ARUN KUMAR DASTimes News Network

Mango mangta hai? You’re not theonly one. The Indian mango is get-ting a warm wel-

come in various parts of theworld. And there’s no partic-ular favourite. Variety is certainly thespice — or should we sayaam ka achar — of lifeas far as foreign con-sumers are concerned.Alphanso, Baiganpalli,Dusseri, Kesar, Tota-puri, Rajapuri, Sundari,Safeda, Neelam, Chausa, Langra —you name it, and it’s being eager-ly gobbled down in destinationsas far afield as the US, Europe,Dubai, Doha, and Mala-ysia, to name just a few.

Interestingly tho-ugh, one variety tha-t’s emerged as the ap-ple of mango ea-ters’ eyes is ‘Rum-ali’. You read thatright. Rumali, a re-cently developed variety ofmango, actually looks like an apple! Andthough traditional favourites like Alphansoand Dusseri are still highly sought after, the re-sponse to Rumali has been very encouraging.

With mango mania raging on foreign shores,

exports of the fruit are set to create a newrecord this year. According to AS Rawat, gen-eral manager, Agriculture Process Food Pro-ductions Export Development Authority (Ape-da), though the crop was affected by the pro-

longed winter in north India,the country is still well on

course to reach an all-time export high of50,000 tons of man-goes. If you calcu-late the aam ke da-am, that’s worth Rs100 crore. Last year,

the figure was 42,000 tons,worth Rs 85 crore.

Confirming the surgein mango exports, Di-nesh Kumar, general ma-

nager (cargo), Indira Gan-dhi international airport, sa-

ys the entire cargo area is nowawash with the tantalising smell

of mangoes as thousands of car-tons are arriving every day for ex-

ports. Arrivals were slow in themonth of April but picked up in May andare expected to intensify in the next two

months. ‘‘The airport’s cargo section is fullygeared up since we have developed a huge state-of-the-art cold storage system for perishablegoods,’’ says Kumar. Nice to know this is onebloom that won’t be nipped in the bud! And theaam janta, not just at home, but abroad too,will get to feast on their favourite fruit!

arunkumardas@indiatimes.com

CMYK

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THE TIMES OF INDIASaturday,

June 7, 2003

OF INDIA

What distingui-shes a top man-agement schoolfrom an ordina-ry institute?The main distin-guishing featur-es of a top grademanagement sc-hool are its intell-

ectual capital, physical infrastructure,vision of top management, industriallinkages and placement of students.How important is industry inter-face in the evolution of a manage-ment graduate?A management programme aims at

providing balanced education in bothacademic and industry related aspec-ts. In addition to classroom learning,an institute should actively engage co-rporate houses for participation in va-rious events.

How receptive has the industry be-en to campus placements?At JIMS, we have an active placementcell, which is manned by expert facul-ty with industry experience. As a re-sult, our interaction with corporates isintense and ongoing. This is reflectedin most of our students getting excel-lent placements in reputed companies.Do you think too much stress is be-ing laid on extra-curricular activi-ties at management schools?Emphasis on extra-curricular activi-ties at management schools is ex-tremely important in order to developan all-round personality. At our insti-tute, we prefer enterprising students

who regularly plan and organise vari-ous extra-curricular activities.How do you plan to scale up yourinstitute?In a short span of time, JIMS hasachieved excellence in managementeducation. It was recently ranked 31stamongst all B-Schools across the coun-try by the BT-Cosmode Survey. We vi-sualize that in the near future JIMSwill be ranked amongst the top 20 B-schools in India. We will strive to en-hance the quality of education andtraining and also enhance our infra-structure and resources to meet thecurrent best standards.

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‘B-schools must encourage extra-curricular activities’AMIT GUPTAChairman, JagannathInternational Management School (JIMS)On managementschools

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AAMS AND THE MAN:MANGO EXPORTS TOUCH A NEW HIGH

NIKITA DOVALTimes News Network

Ask anyone in showbizabout their latest ven-

ture, and ‘it’s different’ willemerge as the standard re-sponse. Well, after claiming tobe ‘different’ for centuriesnow, finally some of Bolly-wood’s biggest directors areactually daring to ventureinto new territory.

So whether vo SubhashGhai ho ya Vashu Bhagnani,ya apna evergreen DevAnand, everyone’s producingoff-beat films in the Hinglishmode. Samjhe?

While Ghai’s Mukta Arts isready with Jogger’s Park,Bhagnani is producing Out OfControl with Ritesh Desh-mukh and Baywatch babeBrande Rodrick and DevAnand’s Song Of Life is loose-ly based on the Ravi Shankar-

Norah Jones saga. MaheshManjrekar is working on theHinglish version of Astitvaand plans to call it It RainedOne Night and Girija Shankarwill soon be re-ady with Bana-na Brothers, st-arring Anup-am Kher, Gu-rsewak Mannand Jhonny Le-ver — anotheraane wali Hing-lish movie.

Lekin Hing-lish hi kyun?The answer liesin the success and interna-tional acclaim awarded tofilms such as Monsoon Wed-ding and Bend It Like Beck-

ham. ‘‘Smaller films that theaudience can relate to are theneed of the day,’’ explainsGhai, addingthat Jogger’s

Park stars Perizad Zorabianand Victor Banerjee and ex-plores a fresh new theme. Ex-perimentation is Dev Anand’s

reason for making a Hinglishfilm, though he also admitsthat, ‘‘it is the in thing these

days. When Iwas shooting

for Love at Times Square, a lotof Americans suggested Imake an English movie. I can-not stagnate as a director and

I always try and work on newconcepts and ideas.’’

Don’t film-makers thinkagar the film is in Hinglish, itwill only appeal to a limited

a u d i e n c e ?‘‘Good worknever goes un-noticed. Audi-ences appreci-ate quality,’’says AnupamKher, addingthat most suchmovies are re-leased acrossthe globe andare meant to

have a universal appeal. ‘‘Onmy part, I began to ventureinto cross-over films so that Icould grow as an actor.’’

The shift to making off-beat,Hinglish movies can also be attributed to the dip in for-tunes of Bollywood film-mak-ers. ‘‘The domestic market hasbeen facing a slump and pro-ducers and directors are hop-ing to make money by experi-menting,’’ explains a trade analyst.

‘‘In the end, everythingboils down to quality,’’ reasonsa Delhi-based distributor,adding, ‘‘An English-speakingaudience will not sit through abad film just because the char-acters speak a language theyfollow.’’

Will the fate of these Hing-lish ventures spell or is itBoom-time for for somethingthat’s zara hatke? The sahijawab to this one lies onlywith the audience. Didn’t youknow, ye public hai, ye sabjaanti hai?

delhitimes@indiatimes.com

DIVYA VASISHTTimes News Network

When was the last timeyou ate some gold?

Well, believe it or not, Indi-ans top the list of gold-guz-zlers, literally! Data avail-able with the World GoldCouncil (WGC) reveals thatIndians have consumed fivetonnes of gold in the form ofAyurvedic pills and pow-ders in the span of a decade.And that’s just the gilt-edg-ed tip of the gold-berg. Thegold-consumptionstatistics for theyear 1990 were ameasly 0.2 tonnes —a figure which indi-cates a 2400 per centjump in a matter of13 years. The reportfurther states thatgold is being suc-cessfully used totreat condi-tions such ass c h i z o p h -renia, tuber-culosis, epilep-sy, heart dis-eases and ev-en diabetes.

According toC Vinod, seniorphysician at theArya Vaidya Pharmacy andResearch Institute, ‘‘Theconsumption of gold in theform of Ayurvedic medi-cines is not a new practise.Ayurvedically speaking,when other herbal medi-cines fail to reach the appro-priate part of the cell, goldis prescribed. The elementhelps the medicine pene-trate through these cellsand have a long-lasting ef-fect on the patient.’’ For theuninitiated, gold used formedicinal purposes is puri-

fied, powered and used inthe form of bhasm (ashes).The element is never con-sumed directly but is mixedwith various other herbsand then administered.

‘Golden’ medicines comeat a price. One gram of thethe element in medicinalform can be priced any-where between Rs 1200-1800and is enough to take care of10 doses. Elaborates Ayur-veda practitioner MukeshSharma, ‘‘Gems and metalsare often prescribed for

those sufferingfrom heart ail-ments. Some ofthem work on asubtle, long-te-rm level and for-tify longevity.Gold, ruby andgarnet stimul-ate and restorethe heart. Gold

also works asan aphrod-isiac as wellas an anti-ag-

ing agent.’’Talking of

aging, goldexperts feel

that about 50per cent of goldis consumed for

rejuvenation purposes.‘‘The beauty and cosmeticssegment of this sector ispicking up with amazingspeed worldwide,’’ confirmsHeeru Mirchandani, associ-ate director, WGC.

From anti-aging potionsto strengthening a weakheart, gold seems to be themantra of the moment.Gold-maal or worth itsweight in gold? One thing’sfor sure — sona is in its ele-ment!

divyavasisht@indiatimes.com

A dash of gold to perk you up?

‘Blue’ murder on Delhi’s streetsJYOTI SHARMA

Times News Network

A 16-year-old student from St Columba’s Sch-ool is crushed under the wheels of a bus. He on-ce aspired to be an engineer and scored 90 per ce-nt in the CBSE, the results of which were decla-red a few days after his death.

Samarpal came to Delhi to ea-rn a living and pay for his educ-ation. Hours after he enteredthe Capital, fate sent a recklessbus-driver to end his life.

Two children and their fatherwere attempting to cross a roadnear India Gate. All three wereinjured when a bus hit them.

Three separate accidents inone city. In one month. The onlything that connects them is thefact that all three buses involvedwere Bluelines.

Figures reveal that a sizableproportion of the 2000 people ki-lled every year on Delhi’s roadsare victims of rash driving by Blue-line bus drivers. And if that’s notbad enough, sample this: As of April this year,116 Blueline buses have been challaned for over-speeding, 2092 for jumping signals, 699 for over-taking other buses, 676 for stopping where thereare no bus-stops and 1326 for dangerous driving,which includes starting before the commuterhas boarded the bus and changing lanes.

