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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook Chief Operating Officer and author of the 2013 bestseller ‘Lean In’ learned last year about how difficult it really is to be both an accomplished professional and an engaged parent.

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Shantiniketan teachers attend learning forumTeachers from Shantiniketan In-

dian School (SIS) were highly

benefited by attending two im-

portant conferences held re-

cently in Qatar. Thirty-eight teachers at-

tended the Teaching Learning Forum

2016, organised by the Qatar Founda-

tion in association with Education De-

velopment Institute.

SIS Teachers Reda Elshnawy and

Jasir from the Arabic Department pre-

sented a paper on “Play way method

of teaching Arabic” in one of the ses-

sions and was highly appreciated by

all attended. Teachers stated that the

forum helped them to enhance skills

and resource fulness to emerge as bet-

ter teachers. A group of teachers al-

so attended the Education Conference

2016 on “Leading Learning: Modern

Perspectives” organised by Ministry

of Education and Higher Education.

Teachers got immensely benefited by

the discussions on Curriculum, Leader-

ship and ‘Lead to learn, learn to lead’.

KC Abdul Latheef, President of SIS

management committee reiterated

while congratulating teachers who at-

tended the conference, that such con-

ferences enhance teachers’ profes-

sional development.

Two DPS-MIS students get GCI HS MUN award in New YorkThe MUN zealots of DPS Modern

Indian School (DPS-MIS) , which

comprised of 24 students ac-

companied by MUN Directors Jolly

Sabu and Amir Khan had an enrich-

ing experience attending the Global

Classrooms International High School

Model United Nations (GCI HS MUN)

conference-2016 in New York, from

May 11 to 14.

It had more than 2,600 students

from 174 countries. The duo repre-

senting ECOSOC committee, Ronishka

Sabu Nalpathil and Anuragini Suresh

won the Honorary Mention Award

for their diplomatic performance and

was honoured at the UN headquar-

ters.

The students from DPS-MIS rep-

resented India in 16 committees. The

conference gave scope to initiate the

students to international diplomacy

by letting them simulate various UN

member states and investigate mul-

tilateral issues from a national per-

spective. The students could hone

their public speaking, debating and

negotiating skills, all while engaging

in consensus building and learning

prejudice reduction mechanisms.

COVER STORY

04 | MONDAY 23 MAY 2016

By Alex Laughlin The Washington Post

She chose two words as guiding

wisdom for professional wom-

en seeking “it all” — a profitable

career and a happy family. But

Sheryl Sandberg is increasingly recog-

nising that leaning in isn’t quite as easy

as she made it seem.

In an apologetic Mother’s Day Face-

book post — and more subtly, her recent

commencement address at the Uni-

versity of California, Berkeley — the Fa-

cebook chief operating officer and au-

thor of the 2013 bestseller “Lean In” has

been sharing lessons she’s learned in

the last year about how difficult it real-

ly is to be both an accomplished profes-

sional and an engaged parent.

In her book, Sandberg wrote about

the struggles she’d had as a profession-

al woman in male-dominated industries.

She also wrote of times she observed

women backing out of the running for

demanding, high-power jobs because

they were already anticipating the toll

their careers would take on their future

families.

In practice, her prescription — lean-

ing in — meant sitting at the table in

meetings, keeping your foot on your ca-

reer’s accelerator, getting to work ear-

ly, staying late, and above all: having

a partner or spouse who can support

you at home. This last bit in particular

drove a lot of criticism for being overly

reliant on a type of feminism available

only to wealthy, coupled, white women

who can afford childcare — or who have

a spouse who can take care of children.

In 2015, though, Sandberg’s sup-

portive husband died suddenly, and

she found herself in the position of be-

ing a single mother — albeit an extreme-

ly wealthy and powerful one. On Moth-

er’s Day, Sandberg acknowledged in a

post on Facebook the shortcomings of

her book’s message, particularly to sin-

gle mothers.

“Before, I did not quite get it,” she

wrote. “I did not really get how hard it is

to succeed at work when you are over-

whelmed at home.”

She hinted at that again in her com-

mencement speech this past weekend.

“The loss of a partner often has se-

vere negative financial consequenc-

es, especially for women,” she said. “So

many single mothers-and fathers-strug-

gle to make ends meet or have jobs that

don’t allow them the time they need to

care for their children. I had financial

security, the ability to take the time off

I needed, and a job that I did not just

believe in, but where it’s actually OK to

spend all day on Facebook. Gradual-

ly, my children started sleeping through

the night, crying less, playing more.”

