Tabla, 10 August 2012

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  • 53 1 tabla! T H E H E A R T B E A T O F T H E I N D I A N C O M M U N I T Y F THE INDIAN CMMUNITY MICA (P) 062/03/2012 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2012 Sf}l A SINGAPORE
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  • Article, Illustration
    333 1  -  As the nation turns 47, four tabla! readers recall their childhood days in Singapore Patrick Jonas Frequent visitors to Singapore are often heard saying “during my last visit, this building was not there” or “this road s e e m s t o b e n e w”
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    • 143 1 NLB REACHES OUT WITH 200 ARTS, CULTURE PROGRAMMES PAGE 3 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg Catch us online at www.tabla.com.sg STATE BANK OF INDIA To India with Love Enjoy FREE* remittances to any Bank in India via SBI's multiple channels: Remit online using SBI's
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    • 29 1 F T H E I N D I A N C O M M U N I T Y CMMUNITY PERFECT WEDDING IDEAS AT BRIDAL MANTRA EXPO PAGE 14
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    • 80 1 war SINGAPORE DUBAI i ABUDHAB FIRST BEST Middle Eastern Restaurant from Dubai Now in Singaporej^^^P Lavish setting Veggie friendly options. H ANAR Restaurant, 26 Sentosa Gateway, The Resorts World Sentosa, #01-291, Singai" Ope n s~da i fy T2 -3 p m 6-1 OpriP'Www.ah For reservations, call 6884 6989 r BANANA
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  • INDIA
    • 612 2  -  Whether you call it Ramadan or Ramzaan, it still takes discipline and faith MUDAR PATHERYA in Kolkata tabla@sph.com.sg A groggy Mudar Patherya wrote this column in Kolkata on the 15th day of Ramzaan in an air-conditioned environment to the aroma of puri-sabzi coming from the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 701 3  -  The National Library Board wants to engage readers with its Arts and Culture 101 programme WRITE DIRECTION SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg For more information on the Arts and Culture 101, log on to http://golibrary.nlb.gov. sg/ YOUR local library has become more than
      PHOTOS: THANGAMEEN, FILE  -  701 words
    • 294 3 ONCE a corporate lawyer, Mrs Shamini Mahadevan Flint left her job with an international law firm in Singapore to become a full-time mum when her daughter was born 10 years ago. She also started writing the Sasha series of books, named after her daughter, about a little girl named
      PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES  -  294 words
    • 659 4  -  Early Orchard Road was an area of low-rise houses with no commercial activity... and there were floods then too SAT PAL KHATTAR IT IS inevitable to be nostalgic when thinking of our National Day. I remember when Singapore became a
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    • 766 5  -  The shophouses may be gone but Tanglin remains a charming locality PARAM AJEET SINGH BAL IHAVE fond memories of growing up in Tanglin Road. I was born in 1936 at 8 Tanglin Road, a two-storey shophouse.
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    • 733 6  -  Barefoot football near Race Course Road, muruku vendors on five-foot ways in Little India and catching fighting fish in the ditches M. BALA SUBRAMANION TALKING about Little India brings back to me nostalgic memories of my younger days, spent
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    • 880 7  -  Watching To Sir With Love six times at the Naval Base cinema is also a happy memory G. NARAYANAN WHEN my family moved to Singapore from Malacca during World War II,
      PHOTOS COURTESY OF G. NARAYANAN  -  880 words
    • 320 8 / 9 LAST month, United Overseas Bank (UOB) introduced a home loan that spans half a century likely the long-est-term loan available here. Among other banks, loans range from an average of 20 to 40 years. UOB said it introduced this longer loan duration as more customers
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    • 105 8 / 9 for nine-year-old Timothy Lee (right), Aug 5 was a happy day. In what was the budding artist’s third attempt in the Istana On-the-Spot art competition, his entry was judged the best in the category for participants aged seven to 12. He
      PHOTO:THE STRAITS TIMES  -  105 words
    • Singapore snippets
      • 114 8 / 9 THERE is no society where all children start off at the same level. That is why more must be done to level opportunities for young children in Singapore, says Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. There is an urgent need to “intervene early, intervene upstream, not
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      • 117 8 / 9 THE Sikh community in Singapore has urged Sikhs all over the world to implement a rational and relevant response to the killing of six Sikhs in a Wisconsin temple by a lone gunman who was shot dead by the police on Aug 5. It wants
