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The death certificate of Mary O'Hagan, remembered more formally as Miss O'Hagan, the aunt of Terence Millington who left them money in her Will. Thought to have been born in Newry, Mary spent most of her life working in domestic service and died in William Street in 1907..
Prior to researching this fairly comprehensive history of the Millington family, I actually had very little anecdotal evidence to go on. Unlike my grandmother, Florence Clayton's side of the family, there were very few family stories about the Millingtons. It is quite probable that this was because my grandfather William did not get on with his own father, Terence, and the oral tradition which had flourished in the Clayton family had therefore not taken place on the Millington side.
However, there was one story which cited an event arising from the Will of a spinster aunt of our great grandfather Terence, named Miss O'Hagan. My own aunt, Kathleen Robinson, related the story as she had been told it herself, by her father:
"Our Grandad Terence had a spinster aunt named Miss O'Hagan who was very well off. They say she was a teacher at St Patrick's on Dudley Road and was a very religious woman who loved the church. On her death, Miss O'Hagan bought a wooden seat for St Patrick's and she also left Terence some money in her Will. But Terence spent most of it in the pub – one day he was in the Prince of Wales on Dudley Road and he was buying everyone drinks when he dropped his bag of sovereigns all over the floor in the bar and there was a mad rush of people trying to pick them up. Our dad remembers being taken to Scarborough on a day trip by his father, probably paid for out of his inheritance".
Are you going to Scarborough fair? The destination of Terence Millington and his young family in 1907, thanks to the benefaction of Aunt Mary (aka Miss O'Hagan)
Intrigued by this snippet of information about the death of Miss O'Hagan, I attempted to search for further evidence of her in old records. On the basis that she was a spinster, O'Hagan therefore being her maiden name, my hunch was that she had to be the sister of Terence's mother. My deduction proved to be correct when I discovered a copy of Miss O'Hagan's Will in Birmingham Library.
Mary O'Hagan died on the 4th June 1907, leaving effects of £710 11s. 10d. (Probate Birmingham 17 June to Walter Lord, post-office – overseer). Her address was given as 6 Moorcroft Cottages, William Street.
Mary left the sum of £150.00 to her sister, Alice Millington and to the children of her sister she left "the residue of my property in equal shares". The children listed were Harry, Terence, Alice, Annie and William. There was one further child mentioned named Katie Mary O'Hagan, who is referred to as "her natural daughter". It is unclear if this sixth child is the natural daughter of Mary or Alice.
Mary O'Hagan also left provision for the payment of her bills and funeral expenses, but there is no mention of a donation to St Patrick's church. The executor of Mary's Will was her friend Walter Lord and she signed it on 4th May 1907, exactly one month before her death in the presence of G.H.E Bekenn (m.R.C.J.L.R.C.P.) and Thomas Howlett (Solicitor) at 30 Bath Row, Birmingham. Probate was granted on 17th June 1907, 13 days after Mary's death.
Mary's death certificate reveals that she died on 4th June 1907 at her home in 6 Moorcroft Cottages, William Street. She was 65 when she died and was recorded as a spinster. Her occupation was recorded as 'formerly a cook (a domestic servant)'. She died of Carcinoma of the Breast / Exhaustion and her death was certified by G.H.E Bekenn M.R.C.S (who had been one of the witnesses to the Will one month earlier).
As mentioned previously, Mary's death was registered on 6th June 1907 by A.Vickers (her niece). There is no evidence in either of these records to clarify whether Miss O'Hagan had indeed worked as a teacher at St Patrick's.
Made famous in a well-known Irish ballad — the dark Mountains of Mourne literally do sweep down to the sea. It is believed that the O'Hagans originated from Newry, a large, busy town on the border of Armagh and Down in Northern Ireland, very close to the Mountains of Mourne.
Miss O'Hagan in the 1881 and 1901 Census?
I was recently told by one of my dad's cousins (Patricia nee. Millington) that the O'Hagans possibly came from Newry, which is on the border of counties Down and Armagh in northern Ireland (Newry is quite close to the Mountains of Mourne).
There is a record of a Mary O'Hagan born in Newry in the 1901 census. This lady was single and was working as a Domestic Cook at a place called Haunch Hall in Longdon, Staffordshire. Mary O'Hagan is recorded as being 53 years of age. We already know that at the time of her death in 1907, Mary O'Hagan was 65, therefore the age of the lady in Longdon is about 6 years out.
However, bearing in mind that census records and transcriptions are quite often inaccurate, for instance 58 or 59 could easily be read as 53, and as there are no other Mary O'Hagans recorded elsewhere in the 1901 census with a similar profile and this one is in the West Midlands, I would not therefore rule out the fact that this lady could be the one we're looking for.
The lady recorded in the 1901 census was working at Haunch Hall for Stephen and Alice Stokes. Stephen was a 76 year old leather merchant of PCC who had been born in Wednesbury. His wife Alice was 77 years old originally from Tutbury in Staffordshire. Their 42 year old son Thomas A Stokes was a barrister coroner born in Walsall and they also had a 39 year old daughter named Clara Stokes born at Edgehill, Staffordshire.
The rest of the household were servants, Mary O'Hagan being the oldest. Alice Mullinder was a 28 year old housemaid from Penn. Emily Hawkins was a 28 year old ladies maid from Stafford. Maud Gregory a 20 year old house maid from Handsworth. Gertrude Bromhead was a 30 year old house maid, also from Handsworth and Elizabeth Copestake was a 17 year old kitchen maid from Gentleshaw in Staffordshire.
There is also an earlier record of a Mary O'Hagan working as a cook in domestic service, this time in the 1881 census at a dwelling called the Royal Oak Hotel at Bettws Y Coed in Caernarvon, Wales. Once again there is slight discrepancy in the recorded age of this particular lady, she was 35 according to the census which is about 4 years out when compared to her age at death. However, again I would not discount this record purely on this basis as I have observed far bigger anomalies within old records, where it has turned out that two conflicting pieces of information turn out to be the same person.
What interests me about this record relating to an address in Wales is that I have on occasion heard my father and his siblings recalling that someone on the Millington / O'Hagan side of the family was either Welsh or had Welsh links. It could even have been that Miss O'Hagan herself had a Welsh accent. At the moment this is 50% conjecture but I believe it is a hunch worth pursuing. Did Mary O'Hagan live and work for a large part of her life in Wales?
In any case, the household at the Royal Oak Hotel at the time of the 1881 census was fairly substantial, including Mary O'Hagan there were 20 people, seven were members of the Pullan family who owned the hotel, four were visitors and eight were servants:
Edward Pullen, aged 51, born at Knaresbro, York was head of the household and was the hotel keeper as well as a farmer of 70 acres. His wife Lousia was 48, born at Harrogate, York. The Pullens had three daughters, Dora (21), Kate (19) and Hetty (18) and two sons, Frank (16) and Percy (5), all born at Harrogate, York.
The visitors at the Royal Oak Hotel were Robert Ackrill, a 64 year old printer and newspaper proprietor born in Worcester, his wife Caroline aged 58, Henry T Grubb, a 44 year old civil engineer from Ireland and W.Graham, 45 year old Captain H Militia, also from Ireland.
The servants at the Royal Oak were Thomas Hughes the ostler (groom) aged 46 from Capel Curig in Caernarvon, James Laurie the gardener aged 35 from Scotland, Mary O'Hagan the cook aged 35 from Ireland, Hanna Roberts a waitress aged 26 from Bettws Y Coed, Annie Owen a 19 year old housemaid from Llangerniw in Denbigh, Jane Jones a 28 year old housemaid from Capel Garmon in Denbigh, Jane Lloyd a 46 year old housemaid from Pennal, Merioneth and Sarah E Jones a 22 year old kitchen maid from Bangor, Caernarvon. With the exception of Jane Lloyd, all of the servants are listed as being unmarried – again this evidence fits our profile of Miss O'Hagan who remained unmarried all of her life.
The surname O'Hagan is not common, even in Ireland. In birth, marriage and death indexes for instance it generally occurs before the much more prevalent Irish surname O'Hara. The prevalence of O'Hagans in census records is therefore not great and when they do occur it should be of some interest to this research. For instance initially I could only find one family of O'Hagans recorded in Birmingham in the 1881 census and this is the family of a Patrick O'Hagan living at 71 Brierley Street. Patrick O'Hagan is a 52 year old chemical distiller from Ireland, his wife Margaret is 50 years old from Ireland and there are 8 children ranging in age from 24 to just 3.
I am not sure if this family is related to Alice and Mary O'Hagan and their father Patrick, recorded as a traveller on Alice's marriage certificate in 1870. The couple at Brierley Street may have been slightly too young to have been parents of Alice and Mary, but in the absence of other O'Hagans in Birmingham, I keep an open mind regarding a connection.
