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From traditional business advice to inspirational tales or historical biographies, the picks — with help from some noted authors — of the books to watch for in the new year.

Salman overtakes SRK as top earning celebrity: Forbes India

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NU-Q students explore career opportunities

A group of Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) students met with marketing professionals from Memac Ogilvy, a marketing and communications company in Qatar,

to explore career opportunities for students stud-ying strategic communications.

NU-Q has developed a programme for its students — the Global Media Experience pro-gramme — that provides students with the opportunity to visit publication houses, produc-tion studios, and marketing communications agencies in and around the region. Through these visits, the students are able to discover the dif-ferent roles professional communicators hold within the organisations and to better under-stand how they can establish themselves for their future careers. “The Global Media Experience programme allows students to see how the

theories and mechanisms they are learning in the classrooms come together in the real world

— and what that means for them as they explore various career opportunities in strategic com-munications, journalism, and the media,” said Everette E Dennis, dean and CEO.

In addition to meeting with executives at Memac Ogilvy, NU-Q students have also visited the communications and advertising agency ADabisc and global network BeIN Sports. “After observing Ogilvy’sdigital media campaigns on social media, I wanted to understand the proc-ess of how brands share their messages,” said Syed Muhammad Erzum Naqvi, a sophomore at NU-Q. During their visit to Memac Ogilvy, the students met with Haïkel Ben Hamouda, the agency’s strategic planner, who explained its operations and addressed the need for commu-nication experts in an age of short attention spans

and seemingly infinite choices. “Successful brands understand that they are not just selling a product, they’re selling a philosophy,”he told the students. “Effective com-munication is conveying to the public a brand’s ultimate goal.”

Students were also intro-duced to the agency’s directors who presented the various functions creative agencies perform in defining and solving various commu-nications problems — from client servicing to strategic planning. “I didn’t realise until this visit that strategic communications really is about effective storytelling and that it demands thorough research as well as creative thinking,” Naqvi said.

Younes Mana, also an NU-Q sophomore, quoted the founder of the firm, David

Ogilvy, who said: “In the modern world of busi-ness, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create,” in explaining what drew her to the Global Media Experience programme. “I’m interested in find-ing out how my skills can fit into producing communications solutions,” she added.

“We’re a generation that constantly challenges the status quo. As long as you are critical think-ers, think outside the box,and have strong opinions, you’ll do very well in this field,” Ben Hamouda advised students.

As part of its commitment to educate a gen-eration of media and communications experts, NU-Q provides its students with numerous opportunities to interact and work with world-class communications professionals, including internships and residency programs in the region and abroad.

COVER STORY SUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 201604

Jena McGregor The Washington Post

After an utterly dark and divisive year of political leadership, people will surely be looking for fresh professional inspi-

ration in 2017: books that help us stick to our resolutions at work, that offer surprising and uplifting stories from other leaders, that provide les-sons from history about consequential leaders, and books that simply give us ideas for work-ing smarter, faster or better.

To compile this year’s list of leadership books to watch for in the year ahead, we combed through publishers’ lists and picked a few that we believe will make an impact. We also asked for suggestions from the authors and professors we’ve interviewed on the topic over the past year, ranging from Stanford University’s Bob Sutton and Whar-ton guru Adam Grant (no, he did not recommend his own 2017 book) to popular business book author Dan-iel Pink and Oxford University political science professor Archie Brown (whose book Bill Gates recently picked as one of his favourites).

The result is a wide-ranging mix of traditional business books, inspi-rational tales of achievement and biographies of current and former political leaders, most of which will be published in the first half of next year. (For fun, we considered some non-serious options — “Oh the Meetings You’ll Go To!” a parody of the popular Dr Seuss graduation book by a pseudonymous “Dr Suits”

— but ultimately stuck to

more traditional choices.) Below, our preview of the leadership books to watch for in 2017:

Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the WorkplaceBy Christine Porath, Dec. 27

This Georgetown business school professor’s book — which was recommended more than once

— officially launches on Tuesday, close enough to the new year to make our list. In a world where divi-sive politics has undermined civil behaviour outside the workplace, Christine Porath’s book is bound to be particularly resonant within it. Sutton, author of the popular man-agement book “The No A —Hole Rule,” called it “a message the whole world needs” in an email to OnLeadership.

Own It: The Power of Women at WorkBy Sallie Krawcheck, Jan. 17

There’s a rash of books aimed at women and their careers coming in the new year — with everyone from TV anchor Nicole Lapin to first daughter (lady?) Ivanka Trump add-ing their contributions to a genre that became publishing gold after Sheryl Sandberg’s smash hit “Lean In.” Wall Street veteran Sallie Krawcheck’s book will be among the first and most notable, given her lengthy career at the top of some of Ameri-ca’s biggest banks and her more recent investment in the profes-sional women’s network Ellevate.

