The tiny home movementwith its focus on responsible

choices and living light iscatching up in the country

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HIMACHAL PRADESH

Jal Shakti VibhagNOTICE INVITING E-TENDER

Online bids on item rate basis are invited by the Executive Engineer Jal Shakti Division Anni, HimachalPradesh on the behalf of Governor of Himachal Pradesh, in electronic tendering system in two covers for theunder mentioned work from contractors/firms of an appropriate class enlisted with Jal Shakti Vibhag.

Sr. Name of Work Estimated Earnest Time Cost ofNo Cost Money Limit tender

1 1,93,11,926/- 2,25,619/- 12 Rs.1500/-Months

C/O Command Area Development work in FIS Koil Kuhl in GP Gadej inNirmand Block Distt. Kullu (H.P) SH:- C/O RCC main channel (1000 mts)at different RDs, Laying, jointing of HDPE pipes of various dia (110mmOD, 90mm, 75 mm PN-4 (PE-63) in distribution main, distribution chan-nel 5550 m, C/O outlet chambers, C/O head weir, C/O retaining wall 40m, 2.44 m height C/O Hydrant post as per approved drawings).

1 Last Date of filling/ uploading the tender through e-tendering:-20.08.2022 up to 05:00 P.M.

The tender forms and other detailed conditions can be downloaded from the website www. hptenders.gov.inor from office of above Executive Engineer, up to date specified above.

Executive Engineer,Jal Shakti Divn. Outer Seraj,

Anni, Distt. Kullu (H.P).HIM SUCHNA AVM JAN SAMPARK3035/HP

Online Tender Notice No:14 of 2022-23Sports Authority of Gujarat

Block No.14/3rd Floor, Dr.Jivraj Mehta Bhavan,Gandhinagar

Secretary, Sports Authority of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Block no. 14, 3rd floor, Dr. JivrajMehta Bhavan, Sector-10, Gandhinagar invite 'Engagement of an Event ManagementAgency for Event Days Operations and Overlays for 36th National Games, Gujarat 2022'for Rs.1.35 Crore.• The tender may be download on the website https://sycad.nprocure.com.• The Last date of On-line Submission of tender dt.16/08/2022; 11:00 hrs.• For any further information contact to PIU Branch in the office of Secretary, Sports

Authority of Gujarat, Block no. 14, 3rd floor, Dr. Jivraj Mehta Bhavan, Gandhinagar inoffice hour. Contact no.079-23254409, 9978406811. INF/1094/22-23

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IItt is for general information thatI,Shiv KumarGiri,S/oTookiRam,R/o.C-193, LIG-Flat, East-of-Loni,Shahdara,Delhi-110093,declare that thenameofmineandmywife hasbeenwrongly-writtenas ShivKumarGoswami andPoonamGoswami inmyson’sNitishGoswami class-9th record.Theactual-nameof mineandmywife are ShivKumarGiri andPoonamDevirespectively,whichmaybeamendedaccordingly.

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IItt is for general information thatI,PinkyKesi,D/o-HariKumar,R/o.H.No-97-B,3rd-Floor,Hari-Nagar,AshramSouth-Delhi-110014,declarethat thenameofmineandmyfather hasbeenwrongly-writtenasPinkyandHariKumarKesi inmyclass-10threcord.Theactual-nameofmineandmy father arePinkyKesi andHari Kumarrespectively,whichmaybeamendedaccordingly.

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II,,hhiitthheerrttoo knownasRubina,W/oKamal,residingat,B-2547,Jain-Nagar, Karala,Delhi-110081,have changedmynameandshall hereafter be knownasRubyMalik.

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II,,SSaacchhiinn Sethi,S/OLateRajinderKumar Sethi, R/OF-17/79,SECTOR-8, ROHINI, NEWDELHI-110085, have changed thenameofmydaughter fromChaitanya tonewnameChaitanyaaSethi.

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II,,SSAANNJJEEEEVVKUMAR,S/OGOBINDDASR/O-JP-71,MAURYAENCLAVE,PITAMPURA,DELHI-110034.HAVECHANGEDMYNAMETOSANJEEVKUMARMITTAL. 0040625961-7

II,,SSAANNDDEEEEPPKUMAR JAIN,S/ONEMCHAND JAIN,R/O-1021/67,DEVARAM,TRINAGAR,DELHI-110035.HAVECHANGEDMYNAMETOSANDEEP JAIN.

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II,,RRuuppaall Kaur SalujaW/o IshdeepSinghMakkarR/o-H.No.09,Road-No.54, Ground-Floor,West Punjabi-Bagh,N.Delhi-110026,have changedmyname toRupalMakkar.

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II,,PPiinnkkiiW/O-Manoj Kumar,R/O-RZF-43/14Gali.No-43,Sadh-Nagar PalamColony,NewDelhi-110045.HavechangemyNamePinki toMadhubala,forall,futurepurpose.

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II,,NNoo..44007777883388FF LNKNaveenPrakashSingh,S/oSh.UmeshwarSingh,R/o.Village-Ganeshpur,Post-OfficeKarbari(Simla-By-Pass)Distt.Dehradun,Uttrakhand-248007,I,have changedmyson’s name,fromSIDHARTHSINGH toSIDHARTHSINGHRAWAT,in future,for allpurpose. 0040625970-8

II,,NNoo--99110022554411HH,,EExx--TTSSNK JhangirAhmedLone . Inmyservicerecords thenameandDoBofmysonhasbeenwronglymentionedasAnas Jahangir (DoB- 12-07-2005) insteadofAnisJahangir (DoB- 12-07-2006) asin school records. It needscorrection .Objectionsbe filledtounit 15 JAKLI within sevendays. 0020443353-1

II,,NNeeeerraajj D/o-Nafe Singh,W/oMr.YogeshDabas,R/oG-128,NewPalam-Vihar Phase-1,Carterpuri, Gurgaon,Haryana-122017,have changedmyname toNeeraj Devi.

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II,,NNaavveeeennGupta,S/o-SatishChander,R/o.Flat.No.12,Block.No.17, Raj-NiwasMarg,Rajpura-Road,Civil-Lines,North-Delhi,Delhi-110054,havechanged thenameofmyminor-daughterAksharaaged-13-years andshe shall

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II,,MMoohhddNaseemChaudhary,S/oSabeerChaudhary,R/o-A-124,33-FootaRoadKabir-NagarDelhi-110094,have changedmyname toNaseemAhmad.

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II,,MMAAYYAADHOLPURIA,W/OLALITKUMAR,residingat,H.NO-7073/8,THIRDFLOOR,MATARAMESHWARI,NEHRUNAGAR,KAROL-BAGH,DELHI-110005,have changedmynametoMAYADEVI,for all,futurepurpose.

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II,,KKrriisshhnnaaW/O.Neeraj SoniR/O.WZ- 272A, f.f, street.no.8,Hari-NagarNewDelhi-110058,have changedmynametoKrishnaSoni,for allpurposes.

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II,,JJaasskkiirraatt SinghS/oRajinderSinghR/oA-2/14, Rajouri-Garden, N.Delhi-110027,havechangedmyname to JaskiratSinghMajithia.

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II,,JJAAGGDDIISSHHS/OPYARELALR/OD-39,HARIJANBASTI,MASOODPUR,VASANTKUNJ,DELHI 110070,HAVECHANGEDMYMINORSON’SNAMEFROMAMANTOAMANJAAJORIYA.

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II,, NaryanaSinghS/oRatanSinghR/oWZ-809, NarainaVillage, Delhi-110028havechangedmyname toNarainSingh.

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II,,EExxNo- JC-594005X,Sub FarooqAhmedBhat, R/O-Laisoo, P/O-Gudder,Tehsil-DHPora,District- Kulgam. Inmyservicerecords thenameofmychildren’s hasbeenwronglymentionedasdaughter’s asAssrar Farooq (DoB- 15-05-2000),Falaq Jaan (DoB-08-02-2006) insteadofAsrar Farooq(DoB-15-05-2002),Falaq Farooq(22-06-2010) and sonas FazilFarooq (DoB-08-05-2002)insteadof Fazil FarooqBhat ( DoB- 04- 02-2006) as in Board ofschool Education certificates.It needs correction. Objectionsbe filled toUnit 3 JAKLIwithinsevendays.

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II,,DDeevveennddeerr Kumar,S/ORamNarayanGupta,R/OB-136,Rameshwar-NagarGalo.No-2,AzadPur,Delhi-110033,have changedmynametoDevenderKumarGupta.0040625961-3

II,,EEkkttaaMahendru alias EKTAD/oVinodMahendruR/oA-1/272First Floor, Sector-17, Rohini,inform thatmy trueandcorrect name is EktaMahendru, Ekta andEktaMahendru is sameandoneperson 0040625906-1

II,,DDhheeeerrjjaaMalikD/oAnilMalik,R/o.H.No.386Dr.MukherjeeNagarDelhi-110009,have changedmynametoDiaMalikk for all purposes.

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II,,DDHHIIRREENNDDRRAAKUMARSINGH,S/OUMASHANKARSINGH,R/oE-606,ASHIANAORCHIDGAMA-2,GREATER,NOIDA,GAUTAMBUDH-NAGAR,U.P.201306,Changedmyname toDHIRENDRASINGH.0040625961-1

II,,CChhaanndduu Lal Kushwaha, R/o-100/28RajapurVillage,Delhi-110085, changedmyminorson’s name fromBrijMohan toBrijmohanKushwaha for,allpurposes.

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II,,AArrppiitt Khare,S/oRajendraKumarKhare,R/o-SadarpurColony,Sector-44,NoidamyNamewronglymentioned-inLICNo. 113370806 asShardilKhare.But correctNameArpitKhare for all futurepurpose.Arpit KhareandShardil Khareboth,are sameperson.

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II,,AAnniill Gupta S/oGangaRam,R/o.H.No-525Pocket-3Janta-Quarters,PaschimPuri,Delhi-63,have changedmyname toAnil Kumar,forall,purposes.

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II,,AAnniikkaaArora,W/oSahil Bajaj,R/oC-19, Vishal Enclave,NewDelhi-110027,have changedmynametoAnikaAroraBajaj for allpurposes.

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II,,AAnnggeelliikkiiMatharuW/o-DilrajSinghR/o-FB-102,MansarovarGarden,NewDelhi-110015,havechangedmyname toAngelikiSingh.

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II,,AAkksshhaayyaaKrishnaMurthi,D/oKrishnaMurthyJankiraman,R/o.B-3/4,HanumanMandir-Marg,RaghuNagar,PalamVillage,NewDelhi-110045,havechangedmyname toAkshaya.

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II,,AASSHHAAW/OGURMEETSINGH,R/OFLATNO.102,PLOTNO.C-109/1,BLOCK-C,GALINO.23,RAMAVIHAR,MOHAMMADPURMAJRI,DELHI-110081.HAVECHANGEDMYNAMETOHARPREETKAUR.

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II,, UdayRaj Patel S/oGopiNathR/oPatel Nagar, Bamela,Handia, Prayagraj, UttarPradesh-221503, have changedmyminor son’s name fromSubedarPatel aged 16 years toShiveshSinghPatel forever

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II,, TASLEEMW/OKHAIRUDDINR/O573, FF, KUMHARAN,GANJMIRKHAN,BEHINDDELITECINEMA,DELHI-110006, HAVECHANGEMYNAMETOTASLIMA.

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II,, Sumit Bhardwaj,S/oRavindraMohanBhardwaj,R/oV-29,U.G.F.Rajouri Garden, NewDelhi-110027,have changedmyname toSuumit Bhardwaj, forall purposes.

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II,, Suchi Aggarwal, D/ORakeshSinghal, R/O15061, ATS , Ahinsakhand, Indirapuram,Ghaziabad -201014havechangedmyname toSuchiSinghal

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II,, Simranjeet KaurW/o-IminderSingh,R/o:D-157A,FatehNagar,TilakNagar, NewDelhi-18HaveChangedMyName toSimranjeet Kaur Bajwaafter-Marriage.

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II,, ShivamMahendru Shivam,S/oVinodMahendruR/oA-1/272 First Floor, Sector-17,Rohini, inform thatmy trueandcorrect name is ShivamMahendru , shivamandShivamMahendru is sameandoneperson

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II,, SeemaSrivastavaD/oSriAvadhBihari Johari, R/O-E-1005Luxuria Estate, AdityaWorldCity Bamheta, NH-24,Ghaziabad-201002, havechangedmyname fromSeemaShrivastava to SeemaSrivastava for all futurepurposes.

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II,, SURENDERKUMAR, S/oMAHENDERSINGH, R/O-H.No-45, Gali No-1, Old Faridabad,Haryana-121002 havechangedmyname to SURENDERGOSWAMI for all purposes.

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II,, RajeevKumarVermas/oHSVermaR/O I-119A I BlockGaliNo. 7GarhwalliMohalla LaxmiNagar EastDelhi have changedmyname toRajeevVerma.

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II,, PinkyBhandariW/oPawanKumarBhandari R/o-A-19,Sector-49, Noida, GautamBudhNagar (U.P.) have changedmynamePinkyBhandari toKaminiBhandari for all futurepurpose.PinkyBhandari andKaminiBhandari are sameperson.

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II,, Nisha, R/oS1/856, ShalimarGardenExtn.1, Near PoliceChowki, Sahiabab, Ghaziabad-201005 have changedmynametoNishaSomkuwar.

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II,,Meenal D/oRajeshKumar,R/o810-BPocket-2,PaschimPuri,Delhi-63,have changedmyname toMeenal Sardana,for allpurposes.

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II,, KamniMahendrualiasKamaniDeviMahendruw/oVinodMahendru R/oA-1/272First Floor, Sector-17, Rohini,inform thatmy trueandcorrect name isKamniMahendru. KamaniDeviMahendruandKamaniMahendru is sameandoneperson

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II,, BeenaRani Tyagi D/OLate Sh.Mahaveer PrasadTyagi, 2/24,R/OChiranjeevVihar,Ghaziabad, U.P., 201002havechanged toBeenaTyagi

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II,, AvinashMishraS/OShri GirishBabuMishraR/OFlatNo-5,Balaji Homes-2,ChandraVatika, NearCanaraBank,NoidaSector-45 , GautamBudhNagar, UP-201301, havechangedmyname fromAvnishMishra toAvinashMishra

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II,, Anmol KumarGrover, S/oPuneetGrover, R/o E-23, Sector41, Noida - 201303, havechangedmyname toAnmolGrover. 0070798205-2

II PriyankaMukherjeeW/oSh.AbhishekMukherjeeR/o 877/6,First Floor,WardNo.6,Mehrauli, SouthDelhi-110030have changed thenameofmyminor son fromAishikAbhishekMukherjee toAdvaitAayan for all purposes.

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I,ManjuW/O-DevenderKumarGupta,R/OB-136,Rameshwar-NagarGaloNo-2,AzadPur,Delhi-110033,have changedmyname toManjuGupta.

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I,MONIKA JAIN,W/OSANDEEPJAIN,R/O1021/67,DEVARAM,TRINAGAR,DELHI-110035.HAVECHANGEDMYNAMETOMONICA JAIN.

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I,FawziaKhan,D/O,JahangirIqbal YarKhan,R/o.T-183/5Emerald-Compound, 40.Feet-Road,NewPalam-Vihar Phase2, Sector-109, Choma(62),Gurgaon,Haryana 122017,havechangedmyname to FawziaJahangir Khan. 0040625970-3

I,Ankita Sharma,D/o-PradeepKumar Sharma,W/o-AmitGulati,R/o.Ho.No.871,Upper.Ground-Floor,Nr-ParkPlaza-Hotel,Sector-21C,Faridabad,Haryana-121001,have changedmynametoAnkitaGulati.

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I, ShahanawasMazumdar S/OSahabUddinMazumdarbornon (15/12/1986) residingat FlatNo 2015, OmTowerMahagunMantra 1 ,GreaterNoida203207), have changedmyname toShahanawazMazumdar videaffidavit dated(05/08/2022) atGreaterNoida.

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Tall fair girl for Sikh Sainicleanshaven teetotaller 90bornMD and DNB Radiologist workingas SR in Delhi corporate HospitalNo bars Whatsup only9855288386

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SShhaarrmmaagirl 5’4”, 21/11/1992,5:20 amRopar.M.tech, Job inMohali, 11 lacpackage,9417449202

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SSEEEEKKIINNGGPGMForBE/MBAworkingMaharashtrian,Mumbai based 38 years, 5’-2’’.shortmarriage issulessdivorcee. 9821133017.

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EEzzhhaavvaaparents retd JudgeandretdbankAGM invites proposalfor their daughter (34/157)nevermarried,MScInternational Relations. Familyiswell - settled inBangalore.7259709520.

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SSuuiittaabblleeMatch forGovt.NurshingOfficer, SunniMuslimGirl, 5’2” , Lookingwell settelededucated tall Boy, Delhi/NCR,Medical/ Engineer fieldPreferred. Contact:8368681191/ 8076103652

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MMaanngglliikk Sharmagirl, 14Aug1992, 1:20 pm, 5’,M.Tech,Search EngineOptimizationExecutive. Preferredvegetarian, Tricity. 99153-43025.

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PUBLIC NOTICEThis is to inform the general public that my client-Sh. Mange Lal S/o Late Sh. Girivar aged about66 years, R/o H.No. 73, Khasara No. 224, Nearpeer Baba Mazar, village, Araakpur, Bagh Mochi,Moti Bagh, Delhi-110021, have disowned anddisinherited his son Mr. Radhey Shyam and hiswife smt, Kamlesh and their (i.e., Mr. RadheySham and his wife Smt. Kamlesh) elder sonPawam Tanwar and his wife Sonia Tanwarincluding their children and Younger son RaviTanwar in all manners being disloyal anddisobedient towards him. They shall have noright, claim, interest or concern over all moveableand immoveable properties of my client in anymanner whatsoever. My client shall not be heldresponsible for their acts or deeds in any mannerwhatsoever.

Sd/-PUJYA KUMAR SINGH

ADVOCATECh. No. 225, Western Wing,Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi-54

PUBLIC NOTICEI, the undersigned on behalf of my clientSH. Satpal singh s/o Late Djurga Parsad& Smt. Indrawatri Delhi W/o Sh. SatpalSingh both the Resident of House no. E-54A, Kondli Harijan Basti Ambedkar ParkEast Kondli Delhi-96 disown my sonNamely Sh. Arun and his wife Smt.Dimple from all my movable & immovableproperty due to their misconduct/familyactivities and cruelty committed upon meand my wife now my client shall not beenresponsible for the any Acts, Deeds &Things if any done by their son namelySh. Arun and his wife Smt. Dimple. Andhereby my client disowned/debar to Sh.Arun and his wife Smt. Dimple from alltheir movable & immovable property forthe immediate effect

Sd/-Sanjeev kumar

En. No. D/1797/2008 (Advocate)Off:- B-3, 1st Floor,

Jangpura Extension,New Delhi-110014

PUBLIC NOTICEMy Client Mr. Birendra Bhandari,Rajeshwari Bhandari andPrashant Bhandari resident of705, Mahagun Villa, Vaishali,Ghaziabed hereby disowns mydaughter Palak Bhandaribecause of internal family conflict.we forbid her from all legalrelationship anyone interactingwith her does so at their own risk.

S.K. GuptaAdvocate

Chamber No. D-209,Karkardooma Courts,

Delhi-110032

PUBLIC NOTICEON BEHALF OF M/S MAXHEIGHTSTOWNSHIP & PROJECTS PVT. LTD havingits registered office at Unit No. 408, 4th Floor,RG Trade Tower, Netaji Subhash Place, NewDelhi-110034, the general public is herebyinformed that on the basis of application/documents submitted by Smt. Harvinder KaurW/o late Sh. Narinder Singh Bhalla R/o FlatNo. F-054, 5th Floor, Maxheights Metro ViewApartments, Sector-35, Sonipat, Haryana, thedeveloper M/s Maxheights Township &Projects Pvt. Ltd is substituting, in place of lateSh. Narinder Singh Bhalla, the names offollowing Class-1 legal heirs of late Sh.Narinder Singh Bhalla, qua allotment of FlatNo. F-054, 5th Floor, Maxheights Metro ViewApartments, Sector-35, Sonipat, Haryana:-1. Harvinder Kaur (Wife)2. Jaskaran Singh (Son)If any person has any objection / claim on thesaid property or against the said substitution,they may file his/her claim/objection within 10days to the Company, and thereafter noobjection / claim will be entertained in thisregard.

Sd/-KSHITIJ SHARDA

ADVOCATED/1516/2008

109, M.M. House 59,Rani Jhansi RoadNew Delhi-110055

PUBLIC NOTICEWhereas my clients Sh. Surender GuptaR/o H.No.B-258, Dalbir Vihar, Kirari,Suleman Nagar, Delhi-110086, havedisowned/ debarred/disinherit of his marrieddaughter namely Sushma, her husbandSagar S/o Ram Vinod Shah, mother’s nameLate Smt. Asha Rani R/o G-1720, JahangirPuri, Dhobighat, Delhi-110033 and herfriend namely Akash S/o Suraj, mother’sname Sapna his known address KaranVihar, Kirari Suleman Nagar, Delhi-110086from his all the social relation includingdisowned from any rights or title in themovable/immovable properties. The abovesaid daughter, her husband and her friendsshall have no claims/rights in any waywhatsoever in my clients’ properties.Henceforth, my clients sever and relinquishall their relations from the above saiddaughter, her husband and her friends. Myclients shall not be held responsible for anytransactions, acts deeds and things in anymanner with them (as above mentioned), ifanyone deal with them will be completelyresponsible at its own risk for the same.

Sd/-(RAHUL DEV TYAGI)

Advocate276, Old Chamber Complex,

Patiala House Courts,New, Delhi 110001

PUBLIC NOTICEBe it known to all that my client ShriKshem Rustgi H/o R.P Kapoor R/oFlat No. 92-B, Pocket -C, SidharthaExtension, New Delhi-110014 had lostthe property documents i.e.GPA andSale agreement between Anand Kaurand Smt. Kshem Rustgi arc lost fromher house and my client tried a lot tosearch the documents but failed tofind it. Through this public notice, Ihereby inform to public at large not tomisuse and inform to the undersignedand if any one tried to misuse thesame then he/she will be solelyresponsible for the same and my clientreserves her right to take legalrecourse against them.

Sd/-(AMIT MISHRA)

AdvocateChamber No. 186-A,

Patiala House CourtsNew Delhi-110001.

PUBLIC NOTICETo be known to all that my client SURENDERSETHI SON OF LATE SH. GIRDHARI LALRESIDENT OF AC-IV/56-A, GROUND FLOOR,SHALIMAR BAGH, DELH1-110088 purchaser ofDDA LIG FLAT NO. 56-A ON GROUND FLOORSITUATED IN BLOCK-A, POCKET-C-IVSITUAED AT SHALIMAR BAGH, DELHI-110088applied for conversion of the aforesaid flat fromlease hold to free hold in DDA. Originaldocument i.e. Demand Cum Allotment Letterhas been lost. An FIR vide LR No. 666442/2022dated 05-08-2022 has lodged in P.S. CrimeBranch Delhi for loss of documents. Any person(s)claiming any right, interest, having any objection orfound in possession of original documents, maywrite/contact with above named person at aboveaddress/phone No. 9873552562 within 15 daysfrom the date of publication of this notice. Theperson claiming any right, interest, objections withrespect to this property can personally inform orwrite to Dy. Director (LAB Housing LIG), D Block,3rd Floor, Vikas Sadan, INA, New Delhi.

Sd/-NAVEEN KHURANA (Advocate)

Enrl. No. D/3290/2022

PUBLIC NOTICEGENERAL PUBLIC HEREBY INFORMED THAT MYCLIENT NAMELY SMT. SUDHA W/O SH. V.K.PATHAK AND SH. V. K. PATHAK S/O LATE SH.S.L. PATHAK R/O H. NO. 46A, STREET NO. 18, A-BLOCK, PHASE-I, SHYAM VIHAR, NAJAFGARH,NEW DELHI-110043, HAS DISOWNED ANDBREAK OFF ALL HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HISSON NAMELY SH. PRASHANT SAURABH ANDHIS WIFE SMT. POOJA, R/O DELHI & BIHAR,INDIA, RESPECTIVELY, AS THE ABOVE NAMEDSON AND DAUGHTER IN LAW HAVE DEVELOPEDDISOBEDIENT ATTITUDE AND NOT TAKINGCARE OF MY CLIENT. MY CLIENT SHALL NOT BERESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OF THEIR ACT, DEED,WHOSOEVER DEALS WITH THEM SHALL DEALAT HIS/HER OWN RISK AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

Sd/-(ANURAG SRIVASTAVA)

ADVOCATEENROLL. NO. D/3617/2020

OFFICE AT: CHAMBER NO. 518,LAWYERS CHAMBER BLOCK,DISTRICT COURT COMPLEX,

DWARKA, NEW DELHI-110075

CLASSIFIEDS&TENDERS

New Delhi

The tiny home movementwith its focus on responsible

choices and living light iscatching up in the country

PAGES 13,14,15

eyeTHE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE

Staying Small,Living Big

NEWDELHI,LATECITY

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MANOJCGNEWDELHI, AUGUST6

NDA CANDIDATE JagdeepDhankhar was elected India’s14thVice-PresidentonSaturday,defeatingOpposition candidateMargaretAlvabyahugemargininanelectionwhichwasmarkedbyabsenteeismandinvalidvotes.The former West Bengal

Governor got 528 of the 725votes polled, with Alva— a for-mer five-term Congress MP,Unionminister and governor—getting182,alowertallythanex-pected.Onpaper,theOppositionhadclose to200votes.The electoral college for the

vice-presidentcomprisesmem-bers of the two Houses ofParliament.Together,theHouseshave a sanctioned strength of788MPs,ofwhichthereareeightvacancies in the Upper House.Among the 780-member elec-torate Saturday, 725 voteswerepolled(92.94%turnout),ofwhich15voteswerefoundtobeinvalid,Lok Sabha Secretary GeneralUptal Kumar Singh, the return-ingofficer for theelection, said.Dhankhar'svictorywasafore-

gone conclusion, with the BJPalone having 394 votes and thetotal adding up to 510 votes,countingitsalliesandsupportingparties liketheBJDandYSRCP.

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GAYATHRIMANINEWDELHI, AUGUST6

INTENSIFYINGTHE face-off be-tween Raj Niwas and theDelhigovernmentovertheDelhiExcisePolicy2021-22,LtGovernorVinaiKumarSaxenaSaturdayapprovedthe suspension and initiation ofdisciplinaryproceedings for “se-riouslapses”against11officersof

theExcisedepartment includingthe then Excise CommissionerAravaGopi Krishna andDeputyCommissionerAnandTiwari.An IAS officer, Krishna was

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NIRUPAMASUBRAMANIANCHENNAI, AUGUST6

THE SRI Lanka ForeignMinistryhasaskedChinato"defer"thear-rivalof theYuanWang5, amili-tary vessel, at its southern portofHambantota.Clearances for the Yuan

Wang-class vessel to berth atHambantotaportweregivenbytheForeignMinistryonJuly12,a

day before President GotabayaRajapaksa, whowas driven outof office by a people’s move-ment,wasexpected to resignashehadannounced.On Friday, the Foreign

Ministry sent a communicationto the Chinese embassy inColombo,requestingthatthear-rivaldateofYuanWang5“bede-ferreduntilfurtherconsultationsaremadeonthismatter”.With that, a matter that

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WITHITSmonitoringequipment, theYuanWang5vessel couldsnooponmanyof India’ssouthernportsandsen-sitive facilities fromSriLankanwaters.

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BHUPENDRAPANDEYLUCKNOW,AUGUST6

THE HINDU Yuva Vahini, theyouth outfit founded by YogiAdityanath in 2002, is planningan imagemakeover — from anunrulybandofmenreadytoflexmuscles and lathis in the nameof theHinducausetoanorgani-sationwith strict membership

rules and streamlined opera-tions. Sources said a namechangetoocouldbeonthecards.On August 3, the Vahini dis-

solvedall itsorganisationalunitsin Uttar Pradesh, and sourcessaid the outfit is likely to be re-structuredaheadofthe2024LokSabhaelections.Therevamp,sourcessaid,was

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SHIVANINAIKAUGUST6

THEMOST fulsome praise forAvinash Sable came fromKenyan Olympic and two-timeworld champion ConseslusKipruto, oneof the twoathletesfrom the long-distance super-powerwhom the Indian auda-ciously left behindwhile claim-ing a historic CommonwealthGamessilverinthe3,000-metresteeplechase.A third Kenyan, Abraham

Kiwibot, one of the season’s toprunners, eventually ended upwiththegold.Butnotbeforesur-viving an almighty scare fromSable,whowas breathingdownhisneckandsnappingathisheels.

TheIndianstruckattheheartof steeplechase royalty andrewrote the national record fortheninthtime—itcouldwellbethen-thtime—withatimingof

8:11.20. For the first 2,400me-tres, Sable stalked the KenyanThree — Kiwibot, Kipruto andAmosSerem—wholedtherace.

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PrimeMinisterNarendraModiandBJPchief JPNaddawithJagdeepDhankhar inNewDelhionSaturday.PTI

Vice-President Dhankhar‘Not just Kenyans or Ethiopians,Indian too can win steeplechase’

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JagdeepDhankhar winsVice-PresidentelectionDhankhar ended up getting

even more, at 528.Congratulating him, PrimeMinisterNarendraModisaidhehadreceived“resounding”sup-portacrossparty lines.Asmany as 55MPs did not

vote--amongthem34fromtheTrinamoolCongress,whichhaddecided to abstain, saying theOppositionpartieshaddecidedonAlvawithoutproper consul-tationwith theparty.Sources in theCongresssaid

at least two of its Rajya SabhaMPs, Randeep Surjewala andDhirajKumarSahu,didnotvoteas they are undergoing treat-ment. Surjewala is said to beabroad. Besides them, from theOppositioncamp,at leastsevenMPs of the Shiv Sena, twoSamajwadi PartyMPs and oneAAPmemberdidnotvote.Of those backing Dhankhar,

twoBJPMPsandasmanyof theBSP were absent, as was oneIndependent. The two BJPMPswho did not vote were SunnyDeolandSanjayDhotre,alsore-portedly unwell. Sources in theTMC said that BJP MP ArjunSingh,whorejoined theTMCinMay,didnotvoteeither.In the presidential poll,

DroupadiMurmuhadgarnered540 votes fromMPs. Of the 748MP votes polled then, the jointOppositioncandidate,YashwantSinha,hadsecured208(26morethanAlva).At the time, two TMCMPs,

SisirKumarAdhikariandhissonDibyendu Adhikari, had votedagainst the party’s decision tobackYashwantSinha.Sisir isthefather of BJP MLA and WestBengalLeaderof theOppositionSuvenduAdhikari.On Saturday, both Sisir and

Dibyendu voted, defying theTMC decision to abstain. Hourslater,TMCLokSabhafloorleaderSudipBandyopadhyaywrote tothemsayingthepartyhastakennote of theirmove. The twoarealready facing disqualificationproceedings.While the decision by the

TMC -- the second largestOpposition party after theCongressinParliament,with36MPs – to abstain had alreadydealt a body blow to theOpposition, others too like theBSP and TDPbackedDhankhar.The AAP, TRS, AIMIM and JMMthoughsupportedAlva.Of them, the JMM, largely a

tribal party, had backed theNDA's Droupadi Murmu forPresident,byvirtueofherbeinga tribal.Dhankhar succeeds M

Venkaiah Naidu, whose termends on August 10. He will besworn inonAugust11.President Murmu was

among those who greetedDhankhar on his win, besidesPrimeMinisterNarendraModi,his Cabinet colleagues, chiefministersandseniorOppositionleaders, including Congresspresident Sonia Gandhi, NCPchief Sharad Pawar andDhankhar's rival candidate,MargaretAlva.In her message to the 71-

year-old Vice-President elect,Murmu said: “The nation willbenefit fromyour long and richexperienceof public life.”Modi and BJP president J P

Naddamet Dhankhar after theresults. Thanking theMPswhohad voted for Dhankhar, Modisaid: “At a time when India ismarking Azadi Ka AmritMahotsav,weareproudtohavea kisan putra (son of a farmer)Vice-President who has excel-lent legal knowledge and intel-lectualprowess... Iamconfidenthewill be an outstanding Vice-President. Our nationwill gaintremendouslyfromhisintellectandwisdom.”Alva, who congratulated

Dhankhar, thanked all theMPsfrom across parties who hadvotedforher.Takingpotshotsatthe TMC, she tweeted: “Thiselectionwasanopportunity fortheOppositiontoworktogether,to leave the past behind andbuild trust amongst each other.Unfortunately,someOppositionpartieschosetodirectlyor indi-rectly support the BJP, in an at-tempt to derail the idea of aunitedOpposition.It ismybeliefthat by doing so, these partiesandtheirleadershavedamagedtheirowncredibility.”

Alvaadded: “This election isover. The battle for protectingourConstitution,strengtheningourdemocracyandrestoringthedignity of Parliamentwill con-tinue.”Union HomeMinister Amit

Shahsaidthat“asVice-Presidentand Chairman of the RajyaSabha, Jagdeep Dhankhar willprove tobean ideal guardianoftheConstitution”.Joining Congress president

Sonia Gandhi in congratulatingthe newVice-President, RahulGandhi tweeted: “Thankyou toSmtMargaret Alva ji for repre-senting the spirit of the jointOppositionwith grace and dig-nity.”Like Alva, the Congress too

didn't spare the TMC. “Alva rana spirited campaign and it wastoobad theTMCdidn’t supporther. Indiawillhavetowaitforitsfirst woman Vice-President,”senior Congress leader JairamRamesh said. On Dhankhar, hesaid: “I hopehewill display thesagacity and objectivity ofBhairon Singh Shekhawat andthewitandhumourofVenkaiahNaidu, his partymen who be-cameV-P.”Dhankhar, who hails from

Rajasthan,beganhispoliticalca-reer in theerstwhile JanataDal.A lawyer by training, he waselected to the Lok Sabha fromJhunjhunu in 1989. He was aUnion deputyminister brieflyfromApril-November 1990. Hewas in-chargeof ParliamentaryAffairs. He then shifted to statepolitics and moved to theCongress.Hisnextelectionwasfor the

Rajasthan Assembly on aCongressticket.HerepresentedKishangarh seat from 1993 to1998.After that, hepractisedasa lawyer in the Supreme Courtuntil he was appointed theGovernorofWestBengal in July2019. His stint as Governor ofWest Bengal was marked byconstant run-ins with theMamataBanerjeegovernment.

