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A BYTE OF LIFE Monday, July 27, 2009

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THE DARK KNIGHT
Shooting to begin next year

FREE CIRCULATION Vol. 3 No. 140

In weekly
entrepreneurship
column ‘First
Innings’, Liffy
Thomas profiles
start-ups that
have faced the
ONE STEP AWAY heat due to
recession and
Sania Mirza reaches the final of
the Lexington Challenger, have found
signalling a good start to the ways to reinvent
long hard court season ahead themselves
» Page 09 » PAGE 03
02 NAMMA CHENNAI ERGO Monday, July 27, 2009

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HR and best practices


Two-day
NASSCOM HR
A real talent hunt Summit in city
Manoj from Amazon Development Centre
India and Uma of Nokia India bagged the
Mr. Ascendas and Ms. Ascendas titles ERGO CORRESPONDENT
respectively at the Ascendas Talent Hunt feedback@goergo.in
held recently.
The three-day event held in association with

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hennai will play host to the
Hello 106.4 FM at the International Tech NASSCOM HR Summit 2009
Park Chennai, saw about 40 IT companies on July 28 and 29 at hotel Le
coming together for three days of fun and Royal Meridien. The sum-
extravaganza. The talent hunt started with mit holds significance as 2008 has
contests in junk art and photography. R. been a turbulent year, with the
Ramesh of Lionbridge Technologies won economic slowdown and issues
first prize for creating a robot out of plastic around handling workforce mak-
bottles. Shanmugam of Amazon ing the role of HR more challeng-
Development Centre, India, bagged the first ing. This year the theme is
prize for his photograph ‘Candid Moments ‘Balancing the Board: Cost and pectation from HR heads and im- for creating a global workforce’;
with Colleagues’. Competencies’. portance of employer branding, ‘Looking into the future: Top five
The judges for the fashion show were ace The two-day event will be at- to name a few. HR practices to follow’; ‘Manag-
fashion designer Rehane, fashion stylist tended by industry bigwigs like Speakers Anand Pillai, senior ing Variable Pay: Approach and
Priya Rajesh, renowned theatre personality Som Mittal, president NASSCOM; vice-president, HCL Technolo- implementation case studies’ are
Varalakshmi Sarathkumar and Lee Fu Nyap, Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO and gies; Karthik N. Sarma, Chief Peo- some of the other topics for dis-
Senior Vice President, Ascendas India MD, Infosys Technologies; Sanjay ple Officer, WNS Global Services; cussion. The valedictory will be
Operations. Nine teams participated in the JOG, Group HR Head, Future and Prabir Jha, Senior Vice-Presi- presented by Subroto Bagchi of
show and Amazon Gangsters, the team Group; Ian Gore, HR Head, South dent and Global Chief, HR, Dr. MindTree on ‘Doing the right
from Amazon Development Centre, India, Asia, CITI; and Suresh C. Senapa- Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, thing: Making ethics a way of life’.
bagged the first prize. ty, Executive Director and CFO, will discuss how to assess em-
The events culminated with a dance Wipro, to name a few. ployees’ needs and their percep- Who can attend?
competition. The best dancers were Top industry heads will be tion of the company, what The summit can be attended
adjudged by John Britto of John Britto sharing insights on how the eco- engagement strategies can be by CEOs, senior HR professionals
Dance Studio and Satishkumar V.R., Vice nomic crisis has reshaped the in- worked out for employees on the and training and industry-acade-
President - Ascendas Chennai Operations. dustry, the most difficult bench and the top five drivers mia alliance heads.
Cobra Legal Solutions emerged victorious in decisions that leaders had to take that keep employees engaged. For further details log on to
the folk dance category and Sony and how they were handled, ex- ‘Going Global: Key imperatives www.nasscom.in
Imageworks bagged the first place in
western dance. ■

Table-top message

쒀 Students look at a banana leaf-shaped dining table on display at the two-day


‘Banana Festival’ inaugurated at Island Grounds, in Chennai on Saturday.
PHOTO: S.S. KUMAR
Monday, July 27, 2009
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Down but not out


Failures are backing of his father, in three
months after his venture with
friends had to be shut down.
common in “It is a real thrill to be in-
dependent. For me it was like
any business running 1,000 kms at a
stretch,” says Kalyaan.
but it His second venture, Hand-
sel, is five years old and last
is important year Kalyaan started his third
venture, Quads IT Solutions,
to learn lessons with two business partners.
“The difference between the
from a closure. first and third is that the for-
mer was with my close friends,
Stories of while the latter I met through
common friends. Everything
entrepreneurs is entrepreneurship has been
a stepping stone. You need to
who’ve keep on learning and chang-
ing,” says Kalyaan, who plans
moved on. to invest in more companies.

