Tabla, 28 January 2011

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  • 23 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 026/03/2010 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 2011 sph A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION
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  • Article, Illustration
    701 1  -  Singapore needs more babies. And tabla!’s correspondent SHEELA NARAYANAN is rising to the occasion. She tells you about her initial reservations and what eventually changed her mind SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg YES, that is indeed my baby bump. In 112 days I will be embarking on that journey into
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 74 1 THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY YOUNGEST INDIAN TO CLIMB MT EVEREST PAGE 4 MDIS’ COMIC BOOK HEROES PAGE 11 GETYOUR COPY OF AT 7-ELEVEN OUTLETS, INCLUDING SHELL STATIONS WHILE STOCKS LAST ACTION TIME AGAIN FOR SUNIEL SHETTY PAGE 14 DON’T WANT BABY, DESPERATELY TRYING FOR BABY, STOPPING AT ONE
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  • INDIA
    • 338 2 Military might and medical research are highlighted at Delhi’s Republic Day parade THERE were several firsts at this year’s Republic Day parade in New Delhi. The Defence Research and Development Organisation paraded the Active Phased Array Radar, which is a shipborne multi-function radar, and Naval
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    • 121 2 WHILE India celebrated its 62nd Republic Day with pomp and splendour all over the country, the day was also marked with gusto in Singapore at the Indian high commission grounds. The Indian tricolour was hoisted by India’s high commissioner to Singapore T.C.A. Raghavan (above),
      PHOTO: INDIAN HIGH COMMISSION  -  121 words
    • 502 4 17-yea r-old schoolboy Arjun Vajpai is now an author Indo-Asian News Service IN MAY last year, Arjun Vajpai at the age of 16, added a new chapter to India’s mountaineering history... he scaled Mt Everest, the highest peak in the world, becoming
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 408 3 The I.T. TV pleasures, up for grabs now! Don’t miss your chance to get exclusive deals and discounts on laptops, TVs and more hurry down to your favourite BGST Denki store today! L 32” LCD TV U.P. $699 Picture for illustration Sony KLV40BX400 Bravia engine™ 3 Intelligent picture plus 24P
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 150 4 Fun retirement lining for seniors 'A' W .s' 0 s L M M ni •r F dm 03 H 71 Tin M They say dreams are like soap bubbles; We say sometimes soap bubbles are the dream BS fl The First International Retirement Living Option in India Features Experience of
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 139 5 Green homes, G anet mi r i SE •Ge-y §81 sc: 5i N I £L m •iSXt&m&lfrf w Reflection I ECR, Chennai With every Olympia project, we try to make the planet a little greener. All projects executed by the Olympia Group are green with almost 5 million sq. ft
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  • BUSINESS
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      • 98 6 YOU may see this popular Indian budget airline in Singapore skies come this August. IndiGo said in a statement earlier this month that it has been granted permission by India’s aviation ministry to fly to Singapore, Bangkok, Dubai and Muscat. The airline currently has a
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      • 82 6 HE was dropped as the face of Pepsi in 2008 giving way to fellow cricketer M.S. Dhoni. Now, after his stellar exploits in recent months, batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has been roped in by Coca-Cola and the three-year endorsement deal is estimated to be worth
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      • 49 6 UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) is partnering India’s IndusInd Bank, to offer UOB Direct Pay, an affordable and convenient way to remit money to India from Singapore. The tie-up will enable corporate customers to send money from Singapore to over 60,000 branches of different banks across India.
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      • 77 6 INDIA and Indonesia, two of Asia’s biggest countries, signed business deals worth US$15.1 billion on Jan 25. The deals were inked during Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s visit to New Delhi. Agreements were signed by a number of key Indian companies including the Tata Group and
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      • 70 6 THAT was the message from Indian president Pratibha Patil on the eve of the country’s Republic Day. “We are expecting a growth of more than 9 per cent next year,” she said in her message and added that the country’s economic performance has
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    • 243 6 biz PROPERTY developers from India are already in town and busy giving last-minute touches to their booths in anticipation of the large turnout at the HDFC India Homes Fair this weekend. With India continuing to ride an economic boom, property sales have picked
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    • 23 6 S I N G Rs35.62 US$0.78 A$0.78 ¤0.57 £0.49 Rs45.55 A$1 ¤0.72 U S £0.62 S$1.27
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    • Article, Illustration
      414 6 Modi’s Spice i2i buys Indonesian firm and goes for rights issue SPICE i2i is joining the billionaire club. The Singapore-listed mobile Internet company with interests in mobile handsets, mobile value-added services, Internet communication and computing services achieves this distinction after its acquisition of the Indonesian Affinity Group.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 204 7 Attention NRIs and PIOs www.hdfc.com t aitk'w/ftii Im'it m u /if, m man Prime properties of India, right here in Singapore we make homes happen Venue: Exhibition Hall 402, Suntec Singapore, International Convention Exhibition Centre Dates and Timing: 29th and 30th January, 2011; Sat and Sun, 10 am-8 pm Directions:
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 378 8 SIXTEEN years ago, when Ms Kamayani Chaliki got married, both she and her husband made a decision: They were going to have just one child. The Singapore permanent resident, who hails from Hyderabad and has lived in Singapore for 12 years now, confessed that it was something
