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LeTTeRS MATTeRCONGRATULATIONS ON FEATURUNG A TRUE WOMAN OF SUBSTANCEI want to congrat your team for doing an excellent job in featuring Arathi Krishna in your October issue. The flow of the contents and the style of presentation definitely portrayed “A Woman of Substance” as “An Article of Substance”. The writer had depicted the life of Arathi focusing on her transformation from young student to an accomplished professional. I have had the opportunity to work with the lady while she was employed with the Indian Embassy in Washington, where I was involved in local and national Indian organizations. Arathi kept her closeness with the Indian Diaspora going far and beyond her call of duties to meet their needs. Her exposure to the Indian government and the Karnataka state government from childhood allowed her to build a network of individuals to aid her in handling many of the issues of the Indian Diaspora in the US and in India. Arathi was the one person at the embassy whom we could call and depend on for any emergent situation needing the involvement of the consulate office. Later, when she started working with the NRI ministry, her service mind and diplomatic talents left memorable experiences for many. She became a familiar face in almost all the regional and national conventions of the Indian community like FOKANA, FOGANA, TANA, ATA, AAPI, AKMG etc. K.G Manmadhan Nair, Dallas (Texas), US Former General Secretary of NFIA, Former President of FOKANA

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PBD 2017 ... HERE WE COMEs most of our readers are already aware, the bienneal Pravasi Bharatiya Divas falls in January 2017, as was decided during the last PBD 2015, in which our government had firstly decided to make it once in every two years instead of annual, and secondly that the next event will happen in Karnataka State, in Bengaluru City – our very own silicon valley and IT hub of the country.

As was the case the last time in Gandhi nagar, Gujarat, this year too we have been denoted as the reporting and media partner, and are work-ing on a special PBD issue, which we hope will not only be of interest to you, but will also further strengthen our efforts to be a multipurpose multi-tasking platform for spanning divides between our diaspora and the homeland. We have planned and are teaming up with mavens for producing a whole slew of content – features, essays, articles and inter-views on a wide range of subjects and topics, not to mention focus areas for cooperation and collaboration, technologies, persona, and profiles of some states and sectors, and with specific reference to the host state of Karnataka, which is intent on leaving no stone unturned not only make this PBD a rip-roaring success and create a most healthy environ for Indian Diaspora to contribute their mite to develop the state fur-ther. Our yeoman team, comrising editors, camerapersons and pho-tographers will camping in the host city to keep an eye on sessions, speeches, declarations and interactions apart from garnering quality inputs from a whole lot of our Diaspora, who are expected to take part in large numbers.

That having been said, the past month had been a mite hard on us, with numerous hurdles, obstacles and much of firefighting to come to grasps with troubles that usually come in cartfulls, if and when they do come. But you will be happy to know that we have survived it all hale and hearty, and the creative juices are still flowing, albeit on steroids.

I do not have much more to say, except that we have quite a few things to share with you in the coming month that will represent the fruition of all the hard work we have been putting into some of our pet initiatives – but let us keep it in suspense and under wraps until next month. I along with my team will take this opportunity to wish you all a great december ahead – and fervently wish that you will find a truly exhilarating and prosperous new year in 2017.

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lease do bear with us this time for the slimmer volume sans some of our regular columns this issue, and do go easy on us for the inordinate delay in the magazine reaching your inboxes and your doorsteps. Apart from the fact that personally calamitous events chose this very period to overtake some of our key team mem-bers we have no excuses to offer. A lot did happen in November – also to a large

extent calamitous – on our country’s economic front. Demonetisation happened. Like a bolt from the blue, our Prime Minister chose on the 8th of November night to deem worthless large denomination notes of ₹500 and ₹1000 value – some 86% of the value of all currency notes in circulation in our economy, barely a week after his government, in another ‘surgical strike,’ had authorised the Indian Army to ‘take out’ some terrorist anti-india militancy camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir. The saving grace, however, was the fact that banknotes of ₹100, ₹50, ₹20, ₹10 and ₹5 denominations were left alone, and continued to remain legal tender, unaffected by this new ‘shock-therapy’ policy.

What necessitated it? Ostensibly, the government move to demonetise was to spearhead an effort to put a stop to a variety of malaises plaguing the nation – a shadow underground ‘parallel’ economy that was almost 26% the size of In-dia’s GDP, the large-scale counterfeiting of the current banknotes allegedly being brought into play to finance cross-border and within-border terrorism, and an

attempt to cut-out the blights of corruption, use of drugs, and smuggling. Overnight things chaqnged for the common man, and in the days and weeks the shock-therapy demonetisa-tion, ATMs and banks across the length and breadth of our country began running dry, exposing many vulnerable sectors dependent on a cash-economy like street vendors, small businesses, agriculture, transportation, to name a few. People rushing to exchange their notes formed serpentine queues, and several died in this rush to salvage their meagre sav-ings. Stock markets crashed. Parliament, until we go to print on this issue, is still in a log-jam on the issue, with the opposition vociferously gunning for the government.

Nothing else weighed much on the scene, except for the passing away of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha, after a longish illness. Donald Trump won the US Presidential elections, putting paid to Hillary Clinton’s hopes of getting to become the first ever woman president of the United States. The war in Syria continues, with the seige of Aleppo hinting at civilian casualties of immeasurable proportions. The world goes on, life continues, and NRI Achievers too goes on.

A look at the contents of this issue. Cover Feature brings you the profile of a diasporic Indian who has mastered the art of turning waste to wealth. The 2017 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas looms large, with Bengaluru and Karnataka playing gracious hosts. Our newsy sec-tions are all there, bringing you informative snippets from the worlds of business, PSUs, cinema, local news and product launches, not to mention our diaspora outreach – stories from home and across the world you do have in our sections like Cineppets, News Scan, Business & PSU Buzz, Diaspora News & Product Scan. Silver Screen features Arti Rana. Absent is a major chunk of our columns, but they will be back in our next issue, which will be bolder, larger and more expansive ... as our teams come back to grips with the disrup-tions that hit us recently.

On that note, I choose to end this note, and wish you a great month ahead – even as you progress towards ushering out 2016 and usher in a spanking new 2017 full of opportunities, hopes and the fulfilment of aspirations. Thank you for all your support. And do not forget to maintain touch with us – send in your views, thoughts, opinions and criticisms – all are welcome. Have a great month ahead, friends ... until the next issue!