Exploring new markets


The economic slowdown is
another major challenge faced
by a large number of first-gen-
eration entrepreneurs. Hyde-
rabad-based start-up
OrderMonger, which closed
its operation in October 2008,
writes in its blog, “This deci-
sion has been taken predomi-

T
aking risk is part of any nantly due to non-viability of
business, but Kalyaan the business while maintain-
and his group of six Engi- ing the high service standards
neering classmates we intend to provide... We sin-
might not have realised that cerely appreciate the support
their debut venture failing and feel good that we were
would make them go different able to make a difference, so
ways. we are just sorry that we
It was at a time when the are forced to close
BPO industry was on an ex- down.”
pansion mode. The friends Everything is Similarly, the foun-
ran their office from a residen- ders of BookEasy, a
tial space to develop a soft- entrepreneurship Pune-based online
ware for HR firms, where it has been a stepping movie ticketing service
would track and tackle re- that shut its oper-
sumes. stone. You need to ations, are now focus-
“We ran the start-up for a keep on learning ing on Lipikaar, a
year and got three to four cli- single founder and poor loca- dia presence was language translitera-
ents, but that was the end of tion. Whatever the hiccups, funded by a leading VC, and changing tion. Similar go the sto-
the venture,” recalls G. Ka- some flow with the tide to see but post-crisis the fund- ries of start-ups like
lyaan Kumar, one of the foun- a slow growth while some ex- ing company gave a cold Ninemotion and
ders. “We realised that the plore a different market to shoulder. TripMela.
intelligent tracking system pursue their entrepreneurial “Our repeated attempts to fering. Around 400 dotcoms Naresh sums up lessons one
was ahead of the times and goals. engage the VC team was fruit- crashed, thanks to the short- must learn from their ven-
the market was not ready for less as the entire management sighted policies of VCs. Our tures: Never be naive and trust
it.” Dotcom ditch was changed out of a typical overseas founders were a VC or anyone, as when the
Matching the growing num- Naresh Kumar (name witch-hunting process and dumb-founded at the cavalier sky falls you stand alone; have
ber of start-ups is an equally changed) recalls his journey the new ones didn’t care. We treatment meted to very pro- a plan B; create alternate reve-
alarming number of compa- from launching a start-up in had a successful consulting ven IT professionals with solid nue streams or be very clear
nies that are shutting down. the U.S. to closing it down af- and development business background and international and get adequate funding and
A research by the U.S. Bu- ter the dotcom bubble burst to that had helped us sustain till recognition.” Any failure is make sure it is in the bank and
reau of Labor Statistics shows now opening his second ven- the funding and we were, as painful and if it results in the not on paper agreements;
that nearly six in 10 businesses ture, which is two years old in part of the term sheet, asked shutting of the business it can have at least six months cash
shut down within the first four Chennai. The founding team to completely shut down all even be a very demeaning reserve; think big and start
years of operation. There are comprising an Indian-Ameri- our business efforts and solely experience. with a small, manageable, de-
many reasons why a business can, a German and two Indi- focus on the project,” says Ku- monstrable step; never lose
fails – poor business plan, un- ans (both from IT field) were mar. Keep learning faith and keep envisioning
favourable market conditions, left mid-sea after the dotcom To add to the crisis was the Kalyaan, for example, your customer. ■
too much leverage, picking a crashed without any proper 9/11 incident, as most of their launched his second venture (First Innings is a weekly
niche that is small, breakup of communication. The “hori- business came from the U.S. in the real estate sector in column that celebrates the spirit
the founding team, having a zontal portal” with a pan-In- “We were not alone in our suf- Chennai, with the financial of entrepreneurship)
04 KALEIDOSCOPE ERGO Monday, July 27, 2009

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Personal Finance News


PAN Compulsory

Financial numbers to
If you are planning to buy a new insurance
policy or pay the premium for your life insur-
ance policy, you would be advised to quote
your PAN number.
In a circular to all Life Insurance companies
the IRDA has said that “It has been decided to

note and remember


mandate the requirement of PAN on all high
value insurance products. All Insurers are the-
refore advised to collect PAN from all persons
purchasing insurance products where the con-
tracted annual premium payable on the insur-
ance policies, per policy basis, exceeds Rs. 1.00
lakh.
Do you know your EPF account number? Or, at least,
CAP on the Charges Charged by ULIPS
In order to enable the customers to have a can you recall your 16-digit credit card number?
clear understanding of the product and to
comprehend various features of ULIPs, it is de-
cided that IRDA will prescribe one cap on all