‘Indian too canwin steeplechase,not just Kenyansor Ethiopians’

Once hemade hismove onthe sixth of seven-and-a-halflaps, theworld’sbronzemedal-listfromafortnightago,Kipruto,sawhismedalhopesdissipate.“Sable’s such a strong guy,”

saidKipruto,whofadedtosixthand most likely paced theyounger Kibiwot and Serem(8:16.83). “Since theWorldsweall viewed him as the strongestchallenge here and I had beenthinkingabouthowtostophim.Heisinsuchgoodshapeandweknew hewould give us a fight.Heisalsoasmartguy.Heranhisown race, with the same focus,and did not bother about oth-ers.”What Kipruto was praising

Sable for were the precisethoughts that haunted theIndian’s last fortnight, after hefinishedadisappointing11thatthe World Championships.Distraught, he flew out ofOregon and returned toColoradowithhiscoachthefol-lowingnoon.AtOregon,Sable’sstrategyof

hanging back had backfired —thepacesloweddown,hefoundhimself boxedintoa lullandhistiming fell to a crawl. This washislowestpoint.Butitalsodrovehimtoboltoutof thebarngatesat Birmingham’s AlexanderStadium, with little regard forthe Kenyan halo that had heldhimbackpreviously.OnSaturday,at10minutesto

noon local time, Sable startededgingclosertotheKenyanath-letes. Admittedly, he had littleidea of who exactly was aheadof him. “I just decided andplannedforamedalhere.IknewIwouldneedtobeatallKenyansif I wanted a medal,” said theArmy man, who was oncepostedatSiachen.Hewould lie fourth for two-

thirds of the race, but always intheperipheralvisionofthefrontpack.Sableneverlostsightofhisownsteadypace,clockinganav-eragespeedof 21.7kmph.At the 2Kmark, he knewhe

had topush gears. TheKenyansknewhewasbreaking free, andhemade a clean cut in the nextlap. “I sped at 2 kmand tried togointothelead.Butthelastwa-ter jump and hurdleweremis-takes.” Briefly, Kibiwot leanedalittle outward and pinged too

closeinSable’slane,andthesud-den misdirection seemed toconfusetheIndianalittle.“Idid-n’t knowwhichway hewouldgosoIgotconfused.Won'thap-pennexttime,itwasamistake,”Sable said.Thestadiumannouncerkept

callinghim“Sabel”.Liketable.Orsabre. Everyone saw Sable rat-tling the Kenyans across thepackedstadium.The last hurdle was a nerv-

ous stutter. He ran the leaderclose, to within 0.05 seconds,and finishedwith a redeemingsilver. “Microsecondsegoldrehgayaa (Missed it by microsec-ond). I wanted to hear our na-tionalanthem.I'msorryIcould-n'ttoday,butI'mhappywiththemedal,”hesaid."Isticktomyplan.Ihadblun-

dered following others atWorlds. I decided won't makethe mistake again of slowingdownbecauseothershad."Yet,itwas15sleeplessnights,

wherehequestionedeverythingabout himself. "You start won-deringwhyyou even run if youcan't win despite working sohard. I always believed hardworkisbiggereventhandestinyand luck. But I couldn't under-standwhyIdidn'tgetaresultattheWorld Championships," herecalled.Seeking answers, he called

uphisnutritionist,wonderingifhewas eatingwrong. He askedhis coach a hundred questionsabout what was wrong withhim.Hewonderedifpracticingwasawaste,buthetrainedhardanyway."I was sent to the USA to

train by those supportingmefor 4-5 months. Even after Ifailed atWorld's they toldmeit's not a big deal. But Iwas an-gry atmyself. So I thought of itfrom every angle," he said, de-scribing his state of mind.Senior players received callsaskingthemtoanalysehismis-takes. All that masochism fi-nallyyieldedaresult."I thought if hard work

doesn't give medals nothingwill. Thankfullypeople trustedme." Sable said he was espe-cially bothered about thosewho had funded his interna-tional trips and might havebeen wondering if he wasworth the effort. "I didn'twantthem to think I'm not worththeir trust."Aquiet, reservedpersonhe

mightbewhokeepstohimself.But those aroundhimknowofhisquietconfidence inhisownabilitiestochallengetheeliteofthe world. "I wanted to proveit's not just the Africans —Kenyans and Ethiopians whowin in long-distance races. AnIndian canwin too.”

Lanka defersarrival of Chinaship, go-aheadwas given hrsbefore Gota fledraisedquestionsinDelhiaboutthemotives of the Sri Lankan

government in welcoming theship,hasblownover,at least fornow.But concerns remain in

Delhi over the language of thenote verbale, or “third partynote” as it is called in Sri Lanka,whichsuggests that the issue isstill open fordiscussion.Indiahaspouredinfinancial

and material assistance to SriLanka to the tune of $4 billionsinceJanuary,andhasalsobeenhand-holding it in its discus-sionswiththeIMFforapackageto help recover from the col-lapseof its economy.Delhiwasshocked to learn that the gov-ernment inColombohadgivenclearances for the Chinesemil-itary vessel to berth atHambantota.Thematterfirstcametolight

throughaseeminglyinnocuousmentiononthewebsiteofBRISL(Belt and Road Initiative SriLanka)thattheshipwascallingover at the southernport.HambantotaPortwasdevel-

opedwithloansfromBeijing. In2017, the Sri Lankan govern-ment leased the port to ChinaMerchants Port HoldingsCompany, a Hong Kong-basedshipping company, for aperiodof 99years.Over the last week, Delhi

conveyedmore than once thatit had serious concerns aboutthe planned arrival of the ship,andwas in constant talks withthe Sri Lankan government onthe issue.At first, Colombo sought to

giveassurancesthatitwasa“re-search” ship for developmentactivities,andwasonlystoppingover for bunkering, for a week,fromAugust11 to17.But Indiaconveyedthat this

didnothingtoallayitsconcernsoverthevessel,oneof sixtrack-ing ships in the Yuan Wangclass, used by the People’sLiberation Army to monitorsatellites and intercontinentalballisticmissiles.Bristling with satellite an-

tennas and other equipment,these large vessels formpart ofthe PLA's Strategic SupportForce. A foothold for it inHambantota wouldmake sev-eralportsandothersensitivefa-cilities in south India vulnera-ble, as also any movement byIndianNavyships,officialssaid.“Spy”ship,officialssaid,was

amisnomer for the vessel, andthatitwasinfactadualpurposestrategic platform, the likes ofwhichhadnotbeensentbyanycountry into these waters be-fore.President Ranil

Wickremesinghe’sgovernmenthad conveyed to Delhi that thepermission was given by theprevious government. TheForeignMinistry communica-tion to the Chinese embassymentionsthatclearancesfortheship to arrive at Hambantotawere given on July 12. The SriLankan government was incomplete disarray at the time.GotabayaRajapaksawastheninhiding,plottinghisescapefromthecountry.Hewassaidtohavearrived at a military base nearKatunayake International

Airport,SriLanka’smainairport,inpreparation to leave.Other than the Presidency,

Rajapaksa also held charge oftheDefenceMinistry,whiletheForeignMinistry was then un-derGLPeiris.Wickremesinghewas Prime Minister then –Gotabayawouldmakehimact-ingPresidentthenextday–butneednothavebeen in thedeci-sion-making on the Chineseship. The then Ports andShippingMinisterhadbeensus-pended following a corruptioninvestigation.Official sources in Colombo

said the request from theChinese side for clearancescameinJune.Thesourcesmain-tained that while inputs weretaken from the DefenceMinistry, the final decision togivetheclearancewasmadebythe East Asia division of theForeignMinistry, without scal-ingup thematter to the appro-priate levels in theMinistry forfurther consultation.Nodiscussionwasheldwith

the South Asia division of theMinistryeither,thesourcessaid.

Hindu YuvaVahini set for amakeover, seeksto shed itsvigilante imagecontinuestobecloselylinkedtoAdityanath,thoughhehadtriedtoclampdownonitsaggressiveways after he became UttarPradesh Chief Minister for thefirst time in2017.Among the plans, they said,

is a steady expansion of theVahini beyond UP to otherstates. The outfit now has astrong presence in the easternUP districts of Gorakhpur,Deoria, Kushinagar, Azamgarh,Mau,SantKabirNagarandBasti.Experts from various fields

are believed to be engaged indrawing up bylaws for a re-vamped Vahini, with rules formembershipandappointmentof office-bearers.Sourcesalsosaidthataspart

of theimagemakeover, theout-fitwill take care toenlistmem-bersfromthe“serviceandbusi-ness classes” as well as socialoutfits.Raghvendra Singh, former

BJP MLA and earlier state in-charge of the Vahini, told TheSundayExpress, “WedissolvedtheVahinisincemanyotheror-ganisationswithsimilarnameshadcroppedupoverthelastfiveyears and were involved inshadyactivities.Therestructur-ing will be done in amonth ortwo.”Sources said the decision to

restructure the Vahini has theconsent of the top BJP leader-ship.TheVahini’sstrong-armim-

age is linked to a number ofcases against its members.Before the BJP came to power,during the Mulayam SinghYadav government (2004-07)and later Mayawati’s regime(2007-2011), several membersof the outfit were named incases of communal riots andtensions in Gorakhpur, Mau,Azamgarh,Kushinagarandelse-where.In February this year,

Raghvendra Singh, the formerstate in-charge of the Vahini,was booked in a hate speechcaseinSiddharthNagardistrict.He contested the Assembly se-lection as a BJP candidate fromDomariyaganjconstituencybutlost to theSamajwadi Party.Adityanathhadfoundedthe

Vahini in 2002 as an organisa-tion to work for Hindu cultureandcowprotection,andagainstuntouchability. After the 2017elections, enthused byAdityanath taking over as CM,theorganisationhadburstontothe scene with its membersturning intovigilantes.They were accused of

forcibly entering homes alleg-ing love jihad, imposingmoralpolicing and attacking alleged

cattle smugglers. They hadpiped down only afterAdityanath's rap to avoid con-troversies.Ever since, the outfit has

maintained a low profile, onlytobrieflyemergefromtheshad-owstocampaignforAdityanathduring the Assembly electionsearlier this year.

Delhi excisepolicy row: L-Gsuspends 11officers over‘serious lapses’policywas formulated and im-plemented last year. AnandTiwari, a DANICS officer, wasserving as the DeputyCommissioner under DeputyChiefMinisterManishSisodia.The others suspended are

Assistant CommissionersPankaj Bhatnagar, NarinderSingh, Neeraj Gupta, SectionOfficersKuljeet Singh, SubhashRanjanandSumanandDealingHands Satya Brat Bhargav,Sachin Solanki and GauravMann.Last month, Lt Governor

Saxena recommended a CBIprobe into the Delhi ExcisePolicy2021-22,puttingSisodia,in-charge of the excise depart-ment,directly in the lineof fire.Themove followed a report

submitted by Delhi ChiefSecretaryNareshKumaronthematter. Itallegedcorruptionandviolationof transactionofbusi-ness rules. The report allegedthat undue benefits were pro-videdtoliquorvendlicenceesinlieu of “kickbacks” and “com-missions”.Krishnawas transferred af-

ter the Excise departmentrepliedtotheChiefSecretaryonthesevenquestionsheraisedontheexcisepolicy.The Lt Governor asked the

Chief Secretary to submit a de-tailed report on the role of offi-cers in the formulationand im-plementationof thepolicy.Sources in theLtGovernor’s

office claimed the officers didnot inform the authority con-cerned despite being aware of“illegalactivities”and“changesbeingmadebySisodiaonbehalfof the Cabinet without the ap-proval of theLG”.“The LGhas taken this deci-

sioninviewoftheseriouslapseson part of the officers con-cerned, in the implementationof the Excise Policy, includinginter alia irregularities in final-izing the tender and extendingpost-tender benefits to selectvendors, as brought out by theDirectorate of Vigilance (DoV)in its report after inquiry,” thesources said.The new excise policy had

been introduced by the Delhigovernmenttoincreasegovern-ment revenue, improve con-sumer experience, reduce cor-ruption and redistribute liquorshops in an equitable manner.Under the new policy, imple-mented in November last year,only private liquor shops couldrun in theCapital.Last month, after the Lt

GovernorcalledforaCBIprobe,therewasasharpreactionfromChiefMinisterArvindKejriwal.“IhaveknownSisodiafor22

yearsandIhaveneverseenany-one as honest or as much of adeshbhakt as him,” Kejriwalsaid, accusing the Lt Governorofmaking “false allegations”.He also accused the Centre

of going after AAP ever since itwonthePunjabAssemblyelec-tions.Sisodia, inaTwitterpost,tar-

getedthePrimeMinister:“Modiji is very afraid of Kejriwal ji.People have become disillu-sioned with Modi ji. Now thecountry has hope only fromKejriwal ji. As AAP's influencegrowsacross thecountry, therewill bemanymore false cases.But no jail can stop Kejriwal jiand AAP. The future belongs toAAP, the future belongs toIndia.”

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EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENOIDA,AUGUST6

THE NOIDA Authority held ameeting Saturday afternoon todiscuss status of demolition ofthe Supertech twin towers, fol-lowing directions of a SupremeCourtorderonJuly29.Thebuild-ings, Apex and Ceyane, are lo-catedinSector93A.Thedemoli-tionisfixedforAugust21at2.30pm, justundera fortnightaway.InformationsoughtbyCentral

BuildingResearchInstitute(CBRI);requisite details supplied bySupertech Ltd. and EdificeEngineering; a construction anddemolitionwastemanagementplan;preparationsmadeforcoun-teringeffectofdustcreatedduetothedemolitionongreenareaandparks located inATSVillage andSupertechEmeraldCourt (build-

ings in thevicinity); and steps tobe taken for securing GAIL’s gaspipelinewere discussed. Basedondiscussions,certaindirectionsweretaken.Anotesharedbytheauthority states that CBRI foundthat Supertech hasn’t providedcertaindetailspertainingtostruc-turalauditandsamearetobepro-videdbyAugust7.Afterreceivingrequisite information, CBRIwillsubmit its report to NoidaAuthoritybyAugust9pursuanttowhichtheauthoritywillfileasta-tusreportbyAugust11beforeSC.OnJuly29,inamiscellaneous

application filed by Supertech,theSChaddirectedCBRItoseekrelevant information and hadasked Supertech and Edifice toprovidethesamebyAugust5. Ithad instructed Noida Authoritytoconveneameetinginthemat-ter on August 6 and file a statusreportbeforeAugust12.

13 days to go for twintower demolition,stakeholders meet

Spa worker ‘raped’, 4 heldNewDelhi:Fourmenhavebeenarrested inconnectionwiththealleged rape of a 22-year-oldemployeeof aspa inNorthwestDelhi. Police said the men in-clude themanager anda client,arrestedfortheallegedrape,andthe twoowners, arrested foral-legedviolationof guidelines.PolicesaidaPCRcallwasre-

ceived around10pmThursdayabouttheincident.Whenpolicereached the spot, the womanwaspresentalongwithherhus-band outside the spa and al-leged that she had been rapedby the manager and anotherperson.Policesaidshewassentto ahospital formedical exam-ination.ENS

Celebratoryfiringleaves3kidsinjuredNewDelhi:Threechildrenwere injured during anincident of celebratoryfiringinNortheastdistrictSaturday. Police said asearchisonforthepersonwhofired theshot.

14-year-oldelectrocutedGurgaon: A 14-year-oldboy died after hewas al-legedly electrocuted inSohna,Friday,saidpolice.Hisfamilyallegedthathehadcomeincontactwithtwo coolers kept outsideahouseontheroad.ENS

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EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST6

THEREVISEDGraded ResponseActionPlan (GRAP) todealwithair pollution this winter willcome into force with effectfrom October 1, as per theCommission for Air QualityManagement(CAQM).Anexpertgroupconstitutedby theCAQMhad suggested revisions to theexistingGRAPwhichcomprisesmeasures to be takenwhen theairqualityworsensinDelhi-NCR.Thisyear,theGRAPwillbeim-

plementeddifferently—itwillbepre-emptiveandwillbeinvokedthree days in advance of the airquality reaching a certain levelbased on forecasts. In previousyears, GRAPwas invokedwhenparticulatematterconcentrationsreachedacertainthreshold.Thecommissionissueddirec-

tionsFridayaskingofficialstoen-surestrictimplementationoftherevisedGRAP.Intherevisedplan,there are four stages of adverse

airquality—‘poor’(AQIfrom201to300),‘verypoor’(AQIfrom301to400), ‘severe’(AQIfrom401to450) and ‘severe +’ (AQI morethan 450). Actions under ‘very

poor’, ‘severe’ and ‘severe +’ aretobe invokedat least threedaysin advance of AQI reaching thatparticular stage. This will bebased on forecasts provided toCAQM by IMD and IndianInstituteofTropicalMeteorology.

The restrictions■ CONSTRUCTION: Under

therevisedplan,abanwillsetinunder ‘severe’ category (exceptforworkinvolvingrailways,proj-ects of national security, hospi-tals, Metro services, and linearpublic projects like highways,roads). Under‘severe+’category,construction on linear publicprojectswill bebanned.

■ INDUSTRIES:Restrictionson industries in NCRwill set inunder ‘severe’ category.Industries that don’t have PNGsupplywill be allowed tooper-ate only five days a week tillDecember 31. Under ‘severe+’,all industries inNCRrunningonfuel other than those approvedfor the region will be shutdown.

■FOUR-WHEELERS:Under‘severe’ category, state govern-mentsinNCRandDelhimayim-poserestrictionsonBS-IIIpetrolandBS-IVdiesel four-wheelers.Under ‘severe +’ category,

there will be a ban on plyingDelhi-registereddiesel-operated“medium’and“heavygoodsve-hicles”inDelhi,exceptthosecar-rying essential commodities orprovidingessential services.Under the same AQI cate-

gory, therewill alsobeabanonplyingfour-wheelerdieselvehi-cles in Delhi and NCR districtsbordering Delhi, except for BS-VI vehicles and those used foressentialoremergencyservices.

■ OTHERMEASURES: For'severe+' category, NCR govern-mentsaretodecideonallowing"public, municipal and privateoffices"toworkon50%strengthandtheresttoworkfromhome.Itisunderthiscategorythatstategovernments can take a call onadditionalmeasureslikeclosureof educational institutions, andodd-evenrules forvehicles.

UNLIKETHEoldplan,whichwasinvokedwhenparticulatemattercon-centrationsreachedacertainthreshold,there-visedGradedResponseActionPlanwillbepre-emtive— itwillcomeintoplaythreedaysinad-vanceofairqualityreach-ingacertainlevelbasedonforecasts.Asperdirec-tionsissuedbyCAQM,chiefsecretariesofNCRstatesandDelhigovern-menthavebeenaskedtofrequentlyreviewtheplan’s implementation.

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ADRIJAROYCHOWDHURYNEWDELHI, AUGUST6

WHEN SUSHILMishra (70) setout fromhis home in Unnao in1968, hehada single purpose inmind—thatofbeingajournalistinthenationalcapital.Withloftydreams of being a news readersomeday andmeeting the highand mighty ofIndian politics, hemovedintohisfirsthomeinthecapital— a room in theSeemapuri slumofEast Delhi.Mishraremembers thoseearlydaysof strug-glewhenhe spentthe days runningfrompillar to posttofindajobinnewsoffices, while theeveningswent byinwritingpoetry.“Everything about

thecitywassuchashockforme.My room in Seemapuri did noteven have a bathroom. Everymorning, close to 30-40 peoplewouldqueueupandthengetintofights over the common bath-rooms,”herecalled.As dayswent by, he sawhis

dreamofbeingajournalistslowlyslipping away, as he startedtaking up odd jobs in transport,construction and the like. Onone such occasion, sometime inthe late 1970s, he came acrosssome officials from the DelhiDevelopment Authority (DDA)

whohad started developing thenearbycolonyofDilshadGarden.As he took up some contractualjobs with the DDA during thistime,hesawwithgreatenthusi-asmtheareaaroundhisslumde-velopingwiththebestoffacilities.“Thesewerewell-built flats, sur-roundedbyparks andmarkets,”herecalled.Soon after, by 1985,Mishra

had managed toearn a decentamount to rent hisfirst accommoda-tion in DilshadGarden, a janta flatfor which he paidRs 250 asmonthlyrent.“Formanyliv-ing in the slums ofSeemapuri, themaking of DilshadGarden signalled anewhope for theirlives,” he said.“Some of us who

somehowmade a littlemoney hoped to get an accom-modationhere.”Dilshad Gardenwas in fact

built at a time that ushered in anewphaseinthedevelopmentofthecapital.Casuallycalled‘Jamnapaar’ or the east side of theYamuna,itwasupuntilthe1970sconsidered unfit for develop-ment. “Originally EastDelhiwasavoidedbecauseaboutfiveorsixkilometres eastwards from theriverconsistedoffloodplains,”ex-plainedProfessorKTRavindran,whoservedasheadofurbande-signintheSchoolofPlanningand

ArchitectureinDelhiandwasfor-mer chairperson of the DelhiUrbanArtsCommission.ThefirsttimetheDDAturned

its attention towards this areawas during SanjayGandhi’s ur-ban renewal plan of the mid1970s when close to 2 lakhpeople from the slums of OldDelhiweremovedtotheresettle-ment colonies like Jahangirpuri,SeelampurandDakshinpuri,builtbytheauthorityintheperipheralareasofEastDelhi.It was only a few years later

andwith the political interest incooperative housing societiesthatcolonieslikeDilshadGardenweredevelopedinthearea.The original roots of Dilshad

Garden, however, go backmuchfurther, to the 1940s, when thelandherewas first acquiredbyabarrister from Lahore, DiwanKhem Chand. Khem Chandhad completed his education in

England andwas themanwhoconceived of the Model TownhousingsocietyinLahorein1921.HewasanadmirerofEnglishur-banplanner EbenezerHoward’sidea of ‘garden cities’ and repro-duced it in Model Town. Hewished to bring the samearchi-tectural planning to Delhi’sDilshadGarden.In1940,KhemChandfounded

thecompany,HousinginGeneralFinance(HGF),whichboughtlandfor Dilshad Garden from theTahirpur Estate LimitedwhichhadRaiBahadurMadhoPershadas one of the directors. “By thistime, people knew that land inandaroundDelhiwasabouttogetvaluable, so a lot of peoplewerebuying and consolidating prop-erty.MadhoPershad,whowasamunicipal commissioner andcamefromabanking family,hadbought 600 acres of land in theeast side andwas justwaiting to

sell itwhen the chance arrived,”explained Anish Vanaik, urbanhistorian and clinical associateprofessoratPurdueUniversity.Vanaik noted that by 1950,

HGFmanaged to sell off some600 plots, by which time theschemestartedfailingandinthenext fewyears thecompanycol-lapsed. “Themain reason is thatthey were not able to developtheirplotsintohouses.Theyweretrying to get themunicipality tobuildroads,waterandelectricity,and the government was notkeenon incurringcosts forapri-vatecompany’sprofits,”hesaid.AfterHGFfailedindeveloping

thisarea, apartof their landwasbought by the Delhi Land andFinance (DLF) that hadbeende-velopingseveralcoloniesinSouthDelhi by then. Indumati Sharma(92), who moved to DilshadColony developed by the DLFfromOldDelhi in1955, said thatherfamilywasforcedtomovetothisareabecausetheywereaskedtovacatetheirrentedaccommo-dation in Old Delhi and every-where else inDelhi at that timewasbeyondtheirmeans.Later in the 1980s,when the

DDA took over the remainingplots and developed DilshadGarden,therearoseamarkeddis-tinctionbetweentheareabuiltbytheDLFandthatwhichwasbuiltadjacenttoitbythegovernment.“Sincewewere aprivate colony,westilldidnothaveaccesstoba-sicamenities likeelectricity,wa-ter,roads.TheDDAhadallameni-tiesthatthemiddleclassneeded,

and residentswould look downonthisarea,”saidSharma.Sharma also recollected that

since itwas a flood-prone area,duringthemonsoonsitwouldbecommonforherhousetobesub-merged in several inches ofwa-terandtheywouldhavetofranti-callyfindspacetokeepvaluablesfromgettingspoiled.Thedevelopmentof theDLF-

built Dilshad Colony happenedmuchlaterinthe2000s,andonlywith the intervention of theRWAswhich pooled inmoneyfromall residents tobuild roads,sewersandgetwaterconnection.“TheDDArefusedtodevelopthisareasince itwasaprivatecolonyand theDLFhad already sold offitsplots to residentsby thenandbacked out from developing itany further,” said Vijay Arora, areal estate developer living inDilshadColony.Ravindran said that despite

landconditionsnotbeingamica-ble, accessibility has historicallybeenverygoodinDilshadGarden.“Itisboundononesidebythehis-toricGrandTrunkRoadthatcon-nectedCentralAsia to the Indiansubcontinent.Later,withthecom-ingof theDDAand thedevelop-mentof Noida andGhaziabad, itwas bounded on both sides byvery importantarteries,”hesaid.“TheMetro line toohasplayedasignificantroleindevelopingthisarea. The red line,whichwas thefirstMetrolinetobeinauguratedin 2002 by then PMAtal BihariVajpayee,startedoutfromthead-jacentareaofSeelampur.”

DilshadColonywasdevelopedbytheDLF.AdrijaRoychowdhury

How Dilshad Garden started out as a slice of Lahore

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI,AUGUST6

AWEEK after theDelhi govern-ment decided to scrap its newliquor policy, Deputy ChiefMinisterManish Sisodia said hehaswrittentotheCBIrequestinga probe into what he claimedwas a sudden change in formerL-G Anil Baijal’s decision onopening vends in unauthorisedareas.Thiscaused“thousandsofcroresof losses”totheDelhigov-ernment, he alleged. Baijal didnot respond to calls andmes-sagesseekingacomment.Sisodia,whoalsoholdstheex-

ciseportfolio,hadannouncedonJuly30thatthenewexcisepolicywouldbe rolled back. This cameafter current L-GVKSaxena rec-ommended aCBI probe into thenewpolicyoverallegedirregular-

ities,andDelhiPolice’sEconomicOffencesWinglaunchedaprobeintotheexcisedepartment.At a press conference on

Saturday, Sisodia said: “InMay2021,theCabinetpassedthenewexcise policy.We said the num-ber of liquor shopswill remainthesame.Butintheearlierpolicy,shopswereunevenlydistributed— some wards had 25 shops,somehadnone...somemallshadmany shops. In the newpolicy,this principle was highlightedthattherewillbeequitabledistri-butionof shops,but thenumberofshopswillnotchange.Thiswasanimportantprovision.”Therewere849shopsearlier,

and even under the newpolicy,the number of shopswas to re-main thesame,asperSisodia.The policy was then sent

to the L-G for approval and hemade important suggestions for

changes,Sisodiasaid.“Allsugges-tionswereaccepted,andthenewpolicywassenttotheL-GinJune.He read it carefully and it wasthenpassed. Thepolicy said un-equitable distribution will bestopped.Ineveryward,therewillbe two-threeshops, including inunauthorisedareas,”Sisodiasaid.But the L-G’s office then

changeditsdecision,heclaimed.

“TheL-Greadthepolicyandthenapproved it. After this, tenderswere issued... In the firstweekofNovember, the proposal toopen shopswas sent to the L-G,since they were to be openedfromNovember 17 onwards, in-cludinginunauthorisedareas.OnNovember15, theL-Glaiddowna new condition that to openshopsinunauthorisedareas,per-mission fromtheDDAandMCDisneeded.Whenhereadthepol-icy, this conditionwas not laiddown,”hesaid.“Why was this decision

changed48hoursbefore?Whichshopownersmadeaprofit?Didthe L-Gmake the decision him-selforunderpressurefromsome-one?IhavewrittentotheCBIask-ingforaprobe,”Sisodiasaid.“Therealcorruptionwashere...wherethedecisionwaschanged.”Sisodia said that every year,

shops were being opened inunauthorised areas even beforethenewpolicykicked in: “Everyyear, these fileswere approved.This was approved evenwhenthe policy mentioned it. Butwhen itwent to theL-Gofficeasa file to open the shops, the L-Gofficechangeditsstand.”“Because of this, shopswere

notabletoopeninunauthorised(areas). The new licenseeswentto court, which ordered that inunauthorisedwards,licencefeesberelaxedonapro-ratabasisandtheybegivenarebate.Becauseofthis,thegovernmentfacedthou-sandsofcroresoflosses.Withoutdiscussing itwith theCabinet orgovernment,theL-Gchangedhisdecision. The newexcise policywould have brought revenue tothe government, but instead, itcaused losses because of thischange in the L-G’s stand,” he

claimed.“Themost important thing

here is that someshopswereal-lowed to open, otherswere not.Those allowed to open shopsmadeprofits.Thiswasadeliber-ateattempttoensuresomeven-dors gotprofits andothers facedlosses,”Sisodiaadded.Inhiscommunicationtothe

CBI,Sisodiawrote:“Throughthenewexcise policy, in one finan-cialyear, thegovernmentwastogetRs9,000crore. In this finan-cial year, with the new policy,the government was supposedtogetRs3,713crore,butgotonlyRs2,352crore in four andahalfmonths.”Hittingoutatthegovernment,

BJPnationalspokespersonSambitPatra said at a press conference:“When theheatof the investiga-tionhas reached them, they arebusyfindingascapegoat.”

Liquorwars: Govt trains guns on former L-G,Sisodia says he changed stance on vends

SisodiaatapressconferenceonSaturday.AmitMehra

DELHIREWINDTracingthecapital’spost-Independence

history

Interim bail to Satyendar Jain’s wifeEXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST6

DELHIMINISTERandAAPleaderSatyendar Jain’s wife was onSaturdaygrantedinterimbailbya court in an alleged moneylaunderingcase,inwhichhewasarrestedover twomonthsago.Special Judge Geetanjli Goel

granted interimbail to Poonam

Jain on furnishing of personalbondinthesumofRs1lakhwithsuretyof likeamount.Poonam had moved a bail

application before the court.Since the EnforcementDirectorate submitted that itwouldfileitsreplytothebailap-plication, and considering thefact that shewasnotpreviouslyarrestedbytheagency,thecourtgrantedher interimbail.

ThecourtalsoallowedJaintowithdraw his application seek-ing interim bail in the case. Hiscounselmoved for withdrawalsayingtheyhavebeeninformedthat he was being dischargedfromhospital.Jainhasbeen in judicial cus-

todysinceJune13.Heisaccusedof having laundered moneythrough four companies al-legedly linked tohim.

Advocate held for ‘assaulting’ copNewDelhi:Twomen,includinga29-year-old advocate, were ar-rested for allegedly assaulting ahead constable inside AnandVihar police station last week.PolicesaidtheadvocatehasbeenidentifiedasSatishKumar.Purported videos of the inci-

dentcirculatedonlineshowsev-eralmensurroundingthepolice-man, and physically assaultingand berating him. One of them

canpurportedlybeseenholdingthepolicemanbythecollar.Police said they received a

call on July 30 alleging that awomanhad beenphysically as-saulted in Karkardoomavillage.Policefoundthattheincidentwasafalloutofadisputebetweenthewoman and a man, both resi-dentsof thevillage.Police said themanwas ap-

prehended inan inebriatedcon-

ditionandbroughttothestationforenquiry.Policesaidagroupofhis associates, including hisbrother Satish, then came to thestation.Policesaidtheheadcon-stable, Prakash, was at workwhen he was allegedly sur-rounded by the group, abused,andassaultedaround2am.DCP (Shahdara) R

SathiyasundaramsaidanFIRhasbeenregistered.ENS

MALAVIKAPRASADNOIDA,AUGUST6

THEWOMAN seen standing upto a man, who abused andpushedherduringanargumentatanupscaleNoidasociety, toldThe Indian Express on Saturdaythat the experience has beenharrowingforherandherfamily.Theman,ShrikantTyagi,was

onFridaybookedbyNoidaPoliceafteravideooftheincidentcameto light. A resident of GrandOmaxe society inNoida’s Sector93B,Tyagiiscurrentlyontherun,policesaid.AmidreportsthatheisfromtheBJP,thepartyinsistedonFridayandSaturdaythattheyhavenoassociationwithhim.Speaking to The Indian

Express, the woman said thatTyagi, who lives on the groundfloor of one of 22 towers in theresidentialsociety,firstextendedthe balcony area of his flat afewyearsago.“Heplantedpalmtrees in the common lawn areaof thebuildingin2019.Whathewas essentially trying to do iscreate his own areawithin thecommonlawnarea,whichisac-cessible to all residents. OnThursday, hewanted to plant afewmoreplantsinthecommonarea. I, along with other resi-dents, mostly women, went tothe common area where theplantingwashappening,andwedecidedthatwewouldpluckoutthe plants. Tyagi came out andstarted abusingme, callingmenames that I can’t even imaginebeingaddressedby.Henotonlythreatenedmeandmyhusbandbutsaid, ‘Tupedchuyegitohmaintujhe choonga (if you touch thetree, I will touch you)’, and alsopushedme. All of this has beenrecordedinthevideo.Ithasbeensuchaharrowingexperienceforme and my family,” said thewoman. Shealso thankedotherwomenwhostoodwithherdur-ing the incident.Tyagiwas bookedunder IPC

Section354 (assault or criminalforce to womanwith intent tooutragehermodesty).Moresec-tionswereaddedonSaturday.As BJP leaders Mahesh

Sharma and Sharda Chaturvedi

visitedtheresidentialsocietyonSaturday to assure residents ofaction against the accused, thewomantoldthem:“IwantNoidaPolice to put him behind bars.”Thiswasmet by applause fromtheresidents.“He hasmisbehavedwith a

lotofpeople—kabhibachconse,kabhi senior citizens se, kabhiguards se. This time, it was thewomen. It has been so difficultfor me andmy family; nobodywantstohearsuchwordsaboutthemselves. Idon’twantwords;Iwantsomeactiontobetaken,”she told theBJP leaders.According to the Grand

OmaxeApartmentsowners’ as-sociation/boardofmembers,theencroachment startedover twoyears ago but no action wastaken by the Noida Authority.“Extendingyourbalconyintothecommon area of the society isagainst the rules, but he wentahead and did that despite re-peated requests from theBoardand the residents. Earlier thisweek, Tyagi calledhis own staffto plant ornamental hedges inthe common area, which hehad already encroached withthe palm trees. One of us ap-proached him to stop for thenext24hours.Hewasinformedof the frustration that the resi-dents had been feeling, but assoon as the 24hourswere over,hisworkersstartedplantingthehedgesagainonThursday.Itwasafterthisthatresidentswhohadhad enough came outside andthe incident took place,” theboardmembersalleged.

