Bush’s “gas” deciphered!

With each passing day, the costs of fighting climate change are getting dearer; soon it may be too late...

It seems that by the time George Bush gets over watching Osama Bin Laden’s tapes on Al Jazeera prime time, praising his own “foreign” policy in Iraq, checking the pulse of Fidel Castro, smirking on Berlusconi’s sexist comments, gawking over Hugo Chavéz’s impeccable comprehension of the Devil’s dictionary, blogging about the failure of trade talks at Doha, celebrating the ‘Time Magazine person of the year’, yawning through Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth (a documentary film on climate change)... all of us could well be floating on melted polar ice, experiencing a 24x7x365 summer season with the earth half inside a coffin. Oh yes, we are lucky enough that global warming has reached the podiums of the ostentatious World Economic Forum. At least, it will make the terms global warming and climate change fashionable.

According to various reports, since 1992, the world has been losing a staggering $60 billion every year – a ponderous 0.2% of world GDP – due to extreme weather events. Commenting on a similar environment report taken out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), recently, Yvo de Boer,Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said, “The findings, which governments have agreed upon, leave no doubt as to the dangers mankind is facing and must be acted upon without delay...” Frighteningly, if all the climatic conditions remain even the same (Baseline Scenario), the world this year is going to lose a mammoth 2.6% in terms of GDP due to extreme weather events. The impacts are far more severe for the developing and South Asian nations, where it is expected that by 2010, the loss in GDP (regional) will be killingly massive 6%. But it doesn’t end here. The pecuniary effects of climate change will be denting the global financial system in ways more than one.

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Shilpa says that Tony Blair is very sweet!

Shilpa Shetty, who’s suddenly graduated from being a Bollywood ‘item girl’ to become the winner of Celebrity Big Brother and an icon in the UK, recently paid a visit to Westminste (House of Commons) during the Prime Minister’s Question Time – to meet political leaders. And word is out that British MP’s fell over themselves trying to meet the sultry siren. Prime Minister Tony Blair, with whom she exchanged pleasantries, was “very sweet” said Shilpa at a press conference held later. What’s more, Blair presented her with a portrait of the House of Commons, signed by him and wife Cherie.

At the same press conference, someone even asked her what the was the difference between the House of Commons and the Big Brother House (where all the action – racism related and otherwise – took place during the course of the reality show). Never at a loss for words, she shot back: “They are way polite in there (at the House of Commons), they get to leave and they know what’s going on in the outside world.” Touché Shilpa!

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INDO-AFGHAN TIES

Karzai is so eager to invite Indian businessmen that during his recent Delhi visit on November 17, he announced visa on arrival for them and hoped the Indian government will reciprocate the gesture. The Indian Government however, is yet to respond to the proposal. Karzai has visited India five times in as many years, only to invite investment. He recently constituted a semi-autonomous organisation – AISA, for the purpose. Seeking to allay apprehensions on the security situation in Afghanistan, Karzai said that his country was “picking up”. “My government has not done enough to portray a new Afghanistan.

We will have to find a way to do it,” he pointed out. Karzai also promised to cut red tape, “I am trying to have single-window clearance for investors”. He was quick to add that Tata Motors had principally agreed to enter the Afghan market; presently dominated by Toyota. Also, India’s Punjab National Bank has already started its operations in Afghanistan. And what could a better place for investment opportunities than a country that’s trying to rebuild itself? It’s a country with abundance of raw material but hardly any finished products to woo potential investors. Of course, recent events in Afghanistan clearly indicate that quelling violence and making the nation safe and stable for foreign investors is going to be a big challenge for Karzai and his team. Indian investors will be watching him carefully

TIME TO DIG UP FURTHER....
Indian children have grown up to the sound of Kabuliwalahs, selling dry fruits and woollens. Kabuliwalah used to be vendors from Afghan capital Kabul and were known to love children and lend money to the needy. Afghanistan produces one of the best watermelons, peaches, grapes, almonds, pistachios and pomegrenates. Indian businessmen trading in Afghan dry fruits have to transport their goods through UAE, Uzbekistan, Iran or Turkmenistan. This hikes their prices and they can’t compete with the dry fruits produced indigenously in Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal. With Indo-Afghan trade on the upswing, hopes of getting cheaper Afghan dry fruits have been revived. Besides, Indians can put up food processing plants and cold storages to preserve juicy fruits in Afghanistan. They can also install power plants, leather processing units and woollen garment factories. Kabul will then, be not very far from Delhi!