R
emembering just our bank ac- account that he had with an MNC he accounts will be safe. All you need to
charges put together. This cap is expressed in count numbers is a challenge was working for in 2000. He has do is download certain forms from
terms of the difference between the gross and for many of us. With conve- worked in three other companies their website, fill them and submit it
net yield to the customer. The net yield is the nient tools like debit cards, since then. He has not transferred at the city where the account was
gross yield adjusted for all charges. For insur- cheques, automatic transfer of sala- any of his accounts to the next em- held earlier.
ance contracts which are of a tenor of less than ries, loan payments, bills and invest- ployer. He thought that since the ac- For a government organisation,
or equal to 10 years duration, the difference ments and, best of all, any-city counts would anyway continue to the process was very tech-savvy,
between gross and net yields shall not exceed banking, many don’t even have to grow he could make use of them convenient and smooth. But the ac-
300 basis points, of which fund management remember their main bank branch. when required. count number is required. And do
charges shall not exceed 150 basis points. The same is with credit card num- Now he needed cash and tried to you think our client had the num-
bers. Today any salaried person with contact his erstwhile MNC em- ber? As you guessed, no.
NCD from Shriram Finance
two years of work experience will ployer. Unfortunately for him, the Now we have to visit the city EPF
A Rupees 500 Crore Non convertible Deben- have, on an average, three credit company that he was working with office and dig through the files; now
ture by Shriram Transport Finance Company cards. Remembering their 16 digits? was taken over by one MNC, which this is going to take some time.
opens on the 27th of July and closes on the 14th Ha! later merged with another MNC. The The lesson for all of us is to at least
of August. The issue offers an interest rate of Do we remember our life insur- present management is headquar- record all our finance-related ac-
10.75 per cent to 11.50 per cent. It will offer its ance policy numbers? Or, at least, do tered in a different part of the coun- count numbers (not the PIN num-
investors five options and the tenure of the we have our agent’s number? And as try and they do not have details of bers – those we have to remember)
NCDs will be 3 and 5 years. salaried people do we know that we the past employees of the company and store them at some place. To-
The money raised from this issuance would have a number for our Employee they took over – quite naturally. They day’s mobile phones, a self-ad-
be used for the company’s lending business, to Provident Fund? suggested we contact the EPF office dressed mail, a traditional notebook,
meet working capital requirements, to repay This article was prompted by one directly for the withdrawal. the year’s diary… any of these could
existing loans and for meeting capital expendi- of our clients who wanted to close We talked to the EPF office direct- serve the purpose. A one-time effort
ture. one of his EPF accounts. This is an ly. They say the funds in any of their saves trouble later. ■
Monday, July 27, 2009
05
A
couple who own Moon-
Estates, the only British
franchise that selling
plots of moon land, have
revealed that their sales have
doubled with the 40th anni-
versary of the lunar landings.
Sue and Francis Williams,
who sell land on the Moon at
20 pounds per acre, say that
takings have hit the 6million-
pound mark.
The pair received the rights
to be deep space estate agents
from Dennis Hope, an Amer-
ican who laid claim to every
planet after exploiting a loo-
phole in the US legal system.
Sue and Francis, who start-
ed selling moon plots six years The couple also have
ago, have sold 500 acres this the rights to sell land
month, twice the usual figure,
making 10,000 pounds. on other planets
MoonEstates has now sold
around 300,000 acres, generat-
ing 6 million pounds.
However, 90 per cent of the
amount goes to Hope’s US
franchise.
“We had a massive surge of
extra orders due to the 40th
anniversary. There has been
so much talk of the landings
and Neil Armstrong,” The Sun
quoted Francis, 56, of St Aus-
tell, Cornwall, as saying.
Sue, 55, added: “The credit
crunch has helped because it’s
a nice fun present in a time of

Brit couple sell plots on


doom and gloom.”
Punters receive a parch-
ment deed from MoonEstates,
signed by Francis in his role as
Celestial Ambassador to the

m o o n
UK. But they have no legal
right or claim to the land.
According to Francis, plenty
of the moon’s nine billion
acres are still available. ■
ANI

NKorea gets first taste of burgers Breaking the ice


Koreans, reported at
the weekend.
The restaurant -
which serves burgers
made of minced beef,
fish or vegetables -
however does not call
them “hamburgers,”
Choson Sinbo said.
It the menu lists
“minced beef and
bread” or “minced fish
and bread” or “vegeta-

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hile North Korea has bles and bread,” all served to-
little appetite for “US gether with the Korean pickled
imperialism,” its peo- cabbage dish, kimchi, it said.
ple are finally able to The minced beef and bread
get a taste of that iconic Amer- costs 1.7 dollars, it said, a price
ican food the hamburger at exceeding half the average
the country’s first fast-food North Korean’s daily income.
restaurant. Choson Sinbo said in March
The Samtaeseong restaurant that North Korean leader Kim
opened in the capital Pyon- Jong-Il had also ordered the
gyang last month in coopera- opening of the country’s first
tion with a Singaporean firm, Italian restaurant in Pyon- 쒀 Male polar bear Yukio tries to eat vegetables inside a block of ice presented to
Choson Sinbo, a Japan-based gyang. ■ promote the German polar bear film Knut und seine Freunde and to help beat
newspaper for ethnic North AFP the summer heat at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo. PHOTO: AFP
06 VILLAGE ERGO Monday, July 27, 2009

Thousands of bees attend wedding


A pair of beekeepers were married recently in China wearing
outfits completely covered with thousands of living bees.

