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With the authorities dreaming about a planned city for the future, it is shocking that at

present, there is no public toilet for the womenfolk of the city.

ZEROPUBLIC TOILETS FOR CITY WOMEN

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Lead Story

With the issuance of an or-der on the 25th of March this year to the hotels, res-

taurants, cinema halls, auditoriums, malls, bibah bhavans (marriage hall) and other public places of the city to maintain proper hygiene and sani-tation in their respective premises and toilets, the office of the Gauahti Municipal Corporation (GMC) has showed its willingness to address the long standing issue of public conve-nience seriously.

The order, which has come after a long wait, also clearly mentioned that the GMC had every right to can-cel the trade license if any establish-ments under the jurisdiction of GMC was found to be not complying with its order. The GMC has also directed sixteen bibah bahvans, hotels and restaurants of the city to provide toi-let facility to the lady police consta-bles on duty with immediate effect.

There is no doubt that the recent action taken by GMC would solve the problem of public convenience to a great extent, if executed in a strict manner. But, the question is how far would the GMC be successful in its venture when it has not constructed any separate public toilet for women on its own since its inception?

The actual pictureLast year, replying to a RTI query

filed by civil rights activist and law-yer Bhaskar Dev Konwar, GMC and GMDA (Guwahati Metropolitan De-velopment Authority), both respon-sible for looking after the issues of public conveniences and grievances

of the city have acknowledged the to-tal absence of separate public toilets for the women in Guwahati.

The same RTI reply also men-tioned that with the help of a private partner, GMDA has been running seven public toilets for men and women in different localities of the city. The cost of construction and maintenance of the toilet is `5 lakh each.

On the other hand, the GMC which is the highest form of public body, has replied that no public toi-lets have been constructed and main-tained by them, whereas there exists an amount of `1.64 crore budget pro-vision for the construction and main-tenance of public toilets in Guwahati both for men and women.

Above all, the most concern-ing part is that both the authorities (GMC and GMDA) have blamed the lack of suitable land as a constraint for construction of public toilets in the city.

“How ridiculous is it for the con-cerned authorities to blame the lack of land as a hindrance for construc-tion of public toilets in the city? What about the government lands? If they are running out of vacant govern-ment land, then they should try to ac-quire private land for the purpose of constructing public toilets,” Bhaskar Dev Konwar told G plus.

Moreover, among the minimal numbers of existing public toilets be-ing run by GMDA, there is only one such toilet at a posh area on GS road, which is also the hub of business ac-tivities of the city in particular and

the Northeast as a whole. “The location of the lone public

toilet situated under the Ulubari over bridge, GS road is not at all good. Al-though, somehow it is usable for men, but women cannot go there and use it and the condition worsens during the night. No women would feel safe to use it during night,” Konwar stated.

A PIL No. 68/2013 was also filed by a city-based woman journalist Su-lakshana Mithi Kachari at the Gau-ahti High Court seeking intervention into the matter of a total absence of separate public lavatories/toilets for women in Guwahati.

Another picture Last year, during the month of

March, in order to prove its interest

With the authorities dreaming about a planned city for the future, it is shocking that at present, there is no public toi-

let for the womenfolk of the city.

ZERO PUBLIC TOILETSFOR CITY WOMEN

MrinMoyee Hazarika

Year of construction

Number of toilets for men and women Location Specified area/road

Cost of construction and maintenance (in `)

2009 L-2, G-6 and 1- bath Machkhowa, opposite ITA MG road 5 lakh

2009 L-2, G- 2 and 1- bath Chandmari, under fly over, near parking area MRD road 5 lakh

2010 L- 3, G- 4 and bath- 1 State zoo, near ticket counter R G Baruah road 5 lakh

2011 L-2, G-3 and bath-1 Tarun Ram Phukan park MG road 5 lakh

2011 L-2, G-3 and bath- 1 Nehru park, opposite to GPO MG road 5 lakh

2011 L-2, G-3 and bath- 1 Ulubari, under fly over GS road 5 lakh

2012 L-2, G-3 and bath- 1 Silpukhuri, adjacent to the pond MRD road 5 lakh

Public toilets under the purview of GMDA

in the construction of public conve-niences in the city, GMC had asked for public bidding (EMD of which is `2,00,000) for the installation of portable toilet cabins in the various localities of the city.

The tender clearly mentioned that GMC wanted the supply, installation, commissioning and annual mainte-nance of 50 numbers of prefabricated high density polythene portable toilet blocks at various places which would have to be fitted with European or Indian type of pot with other facil-ity and not connected to any drain or sewerage.

“We have had a talk with the then commissioner of GMC, Kavitha Padmanabhan regarding the installa-tion of portable toilets in the city and accordingly responded to the tender which they (GMC) had published. But, everything went in vain and we do not know what happened to the project since we were never called for opening the tender or for further dis-cussions,” a bidder who placed a bid to the GMC proposal of installation of portable toilets told G Plus.

On the other hand, in its RTI re-ply filed by lawyer Bhaskar Dev Kon-war, GMC stated that it has procured portable toilets and 10 such toilets have been installed – 5 at Assam sec-retariat and another 5 at Kamarpatty, fancy bazaar.

But, what is surprising is the fact that the authorities could not foresee the difficulty that public would face while trying to access a public toilet inside the premises of the Assam sec-retariat. Besides, following the reply as given by GMC, G Plus made a tour to Kamarpatty area, but could not trace a single portable toilet in that area.

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National studies revealed, through national household survey of drugs used

nationwide, that the prevalence of compounds in drugs used are alcohol 21.4%, cannabis 3.0% and opioids 0.7%. There was a marked variation in alcohol use prevalence in different states of India and current use ranged from a low of 7% in the western state of Gujarat (officially under prohibition) to 75% in Arunachal Pradesh. Talking about Guwahati, which is the gateway to the northeast, the addiction level here too is a cause of concern. More concerning is the fact that the street children are getting addicted to substances and the percentage is increasing with each passing day. For the street kids, to get addicted to alcohol and drugs is an expensive affair and so they have to rely on cheap alternative substances. G Plus checks out what exactly the city street kids are getting addicted to.

Glue sniffingGlue sniffing is commonly called

volatile substance abuse (VSA). It is the inhalation of volatile solvents, commonly found in adhesives, for the purpose of intoxication. The ‘high’ is achieved within seconds and the effect usually dissipates within half an hour. Most products are useful everyday items.

It is difficult to prevent access to them as these products are too common to be thought of as harmful. They are commonly abused by huffing (i.e., soaking a sock or rag, then sniffing) and bagging (i.e., spraying paint into a plastic bag and inhaling). According to various NGOs working for child rights, glue sniffing is on the rise among the Guwahati street children and after growing up, the habit gets upgraded to alcohol and drug addiction.

Expert speakKamrup (Metro) Child Welfare

Committee Chairperson Fr. Lukose Cheruvalel has been working for child rights and has vowed to work against glue addiction. He said, “80% street children are addicted to glue sniffing, smokeless tobacco chewing and smoking. They graduate to alcoholism and stronger drugs as they grow up. Once under the intoxicating effect of these substances, one can be severely injured in an accident because of risky behaviour.” He further narrated a story. He said, “Subhah, who was dependent on dendrite, lost both his legs, thigh downwards, in the Guwahati Railway Station when he had an accident involving a train. Manoj, who used to abuse dendrite regularly, lost his left arm also in Guwahati Railway Station. Sariful,

while he was in an intoxicated state, lost one of his feet under the train wheels.” Fr. Lukose further informed that VSA can cause severe neurological harm and one can even die of hypoxia (lack of oxygen), pneumonia, cardiac failure or arrest or aspiration of vomit. Once these solvents are inhaled, the extensive capillary surface of the lungs rapidly absorbs the solvent and blood levels peak rapidly. The intoxication effects occur so quickly that the effects of inhalation can be similar to the effects produced by intravenous injection of drugs. As Lukose has a child shelter centre Snehalaya, he comes across such children quite often. He keeps visiting the railway station and other slum areas where he meets the kids who are addicted to glue and other intoxicants and accordingly, his assumption says that there are 80% street children who are addicted to glue.

The initiativeSnehalaya has been trying to help

the addicted children come out of the habit since a long time. On April 2nd, there was a focused group discussion chaired by Snehalaya Director Fr. Lukose, where people from different sections brainstormed to formulate a campaign to help the addicted children kick away the life taking habit. The outcome of the discussion

was that by April 20th they will kick start the campaign by gathering the children who are exposed to glue and other intoxicants and give them counselling.

There were 25 participants in the discussion. People who participated were social workers, child counsellors, child rights activists, psychiatrists, and member of some NGOs. Fr Lukose told G Plus that there is not even a single juvenile de -addiction centre in Assam. He said that there are some de-addiction centres run by some NGOs, but the irony is that juveniles cannot be put together with adults. He also wishes that sale of adhesives like dendrite should be banned by the government, and if not entirely as it is used for everyday use, at least the sale of adhesives should be banned in small packets as it is cheaper to buy and easily available.

The NGO’s efforts can be appreciated for the cause but the fact is that the governments pumps in crores of money every year for the betterment of street children, but till it has only been the NGOs and activists who have been formulating strategies to eradicate such social problems. Where are the authorities and the various social departments? Till when will the administration have to be reminded about what to do?

80%city street

kidsaddicted to glue sniffing

Most of the street children of the city are addicted to glue and adhe-sive sniffing and apart from a few

NGOs and volunteers, there has been no concrete steps yet.

80% street children are addicted to

glue sniffing, smokeless

tobacco chewing and

smoking. They graduate to alcoholism

and stronger drugs as they

grow up”

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City

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Summers are in and with early showers, the city gets inundated with urban floods and water

logging problems. There are various reasons because of which Guwaha-tians face water logging problem ev-ery year, and one main factor among the many is improper waste disposal of the commercial establishments. Reviewing the garbage management system of the city commercial estab-lishments, G Plus found that there is still a long way to go to tackle the garbage management system by the authorities.

DDMA initiativeAccording to the District Disas-

ter Management Authority (DDMA), they have been working for a long time to make sure that every com-mercial establishment has a dustbin and the garbage management system is appropriate. In the month of April 2013, DDMA observed that improper garbage/waste disposal of the com-mercial establishments in the city is creating blockages of natural and secondary drains, which is one of the most influential factors in causing ur-ban floods.

The issue was brought to the attention of the Deputy Commis-sioner of Kamrup (Metro) and the DC directed the Guwahati Munici-pal Corporation (GMC) to take strict action against the commercial es-tablishments who do not have their own dustbins and the license of the defaulting establishments should be reviewed and cancelled if necessary. The direction was issued in greater public interest and as per provisions as laid down in Section 30 (III), (V), (VIII), (IX) and (XVIII) of the Disas-ter Management Act, 2005.

According to sources in the DDMA, the department has been asking for a report from the GMC since last year time and again, but the GMC has every time snubbed the request and till date, has not sent any

report of their action. To know about their side of the story, we decided to question the GMC about how they are dealing with the establishments who do not have dustbins.

GMC SPEAKMumbai might have the largest

slum in Asia, but if we talk about the municipal corporation’s effort to keep the city clean, then the GMC workers should take some pages out of their book. These days even if someone spits outside a dustbin in the finan-cial capital, he/she has to pay a fine of Rs 500. It is a must for even the street vendors in Mumbai to keep a dustbin near their shops.

When we asked the GMC officials about the actions they have taken and how many licenses have been can-celled, the authorities initially said that they have been taking strict ac-tions against those who do notkeep dustbins near their establishments. On enquiring about the detail of the licenses cancelled because of the rea-son, GMC asked us to submit an ap-plication for the information as it is not readily available.

But even after that, the GMC of-ficials failed to provide any significant information and eventually conceded that not a single license has been can-celled. Apparently, according to the GMC’s research and analysis, all the commercial establishments in the city having trade license have dustbins near their establishments and the garbage/waste management system is appropriate. Either GMC was correct on their survey or may be DDMA was just assuming that the observation was accurate.

