n In the story Made-in-jail isa brand, dated January 14,

Andhra Pradesh Prisons Departmentwas mentioned as Andhra PradeshPrisoners Department. Any miscon-ception due to the error isregretted.

It is Postnoon’s policy to correcterrors swiftly and fairly

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201213Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

WASHINGTON: Iron plays a vitalrole in the development of thebrain — too little can result in cog-nitive problems, too much pro-motes degenerative diseases such asAlzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Iron deficiency is the most com-mon nutritional deficiency world-wide, causing poor cognitiveachievement in school-aged chil-dren. Now it has been found toaffect the brain’s physical structureas well.

Paul Thompson, professor ofneurology at the University ofCalifornia Los Angeles, and col-leagues measured levels of transfer-rin, a protein that transports ironthroughout the body and brain, inadolescents.

Since both a deficiency and anexcess of iron can negatively impactbrain function, the body’s regulationof iron transport to the brain is cru-cial, the journal Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciencesreports.

When iron levels are low, theliver produces more transferrin forincreased iron transport. Theresearchers wanted to knowwhether brain structure in healthyadults was also dependent on trans-ferrin levels, according to aCalifornia statement.

“We found that healthy brainwiring in adults depended on hav-ing good iron levels in your teenageyears,” said Thompson, member ofCalifornia’s Lab of Neuro Imaging.

“This connection was a lotstronger than we expected, espe-cially as we were looking at peoplewho were young and healthy —none of them would be considerediron-deficient. We also found a con-nection with a gene that explainswhy this is so. The gene itself seemsto affect brain wiring, which was abig surprise,” he said.

Thompson’s findings are basedon MRI scans on 615 healthy young-adult twins and siblings, who hadan average age of 23.

By averaging the subjects’ trans-ferrin levels, which had beenassessed repeatedly — at 12, 14 and16 years of age — the researchersestimated iron availability to thebrain during adolescence,Thompson said.

Too much ortoo little ironbad for brain

You’ve idolised him all your life.He’s the one who held yourhand and taught you to walk,stood by you through thick

and thin, attended every sports dayand parent teacher meet and soothedevery scraped knee. He was theproudest when you graduated andhappiest when your pay cheque wasfatter than his. But today, your dad

fails to recognise you even as you des-perately try to remind him of the dayswhen you were a little girl playing onhis knee.

The situation is similar for everyAlzheimer’s patient’s family. A form ofdementia, Alzheimer’s affects a per-son’s memory, behaviour and cogni-tive abilities. What’s worse is, it getsworse gradually over time, making itextremely difficult to cope with forboth the patient and his/her family.

“While the exact causes ofAlzheimer’s Disease are not known,there are certain risk factors associat-ed with the condition,” says DrAmitav Ray, consultant neurosurgeon

at Apollo Hospital, adding,“Alzheimer’s as we know is one of thecauses of pre-senile dementia. But itis not a normal part of ageing.”

Risk FactorsAlzheimer’s is generally related to

age, although it is not a normal part ofageing. Having a family history of ADcan also put you at higher risk. Thereare certain genes like that are linkedto AD. “According to some studies,lifestyle habits like smoking, alcoholconsumption and failing to stimulatethe brain can also be some of thecauses of AD,” says Dr Sudhir Kumar,a neurologist.

Signs to watch out forThe signs usually point at cogni-

tive difficulties and mental function.Some of the early signs of AD include:n Difficulty performing tasks that take

some thought, but used to comeeasily, such as simple calculations,playing complex games (such asbridge), and learning new informa-tion or routines

n Getting lost on completely familiarroutes

n Trouble naming familiar objects orrecalling names

n Finding it difficult to evoke interestto do things that one previouslyenjoyed, mood swings

n Misplacing itemsn Personality changes and loss of

social skillsAs the AD gets worse so do the

symptoms:n Change in sleep patternsn Delusions, depression, agitationn Difficulty doing basic tasksn Difficulty reading or writingn Forgetting events in your own life n Hallucinations, arguments, striking

out and violent behaviourn Poor judgment and loss of ability to

recognise dangern Avoiding from social contact

Decoding Alzheimer’s

In the movie The Notebook Rachel Mc Adams plays a woman with Alzheimer’s

Ranjani Rajendraranjani.r@postnoon.com

Healthy eating to reducecholesterolWe all worry about how to

keep a check on cholesterol. Listed are sometips to help you eat well andmanage your cholesterol.n Spreads and margarines made

from canola, sunflower or oliveoil and dairy blends are a betterbet than butter.

n Use reduced, low or no fat milk,yoghurt, custard and desserts, orcalcium added non-dairy foodand drinks. It’s better to limityour intake of ice cream.

n Limit the quantity of processedmeats, including sausages, anddeli meats, such as salami.

n Eat lean meat. Lean meat ismeat trimmed of fat and poultrywithout skin.

n Ditch the salt and snack onplain, unsalted nuts and freshfruits instead.

n A variety of salad dressing, mayonnaise and oils made fromcanola, sunflower, soybean, olive,sesame and peanut oils can beused.

n Limit your intake of fatty andsugary foods to once a week.

n Incorporate dried peas driedbeans, canned beans or lentilsinto at least two meals a week.

n Eat plenty of vegetables n Choose wholegrain breads, cere-

al, pasta, rice and noodles.n Try to limit foods such as liver,

and kidneys and eat up to sixeggs every week.

www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au

Eat from a red plate to lose weight: Study Why do we fumble at times in recognising faces?LONDON: People who eat from a red plateor drink from red cups cut their food intake by40 percent, says a new study.

The study carried out by German and Swissresearchers said the colour red may encouragediners to avoid snacking because it is commonlyassociated with the idea of “danger, prohibitionand stop”, the Daily Mail reported.

The researchers suggested the governmentsand food industry could use red packaging onunhealthy foods as a deterrent, and could evenuse red colour in pubs to prevent people fromdrinking too much.

In the study, 41 male students were askedto drink tea from cups marked with red or bluelabels. They drank 44 per cent less from cupswith red labels.

Another 109 people were given 10 pretzels

each on either a red, blue or white plate. Thosewith a red plate ate fewer pretzels.

The results were published in the journalAppetite. IANS

LONDON: Do you easily recognise every-one you’ve ever met, or do you struggle, evenwith familiar faces? It is already known thatwe are better at recognising faces from ourown race but researchers have only recentlyquestioned how we assimilate the informationwe use to recognise people. New research bythe University of Nottingham’s MalaysiaCampus has shown that when it comes torecognising people, the Malaysian Chinesehave adapted their facial recognition techniques to cope with living in a multicultur-al environment. Chrystalle Tan, doctoral stu-dent in psychology at Nottingham-Malaysia,who led the study, said: “The traditional viewis that people recognise faces by looking inturn at each eye and then the mouth.”

“While Westerners are learning what each

separate part of the face looks like — a strat-egy that could be useful in populations wherehair and eye colour vary dramatically, main-land Chinese use a mixture of both techniquessuggesting an increased familiarity with other-race faces which enhances their recognitionabilities,” said Tan.“ The ability to recognisedifferent faces may have social and evolutionary advantages. IANS

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201214Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑FactorHEALTH TIPSStay in

touch withnews to live longer

LONDON: People whostay up-to-date with newsand current affairs aremore health-conscious andwill live longer, says a newstudy.

The study found thatpeople who were mostexposed to newspaper,television and the internethad healthier diets thanthose who were less wellinformed, the Daily Mailreported.

More than 1,000 adultswere interviewed in thestudy.

The researchers foundthat people most exposedto news and mass mediaconsumed a healthier diet,with greater quantities offruit and fish that reducedthe risk of obesity, heartdisease and cancer.

Past research has oftensuggested that mass mediacan have a negative impacton health.

For instance, TV viewing has been linked tophysical inactivity andsnacking, the major riskfactors for obesity andheart disease.

But the latest findingssuggest that TV programmes, addressinghealth issues, can alsomake people more healthconscious.

The participants completed a questionnaireon mass media usage, fromTV viewing to newspaperand magazine reading andsurfing the internet, whichwas then analysed along-side medical, lifestyle anddietary data.

Findings showed people more inquisitiveabout current affairs hadbetter diets.