Whether you agreed with Sand-

berg’s original message or thought it

was an oversimplification, there’s no

doubt it stirred a broader conversation

about how women seek to balance the

demands of a career and a home life.

“Lean In” itself has evolved into an or-

ganisation dedicated to educating wom-

en, spouses, and workplaces by creating

content, conducting studies, and creat-

ing “Lean In Circles” where women can

find mentorship and community.

“I don’t want to revel in Sheryl Sand-

berg’s admission as much as some peo-

ple are sort of celebrating her admission

of some inadequacies in ‘Lean In,’ be-

cause frankly, the book was such an im-

petus for this conversation,” said Emilie

Aries, founder and chief executive of

Bossed Up, a training company that

hosts bootcamps and retreats for wom-

en who are hoping to better integrate

their personal and professional lives.

How work-life balance became work all the time

Sandberg wrote of times she observed women backing out of the running for demanding, high-power jobs because they were already anticipating the toll their careers would take on their future families.

COVER STORY

| 05MONDAY 23 MAY 2016

Aries says her work is a reaction

to the “Lean In” message, which she

says places undue emphasis on wom-

en’s professional development over

personal wellness, including a stable

home life. If the focus on profession-

al goals is excessive, she says, it risks

bringing “shame and silence to what-

ever people have going on personally.”

These questions reflect a long ev-

olution of expectations for men’s and

women’s roles. The notion of a sep-

arate work and personal life comes

from the “ideal worker model” of the

early 20th century, when it was pos-

sible for large portions of the mid-

dle- and working-class population to

survive on a single income, usually a

man’s. The model presumes “that a

good worker is someone that is there

full time, in an uninterrupted way, over

the course of their careers, and that

they will put work first,” said Kathleen

Gerson, a professor of sociology at

New York University,

The other side of the ideal work-

er model is the “ideal parent model,”

which presumes that there will be oth-

er family members — wives and moth-

ers, presumably — who will stay home

to care for children and do household

work like cooking and cleaning.

To be sure, Sandberg has prompt-

ed a wider conversation about wom-

en’s roles in the workplace. Lean In

itself has evolved into an organisa-

tion dedicated to educating women,

spouses, and workplaces by creating

content, conducting studies, and cre-

ating “Lean In Circles” where women

can find mentorship and community.

“One might have predicted that as

women began to join the workplace,

it became not just important, but es-

sential, for women as well as men to

have some kind of a thriving work life,

and that we would then start to re-

define the ideal worker model,” Ger-

son said. “The irony is, instead of do-

ing that, the opposite has occurred.”

The expectations to be 100 per-

cent present in both work and per-

sonal lives is stronger today than it

ever was before, Gerson says. And

rather than restructure the way or-

ganisations and institutions to fit a

more blended work-life economy, ex-

pectations for both have dug deeper,

often forcing working women to take

on the burden of the “second shift” of

housework and childcare after their

day jobs.

“This individualistic ethic that still

reigns at work, the notion that ‘lean-

ing in’ will get you there, also pertains

at home,” Gerson said. “where we feel

that we need to lean in as a parent

and you can’t rely on other people to

help with that job as well.”

For some women, the expecta-

tions can feel overwhelming.

Meg Dickey-Kurdziole, a free-

lance user-design researcher in Pitts-

burgh has a Ph.D in computer sci-

ence, had set clear expectations for

herself when she got pregnant: She

would continue working at full capaci-

ty until she gave birth. Then she would

take her 12-week maternity leave. And

then she would return, again at full

capacity.

This is not what happened.

“Nothing prepares you for having a

kid and what it’s going to be like when

you come back,” she said, “I think I

had set up all these expectations of

work, and it did not work out that way.”

Dickey-Kurdziolek has discussed

her story in Pay Up, a chatroom for

women working in technology hosted

on the Slack platform.

Because she pushed herself so

hard before and during the pregnan-

cy, Dickey-Kurdziolek said she had a

much harder time recovering from her

pregnancy than she would have if she

had taken it easier.

She returned from maternity leave

to find that the start-up she was work-

ing for laid off half of its staff, allowing

her remain at a part-time capacity un-

til she could find a new job. The work

she was given was menial, “almost like

what you’d give an intern, or some-

body who’s just starting on the job to

like, ramp them up,” she said.

On top of that, Dickey-Kurdziolek

said she was struggling emotionally

and physically to get back to where

she had been before she’d had her

son. For Dickey-Kurdziolek, “leaning in”

both at work and at a home sounded

doable, but she quickly realised how

difficult it was to maintain that stabil-

ity when home and work situations (or

both) suddenly became very unstable.

