More than 800 dance performances earned him a place in tinsel world
Haleem Khan hailing from a traditional Muslim family developed fascination for Kuchipudi classical dance form with Krishna-oriented Vaishnavite tradition.
Changing his stage name to Hari, he learnt the Hindu traditional peforming art under Natyacharya Kaja Venkata Subrahmanyam without the knowledge of his family and went on to carve a niche for himself in the traditional dance ballet by specialising in the Rupanurupam tradition (woman impersonation) by playing the role of Satya Bhama, consort of Lord Krishna. Brahmin women from Kuchipudi village in the past had shied away from giving stage performances.
“This helped me foray into the Telugu tinsel world with Usha Kiron Movies spotting my talents and giving me a gay role of Shailu in the 2011 romantic film Nuvvila ,” recalls the dancer-turned-actor in a conversation with The Hinduhere.
New film
Haleem Khan, who has given over 800 Kuchipudi dance performances within the country and abroad, was here to promote his new film Ame Atadaite set for release on November 12.
One among the thespians who can don the female role with ease, Haleem, with screen name Haneesh, performs the lead role opposite Kannada actress Chira Shree in the film. Chevalier awardee Kamal Haasan is my inspiration as also Bhanupriya, who has made a mark as a dancer. He was floored by Kamal Haasan’s performance in Bhamane Sathya Bhamane .
Chitram Bhalare Vichitram and Madam were also his reference points, he adds showering praises on Naresh and Rajendra Prasad who sent the audience to peals of laughter by impersonating as women. “Presently, I am acting in a Telugu film as villan,” he adds.
Les Johnson from Germany has written a book on him, capturing the trials and tribulations he underwent before maturing into a Kuchipudi dancer and then an actor. “Efforts are on to make it into a movie,” he adds.
The actor-cum-dancer has come out with an instructional DVD to kindle interest among the members of GenX in Kuchipudi.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / S. Murali / Ongole – November 11th, 2016
Ornamental garden is the dream of plant-loving urban dwellers. Plants, foliage and flowering of different hues in various combination can express the beauty of nature around the living area. It is not the size that matters as one can landscape even a small home ground in the same way as done for larger estates or public parks. When done in the best form it is the pride of the house.
An ‘ornamental garden’ developed by a woman falls into this category. The owner, gardener and executor is none other than the winner of the first prize in the Annual Dasara Flower Show under ornamental garden category: Ms. Hashmath Fathima. It is an artistic outdoor garden developed around her little dwelling place in a plot of land in Kalyanagiri, all on her own. The garden has all the ingredients of a modern ornamental garden with display of choicest flowering and foliage plants in the form of annuals and perennials (herbs, shrubs, climbers, trees, ornamental grasses, bulbs etc.) embellished with various design elements.
The special feature is most part of the garden is developed using containers of various size, shape and hues. The entrance gate opens up into a path leading to the garage, beautifully paved with lawn grass in the crevices which makes up for the absence of a lawn (due to lack of space). On entry into the garden you can notice the potted plants stacked up in multiple rows in various colour combination of foliage and flowers & height along side the wooden wall. The half wall of the verandah has been decked up with colourful overhanging Lantanas, besides the hanging pots at the entrance of the house.
For embellishment valuable objects of artefacts in the form of figurines of various objects, birds nests etc., are placed at vantage points. The northern wall of the house is fully green, a breathing wall completely covered with creeping fig (Ficus repens). The perennial climbers (Allamanda, Quisqualis, Bougainvillea etc.) with their foothold on the northern edge ramble on the wooden barricade. The garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) overarching the garage makes spectacular display with purple coloured blooms and attracts the onlookers. A small pond is also designed in the backyard with water lily (Nymphae sps) in it. In addition to being pleasant to look at, this ornamental garden is also enjoyable to use with a recreation area to sit and enjoy reading etc., in the form of a bench decorated with an arch covered with a climber in the front yard and an aviary with plenty of beautiful birds in the backyard.
