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Indians are Displaying a Hunger not seen in Americans or Europeans: Marc Effron, Talent Strategy

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MUMBAI (DNAI): Marc Effron, CEO of The Talent Strategy Group, frequently visits India as a bulk of his clientele is based in the country. The author of the bestselling One Page Talent Management is writing another book on his favorite subject. Effron, who has worked with Hewitt and Avon Products before he branched out as a consultant to many enterprises including Bank of America, Philips and Reliance Industries in India, says people he has come across in the country, entrepreneurs or their employees, display a hunger that’s not seen these days in Americans or

Europeans. This hunger is positive, as it is aspirational, with a pride to take their nation forward, Effron tells Satish John in an interview:

Are challenges for Indian companies different from those for their western counterparts?

There are different challenges for Indian companies as they are in the growth phase now. When fi rms move from entrepreneurial to operation stage, their needs change. Most companies around the world mess up that transition. This is a unique set of challenges for fast growing companies in India to manage that transition from an

entrepreneurial environment to a more established operational environment.

How do you improve the mean level of performance of people?

Basic performance management sets clear goals, coach people throughout the year and reviews on a regular basis every year. Most fi rms struggle to set those stretch goals that interest and challenge employees. If you set that right, so many other things fall in place easily. Set up a small number of understandable goals for everyone, which will be the easiest way to manage the aspirations of

employees.How much is compensation a

factor to keep the morale of an employee up?

Compensation is a hygiene factor. If one is paid 30% more salary, it won’t make him more motivated. I think there is brain chemistry around it. There have been studies which prove that when one gets a compensation increase, it will give an effect of a dopamine release that drugs cause. The individual will feel good for a moment and then completely go back to the old level. It has no lasting impact at all. The

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Reliance Industries Completes $7.2 Bn Deal with BPNEW DELHI (ET): Reliance

Industries on Tuesday announced completion of its 30 per cent stake sale in 21 oil and gas blocks, including the showcase KG-D6 block, to British energy giant BP Plc for over USD 7 billion.

I n d u s t r i a l i s t Mukesh Ambani-l e d R e l i a n c e Industries (RIL) said in a statement that the completion of the deal has paved the way for commencement of its strategic alliance in India with BP. “This significant step will commence the planned alliance which will operate across the gas value chain in India, from exploration and production to distribution and marketing.

“The completion of the deal delivers one of the largest ever foreign direct investments into India,” RIL said.

RIL will get USD 7.2 billion for the stake sale in 21 blocks and could get further USD 1.2 billion as performance payments based on exploration success resulting into development of commercial

deliveries. Commenting on the completion

of the deal, RIL Chairman and MD Mukesh Ambani said: “The alliance with BP will boost our efforts to realise the true potential of India’s hydrocarbon reserves.”

“The globally renowned expertise of BP and the in-depth domestic experience of Reliance make for a formidable alliance which will deliver unparalleled value for the country in its pursuit of energy security,” he added.

RIL said that the two companies wou ld a l so fo rm a 50-50 joint venture for sourcing and marketing of gas in India which will also accelerate the creation

of infrastructure for receiving, transporting and marketing natural gas.

BP Group CEO Bob Dudley said: “This major investment is directly aligned with our strategy of creating long-term value by forming

alliances with strong national partners, ga in ing mater ia l positions in signifi cant hydrocarbon basins and increasing our exposure to growing energy markets.”

RIL is India’s largest private sector company with a turnover of Rs 2,58,651 crore (USD 58 billion) and net profi t of Rs 20,286 crore (USD 4.5 billion) in the last fiscal ended March 31, 2011.

It had on February 21 agreed to sell 30 per cent stake in 23 out of its 29 oil and gas blocks to BP. Earlier this month, the company said that it has received the government approval for sale of stake in 21 blocks.

However, the approval has been held back for two blocks, one a deep sea area off the Orissa coast and the other an onland block in Assam, over technical issues.

Mukesh Ambani, Industrialist, Reliance Industries is happy to make a strategic alliance in India with BP. Exploration in gas, production, distribution and marketing are planned

Pakistan Agrees to Grant Most Favored Nation Status to IndiaISLAMABAD: Pakistan has

agreed to grant the Most Favored Nation (MFN) status to India, something which New Delhi had been demanding for many years, a media report said on Sunday. A senior offi cial of the ministry of trade said on the condition of anonymity that the status of MFN would be granted during the current year, Urdu daily Jang reported.

Pakistan has in return asked for immediate lifting of non-tariff restrictions on its exports to India.

Sources said that trade and commerce minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim would soon announce basic changes in Pakistan’s trade policy.

One of the amendments will be a draft to review the list of trade items between the two countries.

According to the source, Pakistan has agreed to grant MFN status to India this very year in return for lifting the non-tariff restrictions on imports from Pakistan. This will fulfill the long-standing Indian demand in return for lifting of non-tariff restrictions alone.

The report comes ahead of a

possible meeting between the commerce ministers of India and Pakistan after a gap of over three years in New Delhi next month to discuss ways to boost trade and

proposals to remove non-tariff barriers as the two countries make efforts to normalise relations.

Indian commerce minister Anand Sharma has invited his Pakistani counterpart Fahim, a senior leader of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, to visit New Delhi for the meeting.

Trade and commerce minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim along with Pakistan offi cials is easing trade restrictions with India

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Indians are Displaying a Hunger not seen in Americans or Europeans: Talent Strategy Group CEOContinued from page 27average employee wants a great manager, a great career and just enough of a salary.

But managing attrition is a huge challenge for Indian companies...

Part of it is opportunistic. If given an opportunity to earn extra few bucks and you don’t see a career for self in a company, then why not. Especially in an aspirational economy. That’s a human behaviour. There are two things companies can do to retain a larger percentage of people. It is to engage their people with a good manager and a good compensation. Companies have to identify the top 10% of high potential employees around them. Then invest in a very different way in the top 10% of your staff. If a company wants to retain those people, fi rst of all, you’ve to tell them that they are one of the best. The top 10% of people should be given a compelling proposition.

Do you fi nd stereotypes in Indian, Chinese or American talent?

My experience suggests how consistent (in behavior) we all are across geographies, because our brains all come from the same place. The personality factor comes from the same factors around the world even if cultural nuances shift us in one way or the other. Many people ask me when you go to India what is it that strikes you. I fi nd them hungrier in a positive way. They are more aspirational than I see in other parts of the world. For instance, in the US

people lack the drive to succeed. Whereas Indians believe that if they all act collectively the country will win. Some of the pride is driven by the entrepreneurial behavior. It will be a huge competitive advantage. They will be working hard for their families and their countries. That kind of a mindset is almost unbeatable. If there is one differentiator then that is the entrepreneurial mindset. Leaders in India are also starting to understand their talent, perhaps a little better than their western counterparts. I see they have started realizing that they need to invest more in acquiring and training talent.

Three companies you admire the most in spotting and nurturing talent?

IBM has done an amazing job in the last 15 years. IBM has a true leadership machine. IBM has done a tremendous job in nurturing talent through their ranks. PepsiCo and Bank of America are a few.

What about companies such as General Electric?

General Electric is a perfect example of doing it well for years. A lot of companies have failed trying to cut paste the GE model to their organization.

How does one improve talent what would be your advice?

The first thing is to tell your manager that you want to do more. Every individual grows through experiences. So he or she has to seek those experiences. It can be a special project experience or a

full time job. Experience might be shadowing someone’s job to understand the job. As a young individual, your job is to collect as many experiences as you can get. Step one is you have to raise your hand and say you want to do more. Step two is to volunteering for any experience just for the learning experience.

