Tabla, 15 May 2009

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  • 22 1 tabla THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 181/03/2009 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, MAY 15,2009 Sfh A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • 338 1  - My day with Katrina Akshay Sure, the stars drip glamour and glitz. But they do have some fun between takes and even find time to entertain fans’ requests SHEELA NARAYANAN WHAT’S it like? What are Akshay and Katrina like? Are they snobbish or down to earth? Did you do a
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    • 74 1 GETYOUR COPY OF AT 7-ELEVEN OUTLETS, INCLUDING SHELL STATIONS NO PURCHASE REQUIRED SHELL STATIONS NO PURCHASE REQUIRED NOT EASY TO PICK INDIA’S DREAM TEAM PAGE 22 INDIAN COMMUNITY SHE WON TWO TICKETS TO IPL MATCH PAGE 7 BOOKTO INSPIRE THE YOUNG PAGE 2 PAGE 4 BOLLYWOOD IN SINGAPORE PAGE 11
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  • INDIA
    • 740 2  -  Infosys co-founder hopes his book will inspire young people SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg IF YOUNG Indians are looking for inspiration to become entrepreneurs, they need not look beyond Infosys co-founder N.R. Naryana Murthy. Mr Murthy pioneered, designed and executed the global delivery model in IT services
      Queenstown on May 11. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  740 words
    • 390 2 supporters. Indo-Asian News Service IT HAS all the elements of a soap opera. The fighting within the Samajwadi Party (SP) in this election was out in the open in Rampur amid bizarre charges of nude photos being distributed, tears, suicide
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    • 682 4 First Sikh Canadian MP denies mistreating two caregivers MAXIM magazine named her the world’s third sexiest politician after Alaska’s Sarah Palin and Italy’s Mara Carfagna. It lauded her ability to “court the all-important woman, immigrant and horny-male vote”. But the last couple of weeks have seen
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    • regional roundup
      • 102 4 Kamal Hassan not on voters’ list ACTOR Kamal Hassan is upset. The actor who is shooting in Hyderabad was all set to leave for Chennai to vote in the elections on May 13 only to be told his name did not figure in the voters’ list there. He
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      • 82 4 Probe into poor exam results SHOCKED by the declining pass percentage in Madhya Pradesh’s high school examinations, the state’s education minister has ordered a high-level probe. After reaching a record high of 57.88 per cent pass rate last year, only 35.33 per cent of the regular students passed
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      • 82 4 Number portability soon FROM Sept 20, handphone users in some parts of India will get to retain their number even after switching operators. The Deccan Herald reported that the Department of Telecom has issued a notification saying: “Mobile number portability is to be implemented in Delhi, Mumbai, Maharashtra and
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      • 62 4 Jet2Kerala for holidays KERALA Tourism has tied up with Jet Airways to offer Jet2Kerala, a special scheme that offers low-cost air tickets to domestic tourists flying to the state. The scheme, which was launched on May 12, will offer travellers tickets and accommodation in luxury properties as well as
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      • 89 4 Rs 1 lakh no more ‘high value’ UNTIL recently, a cheque amounting to over a lakh was considered “high value” in banking parlance and would be swiftly cleared on the same day, if deposited before 11am. The Reserve Bank of India has now raised the bar, reported The Times
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 608 5  -  This column looks at the issues faced by the Indian community here, this week on re-employment The reluctant TAI TAI The Reluctant Tai Tai is an Indian expat who loves high teas and gossipy martini sessions. But she has so much more going on in her life.