The official guidelines, of course, stipulate th-at it is essential for anyone driving a public tra-nsport vehicle to renew their license every threeyears and undergo a training course every year.For the past month, hardly any Blueline driverhas stepped into the Indian Driving TrainingResearch Institute (IDTRI). Informs IDTRI dire-ctor, RK Parimoo, ‘‘Until the training is made

mandatory, no driver will comeforward. The traffic police mustenforce discipline.’’

Counters JCP (traffic) Maxw-ell Periera, ‘‘We have shortlist-ed about 500 bus drivers and ini-tiated proceedings against th-em. But they simply pay the fi-ne and are back on the roads thenext day. Unless their permitsare cancelled, this blatant viola-tion of laws will continue.’’

It is not for nothing that Blue-lines are called ‘killer machin-es.’ An encounter with a Blueli-ne is every motorist’s worst nig-htmare. Says automobile expert

Viresh Malik, ‘‘Illitrate Blueline dr-ivers follow a law unto themselves

and put the life of innocent people in danger.’’There’s more to addressing the problem that

merely a change of colour. And this is what theauthorities need to seriously address. For whilehapless commuters continue to be blue, it’s timesomeone said a firm ‘bus’ to the killer drivers!

delhitimes@indiatimes.com

Divorced Hollywood coupleBruce Willis and Demi Moorejust can’t stay away from eachother. Industry sources haveconfirmed that Bruce is mak-ing a cameo appearance inD e m i ’ scomeba-ck filmCharlie’sA n g e l s :Full Throt-tle. Stript-ease starM o o r ehas a ce-ntral role as villain MadisonLee in the action-flick sequel,and her former Moonlightinghubby has been roped in tomake a special appearance in

the movie. Gossip rags areagog with the news of thecelebrity couple and manyconsider it the casting coup ofthe season.

Bruce and Demi went thro-ugh amuch-pu-b l i c i s edbreakupa coupleof yearsago. Istheir bro-ken relat-i o n s h i p

on the mend? According to aninsider, ‘‘Demi not only wel-comed the move, she openlylobbied for Bruce.’’ Do yousmell love in the air...?

Bruce-Demi: Back again!

Indians have consumed five tonnes of goldfor medicinal purposes in the past decade

Zara si Hinglish ho jaye?

IT’S A WIDE, WIDE WORLD! Delhi Times freeze frames the moods and moves of Shekhar Suman, as the big star of the smallscreen lives life at full stretch, at the Taj Palace (To send this photograph to a friend, log on to www.timescity.com/delhi/)

Oops!Oops! Jogger’s ParkJogger’s Park

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Her trademark bindi is intact.So is her hair — tied in a tightbun. And of course, you can’t

miss that infectious smile. SushmaSwaraj is anything but a politicianright now — a mother, a wife, a filmand music lover, a friend and a personwith a modern outlook.

Her 17-year-old daughter, Bansuri,calls her the ‘‘coolest mom on earth.’’‘‘Bansuri and I have always been moreof friends,’’ says Sushma with affec-tion. Sushma informs that as Bansuriwas growing up, she took charge ofher little girl in every way. ‘‘Right fromwaking her up, to bathing her, to see-ing that her tiffin carried food items ofher choice, to seeing her off to sch-ool.... I did everything. I went to officeonly after that. So my daughter neverfelt she hadn’t had enough of me.’’ Fri-days, she always reserved for outingswith her daughter. This did not go toowell with her husband. ‘‘He wouldplead with us asking if he could joinus for the movies, or dinners. Of cou-rse, we put our foot down. So, manytimes he would land up at the restau-rant we were to dine much before usand say, ‘If your girlie talk is over, mayI join you young ladies please,’ shesmiles remembering the times.

Obviously, it is Swaraj Kaushal’srole as a husband that often has had an

impact on the minister liking or dis-liking the male protagonist in a movie.‘‘Girish Karnad has been my favouriteactor. And I have been very fond ofSanjeev Kumar and Shashi Kapoor. Infact, in our earlier photographs, peo-ple often remark that my husband’s

face resembles Shashi Kapoor’s.Girish Karnad in Swami, Sanjeev Ku-mar in Aandhi and Shashi Kapoor inIjazat have been very understandinghusbands. I have often tried to analysewhy I like them. I feel that it is theirportrayal of mature and understand-

ing husbands that touches my heart. Iliked the movies Arth and Abhimaanbut I did not like Kulbhushan Khar-banda or Amitabh Bachchan in them,because they were not good husbandsin them,’’ she says.

From the latest actors, she likedVivek Oberoi in Saathiya. ‘‘Us ladkemein potential hai,’’ she says. And ofcourse, the films Kuchh Kuchh HotaHai, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayengeand Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Ghamwent down very well with her.

During the Abhimaan days, Swaraj,who holds the record of being theyoungest minister — at 35 years — wasoften told by people that she too wouldmeet the fate of the character playedby Jaya Bhaduri. ‘‘But my husbandwas never jealous of me. He says:‘Tumse kaise jal sakta hoon main, tumto meri apni ho.’ Moreover, he is anachiever himself. He holds the recordof being the youngest governor at 35,’’she says with pride.

Music too, finds a mention in theformer BJP spokesperson’s dailyscheme of things. ‘‘I am very fond ofmusic. While in the morning I love lis-tening to Subbulakshmi’s Vishnusa-hastranam, in the afternoons andevenings while travelling I like listen-ing to ghazals and very old songs.’’

VIDYOTTAMA SHARMA

SMS thought of the day

D E L H I I S T A L K I N G A B O U T DELHI TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA2 SATURDAY 7 JUNE 2003

MY FAVOURITE THINGS

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When the leadingnames from fash-ion, beauty and hos-

pitality come together, youcan expect nothing exceptstyle-statements. So whenFemina and Parfums Christ-ian Dior brought the interna-tional make-up guru Herve

Bonneau to Delhi, itwas one long journeyin style.

Herve has a 25years experience be-hind him and hasbeen associated withnames like YvesSaint-Laurent, Guer-

lain and Dior. He has donemake-up for theatre, stageand fashion shows. For thepast one year, he has beenteaching make-up techniquesall over the world.

As celebs lined up to get amake over done from the ac-complished artist at Oberoi’sLa Rochelle, Herve talkedabout international trends inthe art of make-up. ‘‘The shiftis towards more colour now.Shiny pinks and purples arein vogue all around the worldthis summer. But we have toadapt to Indian conditionsand skin type.’’ Does thatmean more of browns for In-dians? ‘‘Of course not. Indiais such a colourful country sohow can we do away withcolour in make-up.’’

Those who got a make-overfrom the artist includedGeetika Ganju and Puja Nay-yar. Even as the evening cameto a close, guests could beseen taking tips from Herveover glasses of champagneand assorted juices....

Statements of styleDivya Singh and Tanjeet Bhullar

Shikha Sharma and Herve Bonneau Geetika Ganju

Anny and Jenny Koldunava Mahima Sharma and Siddhi Kumari

SUSHMA SWARAJ:

Every time you lick a stamp you’reconsuming 1/10th of a calorie!

FACT OF THE MATTER

The lady is from Mumbai and the guyfrom Delhi. The two got married (secondtime for both) recently and were spottedalong with 16 others, aboard a luxury-

liner in Monaco, suspicious substance intow. But a trap landed them both into

trouble. Reason? The ‘C’ factor!

RUMOUR OF THE DAY

His debut film Yeh Mohabbat Hai didn’tstrike the right chord at the box officebut it helped Rahul Bhatt secure a

foothold in the film industry. ‘‘I have always as-pired to be an actor,’’ recalls the 26 year-oldSagittarian. And director Umesh Mehra gavehim the break on the silver-screen whilst hewas doing the tele-serial Heena.

After completing his schooling and engi-neering from Kashmir, Rahul landed in Mum-bai in 1998 to participate in the Graviera Mr In-dia Contest and has been associated with show-biz ever since. He started off with ramp shows,did a number of commercials and graduated toplaying Sameer in Heena. Rahul has alwaysbeen selective about work ‘‘because I didn’t wa-nt to over-expose myself,’’ he says. ‘‘Although Iwill always remain indebted to the small screensince I began my career on it I will not be doingTV anymore except for winding off Heena

which will takeanother year.’’

As of now, heis looking forward to his new release Nayee Pa-dosan for which he had to shave off his headand practise on getting the South Indian dialectfor his double role in the film as Prabhu, a clas-sical singer and Gunda, a don. ‘‘I absolutely en-joyed preparing for my role because as an actorI should be able to mould myself in all frames,’’says he.

Of the various roles he has essayed so far,Rahul doesn’t really connect to any one ofthem. ‘‘I play a confused guy in Heena who can’tdecide on the woman he wants. But that’s notme in real life,’’ explains Rahul. ‘‘I am focussed.My dream role is yet to come by.’’ And yes, he isalso focussed on ‘‘making a mark in the indus-try,’’ says he. Meanwhile, with Nayee Padosanhitting the screen, Rahul is set on taking abreak. ‘‘I love holidaying when not facing thecamera,’’ he adds with a smile.

MANISHA ALMADI

The mood was nostalgic.Hotel Inter-Continent-al’s Club Privee saw ma-

ny colleagues and friends fromthe Indo-American Chamberof Commerce (IACC) gather tobid farewell to the outgoing of-ficials of the American em-bassy after completing theirtenure in India.

Asoke K Laha, presidentNorth India Council, IACC,and other members of the re-gional council organised a do

in honour of thedeputy chief of mis-sion Albert Thibaultand chairpersonIACC-Women’s Com-mittee CarolineThibault and ActingCommittee Counsel-lor Frank Foster.

As representat-ives from the Amer-ican embassy, cor-porate world andthe lady members

from the wo-men’s committee gath-ered that evening, thehot subject of discus-sion that evening wasnaturally the risingmercury and the idealsummer-holiday desti-nations.

The evening also wit-nessed the guests of ho-nour being given me-mentos to remind themof their association

with India. Later, as drinks didthe rounds and guests enjoyeda sumptuous dinner, Vidyanid-hi Dalmia of SunshineTourism was seen engrossedin conversation with SupremeCourt lawyer Seita Vaidi-alingam and chartered ac-countant Krishan Malhotrawas seen talking to Glen Mar-tin. Others spotted at the dowere William Bartlett and AKMathur of Raytheon.

