Tabla, 19 June 2009

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  • 23 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN CO^j MICA (P) 181/03/2009 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2009 Sfh A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 1053 1  -  If you’re too tired to go grocery shopping, get the groceries to come to you AYESHA KOHLI THE phrase “I use Sally” is cropping up more often in conversations involving Indian women nowadays. No, it’s not the latest cosmetic brand. The Sally in
      delivery PHOTO: ARUN RAMU; yet PHOTOS: ARUN RAMU  -  1,053 words
    • 579 7  -  Yes, in India things were done differently but if you live elsewhere you have to realise there are other ways that are just as good... MOHIT GOPALDAS Mohit Gopaldas is the Managing Director of Identity Counsel, a Singapore-based brand consultancy HAVING lived in Singapore now for over
      PHOTO: IANS  -  579 words
    • 1114 8/9  -  Some Indians in Singapore are not letting their day jobs snuff out their true passion in music, dance and theatre GAURI GUPTA THE film Rock On could have been inspired by a group of friends in Mandarin Gardens, a residential enclave in Siglap that is
      Khaneja. PHOTOS: WECANDOIT PRODUCTIONS, AAITI, BANDWIDTH, V. SHANKARNARAYANAN  -  1,114 words
    • 212 8/9 ONE of the largest Hindu festivals will be celebrated in Singapore on June 28. The Sri Krishna Mandir, the local branch of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) movement will be holding the Ratha Yatra festival, a street festival that has three huge, wooden chariots carrying the
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    • 226 11 Rs40 crores Amount being spent by Delhi power distribution firm BSES to set up an electricity grid to exclusively serve the athletes village for next year’s Commonwealth Games 1.13 million Number of visitors at this year’s PC Show at Suntec City. Last year it was 1.1 million 6,000
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    • 338 11 “It’s our right to travel in AC coaches... why should we travel by sleeper class when we have the go-ahead to travel in AC?” An officer of the Third Battalion of the Delhi Armed Police which escorts prisoners to and from courts in and outside the capital.
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    • 220 17 IN THE first three months of this year, there was a net loss of 6,200 jobs far worse than the 1,000 estimated at end-April by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). Earnings also fell, unemployment rose and people took a longer time to get another job,
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    • singapore news
      • 122 17 MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s eight-day visit to six Malaysian states ended on June 15. He was accompanied by Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam; Minister for Education Ng Eng Hen; Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew; and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for
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      • 160 17 THE aim of launching the assessment of town councils later this year is to make HDB residents more aware of what is going on in their towns and to do something about it, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan has said. This means it’s not just town
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      • 123 17 MORE low-income families with school-going children will get subsidised computers and broadband Internet to give them access to technology. With the income ceiling for qualifying for this scheme raised from $2,000 to $2,500, a bigger number of families will pay no more than
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  • INDIA
    • 587 2 In a remote place in Kerala, more than 300 out of 2,000 families are seeing double WITH the advent of invitro fertilisation (IVF), twin pregnancies have become common the world over. But in a remote village in Kerala, where the residents don’t resort to medical treament to
      School. PHOTO: MALAYALA MANORAMA  -  587 words
    • 595 4 Brought up by mum, Miss India-World does not keep in touch with dad FATHER’S Day is not something that Miss India-World Pooja Chopra will be looking forward to. Her mother is both dad and mum to her. “I was the second girl child born to
      Mumbai). PHOTOS: IANS  -  595 words
    • 485 5 Interest, especially in high-end projects, coming from NRIs Indo-Asian News Service THE Indian real estate industry has reason to cheer. After almost a year of gloomy business prospects, non-residents have started looking at the residential market in the country again, especially high-end projects, say experts.