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Indian student numbers for Australia are on the rise, moving up from 40,130 in July 2013 to 60,835 in July 2015. New Zealand too is not far behind, and has been stepping up efforts to at-tract international students, including Indians, and retaining global talent among leading study destinations such as the US, UK and Canada. Research data by overseas education experts suggests that Australia has gone through various phases of growth and innovation to remain competitive in attracting international students. As many as 40,561 out of 67,279 students from India as of July 2016 are enrolled in postgraduate programmes in Aus-tralia. Both Australia and New Zea-land continue to strengthen their posi-tion as the top choice for Indian stu-dents outside of North America. Aus-tralia is the second-favourite choice for Indian students after the US, says a report entitled “Indian Students Mo-bility - Latest Trends from India and

Globally.” Australia has 40 local uni-versities, a number of specialist terti-ary institutions, and more than a 100 education centres accredited by the government to deliver specific courses. Across the different university ranking systems, criteria and fields of study, Australian universities rank high for the quality of their education, student satisfaction ratings, and overall global reputation. New Zealand welcomed more than 29,000 Indian students in 2015. The country boasts of impres-sive academic facilities, wide range of curriculum, and pastoral care for stu-dents.

AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND: BEGINNING OF A LOVE AFFAIR

E-VOTING RIGHTS FOR 25 MN NRIs: SC SEEKS STATUSThe Indian Supreme Court has asked the Centre about the status of the proposal to allow 25 million Non-Resident Indi-ans (NRIs) across the world to partici-pate in Indian elections through e-vote. Responding to PILs, the EC had earlier ruled out the possibility of allowing NRIs to vote through the Internet or at diplo-matic missions abroad for the time bein, but maintained that the e-postal ballot system has almost no risk of manipula-tion, rigging or violation of secrecy. Un-til now only small proportions of NRIs come to India to exercise their franchise, given the expense and time involved. Once e-voting is allowed, NRIs will not have to fly home to vote. In e-voting, a blank postal ballot paper is emailed to the voter, who has to then fill it and mail it by post to their constituency. The gov-ernment last year had told the court that it has “in principle” approved e-ballot voting for Indian passport holders

abroad recommended by the EC, and that it would have the process in place after making necessary amendments to the Representation of the Peoples Act, 1951. “The recommendation has been accepted in letter and spirit, and a com-mittee had been set up to devise the mo-dalities of its implementation,” said the Additional Solicitor General P L Nar-asimha. He also said that the Union Cabinet would soon consider a draft Bill to make the change before it is tabled in Parliament. SC had then directed the government to enable e-voting by NRIs within two months after effecting the amendments.

Australia has announced on 14 Nov, 2016 the national rollout of an online programme for pre-schoolers to learn foreign languages, including Hindi, next year onwards. The Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) Polyglots applications will help students and their teachers to learn new languages. Min-ister for education and training Simon Birmingham has said that the govern-ment would extend the programme to offer Australian pre-schoolers the op-portunity to learn Italian and Spanish in 2017 and Hindi and Modern Greek in 2018. Birmingham said almost 10,000 children had been part of the AU$ 15.7 million programme so far.

AUSTRALIA TO OFFER HINDI AS SUBJECT OPTION

Gursewak Singh composed his first letter to Japan's justice minister when he was 10. Almost seven years later, he is still writing. In all, he has written more than 50 letters, but has yet to get a reply. The letters, all written in Japanese, have become more eloquent as Gursewak has grown up. But the message is unchanged – a plea to the Japanese authorities to recognise him and his family as residents in a country where he and his younger twin siblings were born and his Indian parents have lived since the 1990s. “My family loves Japan,” Gursewak wrote to then-justice minister Keiko Chiba on March 6, 2010. “We really don't want to go back to India. Please give us visas.” In his most recent letter to the immigration authorities, he wrote: “The Immigration Bureau tells us to go back to India. Why do the three of us have to go back to our par-ents' country, even though we were born and raised in Japan? “ Gursewak's parents, who are Sikhs, fled to Japan from India in the 1990s.

INDIANS IN JAPAN LOCKED IN BATTLE FOR RECOGNITION

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Canada has forecast its intake of new-comers into the country in 2017 will remain at status quo levels, but pro-spective migrants from countries such as India may have reason for cheer as targets for categories under which they are admitted have been raised. Cana-da’s minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, John McCallum, an-nounced Canada’s 2017 immigration plan after nationwide consultations. The government expects to welcome 300,000 new immigrants next year, but a drop in the intake of refugees means

quotas for economic and family reuni-fication classes will go up. In 2016, the target for the economic class — the cat-

egory most used by Indian immigrants — was 160,600. This has been upped to 172,500. The family reunification class has been increased by 4,000 to 84,000. Leading immigration lawyer Ravi Jain, of Toronto-based Green and Spiegel LLP, said: “There will be more room to bring in Indian immigrants through both the family class and the economic stream. I have seen a de-crease in processing time for my Indian clients who are sponsoring spouses and I expect parental sponsorships will be processed faster as well.”

CANADA’S NEW IMMIGRATION PLAN SET TO BENEFIT INDIANS

A US roadshow went around New Delhi, Gurgaon, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad to nurture innovation in clean energy tech-nologies in the country. A high-powered US delegation led by the assistant secre-tary of state for economic and business affairs Charles Rivkin and comprising of US energy and infrastructure companies engaged with government officials, civil society groups and entrepreneurs. “We’re focusing this trip on clean tech in par-ticular with an emphasis within that on infrastructure,” the Special US represent-ative for commercial and business affairs Zaid Haider told a group of Indian re-porters in a media round table. “We have an agreement on emissions, but at the same time now every country needs to do its part in the clean energy space, and so that’s a key focus for us,” said Haider who would be accompanying Rivkin to India for the “American Innovation Roadshow” from March 14.

