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Big Cinemas, Ameerpet, 30581470; Cinemax, Banjara Hills, 44565555; Cine Planet , Kompally, 61606060; INOX, Banjara Hills, 44767777,Prasads, Tank Bund Rd, 23448888; PVR, Punjagutta, 8800900009; Talkie Town, Miyapur, 40214175; Tivoli, Secunderabad 27844973CINEMAS

men trying to find peace of mindin a park is being presented bySifar. The play is written by ManavKaul and directed by Feroz.Where: Lamakaan,

Banjara Hills,Rd No 1

When: July 22, 5pm onwards

Contact: 96427 31329

Pochampally melaHead to the Pochampally mela forhandmade bed and home linen,dress materials, silk and cottonsarees. Where: Sathya Sai

Nigamagamam,Srinagar Colony

When: Ongoing,10am onwards

Contact: (040) 2374 1450

Monsoon maniaRamoji Film City celebrates theonset of monsoon with eightweeks of fun-filled activities andentertainment with magic of cine-ma starting from July 1 to August

Lepakshi MelaLepakshi Craft Bazaar 2012 featuring artists from AP and otherstates is being held. The exhibition-cum-sale will be on till July 23.Where: Sri Kalyan Gardens,

Miyapur CrossroadsWhen: Ongoing,

11am onwardsContact: (040) 2323 5028

Weekend competitionorganizing an entertaining‘Weekend Competition’ for thechildren between the age group of10-15 years. The two day competi-tion will comprise cookery competi-tion, dance and fashion show forthe children. Where: Oxford Bookstore,

The Park,Raj Bhavan Road

When: July 21 and July 22,1pm onwards

Contact: 91601 48444

Middle Eastern food festTake a trip to the Middle East withthe Middle Eastern Food Festivalbeing held at Arena till July 21.Where: Arena,


When: Ongoing,7.30pm onwards

Contact: (040) 6666 3939

Smooth operatorsTease Lounge at Vivanta by Taj pre-

sents Smooth Operators Nightevery Friday with DJ Mohit.Where: Tease Bar,

Vivanta by Taj,Begumpet

When: Every Friday,7.30pm onwards

Contact: (040) 67252626

Sizzler festivalLove sizzlers? Head to Aditya ParkInn for the Sizzler festival. Sample avariety of vegetarian and non-vege-tarian sizzlers. The festival is on tillJuly 22.Where: The Promenade,

Aditya Park Inn,Ameerpet

When: Ongoing7pm onwards

Contact: (040) 6678 8888

Burger festivalHRC is hosting the LegendaryBurger Festival. Sample a variety ofburgers from around the world.The fest is on till July 29.Where: Hard Rock Cafe,


When: OngoingContact: (040) 6463 6375

Park dramaA Hindi play dealing with three

When: July 18 onwards,11am onwards

Contact: (040) 6656 4466

Parantha festivalHaldi at Novotel Airport is hostinga parantha festival titled ParanthaOverload. The parantha festival ontill August 15, offers a variety ofparanthas in both vegetarian andnon-vegetarian combinations. Where: Novotel Airport,

ShamshabadWhen: Ongoing,

6.30pm onwardsContact: (040) 6625 0000

Art worksA painting exhibition featuring thenew works of artistes Laxma Goud,Vaikuntam Thota and RameshGorjala is being held.Where: Gallery Space,

Banjara HillsWhen: Ongoing,


French filmThe French film Les Demoiselles deRochefort will be screened atAlliance Francaise. The film revolvesaround the life of two youngwomen.Where: Alliance Francaise,

MarredpallyWhen: July 20,

6.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 2770 0734

Kuchipudi performanceA Kuchipudi dance performancewill be presented by Dr. KamalaReddy and Soumya Rajupet on July31 at Ravindra Bharathi.Where: Ravindra Bharathi,

SaifabadWhen: July 18,

6.30pm onwards Contact: (040) 2323 1245

Art-de-konjA painting exhibition depictingartist Aiyudha Pooja Kapur’s passionfor horses is on display at Muse ArtGallery till July 20.Where: Muse Art Gallery,

Tank BundWhen: Ongoing,


Scaffold to infinityAn exhibition of constructivistwooden sculptures by senior sculp-tor and artist Aekka Yadagiri Raoare being displayed as a part ofScaffold to Infinity. Where: Iconart Gallery,


When: Ongoing11.30am onwards

Contact: (040) 98499 68797

31. Monsoon Masti is an occasionfor the entire family.Where: Ramoji Film City,

HayathnagarWhen: Ongoing,


Theatre festivalThe seventh edition of the multit-lingual theatre festival - AbhinayaNational Theatre Festival will beheld from August 16 to August 19.Where: Ravindra Bharati,

SaifabadWhen: August 16 onwards

6.30pm onwardsContact: (040) 2323 1245

Living with the mastersAn exhibition of paintings byartistes such as Akbar Padamsee,Bikash Bhattacharjee, Ganesh Pyne,Jagdish Swaminathan, K GSubramanyan, Krishen Khanna,Ram Kumar, S H Raza, Tyeb Mehtais being held at Kalakriti ArtGallery.Where: Kalakriti Art Gallery,

Banjara Hills

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Acase was filed against noted filmdirector Raghavendra Rao thathe had misused the land allot-

ted to him by the State governmentfor constructing a studio or recording

theatre useful to the film industry. A film director, who filed the petitionhas said that instead, he constructed

Cine Max complex and was doingbusiness by cheating the government.

Case filed against producer

Tension prevailed at the JNTUcounseling center where counsel-ing for medical seats was in

progress. Several students unions,including SFI and PDSU stagedprotests, demanding online filling ofseats under management quota.Student leaders alleged that the pri-vate colleges were selling seats for `1crore each.

Students agitate at JNTU

Police have unraveled the mysteri-ous killing of two kids in theAddagutta about three days ago.

The cops found that the mother hadkilled the children due to family troubles. The woman had complainedto the police that some unidentifiedpersons had assaulted her and mur-dered her children. Police earlier saidthat the children were strangled.

Mother guilty of murder


Postnoon [email protected]

The whole government andits apparatuses miserablyfailed the Hyderabad peo-ple when the rain gods set

to work in earnest and it poured11 cm rains since last night, arecord downpour in a short peri-od of eight hours. The miserywas accentuated for the fact thattoday is the first day of Ramzanwhere the devout begin themonth-long observance withsaher. And lakhs of homes inthe nine sections of the metro

division had no power supplysince 9pm. In Mallepally, elec-tricity was not restored till 10amtoday. “It’s a horrible situation,”bewailed Mohd Razak fromMosampura colony inMallepally. Residents who triedto contact the Central electricitynumber 9490619788 found thatthe call was either not gettingthrough or if it did they got aswitched off message. At10.30am, the phone suddenlycame alive and the attender saidhe was not the right person!

Enquiries with the electrici-ty department revealed that

since last two days, the employ-ees in the emergency wing havebeen on a strike to protest thesuspension of two employees.Higher ups seems to have takenno step to resolve the issue andthe sudden downpour caught allby surprise. Area divisionalengineer Sambaiah said thatthey were unable to cope withthe avalanche of grievancessince last night. He said sometwo lakh domestic connections lay paralysed andthe emergency staff was yet toget back into action. Calls werebeing routed to routine sections

which were not equipped to dealwith emergency situations. “Godsave us,” said Ramu Patil, a resi-dent of Kukatpally who hadbeen trying to contact the board.

GHMC, despite boasting ofbeing ready was caughtunawares as several roads thathad been dug up remained unre-paired. Craters and potholes sud-denly appeared in the arterialroad from Begumpet to JubileeHills. Metro rail added to thewoes in Punjagutta where theworks near the civil supply officeproved dangerous to themotorists. It also led to a trafficgridlock in the morning. Policewere not of any help as theypleaded to be helpless when itcame to civic problems. Nor wasthe fire department of any help.

Govt failed, but rains did notThe City was taken aback by the sudden downpour yesterday, the government’s lack of

preparednesss resulted in the denizens being bogged down by power cuts and water logging

Control room numbers

Secunderabad- (040) 2780 7321

Old City- (040) 2450 0254

Uppal- (040) 2404 3600

Kukatpally- (040) 2332 2978

Khairtabad- (040) 203 2978

CITYSATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012

Hapless in

OLD CITY

PK [email protected]

Meteorology in India hadnever been accused of

promptness in its task.This set up, despite our

scientific advancement, proves amonument of inefficiency if one

looks at their predictions. Weatherreports by the Met has become the

butt of all jokes as they predict ‘drydays ahead’ when the sun shines

and rains when they’ve havealready begun.

Yesterday, the meteorology mis-erably failed to warn the govern-

ment and the people of the impend-ing heavy rains in the City andelsewhere. When the damage is

done, the Met has come out withthe prediction of “heavy rains for

the next 48 hours.” If mediaenquires of the situation they

would ask them to file a requestand pay for the information if it is

rain-specific of the past. Peoplewho either visited or worked in the

Western countries marvel at theinsensitivity of the Met office.

Met predicts the obvious

BASHEERBAGH

Rahul [email protected]

Chief Minister KiranKumar Reddy had an

emergency tele-conferencewith all the collectors andGHMC commissioner thismorning. He asked them toset up control rooms andbegin relief works wherenecessary. However, all hisofficial programmes in theCity and outside were keptas per schedule. The chiefminister’s office said none ofthe four programmes theCM had agreed to partici-pate in would be altered.Caught napping, the GH -MC, that received a tweak inits ear from the CM, set upsix control rooms for rain-related complaints today.

CM programmesstands

N SHIVA KUMAR, SRINIVAS SETTY, M ANIL KUMAR AND DEEPAK DESHPANDE

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Wall collapseclaim nine lives

The City that witnessed adeluge-like situation withthe heavens opening with

a vengeance last night claimednine lives and injured 15.

Four of a family — motherand three children — wereburied alive when a wall oftheir old home collapsedbringing a portion of thehouse down on them. The deadare identified as FareedaBegum, 30, Sameer, 6,Samreen, 4, and Muskaan, 2.Fareeda’s husband, MohdPasha escaped the tragedy ashe was in the bathroom, whichremained unaffected. Thewoman and kids were shiftedto a nearby hospital but weredeclared dead.

At Narsapur crossroad,under Balanagar police stationlimits, another wall of a housecollapsed leading to five

deaths. Laxmi, 42, her sonBabu, 18, were killed when thewall of her kucha home cavedin and buried them. In thesame area, another wall col-lapse claimed three lives;Shantilal, 19, Kalu Khan, 19,and Gopal, 18, said joint com-missioner of police CyberabadAtul Singh said.

Several injuries and dam-age to vehicles were reportedfrom different parts of theCity since last night. A bikerand a car were washed awayunder the MMTS station AtKukatpally but the occupantsof the vehicles escaped withinjuries. People sufferingbruises and shocks on theroads were reported fromKukatpally, Malakpet,Ameerpet, LB Nagar,Secunderabad, Talab Katta,Sultan Shahi, Eddi Bazaar,Charminar area, Puranapul,Lakdi ka Pul, and Punjagutta.The compound wall of theBegumpet airport gave wayunder the heavy rains.However, no casualty or dam-age has been reported so far.

Hyderabad

[email protected] SUBHAN

15 people were injured when walls collapsedat various places due to the heavy rains that

lashed the City last evening

DOMALGUDA

BALANAGAR

HI TECH CITY

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After ruffling feathers in NewDelhi, NCP chief SharadPawar is in Mumbai and

will be meeting Shiv Sena ExecutivePresident Uddhav Thackeray, at the

Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai, later in theday. Mr Thackeray underwent an

angioplasty and is recuperating. Thevisit assumes significance in the wake

of Pawar’s souring ties with UPA.

Pawar to meet Uddhav

A17-year-old schoolboy wasstabbed to death by two otherboys in the national capital on

Friday, police said. Sanjay wasattacked in Pul Prahladpur whilereturning from school. One of theattackers was his classmate. He wasstabbed thrice on the chest and thighand he died on way to the hospital.Police are yet to arrest the attackers.

Delhi school boy stabbed

The Delhi High Court on Fridayordered suspension of new con-struction on the ruins of a 17th

century mosque unearthed, but aMuslim leader said the ruling violatedreligious sentiments. Hours before thecourt ruling, thousands gathered at thesite near the Jama Masjid for Fridayprayers. The court has asked the ASI tolook into the matter.

Mosque construction stayed

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18 killed, 17hurt in mishapin MizoramAIZAWL: At least 18 people were killedand 17 others injured when a bus fell intoa deep gorge after being hit by a massivelandslide near Keifang village, about 100km east of Aizawl in the wee hours today.

Seventeen bodies were recovered andone injured person succumbed to injurieswhile being taken to nearby Saitual ruralhospital after the bus met with themishap at around 12.45 AM, police said.

