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People exercise in an Indian refugee camp to stave off despair in the wake of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. Kurukshetra was home to one of the largest camps due to its proximity to the hastily drawn border that carved two independent states out of the former British colony. Photograph By Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum

Why The Partition of India and Pakistan Still Casts a Long Shadow Over The Region

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors.

By Erin Blakemore | August 2, 2022

On the night of August 13, 1947, 13-year-old Suri Sehgal was so excited he couldn’t sleep. The next day, he’d watch the lowering of the British flag and the raising of a new one in his native Punjab province. Once part of India, his town would now become part of a new nation called Pakistan. The newly demarcated country of India would become a self-governing state a day later.

Sehgal remembers the Lalamusa train station where the Pakistani flag ceremony took place, the optimistic mood, and the special meal he shared with family and friends. “We all celebrated together,” he recalled in a 2016 oral history with the 1947 Partition Archive. “It was wonderful.”

Muslim refugees sit on the roof of an overcrowded train near New Delhi as they try to flee India on September 19, 1947. Partition exacerbated simmering religious tensions on the subcontinent. Millions of Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs were uprooted from their homes or killed in riots. Photograph Via Associated Press

But within hours, the long-awaited transition of power—and the partition of India into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan—had become a nightmare as simmering secular tensions, stoked by divisive colonial rule, boiled over. That evening, Sehgal watched in horror as hundreds of people carrying knives and other weapons ran past, on the hunt for Hindus to attack.

Days later, Sehgal’s father, worried about the safety of his half-Hindu children, pushed them onto a sweltering, packed, moving train at the same station where they had celebrated Pakistani independence. As the refugee train made its slow way southward into India, its exhausted occupants were confronted with piles of dead bodies being eaten by vultures alongside the tracks.

Sehgal was one of hundreds of thousands of Indians and Pakistanis whose lives were disrupted—or ended—during what is now known as Partition. On its surface, the August 1947 creation of two self-governing nations was a victory for those who longed for self-determination. (It would be another several decades, however, before people who lived in what is now Bangladesh would gain that right.) But simmering secular tensions and a severely mismanaged transition turned Britain’s historic exit from the colony into a bloodbath.

The Colonial Roots of Partition

Partition’s roots date back to the 17th century, when the British East India Company, a private company that traded in Indian riches like spices and silks, began acquiring Indian land, taking over local governments, and making laws that flew in the face of longstanding cultural traditions. (How the British East India Company became the world’s most powerful business.)

In 1857, Indian soldiers mutinied—prompting the British government to dissolve the company and take over India. The newly established British Raj appointed officials—many of whom had never set foot in India before—to keep its colony in line. Those privileged British administrators and their families lived in wealth and luxury, while most Indians lived in poverty.

As Britain drained India of its wealth and profited from its natural resources, it subdivided 60 percent of the nation into provinces and recognized a patchwork of hundreds of pre-existing "princely states," autonomous entities overseen by local rulers.

An English merchant ship approaches Bombay circa 1754—during which time India was governed by the British East India Company, a private company that exploited its riches like spices and silks. Oil on canvas painting by British painter JC Heard. Universal History Archive, Getty Images

To preserve its dominance, the British Raj deliberately emphasized differences between religious and ethnic communities. As geographer A.J. Christopher explains, colonial administrators used traits like religion and skin color to segregate and isolate their subjects. They eventually established a limited political role for Indians—but the process for getting those positions often pitted Hindus and Muslims against one another.

Lord Curzon, the British viceroy to India, further fueled these divisions in 1905 when he split India’s largest province, Bengal, into two: one majority Muslim, the other majority Hindu. A staunch colonialist who believed Indians were inferior, Curzon faced sharp resistance to this attempt to “divide and rule.” But though the split only lasted until 1911, it galvanized a growing independence movement within the Indian National Congress, a political party that had been formed by educated elites to negotiate with the British Raj. It also spurred the formation of the Muslim League, a political party agitating for Muslim rights within India.

Left: Lord George Curzon and his wife, Mary, ride on an elephant, circa 1895. Despite his controversial tenure as viceroy to India—in which he deliberately attempted to sow tension among religious and ethnic groups—Curzon became Britain's foreign secretary in 1919. Photograph By SSPL, Getty Images.

Bottom: A college-aged Suri Sehgal in Mussoorrie, a Western Himalayan hill station in the Indian state of Uttarakhand in 1956. Sehgal later studied plant genetics at Harvard University and is now a philanthropist dedicated to rural development in India. Photograph Courtesy The 1947 Partition Archive

The Fight For an Independent India

In the early 20th century, attorney and politician Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi was elected to the Indian National Congress and began pushing for independence from Britain through non-violent civil disobedience. But boycotts, demonstrations and marches met with brutality and legal crackdowns.

British officials attempted to appease the nationalists, enfranchising more people and increasing their representation in local government. These reforms only benefited a small group of Indians: By 1935, only 12 percent of citizens could vote.

Then, the United Kingdom entered the Second World War—and took India with it. Forced to defend their colonizers’ interests with their own blood, many Indians opposed the war. To shore up support, the British government offered India status as a British-owned dominion that could govern itself with British oversight. But the Indian National Congress rejected the plan. In 1942, Gandhi launched “Quit India,” a campaign of widespread civil disobedience demanding immediate independence. Britain responded by arresting Gandhi and other leaders and outlawing the Indian National Congress.

Top: Calcutta police use tear gas bombs during the five days of Muslim-Hindu riots that took over the city in 1946. Prompted by clashing visions of an independent India, an estimated 4,000 people were killed in the riots and up to 10,000 were injured. Photograph By Keystone, Getty Images.

Bottom: Members of the All-India Muslim League demonstrate in favor of the Partition of India and the creation of the state of Pakistan in London in August 1946. Muslims worried their concerns would be ignored as a religious minority in a unified independent India. Photograph By Hilton-Deutsch Collection, Corbis Via Getty Images

The move backfired: The crackdown galvanized many who had not supported independence in the past. Widespread riots and mass detentions followed. “Quit India” had been suppressed. But it—and the mistrust sown during a catastrophic famine in Bengal that killed millions in 1943—convinced British leaders that India’s future as an obedient colony was doomed.

Clashing Visions For an Independent India

Though independence began to appear within India’s grasp, divisions between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League deepened.

Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, another National Congress leader, had long believed an independent India should be a single, unified nation. But though the Muslim League also supported home rule, its leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah publicly abandoned the cause of a unified India in 1940.

Though the Indian National Congress billed itself as a party for all Indians, members of the Muslim League were concerned it only represented Hindu interests. A united India, Jinnah argued, would give Hindus control of the Muslim minority. Instead, the party demanded autonomy through the creation of a nation called Pakistan.

Matters became even more fraught when, in 1946, talks between the two groups fell apart and Jinnah called for a “direct action day” of Muslim protest. “We will either have a divided India or a destroyed India,” he said.

The call resulted in catastrophe. On August 16, 1946, Muslim-Hindu riots erupted in Calcutta, the capital of Bengal province. “The air was electric,” wrote a military official in a report. “The result of this riot has been complete mistrust between the communities.” An estimated 4,000 were killed and 10,000 injured in the conflict, and 100,000 were left homeless.

Mahatma Gandhi, center, visits the Muslim refugee camp of Purana Qila in New Delhi, India on September 22, 1947. Having found themselves on the wrong side of the border after Partition, the camp's inhabitants were preparing to depart to Pakistan. Photograph By Acme, AFP Via Getty Images

Britain Oversees a Hasty Partition

As India teetered on the brink of civil war, Britain’s interest in maintaining its waning control evaporated. Facing international pressure to withdraw, George VI sent his cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, to India in March 1947 to manage Britain’s retreat. (How the Commonwealth arose from a crumbling British Empire.)

Mountbatten convinced leaders to agree to the creation of two new states, Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. But though he was given a year to complete his task, he rushed the schedule—giving Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never set foot in India, just five weeks to divide the country in two and demarcate the new nations’ borders.

Lord Louis Mountbatten (third from left) presents Britain's partition plan for India at a conference in New Delhi on June 3, 1947. Also pictured (left to right): Indian nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru; Lord Hastings Ismay, an adviser to Mountbatten; and president of the All-India Muslim League Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Photograph By Keystone, Getty Images

Princely states could decide which nation they wanted to join, and Radcliffe and his team were otherwise told to draw boundaries that respected religious majorities and prioritized contiguous borders. The “Radcliffe Line” was easy to draw in areas with a distinct majority, but Radcliffe soon found that the religious groups were dispersed throughout India. In areas like Bengal and Punjab, which had near-equal Hindu and Muslim populations, drawing a line proved particularly difficult.

In the end, Radcliffe and his team—none of whom had expertise in mapmaking or Indian politics and culture—split both provinces in two and awarded roughly half to each new nation. This meant the new country of Pakistan would not be a contiguous nation: Most of its land mass lay in the northwestern corner of India, with a chunk called East Pakistan that lay in Bengal in the west.

The decision was fateful: It stranded hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Muslims in the “wrong” new nation and separated Bengal from the rest of Pakistan by a thousand miles.

On August 14 and 15, 1947, Pakistan and India became dominions of the British crown—with the understanding they would ultimately become fully independent. But Mountbatten refused to issue the maps until two days later in an attempt to keep the international focus on Britain’s benevolence.

India's Border Security Force and Pakistani Rangers (in black) lower their respective flags during the daily Beating Retreat at the Wagah-Attari border on November 15, 2021. A longtime British tradition, the ceremony signals the return of each side's troops at the end of the day. Photograph By Narinder Nanu, AFP Via Getty Images

Partition’s Bloody Aftermath

What Britain cast as a triumph was actually the beginning of the largest human migration in history and one of humanity’s most brutal episodes. Uncertain about where the borders had been drawn—and which country they currently lived in—as many as 18 million people packed up their belongings and set out to reach the “right” country.

The ensuing confusion and fear was like tinder for longstanding Hindu-Muslim tensions. After years of increasingly polarized rhetoric, old grudges became deadly, and new animosity broke out among those whose minority and majority statuses had suddenly switched. Assailants abducted and raped tens of thousands of women; people butchered members of their own families. Mobs attacked refugees and villagers, set buildings on fire, looted homes and businesses, and committed mass murder.

