Tabla, 26 February 2016

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  • 22 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY Sfftl A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26,2016 MCI (P) 017/11/2015
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  • Article, Illustration
    1502 1  -  He runs a home in Chennai for children with HIV. Three fourth-year medical students from NUS Elampirai Elangovan, Nadia Sim and Yang Kaymond made several visits to this home. In this report they describe their experiences and talk about the man behind the home ELAMPIRAI ELANGOVAN, NADIA SIM,
    PHOTO COURTESY OF ELAMPIRAI ELANGOVAN, NADIA SIM & YANG KAYMOND; PHOTOS COURTESY OF ELAMPIRAI ELANGOVAN, NADIA SIM, YANG KAYMOND, MADELINE NGAI, SOLOMON RAJ  -  1,502 words
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    • 61 1 ASIA CUP: REHEARSAL FOR T20 WORLD CUP PAGE 23 VIJIARATNAM: MAN WITH MANY HATS PAGE 7 M: S S’PORE PILOT CHANGING LIVES IN RURAL BENGAL PAGE 6 KERALA WOMEN IN GREEN REVOLUTION PAGES 4 5 Get tabla! delivered to your doorstep for $24 a year. Call 6319-1800 or e-mail circs@sph.com.sg
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    • 12 1 BAAHUBALI IN GRAPHIC NOVELS, COMICS PAGE 17 REPORT ON PAGES 12 13
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  • INDIA
    • India in 2 minutes
      • 104 2 TOURISM minister Mahesh Sharma has launched the Swachh Paryatan Mobile App so that people visiting monuments in India can lodge a complaint about garbage in and around these tourist spots. Currently, people can use the app for 25 heritage monuments in India. A senior
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      • 99 2 THE West Bengal government is going to set up a pet crematorium in New Town, Kolkata, so that pet lovers can give their pets a proper farewell. The Hindustan Times reported that state-run Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (HIDCO) will build the crematorium and a non-governmental organisation
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      • 115 2 CARETAKERS at Alipore Zoo in Kolkata noticed that the only white tigress there, Roopa, was not eating well and becoming restless. So zoo authorities decided to bring in another tiger to keep her company. “Rishi from Nandankanan Zoo in Odisha is going to be Roopa’s partner.
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      • 87 2 A YEAR ago, the Women and Child Development department (WCD) in Madhya Pradesh came up with a Miss Haemoglobin title contest to eradicate anaemia in teenage girls in rural areas. Under this initiative, the “most beautiful” girls are those who show an improvement in
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      • 98 2 MICROSOFT CEO Satya Nadella will appear in the textbooks of high school students in Andhra Pradesh from June. The textbook, which is in Telugu, will be used during the lesson “Spoorthi Pradaathulu” which refers to Role Models. It will be
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      • 104 2 IN HIS address during the joint sitting of the two houses of parliament marking the commencement of the Budget session, Indian president Pranab Mukherjee said the government will allow women in all fighting streams of the armed forces. The Indian Navy is planning
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      • 84 2 A VILLAGE in the Mehsana district in Gujarat has banned girls below the age of 18 from using or owning a mobile phone as it distracts them from their studies and makes them vulnerable to harassment. They are allowed to use only their
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      • 80 2 TAMIL Nadu’s chief minister J. Jayalalithaa announced that senior citizens over the age of 60 can travel for free on government-run buses. They can apply for 10 tokens at designated bus depots every month and they can use the tokens for the free rides.