Another eye-catching addition is the bottle garden (hanging) created using soft drink bottles planted with variegated Alternantheras. This impressed me a lot. In general the display of plants is such that as soon as one enters one can experience the burst of flowers of all hues amidst the colourful foliage. Above all, with innumerable flowering and foliage plants (Acalypha, Althea rosea, Asparagus, Aglonema, Alternanthera, Anthuriums, Asters, Coleus, Catharanthus, Chrysanthemums, Cocks comb, Begonias, Cosmos, Calendulas, Chlorophytum, Duranta, Euphorbia milii, Gamphrena, Gazania, Gerberas, Day lily, Ferns, Marigolds, Pentas, Petunias, Zinnias etc., etc.) this little paradise looked like a “mini flower show.”
Ms. Hashmath is into gardening for more than a decade and has won several first prizes in the past too. I understand that she herself carries out most of her gardening work and uses only organic manure. Most of her earnings are spent on maintaining the garden. A dress designer by profession, she has put her heart and soul in designing the beautiful and attractive garden as well! Furthermore, she has shown the ability and imagination of the gardener in her in the best form besides the woman power.
Text & photographs by Dr. Mahadeswara Swamy, Scientist, Mob: 97429-91057, e-mail: swamy_clri@hotmail.com
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles / November 06th, 2016
A resident of Tarkpora village in Bandipora district, Islam is a student of the Army Goodwill School.
Eight-year-old Kashmiri girl on Friday created history by winning the gold medal for India in the world Kick Boxing Championship of under-eight players in Italy’s Andria.
“In five days, Tajamul Islam won six games,” said her coach Master Fasil Ali.
She defeated her rival from the U.S. to become the world champion in the kick boxing championship. She is first such player to achieve the feat from the volatile Kashmir Valley.
A Class 2 student, Islam represented India in Italy where the World Kick Boxing Championship, in which 90 countries participated, was underway.
“She (Islam) has created history by winning a gold medal in the game at the age of eight,” said PDP leader Waheed Parra, who is also J&K State Sports Council secretary.
In 2015, Islam won the national recognition after bagging the gold medal in sub-junior category National Kickboxing Championship in New Delhi.
A resident of Tarkpora village in Bandipora district, 65 km from Srinagar, Islam is a student of the Army Goodwill School.
Ms. Islam’s brother and two sisters also practice kickboxing.
Appreciating the talent, State Education Minister Nayeem Akhtar said, “It’s a proud moment”.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sport> Other Sports / by Peerzada Ashiq / Srinagar – November 11th, 2016
Haseeb Hameed, cricket of Indian origin, made his debut for England against India at the age of 19.
Touted as the most promising batsman teenager around, Haseeb Hameed made his U-19 debut at the age of 17.
Ismail Hameed had an unusual hero, while growing up as a cricket-obsessed youngster in Gujarat in the mid 70s. It was the usual Kapil Dev or Sunil Gavaskar. Or Kris Srikkanth or Dilip Vengsarkar. It was that stodgy English technician, Geoffrey Boycott, who by then was treading the sunset of his career.
In the late 80s, he shifted to Bolton for a better livelihood. He might have been busy yarning a better livelihood in a textile factory, though he still squeezed in time to represent semi-professional leagues in his locality. And when he expanded his household, he dusted up that old fixation for Boycott.
He bought old video tapes of Boycott and religiously showed them to his three sons, Safwaan, Numan and Haseeb. He would then make them “bat like Boycott” for hours on end in the neighbouring park. Soon, Ismail gave up his job in the factory and became a driving instructor so that he could spend more time drilling the technique of Boycott into his sons. The third son, though, showed more inclination to bowling and he would join his brothers and father in the park after school.
To his credit, Ismail straightaway made them bat and bowl with the leather ball. So the boys shed the fear of the leather ball at a young age. The older boys were in the Lancashire U-15 team as pure batsmen. But Haseeb’s first love was always leg-spin bowling, and it was as a leggie who could bat that he was picked for the Lancashire U-15 team, when he was just eight.
Maybe Haseeb was such a naturally talented batsman that his batting potential couldn’t be obscured for long. During a club game, he made an unbeaten 19 for his club Tong CC, which wowed the coach and senior players in the side. In a couple of seasons, he showed such precocious potential that he was opening the innings for his club and Lanchasire. His narrative was just beginning to unfold.