Houses in No.7 Court, William Street in about 1905. This picture was taken by the city's Housing Department to record slum properties. In the 1891 census John and Alice Millington were recorded at 6 Court 1 House William Street, literally round the corner to the Court pictured above. Alice's sister Mary O'Hagan also had a cottage in William Street
Life in William Street
Despite owning her own cottage and, it seems, being relatively well off, Mary O'Hagan lived in one of Birmingham's poorest districts. We may also recall here that, according to the 1891 Census John and Alice Millington also lived in William Street at 6 Court 1 House. William Street is off Bishopsgate Street in Lee Bank, close to Five Ways.
According to the Medical Officer, William Street had all of the familiar ingredients of slum housing: dirt, damp, dilapidation, sickness, misery, want of ventilation and want of light, resulting in dirty habits, low health and debased morals.
The standpipes, where people drew their water supply in the yards of the old courts were often breeding grounds for disease. In 1886, 383 children in Birmingham died of a measles epidemic alone. Pictured left a water standpipe photographed in a William Street courtyard.
In 1905 the city's housing department took pictures of the courts of William Street to record typical slum properties in the city. A photograph that appeared in the Old Brum Magazine shows No.7 Court, William Street with a group of women in the background. A map of this and nearby Courts, which appeared in the same publication, shows No.6 Court, where the Millington family lived literally around the corner from the Court in the photograph.
Another (undated) view of William Street and a plan of the Courts in William Street in the early 1900s. Court 6 where the Millingtons lived in the early 1890s is adjacent to Richmond Place on the plan.


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This is the year when bank shareholders started saying "enough" to gigantic CEO pay packages and giving a stinging thumbs-down to certain banks.
Paul Hodgson, a senior research associate at GMI Ratings, sums up this year's early proxy-season pay trends and offers insights into what's ahead.
A Briton, Hodgson has been researching and writing about executive pay for 16 years. He has authored a number of books, including "Building Value Through Compensation."
There's a widely held view that pay tied to short-term incentives contributed to the financial crisis. You wrote a year and a half ago that nothing had changed with pay practices since the Wall Street meltdown. Is that still the case?
PAUL HODGSON: There hasn't been a great deal of change at many of largest banks we've had a chance to look at so far. Capital One has a performance share plan, although its CEO [Richard Fairbank] isn't part of it. But it's a very poorly designed plan that pays for below-median performance. Morgan Stanley has a similar plan, but its performance affects only a small part of long-term pay [of Chief Executive James Gorman and other executives]. Again it's poorly designed.
Goldman Sachs implemented a plan that measures performance over three years, based on its return on equity. But its ROE targets aren't particularly challenging. They [Goldman managers] may have known something we didn't at the time [the targets were established]. When an institution sets targets lower than they've achieved in recent years, it's a signal you need to heed. It might be that management knows it won't keep up its performance of recent years.
Among other big banks, Citigroup is the only one that made changes. It deferred a substantial portion of the cash bonus [for Chief Executive Vikram Pandit], and that only kicks in if Citi meets another performance target.
After Citi took Tarp [Troubled Asset Relief Program] money, and its share price got beaten to death in 2008, it took a bold move and granted some executives premium-priced stock options [options whose strike prices are higher than the market price at the time they're granted].
When you have a depressed stock price like Citi did, this is a very effective way of focusing executives on increasing the stock price to previous levels. With a premium price, you have to get stock up, and for it to stay up there, for like 30 days before you can exercise. Executives can goose it all they like, but it won't stay up for 30 days unless there's real value.
But when Citi gave stock options to Pandit in 2011, there was no evidence of a premium there.
Wells Fargo reacted to Tarp [pay restrictions] like a lot of other banks. It quintupled salaries and "reclassified" them as "salary stock." Then when it paid off Tarp, Wells reduced salaries, but not by very much. That's why so many of its named executives have outsized salaries.
Goldman Sachs took a slightly different route but ended up the same. It had been paying top executives $600,000 [in annual salaries] since its IPO and then suddenly started paying them $2 million. The $600,000 salaries were one of the things that Goldman had done right. If base salaries are low, the only way to make [big] money is through equity-based incentives that benefit from creating value.
What were the banks thinking in raising salaries so much?
They were taking advantage of a push by the Treasury and pay czar [Special Master for Tarp compensation Kenneth Feinberg] to increase salaries and have less pay at risk. And they were doing it in a fairly cynical way.
GMI has said that in addition to the size of CEO pay packages, it's important to look at how much larger they are than those of lower-ranking executives. On that relative basis, you've indicated that the pay of U.S. Bancorp CEO Richard Davis looks excessive.
More than half of S&P 500 companies have a differential [the difference in total pay between the CEO and that of other senior executives] that's more than three times. So it's widespread, but that doesn't make it right.
We have particular concern with banks. Their CEOs are not superstars but team leaders. If they're paid more than three times what anyone else is receiving, that doesn't sound like a team to me but one star and a couple of supporting actors.
That affects the morale of other senior executives and raises questions about succession planning. If you have a couple of CEOs waiting in wings, you'd want to pay them properly. It also affects the balance of power in the boardroom. A CEO who's paid lot more than anyone else can throw his weight around.
In the case of Discover Financial, the problem seems to be disclosure rather than dollars. Namely, that it doesn't let its owners know the details of how they're paying the hired help.
The SEC now requires disclosure as part of its regulations [release of the calculations that went into the previous year's pay package]. Some companies aren't comfortable disclosing future performance targets. But if the numbers are already in, everybody knows what the company's successes and failures were. Did it increase revenues? What were EPS?
Not disclosing targets set at the end of 2010 for 2011 seems to have no justification. Offering information that might aid competition isn't a problem because everybody knows how they've done. Instead, it could show that a company didn't set its [performance] targets high enough. Discover paid a cash bonus of almost $3.25 million.
So overall pay practices haven't changed much?
This [the wake of the financial crisis and passage of Dodd-Frank] was the moment when banks could have revolutionized compensation policy. Lots of advice was out there, but the vast majority have complied with regulation in a very nominal way and returned to business as usual.
What do you mean by "nominally compliant"?
They were asked whether their compensation policies encourage risk-taking. None said "Yes." It's difficult to take that at face value. Some do continue [to encourage inappropriate risk]. Look at non-U.S., mostly European, institutions. They made very substantial changes [in pay]. Deutsche Bank made changes. Credit Suisse made some pretty substantial changes. It increased the proportion of deferred incentives. It introduced two new deferred and future performance-linked plans, rather than just basing pay on annual performance. One measures ROE and share price growth over four years. In a deferred cash plan it uses ROE, which can increase or decrease cash bonuses. If you earn a cash bonus that bonus is deferred. But if ROE isn't steady or going up [over the next four years] then the eventual payout of that cash bonus is negatively affected.
The Dodd-Frank Act began requiring companies to hold say-on-pay votes among shareholders beginning last year, but this is the year they seem to be having a big effect. Why is that?
Part of the reason little changed last year is it [the say-on-pay vote] came about very quickly. I don't think shareholders were prepared for the analyses they had to make. There was huge dissatisfaction with ISS [Institutional Shareholder Services, the proxy advisory firm] recommendations. My sense is they were not as sophisticated as they needed to be so companies got a bit of a pass last year.
Are clawback provisions being implemented as you'd want?
Both Morgan Stanley and Goldman were involved in shareholder dialogues that caused them to give their clawback arrangements a bit more bite. My issue is that it's like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. If these arrangements had been in place prior to the financial crisis, a lot of compensation that had been paid out at Wall Street banks would have been clawed back.
The SEC and other agencies are moving ahead with Dodd-Frank pay provisions that are supposed to regulate incentive pay at financial institutions. Where do we stand?
I haven't seen any final rules. The direction is similar to the regulations proposed in the U.K. and Europe. The other thing that's notable is that some of the largest banks are now subject to stress tests. Wouldn't it be a good idea for compensation committees to design incentives so that they have to pass the stress test before any incentives are paid out?
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BENEFITING: The Histiocytosis Association of America, Inc.
EVENT DATE: Oct 30, 2011
I run for lots of reason. Most days that I hit the ground running I do it simply because I enjoy it. That simple joy might get me out there, but in all those moments I am alone on the road, I have a lot of time to think about the people and things most important to me. Being a healthy role model is one of those things, especially to my children. Hearing Jackson tell perfect strangers that he "ran 6 miles today" fills me with pride and laughter.