StretchBy Scott Sonenshein, Feb. 7

Recommended by Grant and Sutton, “Stretch” examines the “sci-ence of resourcefulness,” aimed at helping people learn to get the most out of what they have rather than constantly chasing more. With a focus on the value of constraint, Rice University management professor Scott Sonenshein was praised by Sutton for his “skill as a writer and ability to translate.”

Madame PresidentBy Helene Cooper, March 7

No, this is not a Democrat’s fan fiction of a Hillary Clinton presi-dency. Rather, it is New York Times journalist Helene Cooper’s biogra-phy of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first democratically elected female pres-ident in African history. Cooper, who grew up in Liberia, tells the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s personal story and examines her leadership of the Liberian women’s movement, prom-ising a look at one of the few women to run a nation not only in Africa, but anywhere.

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Eyes Wide OpenBy Isaac Lidsky, March 14

Fans of the “Saved by the Bell” spin-off series may remember Isaac Lidsky as “Weasel” during the 1990s

— yes, really — but that’s just one of the surprising elements of this entrepreneur’s life story. Suggested by Dartmouth Tuck School of Busi-ness professor Sydney Finkelstein,

“Eyes Wide Open” not only shares Lidsky’s remarkable tale — blind by the age of 25, a onetime Supreme Court law clerk to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day

O’Conner, now CEO of a $150m construction services company. It also provides life lessons on sur-mounting fears, avoiding assumptions and responding to circumstances.

Radical CandorBy Kim Scott, March 14

A former Google executive and faculty member at Apple Univer-sity, Kim Scott is a CEO coach in Silicon Valley who believes, says Pink, that “workplaces are too nice

— really ‘fake nice’ — and that we’d all be better off with unvarnished honesty, especially when it comes to evaluating performance.” Her solution, “radical candor,” sits at the

“sweet spot between managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on one side and ruinously empathetic on the other,” according to the book’s synopsis.

Option BBy Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, April 24

The Facebook chief operating officer’s sophomore book, written with popular management author and Wharton professor Adam Grant, has the makings of a mega hit. Named after the advice a friend gave Sandberg following the sud-den death of her husband, Silicon Valley executive Dave Goldberg, the book is focused on recovering from adversity. While it’s likely to have a wider appeal than most business books — it includes stories of peo-ple who recovered from hardships such as divorce, sexual assault and imprisonment — it’s could appeal to leaders wanting to build their own resilience, too.

The Captain Class: The Driving Force Behind the World’s Great-est TeamsBy Sam Walker, May 16

The premise alone is intriguing: The former sports editor of the Wall Street Journal, now a deputy page one editor, spent years coming up with a list of the 16 most dominant teams in sports, and then looked for what they had in common. His answer? Each team had what the book’s summary calls a “captain”

— “a singular leader who drove it to sustained, historic periods of great-ness.” Sam Walker then studied the seven attributes those leaders exhibited, such as doggedness or nonverbal communication skills, that aren’t always heralded as the most important leadership traits.

The PushBy Tommy Caldwell, May 16

Two years ago, Tommy Cald-well and Kevin Jorgeson made the first free ascent on El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park, a climbing feat marvelled at around the world. At the time, Jorgeson, also a public speaker, said he hoped the achievement “inspires people to find their own Dawn Wall, if you will.” Now Caldwell has writ-ten a book that could help with that

— a memoir about the hardships he’s faced and what he learned in the process.

Gorbachev: His Life and TimesBy William Taubman, Sept. 7

Many CEOs say they learn more about leadership — where it goes right and where it goes wrong — by reading biographies of historical figures, rather than the traditional business fare. Next year will see the release of a big one: Amherst Col-lege professor William Taubman’s biography of the last Soviet leader, more than a decade in the making, will “put Gorbachev’s leadership in its political context, and be enriched by the interviews Taubman has conducted with Gorbachev himself,” Oxford’s Brown wrote in an email. Taubman’s definitive 2003 biogra-phy of former Russian leader Nikita Kruschev won the Pulitzer Prize.

COMMUNITY SUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 201606

Family entertainment back at Medina Centrale

United Development Company (UDC), a leading Qatari public shareholding Com-pany and master

developer of The Pearl-Qatar, con-tinued organising a series of successful family entertainment activities at Medina Centrale, The Pearl-Qatar.

Medina Centrale, an entertain-ment destination for families from within the country and the region, celebrated this weekend with sur-prises and programmes designated for residents of The Pearl-Qatar and visitors with their children looking for fun in a safe place on the Island.