Among the CEOs that you have come across, can you name someone who has been good at spotting talent?

CEO of Avon Products, Andrea Jung, has a tremendous insight into talent. She understands the culture of Avon so well that she could screen people very effectively. Hugh McColl, former CEO of Band of America, understood very well who could fi t well in his bank and in what role, whether as a retail banker or as a treasury manager.

Are Indian human resource practices comparable to the rest of the world?

Indian HR practices are now changing focus from talent acquisition to talent management for all the obvious reasons. If businesses are growing at a fast clip, recruiting people is essential.

When I talk to my HR friends here, they are shifting from the growing part to the developing part. They are identifying the high potential individuals, developing succession planning strategies. Avoid the mistakes we made in the West.

Reliance Industries has had a top leadership that has been around from the time it was founded? What are the challenges for RIL?

The current crop of leaders in Reliance Industries may be wonderful. Most companies don’t even understand what a great leader

is and therefore it is impossible to build a second line-up of leaders.

Indian companies have a peculiar problem as they dabble in too many sectors. Is this good for identifying and grooming leaders?

If it is a multi-line business then life is much easier. If one business is on a turnaround mode, then there is already one person in the group who had the experience of turning it around. A multi-line or a diversifi ed business can deal with economic shocks better. One has to execute it by moving people according to their capabilities.

Some of the leading Indian IT companies hire people in lots of 20,000-30,000 a year. Isn’t that a challenge?

It is a huge challenge. It is more of a question of cultural fi t. One Page Talent Management, or OPTM, is a science that allows companies such as Infosys and TCS (who hire 30,000 people annually) to grow their workforce asleaders and accelerate them on their career path. The basic requirement for learning is you take feedback and you practise. A 15-minute fast interaction is all it takes, say every month, with your team individually. It goes a long way.

Very few people climbing from ranks to positions of power?

Indian entrepreneurship is a perfect example. I think the model is still very valid in India as it is a growth economy. There are a lot of people who are growing from shop fl oor up.



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Sri Lanka Plans Undersea Power Grid Link With IndiaCOLOMBO (SANA) “The

plan is at conceptual level. We are doing a feasibility study… and plan to set up an undersea power transmission line between India and Sri Lanka (Anurhadhapura),” High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Prasad Kariyawasam told reporters.

Sri Lanka was planning to set up a power grid connection between the island and Mysore in India which is facing growing requirement for electricity, a top envoy said today. “The plan is at conceptual level. We are doing a feasibility study… and plan to set up an undersea power transmission line between India and Sri Lanka (Anurhadhapura),” High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Prasad Kariyawasam told reporters here. The idea was to

meet the increasing demand for electricity.”In the current context of India’s power requirement, it may be very right for Sri Lanka to sell

power to India and vice-versa. We have lot of excess capacity in terms of wind power,” he added. On the situation in Jaffna in the aftermath of the war which led to decimation of LTTE, Kariyawasam said Sri Lanka was in the process of rebuilding, reconstruction and reconciliation. Of the 2.90 lakh Tamilians displaced, only 5,000 remain to be resettled. He also said of the 11,000 LTTE cadre, 7,000 have been rehabilitated and otheres remained to be resettled. Kariyawasam said the Sri Lankan Government was planning to commence ferry services between Taliamanar and Dhanushkodi near Rameswaram in India. “…

Dhanushkodi is a fl ourishing tourist and pilgrimage town,” he added

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Nepal’s newly elected prime minister Baburam Bhattarai greeted supporters, vouching to work towards national coalition unity and peace. The two other major parties - the non communist Nepali Congress party and the Communisty party of Nepal have to cooperate in what Baburam Bhattarai claims will be an uphill task to unify over 19,000 former fi ghters of the Maoist rebellion back into civilian society and help balance power in a permanent new constitution for Nepal

Nepal Elects Baburam Bhattarai, a Maoist as Prime MinisterKATHMANDU, NEPAL (NY T)

: The deeply fractured Parliament of Nepal elected a Maoist as the country’s new prime minister on Sunday, after weeks of efforts to form a national unity coalition proved fruitless.

The new prime minister — Baburam Bhattarai, 57 — is a senior leader and intellectual force in the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which gave up armed rebellion in a 2006 peace accord and unexpectedly won the most seats, though not an outright majority, in the 2008 legislative elections.

Bhattarai faces the same thorny problems that made previous governments of Nepal short-lived: how to reintegrate the 19,000 former fighters of the Maoist rebellion back into civilian society or the army, and how to balance power in a permanent new constitution for the country.

“This is the last opportunity,” Bhattarai told the Parliament before the vote on Sunday. “I am determined to complete the peace process and constitution drafting.”

It will be an uphill task. The other two major parties — the non-Communist Nepali Congress Party and a rival Communist group, known as the Communist Party of Nepal (Unifi ed Marxist-Leninist) or C.P.N.-U.M.L. — remain in opposition, and to win Bhattarai

needed support from smaller parties that could withdraw it at any time. Though seen as the No. 2 Maoist leader after the chairman, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Bhattarai is not universally supported in his own party.

The Maoists have struggled to turn their plurality into a stable coalition government. Three successive prime ministers have resigned after a few months in offi ce, followed by weeks of deadlock over a successor. The latest, Jhalanath Khanal of the C.P.N.-U.M.L., who was elected in February, stepped down Aug. 14, saying he had made little or no progress.

Bhattarai was one of the central negotiators of the November 2006 accord that ended the country’s bloody 10-year insurrection, and he won praise as fi nance minister in the fi rst elected Maoist government. He has a reputation for integrity and for a modest lifestyle that is unusual among top Nepalese politicians.

He said Sunday that despite the failure to organize a national unity government, he would continue to try to garner agreement from the main opposition parties for measures to complete the peace process. “I am hopeful that they will support me,” he said. “I will try to move ahead with the confi dence of other parties.” Still, he said, “I do not have any magic.”

S.Africa Keen to Boost Exports to IndiaPRETORIA (AA): Trade and

Industry Minister Rob Davies has urged the private sector to come up with projects that will enhance South African exports to India.

“The minister has urged the private sector to explore opportunities presented by the political and economic relationships that India and South Africa have.”

Speaking at a reception hosted by the South African High Commissioner to India in New Delhi, Davies said Tata India is one

of South Africa’s largest foreign investors.

Africa and India has experienced an upward trend from 2006 to 2010, growing from R16.3 billion to R43 billion. Coal, solid fuels, manganese ores and copper ores are some of the exported goods to India, while petroleum oils and vehicles are some of the goods that are imported from India.

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Ghastly Political Violence in Karachi - An Effective Solution NeededBy Hammad Siddiqi

KARACHI (DAWN): After making headlines for months, the ghastly political violence in Karachi seems to have taken a breather but for how long no one knows. However, what is apparent is the fact that it brought back memories of trussed up bodies, sounds of automatic gunfire and the reign of terror that became a hallmark of the city in the 90s.

Karachi is a layer cake, with the MQM, PPP, ANP and various gangs vying for an ample share over its resources. Over the years, there has been a demographic shift in Karachi, with this division igniting economic and political problems and leading to the emergence of ethnically homogenous communities where an outsider cannot enter.

