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Nishikant Khajuria

A well educated young man from extreme south of India,is on a mission here, the other end on northern part of thecountry, for awareness against toxic non-biodegradableThermocol and promotion of eco-friendly disposables.

Sathya Prabhu, a resident of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, hasbeen camping here in extreme cold and virtually going fromdoor to door for trying to convince the people to use envi-ronment friendly disposables, made up of Areca leaves.

“I am here to aware people against disposable items, madeof Thermocoal/Styrofoam and plastic, which are toxic andnon-biodegradable thus polluting the environment as well asour health,” he told the Excelsior.

While displaying his environment friendly products,made up of Areca leave, Sathya explains the benefits of theseeco-friendly disposables, which are hundred percentbiodegradable and compostable. These hygienic, non-odor-ous, non-toxic, light weight plates and cups are made up ofareca leafs, which have been used as plates for dinning pur-pose since centuries. With new technology, this natural andrigid material is compressed to a shape of a design plate,which in use with dry food can last longer period. However,in use with moist food, the plate would serve only once.

The production process of the plates does not requireadded chemicals or heavy infrastructure. The carbon foot-print of making the plate consists mainly of heating waterand the metal cast. Since the tree drops its leaves naturally,

the production process does not require cutting or harmingof the trees, Sathya explains and adds that the items made upof areca leave do not cost more.

Sathya is also planning alternative to plastic carry bags.These bags are made by pasting and folding either two orthree sheets of newspaper to make bags of different sizes. Thehandles of these bags can be made with jute strings or cot-ton string. The price per bag depends on the size and thethickness.

Prominent scientists and important Government func-tionaries have recognized and appreciated the efforts ofSathya Prabhu for his mission. So far, he has met DeputyChief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh, a number of other seniorminister and top officers of J&K, highlighting the objectiveof his mission.

According to Dr Ram Vishwakarma, Director of CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road Jam-mu, Polystrene is a well known polymer of styrene, which hasbeen classified as a Group 2B chemical, possible carcinogenicto human by International Agency for Research on Cancer(IARC) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Unit-ed States.

On the efforts of this young man, Srinagar Municipal Cor-poration has shot a letter to the food vendors, hotels andrestaurants in the summer capital to stop using thermocoldisposables while a number of similar recommendationshave been made by other bodies.

Ayush Nargotra

The J&K Bank has called 3159 successful candidatesagainst 39000 who appeared in the written test conductedby IBPS for interview for the post of Relationship Executive.Last recruitment was in the year 2012 four years ago. Job inJ&K bank is considered a prestigious in one Jammu andKashmir. You are reading this article so, it is presumed youhave cleared the written and now wondering what next!

Interview stage is the last lap where nobody would like tomiss the final goal after reaching so far. Some points whichI would like that the aspirants should not miss are:

Things to be done: Forget your past failures and be con-fident.

* So prepare your answers to all possible questions before-hand,

* Teach yourself to talk to the point and without beatingaround the bush.

* Be smart with words.* Once you are prepared, have faith in yourself.* Last but not the least, once in the interview room, for-

get about all your inhibitions and just go ahead with full con-fidence (but stay away from overconfidence, be humblealways).

In the SEE formula, S Stands for smile, E for eye, and Efor enthusiasm

HUMOUR: A little humour or wit thrown in the discus-sion occasionally enables the interviewers to look at thepleasant side of your personality. If it does not come natu-rally, do not force it.

EYE CONTACT: You must maintain eye contact withthe panel, throughout the interview. This shows your self-confidence and honesty.

VOICE: Resonant, firm, pleasant, select the appropriatepitch according to the audience

BE NATURAL: Many interviewees adopt a stance whichis not their natural self. It is the best for you to talk in natu-ral manner because then only you appear genuine.

THINGS NOT TO BE DONE: ignore all the negativethings about Bank job.

Being unprepared to the standard job interview ques-tions.

Lying about your qualifications, experience and yourknowledge.

Not showing enthusiasm/interest on the job. Sharing toomuch.

Failing to explain how your skills match the job in ques-tion.

Speaking for most of time of the interview or interrupt-ing the interviewer speech

Being too humble. Saying phrases like “you know”, “likea”, “I guess” and “Hmm”-

Showing nervousness. Being too prepared. Blurting youranswers out.

Having said all this, go into the interview with self-belief.You will meet a lot of candidates outside the room, who mightseem much more capable to you than your own self, but donot let anything take your self-belief and confidence fromyou. You have reached the interview round based on yourcapability.

Career Launcher, last time has given an incredulouslyamazing result. All the students in their respective batch[27/27] were selected and are presently working as PO in J&KBANK. So as always, no matter what, do not forget to havefun, and giving it your best shot, so that when you come outof the room, you have no regrets.

(The author is Director at Career Launcher Jammu and can bereached at cl.jammu@careerlauncher .com )

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On a mission in J&K for promotingeco-friendly disposables

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ART & CULTURE

Crack J&K Bank Re Interview

Saibal Chatterjee

A stylish thriller that could have done with more substance,Wazir falls way short of forcing a win with its twists and turns.