During the weekend, the plaza and facades of restaurants and cafes in Medina Centrale was the centre for family fun. Events included kid’s plays along with stage perform-ances that attracted large crowds.

Children received a special wel-come from their loved cartoon characters who have been touring continuously to meet young chil-dren. Kids took the opportunity to have photo session with these car-toon characters before

accompanying them to the main activities. Families and children have been enjoying the variety of activities and programmes at

Medina Centrale. Activities range from funny shows, training work-shops, cartoon character parade, innovative and exciting games, in

addition to recreational activities aimed for the development of men-tal and intellectual abilities of children.

QCS takes part in EEMEA Experience ExchangeQatar Cancer Society (QCS) has

participated in EEMEA Expe-rience Exchange for patient

organisations recently in Morocco organised by Roche.

Dr Muhannad Adnan, a charity

consultant presented a work paper about the charity’s role in raising awareness of cancer and mission

& vision of QCS. He also presented QCS experience in collaborating and building networks, for exam-ple, establishing Ooredoo Cancer Awareness Center (OCAC).

The paper presented a charity experience in organising interna-tional conferences such as breast cancer conference, to stay abreast of the latest developments in the prevention, detection & treatment of cancer, as well as participating in the regional breast cancer aware-ness campaign and GCC cancer awareness campaign .

QCS launched a survivor book-let under the name “Story of Hope”. The booklet aims to highlight the role of cancer survivors in raising awareness about cancer and let people know it is a treatable dis-ease if discovered in the early stages.

MARKETPLACESUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 2016 07Intertec Group launches Xiaomi in Qatar

Intertec Group WLL, the sole authorised distributor of Xiaomi Mobiles in Qatar, offi-cially unpacked the Xiaomi mobile in Qatar.

Intertec Group CFO George Thomas officially unboxed the Xiaomi Mobile and presented the product to Qatar market. At the occasion, he said: “This is a signif-icant moment and Xiaomi will be a revolution in the mobile phone market, now Intertec is proudly offering this dissimilar devise to Qatar market.”

He added, “as a responsible dis-tributor this is our duty to introduce the best product from the available choices. Here we are 100% confi-dent on this product quality which will keep up with our customer’s expectation and trust on us”

Pradeep Sharma – Senior COO, Asraf Divisional Manger – Trading, Midhun Joseph – Group Marketing Manager, Rafik Housny – Show-room Supervisor, and all sales team attended the ceremony at Al Nasr showroom on December 22.

Evo Tek unveils New Energy 10W40 Ultra

Evo Tek W.L.L., the exclusive dealer of Champion Lubricants in Qatar, officially launches the New Energy 10W40 Ultra.

The product is an ultra high performance die-sel (UPHD) engine oil that is designed to meet the highest performance standards for trucks and heavy equipment. Champion New Energy 10W40 Ultra has approvals from the most pres-tigious truck brands in the world.

Champion New Energy 10W40 Ultra is a semi synthetic lubricant based on highly refined oils. The product’s features highlight on global engine protection, lower fuel consumption, low viscosity at cold start, and eco-friendliness (lower emissions). Evo Tek invited its clients to the event.

Awards and trophies of recognition were given to Champion’s best clients in the Qatari

market as well as to the ambassador of the trademark. Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Mohammad bin Jaber Al Thani, Chairman of the Board of Evo Tek W.L.L., was present. Emil Hourany, Managing Director, said: “It is our pleasure to meet our valuable clients for the release of our Champion New Energy 10W40 Ultra. We always ensure that we offer the best quality Champion products to keep our clients satisfied.”

FOOD SUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 201608

Answer to the holiday sugar glut: Pomegranates, and lots of them

Casey Seidenberg The Washington Post

Candy and sugar have once again invaded our world. It began inno-cently enough with a gingerbread house, then lingered with the red-and-green sprinkle cookies from

friends, then endured with the classroom holi-day parties, the candy canes that garnish every wrapped present, and the hot chocolate with marshmallows that lures my kids on these cold days. I would like to be the Grinch and shove it all up the chimney. I fear that if they keep up this pace, my children might spiral and sputter by the time Christmas arrives.

Yet I have decided not to hijack all of the sea-son’s treats. Instead, I will help my kids pick the ones they really want and then fill their bellies with as many vitamins and antioxidants as I can from now until the new year.

My hope is that these nutrients will counter-act some of sugar’s negative effects. Antioxidants prevent oxidative damage caused by sugar, mag-nesium regulates blood sugar and insulin spikes, and vitamin C boosts my children’s immune sys-tems. Not a perfect solution, but perhaps better

than waging war against holiday treats.To ensure my children consume these pow-

erful vitamins and antioxidants, I will be feeding them as many fruits and vegetables as I can. Pomegranate seeds will act as Rudolph’s nose and lead the way. My 5-year-old daughter is attracted to anything bright and sparkly, so it is no wonder she is obsessed with these little neon seeds. She dumps them on every bowl of oat-meal, every serving of yogurt and in every cup of fizzy water.