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      • 91 8 / 9 THE Government is reining in the speed at which the taxi population has been growing in recent years. The Land Transport Authority said Singapore’s taxi fleet, which it has grown by more than 40 per cent to about 28,000 since the industry was
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      • 75 8 / 9 THE first 90 Singapore-Industry Scholarship awards were given out under a new programme in which the Government will pay part of the cost for undergraduate studies at local universities and the Singapore Institute of Technology. The Government has joined hands with 27 private-sector companies
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      • 85 8 / 9 THE number of working nurses above the age of 60 has risen 96 per cent, from 699 in 2007 to 1,371 last year a boon for hospitals, which can tap their skills and experience to help ease a manpower crunch. The increase is more dramatic
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    • 279 8 / 9 THE aim is to make arts and culture part of everyday life for all. To this end, several new plans are being rolled out to put the “art” in Singapore’s heartland. Among them are a community museum in Taman Jurong, a Silver Arts festival for
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    • 89 10 20,000 HDB flats to be offered to Singaporeans next year 70Percentage of children in India under the age of 15 who suffer from gum problems according to a survey by the India Dental Association 1.5 lakhs Tonnes of wheat India will be sending to Afghanistan via Pakistan 2,738
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    • 260 10 “That’s where, as a community, I’d suggest sometimes be a bit more ‘kay poh’. When you talk to people, you actually find out a lot of things which we may not realise.” Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin on identifying families in need early and helping them “We
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    • 294 13 Majority of us don’t bother to do so often enough THE verdict is in... Singaporeans don’t have good cyber hygiene. A poll of 346 people by Assurity Trusted Solutions (A S), a subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), showed that 60 per
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    • 147 8 / 9 Happy 47 th Birthday, SINGAPORE m w a &r- i S®^ J- V lit] I ll!4» sout^^od^' more r nd \an Chinese, Calcutta Chat Tan d0 o “Variety is the spice of Uf e Authentic cuisine re sh Juices, ice-creams, Asaravanaa bhavan WORLD’S NO. 1 INDIAN VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT CHAIN Opp.
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  • EDUCATION
    • 597 11 Storytelling sessions and movies are being used to bridge the gap between students of varying financial backgrounds in Delhi Indo-Asian News Service T IS 9am on a Saturday. A group of nearly 100 schoolchildren I aged five to 16 is waiting at the gates
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    • 409 12  -  There’s more to school than homework and exams. That’s why tabla! has this page for students of three Indian schools here to play reporter and photographer (This page is rotated among the schools. Next week, NPS) ROHAN RAJESH, Class 5B VIDHITA PAI, Class 5C FOR
      PHOTOS: GIIS  -  409 words
    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 278 12  -  SRIRAM SIVAKUMAR, Class IB Yr 2 THE IEEE (Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineers) NTU Science Symposium is an annual event aimed at encouraging the spirit of research and innovation among the junior college and polytechnic students of Singapore. For the first part, at a boot camp
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      • 202 12  -  MADHAV PRAMOD, Class 5C SHRUTHI VENKATESH, Class 5B ON JULY 14, the GIIS Balestier campus water conservation team was on a special task visit to the HDB apartments in the school’s neighbourhood. We were briefed by PUB official Shen Hai Xi about the use
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    • 253 11 c* GLOBAL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (GSF) WISHES SINGAPORE A HAPPY 47TH BIRTHDAY "GIIS has brought out the best in our sons, complementing their academic progress with sports excellence." Wayne and Sharon Menezes I Parents of Brad, Class 10IGCSE and Marc, Class 5, 5 GIIS East Coast Campus Hoi 2 Testimonial) £^9
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    • 96 13 DPS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Torch (Bearers in the (Field cfEducation... Little People, Giant Steps, Learning the values of democracy, pluralism and diversity 5! k/ Si It Admissions Open for Classes Nursery to Grade 12 for the Academic Year 2012-2013 An education for the heart Soul an education for the mind body,
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • Article, Illustration
