Indomitable West Indies Dominates World Cricket

BREAKING THE PANAMA CODE

Tiyashi Datta

NEWSIN BRIEF

Pratyusha’s suicide

Television actress Pratyusha Banerjee committed suicide al-legedly owning to her relation-ship issues. Her parents have filed a FIR against her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh. Rahul has been booked for abetment of suicide along with other charges.

Predator drones

India loses semis

India is likely to buy 40 predator surveillance drones from US. The initiative has been taken to tighten the security along the vast land borders with Pakistan and China.

Brussels key suspects detained

Two persons were detained by the Belgium police in relation to the Brussels attack. One of them is believed to be seen with a sui-cide bomber on CCTV while the other is alleged to be a part of the plan.

Black holes

Team of astronauts from NASA have discovered black holes in the centre of a massive elliptical galaxy NGC. The holes are be-lieved to weigh 17 billion suns.

Fire at Putingal devi temple

At least 102 people died and over 280 were injured after a massive fire broke out in Putingal devi temple. Initial reports said that though the fire was caused by fireworks that the temple au-thorities were not allowed to light inside the temple.

Earthquake hitsIndia-Myanmar Border

Animikh SenguptaWhen the going gets t o u g h , the tough gets go-ing. And in the end it is the p a s s i o n

for the game that leads to victory. What else can explain the win of West Indies men and women in World Cup T 20 and World Cup of Under19 team? The West Indies Crick-et Board is mired in controversies such as nonpayment of dues and showing disre-spect to the players. Politics and bankruptcy have also affected the performance of the team. The players did not have team jersey. In such a situation the remark ‘players with no brains’ only added salt to the injury. Faced with a massive pay cut, the future of West Indies cricket team was wrapped in

uncertainty had it not been for the collective decision to face the adversities and face the challenges in order to remain relevant in world cricket. The team could have boy-cotted the tournament in protest, but they chose to be a part of it. Yes, they made history and world witnessed history being made. The West Indies giants like Gayle, Bravo, Braithwaite, Simmons have all along played in different T 20 Leagues of other countries like Big Bash, County, IPL and many others. So these players are more exposed to the nuances of the game and have become ex-pert of the shortest format of cricket. The young jubilant West Indies U-19 team lifted their first World Cup in Bangladesh earlier this year by beating a consistent and undefeated Indian team in the final encoun-ter at Mirpur. The women carried the lega-cy forward in the ICC World T20 Women’s World Cup as they stunned the three-time

defending champions Australia. The men’s team on the other hand, became the first nation to lift the coveted World T20 Trophy for the second time by beating the Champi-ons of the 2010, England. On the back of this triple success, any oth-er cricket board would have given bounties to its players, however not in the land of the Carribeans. The game may not be in danger in the country, but the future of the cricket team definitely is. The problems that have blighted West Indies cricket are far from over. Darren Sammy in the post match conference has highlighted the fact that the administrators of the game and the players of the region are far apart, clearly indicating the problem is far from over. Will the board now take notice and co-operate with the players? The board and the players need to sit across the table and look for strategies required to be equally successful in other formats of the game as well.

Come election season and the walls of the street of Bengal become the canvas of many artists. It is a perfect platform to describe the present state of affairs often reflecting on the politics and its underneath meanings. Un-like other forms of art, it is in effect meant for the common man, who can relate to what is being said and drawn. Oxford dictionary defines graffiti as writings or drawings scrib-bled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. Considered as illegitimate counterpart of advertisement, the purpose of such art is usually a desire for recognition of messages that is public in nature. The Model Code of Conduct set by the Elec-tion Commission of India categorically states

that the political parties and their workers do not have the right to deface or spoil any pri-vate or public building. However, such guide-lines are blatantly violated by all political par-ties. Not only in India, graffiti is considered illegal in other parts of the world. From real cut to reel world. Even the little boy of Sub-way Surfers, the popular mobile game, is in an endless running as he is chased by the Inspector and his dog for applying graffiti to a metro railway! However, graffiti remains a powerful tool for expressing political dissent. Some are sa-tirical, some are witty and some are thought provoking – this is how it has been since 1952 in West Bengal. Its power to grab the atten-tion of the voters remains unmatched and it also proves that the power to appeal the