Scientist Giovanni deGaetano supported thecontribution of mass mediain increasing awareness

about health.“Information delivered

by mass media may appearfragmented or imprecise,especially when we talkabout health and preven-tion. Our study has howev-er provided data whichmay turn out to be veryuseful in a period in whichto combat obesity increase,unhealthy dietary habitsand diffused laziness weare urged to find new waysto communicate health.”

“We should stop beingsuspicious of mass media.The next step will be toevaluate the single sourcesof information and to studythe changes that the inter-net is introducing in theway people, mainly theyoungest, get informed onhealth topics.”

The study has beenpublished in theInternational Journal ofPublic Health. IANS

Have you met The Triotonos?

1 Chikni Chameli Agneepath

2 Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu

3 Buddhi Do Bhagwaan Players

4 Jis Jagah Pe KhatamPlayers

5 Jhoom Jhoom Ta HunMain

Players6 Thug Le

Ladies vs Ricky Bahl7 Zaraa Dil Ko Thaam Lo

Don 28 Ooh La La

The Dirty Picture 9 Tum Ho

Rockstar10 Jigar Da Tukda

Ladies vs Ricky Bahl

1. Set Fire to the RainADELE

2. Good FeelingFlo Rida

3. Turn Me On (feat.Nicki Minaj)David Guetta & Nicki Minaj

4. Sexy and I Know ItLMFAO

5. We Found Love (feat.Calvin Harris)

Rihanna6. What Doesn't Kill You

(Stronger)Kelly Clarkson

7. It Will RainBruno Mars

8. DominoJessie J

9. Party Rock Anthem(feat. Lauren Bennett& GoonRock)

LMFAO10. The One That Got

AwayKaty Perry

1 We found love Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris

2 Sexy and I know itLMFAO

3 It will Rain

Bruno Mars4 Set fire to the rain

Adele5 Good feeling

Flo Rida6 The one that

got awayKaty Perry

7 Ni**as in ParisJay Z Kanye West

8 I won’t give upJason Mraz

9 Party rock anthemLMFAO featuring Lauren

Bennett & GoonRock10 Someone like you

Adele

Bollywood Top 10 iTUNES Top 10 Billboard Top 10

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201215Rhythm Nation

Indira Atluri indira.atluri@gmail.com

As we walk into theempty open-air stadi-um in the afternoon,

we see the four talentedmusicians doing the soundcheck to ensure that theirmusical presentation remainsa memorable experience forthe city-folk. Our request fora short interview waspromptly accepted by theband, and we began our con-versation. It took us no timeto realize that their day start-ed with an early morningtour of Hyderabad. There wasabsolutely no sign of fatigue,and even if there ever was, itwas but well camouflaged.

They call themselves, TheTriotonos and combine thegenres of Latin Jazz,

Flamenco and World Music tocreate a music that is experi-mental and new-age by defi-nition. Speaking a commonlanguage to them is not asimportant as understandingthe grammar of the musicthat they play. Max Clouth,the guitarist is German,Marc-Inti Männel Saavedraon the bass is half Bolivianand half German, Anup Joshi,the tabla player hails fromPune, and Vaibhav Wavikar,the youngest band member isfrom Mumbai. As the fourmusicians share their experi-ences with us, we realize thattheir chance encounter wasmore than just a casual meet-ing — it was meant to be forthe love of music.

Marc's foray into musicstarted on the piano at 13,and when he was

asked to play the base for aband in college, he readilyaccepted. Max handled hisfirst guitar when he wasseven, and by 15, he foundhimself practicing moreoften. Anup tutored withUstad Alla Rakha Khan andthen with Zakir Hussain.Vaibhav who iconizes TrilokGurthu worked with the likesof Dave Weckl and GregoryHutchinson. Pursuing thelast year in an advertisingcourse, Vaibhav displays hismodesty when he expresseshis belief that he is yet tolearn a lot in music.

We asked the band onhow they co-ordinate theirmusical gigs living in differ-ent parts of the world. Thereis a thunderous laughter,after which Max tells us, “It isincredible, but all I can say is

that it just happens. There aretwo periods in the year whenwe come together. Themonths of December, Januaryand February are when wework together in India.” Max,who has been living in Indiafor the last two years adds,“Marc and I do a lot of musictogether, but in India, weneed to book a place sixmonths well in advance.”Adds Anup, “The only onemissing here is Marc and weare pestering him to comehere. And if he does, therewill more music than ever.”

On how the two Germanmusicians find India, Maxopines, “Living in this coun-try for two years has beenexciting and challenging tome. There is nothing pre-dictable in the country here,unlike in Germany where

everything is so organized tothe point of becoming bor-ing.” This is the first time thatTriotonos is performing inHyderabad. On their firstimpression of the city, thefour members of the band areall praise. Says, Marc, “Theroads are good, and the her-itage places we went to arejust amazing. We love the city,and are excited about today'sevening performance.”

Max and Marc teachmusic when they are notplaying it, Anup owns a tablainstitute in Pune and Vaibhavenjoys doing his gigs in localpubs when he is not studying.And the four together believethat they speak the mostbeautiful language of music,that is perhaps not under-stood by all but definitelyexperienced.

When two Germans and two Indians chanced upon each other, they found a common love — music.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201218Because you are what you wearF‑Folio

HatsOff!

Not so much apopular accessoryamong Indian menbut hats spellsophistication,comfort andstyle forthose whoknow howto wear it

Sana Mirzasana.m@postnoon.com

Back in the 1900s, onlybeggars were seen bare-headed. Up until WorldWar II, rarely was a man

of class and status seen withouta hat on his head. The hat wasas much a part of his wardrobeas his starched shirts, hisleather belts or his silk ties. Hatswere given quite a bit of impor-tance with their names rich incharacter and historical in asso-ciation like the bowler, or derby,with the rigid shape of anupended bean pot, was giventhe name after a 19th-centuryEnglish earl who was known tohave popularised the style orthe fedora, whose name camefrom a play, written for SarahBernhardt by the Frenchdramatist Victorien Sardou.

Then the hat went the wayof the dodo with veteran fash-ion icons swearing that it wasPresident John F. Kennedy whoput a full stop to the trend.Whatever the reason may bemen’s hats can be a very fash-

ionable accessory for any outfit.Designer Zubin Vakil believesthat even though India is atropical country, the hat cultureis far from being popular here.“There is no such thing asdressing culture in India.Wearing a hat is so sophisticat-ed. The vibes that a man whowears a hat exudes is that ofhim being well-travelled, edu-cated and someone who is wellupdated in terms of fashion.”

“But in India, we makefun of people who wearhats,” he rues.

Hat-friendly entertainerslike Justin Timberlake, Neo andUsher have helped acquaintyoungsters with the idea thathats might be cool, ergo mak-ing them a popular accessory.In cold climate, a warm winterhat is a must or a Harris TweedIvy cap which makes for a goodhead gear on a sunny day.

With the variety of choicesand styles out there, men hatshave seen resurgence in recentyears. Designer Neelam Ashleybelieves that not everyone cancarry a hat. “Personally I love

hats. But it depends solely onyour structure. Not every mancan look good wearing a hat. Itshould suit his personality anddetermine his attitude,” saysNeelam, adding, “The fedorais a trendsetting icon. Theladies love a well dressed guyin a fedora. Its a nice semi-casual hat but its not thateasy to pull off either. Menwho are tall can pull it off veryeasily. For anyone shorter, itwill just eclipse his heighteven more.”

It is often said thatwomen judge men based onthe kind of shoes they wear.While shoes may be coatedwith mud or even look wornout, hats take over the role ofmaking you look stylish andreasonably smart.

Remember: Mostwomen like men in stylishhats which do not bearschool mascot logos orcarry beer endorsements.Thus, a hat – a real hat – iswhat counts to be a sureshot winter in yourwardrobe this season.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201219The glamour behind the glitzMagic ScreenHemanth Kumarhemanth.k@postnoon.com

Remakes have always been an integral

part of Venkatesh’s 26 year oldcareer. The good part about suchfilms is that he makes almost any

story his own and delivers endearing perfor-mances. Right from Chanti to the recent

Adavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule,the actorhas been riding high on his ability to evoke

sympathy from the audience for the charac-ters he portrays on screen. His latest film

Bodyguard is no different. Directed byGopichand Malineni, the film is a faithful

remake of the original Malayalam version ofthe same name. Trisha is Venkatesh’s co-star

in the film and it’s her third film with theactor after Adavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule

and Namo Venkatesha. Venkatesh stars as Venkatadri, a body-

guard by profession. His uncle sends him toVaradarajula Naidu (Prakash Raj) under thepretext that there’s a threat to Varadarajula

Naidu’s life.Venkatadri considers Naidu as hissaviour and immediately goes on the mission.