The violence was especially dire in Punjab and Bengal. In Punjab, ex-soldiers who had fought in World War II used their weapons on behalf of local elites who, writes historian Mytheli Sreenivas, “used the chaos of partition to settle old scores, assert claims over land, and secure their own political and economic power.” Though the countries were technically its dominions, Britain did not quell the violence.

The Legacy of Partition

By the time the violence faded around 1950, an estimated 3.4 million people were missing or dead and both nations were forever transformed. In 1948, Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist who reportedly thought the leader was too pro-Muslim. (The roots of the Kashmir conflict can be traced back to Partition.)

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s unusual geography had seeded tensions between east and west that would ultimately lead to a push for Bangladeshi independence. Home to 56 percent of Pakistan’s population, East Pakistan received less funding and had less political power than its western counterpart. In 1971, after decades of discord, Bangladesh declared independence. Despite Pakistan’s efforts to subdue the uprising, launching a genocide against three million civilians and a bloody, eight-month war, Bangladesh officially became an independent, secular democracy in 1972.

In the 75 years since Partition, territorial disputes between India and Pakistan have continued to simmer, erupting into four wars and ongoing cross-border attacks. And Partition is still raw for many of those who experienced it firsthand, like Suri Sehgal. Although his entire family survived, reuniting in India at the end of 1947, others were not so lucky. For many in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the losses and memories of those bloody, uncertain days are still haunting.

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Movie Review Hindi Medium

Movie Name-Hindi Medium

Director-Saket Chaudhary

Producer-Dinesh Vijan,

Bhushan Kumar

Written by -Saket Chaudhary,Zeenat Lakhani

Starring-Irrfan Khan,

Saba Qamar

Music by Songs:

Sachin–Jigar

Background score:

Amar Mohile

Cinematography-Laxman Utekar

Edited by-A. Sreekar Prasad

Production company-Maddock Films,

T-Series

Distributed by -AA Films (India),

Zee Studios (Overseas),

Release date-19 May 2017 (India),

4 April 2018 (China)

Running time-132 minutes

Country-India

Language-Hindi

Budget-₹14 crore

Box office-est. ₹322.4 crore

Castings:-

Irrfan Khan as Raj Batra

•Delzad Hiwale as young Raj,

Saba Qamar as Mita Batra

•Sanjana Sanghi as young Mita,

Kiran Khoje as Sushila,

Dishita Sehgal as Pia Batra,Amrita Singh as Principal Lodha,Deepak Dobriyal as Shyam Prakash,Neelu Kohli as Mita's mother,Rajeev Gupta as Masterji, Raj's father,Sumit Gulati as Chotu,Mallika Dua as Dolly,Kulbir Kaur as Dolly's mother,Charu Shankar as Maya ,Tillotama Shome as consultant,Rajesh Sharma as MLA,Taran Bajaj as tout,Ankur Jain as news reader,Swati Das as Tulsi,Neha Dhupia as Aarti (special appearance),Sanjay Suri as Kabir (special appearance)

Hindi Medium Soundtrack album by Sachin–Jigar

Released -21 April 2017

Recorded-2016–2017

Genre-Feature film Soundtrack

Length-21:20

Label-T-Series

1.            Title-"Suit Suit"  Guru Randhawa, Arjun   Guru Randhawa, Rajat Nagpal,   Guru Randhawa, Arjun              Length3:10

2.            Title-"Hoor"        Priya Saraiya   ��   Sachin–Jigar        Atif Aslam           Length-3:57

3.Title-  "Oh Ho Ho Ho (Remix)"  Kumaar Sukhbir, Abhijit Vaghani Sukhbir  Length-4:04

4.Title-  "Ek Jindari"         Kumaar Sachin–Jigar        Taniskaa Sanghvi

Review: At the core, the film deals with a very relevant subject of how language divides our society. Howangrezi-speaking people in India are touted to be ‘premium class,’ while the Hindi-waale¸ however illustrious or wealthy, are low-brow, or plain uncool. Hindi Medium shines in two areas that most of our films often fall short of. As far as the story goes – good writing, and as far as comedy goes – great timing.

Raj (Irrfan) has a flourishing clothes store in Chandni Chowk, where he sells ‘original copies’ of acclaimed designers, while his wife Mithu (Saba) -- her name classily upgrades to Honey -- is struggling to angrezify their lifestyle so that their daughter Pia (Dishita Sehgal) gets enrolled in a high-flying English medium school. They do everything they can -- move out of their ancestral home into a plush neighbourhood, abandon their desi swag for designer wear and switch from bhangra to angrezi beats. Alas, it doesn’t cut it. Plan B. Apply in the gareeb quota, move into a poor settlement with rags and rodents, and take gareebi ki training. Here, the couple meets Shyam Prakash (Deepak Dobriyal), who ironically, teaches them a few lessons – none that need language to comprehend.

 Chaudhary gets the grammar of the subject right, and spells out the emotions fluently. The dialogues (Amitosh Nagpal) are perfectly pitched and interestingly, the humour rests on the hinge, never distracting from the centrepiece. Of course, Irrfan nails it with a class act, playing a man torn between his simple, unpretentious upbringing and his new wannabe avatar. Saba, as the OTT, dominating wife is sheer delight onscreen. Dobriyal is superb and in some scenes, he leaves you teary-eyed. The second half gets over-dramatic and the plot seems quite convenient, taking ample liberties. The last chapter (climax) is stretched and predictable, but in the end, it drives home the point, exposing the inadequacies and loopholes in our education system.

 Raj and Mita begin targeting the top five schools, and when options run dry, they enlist the services of a coaching class that prepares both children and parents for the crucial school interview. Till this point, the film has a wonderful tone, satirical yet warm. Director Saket Chaudhary introduces a series of interesting characters: a Punjabi mother and daughter shopping in Raj’s garment store, which specialises in Bollywood fakes; the coaching class head played by Tillotama Shome; and the stern headmistress (Amrita Singh) everyone wants to woo.

The film, co-written by Zeenat Lakhani and Chaudhary, starts to flag post-interval. Hindi Medium is clearly written in two halves. In the first, Raj and Mita dress to impress; in the second, they pare down their lives. While the idea of exposing the corruption in the school admissions system and the brokering that goes on behind the scenes has some freshness, the script soon slides into simplistic stereotyping. All the rich folk are shallow and unkind and the underprivileged folk believe sharing is caring. Deepak Dobriyal plays a selfless factory labourer whose kindness is the catalyst for Raj suddenly discovering he has a conscience.

 In sum, capturing the notion that English establishes class and that parents across the country are desperate to earn this hallmark is a great idea. Hindi Medium delivers that with a wink and a wag of an un-manicured hand. Irrfan and Qamar are well-paired—he bringing a natural charm, she suiting the character of the dolled-up yummy mummy.

It makes you laugh, it makes you think. This class isn't part of the usual Bollywood curriculum.  It's a film every new parent needs to watch. Hindi Medium is a much-needed comment on the private school system and how it has become so important in our lives.I highly recommend this movie.

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The Weekend Warrior Feb. 7, 2020 – BIRDS OF PREY: ETC. ETC.

Thank heavens that there’s only one new wide release this weekend, and just as thankfully, it’s a movie that could help revive an ailing box office that’s been all about Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, Universal’s 1917 and Dolittle for the past few weeks. I never got around to seeing last week’s Gretel and Hansel, and I might still if I have time, but The Rhythm Section wasn’t that bad, and it certainly shouldn’t have bombed as badly as it did, making less than $3 million in 3,000 theaters. Yup, last weekend wasn’t great, and it was only partially due to the Super Bowl.

Clearly, it’s time to move on to this week with the first “superhero” movie of the year, the follow-up to one of DC Entertainment’s biggest outings but also meant to be its own thing, which is BIRDS OF PREY: AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF HARLEY QUINN (Warner Bros.). It stars recent Oscar nominee Margot Robbie reprising her role as Harley Quinn, the Joker’s girlfriend/therapist, who is branching out on her own with her own supergirl group, which includes Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winsted), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Renée Montoya (Rosie Perez) and Cassandra Cain (at one point, called Batgirl), played by Ella Jay Basco.  Robbie first played the role in 2016’s Suicide Squad, which earned over $300 million domestic, which some might point to the popularity of Harley as a comic character, but you could also point to things like the fact it starred bonafide box office star Will Smith (whose most recent movie Bad Boys 2 is currently the biggest movie of the year. Birds of Prey also stars Ewan McGregor and Chris Messina, as two well-known Bat-villains, Black Mask and Victor Zsasz, making their big screen live action debuts.

Unlike Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey is Rated R as DC and Warner Bros. have seen the huge success of the recent Joker movie, as well as the two Deadpool movies as proof that R-rated comic book movies can still do well even without the teen and tween audiences that usually go to see them. Presumably, Birds of Prey will attract more women due to the characters, although I’m sure there will be some men who who are just as interested due to the connections to the DC Universe. I’m just not sure this will be as big a draw to men as some of those other movies. I’ll have my own review on the blog a little later today.

While I don’t think Birds of Prey will open as big as Joker– let’s face it, the characters therein just aren’t nearly as well known, even Harley – I do think it will do quite well, making somewhere in the $60 million range, maybe more if the reviews are as positive as the early raves that were posted last week. (Having seen the movie and with my review on the way, I don’t think it will fare that well among real critics. You can read my own REVIEW here.)

Either way, Birds of Prey will the weekend with relative ease, although we’ll have to see how Sunday’s Oscar celebration affects all the movies’ business towards the end of the weekend.

This week’s Top 10 should look something like this��

1. Birds of Prey, Etc. Etc (Warner Bros.) - $64.5 million N/A (up $1.9 million)*

2. Bad Boys for Life (Sony) - $9.7 million –45%

3. 1917 (Universal) - $6.3 million -35%

4. Dolittle  (Universal) - $4.7 million -40%

5. Jumanji: The Next Level  (Sony) - $3.7 million -38%

6. The Gentlemen (STXfilms) - $2.9 million -48%

7. Gretel and Hansel  (U.A. Releasing) - $2.8 million -55%

8. Little Women (Sony) - $2 million -35%

9. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Lucasfilm/Disney) - $1.7 million -46%

10. The Turning  (Universal) - $1.3 million -55%

* UPDATE: I lowered my prediction a bit after seeing the movie but seeing that reviews have mainly been positive, I think it will help the movie bring in more business before Sunday.