AGE NO BARGreg Smith, who graduated from Randolph-Macon Collegeat age 13, is the first to attend graduate school at the Uni-versity of Virginia. And what’s even more. Smith will pursuea PhD in mathematics.’’Also, he has twice been nominatedfor the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with InternationalYouth Advocates, a group he founded to champion non-vio-lence and children’s rights. —AP

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ODDLY ENOUGHA New Zealand handyman with a pas-sion for jet engines says he is buildinga cruise missile in his backyard usingparts and technology freely availableover the Internet. Bruce Simpson, a 49-year-old Internet site developer, says hewas prompted to build the missile be-cause so many people had told him itcould not easily be done. —Reuters

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LAKE TROUTS GET HIGH TECHLarry Mattson caught a high-tech lake trout with a comput-er in its belly. Mattson cut the fish open to find a computerthe size of a pinky, and eventually called a phone number ona tag on the fish’s back.

The fisheries biologist for the Great Lakes Indian Fish andWildlife Commission said it was only the eighth computer re-turned among 124 planted in November 2001 by the com-mission. He recovered 19 months of data recording thedepth and water temperature every 15 seconds, and will tellresearchers what kind of water the lake trout like, and inwhat temperature they spend their time. —AP

Psssst...Abhishek

Bachchan, it isbelieved, is

getting marriedto a pretty NRI

lady from London shortly.

Preparations arereportedly on infull swing. Andfor starters —the Bachchanhouse in the

Capital is apparently

being white-washed....

Z A P P E D ?

We r like teabags whose strength comes

out when it’s put inhot water. So when

problems beset you,just think, youmust be God’s

favourite cup oftea!

RAH

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:RARING TO GO

Quality-time manage-ment. This is what tur-ned out to be the theme

of the do organised at HotelAshok’s Ssteel as Bollywoodsinger Abhijeet flew down tocity to spend ‘‘some qualitytime’’ with his wife and ‘‘somedear friends’’ in the Capital.

As the evening moved onwith chilled beer pepping up

the atmosphere, the party gotgoing on a musical note. Set-ting the mood of the party, be-sides the singer himself, whowas in the mood to enjoy hisnight out in the city, was a liveperformance by some Salsadancers. Needless to say, thetheme of the evening was Sal-sa. And as the music got louder,it was our very own videshi

bhais who showed up on thefloor in the true Latino spirit.

Those seen at the do werethe former cricketer Atul andSonu Wassan, garment ex-porter Surinder Khurana, Ra-jya Sabha RJD MP Prem Gup-ta, Mirza Tanners’ RashidMirza, Capitol’s SidhartaChoudhry and many others....

In the dance zone!

Albert and Caroline Thibault Franklin and Virginia Foster

VN Dalmia and Glen Martin

Gautam Mahajan & William Bartiett

LIGHTSPOT

Atul and Sonu Wassan Abhijeet

AS Bhatiya andAshok Chaturvedi

Goodbye,my friend!

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Beauty comes from within — thatis my belief. And going by that, Istick to a very simple daily rou-

tine, with regards beauty. For starters, Itry having three good meals per day andavoid snacking in between. Soon after Iwake up, I eat a lot of fruit and drinkfresh juice — this is done to balance outon my tremendous intake of tea. How-ever, since I travel a lot, it is very diffi-cult for me to stick to a strict diet plan.Since I enjoy eating good food, I workhard to stay in shape and work out as of-ten as I can during the week.

Being fond of a plain and simple look,

I don’t use toomany cosmeticson my face. I juststick to a goodmoisturiser anda sun-blockcream duringthe day, andnight-cream be-fore getting intobed. I clean myface everydaywith a mild face-wash and a goodnon-alcoholictoner.. Due tomy constanttravelling, myskin needs extracare.

Home-reme-dies work won-

I f world peace were to begiven a colour, it wouldhave been green.... This

was the feeling that breezedits way in at the Park Hotel,where a unique exhibitionof paintings called Rain-forests on my Eyot (old Eng-lish word for Island) byManav Gupta was organ-ised to commemorateWorld Environment Day,celebrated on June 5.

Manav, who started hisjourney in Kolkata said,‘‘Art has tremendous po-tential to create aware-ness and bring peace tothe soul. And my exhibi-tion is a small effort toguide consciousness onnature.’’ Using the fluid-

ity of the medium to its best,Manav’s paintings experi-ment with forms and colours.

The day began with a paint-ing competition for the kids of

Deepalya and

Ashrya Bhawan, which wasjudged by the artist himself.The evening’s function sawShiela Dikshit painting a treeon a canvas, with a message— make the

earth a more cleanand green place.Also placed on thecorner of the hallwas a canvas full ofpaintings by chil-dren who later pre-sented a song onthe environmentand watched an an-imated film madeby Youth Reach, anNGO working forthe cause of agreen world.

Seeing enjoyingthe varied colours

of the evening were former-PM IK Gujral who planted asapling on the canvas, formerhome secretary K Padmanab-haiya, theatre-person SitaRaina, TV anchors Uma Ga-japathy Raju and RameshSharma, British Council’sEdmund Marsden’s wifeMegan and Kanchan Chan-der of the Delhi College of

Art.Also seen that

evening werePark’s Shirin Pal,ministry oftourism’s NavneetSoni, Brindco’sAman Dhal and su-percop MaxwellPereira, HSBC

chief RichardGroves, NiveditaJoshi and KeshavMalik, amongstothers. However,the cynosure of alleyes were Manav’slittle children So-ham andJhanavi....

Shiela Dikshit and Manav Gupta Aman Dhall and Richard Groves

Shirin Paul and Megan Marsden

Photos: RONJOY GOGOI

Sudeshna Gupta, N Soni & Shanno Khurana Maxwell Pereira & Padmanabhaiya

How green is my valley

Uma Gajapathy Raju and Sancheita

B autycretsES

Shvetha Jaishankar, Modelders for me. I have a warm oil bath andmassage once a week. Even though itmay sound unappetising, I try to drink

spinach juice or a poppy-seed concoc-tion once every two months because ithelps me stay healthy.

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DAILY CROSSWORD

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DD I0830 Shaktimaan 0900 Mukhya Samachar 0902 Prog. of Music 0930 Open Frame 1000 News in Sanskrit 1005 Hello DD 1100 Mukhya Samachar 1102 Bollywood Tamasha 1130 School School 1200 News Headlines 1202 Janam Samjha Karo 1230 Junior-G 1300 Mukhya Samachar 1302 Nandu Apna 1330 Timba Roocha 1400 Samachar 1415 The News 1430 Turning Point 1500 Mukhya Samachar 1502 Terra Quiz 1530 Model UNO: Quiz

Series 1600 News Headlines 1602 World of Sport 1700 Mukhya Samachar 1702 World of Sport Contd.1800 News Headlines

Delhi & Relay Transmitters

1830 Music 1900 Regional News 1915 Health Show 1930 Off the Beaten Path

National Network 2000 The News 2030 Samachar 2100 Shakti 2130 Aap Beeti 2230 Hindi Feature Film:

DIJALE (Ajay Devgan,Sonali Bendre,Madhoo)

DD METRO0830 Show No One 0900 UNKAHA DARD -

Telefilm 0930 Kuntee 1000 Jai Ganga Maiya 1030 Music Dhamaka 1100 Shrikant 1130 Curtain Raiser 1200 Glamour & Rythm 1230 Ek Aur Ek Gyarah 1300 Star Style 1330 Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi 1400 Geet Sangeet 1425 Pakwan 1450 News in Urdu 1500 Feature Film in Hindi:

SHAKTI (Dilip Kumar,Amitabh, Rakhee &Samita Patil)

1730 Zara Bach Ke 1800 French Open Tennis

C’ship-03: Ladies

Fnl LIVE 1955 Aankhon Dekhi 2000 French Open Tennis

C’ship-03: LadiesFnl- LIVE Contd. ..

2030 Musibat Bol Ke Aayee 2100 Filmo Ka Guldasta 2130 Jai Ganga Maiya 2200 Shrikant

SONY 1100 Good Morning Disney 1200 Kya Hadsaa Kya

Haqeeqat 1300 Nostalgia: Ek Mahal

Ho Sapno Ka 1500 Shree Ganesh 1530 Haal Kaisa Hai

Janaab Kaa 1600 Biographies

1630 Current Bollywood 1700 Chartbusters 1730 Music Mantra 1800 Disney Hour 1900 CID Files 2000 Kya Hadsaa Kya

Haqeeqat

SAHARA TV 0830 Manpasand 0930 Just Kids 1030 Chacha Chaudhary 1100 Music 1130 Aanewala Pal 1200 Manpasand 1230 Kagaar 1330 Star Ek Gaane Anek 1700 Music 1730 Dum Dum Diga Diga 1800 Just Kids 1900 Gilli Danda 1930 Saturday Hits 2300 Star Ek Gaane Anek

ZEE TV 0930 Ek Nazar 1000 Mrs Madhuri Dixit 1030 Dam Dama Dum 1100 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 1200 Sansui Antakshri 1255 Jhalak 1300 Suspense Hour 1400 Khana Khazana 1730 Ek Nazar 1800 Cartoon Network

on Zee 1900 Ek Nazar 1930 Countdown

ZEE ENGLISH 0830 Police Academy 0930 Living Single 1000 Full House: The Week

That Was 1230 Living Single 1300 Candid Camera 1330 TV Skyshop\

Music Cafe 1400 Promised Land 1500 Homicide Life On

the Street 1600 Police Academy 1700 ER 1800 TV Skyshop\

Music Cafe 1830 Over the Edge 1900 Touched By An Angel 2000 Promised Land 2100 Seinfeld 2200 Mad About You

STAR PLUS 0830 Hit Filmein Hit

Sangeet 0900 Fox Kids 1000 Gurukul- Ancient

Wisdom of India 1100 Sea Hwaks 1200 Siski 1230 Star Bestsellers 1330 Hit Filmein Hit

Sangeet 1400 Dr Morepen Tango 1500 Tea Time Cinema 1800 Samnewali Khidki 1830 Yatra 1900 Hai Na Bolo Bolo

STAR WORLD 0930 Top Drive 1000 The Bold and the

Beautiful 1200 Rendezvous with

Simi Garewal 1230 Travel Asia 1330 Goosebumps 1400 The Tick 1430 X Men 1500 Kumars at 42 1600 Cops 1630 World’s Wildest