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    • 364 8 VIVACIOUS Gayathri Subash is a woman who is very clear about her choices. The 31-year-old Singaporean, who works in the financial services industry, has been married for three years now and is in no hurry to have children. She and her husband, Mr Vicknes Gunabalan, decided
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    • Article, Illustration
      117 8  -  SHEELA NARAYANAN WHILE two seems to be enough for many Indian couples in Singapore, the latest Total Fertility Rate showed that the trend in Sin- gapore was more for smaller fami- lies or not having any children at all. tabla! spoke with four families to get their perspective
      PHOTO: JAMIE KOH  -  117 words
    • 380 8 WHEN Mr Sekaran Rengiah got married last year, it felt like he was in the race of his life to have a child. Now 39, the Singaporean wants to have children as soon as possible. He said the biological clock was ticking too loud for him
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    • 378 8 EVERY time the Singarayar family heads out for a movie or a meal, the parents Elaine and Perrin inevitably are asked this question: “Are all of them yours?”Not surprising, considering the Singarayars they have six children, the eldest is 12 years old and the youngest is
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    • 181 9 PRESIDENT S.R. Nathan lit an oil lamp on Jan 22 to mark the inauguration of the restored Mahatma Gandhi Memorial building in Race Course Lane. As the name signals, the building the foundation stone was laid in 1950 by India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and
      PHOTOS: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  181 words
    • 83 9 ABOUT 10,000 devotees performed rites to honour Lord Murugan at the annual Thaipusam celebrations which kicked off on Jan 20 at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple. The devotees carried milk pots and intricate kavadis from the Serangoon Road temple to the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple in Tank Road. This
      PHOTOS: KAVINDRAN THARMALINGAM  -  83 words
    • 211 13 INDIAN nationals thinking of sinking roots in Singapore would do well to enrol their children in local schools rather than international schools. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew says in the book Hard Truths, launched on Jan 21, the Government has considered requiring young Indian nationals who
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    • Singapore news
      • 149 13 ON HIS walkabout on Jan 23 Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, the anchor minister for Marine Parade GRC, commented on the timing of the general election and said his personal preference is to have it before the presidential election, which is due by Aug
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      • 108 13 LAST week, polyclinics saw more than 20,000 patients with sore throats, the common cold, fever and diarrhoea an indication that the infections have passed the epidemic threshold and are now spreading rapidly in the community. Cases including pneumonia and bronchitis rose by 13 per cent
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      • 125 13 EACH primary and secondary student will get a one-off boost of $130 in his or her Edusave account this year. This is because the Government is pumping some $155 million into the Edusave scheme to ensure that students can continue to enjoy enrichment classes and
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    • 218 17 41% Housing loan applicants in Singapore last year were taking second or even third housing loans 51Number of babies born every minute in India, the highest in the world. In Uttar Pradesh alone, 11 babies are born every minute Rs 1,437 crores Profit made by ICICI Bank in
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    • 314 17 “There’s a saying: Leading lawyers is like herding cats. There’s only one thing harder than herding one group of cats it’s herding two groups of cats.” Rodyk Davidson managing partner Philip Jeyaretnam, on the merger of Rodyk with Helen Yeo Partners in 2002 “He was bold, upright
      PHOTOS: IANS, THE STRAITS TIMES  -  314 words

  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • PERSONALITY
    • 1062 10  -  talk PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg AS A young management executive in the 1980s, Mr Venkatraman Anantha Nageswaran had to endure a three-hour commute 11/2 hours each way to get to the Madras Refineries Limited (MRL) office from Chennai city. He normally took the company bus but occasionally hitched
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  • EDUCATION
    • 280 11 CHRONICLING his years in the Singapore labour movement during the 1960s, President S.R. Nathan launched his new book, Winning Against The Odds The Labour Research Unit In NTUC’s Founding, on Jan 25 at the NTUC Centre. He focused on the time he spent as a
      PHOTO:THE STRAITS TIMES  -  280 words
    • 449 11  -  They’re part of the team that produced homegrown comic book Salvation Sam AHNUSHKA KAUR RIAR tabla@sph.com.sg FOUR guys, a truckload of ideas and a pizza place proved to be the perfect combination for the inspiration behind Salvation Sam, a comic book that follows the story of
      PHOTO: ZAOBAO  -  449 words
    • 262 12 CAMPUS chatter from NPS International School SHREYA AGORAMURTHY, Class 8A THE last day of every term at NPS International School is celebrated with mufti in order to end the session on a happy note. All the students come dressed in their vibrant best. For the last Mufti
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 170 12 MANU MICHEL PASQUETTE, Class 1D AARRUSH MOHAN, Class 1A WE HAD great fun during an activity that we did in class. To learn about the internal organs of a human body and their exact positions, we were made to do a craft exercise. Some of the
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      • 183 12 DHANYA NAGESWARAN, Class 6A DO YOU think being a gypsy is easy? Well, with hours of practice, and a lot of effort, our little Class 3 students made the perfect gypsies during their class presentations. The show had entertaining dances, an interesting story and daring fights.