Among the dead, nine persons, includ-ing two non-tribals, have been identified.

Aizawl Superintendent of Police L RDingliana Sailo said that except for twopersons, all the other injured personshave been sent to Aizawl Civil Hospitalfor treatment. PTI

Jundal producedin Mumbai courtArrested 26/11 key han-

dler Abu Jundal, whowas brought toMumbai in the wee

hours on Saturday, has beenproduced before the ChiefMetropolitan Magistrate inEsplanade Court in southMumbai.

A Delhi Court on Fridayhanded over Jundal toMaharashtra’s Anti TerrorismSquad (ATS).

The suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative is want-ed by the Mumbai Police in

various terror cases, includingthe 26/11 Mumbai terror attackcase, 2006 Aurangabad armshaul case and German bakeryblast case in Pune.

The Mumbai ATS has beenseeking Jundal’s custody sincehe was nabbed by the DelhiPolice. The Delhi court hasdirected the Mumbai ATS toproduce Jundal back in Delhionce the investigation is over.

Jundal, alias Abu Hamza,was arrested at Delhi airporton June 21 on his arrival fromSaudi Arabia.

According to reports,Jundal has admitted his activerole in the 26/11 attack, sayinghe had worked in tandem withterror mastermind ZakiurRehman Lakhvi.

He has during his interro-gation confessed his role in thecountry’s worst terror attackand admitted that he was pre-sent in the Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT) control room in Karachifrom where direction wasbeing given to the 10 terroristswho carried out the strike.

AGENCIES

The health of Lakshmi Sehgal, aclose associate of Netaji SubhashChandra Bose, deteriorated on

Saturday, doctors in Kanpur said. “Wehave put her on ventilator support toboost her blood pressure,” said SantoshKumar, a doctor attending to the 97-

year-old who was the first captain of the women’s wing of Azad Hind

Fauj or Indian National Army.Cardiologists at the Kanpur Medical

Centre, where Sehgal was admittedafter suffering a heart attack onThursday, said that her blood pressuredropped alarmingly low late on Friday.

Doctors admitted that things werenot looking good for Sehgal who wasthe Left candidate in the 2002 presiden-tial election.

She lost to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.“She is unconscious. We are moni-

toring her parameters and waiting forher to respond to the medication,” adoctor told IANS.

Lakshmi Sehgal’s daughter andsenior CPI(M) leader Subhashini Aliwas by her bedside.

Film director Shaad Ali, her grand-son, was also in Kanpur.

NCP, which has decided to pull outof the UPA government in protestagainst the way the party was

treated by Congress, today said itwill remain an ally of the ruling coalition.

Talking to reporters at the city air-port after his arrival from Delhi withNCP supremo Sharad Pawar, PrafulPatel said, “NCP is part of the UPA andwill remain so.”

NCP, a stable ally of Congress for

the last eight years, created a crisis ofsorts for the government when Pawar,Minister for Agriculture, sent a one linecommunication to the Prime Ministerexpressing his decision to quit alongwith Patel, Minister for Heavy Industry.

Patel dismissed suggestions that theNCP was resorting to pressure tactics.

“We have already spoken to UPAchairperson Sonia Gandhi and no topleader of the Congress has said we arepressurising the UPA,” he said.

Lakshmi Sehgalon life support

NCP to stay in UPA: Patel

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EDITORIALS

EDITORIALS

It’s better to be occasionallycheated than to be perpetual-ly suspicious. I was taken fora ride several times in thelast month. Looking back at

these situations, I can dip intomy sense of humour and laughthem away. When they hap-pened, though, I was livid.People are the same everywhere— whether in Chicago orBangalore. There is an uncon-trollable urge to get a littlemore out of something… every-thing.

On a bright sunny morningin late June, after a heavybreakfast, I was struggling withthe map to get directions to theMagnificent Mile, Chicago’sshopping and tourist highstreet. When I stopped at anintersection, turning the maparound several times, and turn-

ing my own direction, too, sev-eral times, I heard a voice boomfrom the corner of the street.“Where do you need to get to,madam?” A tall, dark, heavily-built man walked towards me. Iknew I looked every bit thetourist. But during my travelsin many other cities, I havefound that with cautious trust,the world can be a differentplace.

In Barcelona, for example, Ihad encountered a Pakistaniman on the bus from the airportto the city. He chatted me upand took me to the Indianneighbourhood to show off thecity like it were his own. Had Inot followed my instinct andspoken to him, I would havenever seen that part ofBarcelona.

So I decided to speak to thisAmerican man offering his ser-vices for direction. “I want toget to the Magnificent Mile,” Isaid. He walked ahead andmotioned for me to follow him.We walked one block and thenhe pointed at a building across

the street and said I need totake a right on the road behindthat building to reach theMagnificent Mile. I thankedhim and was about to leavewhen he said: “Wait. Now yougot to do something for me. Ihelped you with the directions.Now gimme some money.Something. Anything.”

My first reaction was anger.Why didn’t I see this coming? Ipulled out a few coins from mypurse and handed them to him.The smile returned to his face.“You have a good day,” he saidand walked away. I walkedtoward the direction he pointedat only to realize 15 minutes ofwalking later, that I was walk-ing in the complete opposite

direction! I had no one to blamebut me. I was blaming mynaivety and my inability to reada map correctly.

In Bangalore, I was recently,again, taken for a ride by aparking attendant on BrigadeRoad. The automated parkingmachine slots allow for a maxi-mum of two hours parking for acar. You pay the attendant andhe give you a ticket. I paid fortwo hours but the attendantgave me a ticket for only onehour. I asked him to punch it foran extra hour but he justrefused. He said he wouldreturn the Rs 10 when I gotback for my car. But by the timeI returned, his shift had and hewas probably drinking teasomewhere with that `10. I wasangry, not so much with losing`10 but in allowing myself to betaken for a ride. Yet, I couldn’tbe any other way.

When the anger faded and Isaw these events from a dis-tance, they seemed quite hilari-ous. Will this make me trustany less? Absolutely not.

THE BANES among us

The shooting incident atDenver necessitates the need

for the discussion on America’sgun laws yet again. The perpe-

trator was a man who held amasters degree and a PhD, andyet had been frustrated that he

did not find employment. It issaid he took inspiration from thevillain of the Batman movie The

Dark Knight rises, Bane. Hewore a gas mask and threw

smoke grenades and openedfire at people who had no handin his being jobless. Apparently,Bane, too, became a bane after

having to serve time for hisfather’s crimes. Bane’s a curious

blend of brawn and brain: hehas had a classical education

and can speak several lan-guages, and is a physically pow-erful man. Yet for all his abilitiesand intellect, he chose the path

of crime, perhaps to wreakvengeance upon a society thatmade him suffer for the sins of

his father. If one observes close-ly, there is a connection

between the cases of Bane andthe Denver shooter. Both weremen who felt wronged by the

society and the system. TheDenver shooter might have felt

he was paying for the flaws ofthe policies made by authoritiesdespite his qualifications. In the

wake of this incident, the debateon the gun laws before presi-

dential polls in the US may heatup. But let those involved notforget about something very

basic: equality, justice andopportunity for all. If not, there

will be more Banes on thestreet.

WAKE UP, O city mandarins

The city roads are flooded,traffic jams are rampant, rain-

related diseases are spreading,some parts of the city are in the

dark... Well, DO SOMETHINGbefore things get worse.

Tpropos Drain water stagnationwoes for KPHB residents. Theauthor has not looked above

KPHB being the biggest colony inAsia. Apart from highlighting the obvi-ous over and over, there is no mentionof the actual effects of water clogging.

John GaltVia email

To trust or not to trust?That is the question

IT’S BETTER TO BETRUSTING AND OCCA-SIONALLY CHEATEDTHAN TO BE PERPETU-ALLY SUSPICIOUS.


Soul CurrySUMAA TEKUR

COMMENT 9

While I was growingup – decades ago –I was a bit of a ne -rd. Spectacles fir -mly in place, I had

an aversion to all kinds of sportsexcept for table tennis and bad-minton. If I took part in a race –and I did so only once or twicewhen forced to at school, I alw -ays almost finished last.... Perha -ps that is why sportspersons andtheir psyche, their fitness and re -gi mens have always made meput my hands together inapplause.

The most important event onthe calendars of all nations andof participating sportspersons isthe Olympic Games that are allset to kick-start in London soon.The last few weeks, the papershave been filled with talks aboutwho is going, who is not, who islikely to win and all the permu-tations and combinations thatcould bring medals and glory tonot just the individual, but thecountry as well.

For me, as probably for most

of us, the Games are an event tobe watched on television – or forthe enterprising and lucky ones,live. For me, as I run through thenames that crop up the most, Irewind to the times I met them,chatted with them as they spokeof their dreams, goals andachievements.

Top of the list would beyoung Saina Nehwal – one ofHyderabad’s young achieverswho has shuttled her way intothe limelight with little noise orbrouhaha. We had flown out tothe city two years ago – she hadbeen on our August cover then.A young 20-year-old, whatimpressed me about her was hersimplicity. She walked in for ourinteraction, alone. No airs, nodemands… and spoke straightfrom her heart. Even after somany games, she confessed tosleepless nights before biggames and to staying up holdingher medals when she won: “Noone is happy when you lose amatch. I feel like I could just crywhen I lose; when I was younger,I would burst into tears. But, Ihave become stronger and learntmany lessons. Now, winningthree titles without any mistakesis a big thing for me: becauseeven if I played badly on one ortwo days, I did not lose heart.

This has done a great deal formy confidence.”

She is proud to be an Indian,a pride that is reflected in thethree colourful clips she oftenwears while playing in tourneys.“”I love the colours that make upour flag,” India’s top shuttlerhad told me. “Everyone dies todo something for the country. Iam the lucky one who gets to doit. I’m proud to be making aname for my country in theworld of badminton.”

When I had asked her what ifComet Saina burned brighterand brighter, would that take thefocus away from her game, the

down-to-earth girl had replied,“There is always a big tournam -ent ahead of you and you have tokeep your focus clear. When youbecome a big personality in Ind -ia, people want you everywhere.But, I don’t think I will change.Did Sachin change himself ? Heis the same guy. I am a sportsper-son playing for the country. Andthat is all that matters.”

Think Olympics and anothername springs instantly to mind –that of Abhinav Bindra, the manwho got India its first individualOlympic gold medal. I bumpedinto him at a discussion of hisbook in Mumbai some time ago,

but I still remember my firstleisurely interaction with him athis home in Chandigarh. TheLone Ranger was no spoilt kid.Far from it.

On his historic win, he toldme, “It was the moment I waswa iting for… I try to be myselfall the time, but I am a good act -or. It was a complete act becauseI needed to maintain my compo-sure while going in for the lastsh ot. No matter what you feel in -side, you have to be calm on theoutside. You are of course shoot-ing for yourself, but you play forthe pride of your country.”

The boy who had flecks ofgrey in his hair showed his funside as we made him pose withhis dogs. On his one-track focushe said, “I am a little obsessiveby nature, a perfectionist.”

But are they not all of them?Sania, whom I met in Mumbai afew days ago, Mahesh Bhupathiyet another Olympian in huntfor a medal, Gagan, who has sethis eyes on one….and more. Itake this opportunity to wishthem all luck. For their gloryand the nation’s pride!

Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena, currently Executive

Editor, VERVE magazine, is asenior Mumbai-based journalist.

HERITAGE


In praise of … BatmanThe essence of Batman’s

appeal is that he is a superherowithout superpowers

Forget the fanboys, firing off deaththreats at critics who don’t like

new film The Dark Knight Rises(y es, really). Ignore the coveters of theBatmobile. And turn a deaf ear to tho -

se who would claim the Caped Crusa -der as some zenith of camp, for the es -

sence of Batman’s appeal is that he is asuperhero without superpowers. All hehas is a cape, gadgets – and the keenestintellect of the entire stable of DC Co -

mics. It’s the last that ea rns him thetitle of the world’s greatest detective.Batman’s world is a ruined one. As achild, Bruce Way ne saw his parents

killed by a mugger, and devoted his lifeto fighting crime. His Goth am has a

thin crust of prosperity atop a subter-ranean world of ma levolence.

And for those who care mo re about pol-itics than comics, heed this:

The Dark Knight was just this weekaccused by Rush Limbaugh of being

part of a liberal plot. Holy bipartisanhell, Batman!

Global editsThe Guardian (UK)

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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Saturday announced thecompletion of a $2.6 billion IMF bailout, but it wasseeking fresh loans to support an economy emergingfrom decades of ethnic war.The International Monetary Fund on Friday releasedthe final instalment of the bailout agreed in July 2009,two months after Colombo defeated Tamil rebels in amajor offensive to end the drawn-out conflict.The drawing down the final instalment of the bailoutpackage marked the longest engagement Sri Lankahas had with the IMF and the single largest facilityfrom a multilateral institution, the Central Bank ofSri Lanka said.