Keerthi (Trisha), daughter of VaradarajulaNaidu and Swathi (Saloni) are thick friends

and study together in the same college. WhenVaradarajula Naidu realises Keerthi’s life hasbeen threatened, he appoints Venkatadri as

her bodyguard. The rest of the story is aboutwhat happens next when Venkatadri ends up

studying in Keerthi's college.Unlike most other remakes in his career,

Venkatesh lets Trisha hog the limelight formost part of the film. He dazzles in a couple

of action sequences and tickles the funnybone quite a few times in the first half of thefilm where most part of the story happens in

a college. There’s even a scene whereVenkatesh and Ali dress up like women to

enter a women’s hostel in search of ananonymous caller. Moments like these make

sure that the film has enough humour beforeboth Venkatesh and Trisha tug hearts in the

second half of the movie. In the film, Keerthiposes as an anonymous caller and distracts

Venkatadri so that he loosens up a bit. At onepoint of time, Keerthi realises that

Venkatadri has immense respect for her andfalls for him. Venkatadri never finds out who

the anonymous caller is until the very endand that twist is sure to take the viewers by

surprise, if this is the first time they arewatching the film.

Bodyguard isn’t the kind of film whichwould make you think or melt your hearts,

but it has a bit of everything to keep youglued to your seats. On the other side, the

love story between Venkatadri and Keerthidrags on a tad bit too long; however, a well

etched climax saves the day. Both Venkateshand Trisha deliver good performances and theduo share great on-screen chemistry especial-

ly in the songs. Saloni, who plays a crucialrole in the film, is good and it’s a pity that we

don’t get to see her more often. Prakash Raj,Subbaraju, Ali and Pragathi Rajkumar do jus-

tice to their roles.Gopichand Malineni does a decent job in

terms of remaking a successful film. The per-formances are natural and Gopichand han-

dles the emotional scenes quite well.Thaman’s music is good and a few songs are

quite melodious. Kona Venkat’s dialogues arenoteworthy.

Bodyguard makes for a good watch if youhaven’t seen the other versions. More than the

plot, it’s the performances of the lead castwhich manage to hold the film together. Fewthings never get boring and Venkatesh’s per-

formance is among them. Don’t besurprised ifyou see the person next to you wiping his or

her tears in the middle ofthe film.

VENKATESH, TRISHASTEAL HEARTS, AGAIN!

Movie: BodyguardCast: Venkatesh, Trisha, SaloniDirector: Gopichand MalineniRating:

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201220The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Ever since Nayanthara hintedthat Sri Rama Rajyam will bethe end of her acting career,there seems to be renewed

interest among producers to sign herup for their films. Recently, at an event,she was the cynosure of all eyes andseveral leading film personalities like SP Balasubramaniam and DasariNarayana Rao praised her perfor-mances as Sita in Bapu’s Sri RamaRajyam. Few days after the event, whena top producer approached Nayantharato convince her to play the lead role ina film, the actress reportedly demand-ed a remuneration of Rs 2.5 crores,much to the producer’s shock. Thehighest remuneration for actresses inSouth doesn’t usually exceed Rs 1.5crores. So, this has led to the specula-tion that demanding an exorbitantamount was Nayanthara’s way of sayingno to the offer. It remains to be seen ifshe’ll reconsider her stance of giving upher acting career in near future.

Nayanthara demands`2.5 crores?

Vettai to be dubbedin Telugu

Lingusamy’s recent Tamilfilm Vettai is soon goingto be dubbed in Telugu.

Arya, Madhavan, SameeraReddy and Amala Paul haveplayed lead roles in this massentertainer which released inTamil Nadu on January 14.Lingusamy’s earlier filmAawara, starring Karthi and

Tamannaah was a hit inTelugu and with a promisingstar cast, his latest film Vettaimight do good business inTelugu as well. UTV MotionPictures which produced theTamil version is reportedly sohappy with the film that

plans are beingmade to remake

Vettai in Hindias well.

After two Sankranthi releasesBusinessman and

Bodyguard made waves last-weekend, all eyes are now onRavi Teja’s upcoming filmNippu. Lastyear, Ravi Teja star-rer Mirapakay was ahuge hit and thisyear, he hasteamed up for thefirst time withGunasekhar foran actionentertainertitled Nippu.Deeksha Sethis his co-star.The film’sshooting wascompletedwithin fourmonths and cur-rently a song isbeing canned on thelead pair. We hearthat the film’s audiowill be released onJanuary 19, after a longdelay. S S Thaman, themusic director of thefilm, is quite excitedabout this film and it’shis fifth film with RaviTeja after Kick,Anjaneyulu,Mirapakay and Veera.The film is going tohit the screens onFebruary 2.

Nippu’s audiolaunch delayed

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201221The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Shah Rukh Khan has baggedtwo awards at the Screenawards recently and the

superstar is happy not only forhimself but also for his kids whohe says are also his competitors.

“It feels nice to win awards.There is a sense of competitionwith my kids because they winprizes for racing, taekwondo,riding etc. So I’ll go home andshow my kids that even I havewon two awards,” the 46-year-old actor said here at the awardsfunction. He bagged popularchoice best actor for Don 2: TheKing Is Back and best jodi awardfor his pairing with PriyankaChopra.

Meanwhile, Shah Rukh hadtwo releases this year and both

the films — Ra. One and Don 2— crossed the Rs.100 crore-markat the box office.He says he doesnot work for money and added:“I understand the rupees andcrores less and you understandit even lesser. Please don’t askme questions on crores and stufflike that. I have been workinghard for 20 years and only workto make the public happy.

“Hopefully, this year too I’llwork with the same motive andnot count numbers. Telephoneshave numbers and not actors,producers.” SRK is currentlyworking in Yash Chopra’s nextuntitled film with Katrina Kaif.He is also co-producing StudentOf the Year with his long timefriend Karan Johar.

My kids are also mycompetitors: ShahRukh Khan

I’ll let my work dothe talking: Akshaye

Akshaye Khanna is aman of few words andlets his work do thetalking.

“No matter how good anactor you are, if you don’t havestrong content, you can’t doanything. And even if you are avery bad actor and if you havesolid content, you will manageto do something. That’s the

point,” said Akshaye, who hasbeen in the industry for the past15 years.

The actor, who started off asa main stream actor withHimalay Putra in 1997, hasproved his versatility with filmslike Taal, Dil Chahta Hai andGandhi My Father. Many of hisfilms didn’t do well at the boxoffice, but the actor is unper-

turbed and believes in pickingup only those films with strongcontent.

He doesn’t sign too manyfilms so, what keeps him busy?“Normal things. I sleep a lot. Iam a great sleeper. I can sleepfor 13 to 14 hours and that keepsme busy. I also love to do gar-dening,” he said. “I don’t like togo to parties...I am not that kindof a person. I don’t enjoy party-ing. I would rather be at home,watch TV, read a book,” saysAkshaye. The 36-year-old isready for his first release of theyear, “Gali Gali Chor Hai”, whichis about corruption and the plotrevolves around a common manstuck in a rut.

“It sounds depressing, butit’s a hilarious film,” he said. “Inthe film, I am the person who istrying to get out but can’t. Mycharacter keeps paying, paying,and paying and he reaches apoint where he has to sell hishouse. Wife leaves him. He isdestroyed totally.” The film issaid to be inspired by 1994Laadla.

Farhan finds awards fair The awards season has

started and with itreturns the debate

whether they are genuine orrigged. Actor-director FarhanAkhtar believes attending anaward function is a proof thatyou do believe intheir authenticity.

“When you attend awardsevery year, it is proof enoughthat you do believe in thepeople who are in the jury orthe audience. So I attend withthe belief that it is a fair sys-tem. If I didn’t, I wouldn’thave attended,” the 38-year-old said at an event here.