Police 1700 The Knight Rider 1800 Walker Texas Ranger 1900 Xena: Warrior

Princess 2000 TNA Wrestling 2100 Mutant X 2200 Water Rats

NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC

0800 Violent Earth:Thunder on the

Mountain 0900 Nat Geo Max: Poison 1000 Taboo: Food G1

and G2 1100 Toyota World of

Wildlife 1130 EarthPulse 1200 Sat. Unltd.: Into the

Volcano: Violent Volcano

1300 Sat. Unltd.: Into theVolcano: VolcanoHunter

1400 Hour India: Hot Sciences from India

1500 Reel People: GreatWhite - Deep Trouble

1600 Nat Geo 1700 On Assigment:

Bear Attack 1730 Tommorow’s World 1800 Toyota World of

Wildlife: Tails, Toesand Teeth

1830 EarthPulse 1900 Saturday Unltd.:

Wedding Magazine:Trendy JohannesburgWedding, Zulu Wedding

2100 Hour India: India Di-aries - Elephant Wars

2200 Reel People: MyBackyard SerengetiStories

DISCOVERY 0900 Discovery Showcase 1000 Mystery Hunters 1030 Mega Movie Magic:

Performance Animation

1100 I Love My Music 1130 Buck Staghorn’s

Animal Bites:Alpine Bites

1200 Great Hotels 1230 Great Romances of

20th Century: MerlinMonroe & JoeDimaggio

1300 Sci. Frontiers: How toBuild a Human:Creation

1400 Sci. Mysteries: DwarfStanding Tall

1500 The Power of Belief 1600 Strange Encounters 1700 Discovery Sunday 1800 Military Aviation:

Cybercopter 1900 Extreme Machines:

Carriers 2000 Discovery Showcace:

On the Trail of Langs-doff Expedition

2100 Discover India:Kashmir

2200 Full Circle WithMichael Palin

CARTOONNETWORK

0900 Samurai Jack 0930 The Flintstones &

Jetsons Hour 1000 Tom and Jerry Kids 1200 Tiny TV 1300 Richie Rich 1330 A Pup Named

Scooby Doo 1400 All New Popeye 1500 The Power Puff Girls 1530 The Samurai Jack 1600 Power Zone: Samurai

the Animated Series 1630 The Real Adventures

of Johnny 1700 Sitting Ducks 1800 Tom and Jerry Show 1900 Character of the

Month: Chance Furlong

2000 The Mask 2030 Toon Talkies:

Flintstones 2100 The Flintstone and

Jetson Hour 2200 Top Cat

MTV 0800 Dekho 0830 Merit List 0900 Bolti Bund 1000 Non-Stop Hits 1100 Cut 2 Cut 1200 Bolti Bund 1230 Housefull

1300 Most Wanted 1400 Merit List 1430 Making of Video: Avril

Lavigne Losing 1500 Non-Stop Hits 1515 Love Ke Liye 1530 Non-Stop Hits 1600 World Chart Express 1700 Inbox 1730 Non-Stop Hits 1900 Fresh 1930 Non-Stop Hits 2030 Housefull 2100 Non-Stop Hits 2130 Chito Chat 2145 Non-Stop Hits 2230 Graveyard Shift

CHANNEL V 0800 Jumpstart 0900 Saturday Stack 0930 Back to Back 1000 Saturday Stack 1030 Back to Back 1100 Saturday Stack 1130 Zabardast Hits 1200 Saturday Stack 1230 Zabardast Hits 1300 Saturday Stack 1330 Zabardast Hits 1400 Saturday Stack 1500 Back to Back 1530 Saturday Stack 1600 Zabardast Hits 1630 Saturday Stack

1700 Weekends 1800 Zabardast Hits 1830 Back to Back 1900 Rewind 1930 Karaoke 2000 Billboard US

Countdown 2100 The Ticket 2130 Saturday Stack 2200 Club

DD SPORTS 0830 16th Sr. Asian Free

Style Greeco Romanand Female WrestlingC’ship-03 LIVE fromIG Stadium

1300 OIL PSU NationalF’ball League-03:MB vs. HAL

1500 4th Under 21 YearsAsian Snooker Bil-liards C’ship-02- S-Fnl-1

1630 Geevan Ke Rang Khelo Ke Sang

1700 16th Sr. Asian FreeStyle Greeco Romanand Female WrestlingC’ship-03 LIVE fromIG Stadium

2130 H/Ls of All Events 2300 India vs. Zimbabwe:

4th Test Match R’dgsof all the Day’s Play

STAR SPORTS 0800 Ckt. Talk Show: Best

of Harsha Online 0830 Dream Team 0900 Wrestling Apple

Crush 0930 Sports Unlimited 1030 Kl World 5S/LIVE 1500 NBA Inside Stuff 1530 Tennis ATP: World

Cup H/Ls 1630 SBK Superbike 1700 Dream Team 1900 Sri Lanka Tour of WI:

WI vs. Sri Lanka, 1stODI, 1st Session LIVE

ESPN 0830 Zimbabwe Tour of

England 03: Englandvs. Zimbabwe 2ndTest, Day 2, H/Ls

1000 WNBA action 1100 School Quiz Show 1330 NBA Action 1400 Zimbabwe Tour of

England 03: Englandvs. Zimbabwe

1512 Zimbabwe Tour ofEngland 03: Englandvs. Zimbabwe 2ndTest, Day 3, 1st Session LIVE

1715 Asian X-Games Qualifiers:V presented by Toyota

1745 Zimbabwe Tour ofEngland: England vs.Zimbabwe 2nd Test,Day 3, 2&3 SessionLIVE

2230 NBA Fnls 03

ZEE NEWS 0700-1200 Bulletin- Every

Half An Hour 1227 Manoranjan 1300 Beyond Headlines 1330 & 1400 Bulletin 1427 Manoranjan 1430-1600 Bulletin- Every

Half An Hour 1627 Manoranjan 1700-1800 Bulletin- Every

Half An Hour 1827 Manoranjan 1830 Bulletin 1900 News at 7 1930 Bulletin 2000 News At 8 2030 Metro News 2100 News at 9

2130 Spl. Correspondent 2200 Din Bhar

STAR NEWS 0600 to 1000 STAR Savera 1000 to 1900 Khabar Din

Bhar 1900 Desh Videsh 2000 Khabar Din Bhar 2100 9pm Report 2200 City 60 2300 Aaj Ki Baat

BBC 0830-2230 BBC News-

Every Hour 0900 Asia Today 0915 World Business Rpt.1000 Talking Movies 1100 Simpson’s World 1200 Click Online 1300 Extra Time 1340 Correspondent 1500 Ray Mears’ Extreme

Survival: Sahara 1600 Tomorrow’s World 1700 This Week 1740 Correspondent 1900 Extra Time 1940 Great Britons 2000 Asia Today 2100 Ray Mears’ Extreme

Survival: Sahara

CNN 0730 World Report 0830 World News 0900 Talk Asia 0930 World News 1000 World Report 1030 World News 1100 Diplomatic License 1130 World News 1200 The Music Room 1230 World News 1300 People in News 1330 Larry King LIVE 1430 World News 1500 World Sport 1530 World News 1600 Int’l Correspondents 1630 World News 1700 World Sport 1730 World News 1800 Diplomatic License 1900 Talk Asia 1930 World News 2000 World Sport 2100 The Daily Show With

jon Stewart: GlobalEdition

2130 World News 2200 Inside Africa

CNBC INDIA 0900 Art Show 0930 Good Life Show 1000 Trendmill

1030 Taking Stock 1130 Global Market Wrap 1200 Art Show 1230 Storyboard 1300 Insurance

Intelligence 1330 Mutual Fund Invester 1400 CNBC Executive

Sports 1800 Managing Asia 1830 Cutting Edge 1900 CNBC Spl.2000 Good Life Show 2030 Trendmill 2100 Art Show 2130 Storyboard 2200 Lessons in

Excellence 2230 Appointment

ENGLISH FILMS JOHNNY ENGLISH: DT Cinemas (Gurgaon) (10.55a.m., 3.05, 7.15 & 11.25 p.m.), PVR Gurgaon (11a.m. & 8.45 p.m.), PVR Naraina (11.30 a.m., 6.40& 8.55 p.m.), Priya (11 a.m. & 6 p.m.), Satyam C’-plexes (11 a.m., 6.20 & 9 p.m.); CHICAGO (A):(Cathrine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger & RichardGere) PVR Saket (10.50 a.m. & 9.25 p.m.); CRADLE TO THE GRAVE (A): (Jet Li & DMX) PVRSaket (12.15 p.m. Only); HARRY POTTER 2 - The Chamber of Secrets: (Daniel Radcliffe, Ru-pert Grint, Emma Watson & Kenneth Branagh) PVRSaket (1 p.m. Only); JUNGLE BOOK 2: DT Cinemas(11.2 a.m. Only), PVR Saket (10.40 a.m., 2.15 &6.35 p.m.), PVR Vikaspuri (11.20 a.m. Only),Satyam C’plexes (11 a.m. Only); THE CORE: PVRSaket (6.45 & 11.35 p.m.); X-MEN-2: (Halle Berry,Patrick Stewart & Hugh Jackman) PVR Gurgaon(8.15 p.m. Only), PVR Saket (10 a.m., 12.45, 3.30,6.15, 9.05 & 11.50 p.m.), PVR Naraina (3.50 & 11p.m.), Satyam C’plexes (1.30, 7.45 & 10.20 p.m.),DT Cinemas (Gurgaon) (12.30, 5.45 & 10.55 p.m.)