voters has not diminished. Like ‘thanda than-da cool cool, abar asbe Trinamool’ slogan of Trinamool was changed to ‘thanda thanda cool cool, ghush niyeche Trinamool’ by the Left Front after the Narada tape surfaced. Similarly, Trinamool’s jibe at Congress-Left alliance ‘eki brinte duti phool, maobadi aar trinamool’ is countered by ‘haat haturi kaste tara, ebar habe bangla chara, phutbe nako padma phool, bangla garbe Trinamool.’This art form of criticizing the political parties, alliances, individual leaders and corruption has found a new platform in the social me-dia- it has emerged as a new wall for artistic expressions. Will wall graffiti survive the on-slaught of social media? Only time can give us the answer.

Santanu Ghosh and Aditya Ghosh

“When the illness is dangerous, an injection is given, there could be side effects. But this is the cure”- this is how PM Narendra Modi prefers to put his words while talking about black money. One of the many promises he made to the fellow Indians during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections was to bring all the illegal assets back home. With less time and more to deliver, once again he has his chance to prove that the ‘achhe din’ is not very far.‘The Indian Express’ partnering with ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) and ‘Suddeutsche Zeitung, Munich’ has unravelled the black money trail in the global financial system. It should be noted that previously ‘The Indian Express’ has investigat-ed three key offshore wealth trails respectively in June 2011, April 2013 and Feb 2015. The black money trail was discovered with the publication of the ‘Liechtenstein List’ and the famous ‘HSBC Indian List’ which included almost 1195 names with a balance of 25420 crores.The name Mossack Fonseca, a Panama based law firm broke like a thunderclap, bringing with it a huge cache of nearly 11.5 million documents, christened ‘Panama papers’ by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Being dubbed ‘the biggest leak of inside information in history’, it unveiled the offshore financial hold-ings thus exposing the true face of many current and ex world lead-ers. The leaked documents have pointed out powerful names like Vl-adamir Putin, Nawaz Sharif, Chinese President Xi Jing Ping, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Azerbaijan’s first family, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko etc. Indians were also not left behind,

more than 500 names including celebrities like Amitabh Bach-chan, Aishwarya Rai, DLF chairman K P Singh and his family,

Sameer Gehlaut, Onkar Singh Kanwar of Apollo tires, Gau-tam Adani’s elder brother Vinod Shantilal Shah Adani and

many more. The list also exposes Late Iqbal Mirchi, the man wanted by Mumbai police for allegedly handling underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s finances.The world’s lackadaisical approach to this game of nep-

otism and kleptocracy became visible with countries like Russia dismissing the reports as false and based on “Putinophobia” and others questioning facts like

the absence of names from Western countries except Ice land. Fortunately, Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemed

unbiased this time and did the right thing by setting up a multi-agency team to investigate and analyse all the possible angles of the alleged offshore accounts and cases of money laundering. This investigation is a chance to find out all the suspicious transactions that have tak-en place and is taking place in the opaque global financial system that allows tax evasion. An individual’s legitimate right to privacy is completely different from that of financial privacy and shadowy world of tax havens not only safeguards people from giving taxes by con-cealing one’s true identity but also provides money to terrorist or-ganisations. Mossack Fonseca’s customers include blacklisted firms that are suspected to be financiers of terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferators.The voices of all the people found in that list is firm with a constant denial of any wrong doing but the double attack, that is government and SIT on one side and the multi-agency team including RBI on the other, is a clear indication that this time our PM wants no mistake on his side. “Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain”- the thought rightly expressed by Rohinton Mistry quite matches with the thought of our Prime Minister. Now it’s time to see how quickly and crisply can he bring the money back home. With our ‘achhe din’ coming near, the countdown for ‘bude din’ of all those crooked, double faced personalities has begun.