Farhan’s directorial ven-ture Don 2: The King is Backand his sister Zoya’s ZindagiNa Milegi Dobara are in thefray for the Filmare Best Filmaward. Farhan produced bothDon 2 as well as Zindagi NaMilegi Dobara.

-IANS

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Shooting Har Pal with ShineyAhuja may not have been anexperience worth cherishingfor Preity Zinta. But the

actress, who had apparently vowedto stay away from all things Shiney,has now decided to promote theirfilm together.

Confirming this, Shiney says:“We’re looking at May or June forrelease because before that Preity isbusy with the IPL (Indian PremierLeague).”

“As far as I’m concerned, therewas never any problem with Preity.

She’s a lovelyperson.

When Iwas

going through my legal stress, shehad sent across a message of sup-port. I’ve finished my dubbing for‘Har Pal’ and so has she. We willnow work towards releasing thefilm. It’s an important film for bothof us, and for director Jahnu Barua,”he added.

Shiney’s got into trouble afterhis maid filed a complaint saying heraped her. The actor was arrestedon June 15, 2009, after prelimi-nary medical tests on the girlconfirmed sexual assault.

Shiney refuses toaccept that the

makers of hisstalled

films were playing the wait-and-watch game. “I don’t think my per-sonal problems affect my work.People won’t watch Ghost or Har Palbecause they feel sympathetictowards me. Neither will they stayaway because they dislike me,” hesaid.

Remind him that leading ladiesinvariably had a problem workingwith him and Shiney said: “I wasand I continue to be a professionalon the sets. The problem, as youdescribe it, was never from my side.I got along with all my leadingladies from Chitrangada Singh toSushmita Sen to Preity and KangnaRanaut.

“In fact, Kangna has gone onrecord after my troubles to say shewould gladly work with me again.So I don’t know who were the lead-

ing ladies who had a problemwith me. I was always fully

focused on that stretch oftime between ‘action’ and

‘cut’. And I still am.”Shiney, 37, has

truly put the stressof conviction and

incarcerationbehind him

for now. - IANS

set forsummerrelease‘H

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012 22The glamour behind the glitzMagic ScreenAkshay comes out insupport of Dhoni

Actor Akshay Kumar, com-ing out in support ofMahendra Singh Dhoni

after the India captain receivedcriticism over his bad perfor-mance in the Australia series,said everyone has to face goodand bad phases in life.

“Dhoni, don’t worry, truelovers of Indian cricket are

behind you in every step of theway man. Everyone’s gotta hitRock Bottom, it’s the only wayone can storm it back to theTop... just think about the series,day by day, dear friend.Everything else comes laterdude... (sic),” the 44-year-oldposted on micro-blogging siteTwitter.

“Everyone let’s back the Boyzwe love so much, come on, noneof us are perfect at our jobseveryday of the month, it’s sup-port they need not criticism. Dowhat you can Boyz, India’s wait-ing for you & always with you,”he further posted.

India lost the third testagainst Australia by an inningsand 37 runs in Perth Sunday andbefore that they faced a white-wash in England last year. Thebad performance on the fieldhas upset the cricket fans andothers who are blaming Dhoni’slaid-back attitude for the losses.

Buttering up God isnot enough: HrithikActor Hrithik Roshan, whose Agneepath is

coming out next week, believes that seek-ing divine intervention before a big release isimportant, but insists that this alone is notenough to make a film successful. “Before therelease of my father’s films, I go to Shirdi. Ihave been to Vaishno Devi once or twice. But Ihave realised that buttering up god on justone day is not enough. It is important tomake an honest effort every single day ofyour life and that itself is enough to pleasethe gods,” the 38-year-old actor said at a func-tion here.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201224The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Actress Angelina Jolie man-aged to get a promise fromSpanish director PedroAlmodovar during an event

in Los Angeles for directors compet-ing for the Golden Globe for best for-eign language film that he wouldinclude her in one of his future pro-jects. Jolie interrupted an interviewshe was doing at the entrance ofHollywood’s Egyptian Theatre to askAlmodovar, who was arriving, for arole in one of his future films.

“When are you going to give me apart? Someday?” Jolie asked thedirector of Hable con ella (2002).“Don’t worry, you’re young,” a sur-prised Almodovar replied. “Butyou promise that someday?” Joliesaid. “Yes, absolutely. This is acommitment in front of the cam-eras,” Almodovar said, remind-ing the actress that they met inLos Angeles when she hadjust finished Girl,Interrupted (1999) and hehad released Todo sobremi madre (1999).

Jolie and Almodovarwon Oscars for thosefilms, with theAmerican actressgarnering theAcademyAward forBest

Supporting Actress and the Spanishdirector winning the Oscar for bestforeign film.

“I love her,” Almodovar said later,adding that he was working on a pro-ject set in New York that could befilmed in the US in English if “theright script” can be found.

Angelina Jolie to be part of Almodovar’s film

Along with Australian actorJoel Edgerton, American filmdirector Kathryn Bigelow is

working on a film on Al Qaeda chiefOsama bin Laden’s death, saysmegastar Amitabh Bachchan. The69-year-old played a perfect host tofilmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra andEdgerton who visited him Sunday.

“Evening visit by Joel Edgerton,colleague in The Great Gatsby

doing film on killing of Osama,directed by (Kathryn) Bigelow of‘Hurt Locker’,” Bachchan posted onTwitter. “Errrmmm... a clarificationin case you have read me wrong...that’s Joel doing film on Osamawith Bigelow ... not me (sic)!,” headded. The actor got the chance towork with Edgerton in director BazLuhrman’s latest production TheGreat Gatsby.

A film on Osama’s death by Bigelow?

Actress Naomie Harris, whoplays field agent Eve inupcoming James Bond

movie Skyfall”, initially thought thatshe is not right for the part. “To be

honest, I don’t think I’d be very goodat such a role. What drew me to this

was the opportunity to play a newkind of Bond Girl,” Harris, 35, was

quoted as saying.

“In 2012, there’s a need to havefemale characters who are equal tothat. Otherwise it would be totally

imbalanced and no one would careabout the relationships Bond has. I

love the way it’s developed in thatway. Those Bond Girls in the sixties

and seventies might have been goodback then, but they wouldn’t be seen

as very PC now,” she added.

I’m not right as a Bond girl: Naomie Harris

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201225The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Happy Birthday Jim Carrey!

This is an actor who canmake you cry as easily as

he can make you laugh.In the 33 years that Jim

Carrey has worked inHollywood, he has had

over 47 movies to hiscredit. Today, as he

turns 49, wetake a look at

some of hisbest works

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Carrey played the role of Joel Barish who is ameek, responsible guy, often shocked and frus-

trated with his girlfriend’s behaviour . Quite unlikeCarrey, right? Even in his more serious films like TheTruman Show, there is a bit of Ace Ventura seepingthrough but his antics in the film were quite mild incomparison to his other films. This was one film thatestablished him as a versatile actor.

The Truman Show

This film was clearly Jim Carrey's first bid tobreak away from the comic tag and be

considered as a serious actor. As much credit goesto the script which was nothing short of splendid,Carrey's performance was both understated andeffective. Towards the end, it is he who providesmost of the emotional pay-off.

A Series of Unfortunate Events

In this film he played the role of Count Olaf, an out-rageously diabolical actor and master of disguise

who is determined to swindle the Baudelaireorphans out of their fortune. A megalomaniac whowe intended to hate but liked him nonetheless. It’simpossible to visualize any other actor pulling offwhat Carrey managed to do in the film.

Ace Ventura

This was Jim Carrey's first leading movie whichwent on to prove that he is man's best friend for

laughs. It was a non-stop romp of comedy pratfalls,one-liners and of course Carrey's priceless facialexpressions. For two hours you will forget about theworld and its problems, while you laugh uncontrol-lably at Ace Ventura and his antics.

The Mask

Released in 1994, the film was directed by ChuckRussell and it instantly catapulted Jim Carrey’s

popularity among youth and children to greaterheights. Jim Carrey stars as Stanely Ipkiss, a clerk ina bank who acquires superpowers when he wears amask. His antics and dazzling special effects were ahuge hit with the audience. Mixing quirkiness withastounding body language, Jim Carrey’s perfor-mance in the film was epic to say the least. Thepopularity of the film spawned a sequel with a dif-ferent star cast; however it was a miserable failureat box-office.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201226Chai Time

How to Play KakuroKakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is alsosuitably different. The key question: “How do you play Kakuro?”, wellhere are the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike insudoku, can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells likein a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells willcontain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.