LIMITED RELEASES

Two genre films that have been playing on the genre festival for the last year or so will open in select cities, the first being COME TO DADDY (Saban Films), the directorial debut by horror producer Ant Timpson, who was responsible for horror anthologies, The ABCs of Death and The Field Guide to Evil, as well as popular genre flicks Turbo Kid and The Greasy Strangler. In the movie, Elijah Wood plays Norval Grenwood, a young man called to the remote cabin of his estranged father (Stephen McHattie) who he hasn’t seen in 30 years, since his father walked out on his mother when he was just five years old. Once he gets there, he learns that his father is an abusive alcoholic, and yet, nothing is really what it seems. I saw this at the Tribeca Film Festival and mostly enjoyed it, and I really like Timpsons’s sensibilities as a filmmaker but it really starts to go off the rails as it goes along. Some will definitely enjoy that.

Severin Fialla and Veronika Fanz, the Belgian filmmakers behind Goodnight Mommy, return with THE LODGE (NEON), a creepy thriller in which a couple kids (Lia McHugh, Jaeden Martell) go to a remote cabin near a lake for the Christmas holidays with their new stepmother (Riley Keough) after learning a lot more about her dark past before meeting their widowed father (Richard Armitage). There’s so much more to this movie than what you can see in the suitably eerie trailer, and I certainly will not spoiler any of the experience, although personally, I found this to be more of a downer than Hereditary, a movie that I absolutely loved. This one might take another viewing for me to really get behind it, but other than the performances, the overall look and eerie feel and the twists, it’s pretty dark and depressing, so I’m not 100% sure I’d really want to see it again or can recommend it wholeheartedly.  Either way, both of these movies are opening at the Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn as well as other select cities.

Ben Cookson’s Waiting for Anya (Vertical), adapted from the novel by the same name from the author of War Horse, stars Noah Schnapp as Jo Lalande, a 13-yearold sheperd boy who joins with a reclusive widow (the amazing Anjelica Huston) to help smuggle Jewish children into Spain during World War II.

From Yash Raj Films comes this week’s Bollywood selection Mohit Suri’s Malang, starring Aditya Roy Kapoor as the introverted Advit, who visits Goa where he meets a free-spirited girl from London named Sara (Disha Patani), who has come to India to live like a vagabond or “Malang.” Something happens that changes as five years later, we meet a vigilante killer cop (Anil Kapoor) and a righteous cop (Kunal Kemmu)… And suddenly, I feel like I need to see this movie. It will probably open in 100 theaters or more.

STREAMING AND CABLE

Let’s start out with the Netflix offerings, beginning with the recent Sundance premiere, HORSE GIRL, the new film from Jeff Baena (The Little Hours, Life after Beth), co-written and starring Alison Brie as a socially awkward woman into horses and supernatural crime whose lucid dreams start infiltrating into her waking life. I haven’t seen it yet but I’m definitely interested in the premise, and I generally like Brie’s work.

I never really got into Joe Hill’s books/comics, but I’ll probably give the series LOCKE AND KEY a look when it debuts its first season on Friday. It involves three kids who move with their Mom to an ancestral estate where a series of keys unlock secrets and powers.

On Wednesday debuts the Netflix docuseries They’ve Gotta Have Us from Simon Frederick and Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY will premiere, looking at some of the important and iconic voices in Black Cinema.

If you haven’t had a chance to see DGA winner Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy, starring Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges and Noah Jupe, based on Shia’s semi-autobiographical screenplay, then it will premiere on Amazon Prime this Friday.

Premiering on Hulu this Friday is Into the Dark: My Valentine, the latest horror feature from Blumhouse as part of this ongoing horror series, this one written and directed by Maggie Levin, who has directed a bunch of shorts. It involves a pop singer whose songs and identity are stolen by her manager ex-boyfriend and pasted on his new girlfriend, which comes to a head when they’re locked up in a small concert venue and things get violence.

REPERTORY

METROGRAPH (NYC):

If you went out to see Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You and enjoyed it but haven’t seen his previous movie Your Name (which is just as excellent) then you’re in luck cause the Metrograph is showing it a number of times starting Friday. Thursday might be your last chance to see the new 35mm print of Martin Scorsese’s 1977 film New York, New York unless it’s extended, but the Hal Hartley serieshas been extended through the weekend with reruns of Trust (1990), Simple Men (1992) and Amateur (1994), all good, but Trust is my favorite of those three. This week’s Welcome To Metrograph: Redux is a good one, Lars von  Trier’s 1996 film Breaking the Waves, which will screen Saturday and Sunday nights.This week’s Late Nites at Metrograph is Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai (1947), while the Playtime: Family Matinee sselection is Amy Heckerling’s classic Clueless (1995).

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE BROOKLYN (NYC)

Wednesday might you can maybe get tickets for the “Weird Wednesday,” the Lone Wolf and Cub movie Shogun Assassin (1980) – I’ll be there for the 7pm screening. Thursday night is a screening of the 1932 Dorothy Arzner film Merrily We Go to Hell. On Monday, Video Vortex presents a J-Horror Bloodbath double feature of Demon Within and Biotherapy, both from 1985. ($5 admittance!) Next week’s “Terror Tuesday” is 1980’s Terror Train, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and then next week’s “Weird Wednesday” is 1990’s White Palace, starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader, picked by Alamo programmer Christina Cacioppo, so you know it’s gotta be very weird! J

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

The Weds matinee is the musical The King and I (1956), starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr. Weds. and Thurs. night are double features of the Safdies’ Uncut Gems with The Object of Beauty (1991), starring John Malkovich and Andie McDowell with the Safdies doing a QnA on Thursday. Friday’s matinee is the 1982 Paul Schrader Cat People remake, while that Friday’s midnight is True Romance, while Saturday’s midnight movie is 1975’s Aloha, Bobby and Rose. This weekend’s Kiddee Matinee is 2002’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, continuing that series, as well as there being a Cartoon Club on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Monday’s matinee is Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo ’66while the Monday night double feature is Fear is the Key (1972) and Villain(1971). Tuesday’s Grindhouse double is Hot Potato (1976) and Golden Needles  (1974)..

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

Mostly taking a break this week to air the Oscar-nominated shorts but Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1950 classic All About Eve will screen in 35mm as part of the “Sunday Print Edition.”

AERO  (LA):

Elliot Gould will be on hand Friday to discuss M*A*S*H* airing as part of the “Antiwar Cinema,” then Friday, there will be a double feature of Grand Illusion(1937) and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence  (1983). On Friday, Aero will screen Masaki Kobayashi’s “The Human Condition” trilogy, three movies from 1959 through 1961, airing as a triple feature.

QUAD CINEMA (NYC): This Friday, the Quad begins screening Albert E. Lewin’s 1951 film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, restored from Martin Scorsese’s own 35mm print. Also starting Friday, the Quad will also be screening a series of Man Ray shorts from 1926 to 1929.

FILM FORUM (NYC):

The “Black Women” series continues this week with The Omega Man and Strange Days on Wednesday, Set It Off, Bright Road and Poetic Justice on Thursday and more over the weekend. It continues through Thursday, February 13. This weekend’s “Film Forum Jr.” is the recent movie-musicalDreamgirls.

MOMA  (NYC):

Modern Matinees: Jack Lemmon continues this week on Weds with 1951’s Kotch, Thursday with Robert Altman’s 1993classic Short Cuts, and then on Friday, another screening of the 1960 Oscar winner The Apartment co-starring Shirley MacLaine.

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER (NYC):

On Friday, FilmLinc starts a new one-week series called “Dreamed Paths: The Films of Angela Shanelec,” and I honestly have no idea who that is. It’s a pretty comprehensive retrospective of the German filmmaker’s work, so I’m shocked that I’ve never seen a single one of her movies. Besides her work, the filmmaker will also be showing a few hand-selected films like Manoel de Oliveira’s I’m Going Home (2001), the Korean film The Day After and Maurice Pialat’s 1972 film We Won’t Grow Old (1972).

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES (NYC):

The Anthology’s “The Devil Probably: A Century of Satanic Panic” continues this weekend with Edgar J. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934) on Wednesday, Sidney Hayers’ Burn Witch Burn (1962), Terence Fisher’s The Devil Rides Out (1968), Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and more screening over the next week.

NITEHAWK CINEMA  (NYC):

Not to be outdown by the Roxy, Brooklyn’s Nitehawk is getting on the Nicolas Cage love-a-thon with the Williamsburg doing an “Uncaged” series starting with Cage’s latest Color Out of Spaceat midnight on Friday, and then Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) on Tuesday. (The latter is sold out.) Williamsburg is also screening Tony Scott’s True Romance (1993) on Saturday afternoon.Prospect Park is showing Barry Jenkins’ Schmoonlight Saturday to kick off its Valentine’s Day series.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

Weekend Classics: Luis Buñuel is taking another weekend off for no obvious reason – it’ll be back next week -- but Waverly Midnights: Hindsight is 2020s will screen the 1973 sci-fi classic Soylent Green and Late Night Favorites: Winter 2020 is going with the 4k restoration of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

Starting Friday at BAM is Horace Jenkins 1982 film Cane River, starring Richard Romain and Tommye Myrick (both doing QnAs over the weekend), and the actors and relatives of Jenkins will be appearing at a number of screenings this weekend.

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

2001: A Space Odyssey will once again screen as a Saturday matinee in conjunction with MOMI’s exhibit.

ROXY CINEMA (NYC)

The Nicolas Cage love continues with two of his movies from 2003: Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation (2003) on Wednesday and Disney’s National Treasure on Thursday.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART  (LA):

Not to be outdown by the IFC Center, the Nuart’s Friday midnight movie is Dario Argento’s Suspiriafrom 1977.

Next week is Presidents Day weekend, another four-day holiday weekend, but it’s also Valentine’s Day Friday, so we’ll get kiddie movies like Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount), romantic movies like The Photograph (Universal) and horror movies like Fantasy Island (Sony).