“I’d set up these really high expecta-

tions for myself and what I could ac-

complish post-baby, and those expec-

tations were completely dashed,” she

said. “If I had taken a little bit more

time to reflect and taken the advice

of other people who said I should give

myself a break, then I might’ve had a

different experience.”

“’Lean In’ might be a good philoso-

phy for getting you good things in your

career,” she added, “but it might not

be the best strategy for getting good

things in your life.”

06 | MONDAY 23 MAY 2016

COMMUNITY

By Amal Adil The Peninsula

Look at this woman. If you don’t

know her, then your first impres-

sion could be — like anyone else,

someone next door. Even the

wildest of your dream won’t give you

the clue to what she is all about or what

she is up to.

And basketball will perhaps be the

last thing that would strike your imag-

ination. This 28-year-old is a fine com-

bination of nature and nurture, which

has over the years made her deter-

mined and passionate about basketball.

Despite all odds. Nature because sport

runs in Houweida Tounsi’s blood. And

nurture because it all started — how-

ever circumstantial it might be — when

she was just a few months old.

At 165cm, the Tunisian has refused

to give up on her passion and her goal

to become a player in Qatar women’s

basketball team. She was born in a fam-

ily of athletics and grew up amid sports

— literally. Her father is a football coach

and her mother a former basketball

player and a sport teacher. An engi-

neer by profession and working with Al-

jazeera Network, Houweida is a player

in Qatar women’s basketball team.

When she was just a few months

old, Houweida’s mother used to take

her to basketball competitions in Tuni-

sia she participated in. During half time,

she would change the little girl’s diapers

in the locker room. “I started playing

basketball when I was eight,” Houwei-

da reminisces. “My mother was the one

who inspired me and taught me how

to play the game. I fell in love with bas-

ketball.” To Houweida, basketball is the

smartest collective sport. Unlike other

games such as football and handball

where players have only one role in the

field, basketball players are defendants,

attackers and shooters — at the same

time. This all-rolled-into-one role teach-

es basketball players how to optimally

manage and use their time and energy.

They also learn how to be able to scan

the court at all times.

And just like any other sport, basket-

ball players have to be fit and able to

go back and forth in the court. There is

no limit to their endurance, which is al-

ways on test, as they cope with a diffi-

cult movement or situation, without giv-

ing way. When Houweida turned 12, her

father wanted her to play football but

her mother disagreed. She had already

chalked out a path for the young girl.

She argued that football is a very ag-

gressive sport for girls and that society

is still not very open to a girl becoming

a footballer at the time.

“Like they say, mothers know best

basketball, was indeed more feminine.

From that point forward, I continued

playing basketball,” Houweida says.

In 2003, Houweida joined Qatar

women’s basketball team soon after her

family moved to this country. She was

on the look out for a basketball league

to join. Unfortunately, there were none

for females at the time.

However, there was a team of seven

players, set up in 2002 and Houweida

became a member. Their first competi-

tion was in Iran, but the team lacked ex-

perience and lost.

Came another test. It was one of the

hardest games a couple of years ago, in

one of the training camps in Turkey. The

team competed against the first team

of the second league. “I remember

at that time their level was much ad-

vanced compared to ours. We weren’t

even able to see the ball, we lost by 50

point. Thank god, it was only a training

camp,” a bemused Houweida recalls.

According to her, managing her time

for her studies and basketball practice

was less of a challenge in Qatar com-

pared to Tunisia. In Qatar, schools hours

are not longer and this allows students

to utilise afternoons playing the sport of

their linking or joining clubs and taking

part in activities. A few years later, Hou-

weida’s studies got on the way of her

sport.

She had to go back to Tunisia to com-

plete the last year of high school be-

cause she was a math student. Though

very passionate about basketball, Hou-

weida says her education was extreme-

ly important. “I remember during high

school, I used to do homework on the

bus on my way home from basketball

practice. I did that because I could af-

ford to get a bad result, else my moth-

er would stop me from playing basket-

ball,” she says.

After graduating with an engineer-

ing degree from a Tunisian university at

the end of 2012, Houweida returned to

Qatar national basketball team and im-

mediately took part in a competition in

Bahrain. She and her team won.

Nevertheless, being a basketball

player has not stopped her from closely

following other sports like football and

tennis. Houweida is a big fan of FC Bar-

celona and world tennis tournaments.

