The Muslim Ittehad United Front, formed last year, bagged four seats in Aurangabad Municipal Corporation polls.

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Isolated attempts to form an exclusive Muslim party have already taken shape in some parts of the country. The Muslim Ittehad United Front, formed last year, bagged four seats in Aurangabad Municipal Corporation polls. More significantly, Indian Muslim Congress Party (IMCP) won 27 out of 71 seats in Malegaon Municipal Corporation elections held nine months after the blasts that claimed 30 lives in 2006. The IMCP, formed by a cleric Mufti Ismail – who had played a significant role in maintaining peace after the September 2006 blasts – fought the elections on a development-oriented agenda.

But, other similar attempts have not had much success. Respected Shia leader Kalbe Jawaad’s attempt to forge a political outfit in the wake of Ajmal’s success in Assam came a cropper, though it was backed by the Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, Maulana Ahmad Bukhari. But Bukhari himself lost his clout by issuing an appeal in favour of the BJP during the 2004 Parliamentary elections. “Some people ignore the welfare of the community at large and instead are swayed by their own vested interests. We know the reasons for such acts and want the community to be aware of such gimmicks,” says Haroon Mojawalla, the head of Khair-e-Ummat Trust of Maharashtra.


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Pigeons have traveled 700 kms in 11 hours – faster than the Indian ‘express’ trains!

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Homeward ho!

For organisers, the time between January to March is suitable for these adventures. The preparations get underway in December itself, when training for the birds includes flight drills of up to 13 hours, and repeated practice to re-enter the loft at the master’s place. Only those pigeons that are able to meet these challenges get to contest in the races. Pigeons aged above between 6 months and 10 years are eligible entrants, though average racing career rarely exceeds three years. They are essentially vegetarians: nuts, wheat, soft flowers, green gram, corn etc keep them flapping fit for the long flights. Members spend Rs 500 per month on the diet of the birds.

Over the last few years KRPC has organised the race in many locations at Karnataka, the starting points being as far afield as Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamilnadu and Maharashtra. Last year, more than a 1000 pigeons proved their pluck in races conducted at Anantpur (Andhra Pradesh); Guntkal, Raichur, Gulbarga (Karnataka) and Wardha, Nanded (Maharashtra). This year, the races at Anantpur, Karnool, Shahad Nagar and Nanded have been accomplished. While the Wardha race will take place this month, the much awaited Bhopal race is scheduled for March. The one over the longest distance, the latter is to be conducted under the aegis of South Indian Federation of Racing Pigeon Club, so that both the constituent Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Club pigeons would jointly contest from Bhopal.


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And who knows maybe she will hit the jackpot and go on to work with King Khan, Shahrukh Khan soon?

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Girl on the go!

One lady who seems to be taking her career rather seriously is Ghajini’s female lead, Asin. Evidently so, her first co-star was the one and only Aamir Khan, and the next one is another Bollywood biggie, Sallu bhai! And who knows maybe she will hit the jackpot and go on to work with King Khan, Shahrukh Khan soon? An interesting point to note is that frivolous link-ups do not feature in her scheme of things, as she recently clarified that the only man in her life is her dad!


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Political honesty

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This refers to "A few good men & women" (TSI, Jan 19-25). A brilliant piece in an era of cash for query and bundle of note packets being exchanged to win the trust vote in the Parliament. This honest breed of politicians, cutting across party lines, not only survive but are sent to the Parliament by the electorates again and again, proving that honesty still pays. It goes on without saying that if you care for the people, they will, in turn, take care of you. Be sincere and simple. Raise people's problems and be with them in the good and the bad times. It's no surprise that the people electing them, rejecting money and muscle power, is a great step towards strengthening democracy in India. Hope, the numbers increase in the future.

Patap Kumar Nayak

Bhubaneswar


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Handicapped and welcome!

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An IT company regularly employs disabled persons

At a time when IT companies are sacking people, Laser Soft Info Systems (LSIS), a leading banking and financial services IT company, employs one hundred disabled persons among its 500 strong workforce. Suresh Kamath, MD, started LSIS in 1986. Within 20 years, it has grown and is teaching other companies a lesson in corporate social responsibility through its employment policy. This policy ensures right to employment to disabled persons as much as it does to able-bodied candidates.

At Valasaravakkam, before entering the office, one cannot miss rows of wheelchairs at the parking lot. Once inside the office, one witnesses employees on wheelchairs moving from one computer to the next on the office’s ground level which is designated to the disabled employees. Prakash, an employee, cannot walk since birth. He is working on developing a hospital management software. “After my BSc in computer sciences, I joined this company. My initial salary was Rs 5,000. Today, after four years, my salary has increased to Rs 25,000 per month. I’ve also managed to help four other disabled people get employment here,” he says with evident pride.