Syrian forces launchall-out assaultDAMASCUS: Syrian forces have launched an all-outassault on opposition strongholds in Damascus, afterrebels seized crossings on the Iraq and Turkey bordersamid a heavy death toll. Rebel fighters also clashed withtroops in several neighbourhoods of Aleppo on Friday inwhat the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for HumanRights said was the fiercest fighting so far in Syria’s sec-ond city. At the United Nations, the Security Council voted unani-mously to give a “final” 30-day extension to a troubled observer mission that was charged with over-seeing a peace plan for Syria but which suspended itsoperations on June 16 in the face of mounting violence.

WASHINGTON: A group of US senators has revivedstalled cybersecurity legislation by offering compro-mises to address civil liberties concerns, an effortquickly endorsed by President Barack Obama.The new bill drew some support from Republican law-makers amid a drive to pass legislation before thesummer recess, but prospects for passage wereunclear. Lawmakers said they hope to bring the mea-sure to the Senate floor in the upcoming week.The bill aims to identify so-called “critical infrastruc-ture,” including electric power and utility computernetworks, and provide oversight to ensure these aresecure from attacks.

Cybersecuritybill revived in US

SL seeks bailoutfrom IMF

APakistani policeman in Lahoreallegedly shot dead his sister

for wearing jeans, officialssaid today (Saturday). Constable AsadAli was unhappy with his sister NajmaBibi, 22, for wearing what he consid-

ered were "men's clothes", especiallyjeans. The siblings often quarrelled

over the issue and Ali allegedly shotand killed his sister yesterday.

Pak policeman kills sister

Argentinean authorities haveseized more than 530 kg ofcocaine from a storehouse of an

international airport. The drug wasseized at Ezeiza International Airport.The operation started Thursday nightwhen customs officers found the drughidden in metallic tubes destined foran African country, Xinhua quoted thepolice as saying.

Half-tonne cocaine seized

Pakistani authorities have arrestedtwo Taliban militants and recov-ered 66 grenades and nine

sophisticated rifles from their posses-sion, officials said today. The terroristswere arrested in Sheikhupura, 40kmfrom Lahore, when police raided ahouse on the basis of a tip-off,announced assistant superintendent ofpolice Haider Ashraf.

Pak arrests 2 militants


AURORA: An emotional candle-lit vigil was held late Friday forthe victims of a US massacre ata premiere of the latest Batmanmovie, which left 12 people deadand nearly 60 injured.

The town of Aurora,Colorado stood in silent mourn-ing, as it emerged that thealleged gunman bought morethan 6,000 rounds of ammuni-tion on the Internet, and fourguns, in the two months beforethe shootings.

The masked, black-cladshooter, named as JamesHolmes, 24, burst into a movietheater barely 20 minutes intothe midnight screening of “TheDark Knight Rises,” throwingtwo tear-gas type devices beforeopening fire.

“As far as we know, it was apretty rapid pace of fire in thattheater,” said Aurora police chiefDan Oates, his voice shaking attimes with emotion, and exhaus-tion after a long night and daydealing with the trauma.

In an end-of-day update, heamended slightly the number ofvictims of the shooting at a mid-night screening of the latestBatman movie, “The DarkKnight Rises,” from 71 to 70.Twelve of them died, including10 in the theater.

A local children’s hospitalreported six young victims, theyoungest of whom was agedonly six. At least three of thewounded were US military mem-bers, the Pentagon said.

Shots fired in one auditori-um went through the wall andhit people in the auditoriumnext door. The first police wereon the scene within 90 seconds,while eventually some 200 offi-cers swarmed around the build-ing. “Nearly everyone was shot,”

he said, adding that a “handful”of those treated in hospital didnot have gunshot wounds, butsuffered other injuries in themayhem.

“In the last 60 days, he pur-chased four guns at local metrogun shops and through the inter-net he purchased over 6,000rounds of ammunition,” he said.

He added: “My understand-ing is that all the weapons thathe possessed he possessed legal-ly, and all the clips that he pos-sessed, he possessed legally, and

all the ammunition he pos-sessed, he possessed legally.”

Police arrested Holmes —who was wearing full bodyarmor and a gas mask, apparent-ly to protect him from effects ofhis own tear gas — withoutencountering resistance by hiscar at the rear of the theater.

Holmes, who reportedlyattended the University ofColorado medical school untillast month, had no criminalrecord aside from a citation forspeeding in October 2011, accord-ing to police.

His nearby apartment wasfound to be booby-trapped with asophisticated arsenal of incendi-ary and chemical devices. Policeused mobile ladders to try toenter the apartment throughexternal windows.

But Oates said late Fridaythat the operation had been post-poned until Saturday.

Witnesses described chaoschillingly similar to that depict-ed in the Batman films, in whichmaniacal villains terrorizeGotham City.

“I saw some people start toget up. I poked my head up to seewhat was going on and when Idid that I saw another flash andinstantly put my head down ashe started shooting again,” said17-year-old Tanner Coon.

Cinemas in New York tight-ened security at Batman show-ings, and the AMC theatre chainannounced a ban on face masksand fake weapons — several peo-ple wore costumes in Aurora,possibly helping Holmes to blendin with the melee.

The French premiere of thefilm in Paris was cancelled.

Holmes’ parents, who live inSan Diego, were shocked.

AFP

Shooter told cops, ‘I am the Joker’: The suspect in the mass shooting at the midnight premiere of the new Batmanmovie in suburban Denver Friday had coloured his hair red and told police he was “the Joker,” a media report said.

Colorado mourns Denver victimsNolan laments tragedy,calls shooting savage

“Dark Knight” directorChristopher Nolan lament-ed the “senseless tragedy”of the massacre at aColorado movie theatershowing his film, calling it“unbearably savage.”

Six children among victims

A local children’s hospitalreported six young victims,the youngest of whom wasaged only six. At least threeof the wounded were USmilitary members, thePentagon said.

Shooter wore gas-mask,bullet-proof vest

Police arrested Holmes —who was wearing full bodyarmor and a gas mask,apparently to protect himfrom effects of his owntear gas — withoutencountering resistance byhis car at the rear of thetheater.

French startup behind email appli-cations for Apple gadgets has

been bought by Google as theInternet titan increasingly tailors hit

software to run on its rival’s hardware.Sparrow co-founder Dominique Leca

announced on Friday that the teamwill work on Gmail. “We’re joining the

Gmail team to accomplish a biggervision,” he said.

Google grabs startup

The engineer behind Canadianstartup Acrylic said Friday that hewas closing up his one-man shop

and joining Facebook, the leadingsocial network. The company con-firmed that it has bought Acrylic in an“acqui-hire” that brings on boardfounder Dustin MacDonald, the cre-ator of mobile gadget applications fornewsfeeds and digital wallets.

FB acquires Acrylic

Eyeing India’s expansive militarymodernisation programme,Senators John Cornyn and Mark

Warner, have asked the Pentagon, in aletter to defence secretary Ashton BCarter on Friday, to develop a closerdefence relationship with New Delhi,including potential co-development or co-production of military weaponsystems.

US seeks trade with India

BUSINESS 11SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012

How convenient would it be toplace an order for all yourgroceries online, have themdelivered at your doorstep

and all for a discounted price?What’s more this also means avoid-ing traffic snarls and serpentinequeues at billing counters of other-wise busy supermarkets. This con-venience is now a reality thanks toGalaxilocal.com, an e-commercesupermarket, that provides servicesto areas within a 15 kilometreradius around Hitec City and willsoon be extended to Secunderabadand other suburbs. The company, abrainchild of Charles Sasi Paul andRekha Potluri, was launched inJanuary 2012, when the duo quittheir well paying IT jobs to startsomething of their own.

However, the move to quit theirstable jobs was not an easy one. Sasisays, “Rekha was a technical archi-tect and I was heading the engineer-ing (product development) team atour company. However, we bothwanted to start something of ourown. But the decision to quit ourjobs, that were not just well payingbut also comfortable, was not aneasy one. A start-up needs a lot ofenergy and effort. But we realisedthat if we didn’t venture out on ourown now, it would only get more dif-ficult with time. The ideation pro-cess evolved over six months priorto quitting our job.”

Speaking about the businessidea itself, Rekha says, “The idea isto give our customers value additionand retain some margins for us. The

trade is simple as it does not needhuge investment like a manufactur-ing business. The cash cycle is alsomuch better in a B2C scenario com-pared to B2B where one gets stuckfor months to get bills cleared andreinvest in the company. We can alsoadd value to the business with ourtechnological experience. These fac-tors made us choose this idea andstart Galaxilocal.com,” says Rekha.

E-commerce is not just aboutbuilding an effective website. Theduo has put in a lot of effort inbuilding the backend process bytalking to suppliers, building ware-house, enabling card payment ondelivery, putting up the site on cloudand also to enable effective CRM (to

maintain contact details of cus-tomers). They have also enabledrecording voice calls to ensure fault-less delivery.

The 10-employee company isnow planning to start small storesin different parts of the City to cre-ate an efficient supply chain andalso offer services around the Cityin the next six months. “These willact as connecting hubs for retailstores and also warehouses for us todeliver goods to even remote places

in the City. We are also facilitatingmulti-channel commerce. Although,we have a strong website, 50 per centof orders are placed on the phone.The service is welcomed by cus-tomers who find it difficult to go to acrowded supermarket and negotiat-ing traffic on a precious weekend,”says Sasi.

The discounts are an addedattraction. “Our operating costs arelower compared to retail shops. Wedecided to pass on part of these sav-ings to customers by giving them a 5to 15 per cent discount on MRPs,” hesaid.

The company has 70 suppliersfor different products. It offersaround 5,000 different products andhas plans to offer around 20,000products over time and create anonline hypermarket. The companyhas raised around `2 crore as a seedcapital from friends and family andspent around `80 lakh building thebusiness. “We have sufficient fundsfor the next six months and willonly look for more investments afterthat to take the company to the nextlevel. We aim to get a monthlybreak-even in the next six monthsby managing our operating costswith our profits,” says Sasi.

But it’s not just all work for theduo. Sasi loves spending time withhis six-year-old daughter and is avoracious reader. Some of hisfavourite books include Jim Collins’Built to Last, Good to great andNandan Nilekani’s Imagining India.Rekha, on the other hand, loves tounwind by painting.

Convenienceat your

doorstepImagine procuring all your grocery at theclick of a button. It’s exactly what Charles

Sasi Paul and Rekha Potluri did when theylaunched Galaxilocal, an e-supermarket

Number of regular customers:500

Number of registered cus-tomers:1,500

Monthly business:`15 lakh

Aiming for: `1 core (permonth) in less than three years

Planning to start: 15 small outlets in next

18 months

M ANIL KUMAR

Charles Sasi Paul, a former IT employee, gave up his well payingjob to launch an e-commerce supermarket along with RekhaPotluri. The company not only allows a customer to place groceryorders online but also provides home delivery within a 15 kilometre radius and some great discounts on product MRPs.

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PRUDHVI RAJU K

12TECHNOLOGY

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The game is developedby Disney and is aschallenging and fun as

the original. Apart fromusing all forms of water, thegame is almost similar to'Where's my water' withphysics based gameplay toclear levels.

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Dragon’s Dogma.There’s nothingforcing you to

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slaying wolves, goblins, zombies,

and beasts.

It had taken my three compan-ions and me, 40 minutes toslay the beast the last time Imet it. This time however ittook us only 15 minutes to

slay the lion-headed, goat-bod-ied, snake-tailed creature whichroared, bled and hissed its wayto death.

I stood there, still heartless,admiring our destructiveprowess. Was I now strongenough to fight the dragon andget my heart back? Even if Iwas, I didn’t know where to goand that is the biggest problemwith Dragon’s Dogma, developedby Capcom. There’s nothing forc-ing you to stay on path and youcan keep roaming the country-side slaying wolves, goblins,zombies, beasts like the onementioned above for as long asyou want.

This is one of the first hard-core open world Role PlayingGame (RPG) I have played on aconsole and if you’re one ofthose people who haven’t playedmany RPGs you’ll be utterly lost.The tutorials are not detailedenough and you learn things thehard way — from experience.

The game starts off promis-ingly with a giant dragon attack-ing a village. You, the protago-nist then tries to fight of themountain-sized creature with arusty sword only to be defeated.The dragon then proceeds to cutopen your chest and eats yourheart! That surprisingly doesn’tkill you, instead you becomeArisen (pronounced ari-son)whose sole aim is to slay thedragon and win back the heart.In the game, there are theseskilled warriors called pawnswho always like to tag alongwith Arisen. They can be sum-moned from Rift Stones and youcan have up to two pawns at atime in your party.