Last WW I soldier Harry Patch dead Coca-Cola to


Harry Patch, the last soldier to fight in the trenches of Europe during
World War I, died at the age of 111. launch fizzy
Patch fought at the notorious Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 - where an
estimated half a million troops perished - and is listed by the milk
dersdesders.free.fr website, regarded as an authoritative chronicle of This might come as a
veterans of the conflict, as the last World War I veteran to have served in shocker to the
the trenches. milkman or cows, but
Prince Charles added: “The Great War is a chapter in our history we must Coca-Cola are to
never forget, so many sacrifices were made, so many young lives lost. launch a range of fizzy
So today nothing could give me greater pride than paying tribute to milk drinks.
Harry Patch.” Trials of the new
AFP product - Vio - started
last month in New
York where it is being
marketed as a
LA octuplets to star in reality show refreshment drink, and
The mother of octuplets born in Los Angeles last January comes in four
has signed a 250,000-dollar-agreement for her children to “natural” flavours - peach mango, berry, citrus and
star in a reality television show, The Los Angeles Times tropical colada.
reported. It sells for about 1.50-pound a bottle, no chilling required.
The newspaper said a series of contracts filed with Los The drink contains skimmed milk mixed with sparking
Angeles Superior Court specifies the children will earn the water, flavoured with fruit and sweetened with cane
money over three years. sugar, reports The Times.
European production company Eyeworks has inked the deal It was developed by scientists at the firm’s laboratories in
with Nadya Suleman, the mother of the children. Eyeworks Atlanta, Georgia.
lists Breaking Bonaduce and The Biggest Loser among its One of Coke’s copywriters claims it tastes “like a birthday
television credits. party for a polar bear”.
Filming is scheduled to ANI
start on September 1,
the report said.
The toddlers will
collectively earn 125,000 Queen told financial wizards caused
dollars for 36 days of
shooting in the first meltdown
year of production, The reason why no one saw the global financial meltdown approaching
75,000 dollars for 21 was due to “a failure of the collective imagination of many bright
days in the second year people”, eminent economists told Queen Elizabeth II when she
and 50,000 dollars for questioned why no one predicted it coming. During a visit to the London
14 days in the third School of Economics in November, Queen Elizabeth had asked about the
year, the paper said. credit crunch, saying, “Why did nobody notice it ?”
Any extra shooting days The experts, in their three-page letter, said “financial wizards”
will be compensated at completely failed to “foresee the timing, extent and severity” of the
the same rate. recession, The Observer reported.
AFP PTI

Love not enough to make


a marriage work

L
ove has no major role to play in time. The study, entitled “What’s
keeping couples together. In Love Got to Do With It”, showed that
fact, the chances of a couple a quarter of partnerships and mar-
staying together are affected by riages will end within six years and
age, previous relationships - and half will be over within 25 years.
smoking. It also found that a husband who is
That’s the conclusion of a new nine or more years older than his wife
study, which was conducted by re- is twice as likely to get divorced, as
searchers at the Australian National are husbands who get married before
University. they turn 25.
To reach the conclusion, boffins Couples were twice as likely to split
spent six years monitoring 2,500 cou- if the wife had a much stronger pref-
ples who were married or living to- erence for children or for more of
gether, reports The Daily Express. them. Smoking and drinking rates al-
The study found that money so contributed to relationship break-
played a major factor in deciding down, the study found. ■
whether a couple stand the test of ANI

PHOTO: AFP
Monday, July 27, 2009
07
Websites of the day Airline passengers willing to stand
Find comical t-shirts for the extra large A survey conducted by Ryanair found that 66% of their passengers
http://www.fatguyshirts.com would be willing to stand on shorter flights if the fare was free,
Explore the fascinating world of art with this interactive site: and the concept of ’fare free standing’ flights are being explored
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateplayer further.

Parents police social


networking sites
I
f you are a teenager, be care- The number of friends you
ful who you talk to and what have on your list, how regular
you say on social networking you are with “status messages”,
sites - for papa and mama tagging photographs and
may be watching, sometimes uploading videos dictate how
with good reason. popular you are on the site.
Rakesh Kumar was worried Other applications like perso-
what his teenage daughter was nal quizzes, movie and music
up to on social networking site preferences give you an edge
Orkut. When he finally accessed over dormant profiles.
her profile, he was shocked to Samira Sharma, 42, said: “I log
find that she was in touch with in almost every night to find out
absolute strangers. Now he has who my daughter has been talk-
installed software to keep her in ing to. It was difficult in the be-
check. ginning to understand the whole
Rakesh’s 15-year-old daugh- process but now I am getting the
ter Akansha has around 2,500 hang of it.”
profiles on her friends list on Or- However leading psychiatrist
kut - a third of whom are people Samir Parikh feels that trying to
she has never met. keep tabs by making profiles on
“With the growing cases of the sites the children are using is
cyber crimes via these social not the best way.
networking sites, I decided to “There should be good com-
keep a tab on my daughter to munication between the child
find out what she was up to on and parents. Parents can’t con-
Orkut,” Rakesh said. trol what the children do online.
So he created a profile on Or- Parents need to educate chil-
kut and altered his privacy set- dren to take precautions,” Pa-
tings so that he could view rikh said. According to cyber
Akansha’s profile without her crime expert and Supreme Court
knowledge. advocate Pavan Duggal, young-
“I was shocked. My daughter sters are becoming more sus-
was spending long hours talking ceptible to crimes over social
to complete strangers. The first networking sites.
thing I made her do was to delete “Youths are becoming more
those strangers from her list and and more susceptible to com-
also assigned a software ‘Nanny’ mitting cyber crimes via social
that keeps a check on who she networking. The quantum of
chats with.” such crimes reported is very low
Rakesh is not alone - many - for every 500 cases that occur,
20 are reported and only one is
Parents are registered with an FIR. These are
conservative figures,” Duggal
apprehensive about said. He added: “Youngsters are
the dangers online. using anonymity for committing
worried parents are resorting to popular social networking site. war found a loophole - she add- crimes like impersonation, iden-
What tops their similar measures, which chil- “When I first got a friend re- ed her mother to her list but only tity theft, cyber stalking, defa-
fears is the dren feel is “an invasion of priva- quest from my mother, I ignored after changing settings to ‘limit- mation, misusing credit card
possibility of virtual cy”. it. I felt that would invade my ed view’. information and harassment.
Fifteen-year-old Shreya Tal- privacy. I didn’t want my par- Youngsters are also resorting Such sites are also conduits for
stalking and bad war was surprised when her ents to know what I am talking to other ways to get around piracy and a wonderful opportu-
company mother sent her a ‘friend re- about with my friends,” she said. snoopy parents, like using lingo nity for blackmailing.” ■
quest’ on Facebook, another To escape the surveillance, Tal- they don’t understand. IANS