BJP firefights: ‘Manneither membernor worker of party’MALAVIKAPRASADNOIDA,AUGUST6

AFTERREPORTSemergedthataman seen abusing and pushinga woman during an argumentwas from the BJP, party leadersSaturday headed to the Noidaresidentialsocietywherethein-cident tookplace twodaysago.Theman,ShrikantTyagi,was

onFridaybookedbyNoidaPoliceafteravideooftheincidentcameto light. A resident of GrandOmaxesociety inNoida’sSector93B, Tyagi is currently on therun,police said.BJP MP fromGautam Budh

Nagar, DrMahesh Sharma,metresidents along with ManojGupta, district president of theBJP in Noida, and ShardaChaturvedi, the party’s MahilaMorchaAdhyaksh.Themeetingsaw residents raise questionsabout his alleged associationwith theparty.Sharma said, “I was in-

formed of the incident yester-day pursuant to which cog-nizance has been taken byHomeMinister Amit Shah andChief Minister of Uttar Pradesh(Yogi Adityanath), and I havebeendirectedtospeakwithyoutoday alongwith other leaderspresent.Theincidentwhichhasbeen captured in the video re-quires nowitnesses anymore. Ihave been informed by NoidaPolice that more sections havebeenaddedtotheFIRregisteredagainsttheaccused.Iwanttoas-sureyouthat thismanisnotas-sociatedwithourparty.Hemayhave clicked a photo with apartyleader;that’saseparateis-sue. Ihave lived inNoida for thepast 49 years. The actions de-picted by Tyagi cannot be ac-cepted by the party. Thewholeparty is standing with you; I

want the womenwho are likemy sisters and daughters to berestassured.NationalPresidentof the party, J P Nadda, has alsotaken cognizance of the inci-dent.Tyagi’sbackgroundissub-ject of investigation but in myentire political life, I haveneverseen this man in any pro-grammeof theparty.Heshouldbe given the strictest punish-ment.Tyagiisneitheramembernor aworkerof theparty.”Additional Deputy

Commissioner of Police, Lawand Order, Ranvijay Singh,meanwhile, shared an updateon the case: “On Friday after-noon, a videowent viral on so-cial media where a man livingina society inSector93, identi-fiedasShrikantTyagi,wasseenmisbehaving with a woman.NoidaPolicetookcognizanceofthematter as soon as wewereinformedandanFIRwas regis-tered against the accused.Several police teams were dis-patched toarresthim.Wehavedetained four people close tothe accused and have beenquestioningthem.Alotof infor-mationhasbeencollectedfromthem. There were three carsfound in the society premises,of which two cars found incontraventionofMotorVehiclesAct which have been seized.Another car, a Fortuner, carrieda UP government logo, againstwhichanotherFIRhasbeenreg-istered against the accused.Police teams are continuouslysearching for all possiblewhereabouts of the accused. Iwant to inform that Tyagi wasnot provided any security per-sonnel by Gautam Budh NagarCommissioneratePolice,asop-posed to what is being said onsocialmedia.Wewillarrest theaccusedverysoonandstrictac-tionwill be takenagainsthim.”

ShrikantTyagi,whoisontherun,wasseenonvideo‘abusingandpushing’awomanduringanargument

‘Harrowing… wanthim behind bars’:Woman abusedby Noida resident

6THE SUNDAY EXPRESS,AUGUST7,2022

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New Delhi

WITH THE maiden flight forISRO’s newly developed three-stage solid fuel Small SatelliteLaunchVehicle(SSLV-D1)sched-uled for Sunday morning, thespace agency’s chairpersonS SOMANATH speaks toANONNADUTTaboutwhat thequick turn-around-time for therocket will mean for the com-mercial spacesector. Excerpts:

Whatarethechallengesthatyouarewatchingoutfor themission?First and foremost, it is a

completelynewrocket. It isnotavariant of any existing rockets.And, not only is it newly devel-oped, itwill also usemanynewtechnologiesforthefirsttime.So,in that sensewe have to be ex-tremely careful for the firstlaunchof thevehicle.Otherwise,whatwe look for

any launch –whether the satel-lite goes to the right orbit or not.Thewhole thing has been pro-grammedinthesystem;wedon’treally have to do anything oncewegivethecommandforlift-off,

itwilldoeverythingitself.What we do now is some

testingongroundtill the launchto ensure everything is all right.We domany rehearsal simula-tions at the computer level,checkdatafromgroundstations,and several other tests till thetimeof lift-off.It will take around 800 sec-

onds to inject thesatellites.

Whatnewtechnologiesarebeingusedinthis launchvehicle?Therearemethodsbywhich

solid propulsion stages are de-fined in ISRO, we have madesome departures in this, whichincludesmakingthedesignsuchthat it can be assembled very,very fast. The current arrange-mentsarealsosuchthat it takescertain amount of time to alaunch, these constraints wereremoved,whichmeanstherearecertaindefinedrisksforthis.Butwe have done a very rigoroustesting toprove thisapproach.These changesmake for fast

production, assembly, dis-as-

sembly.Itmakesitconvenienttoassembleinbothhorizontalandvertical conditions, making itveryflexibleforoperations.(ThecurrentPSLVandGSLVcanbeas-sembledonlyvertically.)Secondmajor change is that

weroped in Indian industries formanufacturingthisrocketthatarenottraditionallyintorocket-man-

ufacturing. That gives us – one,there aremanymore vendors;two, they are cost-effective ascomparedtothebigplayers;three,it canbedonewith less compactmachinesmakingiteasiertopro-duce anywhere. There featuresweremadepartofthedesign.Thethirdimportantchangeis

theelectronics.Almost90%oftheelectronics – computers, datasending, pyro, power system—thatweuseinthisrocketarenewdesign...haveundergonerigoroustesting. The importanceof thesenewthings is thatwehavegoneforlow-costelectronics,meaningall of them are not aerospacegrade, rather commercial-gradeelectronics.Thecommercialelec-tronics are available at muchlowercostsbutithasariskoffail-ure,whichwecounterwithstepslike appropriate design, enoughredundancies,etc.Wealsohavenewalgorithms

andsoftwarethatdependsmoreon our NaVIC as compared topreviousPSLV.Also, because we are going

for commercial use, its size and

volumebecomeslesserbecauseit isamorecompactdesign.Theproduction and procurementtimebecomes lesser.

So,whatwillbetheturnaroundtimefortheSSLV?Fromprocurement,making

parts,andreachingthefinal leveltakessixmonth.But,theideahereis tomanufacture the parts andkeep them at someplace, andwhenneeded just assemble andlaunch.Itisaserialproductionsys-tem.It’sjustlikebuyingacar.Thecompanydoesn’t start tomake itafteryouputintheorder.Ourplanistomakeitavailable

in aweek’s time– the assemblycanbedoneintwodays,twodaysof testing, and thenext twodayswe are doing the rehearsal andlaunch. (It takesmonthsof plan-ning andmanufacturing for theother Isro rockets.)Wehave al-readydonethatthistime.

Whathappensafter thelaunch?After the launch, wewill do

experimentsontheupperstage

onwhether it canbere-started,whether itcangotoanotheror-bit,whether itcandosomema-noeuvres.

Thisrocket ismainlymeantforcommercial launchofsmall satellites.HowwillIndia’s reachintheglobalspacemarketchangeonce itbecomesoperational?Thiswill bebasedoncertain

projections that show a largenumberofsmallsatelliteswillbelaunched. The projections arebased on recentmarket evolu-tionswhere interest is in smallsatellites in low earth orbit.Correspondingly, there are alsomany small rockets that arecoming up, including our start-upsthataremakingitinthe100-200kgclass...ISROdoesn’twant tooperate

SSLVasacommercialactivity.Ourplanistodemonstratethatyeswecanbringoutasmallercost-effec-tivesatellitelaunchvehicleinIndia.Wewant then the industries totakeiton... FULLINTERVIEWONwww.indianexpress.com

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RCPSingh quitsJD(U) afterparty questionshis land deals

SANTOSHSINGHPATNA,AUGUST6

THE JANATA Dal (United) onSaturday accused its formerchief RCPSinghof “huge irregu-larities” indeclaringlandassets,promptinghimtoannouncehisresignation and call the party a“sinking ship” — the coda to adramaticinternalfallfromgrace.In a letter toSinghonAugust

4, JD(U) Bihar president UmeshKushwahasoughtareplytoanal-legation — made by two un-namedJD(U)“workers”—thatheboughtatleast47plotsof landinNalandabetween2013and2022.Over this time, Singh held

severaldifferentpositions:JD(U)generalsecretary(organisation),Rajya SabhaMP, JD(U) nationalpresidentandUnionminister.Inhis2016RajyaSabhaelec-

tionaffidavit,Singhshowedoneshared immovable asset worthRs 4.86 lakh (his share) atAsthawan village. He had de-claredmoveable assets wortharoundRs2.53croreandoverRs15 lakh inhiswife’sname.Singhwas recently forced to

stepdownasaUnionministeraf-terJD(U)declinedtofieldhimfora third Rajya Sabha term. A for-merUttarPradesh-cadre IASof-ficer,SinghhadtakenVRSin2010to joinpolitics.Hehadservedasthe principal secretary to ChiefMinisterNitishKumarduringhisfirst five years as CM and roserapidlywithinthepartyranks.His relationshipwith Nitish

soured after he accepted theministerialpositionwithouttheCM’sconsent—andoverhisper-ceived closeness to BJP. Singhhad also been asked to give upthepartychief’spost.Thetensionsfinallycametoa

headwith Kushwaha’s letter toSingh. In the letter, the stateparty chief presented a list of

landdealsshowingthatSinghal-legedlypurchased theplots (to-talling1,600decimalsof land)inthenameofhiswifeGirjaSinghandtwodaughtersatAsthawanandIslampurblocksofNalanda.The estimated government

rate of one decimal land variedfrom Rs 15,000 to Rs 40,000 atthe time of purchase. The cur-rent value of land in Asthawanand Islampur ranges from Rs25,000toRs90,000perdecimal.Separately, Kushwaha had

writtentoJD(U)nationalpresidentRajivRanjanSinghon26Julywithalistof landpurchases,itislearnt.AddressingtheformerUnion

minister, Kushwaha wrote inHindi: “Two JD(U) friends fromNalanda have made a writtencomplaint tomewith evidencethatyouhaveaccumulatedhugeproperty between 2013 and2022. There seemtobehuge ir-regularities.”Singh told reporters in

Nalanda: “They should have di-rectly askedme to explain (thelandplotpurchases)ratherthanwritingtome,quotingtwopeo-ple... There is a conspiracyagainstme. I am resigning rightnowfromprimarymembershipof the party. JD(U) is a sinkingship. Sirf jhola dhonewale logbachehai.Maikahtahoonidharaa jao (only hangers-on are left.I advisepeople to joinme).”

DIVYAANEWDELHI, AUGUST6

AZAADIKAAmritMahotsav isa“sanskar utsav for the youth”,whichwill fill themwith“undy-ingpassiontocontribute for thecountry”, said PrimeMinisterNarendraModi while address-ingthethirdnationalcommitteemeeting on Azadi ka AmritMahotsavhereonSaturday.Modi said the patriotic fer-

vour seen during the freedomstrugglewasunprecedented,andit is the same fervour “that weneed to inculcate in our currentgeneration and channelise it for

nation-building”. He said AzadiKaAmritMahotsaviscreatinganatmosphere of patriotic zeal inthe country and it is a great op-portunity to establish the emo-tionalconnectof theyouthwiththetaskofnation-building.Highlightingthecontribution

of freedom fighters from tribal

communities,Modi said peopleshould pay tribute by buildingtribalmuseumsat local level.Among members of the

committee who attended themeeting were Lok SabhaSpeakerOmBirla,Manipur andWest Bengal Governor LaGanesan, Chief Ministers Yogi

Adityanath, Ashok Gehlot,Naveen Patnaik and MamataBanerjee, Maharashtra DeputyCM Devendra Fadnavis, MPsFarooq Abdullah and SharadPawar, BJP president J P Nadda,seniorofficials,spiritual leaders,artists and filmpersonalities.The committee members

gave an overview of the activi-ties taken up by them underAmrit Mahotsav and also gavetheir suggestions and inputs tofurther strengthen the cam-paign. Union Home MinisterAmit Shah explained thatmorethan 60,000 programmes havebeenorganisedinthecountrytilldateunderAmritMahotsav.

BALLOT BATTLE(Clockwisefromtop)UnionministersAnupriyaPatel,DarshanaJardoshandSadhviNiranjanJyotiwithotherMPsduringtheVice-PresidentialelectionatParliamentHouseonSaturday;CongresspresidentSoniaGandhiandUnionHomeMinisterAmitShahcasttheirvote.

DMK mouthpiece saysNirmala needs patience tofigure out India’s finances

ARUNJANARDHANANCHENNAI, AUGUST6

SUGGESTINGTHATUnionFinanceMinisterNirmalaSitharamancanseekfundslaterbutitishightimefor her to “find a little patience”,Murasoli,themouthpieceofrulingDMKinTamilNadu,onSaturdayaskedher toslowdownand“fig-ureoutthetruthaboutthecoun-try’sfinances”.Theeditorialwaspublishedin

responsetoSitharaman'sspeechin Parliament on August 1 onprice-rise, increase inGST rates,andtaxesonpetrolanddiesel.Respondingtoherremarkson

TamilNaduandtheOpposition'sdemandtoreducefuelprices,theeditorial asked whetherSitharamanwas aware that the

statehadreducedtaxesonfuelinAugust 2021.QuotingTelanganaChief Minister ChandrasekharRao’sstatementthat“thosewhoincreased fuel prices should re-duce it,” the editorial stated,“Whentherearequestionsaimedat you, answer them instead ofthrowingblameatothersasyouranswer...”TakingonSitharaman’scon-

tentionthatstatesareequallyre-sponsible for GST rates, stateFinance Minister PalanivelThiagarajan, meanwhile, said“one hundred percent” of theGSTCouncil'sagenda isdecidedbytheCentre,“withoutconsult-ing thestates”.HesaidalthoughGSTisseen

as a model of federalism, theCentreusestheGSTCouncilasa“rubber stamp”.

FIR againstCong leaders fordefying Sec 144

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST6

ADAYafterCongressleadersde-fiedprohibitoryordersonFridayandtookoutprotestsintheNewDelhidistrict,theDelhiPoliceonSaturday registered an FIRagainst them for obstructingpublic servants and injuringthem to deter them from per-forming theirduties.DCP (New Delhi) Amrutha

Guguloth said, “We have regis-teredanFIRatTughlaqRoadpo-licestationunderIPCsections186(obstructingpublicservants),188(disobeying order of public ser-vant) 332 (voluntary hurt to de-terpublicservantfromduty)and34(commonintention).”Police said another FIR has

beenregisteredunderIPCSection188againstCongressleadersandparty workers for violatingSection144of theCrPC..On Friday, Congress leaders

protested acrossNewDelhi dis-trict against inflation and pricerisedespiteSection144prohibit-ing assembly, except at JantarMantar, said police. A letter re-garding the samehadbeen sentbytheNewDelhidistrictpolicetoAICC secretary general K CVenugopalonThursday.Policesaidproteststookplace

at Akbar Road, Vijay ChowkandJantarMantar.Policeallegedoffi-cersweremanhandledwhiletry-ingtocontainthesituation.

SREENIVASJANYALAHYDERABAD,AUGUST6

TELANGANA CHIEFMinister KChandrashekarRaohasdecidedto boycott theNiti Aayogmeet-ing tobeheldSunday.“It is a painful decision, but I

had to take it to expressmy re-sentmenttowardstheCentre’sat-titude.IhavewrittenalettertothePrimeMinisterregardingthis,’’hesaid. Speaking at a press confer-ence on Saturday evening, KCRsaidNiti Aayoghasbecome rud-derless.HealsosaidtheNDAgov-ernmentattheCentrefailedtoful-fil the promises it made to thepeople,andthat itdidnotbotheraboutNitiAayog,sotherewasnopointinattendingthemeeting.“The message (from the

Centretothestates) iseitheryoudowhatwesayorwewillpunishyou,”KCRsaid. “Ourboycott andprotest is aimed at hoping thatthePMwillchangehisways...,”The state spent Rs 1,90,000

croreinthelastfinancialyear,but

the amount received for centralgovernmentschemeswasjustRs5,000 crore, the Chief Ministersaid. He also slammed PrimeMinisterNarendraModi for crit-icisingwelfare schemes by call-ing them freebies. “Giving pen-sionstohandicappedordisabledpeopleisafreebie?Helpingfarm-ersbygivingafinancialincentivesothattheir landsdonotremainbarrenisafreebie?”heasked.InhislettertothePM,KCRsaid

NitiAayogwasstartedasaninsti-tutionwith the lofty objective ofbringing the states on the samepagewiththeCentreforensuringequitable development of thecountry in the spirit of coopera-tive federalism. “But recent un-pleasant happeningshave givenrise to an inescapable realisationthatthefederalstructureof Indiaisbeingsystematicallyerodedbysome deliberate actions by theGovernmentofIndia...,”hewrote.

Ex-Unionministersaysallegationsa‘conspiracy’, callspartya ‘sinkingship’

RCPSinghwasrecentlyforcedtostepdownasaUnionministerafter JD(U)declinedtofieldhimforathirdRajyaSabhaterm

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Persecutedminorities fromPak can practicemedicine: NMCNewDelhi:Opening its doors topersecutedminoritieswho fledPakistan topracticemedicine inIndia, the National MedicalCommission (NMC)onSaturdayallowedpermanent registrationforthemafteranexamination.Alldoctorshavetoberegisteredwiththeir respective state commis-sionstopracticeanywhereinthecountry,theNMCstated.Thiswillbeapplicableonlyfor

peoplewhofledPakistanandob-tained citizenship in India on orbeforeDecember 31, 2014. “Theapplicantmust possess a validmedical qualification and hadbeenpracticing inPakistanpriortohis/hermigrationtoIndia,”thenotification said. All suchpeoplehave been given time untilSeptember5tofillonlineapplica-tionsontheNMCwebsite. Theex-aminationwillbeconducted“bythecommissionoranyagencyau-thorisedby the commission, thenotificationsaid. ENS

Increase jabs:Health secy tostates with risingCovid-19 casesNewDelhi:Union health secre-taryRajeshBhushanhaswrittento seven states reporting highnumber of Covid-19 cases, to-gethercontributing54.2%of thefresh cases reported during theweekendingonAugust5, toen-sure adequate testing, promoteCovid-appropriate behaviourand increase the pace of vacci-nation tocontain thesurge.In a letter to Karnataka,

Maharashtra,Delhi,Kerala,TamilNadu, Telangana, and Odisha,Bhushansaidtheupcomingfes-tivalsandmasscongregationsinthe country could facilitatetransmissionof Covid-19.Thestateshavebeenaskedto

ensure “adequate testing…while maintaining the recom-mended share of RT-PCR tests”andcloselymonitordistricts re-porting high number of casesand positivity rate along withclusterstopreventspreadof theinfection. ENS

In high-security cell, Partha Chatterjeespends most of his first night sittingRAVIKBHATTACHARYAKOLKATA,AUGUST6

PARTHACHATTTERJEE spent atoughfirstnightatthePresidencyCentralCorrectionalHome’shigh-security block on Friday, withAmericanCentre attackmaster-mindAftabAnsariamonghisfel-lowinmates,aceilingfanagainstthe heat, and blankets format-tress.Jailofficialssaidadespondent

Chatterjeeresistedbeingtakenin-sidethejailatfirst,andwantedanair-conditionedroom.Whenthatdidn’tmaterialise, he reportedlysat for a long time on the com-modeof the toilet inside his celltill itbroke.Hethenfinally layontheblanketonthefloor.On Friday, the Enforcement

Directorate Special Court inKolkata sent Chatterjee and hisaideArpitaMukherjeeto14days’judicialcustody.WhileChatterjeewas brought to the PresidencyCentral Correctional Home,Mukherjeewas taken to AlipurWomen’sCorrectionalHome.“He(Chatterjee)didnotwant

togo insidethe jail at first. It tookus an hour to convince him.

Immediately, he demanded anair-conditioned room. No onepaid anyheed.Hewas searchedaccordingtorulesandthentakentothePoilsBaish(1-22)cellblock.HewasputinCellNo.2,”aseniorjailofficial jail.PoilaBaishisthemost-secure

cellblockinthejail,watched24X7.Ithouses,apartfromAnsari,thoseconvictedforseriouscrimes,andinmatesondeathrow.About hismeals, the official

saidhehadaskedforchapatisandsaidnotorice.“Hewasgivencha-patis, sabzianddal fordinner.Heatethatsittingonthecommode.”Hehashismedicineswithhiminthe cell. Another official saidChatterjeehadbeenplacedinthehigh-securityfacilitytominimisehis interactionwith anyone, in-cluding other convicts. “Senior

jailorshavebeendirectedtovisithis cell everyhour.Officials havealsobeenaskedtokeepcommu-nicationwithhimtoaminimum.”Whilevisiblyshakenwhenhe

came, the formerminister ap-peared tohave calmeddownbySaturdaymorning, sources said,andhadteaandbiscuits.TheAlipurWomen’s Central

Correctional Home whereMukherjeeishousedisaboutfiveminutes' drive away. An officialsaidshehadbeendistraught.“Shekept on crying anddid not havedinner.Thismorningshehadteaandbiscuits.”TheEDclaims tohave recov-

ered more than Rs 50 crore incash, among other assets, fromproperties linked toMukherjee,and allegedly connected toChatterjee.

ParthaChattterjee

Charting Mr V-P’s career: From court oflaw to electoral politics and GovernorSANTANUCHOWDHURY,DEEPMUKHERJEE&SUKHBIRSIWACHKOLKATA, JAIPUR,CHANDIGARH,AUGUST6

BJP-LEDNDAcandidate and for-mer West Bengal Governor,JagdeepDhankhar,71,waselected14th Vice President of India onSaturday, trouncingOpposition’snominee,MargaretAlva,comfort-ablybysecuring528votesagainstthelatter’s182inthepoll.Since July2019,whenhewas

appointed theGovernor ofWestBengal,Dhankharhadbeenatlog-gerheads with the MamataBanerjee-ledTMCgovernmentonarangeof issues.For a leader knownmore for

hisrun-inswiththeBanerjeegov-

ernmentasGovernor,andwhomtheTMChadoftenaccusedofact-ing as an “agent of BJP”, the firstelectionDhankharcontestedwasona JanataDal ticket in1989LokSabhapolls,andthenHaryanaCMDevi Lal had vigorously cam-paignedforhim.

Ranjit Singh Chautala, DeviLal’s son and aminister in thepresent Haryana government,toldTheIndianExpress:“Dhankharis likeafamilymember.HecameintopoliticsafterbeinginfluencedbyDeviLal.”Ranjit Chautala recalled that

whenDeviLalcalledarallyoftheOppositionatDelhi’sBoatClubin1987,Dhankharbrought500ve-hicles full of people fromJhunjhunutoparticipateinit.DeviLalwas obviously impressed—“Hecalledhim(Dhankhar) fromhishomeandofferedaJanataDalticket to contest from JhunjhunuLokSabhaconstituencyin1989.”Dhankharwon the election andbecame a minister in the V PSingh-ledgovernmentwhenDeviLalbecameDeputyPM.His next electionwas for the

RajasthanAssembly— this timeon a Congress ticket. He repre-sented Kishangarh in theAssembly from 1993 to 1998.Dhankhar, a graduate fromUniversity of Rajasthan, Jaipur,whocompletedhisLLBdegreein1978-79,isalsoaformerpresidentofRajasthanHCBarAssociation.AfterhejoinedBJP,Dhankhar,

a Jat leader, became thenationalconvenerofthesaffronparty’slawand legal affairs department in2016. BJP sources said hehad inthepast “extendedsolid supportbothpoliticallyandthroughlegaladviceandassistance”toBJP,RSSand its affiliates. Born into afarmer’s familyatKithanavillagein Jhunjhunu district in 1951,Dhankhar studied at a local gov-ernment school before going toSainikschoolinChittorgarh.

VicePresident-elect JagdeepDhankhar inNewDelhionSaturday.PremNathPandey

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LAKHAN VERMA and RahulVerma,whowereconvictedbyaSessions Court in Jharkhand’sDhanbadlastmonthformurder-ing Additional Sessions JudgeUttam Anand, have been sen-tencedtorigorousimprisonmenttilldeath,defencelawyerKumarBimlendusaidonSaturday.A fine of Rs 30,000 has also

been imposed on both the con-victs.Thesentencingcameayear

after JudgeAnandwashit by anauto-rickshawduringhismorn-ingwalkonJuly28lastyear,andhe succumbed to head injurieslater.ASJ Rajni Kant Pathak held

the twoaccused, LakhanVermaand Rahul Verma, guilty underIndian Penal Code sections 302(murder) and 201 (causing dis-appearanceofevidence)andun-der34 (commonintention).Defence Counsel Kumar

Bimlendusaid:“ForIPCsections302, 34, the convicts were sen-tenced to rigorous imprison-

ment till death, and Rs 20,000fine, each. For IPC Section 201,the court sentenced 10 years ofimprisonment and Rs 10,000,each. However, the detailedcourt judgment will be out onTuesday.”Theprosecutionhadsaidthat

themotive of the crimewas tosnatch the victim’s mobilephone,andthatitwasapremed-itated act thatwarranted a con-viction under IPC Section 302.The defence had, however,pleadedthatitwasnotan“inten-tional hit” and that it attracted

onlythechargeofculpablehomi-cidenotamountingtomurder.Jharkhand Police had con-

ducted initial investigation intothedeathandhadarrestedboththeaccused.TheJharkhandgov-ernment had subsequentlyhandedovertheinvestigationtothe Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI), which hadre-registered the case and filedthe charge sheet inOctober lastyear. The sessions court framedcharges on February 2 this year,andafter35hearings,completedthe trial.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICETHIRUVANANTHAPURAM,AUGUST6

KERALA GOVERNMENT onSaturday sounded a red alert atIdukki damwhich is brimmingfast in thewakeof heavy inflowcoupledwith the increaseddis-charge fromMullaperiyardam.The water level at the dam

reached2,382.50 ft on Saturdayas against the full reservoir levelof 2,403 ft. District administra-tions in Idukki and Ernakulamhave askedpeople living on thebanks of Periyar river, includingsub-urbanKochiregion,toremainalertintheeventofincreasedwa-teroutflowfromthedam.On Friday, Tamil Nadu had

lifted three shutters ofMullaperiyar damwherewaterlevel had reached 137 ft, to re-lease 534 cusecs of water intoPeriyar, which eventually flowsto Idukki dam. However, as in-flow remained robust, TamilNaduliftedsevenmoreshuttersof Mullaperiyar and increasedthe outflow to 2,122 cusecs atnight. However, water level atMullaperiyarwent up to 138.10ft at9amonSaturday.By discharging water from

Idukki dam before the levelreaches the full reservoir level(FRL)of2,403ft,thegovernmentislookingtoavertarepeatof thedevastating flood of 2018whenit delayed a decision to releasewater from Idukki and otherreservoirs.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST6

THE COMMON UniversityEntranceTest(CUETUG)2022hadalargelysmoothrunonSaturday,withno lastminutecancellation,evenasUnionEducationMinisterDharmendra Pradhan held ameeting on technical glitchesholdingup the test inmanycen-tresoverthelasttwodays.TheNational TestingAgency

(NTA) hinted that it might actagainstcertaincentresfor“failingtocomplywiththelaiddownpro-tocols” resulting in repeatedglitches,causinginconveniencetothousandsof students. Exams in50 centres, where 9,000 candi-dateswereassignedslots,haveal-readybeenpostponedbytheNTA.

The agency will announcefreshdatesforthecandidatesaf-fected by the cancellation atthose centres.While August 20wasthelastdayof theCUET-UGsecondphase,which started onAugust4, theNTAis likely toex-tendtheexambya fewdays.“Therewerenocancellations

onSaturday.If studentshavestillfaced issues during the exam,theycanwrite tousandwewillcheck at the back end and ad-dress their issues,” said an NTAofficial.Duringtheday,Pradhanalso

chaired ameeting in the pres-ence of Ministry of Education,NTA, University GrantsCommission(UGC),andAllIndiaCouncil for Technical Education(AICTE) officials to review thearrangements for the test.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEBENGALURU,AUGUST6

THE CENTRAL Crime Branch(CCB)of theKarnatakaPolicear-rested a gang of 11, including afather-son duo, on charges ofselling fakestamppapers.Thearrestedhavebeeniden-

tifiedasVishwanath, 57, his sonKarthik, 29, both residents ofSBM Colony; Venkatesh, 54, ofSanjay Nagar; and Shamaraju,48, of Nagashettyhalli. Their as-sociates Shashidhar, Kariyappa,Ravishankar,Shivashankarappa,Gunashekar,RaghavandKishorehavealsobeenarrested.JointCommissionerofPolice

(Crime)RamanGuptasaid2,664fakestamppapersworthoverRs5 lakh, a computer and printer,around119 fake seals of variousgovernment departments andfakedocumentswereseized.

DHANBADADDITIONALSESSIONSJUDGEMURDER

Convicts duo gets rigorousimprisonment till death

Idukki dam brimming,Kerala sounds red alert

Smooth day for CUET;some not followingprotocols, says NTA

Fake stamp paperracket busted, 11held in Karnataka

MOHAMEDTHAVERMUMBAI, AUGUST6

ON SATURDAY, the Gilbert Hillresidenceof the16-year-oldgirlwhowasreunitedwithherfam-ilyafternineyears,was swarm-ing with activity as mediaper-sons,localresidentsandrelativesmadeabeelinetotheKarnatakaMilanWelfare society tocatchaglimpseof “Girlno.166”.Suchwas the crowd that the

girl’sfamilyhadwhiskedherawayto anunknown location fearingthat shemay be harmed or in-jured.HerpaternaluncletoldTheSunday Express, “There was somuchcrowdthatourlawyertoldus to ensure that shewas pro-tected.Wethenmovedherawayto another locationandwill pro-duce her whenever the police

wanttotalktoher.”Thiswasadayafterthegirl,justsevenwhenshewentmissingonJanuary22,2013,wasreunitedwithherfamily.The

16-year-oldwasfoundliving500m from her home in Andheri(West).HarryJosephD'SouzaandhiswifeSoniD'Souzahadreport-edlykidnappedheras theyweredesperateforachild.WhileHarryhasbeenarrested, Soni hasbeencalledforquestioning.On Saturday, recounting the

day of her kidnapping, the girlsaid the incident took placewhen her brother, who waswalking ahead of her, had en-tered theschool. “Iwas luredby(Harry) D'Souza on the pretextofgettinganice-cream.Whilehedidbuymeanice-cream,hetookme to Haji Malang in Kalyan. Ikept crying, sohe threatened tothrowme off the hill. Initiallytheywere good tome, but aftertheyhadadaughterin2015,theywould beat me upwith a belt,rollingpinetc,” thegirl said.

ROWOVER ‘URDUSCHOOLS’

ABHISHEKANGADRANCHI, AUGUST6

THEJHARKHANDgovernmenthassaidthattherewere 407 schools in the state that had been de-clared“Urduschools”, and509schools thatwere“illegally”givingaweeklyoff onFriday insteadofSunday.ThestatementbyministerAlamgirAlamcame in response to a question in the stateAssemblybySahibganjMLAAnantOjhaoftheBJP.Alamsaid350of the407schoolshad since re-

moved theword 'Urdu' fromtheirnames, and that459of the509schoolshad “rectified” themove togiveFridaysoff.“Ordershavebeenpassedtoinitiateactionagainsterringofficials,”theministeradded.InJanuary2021,ordersbyJharkhand’sPrimary

EducationDirectorateshowedthattheweeklyoffsonFridayshadbeencancelledandthenreinstatedninedays laterafterobjectionswere raised.A letter by thePrimaryEducationDirectorate

dated January 22, 2021 said that after the Fridayoffs were cancelled, “Various teachers' associa-tionshavecomeforwardtokeeptheweeklyhol-idayasonFridayas itwasearlier. Therefore, afterreceivingrequestsfromteachers'associations,allUrdu schools will maintain weekly leaves onFriday, andSundaywill beaworkingday.”The controversy took off in Jharkhand after

schoolswith'Urdu'intheirnamesinJamtaradistrictwerebroughttothelimelight.However,adistrictof-ficial in Jamtarasaid, “Itwasapracticesinceat leastthe formationof Jharkhand thatweeklyoffsweregivenonFriday insteadof Sunday in governmentschools inminorityareas.Theadditionof theword'Urdu'inthenamesofschoolsisarecentphenome-non.”A source in theEducationDepartment said,“TheDirectoratehadchangedyears-oldtraditionofFridayleavesinUrduschoolsandhadbroughtunifor-mitywhilebringingoutaleavecalendarinallgovern-mentschools.However, therewasafurore insomesections, and then theDepartmentwasordered tomaintainthestatusquoante.Therecentcontroversyeruptedafterthemediabroughtthistothelimelight.”

Jharkhand scrapped,then reinstatedFriday offs last year

KIDNAPPEDMUMBAIGIRLREUNITEDWITHKINAFTER9YEARS

Thegirlwithhermother inMumbai.MohamedThaver

As locals, media swarm to take a look,family takes girl to unknown location

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEAHMEDABAD,AUGUST6

BEINGACCEPTINGortolerantofothers’ opinion does notmean“blindconformity”or“notstand-ing up against hate speech”,SupremeCourt judge JusticeDYChandrachudsaidSaturday.“Thewords famously attrib-

uted toVoltaire, ‘I disapprove ofwhat you say, but I will defendyourrighttosayit’mustbeincor-porated into our being.Makenomistake,beingacceptingandtol-erantoftheopinionsofothers,bynomeans translates into blindconformityanditdoesnotmeannot standing up against hatespeech,”JusticeChandrachudsaidduring a convocation address atGujaratNational LawUniversityinGandhinagarSaturday.“Stepping into theworld as

freshgraduates,amidtheincreas-ingnoiseandconfusion,ofpolit-ical, social andmoral clashes ofideology, youmustbeguidedbythe thought of your own con-science, and equitable reason.Speak truth to power.Maintainyourcomposureinthefaceofun-speakable social injustices andutiliseyourgoodfortuneandpriv-ilegetoremedythem,”hesaidinthepre-recordedvideomessage.JusticeChandrachudempha-

sised that lawmust not be con-fusedwithjusticeandalsopointedout that the students, over thecourseoftheircareer,wouldoftenrealisethat“what is legal isprob-

ablyunjust,whereaswhat is justmaynotalwaysbelegal.”Citing several examples, in-

cluding the striking down ofSection 377, lack of child labourlgislationsforthelongesttime,andminimumwagesbeingaresultofrecent labourmovements acrosstheworld,hesaid,“Alltheseissuesexisted simultaneouslywith theinstitutions of law.However,wenowagreethattheywereunjust.Therecontinuetobelawsaswellaslackofregulations,whichpushthemarginalised,deeperintothepocketsofmarginalisation."It is also important to look for

ways in which laws can bereimagined and redefined tomakethembetterandmorejust,headded. “Atalljunctureswhereyou do have the opportunity ofworking towards social justice,andfurtheringrightsinsmallandbigways,youmustremembertheimportanceofdifferentiatingbe-tweenlawandjusticeand(using)the lawas a step to advance jus-tice... the journey to justice doesnot stop at amidpoint, orwherewefeelthatwearebeinglessun-justthantheothers,"hesaidatthe11th convocation of the GNLUwhere247studentsreceived de-grees forUG, postgraduate, doc-toralandMBAprogrammes.