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    • 504 3 Police denied entry to arrest student leaders Indo-Asian News Service IN THE dead of a cold February night, they grew apprehensive, if not scared, and whispered in hushed tones that the police may enter the moonlit campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The university
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    • 1260 4/5  -  Kudumbashree, an all-women collective, is bringing about a green revolution in Kerala AJITHA MENON Women’s Feature Service THE Naivedyam, or food offering made during different prayers and rituals, for Lord Krishna at the Guruvayoor temple in Thrissur district of Kerala, includes about 1,200 bananas
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Face in the Crowd
      • 850 6  -  Singaporean pilot and wife build toilets, set up clinics and sponsor students’ education PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg PATRICK JONAS IN THE summer of 2000, a young Singaporean pilot and his wife were pushing their one-year-old son in a pram through a Kolkata street. They came upon
        PHOTOS COURTESY OF INDRANIL RAY CHAUDHURY  -  850 words
    • 555 7 Dr A. Vijiaratnam, former Tamil Murasu chairman, dies at 94 HE WAS a man who wore many hats a sportsman who represented Singapore in football, hockey, rugby and cricket, an engineer who performed very well and a dedicated public service officer. He was also the chairman
      PHOTOS: TAMIL MURASU, THE STRAITS TIMES, COURTESY OF ARUMUGAM VIJIARATNAM  -  555 words
    • 226 7 DEPUTY Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam attended Dr A. Vijiaratnam’s wake (above) and spoke highly of the late pioneer. He told Tamil Murasu: “Dr Vijiaratnam’s accomplishments are well known in sports, as an engineer, as a community leader and as an outstanding citizen of Singapore. I think
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    • 120 11 $10 The equivalent of 500 rupees that an Indian company Ringing Bells, is charging for a smartphone 165,853 Calls for emergency medical services received by Singapore Civil Defence Force last year Rs10 crores Sanctioned for setting up three medical colleges in Himachal Pradesh 2,097 Total convicted penal admissions
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    • 355 11 “This is the Year of the Monkey. The monkey is always thinking of new things to do find a higher branch to climb, another fruit to pluck. I think we should be like that too. If we are like that, then we will have a bright future.”
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    • singapore snippets
      • 109 14 / 15 THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) has launched 4,170 flats in the first Build-to-Order (BTO) exercise of 2016. The crop of flats are from three new projects: West Plains Bukit Batok, Alkaff Oasis in Toa Payoh’s Bidadari and Anchorvale Plains in Sengkang. A total of
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      • 87 14 / 15 SINGAPORE’S rat problem is showing no signs of letting up. About 6,700 complaints were received by the National Environment Agency (NEA) last year, up from around about 4,000 in 2014. The number of food outlet inspections also rose from around 140,000 in 2014 to about 148,000
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      • 79 14 / 15 THE Competition Commission has found no evidence of price collusion between petroleum companies, though they monitor and react to each other’s published prices. In a study of price movements from Jan 1, 2010 to Jan 31 this year, the commission found that for every 10-cent change
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      • 84 14 / 15 THE number of dengue cases spiked by more than 40 per cent last week, raising fears that the virus could reach record levels this year. After three consecutive weeks of decline, there were 594 reported cases between Feb 14 and 20, 175 more than in
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      • 65 14 / 15 THE Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) will open its Corruption Reporting Centre in December at what is now the Whitley Neighbourhood Police Post. The new centre, at 247 Whitley Road, is “centrally located and near the Stevens MRT station, making it more convenient
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    • 362 14 / 15 SINGAPORE’S economic prospects have softened since the start of this year amid a sharp fall in oil prices and global financial market volatility, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said on Feb 24. However, it reiterated an earlier forecast for growth to come
      PHOTOS: THE STRAITS TIMES, THE NEW PAPER  -  362 words
    • 178 14 / 15 Gujarati Society is 60... the Singapore Gujarati Society (SGS) celebrated its 60th anniversary at the Singapore Polytechnic Auditorium on Feb 20. Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies Tharman Shanmugaratnam was the guest of honour. During the event, two cheques, each $11,060,
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    • 181 14 / 15 DEPUTY Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean (above with Third Sergeant Chia Yong Guan, a 38-year-old security trooper) visited citizen soldiers deployed to patrol Jurong Island, the main location for the country’s petrochemical industry, on Feb 22. During the visit Mr Teo said even though
