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Sister of Bangalore’s only victim of Nairobi terror attack Sudarshan B Nagaraj says ‘Everything is over. We are going through hell’

ree among every tenbuildings in the GardenCity ignore compulsoryrain water harvestingscheme

One year aer rape of astudent, surroundingsremain unsafe aroundNational Law School ofIndia University

Bangalore’s own Sudar-shan B Nagaraj killed inNairobi Mall Attack :

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A Bangalore businessman was ex-ecuted in cold blood by terroristswho stormed a shopping mall inKenya.Sudarshan B. Nagaraj is believed tobe the only Bangalore based victimof the attack on Westgate Mall inthe country’s capital Nairobi.Militants stormed the mall on Sat-urday and began shooting indis-criminately. e incident, which isstill on-going, has so far claimed 69lives, including two other Indians.

e mall sits in the heart of an In-dian community in Nairobi.Sudarshan’s shattered family was

sent a gruesome photograph of Na-garaj’s blood-soaked corpse inorder to identify him.e 49-year-old book publisher hadonly flown to Nairobi on Friday. Hewas killed in cold blood by mili-tants in Westgate Mall sometimeover the weekend. He had beenshot once through the temple.Speaking at the family home inHejjala, Bangalore, his sister Naga-mani Prasad, 59, said: “e Indianembassy in Nairobi initially identi-fied his body by the cards he had onhim. e embassy mailed his pho-tograph to us to confirm his iden-tity.”“e picture is very awful. Nobodycan sleep at night aer looking atthe picture. Blood is oozing out ofhis body. He had shaved his hair fif-teen days back when they had gone

to Tirupati. e shaved head makesit look even more awful.”“ We are not sure if it was a suddenattack or not. He was shot in thetemple. He must have gonethrough a lot of agony,” said Naga-mani Prasad.Sudarshan B. Nagaraj had gone toNairobi on Friday for business pur-poses and was supposed to comeback to India on Wednesday. efamily got the confirmation of hisdeath on Monday at 7.30 pm fromthe Indian Embassy in Kenya.On Saturday aernoon at 1.15pm,Nagamani talked to her brother onthe phone. at was the last conver-sation they had. When the family

heard about the attacks at the mall,they wanted to know if he was safe.His sister called him continuouslybut there was no answer. “ I musthave called him a hundred times onSunday but I couldn’t get through.en we lodged a complaint in theIndian Embassy at Nairobi onMonday morning,” said NagamaniPrasad.Aer the family confirmed hisidentity, they sent the manager ofthe company to get his body backto India. ey have to go throughthree stages including the Kenyagovernment, Kenya police and In-dian Embassy in Kenya to get Su-darshan’s body back.

e family is expecting the body toarrive by tomorrow evening or theday aer tomorrow. “My brother had said that he wouldcome back home within four days.He was supposed to come back to-morrow in person, now most prob-ably his body will come home,” saidNagamani.Sudarshan B. Nagaraj was an indus-trialist who had a business in con-crete mixture and book publishing.He mostly looked aer their busi-ness in Africa and so oen travelledto Ghana.

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Victim Sudarshan B. Nagaraj (in black) with sister Nagamani (front right) and his other siblings

Sudarshan B Nagaraj

A 49-year-old industrialist wholived in Bidadi with his family. Hewas the fourth sibling and theyoungest in his family. He was han-dling most of his company’s busi-ness in Africa. He was a bachelorwho was known for being helpfuland for his charity.

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‘Is it a sin to go to a mall?’

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Schoolgirl lost power of speech after watching murder bid

A seven-year-old girl turned muteaer witnessing her mother’sthroat being slit by her father, saysRamesh Balasundaram, an ac-tivist for an NGO.

“On June 6, 2013, late in theevening, Satya and her six other sib-lings were playing inside the housewhich is located at Nayandahalli.As their mother, Parvathi, 32, wascooking the meal, Satya’s father,Shiv Prasad, entered in drunkenstate with a knife in his pant pock-ets,” said Ramesh, an active workerfor Bal Utsav.