Hours of watching Boycott’s footages and twice as many hours of technical finetuning under his father’s gaze—his father is still his coach and mentor—helped him evolve into a fine batsman with a composure and belief that belied his age. The conditions back home too helped develop a compact technique. “The nature of the pitches, typical league cricket up north where it rains a lot; it’s slow and low, helped me. You’ve got to be careful driving on the up and the like. I had to wait for the ball and not leave my bubble, be patient. It’s always been that way for me,” he told The Guardian in an interview early this year.
Touted as the most promising batsman teenager around, he made his U-19 debut at the age of 17, and soon he was touring Australia for an U-19 Test series. In the first innings in Perth, he made a duck, but in the second he epitomised all the virtues his father’s idol had embodied in his career. Trailing by 300-odd runs, he engineered a resillient reardguard operation, soaking up 256 balls for an unbeaten, eventually match-saving 91.The effort earned him the moniker “Lancashire Wall”. That was only a preface.
Soon, he was blooded into the Lancashire first team. Last August, he was handed out his debut, against Glamorgan. He composed 28 off 119 balls in difficult conditions. However, for all his crease-occupation, a century eluded him, until his 11th match, against Warwickshire when he scored a crabby 103 off 295 balls, spending six-and-a-half hours at the crease against a rounded attack comprising former England bowler Samit Patel and Boyd Rankin.
More centuries flowed from his bat. He then became the first Lancashire batsman to score back-to-back hundreds against Yorkshire, showing again his fondness for occupying the crease. He batted for five hours for 114 in the first innings before reeling off, to show his other side of batsmanship, with a brisk 100 off 124 balls, against a bowling firm that featured Tim Bresnan, Ryan Sidebottom and Adil Rashid.
The knock fetched him instant applause from present and former players was a match-saving 122, occupying the crease for more than six hours, in the second dig against Nottinghamshire, whose bowling unit featured Stuart Broad and Imran Tahir. Thus in 31 innings, he racked up 1411 runs at an average of 50.39. And per innings, he consumes an average of 117 balls.
Among those wowed by his batting is former English skipper and opener Mike Atherton, who has dubbed his batting “Atherton-like”. Former Lancashire colleague and South Africa batsman Ashwell Prince says “he’s born to bat”. In the county circuit, he is called “Bolton Blocker” and “Bolton Boycott”.
If he makes his England debut against Bangladesh or later against India, he will be the youngest English debutant since Ben Hollioke and only the second teenager to play for England in the last 67 years.
While his father wants his son to keep producing Boycott-like knocks, Haseeb has bigger ambitions. “I want to emulate guys Kohli, Root, Williamson, players who play very organised cricket across the three formats extremely well. If you’ve got the basics and you’re strong in your basics, then you can develop your game very quickly. You just need to watch Kohli, the way he manipulates gaps so well and times the ball. I’m confident that down the line I’ll be able to do that as well.”
source: http://www.indianexpress.com / Indian Express / Home> Express Sports / by Sandeep G / November 09th, 2016
The fourth International Kerala History Congress will begin at Calicut University on Friday. Calicut University Vice Chancellor K. Mohammed Basheer will inaugurate the meet. Jean-Baptiste Prashant More, a Tamil-born French historian, will deliver the keynote address.
M.G.S. Narayanan, chairman of the Kerala History Conference, will preside over the inaugural function. Prof. Narayanan, M.R. Raghava Varier, and Kesavan Veluthat will make presentations under the ‘doyens of Kerala historiography lecture’ series.
Exhibition of archives
An exhibition of archives and historical documents began on Wednesday as part of the History Congress. Syndicate member K. Fatimat Zuhra inaugurated the exhibition. Syndicate member and head of the Department of History P. Sivadasan presided. The exhibition will be free for the public until Sunday.