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...IN FLESH AND BLOOD. THE GOD AND THE GODDESS, HERE...

SUPERLATIVES...

It starts with the eyes. Eyes that hold a soul unto themselves… ones marked with a depth that seems to reach all the way to the apogee of the ambit of emotions. Then, there’s the voice. The kinds that shake the cliché of ‘melt-your-knees’ back to its feet. And then there’s everything else that sets apart the legends from the legions; so much apart from the rest that their own paths inevitably had to cross. Coursing pretty ‘dangerously close’ to each other in portions, the paths of Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha were, however, such that only the one looking over their shoulders – the incorrigible Fate – could’ve known that they weren’t destined to meet. Turning 65 this October 11, Amitabh Bachchan was born to noted Hindi litterateur Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his second wife Teji in Allahabad. Ungainly height, spindly legs... Amitabh was simply not the ‘hero-types’ in the industry when the pink-lipped-chocolate- dipped heroes reigned.

Though Saat Hindustani marked his official debut in 1969, it was the zeitgeistic Zanjeer of ’73 that launched the ‘angry young man’ whose tacit tempestuousness revolutionized the concept of the hero in Indian films for ever. And then followed Deewar, Trishul, Sholay, Shakti… everything he touched turned to gold, including Rekha. For the gauche and gaudily-attired 13- year old debutant of Sawan Bhadon (1970), the make-over was nothing short of an alchemical wonder. Born on October 10, 1954, the younger days of the daughter of Tamil cinema’s stalwart Gemini Ganesan and one of his many wives, Pushpavalli, were a blur before she surfaced in Mumbai, her childhood fast forwarded .

Lots of forgettable movies later, her association with Amitabh as lead co-star led to the rise of the revelation called Rekha, rumoured to have been chaperoned by the Big B himself. In the process were produced some supersuccessful films that set the screen afire with more than just their sizzling chemistry – oft en grist for the media mills. From the days of her poor Hindi to ones when she even dubbed her voice for other actresses, Rekha’s flawless inflection was just another case in point to her transformation. Her rendition of ‘Qaida todke…’ in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s ‘Khoobsurat’ was just as consummate as any of Amitabh’s popular songs in Mr. Natwarlal, Sharaabi or Silsila.

With a voice that nearly every mimicry artist begins his show with, his baritone was, ironically, rejected at an All India Radio audition! Dejections, though, weren’t things that went away with their initial days of struggle. As age began to show, the press was quick to write off Amitabh with his films flopping one after the other in the early 90s. To add to Bachchan’s bag of woes, his company Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited (ABCL) ran into huge debts following their efforts of hosting the Miss World Pageant in Bangalore in 1996. Rekha, however, was more hit on the personal front as two of her marriages met fatal failure, with the death of her husbands – actor Vinod Mehra and businessman Mukesh Aggarwal – each time. But then almost in evidence of their deified dimensions, they rose to subsume success and sanity once again.

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CROC CALLIGRAPHY!

Is it still a figment of your imagination? Now no more... Cartier is out with a downright ferocious pen this time. This pen is wild and whacky and equally precious too! Inspired by a live crocodile of Maria Felix, the Mexican actress, this fountain pen sports a pattern of two crocodiles coiled all around it. This pen with a gold-plated nib is priced at Rs.1,65,000 and is sure to bring out the crocodile hunter within you!

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