Tabla, 20 May 2011

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  • 24 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT O F THE INDIAN CO MMUNITY MICA (P) 046/03/2011 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, MAY 20,2011 S|Jl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • Article, Illustration
    1353 1  -  Chess, languages, astronomy... Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand is always one move ahead NEATIE PANDEY tabla@sph.com.sg HE IS a polyglot; speaks fluent English, Tamil, German and Spanish. His Spanish diction is so proper that Spain’s national television invites him, along with the king of Spain, to read Don Quixote
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    • 145 1 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE IS STYLISH PAGE 7 THE HEARTBEAT O F THE INDIAN CO MMUNITY PROPERTY: DOWNTOWN DESIRES PAGE 4 FROM FAT KIDS TO FIT STARS PAGES 14 15 MAMATA DIDI TAKES CONTROL IN BENGAL PAGES 2 3 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg Catch
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  • INDIA
    • 1396 2 / 3  -  Mamata Banerjee has just ended the CPI (M)’s 34-year rule in West Bengal by proving that she’s a champion of women and one who feels for the people AJITHA MENON Women’s Feature Service WHEN Swapan Banerjee was just two, he lost his father. The toddler was inconsolable
      Women’s Feature Service; PHOTOS: WFS  -  1,396 words
    • PROPERTY PICKS
      • 577 4 LIVING downtown invariably close to the Central Business District (CBD) and the entertainment hubs has always had an upmarket cachet. After all, most professionals are looking to be close to the heart of their work and play and savvy investors are always tapping into this lucrative market. Over
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    • 558 4 Retired engineer has a record collection of autographed pictures Indo-Asian News Service FOR the past 40 years, Mr Arshad Kidwai has been collecting autographed pictures of the high and mighty and, today, the retired engineer’s albums are a virtual who’s who of world history. He has
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    • 993 6  -  India is showing that it is up to the challenge of erasing corruption before the country’s image is tarnished SUVI DOGRA tabla@sph.com.sg Suvi Dogra is a research associate at the Institute of South Asian Studies, an autonomous research institute at the National University
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  • Page 2 / 3 Advertisements
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  • MOTORING
    • 354 7  -  No flood too deep either. The new Jeep Grand Cherokee combines presence, performance and comfort PRADEEP PAUL pradeep@sph.com.sg THERE are two reasons one would buy the new Jeep Grand Cherokee. One, you want to drive in terrain normally inhabited by rock climbers and snorkellers. Two,
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  • BUSINESS
    • 786 8 / 9  -  biz matters: Rohit Gandhi (Senior vice-president, Asia-Pacific, Mahindra Satyam) PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg IN APRIL 2009, Mr Rohit Gandhi got a call from his bosses at Tech Mahindra. The Singapore-based Mr Gandhi, who was then looking after the Asia-Pacific operations of the firm, was asked to take
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    • 124 8 / 9 KAPLAN Higher Education Institute, along with the National University of Ireland, Dublin, is offering new courses for the Bachelor of Science (honours) degree programme for banking and wealth management, besides marketing and management pathways, among others. The classes will be at Kaplan City campuses.