They mean it when they saydon’t wander around outside atnight, for you’ll be overwhelmed

with enemies of all kinds whoseem to respawn every time youreach the area, much to my frus-tration. If the respawning ene-mies wasn’t troublesomeenough, companions who behaveerratically is a bigger headache.If the pawns had a little moresense it wouldn’t be so difficultto mow down these enemies.

A lot of the game time will

be spent accomplishing side-quests, most of which are triv-ial. Main objectives, the onesthat take the story forward, aretoo few and too far apart.

However as a fan of RPGs,who likes to level up, exploreand find new more powerfulitems, I found the game to bebrilliant. There is nothing stop-ping you from running in any

direction except powerful ene-mies and the threats that dark-ness brings. The developers havedeveloped a brilliant universefor the game and it manages tothrow in surprises every nowand then.

Like all RPGs the game has a class system and you get to choose from being a fighter, strider or mage and eachof these classes have sub-classeswhich lets you specialisebetween attack and supportroles. Similarly, you can decide on the class of your mainpawn.

The other part which I likeabout RPGs, the interactions,was a big let down in Dragon’sDogma. Dialogues tend to berepetitive and the pawns whotravel with you know just how toirritate you with their non-stopchatter. All said and doneDragon’s Dogma will be a gameI’ll remember, as it is challeng-ing and interesting, though a bitrough around the edges. It’s amust buy if you’re an RPG fanand if you’re new to the genrecheck out the demo first.


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13ANIMAL KINGDOM

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14BOOKS

Title: Queen of Dreams Author: Chitra Banerjee

DivakaruniPublisher: AnchorRakhi, a single mother, isstruggling to terms with herrelationship with her dream-

teller mother. She loses her mother in acar accident. Uncovering her dream jour-nals, allows Rakhi to discover her moth-er’s long-kept secrets and sacrifices.

Title: The Catcher in the Rye

Author: JD SalingerPublisher: Back Bay BooksThe narrator is an ancientchild of sixteen, a native NewYorker named Holden

Caulfield. There are many voices in thisnovel: children's voices, adult voices but Holden's voice is the most eloquentof all.

Title: Such a Rush Author: Jennifer EcholsPublisher: Gallery BooksSaving every penny she can,Leah Jones begs quiet Mr.Hall, who runs an aerial ban-ner-advertising business at the

airstrip and also offers flight lessons. Mr.Hall offers her a job. But he dies sudden-ly, leaving everything he owned in thehands of his teenage sons.

Title: Shadow of Night: ANovel (All Souls Trilogy)

Author: Deborah HarknessPublisher: Viking AdultShadow of Night plungesDiana and Matthew intoElizabethan London, a world

of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie ofMatthew’s old friends, the mysteriousSchool of Night that includes ChristopherMarlowe and Walter Raleigh.

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Journey beyondwords

Jyotsna [email protected]

“Resilience is, like lifeitself, messy, imper-fect, and inefficient.

But it survives.”These lines in Andrew

Zolli and Ann Marie Healy'sResilience: Why things BounceBack could have been writtenwith Mumbai in mind. Thecity is the epitome of orderin chaos, known for its crazynature, and oh, can it sur-vive! Terrorists, floods,bombs, murders, financialcrises… Mumbai just stops,takes a deep breath andmoves on.

But it was a very differ-ent story when HurricaneKatrina hit New Orleans. Avibrant city with its manyquirks and characters, onewould have expected it toreact in almost the same waythat Mumbai does. Instead,for days, the city spun out ofcontrol, with robberies anddeaths reaching unprecedent-ed levels. Years later, the cityhas still not regained its oldsheen.

What prompts one systemto dust itself off and contin-ue while another lies crip-pled? Zolli has been longinterested about the idea ofhow some cities, people,

organisations and systemsare able to rise again afterbeing knocked down, whilesome just crumble underpressure.

In the book, Zolli studiesresilience in subjects as var-ied as Jamaica's coral reefs,the economic crisis in theUS, food riots in Mexico,orangutan extinction inBorneo and the fate ofHolocaust survivors.

While some highly con-nected systems collapsewhen one part of the grid iscompromised, another typegets stronger as more sys-tems join in. He cautionsagainst systems that appearrobust but may be fragile,like organizations that planobsessively to deal with per-ceived threats, but areundone by minor glitches inan area that was overlooked.People with similar child-hoods grow up to be very dif-ferent in how they cope withtragedy.

But all is not lost. Thougheach case is different, Zolliidentifies factors that con-tribute to weakness andthose that promoteresilience. Acknowledgingthe complexity of inter-con-nected systems and learningto plan for most eventualitieswould help an organizationbounce back after a majordisaster. The book suggestsways of building a moreresilient mind, society andorganization. In this age ofuncertainty, the book pro-vides some hope for a lessturbulent future.

What prompts one system to dustitself off and continue while another

lies crippled? Find out

Down, but not out

NameResilience : Why things

bounce backAuthor

Andrew Zolli and Ann MarieHealy Pages

323Publisher

Hachette India

When other girls her age chatter endlessly about lip glossand boys, Delilah McPhee would rather curl up with a

good book. Can books always be her comfort?

What do you do whenyour 16-year-oldcomes up with an ideafor a probable book?

You write it with her. That’sexactly what Jodi Picoult, authorof bestsellers like My Sister’sKeeper and Nineteen Minutes, didwhen her daughter Samanthacalled her with her idea. The twoput their heads together andwrote Between the Lines as a col-laborative piece. In the author’snote, Picoult reveals how she satwith her daughter to pen thebook and the two would often endup saying the same lines or wouldsimply complete each other’sthoughts for the plot rather effort-lessly. The result -- an impressivemodern day fairy tale withan unusual twist.

For high schoolerDelilahMcPhee booksare her solace.When othergirls her agechatterendlesslyabout lipgloss andboys, Delilahwould

rather curl up in a corner with agood book. What she loves mostabout her books is that they allhave happy endings – somethingshe’s always craved for, ever sinceher father abandoned her motherand her. Things change when oneday Delilah stumbles upon a fairytale about a Prince Oliver at herschool library. So taken is she bythe book that she reads it and re-reads it over and over again,much to the annoyance of hermother. What she doesn’t realiseis that Oliver too has been notic-ing her and one fine day decidesto communicate with her. Thetwo continue talking and Olivertries to convince her to help himescape his mundane existence inthe book. What the two don’tadmit is that they are secretlyrather fond of each other. NowDelilah must decide if she will

help the prince orescape into hisworld herself and

find her ownhappily everafter. Whether

Delilah finallyagrees to help Oliver out of thebook forms the rest of the plot.

What struck me about thebook the most was the imagina-tion that went behind the wholeconcept. The whole “what if char-acters in a book have lives of the -ir own when nobody is readingthe book” is intriguing. AgreedSamantha wrote the book withher mother, but the basic idea ishers and that itself speaks volu -mes of her potential as a buddingauthor. What works for the bookis that the writing style is con-temporary and easy to read. Del -ilah’s confusion as a teenagedmisfit and Oliver’s desperation toescape the confines of a book arethings you can identify with. All

in all, it’s a good read.

RANJANI RAJENDRA

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NameBetween the Lines

AuthorJodi Picoult,

Samantha Van Leer Pages

361Publisher

Hachette India

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WHAT’S SELLING


At the outset a biogra-phy on a sports personmight not attractsomeone who is not

interested in sports, but a fewpages into TS Sudhir’s, SainaNehwal: An InspirationBiography, changes that opin-ion. “Champions define them-selves in their dreams andthen work incredibly hardevery single day to be success-ful. Saina Nehwal is no differ-ent” — the prologue for TSSudhir’s debut novel states.These few lines could sum upwhat the book aims to do —talk about little dreams, perse-verance, roadblocks, success,failure and hope.

The book traces the jour-ney of Saina Nehwal’s parentsfrom Hissar (Haryana) toHyderabad followed by therise, fall and hopeful resur-gence of Saina Nehwal asIndia’s gold hopeful.

An interesting and rather

unknown aspect revealed inthis book is about Saina’s par-ent’s personal history withbadminton. To understand andget an insight into Saina’sbackground the book goesback into time when Saina’sparents were getting married.Their personal love and ded-ication towards the sportand then their ultimatesacrifices to makeSaina what she istoday, is somethingthat definitely strikesa chord.

The book alsoprovides interestingand shockinginsights into thetreatment of bad-minton and bad-minton stars inIndia. It showshow due toour

habit of focussing on one play-er or creating a brand ratherthan the sport, many a timestalent is ignored.

As much as this is a bookabout Saina it is also a bookabout badminton champ and

Saina’s coach

Pullela Gopichand. TS Sudhirhad made a point during thebook launch that Saina’s storyis incomplete without tellingGopichand’s story. The bookdedicates an entire chapter totalk about Gopichand’s victo-ries, failures and fighting spir-it.

The narrative does slightlydips at some points but thisdoes not last for long. Thedetails of the match, Saina’shopes and frustrations andthose of the people around herare crisp and gives one the feel-ing of watching a live match.With the Olympics to beginfrom August this book couldnot have been better timed. Atthe end, it is Saina’s father’ssimple words of encourage-ment that could inspire a gen-eration of badminton playersthat stay back with us. Teary-eyed the man of few words hadjust one thing to say, “Himmatse khelo beta.” Go forgold Saina!

NameSaina Nehwal, An

Inspirational BiographyAuthor

TS Sudhir Pages

231Publisher

Nimby Books

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HAROUN AND THE SEA OFSTORIES, SALMAN RUSHDIESet in an exoticEastern land-scape peopled bymagicians andfantastic talkinganimals, SalmanRushdie's classicHaroun and theSea of Storiesinhabits the same imaginativespace as Gulliver's Travels, Alicein Wonderland, and The Wizard ofOz. In this captivating adaptationfor the stage, Haroun sets out onan adventure to restore the poi-soned source of the sea of stories.On the way, he encounters manyfoes, all intent on draining the seaof all its storytelling powers.

ROSEMARY'S BABY, IRA LEVIN

What if you were ahappily marriedyoung woman, liv-ing in New York,and one day youawoke to find your-self pregnant? Andwhat if your lov-ing husband had—apparently— soldyour soul to Satan? And now youwere beginning to believe thatyour unborn child was, in reality,the son of Satan? Ira Levin subtlymakes it all totally plausible,unless of course, dearRosemary— or the reader— canno longer distinguish fantasyfrom reality!

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With the Olympics set to begin next week this book on ace shuttlerSaina Nehwal could not have been better timed.

18WOMEN

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for rememberinganything and every-thing that happens

in your life.

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WEBSITES OF THE WEEK

ANew Zealand-based scien-tist says women are finallyscoring higher than men

in IQ tests. Reason for celebra-tion? Not really, I think. While itmakes for a great headline, themain point of the story is notthat women are beating men atstandard intelligence tests, butthe reason why this change hascome about.

James Flynn, the scientistbehind the study, says, “In everycountry where women have anequal chance at modernity,women have caught up withmen.” Women have historicallyscored lower because of discrim-ination in education, upbringingand social roles, he says.Flynn administered the test to500 men and women each inAustralia, Estonia, South Africa,New Zealand and Argentina.The phrase “equal chance atmodernity” becomes importantwhen the subject pool is consid-ered. Asia has been left out ofthe study entirely. A high-income country with a lowimmigrant count representsEurope. South Africa is one ofthe most affluent countries inAfrica. Both Australia and NewZealand score high on thehuman development index.Argentina, the South Americanrepresentative, has one of thehighest GDPs in Latin America.

If Flynn’s theory aboutmodernity is correct, he mayhave got a drastically differentresult if he included India in thetest countries. Or even if heincreased the number of peopletested in each country. 500 peoplein India could mean barely oneperson from each region of thecountry, or a batch from acrossthe IITs.

It’s too soon to say that thebattle of the sexes has beenresolved. Women aren’t interest-ed in boasting of a higher IQthan men. IQ is, after all, just an arbitrary, man-made scale formeasuring one aspect of thehuman mind. But what we need to take away from thisstudy is that everyone needs tobe given equal opportunities ifthey are to realise their poten-tial. It doesn’t really matterwhether men or women scorehigher on an IQ test; what mat-ters is that both are given all thetools to tackle it.

Forty and raring to goIt’s not just about working at home or office that marks the day of today’s woman.

A day without a good workout is no day at all. And age? What age?


Today, there is a thin linethat demarcates what’smeant for the young, themiddle-aged, and the old.

The constant quest to be ‘onpar’ with the rest has redefinedand reshaped the modernwoman of today. No wonder,what was once a strictly ‘young’space has now been invaded bythe woman in her 40s, andabove. And definitely for thebetter.

SujathaSuresh is inher late forties,conscious ofher health, anddoes what ittakes to be thatway. She tellsus, “It is veryimportant for

me to be fit, and I make sure toindulge in one activity or theother. After 45, women hit themenopausal stage, and hencebecome more conscious oftheir wellbeing. The gym I go tois open for all but women ofour age group have a specialtime between four to six whichis a good time for those who areworking. There is also a trainerwho oversees our activities asnot all women are allowed towork on all equipments.”