He added, “Shiv Prasad shooedhis children outside the house andstarted confronting Parvathi if shehad an extra-marital affair with anyother man. As Parvathi refused toanswer, he immediately pulled outthe knife and slit her throat.”

Satya peeped through the doorwhen this heinous crime occurredand watched her mother lay in poolof blood. She never uttered a word

ever since.Parvathi was taken to the nearby

hospital by their neighbor, Vaneeta,as Shiv Prasad fled. Meanwhile,Satya continued to attend herclasses conducted in a school atCubbon Park.

Ramesh said, “At Bal Utsav, wemake sure all our students are in abalanced state of mind. Our NGOruns schools inside six museums ofBangalore for under-privileged

children. Satya is one of our brightstudents there. Her sudden changein behavior started worrying theteachers. As soon as I was informed

about this, I called a child psy-chologist to talk to Satya the nextday.”

For three months, Satya wascounseled by a child psychologist,Rajeshwari. Around 8-10 counsel-ing sessions were conducted to helpher get out of the trauma.

Rajeshwari said, “When I first metthe child, she showed mood swingsin her behavior. Eventually shestarted opening up about the inci-dent. When she narrated the crime,I informed Ramesh about it butnone of us could interfere in theirpersonal matter. However, we tried

to help Satya recover as wethought she is our responsibility.”

Binu Prasad Verma, an activist forBal Utsav said, “We have seen a

transition in Satya’s behavior. Wesaw her going from bad to worseand then recovering from all of it.Despite her mother fighting for lifein the I.C.U, Satya chose to attendthe school which is a great achieve-ment on our part.”

Satya’s mother never lodged anFIR against her husband; insteadshe chose to stay with him for thewelfare of their children.

“I want to be a District Collectorwhen I grow up. I also want to fightviolence against women,” says theseven-year-old, Satya.

Prutha Bhosle

Satya with her friends at school aer the successful counseling sessions conducted by ‘Bal Utsav’

Ramesh, activist at ‘Bal Utsav’

ree in ten builders ignoring rainwater harvest scheme

Despite several warnings from thewater supply board, almost 30 percent of builders have evadedadoption of the rainwater harvest-ing system.

e Bangalore Water Supply andSewage Board (BWSSB), in 2011,had made it mandatory for buildingowners who have occupied an areaof 2,400 square feet or more and forthose who propose to construct abuilding of an area not less than1200 square feet, to install rainwa-ter harvesting systems for storageor ground-water recharge.

Two years on, many buildings stilllack rainwater harvesting systems.T.C. Saralakumari, Public RelationsOfficers, of BWSSB said: “It is onhumanitarian grounds that such aproject has been started so we can-not force people to adopt the sys-tem. However we have been giving

warnings to the building ownerswho have not yet installed it.” Shegoes on to say that since it cannotbe imposed, they are trying to makethe builders or owners sign an affi-davit stating that the installmentwill be done.

“e BWSSB had identified68,000 buildings for installment ofthe system out of which only 48,300have so far installed.” said the PRO.“If they fail to install it despite ourwarnings, we will cut water suppliesto those buildings.” she said.

Only 71 per cent of those requiredto instal rainwater harvestingschemes have installed them so far

ere are some who have installedthe system way before the BWSSBmade it mandatory.

A resident of Basaveshwara Nagar,B.Rajamni said: “I have installedrainwater harvesting in my gardenthree years back. It cost me Rs.

10,000 then. I made a pit in my gar-den and diverted the water there.”

A few famous builders, despiteknowing about the Act have notimplemented it. Vimla, marketing

department of Navami Builderssaid: We have not installed rainwa-ter harvesting in our projects exceptfor the recent one that is NavamiVarsha.”

On being asked about the pres-sure from BWSSB she said: “Yeswarnings have been given but wehave not yet installed. It will at theleast take two years or more.”

Suchitra Sharma

Saralakumari, Public Relations Officer of BWSSB, claims warnings are given to building owners

Safe campus, unsafe surroundingsAlmost a year aer the gang

rape of a student, the areaaround a major law school re-mains unsafe for its students.

e undergraduate student ofNational Law School of IndiaUniversity was raped on Banga-lore University's Jnanabharathicampus on October 13 last year.