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Dr. Daud Iqbal Baba, Director, Department of Sports and Physical Education, University of Jammu was the chief guest at the inaugural function. Dr. Kavita Suri, Director and Head, Department of Lifelong Learning, University of Jammu who is also Member, J&K State Commission for the Protection of Women and Child Rights, J&K govt, senior officials of SAI Training Centre Jammu including Varinder Sharma, in-charge STC, Sat Pal Sharma, senior Bad-Minton coach, Dev Raj, Handball coach, Rajeev K. Dogra, Volley Ball coach, Gurmeet Kaur, Hockey coach and Vikram Saini, Badminton coach were also present at the workshop.

 Dr Daud Iqbal Baba, Director, Department of Sports and Physical Education, the University of Jammu who is also chairman of Campus Sports Committee, JU, in his inaugural address, stressed on the need of organising more such workshops for the people in the field of sports. 

While expressing his pleasure over the organizing of workshop on sexual harassment at workplaces at the University, he said India has a big future in sports and more and more girls are coming out in the field of sports breaking all gender stereotypes. In this background, there are many challenges including the challenges of workplaces’ sexual harassment with which all the players, be it boys or girls, need to be made aware of.

 He appreciated the efforts of DLL in creating efforts about this sensitive issue and expressed hope that in future University will collaborate with SAI for future partnerships. Speaking at the occasion, Varinder Sharma, Incharge, STC Jammu said that they have been organizing a lot of programs on different themes for the young sportspersons at the STC and Sexual harassment is also one of the crucial issues on which they need to be made aware of. He hoped that the STC will continue to collaborate with DLL and organize such more workshops for spreading awareness about sexual harassment. Dr. Kavita Suri, the key resource person of the workshop who has also done considerable work on women’s issues, made a detailed powerpoint presentation on “Gender, sex and sexual harassment at workplaces”. She said that workplace harassment, intimidation, bullying or coercion including that of a sexual nature is becoming common as more and more women are coming out of their houses to work.

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Date:11-10-18

The Past For A Future

How a religious tourism-led development strategy can trigger a Bihari renaissance

Ramesh Thakur , [ The writer is Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University ]

Typically, the very mention of Bihar evokes mirth, Biharis are the butt of frequent jokes, and ‘Bihari Buddhu’ is not a term of endearment. Yet its origins are noble. ‘Bihar’ comes from the Sanskrit/Pali word ‘Vihara’ or abode. The region of Bihar used to be a confetti of Buddhist viharas in which the monks lived. Gautama Buddha first attracted a large following of believers and monks in Bihar. As with Christ’s early followers, adherents of the new faith were mocked and ridiculed for their belief as ‘Bihari Buddhus’.

In similar vein, the storied history of Bihar is an integral part of India’s glorious heritage. The wonderful new Bihar Museum in Patna, whose galleries opened last October, makes it abundantly clear just how much of Bihar is embedded in India’s DNA.

References to Bihar regions like Magadha, Mithila and Vaishali can be found in ancient texts and epics. Magadha was a renowned centre of power, learning and culture for a millennium under the Maurya and Gupta empires. The former included Ashoka the Great; the latter was a golden age for Indian science, mathematics, astronomy and philosophy. Bihar has been a major historical centre of learning, home to the universities of Nalanda, Odantapura and Vikramashila established in the 5th-8th centuries. Sher Shah Suri was an early pioneer of secularism and good governance.

Pataliputra (today’s Patna) was a major global capital at the time of the Magadha empires. The world’s first known republic was established in Vaishali by the 6th century BC. Bihar’s key role in the freedom struggle was popularised in the movie Gandhi. Rajendra Prasad was India’s first president and Jayaprakash Narayan carried on the freedom spirit in his opposition to Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.

With a population of over 100 million Bihar is India’s third biggest state, with obvious implications for national politics and development. Its importance to several major Indian religions registers less frequently on the nation’s consciousness. It encompasses sites of great significance to Hindus, Buddhists and Jains – and Takht Sri Patna Sahib for the Sikhs is just across the river on the southern bank of the holy Ganga that bifurcates the state into north and south in a way that is unique.

Buddhism has a worldwide following of over 500 million with significant numbers in southeast and east Asia. That the Buddha attained enlightenment in Bodh Gaya is well known, the Mahabodhi Temple there is a Unesco World Heritage site and large numbers of devotees and tourists flock there, whose infra-structure has been significantly upgraded (including direct international flights).

For Jains, the 12th and 24th (last) Tirthankaras, Vasupujya and Vardhamana Mahavira, were born in Bhagalpur and Vaishali, respectively. Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth and last Sikh Guru, was born in Patna in 1666 and Guru Nanak and Guru Tegh Bahadur also visited.

Then there is Sitamarhi, my home district. In a peaceful rural setting just 5 km west of Sitamarhi lies Sita Kund, the mythological site where Sita was found in an earthen pot as Raja Janaka ploughed his fields. Janaka excavated a tank on the site and after Sita’s marriage, the legend continues, he ordered stone statues of Ram, Sita and Lakhsman to be erected there. In time dense jungles claimed all the lands there until about 500 years ago when the site was rediscovered, the jungle cleared and the stone figures recovered. A temple to Sita was constructed nearby and Janaki Mandir (not the original) is a popular pilgrimage for Hindu devotees.

The state government could vigorously market all these sites to potential tourists from India and abroad. Of course, tourists will not flock to Bihar merely because of a sophisticated promotion campaign. We must first address many physical, social and bureaucratic deficits.

The first requirement is assured public safety and law and order to neutralise the widespread perception that Bihar is synonymous with jungle raj. The state should invest heavily in recruiting and training civic officials and police officers to modern international standards, if necessary by breaking from the colonial-era IPS structure.

We must build a network of modern, clean, efficient and reliable rail, road and air corridors that transport people between destinations in comfort and on time. Patna can serve as the hub of international tourist traffic with a modern, passenger-friendly airport. I was heartened to experience recently the vastly improved roadways in northern Bihar as i toured many sacred Hindu sites in the three adjoining districts of Sitamarhi, Darbhanga and Madhubani.

Third, in line with the PM’s Swachh Bharat initiative, public facilities will have to be built and maintained to world class standards of cleanliness and hygiene. Open air spitting, urination and defecation is revolting, offensive and a public health hazard. Access to public conveniences is an absolute must for tourists. So is a reasonable supply of safe and clean accommodation and food outlets subject to regular inspections of hygiene norms.

All this must then be backed up by a sea change in the VIP culture that puts babus and netas on a pedestal. This grates increasingly even on Indians while foreigners are not used to second class treatment at the hand of public officials prone to petty corruption. Bihar could lead India with an efficient and responsive civil service and police force. The upgrades to physical, social and administrative infrastructure will also create an attractive investment environment to promote Bihar’s industrialisation. ‘Bihari bhaiyyas’ can then perform ghar wapsi with better quality work back home. Their triumphal homecoming will be the icing on the cake of a religious tourism-led development strategy for Bihar outlined here.

Date:11-10-18

Clarity Begins Around Home

Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Nepal (his third this year), Bhutan and the Maldives (his first since he became PM) later this year, months before he seeks re-election. India retains its pre-eminent position in its immediate neighbourhood. But China is striving hard to change this picture.

South Asia is critical to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as it provides access to the Indian Ocean Region. In this context, Beijing’s aggressive diplomacy over the last five-odd years to engage with its South Asian neighbours is a departure from the past. It is now trying to get its ‘friends’ in power in these countries, and has been influencing Nepal to change its priorities in regional groupings. Nepal did not send a delegation to the maiden Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) military exercise in Pune last month, days after it hosted the Bimstec Summit in end-August.

A stable neighbourhood is a hallmark of successful foreign policy. This is particularly true for an emerging power. It was in backdrop of this spirit that the mantra of ‘Neighbourhood First’ was adopted the day Modi was sworn in as PM, which was attended by leaders from the seven South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries, including Pakistan. India’s ambitious plans to connect to regions both to its east and its west can, after all, be attained only if its immediate neighbourhood is stable.

Four-and-a-half years since ‘Neighbourhood First’ was let out of the bag, Pakistan continues to be a difficult neighbour, and Saarc remains ineffective on account of that. Decision-makers in Delhi have made sustained efforts to share the spoils of economic growth with every South Asia capital, barring Islamabad, by extending lines of credit at nominal interest rates, creating connectivity networks, and opening up market access to a common security space in the Bay of Bengal. The effort was to give a sense of regionalism through the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal Initiative (BBIN) and Bimstec. Modi has also made visits to South Asian countries, and hosting their leaders, a regular affair.

Every country has its right to sovereign decision-making and choose its allies in its national interests. China’s economic prowess and unprecedented pace of development have attracted many countries, in and outside South Asia. Coupled with Chinese wooing, it is often enough to shape foreign policies of a country — be it the then-Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s decision in 2014 to invite Chinese submarines, or the more recent pressure on Nepal’s key ruling party members and ministers while ‘squeezing’ PM Khadga Prasad Oli’s decision-making capacity, or outgoing Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen’s love for China.

The Dokalam stand-off was a test for Delhi’s neighbourhood policy, as China chose Bhutan — India’s allweather friend — to send a message to India. Bhutan continues to resist Beijing’s advances, as does Bangladesh — which has handled China quite smartly by engaging with it commercially without getting into a debt trap. All eyes are now on Dhaka as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeks reelection. A pushback in Myanmar against China’s BRI is heartening, and Sri Lanka has brought a degree of balance back in its foreign policy. Yet, repayment of debt to China has forced Colombo to extend buyback offers to Beijing.

While Afghanistan battles to keep extremists at bay, election results in the Maldives was the best possible outcome that India could have hoped for, after finding itself in a rather tricky position during Abdulla Yameen’s soon-to-expire five-year rule. Beijing can now only hope that the Maldives doesn’t follow Malaysia’s footsteps. History and common roots are not enough for India to remain a preeminent power in South Asia. While China attempts to win over India’s immediate neighbourhood, India needs to constantly engage at the highest political levels, sweeten deals, and offer unique solutions and alternatives. Success in South Asia is akey to great power status.