Can these pint-size seeds do any large-scale good? Absolutely. Pomegranate seeds have been shown to fight cancer, improve memory, reduce inflammation, lower blood pressure and reduce heart disease. It is no wonder they were por-trayed as a healing fruit in the Bible.

One half-cup of pomegranate seeds provides 3 1/2 grams of fiber, more than twice the amount found in the same size serving of apples. This fiber slows the natural sugar of the pomegran-ate as it enters the body’s bloodstream, preventing a sugar rush. The fruit’s B vitamins create sustained energy. The potassium helps to regulate blood pressure and support nerve func-tion. The antioxidants, such as tannins, quercetin and anthocyanins, are all heart-healthy and

cancer-preventing. The vitamin K, folate and iron keep the blood healthy. Lastly, vitamins C and E, powerful antioxidants, boost the immune system and keep tissues from being damaged by pollutants, toxins and sugars.

These festive fruits are ripe from September through January, so ‘tis the season for them. They can be stored for up to two weeks at room tem-perature or for up to three months in the refrigerator. Each pomegranate houses about 600 seeds.

So have at it, gingerbread men: The pome-granate is here to save our holiday. It is much more fun to be the festive mom doling out gleam-ing red seeds than to be the grumpy, grudging Grinch this season.

How to enjoy pomegranate seeds- Snack straight from the fruit.- Top a bowl of oatmeal.- Mix into waffles.- Stir into yogurt.- Toss over salads.- Add to bean or whole-grain dishes.- Sprinkle onto a soup such as squash or

lentil.- Pomegranate “mocktail”: Mix pomegranate

juice and sparkling water, then finish with a few pomegranate seeds.

How to de-seed a pomegranate1. Cut a quarter inch off each end so the fruit

stands flat.2. Using a pairing knife, cut out the centre,

trying not to puncture the seeds.3. Make six slices into the fruit and skin to

loosen it, then pry it apart with your hands.4. Section by section, pry the seeds from

the skin. This works best in a bowl of water so the seeds sink to the bottom and the skin rises to the top.

HEALTHSUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 2016 09

Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The Washington Post

Physical therapist Karena Wu couldn’t help notice a trend in patients visit-ing her New York City office this year. Many

were under age 35, enjoyed stren-uous workouts and were suffering immense hip pain.

The millennials had pushed themselves in endurance races such as the Tough Mudder or weekly CrossFit and metabolic condition-ing classes that placed wear and tear on their bodies, she said. And with little downtime between rou-tines or adherence to proper form, they were putting the long-term health of their hips at risk.

“A lot of millennials are doing all of these high-intensity exercises that are great for the mental and physical components of health, but if you’re not as conditioned as you think, you’re going to put excessive stress on the soft tissue and the joint,” said Wu, owner of Active-Care Physical Therapy.

It’s not uncommon for active young adults to experience some joint pain, but orthopaedic special-ists worry that regimens that rely

on heavy weight lifting or intense aerobic exercises are causing more hip injuries. There are no definitive studies that correlate the two, but research in the Journal of Ortho-paedic & Sports Physical Therapy says high-intensity activities appear to increase the risk of hip osteoar-thritis, a degenerative joint disease.

What’s more, specialists at the Ohio State University Wexner Med-ical Center have reported a rise in cases of young adults with femoral acetabular impingement, a condi-tion that occurs when the ball of the femur fails to fit securely into the hip socket. High levels of activity, they say, can cause the plate to fuse in an abnormal shape and result in a hip impingement.

Shane Nho, an orthopaedic sur-geon at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, recalls a spike in hip, shoulder and knee injuries as CrossFit gyms sprung up several years ago. These days, he said, patients are coming in with hip ail-ments from high-intensity interval training, even some barre classes.

“We probably see at least a cou-ple patients a week with injuries related to those types of intensive classes,” Nho said. “The types of

workouts these guys are doing . . . they’re doing it at all costs, despite poor form, mechanics, fatigue or their actual baseline level of conditioning.”

Neuromuscular imbalances, or weakness in certain muscle groups, are often the root cause of the pain that Nho’s patients experience, he said. If patients come in as soon as they start feeling discomfort, he said, it’s easier to connect them with the right physical therapist to improve their stability and flexibility.

Hips are built to withstand tre-mendous force, but they need full range of motion to work properly, hence the importance of flexibility and stability, Wu said. She encour-ages her clients to do yoga or attend a Pilates class if they are dead set on physically taxing workouts.

