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Friday, September 11, 2009

Popular, by hook or by jab

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Vijender Singh has added another glorious chapter to Indian sports after assuring the country its first-ever medal in the World Boxing Championship. After bagging the bronze in Beijing, the Bhiwani boxer had said that winning a medal in the Olympics was not the end of the road for him and that he was hungry for more.

In an exclusive interview with the Hindustan Times after his quarterfinal bout, Vijender spoke about his latest achievement and the semifinal bout on September 11.

Excerpts: Now that you are assured of a World Championship medal, what's the feeling like? Winning medals for the country give sportspersons the greatest satisfaction. The championship is not over yet and I have a semifinal bout coming up. So, I am concentrating on that rather than celebrating.

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Friday, October 31, 2008

A wedding plan for China

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In officially atheist China, it’s hard to imagine young Chinese couples tying the knot in a traditional Indian wedding ceremony But. India’s tourism office in Beijing thinks the idea is not far-fetched.

To entice the young Chinese to spend their wealth in India as the yuan rises and the dollar sinks, the India Tourism office will arrange mock marriages for Chinese couples in India’s biggest and almost untapped tourism market.

“We want to put India on China’s honeymoon itinerary,’’ India Tourism Director Shoeb Samad told the Hindustan Times in his six month-old Beijing office. “China, like India, has a major wedding industry We are networking to come in . as wedding managers.’’

The scheme planned for early next year, will include a sponsored bridal lehenga and a honeymoon photo clicked before the Taj Mahal. Couples will be chosen from contests and lucky draws held in Chinese wedding magazines.

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Monday, September 1, 2008

Wrestler puts his medals on auction

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Even as the country celebrates wrestler Sushil Kumar's bronze medal at Beijing, grappler Shokinder Tomar on Sunday put up his Arjuna Award and Commonwealth Games medals for auction.

Medals in hand, Shokinder - who bagged a silver at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games and received the Arjuna in 2004 - led a procession in his hometown, Malakpur village in Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, demanding that the medals be auctioned to buy wrestling mats and for land to build a stadium.

The procession had over 100 wrestlers, including woman wrestler Anshu Tomar and Shyam Singh, father of Rajiv Tomar, who competed at Beijing.

Shokinder told HT it was not a publicity stunt.

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Monday, August 4, 2008

Aboard the Beijing Bullet, lessons for Delhi

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IN LESS than two minutes, the Harmony silently glided past the top speed of India's fastest trains, the Rajdhani and the Shatabdi.

A week before the most definitive moment in China's modern history as a rising superpower - the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing at 8.08 pm on 08.08.08 - I bought a second-class ticket out of the capital. HTs daily dispatch for the Beijing Olympics began aboard China's latest and the world's fastest intercity bullet train that will shuttle football fans between inland Beijing and coastal Tianjin at a record 350 kmph in 30 minutes. By 2013, a high-speed railway wn cut train travel between BeijingShanghai from 10 hours to five. I skipped the media test ride to line up as a common commuter between inland Beijing and China's third-largest city and its busiest northern seaport about 135 km away The Made-in China bullet trains cut the com- mute from a previous 70 minutes at 200-250 kmph to 30 minutes. The new commute combines Beijing and Tianjin into one city Chinese researcher Zhou Gansi told China Central Television. "It can dramatically change people's way of life." The local train from Mumbai's southern financial hub to its northern suburbs takes twice as long. Imagine the potential of a Delhi-Chandigarh or Mumbai-Ptme train giving professionals the choice of a comfortable daily intercity commute instead of migration. The fastest Mumbai-Pune train takes three hours to cover 192 km. The seven-year infrastructure revolution inside India's largest and most powerful neighbour goes beyond its 37 Olympic stadiums.

My journey began at Asia's largest railway station (by one estimate, the size of 20 football fields) that opened in south Beijing last week with none of the fanfare that would accompany such an event if it happened in India.

After all, Beijing opened the world's biggest international airport terminal this year, to welcome over 10,000 athletes and modern China's biggest-ever influx of foreigners (about half a million) from August 8-24.

The solar panel-roofed station looks like an international airport, and is bigger than the 91,000-seat Bird's Nest stadium that will host the opening ceremony. As commuters bought instant noodles they prepared with hot water from the station taps, I was the only Indian in the crowd, struggling to decipher Chinese signs.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Stop the violence, or I quit

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Even as Beijing launched a strong verbal assault on the Dalai Lama, the temporal and spiritual leader of Tibetans on Tuesday threatened to resign if the violence in Tibet did not stop.

He appealed to the Tibetan people to remain committed to non-violence. "Should the majority of the Tibetan people want to use violence, I would have no other option but to resign from leading the Tibetan struggle," he told reporters in Dharamsala. He expressed concern over the turmoil in Tibet, but said the situation was gradually improving.

 The Dalai Lama spoke after Chinese premier Wen JiaBao blamed him for the violence. "There is ample fact and we also have plenty of evidence - proving that this incident was organised, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai clique," Wen said at his annual news conference at the end of China's national legislative session in Beijing. "

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