According to V.S. Elizabeth,Professor of History, Gender andLaw in NLSIU, “e police do notgive much importance to such in-cidents. Students have starteddealing with their problems bythemselves. ey do not reportthe everyday incidents anymore.We only get to know if somethingserious has happened.”

Shrishti Singh, a fourth-yearstudent of NLSIU said, “e onlyin-campus problem that we haveis poor mobile network connec-tivity. We cannot even make a dis-tress call at the time of emergency.

Most of us use Vodafone as wassuggested by our seniors. But its

network works only at certainpoints in the campus and is notthere in the hostel at all.” e stu-dents have asked Vodafone tosolve the problem, called theircustomer care repeatedly but ithas not done anything so far.

According to the students, de-spite some improvements, thearea around the college is not safe.Girls get teased and groped by thepeople outside the college andavoid going out. “e auto driverscharge exorbitant amounts ofmoney for short distances forcingus to walk which is never a goodexperience. We avoid going out ofcollege as much as we can,”Shrishti added.

“ere is an eatery just a stone’sthrow away from the campus. epeople who come there pestergirls from our college. at hashappened in front of me, to girlswho have accompanied me. Oneof our students got stabbed nearthat place,” said Sukhmani Singh,a third-year student of the law

school.“e boys accompanying girls

are hesitant to say anything tothese people because there is al-ways a possibility that they mighttake offence,” he added.

“It is not always some unedu-cated, unmarried fellow who wor-ries us. Every time we have had anincident relating to my students,it is usually a married IT engineerin his late twenties or early thir-ties.

e problem is that men think

every woman who is on her ownin the public space is a public

property. So, anybody can do any-thing they want,” said Professor V.S. Elizabeth.

Rajat Gangwar, a fih year stu-dent and the President of NLSIU,said, “I was coming back from arestaurant close to college withthree of my friends in an auto onenight. Two drunk men stoppedthe auto to light their cigarettes.When they saw a girl with us,they started passing snide com-

ments which resulted in a row.We had to rush the driver to takeus away in order to avoid any se-rious consequences.”

According to Sukhmani Singh,“e police stationed outside thegate that connects BU with ourcollege have been seen sleepingon duty. Anybody can go in andcome out. ere have been timeswhen they were not there evenbetween 9 pm to 12 am.”

But Rajat Gangwar differs. “Youcannot enter that gate aer 9:30pm if you are not a student. eofficers are vigilant. RecentlyCCTV cameras have been in-stalled near the gate.”

“Every time we have an issue,the police accuse us of giving toomuch freedom to our students.ey want us to never let any stu-dent step out of the college.

ere need to be some amountof restrictions obviously, but onemust not forget that we are deal-ing with adults,” said ProfessorElizabeth.

Sneha Bengani

“One of our boys got killed afew years ago. He was out forsome work and his car brokedown. Some men come andstabbed him to death. ere wereothers in the car who they locked.

One of them tried to help and wasinjured. e first question that thepolice asked next day was whyour students were outside. Nowyou cannot go out to attend evena medical emergency!”

“A fellow sang an obscene songto a student on M.G. Road. Shetook the matter to the police.When confronted, the guy turnedout to be an IT chap, 30 years old,married. en his wife comes and

falls at the student’s feet andpleads her not to file a com-plaint.”

- V. S. Elizabeth, Professor ofHistory, Gender and Law at

NLSIU

NLSIU campus at Nagarbhavi, Bangalore

e Weekly Observer Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Children serve booze in wine shop on Mysore Roadree underage children are

working at a liquor store at An-chepalya, on Mysore road.At ‘Wine Castle’, a liquor store in

Ranganatha Complex, three under-aged children were found workingon a daily basis. On questioningone of the children he replied, “Myname is Pushpa. I come from thevillage of Mandya. I came here afew months back and have beenworking ever since”. He also addedthat his brother works with him inthe same shop.