“Flexibility is critical in trying to prevent injuries,” she said. “The body has a tendency to overempha-size larger muscles because they are easier to activate, so sometimes they get a little overused and smaller stabilising muscles get underused. You create an imbalance.”

A weight-room regular since high school, Niranjan Nagwekar, 28,

figured there was no need to spend much time warming up before squatting 250 pounds. But as the New Yorker ramped up his lifting, he started feeling a deep pain in his left hip.

“For the longest time, I thought I just had tight hip flexors, so I started stretching a little more, but the pain persisted,” Nagwekar said.

“I didn’t feel much discomfort walk-ing or sitting down, so it was kind of a strange thing to explain to a doctor because they were like, ‘If you could walk, you could sit, you’re fine.’ But I couldn’t lift as much as normal.”

It turns out Nagwekar had developed a hip impingement. Doc-tors recommended surgery, but he decided to opt for physical therapy. Nagwekar became a patient five months ago at ActiveCare, where Wu has guided him through mobil-ity exercises involving foam rolling, core conditioning and stretching with resistance bands.

“I’m back to about 80 percent capacity,” Nagwekar said. “Any kind of power lifting that requires dynamic movement of the hips takes me a little longer. My hips don’t move as fluidly as before, but I can still do them.”

Millennials flock to high-intensity workouts —and hip pain follows

LIFESTYLE SUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 201610

Stephanie Wong Bloomberg

Safilo Group, the eyewear company that makes frames for Dior, Fendi and Hugo Boss, is looking to succeed in a high-tech

category where even Google has struggled: smart glasses.

The Italian company is debut-ing a set of Internet-connected spectacles next month at the Con-sumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Unlike Google Glass, a prod-uct that was discontinued last year, the Safilo frames won’t have a cam-era or display — they’ll just look like regular glasses.

The Safilo product also will have more limited functions, for now. It will mainly measure brain-waves and send the data to an app installed on a smartphone or tab-let. The idea is to let people assess their moods, helping them relax and meditate. Additional features will be added over time, Chief Execu-tive Officer Luisa Delgado said.

But the main selling point may be that Safilo specs won’t make the

wearer look like a cyborg. The glasses, under Safilo’s sports eye-wear brand Smith, are fashionable enough for everyday use, so they’ll appeal to a broad set of consumers rather than “a few geeks,” she said.

“The consumers don’t have to make sacrifices on the glasses in order to get the technology,” said Delgado, 50.

Safilo is looking to innovation to help revive flagging sales and a stock price that has declined more than 20 percent this year. But the smart glasses industry has a mixed track record. The Google Glass pro-totype was phased out in January 2015 after drawing ridicule for its clunky camera — as well as privacy concerns about surreptitious video. The product also was criticised for having a short battery life. Though Google vowed to continue working on the project, Google Glass is widely seen as a failure.

Another take on the idea has fared better, especially this holiday season. Snap Inc’s Spectacles, which are mainly to shoot 10-second vid-eos and upload them to the Snapchat app, have largely sold out

since they debuted in November.If high-tech glasses catch on,

they could follow the same path as smartwatches. In that category, the Apple Watch prompted LVMH’s Tag Heuer and Michael Kors Holdings Ltd to add smart timepieces to their product lines.

Luxottica Group, a Safilo rival that makes Ray-Ban and Chanel frames, sells a product called Radar Pace under its Oakley brand —voice-activated glasses that coach cyclists and runners. Essilor Inter-national, another eyewear giant, is working on smart glasses as well.

Developing high-tech specs is the right move for traditional com-panies such as Safilo, even if they have limited functionality initially, said Harry Zervos, an analyst at research firm IDTechEx.

“It’s their livelihood; it’s their next generation of products that’s going to take them into a next era of innovation,” Zervos said. “They realise they can make better prod-ucts as time goes by and when technology improves.”

IDTechEx estimated sales of smart glasses excluding virtual

reality headsets will hit $1.8bn by 2021 from $6.3m in 2016. For Safilo, the pricing of its glasses may deter-mine whether the product succeeds, Zervos said.

Unlike with smartwatches, it’s been difficult to make high-tech glasses palatable to mainstream consumers, according to Ramon Llamas, an analyst at International Data Corp. Virtual-reality goggles are popular for gamers, but many spectacles on the market today aren’t suitable to wear outside the house, he said.

Glasses with a camera or com-puter attached have “a certain creepiness factor,” Llamas said.

“It draws attention in negative way,” he said. “We’re still trying to figure out what seems to work out.”

Delgado chose Toronto-based startup InteraXon to help develop the new glasses. The eyewear, in development for a year, works the same as the Canadian company’s existing $250 flagship product, the Muse Headband.