Date:11-10-18

For Shopping Sprees Sans Plastic Excess

ET Editorials

As Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm, Snapdeal and other e-commerce firms plunge into mega shopping festivals, they delight consumers, but also ruin the environment, with careless overuse of packaging material and no thought to recycling. E-Commerce companies pack goods in oversized boxes, swaddled in singleuse plastic blown up into different kinds of air-filled cushioning, all of which go straight into the waste bin and further on into landfills. It aggravates an environmental crisis, and is resource inefficient, besides.

The e-commerce packaging industry was estimated to be worth $32 billion in 2015 and conservatively projected to grow to $73 billion by 2020. There is no formal assessment of the share of plastic but given the use of multiple layers of plastic, thermocol, bubble wrap, air packets and masking tape used, the share of plastic is considerable. Packaging is one of the main drivers of the growth of the plastics industry in India. Minimising damage to products in transit is a legitimate objective. But wholly non-fragile goods made of, say, cloth also get as much cushioning as a piece of China.

Why, pray? Why should the same company deliver three different orders in three different packets, delivered by three different delivery vehicles? Is it so hard to tweak their algorithms to consolidate packing and delivery? Why not offer to take back the cartons and packaging material, for recycling, if not reuse? Given its commercial success, the e-commerce sector must now focus on sustainability.

This is also an opportunity for innovation. Minimising plastic packaging will slash hydrocarbon use, and the import bill, as well as emissions. If India is to fulfil its pledge of becoming single-use plastic-free by 2022, the e-commerce sector must play its part. It can play a stellar role.

Date:11-10-18

बोर्डरूम के फर्नीचर से भी स्थायी हैं स्वतंत्र निदेशक

श्यामल मजूमदार

जोखिम प्रबंधन समितियों से यह अपेक्षा रहती है कि वे किसी भी संगठन की जोखिम उठाने की क्षमता का आकलन करें और कारोबार में जोखिम और प्रतिफल के बीच समुचित संतुलन साधने के लिए समुचित कदम भी सुनिश्चित करें। हालांकि इसकी बैठक की आवृत्ति को लेकर कोई नियामकीय आदेश नहीं है, फिर भी आईएलऐंडएफएस की जोखिम प्रबंधन समिति की पिछले दो साल में एक भी बैठक नहीं होना बेहद असामान्य है। ऐसा तब हुआ जब ढांचागत परियोजनाओं के लिए वित्त मुहैया कराने वाली इस कंपनी की सेहत गिरने को लेकर लगातार चेतावनी भरे संकेत आ रहे थे।

आईएलऐंडएफएस का समेकित कर्ज वर्ष 2017-18 में 910 अरब रुपये हो चुका था। वैधानिक लेखा परीक्षक ने अपनी समीक्षा रिपोर्ट में बोर्ड का ध्यान ‘कंपनी की क्षमता पर भौतिक अनिश्चितता का दौर रहने से चिंता कायम रहने’ और ‘फंड जुटाने के लिए प्रबंधन योजना’ का उल्लेख किया था। फिर भी भारतीय जीवन बीमा निगम के प्रबंध निदेशक हेमंत भार्गव की अगुआई वाली जोखिम प्रबंधन समिति को किसी भी तरह का जोखिम नहीं नजर आया। इस समिति में संयुक्त प्रबंध निदेशक एवं सीईओ अरुण के साहा, मारुति सुजूकी के चेयरमैन आर सी भार्गव और पूर्व जहाजरानी सचिव माइकल पिंटो भी शामिल थे।

यह महज एक उदाहरण है जो दिखाता है कि आईएलऐंडएफएस का बोर्ड अपने दायित्वों के निर्वहन में किस कदर नाकाम रहा। इसका नतीजा यह रहा कि विविध शेयरधारिता और एक पेशेवर सीईओ की मौजूदगी को प्रवर्तक द्वारा संचालित कंपनी की तुलना में अधिक कारगर मानने की परंपरागत धारणा को तगड़ा झटका लगा है। यह संकटग्रस्त कंपनी और 30 वर्षों तक उसके सीईओ रहे शख्स ने इस धारणा को हमेशा के लिए बदलकर रख दिया है। संभवत: लंबे समय तक किसी कंपनी की कमान संभालने वाले सीईओ यह भूल जाते हैं कि वह कंपनी उनकी निजी जागीर नहीं है। अब तक यह साफ हो चुका है कि रवि पार्थसारथि ने बोर्ड के समर्थन से हद से ज्यादा बड़ी भूमिका तैयार कर ली थी। बोर्ड भी हमेशा उनकी पसंद पर ही दांव लगाता रहा। कथित स्वतंत्र निदेशकों और नामांकित निदेशकों ने भी इस दौरान मूकदर्शक की भूमिका निभाई जबकि उनसे शेयरधारकों के हितों का ध्यान रखने की अपेक्षा रहती है।

कंपनी मामलों के मंत्रालय ने राष्ट्रीय कंपनी कानून अधिकरण (एनसीएलटी) में आईएलऐंडएफएस के 10 पूर्व बोर्ड सदस्यों के खिलाफ जो आरोप लगाए हैं वे काफी आश्चर्यजनक हैं। हालांकि यह नहीं मालूम है कि इस आरोपपत्र में नामित निदेशकों को क्यों बख्श दिया गया है? वैसे आरोप लगाने भर से दोष साबित नहीं हो जाता है लेकिन इनसे आईएलऐंडएफएस के संचालन का जिम्मा उठाने वाले कुछ बेहद सम्मानित नामों के बारे में दुखद अहसास होता है। आईएलऐंडएफएस मामले में दायर अर्जी में इन सभी लोगों को घोर लापरवाही बरतने और अपने भ्रामक इरादे पर पर्दा डालने के लिए जिम्मेदार बताया गया है। याचिका के मुताबिक बोर्ड के सदस्यों ने कंपनी के नकदी प्रवाह और भुगतान दायित्वों के बीच गहरा असंतुलन होने की बात छिपाने की कोशिश की। मंत्रालय ने कंपनी प्रबंधन पर कर्ज चुकाने की क्षमता से जुड़ी भौतिक सूचनाएं जानबूझकर छिपाने का भी आरोप लगाया है। एनसीएलटी में दायर अर्जी के मुताबिक ‘ऊंचे पारिश्रमिक और भत्तों की अधिक निकासी के जरिये कंपनी से फंड भी व्यवस्थित तरीके से निकाला जाता रहा है।’ इनमें से कुछ आरोप कंपनी अधिनियम 2013 की धारा 447 के तहत धोखाधड़ी की परिभाषा में भी रखे जा सकते हैं।

कुप्रबंधन के आरोपों को नकार पाना मुश्किल है। जरा इस तथ्य पर गौर कीजिए: आईएलऐंडएफएस समूह ने वित्त वर्ष 2017-18 की समेकित बैलेंस शीट में 26.7 अरब रुपये का घाटा दिखाया है। कंपनी के पास 69.5 अरब रुपये की इक्विटी पूंजी और आरक्षित निधि का आधार था लेकिन इसका 13 गुना लीवरेज लेते हुए 910 अरब रुपये की उधारी ली गई थी। व्यवस्थागत रूप से अहम गैर-जमा के लिए जोखिम-भरी परिसंपत्ति का पूंजी अनुपात (सीआरएआर) 15 फीसदी होने पर इस कंपनी का लीवरेज अनुपात छह-सात गुना होता। वहीं विशुद्ध निवेश कंपनी का सीआरएआर 30 फीसदी होता तो लीवरेज तीन से चार गुना तक होता। वर्ष 2017-18 के अंत में आईएलऐंडएफएस की कुल ऋणग्रस्तता करीब 164.6 अरब रुपये रही।

मुद्दा यह है कि इस अवधि में कंपनी बोर्ड के स्वतंत्र निदेशक क्या कर रहे थे? सेबी के पूर्व चेयरमैन एम दामोदरन कहा करते थे कि कंपनियों के बोर्ड में कुछ लोग आते हैं और फिर स्थायी बनकर रह जाते हैं। कभी-कभी तो ये सदस्य बोर्डरूम में रखे फर्नीचर से भी अधिक स्थायी हो जाते हैं। असल में, भारतीय कॉर्पोरेट प्रशासन में एक बड़ी कमजोरी यह है कि इसमें पुराने दोस्तों या प्रबंधन के सहयोगियों या पुराने सीईओ को स्वतंत्र निदेशक के तौर पर नियुक्त करने की अनुमति मिली हुई है। भारतीय कंपनियों में बहुतेरे स्वतंत्र निदेशक ऐसे हैं जिन्हें चेयरमैन या सीईओ ने नामांकित किया है। वे लोग पीजी वोडहाउस की कहानी ‘द नॉडर’ के चरित्रों की तर्ज पर बोर्ड की बैठकों में सिर हिलाने की ही भूमिका निभाते हैं। जब भी चेयरमैन कुछ कहते हैं तो ये लोग सहमति में सिर हिलाने लगते हैं। इसके जरिये नियुक्त हुए निदेशक नियंत्रक शेयरधारकों की नजर में खुद को लचीला और सहयोगी के तौर पर पेश करना चाहते हैं। आईएलऐंडएफएस के बोर्ड में शामिल बड़े-बड़े नाम भी इसका अपवाद नहीं थे।

Date:11-10-18

तापमान घटाने की चेतावनी नहीं सुनी तो तबाही तय

संपादकीय

संयुक्त राष्ट्र की इंटरगवर्नमेंटल पैनल ऑन क्लाइमेट चेंज(आईपीसीसी) ने धरती को गर्मी से बचाने के लिए उसकी तापमान वृद्धि को 2 डिग्री की बजाय 1.5 डिग्री सेल्सियस तक सीमित रखने की अंतिम चेतावनी दे दी है। अगर दुनिया इस चेतावनी को नहीं सुनती है और 2100 तक 2 डिग्री के लक्ष्य को मानकर चलती है तो उसके गंभीर परिणाम भुगतने होंगे। हालांकि, इस बात की संभावना कम ही है कि इस साल दिसंबर के महीने में पोलैंड में होने जा रहे जलवायु सम्मेलन में कोई ठोस उपाय निकलेगा। आईपीसीसी ने कह दिया है कि पिछले 150 वर्षों में धरती के तापमान में होने वाली वृद्धि अगले 12 वर्षों में ही 1.5 डिग्री तक पहुंचने वाली है। हो सकता है उसमें थोड़ा और समय लगे तो वह समय भी 2050 तक ही होगा। अभी पेरिस समझौते के तहत तापमान घटाने का लक्ष्य 2075 तक रखा गया और उसमें भी 2 डिग्री तक की सीमा सहने लायक माना गया है। उस संदर्भ में मौजूदा रिपोर्ट पेरिस समझौते के सारे अनुमान पर नए सिरे से विचार की चुनौती पेश करती है और उस समझौते से अलग हुए अमेरिका जैसे देश पर और भी दबाव बनाती है। इस रिपोर्ट को भारत समेत दुनिया के सभी देशों ने माना है और अमेरिका ने भी स्वीकार किया है।