US ROADSHOW PROMOTING CLEAN ENERGY TO TOUR

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NEW UK VISA RULES TO HIT INDIANS THIS MONTHBritain recently announced changes to immigration rules – in-cluding higher salary thresholds – that is going to affect Indian professionals and IT companies, particularly those using the Intra-Company Transfer (ICT) visa. Indian IT workers account for nearly 90% of UK visas granted under the ICT route, reflect-ing the growing number of professionals and IT companies based in Britain. The changes will also affect Indian profession-

als in other sectors. The changes, announced this year, aim to reduce dependence of British companies on Indian and other non-EU professionals. They come into effect from November 24, the Home Office said. The main changes relate to the Tier 2 visa category: increasing the General salary threshold for experienced work-ers to £25,000, with some exemptions; increasing the ICT salary threshold for short term staff to £30,000 and closing the ICT skills transfer sub-category.

A Sikh couple from India was gunned down on Nov 24, 2016 by two bike-borne assailants in the Philippines' Camarines Sur province, a media report said. Bahag-want Singh Buttar, 45, and his wife Jaswinder Kaur, 36, residents of Sipocot town in the province, were killed when they were on their way to a friend's house by

gunmen struck. Two suspects have been arrested for their alleged in-volvement in the incident by the po-lice after a chase in Sitio Nabuntog in Bangas Caves. The motive behind the murder was not immediately known. Two pistols and live ammu-nition have been recovered from their possession, police said, adding that a case has been registered. There have been many attacks on Indians

in the Philippines in the past. The last incident was reported in August, when a 26 year-old Indian who belonged to Punjab's Phagwara and lived in Santiago city, was shot just a couple of months before he was scheduled to get married.

SIKH COUPLE KILLED IN PHILIPPINES

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ICICI Bank has said it will run a project to transform 100 villages across the coun-try into digital villages in as many days. The project envisages enabling villagers to use digital channels for banking and payment transactions. Accounts would be opened for all and cashless payments enabled to retail stores through messag-ing-based applications that can run on basic phones. “Besides creating a cashless payment system, we will provide voca-tional training and credit linkages to make villages digital,“ said Chanda Ko-chhar, MD & CEO, ICICI Bank. She added that the bank would draw from its experiences in Akodara village in Gu-jarat's Sabrakanta district where it had

run a pilot project. The bank also aims to provide vocational training to 10,000 underprivileged villagers from largely agrarian states. This announcement is part of the bank's continuing effort to provide a digital ecosystem across India,

in the wake of demonetisation, said Ko-chhar. In order to provide mobile bank-ing access to the underprivileged, the bank plans to use SMS and USSD bank-ing solutions. USSD (Unstructured Sup-plementary Service Data) is a technology that enables communication between the mobile phone and the bank's servers in a manner similar to how a mobile user checks his balance talktime. In the first phase, the bank will use tablet-based banking and Aadhaar-based e-KYC to help villagers open accounts without sub-mitting physical documents. All adults in the villages will have savings accounts, which will be linked to Aadhaar to enable direct transfer of government benefits.

ICICI BANK wIll CoNvert 100 vIllAGeS INto dIGItAl IN 100 dAYS

Tata Steel U.K. has signed a Letter of In-tent (LoI) with Liberty House Group, the metals company run by tycoon Sanjeev Gupta, to enter into exclusive negotia-tions for the potential sale of its special-ity steels business in the UK for an enter-prise value of £100 million. The LoI cov-ers several South Yorkshire-based assets including the Rotherham electric arc steelworks, the steel purifying facility in Stocksbridge and a mill in Brinsworth as well as service centres in Bolton and Wednesbury, U.K., and in Suzhou and Xi’an, China. The speciality steels busi-ness employs about 1,700 people making steel for the aerospace, automotive and

the oil & gas industries. It is believed that Tata Steel aims to retain the rest of its U.K. businesses and is in talks with German firm ThyssenKrupp to merge their Euro-pean steel operations, potentially giving the combined entity 40 percent market share. Tata Steel is pursuing a transforma-

tion plan to create a sustainable future for its U.K. strip products business. The suc-cess of this plan is likely to influence deci-sions on future investments, said the company statement. “The Speciality Steels business is independent of the pan-European strip products supply chain the announcement is in line with the overall restructuring strategy of our U.K. portfo-lio. We will continue to work closely with trade unions and will communicate any material news on this issue to the employ-ees on an ongoing basis,” said Tata Steel U.K. CEO Bimlendra Jha.

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“Haier India is targeting a 30% increment in turnover this year on the back of higher in-terest amid the bubbly season. We are taking a gander at 30 for every penny increment in deals this year. Every one of our classes are reporting great

development. We hope to clock deals worth INR 2,200 crore monetary," the Haier India President Eric Braganza tells media. The organization, which reported offers of INR 1,700 crore last monetary, has set an objective to end up as one of India's main three brands by 2018 and increment its income to US$ 1 billion by 2020.

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IDFC Bank has tied up with Capital Float to extend loans to the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector online. Given the inadequate data on the credit-worthiness of small business-men and their numerous de-faults, few banks lend to the SME sector now. With branch-es in just five cities, IDFC Bank will explore an alternative mechanism of lending by using available data. Interest rates will be 18-20%, average loan size will be ₹15-20 lakh for a period ranging from 90 days to 1-2 years.

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Buoyed by excellent response for its Baleno hatch and Vitara Brezza compact SUV, Maruti Suzuki is all set to bring in a sportier Baleno RS Boosterjet hatch-back. Dubbed as Maruti Baleno RS, the hatch will be equipped with a powerful turbocharged engine and a sporty body kit. Showcased at 2016 Delhi Auto Expo, the Baleno RS premium hatch is all set to make its debut in the Indian market this festive season. The company has al-ready initiated production and has al-ready started exporting the powerful premium hatch to international markets. Expected to fall in the range of INR 8 to 10 lakh, the Maruti Baleno RS will di-rectly compete with the Volkswagen Polo GT TSI and forthcoming i20 N Sport.

MARUTI SUZUKI's SpoRTIeR 'BALeNo RS BooSTeRJeT'

OnePlus 3T, the new flagship smart-phone of the Chinese brand, hit the In-dian market on December 2. The smart-phone costs INR 29,999 for the 64GB version and 34,999 for the 128GB mod-el. The company had previously con-firmed that it will continue selling the OnePlus 3 (Rs. 27,999), which is just five months old, in the Indian market; while the new OnePlus 3T has replaced its older sibling in the US and Europe. The smartphone also gets full-HD 1080p re-cording at 60fps with the new OxygenOS 3.2.8 update.