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

Within each collection of cells - called a run - any of the numbers 1to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

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

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

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

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

KAKUROACROSS1 Ignores at a ceremony6 Insignificant bit10 Assam and pekoe14 Bone-chilling15 "Nautical" prefix16 "Be kind to critters" org.17 Enough to wet one's

whistle18 Boon to Aladdin19 Compassionate feeling20 Attempted to no avail23 "Boom-bah" lead-in24 Bausch & Lomb product25 Chalked stick26 Excruciating pain28 Previously used by

Shakespeare?29 Catch on to30 Conventioneer's pass-

port32 Jiffy33 Shark's milieu34 "Aloha" accompani-

ments35 Lung-heart connector39 Tuscan river40 John, to a Brit41 "___ in cat" (part of an

early lesson)42 Whose 1867 folly?44 Appeared in the paper45 300 cubit-long vessel48 Children's author R.L.

___49 It contains a human

drum50 "Hard ___!" (helm

command)51 Wrath52 NEWS indicator?56 Cooling pie place58 Rhine tributary59 Like certain cereals60 "Voila!"61 Diva's offering62 Attack from all direc-

tions63 Stone and Stallone64 Dash gauge65 Church dignitary

DOWN1 Agree out of court2 "___ My God to Thee"3 Bearish4 Takes the bait5 Budding prospect?6 Waldorf salad ingredient7 "Everybody lift togeth-

er!"8 " ___ la Douce"9 African antelope10 1/192 qt.11 "The Phantom Menace"

title part12 Playing a part from13 More than acquiesces21 How many like their

beer22 Apprehend27 Amounts of laughter29 Diamond or ruby30 Front closing?

31 Where you might dropoff a child

32 ___-Kettering Institute33 Start of many Brazilian

city names35 When depositions are

taken36 Awkward to carry37 Tel. book fig-ures38 Furnituremover's aid39 Basketballstat43 FF opposite44 Gung-ho45 Having

wings46 Go back on

a deal47 Better honed49 Set of princi-

ples50 "... but to no ___"53 Part of Q.E.D.54 Glow55 Thorny bloom57 ___ Cruces, N.M.

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The World – Yourwishes are all comingtrue soon. You need tostay positive and thinkof all the wishes thatyou truly want foryour life.

Five of Swords –Avoid conflict situa‑tions. Even if you tryto explain yourpoint of view, thosearound you may notsee your perspective.Be patient.

Queen of Swords –You are likely to feellonely today. Youmiss the company offriends and peopleyou like. Keep busyby doing things youenjoy.

ARIES TAURUS GEMINIARIESGood news to reach you. Success is yoursin all the works undertaken. Money flowwill increase and keep you comfortable.Your hardwork, shrewdness and determi‑nation will earn you appreciation from all.

CANCER

LIBRAYou look very cheerful. A best phase ofyour lifetime is happening. You willenjoy all wordly pleasures. Adminis ‑trative abilities will increase. Your posi‑tion and status will scale new heights.

CAPRICORNLots of prosperous opportunities to knockyour door. Derive maximum benefits fromthem lies in your hands. You will gainimportance in International level. Yourstock is set to pile up.

TAURUSTake care of your health. Income willstart looking up gradually. Misunderst ‑anding with fatherʼs relatives will beresolved. Be careful in financial transactions.

LEOHealth problems will be over.Spokespersons will earn recognition.Financial situation is good. Govt. officialswill support and help you. Comforts are setto increase. Some may buy a house.

SCORPIOFinancial situation will remain balanced, .Elder brother will extend help and sup‑port. Unexpected financial gains possible.Old dues, pension amount, refund from ITDepartment will be received.

AQUARIUSPeople of high esteem will back youstrongly. Comforts will increase. Deficitfinancial situation will improve to acomfortable situation. You will involvein social services and earn good name.

GEMINIHappy events to take place at home whichwill make you happy. Your fame and influ‑ence are set to raise. Some will meet memo‑rable turning points of their life. Financialsituation will improve for the best.

VIRGOComforts and happiness at home willincrease. Be cordial with family members.Chances of misunderstanding with bloodrelatives. Your plan to renovate the oldhouse will be implemented.

SAGITTARIUSThose who had major health problemswill recover fully. Chances of receivingmajor financial gain or any propertythrough father. You will be inclinedtowards learning new things.

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Nine of Swords – Youhavenʼt been sleepingwell and itʼs showing onyour health. Check yoursleep pattern and bringnecessary changes toyour rest time.

The Sun – Youʼrecheerful and feelingupbeat. Youʼre hum‑ming a tune all dayand have everythingin control. Enjoy theday, and also spreadthe good cheer.

Three of Wands –There are times wh en,after the wait, ev ‑erything seems like itʼsgoing by too fast. Itʼsironic because youʼvewaited all this while forthings to move.

CANCER LEO VIRGO

The Devil – Youʼretempted to indulge!You want to go out andhave a good time whenyou should actually beworking towards meet‑ing a deadline. Make awise choice!

The High Priestess –Your intuition isover‑powering anditʼs taking you places.You have no optionbut to go with theflow. Give in, and itʼllall be fine.

Justice – Youʼre in aposition of power andat a time when thepresent is settingright many thingsfrom the past. Donʼtkeep very high expec‑tations. Just be.

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS

Seven of Cups –Money is in focus.Youʼve managed yourfinances well andhave accounted foreverything smartly. Awindfall will give youeven better ideas.

The Star – Thereʼs a ray

of hope amidst all these

clouds and thatʼs what

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on to. Even if plans go

awry, keep the faith and

march ahead.

Ten of Wands – Youʼretaking on too much, andyou have very highexpectations of your en ‑vironment. People wi llnot behave the way youwant them to always.

CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES

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Financial help from relatives likely. Financialsituation will be very strong. All the workplanned will be completed as per the schedule. Parents will support you very well.Government sops will come by.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY17, 201228Telly sitcoms, news and movie listingsChai Time

1400 Naadi Aadajanme1430 Pavitra1500 Movie1800 Sri Shanidevuni Mahimalu1830 Vasantha Kokila1900 Chinnari Pelli Kuturu1930 Anna Chellelu2000 Missamma 2030 Edureetha2100 Bhale Chancele2200 CID2300 Challenge 0700 Silver Screen0730 Just For Fun0800 Ayurvedam0830 Chaganti Arunachala

Mahatyam0900 Bhale Chancele

1400 Kannavaari Kalalu1430 Maavichiguru1500 Jeevitha Chakram1530 Movie 1800 Jai Shri Krishna1830 Shraavani Subramaniam1900 Mandhara1930 Auto Bharthi2000 No. 23, Mahalakshmi

Nivasam2030 Mogali Rekulu2100 Aparanji2130 Devatha2200 Mamathala Kovela2230 Anveshana2300 Gemini Vaarthalu0800 Gemini Talkies0830 Movie 1130 Aha Emi Ruchi1200 Jeevitha Chakram1230 Maa Inti Aada Paduchu1300 Chittemmaa 1330 Gorintaku

1400 Abhishekam1430 Aadade Aadharam1500 Antahpuram1530 Aakasa Ganga1600 Prema Mandiram1630 Jagadeeswari1700 Super1800 Devimahathyam1830 Puttadi Bomma1900 Kumkuma Rekha1930 Manasu Mamata2000 Chandra Mukhi2030 Bharyamani2100 Etv News2130 Ali 3692245 Movie 0800 Jeevana Jyothi0830 Tollywood Time0900 Movie 1130 Abhiruchi1230 Star Mahila

1400 Ardhangi 1430 Movie1800 Veera Naari Jhansi Laxmi

Bhai1830 Kalavari Kodallu1900 Chinna Kodalu1930 Pasupukunkuma2000 Muddu Bidda2030 Radha Kalyanam2100 Kanyadanam2130 Comedy Club2230 Shree2300 Bindas2330 Latest Superhit Songs0800 Gopuram0830 Bhakti Samacharam0900 Sri Raghavendra Vybhavam0930 Ayurveda Jeevana