हालांकि, उसने इसकी संपुष्टि नहीं की है। रिपोर्ट के अनुसार अगर हम तापमान का बढ़ना नहीं रोक सके तो धरती पर सूखा पड़ेगा, बाढ़ आएगी, गर्म हवाओं के जानलेवा झोंके चलेंगे और हमारे ग्लेशियर पिघल जाएंगे। समुद्र का पानी और खारा हो जाएगा और देश के रूप में मौजूद कई द्वीप डूब जाएंगे। अगर हम तापमान को 1.5 डिग्री सेल्सियस की वृद्धि पर रोक लें तो 8 प्रतिशत पादप व 4 प्रतिशत प्राणि प्रजातियां बचा सकेंगे। इसी तरह समुद्र से पकड़ी जाने वाली 15 लाख टन मछलियों का फायदा होगा और मक्के की फसल का भी चार प्रतिशत हिस्सा बचाया जा सकेगा। इस महज 0.5 डिग्री सेल्सियस की कमी के 42 करोड़ लोग लू से बचाए जा सकेंगे। इसके लिए हमें अपनी ऊर्जा प्रणाली पर 2.4 खरब डालर सालाना खर्च करना होगा। यह राशि बहुत बड़ी नहीं है बल्कि दुनिया के मौजूदा जीडीपी का सिर्फ 2.5 प्रतिशत है। इसके बावजूद सवाल यह है कि दुनिया के अमीर देश इस पर ध्यान देंगे? क्योंकि उन्हें ग्रीन क्लाइमेट फंड में 2020 तक 100 अरब डॉलर सालाना देना था और उन्होंने अभी सिर्फ उसका 10 प्रतिशत ही दिया है।

Date:11-10-18

राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा से जुड़ा प्रसंग राफेल सौदा न्यायिक समीक्षा के लिए सुप्रीम कोर्ट पहुंचा

सरकार को इस सौदे के खिलाफ हो रहे दुष्प्रचार की काट के लिए अपने स्तर पर सक्रियता दिखानी ही चाहिए।

संपादकीय

एक जनहित याचिका के माध्यम से राफेल सौदा सुप्रीम कोर्ट तक पहुंचना कोई अच्छी बात नहीं, क्योंकि यह राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा से जुड़ा प्रसंग है। ऐसे मामले न्यायिक समीक्षा का हिस्सा न ही बनें तो बेहतर, लेकिन अगर राफेल सौदा सुप्रीम कोर्ट तक पहुंचा तो इसके लिए एक हद तक सरकार भी जिम्मेदार है। जब वह यह अच्छे से देख-समझ रही थी कि कुछ विपक्षी नेता और खासकर राहुल गांधी इस मसले को जरूरत से ज्यादा तूल देने और चुनावी मुद्दा बनाने मेंं जुटे हुए हैैं तब फिर उचित यही था कि वह ऐसे कोई उपाय करती जिससे कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष दुष्प्रचार अभियान जारी रखने से बाज आते।

चूंकि इस मामले में उसने तत्परता नहीं दिखाई इसलिए पहले यह हवा बनाई गई कि मोदी सरकार ने एक महंगा सौदा कर लिया है और फिर यह साबित करने की कोशिश की जाने लगी कि सरकारी कंपनी एचएएल की अनदेखी कर अनिल अंबानी की कंपनी रिलायंस डिफेंस को फायदा पहुंचाया गया। राहुल गांधी इस काम में अभी भी जुटे हुए हैैं और इस क्रम में वह प्रधानमंत्री पर अमर्यादित टिप्पणियां करने के साथ ही सतही जुमलेबाजी भी कर रहे हैैं। सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने जिस तरह केवल ��ाफेल विमान की खरीद प्रक्रिया से संबंधित जाानकारी ही सरकार से मांगी उससे यही संकेत मिल रहा है कि वह राहुल गांधी और अन्य नेताओं की ओर से उछाले जा रहे ऐसे आरोपों को महत्व देने के लिए तैयार नहीं कि राफेल सौदा एक महंगा सौदा है और इस सौदे से सरकारी खजाने को नुकसान पहुंचा है।

फिलहाल यह कहना कठिन है कि राफेल विमान खरीद का मसला सुप्रीम कोर्ट तक पहुंचने के बाद इस सौदे के बहाने अपनी राजनीति चमकाने की कोशिश करन वालों पर कोई लगाम लगती है या नहीं, लेकिन इतना अवश्य है कि सरकार को केवल अदालती फैसले का इंतजार करते हुए नहीं दिखना चाहिए। इसलिए और भी नहीं, क्योंकि विपक्ष ने राफेल सौदे को एक राजनीतिक और चुनावी मसले में तब्दील कर दिया है। सरकार को इस मामले को राजनीतिक स्तर पर भी निपटाना होगा। यह सही है कि संवेदनशील रक्षा सौदों की तरह राफेल सौदे के भी कुछ गोपनीय प्रावधान हैं, लेकिन इसका कोई औचित्य नहीं कि इसके चलते सरकार रक्षात्मक रवैये का परिचय देती नजर आए।

समझना कठिन है कि राफेल सौदे पर सरकार के नीति-नियंताओं ने रक्षा संबंधी मामलों की संसदीय समिति अथवा अन्य किसी जरिये गैर-कांग्रेसी विपक्ष को भरोसे में लेने का काम क्यों नहीं किया? चूंकि यह सेना की प्रतिष्ठा से जुड़ा मामला है इसलिए सरकार को राफेल विमान बनाने वाली कंपनी और साथ ही फ्रांस सरकार से संपर्क करके उन सूचनाओं को सार्वजनिक करना चाहिए था जिससे गोपनीय जानकारी बाहर भी न आने पाती और साथ ही उन आरोपों की हवा भी निकलती जिसके तहत यह माहौल बनाया जा रहा है कि सरकारी कंपनी की अनदेखी कर एक निजी कंपनी को फायदा पहुंचाने का काम किया गया अथवा जरूरत से कम विमान खरीदे गए। राफेल सौदे पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट का निष्कर्ष कुछ भी हो, सरकार को इस सौदे के खिलाफ हो रहे दुष्प्रचार की काट के लिए अपने स्तर पर सक्रियता दिखानी ही चाहिए।

Date:10-10-18

परंपरा बनाम कानून

संपादकीय

सबरीमाला मंदिर में महिलाओं के प्रवेश के मसले पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फैसले के बाद उपजे हालात इसका ताजा उदाहरण हैं कि धार्मिक मामले और उनसे जुड़ी मान्यताएं कैसे देश की संवैधानिक व्यवस्था और कानून के सामने मुश्किल खड़ी कर देती हैं। हाल में जब सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने सबरीमला मंदिर में हर आयु-वर्ग की महिलाओं के प्रवेश के पक्ष में फैसला सुनाया तो उसे महिलाओं की बराबरी के हक में एक बेहद प्रगतिशील पहल के रूप में देखा गया। यों भी, हर धार्मिक मान्यता के मुताबिक ईश्वर की अवधारणा में सभी मनुष्यों को समान माना गया है। फिर सबरीमला में स्थापित भगवान अयप्पा की पूजा-अर्चना के मामले में सदियों से यह भेदभाव किस आधार पर कायम था? धार्मिक मान्यता या आस्था का हवाला देकर किसी परंपरा को सही ठहराने की कोशिश की जा सकती है। लेकिन इस मान्यता के साथ क्या किसी परंपरा में सभी को बराबर न मानने को सही कहा जा सकता है?

इसी तरह के तमाम सवालों की वजह से महिलाओं के एक बड़े तबके ने यह मांग उठाई थी कि सबरीमला मंदिर में हर आयुवर्ग की स्त्रियों को समानता के आधार पर प्रवेश का अधिकार मिलना चाहिए। लंबी अदालती लड़ाई के बाद इस मसले पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट के एक पीठ ने एक के मुकाबले चार जजों के बहुमत के फैसले के साथ ही सबरीमला मंदिर में सभी आयुवर्गों की महिलाओं के पूजा-अर्चना करने को अधिकार माना। जाहिर है, अब राज्य सरकार और मंदिर के प्रबंधन पर निर्भर था कि वह महिलाओं को लेकर चले आ रहे भेदभाव को व्यवहार में खत्म कराने के अदालत के फैसले पर अमल सुनिश्चित कराए। लेकिन विडंबना यह है कि धार्मिक मान्यताओं को बिना किसी प्रश्न के मानने की मानसिकता के कारण न केवल महिलाओं का एक समूह इस फैसले के विरोध में सड़क पर उतर आया, बल्कि वहां के कुछ राजनीतिक दलों ने भी इसे धार्मिक मामलों में अदालत का गैरजरूरी दखल बता कर इसे मुद्दा बना लिया। नतीजतन, इस फैसले की समीक्षा के लिए याचिका दायर करने के लिए दबाव बनने लगा। हालांकि केरल के मुख्यमंत्री ने साफतौर पर सरकार की ओर से पुनर्विचार याचिका दाखिल करने इनकार किया और कहा कि वह अदालत के फैसले को लागू करेगी। लेकिन विडंबना है कि आस्था और संस्कृति की दलील पर भेदभाव पर आधारित पुरानी परंपरा को बनाए रखने की मांग की जा रही है। सवाल यह है कि इस मसले पर पुनर्विचार याचिका दाखिल करने वाला राष्ट्रीय अयप्पा श्रद्धालु एसोसिएशन अगर सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फैसले को ‘तर्कहीन और समर्थन से परे’ मानता है तो पांच से पचास साल उम्र की महिलाओं के साथ मंदिर में प्रवेश के मामले में भेदभाव क्या तर्क पर आधारित मान्यता है ?