The exhibition is arranged jointly by the State Archives Department, the Calicut University Department of History, and Zamorin’s Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode. The exhibition has a large number of historical documents from different periods, including stone age and middle ages.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Kerala / by Staff Reporter / Malappuram – November 10th, 2016
Dr. Mohammed Haziq Nadvi, Director of Darul Umoor and Research Centre, Srirangapatna, offers to donate blood to needy
Sitting from left: Abdul Khader Sait, President, MESCO & Managing Director, AANCO Industries; Khaleel Ur Rahman Waseem, Jamath-e-Islami Hind; Dr. B. Sheik Ali, former Vice- Chancellor, Mangalore and Goa Universities; Dr. Mohammed Haziq Nadvi, Director of Darul Umoor and Research Centre, Srirangapatna and Prof. Noor Ahmed Khan of Universal Guidance Centre for Education, seen during the Lecture Series at MESCO Education Complex in N.R.Mohalla on Friday last.
Mysuru :
(Afsar Pasha)- Dr. Mohammed Haziq Nadvi, Director of Darul Umoor and Research Centre, Srirangapatna, has called upon managements of Mosques to throw open their doors for social and educational causes including starting of blood banks and study centres.
Speaking at the inaugural function of the Lecture Series on “Islamic history, thoughts and its impact on the world” organised by Universal Guidance Centre for Education and MESCO, Mysuru, on Friday last at MESCO Education Complex in Subashnagar, N.R.Mohalla, Dr. Nadvi said Mosques, which are generally restricted to Muslims offering prayers, can endear themselves to the general public in a pluralistic society by taking up social and educational causes.
He even declared his blood group and offered to be available for donating blood to the needy.
Similarly, he said Mosques should promote education by offering free coaching classes to the needy students without religious discrimination. These efforts will go a long way in promoting amity among different communities in a climate of hostility.
Dr. Nadvi regretted that Islamic history had been distorted and Islamic culture had been misinterpreted, leading to a wrong impression of Islam in the eyes of the world.
With passage of time, Muslims have moved away from the basic Islamic doctrines that had won the world’s adulation centuries ago. There is a dire need for Muslims to correct their course by pursuing the way of life as shown by Islam and undo the harm that time has inflicted upon it.
He emphasised the need for fresh efforts in the direction like the Lecture Series so that the coming generations abandon the false legacy and pursue Islam in the true sense.
Noted historian and former Vice-Chancellor of Goa and Mangalore Universities Prof. B. Sheikh Ali focussed on the Almighty’s creations and the path upon which the humanity should follow.
Secretary of the Universal Guidance Centre for Education Prof. Noor Ahmed Khan said the Centre took the initiative to hold such Lecture Series as it felt necessary to guide the youth and connect them to their roots so that they can take the right course.
Former Vice-Chancellor of Yenepoya University Prof. Syed Akheel Ahmed, who was also present on the occasion, welcomed the initiative to hold the lectures.
The Universal Guidance Centre for Education will hold lectures on “Islamic history, thoughts and its impact” by Dr. Nadvi on the first and third Friday of every month at the Lecture Hall at MESCO Mosque.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / November 04th, 2016
In a statement, the software giant said a letter from Tata Sons named Hussain as the new chair while the company looks for another replacement.
The Tata Sons today named Ishaat Hussain as the chairman of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in place of Cyrus Mistry with immediate effect.
In a statement, the software giant said a letter from Tata Sons named Hussain as the new chair while the company looks for another replacement.
“The company (TCS) has received a letter dated November 9, 2016 from Tata Sons Ltd nominating Ishaat Hussain as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company in place of Cyrus P Mistry with immediate effect. In view of this, Mistry has ceased to be the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company and Hussain is the new Chairman of the company,” TCS said in a regulatory filing.
TCS said Hussain shall hold office as the Chairman of the company until a new Chairman is appointed in his place.
“Tata Sons has issued a special notice under Section 169 read with Section 115 of the Companies Act, 2013 and a requisition for convening an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the company under Section 100(2) of the Companies Act, 2013 to consider a resolution for the removal of Cyrus P Mistry as Director of the Company,” it added.