      Indo-Asian News Service  -  485 words

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  • PERSONALITY
    • 995 10  -  tabla! talk with Patrick Jonas with Patrick with Patrick Jonas “Raju”. patrickj@sph.com.sg BY THE time I made my way up to his apartment from the carpark, Mr Subbaraju Alluri was already waiting outside his door. A broad smile lit up his face as he introduced himself
      Arman. PHOTO: JOSEPH NAIR  -  995 words

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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • Article, Illustration
      1068 12/13  -  tabla! joins the party at Indian film awards show in Macau Sheela Narayanan IN MACAU sheela@sph.com.sg NOBODY parties quite like the Bollywood contingent... and party they did yet again at the International Indian Film Academy awards (Iifa), one of Hindi cinema’s biggest annual travelling awards shows where over
      performance. PHOTOS: CHOO CHANG  -  1,068 words
    • 236 12/13  -  Sheela Narayanan WILL Marina Bay Sands host the Iifa next year? The signs at the recent Iifa weekend in Macau point to the possibility that the best of Bollywood might be headed to the integrated resort which is scheduled to open by the end of
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    • 98 12/13 Best Debutant Star (Male) Farhan Akhtar Best Debutant Star (Female) Asin Best Music A.R. Rahman Jodhaa Akbar Best Lyrics Javed Akhtar Jashn-E-Bahara (Jodhaa Akbar) Best Story Neeraj Pandey A Wednesday Performance in a Comic Role Abhishek Bachchan Dostana Performance in a Supporting Role (Female) Kangana Ranaut Fashion Performance
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    • 450 14 Jimmy Shergill is back in Punjabi cinema with two big hits but his heart is in Bollywood Indo-Asian News Service HE IMPRESSED critics with his performance in A Wednesday and now has delivered two back-to-back Punjabi blockbusters. But Jimmy Shergill says Bollywood is where his heart
      Indo-Asian News Service; Punjabi PHOTOS: EROS ENTERTAINMENT  -  450 words
    • 459 14 Indo-Asian News Services AFTER playing mother to Bollywood superstars like Aamir Khan in Rang De Basanti, Shah Rukh Khan in Om Shanti Om and Abhishek Bachchan in Dostana, Kirron Kher is set to play a judge on the show India’s Got Talent. play
      Indo-Asian News Services; PHOTO: BOLLYWOOD SARGAM  -  459 words


  • FOOD
    • 441 15  -  Indian-Chinese cuisine gets the right touch at Mayura SHEELA NARAYANAN cuisine. sheela@sph.com.sg IT TAKES just one bite and a whiff to make an impression when you are trying a new cuisine. The first time I tried Indian-Chinese a horrifying sweet and sour soup at a nondescript hotel
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  • TECH
    • 545 15  -  GEOFFREY PEREIRA equipment. tabla@sph.com.sg I AM a fishing enthusiast and, as can be imagined, when I’m on a boat doing my thing, it would be great to know if there were fish below. One traditional method of finding out is to dive in and have a
      PHOTOS: GEOFFREY PEREIRA  -  545 words

  • EDUCATION
    • 320 16  -  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, GIIS) SOURABH ROY ARSHIYA VERMA, Class 1 1 A THERE
      PHOTOS: DPS  -  320 words
    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 122 16  -  SURANJANA SENGUPTA, Class 10 THE much awaited inter-house quiz competition was held amid moments of nail-biting tension. As our teacher began the first round, we held our breath and awaited the questions. They came thick and fast and were on books, authors, countries and their capitals and
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      • 128 16  -  SAAHIL SHARMA, Class 6B MY COMPUTER class teacher threw me a question recently. Would I be keen to participate in a Web design contest Actions For Earth Carbon Footprint Challenge 2009 that was being organised by Hemispheres and sponsored by Singapore Polytechnic. I was very enthusiastic as
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  • RELAX
    • 78 18/19 MANI This play, presented by Punch Theatre, is an inspired “Tanglish” (English and Tamil) chronicle of the struggles and successes of the larger than life dancer Manimaran, hoping to inspire future generations of artistes. Tickets: $20 ($15 discounted price for students) When: June 19 to
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    • 558 18/19 NIGHT OF INDIAN STORIES MoonShadow Stories presents A.K. Ramanujan’s collection of stories for adults titled The Untold: A Revealing Night Of Indian Stories. Tickets: $12 When: June 26 27, 8pm Where: The Substation Classroom 2 Contact: 9273-2383 or log on to www.moonshadowstories.org PRINCE RAMA IN CONCERT Soorya (Singapore),
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    • 152 18/19 NOW that you have read about the International Indian Film Academy Awards (Iifa), you have a chance to win Star Plus goodies. All you need to do is e-mail the answers to these three simple questions (pssst, all answers can be
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    • TV HIGHLIGHTS
      • friday
        • 34 18/19 3pm VIJAY Rich boy (Sivaji Ganesan) falls in love with poor girl and lies to his father about her status. When his father finds out the truth, he wants to separate them.