Since the very day I learned of our little neighbor Maya Gordon and her battle with the rare disease HLH (Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis) I have wanted to do something to help. We have attended benefits and made donations to their family but now I want to donate to the organization responsible for raising money for research of this terrible disease with the goal of finding a cure. Maya is only 3 months younger than Jackson. Jackson can look straight out our living room window across the street and into their living room. He calls Maya his girlfriend. She has lived a very different life than him. She is a warrior in every sense of the word and has survived chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant in April 2010, endless medications, reactions, needles, and many many stays and trips to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Many parents take for granted the health of their child; many people in general take their own health for granted. With every mile I run I feel that I remind myself more and more how blessed I am to be healthy and able. I want to run for Maya and her family because she knows firsthand that she can't take her own health for granted. Maya and her family continue to fight this awful and little known disease of HLH. Every dollar that I could raise on behalf of Maya for the Histiocytosis Association of America could mean more research, greater awareness, and a better chance that a cure can be found for HLH.
Will you consider pledging a monetary donation for my marathon in honor of Maya? Maybe a dollar for each of the 26 miles I will run? Maybe $10 is all you can afford . . . that is still $10 towards making a difference that could save lives. Even if you can't donate I thank you for taking the time to read about Maya's story.
Please visit the below links to learn more about HLH and the Histiocytosis Association:
The Team: $391 TOTAL RAISED SO FAR
Donor Comments
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Aunt Donna & Uncle Kevin
Keep Smiling Maya and God Bless! Run like the wind Melissa our prayers go with! 7 years ago
Michele and Eric Cwiertny
For Maya. We're going to find cure for HLH -- no doubt about it. All the best... Michele xo 7 years ago


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Paradoxes and contradictions are a part and parcel of this ever-on-the-move,pseudo-dreamlike city called Bombay rechristened to Mumbai. And one of the large and growing paradoxes of the city is the way in which the woman of the middle class comes into close contact with the woman of the low class vis-a-vis the great necessity of the elite/middle class called the servant. This necessity though great is hardly ever really talked about except in slandering the people who fulfil that necessity or when they put forward their demands regularly which are dismissed on an equally regular basis.
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar explores this very paradox which is ubiquitous but never acknowledged. Quite a paradox within a paradox, eh? So what exactly is this paradox? To state it clearly, the rising middle class or those well established ones always hire a maid/servant (full time or part-time) to do the many chores while they are busy hurrying to offices or catching up on other important tasks like catching up on the latest conniving traps of the new saas (mother-in-law) on the block or going golfing/kitty parties and other some such silly stuff. So while the middle class will never otherwise really come in contact with the low class thanks to the rise of gated communities which makes sure that the ugly side of any place let alone a city is never revealed and is conveniently obliterated in the mind, they come in contact with them through the maids who become (usually of the women thanks to the never changing stereotypes of the roles of men and women!) great companions and friends sharing their lives and worlds which in any other situation would be unthinkable.
The novel elaborates quite evocatively on such a scenario with a touching prologue that captures so vividly the mental state of any city dweller at some point or the other: the need to just run away from all your problems, hoping that the city disappears and while you sit at the sea, hoping it will wash away your sorrows/frustrations etc. The story charts out the individual lives of two women who are world apart: Sera, a rich Parsi women who has had her own share of unhappiness in her married life and Bhima, the maid who works in her house and whose world is falling apart constantly even as she perpetually struggles hard to keep it all together. The story opens with Bhima's granddaughter, Maya, getting pregnant- from a man whose identity is revealed at the end-which again though temporarily shatters Bhima's world and all her hopes for Maya and her education which she thought of as her ticket out of the vicious hell of being a maid. Sera and Bhima share a fragile, precarious camaraderie which cuts across class and the usual stereotypes about how a relationship should be between a master and servant. Both have been there for each other in times of need-Bhima when Sera had to heal from her husband's abuses and Sera when Bhima needed her while her husband was in hospital and other cases. Though they share a a good womanly friendship which is also seen in Sera's daughter-Dinaz's fondness for Bhima, the relationship is fraught with the several hesitations and doubts and stereotypes too.
The story weaves its way through Maya's pregnancy while constantly going into flashbacks into Sera's and Bhima's life which work as good reminisces and a way to show how their lives merged and then into the present which stands like it always does with a lot of uncertainty while also being happy in its own small ways and then into the end which reveals the father quite un-dramatically like one of those mundane things you suddenly become aware of like how to chip vegetables or what exactly does a Bachelor's degree mean or some such dross things that makes up what is called life. And then comes…oh wait…u need to find this on your own so go read it..
It is definitely worth a read as it is a poignant story because of its subject and the jarring clash of two worlds which brings fore jarringly the worlds we conveniently ignore-the struggles Bhima goes through just about everyday for basic necessities is something that would make us the people sitting cushioned in their AC rooms faint. The novel can be bogged down with over use of metaphors and similes but on the whole it is quite an engaging read.
The title, The Space Between Us, is quite appropriate as it questions the space that divide across class, shows how it can be reconciled or perhaps not. It challenges, questions, experiments with it, putting more questions forward but never answering any of them. That is for us to do.
Today, Mumbai is obsessed with skyscrapers. The illusion among officials running the city is that high rises (that like its name also have high prices) with kitschy colours or made of crystal clear glass will help the city achieve that elusive status of 'world class.' No matter that half the population still lives without access to basic amenities like clean drinking water, proper toilets etc; as long as the city has the veneer of being world class, the have nots be damned. Redevelopment is the norm nowadays and a redevelopment of Dharavi is also on the cards; now whether this move is truly to uplift the people and give them better homes or just a ruse to make available vast tracts of land for greedy land developers is for the experts to decide. What is being missed out in this race for constructing tall buildings in the hope of emulating the Western 'world class' cities (remember the program of transforming Mumbai into Shanghai?), is that Mumbai is also home to numerous clusters of chawls, bungalows, smaller buildings, heritage areas that are being slowly effaced from the face of the city.
Once upon a time, a long long time ago, when the fad of high rises was still a distant dream, it was the chawls that dominated the topography of the city with just a few multi storeys towering over them. Kiran Nagarkar's novel,'Ravan and Eddie' capture that time of Bombay by chronicling the story of the two boys of the title who grow up in the Central Works Department (CWD) chawls in Byculla. Set in the 1950s, the novel is a tongue-in-cheek tale that traces the two boys' growth as they try and overcome the hurdles of living in the chawls and their own set of familial troubles.
The No.17 CWD chawl in which the two boys reside are themselves neatly divided on the basis of religion: on one floor live the Hindus and the other the Roman Catholics. The novel starts with the dramatic birth of Eddie Coutinho with his mother, Violet, in the ambulance just minutes after she lost her husband, Victor, whose only claim to fame in the novel was being infatuated by Parvatibai, Ravan's mother and dying while trying to save him. Thus Eddie is born fatherless but with Father Agnelo by his side at the time of his birth. The novel then meanders its way snidely and gradually as both the boys grow up hating each other;one accusing the other of killing his father, the other believing in the truth of the accusation and finally convincing himself to be a killer. From Eddie's dabbling in Hinduism, to Ravan's tiffs with her mother, from Eddie selling black tickets of 'Rock Around the Clock,' to Ravan receiving letters requesting him to kill some irascible person in their lives, from the unending work of Parvatibai to Violet's mum acting matchmaker for her, from Father Agnelo's constant reprimands to Eddie to Ravan's dad, Shankar's unemployment, from the saga of the nine Sarang girls to the saga of Ravan's mysterious lecherous aunt, 'Ravan and Eddie' is a hilarious, bawdy post-colonial novel that will transport the reader to the very corridors of the chawls that have been so vividly recreated in the story
As much as, 'Ravan and Eddie' is about the two boys, it is also about the life in the chawls and moreover, a subtle critique of the condition of independent India's urban areas. The numerous digressions that interrupt the imaginative narrative are telling comments on the tough life of the people there. Kiran Nagarkar captures both the joviality of their lives along with their hardships with the digressions such as, 'The Great Water Wars' and 'A Harangue on Poverty' breaking the illusion of a problem free, happy, independent India. There are several other digressions that talk about other quintessential aspects of Indian life and don't necessarily try and burst the safe bubble of independent India. What they have in common is a sarcastic and snarky tone that succeeds in making a point.
The overall tone of the entire novel is cheeky and sarcastic. Nagarkar's writing is concise, to the point and doesn't wander away unnecessarily. Like the hustle and bustle of the city and its chawls, 'Ravan and Eddie' is also a bustle of incidents that are crammed into 330 odd pages that leave you in a huff and puff as you try and take in all the delights, adventures and troubles of the variety of people populating the story.