Last month, in a sensational coup, Mistry was sacked as Tata Sons chairman and replaced by Ratan N Tata as the interim chairman.
source: http://www.indiatoday.intoday.in / Indiatoday.in / Home> News> India / by Nivedita Dash / New Delhi – November 10th, 2016
File image of Ishaat Hussain. (Photo Credit: Getty Images)
Tata Sons on Thursday appointed Ishaat Hussain as Chairman of Board Of Directors after Cyrus Mistry was ousted as the holding company’s Chairman.
Here are the 10 facts about Ishaat Hussain
* Born on September 2, 1947, Ishaat Hussain completed his schooling from The Doon School in 1963 and joined St. Stephens College Delhi to pursue graduation in Economics.
* Hussain, a chartered accountant from England and Wales, also attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
* He is associated with the Tata Group since 1983 after Indian Tube was merged with Tata Steel.
* In November 2006, Hussain was appointed a Public Interest Director of Bombay Stock Exchange Limited.
* In January 2008, he was appointed a Trustee on the board of India Foundation for the Arts (IFA).
* Hussain joined the Board of Tata Sons as an Executive Director on July 1, 1999.
* He took over as Finance Director of Tata Sons Ltd. in 2000
* Prior to joining Tata Sons, Hussain has worked as the senior vice-president and executive director – finance in Tata Steel for almost 10 years.
* Besides being on the board of Tata Sons Limited, Hussain is Chairman of Voltas Limited and Tata Sky Limited.
* He is also on the boards of several Tata Companies such as Tata Steel, Tata Industries, Tata Teleservices, Titan Industries Limited.
source: http://www.news18.com / News18.com / Home> News18> Business / November 10th, 2016
Viral guys:Syed Viquaruddin, Mohd Abdul Samad, Mizbahuddin and Syed Atif teamed up as Kantriguyz and started making videos in 2013.-Photo: By arrangement
They are now recognised in public places
A few random concepts and some funny videos later, these content creators from twin cities are now the brand ambassadors of YouTube. Life has changed all of a sudden for these Hyderabadis who are now recognised in public places and pressured to come up with better videos. Jahnavi Dasetty, who runs her own channel ‘Mahathalli’ and Syed Viquar Mohiuddin of ‘Kantriguyz’ were speakers at the YouTube ‘Happy Hour’ event organised in the city recently.
Less than a year after she uploaded her first video, Jahnavi has now more than one lakh subscribers to her credit. Till date, she has made close to 30 videos in which she essays different characters. “I play simple characters which everyone relates to. I think that clicked well with the viewers,” says Jahnavi who played a middle-class youngster troubled by her mother to get married. Jahnavi, who is interested direction as well, also landed up a role in a Telugu movie after her videos went viral. She also went on to collaborate with other popular creators like Chicago Subbarao.
With their signature Hyderabadi lingo and style, four youngsters, Syed Viquaruddin, Mohd Abdul Samad, Mizbahuddin and Syed Atif teamed up as Kantriguyz and started making videos in 2013.
“There was only one content provider making funny videos in the language that Hyderabadis speak but they were not our inspiration. We followed The Viral Fever channel closely and made Hyderabadi version of a spoof which went viral,” said Mr. Mohiuddin, who is pursuing BBA degree. “We are recognised wherever we go. We are asked by people to make more videos because of which we plan to upload at least three videos a month.”
Their channel has more than 20,000 subscribers.
The youngster has set himself a target too. “If my channel gets more than one lakh subscribers within two years, I will pursue a career in this field.” David Powell, Online Partner Operations efforts across Asia-Pacific, YouTube said that the traditional media content uploaded in India is increasing by 75% every year. He said that a number of events are being conducted by them across the country to encourage regional content providers and provide a platform for them to network and collaborate.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Hyderabad / by Rahul Devulapalli / Hyderabad – November 02nd, 2016
Since Hillary Clinton began her Presidential campaign last year, the name of Huma Abedin, her top personal assistant has been heard in US media. As part of Hillary’s campaign organization and its vice-chair, she interviewed and recommended senior staffers including campaign manager, Robin Mauk for hiring.