Manjesh Kumar, 24, owner ofMandharti Pan Stall opposite theliquor store said, “Yes the kids workat the wine shop. ey come to myshop oen. ey are very youngand are not eligible to work. Whenthe police come to know about thisthe owners will land up in trouble.”He also added that the boys work-

ing in the store do not belong to thecity but the owner is from the city. Employment of such underage

children is prohibited by the ChildLabor (Prohibition and Regulation)Act, 1986. Child Line, an organiza-

tion which works for child protec-tion and rights said: "Yes selling ofalcohol at liquor shops by children

is an offence. It does come underthe child labour act of 1986". BOSCO, another NGO said that

they have rescued 346 children inSeptember, 2013. From January tilldate the figure goes above 3000.However, H. H. Ramu, 55, assis-

tant sub-inspector of police at Ra-jarajeshwari Nagar says that theyhave not received any cases of childlabour in the past one year. e tentative Child Labor Survey

Report (2011-12) reveals that thisis quite prevalent not only in Ban-galore but throughout the state of

Karnataka with over 50,000 chil-dren working. e Joint LaborCommissioner of Karnataka, J.T.Jinkalappa refused to comment.

Child who worke in a wineshop on Mysore Road.

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Rahul Sadhu

e wine shop which engageschild laborers on Mysore Road

Nagamani, sitting in the livingroom of the family home in Hejjala,added: “We are going through a lot oftension and agony. We always alertedhim about the terror in these coun-tries, but he always insisted thatGhana was one of the safest places tolive in.”

A very close knit family, the foursiblings lived together in the samehouse, which was also named Sudar-shan. “Our parents died when I wasin my early twenties. We grew up to-gether, brought everything togetherin good condition. I raised him andhe was like a son to me. He used tolike when I mixed his rice and Samb-har. I did it for him the last timewhen he was home. We have lost apillar in our family. His African busi-ness took him away from us. We arecompletely shattered. Everything isover,” said his sister.

“Is it a sin to go to a mall? What washis fault? Is he responsible forthis.is is what terrorism is doing;breaking families is what they do.Weare going through hell.”

Bidadi Police constable Palanetresaid officers had been alerted to thedeath by watching television news.He declined to comment further.“We cannot do anything about itfrom here,” he added.

A spokesman for the External Af-fairs Ministry declined to comment.e state’s Home Ministry was notavailable for comment.

Announcing Sudarshan’s death onTwitter, Syed Akbaruddin,spokesman for the Ministry of Exter-nal Affairs, said: “Death toll of In-dian citizens killed in Westgate attackrises. Sudarshan B. Nagaraj sadlyidentified as among those killed.”

Nagamani said, “We used to see it

on television and read it in newspa-pers how terrorism was happeningand how people lost their lives be-cause of it. But now it has happenedto us.”

Ramprasad Nagaraj elder brother ofSudarshan said: "It is extremely sadhow terrorism had taken away Su-darshan's life for no fault of his. Whatdid he do to get this."

Al-Shabaab, a Somali Islamist mili-tant group associated with Al-Qaida,captured the Westgate Mall.

On 21 September, men brandishingAK-47s and wearing vests with handgrenades, took over the upscale shop-ping market asking Muslims to leaveand shooting those they believedwere non- Muslims.

Heavily loaded with ammunition,10-15 militants arrived in several carsaround midday, Nairobi time. eyordered Muslims to get out of themall by proving their religion, recit-ing a short prayer and began shoot-ing those who failed to recite it.

ey randomly shot at civilians anddropped grenades. e gunmen thenproceeded from one store to theother shooting shoppers and gradu-ally started collecting hostages.

Armed police reached the sceneabout half an hour later and ashootout began between them andthe terrorists. Dozens of injured civilians were escorted out by security guards in shopping trolleyswhile scores of other shoppers fledthe scene.

On Monday, intermittent gun firecould be heard from inside the mallfollowed by heavy rifle fire. Kenyantroops were outside the buildingwhile a Kenyan Red Cross official

confirmed that clashes ensued insidethe building too.

e crisis lasted for four days fol-lowing which Kenyan officials de-clared that all hostages had been

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‘Terrorism smashes everythin

Westgate mall in Nairobi, was attacked by Al- Shabaab, a Somali- Islamic militant group on September 21. Sudarshan B. Nagarajan,49, was shot dead by the militants for being non-muslim

Kenyan armed forces ready for battle with militants outside Westgate Mall

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Nagamani, Sudarshan’s sister, was the last person to talk to him, on Saturday

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Nagamani, sitting in the livingroom of the family home in Hejjala,added: “We are going through a lot oftension and agony. We always alertedhim about the terror in these coun-tries, but he always insisted thatGhana was one of the safest places tolive in.”