Go grab a copy and immerse yourself in a world where high rises just don't exist and where chawls were not an eyesore but a living, breathing microcosm of the city.
Mumbai-a city you can have a love-hate relationship with, a city in which people think dreams are built (do they ever think that they are shattered there too?), a city fast moving, on the go, a whirling vortex that will push you into anonymity at times. Yet still we all live, die, dream and enjoy and curse in this bunch of islands reclaimed together to assume the shape of a city. 'Sacred Games' by Vikram Chandra is wholly enmeshed with this whirling vortex of a city whose one claim to fame is being the commercial capital of India. The story focuses on Sartaj Singh, a lone Sikh inspector in Mumbai police and in his forties, who gets an anonymous tip off on Ganesh Gaitonde, a dreaded Hindu don of Mumbai who any respectful inspector would kill to catch and get a promotion. Similarly Singh sees a window of opportunity in this tip off and soon gets to Gaitonde's shelter from where he chats with Singh through the intercom telling him a winded tale of the start of his criminal life. Sartaj is unable to convince him to surrender and so eventually bulldozes the place and much to his chagrin finds Gaitonde and an unknown women dead already. Thereafter, the book weaves its way in a parallel of Sartaj's investigation into Gaitonde (after Gaitonde's death, the Indian intelligence comes to investigate this mysterious presence of the gangster in Mumbai and how he might have posed a threat to national security. Sartaj is recruited to help in the investigation) and Gaitonde's narration of his life to Sartaj. The latter is rather eerie as it feels like the dead is speaking directly to Sartaj. Within these parallel stories lie countless number of subplots-Katekar's (Sartaj's partner) life and death, Katekar's wife and his two sons, Sartaj's other numerous investigations such as the case of blackmailing of Kamala Pandey, Sartaj's mother's ponderous moods, the Partition and how it affected Sartaj's mother's family, Senior inspector-Parulkar's tactics to stay on the job, Jojo's dreams of becoming an actress and several more. There are chapters in the novel called insets which can become novellas and short stories in themselves. These insets are related most often to the subplots like Sartaj's mother's sister, Navneet, being lost in Partition. Gaitonde's life story reveals the grim underbelly of Mumbai's mafia and how much of the city functions only because of them and the fighting between Gaitonde's Hindu gangster company with the Muslim Suleiman Isa's company seems faintly reminiscent of real life fighting between Dawood Ibrahim and Arun Gawli in Mumbai. Vikram Chandra has himself said that he did meet up real life 'bhais' in Mumbai and perhaps a lot of it is inspired by real life itself. We can only speculate and guess. What we can be sure of is that from this epic novel you can definitely get a lot of excitement and entertainment and thoughts to ponder over.
'Sacred Games' is a massive book-900 pages long-quite daunting to look at and even more difficult to hold for long and if you are one of those who bought a hardback copy (like me) my utmost sympathies. But the size shouldn't mislead you. The book is very engaging, eloquent and epic in every sense. It is difficult to categorize this novel-it is a mesh of a Bollywood film (and can be adapted into one as well given Bollywood's penchant for action), thriller, detective novel, city novel etc. Pinpointing to one exact genre is next to impossible because of the sprawling nature of the book's story which covers such a wide range of subjects and is written in multifarious styles that could be from any genre. 'Sacred Games' is a wholly Indian book, a completely Bombay/Mumbai book reflecting Indian moods, issues, problems, daily existence, language. There is a generous sprinkling of Hindi terms, Bombay Hindi, Hinglish and Marathi too which could be hard for a foreigner or even an Indian unfamiliar with the special mix of Bombay languages to understand. On the author's website, you can find a glossary for the novel which may or may not be useful. Click here to get it. A little background knowledge about the 80s' and the 90s' scenario in India would also help in better understanding as Chandra routinely refers to actual events though he never names them explicitly such as the Partition, the Indo-China war of the 60s', the Bombay riots of 1993 etc. The book is definitely for a true Mumbai inhabitant, one who will immediately recognize these events, feel a connection with the persistent smoke, traffic, noise and the islands of peace of the city, one who will know about the criminal underbelly of the glitzy city.
The detailing of 'Sacred Games' is splendid. Chandra has done a fabulous job to string together vastly different lives/characters and put them together in the story thus creating a rich, multifaceted tapestry of Mumbai and its many quirks. Sartaj Singh is one of his best creations. He gives the inspector a humane personality which most mainstream portrayals of policemen lack. They tend to demonize them and constantly depict them as cruel,lecherous and sadistic in their behavior (which may be true of some but generalisation is always a dangerous thing to do). Gaitonde is suffused with a very Godfatheresque aura having the same paternalistic outlook towards his people and business as Don Corleone did.
The plot, the writing, the variety are all very fine and good but what eludes the book is any challenges on the author's part. Vikram Chandra simply spins a yarn and puts it down in a 900 page book which is thrilling nonetheless but there is none of Chandra's own opinions reflecting through in the novel. 'Sacred Games' is too realist, doesn't challenge anything. It only states that yes-the city is and will always be ruled by mafia-police-ministers nexus, women will forever be seen as sex objects, Bollywood will always be a dreamland etc. Catherine Belsey, a famous British Marxist feminist critic once asserted that realism only legitimised the actual society and their authors never challenged the several practices of the society: they only depicted it as it was. This is true of 'Sacred Games' as well and the most damning of the 'realist' depictions are the inferior status of women in Indian society. The novel is very male centric and women are either only whores or depicted as dispensable dependable objects. There is a tacit subtext of the novel that women only exist to please men's needs, to do their duty (Sartaj's mother's assertion that it is her right to feel happy in being alone after her husband's death because she has done her duty is rather badly misogynistic. It implies that happiness only comes for women after they have been dutiful all their lives) for society i.e. to get married and procreate and take dowry with them. There are hardly any major, strong women characters barring Anjali Mathur, Mary and Jojo Mascarenhas and Iffat Bibi. This stereotyping fails to do anything except assert the 'real' world and does not challenge it. Moreover, there is a sense that Chandra seems biased against the Muslim community. It is a delicate thing to write about Muslim-Hindu mafia or the Partition but it shouldn't have to hold fingers against a particular religious group. Manto wrote on the most sensitive topics around the Partition but he showed the inhumanity of it all rather than blaming either Muslims, Sikhs or Hindus.
Taken together, 'Sacred Games' can be quite a task to read, but take the book one chapter at a time then there won't be any problems in finishing this epic novel at all.
Short stories are usually good,easy read proffering an anecdote,a glimpse into someone's life, drawing you in that story and leaving you satisfied of having dabbled in their life. 'Window Seat' by Janhavi Acharekar is a collection of short stories that have the same effect on the reader. There are 30 short stories-each revealing a different side of human nature, emotions, of India, of Mumbai and each is well crafted, well written and always ending with a concrete resolution-absent in many other short stories that often mar the story's charm. But not Acharekar-she is one brilliant writer, way better than the popular Chetan Bhagat or any other IIT/IIM students turned writers we see today in India.
Each of her short story explores a new idea, divulges the good, the bad and the ugly of Mumbai city. And none are cliched. They are simple, realistic, displaying the daily lives of many common folks of the city-their struggles, their fights, their dreams, their feelings, their worries, their happiness-almost everything under the sun. It is this portrayal of the daily, everyday, mundane aspect of people's lives polished with Acharekar's fine, creative imagination, that makes each story is distinctive and unique. The readers will connect to atleast one short story because Janhavi Acharekar covers everything-from the slum life, to the middle class worries to the high class celebrity to the party life-everything that together comprises the reader's perception of Mumbai.
The stories have varied themes, ranging from a couple searching for the perfect flat/home in Mumbai, a freedom fighter's popularity in his Girgaum neighbourhood, a unique event at Mumbai Central Station, the cause of a riot, a teacher's wistful memories of her old school days, a cyberspace love relationship, an art preview, four women's lives in Mumbai's lifeline-the local train and so many more. Giving a full detailed description of each story would kill the joy of reading it on one's own.
Now you might ask, why would one want to read about the daily life of Mumbaikars? Simply because, one can connect with them and also because, the writer plainly, economically, straightforwardly puts her story across, accessing our hearts and moving us too!
The book, 'Window Seat' is divided into 2 parts. While the first part has unconnected stories, the second part is further subdivided into 3 parts and the stories in each of the 3 parts are connected to each other in terms of their setting and characters and not necessarily continuity.