The factsNear the Himatsingka petrol

pump opposite to the Police Reserve at Lakhtokia, there is a lane going towards KC Das College (KC Road) where there are a lot of commercial establishments. Near Sriram Market

in the lane, we saw a point opposite to Vishal Auto where there was a lot of garbage piled up.

Manager of Vishal Auto, Surender Maheshwari said, “We have a dustbin inside the shop and the garbage in front our shop is dumped by almost the entire market. We tried to stop the people from disposing garbage here as the waste gets inside the drain and during rainy season, we face water logging problem. But people do not listen to us. We do not keep dustbins outside our shop as people spit on it and it gets very dirty. We cannot af-ford to clean it every now and then.”

Sanjay shah, a licensed paan shop owner in the lane has been running his shop since last one year and there is garbage everywhere near his shop. He said, “I have been running my shop for the last one year and till date I did not know that I have to keep a dustbin near my shop. Everyone in this lane throws the garbage/waste on the street or the drain and I too do the same.”

A shopkeeper in Paltan Bazaar said on condition of anonymity, “We know that GMC takes money from all

the street vendors every day and as we are licensed shopkeepers, GMC can-not do anything against us. We do not keep a dustbin in front of our shop as it is not required. We throw the gar-bage near the drain outside and every morning the GMC people come and collect it. If we get an order from the GMC, we will certainly keep a dust-bin outside the shop as it is just an ex-pense of around Rs 100.”

The ground reality says that even trade license holding commercial es-tablishments are not pressurised by the authorities to follow rules which can manage garbage disposal effi-ciently. GMC might claim that it is doing everything to curb such prob-lems, but only they will know what exactly they are getting paid for. GMC is so confident about their claims that they did not even respond to the DC’s notice for a year. Only authorities can explain how the powers should be dis-tributed among the bodies. The only problem here is that Guwahatians will have to face the problems of urban flood and water logging until there is a change in the system.

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I have been running my shop for the last one

year and till date I did not know that

I have to keep a dustbin near my

shop. Everyone in this lane throws

the garbage/waste on the street or

the drain and I too do the same”

GMC SNUBS DC ORDERFails to act against establishments without dustbins

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Its election time and as always the Election Commission (EC) is try-ing its best to keep an eye on all the

activities of the Lok Sabha candidates in not only Guwahati but the entire country to make sure they all toe the line. During elections, the district ad-ministration becomes the district elec-tion office of the area and observes the election happenings on a daily basis. This time too, as the Lok Sabha elec-tions are just round the corner, the district administration has sensitised the political parties about the model code of conduct and has formed vari-ous squads and teams to monitor the pre-poll preparations.

The ForceRecently, the district administra-

tion has seized around 51.54 litres of foreign liquor coming in from Megha-laya to the city. The liquor was meant to be sold only in Meghalaya and one person Biren Mazumdar was arrested in this regard and a political link to the liquor smuggling is being investigated. There are many other ways in which the district administration is keeping a watch to prevent any illegal ways of wooing the voters and for that it has formed certain teams:

• 5Flyingsquads• 5Staticsquads• 5Videosurveillanceteam• 4Videoviewingteam• 4Assistantexpenditureobservers• 1Expenditureobserver• 1Lawandorderobserver• 1Awarenessobserver

SquadsFive flying squads move around

the four Legislative Assembly Con-stituencies (LAC) falling under the Ka-mrup (M) district, to check if there is

any poll related illegality happening in the area. There are also 5 static squads dispersed in these constituencies to keep an eye on all the election activi-ties and check if there is any violation of the model code of conduct. There

are five video surveillance teams, ex-pected to record the election rallies and other election campaigns by the MP candidates on camera. There are four video viewing teams, which view and analyses the video footage brought in by all the video surveillance teams. The footage covers the speeches made by the politicos, size of the rally, size of the stage, vehicles used, refreshment distributed and so on. The viewing team scrutinises the footage brought and submits the report to the assistant expenditure observers.

Expenditure observationAll the political parties are already

sensitised by the district administra-tion about the election campaigning budget limit of the contesting candi-dates. According to District Election Officer, the maximum amount a can-didate can spend before the polls on campaigning is `70 lakhs. The candi-dates are asked to maintain a register having a detailed calculation of their expenses in poll campaigns. The candi-

Poll campaign expenses under EC scanner

dates are expected to submit the regis-ter to the district administration thrice within the period of poll campaign.

Whenever there is a rally organ-ised by any candidate the proposal of the rally with an estimated budget has to be submitted to the administra-tion. Later, with the help of the video surveillance team, the footage of the rally is analysed and the findings are submitted to the assistant expenditure observers. The observers then calcu-late the expense of the rally and find out what the exact budget used was. If the budget used exceeds the estimated budget informed by the candidate before the rally, then a notice will be sent to the candidate to provide the exact calculation of the budget used for the rally. There is no limit for the political parties to spend on election campaigns, but whatever a political party spends for a candidate, half of the money is calculated as having been used by the candidate. So, as a total, the candidate can only use `70 lakhs for the entire poll campaign process. Any candidate exceeding the `70 lakh budget will be issued a notice and the case will be referred to the Election Commission of India. The EC might disqualify the candidate from contest-ing any kind of polls for three years.

Illegal expenditureDuring polls there are two types of

expenses - one is the legal expenditure, which is calculated and the authori-ties are informed about and there is obviously a limit to it. But, to woo the voters, the politicos also shed some money out of their pockets which is unaccounted. This is illegal expendi-ture, which is mostly used in India to buy the voters. They are given money, alcohol, gifts and so on.

The administration is claiming that it is acting strict this time and is monitoring all such illegal expenses

The model code of conduct has kicked in and besides the 70 Lakh cap on campaign expenses, district authorities are trying to make sure that everyone follows the rules.

closely. The flying squads and the static squads are keeping an eye on such ex-penses and if any candidate is found guilty of illegal expenditure used to woo the voters, an FIR will be lodged against the candidate under section 171 of the Indian Penal Code, which can put the candidate behind bars for 3 years. All the liquor shops in the city too have been asked to submit the de-tails of their daily sales and if it is found that anyone is buying liquor in huge quantities, then the use of that quan-tity of liquor is checked so that it is not getting used for political reasons.

Media checkIt is always speculated during

elections that there are a lot of paid news being published in various me-dia units. Which media is biased and which is not is an analytical question but the district administration has vowed to check all kinds of paid news if there is any. The district administra-tion has a media cell, which is headed by the district information and pub-lic relation officer. According to the DIPRO, all the newspapers are being scanned and analysed to check if there are any paid news published. There is a team of officers sitting in the circuit house viewing the content of all the TV news channels and analysing if there is any paid content being aired.

The administration might be brag-ging about taking the necessary steps to check that free and fair elections happen in the area, but it is a claim which happens every elections and still there are many laws and rules violated. This election too, only time will an-nounce who is playing safe and who is a rule breaker, but a point to be given thought to is that who is to vouch that the authorities are not politically influ-enced?

There is no limit for the political parties to spend on election campaigns, but whatever a political party spends for a candidate, half of the money is calculated as having been used by the candidate.

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THE WEEK THAT WASTo mark the day of the Earth

Hour 2014, a function was organised by the World

Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) In-dia, on March 29 at Dighalipukhuri Park. This year the Earth Hour pe-riod was observed from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm. It is a global campaign by the WWF to inspire the individu-als, businesses, institutions and or-ganizations to take action against climate change. The theme of Earth Hour is to switch off non–essential lights for one hour. Every year in March it is observed as a symbolic way to support and commitment towards ensuring a better planet

for our future generations. At the same time it aims to bring in be-havioural changes in its supporters to become more aware and con-scious consumers. The event began with the welcome speech by WWF India’s Archita Baruah Bhatacha-ryya, where renowned singer Zubin Garg was the brand ambassador for the event and a special performance by singer Dikshu was also enjoyed by the visitors. It was followed by screening of films that are specially created for the Earth Hour event. Apart from these, there was also a multilingual rendition of the Earth Hour theme song.

Earth Hour observed in Guwahati

The sudden closure decision of a Bengali daily, Sangbad Lahari simultaneously pub-

lished from Guwahati and Shillong has rendered 100 employees jobless. Journalist and non-journalist media employees engaged with newspa-pers and news channels in Guwahati demonstrated in front of Guwahati Press Club against the management of the newspaper on March 30. A notice from the Shillong Times Pvt Ltd, Meghalaya (Ref No ST/63/14, dated 26 March 2014) was issued by S Chaudhuri, general manager, de-scribing the management’s decision “to close down the publication of Sangbad Lahari from April1, 2014”

due to reasons beyond its control. The protestors covered their mouths with black cloth demanding the with-drawal of the closure notice issued by Shillong Times. The management has however, offered a month’s salary to its employees as a token of support to them, which has been rejected by All Assam Media Employees Federa-tion (AAMEF). The AAMEF presi-dent Hiten Mahanta argued that the management should release at least five months’ salaries to its employees with other due legal benefits before closing down the publication. The year 2013 witnessed closing down of three daily newspapers and a satellite news channel. While the employees

of Sakaal Bela, a Bengali newspaper, Seven Sisters’ Post, an English daily and Dainik Pratibimba, an Assamese daily did not receive any compen-sation from the managements, the television employees of Prime News had compelled its management with a series of protests to release three months’ cumulative salary at the time of closure. The agitators also urged Tarun Gogoi, Chief Minister of Assam and Dr Mukul Sangma, Chief Minister of Meghalaya to take up the issue with the management to continue its publication. Sangbad Lahari was launched in Guwahati in 2009 and later its Meghalaya edition was started in July, 2011.

Stir over closure of Bengali daily

Assam has become the third state to declare all polling booths in the

state as no smoking zones. The state chief electoral officer has issued a directive to make As-sam’s polling stations no smok-ing zones to ensure that voters are able to cast their votes in a smoke-free environment. As-sam will be the third state in the country after Jammu and Kash-mir and Bihar where CEOs have issued this kind of directives. The appeal has been made keep-ing in view the dangers of pas-sive smoking on women voters who form half the electorate. But due to lack of awareness about passive smoking, much care is usually not taken and non-smokers often feel the brunt of passive cigarette smoking. The directive mentions that as poll-ing booths are public places, the order is in sync with Section 4 of the Cigarette and other Tobacco Products act (COTPA) 2003. The act states that smoking is prohib-ited in all public places. Section 4 also states that a mandatory dis-play signage must be posted in public areas. The CEO has asked deputy commissioners and sub-divisional officers of all districts to take appropriate measures in this regard. On April 1, the Voluntary Health association of Assam had appealed to the State CEO to ensure polling stations be made smoke-free.

Polling booths declared smoke-free

Prime Cabs announces airport drop at just `450

Leading Radio taxi opera-tor in the City, Prime Cabs launches city to airport drop

service at a flat rate of 4̀50 only.With over 10,000 passengers

travelling from the city to the air-port every day, the new scheme will benefit the commuters and also save them from any unnec-essary haggling, bargaining or tracking meters. Prime Cabs is doing an average of 350 drops to the airport on a daily basis with its fleet of 76 cars.

Commenting on the new scheme launched, COO of Prime Cabs, Mr. Dhimmant Bansal said, “At Prime Cabs, our focus remains on-time performance and cus-tomer convenience. With the new scheme, the pricing becomes even more convenient to the customer particularly for airport drops as we otherwise continue to offer our services at `19/KM.”

Late Murlidharji Sureka was an individual octogenarian who dedicated his entire life to a very

unusual form of social service i.e. cre-mating bodies irrespective of caste, creed & religion. He used to perform all the last rites rituals from making the “ARTHI” to setting the funeral pyres for the deceased. So committed was this worker in his services to mankind that he not only prepared the departed soul for his last journey, but also used com-forted the bereaved family in this time of distress and imparted such spiritual discourse that the family was motivated to stop crying and instead stared chant-ing the holy name.