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Multiple(x) disorder! Therefore, the risk lay completely with the producer.

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The producer-multiplex owner conflict is hurting all

If 2008 turned out bad for the Indian film industry, 2009 is proving worse! The first quarter of the year is already over and there is only red splattered all over on bollywood balance sheets. Except for Raaz2 (which fared average), no bollywood film released in the first quarter of 2009, has done credit to the efforts of the clapperboys and costs. CC2C, Delhi 6, Tasveer 8x10 & many more flicks also met a similar fate, and if that wasn't enough, the tussle over revenue sharing, between multiplex owners and film producers, have made matters worse!

Currently producers get 40-48% of the ticket sales in the first week, a share which falls in consequent weeks. The producers are now asking for a 50% share throughout, irrespective of the films’ performance, budget, starcast et al. “Equal profit sharing is practised globally. So this is a fight for justice,” says filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. But Tushar Dhingra, COO, Big Cinemas, counters, “Before the advent of multiplexes, rent to the theatre owner was fixed irrespective of whether the movie was a hit or flop. Therefore, the risk lay completely with the producer. Now, the theatre owners also bear part of the risk.” So what has been the reaction from the producers? Well, no new release has happened in multiplexes since April 4, 2009, and for now, the producers have decided to stick to this decision until a 50-50 revenue sharing scheme is finalised.

So while on one end, the film producers and distributors are busy with the dogfight, flicks are taking the hits; the first casualty being Aa Dekhen Zara (ADZ) which was released only in single-screen theatres. The reason clearly being that the two parties couldn't arrive at an agreeable revenue sharing scheme for the film. So how much has the film suffered so far? As per estimates, ADZ has collected a petty Rs.2 crore at the box office. Now compare that with the collection of a small budget film like A Wednesday, released in September 2008, which milked between Rs.8-10 crore! “Had ADZ been released in multiplexes too, the collections would have been many times better,” asserts a media analyst. The success of any film today depends a lot on the multiplex audience.


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One can pay a visit to Hagia Sophia, the mosques and museums which are close to the hotel.

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Bon appétit: A variety of international cuisines as well as local delicacies can be savoured at Seasons Restaurant. Awarded the best hotel restaurant in Turkey, it has a glass-enclosed courtyard and an outdoor terrace to cater to different moods of the guests. Exotic beverages and a light lunch can be enjoyed at The Lounge.

Around the Corner: One can pay a visit to Hagia Sophia, the mosques and museums which are close to the hotel. Inspite of being situated away from the hustle and bustle of the city, all the major attractions of Istanbul are at a walking distance from the hotel.

From under the carpet: Luxury comes at a price and this holds true for Four Seasons Istanbul too. Make sure to check your pockets before you order for drinks at The Lounge or for the hotel taxi service, for they are exorbitantly priced. Also, do not expect picturesque views from the hotel rooms.

In essence: The hotel is dedicated to continuous innovation to keep pace with time and to the highest standards of hospitality. On a vacation, after a tired journey or after a long day spent visiting places in Istanbul, if one wants the luxuries fit for a king and the warm hospitality of a home, then Four Seasons Hotel it is!


Spriha Srivastava


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Winners show How to beat the pants off your competition in a downturn...

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First came the slowdown avalanche, they continued climbing... Then came the storm, they climbed further... Then came competitors criticising their weaknesses; but they’d reached the summit by then! B&E’s manish k. pandey & deepak r. patra closely analyse how the ‘best’ got the better of the ‘worst weathers’, and a lesson for those with ‘weak feathers’...

“Our greatest competition is with ourselves.” Or “Our greatest challenge is how to continue to provide value to our customers.” How often is it that you have heard our good ol’ CEOs utter these angelical words, and how many times have you believed them? We hear such statements, albeit rephrased in many different ways, just about all the time; and as far as believing them goes, all we can say is that being politically correct hardly remains a domain exclusive to politics!

That’s because there is no business establishment that can survive in this marketplace by just looking at the customer’s needs. A company has to view its entire business environment in a holistic context, and competition, in particular, has to be studied closely, all the time. Even as we speak, there are new competitive benchmarks being consistently set in every industry, and it’s quite obvious that all of them do not come from one company. There are precious few companies like GE, which develop benchmarks far ahead of the competition and can afford some complacence (even GE hasn’t been immune in fact!). And there are times when these benchmarks can make all the difference between winning and losing. So there is no reason to disbelieve the fact that if companies just focus on customers and turn a blind eye to competition, they are headed for testing times.