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    • 294 14 / 15 FORTY-ONE people have applied to be Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) this year, more than the 36 who threw their hats into the ring at the last round in 2014. Parliament gave the final tally on Feb 23, the closing day of a three-week-long
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  • EDUCATION
    • 638 8  -  Neil Mehta and Suchet Bhasin have an app to help you find one AMRITA KAUR amritak@sph.com.sg THEY do not own a car. Yet Neil Mehta and Suchet Bhasin, the founders of SurePark, aim to ease the parking woes of those who do. Their smartphone app, which
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    • 441 9  -  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, GIIS) MADHUMITHA VENKATESAN, Class 10 IGCSE ON JAN 22, Classes
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • Article, Illustration
        178 9  -  TANISHA SEHGAL, Class 11 A Level OUR kindergarteners welcomed Feb 10 with great enthusiasm as it was Recitation Day. All the young ones were able to not only showcase their recitation skills but also dress up as their favourite nursery rhyme character. Tejas Tyagi (right) of Class
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      • 180 9  -  RITWIJ TYAGI, Class 7B THE Language Quiz organised during Literary Week was aimed at integrating literature and language learning as our language skills complement our ability to analyse and interpret literary texts. The quiz not only put to the test the linguistic ability of
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    • 850 10  -  The international private school is looking ahead and expects an intake of over 600 this year AMRITA KAUR amritak@sph.com.sg IN ONE year, GEMS World Academy (Singapore) has doubled its enrolment to over 400. That’s what head of education at GEMS World Academy (Singapore)
      PHOTOS: GEMS WORLD ACADEMY (SINGAPORE)  -  850 words
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    • 170 8 “Guidance and encouragement from teachers at GIIS has made schooling an enjoyable experience for my daughter.” Ms Suryasikha Patel Parent of Sanhita Mitra (Class 1) Student of GIIS Balestier Campus (2015 Testimonial) 4 v- r i 1 'ill Every parent’s dream is to see their child grow to become smart,
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  • NEWS
    • 394 12 / 13 ALTHOUGH treatment for HIV (i.e. antiretroviral therapy) is subsidised by the Indian government, Shelter Home requires out-of-pocket expenses for other medical treatment. As the children have compromised immune systems, infections are common and these medical expenses periodically exceed the stipulated funding set aside by
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    • 63 16 BLOOMBERG View Asia editor Nisid Hajari, based in Singapore, recently clinched the Colby Award for his book Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy Of India’s Partition. The award is given by Norwich University to a first-time author in recognition of a work that has made a
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    • 173 16 IN A nod to the growing power of Indian regional languages, Penguin Random House in India has announced a new co-publishing partnership for local language translation with Manjul Publishing House. Under the partnership with Manjul Publishing, Penguin Random House said
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    • 270 16 SOME authors have such compelling stories to tell of their own life and their romance with language and writing that you get awestruck by the breadth of their life experience. Mr Thobias Appolon Pereira, born in 1927 in Kerala, is one
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    • 165 16 THE Indian Women’s Association (IWA) in Singapore recently organised a literary event. This group of over 250 includes Indian expats who do community work through events, activities and providing scholarships to students. They run a book club, an entrepreneur club and fitness and
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    • tabla! reads
      • 221 16  -  ZAFAR ANJUM tabla@sph.com.sg THIS month, South Asia lost two great literary figures: Intizar Hussain and Nida Fazli. India-born Hussain was a leading Urdu writer. He died on Feb 2, aged 92. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2013, UK’s The Guardian remembered
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 567 17 Blockbuster set to be released as graphic novels, games and animated series Indo-Asian News Service EVER wondered what the formative years of characters Baahubali and Bhallala Deva were like or who their best friends were? Film-mak-er S.S. Rajamouli promises answers to many such questions as Baahubali (right),
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    • 406 17 Indo-Asian News Service KNOWN mostly for her bubbly and glamorous avatars on television, actress Anasuya Bharadwaj (right) hopes to impress audiences in her role of a gun-toting police officer in upcoming Telugu thriller Kshanam. “My role in Kshanam is very different from how I’ve been accepted
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    • 455 18 You don’t need to understand it, says Santoor musician Rahul Sharma Indo-Asian News Service HE FOLLOWED in his father’s footsteps in taking Indian classical music to the world stage with his santoor and even added a foreign flavour by blending the country’s folk music with
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    • 705 18 Indo-Asian News Service THE charming looks of Sidharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan can’t be ignored while watching the ups and downs of the Kapoor family in the re-cently-unveiled trailer of Kapoor Sons. But it’s also the upbeat 2014 hit party track Chull that keeps the
