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| DEEPAVALI: A MULTI FACIAL FES |
(The Sunday Observer) (October 18-24, 1992) |
By Osama manzar
Here comes Deepavali. Again, The festival of light and lamps, money and market, game and gambling, sound and sorrow, trade and tradition, gift and greetings, bribery and burning, bonus and business, eerie and evil....
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| LOTTERY INDUSRY |
(The Sunday Observer) (October 18-24, 1992) |
FROM GAMBLE TO GUARANTEE
Lottery has many facets. It has a very noble history, too complexive and confusing processing, involvement of inevitable corruption but there is undoubtedly a very bright and prosperous future.
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| LOTTERY, LAXMI AND LUCK |
(The Sunday Observer) (October 18-24, 1992) |
The game is not worth the candle.
MONTAIGNE
By Osama Manzar
India is a country of myth, religion, tradition and faith. Every year, in the month of October, as soon as ‘Dushehra’ overs, there, one can see & listen in the newspapers and magazines, in TV and radio The Nagaland Bumper Lottery, Sikkim Lottery, Swam Ganga.....
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| INDIAN BOOK PUBLISHING |
(The Sunday Observer) (Oct. 3, 1992) |
By Osama Manzar
Someone said “publish and be damned”, but Indian publishers seem to believe in publishing to rake in the millions. Publishers feel that business is booming. So much so that, many of the dealers and distributors of yesteryears, have diversified into publishing.
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| India International Trade Fair |
(The Sunday Observer) (November 15-21, 1992) |
- By Osama Manzar -
Here, on the reporter’s desk are available, both, the previous IITF’s performance, datas and also this year’s highly boosted global mela’ expected graph. It is high time to recollect the past to compare with the present on- the-way mega-mela.
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| ACADEMIC WITH A VISION |
(The Sunday Observer) (Nov. 29-Dec. 5, 1992) |
OSAMA MANZAR AND SHAIFALI CHIKERMANE PROFILE Dr. Syed Hasan hwwo has planted the seeds of his dream in Insan School.
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| A MAN WITH A HUNDRED FACES |
(The Sunday Observer) (Nov 22-28, 92) |
In Greeko-Roman mythology Proteus was a sea-god who looked after the herd of seals. He possessed the gift of prophecy and, like other legendary water beings, he could metamorphose himself into fire and water, as well as into an animal.
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| DESPITE THE GLOOM, NOT ALL HOPE IS LOST - YET |
(The Sunday Observer) (June 7-13, 1992) |
OSAMA MANZAR reports on the ‘rehumanising’ of Ranchi’s mental institution
Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make made – Euripides
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| MUSLIM-BAITING |
(The Sunday Observer) (July 9, 1990) |
Sir- No pain is vaster than you and me unless it is made to be felt as on obligation. That is what our space-filter columnists want. Iqbal Masud has been found no exception in his article, ‘A pain vaster than you are me’, (February 5).
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| HEC TRANSPORT W’ SHOP WORKERS LAZY BONES |
(The Sunday Observer) (July 7, 1990) |
Osama Manzar
Of the 28 buses, ten are out of order ... Of the 85 workers, 50 are present... And a few among them are busy playing cards. .. The HEC Transport Workshop shed depicts the scenario.
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| RHINOS FACE FLOODS AND SHARP-SHOOTERS |
(The Sunday Observer) (July 26, 1992) |
Will the great Indian rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) follow the path its extinct predecessors—the dinosaur and the dodo? Going by the odious shadow of poachers and turbulent water of the Brahmaputra river, this appears imminent.
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| DOOM STARES INTO RHINO’S EYES |
(The Sunday Observer) (July 26, 1992) |
by Osama Manzar
Will the great Indian rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) follow the path of its extinct predecessors i.e., the dinosaur and the dodo? Going by the odious shadow of poachers and turbulent water of the Brahmaputra river, this appears imminent.
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| Cashing in on optimism |
(The Sunday Observer) (July 19-25, 1992) |
Osama Manzar
New July 18: “Optimism is the key to my success. You cannot be more optimistic than me,” claims P. N. Vijay.
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| LESS SAID ABOUT IT THE BETTER |
(The Sunday Observer) (July 17, 1990) |
Osama Manzar
Cow dung mounds, grazing cattle and a bevy of tribal Womenfolk living in the nearby jhuggies who flock around the tube-wells are all that, that a visitor to any of lbs 14 HEC girls/boys high/middle schools. No sooner had he entered the campus, the dilapidated school building depicted a picture of archaeological remains of a building of antiquity. No doors, no win dows that is the condition of most of the HEC school buildings. One wonders as to what will become of the future of those about 4,000 boys and girls studying in them.
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| HEC school teachers no better than ayahs |
(The Sunday Observer) (July 11, 1990) |
Osama Manzar
How strange it sounds that the financial status of the HEC school teachers is no better than an ayah or a mazdoor working in the same school.
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| LOOTING OF TWO WHEELERS ON RISE IN HEC AREA |
(The Sunday Observer) (July 09, 1990) |
Osama Manzar
The daylight looting of two wheeler has been vary frequent in the HEC area. People are apprehensive of the growing incidents of the loot of mo bikes.
An HEC school vice-principal, Bindeshwar Chowdbary 45, became the latest victim of scooter snatching.
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| PROBLEMS THAT PLAGUE HEC PEOPLE |
(The Sunday Observer) (July 03, 1990) |
Osama Maasar
People of the IEC area seem to have reconciled to the day-to-day problems like, irregular water and electrically supply, choked drains, seepage accumulated garbage mounds and what nt. The cavelier attitude of the HEC. Town and Administration Department has only made the residents, also indifferent to the problems that they endure without a word of complaint.
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| Light the light Aesthetically |
(The Sunday Observer) (December 6-12, 1992) |
By Osama Manzar
Apart from being a philosophic word, the light, has now entered into the world of art. Where, light, apart from the agency by which objects are rendered visible, matter more that how the objects are being rendered visible. How artistically, how ethnically, how traditionally, how mechanically and ofcourse how economically the objects get the light. In a way that it should have less input and more output, no side effect whatsoever and hardly there should be any complain.
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| MIGHTY RHINO FACES DOOM |
(The Sunday Observer) (August 17, 1992) |
By Osama Manzar
Will the great Indian rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) follow the path of its extinct predecessors i.e. the dinosaur and the dodo? Going by the odious shadow of poachers and turbulent water of the Brahmaputra river, this appears imminent.
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