PoornimaNagaraja isone of thenoted psychia-trists in thecity. She sharesher insightsinto the risingtrend, “Forwomen in their

40s, life slows down in a posi-tive way. Typically, their careeris more defined, and that is thetime they realise that their hor-mones are not behaving them-selves. It is also a time whenthey realise how bad their eat-ing habits are, or how the frus-tration of life passing by setsin. It is not a mid-life crisismore than the fact that thewomen have more time to con-centrate on themselves. So

when they begin to work out,they see the changes in theirbody, and the fact that they canlook attractive and wear trendyclothes, like any other counter-parts. So you do see a lot ofthem in their 40s today doingall it takes to keep them happy.”

Sharada Priyadarshini is apersonal trainer at theLatitudes gym in Hyderabad.She shares with us the reasonwomen in their 40s need to

workout. She says, “For womenon the other side of 40, estro-gen hormones are lesser andcalcium absorption too is sig-nificantly reduced. Moreover,as age increases, metabolismand bone flexibility too decreas-es. Workouts help improveblood circulation, which inturn leads to many benefits —be it in the flexibility of themuscles, a feeling of beinghealthy, and an overall positive

attitude towards life. I havebeen here for the last sixmonths, and have seen that theawareness among women hasdefinitely increased.”

What is life but a reason toenjoy? And what better way toenjoy it than to be healthy first?While for many, it is already arealisation, to many, there istime to ‘wake up.’ After all, whohasn’t heard the famous adage‘Better late than never.’

INDIRA ATLURI

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JYOTSNA NAMBIAR

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1.Although any time to workout is agood time, morning workouts arebetter, as the body’s metabolicrate is at its lowest, and the work-outs are better responded to.

2. Choose food that are good ingood fat as opposed to bad fat.Good fat is found in olive oils,almonds, natural peanut butter oreven dark chocolate! Yes youheard it right.

3. No sugar please! Try not to buypackaged cereal for breakfast, asmany are loaded in sugar, butmasqueraded as ones fortifiedwith vitamins and minerals.

4. Sweet potatoes, vegetablesoups, omelettes, and lots ofgreens are a good choice anytimefor the day. Not to forget a gooddaily portion of yoghurt.

Just anothernumber

KEEP IN MIND

19SPOTLIGHTSATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012

Bollywood actor Katrina Kaif visitedthe Gitanjali Jewellery store inBasheer bagh on Friday.

Picture perfect

Jwala Gutta participated in a protestagainst the cruelty of confining wildanimals in zoos in Hyderabad onFriday.

The 97th edition of India’s biggesttravel show Travel Tourism Fair openedin Hitex, Hyderabad on Friday.

Born free

Mast MastGirl in city

Actress Raveena Tandon was in thecity to inaugurate the HitexInternational Gems and JewelleryExposition on Friday.

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Waking up alonein the bed whenyou are 30 withno one to keep

you company is the night-mare that many in their 20sshare. Busy making friendsand tasting freedom andindependence in early twen-ties, one needs to hit late-twenties for the alarm bellsto start ringing about the 30-year deadline. You make apact with your best friend toget married to each other ifneither of you are not mar-ried by a certain age. Thereare many who have optedfor this before the inevitable30 draws close.

“After having been ina few relationships, I'm fair-ly sure I'm not going to besettling down any timesoon. And at 24, I'm not tooworried about it. In fact, I

think it suits me just fine.But a few years down theline, if I suddenly decide I'mready and want to settle, Idon't want to start fromscratch. There are singleguy friends of mine whofeel pretty much the sameway. So we decided that at30-35, if we are still singlebut ready for a commitment,we'll just approach eachother. Of course, there aremany, many variables. Hemight find somebody. Orelse, we have both may havechanged and now can'timagine spending our lifetogether. So, nothing is setin stone but at the sametime, having that back-up iscomforting,” Meera Reddy, astudent, says.

Back-up plans have nowbecome the safety net whichpromises to keep you safe intimes of need.

Shreya Dutt who workswith Infosys, Bengaluru,says, “These back-up planscan change at any moment.We will go ahead with itonly if both of us do notfind anyone by the time we

turn 30. I really think 30 isthe sealing point. We canhave our way with parentsand friends till you turn 30but after that the scenariochanges. Everyone youknow pushes you to gethitched while others start toquestion your sexual prefer-ences. When you hit mid-

twenties, you tend not toreally jump into time-passrelationships because timeis running out and wait fora serious guy to comealong,” she says.

While there are otherswho have kept their optionsopen and have made pactswith more than one personin case he/she gets hitched.

George Issac, aDelhi-based professional,says, “I have made pactswith five girls so that whenI turn 34, I wouldn’t bealone. I haven’t dated a sin-gle one of the five and theyare all my friends. But incase we turn 34 and are sin-gle, we can fall back on eachother. The thought of beingalone when you need a part-ner the most is verydiscomfiting.”

While these back-upplans to marry a friendif one is still single by acertain age seems like asomething right out of amovie script, youngsters areopting for this pact to keepthe fear of being unmarriedat bay.

BACK-UP PLANS MADE ON TELEVISION

20RELATIONSHIPS

Iam a 20-year-old boy and amyet to make a friend who I

can call special. All myfriends boast in front of me

about their escapades and thenumber of girls they go aroundwith. They also tease me aboutbeing slow. This is affecting my

studies and I feel depressed.Please help.

Dear depressed kid, Instead of being depressed about something likestudies you are sad about not having a girl byyour side. Do you think life is some Hollywoodmovie where the cool dude gets all the chicksand the geek sulks in the corner. Well, I am let-ting you in on a secret, girls dig geeks. I am sureyou have other interests like music or sports tryand do well in them and maybe things won’t beso bad after all.

Wearing the pants

With the modern day womengoing places and in some casesmore successful than their

spouses, how are husbands dealing withthis change? According to a new studyfrom the Fordham University in the US,macho men whose partners earn morethan they do have worse romantic rela-tionships. Conversely, men who do notplace as much importance on the differ-ence in income take it lightly.

I AM ALL EARS

The fearof being

single at 30is urging

youngstersto make back-up

plans becauseno one wants to see

themselves growing

old alone.


AMY ROSE

[email protected]

I really think 30 isthe sealing point.We can have ourway with parentsand friends till youturn 30 but afterthat the scenariochanges. Everyoneyou know pushesyou to get hitchedwhile others start toquestion your sexu-al preferences.

Shreya Dutt, software professional

1The popular television series Friendsspoke about this arrangement quiteearly on in their seasons. In one of the

episodes Joey Tribbianni and PhoebeBuffay make a pact to get married to eachother if they find themselves single by theage of 40. The pact is sparked off by thefact that their friends Monica, Chandler,Ross and Rachel are too busy in their rela-tionships to care about them. Feeling leftout they come up with this idea.

2Well, kids, here’s how it all started AuntRobin and Ted were not just friendsalways in How I Met Your Mother. A

romantic relationship between the twofailed to blossom but what they decidedwas if they did not find a partner for them-selves by the age of 40 then they would getmarried to each other. Somehow we getthe feeling that would never happen right!

3The Runaway Bride star Julia Robertsbefore turning wedding planner for herfriend in My Best Friend’s Wedding

also had decided on this pact with herfriend.

CINEMA 21 T-TOWN TWEETIES

@Actor_SiddharthI loved rises! Way betterthan begins. Not as leg-endary as dark knight... still,Nolan serves up a worldbeating spectacle of a finish!

@shraddhadas43Happy birthday to @SEIYA-GAUTAM one of the nicest

girls I have befriended in theindustry... (‘EDGE’ girl for

me! Remember) muah!

@actor_NikhilJust watched The DarkNight Rises... The bestBatman yet... Yess the bestmovie Christopher Nolanhas ever made till date...

@snehaullalheartIn general, calculating andjudgmental people are so

not likable.

@pnavdeep26Walkin d ramp for a fundraiser for adopted govtschools by passionate foun-dation tonight at HICC :)designed by shravan :)

@actressanjjanaaFinally I hav a free weekendahead of me... All exited tocatch up with my friends ..

Looking fwd... Wats up withall of u ??.

@shrutihaasanMost amazing darshan atPadmanabaswamy temple,feeling so blessed positiveand absolutely peaceful.

@LakshmiManchuMy heart is beating at a

rapid speed.@ItsVishnuManchu @themo-

hanbabu @HEROMANOJ1around the corner...


Rana Daggubati is all set tomake his debut in Tamil.His upcoming film

Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum isnow being made in Tamil aswell. Directed by Krish, the filmis about how the life of an artistchanges after he meets a docu-mentary filmmaker. Confirming

his debut in Tamil, Rana postedon Twitter, “Yes the news is true:#Krishnam Vandae agad-hgurm #KVJ is being shot andwill release as my first bilingual-film(Tamil-Telugu). Shooting inChennai for the first time. Tamillines for the first time.Extremely Excited and

Honored!! (sic)” Rana andNayanthara are playing the leadroles in this action drama.

Mani Sharma is composingthe music and V S Gnanasekharis the cinematographer.

Y Rajeev Reddy and SaibabaJagarlamudi are jointly produc-ing the film.

Ranagears up

for hisdebut in

Tamil

Sudigaadu’s audiolaunch on July 23

The audio ofAllariNaresh’s

Sudigaadu isgoing to be laun -ched on July 23 inHyderabad. Thefilm, directed byBheemineniSrinivasa Rao, isa remake of asuperhit Tamilfilm titled TamilPadam and AllariNaresh is doing afull-length spooffilm after a longtime. Severalscenes from hitTelugu films inthe past 20 yearshave been spoofedin this film. SriVasanth has com-posed the music.

Tuneega Tuneega followsa tried and tested for-mula and there lies itscurse. Directed by MSRaju, the film, starring

Sumanth Ashwin, RheaChakraborthy, is about twolovers who get separatedbecause of a slight misunder-standing which is blown out ofproportion by people aroundthem. Not surprisingly, the filmreminds us of films made sinceMaine Pyaar Kiya or even muchbefore that.

Karthik (Sumanth Ashwin)dreams of becoming a dancer;however, his mischievousbehaviour never allows others totake him seriously. One fine day,his father (Prabhu), a chef, goesto the family reunion of his

longtime friend (Nagababu) andtakes the onus of cooking foreveryone at the reunion. Nidhi(Rhea Chakraborthy) also joinsthis family reunion and she’sshocked to see Karthik at thereunion. Soon they fall in love,but before they can confess theirlove for each other, fate chartsdifferent plans for them.

Sumanth delivers a confidentperformance and it’s evidentthat he has worked hard on hisdance moves. Rhea is adorablein her role as a bubbly girl who

finds herself on the wrong sideof the fence as the story unfolds.Prabhu, Sayaji Shinde, NagaBabu, Seetha shine in theirroles. Keeping all this good workfrom the film’s lead actors aside,there’s a major problem with thestory itself. It’s so archaic thatyou can’t help but feel sorry forthe lead actors who feel the bur-den of having to outshine thevery foundation on which thefilm is built on. Sadly, that doe -sn’t happen. Calling this film oldwine in a new bottle would be acliché. Almost every conflict andtwist in the film is predictablewhich leads to the final conclu-sion – they played it safe.Perhaps too safe. Karthik Raja’smusic is pep py and the film’stitle track stays with you longafter the film’s ov er. It’s a pitythat the film as a whole doesn’treally succeed in doing that. Atbest, it’s a show reel for SumanthAshwin who might very well bea talent to watch out for.

Movie:Tuneega Tuneega

Cast: Sumanth Ashwin, Rhea

Chakarborthy, NagababuDirected by:

MS RajuRating:

Tuneega Tuneega is archaicHEMANTH KUMAR

[email protected]

Tuneega Tuneega’s archaic story and predictable storytelling overshadows all the good work by its actors

CINEMA 22SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012

B-TOWN TWEETIES@NeilNMukeshPacked up finally. Technicalaspects of a film are themost important and tediouspoints. Choreographed amilo sequence today.

@SrBachchanT 811 — I gather even in

Switzerland the gun controlmakes it mandatory for

every citizen to have a gunin their car!! Heard it .

@deespeakDon’t these people knowyou don't need to be ‘loud’to be heard? #newsdebates

@MadhuriDixit1Just heard about the shoot-ing in Denver, Colorado. My

heart goes out to the families.

@sonakshisinhaWith kachua and goti... Myaliens from joker :p theydon’t bite, I promise!!

@sonamakapoorAll these awful things

happening in the world soconsistently. No wonder

people are desensitised toit!

@iamsrkI just read. Ur organs will liveonly as long as u do. Ur Artwill breathe long after u. Bfree & live, just don’t standin the way of the Sun.

@geneliadHappy birthday 2d nicest

person I know@AshishChowdhry, have a

good 1 ashu.