There are a few disheartening aspects of the book as well. Firstly, some stories go back in time, see Mumbai nostalgically and not con temporarily which is good in a few stories but not always. Also, some stories are not even set in the 21st century. They have an old world charm to it which again is not necessarily a bad thing but a more contemporary setting would do better with many newcomers to the city and other too. Besides there are far too many Mumbai novels that nostalgically always stay in a bygone Mumbai that will definitely never come back again. So why bother writing pages and pages if so much has already been written about it? Secondly, some stories tilt only towards South Mumbai not bothering to explore North and Navi Mumbai. Thirdly,the title, 'Window Seat' is also misleading suggesting that the book has stories set in the Mumbai locals, when in fact there are myriad settings to each story.
Besides those few points, 'Window Seat' is a marvellous novel the keeps you wanting for more. Acharekar's lucid writing, her non-romanticized notions of Mumbai and her brilliant story telling ability make the book worth reading it. Wish she writes more such books and hopes she becomes more popular and widely read because a good writer like her definitely deserves it!
Here's a toast to good contemporary Indian English writing!
Ken Follett is a well known writer. There is some famous trilogy of his which I am yet to read. He had recently come to a Mumbai bookstore too-I think it was Landmark but I can't be sure. Anyway, so I heard a lot about him then. I vaguely knew his name too but somehow I associated him with only fantasy related novels which is a genre that after a good dose of Harry Potter, Ursula Le Guin, Narnia series, Eragon trilogy, Hobbit I do not want to read much. But when I read some interviews of his in the newspaper and then some blogs, I realised that my association of Ken Follett and fantasy novels was misguided. He seemed to write mystery novels and historical ones. This obviously got me interested!
So I ended up reading 'Modigliani Scandal' which I found in my library. The book was really well written and I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was appropriate for my thriller/mystery taste of books.
The story is sort of complex with a smattering of characters that have interestingly just one purpose. The novel begins with Dee Sleign, an art historian, looking for a thesis and decides to do one on how drugs induced painters create different paintings than their usual ones. This line of thought somehow leads to a person her boyfriend knows who in turn gives her some information about some Modigliani paintings that are lost somewhere in this world. This gets her brains working and she decides to hunt this lost painting to start work on her thesis. She then feels an urge to tell someone about this. So she writes a postcard to her uncle, Charles Lampeth, a gallery owner. He obviously would love to get his hands on this painting as it would be a valuable prize to display in his gallery. He sends a detective to search for her.
Meanwhile, Dee sets out on a wild goose chase in search of that elusive painting. By coincidence or a pure quirk of fate, several other people get involved in this same mission like Peter Usher, an artist who wants to take revenge on Lampeth, his former employer; Julian Black, who wants to get this painting to impress his father-in-law so that he will invest in his art gallery and so many more people. Who will eventually get the Modigliani?
To find out, read the book yourselves.
'Modigliani Scandal' is a good read, a treat for those who have a penchant for thrillers.
The book's pace is always a good one. Follett introduces many characters initially and establishes their situation and their background in the plot. But this surprisingly does not drag the novel's pace. It adds to its complexity and makes the plot thicken and bubble with an impending thrilling search for a lost treasure. A sense of foreboding about a mystery brewing is clearly established when after receiving Dee's letter, Charles Lampeth hires a detective. The reader will want to turn the pages to know more and get to the end of this mysterious search.There are several loose ends that are also manifested with the introduction of so many myriad characters which Follett ties up brilliantly in the end. It is amazing to know that so many characters are connected in some way to each other and have one single aim that will fulfill their different goals. The end brings all these connections a full circle. When the book is nearing its end, if the reader is smart enough, then she/he can guess who gets the painting and the ingenuity behind a well planned and money making scheme.
One small point I loved about this novel is its distinct sense of an old world charm, of history in the first few chapters which merges with the modern art world-its pros and cons.
'Modigliani Scandal' is divided into four parts and the title of each one is related to painting and gives a glimpse of the basic core of that particular part. I found this aspect quite creative.
There's one small negative point. Follett has put in several stereotypes about many natives of countries. This is uncalled for and it is sadly reminiscent of several other thriller novels that are liberally sprinkled with such stereotypes-be it about Italians, French, Oriental or British.
P.S. There may be some errors in the plot summary because I read the book long ago and my memory has faltered a bit. For example, I am not sure if Charles Lampeth is Dee's uncle or father or some other relative. I am 75% sure he is the former.
'Such A Long Journey', the debut novel of Rohinton Mistry was in the news due to it being banned by the esteemed vice chancellor of Mumbai University. Leaving aside all the political crap raked up by the Shiv Sena, the book is an exceptional work of literature and no one should be denied the right to read such a fantastic book.
'Such A Long Journey' in general is a story of a Parsi man, Gustad Noble, livng in the then Bombay in a Parsi Khodadad Building. It is set during 1971 when East Pakistan was at war with West Pakistan and millions of refugees poured into India, particularly Bengal, due to unspeakable crimes committed on them by brute forces of West Pakistan.
Gustad is a bank clerk whose eldest son, Sohrab, gets into IIT but wants to continue his BA much to the dismay of Gustad, his other son, Darius is a sort of a body builder while his daughter, Roshan, falls ill constantly with bouts of fever and diarrhea. Gustad had known better times, more prosperous times. If his family troubles weren't enough, his old friend Jimmy Bilimoria sends a letter asking him to help out in a preposterous, somewhat heroic, somewhat illegal manner.
In between all these happenings of Gustad's life, Mistry exposes the reader to an assorted motley of characters whose lives are entwined with Gustad's. For eg, his homely , superstitious wife-Dilnavaz,the fumbling, handicapped-Tehmul, the bipolar Ghulam Mohammad, the philosophical pavement artist, his college friend-Malcolm etc. The best thing about Mistry's novel is the apart from the realistic and episodic descriptions of the main character's lives, he also imbues even the most trivial and seemingly unimportant character with stark and singular qualities that immediately make them memorable. He is skilled in the way of characterization.
Mistry provides the reader with a glimpse of the way of life at that time, gives fleeting images and vast descriptions of certain peculiar aspects of Bombay like the House Of Cages, Mount Mary Church and most importantly, a middle class Parsi way of life in Bombay.
'Such A Long Journey' has no clear cut divisions, like many other novels, of prologue, climax, epilogue or conclusion. The story goes on with a smooth flow, carrying the reader through Gustad's and others' lives. There is no obvious climax, no resolute conclusion. In fact, the end of the book suffuses one with a sweet lingering feeling of nostalgic happiness and sadness. There are no shades of excitement in the book except for parts when Gustad is engaged in helping out Jimmy. There are flecks of suspense in those parts. Other then that, 'Such A Long Journey' has no proper plot, no climax, no thrills and frills. This is not a disadvantage but for those who prefer the above aspects may find the book largely monotonous. 'Such A Long Journey' depicts Gustad's life. It portrays it realistically and it is as if the reader is being taken through his life. And in real life, there are hardly any clear distinctions of plot and climax and such stuff. Thus the story tries to mimic this aspect and Mistry has thus created a unique novel.
The rest can easily pick up the book, sit cozily on an armchair, cuddle up and let Mistry draw you into the ups and downs, highs and lows of Gustad's life. Let yourself journey through 'Noble' Bombay.
Bookshops are many in Mumbai. From chain stores like Crossword and Landmark to the roadside stalls which sell books dirt cheap! The only problem however with them is that they are limited in their collection. The former only has bestsellers and not old books such as those from the 80s' or even the early 90s'(unless they were bestsellers they won't have those books). While the latter do have huge collections and some roadside booksellers will also have that one rare book you are looking for!
There are a cluster of old bookshops located in South Mumbai. And before you stop reading this post, thinking that I will write about the Strand Bookshop, then you are quite wrong, my friend. Strand Bookshop is quite a homely bookshop, agreed but this post is about a really good, old, yet rarely acknowledged bookshop in Kalbadevi. Its name is 'The New And Secondhand Bookshop.' I will make a bet that not many people have heard of this place before.
Firstly, this bookstore was established in 1905 and is therefore over a hundred years old, 110 years old to be exact. Unlike the chain bookstores or roadside book stalls, this place has a phenomenal collection. As the name suggests, it has both new and second hand books. From obscure textbooks to national geographic books to forgotten poetry books to valuable history, psychology, anthropology books and to fiction of course, this bookshop has it all! They even have a few books that are priced at only Rs. 10. It is two storeyed shop and it can be easily missed if one doesn't pay attention.
The best aspect of this bookstore, apart from its huge collection, is the atmosphere. There is a lingering smell of dusty books that pervades the shop. As you browse through the long, endless shelves and come across books in beautiful bindings, hardbound, leather bound, you get the feeling that you are transported back in time, wandering in a lost library that has some how managed to salvage its books in a pretty good condition. The seclusion of these shelves allows you to feel that you are about to explore or discover a new book. And trust me, you are bound to stumble upon some rare book or an old one at least if you look diligently. This feeling of seclusion and exploration is heightened on the first floor where it is rather dark but not dingy. Here there are some research/encyclopedia type books. Not many people come up here and you are mostly alone browsing these shelves.