It relies on electroencephalogy technology, which doctors and sci-entists use to detect brain signals. Five sensors — placed on the nose bridge and behind the ears — are embedded in the frame. The spec-tacles’ battery will last for a week with one charge.

“It’s a very expandable technol-ogy,” said InteraXon CEO Derek Luke. “It’s such a natural evolution. No one knows the technology is there except the person who’s wearing the glasses.”

The spectacles, which weigh about 37 grams, will be sold online next summer in the US, Safilo’s larg-est market. Styles, colour and pricing will be disclosed at the CES conference, but the product will debut in sunglass form before being available in prescription eyewear. The technology should eventually be used with other Safilo brands.

Safilo — which ranks third in the eyewear industry, behind Lux-ottica and Essilor — is looking to technology to help perk up sales. Delgado, a veteran of Procter & Gamble Co, has been working to turn around the company since joining in 2013.

“This is just the start,” she said. “Technology has to play a totally dif-ferent role.”

These specs won’t

make wearer look

like a cyborg

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Superstar Salman Khan has topped the 2016 Forbes India Celebrity 100 List with estimated earnings of Rs270.33 crore, driven by the success of his films “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo” and “Sultan”. With this, he has taken the top spot from Shah Rukh Khan.

According to the US magazine, there has not been a single year when either Shah Rukh or Salman has not been No.1 on its Celebrity 100 List.

Shah Rukh — who has minted Rs221.75 crore during the year — has taken the spot thrice, while Salman — whose total earnings constituted 9.84 per-cent of the total wealth (Rs2,745 crore) of all the top 100 Indian celebrities for 2016 — has got it twice.

In the fifth Forbes India Celebrity 100 List, the ranking is based on two parameters: Estimates of entertainment-related earnings and estimates of fame during the period October 2015 to September 2016. The top five names include Virat Kohli, Akshay Kumar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Among the women, Priyanka Chopra — whose fame in the US has got a boost with “Quantico” — earned Rs76 crore, while Deepika Padukone — who has also forayed into the west with “xXx: Return of Xander Cage” — made Rs69.75 crore, according to the magazine.

Salman overtakes

SRK as top earning

celebrity: Forbes India

Kailash Kher to launch & mentor indie bandsSinger Kailash Kher is set to launch and

mentor two indie bands ‘SurFira’ and ‘Indie Routes’ at a concert in January next

year.Perfect Harmony Productions and Kai-

lasa Entertainment Pvt Ltd will unveil ‘Naye Parinde Nayi Udaan’, an evening of ghazals

and sufi music which will have the two bands perform live.

“I’ve completed 10 years in the industry. I’ve received so much of love and respect from my fans. I consider it as a blessing. Since I’ve reached that level where I can do something for others too, I thought of promoting new

talent... something that hasn’t been done in the past by other musicians,” Kher told IANS.

The band ‘SurFira’ is a union of young musicians, who have embarked on a journey to revive the dying music form of ghazals.

“The bandmates are mostly engineers and IT professionals. They are super talented. We will launch their first album on January 11 at the concert. How I named the band was ... every third person in this world sings either in a bathroom or a kitchen. But the serious musicians are slightly insane. The other mean-ing is wanderer for melody.

“A few years ago, when I met Jagjit Singh (late ghazal singer) in a studio. We had a cas-ual chat. I told him that he had raised the standard of ghazal. And asked ‘What next after him?’ He said ‘You can do it (carry forward the legacy)’. I thought he was joking. But now, I am really excited to present this wonderful band,” Kher said about ‘SurFira’.

‘Indie Routes’, on the other hand, has its roots in pure Indian music while its branches embrace global trends in the music field.

“Their genre is pop and folk. They are pro-fessional singers,” he said.

ENTERTAINMENT SUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 201612

Cass R Sunstein Bloomberg

Well, no one saw that coming.

“Rogue One,” the new stand-alone Star Wars

movie, is the best since the beloved original trilogy. With a new tale, it’s much better, and far fresher, than last year’s fun but nostalgic “The Force Awakens.”

The surprise is fitting, for here’s a little secret about Star Wars: Its narrative arc wasn’t fully planned out in advance. Some of the most important plot points came to George Lucas, author of the first six episodes, awfully late. At the early stages, he had no clue that Darth Vader would turn out to be Luke Skywalker’s father. And Luke and Leia as twins? That was a late inspi-ration — an ingenious (if also creepy) way of resolving the roman-tic triangle involving Luke, Leia and Han.

“Don’t tell anyone … but when ‘Star Wars’ first came out, I didn’t

know where it was going either,” Lucas wrote to the writers of the terrific television series “Lost” after its final episode. “The trick is to pre-tend you’ve planned the whole thing out in advance.”