SupremeCourt judgeJusticeDYChandrachud

Justice Chandrachud:Being tolerant doesn’tmean blind conformity

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3. Duration of Course:-Two years course Selected candidates will be paid of Rs.500/- P.M.and will be required to execute the bond on Rs.100 Non-Judicialstamp paper for Rs.3000/- that is, if selected candidates drop out ofthe said course before its completion, he/she will be deposit the bondmoney and also submit all the stipend money taken till date ofResignation.

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EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEBENGALURU,AUGUST6

THE NATIONAL InvestigationAgency (NIA), which was or-dered on Wednesday by theMinistryofHomeAffairs(MHA)toinvestigatethemurderofaBJPyouth leader in the Bellare areaof Karnataka's DakshinaKannadadistrict, has registeredanFIR in thecase inNewDelhi.Thecasewillbe investigated

by a newly created Bengaluruunit of the NIA, police sourcessaid. The case, registered by anNIA police station inNewDelhithisweek,will be transferred toacourt inBengaluru.PraveenNettaruwashacked

todeathbythreemenatBellarevillage on the night of July 26.Themotorcycle-borneassailants

attackedtheBJPyouth leaderashewasleavinghispoultrystore.Police in Bellare had regis-

teredanFIRintheearlyhoursofJuly 27, but the BJP governmentinKarnatakadecidedon July29tohandovertheinvestigationtothe NIA. The state governmentsubsequentlywrotetotheMHA.The investigation by the

Karnataka Police has led to thearrest of four people —Mohammed Shafiq, ZakirSavanoor, SaddamandHarris—who were all residents of theDakshinaKannadaregion.Theyare alleged to haveprovided lo-gistical support, including shel-terandfood,forthemainattack-erswhoareyet tobearrested.In its order to the NIA, the

MHAnotedthat“localpolicear-restedfouraccusedpersonsandfurther investigation in thecase

has revealed that the accusedconspiredtodothisactwiththeintenttostriketerroramongthepeopleof the locality”.The order also said that

Sections16and18oftheUnlawfulActivitiesPreventionAct(relatingtoactsofterror)andSection120BoftheIndianPenalCode(forcrim-inalconspiracy)hasbeeninvokedinthecasebytheKarnatakaPolice.According to the order, the

centralgovernmentisoftheviewthat a scheduled offence undertheNationalInvestigationAgencyActof2008wascommittedinthecase, and “having regard to thegravityoftheoffenceanditsinter-state ramifications, it is requiredtobeinvestigatedbytheNIAinac-cordance with the NationalInvestigationAgencyAct,2008”.The decision came even as

police have claimed to have

identified the killers, who theysayareontherun.TheKarnatakaPolicewillcon-

tinuetoinvestigatethemurderastheNIAbeginsitsformaltakeoverof the case in order to prevent alossofmomentumin theprobe,seniorpoliceofficialshavesaid.Karnataka HomeMinister

Araga Jnanendra said onSaturday that the state policehave gathered information thatthe murder was executed bypeople from the DakshinaKannada regionwho are affili-atedwitha radicaloutfit.“The information that we

have is that the murder ofPraveenNettaruwascarriedoutby peoplewho are locals of theMangalururegion.Policearein-vestigatingtheiraffiliationsandalleffortsareontoarrest theac-cused,” the Jnanendrasaid.

NIA registers FIR in KarnatakaBJPyouth leadermurder case

JIMMYLEIVONIMPHAL,AUGUST6

AROUND 30 students and twopolicemensustainedinjuriesaf-teraconfrontationbrokeoutbe-tween student protesters andpolice in ImphalonSaturday.Over100tribalstudentscon-

verged at Kabo Leikai in ImphalWest district to stage a protestdemanding the release of someleadersoftheAllTribalStudents’UnionManipur (ATSUM). Thestudentleaderswerearrestedforimposing a total shutdown andsubsequent economicblockadeinhill districtsofManipur. Theywere demanding the tabling oftheHillAreasCommittee(HAC)-recommended AutonomousDistrict Councils (ADCs)AmendmentBill, 2021.Theprotesters,however,were

dispersedbythepolicecitingtheprohibitoryordersunderSection144oftheCrPC.Aggrievedbythepolice action, the protesterserupted in fury anda confronta-tionensuedwiththepolice.To neutralise the situation,

police resorted to firing tear gasshellsandbatoncharge. Inretal-iation, the protesters hurledstones at the police personnel.Duringtheconfrontation,around

30 students and twopolicemenwere injured. The protest rallywasdispersedbythepolice.Ningzan Jajo, a leader of All

College Tribal Students’ Union,said: “Wewereholdingapeace-fulprotestdemandingthereleaseof our leaders but the police ha-rassedthestudents.Westronglycondemnthehighhandednessofthe police.Wewill continue ouragitation until the arrested AT-SUMleadersarereleased.”Meanwhile,theChief Judicial

Magistrate, Imphal West, onSaturdayremandedthearrestedATSUMleadersin15-dayjudicialcustody.Inthecourseofthehear-ing,theprosecutorinformedthecourt that the shutdown orbandh in the hill areas called bythe ATSUM has taken an uglyturnastheyhaveresortedtoeco-nomicblockadeandadoptedvi-olenceasmeansofprotest.Theprosecutorfurtherpointed

outthatassociatesof theaccusedhad set on fire theDTOoffice ofChurachandpurandapolicevehi-clebelongingtoUkhrulpoliceandvandalisedgovernmentproper-ties.“It ishighlyrequiredtoarrestotherassociatesoftheaccusedandremand themin judicial custodytopreventtheotherassociates/or-ganisationsfromindulginginille-galactivities,”headded.

Protestingstudentsandpolicepersonnelat thesiteofagitation in Imphal,Manipur,Saturday.Express

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2 cops among 32 injuredin student-police clash

MANISHSAHULUCKNOW,AUGUST6

A SPECIAL court in Varanasi onSaturdayacquittedBSPMPAtulRai in an alleged rape case of a24-year-oldwoman,who,alongwith her friend, died by suicidein frontof theSupremeCourt inAugustlastyear.ThewomanhadregisteredarapecaseagainstRaiin 2019. Rai, who is MP fromGhosi, is lodged inNaini jail.Thewoman and her friend,

alsoaprimewitness,hadimmo-lated themselves outside theSupremeCourtinAugustlastyear,afterallegingharassment.Despitehisacquittalintherapecase,Rai'slawyerAnujYadavtoldthemediathat theMPwould remain in jailin thepending caseof abetmenttosuicideregisteredinLucknow.“Additional District and

Session JudgeSiyaramChaurasiaacquittedRaiongroundsofbene-fit of doubt,” said governmentcounselJyotiShankarUpadhyay.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEPUNE,AUGUST6

A23-YEAR-OLDmanwasattackedbyamob inKarjat talukaof Ahmednagar inMaharashtra allegedly over hisWhatsAppstatussupportingsuspendedBJPspokespersonNupurSharma.The incident took place on the

evening of Thursday, August 4. An FIRwas lodged by a friend of the victim,PratikaliasSunnyRajendraPawarattheKarjatpolicestation.ManojPatil,super-intendent of Ahmednagar police, saidthecomplainant,AmitMane,hasallegedthat the attackwas over showing sup-port toNupur Sharmaon socialmedia.Thepoliceare investigationvariousan-gles.Sofar, fivearrestshavebeenmade.Policesaidthevictimandtheaccused

had had skirmishes in the past aswellandtheyareinvestigatingwhethersomeprevious dispute led to the attack onPawarnow.Thecomplaintsaysagroupofabout 14 men armed with sharpweaponsattackedthecomplainantandPawaronRashinRoadinKarjat.Basedonthe complaint, police have booked 14personsonchargesofattempttomurderaspersections307,143,323,504,of theIPC, and under relevant sections of theScheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe(PreventionofAtrocities)Act.SohailPathan(24),ArbazPathan(23)

of Karjat were arrested on Friday andtheywere remanded in police custodytill August 10. On Saturday, threemoreaccused, Junaid Pathan (19) of Karjat,Arbaz Shaikh (24) of Daund, HussainShaikh (40) of Baramatiwere arrestedwhilesearch isonfor theothers.

Man attacked overWhatsApp ‘status’supporting Nupur

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI, AUGUST6

THE SUPREMECourt's decisionto permit a 25-year-old unmar-ried woman to terminate herpregnancyof24weeksmaysoonopenthedoors toextendthere-lief toallunmarriedwomen.OnFriday,abenchof Justices

D Y Chandrachud and J BPardiwala said that there ap-peared to be no logical reason-ingtoallowamarriedwomantodo so under the MedicalTerminationofPregnancy[MTP]Act, 1971, andRules framedun-der it, but denying the same tounmarriedwomen,eventhoughtherisk is sameforboth.“Anunmarriedwomanwho

suffers a pregnancy beyond 20weekscansufferthesamementalanguish as themarriedwoman.Whyshouldshebeexcludedfromtermination up to 24weeks if amarriedwomanisallowedtodoit,”JusticeChandrachudsaid.“Wehave to alsomove aheadwhenthere is somuch developmentaround this.We are responsibleforjurisprudentialevolution.”The bench said it can strike

down the restrictive clause “forbeingmanifestlyarbitrary”,whichinturnwouldallowextendingthebenefitofterminatingpregnancyabove 20weeks to unmarriedwomenaswell.“Mentalhealthisimportant. Ifwe strikedown thewords...benefitof terminationongroundsofmentalanguishcanbe

extended to even above 20weeks,”thecourtobserved.“Thenruleswillnotberestrictive.Thatisawaytogetaroundit.”ReferringtotheMTPAct, the

courtpointedtotheintentof thelegislaturewhileitamendedthelaw in 2021 and said theamended Act used the word'partner', andnot 'husband'. “Soit concerns [relationships] out-sidemarriageaswell,” it said.Additional Solicitor General

AishwaryaBhati,whoappearedfor the Union HealthMinistry,saidthequestionisnotaboutbe-ing married or unmarried butabout thewoman'swell-being,as24weeks isnoteasy.The court asked the ASG to

give suggestionsonhowtodealwith it and posted the case forhearingnextweek.

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICECHENNAI, AUGUST6

A STATEMENT issued by theIncome Tax Department onSaturday said the searches car-riedouton thepremisesof pro-ducers, distributors and finan-ciers associated with the filmindustry unearthed unac-counted cash and investmentsworthseveral crores.The search operationswere

conductedatalmost40locationsinChennai,Madurai,CoimbatoreandVellore. "Several incriminat-ing documents and digital evi-

dence, etc. relating to unac-countedcashtransactionsandin-vestments have been seized.Secret premises have also beenunearthed," said the statementthatdidnotmentionanynames.The statement said docu-

ments suchaspromissorynotesrelatedtounaccountedcashloanswereseized fromfilmfinanciers."Evidence seized from filmdis-tributors indicates unaccountedcashfromtheatres...Sofar,theop-erationhas resulted indetectionofundisclosedincomeexceedingRs200crore,undisclosedcashofRs26crore,andunaccountedgoldjewelleryexceedingRs3crore.”

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICETHIRUVANANTHAPURAM,AUGUST6

AKERALAHighCourtsingle-judgebench's decision allowing peti-tions that challenged the annul-mentofthediscretionaryquotaofVidyalaya ManagementCommittee chairpersons in ad-mission toKendriyaVidyalayaswas set asidebyadivisionbench

of the court. Two students fromKeralahadapproachedthesingle-judge bench challenging theCentre’sdecisiontodoawaywithalldiscretionaryquotas.ThebenchhadonJune9allowedthepleas.After thisacademicyear’sKV

admissionprocess commenced,theCentrehadcancelledvariousquotas, including10 seats underMPquota.Thispolicydecisiontodoawaywiththepracticeofgiv-ing admission based on recom-

mendationswastakenafterallo-catingseats for students fromallvulnerable groups, includingthoseorphanedbythepandemic.Thecancelleddiscretionaryquotaincludedseatsunderthequotaofthe chairmen of VidyalayaManagementCommittees.Assistant SolicitorGeneral of

India, SManu,whoappeared fortheCentre, pointedout thatonlyinfluentialpeoplewerebenefittingfromthediscretionaryquotas.

Kolkata:OnepersondiedafteraCentralIndustrialSecurityForce(CISF) jawan randomly openedfire at Kid Street Barrack, nearIndianMuseum in Kolkata onSaturdayevening.The incident took place

around6:30pmafter the jawanat the CISF barracks near theIndian museum reportedlystartedfiringindiscriminately,af-tersnatchinganAK-47fromasen-tryonduty at the spot. TwoCISFpersonnelwereshotatandoneofthemdied,policesaid.Policeiden-tified the deceased as CISF ASIRanjitSarengi.Theinjuredpersonwas identified as AssistantCommandant SubirGhosh,whohailsfromNadiadistrict. ENS

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICEPUNE,AUGUST6

A court in Pune on Saturdayawardedfiveyearsofrigorousim-prisonment to an IAS officer forsexual assault on four girls agedbetween8and10years. SpecialjudgeSPPonkshe alsoimposedafineofRs10lakhonthesuspendedofficer,MarutiHariSawant.A 1998 batch officer, Sawant

was the Director GeneralMaharashtra Council forAgriculture Education andResearchwhenhewasbookedinMarch2015underSections376,354 (B), 506 of the IPC, sections4,6,8 and 10 of the Protection ofChildren from Sexual OffencesAct, 2012; Scheduled Caste andScheduled Tribe (Prevention ofAtrocities Act 1989 and severalsections of the InformationTechnologyAct, at the Sinhagadpolicestation.Hewassuspendedfromservicesafterhisarrest.At the time of the crime,

Sawant livedwith his family inPatrakarNagar.Healsoownedahouse in theHingneKhurdareawhichhevisitedeveryweek forafewdays.Themotherofoneofthevictimsworkedasamaidatthis house. The girl sometimesaccompaniedhermother to thehousewhere Sawant allegedlytookthegirltoanotherroom,os-tensibly to teach her computerskills. However, he allegedlyshowedherobscenevideosandsexuallyassaultedher.Thepolicetoldthecourtthat

Sawant used to lure girls fromaschool close by into the base-ment of his house by offeringsnacks, chocolates and sexuallyassaulted them.

IAS officer gets5-year jail forsexual assault

Rs 200 cr undisclosedincome detected in TN

HC sets aside order allowing pleaschallenging discretionary quota

BSP MP acquittedin 2019 rape case

RULE3Bofthelawrecog-nisescertaincategoriesofwomen—suchasdi-vorcees,widows,minors,disabledandmentallyillwomen,andsurvivorsofsexualassaultorrape—asbeingentitledtomedicallyterminatepregnancyinparticularsituations,butthisdoesnotincludeun-marriedwomen.

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“DARRTOH lagta hai sahab, parmajboori haiisliyekarnapadtahai(Ofcourse,thereisfear,but I have no choice but to do this work),”says Amarjeet Kumar, 35, as he puts downhis blue helmet on a table and sips tea at amakeshiftstall inSector65nearGolfCourseExtension Road in Gurgaon. Several under-constructionbuildingsandskyscrapers—in-cludingluxurycondominiumsandshoppingcomplexes — loom over the stall in theMillenniumCity’s evolvingskyline.Kumar, a construction worker hailing

from Patna, has just descended for a 10-minute break from a similar building, 36-storeyhigh,wherehedoes‘shuttering’work.Thebrochureof theprojectheisworkingonpromises ‘an elevated lifestyle experience’forbuyers.Kumarsayshe isunawareof themishap

ataconstructionsite inSector77afewdaysago,where four labourersdiedandonewasinjuredafterfallingoff the17thfloorofares-idential project while dismantling a crane.But, he is not surprised. “Harr ek-domahinemein ekhaadsahotahai (Everymonthor so,there isan incident like this),”hesays.Every timehegoesup,he isawareof the

“risk”.“Shutteringinvolvesbeingsuspendedonaplatformataheight.Onecanslip,ahookmaygiveaway, a ropemaybreak....”Herecallsanincidentfrom2019whenhe

wasdeployedataconstructionsiteinGreaterNoida. “Wewere perched on an iron plat-formonthe19thfloor,whenafellowworker

fell to his death... At that time, one thinks ofone’s family.Whowill take care of them if Isuffer such fate?”But mostly, he avoids dwelling on it,

Kumarsays. “It isup to fate.”Itwas in2013 thatKumar left home ina

village in Patna to findwork, and got onto atraintoDelhi.Afterseveraloddjobs, includ-ing as a helper at a firm which paid himRs95aday, he landed carpentryworkwiththehelpof a friendataconstructionsite.A decade on, he has worked at several

construction sites in Noida, Delhi andGurgaon. “The tallest building inourvillagewas a three-storey-highwater tank. I hadnever climbed it. Now, I work at buildingsthatareover100metreshigh,”hesmiles.KumargetspaidRs1,000adayforashift

that stretches 12 hours, and is grateful thatthereisworkonmostdaysof themonth.Hestill shudders thinkingof peakCovid,whenallconstructioncametoahaltandhehadtowalk home, remaining without work formonths.Ofhisearnings,hesendshalfhometo his family—hiswife, and three children,betweentheagesof 3and7.Kumarhasalsofoundafamilyofsortshere

inGurgaon, of others like him, frommostlyBihar,UttarPradeshandBihar.Atbreaktime,theyemergecarryingblueandyellowhelmetsandtiffins, frombuildingsallaround.Most of them live within walking dis-

tance from the construction sites, earningRs 400 to Rs 1,000 a day depending on thenatureofskill involved.Thecontractorswhohirethemputthemupintin-roofedshanties,often30 toa shed. Theymove site to site, as

perwork,providedthebasicsof threemealsa day, water and power, visiting home atmost twiceayear.Ranjit Kumar, 19, from Ballia in Uttar

Pradesh, lives at a labour camp near Sector50, and does scaffolding work. “The roofleakswhen it rains, but at least there is bedand foodhere,”hesays.Ravikant Kumar, 27, of Supaul district in

Bihar,commentsontheirony.“Humlogonkeliyebadagharbanatehain,parhamarapuccagharnahin (Webuildthesegrandhousesforpeople, but we do not have a permanent

houseof ourown).”At the tea stall, pointing to anupcoming

mall nearby,Manzar Alam (19) talks abouttwoworkers who died there in June aftertheyfelloffthe19thfloor.Theymustnothavebeen provided a safety harness, he says. “Abeltwouldhavesaved them.”Alam,whois fromBhaisBandhavillage in

Katihar, Bihar, comes froma farming family.Forcedtomoveoutas“thereisnoworkinthevillage”,heworkedinitiallyasahelper.Nowintohissixthmonthintheconstruc-

tion job, Alam still remembers clearly the

first time hewent up a high-rise. “My feetwere trembling.Wehad been given gloves,boots,harnessbelt,ajacketandahelmet.Thecontractor also gives training, but amishapcan occur at any time. In summermonths,when the heat is unbearable, often labour-ersdonotwearthesafetyequipmentas it iscumbersometoworkwith.”Workers saywhile big contractors pro-

videsafetyequipment,includingsafetynets,theenforcementoflawsatsmallersitesislax.In the aftermath of the recent deaths,

Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner NishantYadav announced a four-member commit-teeunderasub-divisionalmagistratetoprobetheincident,apartfromcompensationforthefamiliesofthedeceasedandinjured.Thedis-trict administrationhasorderedasafetyau-ditofallconstructionsitesanddirectedcon-structionfirmstoadheretosafetynorms.The Haryana Building and Other

Construction Workers (Regulation ofEmploymentandConditionofService)Rules,2005,mandatesthatineveryestablishmentwhere 500 ormoreworkers are ordinarilyemployed, a safety committee shall be con-stituted to identify probable causes of acci-dents and unsafe practices, and suggestmeasurestoimprovewelfareamenities.Therules also require safety officers to conductinspectionsandinvestigateallfatalaccidents.Gufran Ahmed, whoworked as a scaf-

folderatthesamesite,saysthingswillreturnto “normal” soon. “At sites, due to haste incompleting work and the costs involved,safetymeasuresareignored.Ifworkerscom-plain, theyaresimplyaskedtoquit,”hesays.

MYOPERATIONdependsonyour cooperation, other-wise therewill besepara-tion.” As Venkaiah Naidu,73, demits office as Vice-

President of India on August 10, the RajyaSabha, of which he is ex-officio Chairman,will be poorer for his quick wit and puns,manyofwhichelicited laughter and servedtobrieflyunitetheTreasuryandOppositionbenches at a time of deep discord and dis-trustbetweenthetwosides.Hisrecent“op-eration-cooperation-separation” remarkwas in response to frequent disruptions inthe Upper House by Oppositionmembersseekingadiscussiononprice rise.Naidu, though seen as a reluctant Vice-

President, had plunged headlong into hisRajya Sabha role, playing refereewith elanevenif,accordingtotheOpposition,heblewthewhistle far toooftenonthem.Whilehiscriticssaythatdespitehiscon-

stitutionalrole,Naidu’sheartneverstoppedbeatingfortheBJP,apartyheservedforsev-eral decades before becoming Vice-President, they agree that he is among themostamiable chairpersons theRajyaSabhahas had, with friends on both sides of theaisle. The annual lunches he hosts—with aspread of south Indian seafood andHyderabadi dishes — is one of the mostawaitedeventsintheCapital’spoliticalcalen-dar,withleadersacrosspartiesinattendance.BornatChavatapaleminSPSNelloredis-

trictofAndhraPradeshonJuly1,1949,Naiduhadalready joinedtheRSSandwasamem-beroftheABVPbythetimehejoinedAndhraUniversityforabachelor’sdegreeinlaw.Hiselectoralcareerbeganin1978whenhewonas a Janata Party MLA from Udayagiri. In1983, hewonon aBJP ticket from the sameconstituency, and by 1988, went on to be-come president of the Andhra BJP. In 1993,hemovedtothenationalsceneafterbecom-inggeneral secretaryof theparty.IntheBJP,NaiduwasseenasLKAdvani’s

protege. After the 2002 communal riots inGujarat, it iswidely known that thenprimeminister Atal Bihari Vajpayee wantedNarendra Modi to resign as Gujarat chiefminister,butAdvaniwasagainsthisremoval.Sources say it was Naidu, as BJP president,whoconveyedAdvani’sdecisiontoVajpayee.As he did so, “with trembling hands”,Vajpayeehalf-heartedlyagreed.But a decade later, as winds of change

startedblowingintheBJP,Naidueffortlesslytransformedhimself intooneofthemostar-dent supportersofModi.While his contemporaries Arun Jaitley

and Sushma Swaraj largely refrained fromwaxingeloquentonModi,Naiduwasalwayseffusive.Movingthepoliticalresolutiondur-ing the BJP’s national executivemeeting inMarch 2016, Naidu had describedModi as“God’sgift toIndia”,a“messiahof thepoor”,a “decisive leader” and “MODIfier of devel-oping India”.Naidu was in his fourth term as Rajya

SabhaMPwhen hewas nominated by theparty for the post of Vice-President. As theBJP’sbestknownfacefromtheSouth,Naidu’svast parliamentary experience, impressivestatureasaleaderandhisrelativelyeasy-go-ingnaturehadgone inhis favour.SourcessayNaidu,whoheldseveralport-

folios in Modi’s Cabinet — ParliamentaryAffairs, Urban Development and Housing

and Urban Poverty Alleviation in the firstterm, and the crucial Information andBroadcasting in the second —was rattledwhenhisnamestarteddoing the rounds asthe ruling NDA’s nominee for the post ofVice-President. Those close to himhad saidhe “was not very excited” andwould havewantedtobean“activepolitician”tilltheendof hispolitical career.It was finally a call from the Prime

Minister that “reassured”him.Still,Naiduhadturnedemotionalatapar-

liamentaryboardmeeting,sayingleavingthepartywas like “leavingmymother”.Now at the end of his five-year tenure

as presiding officer of the Rajya Sabha,Naidu leaves a mixed legacy. His term of-tensawhimbrookingnoindiscipline intheHouse, which had the Opposition com-plainingthathebowedtothegovernment.His tenure, which coincidedwith rela-

tions between the government andOppositionhittinganewlow,sawtheRajyaSabha often turning into a political battle-

ground.TheUpperHousewitnessedchaoticscenesoverthepassageofthefarmlawsandthe Bills to bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir,andledtothesuspensionofOppositionMPs.AccordingtoRajyaSabharecords, the13

sessions that Naidu presided over werechaotic. “During the last 13 sessions, 141 ofthe 248 scheduled full sittings (or 57 percent)were disrupted partly or fully,” NaiduhimselfsaidatthebeginningoftheMonsoonSession,his last aspresidingofficer.Thesessionalsoturnedouttobeastand-

out one for all thewrong reasons, with theturmoil in the Upper House leading to arecord23OppositionMPsbeingsuspended.His supporters, however, say that with

hardly any meeting point between theOpposition and the government, therewaslittle Naidu could have done. “When theOppositiondemands a discussion on apar-ticularissue,it’sfortheGovernmenttoagree;theChairmancannotdomuch,”saidasourceclose tohim.Oppositionleadersaccepttheargument,

butpointoutthatattemptstobreakthestale-mateordeadlockshouldhavecomefromtheChairman, and that Naidu could have usedhisstaturetopersuadethegovernmenttolis-tentotheviewsof theOpposition.“HeisthecustodianoftheHouse.Thejobofthepresid-ingofficeristoruntheHouse.Heshouldhavefacilitateddialoguebetweenthegovernmentand theOpposition. He used to do it earlier,butoflate,therehasbeennodialoguefordaysonend,”anOpposition leadersaid.Hiscriticsalsopointoutthatwhile inhis

role as Rajya Sabha Chairman, Naidu oftenthrew the rule book at theOpposition, dur-ing the UPA’s second innings, when theManmohanSinghgovernmentwasbuffetedwithchargesof corruption,Naidu, seated inthefrontrowwithhislatefriendJaitley,neverdisplayed any unease when BJP back-benchersdisruptedsessionafter session.Yet,several leadersintheOppositionad-

mit that Naidu holds nomalice,withmanyholdinghiminhighregard.SeniorCongressleader Jairam Ramesh recently suggestedthat thegovernmentshouldcreateapostof‘ChairmanEmeritus’ as a tokenof acknowl-edgement of Naidu’s contributions to theUpperHouse.Asignofhisaccommodativenaturewere

his annual luncheons, both for their spreadand their guest list.At theheightof thebeefcontroversy,Naiduoncesaid, “Somepeoplekeepsayingsuchthings(thattheBJPwanttsto impose vegetarianism). It is people’schoice toeatwhat theywant.”He is fond of narrating how, as a young

studentinAndhraPradesh,hewasreluctanttojointheRSSfearinghewouldhavetogiveuphisfavouritenon-vegetarianfood,butwasgladnosuchdemandsweremadeof him.Knowntobeafamilyman,Naiduisoften

accompanied by his wife Usha. He oncejoked:“Ineitherwanttoberashtrapati(pres-ident)oruprashtrapati(vice-president). Iamhappy toUsha’s pati.” His son is a business-manwhilehisdaughterDeepaVenkat runsthe Swarna Bharat Trust, which is involvedin skill development and healthcare, atMuchintal villagenearHyderabad.Now,asNaidujoinsalonglistofhispred-

ecessors (barring S Radhakrishnan andHamidAnsari)whodidnotgetasecondterminoffice,manypointout thathis reluctanceabouttheV-Prolewasnotmisplaced.Askedwhatthepartyhas inmindforNaidunow,atop leaderof theBJP said: “Hewill continuetobeourmargdarshak.Havingbeeninacon-stitutionalpost,hecannottakeupanyotherrole. Thepartywill keepgettinghisadvice.”As JairamRamesh said in a tweet, “So it

is curtains for Muppavarapu VenkaiahNaidu-garu. His humour and wit will bemissed. On many occasions, he got theOppositionallagitated,butattheendof it,agoodman exits. Hemay have retired, but Iknowhewillnotbe tired.”

Thedayendsfortwoworkersatasitein Sector50,Gurgaon.PavneetSinghChadha

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SANJAYKATURIA,51,LAKSHYANAGPAL,35FLAGTRADERS INOLDDELHI

T H E S U N D A Y P R O F I L E

End of SessionAreluctantVice-Presidentwhopresidedover theRajyaSabhaat itsmostraucous, theBJPveteranwillberememberedfondlybyeveryone,

includingtheOpposition, forhisamiability,hisannual lunches, andhispuns.MANOJCG&LIZMATHEWonthemanwhocouldhavebeenmore

NUMBERPLATE8.41mn tonnes

57india Thetotalproductionofpulses in Indiaduring1950-51,which increasedto25.72milliontonnesduring2020-21. In2020-21,MadhyaPradeshwasthetopproducerofpulses inthecountrywithaproductionof5.30milliontonnes (20.60percentof thecountry’s totalproduction).ThiswasfollowedbyRajasthan(4.31milliontonnes)andMaharashtra (4.30milliontonnes)

19.09MILLIONHECTARESTotalareaunderpulsesduring1950-51,whichincreasedto28.83millionhectaresduring2020-21

441 KG/HECTARE

Theyieldofpulsesperhectareduring1950-51,which increasedto892kgperhectare in2020-21

HARIKISHANSHARMA

Fourlabourerswhofelloff the17thflooranddiedlastweekarethelatestcasualtyamongthemenreshapingGurgaon’sskyline.Fearisaconstantamongthem,asisdesperationandasweetirony:theybuildhomesbutarethemselveshomeless

The hands that build the city

Illustration: SuvajitDey

VIDHATRIRAO

1Howlonghaveyoubeeninthebusiness?Katuria: Our shop has been

around since 1992 andwe sell allkinds of flags — from campaignflags of political parties to theTricolour.

2Whatdoyouthinkof theHarGharTiranga

campaign?Katuria: IthinkitisgoodasPM

Modiji has managed to spreadawarenessontheTricolouramongpeople.Traders,sellersandmanu-facturersweretoldaboutthecam-paign,thedetailsofthetendersforthe larger flags, etc.

3Hasthecampaignhelpedyourbusiness?Katuria: The bulk of our sales

used to be around IndependenceDay,butthattookahitoverthelasttwoyearsbecauseof theCovid-19pandemic. Thankfully, that haschanged with the Har GharTirangacampaign.There isahighdemandwith orders from acrossthe country, sowe are able to setprices as well. It will remain likethis tillAugust15.Nagpal: Patriotism has defi-

nitely increased and so has de-mand.

4Recently, theflagcodewasamendedtoallowfor

machine-madepolyester flags.Doyousell thosetoo?Katuria:Wesell flagsmadeof

paper, silk, khadi, cotton, andyes,nowpolyester.Polyesterflagshavebeen selling a lot these days, par-ticularlythroughgovernmentten-ders... We procure the materialandgetourflagsmadeatamanu-facturingunit inSurat.Nagpal: Employment among

tailors has also risen through thiscampaign. So, that’s agoodthing.

5Whoaresomeof theclients?Katuria:Wehave a variety of

clients, from people conductingeventsinschools,topoliticallead-erswhoplaceorders.Nagpal: These days, we have

big orders from political leadersand these are from various partsof thecountry,fromUttarPradeshto Assam to Telangana. The lead-ers are taking up campaigning intheirplaces.