Last year, the team’s training camp

was in Barcelona. After training, on their

way back to Qatar, FC Barcelona players

passed through the waiting area inside

the airport to board their flight. They

were coming to Qatar to shoot for an

advertisement (publicity campaign) for

Qatar Airways.

“I couldn’t believe my eyes when I

saw them. I asked my friends if Ney-

mar and Piqué were really flying with

us in the plane!” Houweida expressed

her surprise to see her favourite foot-

ball players. “It was quite a hustle to get

to meet them but was definitely worth

it. I was over the moon when Piqué took

a picture of all of us together.”

She has managed to get selfies with

the biggest names in sports — Neymar

— FC Barcelona; Pep Guardiola, coach of

Bayern Munich / former player; Rafael

Nadal — tennis player; Franck Ribéry –

footballer; Lewandowski –footballer in

Bayern Munich; Nasser Al Khelaifi, CEO

and Chairman of beIN Media Group,

among others. “I work hard to be able

to take selfies with my favourite players.

It costs me a fortune to buy VIP tickets,

but, hey, it’s worth it. Sometimes it’s just

luck, like that time in Barcelona,” Hou-

weida says.

Asked about what happened in

2014 in South Koran when they were

asked to withdraw from the Asian

Games because some players are wear-

ing scarves, Houweida said it was not

the first time it happened. In 2013,

they faced a similar situation in three

on three in half court competition also

known as “street basketball” in Doha.

“A representative of basketball’s

world governing body, FIBA, saw some

of us in veil in the morning on the day of

the competition. He told the people re-

sponsible then that these players were

not allowed. Luckily, Doha was the host

and we were allowed to choose players

from two teams. We picked unveiled

players. “When we got the invitation to

join the Asian competition, we asked

before we flew... and we were assured

that we would be playing. “One of the

reasons given for why my teammate

can’t play was that it was not safe for

the player and the opponent. Such rea-

sons aren’t practical. Handball and foot-

ball players are allowed to wear scarves.

Yet, both games are more aggressive in

nature compared to basketball.”

Houweida hopes this rule will

change and she and her team will be

able to compete in more and more in-

ternational tournaments.

Tounsi: A fine combination of nature and nurture

MARKETPLACE

| 07MONDAY 23 MAY 2016

HDC brings Latin flavours to The Pearl-Qatar with soft opening of ‘Isla’ Mexican Kitchen

Hospitality Development Company (HDC), a

wholly-owned subsidiary of United Develop-

ment Company (UDC), announced the soft

opening of celebrity Chef Richard Sandoval’s

latest concept, Isla, against the charming waterfront

backdrop of The Pearl-Qatar in 2 La Croisette, Porto

Arabia.

Bringing a new street food experience straight

from the heart of Mexican dining, Isla is the latest

addition to the impressive list of franchises in Qatar

developed by HDC. Created by Chef Sandoval, who

is internationally recognised as the Father of Mod-

ern Mexican Cuisine, Isla elevates Mexican cooking to

new heights where guests savour authentic Mexican

street comfort foods, in the casual yet upbeat ‘canti-

na’ style dining room and patio.

“Latin American food is more than a meal, it is an

event,” said Chef Sandoval.” Isla embraces this con-

cept, offering new flavours on a diverse menu to en-

courage diners to sample a range of exotic and deli-

cious dishes. The result is a new Modern Mexican res-

taurant exposing even the most seasoned diner to

the myriad of new flavors.

Infusing traditional Mexican recipes

with Asian ingredients, Isla offers diners

the opportunity to gastronomically ex-

plore a variety of signature dishes such

as lobster tacos, carne asada, chipotle

rubbed salmon and fresh homemade

guacamole. Guests can enjoy a flavour-

some culinary menu served alongside a

great selection of fresh mocktails that

are inspired bySandoval’s kitchen man-

tra of ‘old ways, new hands’. Isla is thus

a reinterpretation of traditional Mexi-

can dishes with innovative techniques that are skill-

fully and ingeniously presented.

As the day winds down, warming fit pits and live

music are featured on the Isla Terrace by famous mu-

sical duo ‘Rumba Latina’ band which performs eve-

ry day except Sundays between 7:00 pm and 10:00

pm. Adjacent to the Isla entry, will also be a conven-

ient grab-&-go window with a selection of desserts

like churros, chocolates, coffees, smoothies and fruit

juices. HDC focuses on acquiring, developing and op-

erating world-class hospitality projects and brands

including hotels, high-end restaurants and cafés. The

Company’s strategy revolves around UDC’s vision of

building a unique hospitality portfolio in Qatar. Con-

sequently, many of HDC’s brands include internation-

ally celebrated and recognised names in the food

and hospitality industry that are entering the Middle

East market for the first time.