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    • 191 11 My 6 year old reads and writes with fluency, thanks to the Global Montessori Plus Programme. Ms Aarti Chidambaram Parent of Anandita Chidambaram Class 1, GIIS Balestier Campus v M ■h. > f mm i To find out more about the Global Montessori Plus Programme or to register for a
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 129 14 IF YOU haven’t yet booked your ticket for A.R. Rahman’s concert here in March, better do it soon. Presented by Base Entertainment Asia, the four-night concert by the Indian music maestro has drawn good response already and tickets are being snapped up fast. Rahman’s
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    • 731 14 At 49, Suniel Shetty is pumping iron and getting ready for an action role Indo-Asian News Service HE STARTED his career as an action hero. Then he dabbled in comedies. And eventually he turned producer. Now, Suniel Shetty is making a U-turn and going back
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    • 207 15 TALK about saving a few dollars on your wedding. Instead of sending lavish wedding cards to all their guests, Indian actors Neelam Kothari and Samir Soni (below) sent out SMS invites to their Jan 23 nuptials. “We didn’t get any wedding cards printed... thank
      PHOTO: IANS  -  207 words
    • 442 16  -  No, it’s not a massage and steam. MyFoodSpa offers a good selection of north Indian food AHNUSHKA KAUR RIAR tabla@sph.com.sg ON DAYS when things get too hectic in the office, like it did last week, I always thank the person who thought of delivery service. Last week,
      PHOTOS: MYFOODSPA  -  442 words

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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 138 17 Jj Temple of Fine Arts proudly presents art, just for the love of it aor call of the strings LL An evening of soul stirring music by Sitar Maestro Ustad Usman Khan “Music has its source in the Divine. I offer my music as a prayer, as contemplation, and meditation.
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  • RELAX
    • Article, Illustration
      560 18 / 19 KATHAKALI PERFORMANCE Bhaskar’s Arts Academy is holding a Kathakali performance called Duryodhanavadham. Tickets: $25, $30 (for priority seating) When: Jan 29, 8pm Where: NAFA Lee Foundation Theatre, Bugis Contact: 9715-2134 or log on to http://kathakali-art.blogspot.com TIME FOR CHAI Set against the backdrop of modern India with its iPhones
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  • Page 18 / 19 Miscellaneous
    • 191 18 / 19 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 2pm VIJAY: Pratap 3.30pm SONY ENT: Leader 5.30pm STAR PLUS: Rann 5.30pm STAR GOLD: Veer 9pm VASANTHAM: Palum Pazhamum 10.30pm ZEE CINEMA: Andha Kanoon Mn VTV: Akku Saturday 1pm VASANTHAM: Engal Chinna Rasa 2pm VIJAY: Saadhu 3.30pm SONY ENT: Nanhe Jaisalmer 4pm VASANTHAM: Bunty Aur Babli 5.30pm
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    • 314 18 / 19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Fashion figure 6 after my own heart” 10 About 1/28 of an ounce 14 On the double, poetically 15 double, poetically 15 fide fide (authentic) 16 Far from everyday 17 War whoops 18 Some catcalls from the stands 19 Start of a bedtime story 20 “Freeze!” 23
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    • 412 18 / 19 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries Time to evaluate your needs and formulate a good plan for your life ahead. Taurus A good time to embark on a course of study and new activities. Gemini Now is the time to talk to your boss about a promotion. Your friendliness will help you in
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    • 92 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 India was one of the richest countries
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 28 20 SOLUTIONS 1. Kidney 2. Boer War 3. Mammoth 4. Crewelwork 5. Eagle 6. Hazelnut 9. Belgian 10. Alexander Graham Bell sudoku crossword 7. Titanic 8. Flash Gordon quiz
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  • SPORTS
    • 1064 21  -  Mohinder Amarnath tamed the most fearsome pace attacks with grit and pain DR K.N. RAGHAVAN tabla@sph.com.sg Dr Raghavan is first secretary (commerce) at the Indian High Commission in Singapore and an international cricket umpire MOHINDER Amarnath is the personification of courage in Indian
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    • 785 22 / 23  -  columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg THERE is more at stake than who wins the World Cup when it presents itself before the cheering masses on the Indian sub-continent. People have begun to wonder, with a mixture of concern and excitement, whether
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    • 967 22 / 23  -  Add another weapon to tennis players’ arsenal... a sense of humour free wheeling ROHIT BRIJNATH rohitb@sph.com.sg Rohit Brijnath is a Senior Correspondent with The Straits Times ROGER Federer speaks English, German, French, Swiss German. Okay, fine, some Italian and Swedish too. It creates for him
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