Vignanam 1000 Zee 70 Mm A.C1200 Mee Inti Vanta

‘Wipeout 2’ at 2100 Hrson AXN

1415 CSI - Crime SceneInvestigation

1510 Wipeout 21605 Flipping Out 1700 The Voice1800 Reaper 1900 Nz Smashes Guinness

World Records2000 Sports Crash2100 Minute To Win It 2200 Wipeout 22300 Criss Angel Mindfreak 0900 Sky Teleshopping0930 Criss Angel Mindfreak 0955 Infomercial/5 Min1000 Criss Angel Mindfreak 1025 Infomercial/5 Min1030 Flipping Out 1130 Sports Crash1225 The Voice

‘Dwarkadheesh’ at 2000Hrs on IMAGINE1400 Haar Jeet 1500 Baba Aisa Varr Dhoondo 1600 Haar Jeet 1700 Dharampatni 1730 Sawaare Sabke Sapne –

Preeto 1800 Beendh Banuga Ghodi

Chadhunga 1830 Baba Aisa Varr Dhoondo 1900 Haar Jeet 1930 Mahima Shani Dev Ki 2000 Dwarkadheesh - Bhagwan

Shri Krishn2030 Sawaare Sabke Sapne –

Preeto2100 Beendh Banuga Ghodi

Chadhunga2130 Dharampatni 2200 Baba Aisa Varr Dhoondo 2230 Haar Jeet2300 Dharampatni

‘Bade Achhe Lagte Hai’ at2230 Hrs on SONY

1400 Saas Bina Sasuraal1430 Bade Achhe Lagte Hai1500 Kuch Toh Log Kahenge1600 CID1800 Saas Bina Sasuraal1830 Bade Achhe Lagte Hai1900 Crime Patrol - Dastak2000 Kuch Toh Log Kahenge2045 Dekha Ek Khwaab2130 Parvarrish - Kuchh Khatti

Kuchh Meethi2200 Saas Bina Sasuraal2230 Bade Achhe Lagte Hai2300 Kuch Toh Log Kahenge0730 Sky Star Advertising0900 Adaalat1000 CID1200 Kuch Toh Log Kahenge1245 Dekha Ek Khwaab1330 Parvarrish - Kuchh Khatti

Kuchh Meethi

‘[V] Humse Hai Life’ at1930 Hrs on CHANNEL [V]

1400 [V] My Big Decision1430 [V] D3 Dil Dosti Dance1500 [V] Humse Hai Life1530 [V] Trailers1600 [V] Zabardast Hits1800 [V] Fresh Songs1830 [V] Humse Hai Life1900 [V] D3 Dil Dosti Dance1930 [V] Humse Hai Life2000 [V] Steal UR Girlfriend2100 [V] Vignettes2130 [V] Trailers2155 [V] Fresh Songs2200 [V] Love Net2300 [V] Humse Hai Life2330 [V] D3 Dil Dosti Dance2355 [V] Fresh Songs0700 [V] Trailers0730 [V] Zabardast Hits0800 [V] Mind Blasting

Mornings1100 [V] Fresh Songs1200 [V] D3 Dil Dosti Dance

‘Business Tonight’ at 2100Hrs only on ET NOW1400 The F And O Show1430 Closing Trades1530 Tomorrow's Trades1600 Business Day1730 Markets Tomorrow1800 Rush Hour1830 Brand Equity Special1900 Global Business Report1930 Business Express2000 Business First2030 Markets Tomorrow2100 Business Tonight2200 Top 10 At102230 Leaders Of Tomorrow2300 Starting Up0900 First Trades1000 Hot Stocks1100 Buy Now Sell Now - The

Stock Game1130 Buy Now Sell Now1200 Market Sense1300 Business Day1330 Markets Now

‘The Game’ at 1930 Hrsonly on TIMES NOW

1300 News Now At11330 News Now1800 6 Pm1830 Live Report1900 Primetime1930 The Game2000 News Now At 82030 Live Report2100 The Newshour2200 The Newshour - Plus2230 E Now2300 News Now At 110800 The Morning News0900 News Now1200 Live Report1230 News Now

‘Help’ at 1400 Hrs onZOOM

1400 Movie - Help 1730 Star Bonanza1800 Letz Go!1900 Planet Bollywood News1930 Link'd2000 Style Strip2030 Letz Go!2100 Zabar 102130 Link'd2200 B - Tonite2230 Let's Design 4 2300 Bollywood Bonanza0700 Fresh Mornings0800 Red Carpet0805 Fresh Mornings1100 Zoom Box1200 Garma Garam1300 Planet Bollywood News1330 Page 3

‘Scrubs’ at 2000 Hrs onZEE CAFE

1400 Scrubs1430 $H*! My Dad Says1500 In Plain Sight1600 Parenthood 1700 Scrubs1730 $H*! My Dad Says1800 E News 1900 The Tonight Show With Jay

Leno 2000 Scrubs2030 America's Funniest Home

Videos2100 In Plain Sight2200 Parenthood2300 Scrubs2330 Keeping Up With The

Kardashians0800 In Plain Sight0900 Parenthood1000 Scrubs1030 America's Funniest Home

Videos1100 In Plain Sight1200 Parenthood1330 America's Funniest Home

Videos

‘Supernatural’ at 2100 Hrson STAR WORLD1400 Supernatural 1500 Combat Hospital 1600 The Big Bang Theory 1630 The Simpsons 1700 The Shield 1800 Supernatural 1900 Love2 Hate U2000 Two And A Half Men 2030 The Simpsons 2100 Supernatural 2200 The Shield 2300 The Big Bang Theory 2330 Two And A Half Men 0700 The Shield 0800 Las Vegas 0900 Combat Hospital 1000 The Shield 1100 Love2 Hate U1200 Two And A Half Men 1230 The Simpsons 1300 The Big Bang Theory 1330 Friends

‘Balika Vadhu’ at 2000 Hrson COLORS

1400 Parichay 1430 Balika Vadhu 1500 Na Bole Tum Na Maine

Kuch Kaha 1530 Uttaran 1600 Phulwa 1630 Parichay 1700 Sasural Simar Ka 1730 Na Bole Tum Na Maine

Kuch Kaha 1800 Uttaran 1830 Balika Vadhu 1900 Hawan 1930 Sasural Simar Ka 2000 Balika Vadhu 2030 Veer Shivaji 2100 Phulwa 2130 Parichay 2200 Uttaran 2230 Na Bole Tum Na Maine

Kuch Kaha 2300 Na Aana Is Des Laado 2330 Balika Vadhu

‘Man Vs Wild’ at 2100 Hrson DISCOVERY CHANNEL1400 Dino World1600 Swords1700 Discovery Showcase1800 Wild Discovery1900 Man Woman Wild2000 Events That Shook The

World2100 Man Vs Wild2200 Swords2300 Desire & Pleasure

Decoded1000 Man Vs Wild1100 Dinosaur Revolution1200 I Should'nt Be Alive1300 Wild Discovery

‘R.K. Laxman Ki Duniya’ at2130 Hrs on SAB

1400 Taarak Mehta Ka OoltaChashma

1430 R.K. Laxman Ki Duniya1500 Lapataganj 1530 FIR1600 Chidiya Ghar1630 Gutar Gu1700 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta

Chashma1830 R.K. Laxman Ki Duniya1900 Chidiya Ghar1930 Lapataganj2000 Chintu Chinky Aur Ek Badi

Si Love Story2030 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta

Chashma2100 Chidiya Ghar2130 R.K. Laxman Ki Duniya2200 Lapataganj2230 FIR2300 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta

Chashma2330 Chidiya Ghar0900 Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta

Chashma0945 Ring Wrong Ring1030 Gutar Gu1100 Chidiya Ghar

MOVIES OF THE DAY AND OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

‘E H M M B H’ at 2030 Hrson STAR PLUS1400 Sapnon Se Bharey Naina1500 Survivor India - Highlight1530 Diya Aur Bati Hum1600 Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri

Behnaa Hai1630 Sasuraal Genda Phool1700 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya1730 Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam

Doon1800 Survivor India - Highlight1830 Ruk Jana Nahin1900 Saath Nibhaana Saathiya1930 Sasuraal Genda Phool2000 Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam

Doon2030 Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri

Behnaa Hai2100 Diya Aur Bati Hum2130 Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai2200 Navya2230 Mann Ki Awaaz… Pratigya2300 Maryaada ... Lekin Kab Tak?