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    • 332 7  -  Winner of tabla!-MasterCard contest will watch Mumbai Indians in action on May 21 SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg INITIALLY, she was surprisingly casual. Then she let loose an excited shriek... as soon as she realised what she had won. tabla! reader Neha Mehta had just been
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    • 176 7 IN HONOUR of mothers, the Sindhi Association’s Committee of Senior Citizens organised a party for 120 mums and grandmothers on Mother’s Day (above). The party was for members of the association’s senior citizens’ committee. The celebrations were held early this month at Sindhu House in
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    • 169 7 THE Hindu Endowments Board honoured 78 volunteers for their service and commitment to social service last month. Law Minister and second minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam was the guest of honour at the board’s Volunteer Awards. The awards were introduced in 1999 to recognise the
      Some of the award winners. PHOTO: HINDU ENDOWMENTS BOARD  -  169 words
    • 199 10 IT WAS a multicultural Vesak Day celebration in Little India as a coalition of 19 Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist and Muslim organisations came together to commemorate the annual religious holiday. The group, led by the Singapore Buddhist Lodge and the Little India Shopkeepers and Heritage Association (Lisha), raises funds
      compassion. PHOTOS: LISHA  -  199 words
    • 224 15 THE Malaysian police had closed in on him and were shouting to him to surrender, but Mas Selamat Kastari refused to give up. He climbed up to the second floor of the kampung house he was hiding in and tried to flee. The police then kicked down
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    • Singapore news
      • 126 15 OVERSEAS Singaporean lawyers with two years’ experience can return to practise here by next January instead of July 2011 after the Law Ministry scrapped one of two Bar exams they were initially required to pass. In a move to lure more Singaporean lawyers abroad to
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      • 178 15 MORE than 392 government IT tenders worth a total of $1.73 billion is up for grabs in the 2009 financial year. A large chunk will be spent by the Ministry of Education (MOE), which is planning a standard operating system to connect its schools with
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      • 148 15 GWEN Tan, 16, never stopped giving, even after she died. The teenager, who often volunteered to tutor underprivileged kids, gave eight patients a new lease of life when her parents who held the belief that their daughter would have wanted to help others donated five of
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    • 249 21 102,899 Number of cars sold in April in India. This is 4.2 per cent higher than a year earlier 50Election rallies attended by Bhojpuri superstar Ravi Kishan in eight days. He campaigned for Congress in Bihar, UP, Jharkhand and Mumbai $1 million Donation by a close friend of
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    • 342 21 “Politics is an art of the possible.” India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh, on how coalitions can emerge in the quest for power “One of the coaches said ‘You Indian, you do what I ask you to do’.” Cricketer Ajay Jadeja on the rumoured racial divide in the
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  • PERSONALITY
    • 1054 6  -  tabla! talk with Patrick with Patrick Jonas Mr patrickj@sph.com.sg IN THE 1980s, as India’s stock markets boomed, I was one of many small-time investors who tried to ride the wave. One of the companies that caught my eye was HCL started by a band of young entrepreneurs
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 1118 11  -  Raffles Place and East Coast Park played host to the cast and crew of De Dana Dan last week. And tabla! was there Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg THE Mission: Be a fly on the wall on the set of Priyadarshan Nair’s De Dana Dan and hopefully not get
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    • 53 12/13 HERE'S WHAT YOU WONT SEE WHEN YOU WATCH DE DANA DAN IjfeStti/giife. Jfarwig __'■> *C»v -J c e Bari/e defeat... Unm. tmc £t,„„ c&ttuGe, letw&e* Ur shot# 3ss^"s£li>«* ffotgbffi. /Cotrina Mb Wff/ p tk extra? f^Me camera? tara^ -^*4 Old, w i null f flMu
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  • EDUCATION
    • 265 14  -  There’s more to school than homework and exams. That’s why tabla! has this page for students of the three Indian schools here, to play reporter and photographer (This page is rotated among the schools. Next week, NPS) AASTHA CHOUHAN, AASTHA Class 7B AND the silver goes
      Qualifier and the PHOTOS: GIIS  -  265 words