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    • 23 8 / 9 S I N G Rs36.34 US$0.80 A$0.76 ¤0.57 £0.50 Rs45.04 A$0.94 ¤0.70 U S £0.62 S$1.24
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    • biz notes
      • 113 8 / 9 MAY 21 will see Clementi Mall being officially opened. The complex is a project that integrates two blocks of 40-storey Housing Board flats with retail outlets. Six storeys five above ground and one basement level have been set aside for retail. All of the 191,000 sq
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      • 137 8 / 9 THE labour movement paid tribute to 50 people who contributed to the labour movement by presenting them with the NTUC 50 Award at a dinner on May 13 as it celebrates its 50th anniversary. Among those who received the awards were President S.R. Nathan, Prime Minister Lee
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    • 490 8 / 9  -  It also wants to tap the NRI market biz AHNUSHKA KAUR RIAR tabla@sph.com.sg THERE is a movement within Bank of India (BOI) and it’s called Sankalp. BOI chairman and managing director Alok Kumar Misra (above) explains: “We’ve embarked on a reorganisation exercise and
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  • Page 8 / 9 Advertisements
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 179 10  -  DALVINDER KAUR tabla@sph.com.sg THE winners of the Readers Digest Trusted Brand Awards 2011 have been announced, and homegrown educational institution MDIS (Management Development Institute of Singapore) has picked up a gold award. Other winners among the 40 local brands honoured this year are supermarket chain
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    • 405 13 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced a major Cabinet reshuffle on May 18. “I’ve gone for a comprehensive reshuffle, not just incremental changes. So out of 14 ministries, 11 will have new ministers in charge and the ministers will have a free hand to rethink and
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    • singapore news
      • 80 13 CROWDING will be reduced and waiting time will also be cut when a new platform to opens on May 27 at the busy Jurong East MRT interchange. It will allow five new trains to be deployed on the North-South and East-West Lines that use the
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      • 68 13 STUDENTS and teachers sweltering in the heat of the past weeks will welcome the Ministry of Education’s latest initiative to make classrooms here cooler and more conducive to learning. But don’t expect air-conditioning. That has been ruled out on grounds of cost as far back as
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    • 86 21 4,000 Estimated number of foreigners who used the visa-on-arrival in India in the first four months of 2010 8,400% Rise in number of Right to Information applications filed with the Prime Minister’s Office in Singapore in five years 75% Himalayan glaciers retreating according to a study of satellite
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    • 288 21 “From a Cabinet perspective, I’m sure life is going to be tougher for ministers in the next five years.” Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan on the political change sweeping through Singapore “As the price of gold skyrockets, some are touting gold to be
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 445 10 To place an ad in tabla! call Kalwant at 9171-4327 or Ajit at 9693-0266 or e-mail tabla@sph.com.sg Media Partner SONY Ad Venture Advertising Marketing Pte.Ltd. TOf® DC SINGAPORE Social is the new Traditional Go Social jgitaiHiDYA DIGITAL MARKETING LEARNING PLACE cordially invites you to Social Media Bootcamp June 9 10,
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    • 160 10 Indian art workshop Date: Saturday 4 June 2011 Time 10 AM to 2 PM Venue: The Green Room Fort Canning Centre Fort Canning Park Programme Session 1: One Stroke Painting on Hand Bag with a floral motif. Session 2: 'Rata Chitra' Indian folk art painting style on file holder made
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  • EDUCATION
    • 679 11  -  Yes, school holidays are time for fun and travel. But you can make use of them too G. BALASUBRAMANIAN G. Balasubramanian is the former director (academics) of the Central Board of Secondary Education in India and presently the chief academic officer of Global Indian International School,
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    • 343 12 AJEYA MANTRI, Class 9 ICSE 113STUDENTS, seven teachers and no parents... a perfect recipe for unlimited fun! Just one day after our “independence day” the day our exams were over we set off on our school trip to Cameron Highlands and Kuala Lampur. Meeting at 6am
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 282 12 DHRUTI BHATTA, Class 4C WE STUDENTS of Class 4 visited the Singapore Discovery Centre recently. When we got there, we were all given a passport and boarding pass before we made our first stop: The Army Museum, where we learnt how the Singapore Army was formed
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      • 164 12 KOENA SAMADDAR, Class 3B LAST month my kindergarten friends literally painted the school red. The colour was the chosen theme for the first kindergarten assembly of the new academic session. All my toddler friends and their teachers were dressed in red. The day’s programme included a
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 1209 14 / 15  -  91, 90, 60... no, that’s not how much some Bollywood stars scored in their school exams. It is their weight in kilograms before they became fit and fabulous AHNUSHKA KAUR RIAR IF YOU think most Indian actors and actresses are born slim and sexy, think again.