A very close knit family, the foursiblings lived together in the samehouse, which was also named Sudar-shan. “Our parents died when I wasin my early twenties. We grew up to-gether, brought everything togetherin good condition. I raised him andhe was like a son to me. He used tolike when I mixed his rice and Samb-har. I did it for him the last timewhen he was home. We have lost apillar in our family. His African busi-ness took him away from us. We arecompletely shattered. Everything isover,” said his sister.

“Is it a sin to go to a mall? What washis fault? Is he responsible forthis.is is what terrorism is doing;breaking families is what they do.Weare going through hell.”

Bidadi Police constable Palanetresaid officers had been alerted to thedeath by watching television news.He declined to comment further.“We cannot do anything about itfrom here,” he added.

A spokesman for the External Af-fairs Ministry declined to comment.e state’s Home Ministry was notavailable for comment.

Announcing Sudarshan’s death onTwitter, Syed Akbaruddin,spokesman for the Ministry of Exter-nal Affairs, said: “Death toll of In-dian citizens killed in Westgate attackrises. Sudarshan B. Nagaraj sadlyidentified as among those killed.”

Nagamani said, “We used to see it

on television and read it in newspa-pers how terrorism was happeningand how people lost their lives be-cause of it. But now it has happenedto us.”

Ramprasad Nagaraj elder brother ofSudarshan said: "It is extremely sadhow terrorism had taken away Su-darshan's life for no fault of his. Whatdid he do to get this."

Al-Shabaab, a Somali Islamist mili-tant group associated with Al-Qaida,captured the Westgate Mall.

On 21 September, men brandishingAK-47s and wearing vests with handgrenades, took over the upscale shop-ping market asking Muslims to leaveand shooting those they believedwere non- Muslims.

Heavily loaded with ammunition,10-15 militants arrived in several carsaround midday, Nairobi time. eyordered Muslims to get out of themall by proving their religion, recit-ing a short prayer and began shoot-ing those who failed to recite it.

ey randomly shot at civilians anddropped grenades. e gunmen thenproceeded from one store to theother shooting shoppers and gradu-ally started collecting hostages.

Armed police reached the sceneabout half an hour later and ashootout began between them andthe terrorists. Dozens of injured civilians were escorted out by security guards in shopping trolleyswhile scores of other shoppers fledthe scene.

On Monday, intermittent gun firecould be heard from inside the mallfollowed by heavy rifle fire. Kenyantroops were outside the buildingwhile a Kenyan Red Cross official

confirmed that clashes ensued insidethe building too.

e crisis lasted for four days fol-lowing which Kenyan officials de-clared that all hostages had been

freed. e death toll is likely to in-crease with 69 people being reporteddead including three soldiers and 175people injured. 51 people remain un-accounted for.

Kenya’s foreign minister hasclaimed that “two or three” Ameri-cans and a British woman wereamong the attackers. According toofficial sources, out of six, three at-

tackers were killed on Monday nightwhile three others died since mid-night.

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyattalost his nephew in the attack. Assur-

ing his citizens that the Kenyan forcescan conquer the siege successfully hevowed to be firm in the “war on ter-ror” in Somalia.

On Tuesday, Kenyan Governmentdeclared the siege to be finally over.

e only child victim to be identi-fied so far is Paramshu Jain,8, son ofan Indian bank manager. SridharNatarajan, 40, pharmaceuticalworker is another Indian nationalwho died. Famous Ghanaian poetKofi Awoonor died aer being in-jured in the attack. Other foreign na-tionals who died in the violent assaultincluded British, Canadian, Ameri-can, Chinese, French, Ghanaian, In-dian, Dutch, Peruvian, South Africanand South Korean victims.

e Al-Shabaab claimed on Twitterthat the attack had been launchedavenging Kenya's role in an AfricanUnion military effort against their or-ganization.