Last week as FBI leaked news that they want to investigate some emails that Huma sent to Hillary from her husband’s (Anthony Weiner) laptop , the news created a firestorm in US as the general election was just 10 days away. Since last Friday, Huma’s name, photograph and personal information have been broadcast continously by many TV networks, and US newspapers have written about it. Hillary’s Republican opponent in the Presidential race, Donald Trump, has asked Hillary to fire Huma. But Hillay and her campaign have not spoken a word about her and are instead attacking FBI Director for sensationalizing an unfounded news that was already settled by FBI in last July.
Everyone in US wants to know, who is Huma Abedin? Huma is an Indian-American Muslim, the daughter of a distinguished Indian Muslim professor, Dr Abedin, a graduate of Aligarh Muslim University., who migrated to US in mid 1960s. He has since passed away. Her mother is a professor in a university in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Huma graduated from the George Washington University, Washington DC, at a time when Bill Clinton was US President and Hillary was the US First Lady. Huma joined the White House as an intern on the staff of the First Lady..
Huma soon became Hillary’s prominent staffer and as Hillary moved to New York in 2000 and became a senator from New York, Huma worked on her senate campaign and then became a key staffer in Senator Hillary’s office in Washington DC. When Hillary became US Secretary of State, Huma was her deputy chief of staff. The US media calls Huma Hillary Clinton’s Body – Woman. If anyone wants to meet Hillary Clinton he has to go through Huma. Indeed, Huma has had a most enviable climb as a key political staffer in the cut-throat high politics world of Washington.
When some extreme right winger Republican politicians like Congresswoman Michel Bachman of Minnesota attacked her four years ago, calling her a radical Muslim with connections with radical Arab Muslims, many Republican leaders including senior senator John McCain too defended Huma against those charges. Through her 20 year long association with Hillary, Huma who is not yet 40, has moved skillfully and quickly through the minefield of Washington politics and has earned praise from senior level Democratic party politicians. The current attack on Huma and tying her emails to Hillary is a destructive and vile move of Donald Trump, who is targeting her because she is a woman, she is an immigrant and she is a Muslim.
Yet, in her extraordinarily fortunate career Huma has run into bad luck on an important issue. And that is her marriage to former Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York in 2010. He committed some sexual improperieties and was forced to resign his seat in US House of Representatives in the Congress. Also his name has been sullied much in the US media. This year Huma who has a child from Weiner, separated from him.
The smoke about the current email confusion created by FBI Director Como, an erstwhile Republican party member, will clear in a few days before the November 9 US election. Hopefully we will see Trump’s unfounded attack on the emails of Huma and Hillary blunted. And God willing next week Hillary will win the election to become US President. That will be the day many all over the world are waiting for. Thereafter, Huma is expected to get a good position in the Hillary Whitehouse and do well in safeguarding Hillary’s programs. .
Now all this has prepared Huma very well to run and win an elected office in the US Congress in her own right. The right thing will be for Huma to run for a Congresswoman position from New York in a couple of years, carrying Hillary Clinton’s torch of justice and equal rights for women and immigrants in America..While several women have become the political heads in countries like UK, Germany, Italy, Norway and other countries in Europe, in US the opposition to a woman becoming a top political leader is very strong and visible. Not only Hillary Clinton, despite her life long record of political actions at the national level and having held prominent positions of responsibility in the government, has faced opposition, other women too have faced similar opposition when they have tried to run for high political office. .
For instance Speaker of the House of Representatives about 5 years ago , Nancy Pelosi has faced so many bitter attacks and insults from right winger Republican politicians. In 1984 when the late Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro ran as Vice President candidate with Walter Mondale as the Presidential candidate on the ticket, she was lampooned, condemned and insulted. This is a hard glass ceiling for women in US that they must break through. Huma Abedin must follow through in the footsteps of her illustrious mentor Hillary to carry this movement forward to empower women in US.
[The writer is the Executive Director of the Association of Indian Muslims of America, Washington DC.]
source: http://www.ummid.com / Ummid.com / Home> Views & Analysis / by Kaleem Kawaja, ummid.com / Tuesday – November 01st, 2016