HINDI FILMS KHWAHISH: (Mallika Sehrawat, Himanshu Malik)

M4U Sahibabad (12 noon, 3, 6 & 9p.m.), Regal, Satyam C’plexes(12.40, 3.30, 6.15 & 10.30 p.m.),PVR Gurgaon (12.45, 3.55, 7.05 &10.15 p.m.), PVR Naraina (1, 4.10,7.20 & 10.30 p.m.), PVR Vikaspuri(1, 4.05 & 10 p.m.), Moti,

Filmistan, Sangam (12.15 & 6.30 p.m.), Samrat,Movie Palace, Vasant (G’bad); NAYEE PADOSAN: (Rahul Bhatt, Vikas Kalantri, AnujSawhney, Aslam Khan) Sheila, Amba, M2K (12,30,3.25 & 5.30 p.m.), M4U Shahibabad (12.30, 3.30,6.30 & 9.30 p.m.), PVR Gurgaon (12.15, 3.15, 6 &10.30 p.m.), PVR Naraina (12.25, 3.15, 6.05 &10.45 p.m.), PVR Saket (3.45 & 10.50 p.m.), PVRVikaspuri (2.05, 7.25 & 10.15 p.m.), Rachna, Alp-

na, Satyam C’plexes (5.20 & 10.10 p.m.), Pawan (G’bad); ANDAAZ: (Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, LaraDutta) Delite, PVR Gurgaon (12.30, 3.35, 6.50 & 10p.m.), Satyam C’plexes (12 noon & 2.40 p.m.),Sangam (3.15 & 9.45 p.m.), Sapna,Aakash, Seble,Movie Palace, Urvashi (G’bad); ARMAAN:(Amitabh, Anil Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Gracy Singh)PVR Gurgaon (2.40 & 10.45 p.m.); BEWAFA PYAR(A): Rivoli (12.30, 2.30, 4.30, 6.30 & 9.30 p.m.),Suraj; BHOOT: (Rekha, Ajay Devgan, Urmila, NanaPatekar, Fardeen Khan, Tanuja, Seema Biswas)3C’s (12 noon, 2.30, 5, 7.30 & 10.30 p.m.), DT Cin-emas (12.50, 3.15, 5.40, 8.05 & 10.30 p.m.),Vishal C’plex (12.30, 3.30, 6.30 & 9.30 p.m.), M2K(10.45 a.m., 1, 6.05, 8.10 & 10.25 p.m.), M4U(Shahibabad) (12.45, 3.45, 6.45 & 9.45 p.m.), Lib-erty, Odeon, Golcha, Satyam C’plexes (12.30,2.45, 7.30 & 10 p.m.), Chanakya (11.30 a.m., 2,4.30 & 10 p.m.), Priya (1, 3.30, 8 & 10.30 p.m.),PVR Saket (6.05, 8.35 & 11.05 p.m.), PVR Naraina(12.10, 2.45, 5.15, 7.45 & 10.15 p.m.), PVRVikaspuri (12.40, 3.10, 5.40, 8.10 & 10.40 p.m.),Batra, Kavita (Loni), Paras, Movie Palace, Chaud-hary (G’bad), Radhupalace; JAJANTARAM MAMANTARAM: (Javed Jaffery, Gulshan Grover)Chanakya (7.15 p.m. Only), Gagan, Milan, Eros,Vi-rat, PVR Gurgaon (12 noon & 5.45 p.m.), PVRSaket (12 noon & 3.05 p.m.), PVR Naraina (10.30a.m., 1.20 & 8.30 p.m.), PVR Vikaspuri (11.35a.m., 4.55 & 7.10 p.m.), Satyam C’plexes (11.15a.m., 5 & 8 p.m.), DT Cinemas (Gurgaon) (12.45,4.55 & 9.05 p.m.), M2K (10.30 a.m., 3.15 & 8.15p.m.); ILAAKA: (Dharmendra, Sanjay Dutt, Mithun,Jayaparda) Raj (T’nagar); ISHQ VISHK: (Shahid,Amrita, Shenaz) DT Cinemas (3 & 8.20 p.m.), PVRSaket (4 & 8.05 p.m.), Shakuntalam Theatre(12.30, 3.30 & 6.30 p.m.); MAA KASAM & PHOOLAUR AAG: Excelsior; SAATHIYA: Satyam C’plex-es (3.50 p.m. Only); FILM FESTIVAL: West End;Show Timings for Hindi Films- 12.30, 3.30, 6.30& 9.30 p.m. Except wherever mentioned

MORNING FILMS AAG KI HAKUMAT & HUM AAPKE HAIN KAUN:Movie Palace; BAHADUR (Nepali): Paras; MILAN(Nepali): Rachna; THREE WAY LOVE (A): Filmistan; YOU LOVE ONLY ONCE (A): Rivoli

CINEMA

THEATREHabitat World: Natsamrat presents a come-dy ‘Kyua Karega Qazi,’ directed by Shyam Ku-mar, IHC, Lodhi Road, 7.30 p.m.; NationalSchool of Drama Repertory Company:Summer theatre festival - ‘Janeman,’ Abhi-manch Theatre, Bahawalpur House, Bhag-wandas Road, 3.30 p.m.

MUSIC AND DANCEIndia International Rural Cultural Centre:‘Folk dances’ by cultural troupes of Gujarat,Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh,Orissa, Madhya Pradesh & Delhi, Open AirTheatre, IRCEN Bhawan, 7-Nelson MandelaRoad, C-1, Vasant Kunj, 7 p.m.; India Inter-national Centre: ‘Kathak recital’ by DineshGupta from Mandi, Auditorium, 40-MaxMueller Marg, 6.30 p.m.

FILMSDelhi Telugu Sangham: Telugu film- Dil,3 p.m., & 6.30 p.m., A.P. Bhavan, No. 1, AshokaRoad; Nehru Planetarium: Sun Our Day TimeStar (11.30 a.m.- Eng., 12.30 p.m. and 4 p.m.-Hindi) and Can You Really Make a Star (1.30p.m.- Hindi and 3 p.m.- Eng.),Teen Murti House

EXHIBITIONSNiharika Art Gallery: Works of Devender-Dreams, F-05, Okhla Industrial Area, Ph.-I, 10a.m. to 6 p.m.; Quill and Canvas: ‘Paintingsand etchings’ by Dharmendra Rathore, Mad-hubala Sharma, Uttam Kumar Basak and oth-ers, SF-030, DLF Galleria, DLF City-IV, Gur-gaon, 10.30 a.m. to 8.30 p.m.; Vision: ‘Indi-an popular art - Oleographs and prints, handcoloured photographs etc.,’ M-23, G.K.-II(opp. Arya Samaj Mandir), 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.;Gallerie Ganesha: ‘Landscapes’ by BikashPoddar, Satish Chandra and others, E-557,G.K.-II, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

SEMINARSNational Dialogue: Panel discussion on ‘In-dia Pakistan relations in changing world sce-nario,’ IHC, Lodhi Road, 6.30 p.m.; IndianBuilding Congress: ‘Emerging trends inbuilding technology,’ Vigyan Bhawan, 3 p.m.

RELIGIOUS DISCOURSESTimes Foundation: Emotional Freedom

Techniques’ ‘Tapping meditation’ by RohiniChopra (10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and Vivekanan-da Pratishthan Parishad’s ‘Mudra workshop’by Vikramaditya Keshavdas (6 p.m. to 7 p.m.)(Contact — 23782396 - 23782031), 4-TilakMarg; Vedanta Institute: Discourse on ‘Bha-gavad Gita’ by Shivender Nagar, DurgaMandir, Prasad Nagar, 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.;Swami Sivananda Cultural Association:‘Group meditation,’ Sivananda Marg, AmarColony, Lajpat Nagar-IV, 8 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.;Chinmaya Centre of World Understanding:‘Geeta Gyan Yagna - Ch.-VII’ by Swami Nikhi-lanandaji, 89-Lodhi Road, 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

LECTURESShri Raghunath Mandir: Talk on ‘The path toultimate happiness’ in English and chantingby Sureshwari Devi, Amar Colony, Lajpat Na-gar-4, 7.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.; India Interna-tional Centre: ‘Global truth and reconcilia-tion,’ Dr M. Radh Achuthan to speak, Conf.Room-I, 40-Max Mueller Marg, 6.30 p.m.;Vedanta Institute: ‘Bhajagovindam’ by Shivender Nagar Ramana Kendra, Lodhi In-stitutional Area (near Sai Temple), LodhiRoad, 11 a.m. to noon; Vedic Wisdom Cen-tre: Talk and training on ‘Gita and art of suc-cess and happiness’ by Prakash Kandwal,B-25, 3rd Floor, Dayanand Colony, Lajpat Nagar-IV, 8 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.

PUBLIC FUNCTIONSGolden Age Foundation: ‘The Sri Bha-gawathi Sri Bhagavan Havan Saptah,’ Groundopposite to Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, Lod-hi Road, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Opera: ‘Theatreworkshop’ (In two batches), Dilli Haat Hall,4.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.; Laxmibai Sports Ed-ucation & Welfare Society: ‘Summercoaching camp in gymnastics,’ Indira GandhiInstitute of Physical Education and SportsSciences, B-Block, Vikas Puri, 7 a.m. to 8.30a.m.; Al-Anon: Meeting for relatives andfriends of ‘Alcoholics,’ Free Church (near Jan-tar Mantar), Sansad Marg, 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.

MISCELLANEOUSHeart Care Foundation of India & IMA: Joinus to know ‘How to quit smoking,’ K.L.Chopra Body Mind Insttitute, D-50, DefenceColony, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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MUSIC

MAX 0900 Dhund 1300 Koshish 1700 Drohi 2100 Champion

AXN 1200 Dragon - The Bruce

Lee Story 1430 The Ghost 2000 Predator 2245 Predator II

HALLMARK 0730 Clifford 0800 Caillou 0830 Whiskers 1030 Gentle Ben:

Black Gold 1230 Black Fox 1430 Boy Meets Girl 1630 Uncle Buck 1830 My Sister’s Keeper 2030 Tennesee Williams

Roman Spring Mrs Stone

2230 My Sister’s Keeper

HBO 0830 Drama: Varsity

Blues 1030 Action/Adventure:

Cabin Pressure 1230 Horror/Sci-Fi:

Hideaway 1445 Family: Dennis the

Menace StrikesAgain

1615 Action: Rush Hour 1815 Action/Adventure:

Superman 2100 Drama: Almost

Famous 2330 Suspense/Thriller:

Desperate Measures

STAR MOVIES 0830 Comedy: Flintstones 1030 Action: Metro 1245 Animation: Shrek 1445 Horror: Tremors 1645 Coffee Time Movie:

The English ManWho Went Up the Hill

1845 Action Force: TotalRecall

2100 Must See Sat.: TheWorld is Not Enough

2330 Sat. After Dark:Howling VII

STAR PLUS 2000 Raju Chacha

SONY 0730 Vaastav 2100 Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh

Mera Ghar

ZEE MGM 0830 The Gods Must Be

Crazy-4 1100 Livin Large 1330 American Ninja 4 1600 Moonstone 1830 Salvador 2100 Movie Marathon -

The Brave 2315 Number One Fan

ZEE TV 1430 Wajood 2000 Judwaa

ZEE CINEMA 0700 Rustom-e-Bagdad 1000 Lava 1300 Viewers’ Choice:

One Out of- Baaghi/Love/ Sanam Bewafa

1700 Little John 2100 Leela

Have fun with ‘Raju Chacha’ at 2000 Hrs. on Star Plus

MOVIES

It’s ‘Almost Famous,’ Saturday Night Spl. on HBO at 2100 Hrs.