Star Wars works in large part because Lucas was able to find ways to strike out in new directions that somehow fit with what came before, but also make you see eve-rything in a new light. The saga has a host of “I am your father” moments: sudden revelations that produce an instant of shock and incredulity, immediately followed by an immensely satisfying click of recognition, a sense of inevitability.

The power of these inspired moments come from the fact that the author, no less than the audi-ence, could not have anticipated them at the earliest stages. And because Lucas managed to produce that click, he made our initial dis-belief dissipate.

Which brings us to “Rogue One,” which is based, unpromisingly, on just two throwaway sentences in

the opening crawl from “A New Hope,” the film that started it all back in 1977: “Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During that battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ulti-mate weapon, the DEATH STAR.”

“Rogue One” tells the story of those Rebel spies. They aren’t Jedi knights, but some of them believe in the Force — holding fast, even desperately, to what seems to be a dying faith in its power. The tale lacks the epic sweep of earlier epi-sodes, but the script turns that into an advantage. This is a story of ordi-nary people who rebel against tyranny.

But it’s hardly just that. More gently than its predecessors, the film touches on each of the enduring Star Wars themes — a child’s need to find good in an apparently evil parent; the existence, at every moment, of freedom of choice; and the possibil-ity of redemption, even for those who have done horrible things.

Best of all: By seamlessly

connecting its own dark story to the very start of “A New Hope,” “Rogue One” makes that old tale new and far more resonant. Its famous open-ing scenes are no longer just a random shoot-’em-up in outer space, with a terrifying Darth Vader on some kind of mission and funny droids making a daring escape. Those scenes turn out to be the cul-mination of an improbably successful raid by a team of diverse, doomed fighters, each of whom has a past and a capacity for friendship, sacrifice and love. Their names have been lost to history — but we, at least, know who they were.

For the cognoscenti, “Rogue One” is full of clever, winking references to Star Wars trivia, including aban-doned ideas from early Lucas scripts (such as the clunky phrase “May the Force of others be with you”). True, it lacks an “I am your father” moment, turning the narrative upside-down. But its stirring final scenes offer their own immensely satisfying click, turning the narra-tive right-side-up — and redeeming everything that has come before.

‘Rogue One’ is about

faith, Freud & flukes

TECHNOLOGYSUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 2016 13

Ashley Halsey III The Washington Post

Still looking for that perfect Christmas gift? It’s not too late to buy a drone, the gift that 1 in 5 people say they’d like to receive and

that 1.2 million of them are going to find under the tree.

A drone is now one of the most sought-after gifts. And the US Fed-eral Aviation Administration, which refers to them as unmanned air-craft systems, would like anyone who receives a drone to know that they have to be registered before they take to the air.

The FAA says twice as many drones will be sold in 2016 as in the previous year, numbering 2.5 mil-lion. The Consumer Technology Association says sales during the Christmas season will more than double over last year.

There’s growing awareness of drones and their capabilities, a recent survey by Saint Leo Univer-sity shows, and people are somewhat less worried about them than they were a year ago, although almost 66 percent of those polled said they remained concerned

about them.For the most part, those who

worried said they feared a drone might collide with an airplane or peer into their bedroom window.

Overwhelmingly, people sur-veyed say they support use of drones by the military, with almost

70 percent saying they are a good alternative to deploying ground troops in troubled areas.

Between 20,000 and 25,000 Islamic State militants have been killed by drone attacks in Iraq and Syria, according to military sources. There have been more than 20,000

military drone strikes in the past year in Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria. There also was strong sup-port for drone use by local police departments.

Reaction was mixed when peo-ple were asked whether they would be “open to receiving deliveries by drone from such companies as Amazon or WalMart.”

More than a third said they would, while almost half said they wouldn’t and 15 percent said they were uncertain about the concept that those companies and many others were working to achieve. (Amazon CEO Jeffrey P Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

About an equal number of peo-ple thought their communities should ban drones as thought they should be allowed to fly.

“You can’t want to ban them, and also want to fly them or have them deliver packages,” said Leo Ondrovic, a member of the Saint Leo science department.

Ondrovic said the survey found that almost 22 percent of people expressed interest in owning one and that 88 percent of those peo-ple said it simply looked like a fun hobby.

Drones: Most sought-after gift nowSurvey shows more people want them, despite worries about privacy and about collisions with aeroplanes. The Federal Aviation Administration says twice as many drones will be sold in 2016 as in the previous year, numbering 2.5 million.

BABY BLUES

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting

thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result,

two passengers are awakened 90 years early.Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.