Kainaz doesn’t

want to be typecast

Actress KainazMotivala,

who shot tofame after Ekta

Kapoor’s horrorthriller Ragini

MMS, saysshe got

many offers afterthe film, but they

were all of thesame kind and she doesnot want to be typecast.

“After Ragini... I got manyoffers. Had I been in a hurry to

sign a film I would have done manyfilms by now, but those would havetagged me as a bold film actress. I

don’t want to be known as an actorwho will do the same kind of films.

I want to be known as someonewho is versatile,” Kainaz said. Just

three films old in the industry, the25-year-old says the journey of a

newcomer is not easy in Bollywoodcompared to star children. “I

thought it will be easy, but it’s notlike that. One needs to be reallystrong because there are people

who are ready to pull you down atthe drop of a hat. It is a very com-

petitive world.As compared to peo-ple from outside the industry like

me, star kids have an easy path. It’sdefinitely not fair and I am not

going to be diplomatic about that,”she added. The petite actress, who

made her Bollywood debut in WakeUp Sid, will now be seen in Challo

Driver that releases on Friday.Challo Driver has been produced

and directed by debutant VickrantMahajan.

IANS

Actor Arjun Kapoor says he could not stand hisIshaqzaade lead heroine Parineeti Chopra during

their training days in Lucknow. “I hated Parineeti whenwe went for those three days... We didn’t really get alongat that point of time,” the 27-year-old said, while talkingto students at filmmaker Subhash Ghai’s acting schoolWhistling Woods International.

“We both couldn’t stand each other when she gotfinalised. I liked what she did in the audition, so I could-n’t ever disagree that she would not be right for the ro -le,” he added. Meanwhlile, Ishaqzaade director HabibFaisal commented upon the wicked smile that Arjunsports in the film and said: “His smile, if you have seenthe film, that smile is Arjun Kapoor’s own smile which Ithen made Parma’s smile. That smiles suggests shrewd,romance, a psycho...there was so much I could do withthe smile and that smile was Arjun Kapoor’s own smile.”Arjun will now be seen in Yash Raj films’ Virus Diwanand has also been finalised for 2 States. IANS

Arjun hatedParineeti earlier

Eight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham’s finest, and theDark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.

No matter how many timesyou see Batman and his lovefor Gotham City, you willnever cease to be surprised.

The Dark Knight duly rises for thebruising final stanza in ChristopherNolan’s Batman trilogy, a satisfyingsaga of revolution and redemptionthat ends the tale on a note ofthunder. Viewers fresh from theassault by superheroes like theAvengers and The AmazingSpiderman will surely have somesorting out to do.

TDKR is an interesting storywith a real sense of peril — as longas you ignore the yawning plotholes and running time. So whatmakes Batman dig his cape out ofthe trunk after eight years? Ahuman brick named Bane (TomHardy), bent on destroying Gotham,for some reason. While Bane getshelp from Anne Hathaway a.k.a.

Catwoman), Batman has John Blakein his corner, a savvy cop played bythe hugely talented Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In The Dark Knight Rises,Batman is less a character than acipher, and later, an icon. As a vil-lain, Bane might lack the Joker’siconic quality, but Hardy still com-mands some attention. The savinggrace is that Dark Knight’s lastscenes are so rich and satisfying, it’seasy to forgive the rest of the film itssins.

Movie:The Dark Knight Rises

Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine,

Anne Hathaway and Gary OldmanDirected by:

Christopher Nolan

Gotham’s saviour is back

KNOW YOURCOUNTRY

THE SATURDAY QUIZ 25

1. Egyptian PresidentMohamed Morsi's first officialforeign visit since his electionin June was to which countrylast week?

2. Lawmakers from which coun-try last week voted in favourof ratifying their nation'saccession to the World TradeCentre?

3. Which country's economygrew at 7.6% in the secondquarter, its slowest pace inthree years?

4. A court in which countryruled that circumcision wasillegal even as the country'sleaders said it must be per-mitted without punishment?

5. On live television each week,

the president of which coun-try gives new houses to thenation's poor citizens?

6. Chinese astronauts returnedto Earth from Tiangong, aprototype for a future spacestation. What does Tiangongmean?

7. Which country in July saidthat it would allow female

athletes to compete in theOlympics for the first time?

8. The President of which coun-try has had a street namedafter him in Bethlehem?

9. Which country granted politi-cal asylum to a Syrian airforce pilot who defected fromSyria by flying to a neighbour-hood nation?

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

FAMOUS SPOUSES

1We all know her as the MastMast girl of Bollywood. Herhusband is director GoldieBehl. She has taken a breakfrom Hindi films and is concen-trating on philanthropy andtelevision instead. Who is she?

2He stars in all the alien moviesand remains in the pursuit ofhappiness, while his wife Jadagives voice to the beautifulGloria in the Madagascarseries. Who is he ?

3She is a Spanish seductresswho sets many hearts aflutterwhenever she appeared onscreen. She is married to JavierBardem. Who is she?

IDENTIFY THESE FAMOUSBETTER HALVES

WHO AM I?I was created by Danishpoet and author HansChristian Anderson. I wasborn on a farm and felt verylonely and dejected. Hewrote a book on me and mytransformation. I go through

many trials andtribulations and finally come intomy own. Who am I?

Answers1. Saudi Arabia 2. Russia 3.China 4.Germany5. Venezuela 6. Heavenly Palace 7.SaudiArabia 8.Russia 9.Brazil

Answers1. Raveena Tandon 2.Will Smith 3.Penelope Cruz

1 Which poet is said to have wit-nessed the reign of eight sul-tans?

2The National Stadium in Delhiwas earlier known by whatname?

3Who was the first Indian womanto win a medal at the Olympics?

4Which Mughal Emperor wasdeported to Rangoon by theBritish?

5The book Big egos, small menwas written by whom?

6 Which former Indian Presidentdied as a result of a fatal roadaccident?

Answers1.Amir Khusrao 2. Irwin Satdium 3. KarnamMalleshwari 4.Bahadur Shah II 5. RamJethmalani 6.Giani Zail Singh

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR STARS?Answers: 1. Zach Braff 2. Christina Hendricks 3. Josh Radnor 4.Zooey Deschanell

Answer: The Ugly Duckling


NAME THEM

1Moulin Rouge

2Pretty Woman

3Independence Day

4Amelie

52001: A SpaceOdyssey

6There’s somethingabout Mary

7The Da Vinci Code

8Gone with the Wind

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WHO DIRECTEDTHESE MOVIES?

Answer:1. Baz Luhrmann 2.Garry Marshall 3.Roland Emmerich 4.Jean-Pierre Jeunet5. Stanley Kubrick 6.Peter Farrelly 7.RonHoward 8.Victor Fleming 9. ZackSnyder

with SantoshGhule

Who is prostrat-ing to thisfootwear?

PICTUREPUZZLE 25

Answerfor 24:A woman’s face ishidden in the flowerpot.

CHAI TIME 26SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012

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

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

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

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

you will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14.This means that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to14. Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and soon...

So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this isdone through elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as youwork out the answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limitthe valid combinations, and hence the answer for this particular run.

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

KAKUROACROSS1 Impressive in scope5 Turn water into soda

water11 Baby-sitter's

headache14 William the

sharpshooter15 Gadget16 Brazil's ___ Paulo17 W Somerset

Maugham novel19 It leaves a line in the

snow20 Abraham found one

in the bush21 Antarctic waddler23 ‘... but to no ___’26 EPA-banned

pesticide28 What a tenant

tenders29 Yuletide dish of the

British31 Heavy hammer33 Veterinary patient34 One getting out

before the storm36 Feted like a

superstar41 They bring home the

bacon42 Bench press iteration44 As in this document47 King supporter50 Betwixt and between51 Class that makes

sweaters?52 Dahl's candymaker53 Agile56 Also improved,

presumably57 Gin-maker Whitney58 Six-pack contents,

sometimes64 Act immorally65 Know without

knowing66 Cajun soup

ingredient67 Dress (with ‘up’ or

‘out’)68 Don't throw them at

glass houses69 Safecracker, slangily

DOWN1 ‘... and so on’ (Abbr)2 Black-eyed edible3 Breed4 Man of the cloth5 First mate?

6 Geologic-time measurement

7 ‘The Twilight Zone’creator Serling

8 Acclimate9 ‘Canterbury’ episode10 ‘I Dream of Jeannie’

star Barbara11 Dispensed12 ‘You're ___ a big

mistake’13 ‘Grosse ___ Blank’18 ‘Everything must

go!’ event22 ‘Go’ colour23 Live show equipment24 Desirable hotel room

feature25 ‘Climactic’ intro26 A long, backless sofa27 Ecclesiastical

residence30 California's San ___

Channel31 Full of froth32 ‘Blue Hawaii’

neckwear

35 Computer information holder

37 Can't survive without38 Halt a hunger strike39 ___ go bragh40 Office station43 Back-to-school night

org44 Heartier than the rest45 Estevez of

‘YoungGuns’

46 TomClancy's‘Red Storm

___’48 Dumbst

ruck49 Small

dressingtable

51 Succeed inannoying

54 Bands ofgeishas

55 ___ Blanc,an Alp

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CHAI TIME 27SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012

Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo VirgoSeven of Swords

Work – Your ideasmay not be accepted

by everyone in your team.Be prepared for opposi-tion. Present your casewell. Romance – You’reapproaching romance toomuch from the head andnot enough emotion. Yourpartner will not alwaysunderstand. Health –There are ways to achievebetter health but you needdiscipline. Break up yourday into different tasks tofeel better, mentally andphysically. Money – Youmanage finances well.Good planning has workedwell and you see theresults of your planning.Tarot message – Intellectis high but you need tobalance emotions as well.You risk losing the humantouch in everything ifyou’re too mechanical inyour approach.

The Wheel of Fortune

Work – Don’t wastetime in trying to exe-

cute outdated ideas. Keepyourself updated onwhat’s happening in yourfield of expertise.Romance – Tickle thecuriosity of your partnerby springing surprisesand new things that willincrease the spice and pas-sion in your relationship.Health – There is a possi-bility that you get temper-amental and feel bad laterabout some of the wordsyou use. The stress gets toyou. Money – There is nodearth of money and youcan buy almost anythingyou want. But don’t over-spend. Save when you can,for a rainy day. Tarotmessage – You’re at yourproductive best. Use yourenergy well to bring outgood results.

Temperance

Work – You have atendency to plunge

back into work, evenwhen you’re on a break.Learn to chill out and notworry too much abouttomorrow. Romance –Someone from the oppo-site sex is falling out offavour from your list.Think of what works andwhat doesn’t so you canmake the right decisions.Health – There may be apeculiar habit, which isaffecting your health. Youneed to figure out whatthat is, and change it.Money – You have achance to make some goodmoney by making theright decisions. Don’t beafraid to work hard or dosomething drastic. Tarotmessage – Disciplinetakes you places, quite lit-erally. You can changeyour outlook to life.

Knight of Wands

Work – You need tocreate a brief that is

well-defined so you cancover your tracks from allsides and focus on workinstead of explainingyourself. Romance – Aromance may be dying outgradually. You can take abreak from each other ordecide to call it off. Eitherway, take a call. Don’t letit hang. Health – You mayhave overlooked somehealth-related detail,which is having an impacton your overall bodily andmental health. Money –Your notion of what youhave in common with anaffluent peer is makingyou take decisions thatmay not be in sync withyour bank balance. Tarotmessage – Be prepared todeal with many lifechanges.

Three of Swords

Work – You have somegood ideas but the key

is in the execution. Createa practical process andwork accordingly.Romance – You may beimpulsive and foolish whenit comes to matters of theheart. This is making youall the more vulnerable toheartbreak. Health –Focus on de-stressing. Ifyou grow too excited aboutsomething, rein in yourfeelings so you can staystoic about it. Money – Youcome across some moststriking and beautiful luxu-ry items. You’re tempted tosplurge on these. Do so ifyou feel strongly. Tarotmessage – You must accu-rately record your deci-sions at this time so thatyou feel confident aboutyour future course ofaction.

Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces

The Chariot

Work – You’re caughtin-between two oppos-

ing camps and it’s tricky tonavigate because you haveto work with both thesegroups in future. Romance– The emotions are notvery stable. You find certa -in feelings rising and fal -ling and you’re not in con-trol with the situation. Itwill settle in time. Health– Don’t make very suddenchanges to your diet orexercise routine. Let thechanges be gradual so as tonot shock your body toomuch. Money – You feelintimidated by the newinvestment plans that youcome to know of. It’s not avery good idea to invest insomething you don’t feelright about. Tarot mes-sage – You have no refer-ence point for somethingand that bothers you.