Oxy Qatar hosts annual blood donation drive

Oxy Qatar held its annual blood

donation drive this month at the

Navigation Plaza building in Do-

ha. Over 40 employees attended who

saw the blood donation unit RV parked

outside.

Each donation can save the lives

of up to three individuals in need of

blood.

The blood donation unit RV was

supplied by Hamad Medical Corpora-

tion, which visits many local areas and

companies to encourage people to do-

nate blood.

Donating blood supports the lo-

cal community, as there is a shortage

of reserves of blood in Qatar. Blood is

one of the most valuable resources on

earth and willing individuals may do-

nate blood at no cost.

FOOD

08 | MONDAY 23 MAY 2016

By Ellie Krieger The Washington Post

In today’s pop culture vernacular, it’s

an insult to be called basic — the op-

posite of cool and trendsetting. But

in the nutrition world, being basic,

as in alkaline, is aspirational, with pop-

ular books, websites and celebrities

all endorsing a pH approach to eating.

There is some serious science to back

this trend, so it is worth paying atten-

tion to, but (surprise, surprise) there is

a lot of confusing misinformation and

hyperbole out there, too.

The concept of the alkaline diet

centres on the well-established fact

that different foods affect our body’s

pH balance differently. As a rule, fruits

and vegetables promote alkalinity,

whereas meats, dairy and grains have

an acidic effect. It’s not the acid con-

tent of the food itself that matters

here; it is the way the food impacts

our pH once it is metabolised. For ex-

ample, even though oranges and to-

matoes are acidic foods, they have an

alkaline impact on our bodies.

Let’s get one thing straight right

away, though: The pH of our blood

never varies much. Our kidneys and

lungs work hard to keep that tight-

ly regulated at about 7.4, because

even a small variation in blood pH is

life-threatening. So ignore statements

such as the one I found on an influ-

ential TV doctor’s website, proclaim-

ing that the “typical American diet is

full of foods like meat and dairy prod-

ucts that tend to increase the acidity

of your blood.” (Sigh.)

Although the acid-base balance

of our blood is constant, the pH in-

side our cells has a somewhat broad-

er range, from slightly acidic to slightly

alkaline. Our cells function best when

they are on the alkaline side, and the

way you eat impacts that balance. In a

2012 review published in the Journal

of Environmental and Public Health,

researchers noted that alkaline diets

lead to higher levels of magnesium in

cells — a mineral that is required for

many enzyme systems, as well as for

activating vitamin D, for example. The

study also points to documented ben-

efits of an alkaline diet, including pres-

ervation of muscle mass with aging.

The pH of our urine varies wide-

ly, as our urinary tract is on the front

line of keeping our bodies in acid-base

balance. Animal protein, grains, soda,

beer and sodium all produce high acid

loads for our kidneys to process. That

acid can be neutralised by the potas-

sium and minerals from fruits and veg-

etables, but if we don’t get enough of

those alkaline foods, our urine can

wind up chronically acidic, which can

contribute to kidney stones and ne-

cessitate that our bones’ stores of

neutralising minerals be continual-

ly tapped, ultimately depleting and

weakening them.

But the acid-base equation is on-

ly part of the bone-health story, and

research has been mixed as to how

an alkaline diet affects our bones. Be-

sides plenty of acid-balancing potas-

sium and minerals needed to spare

their stores, healthy bones also de-

pend on adequate protein. Strict alka-

line diets may limit protein-rich foods

because of their acid effect, which is a

negative for bone health. Focusing on

boosting your produce consumption

while getting enough protein appears

to be the better path to take.

Although there is some solid sci-

ence indicating that pH matters, many

of the benefits touted by alkaline diet

proponents, such as healthier bones,

reduced risk of chronic disease and

weight loss, can be directly traced to

the well-known dietary advice to con-

sume more colorful produce and veg-

etable protein and fewer fatty meats,

sweets, refined carbs and sugary

drinks. The alkaline diet may sound

cutting-edge and innovative, but the

most sensible versions boil down to

the same advice found in the US Die-

tary Guidelines.

If considering the pH impact of

your food helps you focus on improv-

ing your eating habits, then go for it.

But remember to keep it in perspec-

tive. Many of these plans categorise

foods as good (alkaline) or bad (acid-

ic) without taking into account over-

all nutritional balance. And there is al-

ways a risk in taking just a single fac-

tor into account when making food

decisions. Going by acid-alkaline value

alone (you can find a list on acidalka-

linediet.com), you’d deem white bread

better for you than shrimp, for exam-

ple, and mushrooms on par with sugar.