Let the wall speak

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“Din bodoler swapno dekhi,Eka eka chupi chupi- Dewal jure dewal likhan, Amar tomar aki-buki...”

NIMD initiative

Earthquake measuring 6.8 on Richter Scales shakes Myan-mar India Border .Strong trem-ors were feel in different parts of north east India including severals parts of Bengal,Bihar,-jharkhandand Delhi .30 People are being reported to be injured in Manipur.The epicenter of the quake was in myanmar,100km off India-Myanmar border.

India failed to qualifie for the fi-nals of ICC T20 World Cup 2016.The team lost the semis finals to West Indies by 7 wickets.

MOVIE REVIEWKI & KA

Project Life Force conducted a blood dona-tion camp in the campus for the victims of the recent Kolkata flyover mishap. Earlier, On April 5th, an awareness session was conducted by Danish Seth, Pranab Bedi and Avik Mandal (alumni of NSHM) from Project Life Force. On 7th April the NCMT & NCPT department helped in organizing the blood donation camp in the pharmacy seminar hall. Over 250 students participat-ed in this camp, who were then awarded with certificates.

Cast : Kareena Kapoor Khan , Arjun Kapoor,Swaroop Sampat ,Rajit Kapur.Director : R.BalkiRating : 4/5We all know that behind every successful man there is a

woman. But, behind every successful woman is there a man? To know this you have watch the movie “Ki & Ka” . We live in a male dominating society , where it’s necessary for every man to work outside to prove that he is “the man”, whereas a woman is judged by her household skills.Breaking the stereotypical norm, the movie revolves around Kia,an ambitious wife, who decides to be the man of the house and Kabir, the husband, who doesn't aspire to be like his billionaire father but decides to become a homemaker. When you think, that’s enough boldness there, Balki provides another shocker where the the wife is elder to the husband. Then there are situations, ego, insecurity, jealousy and love. The movie begins with Kabir proposing to kia!! The society fails to understand their chemistry. But Ki and Ka are happy. She earns, yearns and yells at him and he cleans, cooks and cares for her. Later on the spotlight falls on Kabir , becomes fodder for gossip, the hero for commercials and women's-day seminars. Even the Abhimaan Jodi (Amitabh and Jaya Bacchan), whom Balki cutely projects finds something new in Kabir and wants to meet with him. Due to all these things,gradually Kabir becomes a popular face in the society. Just like anyother love story,Kia & Kabir start falling apart. A constant silent ego fight starts which bursts out when Kia’s mother is hospitalized. At last this fight forces Kabir to leave the house of his wife.Talking about acting,Kareena Kapoor Khan proves herself as a brilliant actress yet again & Arjun Kapoor is also good as a loving, tolerant homemaker. Swaroop Sampat who faces the camera after 14 years since Saathiya portray’s the mother of Kareena beautifully. Rajit Kapur’s comical timing shines bright in the movie.The music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy is brilliangt. There are party songs like “High heels pe naache”, “Most wanted munda”, “Pump it”, love songs “Foolisq” by fa-mous lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya and a soft song “Ji Huzoori”. Singers Shreya Ghoshal, Palak Muchhal, Mithoon, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Arman Mallik, Meet Broth-ers,Earl Edgar, Jaz Dhami, Aditi Singh Sharma, Deepali Sathe composed a per-fect bolly album.In this new generation version of “Abhimaan”,Balki takes away all the applause for his new movie consisting of a combination of masala,fights and romance, per-fcet for the gen-ex couples.

The Department of Optometry invited students for their programme, “I for Eye" on the occasion of World Optometry Day on April 4 and 5.A free Eye Check up Camp and Contact Lens Trial in association with Bausch & Lomb was orga-nized on the 2nd floor of the new building. The Camp went on from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.Also, On April 5, a seminar on "Role of Optometrists in prevention of Avoidable Blindness" was conducted. The main motive of this camp was to spread awareness on Eye health and Op-tometry as a profession on World Optometry Day.Active participation by students made this event a success.