The periods of prolonged violence in Karachi are directly linked to periods of political confrontation. Currently, there are very important issues of favourable electoral demarcations for future, local body systems and important portfolios in the cabinet that area at stake. The making and breaking of deals to achieve higher political objectives will decide which political group in the city maintains an upper hand.

Believing whole heartedly in ‘the end justifies the means’, the political parties leave no stone unturned, even if it means engineering violence. The political parties have militant cadres and have

interlink ages with the underworld who unleash violence as and when needed. Political parties use their criminal bands and the underworld as an instrument of violence, terror, intimidation and impunity. The mafia who have a symbiotic relationship with politicians of Karachi in return expand their own business of gun running, drug trafficking and land grabbing.

While the mayhem continues, there is a glaring lack of political will on part of the federal government to address the issue, all the while as it struggles to appease its allies. An indiscriminate operation against groups would alienate them from the government and that is what the government wants to avoid, throwing Karachiites further into the blazing inferno. In any civilised society, law and order is held supreme but here it is the other way around.

With the news trickling in that 200 Frontier Constabulary (FC) troops have arrived in the city, one wonders how long before lasting peace returns to the city. There is no dearth of security forces in the city. Karachi has over 56,000 law enforcement personnel comprising police along with the Rangers and FC. But are the law enforcing personnel in the police independent? That simple answer is that they are not. Years of misuse by political actors has turned the police into a politicised force on a tight leash. In the ’90s, the police

force led by Shoaib Suddle carried out a successful operation a g a i n s t p o l i t i c a l terrorism and restored peace. The same is needed now but the force needs a free hand and a strong will on part of the government.

As for the calls of deploying army in the city. There is no doubt that the army can clean up the mess by sorting out the different political patrons in an even handed manner. But the army would fail to address the underlying complicated political problems which could only be addressed by the politicians. Even in the past, following the military operation of 1992 in Karachi and Sindh, the problems reappeared after a short while.

Of late, an operation in Karachi has finally begun but there are few takers in this activity. When the government is pitted to keep allies on its side, then operations cannot be indiscriminate. What kind of operation was this which could not be launched against the mafia in Lyari when ‘human

shields’ came out protesting against the police and the rangers and the police had to return. Your guess is as good as mine.

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An Opportunity to Clean System of Corruption: Business LeadersMUMBAI (DH): With the

nation’s focus on corruption as highlighted by Anna Hazare, business leaders see an opportunity for cleaning up the system by openness and abolition of red tape which generates corruption.

Industry body Assocham called for “bold and concrete steps” to ensure “effective, transparent and accountable” governance. Assocham also supported creation of accountable institutions along the lines of Election Commission, its President Dilip Modi said.

S P Hinduja, Chairman, Hinduja Group Worldwide gave specific suggestions for eradication of corruption, including legalizing contributions by individuals and businesses to political parties and bringing funds held offshore into the accounting system by imposing a one-time tax of 15-30 per cent as was done by the US and other countries.

H indu ja a l so ca l l ed fo r introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in order to urgently streamline transactions and bring greater transparency to them.

Other measures suggested by him include reducing the large number of permissions required for new projects and awarding mega projects to businesses on condition of building social infrastructure in education healthcare and water supply.

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break the unholy nexus between politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen that has created an entire parallel economy to corner the benefits of rapid growth, he said.

Corruption, he said, is now seriously affecting governance in India with consequences for its social cohesion, inclusive economic growth, inflows of foreign investment and even internal security.

Making his stand clear in favour of a strong Lokpal Bill, Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej also suggested reducing the number of government permissions required could help curb corruption.

“I feel the best way to tackle corruption is to drastically reduce issues on which government permissions or discretionary decisions are required and make all government sales and purchases of assets, goods and services by a transparent auction,” Godrej said.

While most of the corporate leaders s tayed away f rom making direct comments on the ongoing issue, top industrialists like UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya, Mahindra & Mahindra Vice-Chairman and MD Anand Mahindra and Biocon’s CMD Kiran Mazumdar Shaw have been expressing their views through social media like twitter.

“ I suppor t Team Anna’s movement against corruption

which must b (sic) eradicated. But this takes time n (sic) patience n (sic) a careful approach. Not this,”

Mallya tweeted.“If Team Anna does not trust

Parliament n (sic) its elected representatives, do we need general elections to re- elect acceptable representatives,” Mallya questioned.

“Appeal by the PM, opp (sic)

leader and speaker is unprecedented and signals respect for public anguish. It should not be dismissed

lightly, or go unheeded,” Mahindra tweeted on August 25.

Compromise is not always a bad word. It’s part of the DNA of democracy, he had said.

Organization of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) President Ranjit Shahani said due deliberations must take place before

deciding on a fi nal mode to tackle corruption.

“We have had a very strong parliamentary system for 64 years and it should have due deliberations and all the bills should go the standing committee and it will consider good points of all bills. As something of such great importance should not be rushed through,” he said.

Assocham’s Modi said: “Given India’s emerging role as a global leader, it is imperative that we take bold and concrete steps to ensure effective, transparent and accountable governance”.

He further said, whether it was the Lok Pal Bill or any other institutional arrangement, it must be ensured that power does not accumulate in the same hands and the balance of power envisaged in the Constitution is respected.

H i n d u j a s u g g e s t e d confiscating black money generated by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats or through criminal activities as one of the steps to tackle the black money issue.He also highlighted the need for

creating a large number of small feeder infrastructure projects for implementation in the semi-urban and rural sector to create investment and employment at grassroots level that can help in reducing rural migration to city slums.

Corruption in India has gotten so deep and layered in Indian businesses. It is also affecting governance, social standards, economic growth, foreign investment and internal security. With such a large and diverse democracy as India’s rapid growth is being hampered by several outside factors like terrorism, political riots, social propagandas, but the worst culprit that stops economic growth in India is bribes accepted by offi cers at every level in society. Many social groups are trying to get corruption eradicated while Hazare fasts



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volunteers of Make A Difference (MAD), a youth volunteer network that works for underprivileged children, have set on a cycling tour of India to cover 12 cities travelling 4,240 km, beginning at Mangalore on August 7.

The team comprising two persons from Germany and one from Mangalore, stopped here on Sunday on their way to Chennai. The other two cyclists proceeded directly to Chennai as they suffered some injuries, said MAD core team member Surya Teja Aduri.

The MAD Vijayawada chapter was launched recently. The cyclists interacted with members of Child Aid Foundation. They participated in various events such as break the ice, dance etc., organised at the Child Aid Foundation near Benz Circle.

They also participated in wall signing ceremony, he said, adding, KLU pro chancellor Raja Hari participated as chief guest.

The cyclists set few objectives, including raising Rs.100 for every kilometre they cover, and to stress the importance of education to the future of our country.

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the Mangalore chapter of the MAD on Cambridge syllabus textbooks for the 300 children under its wings.

They said that MAD tries to empower the children in orphanages,

street shelters and poor homes with English along with its partner, Cambridge University Press. The English project takes learners from starter to intermediate level using Cambridge English for schools.

The MAD wanted to bring about a situation where all children can select a career based on their

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K U L G A M ( H i n d u ) : T h e Government of Jammu and Kashmir has installed solar lighting units under the Remote Village Electrification (RVE) program in many households in Kulgam District.

R e v e n u e Administrative Officer, Bashir Ahmad Ganie, Kulgam District, said the RVE scheme of the state government would benefit a large number of families, who w e r e d e v o i d of all the basic amenities of a modern life.