The prices may not be very cheap and bargaining may be difficult, but I suppose all book lovers should come here at least once just to breathe in its musty, library like atmosphere. However, if you are addicted to swanky, plush bookstores with perfect lighting that sparkle off brand new books neatly displayed on polished shelves kept on carpeted floors, then skip this shop completely! 'The New and Secondhand Bookshop' is not the one to cater to your luxury needs of bookstores. They are only there to cater to your bookish needs and the store owners are quite helpful if you ask them about one particular book. They know their books thoroughly and their affection for them can be seen which is lacking in many owners of chain bookstores who see books only as a means to an end and have no attachment whatsoever with them.
'The New And Secondhand Bookshop (NSB)' is located on the Kalbadevi Road, Kalbadevi,Mumbai, 400002. Furtados and Metro and Edward Cinema are close by landmarks. The nearest station is Marine Lines on the Western Line and CST on the Central Line.
My suggestion for all book lovers would be to go here not only to buy books but also for the pleasure of simply browsing through the rows of shelves.
Reading 933 pages of the 'Shantaram' novel can be tedious especially when you do not have the time and are only reading 2 or 3 chapters per day. Nevertheless, 'Shantaram' is an interesting novel. A novel that takes the reader through Mumbai's ugliest places and the grim and the dust of the city to the paradise of Goa to the cold, brutal Afghan mountains.
'Shantaram' I think is a partly true story of the author, Gregory David Roberts who escaped from an Australian prison. The novel speaks of his entry into the then Bombay and his journey through the city. The protagonist mingles with people in Leopold, is forced to stay in a slum, starts a clinic there and even comes to enjoy his life in the slum. He joins the mafia to earn cash, gets involved in gang war and the war in Afghanistan. He comes to love India and learns valuable lessons of life as well. The book ends on a hopeful message giving a grand message simultaneously.
Its a one of a kind novel where India in general and Mumbai in particular can be seen from a different perspective of a foreigner. India or Mumbai are neither degraded nor are they glorified unnecessarily but are portrayed objectively with plus and minus points. For once, it is good to see an author describing Mumbai's slums, Arthur Road Jail etc. and not romantically babbling about only Marine Drive, Gateway or Taj. (I mean Mumbai is much more than those things).
On the other hand, the novel was a tad too long. Gregory Roberts could have easily shortened the story. There are a few loose ends like whether the author goes back to Australia or stays back in Mumbai and if he does, what does he do–be with the mafia or start something else. (Hopefully he will write a sequel soon with lesser pages though).
So I say that 'Shantaram' is a good book but read it when you have all the time in the world. Reading the book slowly drags the story and takes the pace out of it.
'Outlook Traveller Getaways: Weekend Breaks From Mumbai' is a marvelous little book highlighting the great tourist spots in and around Mumbai and Maharashtra. It is no doubt a great book for any travel lover in Mumbai.
The book screams out that there are numerous small, quick, hidden getaways right here in Maharashtra and that there is no need to travel far. The book is a comprehensive guide. It is divided according to regions like North and Central Konkan. Under each division are tourist places that come in that region. For eg. Daman in North Konkan or Karnala in Central Konkan etc. Each division has a map with a mention of the distance from Mumbai. Each entry of a tourist place had good, eye catching photos, an excellent overview of the place that includes places to see, eat and stay there as well as a small column listing quick facts about when to go and tourist office(MTDC) numbers. The book also has a special section dedicated to Goa and places to go around Mumbai like Vasai, Uran etc.
All in all, worth all the money, a great guide for a Mumbai traveler who wants to spend a weekend away from the hustle and bustle inexpensively.
MY VERDICT-Highly recommended for travelers!


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Sometimes, It's The Little Things
Today, however, back at home we're starting to re-align our summer plans. We're debating whether or not to go to Lake Okoboji after we go to South Dakota: I already have reservations for the 4th of July at Gull Point State Park, but if Boo's hospital bills are overwhelming, we'll have to skip that extra week out. I called the Parks and Recreation service about the girls' swim lessons, and they said that as long as the girls can administer Mary's blood sugar tests themselves, the teachers will make accomodations for them. So tonight Hannah got a lesson in how to give the test. But she gave the test to me because Mary didn't want Hannah to touch her. But here's the good part: Mary did her own blood test, poke and all!! It's the first time she's done the whole thing alone, with only Mommy supervision. We'll spend the rest of the week letting Mary do her own testing, with Hannah watching to make sure it's done right. Mary will be her own "primary" test giver, and Hannah is her "back up emergency" test giver. It will be Hannah's responsibility to write down Mary's glucose levels, and also to make sure Mary ingests the appropriate amount of carbs, but Mary will do her own tests. Hopefully, this can carry over to soccer camp as well. And it's needless to say that Mommy is very proud of her girls!
In planning the rest of the summer, we've already decided the garden is out. We never had time to work the ground up the way we'd have liked, and it just got too late to plant anything we really wanted. Also, the landscaping we wanted to do this year will have to wait a year, because we just can't afford it. My school money is already being eaten up, and I hope the scholarship I applied for is merciful.
But I do have a single, happy personal moment to share, unfortunately at the expense of my older-older brother Bob and his son-in-law, John. (Before I start this tale, let me emphasize that these are both great guys and wonderful gentlemen. It's too bad they became the targets of this joke. Sorry, guys!) Anyway, Monday morning we're at my Mom's, and a bunch of us wanted to make a Wal-Mart run. I'm going to take my SUV, so everyone can ride with me. But the guys thought I was being too slow getting going (I had to give Mary her glucose test) so they left in Bob's van a couple minutes before me. (The guys were in a hurry to get back to the house because a friend of Bob's was supposed to drop by.) My sister Kathy and her daughter-in-law Serena were riding with me, and I was a little put out (just a very little bit, Bob and John!) that they couldn't wait for us. So I decided to make them pay for it. I flew to Wal-Mart (having a 5.4L V-8 engine is worth the lousy gas mileage sometimes) and pulled into the parking lot right behind them. I parked next to them, and we women went on our way. We split up, but the guy's van was still there by the time we got back to my truck. The guys were nowhere around. Serena had seen them perusing the sunglasses kiosk, so I figured they'd be a while yet, and I just couldn't let the moment go. So I had Serena write the following on a piece of paper for me:
Women Power Shop!
Men Power Slop!
Women Rule!
See you back at the house, slow pokes!
I stuck the note under Bob's windshield, and we left. We were home and already had the truck unpacked by the time Bob and John arrived. They didn't seem too amused, but I was.
Like I said, sometimes it's the little things. :)


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In a statement issued here today, CPI(M) state secretariat member Tikender Panwar said the CAG report elaborately spoke about the fraud and misappropriation of public money by the state government.
He said the CAG castigated the state disaster management authority for its unpreparedness in the event of a disaster as the authority did not utilise the funds from the Centre, thereby putting people at a greater risk of disasters.
Citing the CAG report, the party claimed that the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority and the State Pollution Control Board lacked adequate manpower for scrutiny of projects. This resulted in delay in the grant and renewal of environmental clearances resulting in projects being started without the pre-requisite clearances, Panwar said.
The CAG report revealed that against 5.91 lakh hectares of land required to be treated during 2009-16, only 0.86 lakh hectares (15 per cent) were treated as of March 2016, Panwar claimed. This confirmed that both the BJP and the Congress governments were incompetent, he added.
Panwar said the Centre did not release any funds during 2014-15 under the Integrated Watershed Management Programme because the state department failed to spend the required 60 per cent of the amount in 2013-14. This showed that the state government was not committed towards the agri-horticulture sector, he added.


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This credit type is commonly referred to as ASHA CEUs. ASHA members may earn ASHA CEUs through attending select PaTTAN events. Visit the ASHA web site for more information.
PaTTAN offers many opportunities for speech and language pathologists to earn CEUs toward keeping their ASHA certificate current. Topic areas include:
- Assessment, adaptation and remediation techniques for classroom application
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- Service delivery associated with speech/language/hearing
- Aphasia and other acquired neurogenic disorders of language cognition (e.g., traumatic brain injury)
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Bay Harbor has two islands namely the East and West Island. For the latter, it is an average 103 acres and is purely for Bay Harbor waterfront mansions and homes. All of these are luxurious homes built with the elegance and style that you can imagine or dream of. For the former, it is slightly larger at 150 acres and also comes with relatively few homes. Primarily, you find Bay Harbor Island condos, lots of new boutique developments as well as a business district. This business district is one which supplies different types of services and goods to the residents of Bay Harbor. This keeps things up and running smoothly in these Islands and luxury homes.