The organization of Art Academy Colors Touch conducted a painting fes-

tival at Indian Council of Cultural Relation (ICCR).The event was conduct for three days, where work of fa-mous painters including Abanindranath Tag-ore were displayed. Upasana Chatterjee, a 1st year student of the NSHM fashion depart-ment participated in this prestigious event.

With the advent of 15th April, 2016, the Bengali community turns an-other year older with the com-mencement of the Year 1423, of

the Bengali Calendar. Commonly addressed as Poila Baisakh, the first

day of the Bengali calendar, celebrates the surviv-al of an age old tradition, culture and values of the Bengali community. Poila Baisakh has always been more than just another day of celebration, a day of remembrance to revive the decaying traditions and rejuvenate the disintegrating aspects of our culture. The day symbolizes the waking up of an entire com-munity, coming together for a span of a single day, from its state of oblivious hibernation.According to the traditions, at the break of dawn on Poila Baisakh, musical processions, also known as “Probhaat Pheri” used to take over the streets and alleys of Kolkata. The city used to reverberate with the songs of Tagore, Nazrul Islam and many other forgotten musical enigmas of Bengal. Men wore tra-ditional, Dhyuti-Punjabi, whereas the women used to clad themselves in white Sarees with red borders.

The statement, “Maachey-Bhaatey Bangali”, found its significant implementation on this very particular day, with a traditional ‘Paanta-Ilish’ being served at every household dining table, during the afternoon. With an obvious leap, the dinner would comprise of Luchi and Alur Dom, with a distinctive platter com-prising of various kinds of sweets, of which, Roso-golla used to be a must. Thus, the day served as a breath of new life which made the differences disap-pear, and brought together many nostalgic memo-ries, closely knitted, into a living state of being.Supposedly, the community could not withstand the wrath of time, hence, with globalization, chose like any other community, to bring about a few little changes within it. Although, it failed to realize the long term impact that it might had to bear, and here we are. Today, Poila Baisakh, hardly sees, any of its leftover traditional means of celebration. Not any-more, does the day starts with musical processions of soulful root music. Instead, you will be able to hear the next door neighbor, murdering the ears of the entire “Paarah” (locality} with the gibberish chants like “Afghan Jalebi” or “DJ waale babu”. The

very next thing we get to see often on Poila Baisakh, is an un-de-clared competition among young girl and boys, on the basis of their fashion, ranging

from brandedKurta-Pyjama to jeans and t-shirts, and, from Kanjeevaram to Dhakai to branded suits and dresses, with an emphasis of color variation, as if that would be the last criteria of being judged as the best dressed individual on the streets. Material-ism has soaked in so deep, that people often fail to realize the spirit of the day, that is, the spirit of uni-ty or unanimity. Capitalism and Western cultivation has contributed to the establishments of retail food-shops, the utilization of which can be best seen on a day as this, as Poila Baisakh. “Paanta-Ilish” has been taken over by KFC, Domino’s, Pizza Hut, the five star restaurants and the various Biriyani-outlets all over the city. The concept of having a close cozy family dinner at the dinner table was overpowered by dining outside at such recognized outlets and uploading a mandatory Facebook status about it. These are only the evident sights that we get to see today, whenever there is an occasion as this, fail-ing to acknowledge our own origin and roots. This is no more restricted to the day of Poila Baisakh; this occidental infliction of the trait of materialism has crept into our veins like a plague. The only way to recover is to dive in deep to get ac-quainted with the roots and traditions of our cul-ture and rediscover the soul of our community.

Painting Festival

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Purna Das Baul, renowned Baul Artist visited the campus on 8th April .He conducted an interac-

tive session with media students, where he spoke about his life, success & leg-acy of Baul in Bengal. The PG-1 students are featuring him and his achievements in a short documentary.

Visit of Purna Das Baul Blood Donation Camp

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