“The scheme of providing solar lights have been i m p l e m e n t e d b y t h e s t a t e government as the Gujjars, ethnic community, live in hilly regions does not have proper electricity. And also it becomes difficult for the government to provide electricity in such remote areas. So, the families living in these villages can utilize these lights in their day to day life,” said Ganie.

The solar lights will facilitate people living in these villages to enjoy the comfort of modern lights through pollution—free

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“Today, we feel that the officials have provided us these solar lights and it would comfort our lives now. Now our children can utilize these

lights for their studies, because earlier they used to sleep early in the evening. Now I feel that since it is benefiting our children, it would also improve our lifestyle,” said Fakir Khan, a local.

Remote Village Electrification is a programme, which has been commenced by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) of the Central government for the poor and needy, who lives in far remote villages

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admitted in the hospital, Dr Naresh Trehan, CEO and chairman of Me-danta Medicity, earlier said, adding, “His condition is near normal.

“He has started taking dal-roti and khichidi (porridge),” he said.

Trehan said Hazare’s blood-pres-sure was 140/90, which is normal, and his pulse rate was 80 per minute. Hazare has also gained 400 gms in the last 24 hours and he now weighs 67 kg.

The doctor said ketones presence in his urine is normal now and his liver and kidneys were functioning well.

According to sources, Hazare is headed to his village in Maharash-tra, Ralegon Siddhi.

GURGAON (TOI): Anna Haz-are was discharged from a hospital here on Wednesday evening where he was admitted on Sunday after he broke his 12-day fast demanding a strong Lokpal.

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If Rajiv’s Killers Escape Gallows, so may 21 Others on Death RowBy ViSHwa moHan

NEW DELHI (TOI): If ‘delay’ in disposing a mercy petition is taken as the ground to commute the death penalty of those convicted of heinous crimes, it will have a bearing on the fate of 21 people on the death row, whose pleas have been pending for over five to 10 years.

Asking for the Centre’s reply, the Madras high court on Tuesday ob-served that there had been a delay of over 11 years in the disposal of the petitions filed by the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

The HC also stayed for eight weeks the execution of the three convicts fixed for September 9. Besides, the Tamil Nadu assembly had also passed a unanimous resolution urging Presi-dent Pratibha Patil to reconsider the mercy plea of the three convicts.

Abdullah to speak about the Parlia-ment House attack case convict Afzal Guru.

“If J&K assembly had passed a resolution similar to the Tamil Nadu one for Afzal Guru would the reac-tion have been as muted? I think not,” Omar said on the micro-blogging site twitter. The argument of ‘delay’, if accepted, can also be taken as a ground to pitch for the case of terror-ists Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. The development has already witnessed ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab writing to the Centre for commuting the death sentence of the Khalistan Commando Force terrorist.

While the President had rejected Bhullar’s mercy plea in May, the final nod on Afzal Guru is awaited after the home ministry forwarded its opinion rejecting his plea. There is one more

Members of various Tamil organisations during a protest demanding clemency for Perarivalan, Murugan and Santhan, three convicts on death row in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, in Chennai on Tuesday.

Former Indian Prime minister Late Rajiv Gandhi killers Murugan, Santhan and Perari Velan

murder convict, Mahendra Nath Das, from Assam whose mercy plea was rejected by the President in May.

However, all the mercy pleas have not ended in ‘rejection’. Since No-vember 2009, President Pratibha Pa-til has commuted the death sentence of 22 convicts in different cases to life imprisonment.

None of these convicts was guilty of any terror-related crime. The Ma-dras High Court’s observation now opens a debate, taking a cue from what the Supreme Court had held in similar cases.

The apex court had in 1989 held in the Triveniben vs State of Gujarat case that “undue delay” in execution of a death sentence entitled the con-demned prisoner under Article 32 of Constitution to approach the court that his death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment.

The apex court, however, did not quantify the period of “inordinate de-lay”, leaving scope for interpretation especially when the clemency pow-ers of the President, under Article 72 of the Constitution, do not prescribe any time frame for disposal of mercy petitions by the President. Sources in the home ministry said that the Centre, which received notice from the Madras HC on the petition filed by the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi case, will tell the court about provisions of Article 72.

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Indian Business Delegation to Tap Africa’s IT MarketACCRA (ET): An Indian business

delegation is to visit Nigeria and Ghana as part of an African tour in order to tap into the continent’s growing IT market which it said is headed for growth this year with market levels expected to reach $26.53 billion.

The NASSCOM delegation is due to visit Ghana and Nigeria during Sep 15-22 as part of the group’s Global Trade Development Initiative to explore new geographies for its members, a statement said.

NASSCOM is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPO industries in India. It has more than 1200 members, which include both Indian and multinational companies that have a presence in India.

The statement said the delegation would also visit Kenya which, it said, has “the most aggressive ICT economy in East Africa with the government being proactive and willing to invest in the sector.”

“Nigeria is the second biggest economy in Africa and is the largest in terms of its population and opportunity,” the statement said, adding that “Ghana offers the most suitable investment climate in the region and is often referred to as the Gateway to West Africa. This delegation would give ample exposure and fl avour of the entire African continent.”

The delegation is led by Jai Menon, Group CIO of Bharti Enterprises & Director of Global Innovation & IT, Airtel, and A n i l B a k h t , M a n a g i n g Director, Eastern S o f t w a r e Systems.

The statement s a i d , “ T h e emphas i s o f the NASSCOM d e l e g a t i o n w o u l d b e o n c r e a t i n g a w a r e n e s s among the local c o m p a n i e s about Ind ia , i d e n t i f y i n g p o t e n t i a l companies for p a r t n e r s h i p and building a l o n g - t e r m e n g a g e m e n t programme.”

The statement said, “Over the past few years, Africa has been one of the faster growing markets worldwide in ICT adoption and communication technology and has the potential of becoming one of the most important markets

for the Indian IT industry. The liberalisation of Africa continues and most countries have established

regulatory bodies to ensure a fair, c o m p e t i t i v e a n d e n a b l i n g environment.”

“NASSCOM is also counting on a $5-billion credit line for Africa signed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to expand trade with Africa in May this year, as offering more opportunities for its members.

The statement said the NASSCOM delegation to Africa last year was well participated and appreciated, adding that “it was through part icipat ion in the delegation that member companies realized the huge business potential in Kenya and Nigeria.

Feedback from members has indicated that they have started participating in tenders and began submitting proposals both in the government sector and non-govt sectors.”

Jai Menon, Group CIO of Bharti Enterprises & Director of Global Innovation & IT, Airtel, is set to lead the delegation of businessmen and women to tap into the African IT market

Global Milk Producers Offer Technology Support to India

NEW DELHI: As India’s milk production falls 20 million tonnes short of the demand, leading global dairy players offered to help the country increase its output.

At a global dairy conference here, representatives from US, Canada, New Zealand, France and Ireland narrated their success stories in dairy farming and offered to help India boost its milk output.

“India’s milk production was 140 million tonnes in 2010, whereas the domestic demand was 160 million tonnes, hence the demand-supply gap was 20 million tonnes,” said Sanjay Bhoosreddy, Joint Secretary in the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries.

“The dairy sector needs to grow at six per cent per annum to attain the target as against around four per cent annually at present,” Bhoosreddy said and stressed upon the need to step up research and development (R&D) in the sector.