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    • mirch masala
      • 121 19 KANNADA actress Mythriya Gowda (right) will be making her Bollywood debut with upcoming Hindi-Tamil horror bilingual Shraap. Mythriya told IANS: “I’m proud to be entering Bollywood after a decade of struggle. It’s an honour to be part of the best team and I
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      • 215 19 VETERAN film-maker Mahesh Bhatt is proud and happy about the journey of his daughter Alia (below) in the world of showbiz. As Alia went into nostalgic mode with her film Highway clocking two years since its release on Feb 21 by tweeting how
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      • 173 19 NATIONAL Award-winning Malayalam film Ottaal (above), which tells the story of an old fisherman and his grandson, was named the Best Film by children’s jury at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, and has been honoured with the Crystal Bear award in
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      • 154 19 ACTOR Ranveer Singh (right) believes that style is an expression and that people should express themselves without any filters. “Style is an expression. It is how you express yourself, about your feelings. So, I think people should express themselves without any filters. I
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      • 266 19 ACTOR Akkineni Nagarjuna (top right), who plays a quadriplegic bound to a wheelchair in upcoming Tamil-Telugu bilingual Oopiri, says the role took a heavy toll on him as it required him to sit in one place and emote. “An assistant director was appointed just to
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      • 212 19 MADHUBALA Ek Ishq Ek Junoon star Vivian Dsena (below) says he likes to experiment with different roles, and looks forward to doing “anything new”. The former Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Reloaded contestant has joined the stunt-based reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi Kabhi Peeda Kabhi
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  • RELAX
    • 401 20 Indo-Asian News Service BEING brave and experimental is Prachi Desai’s fashion mantra. The actress says she has come out of her “play safe” mode and she now likes to experiment more when it comes to her style. “I like to experiment. I think I have
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    • 458 21 FESTIVAL Dahlia Dreams floral display Gardens by the Bay ushers in the Year of the Monkey with a floral display inspired by the Chinese classical tale, Journey To The West. Look out for monkey-shaped topiaries in a cavern, among other surprises. When: Till Feb 28, 9am to 9pm
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    • 56 21 PLAY Vikraman a play based on the well-known Tamil novel Paarthiban Kanavu. It revolves around Vikraman, son of Chola King Parthiban, who attempts to attain independence from the Pallavar King Narasimhavarman. Tickets: $20 and $18 (for students) When: Feb 26 27, 7pm Where: Goodman Arts
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    • Article, Illustration
      191 21  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1. Which planet was first visited by Pioneer 11 in 1979? a) Jupiter b) Mercury c) Venus 2. Who directed the 1982 film Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley? a) Brian Gilbert b) Woody Allen c) Richard Attenborough 3. Which bird lays the largest egg? a) Peacock b) Ostrich
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 302 20 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries Your uncompromising attitude towards life enthuses the people you come into contact with, especially those you care about most, who appreciate your dedication. Taurus You may become more aware of who your true friends are when you receive help unexpectedly from them. You’re working especially well with
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    • 215 20 TV HIGHLIGHTS friday 3pm LIFE OK: Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola 4.30pm SONY ENT: Shuddh Desi Romance 9pm SONY MAX: Mere Brother Ki Dulhan 9.15pm STAR GOLD: Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hain 9.30pm VASANTHAM: Dass 10pm ZEE CINEMA: Haider Mn VTV: Vaikasi Porandhachu Saturday 11.30am COLORS: Gori Tere Pyaar
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
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  • 287 22 Indo-Asian News Service ACTRESS Sonam Kapoor (below) is being flooded with words of appreciation for her role in Neerja as Neerja Bhanot, who lost her life while saving others on a hijacked flight. Classmates of the late air hostess have also
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  • SPORTS
    • 300 23 COME March 8 cricket lovers the world over will head for their TV sets as the ICC World T20 starts on that day in India. In a build-up to the tournament, MoneyGram, an official sponsor of the tournament, gave fans in Singapore a
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    • star column
      • 781 23  -  All four big teams have a chance to lift the Asia Cup being played in Bangladesh HARSHA BHOGLE tabla@sph.com.sg WITH the World T20 upon us in the now appropriated home of T20 cricket, the Asia Cup could serve as an opportunity for the teams involved
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