अलग-अलग धर्म के तहत प्रचलित मान्यताओं में कई ऐसी परंपराएं भी आम जनजीवन का हिस्सा हो जाती हैं, जो कई बार मानवीय दृष्टि से अस्वीकार्य होती हैं। एक सभ्य और विकासमान समाज समय-समय पर उन पर विचार करता है, अपने बीच पनप आई कुरीतियों को दूर करता है और अपने धर्म और मत को ज्यादा से ज्यादा बराबरी पर आधारित और मानवीय बनाता है। इस लिहाज से सबरीमला मंदिर में प्रवेश की पुरानी मान्यता का पालन करने वाले लोगों को सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फैसले पर गौर करना चाहिए, जिसमें उसने इस संदर्भ में भेदभाव पर आधारित परंपरा को खत्म करने का पक्ष लिया है। दूसरी ओर, राज्य के जो राजनीतिक दल इसे परंपरा और संस्कृति पर चोट बता कर इसके विरोध में माहौल बना रहे हैं, उन्हें भी देश के संविधान का सम्मान करना चाहिए और सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फैसले का आशय समझना चाहिए।

Date:10-10-18

Herstory

As Indian women sharpen a language to express their violations, Indian society and institutions must listen

Editorial

A long silence is over. Women are calling out sexual predators, past and present, in India’s entertainment and media industries. They are doing so by curating spreadsheets of serial abusers, marshalling screenshots and private conversations. Their accounts of abuse reveal a toxic, patriarchal culture so ingrained as to be inevitable, and so endemic that it empowers educated, accomplished men with not empathy, but impunity. Several men in positions of authority, from woke filmmakers to stand-up comics and powerful editors and journalists, now stand accused of abuse of power, of treating women’s bodies as spoils of their success — and not as equal co-workers and friends, whose consent or comfort matters. The voices add up to a crescendo of rage, trauma and anguish that is disturbing, insistent — and wholly welcome.

If, to many men, this appears as an anarchic principle set loose, it is because they have been cushioned so far by privilege. Sexual assault is a universal female experience, but justice is rare. The burden of suffering and surviving sexual trauma has been of the woman alone — by moving on, or living to fight another day, by accepting emotional, verbal and physical abuse as the normal. The wave after wave of accounts naming and shaming men — with all the questions that this raises — are a response to a system that is utterly broken. In India, it began a year ago, soon after a New York Times investigation exposed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, when law student Raya Sarkar published a crowd-sourced list of 50 academics, accusing them of sexual harassment. Taken together, these two exposes represent a paradigm shift in the way a new generation of women conceives of feminist struggle. If anything, the fire that has been lit by these women needs to spread further — to regional media, start-up cultures riddled by the bro code or the unorganised sector where the weakest of women battle the most unequal working conditions. It is also a measure of what is surely to come — as more Indian women are educated and push their way into the workforce, into universities, colleges, factories and offices, they will demand change, safety, equality on their terms.

All struggles for equality are, in essence, an attempt by the disenfranchised to create an alternative language, one that articulates their oppression. For aeons, women have sensed but not articulated a harsh truth — patriarchy turns the men in their lives into their intimate enemy. This is even more true of the institutions that men help shape and control. But this moment could be a tipping point. As Indian women sharpen a language to express their violations, Indian society and institutions must listen, accept their complicity in the pervasive injustice that has gone on so far, and find a way to detoxify their spaces. This is going to be a long, fraught journey. But there is no option but to walk down this uncharted terrain.

Date:10-10-18

Target 1.5

Time is running out to keep global warming below 1.5°C since pre-industrial era levels

EDITORIAL

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has come out with a clear scientific consensus that calls for a reversal of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, to prevent severe harm to humanity in the decades ahead. World leaders have been looking for greater clarity on the impact of accumulating emissions on climate. The IPCC’s special report on global warming of 1.5°C, prepared as a follow-up to the UN Paris Agreement on Climate Change, provides the scientific basis for them to act. There is now greater confidence in time-bound projections on the impacts of climate change on agriculture, health, water security and extreme weather. With sound policies, the world can still pull back, although major progress must be achieved by 2030. Governments should achieve net zero CO2 addition to the atmosphere, balancing man-made emissions through removal of CO2. There is public support for this and governments must go even beyond what they have committed to. The Paris Agreement aims to keep global temperature rise in this century well below 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the increase even further, to 1.5°C. The IPCC makes it clear that the human and economic costs of a 2°C rise are far greater than for 1.5°C, and the need for action is urgent. Human activity has warmed the world by 1°C over the pre-industrial level and with another half-degree rise, many regions will have warmer extreme temperatures, raising the frequency, intensity and amount of rain or severity of drought. Risks to food security and water, heat exposure, drought and coastal submergence all increase significantly even for a 1.5°C rise.

India, Pakistan and China are already suffering moderate effects of warming in areas such as water availability, food production and land degradation, and these will worsen, as the report says. Closer to a 2°C increase, these impacts are expected to spread to sub-Saharan Africa, and West and East Asia. The prognosis for India, of annual heatwaves by mid-century in a scenario of temperature increase in the 1.5°C to 2°C range, is particularly worrying. There is evidence to show it is among the regions that would experience the largest reductions in economic growth in a 2°C scenario. These are clear pointers, and the sensible course for national policy would be to fast-track the emissions reduction pledges made for the Paris Agreement. The commitment to generate 100 GW of solar energy by 2022 should lead to a quick scale-up from the 24 GW installed, and cutting down of coal use. Agriculture needs to be strengthened with policies that improve water conservation, and afforestation should help create a large carbon sink. There is a crucial role for all the States, since their decisions will have a lock-in effect.

Date:10-10-18

Another warning on warming

The new IPCC report makes it clear that the path forward offers no simple or easy solutions

Sujatha Byravan is a scientist who studies science, technology and policy

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released a special report on global warming of 1.5°C over pre-industrial temperatures. Produced speedily, it provides details on how the global response to climate change needs to be strengthened within the broader context of sustainable development and continuing efforts to eradicate poverty. The impacts of 1.5°C of warming and the possible development pathways by which the world could get there are its main focus.

It was in 2015, at the Paris climate conference, that the global community made a pact to pursue efforts to limit warming to within 1.5°C — half a degree below the previous target of 2°C. With the increase in extreme events and the very survival of small islands at stake, the lower limit was greeted then with surprise and enthusiasm.

For most people, the difference between 1.5°C and 2°C may seem trivial when daily temperatures fluctuate much more widely. However, the reference here is to global average temperatures. Different regions of the earth will warm at different rates. For instance, the Arctic is already experiencing warming that is many times higher than the global average.

If nations do not mount a strenuous response against climate change, average global temperatures, which have already crossed 1°C, are likely to cross the 1.5°C mark around 2040. The window of opportunity to take action is very small and closing fast.

Ripple effects

Half a degree of warming makes a world of difference to many species whose chance of survival is significantly reduced at the higher temperature. At 1.5°C warming, ocean acidification will be reduced (compared to 2°C warming), with better prospects for marine ecosystems. There will likely be less intense and frequent hurricanes, not as intense droughts and heat waves with smaller effects on crops, and the reduced likelihood of an ice-free Arctic in summers.

Studies conservatively estimate sea levels to rise on average by about 50 cm by 2100 in a 2°C warmer world, 10 cm more than for 1.5°C warming. But beyond 2100, the overall assurance of much higher sea level rise is greater in a 2°C world. The risks to food security, health, fresh water, human security, livelihoods and economic growth are already on the rise and will be worse in a 2°C world. The number of people exposed to the complex and compounded risks from warming will also increase and the poorest — mostly in Asia and Africa — will suffer the worst impacts. Adaptation, or the changes required to withstand the temperature rise, will also be lower at the lower temperature limit.

The danger of crossing tipping points, or thresholds beyond which the earth’s systems are no longer able to stabilise, becomes higher with more warming. Such tipping points include melting of Greenland ice, collapse of Antarctic glaciers (which would lead to several metres of sea level rise), destruction of Amazon forests, melting of all the permafrost and so on.

Pathways and polices

The IPCC report identifies two main strategies. The first stabilises global temperature around the 1.5°C mark with limited overshoot and the second permits temperatures to exceed 1.5°C temporarily before coming back down. The consequences of the temporary overshoot would cause worse impacts than the first approach. To limit warming to around 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot, global net carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions need to decline by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 and reach net zero around mid-century. In comparison, to limit warming to just below 2°C, the reductions needed are about 20% by 2030 and reach net zero around 2075.

There are several mitigation pathways illustrated to achieve these reductions and all of them incorporate different levels of CO2 removal. Emissions need to peak early within the next decade or so, and then drop. These different methods will themselves involve various risks, costs and trade-offs. But there are also many synergies between achieving mitigation targets and fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals. To stay below 1.5°C, the transitions required by energy systems and human societies, in land use, transport, and infrastructure, would have to be rapid and on an unprecedented scale with deep emission reductions.

How is the remaining carbon budget, that is the room available in the atmosphere to safely contain more CO2, going to be shared among different countries? This is a difficult question to address, given the contentious nature of the negotiations. It has been reported, for instance, that the U.S. has been obstructionist in the deliberations in Incheon, South Korea, at the recent meeting to determine the final text of the report. The U.S. also reiterated its intent to pull out of the Paris Agreement.

Contributions from the U.S. and other rich countries to the Green Climate Fund and other funding mechanisms for the purpose of mitigation and adaptation are vital even to reach the goals of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) — commitments that each country made prior to the Paris conference. Even if all the NDCs are implemented, the world is expected to warm by over 3°C.

Disputes over the implementation of the Paris Agreement at numerous meetings depict the deep divides among rich countries, emerging economies and least developed countries. This special report poses options for the global community of nations, which they will have to contend with in Poland — the next Conference of the Parties. Each will have to decide whether to play politics on a global scale for one’s own interests or to collaborate to protect the world and its ecosystems as a whole. The path forward offers no simple or easy solutions.