A truly living legend, a true hero albeit unsung. Not keeping himself confined to this yeomen services, this kind soul was always forth keeping for any social cause whenever he was ap-

proached for any humanitarian cause. Anybody who approached him was al-ways had the conviction that he will not be returned empty handed.

He use to say “ Everyone loves a person when he is alive , but there is no one to love him after death”.

Born in the year 1913 in an ordi-nary family of Lt. Puranmalji & Lt. Jim-mi Devi Sureka in Guwahati, Sri Sureka did his primary education upto class-2 in an ordinary Gurukul. He led a very simple but hard life. Married at the age of 13 to Lt. Mohani Devi he had nine

children. His wife too expired in an ear-ly age. Doing ordinary accounts job, he led a life of struggle in which initially it was very tough to make both ends meet. But this never deterred the resolve of this brave heart from his path of social service and righteousness. At the young age of 38 years he started this unusual form of service towards mankind draw-ing inspiration from his father’s elder brother Lt. Chunnilalji Sureka.

Since then till the age of 93 years when he left for heavenly abode on 03rd of April /2006 he carried on this task. The culmination of this service was on a day during the Assam agitation when he had performed last rites of 26 bodies in a single day.

He during the course of this jour-ney founded the ‘Parmarth Seva Sam-ity’, a unique organization dedicated to the cremation of any unclaimed dead

Eulogy Requiem of love for lonely soulsbody totally free of any charge and in which all the ingredients required for cremation is made available at one place. By the grace of GOD all his children grew up and are well settled. He gave his family whatever best was possible.

During his life time and posta-mously, various organizations, institu-tions, societies & clubs conferred their gratitude towards him for his outstand-ing service to humanity.

Today being his eight death anni-versary LIONS CLUB OF GAUHATI took the initiative to install a marble bust (statue) of Lt Murlidharji Sureka in the constructed shed area in the Bhoot-nath compound which was unveiled by Sri Ramgopalji Garodia in presence of imminent personalities of the society including area MLA Sri Hemanta Ta-lukdar , Councillor Raj Kumar Tiwari and Sureka family.

Parking chaos is a major pain for Guwahatians and for a long time now, there has always been

a problem of paying parking fees to unlicensed agents spread out every-where across the city. The Guwahati Municipal Corporation then floated tenders and made sure that proper agents maintain the parking lots in the city. There are only a few parking lots in the city, but roadside parking is also considered as parking points. The tenders of 35 parking lots in the city under GMC have come to an end and fresh tenders have been floated by the department for around 76 parking lots.

At present, till the elections are over, all the parking lots have been made free for the vehicle owners ex-cept the Fancy Bazaar basement park-ing and the Adabari bus stop parking as these two lots are being managed by GMC employees themselves. Peo-ple have already applied for the ten-ders floated but the settlement of the tenders is yet to be done as now there

is the model code of conduct in place for upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

As such, Guwahatians need not pay any parking fee until the new ten-ders are settled. It might be good news for the citizens but car theft may be a concern.

A city based businessman whose wife is admitted in the International Hospital at GS Road, said that every time he parks his car outside the hos-pital, he still pays a parking fee of `10. Similarly, one more vehicle owner said that he pays parking fee when he parks his car anywhere on the city.

With this feedback, we ques-tioned the GMC authorities about how they have notified the public that parking fees have been waived until the elections. The authorities said that they have informed the media and media has already started inform-ing the public. Parking has been free since 31st March 2014 but people are ignorant about the fact and are pay-ing parking fee to people who are not authorised.

CITY PARKING FREE, CITIZENS UNAWARE

Surya Gold Cement, a leading ce-ment brand of Assam recently organized a free medical camp

for the people of Morogdula, Sarurtari and Tamulikuchi village on March 25. Conducted at Tamulikuchi High & ME School campus, the initiative reached out to more than 300 villag-ers who benefitted from the free check up and medicines distributed at the camp. The camp was organized with an objective of rendering community health services to the people living near Surya Gold factory. Another underlying objective of the camp was to increase health consciousness amongst high school students living in the villages. Five doctors includ-ing a Gynecologist of Sonapur PHC examined the attendees. In the camp leaflets & posters on various vector diseases were also distributed to in-crease awareness amongst the attend-ees and their family members.

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Politicking

With the 16th Lok Sabha elec-tion nearly upon us, many political leaders including

MPs have been seen changing the parties at the last moment in Assam and elsewhere in the country. They even gave their reasons to the public about not getting a ticket as desired by them from the party. But this trend which has been on the rise is termed as a ‘danger to democracy’ by many.

Several prominent leaders, which include former MPs and party presi-dents have shifted their camps for the sake of getting a ticket. Two-time Congress MP from Mangaldai, Madhab Rajbongshi has openly said that he joined Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) after his former party denied him a ticket.

On the other hand, former AGP president Chandra Mohan Patowary joined BJP to get a ticket from Bar-peta constituency. And the list goes on. Noted author and educationist Dinesh Baishya termed this bunch of politicians as ‘professional politi-cians’ who have hijacked the com-mon voters for their own interests. “They are professional politicians who just think of their individual gains and nothing else. The voters or the common people hardly matter for them as they have a set of brokers who will manage votes for them in

return of money. So, we cannot imag-ine how dangerous this is for Indian democracy,” Baishya said.

Baishya also advocated for a mass revolution to overcome this trend so that democracy can be safeguarded from these ‘tyrants.’

Madhab Rajbongshi who joined the Janata Party in 1977 and became the youngest legislator of the country from Sipajhar LAC had said that he decided to join AGP, as Congress did not give him the ticket from Mangal-doi a week back. In 1994, he joined the Congress and became MP in 1998 and 1999. He, however, lost for con-secutive times after that.

Former Janata Dal MLA and senior citizen Ajay Dutta said that

A DANGER TO DEMOCRACY?Politicians changing parties at the drop of a hat just because they

were not granted a ticket to fight elections are not good for the political system, observers feel.

PARTY CHANGE

these leaders are opportunists and a burden to any party of a democratic system. “They are the real opportun-ists who are unreliable and burden to any political party in a democratic system. They can hardly do well for the society and people. People like Rajbongshi and Chandra Mohan Pa-towary have killed their ideologies for their individual interests,” Dutta said.

Dutta further said that anybody can change parties and it is accept-able if somebody is doing it for ideo-logical differences. “But when people change the party at the last moment before the declaration of candidates, it is not at all acceptable. One should at least work for five years for the

party and should then go for tickets,” Dutta added.

Parvez Ahmed, son of former President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, also left Congress and joined Trin-amool Congress to contest from the Barpeta constituency. Ahmed also met AIUDF leaders but finally joined TMC after the confirmation of the Barpeta ticket.

Former BJP state secretary Mridula Borkotoky also joined AGP only to get a ticket from Nagaon. Three-time Congress MP from Tez-pur Mani Kumar Subba also filed his nomination as an independent candidate after his party decided against giving him a ticket. AIUDF’s BK Nath also left the party at the last

moment to earn an AGP ticket from Silchar.

Journalist turned politician Manoram Gogoi who has joined Aam Admi Party said that it is time to bring about a change for the sake of democracy by eradicating such kind of politicians. “I think people have realised now, the true colour of these politicians who betray the voters time and again. Now, it’s the public who should come forward and seal the fate of these cheaters,” Gogoi said.

Senior advocate and the state president of Samajwadi party, Hafiz Ahmed Rashid Choudhury termed the leaders who keep on changing the parties just to become MLA or MP as hopeless. “The leaders who are just committed to themselves cannot do anything for the welfare of the people. Their existence in the demo-cratic system is of no use,” Choud-hury said.

The youngsters too have been fed up with the trend as they slammed these politicians as a threat to de-mocracy. “This is a serious threat to democracy for various reasons. These representatives should rather concentrate in the development of their people and work accordingly,” said Nanda Kirti Dewan, a leader of All Assam Gorkha Students Union.

Even as every political party, including the Congress, talk of empowering women, in

reality the scene is very pathetic as far as female public representative are concerned in Assam. If there are just two sitting women MPs out of a total of 14 seats in the state, the number of aspirants too do not seem to be that encouraging. A mere 14.28 per cent is occupied by the women MPs in the state.

Besides Lakhimpur MP Ranee Narah of Congress who is also the union minister of state for tribal affairs, Bijoya Chakraborty of BJP is the other female MP who has been elected from Guwahati constituency.

So far, for the first and second phase of polls in the state, altogether five female candidates are in the fray out of a total of 86 candidates in Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Koliabor, Tezpur, Autonomous Districts, Karimganj and Silchar.

Ranee Narah, who has filed her nomination from her constituency, is very high on confidence while Congress’ Sushmita Dev, daughter

of former union minister Santosh Mohan Dev has also filed her nomination from the Silchar constituency. Sushmita is also a sitting MLA from the same seat.

Pratima Engheepi of CPI (ML) is the candidate for the Autonomous Districts while Jinti Gogoi of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been chosen to give a fight against chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s son, Gaurav, from the Koliabor Lok Sabha seat. Ribulaya Gogoi of All India Trinamool Congress is also in the fray from Jorhat constituency against Congress’ Bijoy Krishna Handique.

Besides that, for the third phase, sitting MP of Guwahati, Bijoya Chakraborty will fight to retain her seat with Congress’ newcomer Manash Bora and senior Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) leader Birendra Prasad Baishya. AGP has given ticket to Mridula Borkakoty who was with BJP earlier to fight for the Nagaon seat, which goes to polls in the third phase on April 24.

Jonjonali Baruah, a sitting MLA of Morigaon will also fight

from Nagaon from a Congress ticket. Another AAP candidate Namrata Sharma will contest from Mangaldoi. 

 Congress has so far three, AAP has two, CPI (ML), TMC, AGP and BJP has one female candidates each.

In the past, the likes of Mofida Ahmed and Renuka Devi Barkataki of Indian National Congress were elected from Jorhat and Barpeta constituencies in 1957 and in 1962 respectively. Though these ladies were the pioneers, after that there was a huge gap in the field. Barkakati also went on to become union minister of state for education, social welfare and culture in the Janata Party government led by Prime Minister Morarji Desai from 1977 to 1979 after she was again elected to the 6th Lok Sabha from the Guwahati constituency as a Janata Party candidate.

There are 15 women MLAs in the Assam legislative assembly out of the 126 seats and 12 of them are from the ruling Congress.

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If there are just two sitting

women MPs out of a total of 14 seats

in the state, the number of aspirants too do not seem to be that

encouraging. A mere 14.28 per

cent is occupied by the women

MPs in the state.

Ranee Narah

Chandra Mohan Patowary Mani Kumar Subba Madhab Rajbongshi Parvez Ahmed Manoram Gogoi

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Ward Watch

The Assam State Zoo cum Bo-tanical Garden is spread over 432 acres of land that falls

under the Hengrabari Reserve for-est and is adjacent to the Japorigog locality in the east. As soon as you enter the Japorigog road, you feel that well, here is a locality in the city with well-paved roads. The area looks well planned and maintained, but truth is not always what the eyes see or the mind believes. There is a major red alert concern in the area that shad-ows the entire infrastructural devel-opment of the locality. The area faces major problem of public intoxication after dark. G Plus found out the hows and whys!

Local liquor effectIt is strange that even after the

availability of many places where people can sit and drink, quite a few youngsters still prefer drinking around in the open. Such actions of public intoxication may have a nega-tive impact on certain societies.

According to Priyanka Goswami of the Karbi Namghar Path in the Japorigog locality, such activities rep-resent the society in a negative light. “As soon as the sun sets, you will find some women selling local liquor in the area. They hide it with their clothes and it will seem like they are

carrying a baby, but the truth is that they are selling liquor illegally. The young boys who intoxicate themselves with the same, roam the area in ine-briated condition,” she elaborates.