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BIKANo To LAUNCH ‘ReADY To eAT’ FooDSFMCG company Bikano recently said it will launch ‘Ready to Eat’ product ranges in the domestic food market early next year. According to the company, the new

packaged food products will be launched in native flavours such as Shahi Paneer, Rajma and Saag. “Bikano’s vision is towards a healthy India with focus on preparations of products in a hygienic environment with strict quality measures and the correct proportion of nutri-tional value, which ultimately supports idea of being healthy yet keeping the traditional taste

alive,” Director, Bikanervala Foods, Manish Aggarwal said in a statement. “We plan to enhance our production capacity to meet the increasing demand in domestic market over the next two to three years.” The company has already started exporting ‘Ready to Eat’ products in overseas markets including the US, Dubai, the UK, Canada and New Zealand, the statement added.

“We are looking at diversification. The first is going to be within the bakery area, where in certain segments we are miss-ing. You would see in the next couple of months very hectic activity from our side,” Managing Director, Britannia Industries, Var-un Berry was quoted by PTI as saying. He was further quoted as saying: “We are missing in few segments as cereal bar, croissants and we are going to evaluate all of this and certainly de-

velop a strategy to move in those as well.” For this, the company is planning a series of launches and the earliest would be

nine to ten months away. “We would not take all of them together. It would be series of launches that we are looking at over the next one year or so. Once the

decision is taken then we would have to get the capex going… the earliest launch which we are looking at would be in next 9 to 10 months.”

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Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), in the second quar-ter of FY 2016-17, has maintained the momentum of positive growth and profitability achieved in the first quarter, with the company registering a topline growth of 12% at INR 6,780 Crore and posting a profit before tax of INR 138 Crore as against a loss of INR 293 Crore in the corresponding period last year. Significantly, in the first quarter, BHEL had record-ed positive growth after reversing the trend of negative topline growth prevailing for the last 14 straight quarters. Strategic initiatives put in place by the new management have begun yielding results and the company is well on its way to getting back on the growth trajectory. Atul Sobti, the new CMD of the company, said that holding on to our strengths and build-ing news ones, we are resolutely focused on achieving the immediate target of regaining growth. Attributing the revers-al in the trend of negative growth to accelerated execution, he said that specific steps of expeditious execution and cost cut-ting coupled with efforts to enhance executable order book have been initiated by the company. As part of this, focus will be on creating new verticals within the company to cap-italize on the massive infrastructure spending by the Govt. of India, with a special focus on Indian Railways, defence and

other industrial products to drive the next wave of growth. BHEL has also been focusing on sustainable energy develop-ment by offering EPC solutions in solar and an environment-friendly supercritical technology in the thermal sector. The company has an outstanding order book position of INR 1,03,300 Crore at the end of the second quarter of this fiscal.

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NTPC has bagged the Gold award for Healthy Workplace by Arogya World India Trust in partnership with Public Health Foundation of India. The Award was received by Shri S P Singh ED (HR), Dr Rajib Goyal, CMO CC, Dr B K Behera, Sr Spl Med, Dr B K Mishra CMO Badarpur. NTPC - PMI has also been awarded the Gold award for healthy workplace Arogya World India Trust. The recognition is for promoting practices of healthy eating, physical activity, work life balance and trans-forming employees/participants into change agents to champion healthy workplaces within the company.

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Shri MV Gowtama has taken charge as the CMD of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) on November 8, 2016. He joined BEL at its Ghaziabad Unit in January 1983 as a Probationary Engineer. Gowtama took over as GM (Technology Planning) at BEL’s Corporate Office in Ban-galore on February 1, 2010. Later he served as GM (Mil-com) / BEL-Bengaluru and was Executive Director (Mis-sile Systems) / BEL-Bengaluru till his elevation as CMD, BEL. He completed his B. Tech in Electronics and Com-

munications from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati, in 1983.

Govt has removed the PDIL CMD Shri S Venkateswar and handed over the additional charge to Shri D S Sudhakar Ramaiah, currently serving as Director (Finance) in PDIL. It is understood that govt’s decision was triggered by the poor performance of the company for which it found the CMD responsible.

AB Khare, the CMD of Madras Fertilisers, assumed ad-ditional charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of FACT. Earlier, the central government had removed Jaiveer Shrivastava, who is facing corruption charges, from the post of CMD. A person with diverse experience in Fertiliser industry, Khare joined Madras Fertilisers as CMD on January 14, 2016.

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INDIA’S TOP 25 SOCIAL INNOVATIONS TO BE FACILITATED DURING PBD 2017

As part of the activities lined up for the forthcoming Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD), a government-spon-

sored conclave for the Indian Diaspora also known as the Non-Resident Indian Day, in Bengaluru, Karnataka the Minis-try of External Affairs (EMS) is organizing a national contest to identify the country’s top 25 social innovations. The Ministry will be conducting this nation-wide search with the support of Atal Innovation Mis-sion, Niti Aayog.

According to the MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup, the objective of the contest is to identify a pool of social impact in-

novators that have developed or are de-veloping commercially feasible solutions to the socio-economic problems of the country. The key focus sectors for the contest include areas such as the clean technology, education, health, housing, public transport, skill development and livelihood, waste management, water and sanitation and women empowerment. The 25 finest innovative start-ups with a social impact will be showcased to NRIs par-ticipating in the event through an exhibi-tion. “The exhibition will offer an excel-lent opportunity for the Indian Diaspora (those who represent angel investors and

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private equity interests) to connect and interact with these social innovators and associate themselves with the social en-

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was also recently been announced to be significantly changed. It was decided that PBD to be moved outside Delhi to dif-ferent states every two years; and a smaller event will be held in Delhi every alternate year. This was earlier an-nounced Indian Foreign and External Affairs Minister of India, Mrs Sushma Swaraj. The EMA had stated the fair or ‘MELA’ would also be held every alter-nate year in different states. This would be a joint collaboration of central and state government. Indian states such as Karnataka, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have shown interest in hosting the event. These events will be held in the new ven-ues or PBD Kendras.