A
Minnesota couple’s joyous ago. said the dance was her idea - and
wedding dance featuring In the five-minute video, ush- the only guests who were aware

Wedding the bride and groom boo-


gieing down the aisle to the
altar has become a web sensa-
ers, bridesmaids and groomsmen
shimmy down the aisle to the
strains of the Chris Brown song
of what was going to happen
were their parents.
The new bride said she has al-
dance tion, racking up millions of views
on YouTube.
Forever - and the surprise of the
guests gathered in the church.
ways “loved dance as a way to ex-
press yourself and share joy.” “It

video The dance sequence opening


the wedding ceremony of Kevin
Heinz and Jill Peterson in St.
The groom performs a somer-
sault on his way to the altar and
his hip-swaying bride receives a
was something I had always
thought about doing,” she said of
the bridal boogie.

goes viral Paul, Minnesota, has been


viewed more than 4.75 million
times since it went up on the vid-
standing ovation as she joins him
for the exchange of vows.
Peterson and Heinz, inter-
“I’m just glad I didn’t hurt my-
self,” Heinz said of his somer-
sault. ■
eo-sharing site less than a week viewed by NBC’s Today Show, AFP
08 SPORT ERGO Monday, July 27, 2009

Atwal misses cut


Even a flawless five-under 67 could not save Arjun Atwal as he missed the cut by a stroke in the rain-hit
RBC Canadian Open golf tournament in Oakville, Canada. The Orlando-based Indian, who was left stranded
at the 18th hole after lightening forced suspension of play in the second round, needed a birdie to be
inside the cutline that came at three-under. But he could only par the final hole.

Grand win
for Bhullar
A flawless final
round did the trick
as Gaganjeet
Bhullar became the
latest Indian with
Next big thing
Sathiyan happy to get Chinese recognition
an Asian Tour title
under his belt
when the 21-year-old Kapurthala golfer lifted the Indonesia
President Invitational title in Jakarta on Sunday.
Last week’s British Open experience seemed to have done a
world of good for the strapping youngster whose final
round of five-under 67 not only earned him his maiden
Asian Tour title but also made up for the heartbreak of
finishing runner-up in the event two years ago. Bhullar’s
four-day total of 22-under was two shots clear of Australia’s
Adam Blyth, who shot a 68 for the lone second place at
Damai Indah Golf - Bumi Serpong Damai course. Bhullar
also pocketed a cool $63,400 cheque for his exploits.
“I’ve got no words to describe how happy I am,” said
Bhullar, who was pipped by Filipino Juvic Pagunsan’s birdie-
eagle finish in 2007.
PTI

Indian pairs falter at final hurdle


India’s title hopes in the Australian Open Grand Prix
badminton tournament went up in smoke with both the
women’s and men’s doubles pair suffering crushing defeats
against their respective rivals to settle for the runners up
position. Top seed Indian men’s pair of Rupesh Kumar and
Sanave Thomas lost 13-21, 11-21 to second seed Malaysian
duo of Teik Chai Gan and Bin Shen Tan in just 26 minutes.
Similarly, the new-formed women’s doubles pair of Aparna
Balan and Shruti Kurian too failed to get past the last
hurdle, losing 13-21, 9-21 against the lesser known
Australian combination of Chia Chi Huang and He Tian
Tang.
PTI

Massa stable after operation PHOTO: R. RAGU


Ferrari driver Felipe Massa is in a “stable” condition after
undergoing emergency surgery for skull damage and
concussion, his team said on Sunday. The Brazilian was
struck by a piece of bodywork which flew off the rear of