She further adds that the women in the locality are usually scared to pass through the roads alone at night. Talking about other problems in the locality, she says, “As the area is close to the zoo, it lies in the green belt zone and construction of big buildings are restricted. But still there are some construction going on in the area that looks to be illegal.”

The adrenaline rushSo, what would a young person do

after he is drunk and feels driven and enthusiastic? Well, some of the youth

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own motorcycle and for them, there is no better place to pump up their en-ergy level to the extreme point than in their machine on wheels.

Dr. Kasturi Khatniar who is a dentist in NRHM, Rangia says, “I travel up and down from Rangia ev-eryday and after the day’s work, I feel extremely tired and wish to sleep at night in peace. But these roaring motor bikes in the area create such a nuisance. They get drunk and show off their speeding skills at night on the empty roads. It usually happens after 08:30 PM.” Kasturi also men-tions about the irregularity of garbage collection by GMC. “We have to call the garbage collectors many-a-times to remind them of their duties,” added Kasturi.

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Theft and noise pollution

It has come to light that Japorigog also faces frequent cases of theft. Even though the locality looks to be well se-cured, but G Plus has found out that there have been cases of one major theft and few frequent chain snatching cases recently.

While talking to Durga Prasad Bo-rah who has been living in the locality for the past 10 years, we found out that the noise pollution on the road has been troubling him off late. “The roads are not wide enough and traffic is enormous, thus creating noise pollution,” said Bo-rah. He also stated that chain snatching has been quite frequent in the area. Men-tioning about a major incident, Borah, a former employee of Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited adds, “There has been a major theft case behind our house sometime back. A Mahindra Bolero was stolen from there and was never found.”

All said and done, it is now impor-tant for the authorities to take the matter into account soon, as the cases of public intoxication will only grow with time, and there might also be an increase in the theft cases. Only time will tell that how the authorities tackle the pertaining situation.

Concentrated RegionJaporigog

As soon as the sun sets, you will find some women selling local liquor in the area. They hide it with their clothes and it will seem like they are carrying a baby, but the truth is that they are selling liquor illegally”

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Business

While a change of guard has taken place in Assam’s Numaligarh Refinery Lim-

ited (NRL), the Assam accord refinery has entered into a strategic agreement for commercialisation and joint own-ership for production of petroleum Wax with Engineers India Limited (EIL), Delhi and Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSR-IIP), Dehradun.

NRL is implementing the Wax project with an investment close to `577 crores. Senior Manager, Cor-porate Communication, NRL, Mad-huchanda Adhikari Choudhury said the Wax plant at NRL is due for me-chanical completion shortly.

A tripartite Memorandum of Un-derstanding (MoU) in this regard was signed recently. CSIR-IIP has gener-ated laboratory scale optimal process scheme on the technology, based on which EIL has developed engineering design package. The wax project en-visages production of high value low volume Paraffin and Micro-Crystal-line Wax utilizing inherent properties of North East Crude. It is not a widely known fact that India imports wax.

P. Padmanabhan took over as the Managing Director of Numaligarh Refinery with effect from the April 1, 2014. Padmanabhan is a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) of the 1980 batch of National Institute of Technol-ogy, Trichy.

Prior to his appointment as Managing Director of NRL, he was

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. (HMSI) has recorded ‘Highest Ever Sales’

of 37.21 lakh units with extraordi-nary 55,000 units sold on only 1 day (March 31st) on the occasion of Gudi Parhwa and Ugadi in West and South India respectively in the financial year FY’13-14.

The two Wheeler industry post-ed positive growth only due to HMSI’s performance which countered the sharp fall in sales of two Wheeler in-dustry. HMSI added 9.67 lakh new units compared to 11.19 lakh units added to total Indian two Wheeler in-dustry in FY’14.

HMSI has strengthened its posi-tion as India’s 2nd largest two wheeler company. Honda’s domestic market share has witnessed a significant 6% point jump to 28% in March, 2014.

HMSI is eyeing 30 percent of the market share in the two wheeler seg-ment. Northeast India roughly sells 24,000 two wheelers every month and the industry in the Northeast saw a growth rate of 15 per cent. Sales of the company grew by 29 per cent during April-December last year compared to the same period a year ago.

Executive Director (Refineries Co-ordination) of Bharat Petroleum Cor-poration Limited (BPCL), NRL’s hold-ing company with a major equity of 61.65%; where he was in charge of co-ordination among group refineries of BPCL viz. BPCL’s Mumbai and Kochi Refinery, joint venture Bharat Oman Refineries Limited (BORL) and NRL.

He was also the task force leader for finalising BPCL’s future strategy till

2020 and was appointed the Convener of the Committee for finalising speci-fications of hydrocarbon fuels under Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).

He is a member of the Expert Group constituted by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to evalu-ate performance of refineries and take steps to make them more efficient, vi-able and profitable.

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Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL), the country’s largest exporter and the second-largest car manufacturer launched its highly anticipated compact family sedan “Hyundai Xcent” at Oja Hyundai, Guwahati. Xcent will further redefine Hyundai’s automotive excellence in India in the compact sedan segment for the aspirational, stylish and value-seek-ing Indian customer. B S Seo, Managing Director & CEO, HMIL said, “The Xcent is a world-class product developed for the Indian families. Developed with the best of Hyundai Motor’s world-class technologies, Xcent will create a new benchmark in terms of quality, design, space, features and driving pleasure in the compact sedan segment. We have invested extensive effort in competitively pricing Xcent to offer excellent value and to become the most loved and trusted brand in India.”

The Xcent will be available with two engine options, the 1.1 litre ad-vanced 2nd generation U2 CRDi diesel and 1.2 litre Kappa Dual VTVT petrol offering a combination of optimum performance and high fuel economy.

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A cultural extravaganza

Spread across 340 acres of land, the Srimanta Sankardev Kalskshetra is one of the grand cultural insti-

tutions in Guwahati that houses the cultural magnificence of artifacts and traditional articles from the Assamese culture. Some of the newest additions to the institution are the textile gallery, Shankarikristi gallery that was com-pleted around 2009.

Deepak Kalita, Senior Assistant in Kalakshetra tells us that presently there are 106 members at Kalakshetra including the artisans and the admin-istrative staff. He further proudly states, “We have upgraded the artist village to a larger figure capacity of 170 people and have also included 4 double-bed-ded VIP suites for guests.”

The PositivityThe Sankardev Kalakshetra has

been conducting some active educa-tional and cultural workshops since some time now. Hirak Jyoti Das, Pro-gramme In-charge at Kalakshetra

mentions about the recent workshops being undertaken at Kalakshetra. “We go as per our calendar year and repeat the workshops every year. We did Na-vabarsha Mahotsav, Shilpi Divas and Holi Geet Competition this year. The Tibet festival was also held this year from 2nd to 6th February,” mentioned

Das. He further adds, “There are three festivals going on at present, namely: 11th National Art Festival of Lalit Kala Akademi, Chhau Festival by Sangeet Natak Akademi and our very own So-tor Priti Mela.”

While enquiring about the upcom-ing ventures, Arup Bordoloi who looks after the planning section tells G Plus that five illustrated manuscripts are to be printed and published within a year or so. “The 5 illustrated manuscript of Srimanta Sankardev are set to be pub-lished. The manuscripts are (1) Kirtan Ghosa, (2) Bhakti Ratnawali, (3) Sri-mad Bhagwata, (4) Banamali Deva-Charit Part-I and (5) Banamali Deva-Charit Part-II.

The Kalakshetra houses many wonderful museums and galleries of great educational and historical value. Some of the major attractions are the Sound and Light Show, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika’s museum, Puppet theatre, Children’s Library and many others.

The Other side of the CoinWith many positive aspects of the

society, there are certain dark features too. There is no visible video surveil-lance cameras installed in the premises yet, which may encourage theft and robbery. In addition, the art gallery is not well preserved and people can eas-ily touch them, scratch them and scrib-ble on them.

While walking through the muse-ums and galleries, one can sense a lack of manpower. Some museums and gal-leries look abandoned as they lack the presence of even a single human being as a care-taker and is subject to dam-age.

There is also a large area of a deso-late plot lying somewhere in the prem-ises with few concrete pillars and wild vegetation. The area can be definitely utilised for further construction and additions to the premises.

Library is one another area, which needs attention as the valuable archives need to be preserved with utmost care for the future generations. The security guards also need to be available in all corners of the property. Some of the ar-ticles on the Level II of the museum do not have a labeling and does not give any information on the same.

The Money MattersIn order to maintain and take care

of such valuable artifacts, a consistent flow of finance is also very important. Bhaben Kalita, Accountant at the Sri-manta Sankardev Kalakshetra told G Plus, “We receive our maximum fund-ing through the entry fees and some government aids. We also have audi-toriums, galleries, theatres and halls which we rent out for workshops”. On being asked about the monthly expen-diture of Kalakshetra, Kalita replies, “We have to pay `48,000 per month to the BSB Group who takes care of the cleaning and maintenance of the

property. In addition to that, Group 5 Placement and Security Service charges `1,54,174 per month.”

Kalakshetra receives its maximum revenue from its entry fees with an yearly average of `8,00,000 per month. The rent from auditoriums, halls etc. generate an average of `4,00,000 to `5,00,000 per month. About the recent donation received by the society, Bha-ben Kalita informed that the Cultural Affairs Department, Government of Assam have donated a sum amount of `40,00,000 grant-in-aid for the year 2013-14.

The Srimanta Sankardev Kalak-shetra is undoubtedly one of the ma-jor institutions of great historical and cultural value and is a remarkable in-formational platform for the present world and the future generations to un-derstand the Assamese culture. How-ever, in order to preserve it for the next thousand years, more influential steps are an absolute necessity.

“There are three festivals going on

at present, namely: 11th National Art

Festival of Lalit Kala Akademi, Chhau

Festival by Sangeet Natak Akademi and our very own Sotor

Priti Mela”

The Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra located in Panjabari is one of the sentinels preserving the rich cultural and traditional history of Assam

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Recently, Guwahatians witnessed the assassina-tion of a former Prime Minister in the view of a planned murder, with the backdrop of the politi-

cal turmoil of a neighboring nation. But this time there was no bomb blast, rather some blasts of humour sup-ported by laughter engulfing the auditorium of Pragjy-oti, ITA when the members of drama troop Stage Fu-sion presented their annual extravaganza on March 30, 2014. As its 8th production and 57th show, Stage Fusion staged ‘The Prime Imposter’, a humourous political sat-ire under the directorial venture of Rupa Hazarika Som.

The storyline of the play began with the sudden death of Prime Minister Anupam Sharma (Dr. Bijoy Chaudhuri) due to apparent cardiac arrest just two days before the general elections. Home Minister Balakrish-nan Subramaniam Ramaswamy (Ranjeevlal Barua) and Minister for Art & culture Deepika Choudhury (Nay-antara Sarma), two power hungry Cabinet Ministers, tried to hide the news of his death fearing their defeat in the elections, as the masses were supposed to vote for them just because of the charisma of the PM. More-over, the duo was also afraid of the Deputy PM Anirudh Mukherjee (Debajit Chaliha), who may take advantage of the situation regarding ministerial portfolio. Thus they hire a struggling actor Varun Kumar, as a body double for the deceased. Projecting Varun as the impos-ter of the PM and the dead body as that of a terrorist, both the ministers took security officer Adil Khan (Avik Paul) in confidence and advised him to keep the dead body in freezer until the election results were declared.

Meanwhile, Adil found clues of the incident and came to the conclusion that the dead body was of the real PM who was poisoned, although their party won the elections. All the associates were included in the list of suspects, including PM’s wife Rupa (Rupa Hazarika Som), who eventually started developing a chemistry with Varun. But the climax though, became predictable when Ramaswamy admitted his prime motive being the Tamil revolution issue for which he poisoned the drinks of the PM.