“We need to map India with the priorities and issues in the areas where dairy development has not yet started,” Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Sudip Bandopadhyaya said. The day-long conference on dairy development in India was organized by industry chamber Confederation of Indian

Industries (CII). Cherie L Bayer Director of

Development American Jersey Cattle Association said her country improved its milk output by 69 billion pounds reaching 187 lbs in 2007. This was due to greater genetic capacity for production, better nutrition and improved cow health, she added.

N e w Z e a l a n d ’ s T r a d e Commissioner in India Cliff Fuller offered partnership with India in the dairy sector.

Ireland’s Ambassador to India Kenneth Thompson said that India will have to open its doors to foreign inputs on technology to meet the demands of a growing population.

JeevMantra CEO Michele Janezic, said that milk productivity could be enhanced by paying attention to breeding policy, hygiene, fodder and genetic selection.

She said her organisation would be conducting a survey to devise a model farm approach to help Indian farmers in increasing dairy output.

Canadian High Commissions Counsellor (Agriculture and Food) Sudha Kshatriya said that her country is already exporting bovine embryos to India and they want to extend this cooperation further.



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Depleted India Seek New StartSUSSEX (ET): A week of

relative downtime, and India’s tour of England is fi nally up and running. Three low-key county fi xtures - against Sussex, Kent and Leicestershire - have given a bruised squad a chance to rediscover that winning feeling, and with a trio of hard-earned victories to f a l l back on, attention now turns to the limited-overs leg o f t h e i r campaign, starting with the one-off Twenty20 a t O l d Trafford on Wednesday.

As far as Ind ia a re concerned, a c h a n g e o u g h t t o be as good as a rest. A chance to swap their benighted w h i t e s f o r t h e i r f a m i l i a r blue one-day outfi ts is an opportunity to draw a line under their shortcomings of the Test series, and revert to the mindset of champions. After all, less than five months have elapsed since that night of nights in Mumbai, and no matter how poorly they may have fared in the interim, they’ll always have that achievement to fall back on.

Wednesday’s fi xture, however, is unlikely to prove much about the mindset of either set of players. In Twenty20 cricket, it is England, not India, who are the reigning world champions, although their squad has little in common with the one that triumphed in the Caribbean in 2010, and has been selected very much with a view to next year’s defence in Sri Lanka.

A trio of youngsters - Alex Hales, Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes - are vying for an opportunity to present their credentials, under the leadership of Stuart Broad, whose captaincy career started edgily against Sri Lanka in June, but will doubtless have benefi tted from an

injection of confi dence courtesy of his Man-of-the-Series performance in the Tests against India.

As for India’s line-up, it’s a pragmatic blend of old and new. Gautam Gambhir heads back home, and Sachin Tendulkar will sit this match out, but Rahul Dravid, at 38, will make his T20I debut - in recognition, perhaps, of the liveliness of English wickets and the fallibility of some of his batting colleagues against the moving ball. With no Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Gautam Gambhir or Harbhajan Singh, among others, there’s an air of experimentation on display in India’s selection. But, ahead of the serious business in the ODIs, this is clearly the game in which to test the waters.

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Shooter Gagan Narang Conferred Khel RatnaNEW DELHI (ET): Ace shooter

Gagan Narang, who notched up four gold medals at last year’s Commonwealth Games, was on Monday conferred the country’s highest sporting honour - the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award - in a glittering ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here.

The 28-year-old rifle shooter, who was the fi rst Indian marksman to qualify for next year’s London Olympics with a bronze in the World Championships last year, was an automatic choice for the prestigious award.

Narang, who was disgruntled at being “ignored” for the award last year, collected the trophy that consists of a medal, citation and cash prize of Rs 7.5 lakh from President Pratibha Patil.

Besides winning four gold medals in the 2010 CWG, Narang bagged a silver in the men’s 10m air rifl e singles event at the Asian Games last year. He also won a team silver at the Asian Games when he combined with Abhinav Bindra and Sanjeev Rajput in the 10m air rifl e event.

Among the Arjuna awardees, the most high-profi le among the ones chosen this year - Indian pace spearhead Zaheer Khan - could not attend the function as he recently underwent surgery on his injured ankle in England.

Others who were also not present due to varied reasons were tennis ace Somdev Devvarman, gymnast Ashish Kumar and discus-thrower

Vikas Gowda.Badminton ace Jwala Gutta

and India’s first woman world champion Tejaswini Sawant, who

clinched the top honours in the 50m rifl e prone event, were among the star athletes who received the Arjuna award.

Zaheer, who has taken 271 Test wickets at an average of 31.94, besides 273 one-day wickets at an average of 28.84, is the fi rst male cricketer to have got the Arjuna Award after Gautam Gambhir bagged it in 2009.

Somdev had struck a golden double last year by fi nishing on top in both the Commonwealth and Asian Games singles events, while flyweight boxer Suranjoy Singh clinched an astonishing seven back-to-back gold medals last

year, including the Commonwealth Games gold.

Dronacharya Award, the top recognition for coaches in the

country, was conferred on five including Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao (boxing), Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastics), Ramphal (wrestling), Kuntal Roy (athletics) and Rajinder Singh (hockey).

The Arjuna and Dronacharya awardees got statuettes, citations and cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh each.

Dhyan Chand Award, given for the life-time contribution to sports development, was conferred on Shabbir Ali (football), Sushil Kohli (swimming) and Rajkumar (Wrestling).

The award carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh ($11,111), a statuette and a citation.

Fishing Much More Than a Hobby in Meghalaya SHILLONG (SAN): Fishing is

no more just a recreational activity in Meghalaya, but has transformed into a popular annual sporting event that draws huge crowds from each and every part of the state.

Recently, over 1000 anglers including women, children and men gathered at the Thadlaskein Lake near Jowai in Jaintia Hills to participate in the sixth edition of the Sajar Nangli Fishing Festival in Meghalaya.

Enthusiastic anglers shelled out an entry fee of Rs. 1500 to participate in the event and competed for the bumper prize of

Rs 5 lakh.We have heard about this

competition earlier and it sounded very exciting. I am very impressed

with the number of the participants and it is really exciting. Khasi love fishing. All together this was a good experience, sa id Tredip , a visitor

Fish is one of the important items in our daily life at the same time people can rear fi sh at their own house and can sell it in the market and it will help improve their living standards, said S K

Lato, promoter.Currently fish consumption

in Meghalaya is around thirty-three thousand metric tons a year whereas production is only seven thousand MT.

The Meghalaya government is planning to launch an aqua culture mission next year and has allocated Rs 37.40 crore ($81M) under the Special Plan Assistance in 2010-11.

Both state and central governments are also regularly organizing fairs to promote commercialization of fi sheries among the locals in the region and spread awareness on the modern methods of cultivating fi sh.



The Topiwala CameraBy anil dHarker

(Outlook) “Corruption,” I remarked the other day on a television channel, “takes more than one form.” We were talking about—what else?—the lat-est incremental progression in the Anna Hazare saga. “Everyone talks of money corruption, but what about the other kind—‘Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely’? And who has any kind of power now? Only two entities: Anna Hazare and television.”

That’s all I got a chance to say: the anchor swiftly changed the subject and everyone got talking of the usual arguments. A few channels do allow you to discuss the rigidity of Team Anna and its constitutional implica-tions, but no one wants to talk about how the television medium itself is dictating what we think, what we say and when we say it.