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Top Engineering College in WEST BENGAL – List of Top 50 Best Engineering College in Bengal

  S.No College Name Entrance Place 1 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur IIT-JEE Kharagpur 2 National Institute of Technology, Durgapur AIEEE Durgapur 3 Jadavpur University- faculty of Engineering and Technology   North 24 Parganas 4 Bengal Engineering and Science University WBJEE (West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination) Shibpur 5 Kalyani Government Engineering College WBJEE Nadia 6 National Power Training Institute WBJEE Durgapur 7 Jalpaigudi Government Engineering College WBJEE Jalpaigudi 8 School if IT, WBUT (Formerly IIIT Calcutta) WBJEE Kolkata 9 Institute of Engineering and Management WBJEE North 24, Parganas 10 Heritage Institute of Technology WBJEE Kolkata 11 Asansol Engineering College WBJEE Asansol 12 West Bengal University of Technology WBJEE North 24, Parganas 13 College of Engineering and Management WBJEE Kolaghat 14 University Science instrumentation Centre, University of kalyani WBJEE Nadia 15 Techno India College of Technology WBJEE Kolkata 16 Netaji Subash Engineering College WBJEE North 24, Parganas 17 Haldia institute of Technology WBJEE Haldia 18 University Institute of Technology WBJEE Burdwan 19 Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology WBJEE Salt Lake City 20 St. Thomas College of Engineering and Technology WBJEE Kolkata 21 BP Poddar Institute of Management and Technology WBJEE Kolkata 22 Future Institute of Engineering and Management WBJEE Kolkata 23 MCKV Institute of Engineering WBJEE Howrah 24 Dr. BC Roy Engineering College WBJEE Durgapur 25 RCC institute of information and Technology WBJEE Kolkata 26 Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology WBJEE Serampore 27 Bengal College of Engineering and Technology WBJEE Durgapur 28 Narula Institute of Technology WBJEE Agarpara 29 Durgapur institute of Advanced Technology and Management WBJEE Durgapur 30 Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management WBJEE Kolkata 31 Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya WBJEE Pundibari 32 Bengal Institute of Technology and Management WBJEE Birbhum 33 Bengal College of Engineering and Technology WBJEE Durgapur 34 Guru Nanak institute of Technology WBJEE North 24, Parganas 35 Academy of Technology WBJEE Hoogly 36 Bengal Institute of Technology WBJEE Kolkata 37 Camellia Institute of Technology and Management WBJEE Hoogly 38 Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology WBJEE KOLKATA 39 IMPS College of Engineering and Technology WBJEE Nityanandapur 40 Government college of Engineering and Textile Technology WBJEE Berhampore 41 JOS College of Engineering WBJEE Kalyani 42 Institute of Technology and Marine Engineering WBJEE North 24, Parganas 43 Bankura Unnayani institute of Engineering WBJEE Bankura 44 Global Institute of Management and Technology WBJEE Kolkata 45 Camellia Institute of Engineering and Technology WBJEE Burdwan 46 Mallabhum Institute of Technology WBJEE Bishnupur 47 Seacon Engineering College WBJEE Howrah 48 Om Dayal College of Engineering and Architecture WBJEE Howrah 49 Institute of Engineering and Technology WBJEE Durgapur 50 Neotia Institute of Technology Management and Science WBJEE South 24, Parganas    

List of AICTE approved Colleges in West Bengal

  Alpaiguri Govt Engineering  College Dist Jalpaiguri Asansol Engineering College Vivekananda Sarani, Asansol. B.P. Poddar Inst. of Management. & Technology, Poddar Vihar, 137, Vip Road, Kolkata, Balagarh,   Hooghly Bankura Unayani Institute Of Engineering, Bhagabandh, Pohabagan Bengal Institute of Technology & Management (Sriniketan By Pass P.O. Doranda Near Santiniektan, Birbhum, West Bengal. Birbhum Institute of Engg. & Tech. (Post - Suri, Dist. Birbhum. West Bengal College Of Textile Technology Contonment Road Berhampore Murshidabad, Belur, Howrah Calcutta Institute Of Engineering & Management, I.T.I Tolly Gunge Campus 24/1a Chandi Ghosh Road Kolkata College Of Ceramic Technology ,73, Abinash Chandra Banerjee Lane, Belaghata Calcutta College of Engineering. & Management ,Township Dist Midnapore Haldia Institute Of Technology )P.O. Hatiberia, Haldia College Of Engineerig & Leather Technology  Block Lb, Sector Iii Salt Lake City Calcutta Dumkul Institute of Enginneering. & Technology  Mouza Ramna, Etbar Nagar, Basantapur, Mursidabad Mallabhum Institute of Technology Braja Radhs Nagar (Gopalpur) P.O. Gosainpur Dist Baukura224 Pgns West Bengal Murshidabad College of Engineering. & Technology, Banjetia, P.O. Cossimbazar Raj, Via Berahampore, Murshidabad, Engineering Institute for Junior Executives, M.B. Road , Dalalpukur, Howrah Future Inst Of Engineering & Management, Sonarpur Station Road Kamalgazi 24 Pgns,  Kolkata Gurunanak Institute Of Technology  157/F Nilganj Road Kolkata- 700058 Heritage Institute of Technology.  Chowbaga Road Anandpur P.O: East Kolkata Township Kolkata Hooghly Institute of Technology, Vivekananda Road, Hooghly Indian Statistical Inst 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Calcutta West Bengal Institute Of Engineering & Management  Salt Lake Electronics Complex, Sector V, Kolkata Institute Of Jute Technology  35, Ballygunj Circular Road, Calcutta Ramkrishna Mission Shilpamandir, Rajkrishna Kumar Street P.O. Belumath, Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology, Guptipara (Tengripara), University College Of Sciences & Technology 92, Apc Road, Calcutta University Of Calcutta 87/1, College Street, Senate House, Kolkata ,West Bengal West Bengal Survey Institute, Bandel, Hooghly   List of Pharmacy Colleges in West Bengal Approved by AICTE Gupta College of Technological Sciences Ashram More, G.T. Road, Asansol Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Institute Of Pharmacy Tatla, Roy Para,Po.& P.S Chakdaha Dist- Nadia, West Bengal   List of Colleges in West Bengal Approved by AICTE Engineering Institute for Junior Executives,M.B. Road , Dalalpukur, Howrah Hooghly Institute of Technology, Vivekananda Road-, Hooghly Ramkrishna Mission Shilpamandir, ,Rajkrishna Kumar Street P.O. Belumath, Belur Howrah Saroj Mohan Institute of Technology, Guptipara (Tengripara), Balagarh, Hooghly West Bengal Survey Institute, Bandel, Hooghly, Women’s Polytechnic Strand Road, Chandannagar Hooghly, Calcutta Women’s Polytechnic, 1/1/2, Gariahat Road (S) Jodhpur Park ,24 Parganas   Candidates who have the desire to get Engineering Degree in any of the Top 50 Engineering Colleges in West Bengal then you can acquire the Best BE/B.Tech/M.Tech colleges from here. To build a better career one must choose the best engineering college for their further studies as Degree of Engineering is one of the desirable degrees and candidates have to face competition for getting it. So candidates are suggested to don’t make any mistake and opt for the top 50 engineering colleges in West Bengal. Aspirants you can have a look on the Top 50 BE/B.Tech Colleges in West Bengal 2018 and also get the fee structure, address and official website from this single page. Top Engineering Colleges in Uttar Pradesh   Top Engineering Colleges in Kerla       Top Engineering Colleges in Delhi-NCR      Top Engineering Colleges in Pune       Top Engineering Colleges in Bengaluru   Top Engineering Colleges in Bengaluru       Top Engineering Colleges in Pune   Top Engineering Colleges in Delhi-NCR       Top Engineering College in Uttaranchal   Top Engineering Colleges in Hyderabad        Top Engineering College in Gujarat   Top Engineering Colleges in Chennai       Top Engineering College in Madhya Pradesh   Top BE/B.Tech Colleges In Himachal Pradesh       Top Engineering College in WEST BENGAL   Top BE/B.Tech Colleges In Pondicherry       Top Engineering College in Bihar   Top BE/B.Tech Colleges In Goa       Top Engineering Colleges in Rajasthan   Top BE/B.Tech Colleges In Chhattisgarh           Top Engineering Colleges in Haryana   Top BE/B.Tech Colleges In Odisha       Top BE/B.Tech Colleges In Assam   Top BE/B.Tech Colleges In Jharkhand   Read the full article

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What can we do in Covid-19 Pandemic-3 Steps to Live in Less and Be Happy - Raj Suri

First published on 28 Apr 2020

What can we do in Covid-19

Do we realise this might be the best time to recognise the value to live with less - to prioritise things which are really important to us ?

There is no doubt that the we are now in a new world, it is also the time to Consolidate ourselves, by that I mean to stabilise, to focus, and to reinforce the importance of what we really want & why - in our core.

Briefly, here are 3 things, I want to share with you, which can help us to take a step to consolidate ourselves in these times :

1 ) FEEL THE POSITIVE IN YOURSELF

2) WHAT CAN WE GIVE ( TO OTHERS )

3) LIVE IN THE PRESENT (CHERISH WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE)

- Raj Suri

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Looking forward to being one of the judges for the The BollyAus National Competition 2019 in Sydney - always great to meet new young Aussie Talent! As a talent mentor especially for Indian Australian youth in Australia, I know there is a lot of passion in the young Australians in Bollywood and other forms of creative expression and it is great to see first hand the talent for them to bring out their best live on stage in a competition right here in Sydney. I wish the young talent, organisers, and my fellow judges all the best for a great Bolly Aus Nationals 2019 in Sydney! 15 March 2019 Science Theatre UNSW. @bollyausnetwork Fellow Judges: Natasha Baweja @natasha_nb_dance_au Anisha Babbar Jyoti Shrestha Get Tickets and More Details on: http://www.BollyAus.com Raj Suri, Bollywood Talent and Personal Branding Mentor. Raj Suri Training Rajsuri.net/personal-branding https://www.instagram.com/p/Bux_ZvKnSBI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gcv2v87yyci0

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