Clearly, the pH of a food does not tell

the whole story.

Include more alkaline diet in your food

FASHION / LIFESTYLE

| 09MONDAY 23 MAY 2016

Elizabeth Warren is sending you a subliminal message with her rolled-up sleevesBy Robin Givhan The Washington Post

US Democratic Senator Eliz-

abeth Warren moves with

the fleet-footed bounce of a

featherweight fighter — an

agile pugilist who has been using Twit-

ter to deliver jabs and hooks to Re-

publican front-runner Donald Trump.

She is not an especially elegant fighter,

but she’s fast — throwing a barrage of

blows: “loser,” “pathetic,” “weak.”

And in person, too, her style is aer-

odynamic, with her short sandy hair,

rimless glasses, necklace-free de-

colletage and tiny stud earrings. She

is nearly accoutrement-free as she

moves against the headwinds. She

looks quick and agile. Flexed for a fight.

And her sleeves are always rolled up

— literally and metaphorically. She is

ready to get her hands dirty.

Warren favours trim jackets in

bold, TV-friendly colours: turquoise

and raspberry, purple and shades of

Twitter blue. Her jackets just brush her

hips; the lapels are minimal; and she

often keeps her collar popped, as if

the blazer must do the work of a coat

because she simply does not have

time to be bothered with a trench.

She must stay loose, limber. Warren

likes bracelet sleeves, which end sev-

eral inches above her wrists, but she

typically does not wear a bracelet or

even a watch. If her jacket sleeves

are not cropped, then they are fold-

ed back.

On the public stage, her clothes al-

ways suggest that she is ready to get

down to business, to cut to the chase.

In her own tailoured, jewel-tone

way, Warren has adopted the tradi-

tional aesthetic of male politicians, who

signal their intention to move from ab-

stract policy promises into frank, regu-

lar-folk talk by removing their suit jack-

ets and rolling up their shirt sleeves.

Men most often perform this sartorial

ballet when they are standing in front

of blue-collar workers, young voters or

the disenfranchised. In stripping away

the uniform of authority, they are tel-

egraphing their empathy. It is old-

school political code-switching.

The suit-and-tie version of Bernie

Sanders makes plain his place in the

establishment; it tells voters that he’s

been working within the system and

that there are some fundamental rules

of politics to which he adheres. When

he wants to make his solidarity with

the common man plain — or plainer —

he takes off his tie. He slips into a un-

ion jacket. He rolls up his sleeves.

Trump does not roll up his sleeves.

Are you surprised? No, of course you’re

not. The mogul uniform is part of his

story. It’s his pitch. He does not try

to sell understanding to the belea-

guered as much as promise them sal-

vation. He isn’t like you at all, he seems

to say; instead, he can fix you. He can

fix America.

Warren traffics in empathy, but she

doesn’t need to remove her jacket to

make herself understood. Her clothes

are multilingual. Her polished, three-

quarter-sleeve jackets, with their sub-

tle textures and delicate seams, con-

nect her to the rule-makers. A 2010

Vogue profile mentions her admiration

for designer Isaac Mizrahi, although

her actual buying habits reportedly

tend to L.L. Bean. But those cropped

sleeves, those bare forearms, make

her look as though she could immedi-

ately dive into a messy situation with-

out pausing to worry about her nice

frock. She is the invited dinner guest

who could take her own plate into

the kitchen and do the dishes with-

out missing a beat. She will get elbow-

deep in Palmolive for you. She may

have a fancy job, but she is not too

fancy for the work.

HEALTH & FITNESS

10 | MONDAY 23 MAY 2016

Healthy lifestyle can help you live cancer-freeIANS

Just adopting a healthy lifestyle

by refraining from drinking and

smoking, maintaining a healthy

body weight and exercising reg-

ularly can help you keep deadly cancer

at bay, new research reaffirms.

About 20-40 percent of cancer

cases could potentially be prevent-

ed through modifications to adopt a

healthy lifestyle, the study found.

A large proportion of cancer cases

and deaths can be prevented if peo-

ple quit smoking, avoided heavy drink-

ing, maintained a body mass index

(BMI) between 18.5 and 27.5, and got

moderate weekly exercise for at least

150 minutes or vigorous exercise for at

least 75 minutes, the study said.

The research, published online in

the journal JAMA Oncology, analysed

data from two study groups of White

individuals to examine the associations

between a “healthy lifestyle pattern”

and cancer incidence and death.