Accessibility of Bay Harbor Islands
Bay Harbor Islands Homes can easily be accessed from the mainland through the Broad Causeway. This roadway is the one which connects the town to the mainland. You can access the mainland from town from the west side and Miami Beach from the east. These islands are the perfect places for anyone seeking for a place to spend time during their vacation, or looking for a luxurious quiet neighborhood to call home. They are in an ideal location right by the Bal Harbour real estate which will only take a few minutes from the Atlantic Ocean as well as downtown Miami. This makes it a very good place for professionals and families to come and spend their time here. Destination like South Beach, cutting edge designer shops as well as a couple of golf courses are only a few minutes driveway.
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Homes in Bay Harbor Island have a range of price from around $ 500K to over $4 million dollars. They have been designed differently from each other right from Old Florida –style all the way to Mediterranean stylish and elegant new spec homes. A big percentage of these homes rest on spacious lots. Their yards have been perfectly trimmed and the view is also amazing and breathtaking. When all of this combines with the great architectural designs, it makes these homes worth the investment. It is no wonder that these homes and luxury condos in the area are the most sought after by big people and celebrities.
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I am going to rant just a little. Well, a lot really, because people just really get on my nerves sometimes. They get on my last nerve; and they bungee jump on it.
Now, I am all for people who will do for animals and speak up for them. But I am really sick of these ego building, wanna be animal advocates, that do what they do just so they can get on Facebook to post about it. I am sick to death of people who jump to conclusions and make very harsh judgements without all the facts. That happens a lot in animal rescue. I try to check myself when I find myself in such a situation.
So, as I sat down to my PC this evening, I see a notification that I have been tagged on a FB post. People have gotten good at limiting what they tag me in, so if I am getting tagged, it's probably relevant.
I clicked, and here it was.
The woman making the post was correct about the weather being incredibly hot lately and it is for sure that the pavement is warm to the touch. However, the dog is clearly within reach of walking into the grass if it's feet get hot. Dogs are smart like that.
In my opinion, the woman posting this was overreacting. She does that frequently and takes to doing it on FB when she's really wound up. At this point I wasn't sure if I was being tagged because someone thought I should know about this dog being walked on hot pavement or to show me that Brenda was flipping out about an animal on FB, again.
What was disturbing to me is that Brenda had actually stopped on the side of a main highway, to scold someone about walking their dog on a hot day, telling them to take off their shoes, and taking their picture. I mean, who does that? Apparently Brenda does, and she feels justified having done so.
Most days I might have just deleted the tag and gone on about my evening, but worse than this over zealous advocate verbally assaulting someone on the side of the rode and taking their picture, was her pack of back patters cheering her on for her "good deed".
I felt compelled to comment, so I did.
As you can probably guess that didn't go over very well.
Brenda and I bantered back and forth a bit, she deleted my comments. She deleted me from her friend list so I couldn't comment further. We exchanged a couple of private messages and when that didn't go over well either, she blocked me. Suits me. She's a crazy old gal. Because I used the term "my ass" in one of our exchanges, she told everyone on the original post that I has resulted to cussing her and she had to block me. Like I said, crazy.
Relieved I wouldn't have to deal with her madness in my FB feed ever again, I put it to rest and went on about my evening.
Later I got a message from a friend of mine that asked, "Did you see what I posted on FB earlier?" My FB time had been limited to dealing with Brenda earlier in the evening. That was enough for me, I signed out and hadn't seen anything else.
But on cue, I clicked on over to my friend's FB profile to read whatever it was that she had posted.
It was interesting.
I have known Janet for a number of years. She was actually one of my employees at one time. She is a hardworking, intelligent, and compassionate individual. She is my friend.
I cannot imagine how weirded out she must have been when Brenda spun her car around to come back and scold her, roadside, and take her picture.
I get the whole thing with animal advocates speaking up and out for animals. I am an animal advocate. I speak out all the time. But people, snap judgements and crazy behavior just don't help the cause. As a matter of fact, it could get you hurt or land you in jail, so think before you jump in both feet first.
I wish Janet had called her son. He's a policeman.
I didn't even know it was Janet walking her dog in the picture when Brenda first posted about it. I was just mortified that Brenda acted as she did and I voiced my opinion. After finding out who Brenda was posting about, the whole situation graduated to laughable.
This is Suzy. She's Janet's "baby".
Suzy appeared at Janet and Danny's over a year ago, out of nowhere. Janet took Suzy to the vet to have her looked at and get her shots up to date. She spent several weeks trying to find Suzy's owners, to no avail. Danny and Janet weren't really in the market for pet. They live alone. Their children are grown. Pets are a responsibility. But they just couldn't bring themselves to turn Suzy into the local shelter.
Since then, Suzy enjoys an easy way to go. She's right at home with Janet and Danny and they treat her better than many children are treated. She lives in a climate controlled home, eats very well, sees a vet regularly, and receives tons of love and affection.
She follows Danny around the property keeping things inspected and clearing the perimeter of moles.
Suzy walks with Janet in the evenings and with crazy people like Brenda living right down the rode it's good they have each other for protection.
To all the Brenda's of the world. Get a grip. Think before you open your mouth. I know it's hard, that thing called restraint. Get your facts straight before you go shooting off your mouth and looking like a fool, and making the rest of us animal nuts looks like fools right along with you. Keep your special kind of crazy in check, please.


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Attendees of the first-ever Blue Ox Music Festival in 2015 will certainly tell you it was one for the books. The wide array of delicious beer, rich bluegrass music, and glowing smiles of the dancing crowd didn't let a little rain get them down! If that doesn't say something about the spirit of this festival, we don't know what does! One thing we can guarantee is this festival only seems to get better with age. Mark your calendars with 2018's dates: June 14th through June 16th!


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Fear of instability in the European Union and of decades of global stagnation sent stock markets sharply lower on Wednesday as Britain's pound sank below $1.30 for the first time in more than three decades.
After a steadier few days as investors digested the shock of Britain's decision to leave the European Union, the implications of another round of financial losses, interest rate cuts and central bank money-printing to prop up growth have begun to set in.
Japanese and Korean markets led Asia lower, falling by 1.8 percent. Indexes in Frankfurt, London and Paris all sank by around 2 percent and the European banking index – a major focus of concern this year – by as much as 2.7 percent.
Wall Street 1YMc1 was set to open at least half a percent lower.
Sovereign bond yields were lower across the board. Government debt in Germany now returns less than nothing for the next 15 years <0#DEBMK=TWEB>, essentially suggesting that there will be no inflation or economic growth in that period.
In Switzerland, yields are at zero for the next half century. <0#CHBMK=>
"We've seen strong selling interest across the board this week," said Michael Hewson, Chief Market Analyst at CMC Markets in London.
"While some have speculated that some 'Leave' voters may have undergone some form of buyer's remorse, it would seem that the same could also be said of the investors who took part in last week's stock market rebound."
The suspension of a handful of property funds, a reflection of concerns that Britain's real estate market could sink in the face of a Brexit, has been the trigger for a new wave of selling of the pound and UK assets.
A huge, 7 percent of national output, current account gap, makes Britain and the pound highly vulnerable to any halt in the investment that has flooded into London property markets from Russian and Chinese investors in recent years.
Money markets are also now pricing in a good chance of a cut in one or more of the Bank of England's official interest rates to zero within the next three months. Sterling fell as low as $1.2798 in Asian trading before recovering to $1.2986.
"The next catalyst for a sterling sell-off could come from the Bank of England next week," wrote BNP Paribas strategists in a research note.
"The market is still likely under-pricing BoE easing, with our economists forecasting a 25 basis point rate cut next week followed by a 25 basis point cut at the August meeting and 100 billion pounds' worth of quantitative easing, including corporate bonds, to be announced by the November meeting."
The assumption of many in markets over the past week has been that promises of easier policy by central banks in the weeks ahead would support markets, but commodities prices are showing little sign of that optimism.
Having shed near 5 percent on Tuesday, Brent crude oil LCOc1 fell another 1.5 percent to $47.22, with U.S. crude at $46.01 a barrel. Copper prices fell 1.9 percent. CMCU3
The bond market reaction is the clearest signal of how investors are now interpreting the economic hit from Brexit – yet another shock to a vulnerable global economy, another wave of central bank easing and possibly the starting gun for a new round of currency, tax and even trade wars.