And economic slowdown is the mother of innovation. When the pie gets smaller, competitors search for newer ways to grab a greater share, and it becomes all the more important to outmanoeuvre them when and where it counts. But the key question is – what will work? What magical formula can a company use to win in the downturn, or even to insure itself better against future downturns?


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The Consumer Always Comes Last

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April 1, 2009 could well turn out to be a red letter day (due apologies to Prakash Karat) for Indian consumers. Following a directive from the Reserve Bank of India, you and I can withdraw money from any ATM anywhere in India without having Rs.20 to Rs.50 deducted from our accounts. Banks opposed it fiercely, even issuing threats that they will be reluctant to expand their ATM networks if they can’t impose ‘transaction’ charges. For a change, their lobbying efforts with the RBI have failed, and the latest move will be a huge convenience for Indian consumers.

This is a rare victory for the Indian consumer. Even now, banks have surreptitiously imposed such crazy conditions that an average bank account holder will, more often than not, pay extortionate charges. Take the little known policy whereby a bank account holder cannot access her own bank’s ATM more than thrice or four times a month without paying ‘transaction charges’. The banks say this is to discourage unnecessary crowding at ATM counters. Years ago, the same banks used the same logic to deny account holders access to a bank branch. Account holders were encouraged to use ATMs and actively discouraged (sometimes even prohibited) to use their own bank branch for basic transactions. Consumers were told then that unlimited access to ATMs will be better than waiting in a queue at a branch. But then, unlimited access to ATMs was soon restricted. This is just one example of how banks routinely fleece their consumers. Anyone with a credit card or a deposit in a private or multinational bank will have horror stories.

It is not just banks. Telecom companies, passenger car makers, FMCG companies, commercial aviation companies, insurance companies… just about any enterprise in India with an interface with a consumer ends up fleecing her. Sample a few more examples. A study found that more than 80% of the new electronic meters installed by a private electricity distributor in Delhi were so hi-tech that they ran faster than actual electricity consumption! Of course, the hapless consumer has to first pay an inflated bill and then argue because his power will be cut off otherwise. From out of the blue, private airport operators in Bangalore and Delhi started charging a Rs.200 plus fee from every passenger. This was never a part of the lucrative deals they had signed with the government. And yet, the Civil Aviation ministry – tasked with protecting the interests of the Indian air traveller – connived with private operators to loot the Indian consumer.

In theory, the Indian consumer can approach a consumer court for relief. But in practice, large companies and their battery of lawyers have made the process a frustrating grind for the consumer. Consumer courts were formed to ensure that cases can be settled without lawyers. That basic philosophy has become a joke. In any case, even if a consumer court passes an order favouring the consumer, other Indian courts now promptly – and distressingly – provide relief to the company. Very soon, consumer courts could resemble the average Indian court, where a case might be settled after the litigant has died.

Sure free access to ATMs is a great move. But without much, much more, it could well be an April Fool gesture!


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No surprises; it’s nationalism and not globalization that has created great nations over the years

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The secret of the Unicorn!

In fact, the time-line between the beginning of the First World War and the end of the Second World War and furtheron after it, has been the most intriguing period in terms of the transformation of nation states into nationalistic states. While four established empires – namely Russian, Ottoman, German and Austro-Hungarian – were washed away by the tides of the First World War, this period also witnessed the emergence of the violent form of ethnic nationalism which almost destroyed the world with the rise of the German Nazis and their fanatic obsession with the obliteration/subjugation of Jews and in fact anyone who – according to them – was not a pure Aryan.

Incidentally, the way Hitler galvanized a disparate Germany, which was humiliatingly defeated in the First World War, into a reckoning force vindicated the fact of how potent a force the war-cry to resurrect the lost pride of fatherland (or motherland) could be. Nazis became a spent force for good after the defeat of Germany in World War II, but ethnic nationalism continued. Oddly, that the Jewish State succeeded to an extent against all ‘odds’ and emerged as a pioneer in high end technologies is also proof of how nationalism drives the fanatic passion to not only survive, but consolidate and fortify. Had it not been for the ethnic pride and the quest to wipe the humiliation of the past, Japan and Germany wouldn’t have had such incredible resurrections (both economic and political) in just a few decades’ time to become the second and third largest global economies respectively, their decimation in the Second World War notwithstanding.


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