Samantha Lewthwaite, also knownas the White Widow, wife of Londonbomber Germaine Lindsay, is sus-pected of being an attacker in thebloodbath that took place in West-gate.

is is the deadliest terror activityKenya has witnessed following Al-Qaeda’s blowing up the U.S. Embassyin 1998 which killed 213 people.

e consequence of this violent as-sault includes adjournment of a trialat the International Criminal Courtagainst Kenya’s deputy president,William Ruto, who flew home frome Hague.

On the day of the terrorist attack inWestgate Mall, a lot of Indians werepresent at the scene supporting thepolice and the security personnel.

e media and press releases men-tioned only about the Kenyans andthere wasn’t a mention of Indianswho helped in serving food, waterand even donating blood and money.All foreign high commissions haveaddressed the issue but the IndianEmbassy spoke nothing about the In-dians in the attack.

An Indian professor who lives near

the scene of the terror attack spoke ofhow Indians living in the area ralliedround to help the victims and supplyfood and water.

Gayatri Hari, who has lived withher husband Hari Murthy in Nairobifor the past two years, said Indians inthe community had also lined up todonate blood and organised a collec-tion to buy essentials.

She said: “e Westgate Mall is aplace which is visited by many for-eigners, especially Asians and expa-triates. My husband and I go to thismall every Saturday evening.

On 21 September, we were to go forlunch at the mall but my husband gotdelayed at work and so the plan gotcancelled. I dare not think of whatwould have happened if we had goneto the mall that day. It gives me chillsto even think about it. By God’s gracewe are safe and sound in our home.”

She added: “ I am not againstKenya but looking at their actions, Ifeel they are still unable to handle thecrisis because of the lack of crisismanagement skills.

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‘Terrorism smashes everything, we are going through hell’

“I dare not think

what would have

happened had

we gone to the

mall that day”Westgate mall in Nairobi, was attacked by Al- Shabaab, a Somali- Islamic militant group on September 21. Sudarshan B. Nagarajan,49, was shot dead by the militants for being non-muslim

Gayatri Hari, wholives in Nairobi

Kenyan armed forces ready for battle with militants outside Westgate Mall Armed forces help civilians escape out of the mall, unharmed, after the terror attack at Westgate, Nairobi

e land owners of Rajarajesh-wari layout claim licensing oflands has not been issued due topolitical interference.

Owners of the site have started amovement called ‘SachidanandaNagara Nyayapara Andolana(SNNA)’. Shankara Prasad thefounder of SNNA, said: “We arefighting for justice without payingany price. e system is so opaqueand stubborn. Despite of SupremeCourt’s order, BBMP does not exe-cute the order because some politi-cian comes in between and tells thegovernment not to do so.”

e group claims interferencefrom local politicians resulted in anumber of problems for the land

owners; complaints were filed butwere not resolved.

e current MLA, Munirathna

has assured the member of SNNAthat he will speak to the BBMP andhas also sent a letter to them askingthem to demolish the illegal com-plexes built on the land of the own-ers. He said, “I will try my best to

help the members of SNNA. I havesent a letter to the BBMP and amwaiting for their response.”

e current MLA is like a ray ofhope for the SNNA members andthey are relying on his word of as-surance. Harini Mahesh, a siteowner in Rajarajeshwari layoutsaid, “We are not getting the license

to build houses on our own land. Ilive in a rented house while havingto fight for my land. My husbandwas a member of SNNA and aerhis death I joined this movement.”

She added, “Around 400-500 peo-ple are suffering from a similarissue and the government is nottaking any action against it.”

“In Bangalore, land property islike gold and if found empty landmafias jump on it to buy,” said Van-dana, another member of SNNA.e lands are given to the landmafias by the BBMP supported byfake documents.

Shankara Prasad said that themovement has caused no progress.“BBMP has two to three days to re-spond to the letter. If they don’treply soon we will sit for dharna(picket) .We are not fighting againstBBMP, we are fighting against cor-ruption.” he added.

Drug taking ‘rampant’ in sports: Chief Medical Officer

e Sports Authority of India’schief medical officer said the useof drugs and nutritional supple-ment to improve physical per-formance is rampant in sports.