Ramaswamy, who was an Oxford graduate kept himself in the disguise of a typical South Indian minister with his English in Dravidian tune throughout the sto-ryline, finally committed suicide by consuming cyanide as the terrorist cadets generally do, in view of secrecy.

The play, which began with a comic flavour could have had a much better ending as the actors in their last dialogue quoted the famous quote, “All’s well that ends well.” The play lost the flavour of suspense at many points and the story became much predictable after the interval. The attack on PM’s secretary Melvin (Kaushik Borbora) remained unanswered in the play, which proved to be a directorial disadvantage.

Although certain direct and indirect criticisms were made in the play, that did not fulfill the require-ment of this satire as the plot demanded. Except the 2G spectrum scam, no other strong current issues were raised. Coming to the point of performance, Ranjeevlal remained the prime attention in the play as his character had both shades of humour and suspense. The credit for the well crafted and colourful set design goes to Rathin Barua, who was the Production Manager of the entire presentation.

Above all these, the play lacks any message al-though it could have been a right presentation during the present election season. Among its previous produc-tions, most of which were adaptations, namely ‘Date at 8’, ‘A Plot for Murder’ and ‘Bollywood Dreams’, Stage Fusion had a bigger opportunity to project ‘The Prime Imposter’ in the most impactful manner. But in spite of having a good plot, at many points the presentation was dramatically correct, but as a whole it was ‘Politically Incorrect.’

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Moreover, yearly booster doses of vaccination, after completion of a year are also important. Some of the other alternative vaccines that should be provided on prescription of a doctor are Leptospira vaccine for Leptospirosis etc.

One of the major terrifying diseases that has sprouted is the viral disease caused by Parvovirus. “There is only 5% survival chance for dogs suffering from Parvovirus. The symptoms are vomiting, blood-diarrhea, foul odour and moreover, the dog can’t consume anything orally. Out of the 15 cases I treated, only 2 of them survived. The rest died and few others were abandoned by their owners onto the streets,” said Dr. Jitendra Nath.

Dog FoodSasanka Dutta says that the dog

food depends upon the age of the dogs. “Home food is always better than the commercial ones. If you can’t afford products like Pedigree or Royal Canine, you can always go for homemade food. But there is a vast difference between a human and a dog’s appetite,” says Dutta. He further adds that it is very im-portant to feed the dog with protein rich food like soya bean, pulses and meat on a regular basis. “Dogs be-long to the biological family of the Canidae that also includes wolves, foxes and jackals and are carnivo-rous. So, these animals need to be provided with protein rich food substances,” explains Dutta.*Prices are subject to change

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THE DOGSGONE TO

The dog has always been a man’s best friend but is man too a friend of the dog? G Plus checks out the ca-nine scene in the city.

The most wide-spread form of interspecies

bonding occurs between humans and dogs,” and the keeping of dogs as pets and companions, particularly by elites, has a long history. Peo-ple and dogs have become increasingly integrated and implicated in each other’s lives,  to the point where pet dogs actively shape the way a family and home are expe-rienced.There have been two major trends in the chang-ing status of pet dogs. The first has been the ‘commodi-fication’ of the dog, shap-ing it to conform to human expectations of personality and behaviour.  The second has been the broadening of the concept of the family and the home to include dogs-as-dogs within everyday rou-tines and practices. G Plus finds out the ins and outs of a dog world and the pet animal scenario in Guwahati.

Breeds AvailableSasanka Dutta of ‘Just Be

Friendly’ (JBF India Trust) says that it is very hard to find pure dog breeds in Guwahati as the breeds are usually 60 - 70% pure and a 100% pure breed is a rarity. Contrarily, Jayanti Sharma, Joint owner of Chocolate Farm (Ken-nel) and Dr. Jitendra Nath Dewan, Former In-charge of North East Regional Diag-nostic Laboratory at the Ani-mal Health Centre (AHC), Khanapara says that pure breeds are available in the city and mentions a few of the breed names such as the Golden Retriever, Labrador, Basset Hound, Dalmatian, Great Dane and Pug. Few of the dog kennels available in Guwahati are Bessies Kennel, Seriders Kennel, Chocolate Farm (Kennel) and Goswami Kennel.

Dog Vaccination Routine for 1st time Owners

After staying with its mother for three complete months, the 1st vac-cination a dog needs to be provided with is DHPP (Distemper, Hepatitis, Parainfluenza and Parvovirus) vacci-nation. The DHPP vaccination should be followed by an anti-rabies vaccine within 15 days. Sasanka Dutta of JBF says, “90% of rabies occurs from dog bites, both owned and street dogs.” He also says that the DHPP vaccine and the anti-rabies vaccine should be re-peated on the 4th month and 4 and half month respectively.

Basset Hound30,000 - 40,000

Labrador 18,000 and above

Dalmatian 15,000 and above

GoldenRetriever 20,000 and above

Great Dane 25, 000 and above

Pug 30,000 and above

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Taking care of a dog on a regular basis is very essential in order to keep the parasites away. If your dog has long fur, you should brush it twice daily in the morning and in the evening”

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Dog CareDog care is of utmost importance

for an owner to keep in mind as told by Dr. Jitendra Nath Dewan. He says, “Taking care of a dog on a regular ba-sis is very essential in order to keep the parasites away. If your dog has long fur, you should brush it twice daily in the morning and in the evening. I have seen some owners who bathe their dogs and let them dry in the sun which is wrong. It calls for disease and owners should avoid it. You should wipe the dog with a clean dry towel af-ter every bath. Powdering once a week will also keep the unwanted parasites away from your dog.”

Speaking of the products available in market for dog care, there is huge range of grooming products avail-able. “There are various dog grooming kits available in the market. I person-ally suggest Himalaya Herbals animal Care products for dogs,” says Jayanti of Chocolate Farm.

Stray Dog StatusAccording to Sasanka Dutta, there

are over 40,000 stray dogs in Guwa-hati. Interestingly, there are many people who come forward to adopt these homeless dogs. “Some months, we hand over 20 dogs to people who come for adoption and some months, none. But I would say that dog adop-tion prevails in the city. There are

many people who can’t afford to buy imported dogs go for adoption of street dogs,” says Dutta.

While it is interesting to know that JBF is taking care of the street dogs but Sasanka Dutta complains that their organisation is not finan-cially sound to treat all the dogs in the city. “GMC has been putting us on and off after we did a tie up with them. It is GMC’s responsibility to take care of all the street dogs, but they have been

pushing it hard on us. We are not that financially strong and we can’t treat all the dogs without proper support from GMC,” lambasts Sasanka.

Meanwhile, JBF has taken initia-tive to provide door to door service for dog support from Ward No 1 to 15 in Guwahati.

The Dog Shows“Dog shows have become more of

a status symbol for many people. The

owner grooms their dogs prior to the shows and tries their best to bring the best out of it. However, the dog shows have certain eligibility criteria and measurements for each breed, but all dogs won’t have the exact height and measurements. So, it is wrong for an owner to not treat their dogs with love and care if the dog is unable to enter the show,” says Jayanti. She further adds that in countries like USA, there are dog squads which make sure that

the dogs at homes are being properly taken care of, but out here many peo-ple don’t even register their dogs and are ignorant and cruel to their pets if they fail in the dog show which is ab-solutely wrong.

Major Concerns“Pet Dog registration has been re-

vived by GMC but there are still peo-ple who do not know the importance of registering their dogs. Moreover, people are not aware of the GMC’s dog guidelines and breeding policy which results in animal breeding cruelty. Breeding should be done only once or twice a year that too after having the proper idea of breeding time and should be done by a licensed breeder,” says Sasanka.

According to Dr. Jitendra Nath Dewan, the pedigree chart analysis of a dog is very important before its breeding. “There are people who buy a male or a female dog and try to in-breed among themselves which is so wrong. Such breeding also results in occurrence of many diseases,” states Dutta.

It is understandable that a dog is man’s best friend but the question is whether a man is a dog’s best friend! How many people would really care to not abandon their dog on the streets when the dog is old and dying?

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Food

It was just the other day, Café Cof-fee Day (Zoo Road) was a big let down and we decided never to step

in there again for coffee and yet again I was attracted by the hoarding of ‘In Conversation’, placed strategically in the important roads of Guwahati. It was another disappointment. So, we had no place to go to in Guwahati which could offer us great coffee, food and a place to hang out and chill with friends and family. Mocha, Guwahati just came in to the scene and it was our definite choice to try and find out what it had to offer.

My rating for Mocha Guwahati is 5 and it is based on the ambience, people managing the place, waiters, food, coffee and the value for money. I found the menu card or rather menu book very interesting. Everything in the menu seems well researched and tried and tested. There is a variety of coffee to opt from Africa, India, Italy etc. which is definitely remarkable. Apart from coffee, there is a variety of tea, shakes and fine hot chocolates to choose from. The food section is unde-niably another segment that one can-not miss. Ranging from Sizzlers, Pani-ni, Starters and selectable desserts will absolutely keep food lovers very busy here. The Vegetarian and Non-Vege-tarian dish make a good equilibrium

and doesn’t disappoint anyone.Food is fresh and people are

friendly and ready to assist with the menu. The music is great and the ambience is bustling. The crowd is vi-brant and the energy oozes out. People seem to have quite a time. The older people kept chatting with their friends and family, while some preferred to read a book or work on their laptops. The younger crowd was busy watching cricket match and the young girls gos-siped while munching their favourite snack of the day.

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This definitely is not a ‘one time visit’. It is a place you can keep going for food, for coffee or tea or just a great shake, and spend some nice time with your loved one. Just as the menu of Mocha states, ‘Go Ahead, takes a 30 Minutes vacation’, this is positively one place Guwahati people should not miss.

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Life

Ritu Gupta is a psychological counsellor dealing with people having individual, marital, job related and child related issues. She also assists Dr. Deepak Goenka with infertility counselling.

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The feeling or belief that we have on someone or something is the definition of confidence.

Today’s world is based on confidence. If we lack confidence, we tend to be a loser. Confidence in life, work, career or at any field enhances one’s person-ality. Beauty without confidence is like a book without a cover. Similarly, brains without confidence is like a car without its engine and we are not able to bloom completely.

As stated by Helen Keller, “Op-timism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Confi-dence and success goes hand in hand. To be successful in life we need to be confident. A lady can carry an old fashioned attire only if she has that confidence. If we have no confidence, we are always defeated. Once we start believing in ourselves and start feel-ing that we are better than the rest, that is confidence.

Confidence comes with practice. The more we practice, the better we become. Confidence is not an innate quality and we gain it from the envi-ronment. ‘Confidence doesn’t come when you have all the answer. But it comes when you are ready to face all the questions.’ Self-confidence comes from within and it means we are trusting ourselves and we are very positive. Positive thoughts bring about self-confidence.

Self-confidence is about balance. To be able to build good levels of con-fidence, it commands action; it is not an item you can wish for, buy or bor-row. There are solutions you can en-gage in every single day when learn-ing how to build confidence.

How to build confidence? • Appraising yourself: This does

not mean that we have to be over confident and over pompous. It simply means acknowledging our good traits and qualities.

• Positive thinking: Always think-ing positive and bringing out the best in us also gives us a lot of con-fidence.

• Acceptingourweaknesses:With-out acceptance, we cannot modify. It’s important to know your weak point and work on it. This helps us to sustain confidence.

• Forgiving those peoplewhohaveabused you: This is something very important which helps us to boost our confidence. Settling old issues and coming at a level of for-

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giveness gives us immense inner peace and satisfaction.

• Build a diary of success: This issomething which can help us in boosting our confidence. Writing down our achievements helps us to build confidence.

• Keep yourself grounded – thisis where people tend to get over-confident and over-stretch them-selves. And make sure you don’t start enjoying cleverness for its own sake.

Building confidence at work • Doingwhatyoubelievetoberight,

even if others mock or criticize you for it.

• Beingwillingtotakerisksandgotheextra mile to achieve better things.

• Learning from your mistakes andtrying not to repeat it again.

