Development could change agenda in virgin Tharpakar

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Deflowering a desert

Hasan believes that Pathan workers from Hazara, Mansehra, Kohat and Bannu will be employed by entrepreneurs for coal mining. He pointed out that Christian and Ahmedi missionaries are already there and with development, Muslim missionaries will turn to Tharparkar. “With road network granite mining will become easy and lucrative,'' says Hasan.

Tharparkar boasts of a lot of heritage. So far, it has been well protected because there are no roads. But with bustling development and a road network, tourists have started coming to the desert and land is already being sold along the roads. “If zoning bylaws are not made, entire Thar, especially its heritage will be ruined,” warns Hasan. According to him, people are already walking away from archeological sites for constructing their homes.

The Nagarparkar Taluka - with a 57.03 Hindu population in 2008 - is different from the rest of the desert. ``It contains scenic granite mountains, exquisite heritage sites, unexcavated archaeological remains, beautiful folk and vernacular architecture, places of Hindu pilgrimage and rituals, and sites of Sindhi folklore. The rich heritage and scenic sites, along with a tolerant multi-religious culture, has been protected in a fossilized manner due to the inaccessibility of the Taluka. Until recently (2004), there was no proper road into the Taluka settlements. Fossilization has also meant deterioration in the built-environment, heritage sites and in socio-economic terms,” Hasan said.

Local population naturally harbours fears. “Coal mining will destroy our agricultural land and our environment. There is electricity at half a mile from our village where experiments for coal mining have been conducted by the Chinese and Pakistani geologists, but there is no electricity here,” said Nazir Ahmed, a shopkeeper in Thario Halephota village.

Haji Qayyum, 65, Pesh Imam in the village mosque is bitter: “I have never witnessed any Hindu-Muslim riots in Tharparkar in my life. But when labour will come from outside there will be in-fight over wages,” he said. A real cause of worry in an ocean of tranqulity so far.


Shahid Husain


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First, former chief minister and BJP’s Jamshedpur candidate, Arjun Munda, hit cyberspace with his glittering profile,

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This is a virtual war!

Arjun Munda & Subodh K Sahay : Jharkhand

In Jharkhand there's a virtual war going on – a website war! First, former chief minister and BJP’s Jamshedpur candidate, Arjun Munda, hit cyberspace with his glittering profile, achievements, aspirations and what not. Then came Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay, the Congress candidate from Ranchi, who took this up as a challenge in a bid to oubid the savvy Munda. But if life is a bed of roses just now, it is only for the state's web designers, who are suddenly in great demand. Surely if no one else votes for the two, they certainly will! Any more takers Mr Munda and Mr Sahay?


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UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN...

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KABIR BEDI SHARES WITH TSI HIS HOLIDAYING EXPERIENCES IN THE PLACE HE IS MORE FAMOUS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE – ITALY!

One doesn’t have to think much to travel around Europe. Just rent a car, go online and do some good research and one is sure to fi nd great deals. Toward the north of Rome is a place called Tuscany, which is one of the most beautiful places in Italy. If you’re driving, it really doesn’t matter where you go because you’ll always be driving through the most beautiful medieval villages and picturesque bounds with lots of character. In Tuscany, my friend and I had chosen to go to a place called Saturnia, which has the most fabulous natural hot springs pouring down like a water fall and almost running down like a river. One can just sit there or even bathe. It’s also therapeutic and is a wonderful experience. One can visit this place at any time of the year.

In such regions, there are lovely guest houses, and agro-tourism is one of its attractions. Th ere were plenty of beautiful and inexpensive places to stay there. We stayed in a beautiful guest house, which was done up well and was surprisingly cheap. It was located right next to the vineyard and was beautiful.

It is called Aqua-viva, which is a private vineyard. And the nearest town from there is Grosseto, which is also like these towns built on a hill with a medieval character. It’s like a historical landscape around the countryside. One could just go and enjoy at the hot springs there for as long as one wants. I don’t clearly remember the cost of the stay but I think it was about $100-150 a day, and that too for the deluxe accommodation in that area. It had all facilities like hot water etc., and it was in an exquisite location. One can also easily fi nd medieval style of guest houses for $30-40.