Ruk Jana NahiStoryline - Sanchi breaksdown after realizing that sheand her family have beencheated by Krishanand Rai.Tarachand encourages hisdaughter to withstand allhurdles and continue theirfight for their right.

‘Ruk Jana Nahi’ at 1830 Hrs onSTAR PLUS

Storyline - At Badhaiyyabecause of Krishna’sabsence the Chhekka getscalled off. Stayababu humil-iates Vidya and family.Saraswati is not able totake this shock and shefaints.

‘Afsar Bitiya’ at 1900 Hrs on ZEE TV

Afsar Bitiya

‘Future Weapons’ at 2230Hrs on DISCOVERYSCIENCE

‘The Defenders’ at 2300Hrs on BIG CBS PRIME1430 Jerry Springer1530 Big Wheels1600 Survivor 1700 Bellator1800 Galileo Extreme1900 Defenders2000 Entertainment Tonight2030 Galileo Extreme2100 Survivor 2200 Jerry Springer2300 Defenders0700 Big Wheels0730 Aspire0800 Galileo Extreme0900 Survivor 1000 Bellator1100 Jerry Springer1200 Big Wheels1230 How To Be A Gentleman1300 Galileo Extreme1330 Defenders

1430 How It's Made1500 The New Inventors1530 Discovery Science Classics1630 World's Strangest Ufo

Stories1730 Frontline Battle Machines

With Mike Brewer1830 Best Of Discovery Science1930 Junkyard Wars2030 The Indestructibles2100 Deconstructed2130 Storm Chasers2230 Future Weapons2330 Industrial Revelations1030 World's Strangest Ufo

Stories1130 How It's Made1200 The New Inventors1230 Best Of Discovery Science1330 Junkyard Wars

1210 Troy 1515 Richie Rich1705 Jason X1845 You've Got Mail 2100 Rush Hour 2255 10,000 BC0850 Friends 0920 The New Adventures Of Old

Christine 0950 Nikita1040 Sugar & Spice1215 Scooby Doo 2 - Monsters

Unleashed

1345 Final Destination 1545 Ronin 1815 Batman Returns2100 Legend Of The Fist - The Return

Of Chen Zhen2320 Final Destination 20730 Boomerang0945 Batman Returns1225 Final Destination 2

‘Pavitra Rishta’ at 2100Hrs on ZEE TV

1400 Hitler Didi1500 Afsar Bitiya1530 Yahaaan Main Ghar Ghar

Kheli1600 Pavitra Rishta1630 Shobha Somnath Ki1730 Ram Milaye Jodi1800 Hitler Didi1830 Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch

Bahuein1900 Afsar Bitiya1930 Choti Bahu 22000 Hitler Didi2030 Yahaaan Main Ghar Ghar

Kheli2100 Pavitra Rishta2130 Ram Milaye Jodi2200 Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch

Bahuein2230 Bhagonwali2300 Afsar Bitiya

‘Legend Of The Fist - The Return Of Chen Zhen’ at 2100 Hrs on HBO

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201229The games people playPlaying Field

France’s Cyril Despres won theDakar Rally moto categorybeating Marc Coma of Spain

and Helder Rodrigues of Portugal. After the gruelling race, Desp -

res said: “Today we won and it’ssimply fantastic, this is without ashadow of a doubt the toughest Da -kar I’ve ever raced in. It was difficultphysically, but even more psycho-logically. Challenging yourselfevery morning and fighting on thecourse takes its toll on your mind.

“It’s not like a 42-kilometermarathon; here, you have to earnyour place every morning. All vic-tories are beautiful, but this one isspecial because it came down tothe wire and was decided at thelast minute. This was an unimag-inable scenario, with the leadersseparated by mere seconds. I’vedone 90 or 85 rallies throughoutmy life, and this one was the onewhere I had to fight the hardest.Today will leave its mark on me.”

High on victory

LIMA: There was double Frenchdelight on the Dakar Rally onSunday as Stephane Peterhanselwon an unprecedented 10th titleby winning the cars section and Cyril Despres wrapped up a

tight motorbikes category.Peterhansel, driving a Mini,

was previously a three-time carwinner and six-time motorcyclechampion of the gruelling rallybut it was his first victory in therace since it moved to SouthAmerica in 2009.

The Frenchman, who wentinto the final stage with a 43-minute lead over closest rival NaniRoma of Spain, finished 10th onthe 29km special, 3:12 off

American Robby Gordon’s pace.Peterhansel covered the

8,400km-long rally, of which morethan half were timed specials,between Mar Del Plata inArgentina and Lima in 38hr 54min46sec, with team-mate Roma at41:56, and South African Toyotadriver Ginel De Villiers at 1.13:25.

“When you think of how hardit is to win a Dakar, it’s incrediblethat I’ve been able to win 10 of

them,” said Peterhansel.“It’s been a long time, I’ve

been waiting for five years to winagain! To take the victory in SouthAmerica is a huge relief, it ranksamong my best triumphs.

“Moreover, the race was veryclose during the first week andthere was always a lot of pressure.”

The Frenchman added: “I don’tknow what I could do to go onebetter! Beating this record is goingto be difficult... for the others!

“This race is stressful, excitingand fascinating, and it’s also veryrewarding at the end. Now I’mgoing to party with the entire teamand then we’ll see.”

Peterhansel added: “My finestvictory will always be my first winin the motorcycle category, but th -is one has something special to it.

“I was starting to doubt myself,to think I was growing too old forthis, that I’d lost it or that I wasn’tmade for South America... and inthe end everything turned outfine!

“But I still have a blue ban-dana from my motorcycling peri-od. I didn’t tell anyone, but I kept itin my pocket throughout theentire rally. It’s the story of thecomeback of the blue bandana.”

“I’ve done 90 or 85 ralliesthroughout my life, and this onewas the one where I had to fightthe hardest. Today will leave itsmark on me.”

Peterhansel wins 10th Dakar title

IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO

Argentinian rider Alejandro Patronelli (left), winner of the 2012 Dakar Rally quad category, and hisbrother Marcos Patronelli (right) second, celebrate on the podium in Lima on January 15, 2011. AFP

France’s driver Stephane Peterhansel (C) sprays champagn on his team on the podium to celebrate their victory in the 2012 DakarRally car category in Lima, Peru,

I was starting todoubt myself, tothink I was growingtoo old for this,that I’d lost it orthat I wasn’t madefor South America...and in the endeverything turnedout fine!

Stephane Peterhansel

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201230The games people playPlaying Field

MELBOURNE: Grand slam champion Li Na hasboosted Chinese tourism to Australia and couldhelp double the number of visitors in the next fiveyears, a report said on Tuesday.

The “Li factor” was behind a 30 percent rise inAustralian Open ticket sales in China after theWuhan native reached last year’s final and went onto win the French Open, the Herald Sun said.

“About 53 million Chinese left their country on aholiday last year,” Tourism and Transport Forum

boss John Lee told the newspaper.“Of those, 500,000 came to Australia. That

number could double in five years, helped by theLi factor.”

The 29-year-old Li became Asia’s first grandslam finalist in Melbourne last year, when she lost toBelgian Kim Clijsters, and won over many fans withher jokes and charisma.

Li’s French Open win catapulted her to super-stardom in China, where her popularity is ratedalongside that of basketball’s Yao Ming. Lee said hehoped she would win in Melbourne “for the freepublicity it would give Australia”.

“The Chinese fans are not only visitingMelbourne and its surrounds,” he said. “They willvisit Sydney, the Great Barrier Reef and Uluru.

“She’s made a successful start to 2012, and if thatcontinues Li could be more valuable to Australiantourism than Oprah.”

Australia, whose tourism industry has hit trou-ble after a boom in the 1990s, arranged for US chatshow queen Oprah Winfrey to visit last year to high-light the country’s attractions on her widelywatched programme.