Mingyang Song and Edward Gio-

vannucci from Harvard T H Chan

School of Public Health, Boston, con-

ducted the study that included 89,571

women and 46,399 men.

A “healthy lifestyle pattern” was

defined as never or past smoking; no

drinking; BMI of at least 18.5 but lower

than 27.5; and weekly aerobic physical

activity of at least 150 minutes moder-

ate intensity or 75 minutes vigorous in-

tensity.

Individuals who met all four crite-

ria were considered low risk and eve-

ryone else was high risk, the research-

ers advised.

The results revealed that 16,531

women and 11,731 had a healthy life-

style pattern (low-risk group) and the

remaining 73,040 women and 34,608

men were high risk.

The researcehrs estimated that

about 20 percent to 40 percent of

cancer cases and about half of cancer

deaths could potentially be prevent-

ed through modifications to adopt the

healthy lifestyle pattern of the low-risk

group.

“These findings reinforce the pre-

dominate importance of lifestyle fac-

tors in determining cancer risk. There-

fore, primary prevention should remain

a priority for cancer control,” the au-

thors noted.

How immune cells activate inflammation?IANS

Scientists have identified how the

immune cells’ are triggered for

inflammatory responses, in a dis-

covery that may pave the way for new

treatments for many human diseases

including cancer.

Immune cells play an essential role

in the maintenance and repair of our

bodies. When human body gets in-

jured, the immune cells mount a rap-

id inflammatory response to protect

against infection and helps in heal-

ing of the damaged tissue. “While this

immune response is beneficial for hu-

man health, many human diseases (in-

cluding atheroscelerosis, cancer and

arthritis) are caused or aggravated

by an overzealous immune response,”

said lead researcher Helen Weavers

from University of Bristol in Britain.

The findings showed that immune

cells get ‘activated’ by eating a dying

neighbouring cell before they are able

to respond to wounds or infection.

In this way, they build up a molecu-

lar memory of this meal, which shapes

their inflammatory behaviour.

Then ingestion of this dying cell ac-

tivates the damage signalling via a cal-

cium flash, which leads to an increase

in the amount of an important dam-

age receptor in the immune cell.

High levels of this receptor then

enables the immune cell to sense the

damage signals that entice them to-

wards a wound during inflammation.

Without this signalling the cells are

blind to wounds and infections.

The study is a major step towards

finding novel ways to clinically manip-

ulate immune cells away from sites of

the body where they are causing the

most damage. For the research, pub-

lished in the journal Cell, the team used

Drosophila melanogaster — the fruit fly

— to study how the macrophage — im-

mune cell — becomes activated in or-

der to respond to injury or infection.

ENTERTAINMENT

| 11MONDAY 23 MAY 2016

Last 10 Cannes Palme d’Or winnersAFP

Here is a list of the last 10 winners of the cov-

eted Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes film fes-

tival:

2006: “The Wind That Shakes The Barley” by

Ken Loach (Britain)

2007: “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” by Cris-

tian Mungiu (Romania)

2008: “The Class” by Laurent Cantet (France)

2009: “The White Ribbon” by Michael Haneke

(Austria)

2010: “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past

Lives” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thai-

land)

2011: “The Tree of Life” by Terrence Malick (US)

2012: “Love” by Michael Haneke (Austria)

2013: “Blue is the Warmest Colour” by Abdella-

tif Kechiche (France)

2014: “Winter Sleep” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Tur-

key)

2015: “Dheepan” by Jacques Audiard (France)

Brazilian actress Sonia Braga (centre), Director Paul Verhoeven and cast member Isabelle Huppert (bottom left) as they arrive for the screening of the film

“Elle” and French actress and director Laetitia Casta (bottom right) during a photo call for her short film ‘En Moi’ at the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival.

Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti (top left) and US actor Mel Gibson (top right) arrive for the screening of ‘Blood Father’ at the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival.

12 | MONDAY 23 MAY 2016

ENTERTAINMENT

By Subhash K Jha

IANS

Film: “Sarbjit”; Director: Omung Ku-mar; Cast: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Randeep Hooda, Richa Chadha; Rat-ing: ****

Seeing some of the scathing re-

views for “Sarbjit”, I was tempt-

ed to fish out the early reviews

of a film released in 1975 which

was condemned by critics for being

“loud”, “brash”, “plotless” and “over-

dramatic”. That film was Ramesh Sip-

py’s “Sholay”.