Th en there were these Italian restaurants everywhere. Th e food was delicious and at reasonable prices. It was really one of the greatest pleasures in the world. All I remember doing is drinking a lot of wine at the restaurants dotting the road. I am fairly well-known in Italy.

So, even while I was on a vacation and wanted to be on my own, when I went out during the day, I had to be nice to everybody and get pictures clicked with the people around. However, I also managed to have my own private time and the trip did turn out to be a magical experience since I mainly chose to be out in the middle of the night when there were hardly any locals, to get my own private magical time. Now about India, I love the Himalayas. Goa is also a beautiful place. A budget vacation in Goa is absolutely possible. One could go to the north of Calangute, to the Anjuna beach or go to Morjim or to the Montego Bay Beach Village Resort.

Here, rooms are available at about Rs 2000-3000 per day.

Th ere are also hundreds of little restaurants and it is a perfect place to go for a lowcost holiday. When I go to Goa, I just like to bathe in the sea.

Th e best memory I have in Goa is of an exciting parasailing experience!

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Barring Tamil Nadu and Andhra, why film stars usually fail in politics...

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Celluloid Pied Pipers

On the face of it, there is no doubt that film stars project their charisma and popularity even onto the electoral arena. In fact, if you look at the South, four people intimately involved with movies have become chief ministers. They are MGR, Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu and NTR in Andhra Pradesh. And don’t be surprised if the Telugu super star Chiranjeevi joins that list in the near future. If Indian democracy can be called a functional anarchy, then surely this breed can be called pseudo Pied Pipers!

Many pundits also contend that this habit of film stars winning effortlessly is a reflection of how immature our democracy still is; that it reveals how voters get swayed more by fantasy than reality. To an extent, this is true. But as a lawyer might argue, it is not the whole truth! Barring the late Sunil Dutt, no personality from Bollywood has commanded stature, respect and recognition as a ‘serious’ politician. Amitabh quit politics in disgust; Rajesh Khanna faded away, as did the TV stars who acted in the serials Mahabharata and Ramayana. Govinda seems to have gone back to David Dhawan, and there are posters in Bikaner that announce an ‘award’ for missing local MP Dharmendra. And we all know what the Supreme Court did with the dreams of Sunjay Dutt.

Remember that dictum about how you can't fool all the people all the time? Well something similar has happened with the other gods in the Indian celebrity pantheon – star cricketers. Read this interesting package for celebrities’ incongruous, and often unsuccessful, love affair with electoral politics.


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Pathiramanal - Bliss afloat

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If Kerala is God’s own country, Pathiramanal must be His private lair.

An island – but not off the mainland – Pathiramanal is a holidayer’s floating paradise in the middle of the lush backwaters called Vembanadu Lake, the largest among 20 lakes in Kerala. The blue awning above, and endless green arches of vegetation and softly gurgling waters around you, here is Ayurveda for the soul!

Home to more than 90 local and 50 migratory bird species, Pathiramanal – meaning sands of the night – is a cornucopia of biodiversity. With access possible only by boat, you would have left the rush hour and the expressways light years behind. Visitors can drift over the vast Lake in motor boats, or speedboats, or even houseboats with five-star luxury facilities (not for the budget travellers, though!) Incidentally, a bid by big tourist and resort operators to occupy this scenic property was thwarted, thanks to vehement protests by environmentalists. Devoid of the trappings of commercialisation that have ravaged many a lovely locale, the island remains as exquisite as creation must have originally conjured it. The Muhamma Grama Panchayat however – under whose jurisdiction is the island – is planning a bio-park, a butterfly park, bird-watching facility and an aquarium with the help of the central and state governments.

While the myriad flora and fauna are a naturalist’s delight, the canals around Pathiramanal complete the picture of romantic idyll. There is sweet water to be found on the island, even though the Lake itself is salty! While other favourite tourist haunts like the Kumarakam bird sanctuary at Kottayam, the Mattanchery beach and the ancient Jewish Synagogue are close at hand, yet this Edenesque island is not some place you’d wish to leave soon...