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oung Indian paddler G. and other events in the recent the international circuit. “We
compatriot Rubens Barrichello’s Brawn car and crashed at
Sathiyan is slowly emerg- years that they are talking are learning a lot from the ex-
over 200kph in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix on
ing as one of the best in about me. It felt nice when the posure-cum-training tours
Saturday. Massa had initially suffered
the country and with his Chinese and Koreans greeted abroad and our performance is
“serious” injuries, according to
Chinese and Korean counter- me personally after meeting in also improving. One day we
Budapest’s AEK military hospital. But the
parts lavishing praise on him, Jaipur also. They asked me to will surely dethrone them from
Italian team revealed on Sunday: “After
the Chennai boy said he con- visit China again.” the top slot,” he said. The 12th
undergoing an operation Saturday
siders it as an achievement to Coach of China’s junior standard student of Kola Peru-
afternoon, Felipe Massa’s condition
be appreciated by the Asian gi- team, which is here to take part mal School, who is appearing
remains stable and there were no
ants. in the 15th Asian Junior Table in his 21st international meet
further complications through the night.
“The Chinese and the Ko- Tennis Championship, also here, is also confident about
He will be given another CT scan on
reans have now started identi- heaped praise on Sathiyan. making it to the final squad for
Sunday which will provide more precise
fying me as a threat to their “That boy (Sathiyan) is a good the 2010 Commonwealth
information.”
chances in any tournament I talent for India. I have seen his Games in Delhi next year.
The 28-year-old Brazilian – winner of 11 Grand Prix and the
play. This is a good achieve- game and I think, he has a “There is tough competition
world championship runner-up in 2008 – came off at Turn
ment for me given these two bright future if gets right op- but I would try my best to do
Four after being struck and was hit on the face and
countries are most respectable portunities,” Liu Heng, cadet that. I have to work on my top
momentarily concussed as his car skewed off the circuit and
powers in international table boys coach of China, said while spins and back hand shots.
into the tyre barriers. He was airlifted to hospital where he
tennis today,” country’s top ju- watching Sathiyan in action at I am also concentrating on
underwent surgery on his fractured skull. “The condition of
nior player Sathiyan said. “I the SMS Indoor Stadium. my physical fitness and need
the driver is serious, but stable,” a spokesman at the AEK
think, this is result of my con- 16-year-old Sathiyan feels some power trainings to im-
Hospital said on Saturday. Some media reports suggested
sistent performance and in Indian paddlers have it in them prove leg strength,” the 16-
the driver’s condition was “life threatening” but a Ferrari
general, India’s good show in to be considered as a serious year-old said. ■
spokesman denounced those claims as “bullshit.
the international Pro Tours threat to their neighbour’s in PTI
AFP
Monday, July 27, 2009
09

‘‘
I’ll be damn glad to see the back of 2009. On Friday I was in so much agony I had to call
the England medical team and ask them to come and give me something to combat it.
Yet whatever the physical pain, it’s nothing compared to the mental torture of the past week. To
be out of an Ashes series is terrible, so bad I can hardly put it into words.
Kevin Pietersen at missing the final three Ashes Tests

One step away


Sania one win away from
year’s first singles trophy
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I
ndia’s second-seed Sania Mirza and top-seed
Julie Coin have already etched their name in
the history books of the Lexington Challenger
by upholding their top billing in reaching
Sunday’s finals, a phenomenon that has never
happened in the tournament’s history.
In Saturday’s semi-finals, both showed the kind
of firepower and savvy that can help them climb
up the ranking ladder in the remaining half of
the season.
Sania the No. 2 seed in the challenger event
had a tough time against sixth-seeded Meng
Yuan and even lost the second set but eventually
rapped up the match 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. Ranked No. 85
in the world, Sania next faces world No. 62 Coin
who got the better of Kai-Chen Chang of Taipei.
Coin wasn’t fazed by the windy conditions at
the Boone Tennis Center and handled Chang
with relative ease, notching up a 6-2, 6-4 straight
set win. Speaking about her win, she said: “Chal-
lengers aren’t easy because girls not ranked are
hungry and moving up and I’m the one everyone
wants to beat. But I will play my game and my
goal for the end of the year is top 50 and then
maybe top 30.”
Sania, however, would be a tough nut to crack
in the final, with the Indian showing tremendous
grit and determination since coming back from a
nagging injury. Sania, who was ranked as high as
27 last year, hit some untouchable forehands,
crushed a few overheads and hit a swinging vol-
ley winner on match point against her Chinese
opponent which showed the crowd what a
top-30 player looks like.
With a score to settle against Meng Yuan, who
had beaten Sania in each of their last two meet-
ings, she blasted her way through the first set
6-1.
However, the inconsistency that has plagued
her career resurfaced, as she dropped a close sec-
ond set 7-5. The final set was another humdinger
as the Indian broke serve midway through the set
to pull ahead 4-2. However, Yuan fought back to
level the set at 4-4. Sania showed tremendous
courage raising the level of her play when it mat-
tered the most to pull off the match. “I’m feeling
good and I think I am hitting the ball clean,”
Sania said. “I just need to keep a positive frame
of mind and things will follow suit.”
Sunday’s meeting will be Coin and Sania’s first
ever clash on tour. Both girls have had a rather
ordinary year and will be looking for a win in an
attempt to gather some momentum for the long
hard-court summer ahead. ■
10 FLICK ERGO Monday, July 27, 2009

SRK buys 20-mln-pound apartment in London


Shah Rukh Khan has reportedly bought a 20-million-pound apartment in central
London’s posh Park Lane area, reports theasiannews.co.uk. The actor, who was
recently awarded a doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire for his
contribution to Indian cinema, is a regular visitor to the city.