Visit the Heaven on Earth — ‘Kashmir’ on Discovery at 2100 Hrs.

‘The World is NotEnough,’ catch at2100 on Star Movies

‘Yeh Tera Ghar YehMera Ghar’ on Sony TV at 2100 Hrs.

Watch ‘Predator II’ at 2245 on AXN

Follow the story offilm-maker, inhabitantof ‘Serengeti’ on NGCat 2200 Hrs.

Enjoy weekend at2100 on Zee Cinema

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EVENTS

SATURDAY 7 JUNE 2003

ARIES (March 21 - April 19) Others are insisting thatyou plan things carefully. But your instincts aretelling you that this is no time to struggle with get-ting things organised. Since changes can’t possibly

be anticipated, view any arrangements as tentative, and you’llwaste no time on details that are bound to be altered anyway.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) Don’t assume that justbecause you’ve told others about your plans thatthey’ll remember what you said. On the contrary,however, attentive they seemed, they were so self-

absorbed that they barely took your words on board. Simplybegin again, as if you’d never before discussed these matters.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20) Having just made exciting,if not life-changing,decisions you naturally want to turnthose plans into action. However, once you begin yourealise that certain individuals aren’t nearly as support-

ive as you’d have expected. In fact they’ll need considerable reas-surance from you that changes won’t upset their little world.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22) At the time you didn’t consider others’ rather unkind response toyour requests as unusual. Perhaps that’s becausetheir abrupt manner has become almost normal.

While it’s vital that you encourage them to improve their attitude, it’s even more important that you think about whyyou’ve put up with it for so long.

LEO (July 23 - August 22) You don’t consider your-self as being too proud to ask for help. Others haveoffered to give you a hand.Yet you dislike even men-tioning issues, although they’ve nearly reached cri-

sis point. The minute you speak up they’ll work with you, both tosolve problems and end the paralyzing tensions you’ve endured.

VIRGO (August 23 - September 22) Making deci-sions is one thing. Getting others to agree with whatyou’ve organised is quite another matter, as the conflicts you’re currently faced more than amply

illustrate. Explain to those who’re questioning your plans exactly what your intentions were. Then back off. However,eloquent your words, they’ll still need time to think.

LIBRA (September 23 - October 22) When the weekbegan you may have expected to make a few decisions. But you probably didn’t expect to be deal-ing with those of a potentially life-changing nature.

However, with the practical Saturn now accenting the structureof your domestic and working life, a far-reaching re-organisation is becoming increasingly likely.

SCORPIO (October 23 - November 21) You’ll soonhave to stand up to others over certain issues in-volving matters of rights or ownership. While havingyour facts in order is vital, the major determining

factor is bound to be your attitude.Approach those involved withconfidence and you’re unlikely to be questioned or challenged.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 - December 21) Youhadn’t intended to be overly generous. However, in re-viewing your position, you realise that you’ve given somuch in terms of time, effort and money to those you

care about that you’ve left yourself short.Saying no isn’t easy. Butthey won’t just understand. They’ll appreciate you all the more.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 19) For sometime you’ve suspected that others have been hidingsomething important. Now that you know they are,you’re wondering how to exact this vital information

from them.The answer is,play it cool. If you pretend that you knoweverything already, they’ll see no reason to remain so secretive.

AQUARIUS (January 20 - February 18) Certain in-dividuals are doing their best to off load their dutiesor responsibilities. Waste no time discussing thetheories behind these obligations. Simply make it

clear exactly what you expect of them and when. And if theydon’t fulfil your requests, turn those requests into demandsthat leave no room for argument.

PISCES (February 19 - March 20) For some timeyou’ve been hoping that certain contentious in-dividuals would realise the problems they’re causing. But at the moment you can’t afford to up-

set the applecart. Be patient. Once the warrior planet Marsmoves into Pisces in mid-June, both circumstances and yourmood will make the necessary confrontations far easier.

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Jealous Husband

A jealous husband hired a private detective to check on themovements of his wife. The husband wanted more than awritten report; he wanted video of his wife’s activities.A week later, the detective returned with a video. They satdown together to watch it. Although the quality was lessthan professional, the man saw his wife meeting anotherman! He saw the two of them laughing in the park. He sawthem enjoying themselves at an outdoor cafe. He saw themdancing in a dimly lit nightclub. He saw the man and hiswife participate in a dozen activities with utter glee.‘‘I just can’t believe this,’’ the distraught husband said.The detective said, ‘‘What’s not to believe? It’s right up thereon the screen!’’ The husband replied, ‘‘I can’t believe that my wife could beso much fun!’’

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Th e ys ay,pud-

dings arecomplicat-ed affairs.This falla-cy hasproved sopersistant

that shops are fairly burstingwith mixes.

When out on a shoppingexpedition like this, when youknow it can all be done quiteeasily at home with the realeggs, real sugar and real milkyou’ve got in in the cup-boards, it’s almost offensive to

be offered prepared composi-tions of agar-agar (Irishmoss), carob (produced fromthe dark, aromatic pods ofcarob trees), fatty acids andthe smooth assurances of old-time quality, quick’n’easy. Itmakes you yearn for good-oldvalues like simplicity.

According to Ada Boni, au-thor of Talismano della Felic-it‘ (a cookbook for anyonewishing to master the funda-mentals of Italian cooking)puddings are egg-baseddesserts.

To start things off, breakfour eggs (five if they’resmall). Beat them together

with four level tea-spoons of sugar,add 4 cups of milkand two half-eggshells of rum.Just you tell mewhere you’d find acommercial mixthat’s less fuss thanthat!

Somebody’s hadus convinced thatpuddings were a lotof trouble becausethey have to becooked in the dou-

ble-boiler. Wrong again! Pre-heat the oven to 125 degree Cand bake your pudding for anhour. Insert a toothpick to testit as you would a cake. Whenthe toothpick comes outclean, your dessert is ready. Iknow someone’s already say-ing: An hour? Too long! Butconsider, it’s an hour whichfrees your hands and mind-not really so bad, huh?

Pudding is somethinghome-made, good for all sea-sons and good for everyone,whether old or young,

whether quick’n easy devotieor foe. All that happiness willhave the mix producers jump-ing for joy...Homemade chocolate pud-ding

Ingredients:1 1/4 cups sugar2/3 cup cornstarch1/4 cup cocoa1/2 teaspoon cinnamon1 cup evaporated milk 1 cup milk3 egg yolks — beaten1 tablespoon chocolateMethod:

Pour one cup water and 1/4cup sugar in container andheat it on flame till it turnsreddish brown. Now take it offthe gas and let it cool so as toattain a dark texturedcaramel.

In a diffferent container,combine all ingredients ex-cept the vanilla. Mix well tillit turns into a semi solidpaste. Cook over mediumheat until thickened, stir-ring constantly to avoidburning. Stir in vanilla. Topwith whipped cream. Allowit to freeze.Homemade vanilla pud-dingIngredients1 cup sugar1/2 cup flour2 cups evaporated milk 1/8 teaspoon salt2 egg yolks — beaten2 tablespoons butter —melted1 tablespoon vanillaMethod:

Pour one cup water and

1/4 cup sugar in containerand heat it on flame till itturns reddish brown. Nowtake it off the gas and let itcool so as to attain a dark tex-

tured caramel. Combine sug-ar, flour, salt, egg yolks, andevaporated milk. Mix well tillit turns into a semi solidpaste.Cook in a double boiler,

stirring constantly, untilthickened. Add butter andvanilla. Mix well. Top withwhipped cream. Allow it tofreeze.

FROM EULOGYTO SIMPLICITY

Cold & Calm

For those into light foodwhat better option than

indulging into the Cold Soupand Salad promotion at NYC,Radisson Hotel. The festivaloffers a choice of five coldsoups along with a variety offresh raw salads. And in caseyou wish to be innovative,you even have the choice ofmaking/mixing your ownsalad , courtesy the large va-riety of dressings and saucesat the special-ly created ad-ditional count-er.

The soupsinclude GreenPeas, Aspara-gus and MintSoup, Cucum-ber and Yo-ghurt Soup,S u m m e rTomato andRed Peppersoup, Gazpa-cho Soup andUlchyssoise (potato andleeks) soup. On the otherhand, the salads include man-go, asparagus and avocadosalad with Feta cheese, Man-go Chaat, Roasted Mango andCottage Cheese salad andBlackened Chicken and Man-go Salad.

Size does matter

Summer bonanza for kidswith Pooch Pizzas —

This is what is Pizza Hut hasto offer this summer. Intro-ducing a new range ofmouthwatering pizzas espe-cially for children, are fivenew pizzas — three vegetari-

an and two non-vegetarian —in a size not just appealing tothe palate but also pleasing tothe kiddo eyes.

The pizzas range of per-sonal pan pizzas is distinctfor offering a combination oftoppings thatare favouriteswith kids. Therange in-cludes vege-tarian pizzaslike PoochsFavourite -loaded withmelted moz-zarella cheese;Hut Mutt Spe-cial - a funcheesy combi-nation of

fresh cap-sicum andcrisp onionand SpeedySurprise -juicy chunksof pineapple,crispy tomatoand loads ofcheese.

For the non-vegetarians,there is Chick-en Bravo,topped withs u c c u l e n t

chunks of chicken and freshtomato with cheese andChicken Island, which ischicken with juicy pineappleand cheese.

Break all rules

Aproper Thai meal shouldconsist of a soup, a curry

dish with condiments, a dipwith accompanying fishand vegetables. A spicedsalad may replace the cur-

ry dish. The soup can alsobe spicy, but the curryshould be replaced by nonspiced items. There mustbe a harmony of tastes andtextures within individualdishes and the entire meal.And if all this sounds in-teresting, Bangkok degree1 is the place to be in.