Am I the only one disturbed at the supercharged atmosphere (almost amounting to mass hysteria) that sur-rounds us now on the issue of corrup-tion? In this prevailing atmosphere, you better be for Anna Hazare com-pletely, without any qualifications or reservations, or you will be deemed to be either for corruption or a lackey of the government. (“Your timing is terrible,” a ‘friend’ said to me after that particular television appearance, and then twisted the knife in with, “You sound like a Congress stooge.”) This mood has come about because of television’s blanket coverage of the Anna Hazare campaign, and the minuscule time given by it for the dissenting view.

No one is saying that Anna is a television creation. We have toler-ated corruption at all levels for a very long time, but the multiplicity and size of recent scams, and the UPA government’s complete inability to control them so disgusted us all that we had reached bursting point. Anna was more or less the right man at the absolutely right time. He has led a campaign which has been brilliantly conceived and orchestrated by his backroom boys till now. But if his movement has now lit a fire that is seemingly out of control, the flames have been fanned by television’s hyperventilating channels.

Is it really old-fashioned to believe that the media should remain, un-der all circumstances, balanced and objective? In many cases, you may have to choose between good and evil. You obviously hope then that

the media will be on the side of the angels. But even then, should its role continue to be of the news-gatherer, observer and analyst? Or should it be that of an activist? Everyone would want the media to be against cor-ruption, so when a movement like Anna’s starts, you expect the media to be on that movement’s side. But do you expect it to act as the movement’s propagandist?

As far as I know, all channels, even the ones not averse to airing

the occasional opposing viewpoint, joined Anna’s campaign directly. They flashed messages—and con-tinue to do so—right through their telecasts asking viewers to support the campaign by tweeting, texting or phoning messages to designated ad-dresses and phone numbers. In short, on the dais where Anna and his team sit, television channels are ensconced too, albeit invisibly.

This may make for exciting and—what’s the buzzword?—interactive television, but it does commit you firmly to one side of the equation, so much so that it becomes difficult to be even slightly critical. It goes without saying that Anna has started a social revolution that will change very many things for the better in the country; but it also goes—and this needs saying—that Anna and team have got so car-ried away with the momentum of what they started that they don’t know when (or how) to stop.

Television’s lack of objectivity has

TV crew at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi

In covering Anna, TV seems to have shed its critical faculties

meant that really important questions are also not being discussed: like the dictatorial tendencies of Team Haza-re, the flaws in the Jan Lokpal Bill, the monumental machinery required for the Lokpal agency and the difficultly in keeping it corruption-free. Televi-sion’s all-consuming obsession with the campaign has prevented it from looking at already established anti-corruption agencies and why they are not working—agencies like the CBI, CVC, ACB, the Lok Ayuktas set up in some states. No one on television is asking who will do the required investigations for the Lokpal organi-sation once it begins functioning. The police? Or an agency much like the police? Once you’ve said that, you’ve said it all.

But the channels won’t say it, or many of the other things that need to be said. If they did so, it just might weaken the movement, and that wouldn’t be good for trps, would it?

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Houston for this Momentous 6-day Event from October 26th 2011 to October 31st

2011. For details visit www.ashtalakshmi.org.

Event Highlights:

• Celebrate colorful Deepavali in the Divine Presence of Sri Swamiji.• Sahasra Kalasa Abhishekam will be performed to Sri Rama parivaar (Sri Swamiji’s Aaradhana Perumal) for the fi rst time in the USA. Abhishekam will be performed with 1001 Kalasas by 40 qualifi ed Ruthwiks from India under the aegis of Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji.• Acharya Thirunakshtram will be cel-ebrated during His Holiness visit for the fi rst time outside of India.• Devotees will participate in Saamoo-hika Dhanalakshmi puja and Samoohika Sri Sita Rama Kalayanam under the guidance of Sri Swamiji.• Sri Rama Kratuvu (5-day Yagnam) with 40 Vedic scholars under the aegis of Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji.• Ishtis:- Sri Vainatheya Ishti, Sri Hayagriva Ishti, Sri Nrusimha Ishti, and Sri Lakshmi Narayana Ishti for individu-al wishes.• Daily discourses by Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji.• Cultural Programs.• Devotees from around the World will be attending the Grand Celebrations.

JAI SRIMANNARAYANA!

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After Wanted (2009) and Dabangg (2010), will Bodyguard be your third consecutive Eid blockbuster?

Let the Wednesday the fi lm releases decide that. Everyone wants to make a fi lm that will surpass their last fi lms. I’m no different. And today, we have the technical know-how to up the standards but we still haven’t discovered a hit formula. So, all you can do is make a good, sensible, emotional fi lm and leave it at that.

But the expectations from ‘Brand Salman’

have risen? Expectations are high because people have

watched my last few fi lms. But it’s true in other cases too. For example, you always expect a little more from your girlfriend and vice versa (smiles).

Your last two fi lms with Kareena Kapoor, Kyun

Ki! (2005) and Main Aur Mrs Khanna (2009) didn’t work. Will this one break the jinx?

In our fi lm industry, certain people dismiss an on-screen pairing as panvati (jinxed) if their last few fi lms haven’t worked at the box offi ce. But I believe that if a heroine is perfectly suited for a particular role, why shouldn’t I get her? In Wanted, we cast Ayesha Takia in t h e l e a d

because she fi t the part. And the fi lm was a superhit!

Is Katrina Kaif doing a cameo in Bodyguard

or a special appearance in the title track? I start out as her bodyguard so she

appears in the title song, Aaya Re Aaya… to establish the fact. Later, of course, I become Kareena’s bodyguard.

Is Bodyguard a special fi lm for

you since your sister Alvira is co-producing it with husband Atul Agnihotri?

It doesn’t matter who is producing the fi lm. A fi lm is a fi lm. People are going to spend money, from Rs 10 to Rs 400, to watch it. So, my responsibility is towards them. Once audiences like the fi lm and they start coming in numbers, my responsibility towards the producer will be automatically fulfi lled.

How is Dabangg 2 shaping up? Have you really

written parts of the script?Dabangg 2 is simply an extension

of the first film. Chulbul Pandey is an interesting guy so I think we won’t have any problems with the character. In fact, we have fi nalized and locked the script of the sequel. I haven’t written anything in the script since it’s completely

Arbaaz’s (Khan) fi lm. Since Chulbul has shades

of gray, it’s easi ly to

m e a n d e r i n t o different genres — comedy, action and romance. Now that the character of C h u l b u l i s established, we can easily take it to the next level.

We’ve heard that Chulbul is moving to a metro now?

Yes, Chulbul is moving to a bigger city. (Smiles) Now, there’s a lot more jhol in Dabangg 2.

Many feel you seem to be stuck on action fi lms

these days? Nothing like that, every fi lm has action, even

Ready. For instance, you can’t call every fi lm a musical just because it has 4-5 songs. In fact, I had to work harder on Ready because the action scenes had to make you laugh.

Have you lost weight for Ek Tha Tiger?No, it’s just that I was training hard for the

climax of Bodyguard and carried the lean

look into Ek Tha Tiger. You met Somy Ali recently in Bangkok while

shooting for Ready? Sure, I did. She fl ew down to Bangkok from Hong

Kong because she had some work in Hong Kong. What’s the big deal?

Somy has said that Aishwarya Rai was responsible

for your split? (Smiles) Somy said it, so ask her. I don’t know

anything.

Salman KhanBut the expectations from ‘Brand Salman’

have risen? Expectations are high because people have

watched my last few fi lms. But it’s true in other cases too. For example, you always expect a little more from your girlfriend and vice versa (smiles).

Your last two fi lms with Kareena Kapoor, Kyun Ki! (2005) and Main Aur Mrs Khanna (2009) didn’t work. Will this one break the jinx?