“Sarjbit” is no “Sholay”. Thankful-

ly. But I firmly believe its forceful mes-

sage on prisoners of politics and its

persuasive emotional velocity in the

scenes showing the imprisoned man’s

sister’s and wife’s suffering, would be

acknowledged in retrospect as rem-

nants of a truly remarkable cinematic

achievement.

The sister is played by the helplessly

beautiful Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who

rises valiantly to confront and embrace

the sister Dalbir’s anguished and defi-

ant fight to the end to free her broth-

er. This is Dalbir’s story, more than Sar-

bjit Singh’s. And yet it’s also a film that

doesn’t spare us Sarbjit’s anguish.

“Sarbjit” is not a film that holds it-

self back. It is a stormy rousing chest-

thumping epic saga of a sister who rag-

es against the injustice of her brother’s

incarceration across the border.

Director Omung Kumar adeptly

weaves scenes of family ties and their

rude rupture through a skilful pattern

of bright flashbacks and dreadfully

pessimistic present-times when Sarbjit,

locked up in a dingy cell far from home,

mourns for the loss of freedom.

The film has tremendous visual ve-

locity. Whether it’s Randeep’s Sar-

bjit locked up in a cell large enough to

house a rat, or shots of Dalbir stroll-

ing forlornly amid a bloom of yellow

flowers, cinematographer Kiran Deo-

hans captures the innermost sanctity

of hearts torn asunder by political vio-

lence. The sibling theme is treated with

an exacerbated energy by Omung Ku-

mar. The lengthy sequence where the

family meets Sarabjit in his dingy pris-

on cell in Lahore is outstanding for us-

ing cramped spaces to convey an emo-

tional infinitude.

Later there is another sequence

where the sister shares a meal with

Sarbjit in the same confined space. The

two actors especially Randeep fill that

space with a hungering sibling love.

This is not a film that believes in

subtleties. Kumar lets it all hang out.

The background music, the dubbing

and sound effects are amplified to au-

gur an operatic angst. The volume is

upped to a crescendo.

The scenes of Sarbjit’s torture and

his sense of suffocation inside his dingy

kerchief-sized cell are vividly captured.

There is also redemption amidst

despair when clutching a letter from

his family Sarbjit suddenly finds all the

lights of the rathole of a prison being

put out. He then holds the letter in one

beam of light that becomes the life-

force for a life being rapidly snuffed

out. A moment such as the above is so

lyrical, it transcends the political vitali-

ty of the tale that throbs at its temples

like an urgent migraine.

The director demonstrates a firm

grip over the proceedings. The actors

do the rest. Aishwarya is in ample, and

amplified, command over her charac-

ter’s gutsy endeavour to break down

the defences. Though the perform-

ance gets shrill at times, it never loses

it power. Although she remains inevi-

tably glamorous, her performance gets

progressively clamorous as the tragic

finale approaches.

Randeep’s physical transformation

as a traumatised prisoner is astonish-

ing and convincing. He invests life-en-

forcing power into his role of a man

who is locked away from home until

his death.

His demeanour as a dying prisoner,

so frighteningly authentic is matched

by his tireless spirit when he tells his

sister that the name Sarbjit roams free

all over the world because of her cru-

sade to free him.

While Darshan Kumaar as a com-

passionate Pakistani lawyer and An-

kur Bhatia in a very brief part as Aish-

warya’s husband merge into the tragic

fabric of the real-life saga with effort-

less candour, it is Richa Chadha as Sar-

bjit’s wife who is the real surprise.

In her melt-down scene when she

reminds her tireless sister-in-law of

their mutual losses of time and hope,

Richa expresses a deep yearning for

those of us who feed on memory.

Powered by heart-breaking restrain

and screaming silences this is Richa’s

most accomplished performance to

date. Makes you wonder what the film

would have been like if it was told from

Sarbjit’s wife’s perspective.

“Sarbjit” has immense poignancy

at its heart. But the execution of the

theme of a homesick dying man impris-

oned in a hostile country often tends to

lean dangerously close to populism.

“Sarbjit” manages to keep its head

above the water even while the pro-

ceedings frequently revel in crowd-

wooing conventions like singing, danc-

ing and rabble-rousing rhetorics.

For all its concessions to high dra-

ma and populism, “Sarbjit” is a mov-

ing testimony to these troubled times

when cross-border politics overpowers

humanism. There is still hope.

‘Sarbjit’: Not a film that believes in subtleties

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Yesterday’s answer

Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku is

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contains the same number only once.

Yesterday’s answer

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CROSSWORD

BRAIN TEASERS

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REMBRANDT,

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