Dr. S.R. Sarala, who is chief of themedical facility at the Sports Au-thority of India (SAI) in Bangalore,explained the reasons for it. Shesaid athletes who are young havesometimes consumed medicineswhich come under the banned list.“People have doped unknowingly,we try to educate them,” she said.

In order to achieve excellence,some of the drugs are used withoutbeing aware of adverse effects ontheir body which causes loss of fer-tility and long term diseases such ascancer, she said.

Rakesh Manpat, who representedIndia at the World Shooting Cham-pionship, said: “In many cases

there is a lack of knowledge aboutwhich drugs are banned andshouldn’t be used. For example,medicines like D Cold and Parac-etamol can also land you in troublein sports like shooting.”

Dr Sarala explained how the sys-tem works in the aermath saying:“eir urine samples are taken, ifthey test positive, then the samplesare sent to their respective federa-tion through National Anti DopingAgency (NADA) and stern action istaken as per the World Anti DopingAgency (WADA) rules.”

She also said how cheats arecaught. ”We take urine samplesregularly. ere are people whocheck the rooms of athletes.” Shealso spoke in favor of educating theathletes and mentioned the num-ber of steps SAI is taking to curbthis menace.” We follow World AntiDoping Agency (WADA) guide-

lines and make sure these thingsdon’t happen again and hence wewill have clean sports.”

Dr. Chetan Parasher, a SportsMedicine Expert, based in J.P.Nagar, does not agree that they may

be completely unaware of the use ofthese drugs. “May be, they don’tknow, but they are definitely awareof the fact that by taking these med-icines they will benefit,” he said toe Weekly Observer.

Observer Team: Reporters– Sushmita Sen,Vaishnavi J. Desai & Shweta Nair Emergency Call Services- Sneha Ghosh News Editors– Suchitra Sharma,Tanisha Das,Rahul Sadhu & Saikat Ghosh ChiefSub Editor– Sneha Bengani Picture Editor– Prutha Bhosle Design Desk– Sreelakshmy Sivaram & Shivpriya Jodha Sub Editors– Tulana Nayak,Suresh Kumar & Raju Peethala Proof Readers- SnehaMejari Editor– Soumya Basu Email- editor@iijnm.org An IIJNM Publication (For Private Circulation)

e Weekly Observer Tuesday, September 24, 2013 6

Bangalore International Arts Festi-val 2013Samanvay presents Dance drama while

e Dhananjayans and their senior dis-

ciples showcase Bharatnatyam.

Where: Chowdaiah Memorial Hall,

Malleshwaram, Bangalore

When: Oct. 9

EventsCULTURE

ARTLand mafia grabbing plots has forced a community to take action

Athlete Category ofsport Punishment handed

Udaya Laxmi Shot put

Was dropped from the nationalteam aer she was tested positive forMethylhexaneamine, on July 2nd,2013.

Neha Singh Shot putWas tested positive on 2nd July,2013 for Methylhexaneamine on theeve of Asian championship in Pune .

AshwiniAkkunji Track and Field

July 2011, prior to Asian champi-onship she was accused of consumingperformance “enhancing” drugs. Shewas recently handed a two year ban.

Navjeet KaurDhillon Shot put

Was one among the trio, who werecaught prior to Asian championshipin Pune on 2ndJuly,2013.

MandeepKaur Track and Field

Was handed over a two year banaer she lost in court .Tested posi-tive for a banned substance.

Sushmita Sen

Saikat Ghosh

Citizens versus BBMP: Fight for land

Best of LaxmanLegendary cartoonist R.K.Laxman’s fa-

mous political cartoons, pocket catoons

and other caricatures are being exhib-

ited by the Indian Institute Of Cartoon-

ists.

Where: Indian Institute Of Cartoonists,

M.G.Road, Bangalore

When: Oct. 5 ,10:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M

THEATRE

Veteran actor Paresh Rawal is backwith his team with another enter-taining comic play having elementsof mystery and a message for theaudience as well.Where: Jyothi Nivas College, Kora-managla, BangaloreWhen: Oct. 5 Timings: 3:00 P.M.- 6:30 P.M

Land Ownership