      PHOTOS: IANS, EROS ENTERTAINMENT  -  1,209 words
    • 503 14 / 15  -  Arjun Kapoor also has Salman Khan to thank for getting him on the road to acting JIGAR SHAH Bollywood News Service HE COMES from good Bollywood stock his father is famous producer Boney Kapoor who has hits such as No Entry and Wanted
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    • 181 16 IF YOU’RE in the mood for some pop, classical and even Bollywood music, you may want to head down to Esplanade Theatre Hall on May 22 evening. That’s when acclaimed Indian singer Hariharan (left) will be taking the stage. Hariharan, who has performed earlier in
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    • 255 16 RANA Daggubati and Ileana D’Cruz are cosying up in Venice and they confess they are falling in love... but here’s the catch. The cosying up is for the camera and the falling in love is with the city of canals. “I fell in love with
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  • FOOD
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      306 17  -  Good biryani is an apt end to a day in Arab Street AHNUSHKA KAUR RIAR tabla@sph.com.sg ARAB Street is famous for its shisha, avant garde shops and, of course, its authentic Islamic food. So when I was there one afternoon with my colleague, we decided to give Islamic
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • RELAX
    • 346 18 / 19 DANCE The Hungry Stones (Raga), written by Asia’s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, is a short story that blends the supernatural with realism. Tickets: $21 When: May 28, 8pm Where: Esplanade Theatre Studio Contact: 6348-5555 AUDITION If you think you’ve got what it takes to be the Global
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    • 32 18 / 19 CONCERT Subhra Guha pays tribute to the late Bhimsen Joshi with Shraddhanjali, a vocal concert. Tickets: $20 When: May 21, 7pm Where: Esplanade Recital Studio Contact: 8192-1844
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  • Page 18 / 19 Advertisements
    • 243 18 / 19 ESPLANADE PRESENTS ;r. y Jx THE HUNGRY 28 MAY 2011, SAT 8PM ESPLANADE THEATRE STUDIO Moods Colours Emotions 1 «> 4 ff /V~ (E 5 An emotive dance interpretation inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s short story of the same name. (1 hr lOmins, no intermission) TICKETS: $20 Limited concessions for students,
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  • Page 18 / 19 Miscellaneous
    • 285 18 / 19 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries You will make wise decisions leading to success in your ventures. Health will be good and domestic harmony will prevail. Taurus You will receive favour from superiors so your professional life will be elevated. You could bring name and fame to the family. Gemini You may suffer
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    • 207 18 / 19 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 3.30pm SONY ENT: Boxer 4pm COLORS: Guzaarish (right, starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan) 4pm STAR PLUS: Bhoothnath 9pm VTV: Padikkthavan 9pm VASANTHAM: Amman Koyil Kizhakkale 9pm ZEE CINEMA: Dhan Dhana Dhan… Goal 11pm STAR GOLD: Rang De Basanti saturday Noon ZEE CINEMA: Break Ke Baad
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    • 307 18 / 19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Congested sounding 6 Arrive at JFK 10 Check out before a heist 14 Draw forth 15 Twist-apart cookie 16 Offerer of lambs, in Genesis 17 Filmdom’s Winger 18 Symbol on a stoner’s shirt 19 “The Long and Winding 20 Famous person, for one 23 “Who am 19
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    • 217 18 / 19 QUIZ DEREK O’BRIEN 1) Which marsupial gets its name from a Telegu word literally meaning “pig-rat”? a) Wallaby b) Platypus c) Bandicoot 2) Which disease is also called breakbone fever as it is characterised by extreme pain and stiffness in the joints? a) Dengue b) Chikungunya c) Yellow fever 3)
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    • 69 18 / 19 SUDOKU The objective is to place the digits 1 to 9 only, once in each of the small 3x3 squares. At the same time, you must create a row of unique digits going across and down over the large grid. DID YOU KNOW Jews and Christians have lived continuously in
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 27 20 SOLUTIONS sudoku crossword quiz 1) Bandicoot 2) Dengue 3) Sanath Jayasuriya 4) Snake 5) Brazil 6) Sleeper 7) Jupiter 8) George VI 9) Jughead Jones 10) Banana
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    • 107 21 /Pakistan An Exhibition of Contemporary Art By Singapore Pakistani Association Artink and emerging artists from Pakistan 20-25 May 2011 ARTrium MICA Building (Near Clarke Quay] 140 Hill Street, Singapore *****9 Exhibition Opening Night: 20th May 201 1 6.30pm ARTrium at MICA Exhibition continues till 25th May 201 1 into selected
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  • SPORTS
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      957 23  -  Finally, some young Indian players shine in the IPL columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg APART from expensive overseas players, team owners, television ratings and a veneer of glamour, the IPL is also an opportunity for players to be seen. To be honest, I would like to see a little
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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