The PBD is celebrated annually on Jan-uary 9 to mark the contribution of over-seas Indian community in the develop-ment of India. Interestingly, January 9was chosen as the day to celebrate this occa-sion since it was on this day in 1915 that Mahatma Gandhi returned to Bombay, India from South Africa.Started in 2003, this event marks the importance of ar-

rival of India’s greatest Pravasi who led India’s freedom struggle and changed the lives of Indians forever. PBD provides a platform to the overseas Indian commu-nity to engage with the government and people of the land of their ancestors for mutually beneficial activities. A term ‘Global Indian Family’ was devised by the Indian government in the first PBD, held in 2002.

This year, the Portugal Indian-origin Prime Minister Antonio Costa will be the Chief Guest at the convention. He will par-ticipate in the inaugural session of the con-vention on January 8 and is set to address the delegates. Besides, another Indian-or-igin leader, Surinam Vice president Michael Ashwin Satyandre Adhin will be the Spe-cial Guest at the Youth PBD to be held in Bengaluru on January 7, 2017.

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Ashwani SrivastavaThe author is a Senior Research Lead on

policy and energy topics & M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian

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trepreneurship movement in the country,” the MEA spokesperson said.

Importantly, the format of the PBD

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CONVERTING WASTE TO WEALTH...

SURENDRA BORAD PATAWARI

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With mankind today desperately seeking a viable and sustainable blue-print for the future, one of the spot-lights is currently on managing the monumental quantum of ‘waste’ gen-erated by human society that has been rapidly industrialising for the past two centuries. ‘Waste manage-ment’ has thus become one of the key catchphrases of late, on which the very future of healthy living for hu-mankind and its myriad co-travellers on this blue marble of our planet piv-ots upon. It was indeed time we looked upon ways and means of uti-lising our accumulated ‘trash’ as a rather ‘un-natural’ resource. Drivers for this are diminishing resources, en-vironmental fallouts of new products and ‘green’ legislation, particularly in the automotive, electronic and pack-aging sectors. Findling value in hu-man-created materials like end-of-life plastics, some pioneers have evolved a global trade in such materials in re-cent years. One such global enter-prise trading in recycled plastics is Gemini Corporation. It’s founder and President, Surendra Borad Patawari, an Indian, is a leading figure in solid-waste management. NRI Achievers profiles him, his inspirational work and his personality facets in Dossier this issue ...

Surendra Borad Patawari was born in a small village that goes by the name of Momasar, near the old city of Bikaner in Rajasthan, where his life until the age of 10 was spent. At a later age he went to Kolkata from where he completed his education, and entered the sphere of productivity as a spanking new Char-tered Accountant. After working at it

for some years, he moved to Europe, and in the year 1989, finding value in converting industrial and other waste into

reusable material, he took the plunge and founded his own company in Antwerp, Belgium. His company, and established under the name of Gemini Corporation, began dealing with the sourcing, processing and logistics of recyclable raw mate-rials. In its first month, the company shipped just one con-tainer of plastic scrap. Today, some 5000 containers of steel, plastic, rubber and other industrial grade scrap that come from all across the world are shipped by it from over 100 seaports every month.

Gradually, over the years, this fledgeling company which began as an initiative of four farsighted people under Borad’s

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vision and leadership, grew exponen-tially. This growth saw a network of warehousing facilities, processing units and re-manufacturing plants sprouting across three continents – in Europe, Asia, and North America. .Today, Gemi-ni Corporation is an employer of more than 200 professionals, and has emerged as a global organisation with offices in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, India, China, Vietnam, the United States, Germany and Sweden, becoming one of the world's largest plastic scrap traders. Gemini also has significant trading op-erations in steel and rubber scrap, and it's uncompromising adherence to its avowed principles of commitment, in-tegrity and trust has seen the achieve-ment of a turnover approximating over Euro 500 million. Not at all surprising that Gemini Corporation was awarded well-de-served recognition by the Antwerp Cham-ber of Commerce, which deemed it fit to bestow the company with it’s “Excellent En-terprise Award 2012“ for ‘exceptional growth,’ a distinction and it bestows upon companies from the district Ant-werp traditionally every 3 years. Suren-dra Patawari, Gemini’s Chairperson, has also gone on become one of the key con-tributors to the European Parliament on policy-making related to the European recycling industry. He is also the Chair-person of the Plastics Committee at the Bureau of International Recycling, an association with a worldwide member-ship of over 700 enterprises.

Having been brought up in true Jaina tradition, Surendra Patawari tells us that modesty is very important in life, and that nobody in his enterprise will be modest, if he is not setting an example of modest living and diligent working himself. His modesty did come right up to the surface when we quizzed him about the key ingredients that made

Gemini a success story, when he avers that the success of his enterprise hinges not merely on his merit alone, but on his being blessed with an extraordinary team to work with that has an innovat-ing and dynamic approach to their work, and possessing a really strong work mo-tivation. The only dictats he puts in, he

says, are some adherence to his Jaina principles like having no leather use at the workplace, et al.

According to him, the vows chosen by oneself as a self-adopted ‘code of conduct’ are small things, but small things do change the world, he believes, for example when one decides not to resort to any dishonorable means in conducting business, or not cut any trees unnecessarily. When asked to elaborate, he tells us a story. The story of a fisherman and his son, where both of them were once walking along the beach, where many small fishes

were stranded and struggled for their lives. The son bent down, put one of them back into the sea, and the small fish quickly swam away. His father says: “But there are millions of them for whom nothing will change!” The son replies: “Yes father – you are so right. But everything for that fish is changed

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… .” And he leaves it at that.Talking about the waste re-

processing and recycling industry worldwide, he is of the view that the policy stance adopted by sev-eral countries in the developing world, as well as emergent econo-mies like India and China, has brought a pall of gloom over this new industry. According to him, the currently unpromising mar-ket for plastics et al., could quite possibly be improved through a number of measures, including preferential VAT regimes, and a fresher look at the larger picture the world today is facing on the front of proliferating non-biodegradable matter.