PASSENGERS

NOVO ROYAL PLAZA

ASIAN TOWN

MALL

LANDMARK

Office Christmas Party (2D/Comedy) 10:30am, 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 & 11:30pmPassengers (Drama) 2D 10:00am, 1:00, 3:30, 2:40, 6:00, 7:20, 8:30, 9:40, 11:00pm & 12:00midnight 3D 12:20 & 5:00pmSing (Animation) 2D 10:00, 11:00am, 12:00noon, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10;00pm 3D 12:00noon, 4:00 & 8:00pm Saber Google (2D/Arabic) 12:00noon The Last King (2D/Action) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnightMoana (2D/Animation) 10:15am, 12:30, 2:45, 5:00 & 7:15pmBlackburn (2D/Horror) 9:30 & 11:15pmRogue One: A Star Wars Story (2D/Action) 9:00 & 1145pm Saber Google (2D/Arabic) 10:30am, 3:00 & 5:30pm Collateral Beauty (2D/Drama) 1:00, 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnightDangal (2D/Hindi) 10:00am, 1:15, 4:30, 7:45 & 11:30pmRogue One: A Star Wars Story (3D IMAX/Adventure) 10:00am, 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 & 11:45pm

10 Kalppanakal (2D/Malayalam) 1:15pm Dangal (2D/Hindi) 2:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm Sing (2D/Animation) 2:00, 4:00 & 6:00pm Moana (2D/Animation) 3:30 & 7:30pmSapthagiri Express (Telugu) 5:00pmOffice Christmas Party (2D/Comedy) 5:30 & 9:30pm Passengers (2D/Adventure) 7:30 & 11:30pm The Last King (2D/Action) 9:30pm Saber Google (2D/Arabic) 11:30pm

Sing (2D/Animation) 2:00, 4:00 & 6:00pm Blackburn (2D/Horror) 2:00pm Dangal (2D/Hindi) 4:30, 8:30 & 11:00pm 10 Kalppanakal (2D/Malayalam) 2:15 & 11:30pm Moana (2D/Animation) 3:30pmSaber Google (2D/Arabic) 5:30pm Office Christmas Party (2D/Comedy) 7:30 & 9:30pm The Last King (2D/Action) 7:45pmPassengers (2D/Adventure) 9:30 & 11:30pm

Sing (2D/Animation) 2:00, 4:00 & 6:00pm The Last King (2D/Action) 2:00pmDangal (2D/Hindi) 2:15, 8:00 & 11:00pm Moana (2D/Animation) 3:45pmOffice Christmas Party (2D/Comedy) 5:15 & 9:30pm Blackburn (2D/Horror) 5:45pmSaber Google (2D/Arabic) 7:15pm Collateral Beauty (2D/Drama) 7:15pmPassengers (2D/Adventure) 9:15 & 11:15pm 10 Kalppanakal (2D/Malayalam) 11:30pm

Dangal (Hindi) 6:15, 7:00, 9:30 & 10:15pm Ore Mukam (Malayalam) 6:00pm Katapana (Malayalam) 8:30 & 11:15pm10 Kalapanakal (Malayalam) 5:30, 8:00 & 10:30pm

SUNDAY 25 DECEMBER 2016

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

CINEMA PLUS14

ROXYSing (Animation) 2:00, 4:00 & 6:00pm 10 Kalppanakal (Malayalam) 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00pm & 12:30am Star Wars: Rogue One (Action) 2:00, 7:00, 9:30pm & 12:00midnight Dangal (Hindi) 2:00, 5:30 , 9:00pm & 12:30am

AL KHORDangal (Hindi) 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 9:00, 11:00pm & 12:00midnight

Sing (Animation) 12:00noon, 2:15, 4:30 & 6:45pm Moana (Animation) 11:30, 2:00 & 4:30pm Office Christmas Party (Comedy) 7:00, 9:15 & 11:30pm

CROSSWORD CONCEPTIS SUDOKU

ALL IN THE MIND

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Cheetah, Wild

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Yesterday’s answer

Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku is

a number-placing puzzle based on a

9×9 grid. The object is to place the

numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so

that each row, each column and each

3×3 box contains the same number only

once.

ANKLET, BALMORAL, BLUCHER,

BROGUE, BUSKIN, CALCEUS,

CHOPINE, CLOGS, COWBOY

BOOT, DESERT BOOT,

ESPADRILLE, FLIPPER, FOOT,

GETA, GILLIE, GUMBOOT, HEEL,

INSTEP, LOAFER, MOCASSIN,

PATTEN, PLATFORM, PUMPS,

RIDING BOOT, SABOT, SANDAL,

SCUFFER, SHOE, SLIPPER,

SNEAKER, SOCK, STILETTO,

STOCKING, TALARIA, TRAINER,

WELLINGTON.