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        • Article, Illustration
          61 18/19 9pm VASANTHAM Raghuram (Prakash Raj, above with Trisha) dotes on his daughter Abhi (Trisha). Although extremely affectionate and protective, he is not a possessive father. So when Abhi chooses to do her post-graduate studies in Delhi, he happily agrees to let her go. But when she comes back
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        • 53 18/19 10pm STAR GOLD AAP KE Rishi (Fardeen Khan), son of billionaire Oberoi (Suresh Oberoi), doesn’t believe in love or the institution of marriage and feels that money can buy everything in the world. Until one day he realises that the one thing that can’t be
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      • saturday
        • 23 18/19 2pm VIJAY A playboy (Muthuraman) takes advantage of the daughter of a policeman. Her brother decides to teach him a lesson.
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        • 55 18/19 4pm VASANTHAM Ranvir (Saif Ali Khan) is an ambitious businessman who does not let anything get in his way. His younger brother Rajeev (Akshaye Khanna) is a drunkard and will do anything to get his hands on money, even if it means killing his own brother. When Ranvir finds
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        • 82 18/19 4pm STAR GOLD Jaswinder (Riteish Deshmukh) goes to the United States to realise his dreams. Opportunity does come his way, not as a lucrative job offer but in the shape of saucy and sensuous Sally (Bandre Roderick) who is looking for a husband. She helps him extend
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      • sunday
        • 24 18/19 1pm VASANTHAM A stuntman (Jeeva) and an art student (Sandhya) have an affair. It’s a case of two very different personalities coming together.
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        • Article, Illustration
          72 18/19 4 pm STAR GOLD An India-born Nasa scientist (Shah Rukh Khan, below right) returns to his country to find his roots. His nostalgic trip soon turns into a journey of discovery of the colours and contradictions of rural India where people live in poor conditions, practise their traditions, follow
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      • monday
        • 22 18/19 3pm VIJAY Two bosom pals are torn apart when one cheats the other of his land and the other vows revenge.
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        • 73 18/19 10am STAR GOLD Abandoned by his mother, Raja (Dev Anand) grows up with Master, a criminal don and card-sharp. Master wants Raja to continue working with him, but Raja branches out on his own. He soon becomes rich, falls in love with beautiful Chandra Gangaram (Zaheeda) and wants to
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      • tuesday
        • 24 18/19 3pm VIJAY From Lord Parasakthi, a cowherd gains the power of words and the art of poetry and music and becomes famous.
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        • 66 18/19 4pm STAR GOLD A woman discovers that being attracted to the wrong man can have deadly consequences in this taut and tense thriller. Janvi’s (Udita Goswami) life seems ideal on the surface: She runs a thriving business and is married to Dr Adi Merchant (Shreyas Talpade), a psychiatrist. But
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      • wednesday
        • 31 18/19 3pm VIJAY Rich girl marries poor man and is ill treated by her family which leads to her mum’s death. But the mother-daughter relationship does not end there...