The Star

Work – Bring a busi-ness-like formality to

your interactions and youwill see a marked differ-ence in the way coworkersrespond to your requests.Romance – You may feelrejected despite being in arelationship. Bring aboutsome changes in the wayyou spend time with yourpartner. Health – Disposeof ideas that don’t work. Ifan exercise is not workingfor you, don’t push it.Change the plan. Money –There are some pendingtasks and you have the ten-dency to push this to thelast minute. Avoid it. Tarotmessage – The clouds arethere. But there is also asilver lining. Don’t losehope and continue to chaseyour dreams.

Three of Cups

Work –Team work willbe good during the

week. You’re feeling highon energy and you also geta team that is good at itsjob. Romance – In a rela-tionship, interference froma third person will causesome misunderstanding.Have complete faith inyour beliefs and go with it.Health – You may need todo a little more in order toimprove your health oryour chances of quickerrecovery from a problem.Money – Work like asquirrel and put awaysmall amounts of money atregular intervals. Tryingto reach a high savingsgoal at once is not practi-cal. Tarot message – Get abuy-in from all stakehold-ers involved, especially ifyou’re working on some-thing new.

The High Priestess

Work – Your intuitionis high and you some-

how know how to workthings out without reallyknowing where your mindcomes up with these ideas.Romance – This is a greattime for romance. You andyour partner hit it off bigtime and you shower affec-tion on each other. Health– You have a tendency toput on weight. This may bebecause you’re feelingquite content and happywith where you are rightnow. Money – You have aphilosophical approach tomoney and it doesn’t mat-ter to you much. Havingthat approach to financescan sometimes be a boon.Tarot message – You’refeeling on top of the world.All is going well and you’refeeling stable.

King of Pentacles

Work – You want to betoo much in control.

You desire control of allenvironments, both workand home. You need toloosen up a little.Romance – Think of newways to woo your partner.You may need to be impul-sive and get some chemist -ry and passion into yourlove life. Health – Migra -ine or tension headachesmay be coming in yourway too much. Don’t let itaffect you. Learn to de-stress. Money – Not every-thing works to plan, espe-cially when it comes tofinancial goals. Work outways to take limited risks.Tarot message – You seekcontrol for better securityand safety. You think youknow it best when it comesto creating a buffer againstwhat might go wrong.

Two of Pentacles

Work – Learn to shutoff from work at the

appointed time. No pointsitting in front of your com-puter the whole time andbeing unproductive.Romance – Make the effortto take time out for yourpartner. Singles need to putin effort to find someone, ifthey want to. Health –Anxiety, worry and tensionneed to be kept in check.Take a short holiday, rejuve-nate and come backrefreshed. Money – Don’tput all your eggs in one bas-ket. Spread out your risksso that even if one planfails, you have a back-up.Tarot message – You mayhave to juggle many balls inthe air. But this time isdemanding and you have torise up to the occasion.

Six of Pentacles

Work – Learn to usethe information that

comes your way to opti-mise results. You will beprivy to some interestingdata. Use it well.Romance – How abouttaking some time off togroom yourself. Not onlywill this be appealing toyour partner, you’ll feelbeautiful, too. Health –There is no template forgood health. What worksfor one person may notwork for everyone.Consult a doctor and get ahealth plan for yourself.Money – Keep track ofpayments and requestsreceived for jobs. Youcould easily lose someorders because you havetoo many jobs to finish.Tarot message – Begrateful to those who helpyou. In gratitude, egomust not come in the way.

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The heptathlon is theprimary women’s co-mbined outdoor track

and field competition. Itconsists of seven events:100m hurdles, 200m dash,long jump, high jump, jav-elin throw, shot put and800m dash. The individualevents are spread out over

two days. Men do not co-mpete in the heptathlon inoutdoor track. Before theheptathlon, women com-peted in the pentathlon.Starting in 1964 at the To-kyo Games, women trackand field athletes compet-ed in an event that combi-ned hurdles, shot put, high

jump, long jump and 200mdash, which was changedto the 800m dash in laterGames. The pentathlonwas modeled on a classiccompetition contested inancient Greece as part ofthe original Olympics. Thepentathlon was discontin-ued and the heptathlon

was introduced at the 1984Olympics in Los Angeles.Australian Glynnis Nunnwon the first gold medalawarded for the hep-tathlon. American JackieJoyner-Kersee, then knownas Jackie Joyner, won silverand Germany’s SabineEverts won bronze.

HEPTATHLON: Heptathlon isa track and field combinedevents contest made up ofseven events. The namederives from the Greek hepta(seven) and athlon (contest).A competitor in a heptathlonis referred to as a heptathlete.There are two versions of theheptathlon. The first is anoutdoor competition forwomen, and is the combinedevent for women contested inthe Athletics program of theOlympics and in the IAAFWorld Championships inAthletics. The IAAF WorldCombined Events Challengedetermines a yearly women’sheptathlon champion. Theheptathlon has been contest-ed by female athletes sincethe early 1980s, when itreplaced the pentathlon asthe primary women’s com-bined event contest (thejavelin throw and 800 m wereadded). It was first contestedat the Olympic level in the1984 Olympics. In recent yea-rs some women’s decathloncompetitions have been con-ducted, consisting of the sa-me events as the men’s com-petition in a slightly differentorder, and the IAAF hasbegun keeping records for it.But the heptathlon remainsthe championship-level com-bined event for women. In theLondon Olympic Games 2012,the hectathlon event is con-ducted for women The

Heptathlon consists of sevenelements, in this order: Day 1: 100m hurdles, highjump, shot put, 200m.Day 2: long jump, javelinthrow, 800mAthletes receive points rela-tive to their performance ineach element, with these

scores added up over thecourse of the competition todetermine the final placings.The rules for each elementapply as normal, with theexception that in the longjump and throwing eventsathletes are permitted threeattempts only.

COMPETITION FORMATThe referee presides overwhich heats or groups theathletes compete in for eachelement. At the end of event,if two athletes are tied, theathlete who has receivedmore points in greater num-ber of events is the winner.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born March 3,1962) is ranked among the all-time

greatest athletes in the women’s hep-tathlon as well as in the women’s longjump. She won three gold, one silver,

and two bronze Olympic medals, in th-ose two events at four different Olym-

pic Games. Sports Illustrated for Wom-en magazine voted her as the Greatest

Female Athlete of the 20th century,just ahead of Babe Didrikson Zaharias.

Carolina Klüft (born February 2, 1983)competes in triple jump, long jump andformerly in heptathlon and pentathlon.She won the gold in the Olympics hep-tathlon title in 2004 in Athens. She isalso a three-time World champion aswell as a double European heptathlonchampion. She first rose to prominenceby winning the heptathlon at the 2002European Championships and setting anew world junior record of 6,542 points.

LEGENDS OF THE SPORTDID YOU KNOW...?n There is also a Tetradecathlon

competition, which is a double ofthe heptathlon event, consistingof 14 events, seven events perday.

n Tatyana Chernova is the currentWorld Champion, having defeat-ed Jessica Ennis of Great Britain,who placed second in the 2011world championships.

n There is another version and is anindoor competition which is nor-mally contested only by men. Butthis event is not held in theOlympics. The men’s indoor hep-tathlon consists of the followingevents, with the first four contest-ed on the first day, and remainingthree on day two: 60m, longjump, shot put, high jump, 60mhurdles, pole vault, 1000m. Thescoring is similar for both ver-sions. The athlete accumulatingthe highest number of pointswins the competition.

HISTORY OF THE HEPTATHLON

MEDAL EVENTS

TALLY 2008

August 4 Heptathlon

USA 7 9 7RUSSIA 6 5 7JAMAICA 6 3 2The medals are for all the ath-letic events at the 2008 Games

LUCKY SEVEN

SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012 282012 LONDON OLYMPICS

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Mixed day forUnited States atDiamond League

MONACO: US experie-nced highs and lows inFriday’s Diamond Leag-ue with an injury scarefor LaShawn Merritt bu-

t good times for Aries Merritt.LaShawn Merritt, the favourite

for 400m, pulled up holding his leftthigh after 300 metres, although heinsisted that his premature withdra-wal was purely a precaution. “At 250metres, as I started to move my legup, I felt a little discomfort,” saidMerritt, who explained that he hadfelt “cramp in my hamstring”.

Jonathan Borlee won in 44.74sec,ahead of Grenada’s Kirani James(44.76sec). Wallace Spearmon trailedin third in the 200m behind NickelAshmeade (20.02sec) and DutchmanChurandy Martina (20.07sec).

Disaster struck for the women’stop 4x100m team, who were unableto finish their race after a mix-up b-ut USA’s second-string relay squadwon the race coming home first in42.24sec. Meanwhile Trell Kimmons,Justin Gatlin, Tyson Gay and Ry-anBailey romped to victory in 37.61sec.

Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva endu-red a dismal night as she failed withthree attempts to clear 4.70m, giftingvictory to Spiegelburg and raisingserious questions about her chances.

Flame’s dramaticarrival ahead ofopening ceremony

LONDON: The Oly-mpic flame made adramatic arrival inLondon on Fridaywhen it was flown in

by military helicopter and low-ered to the ground by a marin-ecommando a week ahead of theopening ceremony. As the sunwent down, Royal Marine MartynWilliams abseiled fro-m a SeaKing helicopter hovering over theRiver Thames, ca-rrying theOlympic flame to the ground in alantern hanging from his belt.

NAIROBI: Hervivacious smil-e belies her ste-ely determina-tion and feroci-

ty on the track. Vivian Cher-uiyot made history by beingthe first Kenyan athlete towin a distance double at theworld championships in Da-egu last summer, and knowsshe will need to apply thetwo qualities when she stepsonto the Olympic track inher bid to become only thesecond woman to win the5,000m and 10,000m crowns.

Only the Ethiopian Tiru-nesh Dibaba, the double Oly-mpic champion winner of5,000m and 10000m in Beijin-g, and at the 2005 worlds,has dominated the women’sdistance events in the past.

Cheruiyot has succeededin turning the tables on herEthiopian rivals over thelast two seasons, but withthe expected return ofDibaba, after a long injurylay-off, she may have herwork cut out in London.

“I am not afraid of theEthiopians,” said the dimin-utive track star after her pr-e-Olympic training workoutin Nairobi. “They have dom-inated the Olympics in thepast. I believe it is our turnin London. I have preparedvery well and I am ready tomeet them again.”

“Vivian is an Iron Lady.She’s tough mentally. Sheruns intelligently and shecan fight to the end,” saidAthletics Kenya (AK) offi-cial Barnabas Korir. “She iswell ahead of the opposi-tion, and if she plays her

cards well she will win bothOlympic titles,” he added.

The 28-year-old remainsundefeated over 5,000m thisyear, and currently headsthe Diamond League.

She opened the seasonwith narrow two wins overher erstwhile Ethiopianrival, Meseret Defar in Dohaand Rome over 3000m and5000m respectively.

The rivalry between Ch-eruiyot and Meseret goes ba-ck to the 2009 world champi-onships, when the Kenyanwon the 5000m over theEthiopian 2004 Olympicchampion, whom she hadonly defeated once in 16 pre-vious meetings.

That championship winmarked the turning point fo-r the Kenyan women athlete-s, who have long played sec-

ond fiddle to the Ethiopianson the track.

It was in fact Linet Mas-ai, who failed to make the te-am for the London Olympic-s, who broke the trend whenshe pipped Meseret andcompatriot MeselechMelkamu to take the 10,000metres, and ended a decade-

long history of defeats.Deputy team coach

Sammy Rono, who hascoached Cheruiyot at clublevel said the Berlin victo-ries were a pointer to theKenyan superiority over theEthiopians which shouldcontinue in London.

“There will be no turn-ing back for Vivian and therest of the athletes in theKenyan team. We completedthe mission in Berlin,” saidRono, who ruled out thereturn of Dibaba makingany impact over theKenyans in London.

“We saw her race in thePrefontaine Classic inOregon recently, and howshe struggled to win againstour own runner, EstherKiplagat, who is not even inthe Olympic team.” AFP

LONDON:Former Olym-pic gymnastNadia Coman-eci and ex-bask-

etball star John Amaechi wi-ll carry take the Olympic fla-me as it begins a seven-daytour of London on Saturday.

The pair will take thetorch relay to the roof of theNorth Greenwich Arena, thevenue on the banks of theRiver Thames that will hostgymnastics events and bas-ketball finals during theGames.

Footballer FabriceMuamba, who suffered aheart attack during an FA

Cup match in March, willalso carry the flame at theend of the 64th day its 8,000-mile (12,800-kilometre) relayaround Britain and theRepublic of Ireland.

He will take it throughthe east London borough ofWaltham Forest, where helived as a boy after movingto Britain from theDemocratic Republic ofCongo.

Muamba was left fight-ing for his life after collaps-ing on the pitch while play-ing for Bolton Wanderers atTottenham Hotspur’s WhiteHart Lane ground during anFA Cup tie on March 17. AFP

VIVIAN EYES DOUBLE

I am not afraid ofthe Ethiopians.They have dominat-ed the Olympics inthe past. I believe itis our turn inLondon.