Patawari calls for a reduction in the legislative and administrative burden on non-hazardous recyclables, as he is of the view that if not done so, prospects for the plastics recycling sector were “not very promising” at present. “For any business, the real driver is of a finan-cial nature – and unfortunately on that front it is not working well. The market

is ‘rethinking’ recycling because being green is costing so much money.” Talk-ing of India, he adds: “Customers in In-dia ask why they should buy and use recycled plastics when cheaper virgin materials are available. Why should they take the hassles of compliance when there is not much difficulty in getting prime? Even some Chinese customers have changed their business. The sce-nario in Europe is not that promising either. This is a wake-up call.” Calling attention to the dire necessity – the do-or-die nature of recycling, he urges:

Ø Higher landfill taxesØ Lower or zero VAT on goods

produced from recycled materialsØ Reduced regulation for non-

hazardous scrap such as non-com-plex plastics and recovered paperØ Improved consumer aware-

nessAfter painting this bit of gloom,

to sum up he ends on an optimistic and positive note quoting an Inter-national Solid Waste Association assessment that commodity prices and demand would increase.

Towards the end, we asked Surendra Borad Patawari if he is into philanthro-phy and giving. With a smile he replies that his upbringing makes it an integral part of life. Asked about his interests, he mentions offhand the adoption of five villages in India for their complete med-ical needs, his taking it upon himself to build and operate two schools, and be-ing supportive of the plantation and maintenance of over a 100,000 trees.

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·ñ¤âæ, ¥õÚU çÁâð ™ææÙ ãñ ßã ÃØÍü ·¤è §ç‹ÎýØ ÌéçC ×ð´ Ü»æ ÚUãð Øã â´Öß Ùãè´.He who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowl-edge; and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification. How can he who seeks sense gratification acquire knowledge, and he who possesses knowl-edge enjoy mundane sense pleasure?ßã €UØæ ãñ Áô ·¤çß ·¤ËÂÙæ ×ð´ Ùãè´ ¥æ â·¤Ìæ. ßã ·¤õÙâè ÕæÌ ãñ çÁâð ·¤ÚUÙð ×ð´ ¥õÚUÌ âÿæ× Ùãè´ ãñ. °ðâè ·¤õÙâè Õ·¤ßæâ ãñ Áô ÎæM¤ çÂØæ ãé¥æ ¥æÎ×è Ùãè´ ·¤ÚUÌæ. °ðâæ €UØæ ãñ Áô ·¤õßæ Ùãè´ ¹æÌæ.What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?çÙØçÌ °·¤ çÖ¹æÚUè ·¤ô ÚUæÁæ ¥õÚU ÚUæÁæ ·¤ô çÖ¹æÚUè ÕÙæÌè ãñ. ßã °·¤ ¥×èÚU ¥æÎ×è ·¤ô »ÚUèÕ ¥õÚU »ÚUèÕ ·¤ô ¥×èÚU.Fate makes a beggar a

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gar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich.çÖ¹æÚUè °·¤ ·¤´Áêâ ¥æÎ×è ·¤æ Îéà×Ù ãñ. °·¤ ¥‘Àæ âÜæã·¤æÚU °·¤ ×ê¹ü ¥æÎ×è ·¤æ àæ˜æé

ãñ. ßã Â%è Áô ÂÚU-ÂéL¤á ×ð´ M¤ç¿ ÚU¹Ìè ãñ, ©â·Ô¤ çÜ°

©â·¤æ ÂçÌ ãè ©â·¤æ àæ˜æé ãñ.Áô ¿ôÚU ÚUæÌ ·¤ô ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð çÙ·¤ÜÌæ ãñ, ¿‹Îý×æ ãè ©â·¤æ àæ˜æé ãñ.The beggar is a miser's enemy; the wise counsellor is the fool's enemy; her hus-band is an adulterous wife's enemy; and the moon is the enemy of the thief.çÁÙ·Ô¤ Âæâ Øã ·¤éÀ Ùãè´ ãñ...çßlæ., ÌÂ., ™ææÙ., ¥‘Àæ SßÖæß., »é‡æ., ÎØæ Öæß. ßô ÏÚUÌè ÂÚU ×ÙécØ ·Ô¤ M¤Â ×ð´ ƒæê×Ùð ßæÜð Âàæé ãñ´U. ÏÚUÌè ÂÚU ©Ù·¤æ ÖæÚU ãñ.Those who are destitute of learning, penance, knowledge, good disposition, virtue and benevolence are brutes wan-dering the earth in the form of men. They are burdensome to the earth.çÁÙ·Ô¤ ÖðÁð ¹æÜè ãñ´U, ßô ·¤ô§ü ©ÂÎðàæ Ùãè´ â×ÛæÌð. ØçÎ Õæ´â ·¤ô ×ÜØ ÂßüÌ ÂÚU ©»æØæ