In our fi lm industry, certain people dismiss an on-screen pairing as panvati (jinxed) if their last few fi lms haven’t worked at the box offi ce. But I believe that if a heroine is perfectly suited for a particular role, why shouldn’t I get her? In Wanted, we cast Ayesha Takia in t h e l e a d

because she fi t the part. And the fi lm was a superhit!

Is Katrina Kaif doing a cameo in Bodyguard or a special appearance in the title track?

I start out as her bodyguard so she appears in the title song, Aaya Re Aaya… to establish the fact. Later, of course, I become Kareena’s bodyguard.

Is Bodyguard a special fi lm for

written parts of the script?Dabangg 2 is simply an extension

of the first film. Chulbul Pandey is an interesting guy so I think we won’t have any problems with the character. In fact, we have fi nalized and locked the script of the sequel. I haven’t written anything in the script since it’s completely

Arbaaz’s (Khan) fi lm. Since Chulbul has shades

of gray, it’s easi ly to

m e a n d e r i n t o different genres — comedy, action and romance. Now that the character of C h u l b u l i s established, we can easily take it to the next level.

We’ve heard that Chulbul is moving to a metro now?

Yes, Chulbul is moving to a bigger city. (Smiles) Now, there’s a lot more jhol in Dabangg 2.

Many feel you seem to be stuck on action fi lms these days?

Nothing like that, every fi lm has action, even Ready. For instance, you can’t call every fi lm a musical just because it has 4-5 songs. In fact, I had to work harder on Ready because the action scenes had to make you laugh.

Have you lost weight for Ek Tha Tiger?No, it’s just that I was training hard for the

climax of Bodyguard and carried the lean climax of Bodyguard and carried the lean

look into Ek Tha Tiger.

You met Somy Ali recently in Bangkok while shooting for Ready?

Sure, I did. She fl ew down to Bangkok from Hong Kong because she had some work in Hong Kong. What’s the big deal?

Somy has said that Aishwarya Rai was responsible for your split?

(Smiles) Somy said it, so ask her. I don’t know anything.

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For the last time, are you dating Anushka?

We are two young, attractive people. When people saw us going out and sharing wonderful chemistry, they speculated. The truth is, Anushka is a very good friend. We have drifted apart now unfortunately.

So you were not in love? I was very attracted to her. I

don’t know if I’ve ever been in love. I don’t know what love means. I have felt strong and deep emotions for people who are not related to me by blood. I don’t know if that’s love but yes, I’ve felt attraction and affection for Anushka.

Did you and Anushka split because she wanted to concentrate on her career?

No. We have drifted because we don’t get to see each other as much as we used to. I think circumstances drove us apart. We worked together continuously for a year in Band Bajaa Baraat and saw each other everyday. Over a period of time we made common friends and hung out together going for dinners and movies. Now that our work is over, Anushka has forged her own path and signed on lots of movies. Now we don’t meet each other at all.

Are you closer to Sonakshi now? I do fi nd Sonakshi very attractive,

but we are not dating. I have met her many times and we share a healthy friendship. Right now I am single. I wouldn’t mind if love comes along, but for the moment it’s work over love.

Is Sonakshi a better friend or Anushka?

Anushka! I am much closer to her. We became very close over a period of time. I could talk to her about everything, because she went through the same process I was going through as a newcomer. We connected at that level.

Do you miss Anushka? Yes, I miss her a lot. Anushka is

the kind of girl you’ll always miss, especially if she’s been a part of your life and then suddenly isn’t. You feel a void...

Are you a romantic person? Yes. I am passionate, romantic and

impulsive. For me, romance is when I go out of my comfort zone for someone and do anything for them. I have a few criteria I want in a girlfriend... good diction, personal hygiene and aesthetics.

Anushka and I have drifted apart: Ranveer Singh



An American QuiltBy Salil TripaTHi

(Mint) Towards the end of Steven Spielberg’s 1977 film Close Encoun-ters of the Third Kind, as the alien spacecraft is about to make contact with the planet Earth, among the people who have gathered to see the landing is a scientist, played by the talented French film director, François Truffaut. Setting aside his rational scepticism, Truffaut looks at the extravagant sight of the spacecraft with a childlike wonder, visible on his face as his eyebrows widen, eyes go bigger, and the flicker of a smile appears on his awestruck face. Years of reason-based digital logic fade away; innocent amazement replaces that, and he looks as if he is witness-ing a miracle.

The fresh-faced nature of that dis-covery has an older cinematic paral-lel: Think of young Apu and Durga rushing to the palash field after they hear the sound of the train, looking for the engine both ways, stunned as the train rushes through the Ben-gali landscape, in Satyajit Ray’s film, Pather Panchali (1955). Bibhutib-hushan Bandopadhyay, who wrote the novel, had titled that chapter Achenar Anand, or the delight of the unknown.

In his new novel, Gods without Men, Hari Kunzru seeks to capture that sense of wonder about con-tact with the unexplainable. Kunzru does not have a personal interest in unidentified flying objects, but he is interested in the people who are fascinated by them. Whether there is life in outer space, and whether the aliens are interested in contacting us interests him less than the certainty with which people believe that is the case.

For his fourth novel, Kunzru takes us to the Mojave Desert in the Ameri-can West, where a strange formation has attracted all sorts of believers—former scientists, hippies, and, as we discover in this novel, a New York-based hedge fund trader called Jaswinder Matharu and his wife Lisa, an editor—trying to figure out if there is someone else out there, and if so, what it means. Kunzru doesn’t provide an answer, but he creates a majestic, magical canvas filled with memorable characters, all disparate, none likely to meet the other in real life, and yet, through the quirk of coin-cidences and credible turns of plot, he connects them, weaving a narrative as rich as a Native American quilt.

In the process, he writes what the writer and critic Lisa Appignanesi calls Kunzru’s Great American Nov-el. The landscape is epic: a military site, a desert, a place where mis-siles are developed, and where an ancient culture persists; the interest, the supernatural. “The people who were fascinated by the UFOs were also interested in theology and a particular form of spiritualism, as an anxious response to the nuclear world. Humanity has always been interested in aliens,” he says when we meet over coffee on a sunny morning in London. The psychic content, the end-of- civilization quality of the experience interests Kunzru.

Born in Britain, Kunzru’s Kashmiri

family on his father’s side produced lawyers. Kunzru’s father, an ortho-paedic surgeon, came to Britain in the 1960s. He married an Englishwom-an; Hari was born in 1969, named after Haribaba, as his grand-uncle, Hridaynath Kunzru (an associate of the freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale), was known within the family. Kunzru studied the humani-ties at Oxford, wrote for magazines like Wired, and later The New Yorker, and was named one of Britain’s best young novelists by Granta maga-zine in 2003. Kunzru’s first novel, The Impressionist (2002), was, as he describes it, “an elbow nudge” to the English in India and the stories it spawned. Transmission (2004) was a comic novel, a satirical take on a software engineer who creates an artificial entity that might devour the computing world. My Revolutions (2007) captured the eternal cycli-cality of radicalism, a teleological argument about aggression. Gods without Men, Kunzru says, is about faith, reason, the unknown, and the unexplainable.