Aspartof the ‘HarGharTiranga’ campaign tomark75yearsof India’sIndependence, theModigovernment is aiming tohaveat least 20crore flagsatophouses fromAugust 13toAugust 15.BJP-ledgovernmentshavebeendistributing flagsandsettingtargets tomanufacture theTricolour.SanjayKaturia, 51,awholesale traderof flags inSadarBazar,OldDelhi, andhis employeeLakshyaNagpal, 35, say theyhavebeengettingorders fromacross the country

New Delhi

ISSUESOFmarginality, inequality, andop-pressionthatbrotherSuraj (Yengde)grap-pleswith,strikeachordwiththepitiableallovertheworld.WhateffortlesslycomestomymindasaNamibianistheplightof theSanpeopleinNamibia.ThereisalottolearnfromtheDalitstruggleinIndiaandgloballytomakesenseofSanpeople’smarginality.ThatthefightforequalityandinclusionbyvariousDalitactivistsandscholarshaskepttheirstruggleinthepublicimaginationre-mains admirable. This sustenanceofmo-mentumhasmaintained the relevanceofcontinuingthefightforsocial justice.Who are the San people, andwhat is

theirposition?HistoricalaccountsindicatethattheSanpeoplearethefirstindigenouspeopleofSouthernAfrica.Ashunter-gath-ers, they foraged the entire southernAfricanregion,livingmodestlyandsustain-ablywithnature.BlackpeoplesofSouthernAfrica,whoarethemajorityoftheregion’spopulation,canbedividedintospeakersoftwolanguages:KhoisanandBantu.TheSanpeoplebelongtotheformerlanguagefam-ilybutspeakvariousdialects.According to the latest report of the

InternationalWorkGroup for IndigenousAffairs, the Sanpeople number between28,000and35,000,translatingintolessthan2%ofthetotalnationalpopulation.Thesamereportstatesthat80%oftheSanpeoplehavebeendispossessedof their ancestral landsandresources,andtheyarenowsomeofthecountry’s poorest andmostmarginalizedpeoples. Their dispossession is entwinedwithbothhistoricalandcontemporaryfac-tors. TheBantuarrival fromcentralAfrica,Europeancolonisationandpost-colonialna-tionalisationhavepushedSanpeopletothebrinkofmarginal,forgetfulentity.To think aboutmycountry and its in-

equalities,theSanpeople’smarginality,andtheirplightcontinuetoanimatemycurios-ity. I teach Advanced Sociology of theNamibian Society at the University ofNamibia,Windhoek.WhatstrikesmeisthatwheneverthethemeofSanMarginalizationis discussed,manyuncomfortable truthscometothefore.Theirplightisconcerningbecausetheirsituationhasworsenedcom-

paredtoothersocialgroupsovertime.As a corollary, marginalization and

povertyhavebecomecommonfeaturesoftheSanidentityforattributesthataresyn-onymouswiththem,includingan‘under-class’ status; high level of political, social,and economic exclusion; and limited ac-cess to social services, as Dieckmann,Thiem&Hays have noted in theirwork.MarginalizationoftheSanpeoplehasmor-phed intodependencydue to loss of landand access to resources.Moreover, theirpopular stereotypes include being inca-pable,unreliable,childlike,anddrunken.Despite some interventions by the

Namibiangovernment, studies showthattheSanpeopleareworseoffthantheywereimmediatelybeforeindependencein1990.Government-run projects appear to behighlypaternalisticandtop-down.Thisex-plainsthelimitedsuccessthatgovernmentinterventionshaveyieldeddespite the al-locationof resources andofficial recogni-tionofSanasa‘developmentpriority’.Aftertwonationallandconferences—

in 1991 and 2018— the concerns abouttheSanpeople’salienationfromtheiran-cestral land continue to be neglected.ManyotherethnicgroupsinNamibiaam-plify their colonial land dispossession tomake claims for restitution in amannersuggestiveof historical amnesia.I amnot suggesting that other ethnic

groupsmust speak on behalf of the Sanpeople.However, thedeliberate indiffer-encetotheplightofminoritygroupsdoesnot augurwell for theethosof social jus-tice. Howdoweembracepeaceful coex-istenceandequalityforallwhenwedenythehumanityofothersthroughdeliberateexclusion and historical erasure? Thestruggle byDalits in India and across theglobe to organise around issues that af-fectthemisinstructiveinfightingoppres-sion and exclusion. In 2019, ChiefFrederick Langman of the #Kao //AesaTraditional Authority is reported to haverebukedtheusageof ‘marginalized’whentalkingaboutSancommunities.“I have swallowed enough of these

glowingcoalsandwanttogetridofwhatis inmy heart because it burnsme. Stopusingthisterm[marginalized],”thechiefsaid. (Source:Xoagub, F. 2019 [June17th])

Thewriter teaches sociologyat theUniversityofNamibia,Windhoek,

and is associatedwithaWindhoek-basedthink tank, IPPR.

SurajYengde, authorofCasteMatters,curates the fortnightly ‘Dalitality’ column

The Sans of Namibia. Alife on margins of society

DalitalityELLISONTJIRERAetjirera@gmail.com

11 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COMTHE SUNDAY EXPRESS,AUGUST7,2022OPINION

FifthCOLUMNTAVLEENSINGHTwitter@tavleen_singh

MrChairman,

THISDEBATEshouldhavebeenheldsev-eraldaysago.I fail tounderstandthedif-ference, in substance, betweenadiscus-sionunderRule267andanyotherRule.Thegovernmentwasstubborn,thepeo-pleattributed it to itshauteur.Let’sdebatepricerise.Thisisnotade-

bate on the state of the economy. If itwere,wemayhaveahundred things tosayabouttheeconomicmanagement—rather,mis-management—of this gov-ernment since the day of the infamousdemonetisation.Prices are rising. Rising prices are

badlyhurting thepeople, especially thepoorandthemiddleclass.Consumptionandsavingshave fallen,householddebthas risen andmalnutrition (especiallyamong women and children) has in-creased. Sadly, the government is notwilling to acknowledge these facts.Yesterday, I was horrified to hear theHon’ble FinanceMinister tell the otherHousethattheincreasesintheGSTratesdidnotaffectthepeople!Thatstatementcan beput to a simple testwhich I shallreveal at theendofmy intervention.

CAUSES AND COURSEIhopethedebate in thisHousedoes

notmeander intoby-lanesandalleys.Atu-tu main-main debate takes usnowhere. IurgethegovernmentandallHon’blemembers to accept the reality

of intolerableprice increaseandasktheonlyrelevantquestion: ‘whatstepswillthe government take to contain infla-tion?’The starting point is identifying the

causesof thecurrent inflation.Let me begin with the Fiscal Deficit.

WeknowthatalargeandgrowingFiscalDeficit affects prices. I don’t have thetime to explain how. In the Budget forthis year, the government estimated aFiscal Deficit of 6.4 per cent or Rs16,61,196 crore. InApril-June, the FiscalDeficit touched Rs 3,51,871 crore. Weknow the government has underesti-mated expenditure and has not bud-getedforthesame.Hasthegovernmentunderestimatedrevenuestoo?Will thegovernmentbeabletocontaintheFiscalDeficit at 6.4 per cent?Wewant a spe-cific answer.

MORE MAN-MADECAUSES

Next is the Current Account Deficit(CAD).TheCADmaybenearUSD30bil-lioninApril-June.ThetradedeficitinJulywas USD 31 billion. If CAD crossedUSD100 billion for the whole year, as esti-mated, it would have disastrous conse-quences. Let the government tell thisHousewhat it proposes todo about theCAD.Again,MrChairman, Iwant a spe-cific answer.Thethirdred light is the InterestRate.

WeknowthatthepolicyrateissetbytheRBI. The government has nominatedthreemembers to theMonetary PolicyCommittee.Thegovernment’sSecretaryis on the RBI Board. So, the governmentcannotpleadithasnoresponsibility.IndiafollowedtheAdvancedEconomieswhentheypursuedanaccommodativemone-tarypolicyandpumpedliquidityintothemarket.Theyarenowincreasinginterestrates.Idoubtif thecountrycantakeadif-ferent line now. If RBI hikes the interestrate, itmaycontaindemandand,conse-quently,moderateprices, but itwill alsoaffectsales,profitsand,aboveall,employ-ment.Thetrickliesin‘calibration’.ArethegovernmentandtheRBIGovernoronthesame page?Will the government sharewithus its forecaston interest rates?ThefourthistheSupplySide.Sincelib-

eral imports are ruled out for the timebeing, what stepswill the governmenttake to increase domestic productionandsupply?MSMEsareindeepdistress,and they cannot help unless they arehelped first. Large companies are inter-ested inmaximizing profits and hencetheymay keep supply artificially con-strained. Trade is shackled by the GSTlawsandrates.Myquestionis,whatdoesthe government intend to do to ensureabundantsupplyofgoodsandservices?

ORIGINAL SINLast onmy list is the item that has

troubled the people themost: the gov-

ernment’sTaxPolicy. Ichargethegovern-mentwith committing the original sinthat fuelled inflation, namely, imposingcruel taxes and cesses on petrol anddiesel. The government collected awhopping Rs 26,00,000 crore throughthe oil companies as taxes, cesses anddividends. This government is callous,heartlessandanti-poor.Addto that, theperiodichikesinGSTratesongoodsandservices consumedby the poor and themiddle class. This governmentdoesnotfeel the pain of six-year old Kriti Dubeywho could not understand why hermother scoldedherwhensheasked foranotherpencilorthepainof themotherwhocannotaffordanotherpencilforherdaughter. If this governmenthasaheadandaheart, itwill immediatelymoder-atethetaxesonpetrolanddiesel,reducetheprice of LPG, and reverse thehike intaxes on essential goods that are con-sumedbythepoorandthemiddleclass.MrChairman,letmeclosewithanof-

fer of a ‘test’ that I alluded to earlier. Letthe three of us—youMrChairman, theHon’bleFMandI—driveinanunmarkedcar, without any security, to amiddle-class neighborhood or a slum in Delhi.Mr Chairman, please ask the people ifthey are affected by the fuel prices, thepriceofLPGandtheGSTrates. Iamwill-ing to abide by their verdict. I hope theHon’bleFMwillalsoabidebytheverdictof theaamaadmi.

Thankyou.

The speech that Imight havemade

Prices are rising.Rising prices are badly

hurting the people, especiallythe poor and the middleclass. Consumption and

savings have fallen,household debt has risen and

malnutrition (especiallyamong women and children)

has increased. Sadly, thegovernment is not willing to

acknowledge these facts

AcrossTHEAISLE

PCHIDAMBARAMWebsite:pchidambaram.inTwitter@Pchidambaram_IN

ERUDITEANDstylishTrinamoolCongressMPMahuaMoitracounteredsnarkycom-ments questioning her ownership of aLouis Vuitton bagwith biting sarcasm.“Modijisentmesomeoftheproceedsafterauctioninghis10lakhrupeesuit. Iboughta handbag,”Moitra retorted on Twitter,whenaskedaboutthesourceofherfunds.Fortheuninitiated,ashortvideoofMoitrashovingherLVbagoutof sightwentviral;observantTwitteratigleefullypouncedontheironythatatthetime,theTMC’sKakoliGhosh Dastidarwas rueing the calami-touslyhighpricesof goods, inParliament.Moitra,anexinvestmentbanker,remainedcoolly unperturbed by oblique criticismsfromonline bystanders; she retaliated by

postingmanymoreimagesofherselfwiththesamedesignerbag.ThehullabalooaroundMoitra’sexpen-

siveaccessoryisemblematicofalargerques-tionthatperplexeslargeswathesofhuman-ity:what’swithwomenandtheirobsessionwithobscenelypricedhandbags?It’sworthdelvingintobecauseIndianstendtogetin-sufferablyrighteousabouthowotherpeoplespendtheirmoney.Ah, thepleasurable in-dignationofsneeringatwannabeswhode-rive joy out of slinging leather embossedwithmassiveLandV initials!Oneneedn’tbeasociologisttoseethesebanaljudgmentsstem fromahistoryofwretched scarcity;lestweforget, threemillionIndiansdiedofstarvation in the Bengal Famine of 1943.Whenthe lockdownbegan,wewitnessedhorrifyingscenesofmigrantlabourwalkingtotheirvillages,enduringunspeakablehard-shipsalongtheway.Withsomuchinequal-

itystaringusinthefaceeveryday,aconfus-ingmixof envyandcontempt cloudsourperspective,whenwethinkabout self-in-dulgentextravagances.Undoubtedly, thewomenwhogoon

waitinglistsfortheIt-bagof theseasonarerarely discerning aesthetesmotivatedbycuttingedgedesign—mostly, they’re con-forming to the idealsof success laiddownbysociety. Is thatwrong? It is, perhaps, alltoohuman thatweneed signs of respectfromtheworldtofeelgoodaboutourselves.Highstatus,asexperiencedbyeliteathletesorNobellaureates,isararity;forthemajor-ityofus,oursocialpositionrestsprecariouslyonwhatweachieve,whichisthenslylyre-vealedbywhatwepossess. It’swhatecon-omistscallsignaling,andwhetherwedoitconsciously or not, our jobs, degrees andlifestyle, conveyour significance, andourambitions. Someyearsback Ihadprofiled

anenterprisingentrepreneurwhostartedadesignerbag rentalbusinesswithherper-sonalcollectionof24bags.OneofheryoungclientschoseatrendyChanelclutchtorentfor a datewith a prospective husband: aclear,non-verbalmessageestablishing thestandardsshewasaccustomedto.Let’sfaceit,noone’sbuyingaRolexfor

Rs 20 lakh to tell the time or aMercedesfor Rs 70 lakh to drive at 50 kmph onDelhi’s roads. In his seminal inquiry intoclassconsciousness,StatusAnxiety,mod-ern philosopher Alain de Botton arguesthatthepredominantimpulsebehindthedesire forpriceyacquisitions stems fromastateof insecurelovelessness.“We’reallstuckwitha congenital uncertainty as toourownvalue,”writesdeBottoncompas-sionately, insinuatingthatwildspendingis always a desperate bid for theworld’sattention. Inmillennial lingo, ittranslates

to FOMO, Fear of Missing Out. Alas, thetormentingsuspicionoftheexistenceofararefied parallel universewhere refine-mentandtastereside—onlyforanexclu-sivefew—iswhatkeepsconstantdiscon-tentmentand luxurybrandsalive.Therichgetanunfairlybadrapforcon-

spicuousconsumption.Butmakingavirtueoffrugalityasamorallysuperiorwayoflifeisequallyirritating.Ifbrandconsciousnessdidn’t exist, wewould all be driving TataNanos.We’re not becausewedon’twanttobeseenintheworld’scheapestcar.RatanTatahimselfhaslamentedtheadvertisingmistakethatdoomedtheNano,thatfailedtorecognisethatconsumersaredeeplyas-pirational. At every level, complex asser-tions of status shape ourDarwinian uni-verse; Chanel, Dior and LV are merelyconvenientpunchingbags.

Thewriter isdirector,HutkayFilms

WHEN THE Chief Minister of Karnatakadeclaredthathewasreadytousethe‘Yogimodel’ in his state, I expected outragefrom the political class. And, especiallyfrommybrethren in themedia. It is truethatmillionsof Indianshaveno idea thattheruleof lawisthefoundationalpillarofdemocracy,butweinthemediaknowthiswell. So, is it cynicism or fear that hascausedsuchlittleoutrage?Whateverthereason, it makes us complicit. And weshouldbespeaking loudlybecause therearetoomanyBJPvoicesraisedindefenceof the ‘Yogimodel’ forustoremainsilent.In away, Basavaraj Bommai did India

afavourbysayingwhathedid.HewillberememberedasthefirstseniorBJPleaderwho has admitted that there is a ‘Yogimodel’ and thathewouldnothesitate touse it. Bulldozers, instead of the rule oflaw, have been used inMadhya PradeshandinDelhi,butwhenquestionedaboutthis incourt,BJP leadershavegoneoutoftheirwaytoassert that itwasmerecoin-cidencethatbulldozersdemolishedpeo-ple’shomesintheimmediatewakeofanincidentof violence.Letmenowanalyse foryou the ‘Yogi

Model’. The mildest way that I can de-scribe it is that it is an abomination. It isfoundedon theprinciple that itwill notbe courts who decide if someone isguilty of a crime but officialswith bull-dozers, acting at the behest of a politi-cal leader. Crime and punishment areboth decided by officials and the pun-ishment meted out to those suspectedof a crime is that their homes arecrushedbybulldozers. If thisbrutalkindof retribution is ever challenged in acourt, it will be pointless. Those whohave suffered this barbaric formof ‘jus-tice’ have already lost everything thattheymayhavespenta lifetimebuilding.LastweekRahulGandhicalledapress

conference to announce the death ofdemocracy. Itpuzzledmethathedidnotmention the ‘Yogimodel’ as an exampleof what hemeant. Instead, he repeatedsomething he has said ad nauseum, thattheRSShastakenoverthe‘infrastructure’of democracy and that four people arerunning India. Has Rahul not noticed yetthat this has no resonancewith the peo-ple?Maybe therewould be resonance ifhesaid, forinstance,thatthe‘Yogimodel’is anti-democratic andviolatesbasichu-manrights.The worst criminals convicted in a

courtof lawcontinue tohave the right totheir homes and properties. Their fami-liesarenotrenderedhomelessanddesti-tutebytheirconviction. It isonlythe‘Yogimodel’ that gives officials the right to goarounddestroyingpeople’s liveswithoutbotheringtoprovetheirguiltthroughdueprocessinacourtof law.Andyet,thishor-rific form of rough justice has its admir-ers. They shriek their support on socialmediaonthegroundsthat theprocessofjustice takes too long. Itdoes.Asweapproachthe75thanniversary

of our Independence, it is shameful thatour criminal justice system is so brokenthatittakesdecadesformurderers,rapistsand terrorists to be punished. OurSupreme Court judges expound elo-quently onwhat theproblem is butwhyhastherenotyetbeenaChief Justicewhohasofferedrealsolutions?Notonlyistheprocess of justice cumbersome and ar-chaic, the sad truth is thatmost Indianscannot even afford to go to court. Thereareotherquestions.Whydothecourtsre-maincloggedwithcasesthatshouldhavebeen decided long ago?Why do court-rooms look like storerooms for old files?Whydojudgesneedthousandsofwordstopronouncejudgments?Whyaretherenotenough judges?Many,many things in the justice sys-

tem need urgent fixing. But the ‘Yogimodel’cannotbethealternative.Politicalleadersmust not be allowed to becomejudge, jury and executioner. This is the‘Yogimodel’. The scariest thing is that iftheStateitself isseentodisrespectthelawof the land, it loses theright toexpector-dinarycitizenstorespect the law.There-sult is that slowly but surely faith indemocracybegins todie.RahulGandhi is rightwhenhedraws

attentiontothediminutionofdemocracy.Wherehe iswrong is that insteadof tak-ing to the streets to demand somethingthatwould resonatewith the people, heseems to protest onlywhen his family isdirectly affected by the EnforcementDirectorate.Risingpricesandunemploy-mentwere the ostensible reason for lastweek’sprotestsandpressconference,butthese are not things that suddenly hap-pened.What did suddenly happenwasthat the Gandhi family was summonedby the Enforcement Directorate for al-leged irregularities in the way theNationalHeraldwasbeing run.When important leaders are shown

that they are not above the law, this is agood thing. It strengthens democracy.Whatisadirectthreattodemocracyisthe‘Yogi model’. The Chief Minister ofKarnatakashouldbeashamedthathehasbecome the latest proponent of this jun-gle justice. Thosewhobelieve that itwasthis kind of rough justice that won YogiAdityanathasecondterminofficeshouldalsobeashamed.The‘Yogimodel’ isabloton Indiandemocracy. It isnot somethingtobeproudof.

The Yogimodel

The power in the purse stringsOn theLOOSELEHERKALAleherkala@gmail.com

historyHEADLINE

AS ITS most recent occupant, JagdeepDhankhar,getsreadytobesworninastheVice-Presidentof thecountry,thereisan-other link between the Raj Bhavan inKolkataandournationalParliament.Abuildingconnectedwiththelegisla-

tivehistoryofourcountry,theBhavanhason its first flooraroomdistinct fromoth-ers with its plain white walls and func-tionalfurniture,unlikeotherroomsinthesprawling structurewith their pricelessart and carpets. This is the CouncilChamber,wherepre-independentIndia’sfirst “central though rudimentary” legis-laturestarted its journey.Wecan trace theevolutionofmodern

law-making institutions to the East Indiacompany. Its officerswereempowered tomake lawsunder thechartergivenbytheBritishgovernmentin1601.Acouncilofthecompany’s senior officers carried out thecorporation’s administration in Bombay,Madras and Calcutta. These settlementswereindependent,eachwithitsowncom-mittee, and theirmeeting venuewas theCouncilChamberintherespectivecities.Over the next 170 years, the trading

companywould spread its tentacles andbecome a political and territorial power.The changing nature of the companywould eventually lead to the British par-liamenttakingmoreinter-est in its affairs.Centralisationofpowerac-companied this shift, andCalcutta (as itwas knownthen) became the seat ofadministration.TheBritishParliament’s RegulatingAct of 1773 made thePresidency of Bengalsupreme,anditsGovernorbecame the GovernorGeneral, assisted by acouncil of fourmembers.Until the beginning of the19thcentury,theGovernorGeneral and his CouncilmetindifferentCalcuttabuildings.Aper-manentvenueforthesemeetingsresultedfrom constructing a home for theGovernorGeneral.Tillthen,Governorsdidnothaveanofficial residenceand lived inhouses rented from the local nawabs,whichsomefoundunsatisfactory.A Frenchman travelling to Calcutta in

1798wrote, “theGovernorGeneralof theEnglish Settlements East of the Cape ofGoodHope resides at Calcutta... As there

is nopalace yet built for him, he lives in ahouse on the Esplanade, opposite theCitadel.Thehouseishandsome,butbynomeans equal towhat it ought to be for apersonageof suchimportance.Manypri-vateindividualsinthetownhavehousesasgood; and if theGovernorweredisposed

to any extraordinary lux-ury,hemustcurbhis incli-nationforwantof thenec-essary accommodation ofroom. The house of theGovernorofPondicherryismuchmoremagnificent.”A house in Calcutta

worthy of the representa-tive of the East India com-panywasthebrainchildofGovernor-GeneralRichardColleyWellesley. HewasanIrisharistocratwhowasappointed Governor-General in 1797 and tookchargeofhisofficeamonth

beforehis38thbirthday.Hewouldsplurgemoney on constructing theGovernmentHouse(thepresentRajBhavan)andthrowaparty tomark its opening in1803.Afterthat,histenureinIndiawasshort-lived,astheexcessesassociatedwiththeconstruc-tionwouldcosthimhisgovernorship.In the coming years, the British

Parliament began exertingmore controlover the company in India. In 1833 it en-acted a law to strip the company of its

tradingrightsandseparate theexecutiveandlaw-makingfunctionsof theCouncil.The law would set up one LegislativeCouncil for all British territories in Indiaandappointalawmember.Thevenueforthemeetings of this bodywould be theCouncil Chamber on the first floor of theGovernmentHouse.Changes in the 1850s would lay the

foundation of modern parliamentaryfunctioninginthecountry.Legislativede-liberationsintheCouncilwereconductedorally, instead of inwriting aswas doneearlier, Bills started getting examined byselectcommitteesandLegislativeCouncilproceedings became open to the publicandreportableby thepress.TheIndianPenalCodeof1860,which

defines crime and punishment in thecountry,wasdiscussedandpassedinthisCouncil Chamber. Some proceedings ofthe Council also invited considerablepublic interest, like the 1883 Ilbert Bill,which allowed Indian judges to presideovercases involvingBritishsubjects.Thediscussionon the lawhad tobeheld in ahall outside the Council Chamber to ac-commodate everyone interested in thedebate. The British constructed anotherCouncil Chamber in the GovernmentHouse in Shimla when the governmentshifted to the hills in the summers. Andwhen the capital of British IndiamovedtoDelhi,sodidtheLegislativeCouncilanditsChamber.

As Dhankhar moves toCentre, a Raj Bhavan link

GovernorDhankharataninteractionintheCouncilChamber.Credit@jdhankhar1

CHAKSHUROYchakshu@prsindia.org

Governor-GeneralWellesley wouldsplurge money onconstructing theGovernment House(the present RajBhavan). Theexcesses associatedwith the constructionwould later cost himhis governorship

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ECONOMYWWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM

Oil WatchCRUDE ATMULTI-MONTHLOWSNew York: Oil prices closed the week at their lowest levels sinceFebruary, rattled by worries a recession could hit fuel demand.Brent crude settled at $94.92 a barrel, and US West TexasIntermediate crude at $89.01. REUTERS

MANYSTATE-RUN,PRIVATELENDERSRAISELENDINGRATES

ENSECONOMICBUREAUNEWDELHI/MUMBAI, AUG6

SEVERAL BANKS have raisedtheir repo rate-linked lendingrates (RLLR) after the ReserveBankof India (RBI) onFriday in-creasedthereporateby50basispoints (bps) to5.40percent.Publicsector lenders includ-

ingBankofBaroda(BoB),PunjabNational Bank (PNB), UnionBank of India, aswell as privatesector ICICI Bank on Saturdayraised theirRLLRs.Following the hike, BoB’s

RLLRstandsat7.95percent,with5.40percentasRBIreporateandamark-up of 2.55 per cent. ThenewRLLRwill be effective fromSaturday. PNB has increased itsRLLR from 7.40 per cent to 7.90per cent, while Bank of India’sRLLR stands at 8.25 per cent,witheffect fromFriday.

Bank of Maharashtra’s RLLRwill stand at 7.70 per cent fromAugust 10 and Union Bank ofIndia’s external benchmarkedlending rates (EBLR) stands at7.70percent,effectiveAugust11.ICICI Bank’s EBLR, which is

pegged to the RBI repo rate,standsat9.10percent.RLLR is linked to or is based

on the repo rate and is revisedevery time theRBI changespol-

icy rates.With the RBI movingintoarisingratecycle,bankstoohave started raising their lend-ingrates,bothexternallybench-marked and marginal cost offunds-based(MCLR).SinceApril,the RBI has increased the reporateby140bpsinthreetranches.As the transmissionofmon-

etarypolicytakesplacemoreef-fectivelyundertheEBLRregime,banksareoptingtoswitchtothe

system.AsperRBIdata,theshareof loans under the EBLR-basedsystem, for all banks, has in-creased to 39.2 per cent inDecember 2021 from 28.6 percent inMarch.The immediate increase in

RLLR or EBLR by banks and acomparativelydelayed increasein deposit rates augurswell fortheirmargins. Inaddition to theRLLR, banks are also increasingtheirMCLR. ICICIBank,PNB,YesBank and Bank of India alsoraised theirMCLR by 10-15 bpsbefore theRBIpolicydecision.While banks revise RLLR

whenever there is a change inrepo rate, MCLR is revised bylenders every month. Otherlenders like Housing Develop-ment Finance Corporation(HDFC)andLICHousingFinancehave also increased their retailprime lending rate (RPLR) onhome loans. WITHFE

BRIEFLYIOBQ1netrisesNew Delhi: State-ownedIndianOverseasBank (IOB)on Saturday posted a 20%rise in net profit to `392crore for the first quarter ofthecurrentfiscal,helpedbya decline in bad loans. Thelender had reported a netprofit of `327 crore in theApril-JunequarterofFY22.

FortisQ1netNewDelhi:FortisHealthcareposted69%decline in con-solidatednet profit at `134crore for thequarter endedJune. Thehealthcaremajorhadseenanetprofitof`431crore, including an excep-tional gainof `306 crore, inApril-June2021-22.PTI

ENSECONOMICBUREAUNEWDELHI, AUGUST6

HOURS AFTER Telangana ChiefMinisterKChandrashekharRaosaid that hewill not attendNITIAayog’sgoverningcouncilmeet-ing on Sunday, the governmentthink-tank hit back at him, call-inghisdecision“unfortunate”.RaohadonSaturdaysaidthat

hewouldboycottthemeetingtoprotest “the Centre’s attitude”,and objected to PrimeMinisterNarendraModi“dismissingwel-fareschemesasfreebies”,mark-ingthelatest inaseriesofhisat-tacks on the BJP-led Centralgovernment. In a letter to PMModi, Rao said that the Aayogwas started “with the lofty ob-jective of bringing the states onthesamepagewiththeCentre.”“But recent unpleasant hap-

peningshavegivenrisetoanin-escapable realisation that thefederal structure of India is be-ing systematically eroded bysome deliberate actions by thegovernmentof India,’’ hewrote,addingthat“theblatantdiscrim-inationagainstsomestatesevenin the legitimate functions as-signedtothemintheConstitut-ion leavesmuchtobedesired”.Countering his claims, the

NITI Aayog in a statement saidthat a delegation led by the or-ganisation’s Vice ChairmanhadmetRaoinHyderabadinJanuary2021todiscussdevelopmentis-sues pertaining to the state.“Morerecently,despiterequestsmadebyNITIAayog for ameet-ing,theChiefMinisterdidnotre-spond,” the think-tanksaid.Thegoverningcouncilmeet-

ing, scheduled for Sunday, ischaired by the PrimeMinisterand has chief ministers and li-etenant governors as its mem-bers. Rao had also missed thegoverning council meeting in2019alongwiththenPunjabCMAmrinder Singh and WestBengalCMMamataBanerjee.According to a detailed

agenda of themeeting seen byThe Sunday Express, interven-tions by CMs and L-Gs are ex-pected to last for a little overthree hours, where issues suchas crop diversification, imple-mentation of the NationalEducationPolicyandurbangov-ernance, amongothers are sup-posed to be discussed. ExternalAffairs Minister S Jaishankar isalsosettogiveapresentationonIndia’s presidency of the G20summitwhich the countrywillhold fromDecember 1, 2022 toNovember 30, 2023. Themeet-ing is scheduled to start at 9.45AMandendat4PMonSunday.Stating that the Aayog’s rec-

ommendations were being ig-nored, Rao cited recommenda-tions for a Rs 5,000-crore

irrigation grant for Telangana’sMission Kakatiya and anotherfor a Rs 19,205-crore assistancefor Mission Bhagiratha to pro-vide drinking water to everyhousehold in thestate.Responding to his criticism,

theAayogsaid thatover the lastfour years, the Centre has allo-cated Rs 3,982 crore under theJalJeevanMissionforTelangana.“However, thestate(Telangana)chosetodrawonlyRs200crore.”“The Government of India

has been consistently support-ingstatesinfinancialmattersin-cluding for flagship schemes/programmesofnational impor-tance. Overall allocation underCentrally Sponsored SchemeshaveincreasedfromRs.2,03,740croresin2015-16toRs.4,42,781croresin2022-23,i.e.morethandoubleduringthisperiod, inad-dition to the substantial hike inawards under the FourteenthFinance Commission from 32%to42%,” theAayogsaid.Rao saidhe felt happywhen

the Aayog had constituted agroup of chief ministers to giverecommendations on develop-mental issues. “However, itwasshort-lived as the institutionfailed to live up to the expecta-tions,’’ he said.“The basis of these recom-

mendationswastheunanimousbelief that not all the schemescontemplated, designed and fi-nalisedbytheCentre,servetheirintended purpose consideringthe vast diversity and differentneedsof states.Withmuchpainand anguish, let me point outthat such an important recom-mendation has been aside andonthecontrary, I findtheCentreto be micromanaging theschemes, giving a complete go-by to the state-specific needswhicharebest left to individualstates,”hesaid.AccusingtheCentreof failing

to fulfil its promises, Raowon-deredwhat the Niti Aayog hadachieved in thepasteightyears.“ItappearsthattheNDAgovern-ment is not bothered about theNiti Aayog and there is nopointinattending themeeting.”

Bengaluru:ElonMuskonSatur-day challenged Twitter Inc CEOParagAgrawaltoapublicdebateabout thepercentageof bots onthe social media platform. "Lethim prove to the public thatTwitter has <5% fake or spamdailyusers!,"Musk tweeted.Twitter on Thursday dis-

missed a claimbyMusk that hewas hoodwinked into signing a$44billionagreementtobuythecompany.TheTeslachiefexecutivefiled

acountersuitagainstTwitteronJuly29, escalatinghis legal fightagainstthecompanyoverhisbidtowalkawayfromthepurchaseagreement. Earlier on Saturday,Musk said that if Twitter couldprovide itsmethod of sampling100 accounts and how it con-firmedthattheaccountsarereal,his deal to buy the companyshould proceed on its originalterms. REUTERS

JONATHANSTEMPELNEWYORK,AUGUST6

THE SLIDE in US stock pricespunished Berkshire HathawayInc’s bottom line in the secondquarter as the company run bybillionaireWarrenBuffettposteda$43.8billion loss.Berkshire nevertheless gen-

eratednearly$9.3billionofprofitfromitsoperatingbusinesses,asimprovement fromreinsuranceand the BNSF railroad offset aloss at the Geico car insurer,where car parts shortages andhigher vehicle prices boostedlosses fromaccidents.Rising interest ratesanddiv-

idend payouts helpedBerkshire’s insuranceunitsgen-eratemoremoney from invest-ments,while the strengtheningUSdollarboostedprofitfromthecompany’s European andJapanesedebt investments.Berkshire also slowed pur-

chasesof itsstocks, includingitsown, though it ended Junewith$105.4billionofcashandequiv-alents it couldstill deploy.In its quarterly report,

Berkshire said “significant dis-ruptions of supply chains andhigher costs have persisted” asnew Covid-19 variants emergeandbecauseofgeopoliticalcon-flictsincludingRussia’s invasionofUkraine.

However, itsaiddirectlossesto the company have not beenmaterial, despite the impact ofhigher costs formaterials, ship-pingand labour.Net results suffered from

Berkshire’s $53 billion of lossesfrom investments and deriva-tives. Accounting rules requireBerkshire to report the losseswithitsresultsevenif itbuysandsellsnothing.

Buffett urges investors to ig-nore the fluctuations, andBerkshire will make money ifstocksriseovertime.In2020,forexample, Berkshire lost nearly$50billion in the firstquarterasCovidtookhold,butmade$42.5billion for the full year.The quarterly net loss was

equal to $29,754 per Class Ashare, and comparedwithanetprofitof$28.1billion,or$18,488perClassAshare, ayearearlier.Berkshire’s $9.28 billion of

operatingprofit,orabout$6,326per Class A share, rose 39 percentfrom$6.69billion,or$4,424per Class A share, a year earlier.Currency gains on foreign debttotaled$1.06billion.

AbelsellsenergycostakeMeanwhile,Berkshiresaidits

vicechairmanGregAbel,whoissettosucceedBuffettaschiefex-ecutive, soldhis1percentstakein the company’s BerkshireHathaway Energy unit for $870million.In its quarterly report,

Berkshire said the energy unitboughtoutAbelinJuneunderanagreementamongthemandthefamilyofthelatebillionairephil-anthropistWalter Scott, whichownsan8percent stake.The conglomerate took a

$362million charge to capital,reflecting the premium overhowmuchthestake’svaluewasreflectedonitsbooks. REUTERS

■BankofBaroda’sreporate-linkedlendingrate(RLLR)standsat7.95%,with5.40%asRBIreporateandamark-upof2.55%

■PunjabNationalBankhikeditsRLLRto7.90%andBankofIndiato8.25%

■BankofMaharashtra’sRLLRwillbe7.70%andUnionBankofIndia’sexternalbenchmarkedlendingrates(EBLR)standsat7.70%

■ICICIBank’sEBLR,whichispeggedtotheRBIreporate,standsat9.10%

MAJORBANKSTHAT INCREASEDRATES

With RBI moving to risingrate cycle, banks hike RLLR

SANDEEPSINGHMUMBAI, AUGUST6

WITH AN eye on inflationamid the prevailing globaluncertainties, the ReserveBankof India (RBI)onFridayannounced a hike of 50 bpsinthereporate—atwhich itlendstocommercialbanks—thereby taking the cumula-tive rate hike over the lastthree months at 140 bps.Here is a lookatwhy theRBIcontinuedwithitsaggressivestance and the impact itcouldhaveonborrowers.

Whythe50-bphike?As it decided to go for a

second 50-bp hike in amat-teroftwomonths,highlevelsof inflationwas thekeycon-cern for the RBI’s MonetaryPolicyCommittee (MPC).“With inflation expected

to remain above the upperthreshold in Q2 and Q3, theMPC stressed that sustainedhigh inflation could desta-bilise inflation expectationsand harm growth in themedium term. The MPC,therefore,judgedthatfurthercalibrated withdrawal ofmonetaryaccommodationiswarranted to keep inflationexpectations anchored andcontainthesecond-roundef-fects,”thecentralbank said in itsMPCstatement.Even as the

consumer priceinflation haseased from itssurgeinApril, theMPCnotedthatitremainsuncomfortablyhighandabovetheupper thresh-oldof the target.“Inflationary pressures

arebroad-basedandcorein-flation remains at elevatedlevels.Thevolatilityinglobalfinancialmarkets is imping-ing upon domestic financialmarkets, including the cur-rencymarket, thereby lead-ing to imported inflation.”