• Learning from others failure andstriving for a better result.

Building confidence is readily achiev-able, just as long as you have the focus and determination to carry things through. And what’s even better is that the things you’ll do to build self-confi-dence will also build success – after all, your confidence will come from real, solid achievement. No one can take this away from you! There’s no sure-fire pat-tern that will make you 100% confident overnight, but if you work at it, it will pay off.

The Group Exercise Studio which was launched by Gold’s Gym Ganeshguri in January this year to carry out internationally certified group exercise classes ‘Les

Mills’ kickstarted with group exercises Aerobics and Pilates. These exercises are aimed at improving flexibility, muscular strength and cardio-vascular fitness.

The studio has recently infused classes of Les Mills like RPM and Body Pump taught by certified instructors. RPM is the indoor cycling workout where you ride to the rhythm of powerful music to a calorie-burning endorphin high. It utilizes two types of energy systems – Aerobic, which allows us to ride for a long time and Anaerobic for short bursts of

activity; this is where you may feel the achy, burning sensa-tion in your legs. RPM is one of the most popular high intense cardiovascular workout in the universe.

Body Pump, a weight-based group-fitness program, gives you the benefits of resistance training without lifting heavy weights. It’s the key to developing long lean muscles. The classes are performed to music using free weight-plates, barbells and an aerobic step. Participants can choose their weights based on the exercise and their personal goals.

Apart from usual gymming, Gold’s Gym also carries out regular Yoga and Zumba dance classes.

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Every time elections happen in India, the country is thrown into a cauldron of corruption with party-hopping, rebel-lion, chaos, crime and confusion reigning supreme. Often

nominations are announced at the last moment and many voters don’t even get an opportunity to see the faces of their future leaders let alone interact with them.

Does the largest democracy of the world need this chaos? Or can we bring in some reforms? Here we cannot forget the revolutionary changes ushered in by the tenth election commissioner T N Seshan. He put checks on the spending in elections and indiscriminate use of posters and vehicles for promotion.

As elections approach, there is a spurt in illegal ac-tivities such as horse trading and money laundering. During ticket distribution, crores of rupees change hands. Either the candidates are looking to make money or the parties are looking for moneyed candidates!

The process can be cleaned up to a large extent if candidates are announced 6 months in advance. On average, a Lok Sabha candidate has to cover 12000 to 14000 villages in his constituency. He/she has to connect with anywhere from 10 to 15 lakh voters. The candidates would need time to at least shake hands with 10% of them, if not all. How can one reach out to so many people in just three to four weeks?

A sustained exposure will also give enough time for people to figure out the character and attitude of the leaders they are going to elect. The one who connects with them well will end up leading them. It helps the political parties as well. If the candidate is found inefficient or unacceptable by the people or if there are complaints about him/her, the party has time to rethink and nominate a different candidate. It gives people time to understand their differences, sort them out or agree to live with them.

A leader should rise from the bottom winning the hearts of people rather than being imposed by the party high

command. In a democracy, it is very important that the rep-resentatives understand who they represent and vice versa.

Often ticket distribution is done without understand-ing the ground reality. Many party workers are upset with the final list of candidates and turn rebellious as despite having worked hard, their voices are not heard. It is not that the can-didate has to be a local always but even if someone from out-side is nominated, they have to stay in the constituency, work, connect with people and prove themselves. This needs time.

Currently, the situation is that party election commit-tees select candidates looking at caste equations, financial muscle or even due to whims and fancies of the members. Many times weak candidates are fielded so that the oppo-nent can win. This unholy nexus between the parties can be exposed and avoided with a long lead time.

It would be ideal if every party decentralized the se-lection process to involve the panchayats and zila parishads also.

Many times ticket distribution is a money-making racket. Sometimes, even opposition candidates are bought out by rival parties. If the ticket distribution system is stream-lined and conducted well in advance, the election process will become simpler and a lot of election-related crimes and violence can be avoided. Indonesia is also going to elections this month like India and the list of contesting candidates was out as early as August last year.

If the candidates know their opponents well in ad-vance, there will be a spirit of positive competition among them to serve the people in their electorate. It takes a whole nation, with all its civil, legislative and judicial bodies, to make a healthy democracy. The question is do we really deserve a better government? Are we really serious about it? Can we ever get out of caste and religion based politics? We have more questions than answers. Nevertheless we should keep asking ourselves these questions.

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Web WatchMicrosoft makes Windows 8.1 mouse-friendly

Microsoft will send out a free update to Windows 8.1 in a few days that will

improve the experience for mouse and keyboard users. According to Microsoft, the company’s goal with its latest update is to further blur the line between the legacy desk-top mode, and the “Modern” tile-based interface.

At its annual Build developers conference in San Francisco, Mi-crosoft said many of the changes to Windows 8.1 will address that issue directly -- a problem had has contributed to slumping Windows sales.

Windows will detect when it is running on a laptop or desktop -- as opposed to a tablet -- and automatically navigate to desktop mode when unlocking the com-puter. Tablets will still unlock into the tile-based Start screen, how-

ever.When using Modern apps with

a mouse and keyboard, there will be a desktop-style title bar that ap-pears at the top of the screen, al-lowing users to quickly minimize or exit an app.

The taskbar, a staple of the desktop user interface in Win-dows, will now be accessible from anywhere in the operating system, including the Start screen. When users move the cursor all the way down to the bottom of the Start screen or a Modern app, the task-bar will float up from the bottom with all their favorite pinned apps.

If you open a Modern app from the desktop mode, it will open the app in the typical full screen mode and behave like a Modern app. But when you close or minimize the app, it will take you back to the desktop.

Amazon wants to be the brain -- and the heart -- inside your big-screen TV.

The company introduced a small black box called Amazon Fire TV that enables television sets to access Internet programming, including streaming shows from its Amazon Prime subscription service, and a gi-ant library of video games.

The device will cost $99 and will

start shipping immediately.With it, Amazon will compete

head-on both with streaming gadg-ets like Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) TV and console makers like Micro-soft (MSFT, Fortune 500) and Sony (SNE).

All of these companies, in various ways and for various reasons, want to supplement -- and, over time, possibly replace -- the set top boxes from ca-

ble and satellite companies that sit in most living rooms.

Amazon’s Fire TV has several unique features, including a remote control with a voice recognition search feature, so a user can speak the name of a show, actor or topic and find that content.

“Voice is the next platform bat-tleground,” the Forrester analyst James McQuivey wrote on Twitter. He noted that Microsoft announced its answer to Apple’s Siri and Google Now, a voice-activated assistant fea-ture called Cortana.

Amazon chief executive Jeff Be-zos said, “Fire TV has voice search that actually works.” In a promotional letter on the Amazon home page, he wrote, “The old way of searching with a TV remote - scrolling and clicking one letter at a time on an alphabet grid - is painful. With Fire TV you simply speak the title, actor, or genre into the remote and you’re done.”

A remote with a microphone won’t be enough for Amazon to win the streaming device wars, though.

Amazon unveils streaming media device

Meet the next-gen USB cable that could sweep away all others

Other attributes of the Type-C design, according to the USB-IF:

•It’ll make an audible click when plugged in correctly.

•It’s designed to accommodate future USB incarnations with higher data-transfer speeds.

•It’ll support USB’s growing role in carrying power to operate and charge devices through the USB Power Delivery technol-ogy.

•It’s designed to be plugged and unplugged 10,000 times.

With so many USB devices in the market today, don’t expect an im-mediate transition to the new cable. It’s likely PCs will include new and old port styles side by side, and that people will have use for cables and adapters that bridge the old and new styles.

So now we know what the next-gen USB cable will look like.The new design, called USB

Type-C, is designed to replace today’s multitude of cables and fix a number of their shortcomings. Type-C USB jacks will be small enough for mobile phones, the cable will be reversible end-to-end so it doesn’t matter which end you attach to your computer and which to your digital camera, and as with Apple’s Lightning connector there will be no upside-down when it’s time to actually plug the cable in.

The USB Implementers Forum, which oversees the Universal Serial Bus specification, announced its plans for a new USB cable and port in December but hadn’t settled on the exact physical design of the connector. Now it’s done, and the new cables could arrive in months, the USB IF said at the Intel Developer

Forum conference in Shenzhen, China.

“The specification is anticipated to be completed in July 2014. We could see products with the new cable by end of year,” the USB IF told.

USB has a remarkable history of success, starting in PCs but now connecting everything from tablets to headphones and appearing in everything from cars to TVs. One issues is that there’s an inconveniently large number of connectors, so people can’t always find the one they need amid the tangle in desk drawers or suitcases. Another is that today’s cables often have different connectors at each end. And when fumbling around the back of a PC or trying to plug a phone into its charger late at night, it can be extra work to be sure you get the cable plugged in right side up.

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TIP• Search the word TILT or ASKEW in Google and see what

happens if you can get it.

• Type ‘Do a barrel roll’ in Google and it will make your mood swing.

Try these out for yourself.

Wifi temptation is the trend presently! Wifi has become one of the mostly used connectivity option . Today most of the smart-phones, tabs have wifi connectivity using which one can easily

access the internet. Most of the time we have a single internet connection due to which we are able to surf the internet with only one of the gadget. This tutorial shows you how one can turn their laptop into a WIFI router so that all other devices can connect to internet via WIFI.

Here are the steps to make your computer a WiFi hot spot

• Click on start Menu• Click on Control Panel and then• Click on Network and Sharing Center• Click on set up a new connection• Then scroll down to set up a wireless ad hoc network• Highlight the option and click next

You will now see a window that will explain you what an ad hoc net-work is and few things about it. The most important thing before con-necting any computer by this network is they should be within a range of 30 feet.

Click next and then there will be a window where you need to step up the name and security type. It is mandatory to use WPA-2 for security type and use a password which you don’t have any trouble to share with others. Click on save this network check box and click next and you have created an ad hoc network successfully.

How to turn Windows into A WiFi Hot spot

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Reviews

It’s a never-before experience. Tapestried and tempestuous, the tides of Girish Malik’s

narrative rise and swell like the frequent sandstorms in the de-sertscape that Sunita Radia’s cam-era captures so evocatively in this saga of raging ragas.

There is more than just a little bit of Shakespeare in Girish Ma-lik’s directorial debut. “Jal” leaves you with many fluttering strands of thought swimming in the tor-mented tides of humanity’s most deprived and financially challenged part of civilization where drinking water is more precious than gold.

In terms of sheer visual grandi-osity, “Jal” is next to none. Women swathed in black running after a woman who has dared to drink from their village well, the offend-ing hero being dragged across the desert by animals like a wolf that forgot its jurisdiction, cyclones and rain conspiring to create an aura of distracting unpredictability... These are the images that etch themselves in the audiences’ mind.

Going by the director’s mas-tery over the medium, you’d find it very tough to believe this is his first film. Malik exercises an enor-mously flexible yet firm grip over his epic plot. “Jal” is many things at the same time. The narrative moves in mysterious ways coil-ing and snaking through circum-stances that appear more destined than designed.

And Bakka’s (Purab Kohli’s) adventures with love and life consummate in a sticky tragedy that leaves most of the characters dazed, if not dead.

Bakka insists on marrying the enemy’s daughter, thereby trig-gering off a chain of catastrophic events that leave the village poorer even as we, the audience, come

Director: Girish MalikCast: Purab Kohli,

Tannishtha Chatterjee, Kirti Kulhari, Mukul

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Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe RussoCast: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie

The film finds Captain America (Chris Evans) still adjusting to life in the present day. After

an impressive boat rescue sequence with Black Widow, Cap finds out that SHIELD has been secretly building a trio of massive helicarrier ships. Part of an initiative led by Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and his colleague Alexander Pierce (Redford), the ships are massive airborne drones designed to be the ultimate deterrent — but they’re also able to analyze personal communications NSA-style, using that information to preemptively determine who will commit crimes before they happen. Cap is unable to square the project’s Orwellian impli-cations with his old-school ideals, but when Fury learns that the project may be compromised Captain America becomes the only person he can turn to.