Bejoy Nambiar's third directorial venture after Shaitaan andDavid has many of the visual and technical elements that are char-acteristic of his style.

The film is slickly mounted and marvellously shot by cine-matographer Sanu John Varughese, but its moves are rather errat-ic. Many of the plot ploys it resorts to do not have the desiredimpact. The reason: they lack subtlety.

Wazir is the story of a hot-headed ATS officer, Daanish Ali(Farhan Akhtar), who loses his four-year-old daughter during ashootout with terrorists. Beside himself with grief, he defies hissuperiors and barges in on a commando raid on a sleeper cell toseek revenge. He kills the terrorist, but gets suspended from theforce for exceeding his brief. His wife, Kathak exponent Ruhaana(Aditi Rao Hydari), does not forgive him for his recklessness and

walks out on him.Daanish finds solace in the company of a chess master, the

wheelchair-bound Pandit Omkar Nath Dhar (Amitabh Bachchan),who, on his part, has also had a tragic live.

The older gentleman, who lost his legs and his wife in a seri-ous accident, has reason to believe that the recent mysterious deathof his only daughter was a murder.

He enlists Daanish's help to get to the bottom of the case againstall odds. He has to contend with a powerful politician (Manav Kaul)with a very dark secret buried in a village in Kashmir Valley.

It is a dauntingly difficult and dangerous fight, but Daanishplunges into the mission to ensure that his new friend gets justice.

One night, Panditji is attacked by a man called Wazir (Neil NitinMukesh). The latter makes his allegiances and intentions as clearas daylight.

The first half of Wazir is intriguing and brisk enough to holdthe attention of the audience. But post-interval, the film losesmomentum.

The screenplay (Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi) leavesnothing to the imagination. The battle lines between the villain andthe vengeance seekers are so clearly, and so quickly, drawn that theaudience has no guesswork to do. As a consequence, Wazir surren-ders its trump card rather too tamely. Despite the riveting perform-ances by Bachchan and Akhtar, the film is not the humdinger thatit could have been with sharper treatment.

Hydari is shortchanged by the script. Her character is given lit-tle space to develop fully. Yet, she makes an impression, especial-ly in the scenes where she is allowed to communicate with hersilences. Kaul, too, has limited footage but does not let that comein the way of his performance.

Wazir is not half the film that it could have had the script hadleft a little more in the shadows instead of taking recourse to over-explication. But all said and done, Wazir is anything but a washout.Watch it for the sustained quality of the acting.

Promising moves gone awry

Lalit Gupta

The latest edition of Annual Jammu DistrictDrama Festival, a 14-day bonanza (7th-20thDecember, 2015) staged in the refurbishedAbhinav Theatre, was an undoubtedly a delight-ful affair. Marked by enthusiastic participationof more than 500 stage actors, directors, scriptswriters, music composers, singers, light, sound,set and costume designers, make-up artists andbackstage personals, the annual drama festival2015, witnessed by almost full house audiences,can be labeled as an important event in wintercapital’s cultural calendar.

Amongst all art forms, theatre, by its unique character ofchallenging current values and ways of thinking, has beenproven to be an effective medium for social commentary.Along with age old folk theater forms like Haran, BhandPather and Parsi style Ramleela performance tradition, amodern theatre practice has also evolved on national lines inthe state. Today, Jammu, where theatre as compared to oth-er performing arts enjoys more visibility, is happily reckonedas one of important regional centers in the country.

All thanks to J&K Cultural Academy which under its man-date has laid a strong foundation of modern theatre practicein Jammu and Kashmirthrough holding theatreworkshops, repertoiresand above all districtdrama festivals sincemid 1960s—which inglaring absence of anypedagogical initiativesby State Universities forPerforming Arts—haveemerged as a focus foramateur activity.

Erroneously labeledas district drama festi-vals these are in factannual competitions inwhich local theatregroups not only show-case the state of contem-porary theatre practicebut also vie with eachother for awards in dif-ferent categories.

Other than some welldesigned productionssupported by brilliantperformances by actors,one of the highlights ofannual drama festival2015 was that along with adaptations/translations of wellknown modern Indian as well as Greek writers, a record num-ber of original scripts by local playwrights were also staged.

With the result in conjunction to plays like Shanker Sesh’sFandi, Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Pratibimbh, Yogesh Tripathi’sKeshavleela Ramrangeela, the scripts by local playwrightswhich were performed. These included three plays in Dogri:Mohan Singh’s Dana Socho Te Sehi, Kumar A Bharti’s Blood& Beauty (based on folk tale of Kunju Chainchalo), and DrSudhir Mahajan’s translation of Sophocle’s Antigone.

The five plays in Hindi/Hindustani by local writers wereVikram Sharma’s Hadsa & Haqiqat and Paishach Yatra,Rajneesh Kumar Gupta’s The Thar Express, Shashi Bhushanand Pankaj Shah’s Mein Zinda Hoon, Rakesh Roshan Bhat’sEk Aur Birbal, and Padma Sachdev’s Kala Suraj-a translationof Mohan Singh’s original Dogri play. The lone entry in Kash-miri was Makhan Lal Saraf’s ‘Ram’ while one in Punjabi,Pagal Lok was by non-local Kapoor Singh Ghumman.