WhyisRBInotdrawingcomfort fromsofteninginflation?Even as Governor Das

stated that CPI inflation haspeaked and theRBI has pro-jectedinflationtosoftenandcome down to 5 per cent inQ1FY24, the regulator wentaheadwitha50-bphikeasitsaid that inflation currentlyremainsatunacceptablelev-els and global uncertaintiesprevail. The MPC felt thereare global challenges on thefront of globalised inflation-ary surges, tightening of fi-nancialconditions,sharpap-preciation of the US dollarand lowergrowthacrossge-ographies and hencemone-tarypolicyhas toact.“Inflation still remains at

7 per cent and at unaccept-ablyhigh levels. Sowiththatkind of trajectorymonetarypolicy has to act... There areseveraluncertaintiesthatareclouding the outlook, somonetary policy has to be

there and therefore the ac-tionof 50bps,” saidDas.

Howwill ithitborrowersanddepositors?With Friday’s hike of 50

bps, the RBI has now raisedthe repo rate by 140 bpsover the last threemonths.This is set to hit existinghome loan customers andprospective borrowersfurther, as they will see anincrease in lending rates.However, at the same

time, conservative investo-rs who like to park theirfunds in fixed deposits ofbankswill benefit as banksare also likely to raise theirdeposit rates following therate hike. The deposit rate

hike, however,will also bedependentupon the creditdemand in theeconomy andthe need forbanks to raiseadditional

funds.The rate hike, however,

will hit borrowers earlier.Banks and housing financecompanies (HFCs) alreadyraised their lending ratesbetween 70-90 bps afterthe 90-bp hike in repo ratein May and June. Banksand HFCs are now againexpected to raise rates.Following the 140-bp

hike in repo rate over thelast three months, if thelending rates were to riseby 150 bps, it will have asignificant impact onequated monthlyinstalments (EMIs). Forexample, if the rate onyour home loan goes up by150 bps from 7 per cent inApril to 8.5 per cent, theEMI on principaloutstanding of Rs 50 lakhfor 15 yearswill go up fromRs 44,941 to Rs 49,236 — arise of Rs 4,295 inmonthlyEMIs if the tenure is keptconstant. However, if therates were to rise by 200bps by the end of the year(which is expected givenRBI’s enhanced concernsover inflation), customerswould see their loan rategoing up from around 7per cent now to 9 per cent.In that case, the EMI for thesame loanwould rise to Rs50,713—aRs 5,771 rise permonth. Full report onwww.indianexpress.com

SECTORWATCHMONETARYPOLICY

Behind RBI’s 50-bphike: ‘Unacceptablyhigh’ inflation level,low global growth

RBIGovernorShaktikantaDassaidtheregulatorhasprojectedinflationtofallto5%inQ1FY24. PTIfile

NITI hits back afterKCR skips governingcouncil meeting over‘Centre’s attitude’

KChandrashekharRao.TheTelanganaCMrecentlyobjectedtoPMNarendraModi“dismissingwelfareschemesas freebies”. File

ENSECONOMICBUREAUMUMBAI, AUGUST6

STATE BANK of India (SBI) onSaturdayreporteda6.7percentyear-on-year (y-o-y) fall in itsfirstquarternetprofittoRs6,068crore as losses in the treasuryportfoliohurtthebank’snon-in-terest income.SBI’s net interest income

(NII), or the difference betweeninterest earned and expended,

rose 13 per cent y-o-y to Rs31,196 crore. The domestic netinterestmargin(NIM)fell17ba-sis points (bps) sequentially to3.23percent.The hit on account of mark-

to-market (MTM) lossesamountedtoRs6,549crore.TheMTMhitalsohadanadverseim-pactontheSBI’sreturnonassets(RoA)andreturnonequity(RoE),whichweredown9bpsand203bpsonay-o-ybasis,respectively.SBI ChairmanDinesh Khara

said the bankwas confident ofrecouping losses in its invest-mentbookoverthecourseoftheyear.The Reserve Bank of India’s

back-to-back rate hikes inMayand June led to a firming up ofyields in Q1FY23 and hit mostbanks’bondportfolios.OnSaturday,Kharasaidmore

thantheratehike,SBI’streasuryperformancewill be a functionof how yields on governmentbondsmove. FE

SBI Q1 net profit falls 6.7% to `6,068 crore

NewDelhi:HindustanPetroleumCorporation Ltd (HPCL) onSaturday reported its highestever quarterly net loss of Rs10,196.94croreintheJunequar-ter as a freeze on petrol anddieselpricerevisionwipedawayrecordrefiningmargins.A standalone net loss of Rs

10,196.94 crore during April-June compareswith anet profitofRs1,795croreinthesamepe-riod a year back, according to afilingwith thestockexchanges.

Duringthequarter,HPCLandother state-owned fuel retailersIndian Oil (IOC) and BharatPetroleum(BPCL)didnot revisepetrol and diesel prices in linewithrisingcoststohelpthegov-ernmentcontainrunawayinfla-tion.ThebasketofcrudeoilIndiaimports averaged $109per bar-rel but the retail pump rateswere aligned to about $85-86 abarrel cost.Becauseofthefreeze,IOCtoo

reportedanetlossofRs1,992.53

crore for the Junequarter.Loss for IOC, which is nearly

double the size of HPCL, wassmalleras ithadvastoil refiningandpetrochemicalbusinessestooffset someof the losseson fuelmarketing. HPCL on the otherhandsellsmorefuel thanitpro-duces. To meet nearly one-fourthofthemarketitcontrols,ithastobuypetrol,dieselandLPGfrom refineries, whowould sellthe fuel atmarket price andnotsubsidisedrates. PTI

Petrol, diesel price freeze: Record quarterly loss for HPCL

DINESHKHARAChairman, SBI File

ELONMUSKCEO, Tesla Inc Reuters file

THEWARRENBuffett-ownedBerkshireHathawayalsoslowedpurchasesof its stocks,including itsown, thoughitendedJunewith$105.4billionof cashandequivalents it couldstilldeploy

STOCKPURCHASESSLOWED

Reuters file

JUNE ENDS WITH $105.4 BILLION OF CASH AND EQUIVALENTS IT COULD STILL DEPLOY

Berkshire Hathaway posts $43.8-bn loss as stock holdings slide

FY22: Over 5 crmobileservices-related complaintsreceived against telcosMore than five crore complaints were received againsttelecom operators related tomobile services during2021-22, the government informed Parliament

~5.5crComplaintsrelatedto

cellularmobiletelephoneservicesregisteredbyconsumersthroughhelplinenumbersofoperatorsatcomplaintcentresduring2021-22,MinisterofStateforCommunicationsDevusinh

ChauhantoldtheLokSabhainawrittenreply

~54%Shareofcomplaints

receivedagainstAirtelalonewithintotalcomplaintsagainstvarioustelecomserviceproviders(TSPs)

52.3 lakhNumberofBSNLcustomerswhooptedfornetworkportout in2021-22

28.8 lakhSubscriberswhoportedintoBSNLlastfiscal

58,911No.ofgrievancesreceivedthroughCentralisedPublicGrievanceRedressalandMonitoringSystem(CPGRAMS)inFY22,ofwhich58,224wereresolved

Complaints received at complaint centres through customer helpline numbers are resolved by the concerned TSP.Where complaints are not resolved by TSPs, complainants can approach the public grievance wing of the Departmentof Telecommunications, which are monitored and resolved through CPGRAMS portal Source: Government data/PTI

48,170Mahanagar

TelephoneNigamLtd(MTNL)

8.8 lakhBharatSancharNigamLtd(BSNL)

Airtel2,99,68,519

VodafoneIdea

2,17,85,460RelianceJio25,80,000

ComplaintsagainstvariousTSPsrelatedtomobiletelephonereceivedduring2021-22:

COMPLAINTSRECEIVEDAGAINSTSTATE-OWNEDTELCOS:

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NewDelhi:BharatPetroleumCorporation Ltd (BPCL) onSaturday reportedanet lossof Rs 6,291 crore in the firstquarter of current fiscal onholding fuel prices despiterise incost.Net loss of Rs 6,290.8

croreinApril-JuneagainstRs3,192.58 crore in the same

periodayearback, it said.Revenuefromoperations

rose to Rs 1.38 lakh croreagainst Rs 89,688.98 crore.Thecompanyearned$27.51on turning every barrel ofcrude oil into fuel in thequarter as against $4.12 perbarrel gross refiningmarginayearback. PTI

BPCL posts `6,291 cr Q1 net loss

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Oasis in the DesertThe 39th Jerusalem Film Festivaloffered a chance to experience Israel,in reel and real

Rinku Ghosh

ANNA REDDY, a retiredteacher from Bengaluru, isliving free in theautumnofher life. Shehasdownsizedandmoved into a 320 sq. fttinyhomethathasbeenup-

cycled from an old shipping container.Havinglivedthroughthelonelinessofalock-down andwaking up to the need for smartbudgetingasapensioner, shehas chosen tobe resource-consciouswithout feeling thepinch. So, she’s leased a patch of land on afriend’s farm far out of the city, parked herpre-fabricatedhomeonanoutcropoverlook-ing a lake, plushed up the interiors andwrappedherselfwithahugesundeck.Apartfrom sleeping, cooking and chores, shespendssunrise tosundownoutdoors, tend-ing toher organic garden, attempting somelandscapingwith rocks and foliage,writingablogonthepatio, loung-ing with her dog, diningwith friends under thestars and watching theseason change colour.“Can wemake room forsomething more mean-ingful in our lives thanclutter itwith things thatone has no use forand spaces that are un-manageable?” asks the58-year-old.Not far down the road

are Rohit and MayaChinnaswamy, both soft-ware professionals intheir late20s,whohaveatinyhomeof theirowninalandboughtyearsagobytheirparents. Justmarried, andwith COVID-19 giving legiti-macy to a work-from-home culture, theyhavecreatedtheiroasiswithouttheburdenof EMIs, living rich rather than squeezingthemselves into a city apartment.“Minimalism is not about giving up, it isabout choosing what you need.We don’thave the big TVwall but we have a biggerdrop-downprojector screen,” saysRohit.The tiny-housemovement, which advo-

cates a “living with less philosophy”, is nolonger an alternativewayof living. As citiesbulgeoutoftheseamsandshrinkthegreens,tiny houses are being seen as a sustainable,energy-savingandlow-carbonfootprintre-ality than an option. In India,where homesarerepositoriesofmemories,collectiblesandheirlooms and the acquisitivemeasure ofsuccess, we seem to be right-sizing our

mindsetwherebiggerdoesnotmeanbetterand less ismore.Reddysays shehad tocutherbelongings

by one-third. Thatwasn’t difficult. “I hadn’tusedtheminyears.ButIkeptmybooks. My‘smart’kitchenisbiggerandmorefunctional.Maintenancefeesandbillsarenowlessthanhalf, Iamdebt-freeandcanspiffupmyhomein 15minutes. My house is small, but I amliving big,” says Reddy, who’sworking on awildflower project with the locals. Andshouldshechoosetomoveelsewhere,tothehillsorcoast,shecandismantleandreassem-blehermodularhome.Sowhat is a tinyhouse?According to the

2018 definition by the International CodeCouncil in theUS, it isadwellingunitwithamaximum of 37 sq. m (400 sq. ft) of floorarea, excluding bedroom lofts andmezza-nine fitouts. But they stretch outdoorswithextended porches, leading the inside to theoutside. It isdebt-freeliving(thepricerangevaries fromRs 6 lakh toRs 25 lakhdepend-

ing on embellishments)and low-maintenance.Some day, it will run off-grid, with solar energyandharvestedrainwater.With space optimisa-

tion a challenge for cityplanners, tiny homes areseen as a way of future-proofingourexistenceonthisplanet.Andnowthatindustrialists like AnandMahindra are backingChennai-based ArunPrabhu NG, who built aportable house on an au-torickshaw,andfurnituremajor IKEA is running apan-India “Tiny House

Project”since2019,thetrendhascaughton.The endorsement byTesla chief ElonMusk,who described his rented one-roompad atBoca Chica, Texas, “more homey”, andwithNetflixandYouTubepropagatingthemove-ment, conspicuous consumerism is nolonger aspirational but a societal vice. In re-source-starved times, bigness is about let-tinggoandmakinghealthyspaceforthenextgeneration. Alternative living is an experi-mentbutconsideringthatbetween2014and2018, the average apartment size in sevenmajorIndiancitiesshrunkby17percent,ac-cording to a study done by ANAROCKPropertyConsultants, thetiny-homemove-ment is carving out its niche in our realtymarket.TheUS-basedJayShafer,whostartedhis company, Tumbleweed Tiny House, in1999, is today fetedas an iconbymillennialtiny-homebuilders in India.

“Owning a big house is a socio-culturalstatementandasmallhousehassofarbeenseenasasecondhome.Mostofourpre-fab-ricatedhomeswerebeingusedinresortsandcountry estateswith owners renting themout forAirbnbguests.Post-pandemic,morepeople want to live in them permanently.Withtech-enabledfeaturesandplushcom-forts,wehavebuiltmorethan200housesintwo years. We’ve even located one inHyderabad’s posh Banjara Hills. AndwhilesouthIndiahadwokenuptotheconceptforsome time,wearenowgettingorders fromthe north aswell,” says Payal Jindal, co-di-rectorofLoomcrafts,whichbuildssteelmod-ule homes with patented technology andstylised interiors.Afterthecustomerchoosesthelayoutand

design, a unit is completed, from chassis toelectric wiring and interior fitments, at thefactorywithin 90days. “Steel limits the useofothermaterials, is structurallystrongandrequires low-cost insulation in the form offiberglass blankets, which are fire- andsound-resistant.Andwhilewemake trailerhousesforinternationalcustomers,hereweplace themon a cemented plinth.We thenpluginthewaterandelectricitylinesthatareavailable in farmlandsor leasedcommunity

land,” Jindal adds. Loomcrafts offers an all-weatherguarantee for50years.Bengaluru-based TheHabitainermakes

luxurycontainerhomeswithflippablesofa-beds, bar-cum-tables, extendable kitchencounters, and customised refrigerators.Inspired by the high demand, its directorGauravChouraria isnowexploringpossibil-itiesofsettingupIndia’sfirsttiny-homecom-munitywhere investors can lease theirownlittlegreenpatchandsetuptheirhomes.“Wehavedone70projects in62 locations acrossthecountry in thepandemicyears.Of these,onlytwoareoffices,therestarehomes.Manyhavetakentothe ideaof livingpermanentlyincontainerhomesafter their staycationsatAirbnbsduring thepandemic,”he says. Thecompany buys containers at port auctions,using20 ft x8 ft for regularhomesand40 ftx 8 ft for premiumones. “There’s a 27-pointchecklist.Forexample,wewon’tusecontain-ers that have carried radioactivematerial orchemicals.Wethenstripitdown andinsulateitwithaircraftgraderockwool.Highceilingscontrolambienttemperatureanddoors,sky-lightsandwindowsensurecrossventilation.Peoplemistake tiny living as a cramped-upcompromise or forcedminimalism. But thebasic idea is to stay indoorsas little aspossi-

bleandpursueactivitiesoutdoors,”hesays.While thismay seemmore apt for single

people, empty nesters and young people,Chourariadispelssuchmisconceptions.“Thefluidityofaddingorjoiningmorecontainersonyourlandmeansthatfamiliescanactuallystay close to each otherwhilemaintainingprivacy. Andsincethesehousesareportable,youcan take themasyoumoveor sell themonlineshouldyourprioritieschange.Youcanreuse, recycleandrenew,”hesays.Chouraria is nowtyingup with camping

operators to strengthenhis revenue streamin the travel industry. Like Tejaswi Rajanah,who owns a five-acre guava plantation, anhour-and-half drive away fromBengaluru.He’sparkeda160sq.ftsinglecontainerwitha 200 sq. ft of porch called The Little Ranch.“I rented it out during the pandemic at Rs1,000 a daywith discounted deals for stay-cations.Overlookingavalley,ithasgoodmo-bile network connectivity where you cancomfortably‘workfromnature’,”hesays.TheLittleRanchwasbuiltusingausedshippingcontainer,whichusuallygoes intoscrap.Two 23-year-olds from Hyderabad,

HarshitPuramandParikshitLinga,arework-ing with wood while building vacationhomes in Gandipet on the outskirts ofHyderabad.LaunchedinAprilthisyear,OknoModhomesbuildsSwisschalet-stylehomeswith atrium-high ceilings in 90 days. Theyimport guilt-freewood, fromNewZealand,Finland andNorway, whichmeans that forevery tree cut, fourmorehavealreadybeenplanted.“Besidesthecelluloseandwaterareextracted in suchaway thatno termite andmoisturecangetintothem.Cementattractsand radiates heat, wood does the reverse,”says Puram. Leak proof, synchronisedwithcloud-based voice service Alexa and fittedoutwith IKEA, thesespanbetween300and500 sq. ft. It is the only project to be recog-nisedby the IndianGreenBuildingCouncil.Caesar Fernandes, CEO,WoodenHomes

India, himself lives in a pre-fabricated 800sq.fthome.He,too,importscertifiedredpineand spruce planks, arguing that theScandinavian cutting technique reduceswastage.“Ourwoodpanelsareinterlocking.Andapartfromtreatingthewoodeverytwoyears,there’snomaintenancereally,”hesays.As tiny homes dot themargins of our big

cities, and in the absence ofWestern-stylebuildingcodes,whatarethelegalitiesinvolvedinbuildingone?Fernandessays,“Giventheirportability, tiny homes are considered tem-porarystructuresanddonotcomeundercivilconstructionlaws.Usually,peoplerentfarm-landsortakeadvantageoffarmhousesownedbyfriendsandrelativesbut leasingland,par-ticularlyintierIIandIIIcities,wheretherearecontrolledgreenzones(non-residentialzone)with10percentallowedforhousing,isapos-sibility. But we need revision of buildingbyelaws to dedicate newzones for 160-300sq. ft living.” Nevertheless, a beginning hasbeen made. Simplicity, according toRenaissanceMan LeonardoDaVinci, “is theultimatesophistication.”

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Make in IndiaAmerican filmmakers Anthony andJoe Russo talk about tapping intoIndian talent and the challenges ofmounting large-scale entertainers

Alaka Sahani

W HENAMERICANproducer-directorduoJoeandAnthonyRusso—widelyknownastheRussobrothers—visited India lastmonth,coincidingwiththeNetflixre-

leaseonJuly22of their latestactionthrillerTheGrayMan, theymadeitclear that theywereaimingtogrowtheirassociationwith it. “I love India.So,wewillkeepcasting Indiantalent.The Indianfilmindustry issovi-brant; it rivalsHollywood.There issomuchtalentherethat’suntappedatan international level,” says Joe,51,onhis thirdvisit to thecountry.Thebrothers,whohaveworkedonmajormoney-

spinners likeCaptainAmerica:TheWinterSoldier (2014),CaptainAmerica:CivilWar (2016).Avengers: InfinityWar(2018)andAvengers:Endgame (2019),are familiarwithIndiantalent.For their2020NetflixmovieExtraction,theyworkedwithabunchof Indianactors includingPankajTripathiandRandeepHooda. InTheGrayMan,Dhanushis theLoneWolf andfightsRyanGosling.Thebrothers,whohavebeenheapingpraiseonDhanushforbeing“aconsummateprofessional”,haveexpressedtheirwishtoworkagainwiththeAsuran (2019)actor.Meanwhile, theyareworkingwithPriyankaChopra forthespy-thrillerseriesCitadel. Their timeinMumbaiwaseventful. “Beinghere in Indiahas letussee first-handhowmuchentertainment is thrivinghere,” saysAnthony.BasedonthenovelTheGrayMan (2009)byMark

Greaney, thefilmwasinthemakingforclosetoadecade.“WewereinaweofGreaney’swritingandtheamountofresearchhedoes.Wearealwaysonaquesttodevelopin-terestingsidewaystoagenre.Havingbeeninspiredbythe’70sthrillersthatwegrewupon,TheGrayManencom-passesthemesofacomplexpoliticalrebellionagainstthesystem,andwehavereflectedonourownfearsabouttheworld,”saysJoe.TheGrayManrevolvesaroundCIAopera-tiveCourtGentry(Gosling),aka,SierraSix.AsheishuntedacrosstheglobebyLloydHansen(ChrisEvans),a formercohortattheCIA,hefindssupport inAgentDaniMiranda(AnadeArmas).Soon,aspin-offmovie,writtenbyscreenwritersPaulWernickandRhettReese(Deadpool,Zombieland),willexploreadifferentelementofTheGrayManuniverse.“WehadintendedTheGrayMan tobepartofanexpandeduniverse.WearethrilledthatNetflix isan-nouncingasequelwithRyan,aswellasasecondscriptthatwe’reexcitedtotalkaboutsoon,”saysJoe.Over theyears, thebrothershavebuiltan impressive

filmographyfeaturingmultipleblockbusters.Theirpart-nershipstartedduringtheircollegedaysasAnthonystudied lawandJoestudiedacting.Theygot theirbreakwhenStevenSoderberghapproachedthemafterwatch-ingtheir first featurePieces (1997),anabsurdistblack-

and-whitecomedy,andofferedtoproducetheirnextfilm.Sincethen, theyhavedirectedandproducedseveraltalked-aboutmoviesandseries. “It’sdifficult todescribeourprocess. Itkindofnaturally flows.At theendoftheday, it isabout if you likethestoryandif otherswouldlike it,” saysAnthony.Theprocessofexecutingaprojectvariesdependingon

thenatureofastory. “Wetrytofigureoutwherewecangocinematicallywiththatstory.Westart thinkingaboutitatanabstract level, tryingtofindafewkeyideasthatwewanttouse.Then,wemovetothescriptingphase.Thenextstageisamorecollaborativephasewherewebringinthepeoplewewanttoworkwith—productiondesign-ers,actors,cinematographers,” Joesays.Famousforcreatingbig-screenspectacles—for in-

stance,Avengers: InfinityWar (2018)withanimpressiveensemblecast that featuredRobertDowneyJr,ChrisHemsworth,MarkRuffalo,Scarlett Johansson,BenedictCumberbatch,TomHollandandothers—theyareawarethatafterbeingcoopedupintheirhomesfor longstretchesof time, theaudience iscravingtent-polemovies thatserveasescapist fare. “Spectacleentertain-mentallowsyoutoescape.Welikeescapistentertain-ment,” says Joe.Thebiggestchallengewhilemakingspectaclemovies,

accordingtothem,iscreatingaconvincingworld.“TheGrayMan isset inarealworldandyouwouldthinkit'snotsohardtocreate.Buttostagesomemajorsequencesinthemovie,weneededveryspecific locations,”saysAnthony.TheGrayManwasshot insevendifferent loca-tionsacrosstheglobeincludingtheUS,France, theCzechRepublic,Thailand,Croatia,AustriaandAzerbaijan.Whenitcomestocreatingafittingworldfortheircharacters, thebrothersthinklive-actionmoviescanbemuchtougherthanworkingonaMarvelworld.“Whenyouaredealingwithworldsthatsimplydon’texistandarefantasy, theconcernishowarewecreatingit—physicallyordigitally?Astorycanliveinyourheadforeverbuttomakeamovie,youhavetophysicalise it,” Joesays.Theirnextproject,TheElectricState, too,promisesto

beamassentertainer. “It’sa fantasy filmandwestartshootingduringthefall,” Joesays.Theforthcomingadap-tationof SimonStålenhag’ssci-figraphicnovelhasal-readygenerated interestas ithasropedinStrangerThings(2016) starMillieBobbyBrown.Set inaretro-futuristicpast,TheElectricStatewill tell thestoryof anorphanMichelle (essayedbyBrown)whoteamsupwithasweetbutmysteriousrobotandadrifter to lookforherbrother.

BROTHERSIN ARMS(Above) a stillfrom the filmThe Gray Man;Anthony (left) andJoe Russo

Shubhra Gupta

STREAMINGINTOSultan’sPool,theopen-to-the-sky location of theopeningfilmoftheJerusalemFilmFestival(JFF)2022,youareawareofthe duality that is so overwhelm-

inglypresentinthiswondrouscity:antiquityandmodernity.Thelargeamphitheatreissaidto goback toRoman times, andhereweare,abouttowatchRubenOstlund’sCanneswin-ner,TriangleofSadness,afilmaboutthereper-cussions of 21st-century hedonism. It feelsboth bizarre andperfectly fitting that in thisplace,whereveryouturn,theoldandnewmixandmeld,makingitauniqueexperience.Theideaistosavourthefilmsandtheplace

inaconcisebutcomprehensiveprogramme,whichensureswedoboth inequalmeasure.AndwediveintoitwithenthusiasmfromDay1,whichbeginswithavisittotheOldCity.Wegoback in timeaswestep inside.Narrowal-leys lead into the Jewish,Muslim, Christianquarters, each vastly different in flavour andaspect,eachwithalivingpopulationnavigat-ingtheshiftingcomplexitiesof theregion.Nothing I’ve readmatches the actual ex-

perience,aswepauseatacolourfulmuralfill-ing up thewholewall (apparently a great“selfiepoint”,whichweduly takeadvantageof);walkbyremnantsof thewallssurround-ingthecity, andtheshopsheapedwitharte-factsanddriedfruits.Itisthekindofoldquar-ter youwill find across theMiddle East, buthere in Jerusalem,youcan feel theburdenofmyth,historyandconflictateverystep.Here’sthestartofViaDolorosa(thePathof

Tears),whereChristissaidtohavewalked,ontheway to his crucifixion. UpaheadistheChurchoftheHolySepulchre,with a sharp arrowof sunlight streaming in fromthe open dome. And nowweare at the steps leading to theAl-AqsaMosque,whichwecangouppartwayforaglimpse,foronlyMuslims are allowed in.And then we stop at theWestern Wall, a holy placewhereJewsprayandplacetheir“wish-notes” in thecrevicesofthewall. I place one ofmine and just standthere for aminute, absorbing thehead-spin-ningamalgamationof sightsandsounds,be-foreheadingoff toadelicioushummus-pita-kebablunchinthecompanyofDaniellaGefen,ourmost knowledgeable guide, andMatiasSakkal,ourfriendlyever-helpfulhost.

Ittakesconsiderableefforttowrenchour-selves back into thepresent. Riches await inthesolidlyprogrammed39theditionoftheJFF,withmorethan200filmsspreadover10days.

The international competitionsection has a clutch of filmsfrom this year’s Cannes FilmFestival, including DavidCronenberg’s latest body-hor-ror provocation Crimes of TheFuture, Jerzy Skolimowski’squirkytreatiseondonkeywis-dom EO, Park Chan-wook’scrimethrillerDecisiontoLeave,Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Broker,which canbe seenas a less ef-fective,butstillpowerful,com-

panionpiece tohis 2018 film Shoplifters, andAliAbbasi’sIranianserial-killernoirHolySpider.Irepeat-watchacouple,andthenfocuson

the films from Israel. It is interesting to learnthatdocumentariesarepopular,thankstotheinterest of viewers, supportive TV channels,andgrants,whichenable filmmakers to em-

barkonambitiousnon-fictionprojects.Butgo-ingbythefilmsIcaught,featurefilmsarecom-ingback into their own:ConcernedCitizenbyIdanHaguel,atragicomedyinvolvingmenandmanners,BarrenbyMordechai Vardi, aboutthestrugglesofanOrthodoxJewishcoupletohave a child, and June Zeroby JakePaltrow, amovingaccountofatrioattheperipheryoftheNaziwarcriminalAdolfEichmann’strial.Oneof thehighlights ofmyvisit is anun-

plannedbutwhollyfascinatingeveningspentwiththeaffableShaiSSampson,thesoleIsraelidistributorof IndianfilmsinIsrael.Heasksif Iwould like to be present at the premiere ofRanbir Kapoor’s Shamshera at his theatre inNetanya,locatedontheothersideofTelAviv.Ijumpathiskindoffer,andoverthehour-and-a-halfspentdrivingtothetheatreMovieland,he talks about his father SolomonSampson,whomigrated to Israel in the early ’60s, andwasapioneeringettingBollywoodmoviestothecountry.ShaialsoownsTVchannelswhichshowBollywoodfilmsinnotjustinIsrael,butseveralcountriesinAfricaandEurope;theUK,

theUSandCanadaareonthecardssoon.MainstreamTVpushedBollywoodmovies

to themarginsaround the ’80s, but it is still alingeringflavouramongacertaingenerationofIsraeliswhogrewuponRajKapoormovies,andwhoburstintotheevergreendittiesMerajootahaiJapaniandIchakdanafromShree420(1955)withouttoomuchurging.TheJerusalemPressClub director general, Uri Dromi, gives us aheartyrenditionofIchakdana,asweareshownaround the impressive archives of theCinematheque,thefilmfestivalvenue.Onour last day, a visit to theYadVashem

Holocaustmemorialmuseumleavesusshakentothecore.We’veseenmanycinematicrepre-sentations—theOscarstatuetteforSpielberg’sSchindler’sList(1994)isonexhibit—butthetourleavesonespeechless, at thehorror, hope, re-silience.ItbringsustotheendofafilmfestivalwhichI’mnotabouttoforgetinahurry.

Thewriterwaspartofadelegationoffilmcriticsinvited,bytheJerusalemPressClub,tothe39th

JerusalemFilmFestival,July21-31

Oasis in the Desert

Tanushree Ghosh

WHENGURUDuttdiedin1964inBombay, his cinematogra-pherVKMurthywasshootinginMadras. GovindNihalani,

whowasassistingMurthy,andwhowouldgoontobecomeacinematographeranddirectorhimself, askedhismentorhowhe felt at thenewsofDutt’spassing.Murthysaid tohim, “Icried, but more for myself than for him.”Murthy andDuttwere a dream team, likeSpielberg and Kaminski, David Lean andFreddieYoung.“Murthyjiwasascalmandcom-posedasDuttsaabwasimpatient,butthetwowere aligned in their vision,” recalls actorWaheedaRehmaninanewdocumentary.ThisfaithineachothercreatedmagicinDutt’sfilms,theoblongchiaroscuros,andthe“mirrorshot”,for instance, in his swansong, the GermanExpressionistic noirKaagaz ke Phool (1959).Nihalani,whosehoroscopedeclaredhewouldworkwithartandmechanics,wasonlytoogladMurthytookhimin.Nihalani is among the 14 yesteryear cine-matographers inHemantChaturvedi’sdocu-mentaryChhayaankan: TheManagement ofShadows,whotalkabouttheirfade-inandfade-outoftheBombayfilmindustry,whilepullingourfocusonthemagicalworldofstartantrumsandchallengingsciencewithimaginationandlimited resources in the analogue era. Theymadeourheroeslevitate,andevenvanish.KaifiAzmi’ssonBabasawtheDOPslikeJalandFaliMistry,withtheirassistants,andfelt theyhadthe“realpower”onthesets.Thecharacters in thedocumentary, famousastheybecame,wereallaccidentalcinematog-raphers. Kamalakar Rao was an engineer.JehangirChoudhary“neverwantedtobeacin-ematographer,hewasgettinghiscommercialpilot’s licencewhen theGulfWarhappenedand theaviation fuel rateswent through thesky. Thenextbest thingwascinematographyforhe’dgrownupwith it (he’s related tovet-erancinematographersJalandFaliMistryand

actorShyama),” saysChaturvedi, 54.NadeemKhan, the “disco cinematographer” (DiscoDancer, 1982), got his gig inMuzaffar Ali’sGaman (1978)because JacquesRenoir couldnotmakeit.TheoperativecameramaninSholay (1975),SMAnwar,amatriculateandradio-mechanicdiplomaholder, used to install loudspeakersat weddings and repair electrical sockets.Anwar(Shaan,Shakti,Saagar intheearly’80s)pickeduphisshootingskillsbycapturingbirdsin flight, and followedZeenatAman, on lens(forManoranjan, 1974) in tight close-ups. Alook at the rushes later left the film’s cine-matographer Dwarka Divecha impressed.Anwarwashiredwith a fat packageof Rs 25monthlyatEagleFilms.Thedocumentary’s sutradhar, inblack-and-whiteframes,is,perhaps,theoldestcinematog-rapherinIndiatoday,atage93or94.Thespe-

cial-effectsmanmadeMrIndiavanishin1987andAjoobafightthevillainonaflyingcarpetin1991.Thenow-visually-impairedPeterPereiraholds themagazineof anold cameraand in-stantlyrecognisesittobeanoldMitchellcam-era. Themoment’s irony evokes a sense ofpathosanddeepreverenceatonce.AhilariousPereira alsomakes no bones about callingWadiaMovietone’sHomiWadia a “kanjoos(miserly)man” for increasinghis salary toRs50amonth.The“ghantewala”stars,wearetold,cametothe sets for twohours andgot shots taken, inmultipleanglesandexpressions,tobeusedinthe editing stage, because theywouldn’t beavailable later for a re-shoot. One suchwascalled the “Chakraborty Shot”, afterMithunChakraborty.DisciplinecamewiththelikesofShabanaAzmiandSmitaPatilwho “came tobecome stars, let’s get that straight,” says

Chaudhuryinthefilm,“butwereokaywithbe-ingactors;theychangedtheindustry.”Mumbai-basedChaturvedi,aJamiaMillia

Islamia graduate, did TV in the beginning:IndiaBusinessReport,AmulIndiaShow,TurningPoint, India’s first chat showNikki Tonight,Rendezvouswith Simi Garewal,Kaun BanegaCrorepati season 1, Gubbare (for VishalBhardwaj).HewastakingnotesonthesetsofMerchant-Ivoryproductions.Duringtheshootof the documentary Street Musicians ofBombay(1994),hesaw,forthefirsttime,acin-ematographer (Choudhury),withhismeter,whiteclothanddolly,bentover, looking intothe camera, his one eye shut. “Somethingsparkedoff,andIfeltIshouldpursuethis,”saysChaturvedi,who,asaclapperboy/focuspuller,learnt techniqueandethics fromLarryPizer,during In Custody (1993), towhomhededi-catesthedocumentary.Chaturvedi’s Bollywood entrywas dra-

matic: RamGopal Varma, on a treadmill, of-fered him Company (2002). He didMakdee,Maqbool,15ParkAvenue,Kurbaan, etc. in the2000s, before quitting cinematography in2015.He“triedveryhardtobreakintothein-dustrybutpeoplewereobnoxious. Iwastoldtobeawaitstaff instead.Thosewhorejectedme,in1989-91,areinmyfilm(theotherthreewereMurthy,KKMahajanandAshokMehta).The industry produced its owncameramen,and FTII seniors hired their juniors. Till date,thosecliquesexist,”hesays.Thefirstthinghedidafterquittingwasto interviewthesevet-erans. The documentary took “15 days ofshoot, six years of inertia, and sixmonths tofinish,lastyear.WhenNadeemsaabwentintocomaandIshwarBidripassedaway,Irealisedifmyowncastdoesn’tgettoseethefilm,thenit’s a shame,” adds Chaturvedi,whose very-Bombay filmwas rejected by theMumbaiInternational FilmFestival this year, andwillscreenatDelhi’sIndiaInternationalCentreonAugust18.Chaturvediisonaparallelmission,having photo-documented 950 old single-screen theatres across India so far. But thatstoryis foranotherday.