China, which has been steadily weakening the yuan while eyes are fixed on Europe, allowed the value of its currency against the dollar to fall to another 5-1/2 year low overnight. That helped Shanghai's stock market remain in positive territory.
In Europe the big concern is how banks will cope with yet lower interest rates and writedowns in the value of assets they hold, as well as a new blow to growth that might cool borrowing and threaten more loan defaults.
Italy's bank sector index .FTIT8300 has fallen 30 percent since Britain voted on June 23 to quit the European Union, bringing its losses so far this year to 57 percent. The euro zone banking stocks index .SX7E has dropped 22 percent and 37 percent respectively.
"Italy faces a severe crisis that is exponential. This is not gradual and not linear," said Francesco Galietti, head of the Policy Sonar risk consultancy and a former finance ministry official. "The immediate trigger is the banking crisis."
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Well, now this is something that might just make Katrina Kaif's alleged exes Salman Khan and Ranbir Kapoor jealous. Though Aditya Roy Kapur and Katrina Kaif celebrated rose day in a bid to promote their upcoming film FITOOR, their chemistry was certainly palpable and the way the duo embraced each other in public can make Kats' ex-flames envy and even raise their eyebrows.
Aditya and Katrina were spotted at Jal Mahal in Jaipur celebrating 'International Rose Day', wherein Aditya got truck full of roses for Katrina much to her surprise. Not only this, he even went on his knees in the presence of media and offered a rose to the blushing and gushing Katrina. While Aditya kept charming his on-screen lady love, Katrina seemed in a cheerful mood.
After looking at their off-screen chemistry 'Fitoor' (read madness), we are now all the more eager to catch their lovable chemistry on screen when the film releases on February 12, 2016!
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Welcome to the MFL department. Spanish is studied from Years 7-11 and is compulsory at KS3. Within these pages you will find lots of information about the subject and how the department operates.
KS4 is offered as an option and with the introduction of the new Ebacc certificate is now a popular choice. A high number of pupils are actively encouraged to study the subject.
Language learning can be one of the most enjoyable and rewarding experiences. Through learning languages, we can learn social sills, team work skills, communication skills, confidence and flexibility to name a few. These are all skills that employers look for. When applying for jobs, if you can speak a foreign language, you are much more likely to be successful and get the job you have always dreamed of.
Years 7-8
In years 7 and 8 students learn the skills necessary to communicate in Spanish. We follow a course based upon the 'Viva' textbooks. Students have two hours of Spanish a week. Language lessons are planned to start to build the necessary skills for the GCSE exam, as well as incorporating fun and interactive activities, in order to give the pupils a good grasp of the language. All four skills are developed (listening, speaking, reading and writing) through a variety of activities. Throughout these years, students are not only learning the language, but they are also introduced to the culture and history of Spain and other Spanish speaking countries.
Homework tasks are set weekly and will include a minimum of a learning task each week – students will be expected to learn a list of key words and they will be expected to spell them correctly. It is vital that students regularly learn vocabulary, as it is the key to understanding the language.
There is ongoing assessment and students are encouraged to check their own progress regularly. Students are also encouraged to ask for help when needed. Spanish rooms are always available to complete homework if needed.
Year 9
In Year 9 students are placed broadly into groups depending on the likelihood of them continuing through to GCSE at KS4, however there is flexibility of movement between these groups. Students also start the GCSE course, but at a level that is suitable for all students, regardless of whether they will be continuing into KS4. Students in year 9 also have two hours of Spanish a week.
This year, students will continue to build on and perfect the skills learned in years 7 and 8, but with a heavier focus on exam skills and grammar. There is a focus on the ability to write paragraphs unaided and develop their spoken skills. They are also encouraged to be more creative and imaginative in their use of language. Students are encouraged to employ a range of tenses, opinions and connectives in written and spoken tasks with a significant focus on accuracy.
Homework tasks are set weekly and will include a range of activities, ranging from vocabulary learning, to writing longer texts and to translations.
The Spanish GCSE is a two year course which builds on and further develops the work and topics covered in KS3. By the end of the two-year course, students should feel confident in their ability to communicate with native speakers in both speech and writing. They should also develop and awareness and understanding or the culture and identity of the countries where Spanish is spoken. They study a range of topics under the 3 themes of: Identity and culture; Local, national, international and global areas of interest and current and future study and employment.
All four skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) will be assessed at the end of year 11. There is no coursework, rather the course is all assessed by exams. Students can be entered for either Foundation (grades 1-5) or Higher tier (grades 4-9), but must complete the same tier for all four skills. All exams will make reference to the countries where Spanish is spoken. Exams will use authentic materials e.g. adverts, poems, literary texts, emails and text messages.
Unit 1: Listening (25%) takes place in the May/ June exam period in year 11
Unit 2: Speaking (25%) takes place at school between April & May in year 11
Unit 3: Reading (25%) takes place in the May/ June exam period in year 11
Unit 4: Writing (25%) takes place in the May/ June exam period in year 11
In Year 10 and 11 students study the use of verbs and grammatical structures in the following contexts –
Exam title: GCSE Spanish
Exam board: AQA
This year we have ran our first 'Spanglovision' competition. All four year 7 forms have been learning a song in Spanish in their Spanish lessons and during form times. This was then recorded as a form and with their form teacher. The songs were shown to the whole school, who then proceeded to vote for their favourite video. The winners will win a trophy and prizes for the whole form.
Revision Sessions
Every Wednesday Miss Steel runs revision sessions as per the revision timetable for years 10 and 11. It is vital that students attend as many of these sessions as possible.


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Campione! Episode 06
Yeah! 2 episodes released in 1 day! Extremely sorry about the delays for this show. Thanks to special guest ElyasRay from AFFTW for TLCing a few lines. Episode 7 will be released soon. Another typesetter and editor would help these episodes get released faster.
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How to fix an Android phone that's stuck on the white HTC logo
Sometimes phones, HTC phones included, get stuck or frozen on their boot-up screen. Sometimes an HTC Android phone will even get caught in a power cycling loop. The device will power on, load to the HTC logo, then power off, then power on, then off, on, off, but never actually loading all the way like it should. This… Read More »


text: Brand MarketingCashman & Katz Wins CourantBy Sarah Jones|February 8, 1999ShareBy Sarah Jones|February 8, 1999Share Shop Tops Mintz, Keiler to Snag Conn. Daily BOSTON–Faced with increasing competition from online and niche publications, The Hartford Courant has named an agency of record for the first time in three years. Cashman & Katz in Glastonbury, Conn., picked up creative and media chores after a review. Mintz & Hoke in Avon, Conn., and Keiler & Co. in Farmington, Conn., were finalists, according to sources. Creative duties had been handled in-house. Susan Quirk, the Courant's creative director since 1995, said last week she resigned to pursue freelance opportunities from her home office in Simsbury, Conn. Makiaris Media Services in Bloomfield, Conn., handled media buying chores for the newspaper last year, said Sylvia Chˆvez Sitters, director of marketing and strategic planning at the Courant. Cashman & Katz's "energy and passion for doing business with the Courant" helped them land the business, Chˆvez Sitters said. "They displayed an understanding of the specific challenge that we gave them," which was to promote the paper's classified section. "It's exciting for our agency to market the state's largest newspaper," said Tony Cashman, principal of Cashman & Katz. "It has a solid reputation and is one of the most credible news sources in Connecticut. We feel honored that they chose us." Owned by Los Angles-based Times-Mirror, the Courant has a daily circulation of 212,000 and a Sunday circulation of 303,000, said Chˆvez Sitters. Annual billings were not disclosed. The Courant spent less than $100,000 on advertising in 1998, according to Competitive Media Reporting. Sharehttp://adweek.it/2kPInF1 copy Adweek Adweek


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The reason I got robbed is because I am so incredibly naive and tend to trust anyone because I've never ever had a problem with that, let alone I've never been robbed because of it. So I was walking around Vegas trying to do some clubbing (I have almost no friends so I go on my own). So I met this guy at the casino that told me he knew a good Party-bus and he stated he didn't knew anyone in Vegas either.
So I trusted this jerk and "payed" for my ticket, then he went to his hotel to retrieve money and change his clothes, we were supposed to meet at this other hotel at X time, so time passed and I waited and after a long wait, I had to ask one of the tourists guides about the ticked and the told me it was a FAKE.
A DAMN FAKE. I almost wanted to kill myself just knowing it was a hoax. If you are wondering why did I stupidly accepted the offer, my excuse seems fair enough: It's my first time in Vegas, I don't think it will be the last one but I won't come back until I can make some friends and eventually convince them to go to Vegas together. Otherwise, crappy experiences like this will keep happening.


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