‘The Dark Knight’ Pics of MJ’s first Moonwalk emerge


I ncredible pictures showing late King of Pop Michael
Jackson doing his legendary Moonwalk for the first time
in a friend’s living room have emerged.
According to a report accompanying the pictures, Jackson
spent hours studying the ankle, heel, and toes to “glide like

sequel on its way


he was on ice” across the stage.
His friend Dr. Steven Hoefflin has revealed that the late
hit-maker had once seen some children doing an unusual
“walking forward while moving backwards” dance in 1982.
He says that he even took the star to a dissection at UCLA
Hospital so that he could gain some understanding about
the anatomy of the feet.
“When you think of Michael Jackson, you think of the

C
hristian Bale is set to reprise his role as Bruce Wayne/ Moonwalk. That dance was Michael’s obsession and
Batman for the sequel of The Dark Knight next year. passion; we spent weeks practising in my living room,”
The actor confirmed he would don the Batsuit for the British tabloid The Sun quoted Dr. Hoefflin as saying.
third time though a production schedule was yet to be Michael finally unveiled his Moonwalk dancing to hit Billie
charted. Jean at the 25th Anniversary of the Motown concert in
His co-star Gary Oldman, who features as Commissioner Pasadena in May 1983.
Gordon in the hit series, made the revelation at the recent Dr. Hoefflin admitted he was “overcome with pride”,
annual Comic-Con in San Diego, California. saying: “Michael wanted to blow the world away with his
Actor Gary “The next Batman is shooting next year. It’s dance. He achieved that.” ■
at least two years away. But you didn’t hear ANI
Oldman it from me!” Contactmusic quoted him as
telling fans. ■
confirms ANI

A Michael Jackson fan


performs the Moonwalk

Denzel Washington to play


Barack Obama
A ctor Denzel Washington is reportedly set to play U.S.
President Barack Obama in a new film.
The Oscar-winning star had recently expressed his desire
to play the role of Obama in a film – but feared he would
be too old for the
role by the time a
picture could
eventually be
produced.
Now, according to
Britain’s Daily Mail
newspaper,
Washington has
landed the role of
the President, and
has the ultimate
endorsement for his
starring role.
“It was at the
President’s
suggestion. The only
problem is he has
bigger ears than
me,” Contactmusic
quoted Washington
as saying. ■
ANI
Monday, July 27, 2009
11
Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ based on fact
The success of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws may have been put down to Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel but the writer’s
brilliant horror-thriller was actually based on fact. A new documentary-drama is set to reveal the story that helped
inspire Benchley’s novel. Shark Rampage 1916 will be screened on Discovery’s Animal Planet channel next month and
tells the story of the summer a monster Great White stalked the New Jersey shoreline, leaving a trail of blood, gore and
severed limbs.
ANI

Cine City
Udita’s back Divya to own
IPL team
Actor Divya Spandana a.k.a. Kuthu Ramya is reportedly
considering teaming up with a leading industrialist and

S
he debuted opposite
John Abraham in a film another top
written by Mahesh Bhatt star to buy a
but failed to live up to ex- Karnataka IPL
pectations after that. Model- team. The actor
turned-actress Udita Goswami has said that
is now set to make a comeback owning a team
and has five films lined up – has been her
two opposite Akshay Kumar, dream since
two with Sunny Deol and then long. Though
a supernatural thriller. she belongs to
“My time is coming, you a politically
see,” Udita says. “Just imagine, active family, it
from one film in a year, I am is said that
rolling as many as five. It’s none of her
good to be occupied and be relatives are
doing some nice work,” involved in the
Udita is looking forward to team. It may be
the two films with Sunny Deol recalled that
as they enable her to do so- actor Mohanlal
mething different from her and director
earlier work. Priyadarshan
“Yes, I’m working in Fox and have decided
The Man, both of which are on a Kerala IPL
action films with Sunny Deol team.
in the lead. Both films give me
a chance to do something that
I haven’t done before,” she
says.
Apart from these two films,
she will also be seen in Chase Kavya seeks divorce
and Hello India – both oppo-
Actor Kavya Madhavan, who recently married Nischal
site Bollywood star Akshay Ku-
Chandra, an engineer based in Kuwait, is planning to
mar.
seek divorce. The lady is back in her hometown
She is also attempting a dif-
Ernakulam. After the wedding, Kavya had informed the
ferent genre with her latest
media that she wanted to settle down as homemaker,
film, Rokk, – a supernatural
which was also her husband’s wish. But due to a
thriller that is set to go
financial crunch Nischal had asked her to continue
on floors by Au-
acting.
gust.
Reportedly,
Just imagine, “Rokk will be
Nischal also
extremely dif-
from one film in ferent from
transferred her
bank accounts to
a year, I am rolling anything
his name. Though
that I have
as many as five. It’s done so far.
there is no
official
good to be occupied It was im-
confirmation,
portant that I
and be doing some work on di-
there are reports
that Kavya faced
nice work verse genres.
mental torture
After giving my-
from her husband
self a break to
and in-laws. Now
ponder over what I
we hear that
really wanted to do, I de-
Kavya has sought
cided to work on Rokk,” Udita
the advice of a
says. ■
IANS
leading lawyer
from Kochi and
was advised to
Udita Goswami during the shooting live separately for
of her new film, Fox, in Mumbai a year to move
recently. PTI PHOTO the divorce
papers.
12 ERGO Monday, July 27, 2009

E.K.Satheesh Kumar from FCI Technology Services has nominated his Dinesh Kumar from Infosys Technologies has nominated his friends Barath,
friends as Partners in Crime. This picture was clicked at Kodaikanal. Srivathsan, Mathi, Arun, Neppoliyan and Santhosh as Partners in Crime. This
pic was clicked at Edakkal caves in Waynad.