As a World War II-era character trying to understand the ethics of our modern world, Captain America is in many ways a perfect choice to explore these kinds of issues, and the film crafts a story that is admirably nu-anced from a character perspective.

Keeping in line with the ’70s aes-thetic, the Russos largely pull back from the overuse of computer-gen-erated imagery, and it pays off won-derfully. An early chase scene, with cars smashing into one another and cartwheeling in flames, is one of the best action sequences we’ve seen in any Marvel film. The sound design is a particular standout — the ka-thunk of Cap’s shield on cement cutting

through the mix — and the result is action that actually feels dangerous for once. Marvel movies have never skimped on fights or pyrotechnics, but their lead characters rarely feel like they’re at risk. That changes com-pletely in The Winter Soldier, to an almost unbearable degree.

The most glaring example is the title of the film itself. Yes, the Winter Soldier (a menacing Sebastian Stan) is a character in this film, and while you’ll leave out the specifics he has particular significance to Captain America. But his storyline is grafted on without really impacting the plot or the story’s larger ethical concerns. He’s glorious and flashy, but he’s a supporting henchman at best, and the call-out in the movie’s name comes across as nothing more than an ag-gressive hat tip to Marvel’s loyal fans.

There’s no denying this is one of the strongest movies Marvel has re-leased. While Iron Man 3 may have left some wishing for a return to form, the takeaway from Captain America: The Winter Soldier is that change which is not only good — it’s absolute-ly essential. By interpreting an iconic character through a modern-day lens, the Russo brothers have crafted an in-spired thriller that transcends super-hero movies, and given that they’ll be directing the third Captain America hopefully they can take things even further next time. As it turns out, you don’t need to tear down what’s going to come before to make something great. You just need the courage to take some chances.

away enriched and nourished by the experience.

The director’s deft defiant and untameable vision knits a blanket of lucid emotions embedded in a well-told narrative that hides a wealth of surreptitious surprises. The scenes are edited to accentuate the uncer-tainty of a people who don’t know when and where their next drink of water would come from.

Water is war in “Jal”. This prem-ise gives Malik the chance to create images that convey the immediacy and intimacy of a sudden eruption of gunfire at a sensitive border area. There is a constant sense of doom permeating the canvas. And yet “Jal” is not an unhappy film. The male characters are vividly played by ar-tistes who seem to merge and blend in the realm of the ‘registaan’.

You wish the women were more fervently fleshed out. The only two women in Bakka’s life played by Tannishta Chatterjee and Kirti, come across as sensuously silhouett-ed shadows. Tannishta does have her moments towards the end when she jumps into the climactic point with determined gusto.

But make no mistake. This is a guys’ film.

Purab in his career’s strongest

role presides over the maelstrom of operatic overtures exercising a res-olute grip over the shifting-sands of his characters attitude and time.

Equally stunning as his filthy slimy opponent is Mukul Dev. This neglected actor plays the kind of horny scumbag who would make you puke, if only he were not so honest about his diabolism.

The activist wants to save birds in the district. But who is going to save the human beings? The ques-tion echoes in the deserts in accu-satory spasm.

Malik has designed a film where the characters are con-stantly on the brink of doom and yet liberated from the scourge of self-pity.

“Jal” is a work of remarkable resonance. The sheer visual mas-tery of Malik’s directorial debut takes your breath away. The sheer velocity and spatial harmony of the intrinsically disturbed de-sertscape, the incredibly nuanced sound design and the powerhouse performances by actors who for-get the camera is watching them, make this a work whipped into eternity by vast stretches of un-chained artistry.

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Money

About FMPs

Simply put, Fixed Maturity Plans (FMPs) are the mutual fund in-dustry version of Fixed Depos-

its (FDs). Fixed Maturity Plans are closed-ended Debt MF schemes with a pre-defined maturity date ranging from 30 days to 365 days. Some even have a three or five-year time frame. FMPs invest in Fixed Income instru-ments, like Bonds, Government Se-curities, Money Market Instruments (very short-term fixed return invest-ments), to name a few. FMPs can be open-ended or close-ended, how-ever many of them are close-ended, meaning investors cannot withdraw before the maturity date. FMPs are the financial products whose prima-ry objective is to generate steady re-turns over a fixed tenor, typically one month to five years. They shield in-vestors from interest rate fluctuations by investing in portfolio of debt se-curities (predominantly Certificates of Deposit, Commercial Papers and Non-Convertible Debentures) whose tenor matches that of the scheme. These securities are redeemed at the end of the FMP term. For example, if the FMP is for 12 months, the fund manager invests in instruments with maturity close to 12 months. Hence the name – Fixed Maturity Plan. FMPs maturing in 12-15 months are the most popular, as they give in-vestors single or double indexation benefit, thereby shoring up returns. Investments in FMPs can be made only during the New Fund Offer pe-riod. The investments made by the FMP have an indicative yield. This means, on maturity, there is a possi-bility of the actual returns deviating from the returns indicated at the time of investing. The deviation might not be significant at the end, but it would still be imprudent to consider FMPs returns as fixed as in an FD.

What is the difference between FMP & bank FD?

FMP & Bank FDs are both simi-lar, both giving assured returns. However, the returns in Bank FDs are guaranteed and the maturity amount is known. However, in case

of FMPs, the returns are only indica-tive and not guaranteed. But you can be almost sure of your returns as the scheme’s portfolio consists of highly graded instruments.

Why should I invest in FMPs?

FMPs provide various tax advan-tages like:•The dividend is tax-free in the hands

of the individual investor.•In the Growth Option of the FMP

for less than a year, the gains are added to the investor’s income and taxed at the investor’s slab rate.

•Interest received from FDs is sub-ject to tax at the investor’s marginal rate of tax, which can range from 10% to 30%. But long term FMPs (more than 365 days) are taxed at 20% with indexation or 10% with-out indexation, whichever is lower.

•Even after taxes, FMP returns fare better, thanks largely to the index-ation benefit.

•FMPs with maturity of a little over 12 months also offer double index-ation benefit, which comes into play when the scheme purchase is made in one financial year and the maturity of the scheme is after two financial years. MFs keep track of the prevailing interest rate scenario and launch the schemes when inter-est rates are at relatively high levels. FMPs allow investors to lock-in their investments at higher yields. Over the past years, when yield have been on the higher side, there have been several FMPs launched with maturity close to 60 months, there-by allowing investors to lock in for higher time frame.

Why are FMPs better than FDs?Over time, they have established a place in the portfolios of debt fund investors. Savvy investors some-

time go away with FDs and replace them with FMPs. So what is it about FMPs that makes it so appealing to investors and how do they differ from FDs?

1. ReturnsReturns are an extremely sensitive subject for fixed income investors. It is over here that, FMPs diverge from FDs in a big way. This can be understood once you get an idea of how FMPs work.

2. Taxation:FMPs also differ from FDs in tax treatment of income. In FDs, the interest income is added to the inves-tor’s income and is taxable at the applicable tax slab, also known as the marginal rate of tax. With FMPs, the tax implication depends upon the investment option Dividend or Growth. In the Dividend Option, investors have to bear the dividend distribution tax. Whereas, in the growth option, returns earned are treated as capital gains (short term or long term depending on the investment tenure). In case of short term capital gains (i.e. if investments are held for less than 365 days), the interest income is added to the investors income and is taxed at the marginal rate of tax. Whereas, as for long term capital gains (if investments are held for more than 365 days), tax liability is determined based on the lower of with indexation (charged at 20% plus surcharge) and without indexation (charged 10% plus surcharged). With the indexation benefit, FMPs end up delivering more tax returns than FDs.

3. Tenure:FDs and FMPs offer equal flexibility when it comes to investment tenure. From a few months to several years, there are investment options available across different points of tenure. Investors can select the tenure suiting their investment objectives and needs.

4. Liquidity:FDs score over FMPs in liquidity. Being fixed income in nature, there are restrictions on liquidity in both cases. But FDs can generally be withdrawn without penalty, unlike FMPs.

Consider an example of an investor investing in an FMP

An Investor takes advantage of double indexation by investing in financial year 1 and then selling in financial year 3. This virtually brings down the tax impact to a very low level if not to zilch. This means, whole yield on such investments be-comes tax-free. Double indexation would kick in, if investment is done in current financial year and redemp-tion in the third financial year. This may help to reduce tax liability on long-term capital gains that will arise on redemption of mutual funds. For example, investment of Rs. 1 lakh in an FMP in March 2014, with say an average portfolio maturity of five years. Now, with accrued interest of approximately 9% on this investment and as per tax laws, there is an option

of paying tax on long –term capital gains with or without indexation. For example, if an investor invests in a 13-month FMP launched in March 2014 (financial year 2013-14), it will mature in April 2015(financial year 2015-16). As the investment period is spread over three years, the inves-tor can adjust the investment amount with inflation of two financial years. This exercise allows one to reduce the tax liability considerably.

Under indexation, the purchase price of the investment is increased to include the inflation rate over the holding period. The inflation is cal-culated using a government notified factor called cost inflation index. Indexation reduces the effective tax-able capital gains component, low-ering the tax outgo. Investors have a choice of either using or not using this indexation benefit. The option that gives a lower tax outgo can be selected.

When it comes to fixed-income investment for the short to medium

terms, there is nothing quite like Fixed Deposits (FDs), right? Wrong. Fixed

Maturity Plans (FMPs) of mutual funds (MFs) have given better returns than

FDs of 1-3 years- the typical investment Period in FDs.

Still opting for Fixed Deposits? HERE’S AN ALTERNATIVE

FMPs

An Investor takes advantage of double indexation by investing in financial year 1 and then selling in financial year 3. This virtually brings down the tax impact to a very low level if not to zilch

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POINT COUNTERPOINT

When potential voters come to the voting station on the day of election, they

usually identify themselves to elec-tion officers before they are allowed to vote. This allows election officers to check the names of voters against the voters’ list and ensure that they are included. Each name is then checked off or crossed out, or the voter is asked to sign the register. In some cases, when there are concerns about the possibility of multiple vot-ing, voters may be required to dip a finger in indelible ink to indicate that they have voted. In India there is a known history of proxy voting and to eradicate the problem the authorities have time and again come up with various ideas to see that the election process is fair.

In Assam, this is the first time that people have received voter iden-tity cards and this might, according to me reduce proxy voting, which used to happen before. There are around 50,000 voters in Guwahati who will vote without photo iden-tity cards, and similarly the number increases in entire Assam. As the ad-ministration was not able to provide the cards to all the voters this time, the problem of proxy voting will still be there but the people having photo identity cards will not find it easy to indulge in proxy voting as the iden-tification of the card holders will be double-checked at the polling booths.

The critics always have a say and might find some fault in this system too, but the photo voter identity card makes it easier for the voters to prove their identity of being a citizen and a responsible voter. The authorities too, can easily check that the card holders are voting against their right and no one else is using their right to vote.

Voters can prove their identity by various ways. In countries where it is the norm for citizens to carry identi-fication (e.g. national identity card, driver’s license, employment ID card, health care ID card), the election ad-ministration may not need to issue its own identifying documents. In a country where voter fraud is unlikely to occur, registration offices may not ask for any identification; voters sim-ply sign the voters’ list or register. And with the switch to computerised

SuBHASISH CHAKRABoRTySocial worker

files, often there is no original signa-ture for comparison.

When there is a voter’s card, the picture of the person, the signature and other details can be easily veri-fied.

In a state like Assam, where il-legal immigration is a genuine prob-lem, photo identity cards is a must and should have been there from before. People migrate from other countries and during elections with the instigation and money provided by political parties, they can easily vote by getting their names enlisted in the electoral list. But, with the voter’s card in place, people will find it tough to manipulate the electoral process.

MASuM yuSuF AHMEDCorporate professional

Even after being the largest de-mocracy in the world, rigging or vot-ing through impersonation or ‘proxy-voting’ have become a part and parcel of the electoral process of India.