      347 14  -  Exciting fashion show kicks off bridal fair Sheela Narayanan BRIDES-TO-BE who are planning that “perfect” wedding had a plethora of choices at their feet when The Hindu Group held its two-day exhibition, Bridal Mantra, on Aug 4 and 5 at the Marina Bay Sands. This is the first
      PHOTOS: SHEELA NARAYANAN, THE HINDU GROUP  -  347 words
    • 211 15 THE seed was sown over three years ago and it took some time to germinate but it did so very successfully last month. The academic collaboration between SIFAS and Chennai’s Kartik Fine Arts (KFA) for the development and promotion of young artistes commenced with a two-day
      . PHOTO: SIFAS  -  211 words
    • 347 15  -  SARITA ALURKAR-SRIRAM tabla@sph.com.sg AUG 5 was a landmark day for Indian classical music in Singapore: That was when the TAG Digital Music Archives, a digital music library, was inaugurated at the Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society (SIFAS) Auditorium by former president S.R. Nathan (below
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    • 134 15 A J m fP Manager of Rumours Launched in 2008 by Anbalagan, Rumours has since grown into the entertainment spot for those in search for Indian music.Rumours, located at Concorde Hotel, prides itself in providing a quality alternative to nightlife for many. In April 2012, the team behind Rumours are
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 196 16 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 3.30pm STAR PLUS: The Legend Of Bhagat Singh 3.30pm SONY ENT: Joru Ka Ghulam 5pm STAR GOLD: Guzaarish 10pm ZEE CINEMA: Dhol Mn VTV: Mayakkam Enna Saturday 1pm VASANTHAM: Adimai Penn 3.15pm STAR GOLD: Dostana 3.30pm SONY ENT: Singh Is Kinng 4pm VASANTHAM: Agneepath (below, starring Hrithik
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  • RELAX
    • Article, Illustration
      379 17 FILM DANCE A screening of Lasya Kavya starring bharatnatyam dancer Alarmel Valli will be followed by her solo bharatanatyam dance recital. Tickets: $50, $25 When: Aug 10, 7pm Where: Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel Contact: 6299-5929 ext 111 WORKSHOPS Acting and dance workshops by Actor Prepares Theatrix. Children: 6
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    • Article, Illustration
      207 17  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Which of these films by Walt Disney premiered in 1937? a) Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs b) Cinderella c) Hansel And Gretel: An Opera Fantasy 2. Methuselah, estimated to be over 4,800 years old, is a type of... a) Bamboo b) Banyan c) Pine 3.
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    • 40 17 PROPERTY EXHIBITION Property Magazine’s Indian Property Show showcases developers from all over India. Free admission. When: Aug 11 12, 10am to 7pm Where: Raffles City Convention Centre, Level 4, 80 Bras Basah Road Contact: 9144-9622
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 342 17 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Get-off-drugs facility 6 Computer programming language 11 D.C. clock setting 14 Looking shocked 15 Analyse grammatically 16 Wonder 17 State bordering Canada 19 “Get the point?” 20 Reed in music 21 Sheep in its second year 22 Perfect score, sometimes 23 Buffalo’s home 27 Too proud 29
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    • 50 17 SUDOKU G For solutions, turn to next page. Now, now, don’t cheat 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 uniquedigits going across and down over the large grid.
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    • 33 18 1. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs 2. Pine 3. Walking 4. AIDS 5. The United States 6. Quidditch teams 7. Ursa Minor 8. Arabs 9. Sword 10. Pangolins SOLUTIONS sudoku quiz crossword
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  • FOOD
    • 460 19  -  Singaporeans of all races flock to Dempsey for the fish head curry SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg RECENTLY I discovered that my Aussie husband, after being on this island for the last 11 years, had not been to Samy’s Curry. So, before the local foodie “police” hunted
      PHOTOS: JAMIE KOH, SHEELA NARAYANAN  -  460 words
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  • MOTORING
    • 502 20  -  Stamford Tyres launches latest Falken tyre with drift drives PRADEEP PAUL pradeep@sph.com.sg I’VE been in cars that hit top speeds of 300kmh-plus. I’ve been in cars that clamber over boulders the size of small refrigerators and cross rivers deep enough to swim in. And now I’ve been in
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  • SPORTS
    • 858 21  -  Both are needed, as Usain Bolt showed at the Olympics. Can Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli do the same? columnstar HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sgh.com.sg BEYOND the extraordinary race they provided us, Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake force us to revisit the eternal debate between natural ability and hard
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