The 39th JerusalemFilm Festivaloffered a chance toexperience Israel, inreel and real

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New Delhi

Benita Fernando

AS SOMEONEwho barely ever questionedCarrie Bradshaw’s fashion choices, I wasshaken out ofmynonchalance after the SexandtheCity(SATC)moviein2008.Carriegiftsa$4,500handbagtoherBlackassistantLouise.It’saLouisVuitton,a“MotardFirebird”,whichdebutedthatyear.LouisealreadyhasanLV—only,it’s a rental. When sheopens the gift, she can’tbelieve her eyes. “Myvery own LouisVuitton?!”sheexclaims.If there is one hand-

bag that should havebeen hidden away, it isthis one. It’s a quizzicalpalette of purple, coralandyellow,madeworseby embellishments thatpop like ulcers. But, asSATC emphasised, aLouis Vuitton— even agarishone—istimeless.A Louis Vuitton has

been a symbol of aspiration for some timenow. Filmmaker Karan Johar's NRI, globe-trotting leads are often shownwith a LouisVuitton in tow as part of the upper-classIndianfantasythatJoharsells.It’snotfarfromreality, however. Louis Vuitton is one of theworld’stop10valuablebrands(Forbesputsitat number 9),mostly owing to its emphasisonhandmade,limitededitions,durabilityand

changinginventory. It isalsooneof themostvisible luxury brands because of its distinctbrown “MonogramCanvas”. The pattern ofinterlocked initials and flowers inspired byJapanesedesignsmakesthemonogrameasyto identify, even by those untrained in fash-ion-spotting. It’swhyaccusingaMemberofParliamentsuchasMahuaMoitraof“hiding”a Louis Vuitton during the recent

Parliamentary discus-sions on inflation andprice hike is easy be-cause themonogram istoo obvious. It an-nouncesitself likealux-urycar. It’snotscaredofbeing itself. In compari-son, it is less easy toidentify, for instance, aChanel handbag orMaybachsunglasses.Louis Vuitton’s

monogrampatternpos-siblygoesagainstevery-thing we have beentaught is good taste.Growingup,weare toldthat it is shameful to

flauntone’sblessings;thatanunderstatedde-signisamarkofsophistication.Wewantalux-urygood,butwedon’twantitscreamingthebrandname.Amonogrampattern—theideaofanamebeingstampedoverandoveragain—wouldseemmorallyrepugnant.Or, sowe are told. Louis Vuitton’smono-

gramwas trademarked in 1896, about fourdecades after the brandwas created, to pre-

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(Above)Moitra inParliamentwithherLV;an1848adfor

LouisVuittonluggage

WRITE A NEWBEGINNING(Top) Mohsin

Hamid; the cover ofhis new book that

releases laterthis month

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A Lesson inDemocracyWith a queen bee to helm them,the apian world runs in harmony

RanjitLalRanjit Lal isanauthor,environmentalist andbirdwatcher

DOWNINJUNGLELAND

THEMOMENTthenewsgotoutthatbeesare“sentient”beings,DowninJungleland,atconsid-erablepersonalrisk,obtainedaninterviewwiththeQueenofawell-establishedhive.Excerpts:

Congratulations,YourMajesty!Youhavenowbeendeemedtobeasentientspeciesalongwiththegreatapes,dolphins,elephants,parrotsandus!Howdoesitfeeltobeaqueen?Also,don’tyouthinkthis ‘royalty’businessisalittleoutdatedinthesetimes?Sir, itwastheworkersthatpickedme—amongothers

—tobetheirQueen.Believeme, it’snoeasyjob.Trytolayupto2,000eggseverysingleday!

MayIaskyouforyouropinionaboutthecastesystem?It’smerelyadivisionof labour.Unlikeyourcastesys-

tem,myworkerprincessescan,anddo,changetheirsta-tusastheygrow.Whenveryyoung, theyworkinthehive,tendingtome,thebabiesandthelarvae.

Thatsoundslikechildlabour!Howcanyouapprove?Tellmeagainwhyareseven-year-oldsturningsom-

ersaultsatyourtraffic lights?And,don’tyouaskyourchildrentocleanupafter themselvesordochores?Ourprincessesarenotcondemnedtodothesamejoballtheir lives.

Whatdoyoumean?Soon, they’llbepromotedtomoreresponsibletasks

likekeepingthehidewell-ventilatedandoptimallywarm;takingnectarandpollenfromworkerswhoreturnfromtripsandfeedingtheyoungorstoringit.Theyrepairandrebuild;guardthehive.Whentheyareolder, theyfor-agefornectarandpollen.

Don’ttheyhaveboyfrienddrones?(Sottovoce)No. Imakesuretheyneverfeel thatway

aboutboys.

Whataboutthesedronefellowsthatarehanging

aboutdoingnothinglikeplayboysorloungelizards?(Withawrysmile)Ah,myhandsomeprinces,allof

themsokeentofindaprincessthattheycanturnintoaqueen!Which, theywilloneday,poorfellows!

Soif theymeetaprincessandthingsgowell,won’ttheybecomeKingbees?Or,at least, likethelateDukeofEdinburgh?(Sadly)Nomyfriend,asyouknow,whenwesting,we

diebecauseourstingsandpartsofourbodiesaretornoutwhenwedoso.Well, theprincesarestinglessbutmuchthesamethinghappenstothemostvitalpartof theiranatomyduringtheirweddingnight.Theydon’tsurvive!

OMG!AsQueen,youhaveabsolutepower!Isthatfair?Oh,nowehaveademocracy!If, forexample,ascout-

ingprincessreturnsfromanexpeditionexcitedbecauseshehasdiscoveredanevenbettersiteforahive,shewilltryandconvinceotherstocheckitout. If anotherscoutre-turnswithnewsofanothersite,she’lldothesame.Bothwillhead-butteachotheruntilonesidegivesway.Buttherehastobeaminimumof15membersapprovingthenewsite.Then, thehivemaydecidetorelocate. Ihavenosayinthematter. Ihavetoabidebytheirdecision.

Yousaidearlierthatyourworkers ‘picked’youamongothers.Whatdidyoumeanbythat?Well, theyfeedseveralofuspotentialqueenswith

royal jellysowearefit tobequeens. Iwasthefittest, soIwaspicked.Nowyoucan’thavetwoormorequeensinonehive,soIhadtoexterminateall theothers.

Soyoukilledyoursisters-to-be?Asoneday,oneofmydaughters-to-bewillkillme.

There’llalwaysbesomelarvaeintheroyalcells justwait-ing.WhenIcan’tproduceasmanyeggs,anotherpotentialqueenwillemergeandfightmetodeath.

Whoisthebiggestthreattoyou?(Pityingly)Apart fromyouhumans, Iwouldsaydis-

easesandhornets.One-to-one,wearenomatchforhor-nets,but if ahornetnosesaround,awholebunchofusjustpileonandroast it todeath—theycan’tbeartemper-aturesabove40degreesCelsius.

Weonlyculledyoutoprotectfuturegenerations…What’sgoodforthegoose...!Butwe’ll triumphlikeour

killer-beesisters intheUS.Remember,wearesentient!

BEE LIKE THEMIn the apian world, roles change constantly based on need

RANJITLAL

vent counterfeits. The pattern boosted LouisVuitton’sluxurystatusbutitssynonymywiththe brand led to thebusiness of replicas and“real fakes” across theworld. Suddenly, itseemedthattheaspirationwasn’tsomuchtoownthebagasmuchasthepattern.Eventoday,LouisVuittonlook-alikespro-

liferatestreetmarketsinIndia.Otherbrandswere inspired by Louis Vuitton’s logo-fica-tionanddevised their ownmonogrammedpatterns.Monogrammingbecamea luxurypower-dressing craze, with PrimeMinisterNarendra Modi sporting a suit mono-grammedwith his name. In 2015, at `4.31crore, itbecametheworld’smostexpensivesuit ever tobesoldatanauction.Monogrammed Louis Vuittonswere so

massyanaspirationthat theybecamecom-monplace,eitherasoriginalsorpre-lovedorfakes. In the previous decade, Louis Vuittonmovedawayfromitslogohandbagsinorderto reduce the dilution of the brand fromfakes, amongother reasons.Adecadeago, acourt dismissed Louis Vuitton’s lawsuitagainstWarner Bros. for using counterfeitbags in their filmHangoverPart II.Inaworldoffakes,Moitra’shandbag,pos-

siblyaGrandPalais, is, thankfully, anoriginal.Thisisnotthefirsttimethatafemalepoliticianhas beenmentioned in the context of herhandbag. The former chiefminister of UttarPradesh,Mayawati,installedstatuesofherselfacrossthestatewithseveralcarryingahand-bag. Asmuchasher statue-frenzywas criti-cised, the bag invited equal suspicion. Is it aBirkin?IsitaPrada?ShouldaDalitpoliticianbesportingahandbag?Whatcoulditallmean?The handbag, as a feminine stash of se-

crets, is often perceived as a place to safe-guard illicit items— lipsticks, sanitary nap-kins,antidepressants,contraceptivepillsandwho-knows-what-else. Patriarchy loves tobelittle femininitywhenall otherbarbs fail,and thehandbag is a last resort. Yet, there isa lesson to be learnt from the late BritishPrimeMinisterMargaret Thatcher, whose“handbag became the sceptre of her rule,”accordingtoherofficialbiography.Whenshereprimanded her cabinet, it coined thephrase“tohandbag”,awordnowusedtore-fer towomenruthlesslyandverballycrush-ingpeople. It’s likewhenMoitrashotbackather critics with amedley of photos of herhandbaginatweetthatread,“JholewalafakirinParliamentsince2019”,aspinonthetimewhenthePMdescribedhishumbleorigins.Nothing like a trusty Louis Vuitton to dosomegoodoldhandbagging!

The Handbaghas Spoken

The latest luxury-bag uproar is all about monograms,aspirations and the backlash against female politicians

Paromita Chakrabarti

IN THE Last White Man (HamishHamilton, Rs 599), his fifth novel thatwill release at the end of themonth,MohsinHamidthrowsupaninterest-ingproposition—whathappenswhen

aWhitemanwakesuponemorningandre-alises he is no longer one. That his deracina-tionispartofagreatchangeovertakingshapeinhiscity.Howwouldthefutureunspool?Canone really become theOther? In this inter-view,theLahore-basedwriter,50,knownfornovels such as The Reluctant Fundamentalist(2007)andExitWest(2017),speaksofnurtur-ingthisstorysince9/11,thwartingbigotryandwritinglesstoconveymore.Editedexcerpts:

Whatledyoutothisparticularstory?This storywasborn, inaway,bymyown

experiencesof livingintheWest,particularlyin America. In the first 30 years of my life, Ispent18yearsthere.Havinggonetoeliteuni-versities,workedinwell-payingjobsandliv-inginacosmopolitancitylikeNewYork,Iex-perienced, I guess, some degree ofdiscrimination,butithadfeltrelativelyminor.After 9/11, suddenly, Iwas being stopped atairportsandpulledaside forextrascreening,Iwouldflyintothecountryandbecalledupatimmigrationandkeptforhours.I’dgetontoabuswith a backpack, a bit unshaven on theweekend,andpeoplewouldlookuncomfort-able;sometimes,they’dswitchseats.Ifeltthisprofoundsenseof loss. Iwanted things togoback to how theywere before 9/11. I didn’twant to be this personof suspicion. I startedthinking,what have I lost exactly? In away,eventhoughI’mabrown-skinnedman,withaMuslim-soundingname,Ihadbenefittedinmany of the advantages of a kind ofWhiteness,ofbeingjustapersontreatedasaregularperson. I startedtothink, should Iac-tuallywant to go back to thatway of seeingme?Or,shouldI,instead,askmyself,whatwasthesystemthat Iwascomplicit in?Whatdidit mean, to be treated this way in aworldwhereclearlymanypeoplearenot?Decadessince,IeventuallystumbleduponthisideaofamanwhohadthoughthimselfasWhite,andthenhe suddenly isn’t. And I thought, that’smywayintothisbook.

Theideaof inhabitingsomeone’sskinrequiresempathy.Ithasbeenatthecoreofmanyofyournovels.Doesthatcomefromyourperipateticlife,therealisationthatwefit ininfarmoreidentitiesthanone,oristheresomethingelsetoit?I’ve lived between the US, the UK and

Pakistanmost ofmy life. If you live betweentwo or three countries, you realise that thedominantways of seeing things are alwayscontingent,andthat,basedonculturalpecu-liarities, evenwithin those places, there aredifferences. I suppose partlywhat happenswhenyoumovearoundasachild is thatyoudon’t want to stand out. At least, I didn’t.There’sareal feelingof threat frombeingthekid in classwho is different fromeverybodyelse.So,youquicklylearntobecomeakindof

chameleon.When Imoved fromPakistan toCalifornia,attheageofthree,withinamonth,IwasspeakingonlyEnglishandhadstoppedspeaking Urdu. When I moved back toPakistan at the age of nine, I had to relearnUrduandfindawaytofitbackin.Thatkindofexperiencemademe,andIthinkmakesmanypeople, very sensitive towhat othersmightbethinkingorfeeling.Butyoudon’talwayshavetomovecoun-

tries. In Pakistan and India, you seedifferentgroupsofpeopleinteracting,youlearntopickupon these cues. That is how I findmyway.Empathyispartof it,butanenormouspartoffictionhastodowithnotjusttellingmystoryorthestoryofmypeople, it’salsowantingtobesomebodyelse.Thatishugelyattractive—imaginingourwayintootherexperiences.

Wearealsoata juncturewherereinforcementof singular identities isontheriseamongnationsacrosstheworld.Whatdoes itmeanforyoutobeanovelist insuchaworld?You’reright,wearelivinginatimewhere

thereisapressingimperativetoassertadom-inant group identity in countries all over theworld,whether that’s India, Pakistan,Britainor America, Turkey, Brazil and Russia. It’sworthaskingwhy.Onepartof itisthatinhis-tory,whenever a powerful empire begins torecede, thesesub-nationalisticornationalis-tic impulsesstarttoassertthemselves. Inour

ownexperience in India andPakistan,whenthe British Empire ended in 1947, we hadPartition.Now,asAmerica’sdominanceseemstobediminishing,weareseeingasimilareffect.But alongside that, there’s also a techno-

logicalrealitythatweinhabitthatisveryalgo-rithmic.Theimpulsetogiveapersonathumbsuporthumbsdown,andthenbeincreasinglysorted into peoplewho have given similarvotes to similar things iswhat technology istelling us every single day. It intensifies theidea that we are all different, and that weshouldfocusonparticularaspectsofourselves—ourreligion, skincolour.Wearebeingcul-turally, technologicallydriven towards theseanxiety-inducingelementsof identity.The third thing is that thepaceof change

is accelerating. The future is looking increas-ingly dystopian, and, because of this,we arebeingdrawntonostalgicappeals.Wearebe-ing told thatwe should go back to the greatdaysofthepastofourpeople.Thosegreatdaysnever really existed. Theywere incrediblyproblematic, thepast thatweall come from.So,asanovelist,what formeisvery interest-ingistotrytoimaginedifferently, toremove,forexample,theeaseofabinarysortingmech-anismonthesubjectof race; tosay,what if itwasn’tpossibleforustosorteachother?Or,totakeadystopianconceptandsay,what ifweweretoallowthistohappen?Whatifmigra-tionswere to sweep theworld?What if therace that you imagine yourself to belong to

disappeared?And, togointothesedystopiasandimagineawayoutintoamoreoptimisticpotential. Because unless we can begin toimagine something optimistic, we are con-demnedtoapoliticsrootedinpessimismandinaverydangeroustribal identity.

AtthetimeofthereleaseofHowToGetFilthyRichinRisingAsia(2013),yourthirdnovel,you’dmentionedhowtheconcisenessofyourbookshelpeddrawinmanyfirst-generationEnglishreadersinthesubcontinentwhowantedtopartakeintheliteraryexperience. Inthetimesince,withtheriseofsocialmediaandOTTplatforms,thenatureofreadershiphasquitechanged.Asawriter,howdoyoucompetewiththatworldnow?Inasense,it’snotaboutcompetingasmuch

as it is understandingwhat the space is. Thedominantmass-produced,mass-reproducedstorytellingformisnowtelevisual.Inthose,weencounterworlds that arequite comprehen-sivelyimaginedforus.Theviewer,inthatsense,isaviewer.Butinthenovel,thereaderisnotaviewer.Youareanimatingwordsintopeople,feelings, entire imaginary landscapes. So, Ithinkofwhat thenovel candoas somethingverydifferent. Thenovel invites every readertobeaco-creator,adirectorof theirownfilmofthebook.Thenovelislikeascreenplayforareader. One thing I’ve done is tomove awayfromdialogue. It doesn’t evenneed to enactevents. Itcan, instead, functionasawayofal-lowing the reader to imagine. So, the craft ofwritingmynovelshasbecomeoneoftryingtocreate gaps, coupledwith imaginative cata-lysts. Lots of things areunsaid, not specified,theywork in an interior domain that, hope-fully,allowsthereadertocreatesomething.

Is thatwhyyoutendto leaveoutcultural andgeographical specificitiesfromyourwork?When Imovedback to Pakistan in 2009,

afterTheReluctantFundamentalist,thereweremany peoplewho thought that therewassomethingperniciousaboutanovelisttakingona representative role.Now, I’m the first toadmitthatI’mnotrepresentativeofanything.ButIcouldseehowpeoplewouldthinkyou’reengaginginaculturalstrip-mining,whereyouexploit the landscape of Pakistan and sell tothecultureindustryabroad. It’snotacritiquethat one can dismiss lightly. The economicsare certainly interesting— somany of one’sreadersarenot inSouthAsia, somuchof thepublishing industry is not in SouthAsia, thelanguagethatIwriteinisEnglish.So,amIre-allyinnocentandhowdoIrespond?Ithought,letme begin by trying to impose a certainrigourtowardsmyself.MaybeIwon’tuseanynames at all. I’m not going to call the placePakistan, I won’t say this religion is Islam, Iwon’t name these characterswith Pakistaninames. I won’t allow easy representativemovestodeterminehowI’mwriting.WhenIbegan to do this, I discovered there’s enor-mouspower in it. As I began tocircumscribemyownrepresentationalaspectsasawriter,I foundthatIwasalsoopeningsomethingup—animaginativespaceforthereader.

Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid on upending dystopias, finding ways to engagewith a new readership and his latest novel

‘We’re being culturally driven towardsanxiety-inducing elements of identity’

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THENEWYORKTIMESAUGUST6

OVERINFORMAL,privatemealswith American leaders, China’sXi Jinping let his guard down alittle. It was a decade ago, rela-tionswere less strained, andXi,stillcementinghispower,hintedhe worried about the ChineseCommunistParty’sgrip.Speaking privately with

President Barack Obama andvice-president JoeBiden, Xi sug-

gested thatChinawas a target of“colourrevolutions,”aphrasetheparty adopted from Russia forpopular unrest in the name ofdemocracy and blamed on theWest.“Xicouldn’thavebeenmoreforthright that China is beset bymalevolent forces and internallyprey to centrifugal forces,” saidDaniel R Russel, a formerAmericandiplomatwhoaccom-paniedBidentoChinain2011.Suchfearshavecometodefine

theeraofXi.Overthepastdecade,hehaspursuedanall-encompass-

ing drive to expand the verymeaningof“nationalsecurity”inChina,bolsteringtheparty’scon-

trolonallfronts.Hehasstrength-ened,centralisedandemboldenedanalreadypervasive securityap-paratus, turning it into ahulkingfortressthatprotectshimandpo-sitionshimas themostpowerfulleader since Mao Zedong andDengXiaoping.Xihasbuiltwhathecallsa“comprehensive”systemdesignedforaworldheseesasde-terminedtothwartChina—polit-ically,economically,socially,mili-tarilyandtechnologically.As Xi prepares to claim a

breakthrough third term as

leader, he has signaled that na-tionalsecuritywillbeevenmoreofafocus. “WhatissoimportantandworrisomeisthatXiJinpingisn’t making a distinction any-more between internal and ex-ternalsecurity,”said Russel,nowa vice-president at the AsiaSociety Policy Institute. “XiJinping is determined to takemoreforcefulactionandusethevarious tools at his disposal tomeet those threatsand tobreakthroughwhat he sees as a kindof strangleholdof theWest.”

XiJinpingwithformerUSPresidentObamain2012.NYT

Seoul: North Korea onSaturday called US HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi “theworst destroyer of interna-tional peace and stability,”accusingherof incitinganti-North Korea sentiment andenraging China during herAsiantourearlierthisweek.On Saturday, Jo Yong Sam,directorgeneralattheNorthKorean Foreign Ministry’spressandinformationaffairsdepartment said “Pelosi,stirreduptheatmosphereofconfrontation” with NorthKorea during her stay inSouthKorea. AP

REUTERS&PTITAIPEI, AUGUST6

TAIWANOFFICIALSsaidChineseaircraftandwarships rehearsedan attack on the island onSaturday,partof Beijing’s retali-ation for a visit there by USHouseSpeakerNancyPelosithathas also seen it halt talks withthe US on issues, including de-fenceandclimatechange.USSecretaryof StateAntony

BlinkenaccusedChinaof taking“irresponsible steps” by haltingkey communication channelswithWashington,andsaiditsac-tions over Taiwan showed amovefromprioritisingpeacefulresolution towardsuseof force.Taiwan’sdefenceministrysaid

multipleChineseshipsandplanesconductedmissionsintheTaiwanStrait on Saturday, with somecrossingthemedianline,inwhattheTaiwanmilitarydescribedasasimulationattackontheisland.The ministry said later thatTaiwan scrambled jets towarnaway20Chineseaircraft, includ-ing 14 that crossed themedianline. It also detected 14 Chinesemilitary ships conducting activi-tiesaroundtheTaiwanStrait, theministrysaidinastatement.China’s Eastern Theater

Commandsaid it had continuedtoconduct seaandair joint exer-cisesnorth,southwestandeastofTaiwan.Itsaiditsfocuswasontest-ingthesystem’slandstrikeandsea

assaultcapabilities.Meanwhile, China warned

theUSnotto“stirupabiggercri-sis”overTaiwan.While thescaleof themilitary drills has led tospeculation that Chinamay begetting ready for an invasion ofTaiwan,ChineseForeignMinisterWangYiplayeddownthereports.“It’s a complete rumour and

slander that the US claims thatChinahaschangedthestatusquoin theTaiwanStraits,” he said. YihaswarnedtheUSnotto“stirupa bigger crisis” over Taiwan. Hewas quoted as saying that theusualtacticoftheUSisthatitwillfirst create the problems, andthen use them to achieve theirgoal. “Wemust solemnlywarntheUSnottoactrashlyorcreateabigger crisis,” he said, adayafterBeijing imposed sanctions onPelosiandherimmediatefamily.

PLAmilitary drills simulateattack, says TaiwanasBeijingwarnsWashington

PRESSTRUSTOFINDIACOLOMBO,AUGUST6

PRESIDENT RANILWickremesinghe has said SriLanka’s economic woeswouldlast for another year and it willhavetothinkoutsidetheboxandlookatnewsectors like logisticsandnuclearenergytorevivethebankrupteconomy.Speaking at a two-day con-

ference titled “Let's reset SriLanka” held on Friday,Wickremesinghesaidreformsinthe country also would needhigher taxation. “The next sixmonths to one year, till aboutJulynextyear,wewillhavetogothrough a hard time,” he said,adding that for recovery Lankawould have to look at new sec-torssuchaslogisticsandnuclearenergy. “One I believe in very

much is logistics, if you see thegrowthoftheIndian,Bangladeshiand Pakistani economies, logis-ticscanhaveabigroletoplayherein Colombo, inHambantota andTrincomalee. This ishowweuseourstrategicposition,”hesaid.Tourism industry also got

dentedinitiallyduetotheCovid-19pandemicand laterowing to

the economic turmoil.Wickremesinghesaid economicreforms would require highertaxation. “Even taxation onwealth, we have to resort tothose measures, first for eco-nomic recovery and second forsocial stability,”hesaid.The president also said the

country will have to considergetting into the nuclear energysector.“Moreyouhavemoreen-ergy you can sell to India, at thesametimekeepmorerenewableenergy available. We have tothinkoutside thebox,”hesaid.Referring to theongoing IMF

bailoutattempt,Wickremesinghesaidthelegalandtechnicaladvis-ersondebtrestructuringaremov-ingaheadwiththetask.“Firsttheforeigndebt….andwhenyoulookat theofficialdebtarewegettingcaught into thegeopoliticsof theregionofAsia?,”hesaid.

Woes to last another year; lookingat new sectors for recovery: Ranil

Ananti-governmentrally inColomboon Saturday.Reuters

Pak Army chiefreaches out toUAE, Saudi forbailout package

SAJJADHUSSAINISLAMABAD,AUGUST6

DAYSAFTERseekingUShelp insecuring an early release of acrucial $1.7 billion instalmentfromthe IMFtoPakistan,Armychief General Qamar JavedBajwa has now reached out toSaudi Arabia and the UAE aspart of his efforts to ensure fi-nancial assistance for thecash-strappednation, according toamedia report on Saturday.AstheExecutiveBoardof the

IMF is set to meet later thismonth to formally approve thenexttrancheof$1.2billioninstal-ment, the international lenderwants Pakistan to ensure it re-ceives commitment from itsfriends for financial assistance,theExpressTribune reported.It is believed that the IMF

has asked Pakistan to providefirmguarantees that its friendswouldprovide $4billion for itsexternal requirements.Pakistan is in talkswith key al-lies like Saudi Arabia, the UAEand China to provide the nec-essary funding, the report said.When Prime Minister

Shehbaz Sharif travelled toSaudi Arabia in April, he re-turned empty-handed asRiyadh had not given any firmassurance. The UAE was alsoreluctant tocometo therescue.Instead of providing loans, theUAE offered Pakistan to buyshares and assets.PakistanArmy'smediawing

said General Bajwa received acall from UAE PresidentMohamedbinZayedal-Nahyan.It,however,madenomentionofany talks related to financial aidtoPakistan. PTI

REUTERSGAZA/JERUSALEM,AUGUST6

ISRAEL STRUCK in Gaza andPalestiniansfiredrocketsatIsraelicities onSaturday after an IsraelioperationagainsttheIslamicJihadmilitantgroupendedovetayearof relativecalmalongtheborder.Israel on Friday killed oneof thegroup’s senior commanders in asurprisedaytimestrikeonahigh-rise building inGazaCitywhichdrewrocketsalvoesinresponse.On Saturday, Israel said it

struck Islamic Jihad militantspreparing to launchrocketsandmilitantposts.Additionalbomb-ings targeted five houses, wit-

nessessaid,sendinghugecloudsof smokeanddebris into theairasexplosions rockedGazaCity.Palestinianmilitants fired at

least160rocketsacross thebor-der, setting off air raids sirensand sending people running tobomb shelters as far as the cen-tral Israeli city of Modiin, be-tweenTelAvivand Jerusalem.Islamic Jihad said it had tar-

geted Israel’smain internationalgateway,BenGurionAirport,butthe rocket fell shortnearModiin,around20kmaway,andtheCivilAviationAuthoritysaidtheairportwasoperatingasusualwithflightroutes adjusted.Mostmissileswereinterceptedandtherewerenoreportsofseriouscasualties.

HAMASSEIZEDpowerinGazafromrivalPalestinianforcesin2007,twoyearsafterIsraelwithdrewfromthecoastalstrip. TensionssoaredagainearlierthisyearfollowingawaveofattacksinsideIsrael,near-dailymilitaryoperationsintheWestBankandten-sionsataflashpointJerusalemholysite.

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Xi builds security fortress for China and himself

REUTERSAUGUST 6

US CONSPIRACY theorist AlexJonesmustpaytheparentsofa6-year-old boy killed in the 2012SandyHookmassacre$45.2mil-lioninpunitivedamages-ontopof $4.1million in compensatorydamages already awarded - forfalselyclaimingtheshootingwasahoax,aTexasjurysaidonFriday.

NeilHeslinandScarlettLewis,separatedparentsofslain6-year-oldJesseLewis,testifiedthatfol-lowers of Jones harassed themand sent themdeath threats foryears inthefalsebelief that theywere lying about their son’sdeathintheDec.14,2012,shoot-ingthatkilled20childrenandsixstaff at SandyHook ElementarySchoolinNewtown,Connecticut.The12 jurors decidedon the

punitive damages one day after

determining the compensatorydamages following a two-weektrial inthedefamationlawsuit instatecourtinAustin,whereJones’

radioshowandfar-rightwebcastInfowarsarebased.Jones had called the Sandy

Hook massacre a US govern-menthoaxstagedusingcrisisac-tors toserveasapretext for tak-ingawayAmericans’ guns.After the verdict, Lewis told

reportersthatthetrial'soutcomeshowed that “we can chooselove,”adding:“We'reallrespon-sible for one another." The par-entshadsought$145.9millionin

punitivedamagesand$150mil-lion incompensatorydamages.An attorney for Jones,

Federico Andino Reynal, hadasked jurors to return a verdictof$270,000inpunitivedamagesbased on the number of hoursInfowarsdevotedtoSandyHookcoverage. Outside the court-house,Reynal toldreporters theverdict was high but that Texaslaw caps punitive damages at$750,000perplaintiff.

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SHED LIGHT ON MIDDLE-CLASS LIFE

POMPEIIMAKESNEWDISCOVERIESAtrunkwithits lidleftopen.Awoodendishwarecloset, itsshelvescavedin.Three-leggedaccenttablestoppedbydecorativebowls.Theselatestdiscoveriesbyarchaeolo-gistsareenrichingknowledgeaboutmiddle-classlivesinPompeiibeforeMountVesuvius’ furiouseruptionburiedtheancientRomancityinvolcanicdebris in79AD.

TOPOFTHEWORLDUSA

IndianafirststatetoapproveabortionbanIndianapolis: Indiana onFriday became the firststate in the nation to ap-proveabortionrestrictionssince the US SupremeCourt overturned Roe v.Wade, as the Republicangovernorquicklysignedanear-totalbanonthepro-cedure shortly after law-makers approved it. Theban, which takes effectSept.15,includessomeex-ceptions.Abortionswouldbe permitted in cases ofrapeandincest,before10-weeks post-fertilisationandifafoetusisdiagnosedwithalethalanomaly.AP

SOUTHAFRICA

LifeexpectancyinAfricanregionupby10yrs:WHOJohannesburg:Theaveragelife expectancy in theAfrican region has in-creased on average by10yearsperpersonbetween2000and2019, theWHOhassaid,describingtherisegreater than in any otherregionoftheworldduringthe sameperiod. Sharingdetails of a report,WHOsaidnumberofyearsanin-dividual is in a good stateofhealth—increasedto56years in 2019, comparedwith46in2000. PTI

AFGHANISTAN

BlastinKabul,kills8,injures22Kabul: A bomb blast in abusy shopping street inKabul on Saturday killedat least eight people andinjured 22, hospital offi-cials andwitnesses said.The bomb exploded in awesterndistrictofthecitywhere members of theShiaMuslimcommunityregularly meet. IslamicState, a Sunni Muslimmilitant group, claimedresponsibility for the at-tack. REUTERS

USA

SenateconfirmsPIOto topcourtWashington: The USSenate has confirmedIndianAmerican litigatorRoopaliHDesai to theUSCourt of Appeals for theNinthCircuit,makingherthefirstSouthAsianjudgeto serve on this powerfulcourt. Desai was con-firmedby theSenatebyabipartisanvoteof67-29onThursday.HeadquarteredinSanFrancisco,California,theNinth Circuit is by farthelargestofthe13courtsofappeals. PTI

Alex Jones slapped with $45.2 mn in punitive damages12-YEAR-OLDWAS INCOMA INUKHOSPITAL

ASSOCIATEDPRESSLONDON,AUGUST6

A 12-YEAR-OLD boy whohad been in acoma for fourmonths diedonSaturdayataLondonhos-pitalafterdoc-torsendedthelife-sustainingtreatment his

familyhad fought tocontinue.Archie Battersbee’smother,

Hollie Dance, said her son diedat12.15pm,abouttwohoursaf-terthehospitalbeganwithdraw-ingtreatment.Britishcourtshadrejected both the family’s effortto extend treatment and a re-quest tomove Archie to a hos-pice,sayingneithermovewasinthechild’sbest interests.“I’m the proudest mum in

the world,” Dance said as shestood outside the hospital and

wept.“Suchabeautiful littleboyandhefoughtrightuntiltheveryend.” Archiewas found uncon-scious at homewith a ligatureoverhisheadonApril7.Hispar-ents believe hemay have beentaking part in an online chal-lenge thatwentwrong.DoctorsconcludedArchiewas

brain-stemdeadsoonaftertheac-cidentandsoughttoendthelonglist of treatments that kept himalive, including artificial respira-tion. But his family objected,claimingArchiehadshownsignsof lifeandwouldn’thavewantedthemtogiveuphope.The disagreement triggered

weeks of legal arguments asArchie’s parents sought to forcethehospital to continue life-sus-tainingtreatments.DoctorsattheRoyal LondonHospital arguedtherewasno chanceof recoveryandheshouldbeallowedtodie.Aseriesofcourtsruleditwasin

Archie’sbestinterestthathebeal-lowedtodie.Archie’sfamilysaidhisdeathwasanythingbutpeaceful.

ArchieBattersbee

Boy at heart of court battledies after life support ends

AChinesePLAaircraftoverPingtanisland,Fujianprovince,China.Reuters

CHINATAKING IRRESPONSIBLESTEPS:U.S.

