NTC land won’t be sold below market price, says Maran

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Inaugurates four mills modernised under revival scheme.
— K. Ananthan

New threads: The Union Minister of Textiles, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, looking at the new ring frames at Sri Rangavilas Mills which is one of the four modernised National Textile Corporation’s mills in Coimbatore on Saturday. The Minister of State for Textiles, Ms Panabaka Lakshmi, is also seen.
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Coimbatore, Aug. 22 While appreciating the quality and design of the NTC mills products, the Union Textiles Minister, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, urged the National Textile Corporation Chief, Mr K Ramachandran Pillai, to give a facelift to the corporation’s showroom.
“The showroom is pathetic,” Mr Maran said, after formally inaugurating four modernised mills of NTC – Sri Ranga Vilas Mills, Pankaja Mill, Cambodia Mill and Coimbatore Murugan Mills – in Coimbatore.
Rs 77-cr investment
NTC has invested Rs 76.50 crore towards modernising these four mills and this is a part of its Rs 5,297-crore modified revival scheme, he said.
(The scheme envisages revival of 43 mills, 24 of which are being modernised by NTC itself and 19 through public-private partnership. The company has garnered Rs 4,034 crore through sale of assets as part of its revival scheme, which mainly includes land of closed mills.) Mr Maran reaffirmed that in future NTC land would not be sold below the market price and transparency would be maintained at all decision-making levels.
There are 2,619 workers on the rolls of these mills, but there is scope for further enhancement, he said and sought the active support of workers to take NTC to global standards.
Retail outlets
By focusing on downward linkages and re-energising its 93 retail outlets, securing institutional sales, the corporation would be able to progressively reduce its dependence on the Government and create a niche for itself in the market, he said.
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Love Khichdi: Preview





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Cast: Randeep Hooda, Riya Sen, Divya Dutta, Rituparna Sengupta, Sonali Kulkarni, Kalpana Pandit, Jessy Randhawa, and Sada.
Director Srinivas Bhashyam





Mumbai: Wait till this Friday to know how Randeep Hooda cooks ‘Love Khichdi' on screen. Story is fantastic and is all about a jat boy called Vir who belongs to a small town.


Hooda is in role of Vir Pratap Singh. Vir's idea of love is limited to lust. But one day he realizes that there is a lot more to love than lust. He discovers it through very funny and true to life encounters with seven beautiful women.


The movie beautifully deals with the confusion and convenience of love and lust. Director has left no stone unturned to make the movie interactive. All the characters of the movie talk directly to the audience about their point of views from time to time.


Vir completes his studies in Pusa Catering College. Thereafter he arrives in Mumbai where he gets employment at a five star hotel as a sous chef (second in command in the kitchen).


He nourishes a dream of owning a restaurant. But he mostly thinks of women and love. Vir longs for almost every woman he meets, who he feels he won't have to commit to.


Vir's Love khichdi has several flavours, including Divya Dutta as Tandoori masala, Sada as Ghar ki dal, Sonali Kulkarni as Bhareli mirchi, Riya Sen as baby corn, Rituparna Sen Gupta as Mishti dhoi and Jesse Randhawa as green salad and Kalpana Pandit as sizzler.


Tandoori Masala is Vir's neighbor. She loves learning recipes from Vir who likes the secrecy of it. Ghar ki dal is his close friend.
Vir has special liking for Bhareli mirchi, the bai, works at his place. In better clothes, she looks like a bollywoo heroin.
Baby corn lives in his neighborhood and absolutely in love with Vir. But he knows it but scares of her for some reason.


Mishti dhoi is a bookshop owner and her shop is located in Vir's hotel. Her ambiguity and intellect mesmerizes Vir and he goes crazy about her.


Vir likes Green salad, who is a super model, often comes to eat it in his restaurant. After seeing her in a beer commercial, Vir is crazy about her. But gets deceive from her.


Sizzler, a powerful businesswoman, lures him and uses him, as he often uses women. This is not new.


Director has wonderfully cooked a delicious Love Khichdi, using spice of love and lust. The movie is releasing on August 28, 2009.

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Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy: A lifetime of public service
Kennedy's life has been marked by triumph and tragedy. Tour his life story, from birth through his decades in the U.S. Senate.