The practice of multiple voting and auction of electors, most of the time, which is practised and promot-ed by the political parties, have been paralysing the democratic system of

the country. As a result, illegal immi-grants have got a chance to become permanent residents and played a major role in deciding the political fate of the country. This problem is even worse in Assam and there are media reports, which prove the fact that illegal immigrants have been casting their votes in elections.

Moreover, there has also been a rise in the number of ‘professionals’ in every polling station waiting to be ‘hired’ to impersonate as genuine electors, for a mere handful of money.

The Election Commission of In-dia has introduced procedures like ‘photo-profiling of electors’, SMS-based poll monitoring system, collec-tion of thumb-prints or specimen of electors in Form-17-C in an attempt to discourage impersonation and multiple-voting by the electors. But even after that, we have seen reports of proxy voting or voting fraud oc-curring in every election.

Sometimes, it is also speculated that there is a nexus between the leaders of the ruling party and the of-ficials of polling booths. Since the ad-ministration is being governed by the ruling party, they (ruling party) take advantage of it and carry on criminal activities like proxy voting and EVM tempering right under the adminis-tration’s noses.

In the case of Assam and other northeastern states, militants play a major role in such electoral malprac-tices. The electors photo identity card (EPIC) has been introduced in Assam for the first time and people of the state will be exercising their franchise with EPIC in the upcoming general election. But, the clarity of the photos and the misspelled names affixed in the EPICs has been serious causes of concern. Because, in the past, during the recent elections held in Manipur, we have seen reports of militants who are dressed in civilian clothes enter the polling booths and taking control of the EVMs and mobile handsets. The militants were able to do so in presence of security personnel.

Another important issue is that even though the voters were provided with EPICs, the photos of electors lack clarity. Therefore, it is hard to say that EPIC would solve the problem of fraud voting.

The critics al-ways have a say and might find some fault in this system too, but the photo voter identity card makes it easier for the voters to prove their iden-tity of being a citizen and a re-sponsible voter. The authorities too, can easily check that the card holders are voting against their right and no one else is us-ing their right to vote.

Sometimes, it is also speculated

that there is a nexus between

the leaders of the ruling party and

the officials of polling booths.

Since the admin-istration is be-

ing governed by the ruling party,

they (ruling party) take ad-

vantage of it and carry on crimi-

nal activities like proxy voting and

EVM tempering right under the

administration’s noses.

Will Voter ID cards be able to check fraudulent voting?

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ARIES If you’ve got something to say,

think it through and get it off your chest on Monday. You’re a great communi-cator now, but for the next couple of days, your attention is likely turned inward. Dealing with stuff around your place while mulling things over might be the best plan. Save the socializing (and the romance!) for Thursday and Friday, when you’re 10 kinds of hot. Get physical, too; being active gives you even more of a glow. This weekend there’s a choice to be made and priori-ties to set. A friend can help.

TAuRuS Don’t hesitate to offer your

opinion or let your feelings be known at the beginning of the week. Even — or especially — if it feels a little risky, it’s the right thing to do. Around Tuesday and Wednesday in particular, people are likely to embrace what you do and say. At the end of the workweek, however, your words are more power-ful than you know. A little tact helps a great deal, so tone things down. This weekend, on the other hand, is the per-fect time to turn it up. What is ‘it’? That’s up to you. Romance, maybe?

gEMINI You’re so on it on Monday that

it’s practically scary. It’s the perfect day to make plans and make moves — and make your feelings known. The next few days look far more low-key, or maybe they should. Take it easy and seek clarity in your thoughts; clear thinking could be elusive now. You can get back in action on Thursday and Friday, when work looks fun and your time after hours looks amazing. Anyone who can keep up with you is lucky as heck to be by your side. The weekend’s about sorting through a lot of communication to find the kernel you seek.

CANCER Get busy on Monday. Work

hard to get some tasks and chores out of the way, because the energy you’ve got coming around Tuesday and Wednesday is frighteningly great. Your instincts have rarely been better, and acting on them is absolutely fa-vored. Romance? Go for it! Watch out for overdoing it at the end of the work-week, though, especially if you’re con-templating a financial extravagance. How will your actions now impact the future? This weekend, the little things, like sweet interactions and intervals of peace and quiet, mean a lot.

lEo The big lion’s just a kitty cat as

the week gets going. You may even be a little bit oversensitive. Let your natu-ral warmth and affection show, and it’ll be returned in kind. And when Thurs-day and Friday come, look out! That warmth turns seriously hot, with your charisma making any and all situations electric. If you’ve got an idea at work or in romance, get it out there now. As for the weekend, your money may be uppermost in your mind. It might be a good time to eliminate extravagances and enjoy the simpler things in life.

vIRgo You’re all over the details as

the week begins, but are you neglect-ing the implications of the bigger pic-ture? Get help from a friend or men-tor — someone with the great vision to match your current fine focus. You’ve definitely got something to offer them in turn. Whatever concrete plans you have toward the end of the workweek, whether they’re for business or plea-sure, are in no way set in stone. Can you adapt? As far as the weekend goes, it’s just a matter of what you want to do with the awesome energy the stars are sending you. You’re fabulous. Work it!

lIBRAMove new agenda items, both

at work and in your personal life, to Monday, when your brainpower is up and you’re feeling experimental. Over the next few days, you’re more focused on emotional angles. It looks like you’re helping someone else out with a prob-lem, but don’t forget to work in some time for you, too. Around the end of the workweek, your creative capabilities are highlighted. This is a fabulous time for finding fresh solutions and finessing interpersonal stuff — and for fun, too. Your personal touch only gets better this weekend. Reach out!

SCoRPIo If you’ve got the urge to make

an unusual move or finally say some-thing you’ve been thinking, slow down at the beginning of the week. A little extra instinct kicks in around Tuesday or Wednesday, informing your timing and actions rather beautifully. Give the credit to increased powers of obser-vation and sensitivity — and try your utmost to carry them over into the end of the workweek. Career matters look tricky now, and finesse is better than flamboyance. When the weekend comes, though, you’ll be able to relax and de-stress. A sweet secret for you is also in the stars.

SAgITTARIuS Even you might find what’s

going on around you unusual at the beginning of the week. Certainly there are more questions than answers, and the exploring might be fun at times, and a little scary sometimes, too. Keep your values firmly in hand and be ready for anything. Thursday and Friday look just plain lucky for you, though. If you’re making romantic plans, these are the days to choose! Your sense of humor makes you very popular now, one-on-one or in a group. This weekend, hur-rying is a major don’t. Do things slowly, and do them right the first time.

CAPRICoRN A new idea — or is it a new

person? — deserves in-depth consid-eration at the outset of the week. It may take a concerted effort to find the time to concentrate on it (or them), especially because social stuff’s favored on Tuesday and Wednesday. But this exploration is totally worth your time. Ideas of owner-ship come into play at the end of the workweek. What’s yours is yours, right? If you’re clinging too tightly, maybe the answer should be no — or maybe. This weekend, your trust is rewarded, and life looks steady and sweet.

AQuARIuS Wear something different and

speak your mind with self-confidence on Monday. What’s unique about you sparkles right now even more than usual, especially interpersonally. Life may not be totally easy for a day or two after that. Be proactive about staying healthy, centered and supported, and you’ll be ready for an influx of what could be extraordinary stuff around Thursday and Friday. It looks like a relationship could be very positively impacted! Take care of little things this weekend. It’ll be immensely satisfying.

PISCES It might seem like opposite day on

Monday, with people saying the reverse of what they mean, left looking like right and up seeming down. Hold on, because the next couple of days, while also mys-terious, make sense to you in odd ways. Unmask somebody — or let your real self be revealed! You might be taken as over-bearing at the end of the workweek, even if you’re just telling it like it is. Think about the delivery as well as the message. This weekend, feel free to speak off the cuff, act impulsively and have a terrific time.

JUST FOR LAUGHS

YOUR WEEKLY DOSE OF TIMEPASSHOROSCOPE

Bill wasn’t a very good golfer, but he sure dressed like one. He had a wicked slice that prevented him from ever reaching the green in two strokes, but on the day of the company golf tournament, no one could deny that he looked pretty sharp on the tee. That day, as usual, Bill sent his first drive deep into the woods.

“You’ll never hit it out of there,” his friends insisted.

“As God is my witness, I’m gonna make the green in two if it kills me,” Bill replied.

With that, he smacked the ball as hard

as he could. It hit the tree in front of him and came straight back, and hit him right between the eyes and he died.When Bill appeared at the pearly gates, St. Peter looked at him and said, “Well, I can see by your outfit that you’re a golfer! Are you any good?”Bill replied, “I got here in two, didn’t I?”

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WHO’S SHEShailene DiannWoodley is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Amy Juergens in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013) and for co-starring alongside George Clooney in the critically ac-claimed 2011 film The Descendants, for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Sup-porting Actress - Motion Picture.

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NOW WHATWoodley starred as Tris Prior in the movie Divergent, an adaptation of Veronica Roth’s young adult novel. The movie was released on March 21, 2014. Woodley will reprise her role as Tris in the sequel of Divergent, with Insurgent scheduled to start filming in May 2014 and a release date of March 20, 2015. She will reprise her role again in the final film of the franchise, Allegiant, which will be released on March 18, 2016.

Experts in aviation and avid UFO conspirators have been left baffled by photographs that appear to show a mysterious triangular-shaped flying object flying over US airspace. The photos, captured by Steve Douglass and Dean Muskett, show what appears to be an aircraft flying across on Amarillo International Airport 10 March, with another contrail next to it. Experts say the object’s shape is unlike any known plane, which was seen accompanied by two other aircraft.

India successfully launched its second navigation satellite, sometimes dubbed as the ‘desi GPS’, onboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The satellite navigation system is a fleet of seven satellites that will help provide precise locations within 20 meters. India has become the sixth nation to embark on this after America, Russia,

Europe, China and Japan.

After much hype and speculation about Rakhi Sawant joining politics, the actor revealed the name of her party at a recent press conference. The Rashtriya Aam Party, as she calls her party has applied for three symbols - green chillies, scissor and wooden stick, one of which will be finalised soon. So, the item girl has finally floated a party and this time it might be another step for gaining popularity.

Local selfies: With psychiatrists declaring that people posting selfies are most likely suffering from ‘Selfitis’, the online streams seem to be crowded with selfies of local celebs, socialites and heck, even politicians. We sincerely hope that this is a fad and a short one at that.

The story of Noah may seem like an impossible legend, but scientists have calculated that the Ark could indeed have floated - even with two of every animal on board. Establishing the precise dimensions of the huge boat based on God’s instructions according to The Bible, postgraduate physics students at the University of Leicester worked out that it would have been buoyant enough to be fit for purpose.

Filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani, who gained huge fame in China with his

film 3 IDIOTS, has been invited by the Beijing International Film Festival-2014

to be part of the jury. He is the first Bollywood personality to be invited by the BJIFF. The director will be sharing

the jury table with some of the big names from the film industry including

China’s Lu Chuan, Ireland’s Jim Sheri-dan, France’s Philippe Muyl, Spanish

producer Andres Vicente Gómez and Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta.

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WHO’S SHENatalia Vladimirovna

Poklonskayais is the Prosecutor of the Republic

of Crimea.Poklonskaya graduated from the

Yevpatoria branch of the Kharkiv National Univer-

sity of Internal Affairs.

SO WHATPoklonskaya took the

job, which many of her male colleagues feared to

accept, just days before Crimea’s referendum

on independence from Ukraine, stunning the

world not only with her courage, but her beauty

as well.

NOW WHATPoklonskaya, who has

recently become an internet sensation largely because of her looks, will

fight against crimes in the Autonomous Republic

of Crimea in the gaming version which is currently

being developed.

Natalia Poklonskayais

Noah’s Ark ‘could have happened’