A family affair

Nirula’s now offersFamily feast khazana

at all it family style restau-rant to tantalise tastebuds.While the vegetable mealcombo comprises a regu-lar size Mushroom Cap-

sicum Onion pizza,vegetable burger,dal makhani, mut-ter paneer, rotis andcoke, the non-veg-terain menu hasChicken Pepperonipizza, vegetableburger, dalmakhani, Chickencurry, rotis and cokein store.

Priced at Rs 250(vegeterian) and Rs275 (non-vegeter-ian), the offer evengives one a chanceto win various ex-citing prizes, cour-tesy the scratch

and win offer. Each time afamily buys a family featcombo, they get a scratchcard that fetches themgifts like toasters, dryirons, citrus press andOTGs to name a few.

The chill factor

Looking for somethingcool? Intercontinental

Parkroyal is the place to be inas it offers the incredible ice-cream promotion atBlooms. Rare and exoticcombinations like theMalibu and Mango, Figand Walnut ice creammake dinning a momentof joy indeed.

Also, on offer isCaramelised Banana andPeach ice-cream spikedwith rum. And if that’snot all and you crave forsomething liquid, walkinto Singh Sahib to bustthe heat with cooler thathave been beating theheat since time immemo-rial. Coolants likethandai — milk

flavoured with rose petalsand suffused with saffron,crushed almonds, poppy

seeds and melon seeds, alongwith the Ambi Panna’s tangyfreshness is perhaps the idealchoice. However, the divineand coolest of all Bel ka sher-bet is a must try.

TOWNAROUND

KNOW YOUR INGREDIENTSwith Preah Narang

The recent test suggestingthat falling foam at lift-offcould have caused the dam-

age that doomed the space shuttleColumbia was a jaw-droppingdemonstration of the destructivepower of something so light.

“I thought, Oh, my God! This issomething. This isn’t just a lightbounce,” recalled NASA officialHubbard. He watched the test lastweek and described it in detail.Before last week’s test, many en-gineers at NASA said theythought lightweight foam couldnot harm the seemingly toughcomposite panels, and privatelypredicted that the foam wouldbounce off harmlessly, like a Nerf

ball. But Hubbard said the exper-iment showed that “people’s intu-itive sense of physics is some-times way off.”

In last week’s experiment, theresearchers shot a 1.7-poundpiece of foam at a mock-up shut-tle wing at 531 miles per hour,roughly the speed of the chunk offoam that hit the Columbia wingabout 81 seconds after liftoff.

A film of the experiment showsthat the impact of a piece of foamhitting the wing mock-up causedthe leading-edge panel to ripplelike the surface of a struck gong.

The foam shattered with hunkscramming their way into theseam between the panel and anadjoining seal. That opened a longslit in the surface of the wingfour-tenths of an inch wide and

about 22 inches long potentially,more than enough to let in thestream of superheated gases thatmelted the wing from the insideout as the craft entered the atmos-phere on February 1.

Even the researchers setting upthe test were unprepared for thesheer force of impact as a wave ofenergy moved through the innerstructure of the wing and side-ways along its panels in someplaces, with seven times the forcethat the researchers had expect-ed. Sensors inside the wing wereknocked loose.

Bouncing a small piece of foamlightly between his hands for em-phasis, Hubbard said: “You don’tfeel this can do anything. But youfire this at 500 miles an hour, andyou saw it.” He invoked the phys-ics equation that describes the am-ount of kinetic energy in a movingobject, saying, “That’s when itcame home to me what 1/2mv2means.” The simple equation saysthat kinetic energy is one-halftimes an object’s mass times theobject’s velocity squared.

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Mouse modelto avert aging Researchers from

the National Can-cer Institute have de-veloped a mouse mod-el of the premature ag-ing syndrome knownas Hutchinson-GilfordProgeria Syndrome,according to the jour-nal Nature. It is hoped

that the mouse model willfacilitate a better under-standing of the fatal syn-drome and also demystifythe normal aging process.

At present, there is notreatment for progeria, arare genetic condition char-acterised by an appearanceof accelerated aging in chil-dren. Derived from Greek, itmeans “premature-ly old” and childrensuffering from thisusually die of heartdisease in their ear-ly teens. Althoughnormal at birth,children with prog-eria begin to devel-op growth retarda-tion, thinning skin,

and fragile bones as youngas 18 months.

Oh, where are theworld’s sea fish? Bad tidings for fish lovers.

There are only ten per-cent of large fish, includingtuna, swordfish, marlin, hal-ibut, skates and flounder, leftin the sea. More importantly,industrial fisheries take only10 to 15 years to grind anynew fish community they en-counter to one-tenth of whatit was before.

“From giant blue marlin tomighty bluefin tuna, andfrom tropical groupers to An-tarctic cod, industrial fishinghas scoured the global ocean.There is no blue frontier left,”says author Ransom Myers, aworld-leading fisheries biolo-gist based at Dalhousie Uni-versity in Canada. The bigspecies like the megafauna,are the prized possession ofthe sea and their depletionthreatens the future of otherfish, dependent on them. Itcould also revamp the oceanecosystems, with unknownglobal consequences. Thestudy points out that peoplepresume there are still un-tapped reservoirs of largefish in the sea.

I t was 1 a.m. and sunnywhen Ben Saunders, ayoung British adventurer,stumbled giddily into the

mess tent at Camp Borneo, a waystation for thrill seekers, scien-tists and extreme tourists 60miles from the North Pole.

Sodden and chilled, he hadjust completed 13 solitary days ofskiing, swimming and trudgingto and from the top of the world,towing provisions and gear 120miles in a sledge across thecrack-laced ice floes.● Now that he was safe andwarm, what was the first thingto do?

He did not join the Frenchtrekkers, South Korean skiersand Russian skydivers celebrat-ing Russian Orthodox Easterwith boiled eggs and rounds ofvodka. Instead, Saunders, 25, satdown at a table, pulled out hispalm-size iPaq digital assistant,his pocket-size Global Position-ing System (GPS) locator, hissatellite phone and his digitalcamera and began updating hisweb site. Such is the state of ex-ploration these days.

In the last four years, everlighter electronics and a grow-ing grid of world-girdling satel-lites, along with a network ofprogrammers, tinkerers andtrekkers, have brought real-timeconnectedness to the world’smost remote places. “GPS andsatellite phones have kind ofrevolutionised the whole thing,”Saunders said.● Some technology is used as itcomes off the shelf while someis customised in an endlessquest for the bestperformance at thelightest weight.When a trekker must drag orcarry everything needed for, say,a two-month trek to the Pole,every ounce counts. Each addi-tional pound of gear supplants apound of food, about half a day’srations.● Sjogren and his wife and busi-ness partner, Tina, both 43, havea toilet-paper distributorship intheir home country, Sweden, butgot into the trek technology busi-ness as they ventured to bothpoles and up Mount Everest andother daunting peaks. They

longed to share each step, bothvirtually through constantly up-dated web pages and by devisingspecialised communicationsgear.

But conventional laptops weretoo heavy, hand-held organiserswere incompatible with satellitephones, and batteries of allkinds faltered in the polar-deepfreeze. They enlisted program-mers and engineers around theworld to force devices to talk toone another, then tested them by

taking them on ex-treme ski treks andclimbs. Sometimes

the solutions are simple. For in-stance, custom-built holders gen-erating 12 volts from lithium bat-teries proved superior to everyother type of power storage. Oth-ers have involved elaborate com-binations of custom-made soft-ware and jury-rigged cables andconnectors.● Sjogren said their expeditionshave been followed, minute tominute, by students, by a familyin California who built a mockEverest base camp in the base-ment, and by cancer patients.

“They’re battling their own bat-tles, and can tune in on our trou-bles, doubts, and fears while theyin turn inspire us,” she added.

Saunders is among the Sjo-grens’ customers, using a cus-tom-designed communicationskit — a yellow weatherproof boxof gear can cost around $3,000, orcan be rented — and relying ontheir web sites as well as his topost daily logs. He and dozens ofother adventurers now routinelyuse the Internet to promote theirexploits and the products ofsponsors that provide gear andfinancial backing.

It has become something of acompetition to see who cantransmit the most informationand imagery the most quickly,with an intense race, for exam-ple, unfolding in recent days onthe flanks of Mount Everest,where Chinese and Americanvideo crews vied to be the first tobroadcast live television fromthe summit. The Chinese won.The technology itself has alsogreatly increased the number ofexpeditions to the world’s far-thest reaches.

TREKKING WITH GLOBAL TRACKING

V incent Collins, a lawyer, has been vacationingin this scenic area of California for 35 years.A few years ago, he bought a 1.2-acre plot

there and planned to build a house on it. But once hesaw the windmills, and learned of plans for more, hescrapped that dream.

Soaring above the treetops are 44 sleek white steelcylinders, 228-foot high. Churning on each tower arethree glinting fiberglass blades, 115-foot long. Likequills on a porcupine, they spike the emerald spine ofBackbone Mountain for six miles along the Alleghe-ny Front.■ They have also generated huge turbulence withinthe environmental movement. Propo-nents of wind farms view those who op-pose them as heretics,obstructing the prom-ise of clean renewableenergy, while oppo-nents decry them asproducing insufficientpower to warranttheir blight on thelandscape.