Alex Jonewasfined inthelawsuitbySandyHookvictims’families

PELOSIDESTROYEROFGLOBALPEACE:NKOREA

Taiwanese jets scrambledas20Chinese aircraft crossmedian line

Taipei: The deputy head ofTaiwan defenceministry’sresearch and developmentunit was found dead onSaturdaymorninginahotelroom, succumbing to aheart attack, according tothe official Central NewsAgency. Ou Yang Li-hsing,deputyheadofthemilitary-owned National Chung-Shan Institute of ScienceandTechnology,showednosign of any ‘intrusion’, CNAsaid. REUTERS

TAIWANOFFICIALHEADINGMISSILEPROJECTDIES

New Delhi

SANDIPGCHENNAIAUGUST6

STEPBYstep,DGukesh is leaping intochessstardom.Move bymove, he is scalping onechessimmortalaftertheother.AlexeiShirovfirst, FabianoCaruananow.Roundbyround,he is racking up the records. He is now theIndiaNo2onliveratings,andisonthejoint-longest unbeaten streak with VladimirKramnik for anyoneonhisOlympiaddebut.Daybyday,theworldiscongregatingaroundthe teenagerwhowears the undulating at-tentionaroundhimlightly,as thoughhehasself-exiled fromfameandsuccess.Atthepressconferencetableafterspear-

heading India B's 3-1 heist over theUSA, hesitswithsterneyesandagrimface,accentu-atedbythethickeningstubblethatcouldwinhim an audition in a campus romcom. Hetalks shyly—words trickle out of him, sen-tences punctuated with deep pauses. Hesmilesrarely—heforcedareluctantsmileaf-ter incessantpersuasionfromthephotogra-phers.Hewasaskedtodoathumbs-up—hemadeafeebleattempt.Hewearssuccesslightly.Probehimabout

anyofthemilestoneshehasrackedupinthelastfewdaysandmonths,hewouldgiveanI-am-not-botheredlook.He,simply, isnottheaverage 16-year-old. Of course, he is aGrandmaster which only a handful are orhave been at his age. But even among theteenaged-GMbrethren,heisthemostwith-drawnof the lot.Perhaps, he emotes through his pieces.

The ever cool king. Caruana tried severalstraight aswell as not-so-straight paths totoppleGukesh’sking.Hemiserablyfailed.Thequeenwasabitpanicky.AfterGukesh failedtodecode the lineof Caruana’s openingandfoundhimselfexposedtooearlyinthegame,hisqueenwasonasquare-hoppingspree.Liketheskippinggameyouplayinschool.

Therewasaninsanesequence—thequeenonC2was pushed to b5, and twomoves later,shewasrelocatedtod7,thentob7,backtod7,thenb7,thenbackagaintod7,andthentothebased8.Gukeshhardlydoesthetheatre,buthis queen certainly did and in the processmanagedtodistractCaruana.TheAmericanofItaliandescentreadmore

into the games thanwhatwas there on theboard.Hesensedatrap,orperhapsanoveltyeven,orthemethodbehindthemadness.Notenjoyinghisbestform,hepanicked.AndthenGukesh’s angry, stifled knights took over,stridingpasteveryattemptedpieceofresist-ance.ukesh’spresenceofmindandtheabil-itytonotdriftwasstaggering.Hehadthein-sight to realise his exact mistake and theforesight to come out of it. “I was caught intheopeningasitwentalongunfamiliarlinesforme.Butdidnotpanic.”Watching his troops run his opponent

ragged, Caruana rubbing his temple asthough in the clutches of a skull-crushingheadache, Gukesh’s powerful king smiledemphatically.The queen, after her manic run, could

catch her breath andmarvel at the battle-scenewith a sense of satisfaction. Caruanacould only curse himself and hope he re-claims the form that had deserted him. Hehadcomeprepared,asunfailinglyashedoes,but even the best of preparations could notsavehimfromlosingtoanopponentalmosthalfhisage.Inchess,ageisirrelevant.Thechess-teens

of Indiaaremakingitlookutterlytrivial.Soitiswith numbers and stardomof the adver-saries. The sparkle of USA’s chess galacticosdidnotoverawethem.Rather,asGukeshlateradmitted,hetookthisasanopportunity.Star-struck teens are bygones. For they are starsthemselves. Gukesh certainly is. MagnusCarlsen stopped by a game to get a glimpseofhisgenius.SusanPolgarsays theonlyrea-son she checks Twitter is to see how farGukeshhasprogressed.His coach RB Ramesh summed up his

vaulting progresswith onemetaphor: “Hehasbookedaticketinanexpresstrain.”Bullettrain rather. But team events are seldom aone-manshow—thefateofMagnusCarlsenin this tournament is anapt reminder—buta triumph of collectivism. Just like the kingneeds his pawns and knights to fulfil theirroles to subdue the enemy’s fleet. RaunakSadhwaniwasGukesh’s trustedaide.Themost unsung of the five, he seldom

lookedoutoftuneagainstLeinierDominguezPerez,whose books on openings are gospelto up-and-coming chess players. ButSadhwani was calm and collected — notheeding to Perez’s provocations, weaving

away from the carefully-laid traps and thenmakingmoveswith pinpoint precision. Hisgame is akin to a note-perfect tune, thoughhis gamewas notmusic to his opponent’sears.Whilethetwowinswouldamassalltheattention, the two drawswould assume adeepermeaning as the tournament hurtlesintotheclimax.NihalSarin’sdrawoverLevonAronian was straightforward,Praggnanandhaa’sgamewas lessso.The duel was an engrossing tussle be-

tweentwoplayerswithsupremecalculativeskills.ButWesleySotore thecoolandcalcu-lative facemask aside and unleashed theheavyartilleryonhim,inanattempttoattackhim out of the game, before the Indianteenager launched one. But thenPraggnanandhaadecidedtowearthatmaskSohadrippedapart.Unflusteredbyoneofhischess idols sitting across him in one of thebiggestgamesofhislife,hewouldcoollyplothismoves.Hemust have seen the attackingavenuesSohadathisdisposalandthesemi-exposed queen, but then he did not retreat.Heembracedthehighlydynamicaccelerateddragon line, considered one of the sharpestof all chessopenings.Inthisraremove, thoughthefavouriteof

theDutchGrandmasterAnishGiri,thewhiteusually castles queenside, placing thewhitekingonthesemi-openc-file.Theresult isof-tenbothsidesattackingtheother'skingwithallavailableresources.Thereby,heput thepressurebackonSo.

ThePhilippines-bornAmericanwasshockedand took time to regather his focus, thoughwith a last-ditch scramble saved his kingfrom an embarrassing capture. Match bymatch, this packof teenagers are comingofage.Thevanquishingof theUScouldbethatprecisemoment.

Teen spiritYounggunsGukeshandRaunakhelp India overpowerUSA3-1atChessOlympiad ANDREWAMSAN

AUGUST6

TRIPLE JUMPER Selva Prabhu hasn’t beenhomeinthelastsixmonthsashedidn’twantto risk disturbing his training routine. TheMadurai resident was single-mindedly fo-cusedonrealisinghisdreamof finishingonthe podium at the 2022 U20 WorldChampionships inCali, Colombia.His determination paid off on Friday as

hewon India’s first juniorWorldsmedal intriplejumpafterfinishingsecondwithabesteffortof16.15m.Selvaisasmuchrelievedashe is elated about winning themedal be-cause less than amonth back, hewas sad-dledwith crippling self-doubt after record-ing just 15.30min the final trials conductedby the federation.“Mycoachand familywere reallydisap-

pointed with that performance. I had losthope.MypreparationsforthejuniorWorldsbegansixmonthsagobut inthe lastmonth,everythingwenthaywire. I just couldn’t getthedistance Idesired. Iwas leftwithoutan-swers,” Selva tells The Indian Express afterhispodiumfinish.Luckily for 17-year-old Selva, his coach,

two-time World Championship silvermedallist triple jumper Yoandri Betanzos,had a solution. He has beenworkingwithSelvaandothertopjumpers,includingAsianGameschampionArpinderSingh, foraboutsix months now at JSW’s facilities inVijayanagar. Betanzos observed that Selvawastakinglongerstridesashecameclosertotheboardwhich reducedhis speed just be-foretakeoff.“Iwasaskedtotakeshorterandfaster stridescloser to theboard,”hesays.The solutionmay appear simple but a

tweakintechniquejustweeksbeforeamajor

competitionwouldleaveevenseasonedath-letessweating.ButSelvaknewtherewasn’taPlanB.“It isverydifficulttomakechangestoyourtechnique.Itislikechangingahabitandit requires time. But I wanted to win thismedalnomatterwhat.SoIjustgaveitevery-thinginmytrainingandwasabletomakethecorrection just intime,”hesays.CoachBetanzosalsomadetheyoungster

study five-time World and two-timeOlympicChampionChristianTaylor’svideos.“I havewatchedandobservedhis approachintherun-up. Ithelpedmealot,”saysSelva.At theU20Worlds, Selva reached the fi-

nalswith a 15.99m jump, finishing third inthe qualification round. During themedalround, Selva showed hemeant business ashe cleared the16mmark inhis first four at-tempts, landing the silverwithhis third try.Hestill finishedquitesomedistancebehindgoldmedallistJamaicanJaydonHibbert,whohadachampionshiprecord-breakingleapof17.27m. The Indian finished just 2cmaheadofEstonia’sbronzemedallistViktorMozorov.Backhome,Selva’sfamilyendedtheir15-

day fast for his success in Colombia. FatherThirumaran,whorunsasmallwaterpurify-ing unit inMadurai, was up all night as hedidn’twanttomisshisson’sevent.Hebrokedownatleastthreetimeswhiletalkingabouthis son’s triumph.“Myphonehas200messagesalready(11

am)and the calls haven’t stopped coming. Idon’t havewords to expressmy joy. For thepast15days,wehavebeenfastingandpray-ing forhisvictory,” saysThirumaran.ThefamilyisnoweagerlyawaitingSelva’s

return to celebrate the achievement. So isSelva. “It’s been a long time since I’ve beenhome.Imisshomefoodalot. I justcan’twaitto have mutton biryani prepared by mymum,” says theyoungster.

U20 Worlds: Triple jump silver in bag,Selva eager to savour mom’s biryani

SelvaPrabhu,17, tweakedhisrun-up justweeksbeforetheU20WorldChampionships toproduceasilver-winningeffortof16.15m. @IIS_Vijayanagar/Twitter

PRESSTRUSTOFINDIALAUDERHILL,AUGUST6

RISHABH PANT and skipper Rohit Sharmamissed out on big knocks butmade usefulenoughcontributionstopropelIndiato191for5 in the fourth T20I againstWest Indies onSaturday. Rohit (33off 16balls) andPant (44off31balls)werethemaincontributorswhileAxarPatelstrucksomemeatyblowstowardsthe end to finish unbeaten on20 off 8 balls.Sanju Samsonwasmore subduedduringhis30notoutoff23balls,oftenfailingtofindtheboundaries, which prevented India fromreaching200.For West Indies left-arm pacer Obed

McCoy,cricketindeedturnedouttobeagreatlevellerashewassmokedfor66runsoffhis4oversonlyaweekafterhehadtakenacareer-bestsix-wickethaul inthesecondODI. Itwasthemost expensive spell by aWest IndiesbowlerinT20Is.Rohit'snewapproachinpowerplaymight

not have producedmany big knocks save ahalf-century but he is certainly showing thewaywithpositiveintentupfront.McCoywentforthreesixesand25runsin

anover. Inthosethree,Rohithadacouple--apulloverdeepmid-wicketandaflatoneoverlong-off. The one that got himmaximumcheerswas a slog swept six off AkealHosein(1/28in4overs),butintheverynextdelivery,whichwasatadslowerandthelengthslightlyshorter,broughtabouthisdownfall.ButRohit's 33 inastandof 53 in less than

fiveovers set the toneandgaveotherbatterstimeandconfidence to go after thebowling.Thetendencytopreservewicketsandthengoafterbowling,whichhasbeenabaneofIndianT20teamsof therecentpast, isn'tvisibleany-more.Thecushionofthestrike-rategavePantandDeepakHooda(21off19balls)closetosixovers to produce a47-run stand,whichwasthelaunch-padforthefinalflourishfromAxar.

‘Ideal preparation’Wicketkeeper-batterDineshKarthikfeels

playing in different conditions on theCaribbean tourwill stand India ingoodsteadwhile preparing for the various challengesAustralian groundswill poseduring the T20WorldCuplaterthisyear."I think it isvery interestingbecauseeven

in the World Cup straightaway the threegrounds that come tomymindare Sydney -[where] thesidesareslightlysmallerandthestraightsarelonger,"Karthiksaidaheadofthefourth T20I. "Adelaide,we all know that thesidesareverysmallandagain,thestraightsarelong,whereasinMelbourne,it'stheexactop-posite-thestraightsareshortandthesidesareverybig.”

Brief Scores:India: 191 for 5 in 20 overs(RishabhPant44;AlzarriJoseph2/29).

Pant, Rohitpower India to191/5 vs Windies

DGukeshandFabioCaruana locked inan intensebattle. FIDE

SPORT17 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COMTHE SUNDAY EXPRESS,AUGUST7,2022

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Saturday August13It’s a condition of success today that youpursue your goals in a down-to-earthmanner, one step at a time and withmaximumregard for long-termresults.

If it’s yourBirthday

SUDOKU4919

DifficultyLevel3sInstructionsTosolveaSudokupuzzle,everydigitfrom1to9mustappear ineachofthenineverticalcolumns, ineachoftheninehorizontalrowsandineachofthenineboxes.

DifficultyLevel1s=Veryeasy;2s=Easy;3s=Medium;4s=Hard;5s=VeryHard;6s=Genius S

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TIONSUDOKU4918

Givenbelowarefour jumbledwords.Solvethejumblestomakeproperwordsandmovethemtotherespectivesquaresbelow.Selecttheletters intheshadedsquaresandjumblethemtogettheanswerforthegivenquip.Thosewhohavesufferedmuchbecomevery___orvery___.-WillDurant(6,.,6)

SOLUTION:LEVEE,SKIRT,KETTLE,TUBINGAnswer:Thosewhohavesufferedmuchbecomeverybitterorverygentle.-WillDurant

LVEEE EEKLTT

KSIRT ITUBGN

JUMBLEDWORDS

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YOURWEEKAHEADBRIDGE

Southhadaninterestingchoiceofbidsonthesecondround. Hechose3NTthinkingthatitreflectedhisvalues. Withtwoheartstoppershehopedthathewouldhavetimetosetupandusethediamondsuit.Westledthenineofhearts. Dummyplayed thequeenandEast the king.Withdummyhavingthe ace of diamonds it looks like there are lots of tricks.Afterwinning theheart lead,whatshouldSouthplaynext?

WEST♠ 986❤8♦ 86542♣7653

NORTH♠ KJ103❤Q3♦ A8♣Q9874

SOUTH♠ Q2❤AJ10♦ KQ10753♣ 53

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH1C Pass 1D

Pass 1S Pass 3NT

SUNDAY CROSSWORD 2385QUICKCLUESACROSS7. Alcoholicbeverage(6)8. Mean(8)9. Set forth(8)10. Scottish landlords (6)11. Decode(8)12. Delicatemorselof food(6)

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DOWN1. Penetrates (7)2. Catchunawares (8)3. Benddownfearfully (6)4. Bone formation inthe familycupboard(8)

5. Covetedorbegrudged(6)

6. Pantomimecharacter (7)8. Fail toappreciate (13)14. Portrayed(8)15. Magnifies (8)16. Expellingorevicting(7)17. Adolescent (7)19. SouthAmericancountry (6)21. Salt'spartner (6)

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9. Isacraftwreckedwhenfully ladenwiththis Italianwhitewine?

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3. WhereonegirlhugsanotheroutEast? (6)

4. Enduringadviceonhowtogetold?(4-4)

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15. Atmosphericpassageofmine

(3,5)16. Boysatacentre formusic (7)17. Poteen’sused indance (3-4)19. Complaintof youth inspringtime(6)

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QUICKCLUESAcross:7 Workshop,9Arenas,10 Warm,11 Regardless,12Chants,14 Eastward,15 Highandmighty,17 Statured,19 Raptor,21Detachment,22 Slit,23 Strewn,24Satyajit.Down:1 Potash,2 Skim,3Charisma,4 Lairds,5 Fellowship,6Passer-by,8 Pigheadedness,13Nightmares,15 Hitherto,16 Irritate,18Rehang,20 Origin,22 Soar. CRYPTICCLUESAcross:7 AbuDhabi,9 Lining,10 Miss,11 Inthefinal,12 Jet-lag,14Misheard,15 Backofthehead,17 Walk-over,19 Pities,21 Never-never,22Nips,23 Oddest,24 Erectors.Down:1Oblige,2 Ida's,3 Takingto,4 Sleeps,5Insideleft,6 Unbarred,8 Intimaterevue,13 Lock-keeper,15 Beam-ends,16Exporter,18 Vanity,20 Expiry,22 NATO.

Solutionsto2384

North-Southbid1NT-3NTandWesthasto leadfromaterriblehand.Youcanmakeacase foranyof the foursuits.Whatconsiderationsdoyou rec-ognizehere?

TheNorthhand: S-104H-1095 D-AQ109C-K982TheEast hand: S-KJ732 H-KJ732 D-7 C-AQTheSouthhand: S-AQ5 H-AQ64D-KJ3C-J104

1. When the opponents bid to3NTwithout looking for amajor, there is amodestpresumptionthatleadingamajorsuitisbetterthanleadingaminorsuit.2. Whenyouhaveahopelesshand,leadingyourlongsuitmaybefruitlessifyoucannotget intorunit.3. Leadingasingleton isaterriblechoice. Even ifyoufindpartnerwithfiveofthem,thisisasuit inwhichdeclarer'ssidehassevencards. Hemayneedtoattackthissuithimself. Ifyouleadityouratetobehelpingdeclarerguessthesuit. Thisisastrongrule. Donotleadsingletonsunlessyourpartnerhasbidthesuit.

Giventhesesuggestions,what isthecorrect lead?

Thenineofspadesisthecorrectlead. Mindyou,beingthecorrectleaddoesnotmeanit isthewinninglead. It istheleadthatmostplayerswouldmake.Theywouldnottellyouthattheyareproudof it. Howdoesitwork?

Onthishand itworksgreat. Imakenoclaimsthataspade leadwillworkallthetime. Butithasabetterchancethanotherleads. NOTEthatthesingle-tonheart givesSouth three easy heart tricks. If youdonot leadhearts, hemightnotgoafterhearttricks. Leadingclubshassomeappealfordeclarer,andthatdoesnotwork.

Aspadeleadgivesyouachance. Aheart leaddoesnot.

Dealer:NorthVulnerable:None

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH1NT

Pass 3NT Pass PassPass

Dealer:South Vulnerable:North/South

New Delhi

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICENEWDELHI,AUGUST6

Avinash Sable's taking down two world-classKenyansandleavingtheminhiswakeattheCommonwealthGameswillgodownas thestuff of legends.His long-timecoachAmrishKumarexperiencedgoosebumpsasSable's finishing kick in the home stretchwooed the world. Amrish was over themoon not because hewas stunned or sur-prised by Sable's audacity on the track.Rather this race was the result of years ofhard work which had come to nothingwhen Sable had followed the herd at theWorldChampionships."Theman in blue you saw on the track

todayistherealAvinashSable.Theonewhoranattheworldchampionshipswassome-one else. Today Sable ran his race. To takeon the best iswhat all the years of trainingwere focussed on. Hewas fearless. Sable issomeonewho never gets intimidated. TheKenyans sawwhat he is capable of and hewill only get better," Amrish said.The army coach is now retired but he

does have regular chats with Sable. Theyhadashort call before theCommonwealthGames.Amrish'sadvice toSablewastonotrepeat the samemistakes he made at theWorldChampionships.At Eugene, Sable was foxed by the tac-

ticsof the leaderswhonever reallypushedin what turned out to be the slowest everrace at aWorld Championship. Saturday’sracewas in contrast to the slowpaceat theWorlds,aracewhichwaswonbyMorocco'sSoufianeEl Bakkaliwith a timeof 8:25.13.At theCWG,AbrahamKibiwotofKenya

clocked8:11.15towingold,Sablecamesec-ond with 8:11.20 while Amos Serum ofKenyawas thirdwith8:16.83.Sable had set his previous national

recordat theDiamondLeagueinRabatear-lier this year, a very fast race in which ElBakkali had run a sub-eight-minute time.Sable likes an all-out race because he be-lieves he can keep pace with the leadingpack. Inslowraces,heisstillunsureofwhento push, especially against a world-classfield, as we saw at the WorldChampionships."He likes races which are fast because

hecangoallout. Intraining, therehavebeendayswhenhehasclockedupto20kilome-tres at a quick pace. He is a coach's dreamto work with because he is focussed ontraining and is ready to put in the hardwork," Amrish added.Not so long ago, however, Sable was at

his home in Mandva, a village in the aridBeeddistrict, andhadstartedworkingonafarm.Even though he had broken a national

recordattheTokyoOlympics,wherehehadcompetedsoonafterrecoveringfromCovid,the disappointment of not reaching the fi-nal consumed him. And it only got worseafter theWorld Championship, where hehad another below-par outing.Afterthetwindisappointments,Amrish

feelstheCWGsilverwillbeasteppingstonefor Sable.

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ABHISHEKPUROHITAUGUST6

“I AM feeling as if we have taken ourKohinoor back.”Madhukant Pathak can begranted the indulgence inhyperbole, for hehasdreamedofthisdayforthebetterpartoftwo decades. From the day he arranged forfourbowlsfromDelhithroughveteransportsadministratorRandhirSinghin2005andbe-gan training players on a hockey pitch inRanchi, Pathak has beenworking towardsmaking India a force in lawn bowls, drivenbyhis “madness” for thegame.Pathak’s long struggle has finally borne

fruit, and at themost apt of locations. First,thewomen’s fours team brought the rela-tively obscure and ridiculed game into na-tionallimelightwithahistoricgoldmedalatthe Birmingham Commonwealth Games.Then,themen’steamenteredthefoursfinalby beating England, which has theworld’soldestsurvivingbowlinggreendatingbacktothe13thcentury.OnSaturday,SunilBahadur,Navneet Singh, Chandan Kumar Singh andDineshKumar,allofwhomhavetrainedun-der Pathak, added another chunky slice of

historyattheVictoriaParkLawnBowlsRink1 with a silver medal, going down toNorthern Ireland.Forasportthatisnotevenacknowledged

asonebymany,andplayedat themostbyafew hundred in India, winning aCommonwealthgoldandasilver inacoun-trywithcenturiesof traditioninlawnbowlscanwell feel like getting the crown jewelsback.“Evenwhenwehadbroughtthegameto

Jharkhand, people would say, ‘bowlludhkaanekabhikoigamehotahaikya?’ (Isrolling a bowl even a sport?)” says Pathak,who is also the treasurer of the AthleticsFederationof India.Pathakwouldscout forplayerswhohad

stalled in other sports and try and convincethem to take up lawnbowls. From there, tohaving someone like 27-year-old Navneet,whowas attracted to the sport during the2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, is al-readyquiteaprogression.Navneet’sschoolinDelhihappenedtohaveararelawnbowlsfa-cility forhimtoget introduced to thegame,but thathas, of course,been theexception.“We would get in people with sports

backgroundsearlier,alsobecausewewould

have to work less on training them,” saysPathak.Dinesh,45,wasonceagoalkeeperat the

EastBengalacademyandalsoplayedforthe

MohammedanSporting junior team.But akneeinjuryeffectivelycutshorthis footballcareer. “He suffered knee trouble around2000. In2002-03, he came tous. I toldhim

that this game is suited for your fitness asthephysical requirement isnot thatmuch,”says Pathak.Sunil, another lawn bowls veteran and

about the sameage asDinesh, hadno sport-ingbackgroundunlike the ex-footballer, butwouldliketocomeandjustwatchotherplay-erspractise.“Thenoncewetoldhim,‘Youjustkeepwatching,whydon’t you try yourhandatit?’Thenhestartedplayingconsistently.Hewasinthepolicesowasphysicallyfit.”The cop became so dedicated to lawn

bowlsthatitwouldbehardtogethimoff thegreen. “When no one else would practise,even then, Sunil would come in and put in400 bowls a day.” After winning an Asianmedal, hewas promoted from constable tosub-inspector.Chandan’s entry into lawn bowls was

amongthemostrandom.Hehappenedtobethe nephew of one of Pathak’s friends. “Hewouldjustkeeproamingaround,awarajaisa(like a vagabond).We got hold of him fromthe Ranchi College hostel and brought himinto thegame.”He’s sincegoneon towinmedals at the

Asian level, including gold in fours in 2016and triples in 2017. “Our players havewon

around25medals at theAsian level,” reck-ons Pathak.

Getting recognitionBut it is these Commonwealthmedals

thathavecatapulted themfromanonymityto overnight attention. “I had full faith thatmy playerswere good.Wewould lose onlybecausewedidnotget toplay toomany in-ternationalmatchesatcrucialtimes.So,Iwassure thatwehad to click at this level some-day,” says Pathak. “And if we had grassgreens,wecouldhavegot this result earlier.We did not have the required fund of Rs 10lakhfor installinggrassgreens.There isa lotofdifferencebetweenplayingonasyntheticsurfaceandongrassgreens.”About15yearsago,Pathakhadrequested

the thenDeputy Commissioner to allot twoacresofland,andanindoorandoutdoorfacil-itywasconstructedontheoutskirtsofRanchiwithRs4 crore sanctioned from theMPLADfund of former Rajya SabhaMPRKAnand.Today, Pathak says44 seniors and38 juniorstrainthere.“WehavemoreplayersthanthereareintherestofIndia.” That is likely to change after his

wards’Commonwealthsuccess.

SHIVANINAIKBIRMINGHAM,AUGUST6

PRIYANKAGOSWAMIrecallsdayswhensherationedher appetite because therewasnomoney for all meals while she trained as aracewalkeraway fromhomeinLucknow.Her fatherhadbeensuspendedfromhis

roadways job and couldn’t really afford tosend hermoney to subsist in another citywhere she trained,much before shemadethe national camp. On Saturday, Goswamisurvived on “bread-jam” - out of choice -thoughtheathlete’sdiningroomwasteem-ingwithallsortsof food.“Medalsepetbharrgayaa,” shewould say, after picking India’sfirst-everCWGsilverinthe10kmrace-walk.This one other time, she found herself

weighingheroptions–whether togomeeta close friend’s parents or not - because shedidn’t have enough bus money to reachAmbala.Thosedays, shebelieves,are firmlybehindher.Shewasn't sure if hersilverwouldregis-

ter, though, given it was rainingmedals allaround Birmingham. But it had been aneventful daywhen her Kenyan competitorhadliterallyaskedherwhyshewaspushingthepace,andshehadsnortedawaythoselit-

tlementalgamesbecauseshe'dcomealongwaytoevenreachhere."Ievengotawarningat6km,andIthink

officials do it just to intimidate us. I mean Iwas thinking, half the distance is over andbhaisaab never saw a problem inmy tech-nique. Suddenly why's he having a prob-lem?"shewould laugh.The chatterboxathlete takes aBalGopal

idol ina littlebasketwherevershegoes,andshewouldinsistoncarryingittothepodium,

withvolunteerstryingtostopher."ButIdid-n't listen. I just took it. As if theywould stopasilvermedallist,"sheblusteredwithawink.She borrowed it fromhermother Anita,

whosefaithsheinherited. "Duringthelock-down,Ihadgone'psycho'becausewecould-n'ttrain.AtthattimeIaskedmymotherwhysheputher faith inthis.She letmekeepit. Ithelpedmebecomecalmeranddivertedmymind from all the tension. I carried it toBangalore.NowafterI'vefoundsuccesswith

it, I'll carry it everywhere. The chief coachkeeps it for mewhen I'm competing," shesays.Then it travelswithher to thepodium.Goswamilovedcompetitions."Inschool,

I'dtakepartinDiyaandrangolicompetitionsandbehappy towin those," she recalls.NotwinningweanedherawayfromgymnasticsasayoungsterinMeerut.Shewaspetrifiedofthe Balance beam, arguably Gymnastics'most dreaded apparatus. "Coach wouldscreamatmetoomuchwhenIfailed.Icould-n't take the yelling. So I ran away," she says,adding that sometimes she even got canedanddevelopedanaversion for thesport.ButinClass11,shebelievedshewasnowall

grownup,andnoonewouldyellather.Butthescoldingsneverstopped.Soafterhavinggath-ered the courage to return to the sport causeshedidnotwanttobeaquitter,shedriftedto-wardsathletics. "Therealso Iwasn'twinning.SomeonetoldmetotryWalking.Mujhelagaabaschalnaahihai.SoItookoff,"shesays.Over3km,thingswereeasy,over10kminseniors,lifegotprettytechnical.OnSaturday,shewaswaryof last-minute

drama."Ikepthearingfromthesidelinesthatthethirdplaceisfarbehind.ButwhyshouldIleave?Ikeptpushingthepace,"shesays.It'swhentheKenyanEmilyWamusyiNgii,whowon the bronze, was totally boggled aboutthe Indian'smadrush."Usuallymummygetsdreamsofmysuc-

cess.ButwhenIaskedhertoday,shesaid,aajclearly kuchh theek se dikha nahi sapna (Icouldn't see the dream clearly today)," shewouldquip.Shedidn'tleavethingstochance,divinity, or a Kenyan's prompt. She racedahead,notheedingwarningsofthejury,andraced toglory.

India'sAvinashSableandKenya'sAbrahamKibiwot inactionduringthe3000msteeplechase finalonSaturday.Reuters

India’s(fromleft)SunilBahadur,NavneetSingh,ChandanKumarSinghandDineshKumarafterwinningsilveronSaturday.PTI

MEDAL’STALLYRankNation Gold SilverBronze Total1. Australia 57 46 47 1502. England 48 47 43 1383. Canada 19 29 31 794. NewZealand 17 11 14 425. India 12 11 11 346. Nigeria 9 4 11 24

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WITHAJUMPANDKICK,AVINASHLEAPSTOTHEPODIUM

THEQUICKSTARTUnlike theWorlds,wherehegotboxed in inoneof theslowest races, Sablewasquickoff theblocks this time,staying in frontwiththeKenyantrio for2,400m.

THEWATERJUMPWith552mleft,SablecaughtupwithSerem.Then,withthewaterjumpat500m,executedflawlesslyfromtheoutside,heovertookSeremandKiprutotomovetosecondspot.

THEFINALKICKThefocusthenturnedtothefinal400m.Someof theworld’sbestcompletethelastquartermile in53-54secs.Sableshowedhecanbejustas fastbut fell shortby0.5secs.

27-year-oldovercomesrecentdisappointmentstoruna ‘fearless’ raceandwinasilvermedal

Sable’s fable

Goswami leaves nothing to chance, wins silver

Silver in men’s fours adds to India’s growing lawn bowls story

BRIEFLY

Raviovercomesweightissuestowingoldinstyle

"Iammyfavourite. Iam,"RaviDahiyawouldsayinanInstavideorecordedbyUnitedWorldWrestling,onthemorn-ingofhisCommonwealthGamesfinalwhere he brought India's 4th of 6wrestlinggoldatCoventry.Itwasunintentionalswag,itwasau-

thentic though. "Arre, I couldn't thinkofanyone.Theyasked,soIanswered,"hewould say later, even asAmericanJordanBurroughstoppedthetally.Notfor India's silvermedallist fromTokyo,andthemostwatchablegrapplersinceSushilKumar.Onthemat,hepickedeightpoints

fromthe snakingphitle, and then fin-isheda technical superiority reaching10 points a few seconds later, allachievedwithoutmuchfuss.It was in the morning though -

whennot under the spotlight,wherehesauntered inandswaggedout,andstoodwithhishandonhips,waitingfortheworld to settle into anapplaudingchorus-thatRavihadfacedhistough-esttest:makingweight.Hehadclearlynotbeeneatingmuchthelastfewdays.Totopthat,hespentthreehoursinthemorning spilling sweat and gettingcrankytocomewithin100gmofhisre-quiredweight. "That is theworst partof these smaller categories. But youhave todo it for the country.What todo?"hewouldsay.Raviisknowntospendthreehours

at Chhatrasal, prepping for each six-minute fight, where sparring oppo-nentswhodon'taccordhimunduere-spect,areletlooseonhimoneaftertheother, as a progressively tiring fightertakesonthefreshchallengers.Herunsat 4 am, and allowsHoli, Diwali andother festivals to drift past year afteryear. "I'm still inwrestling. I don't likethinkingofanythingelse,"hesays,see-ingnoneedtounwind.The cardio strength and stamina

he'sknownforareentirelybuiltonthemat. "Nogym. If I have to fight on themat, I should build strength on themat,"hesays.His relatively tall stature at 57kg -

teeming with smaller wrestlers -meanshishandreachwhenheswoopsthemforlegholdsisatremendoussighttowatch.WhenRavi's hands flapout,theopponentisabouttobebaitedandturn to a kill. It opens himup for thehulking, bendingopponent going forhislegthough."Yes, I'mnotknownformy defense, really. I'm an attackingwrestler, I don't believe in defensemuch."He'sgratefulfortheloveandbless-

ings of people. But such is the self-as-suranceofthisman,he'llwinevenoth-erwise.--ShivaniNaik

Nikhat, Panghal in finalsReigning world champion NikhatZareenandAmitPanghalwereamongthreeIndianboxerswhoenteredthefi-nalswhile Jaismine Lamboria settledfor bronze at the CommonwealthGames.Nikhatstormedintothefinalofwomen's 50kg after outclassingEngland's StubleyAlfia Savannah5-0.Panghal(51kg)reachedhissecondcon-secutive CWG final. Nitu Ghanghas(48kg)alsoreachedthefinal.PTI

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PriyankaGoswamimaintainedtheleadtill the4000mmark.AP

Birmingham:All-rounder Sneh Ranashowed nerves of steel by chokingrunsindeathoversasIndianwomen'scricketteampippedhostsEnglandbyfour runs to enter the final of theCommonwealthGamesonSaturday.Needing 165 to win, England werecruising along at 132 for 3. The hostsrequiredonly33runsoff 24ballsbutoff-spinner Rana (4-0-28-2) bowledextremelywell.Shegaveawayonly3runs in the 18th and 9 runs in the fi-nalover.Englandfinishedat160for6and even a last-ball maximum fromSophie Ecclestone couldn't save theday for thehosts.BRIEF SCORES: India 164/5 in 20overs (Smriti Mandhana 61; FreyaKemp2/22)beatEngland160/6in20overs (Natalie Sciver 41; Sneh Rana2/28)by4runs.PTI

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