The America that Kunzru intro-duces us to is truly off the beaten track. There is New York, and there are some references to cities on the West Coast, but essentially, this story is about the desert. Kunzru loved the desert, which he travelled through a

couple of years ago with friends. He was in America as a fellow at the New York Public Library, working on a book about Akbar and Birbal, getting caught up in the exciting whirl of US presidential elections, when friends suggested he join them for the trip. While travelling through the desert, staying in motels in small towns, the idea of the novel was born. “That landscape connects everything—a single person, the empty space, a civilization,” he says.

Gods without Men begins with a Native American tale about a coy-ote and its many lives, and quickly moves to the story of an aircraft engineer who has seen visions, and who is obsessed by the sky at night, hoping to contact the planet Venus. He thinks there are signs there, and messages to be deciphered. There is also a miner, who hears sounds in stones. There are Native Americans and émigré Iraqis, who delight in as-sisting the American army learn how to win hearts and minds in Iraq. The soldiers prepare for their mission in Iraq through simulation, and the Iraqis play hostile natives. There is a British rock star, trying to find meaning in his life, a caricature of drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, sex and fame.

At the centre of the story is a four-year-old boy, an autistic child, manag-ing whom takes a toll on the relation-ship of the parents, Lisa and Jaz. Lisa is Jewish, and has crossed a cultural barrier in marrying Jaz, just as Jaz has. Kunzru describes the charms and awkwardness of a cross-cultural relationship.

Circumcision is a ritual of great importance for Lisa, because not subjecting her son to it is the denial of Jewish identity; Jaz doesn’t want it, because refusing to submit oneself to that ritual is symbolic of the Sikh-Muslim conflict. Neither is particular-ly religious; neither likes all the tradi-tions that are part of their heritage. Yet, neither is able to remove his and her self from the ingrained expectations of the community, finding the partner

they’ve chosen to make home with to be unreasonable instead. Cross-cultural dynamics have rarely been shown with such empathy in fiction. “People have intimate, sentimental attachments with their culture, and that interests me,” Kunzru says.

But the main story is about the boy, whose needs bring the couple to the desert. Raj is a difficult child to handle, and Lisa has become a full-time mother; Jaz finds the stress-filled life at a hedge fund, and the moral choices it forces upon him, difficult, and they leave for the Mo-jave Desert. What has also prompted Jaz’s decision to go west is his hunch, that an extremely powerful computer program called Walter that he and his colleagues have developed, has somehow precipitated the crash of the Honduran economy. Trained to identify market inefficiencies and gaps between prices, the program seeks out opportunities for traders, and when traders leave the program

Creator and canvas: (from left) Kunzru (photo by Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times); and the Mojave Desert in which the author’s new novel is set (photo by Doug Dolde/ Wikimedia Commons).

on autopilot, it buys and sells com-modities, currencies, products and futures with ruthless efficiency, suck-ing profits, leaving the real economy on the ropes. Walter attempts to model reality and chaos follows. Is it the but-terfly in Indonesia flapping its wings that caused the hurricane in New Or-leans? Who knows? Is it the program and its determined trades that brought about the global economic chaos? Who knows? Jaz is uncomfortable with that; his boss tells him to enjoy the bonus. Jaz wants time out.

So they reach the desert. But the demanding child brings the couple to breaking point. Lisa leaves them for a night out; the following day, when they attempt reconciliation as they walk away from the stroller, Raj disappears. Kunzru shows how the public mood shifts from sympathy to dislike to horror and hatred for the couple because Lisa and Jaz are not emotive enough (a reference to a simi-lar British story involving the McCa-nns in Portugal, whose daughter was abducted in 2007 and has not yet been found). “In America you externalize your emotions to show that you pos-sess them,” Kunzru says. Lisa and Jaz don’t. The child is found months later, and nothing really explains how; and Jaz—the man of science, of certain-ties, of logic—begins to look for hid-den meanings and messages.

“If you take faith seriously, you have to follow through how it shapes people’s lives. There are experiences of the unknown and the unknow-able. How do people negotiate with them? Through reason? Or faith? Or a bit of both? What do you do when you reach the limit of your ability to explain through only reason, or only faith? How comfortable are you with that?” Kunzru asks.

These are profound questions. They don’t have pat answers. If we knew those, we could claim to be gods. But we are women and men, and some-times children. That reality will con-tinue to elude us. But that makes our lives more interesting. What would be the point of living it, if we knew all the answers?

Hari Kunzru’s new novel is a majestic work with memorable characters, all disparate but connected through a credible plot

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Friday Oct 14th 7.30p.m.

Old Stafford Civic Center

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Band HUN (Hariyudan Naan)

An enchanting evening of heart warming lilting tunes from Indian movies, Colonial Cousins, fusion, folk, and Ghazals!

Checks payable to Udavum Karangal of USA

Contact : Padmini 713-829-2040 Rajan : 832-656-7861 Alpa: 832-428-4470 Net proceeds will benefit Udavum Karangal. Visit www.udavumkarangal.org

Amazing young performers! Finalists in world famous TV reality show which ran over one year

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10th Annual event to benefit Udavum karangal

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Grand Ganeshotsav Celebration of Shree Siddhivinayak Dev

First Time In USA

From: Wednesday, 31st Aug. to Saturday, 10th Sept. 2011( 11 Days ) Bhadrapad Chaturthi to Anant Chaturdashi

31st Aug. Shobha Yatra @ 12:20PM ( From East-West International @ harwin & Hillcroft ), 4:00 PM Pooja, Aarti 7:30 PM Followed by Maha Prasad-( Priti Bhojan)

1st. Sept. to 10th. Sept. Daily Pooja Followed by Aarti at 7:30 Followed by Mahaprasad

Come and Solve All Your Problems By Getting the Blessings from the almighty Shree Vighna Vinayak - Siddhivinayak Ganeshji. 2100 Laddu Naivedya will be Offered By

devotees of Ganeshji (Prasad sponcers Welcome) Be A Grand Sponsors ($ 21,001 Donation) Gold Sponsors($ 11,001 Donation) Silver Sponsors

($ 5,001 Donation) You Can also Participate as Bronze Sponsors ( $ 1,001 Donation ) Naivedya Donation of 11 Laddus ( $ 21.00 ) Purely Prepared in Temple. Daily Pooja ( Donation of $ 51.00 )

Naam Archana ( Donation of $ 21.00 ) Pooja Thali With Flowers, Kumkum, Haldi, Chaval & Durva ( Donation of $ 11.00 ) Aarti Sponsors other than Above Donors ( Donation of $ 11.00 )

( All donations are Tax Exempt )

To be Celebrated at " New Shiv Shakti Temple of Houston" 6640 Harwin Dr. Houston Texas 77036 Choose an item.

For more Details Call Virat Mehta @ Tel: 713-278-9099 or 713-784-5500 Or Bhamarbhai Trivedi Tel: 281-733-6587 Or Jayantibhai Bhatt Tel: 713-983-9836

Ganeshotsav Supported By: Music Masala Radio, Gujarati samaj of Houston, Sindhi Assoc. of Houston, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Vallabh Priti Seva Samaj , Hindus of Greater Houston, ICC & India House of Houston, Jalaram Saibaba Temple, Iscon Temple of Houston, Radha krishna Temple, Hindu Worship Society, Friends of India, BAPS of Houston, Shree Swaminarayan Temple (ISSO), Jain Center, Durga Bari, Houston Maharashtra Mandal. JVB preksha Meditation Center, Special Food Supported By:- Bhojan, Shiv Sagar, Nitas Cuisine, Ishwarbhai Bhakta, Swaminarayan Temple (ISSO)( Support Still Remains Open for Daily Mahaprasad-Priti Bhojan)

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