ÁæØð Ìô Öè ©â×ð´ ¿‹ÎÙ ·Ô¤ »é‡æ Ùãè´ ¥æÌð.Those that are empty-minded cannot be benefited by instruction. Bamboo does not acquire the quality of sandalwood by being associated with the Malaya Mountain.çÁâð ¥ÂÙè ·¤ô§ü ¥·¤Ü Ùãè´ ©â·¤è àææS˜æ €UØæ ÖÜæ§ü ·¤ÚUð´»ð. °·¤ ¥¡Ïæ ¥æÎ×è ¥æØÙð ·¤æ €UØæ ·¤ÚUð»æ.What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?°·¤ ÕéÚUæ ¥æÎ×è âéÏÚU Ùãè´ â·¤Ìæ. ¥æ ÂëD Öæ» ·¤ô ¿æãð çÁÌÙæ âæȸ¤ ·¤ÚÔ´U ßô ŸæðD Öæ»æð´ ·¤è ÕÚUæÕÚUè Ùãè´ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìæ. Nothing can reform a bad man, just as the posterious cannot become a superi-or part of the body though washed one hundred times.¥ÂÙð çÙ·¤ÅU â´Õ´çÏØô´ ·¤æ ¥Â×æÙ ·¤ÚUÙð âð ÁæÙ ÁæÌè ãñ.ÎéâÚUæð´ ·¤æ ¥Â×æÙ ·¤ÚUÙð âð ÎõÜÌ ÁæÌè ãñ.ÚUæÁæ ·¤æ ¥Â×æÙ ·¤ÚUÙð âð âÕ ·¤éÀ ÁæÌæ ãñ.°·¤ Õýæ±×‡æ ·¤æ ¥Â×æÙ ·¤ÚUÙð âð ·¤éÜ ·¤æ Ùæàæ ãô ÁæÌæ ãñ.By offending a kinsman, life is lost; by offending others, wealth is lost; by of-fending the king, everything is lost; and by offending a brahmana one's whole family is ruined.Øã ÕðãÌÚU ãñ ·¤è ¥æ Á´»Ü ×ð´ °·¤ ÛææÇ ·Ô¤ Ùè¿ð ÚUãð´U, ÁãUæ´ Õæƒæ ¥õÚU ãæÍè ÚUãÌð ãñ´U, ©â Á»ã ÚUã·¤ÚU ¥æÂ È¤Ü ¹æ°´ ¥õÚU ÁÜÂæÙ ·¤ÚÔ´U, ¥æ ƒææâ ÂÚU âôØð´ ¥õÚU ÂéÚUæÙð ÂðǸæð´ ·¤è ¹æÜð ÂãÙð. Üðç·¤Ù ¥æ ¥ÂÙð â»ð â´Õ´çÏØô´ ×ð´ Ùæ ÚUãð´U ØçÎ ¥æ çÙÏüÙ ãô »° ãñ´U.It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.Õýæ±×‡æ °·¤ ßëÿæ ·Ô¤ â×æÙ ãñ. ©â·¤è ÂýæÍüÙæ ãè ©â·¤æ ×êÜ ãñ. ßã Áô ßðÎô´ ·¤æ »æÙ ·¤ÚUÌæ ãñ ßãè ©â·¤è àææ¹æ°´ ãñ´U. ßã Áô Âé‡Ø ·¤×ü ·¤ÚUÌæ ãñ ßãè ©â·Ô¤ žæð ãñ´U. §âèçÜ° ©âð ¥ÂÙð ×êÜ ·¤ô Õ¿æÙæ ¿æçã°. ØçÎ ×êÜ ÙC ãô ÁæÌæ ãñ Ìô àææ¹æØð´ Öè Ùæ ÚUãð´U»è ¥õÚU žæð Öè.The brahmana is like tree; his prayers are the roots, his chanting of the Ve-das are the branches, and his religious act are the leaves. Consequently effort should be made to preserve his roots for

if the roots are destroyed there can be no branches or leaves.Üÿ×è ×ðÚUè ×æÌæ ãñ. çßc‡æé ×ðÚUð çÂÌæ ãñ´U. ßñc‡æß ÁÙ ×ðÚUð â»ð â�Õ‹Ïè ãñ´U. ÌèÙæð´ Üô·¤ ×ðÚUæ Îðàæ ãñ´U.My mother is Kamala devi (Lakshmi), my father is Lord Janardana (Vishnu), my kinsmen are the Vishnu-bhaktas (Vaisnavas) and, my homeland is all the three worlds.ÚUæç˜æ ·Ô¤ â×Ø ç·¤ÌÙð ãè Âý·¤æÚU ·Ô¤ ´Àè ßëÿæ ÂÚU çߟææ× ·¤ÚUÌð ãñ´U. ÖôÚU ãôÌð ãè âÕ Â´Àè Îâæð´ çÎàææ¥æð´ ×𴠩Ǹ ÁæÌð ãñ´U. ã× €UØô´ ÖÜæ Îéѹ ·¤ÚÔ´U ØçÎ ã×æÚUð ¥ÂÙð ã×ð´ ÀôǸ·¤ÚU ¿Üð »°.(Through the night) a great many kinds of birds perch(Sit and rest) on a tree but in the morning they fly in all the ten directions. Why should we lament (Ex-pression of sorrow) for that? (Similarly, we should not grieve when we must inevitably part company from our dear ones).çÁâ·Ô¤ Âæâ çßlæ ãñ ßã àæçQ¤àææÜè ãñ. çÙÕéüh ÂéL¤á ·Ô¤ Âæâ €UØæ àæçQ¤ ãô â·¤Ìè ãñ? °·¤ ÀôÅUæ ¹ÚU»ôàæ Öè ¿ÌéÚUæ§ü âð ×Î×SÌ ãæÍè ·¤ô ÌæÜæÕ ×ð´ ç»ÚUæ ÎðÌæ ãñ.He who possesses intelligence is strong; how can the man that is unintelligent be powerful? The elephant of the forest having lost his senses by intoxication was tricked into a lake by a small rabbit. (this verse re-fers to a famous story from the niti-sastra called panchtantra compiled by the pandit Vishnusharma 2500 years ago).ãð çßE�ÖÚU, Ìê âÕ·¤æ ÂæÜÙ ·¤ÚUÌæ ãñ. ×ñ´ ×ðÚUð »éÁæÚUð ·¤è €UØô´ ç¿´Ìæ ·¤M´¤ ÁÕ ×ðÚUæ ×Ù ÌðÚUè ×çã×æ »æÙð ×ð´ Ü»æ ãé¥æ ãñ. ¥æ·Ԥ ¥Ùé»ýã ·Ô¤ çÕÙæ °·¤ ×æÌæ ·¤è ÀæÌè âð ÎêÏ Ùãè´ Õã â·¤Ìæ ¥õÚU çàæàæé ·¤æ ÂæÜÙ Ùãè´ ãô â·¤Ìæ. ×ñ ãÚUÎ× Øãè âô¿Ìæ ãé¥æ, ãð ØÎé ß´çàæØæð´ ·Ô¤ ÂýÖé, ãð Üÿ×è ÂçÌ, ×ðÚUæ ÂêÚUæ â×Ø ¥æ·¤è ãè ¿ÚU‡æ âðßæ ×ð´ ¹¿ü ·¤ÚUÌæ ãê´U.Why should I be concerned for my maintenance while absorbed in prais-ing the glories of Lord Vishwambhara (Vishnu), the supporter of all. Without the grace of Lord Hari, how could milk flow from a mother's breast for a child's nourishment? Repeatedly thinking only in this way, O Lord of the Yadus, O hus-band of Lakshmi, all my time is spent in serving Your lotus feet.

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Bollywood singer-performer and former Indian Idol talent, Harshi Mad joins the lead stars of upcoming Bollywood film Befikre for a special launch event of the film in Bradford, UK. Thronged by 5000 plus strong crowd at the World’s first UNESCO city of film, Harshi shared stage with Ranveer Singh and Vani Ka-poor. The high octane performance dished out by Harshi mostly comprised Yash Raj film songs, of course topped with her very own recent hits – Jager-bomb and Raat Sautrday ki Hain.