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Ted Kennedy quotes



Veteran US senator Edward Kennedy died aged 77 following a prolonged battle with brain cancer. Here are some of his most memorable quotations.




In his words, as in life, he was a politician unafraid to address issues in a direct and occasionally controversial manner.

* "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die" - addressing the Democratic National Convention after pulling out of the presidential race, August 1980.

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* "Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is" - at Washington Gridiron Club dinner, March 1986.

* "Well, here I don't go again" - on not running for president in 1988.

* "Ulster is becoming Britain's Vietnam" - on The Troubles in Northern Ireland, October 1971

* "My brother need not be idealised or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it" - eulogy for brother Robert Kennedy, June 1968.

* "I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately" - during a televised statement after he pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident in regards to the Chappaquiddick incident, July 1969

* "What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system" - on health care reform for which he campaigned throughout his life, 1994

* "With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay" - endorsing Barack Obama for president, January 2008.

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Kennedy on Chappaquiddick


Senator Edward Kennedy makes a testament on the events that lead to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
She was a passenger in his car when he drove off Dyke Bridge into the channel between Chappaquiddick Island and Martha's Vineyard in 1969.
The Senator swam to safety, but Kopechne drowned. He did not report the accident until the following day.
He pleaded guilty to leaving a scene of crime and received a two-month suspended sentence.

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Power Point: Senator Ted Kennedy, R.I.P.


“The Kennedy brothers must be having a wondrous reunion.”
- Roy Johnson, a onetime Fortune editor, on Facebook this morning. “And sisters!” added one reader.
What an image–Ted Kennedy and his seven siblings convening in the afterlife. The great Senator, who was 77, was the last of the Kennedy brothers–oldest brother Joe died in a plane crash in WWII, and Teddy became the patriarch after Jack and Bobby were assassinated in the ’60s. Sister Eunice died two weeks ago. Jean Kennedy Smith, former ambassador to Ireland, is now the only one of the nine Kennedy siblings still alive.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, journalist/pundit Mike Barnicle, a friend of the Senator from Massachusetts, said that he once asked Kennedy if, when he sailed his boat Maya in Nantucket Sound, did he ever see his brothers out there. “All the time,” Teddy replied.

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Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne


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Every person’s life is like a kaleidoscope. Some pick up another’s life, hold it to the light and all the glass chips fall this way or that. And the person sighting through the cylinder puts it down and turns away, saying they’ve seen it all, when in fact, they’ve only seen one facet, one pattern in another’s life. Thus some remember only one thing or two about the life of another long lived.
But there are other ways to see most of a life in depth, that is, to keep turning the kaleidoscope, letting the glass shards open and reveal, shade and hide, depending on the turn of the scope. Adding up all the patterns, keeping the sum of the brilliant and the dark turns: that’s a view in depth of the life of another.
I’d just lay out a few turns of the kaleidoscope of Ted Kennedy’s life here, a lost story:
Some of the glass shards part, and we see in paradoxically jeweled light that Ted Kennedy was born to a brutally ambitious father, Joe Kennedy, and his mother Rose, was a good Catholic girl, demure and subservient to her wealthy, bellowing husband.
Another father, with different values, might have pressed an entire set of young Kennedy male offspring, to grow far more seated in heart and soul and clearcut ethics, far sooner.
As a young man, Ted, sent to the top school, Harvard, got kicked out for cheating. He was readmitted, but though some might say he cheated because of laziness, it may also be that his lack of studying and rousting about was his finger flapping in the face of his immensely overbearing father… yet Ted may have tried to fake the grade still fearing his old man.
Ted had reason to fear his father. Being the youngest child in the family, Ted was close to his sisters, and was doted on by Rosemary who was 14 years old when he was born. They laughed together and delighted in each other, and yet when Rosemary began displaying too wild a behavior by her father’s lights… showing interest in sex and sensuality… being too wild for her father’s hyper hypocritical tastes– he himself rumored to have many affairs–
Ted at age 9 witnessed his father dispose of his sister Rosemary as though she were a block of cordwood.
Joe Kennedy secretly arranged that his daughter Rosemary, age 22, to be forced bodily from their home, and incarcerated in a mental institution where Joe signed papers that were not his to sign, as his daughter was of legal age…
the papers the pater familias of the Kennedy clan signed were to ok a surgeon to slice into his daughter Rosemary’s brain through her eyelids, performing a lobotomy. This selfsame so-called “surgeon” would later be hounded from the medical profession for his butchery of human beings. But the good doctor at that time (1941), met Joe Kennedy’s needs.
Afterward, Rosemary no longer had sexual being. She also could not speak and could not hold her urine or her bowels for the rest of her life. She suddenly had the IQ of a child under seven. She had previously been, by all accounts, a bright, normal, willful, beautiful young woman, not retarded, not mentally ill. But to cover his egregious sin, Joe Kennedy spread the rumor over and over that Rosemary had always been ‘retarded.’
Women were a dime a dozen in his world, and Rosemary was shut away in diapers and babbling and out of sight, out of mind.
Joe Kennedy allowed no one to defy him without using all power at his disposal to destroy individuals. He was a bully and a boor. What he couldn’t get through power, he took by underhanded force… and then tried to cover his tracks, buying silence, or eliminating talkers.
To Joe, women were seen as Catholic scapulars, or as servants, or as good time girls. He carried and taught to his sons the old madonna/ whore split. A whore was to be used. A madonna was to be perpetually impregnated within marriage.
But a daughter, a woman, threatening his carefully built image, that was another story. For Joe, is was within his purview as a male to utterly harm a girl and leave her as good as dead.
Thus Joe Kennedy set hideous, puerile and murderous examples for his boys. And I believe, imprinted them, as well as intimidated and horrified them, when they were young… and yet evilly offered them riches and position as they became older… if they would just cover for and remain loyal to their corrupt father. He would be their Boston Machiavelli.
Thus he burnished and protected the family image at all costs. Except, in all his slit-eyed plans, all his prancing and smokers and under the table deals, all his pretense and vulgar displays of wealth and power, he never set in place examples of heart for others… Joe’s hope for his boys centered on eliciting in them and from them, chips off the old block, that is, greed and lust for power.
In time, as we witnessed, one of Joe’s sons, Ted, at age 37 would drive off the Dike Bridge late one night. A young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, age 28, one of several “Boiler Room Girls” (girls who worked on Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign the year before) who’d held a party that night, was in Ted’s car. Ted Kennedy made it to shore. Miss Kopechne did not. Ted Kennedy did not report the accident until the next day.
Some say he had a concussion and wasn’t thinking clearly. Others say he was drunk and out of his mind. Others say the unthinkable: that he did not value a human life. That he tried to cover up.
We may not know which one it was, or which two, or all four– or more. What we do know is that the ill trajectory for harming an innocent was laid down in spades in Ted’s young life by an exemplar father who was supposed to instill life-sparing and life-endorsing in his boys …instead of a careless regard for life… especially the lives of women, be they wives, mistresses, girlfriends, daughters, women one found attractive. For some observors and historians, the life’s end of Marilyn Monroe rings a similar bell.
Are the sins of the father the sins of the sons? I dont think we know for sure. It seems that sometimes hell is on earth for some— and I think of Ted Kennedy’s ‘cant face myself in the mirror’ for a long time after Miss Kopechne’s death… but also the prior hellacious loss of Rosemary… and the loss of a dear older brother in war… and also the harrowing of Ted’s soul after his two brothers were murdered. The lessons, the opportunities to become human and humane at last, came one after the other, relentlessly.
… and even more so of how ancient Ted Kennedy suddenly became on the small boat, his face collapsed into itself, his shoulders gone all ‘old man’… as he grimly sailed out to recover John-John’s body and the bodies of two others of the young from the tragic small plane crash in the ocean at niight… his nephew John, son of Jackie and JFK, who so promised in good looks and youth, in vitality and smarts… to maybe bring back the Kennedy political sheen… now the last charismatic male Kennedy of that generation was dead too. Also, literally, dead in the water. Like Mary Jo.
We who are religious are taught that all will be judged not with fury but with fairness when they die. Whatever was not learned on earth, some say, will be learned in heaven, or in a stopping and resting place on the way there. It’s said too that one receives credit for learning on earth from one’s abject suffering, no matter what crassness or separation from the God of Life and Love, preceded it.
So may it be for Ted Kennedy, having now left this world at age 77. So may rest continue for Mary Jo Kopechne who would be, had she lived, 68 years old this day.

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