Sathish Nirmal S. from First Source Solutions Ltd. has nominated his Allen Davids from Allsec Technologies, Velachery has nominated his team as
friends as Partners in Crime. This pic was clicked in Munnar. Partners in Crime. This Picture was taken in Ooty during their team outing.

Venu from HOV Services has nominated his RIOS Rockers team as Partners Sundaresan from TCS-eServe has nominated his friends as Partners in Crime.
in Crime. This picture was taken in Kodaikanal during their team outing. This photo was clicked at Wayanad.
Monday, July 27, 2009
13

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Twitter utilised to target drunks


Australian police are using Twitter to discourage drunk driving
among by threatening to tweet ’’embarrassingly boozy breath
readings’’ when they pull over young people.

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Word’s worth Hunt for lost shoe
Hierodule (hye-er-uh-d(y)ool) a slave who lives in a temple and is dedicated to the service A woman became so distraught after losing one of
of a god. Heiro-is a Greek root meaning ‘holy’ and shows up in a great many words, such her favourite shoes that she ran around town
as hieromonarch, ‘a monk who is also a priest,’ hieromnemon, ‘a sacred recorder,’ retracing her steps, created posters, and has even
hierography, ‘the description of religions,’ and hierophobia, ‘fear of sacred things.’ offered a reward for it’s safe return.

B.C

ARIES MARCH 21 - APRIL 20


Ganesha advises you to mix up with people around
you so as to maintain a good relationship. Good
relations with colleagues will help. Two heads are
better than one so take help of someone to solve
technical difficulties.

TAURUS APRIL 21 - MAY 20


Cordial relations with colleagues will result into a
comfortable work environment today. A comfortable
setting might encourage you to work for longer
hours and put in more efforts. On the love front,
the road to bliss might not be very easy today.

GEMINI MAY 21 - JUNE 20


You might be inspired by someone today. This may
BORN LOSER motivate you to enhance your basic skills.
Nevertheless Ganesha finds your communication
skills to be at their best. On the love front, you will
find your sweetheart being very considerate.
CANCER JUNE 21 - JULY 20
You might feel you have woken up on the wrong
side of the bed. Ganesha wants you to be careful
with the way you spend your time today as work
load may be little more than usual. In short, the
day will have its ups and downs.
LEO JULY 21 - AUG 20
You may be in a mood to wind up early today and
this hurry might cause stress. Fortunately, your
logical and analytical abilities will flourish today and
may give you a lot of encouragement. You will
spend a good time chatting with your beloved.
VIRGO AUG 21 - SEPT 20
You might want to express your opinions today. But
FREE RANGE WORKING IT OUT you must assess them logically first, suggests
Ganesha. Hours at office will be smooth and hassle
free. Love life will be full of fun as well. In short,
it’s a promising day, notes Ganesha.
LIBRA SEPT 21 - OCT 20
A wonderful day coming up for you! At office you
might come up with new ideas and suggestions and
they will be appreciated too. Ganesha feels this is
the perfect day to begin a new project. Love is in
the air!
SCORPIO OCT 21 - NOV 20
You are prone to make mistakes today, so look out,
advises Ganesha. At work, after putting in a lot of
effort you might realise that you have been working
in the wrong direction. In such cases, you may have
to redo the entire task from the top,.
SAGITTARIUS NOV 21 - DEC 20
Along with your routine work, you might want to
make some changes in your office. Don’t ignore
your prime responsibilities. Ganesha feels you should
define your priorities today. Love life is pretty
smooth in general.
CAPRICORN DEC 21 - JAN 20
You will be all jacked up at the beginning of the
day, but you might soon be tired and realise the
importance of team work. Ganesha feels that group
work and development of team spirit may help you
go great guns.
AQUARIUS JAN 21 - FEB 20
PREVIOUS Instead of breaking new grounds, you might want
to follow your daily routine. Ganesha feels that you
ISSUE’S may depend more on luck today. In addition to this,
you might want to make some changes in your
SOLUTIONS working style.
PISCES FEB 21 - MARCH 20
Ganesha thinks you will be a bit unkempt today
and hence unsure about handling the work. Pending
tasks might not be completed as well. Overall, the
day might seem very dull and boring at office. You
will be very passionate with your beloved today.
Predictions by Bhavesh N. Pattni
16 ! ERGO Monday, July 27, 2009

A hot air balloon


shaped like the
house from the
cartoon movie
Up takes off
from the
Chambley-
Bussieres
aerodrome in
eastern France
during the
"Lorraine
Mondial Air
Balloons",
world’s biggest
hot air balloon
rally. PHOTO: AFP

Mongolian sumo
grand champion
Hakuho holds
the Emperor’s
Cup after he
won the Nagoya
Grand Sumo
Tournament at
Nagoya city in Actress Scarlett Johansson attends Iron Man 2
Aichi prefecture, panel discussion during Comic-Con 2009 held at
central Japan. San Diego Convention Centre in California.
PHOTO: AFP PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/AFP

Cartoon character Snoopy greets children in


the Shinkansen bullet train heading to Osaka
from Tokyo for the promotion of Osaka-based
Hollywood theme park Universal Studios
Japan (USJ). PHOTO: AFP

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