HARSHI WOOS RANVEER SINGH IN HER HOMEGROUND, UK

MALLIKA SHERAWAT BEATEN UP BY UNIDENTIFIED MEN IN PARIS

SRK’S BIOGRAPHY BY SAMAR KHAN RELEASED!

Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat was attacked with tear gas, beaten and robbed by three masked intruders outside her Paris apartment block, a media report says. A criminal inves-tigation has been launched. The po-lice revealed that the incident, which happened on the night of November 11 — just a month after reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in the same city. The 40-year-old and a male partner — French businessman Cyrille Auxenfans — were attacked with tear gas and punched. The alleged assault took place when the two arrived at her resi-dential building in the 16th arrondissement of the French capital. According to Le Parisien newspaper, the criminals wore scarves across their faces and “without saying a word, sprayed their victims with tear gas before punching them”.

Royal Stag Mega Music unveiled Samar Khan’s book on Shah Rukh Khan’s iconic journey and his life in the film industry. Aptly titled ‘25 years of a Life’, the book cap-tures interesting incidents and anecdotes from King Khan’s successful journey in the industry through the eyes of directors he has worked with. From Aditya Chopra’s ‘Raj’

who became the King of Romance with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge to Farhan Akhtar’s Don, Samar Khan’s book includes 30 chapters and each one of them is a director’s take on a particular character created by them and portrayed by SRK. Shah Rukh Khan said, “25 years in the film industry was a big dream for a boy who came from Delhi all those years ago.

National Award-winning actress Vidya Balan, who has won accolades for her bold performances in wom-

en-led films such as Kahani and the Dirty Picture has faced lots of sexism in her career but con-quered it with her talent. The ac-tress opened up about some of her experiences in the industry where she was treated differently for being a woman. Vidya said. “I’ll never forget this gentleman who called me on the day Ishqiya

released and said, ‘aapne film hero jaise promote ki aur aap film ki hero hain’. And I was thrilled at the compliment, because I worked really hard to promote the film. Naseer saab was not promoting the film and Arshad was not there for all the promotions.

VIDYA BALAN REVEALS FACTS OF SEXISM FACED BY HER IN BOLLYWOOD

After her maiden shoot with Amitabh Bachchan for her forthcoming music video, Chief Minister Dev-endra Fadnavis' banker wife Amruta admits that she is still reeling under the big B impact.... Ever so gal-lant Amruta admits that her shoot with Bachchan senior was an experience of a lifetime. "Shooting with Amit ji was like a dream. He was so gallant and made me feel very comfortable. Now I know why he is called the superstar of the millennium. I was re-ally impressed with his magnificent aura and mag-nanimity." An accomplished singer, Amruta will also be seen dancing in the video, wearing a lovely red dress. Ask her if she was uncomfortable wearing such a glam dress as the CM's wife and she replies, "Not at all! I have played tennis and worn short skirts at home.

'I WAS COMFORTABLE WEARING SHORT DRESS': AMRUTA FADNAVIS

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l How did you start your career as an actress?

I started my career as an actress liter-ally with scratch without knowing A B C D of the film industry. I embarked on the journey after learning acting at Ac-tor Prepares. I also acted in plays with Karan Kala Manch and Spandan theatre group at Malad and was part of plays like One Coin Please which was about how the film industry works. I polished my skills as an actress by being a part of plays like Birju Ka Chautha Grahak.

l What is your role in the serial Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat?

In the serial Chakravartrin Ashoka Great, I am playing the role of Bema, who is a great support system to him, which is very strong like a sister. I have a very good track in the serial, exactly like Divya Dutta had in the film Veer Zaara.

l Was Chakravartin Ashoka Great a big turning point in your career as an actress?

For the first time in my career, my fans came to me and sought for selfies with me and I felt that I was really being rec-ognized for my work.

l Which was your first serial as an ac-tress?

I played the role of Jigna which had a comic flavor in a serial called Pritam Pyaare Aur Woh with Tiku Talsania way back in 2013.

l Do young boys come rushing to you to propose to you?

Many young boys started proposing to me through social media and some

even asked me for a date with them but neither I want to waste my time nor to lose my focus from acting.

l You made your film debut with Raj-jo!

Yes.

l How was it working with an actress like Kangana Ranaut?

It was indeed a great experience work-ing with Kangana who is an experienced actor. I felt that it was very easy for me to market myself after working with Kangana, because she made me com-fortable though I should also confess at the same time that she was not over friendly.

l Current assignments?Currently I am working on myself and

go to the gym every day as I want to put on a little weight, though I am quite happy with my body. After all it is a glamorous industry and I have to be very attractive & sexy besides looking stunning through my body.

l How comfortable will you be when it comes to exposing or wearing bikini in a film?

If it is a Mahesh Bhatt venture and a film with say Emraan Hashmi I can shed my clothes, I am ready to appear in a two piece bikini or indulge in lip locks. I know for a fact that I can easily carry myself on the screen, like VIdya Balan was very comfortable in The Dirty Pic-ture even though she was quite fat.

l Is acting something that comes to you naturally or do you feel the need to pre-pare and work hard on it?

A bit of both! I research my roles, but don’t like to rehearse my performance as that’s something I simply can’t do. An actor should be comfortable doing any character or scene convincingly. I’m generally cautious while Intimate scenes as I feel that they have to be shot aes-thetically.

l Are you doing varied roles and dif-ferent genres to widen your audienc-es?

I don’t do variety of episodic shows for people but for myself. I don’t do TV for other people and it’s the other way around. I take up only roles which I en-joy doing.

l Who are your directors?Among the filmmakers I want to work

with are Karan Johar, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Prakash Jha, besides Adi-tya Chopra.

l What next?I have recently shoot a very big na-

tional campaign for PM Narendra Mo-di's great vision Pradhanmantri Surak-shit Matritv Abhiyan , A show on Color channel which is being produced by Shashi Sumeet called Dil Ki Baatein Dil Hi Jaane is in the offing. I am also in talks with Rajshri for a serial and one for Balaji called Pardesh.

Jyothi VenkateshThe writer is a well-known &

established film critic.

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