The range of subjects which merited the creative indul-

gence by local writers included man-woman conflict in searchof their real identity as well as the illegal relations of so calledcivilized persons (Hadsa Haqiqat), socio-political questionsabout people in terrible condition of their surroundings (KalaSuraj), true love held hostage by man-made divisions of reli-gion and countries (The Thar Express), conflict of valuesbetween old and new generations (Dana Socho Te Sehi),revisiting folk love tale of Kunju Chainchalo (Blood & Beau-ty), enumerating of degeneration of values by listing socialmaladies and contentious issues plaguing the contemporaryIndia (Mein Zinda Hoon), highlighting life and sacrifice ofPandit Birbal Dhar of Kashmir to resurrect him as a hero androle model for younger generations (Ek Aur Birbal), raisingquestions about male dominated conventions while givingexpression to inner yearnings and psychological reflectionsof female gender who given opportunity can open up newfrontiers in life (Pishach Yatra), critique of social ills (PagalLok).

Makhan Lal Saraf’s ‘Ram’ in Kashmiri was a bold take topresent a counterpoint to the accepted narrative ofRamayana, especially through the characters like Sumatra,Kekayi and Kaushalya.

The festival also saw young directors like young directorslike Abhishek Bharti, Ifra Kak, Ravinder Sharma, SouravSharma, Rohit Bhat, Aditya Bhanu competing with wellknown senior theatre directors like Makhan Lal Saraf, Mush-taq Kak, Vikram Sharma, T. S Premi, Umesh Singh, Shashi

Bhushan, Javed Gill and Rajneesh Kumar Gupta. Through eclectic application of varied dramatic tech-

niques and treatments, the participating teams of actors,directors and technical experts succeeded in creatingumpteen specific moments in which the connection betweenthe actor, the performance, the play, and the audiencebecame a living breathing experience. The audiences weretaken on a journey that was not film, TV, etc, but the livinggrowing life of the theatre.

The very fact that, despite the unfortunate past decadesof militancy in the state, the art of theatre continues to thriveas a healthy creative expression for youth to actively engagewith social-cultural and political realities of our times, callsfor a reshaping of official cultural policy to make arts as inte-gral to education system and make provisions for trainingand appointing requisite human resource in schools, collegesall over the State along with suitable infrastructure.

Revisiting Theatre festival 2015

Dr Richa Sharma

To be a mother is the basic right and the bestgift for any woman on earth.These feelings areirreplaceable and couples especially feel morepained in attending any social gatherings likeGoad Bharai rasam- that reminds them ofemptiness in their life

Endometriosis is one of such a condition which feeblethe chances of getting pregnant.Besides it starts with painonly when one gets first periods of life and generally getsunresolved- medically surgically both.How to tackle it is themain question today and here I am trying to simplify withan example for the readers starting from the basics.What is endometriosis ?(All About Basics)

Endometriosis is an enigmatic disorder characterized bythe occurrence of endometrial glandular tissue outside theuterus; and is a challenging condition for clinicians,research scientists and patients alike. Endometriosis iscommonly found in women of reproductive age group andaffects 15% of fertile women and 40- 50% of infertilewomen.1 The most frequent site of endometriosis is theovary. When the ovaries are involved, they become enlargedwith cystic blood-filled spaces that on gross examinationare termed as chocolate cysts or endometriomas. Ovarianendometriomas are among the most common ovarian cystsencountered during surgery. The other frequent locationsinclude the uterine ligaments, pouch of Douglas, pelvicperitoneum, fallopian tubes, rectosigmoid and bladder.The treatment of ovarian endometriomas can be complex

and difficult and varies with the presenting symptom com-plex. The aim of treating

endometrioma is to alleviate symptoms, promote fertil-ity and prevent disease progression.

Clinical Approach To The Patient-Mrs Shalu 32 years of age also narrates in her words

about all trauma she underwent till she got the righ guid-ance and treatment option to bring happiness in her life.Shewas having painful periods to begin with only which wasmanaged by pain killers but later she developed some lumpin the tummy when she was just 18 years of age.It was diag-nosed as endometriotic cyst(chocolate cyst) - for which shewas recommended some medicines which she failed torespond.Ultimately that cyst was drained.Her this condi-tion persisted rather got worse after marriage and had dif-ficulty in sexual relation with husband also.Later she wasoperated twice for the same problem but still no relief dueto progressive nature and recurrence of the pathology.Toadd to her life was getting more miserable day by day as shewas getting pregnant also.Later she was diagnosed withdecreased egg reserve for which she was undertaken for IVFand she conceived

The quality of eggs and quantity both may get deterio-rated with time if the pathology is not detected early andthe success depends on the age,womb strength and theembryology kills .

Early detection and right decisions can bring happinessin your lives you have been long waiting for.

Any queries related to the subject please feel free to emailon richa.sharma47@gmail.com

(The author is senior IVF consultant Gurgaon Delhi NCR)

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