    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 255 14  -  DEVANSHI PATNAIK, Class 5C LITERARY Week was celebrated at GIIS East Coast recently and many “fun while we learn” activities were organised during the library and language periods. The highlights during the library period were Spelling Bee and Pass The Parcel. In Pass The Parcel, the student
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      • 134 14  -  SANCHIT AGRAWAL, Class 9B OUR school celebrated Earth Day last month. It was a day when all of us did our part to make the planet a little greener and cleaner. We started off by making paper bags from recycled newspapers, organic glue and other
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  • FOOD
    • 426 16  -  Who says takeaway Indian food cannot be delivered hot? SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg AS MUCH as I hate to admit it, food delivery services are a boon. On days when I am too tired to even look at my stove and think of a recipe to cook
      chapati (right) tikka. PHOTOS: SHEELA NARAYANAN  -  426 words
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  • RELAX
    • 81 18/19 TAMIL DEBATE That the community clubs focus more on family issues or youth issues that’s the theme of the Tamil debate between the youth and the older generation, which is represented by M. Archunan, Velpari and R. Sababathi. It is part of the Geylang West
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    • 381 18/19 ITFA 2009 The International Tamil Film Awards 2009 honours, appreciates and recognises all who have contributed to the Tamil film industry. Tickets: $30, $50, $100, $200 When: May 16, 7pm Where: Singapore Expo, Max Pavillion Contacts: 6377-1980 or e-mail info@itfa.com.sg CLAP! (CENTRAL SINGAPORE CDC COMMUNITY ARTS) Budding artistes
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    • TV HIGHLIGHTS
      • friday
        • 44 18/19 1pm STAR GOLD Raju’s (Salman Khan) life is turned upside down when he finds out he is the illegitimate son of Rajesh Mittal (Rishi Kapoor). Raju sets off to claim his rightful place in the Mittal family and his father’s heart.
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        • 81 18/19 6.30pm SONY ENT Happy-go-lucky Sanjay (Uday Chopra) lives in an apartment in Mumbai with his friend Ria (Bipasha Basu). When he receives a call from his childhood best friend Anjali (Sanjana), informing him of her wedding, it hits him that Anju is the girl of
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      • saturday
        • 42 18/19 3.30pm SONY ENT Girdharilal (Kader Khan) is a wealthy man who has enemies. One of his enemies kidnaps him and gets a beggar to masquerade as Girdharilal. Things turn hilarious as the beggar tries to become the rich, left-handed tycoon.
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        • 33 18/19 7pm STAR GOLD Three friends, Sid, Bugs and Khushi dream of making it big in the entertainment business. This love story stars Dino Morea, Rinkie Khanna and Sanjay Suri.
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        • Article, Illustration
          35 18/19 9pm VASANTHAM Shivshankar (Ajit, below with Asin) is a business magnate and dotes on his only son, easy-going Vishnu (Ajit). Suddenly Vishnu goes mad. The appearance of a Vishnu look-alike adds to the suspense.
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      • sunday
        • Article, Illustration
          48 18/19 1pm VASANTHAM Sivakasi (Vijay, above) dotes on his mother and sister. Circumstances force him to leave the village and go to Chennai. But he has to return because his sister and mother (Geeta) are in trouble, thanks to the machinations of his evil older brother (Prakash Raj).
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        • 32 18/19 4pm STAR GOLD Anna, a governess, looks after the three young children of Siddhant. When Siddhant is killed, their lives change. But Raju Chacha (Ajay Devgan) comes to their rescue.
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        • 29 18/19 7pm SONY ENT Sweet romance between cute, boy-next-door Karan (Shahid Kapoor) and the ravishing Tanya (Rimi Sen) who is being targeted because she knows a secret.
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      • monday
        • 56 18/19 5pm VTV Gayathri (Sneha) goes to Rameshwaram to do research on sea corals. There she meets and falls for gangster Chinna (Arjun). Eventually, Chinna is jailed for a murder which he commits to save Gayathri. Her parents force her to marry an engineer. When Chinna is freed, he goes
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        • 32 18/19 10pm STAR GOLD A father-in-law (Amitabh Bachchan, below with Hema Malini) tries to bring back the happiness in his daughter-in-law’s (Rani Mukherjee) life after the death of his son (Salman Khan).
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      • tuesday
        • 37 18/19 10pm STAR GOLD Story of a mother (Waheeda Rehman) and her three sons Om (Anil Kapoor) has deep-rooted values; Jai (Fardeen Khan) is an ambitious car designer and Jagdish (Abhishek Bachchan) a carefree youngster.