Vivian Cheruiyot,Kenyan athlete

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SPORTS 30SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012

CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA:Chan Yung-jan earned one of thebiggest upsets of her career asthe qualifier outlasted formerworld No 1 Jelena Jankovic 6-7(4/7), 7-6 (10/8), 7-5 to reach thesemi-finals of the WTA Carlsbadevent.

Taiwan’s Chan, who isranked 161 in the world, dealt ablow to the third seededJanokovic’s hopes as she wonthe second longest match of theseason on the WTA Tour onFriday. The encounter lastedthree hours, 13 minutes — fourminutes less than the longest sofar on the circuit.

Chan was playing in herninth career quarter-final — herlast was three years ago — andmade the most of the opportuni-ty against the Serb.

Chan moves on to faceFrench top seed Marion Bartolior American fifth seed ChristinaMcHale in the semis.

Jankovic, who has a home inthe area, was up a set and led 3-1in the second when she appearedto come unravelled after Chantook a medical timeout.

A broken string on the finalpoint did not help her cause andprovided a fitting punctuation tothe disappointing end.

“I’m frustrated and disap-pointed,” said Jankovic. “I com-

pletely lost focus. It was so toughmentally and physically and myforehand let me down.

“I had the match under con-trol and let it go. I let her comeback, I messed up. When you’re

down you have to keep thefocus.”

Chan will be in not so famil-iar territory when she plays onlythe fourth WTA level semi-finalof her career. Her last came in

2008 in Strasbourg.Chan dropped the opening

set in a tiebreaker and saved aJankovic match point in the sec-ond before levelling on her ownfirst set point.

In the third, the challengerran out a 5-2 lead only to seeJankovic, who finished worldnumber one in 2008, catch herand force another tiebreak.

The Serb saved one Chanmatch point with a forehandwinner to the corner beforesending a return long as sheplayed with two strings gone.

“There was a 99 per centchance for her to win on thatpoint and a one per cent chancefor me,” said Jankovic.

“If she just kept playing itwould only be a matter of timebefore I made a mistake withthat broken string.”

Jankovic has been on a slowroad back to form over the pastfew seasons and had played inher first final last month inBirmingham since Cincinnatilast summer.

Prior to this week, the Serbhad lost in the first round 11times this season. AFP

RESULTS: QUARTERFINALSn Dominika Cibulkova

(SVK x2) bt UrszulaRadwanska (POL) 6-4, 6-4

n Chan Yung-Jan (TPE) btJelena Jankovic (SRB x3)6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (10/8), 7-5

Yung-Jan Chan of Taipei hits a volley to Jelena Jankovic of Serbia during the Mercury Insurance Open Presented By Tri-City Medical at La Costa Resort & Spa on Friday in Carlsbad, California. AFP/ GETTY IMAGES/ STEPHEN DUNN

WASHINGTON:Reigning Wimble -don champ SerenaWilliams haspulled out of anexhibition matchto get treatmentfor back pain, butshe said on Fridaythat would notkeep her out of the London Olympics.

Williams said she needed to rest herback after her two recent titles.

“I’m disappointed that I won’t be ableto see my (Washington) DC fans, but can’twait to go for gold in London,” Williamssaid.

The American has never won anOlympic singles crown but she hopes tochange that when Olympic tennis compe-titions begin on July 28 at Wimbledon.

Williams won her fifth Wimbledontitle earlier this month and a week latershe captured the Bank of the West Classicin California. AFP

Chan upsets Jankovic

Serena Williamsgets treatmentfor back pain

Nishikori fails to pass GoATLANTA: Go Soeda routed third-seed-ed compatriot Kei Nishikori 6-2, 6-1 atthe ATP Tour’s Atlanta Open on Fridayin the first meeting between the twoJapanese stars.

Eighth-seeded Soeda saved all sevenbreak points he faced on serve and wentfour-for-four on break point chances onhis return in the 72-minute quarter-finalcontest.

The match marked the first time thepair has squared off against each otheras professionals. Soeda turned pro in2003 and Nishikori turned pro four yearslater.

World number 19 Nishikori will nowhead to the London Games and Soedawill join him as soon as the Atlantahardcourt tournament is over.

This is the first ATP Tour semi-finalfor Soeda since the opening week of theseason, when he made it to the ChennaiOpen semis and lost there to JankoTipsarevic. He is currently ranked 54thin the world.

Soeda next plays Luxembourg’sGilles Muller, who beat Aussie MatthewEbden 6-4, 6-4 on Friday.

The 29-year-old Muller won 32 of hisfirst 35 first-serve points and did not facea break point.

Muller is a two-time ATP Tour run-ner-up and is chasing his first title. He isin a final for the first time in seven

years. In other quarter-final matches,fourth seed Andy Roddick defeatedMichael Russell 6-3, 6-4.

The 27th-ranked Roddick hammered12 aces and won 82 per cent of his ser-vice points. AFP

Go Soeda ofJapan serves toKei Nishikori ofJapan duringthe BB&TAtlanta Open atAtlantic Stationon Friday inAtlanta,Georgia. AFP/GETTY IMAGES/MATTHEWSTOCKMAN


KUALA LUMPUR: Mohamedbin Hammam, the scandal-taint-ed former Fifa presidential can-didate whose life ban was over-turned by the Court of Arbitra -tion for Sport this week, has saidhe wants to retire from football.

The 63-year-old, who wasaccused of offering bribes to buyFifa delegate votes during cam-paigning to unseat long-standingpresident Sepp Blatter last year,said he wanted to quit due to“jealousy” within the sport.

“My wish now is just to quitactually and retire,” the Qatari,who was this week suspended asthe head of the Asian FootballConfederation for 30 days overfresh corruption allegations,told the BBC.

“Frankly speaking, what ismy wish? To quit. Really I servedfootball that long, more than 42years, and the last year really Ihave seen a very bad, ugly faceof the sport and of the football,

you know, jealousy,” he said.“I wish to leave football.”Asian football officials could

not be reached for comment,while Peter Velappan, who wasAFC general secretary for 30years and a bitter rival of binHammam, declined to comment.

Bin Hammam on Thursdaywon his appeal at the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration forSport against a life ban from allfootball-related activity over thebribery allegations. AFP

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MIDDLESBROUGH: StuartPearce said Great Britain hadbeen beaten by the favourites forOlympic gold after seeing hisside outclassed by Brazil onFriday.

The South Americansstrolled to a comfortable 2-0 winin a one-sided warm-up match infront of a 25,000 crowd atMiddlesbrough’s RiversideStadium.

First-half goals from Sandroand Neymar, the game’s out-standing performer, underlinedthe gulf between the sides lessthan a week before the start ofthe Olympic football tourna-ment.

Pearce’s side launch theircampaign against Senegal atManchester United’s OldTrafford on July 26.

They were given a lesson bythe visitors, and the coachadmits the hosts are playingcatch-up in their bid to producea home success in the LondonGames.

“We knew how good Brazil

would be,” conceded Pearce, theformer England international.“They’re an outstanding side.We now understand the magni-tude of the task ahead, becausewhoever beats Brazil will earnthe gold medal.

“We know we need to cometo the boil before next Thursdayand beyond.

“Brazil have probably beenpreparing for the Olympics forthe last two or three years. We’vecome through two games nowand we’re getting used to playingwith each other.

“We’ve got five or six train-ing sessions before the Senegalgame. It’s a steep learningcurve.”

It was a full directors’ box asPremier League scouts flocked tosee the visiting SouthAmericans, rather than the cropof top young British talent, in astar-studded line-up largelyexpected to carry Brazilianhopes when they host the WorldCup in two years’ time.

Brazil coach Mano Menezesdid his best to play down theirchances of claiming gold in theOlympic final at WembleyStadium on August 11, insisting:“It’s too early to talk aboutmedal candidates at this stage.Some teams are more preparedthan others.

“It was a good work-out forus, but we’re not worried aboutsending out messages to ourrivals before the tournament.This was more about gellingtogether as a team.”

After Sandro broke the dead-lock early on with a loopingclose-range header, Neymarscored from the spot.

MADISON, MISSISSIPPI:American Billy Horschel fired anine-under par 63 to hold a one-stroke lead at the PGA Tour'srain-disrupted True SouthClassic on Friday.

Horschel made eagles at thefifth and the 18th holes in hisbogey-free round to reach a 13-under 131 total at the halfwaystage.

"I hit it really good, there'sno doubt about it," Horschelsaid. "I made some putts. I'll tell

you what. I'm not lying to youguys out there. There's five puttsout there that should have wentin. So I shot nine-under. Itshould have been 13."

Matt Bettencourt was onestroke back after a six-under 66,while first-round leader JasonBohn must finish his secondround along with close to halfthe field on Saturday morningafter play was called because ofdarkness on Friday.

Bettencourt was at 12-underthrough the front nine. Bohn isalso 12-under through nine holesat the Annandale Golf Club.

It was a tiring day forHorschel, who had to play 31holes on Friday because heavyrains disrupted his first roundthe previous day.

The 25-year-old battledthrough another rain delay onday two and faced blistering heatlater on during his secondround. AFP

The Greater HyderabadMuncipal Corporation(GHMC) along with the

Sports Authority of AndhraPradesh is setting up amulti-purpose mini stadiumin Khajaguda village ofSerilingampally Mandal ofRanga Reddy District in thestate.

The complex that boastsof a pavilion building alongwith a gallery, athleticstrack, kabaddi area, basket-ball arena, kho-kho ground,volleyball, football andcricket fields along with anarea for badminton, gymnas-tics and martial arts as wellas changing and officerooms, is expected to be constructed shortly on an estimated budget of `6 crore.

`6cr sportfacility forRR planned

Hammam wants ‘to quit’ sport

They’re an outstandingside. We now under-stand the magnitude ofthe task ahead,because whoever beatsBrazil will earn thegold medal.

Stuart PearceManager of Team Great Britain

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LYTHAM, ENGLAND: Tiger Woods haspatiently avoided most of Royal Lytham’spunishing pot bunkers at the British Openand the one he found at the 18th green onFriday was no match for the 14-time majorchampion.

Woods blasted in from the greensidebunker on the final hole in the secondround, turning what appeared to be a pos-sible bogey stumble into a shocking birdiethat boosted him into third place in hishunt for a 15th major victory.

“I hit a good iron shot in there,” Woodssaid. “The wind was supposed to be off theright but it just switched and came off theleft and I ended up just pushing it maybe ayard too far to the right and it ended upwhere I ended up.

“Because I was on the upslope I couldtake out that steepness coming off thebunker and land the ball on the flat. Sojust threw it up there.”

Woods is content to adopt a conserva-tive strategy and work his way aroundmost of the 206 pot bunkers scatteredstrategically across the par-70 linkscourse, which the 36-year-old Americanhas toured in 67 over both rounds.

“I had a game plan that I thoughtwould fit well on this golf course and I fig-

ured I could execute it, and I’ve done thatso far,” Woods said. “I’m very pleased atwhere I’m at. We’re at the halfway pointand I’m right there in the mix.”

Woods is four strokes behind US leaderBrandt Snedeker.

Justin Davis

BRIVE-LA-GAILLARDE,FRANCE: Britain’s MarkCavendish produced a stunningfinish to claim victory on the18th stage of the Tour deFrance and equal the recordnumber of 22 stage wins for a

sprinter on the race.Sky teammate and compa-

triot Bradley Wiggins cameover the finish line secondslater with his 2min 05sec over-all lead on British teammateChris Froome intact.

Italian Vincenzo Nibali isstill third overall at 2:41 after

the 226 km ride between Blag -nac and Brive-La-Gaillarde.

Wiggins, who is set to be -come Britain’s first winner ofthe world’s biggest bike race onSunday, played a starring rolefor his Sky teammate Caven -dish in what was a technicalbut thrilling finale into Brive.

Despite his yellow jerseymaking a rare appearance inthe final kilometres as Sky ledthe chase of a small leadinggroup, Wiggins said it was pay-back for the sacrificesCavendish has made in the race.

“He’s been an incredibleteammate the last couple ofweeks. It’s nice to be able topay him back,” said Wiggins.

“It’s been hard every morn-ing, thinking about the generalclassification and maybe sacri-ficing some sprint stages.”

Cavendish, who won stagetwo to take his tally to 21, hashad to shelve his sprint ambitions this year as Sky took aim at a historic yellowjersey victory.

Cavendish equals Tour record

Patient Tigerback in hunt

Tiger Woods lines up a putt on day two at the2012 British Open on Friday. AFP/ PETER MUHLY

Great Britain's Mark Cavendish celebrates on the finish line at the end ofthe 222,5km and stage 18 of the Tour de France on Friday. AFP/ P PAVANI

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