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        • 57 18/19 7pm STAR GOLD Rival news reporters Ajay Bakshi (Shah Rukh Khan) and Ria Bannerjee (Juhi Chawla) engage in a comic war to be the first to interview notorious M.K. Sharma (Bharat Kapoor). Then comes a tough decision to save an innocent terrorist (Paresh Rawal) from
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      • thursday
        • 30 18/19 3pm VIJAY The hero finds out that his close friend has been murdered and sets out to investigate the cause of the murder and hunt down the perpetrators.
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        • 151 18/19  -  7pm STAR GOLD Compiled by Kaur Compiled by Surendar Kaur (Programmes Anand Malhotra (Akshay Kumar), the only son of very wealthy industrialist Kailanshnath Malhotra (Rajiv Verma), is in love with Sapna Saxena (Karisma Kapoor), the only daughter of widowed school teacher Gayetri Saxena (Tanuja). His mum (Anjana Mumtaz) and
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    • Article, Illustration
      221 18/19  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1) Which country did the “House of Orange” once rule? a) Germany b) France c) Netherlands 2) Which physical feature makes the Arabian breed of horse unique? a) It has 23 vertebrae b) It has elliptical blood cells c) It has no tail 3) Meera Jain is
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  • Page 18/19 Miscellaneous
    • 323 18/19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 90 degrees from north 5 Absorbed energy measurements 9 Toyota model until 2002 14 Twelve point type size 15 Beauty cream additive 16 Prepare pizza dough 17 Golden calf, for example 18 Bend 19 Corkscrewhorned ungulate 20 Snooze 23 Absolute (Abbr.) 24 Make inquiries 25 Where charity
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    • 75 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. WHO AM I? Some people say my eyes are piercing.
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 484 20 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries Relations with your bosses will be very cordial and a promotion is possible. Businesses will be profitable. Those preparing for higher education or entrance tests may perform beyond their expectations. Taurus Your confidence will make you invincible. You will also command much respect. You will make the
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    • 35 20 SOLUTIONS crossword quiz sudoku 1) Netherlands 2) It has 23 vertebrae 3) Spider-Man 4) Elephant 5) Rod Laver 6) Silver 7) Japan 8) Honey 9) Ravi Shankar 10) Indira Gandhi who am i? Riteish Deshmukh
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  • SPORTS
    • Article, Illustration
      591 21 Olympic medallist Vijender Singh doesn’t just throw a mean punch, he’ll floor you with his killer looks too IN A country crazy about cricket, it is rare to find companies signing up any other sports personality to endorse their products. Indian boxer Vijender Singh seems to be the
      (below). PHOTOS: IANS  -  591 words
    • 339 22 Here’s what people are saying about India’s poor showing at the T20 World Cup In India... Irate fan: “Dhoni should take responsibility for the loss. India could have done well had he avoided unnecessary controversy surrounding Veeru (Virender Sehwag), which affected the team’s concentration.” Student Shweta
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    • 882 22  -  The team is still good, so is the skipper. But it’s the little things that will restore the winning ways star column Harsha Bhogle Time to reflect... like Yusuf Pathan appears to be doing during the World T20 match against England. PHOTO: REUTERS doing during T20 England.
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    • Article, Illustration
      711 23  -  Indian sports personalities like Saina Nehwal are a pleasure to interview. Now, if only some cricketers were the same FREEWHEELING Rohit Brijnath sport, rohitb@sph.com.sg Rohit Brijnath is a Senior Correspondent with The Straits Times WHEN Saina Nehwal was asked last week if she would play badminton with me,
      PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  711 words
    • 405 23  -  Local Weekend Cricket Report HEMANT KENKRE SINGAPORE Indian Association (IA) were upset by Singapore Cricket Club Lions (SCCL) in their Singapore Cricket Association (SCA) Division 1 league game played at Balestier Road. IA skipper Munish Arora took the gamble on winning the toss and decided to
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