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        • 66 18/19 Mn VTV When “Kokki” Kumar first becomes a gangster, the skinny lad is derided. But he soon transforms from a lily-livered youth to a two-timing ruthless killer and ultimately to a politician. Soon, sex-worker Krishnaveni (Sneha) enters his life and his rise in (Sneha) and his rise in the
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      • wednesday
        • 41 18/19 3.30pm SONY ENT The story of three brothers (Nasserudin Shah, Akshay Kumar and Akshay Anand) where one gets killed by the underworld in order to create a rift between the remaining two. Lots of songs, action, drama, and some comedy.
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        • Article, Illustration
          34 18/19 10pm STAR GOLD Priya (Preita Zinta, above) is the apple of her parents’ eyes, but she defies Indian culture when she gets pregnant out of wedlock with Rahul’s (Saif Ali Khan) baby.
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      • thursday
        • 72 18/19 5pm VTV Aravindan (Vijay), Chandru (Surya) and Krishnamurthy (Ramesh Khanna) value friendship above all else. When the trio take up a painting job at a mansion, Aravindan falls in love with Padmini (Devayani), who lives there. Padmini’s jealous cousin (Abinayasri) makes him believe that his overtures are reciprocated. When
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        • Article, Illustration
          48 18/19  -  10pm STAR GOLD Compiled by Surendar Compiled by Surendar Kaur After returning from America, Amar (John Abraham) becomes a witness to a murder and is killed himself. Then father’s starts a father’s (Amitabh starts a (Amitabh Bachchan) struggle to Bachchan) struggle to get justice for his son.
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    • Article, Illustration
      184 18/19  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1) Which comic-strip character is portrayed as living in Gotham City? a) The Phantom b) Batman c) Spider-Man 2) What constitutes about 16 to 17 per cent of butter? a) Lactose b) Water c) Sodium 3) Which colour forms the background of the flag of the United
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  • Page 18/19 Miscellaneous
    • 294 18/19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Trellis piece 5 Kind of equity 10 Austin Powers euphemism 14 Diamond feature 15 What cover letters spell out? 16 Unaffected manner 17 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men author 18 Enlarges, as a hole 19 Piece of a floor plan? 20 “Shh!” 23 Equipped, as with
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    • 523 18/19 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries This week will be a new beginning as far as your career is concerned. Your hard work will be rewarded. If you are into speculation or the share market, you should invest but with some caution. Your enemies will face a setback and you will outdo your
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 30 20 SOLUTIONS 7) Mumbai 8) Mauryan 9) Shawl 10) Naseeruddin Shah crossword 1) Batman 2) Water 3) Blue 4) Aeroplane 5) Root 6) Golf sudoku quiz i? am what The Esplanade
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  • SPORTS
    • Article, Illustration
      583 22  -  Got your attention? Yes, it’s debatable but then it’s never easy being a selector. Especially for an all-time Indian XI MOHAN SUBRAMANIAM Mohan is a cricket commentator and a banker AS THE Indian cricket team basks in the glory of its recent successes, some people have even
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    • 686 23 37,000 fans want mystery IPL blogger FIP to reveal identity majority Indo-Asian News Service AS INDIA’S general election headed to a climax, another poll unfolded in cyberspace. Between May 9 and May 14 afternoon, nearly 57,500 readers of fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com, an Indian Premier League-related blog
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    • 466 23  -  Local Weekend Cricket Report HEMANT KENKRE MIDWAY through the Singapore Cricket Association (SCA) league, the Division 1 title remains up for grabs with three teams currently at the top of the table. Singapore Indian Association (IA) leads the pack with Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) Lions and
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    • 855 24  -  Is that the reason for catches being dropped like hot potatoes at the I PL? star column Harsha Bhogle tabla@sph.com.sg WHEN we were growing up in Hyderabad, there were days when we got swarms of flying insects virtually enveloping a light bulb. Somebody told us that if
      Durban. PHOTO: AFP  -  855 words