Kavalam Sasikumar


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It’s about meeting people.. The financial aspect has ruined much of tourism…

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RYP on whether you’d be sorry or safe with…

Touts

There is a rule of thumb – never deal with people who approach you; always approach people yourself. What I’ve found is that if you deal with a stranger at an airport or a bus station, you say, ‘excuse me, could you recommend a hotel’ or ‘could you tell me how much a taxi should cost’, you could never be steered wrong… Touts walk up to you with a book full of pictures and cards and they make their money by taking your money, and that’s not what it’s about. It’s about meeting people.. The financial aspect has ruined much of tourism…

Taxis

Taxis are horrible, though I shouldn’t say that for I’ve met many good taxi drivers, but once again, the tourism industry has to get your money, and get you out of there as quickly as possible, and get on to the next one…

Always spend your first night in a hotel, so you get rested up etc. But call the hotel and ask them how you should get from the airport; don’t just show up, and jump into a taxi. That’s when you’re most vulnerable, when you get off the plane and you have all your possessions with you.

Water

That’s simple: you should never drink water; you should drink beer! (laughs)

Lot of people drink bottled water, because they think it’s safe, but all that is done is fill up these plastic bottles and seal the caps back on... I’ve a very interesting thing – I’ve a small filtration canteen, with a built in ceramic filter, and therefore I could take my water from anywhere, for brushing, drinking etc…

Homestays

I like them because you can get a much better feel about a country; you can talk politics and understand what’s going on, instead of just talking to a waiter, or a bellman…. Carrying weapons for self-defence?

You cannot be aggressive in foreign country. Let’s say five men attack you, and you stab one of them; within 30 seconds, you’ve become the aggressor and the other person, the victim. The neighbours then come around and say, ‘you beat up the poor man!’ It’s happened to me in Africa. People tried to rob me and I thumped one of them and people questioned me. He actually didn’t get to steal anything, so it looks like I just walked up to him and started beating him up!

It’s not advisable to carry a knife or an identifiable weapon, but I do recommend carrying objects or devices that can hurt, but if you’re searched by the police, they don’t look like weapons. For example, I always carry a Mont Blanc pen refill, which is a thin sharp metal weapon.


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Satyam scam: Nationalise and own

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Even American economists now say government must own bailed out companies

Dr Rajendra Sachar

Chief Justice (Retd.) Delhi High Court

The Satyam scandal, which has been described by our Prime Minister as a “blot on our corporate image”, gets murkier every day. The larger question is, when a private management has indisputably defrauded and cheated the company, is the effort of the government to bail it out by pumping money into it the correct response? More especially, can this be done ignoring the mandate of Article 39 of the Constitution? The Article says that the state shall direct its policy towards securing that the operation of the economic system does not result in the concentration of wealth and means of production to the common detriment. The government is trying to find an alternative private investor who would be given favourable terms, including bank facilities, to run it. The persistent query from the poor is, why should the Centre hesitate to follow the path of nationalisation, which it did in 1974 when private managements squandered many prosperous textile mills?

On the contrary, by nationalising Satyam, the state can generate confidence in foreign buyers and suppliers on the prospect of Satyam’s revival. And takeover will not be prohibitively costly. It can be done by following the legally accepted principle of paying compensation to the existing shareholders on the net worth of Satyam, which in accountancy terms means paid-up capital plus free reserves. It is no secret that currently the net worth of Satyam is minimal. Though one may fully sympathise with some innocent small shareholders, but in free enterprise and a speculative economy, they must take the bad along with the good.

By virtue of nationalisation, every liability (other than the liability specifically accepted by Central government) will only be that of the old company and shall be enforceable against them, that is, the Raju family.

State takeover is not revolutionary. It has been successful in the past. The benefit will be that immediately after takeover, Satyam will be discharged from any obligation of mortgage and all other encumbrances created by old management, with the result that all attachments, injunctions, decrees or orders of any court restricting the use of such property in any manner shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.


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