For now, the windfarm there is thelargest east of the Mis-sissippi, but the wind-energy industry, longa staple of the Califor-nia landscape, is blow-ing eastward. Unob-structed winds,favourable economicsand the absence of lo-cal zoning laws are at-tracting developers,and soon more than400 turbines could besprouting across 40square miles of WestVirginia’s most scenicmountaintops.■ “I can’t believe howlarge and hideous theyare,” Collins said.“When you hear the word ‘windmill,’ you think Hol-land and Don Quixote. That’s wrong. They look likealien monsters coming out of the ground.” The grow-ing industry has caused a kind of identity crisisamong people who think of themselves as pro-envi-ronment, forcing them to choose between the prom-ise of clean, endlessly renewable energy and the per-ils of imposing giant man-made structures on nature.■ To some environmentalists, the opposition to wind

power from within their ranks not only stifles thegrowth of a new source of energy but also calls intoquestion the integrity of the environmental move-ment itself. Charles Komanoff, a longtime economicconsultant to environmental groups, said the opposi-tion by “well-heeled environmentalists,” stoked thepreconception that they were more concerned abouttheir own backyards than about the common good.“They want to have it all and they won’t brook anytrade-off, especially a trade-off that sacrifices theirown comfort,” he added.■ At the same time, the wind-farm developers appearto have the environmental high ground. “We believe

in clean energy,” said Steve Stingel, aspokesman for Florida Power and Light,

which bought therights to the windfarm here and thenbuilt it. The companyis the largest genera-tor of wind power inthe United States, with30 wind farms in 10states.■ Wind now accountsfor less than 1 per centof all electricity pro-duced in the UnitedStates. But the Ameri-can Wind Energy As-sociation, the indus-try’s trade group, pre-dicts it will grow to 6per cent by 2020.■ But the reality forpeople like Collins issomething else. Wind-mill farms must belarge to be financiallyviable. Critics worrythat beyond the blem-ish on the naturallandscape, these in-dustrial-sized towerscan chop up migratorybirds. One farm in Cal-

ifornia was dubbed the “condor Cuisinart,” and theornithologist monitoring the wind farm here just re-ported that at least two dozen song birds wingingtheir way north had been killed.

Another complaint is that wind farms can do littleto reduce overall dependence on fossil fuels, becauseof the unreliability of constant wind and the inabili-ty to store its power. “They put out such a minusculeamount of electricity,” Collins said. “It’s nuts.”

Farms that don’t echo the eco-system

VAULTPOLE

STONEMILL

M artha Stewart’s lawyer wasted no time, sug-gesting that his client had become a targetfor government prosecutors on account of

her fame. “Is it for publicity purposes, becauseMartha Stewart is a celebrity?” her lawyer, RobertMorvillo, asked in a statement, challenging the mo-tives behind her indictment on charges of securitiesfraud and obstruction of justice.

The lead federal prosecutor insisted that the an-swer to that question was no. “MarthaStewart is being prosecuted not for whoshe is, but because of what shedid,” said US attorney Comey.

Yet many longtime prosecu-tors said Comey was being un-necessarily coy. ‘‘Celebrity,’’ theysaid, ‘‘almost certainly played arole in the decision to commit re-sources to the Stewart investiga-tion, and ultimately try to con-vince a grand jury to charge herwith a crime.’’ ‘‘And,’’ theyadded, “So what?”

After all, the purpose of law en-forcement is not simply to punishpeople for crimes they have com-mitted, but to deter crimes thatare being contemplated. Thatpushes prosecutors to send strongsignals about the dangers ofcrossing the line by bringing cas-es that penetrate public con-sciousness. If the indictment hadbeen against Martha Jones ratherthan Martha Stewart, no one would be reading this ar-ticle primarily because it would not have been written.

“The deterrent effect is immeasurable,” said for-mer federal prosecutor. “Even if the governmentputs a thousand hours into building this caseagainst Martha Stewart, the risk-reward ratio isenormously positive and constitutes a very prudent

allocation of government resources.”Even if the government fails to obtain a convic-

tion, lawyers said, aggressive corporate executiveshaving seen the price Stewart paid will be far morecareful about even approaching the line that definesan obstruction of justice. With the prosecution ofStewart on that charge coming only a year after doc-ument shredding helped destroy the Arthur Ander-sen accounting firm, it would be hard for a corpo-

rate executive not to get the message.The securities fraud count with Stew-

art effectively charged with de-frauding the investors in MarthaStewart Living Omnimedia bypublicly stating that she put inan order to sell ImClone sharesat $60, a claim the indictmentsays is false, the government hasalso sent a message about the im-portance of absolute truthful-ness by corporate executives indealing with their shareholders.

In the wake of the Enron de-bacle, in which numerous execu-tives have been charged with is-suing misleading statementsabout the company’s prospects,the indictment of Stewart hassignalled an expansion of theneed for candour by executiveseven in personal financial mat-ters if investors might care.

None of this means thatMartha Stewart was charged be-

cause she is a celebrity, the experts said, but ratherthat celebrity elevated the case higher in the pile ofinvestigations deserving prosecutorial resources.And those resources are evident in the indictment,from the examination of computer files to the analy-sis of different types of ink in an effort to prove thatparts of a document had been fabricated.

Prosecutors Have Reasonsfor Stalking Celebrities...

NASA s Foam Test Offersa Vivid Lesson in Kinetics

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E xclusivestills fromR a k e s hRoshan ’s

Koi Mil Gaya, a filmthat combines sci-fiwith typical Bolly-wood romance.

If you remember,his last film turned hisson into the most fa-mous Bollywood hero on

Planet Earth. It’sprecisely the rea-son Rakesh Roshanhas aimed at the sta-rs for his next film.

So Koi Mil Gayahas Rakesh Roshan as

an Indian-born scien-tist based in Canadawho devises a gizmoto contact aliens. Andthey do. The onlyproblem is that no-body believes him.But then Roshanand his preg-nant wife Re-kha have a cl-ose encounter

with a UFO whichends in a car crashthat kills Roshan. So

Rekha returns to Indiawhere she gives birth to

a son with a mentalproblem. The son grows

up to be Hrithik, who is abit of a dimwit, but finds afriend in Preity Zinta.Hrithik stumbles on hisdad’s gizmo and toyswith it. The result is an-other close encounterwith the spaceship and aseries of events thathurlte towards the cli-max of the film.

While Koi Mil Gayaalso stars Prem Cho-pra and Mukesh Ri-shi, it’s got visual ef-

fects by an imported FXteam from Australia.

Now let’s pray that thefilm is good enough to in-

spire others in Bollywoodto try a Star Wars or a StarTrek.

KOI MILGAYA...

Sonali Bendre is followingin the footsteps of

Abhishek Bachchanrather seriously.What’s that youthink? Here’s thestory... Shehas signedup fora neg-a t i v erole. Its aT e l u g ufilm calledP a l n a t iB r a h m -a n a i d uand, be-s i d e s

her, the film stars South starBalakrishna. Wonder why

this sudden obsession toplay negative roles in

Tollywood? But re-member Shah RukhKhan, AkshayKumar, SuneilShetty? After all, ittakes a Friday tochange the box-of-fice rakings of ac-tors. And shiftingfocus to South isnot a surprisingmove when

y o u rBollywood

films fail.

Sonali in a negative role!

Enigma at the JWMarriott, Mumbai

saw the music releaseof the movie 88 AntopHill and Smita Tha-ckeray presided as ch-ief guest. She also con-gratulated directorKushan Nandy, forhis foray into Bo-llywood. Also presentto celebrate in the fes-tivities were RahulDev, Atul Kulkarni,Jasmine, SuchitraPillai, Pritish Nandy,Sanjay Singh andAnaida.

Climbing upthe hill...

Sean Penn has written to adaily to explain his much-

criticised December trip toIraq. The movie star became atarget for political punditswhen he accepted public accu-racy advocate Norman Solo-mon’s invitation to visit theMiddle East. In the 4,000-wordessay, Penn states, ‘‘I experi-enced first hand the repres-sive condition of public de-bate in our country, as it pre-pared for war.’’ The actor ac-tually paid for a full-page ad-vertisement to make sure hisletter wasn’t tampered with.

Penning actions

KOI MILGAYA...

Movie star Edward Burnsand model-turned-yoga

guru Christy Turlington are towed in San Francisco today. TheHollywood pair were origi-nally supposed to wedin October 2001,but postponed th-eir nuptials dueto the Septem-ber 11 te-rrorist at-t a c k s ,but thecoup lewill fi-nally saytheir ‘I do’s’ thisweekend. Thepair had splitup after theiroriginal we-dding datewas calledoff, but rec-onciled lastyear. Tur-lington’s palBono willwalk herdown theaisle at theceremony.

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Turlington towed Burns

The late actress Nutanwould certainly have been

proud of her son. Reason?Mohnish Behl has not onlymade a name for himself infilms but is also hitting it off on

the small screen. The latestnews is that his television ap-pearance in a serial Sanjivanihas won him a Best Actoraward from the Radio and TVPractitioners Association. Theserial truly marks the starson’s success on the idiot box.

The sanjivanifor success

Our gorgeous lady Aishwa-rya Rai is on the top of the

world again. After making herspectacular appearance at Ca-nnes, she’s back in the city.

She rested for a day, be-fore heading for

Nasik to resu-me shootingfor Raj Ku-mar San-

toshi’s Kh-a k e e .With a

digitalc a m e -ra inh a n d ,

she wentback to the

spot where she hadan accident. ‘‘I wanted

to thank the plants forsaving my life,’’ she said.

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Madhuri Dixit Nene hasnamed her son Areen,

meaning, ‘no obstacles shall co-me’. And Madhuri dearest isbusy playing real-life mommato the hilt. Her acting careerhas taken a backseat for the

moment. After her fabulous pe-rformance in Devdas and herlong tenure at the top spot inthe glamour industry, this ac-tress surely deserves a break.But she insists that she’ll beback to doing what she doesbest, sooner rather than later.

Sooner or later...

TThere’s moreon Jackie

Shroff’s Boom.It’s the only Indi-an film whose

music is to belaunc -hed

on TV.

This happened recently at theprestigious Cannes film festi-val. In the VIP lounge at theNoga Hilton, eight plasma

screens were put to show thepromos of Boom. So far, FTVhas launched only Chicagoand Matrix Reloaded, on itschannel, and Boom is the thirdfilm to bag this prestigiousslot. Looks like the film isheading for a bigger boom atthe box office.

B A C K B E A T8 DELHI TIMES, THE TIMES OF INDIA SATURDAY 7 JUNE 2003

Down memory lane BOOM IS THE WORD!

Techno savvySoumitra Ranade, di-

rector of JajantaramMamantaram (J2M2) hasalready started working onhis next project. He saysthat this one, too, will betreated with special effects,but not to the extent towhich J2M2 has. Soumitrabelieves that kids are greatinfluencing factors and In-dian producers have stillnot ventured into makingfilms categorically forthem. With J2M2 he hastapped this tremendous po-tential audience, and shallcontinue making films forthis amusable lot of tiny-tots. Should we hence callhim the father of SFX?