Oz tourism sector pins hope on Li

TALK ON COURTYou beauty! ComebackCasey winsAussie wildcard Casey Dellacqua returnedto the court from the commentators’ boxafter a string of injuries, and beat Serbia’sBojana Jovanovski 6-3, 6-2. The 26-year-old also studied beauty therapy during hertime away from the game and appeared inMelbourne with newly dyed hair — mean-ing nobody recognised her in the players’lounge. “No, which is good,” she said,when asked about it.

Fed turns InternetexplorerRoger Federer had so little idea about hisfirst-round opponent, AlexanderKudryavtsev, that he had to ask fellowplayers and scour the Internet for tips. “Iheard a few things and there was a fewthings on the Internet I was trying to see. Ithink I saw him playing in a grasscourttournament, I was just trying to make surehe was the same guy — and he was!”

Azarenka gets Chinese boostBelarusian Victoria Azarenka revealed herwin over Chinese star Li Na in the final oflast week’s Sydney International had givenher profile an unexpected boost. Speakingafter her 6-1, 6-0 win over EnglishwomanHeather Watson on Monday, Azarenka saidshe was now being recognised by at leastone section of the community. “After beat-ing Li Na a lot of Chinese people havestarted to recognise me.”

SHARAPOVACRUSHES

DULKO

MELBOURNE: Former championMaria Sharapova demolished

Argentina’s Gisela Dulko 6-0, 6-1 inless than an hour in the first roundof the Australian Open on Tuesday.

Sharapova, who won the title in2008, was at her ruthless best as she

overpowered the Argentine in stiflingconditions on the Hisense Arena.

It was an impressive display bySharapova against a player who was

once ranked as high as 26 in theworld.

The Russian fourth seedalso showed no signs of a left ankle

injury that forced her to withdrawfrom the Brisbane International two

weeks ago.

Sharapova claimed the first set injust 25 minutes and didn’t lose agame until 2-0 in the second set,

when her serve temporarily desertedher. But she quickly recovered to

break straight back and run awaywith the match.

Dulko had no answer to thepower of Sharapova’s ground

strokes, her forehand particularlydamaging throughout the 58-minute encounter. Sharapova

smashed 14 winners past Dulko andforced the Argentine into 22 errors

over the two sets.“I knew I had a tough opponent

today,” a delighted Sharapova saidafterwards. “I focused on every point

and took her time away — she’s aplayer who loves time on the ball.”

Sharapova has a relatively easypassage into the third round with

her next opponent US qualifierJamie Hampton.

January 16 – January 29

JOKER WALTZES INTO ROUND 2

Defending cham-pion and topseed NovakDjokovic cruisedinto the secondround of theAustralian Openon Tuesday withthe loss of justtwo gamesagainst Italy’sPaolo Lorenzi.Djokovic hadfew problems inwinning 6-2, 6-0,6-0 and will nextplay Colombia’sSantiago Giraldo.Djokovic brokeLorenzi’s servicenine times inwrapping up hisopening match.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 201231The games people playPlaying FieldSNIPPETS

Make sheep shearingOlympic sport: Kiwi

Enduro champ Aholasuccumbs to injuries

Maradona cured, toreturn to coaching

WELLINGTON: The New Zealand Farm -ers Federation has called for sheep shearingto become an Olympic sport, hailing topwool-clippers as world-class athletes.

With the World Shearing Championshipsset to be held in the North Island town ofMasterton in March, federation spokeswom-an Jeanette Maxwell said shearing was nowa bona fide sport that deserved internationalrecognition.

"Surely, time has come to elevate shear-ing’s sporting status to the ultimate worldstage?" she said in a statement. "One waywould be to make shearing a demonstrationsport at a Commonwealth Games, if not, theOlympics itself."

HELSINKI: Mika Ahola, five-time andreigning Enduro world champion, died at theweekend in a Barcelona hospital, the sport'sgoverning body in Finland said Monday,amid reports the 37-year-old had died ofinjuries suffered during training. "Accordingto information received by the Finnish MotorSport Association, Enduro world championMika Ahola has passed away," read thebrief statement posted on the group's web-site late Monday, providing no furtherdetails. Finnish public broadcaster YLE how-ever reported the 37-years-old had diedSunday evening in Barcelona, Spain.

DUBAI: Former Argentinian football leg-end Diego Maradona will return to coach-ing at Al-Wasl club after he was success-fully treated for kidney stones at a Dubaihospital, the club said Monday."Maradona is well and in good health. Hewill rest for one day (Tuesday) beforesupervising the training on Wednesday,"said the statement by Al-Wasl. The 51-year-old began feeling pain after the club'smatch on Saturday and was later admittedto hospital. "Maradona has insisted onwatching on video the game betweenSharjah and Bani Yas that took place yes-terday (Sunday) in preparation for thecoming game between Al-Wasl andSharjah" scheduled for January 23, saidthe statement.

SYDNEY: Australia named anunchanged squad Tuesday forthe fourth Test against India inAdelaide, maintaining faith instruggling number three ShaunMarsh.

The Australians are chasinga 4-0 series thrashing of Indiaand are expected to make onechange to their starting 11 withspinner Nathan Lyon likely toreturn at the expense of youngpaceman Mitchell Starc.

The injury-plagued Marshheld his spot despite failing tofire in the series, which theAustralians lead 3-0 after theirinnings and 37 runs victory inPerth on Sunday. CoachMickey Arthur backed Marshto come good in Adelaide, andsaid he saw enough in the left-hander's brief innings in Perthto suggest he had turned thecorner. "The stars have alignedfor us the whole series, exceptfor in the number three posi-tion," he said.

"I saw signs of him comingback, I saw signs of his move-ments being a lot crisper, hisweight transferral was a lot bet-

ter, he looked really good at apoint. "Hopefully Adelaide isthe catalyst for him."

Marsh, rushed back intothe Australian team for theseries after being sidelined by aback problem, made 11 in thehome team's only innings atPerth.

That was his best score ofthe series and he has just 14runs at 3.50. Chairman of selec-tors John Inverarity said win-ning the third Test in underthree days meant there was noneed to rest any of the fastbowlers, but indicated Lyonwould return regardless. "Aspin bowler has always been apriority in Test matches atAdelaide Oval and it is verylikely that Nathan Lyon willreplace one of the otherbowlers in the final 11 for thefourth Test," he said.Australian squad: DavidWarner, Ed Cowan, ShaunMarsh, Ricky Ponting, MichaelClarke (capt), Michael Hussey,Brad Haddin, Peter Siddle, BenHilfenhaus, Nathan Lyon, RyanHarris, Mitchell Starc.

Oz to retainShaun Marsh

England wintoss, elect to batDUBAI: England captain Andrew Strauss won thetoss and elected to bat against Pakistan on Tuesday inthe first of three Tests to be played in Dubai.

Pakistan entered the match with two spinners inSaeed Ajmal and Abdul Rehman, but England did notinclude left-arm spinner Monty Panesar, instead play-ing a third paceman, Chris Tremlett.

Pakistan: Misbah-ul Haq (captain), MohammadHafeez, Taufiq Umar, Azhar Ali, Younis Khan, AsadShafiq, Adnan Akmal, Umar Gul, Aizaz Cheema,Saeed Ajmal, Abdul Rehman.

England: Andrew Strauss (capt), Alastair Cook,Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, EoinMorgan, Matt Prior, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann,Chris Tremlett, James Anderson.

Woods, Romo team up

LOS ANGELES: Tiger Woods willmake his US debut at the Pebble BeachNational Pro-Am with NationalFootball League star Tony Romo as hisplaying partner, American broadcasterESPN reported on Monday.

Woods and Romo will play along-side each other as a two-man team forthe four-day tournament which beginson February 9, ESPN said according toone of its sources.

It will be the first time in a decadeWoods has competed at the PebbleBeach tournament.

In 2000, Woods posted one of the

most memorable victories of his career,winning the US Open at Pebble Beachby a dominant 15 shots.

Also that same year, Woods ralliedfrom a seven-shot deficit in the finalround to win the Pebble Beach pro-am.

Woods and Romo have played apro-am before, back in 2009 when theyteamed together at the AT&T Nationalin Washington, D.C.

Romo, the star quarterback of theDallas Cowboys, played at PebbleBeach last year alongside partner JohnDaly of the US.

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