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Indian arts exhibited in HCM City

July 2, 2012

LookAtVietnam – Twenty-nine paintings by 14 famous Indian artists are exhibited at the Ho Chi Minh City Art Museum.

The opening ceremony.

The exhibition “Kalpana – The Indian contemporary plastic works,” opened on June 29. Many Vietnamese painters and visitors attended the opening ceremony.
The event is co-organized by the Indian Consulate General in HCM City and the HCM City Art Museum to celebrate 40 years of Vietnam-India diplomatic relations.
With well-known painters such as Jamini Ray, Amrita Shergil and Maqbool Fida Husain, the exhibition brings Vietnamese art enthusiasts a blend of traditional and modern art.

Vietnamese painters at the exhibition.

These paintings are copy versions, drawing on the fabric material selected by reputable Indian artist, Anjolie Ela Menon. They reflect Indian art’s break away from the colonialist embrace to enter a new era of artistic expression, recognized and applauded worldwide.
The exhibition introduces visitors to the interference between classic and modern view of Indian artists.
Kalpana in Hindi language means “imagination.” Through colors, Indian artists also take visitors to the world of Indian street art, traditional toys, Hindu epics, Islamic decorations and people’s daily activities in small towns of India.
Director of the HCM City Arts Museum, Ms. Ma Thanh Cao, said that this is the first large-sized and high-quality exhibition to honor Indian artists in HCM City.
The exhibition will run until July 6.
Indian paintings at the exhibition:

Three women by Jogen Choudhury (1939).
“Ek Nayani” by Ramachandran (1935).

“Noon 2” by Anjolie Ela Menon.

“Baticalao” by Anjolie Ela Menon (1940).

“Mother and child ” by Jamini Roy (1887-1972).

“Brahmacharis” by Amrita Shergil (1913-1941).

“Verandah 2″ by K.G. Subramanyan.

“Embroiderer” by Arpana Caur (1954).

“Who are they” by Khrishen Khanna.

“Woman with a cat” by Manjit Bawa (1941-2009).

“Bright green sari” by Jogen Choudhury (1939).

“Diagonal” by Tyeb Mehta (1925).

“No name” by Manjit Bawa (1921-2009).

“Dharti” by Arpana Caur (1954).

“Malva night” by K.G. Subramanyan (1924).

“Bandwalla is practicing” by Krishen Khanna (1925).

“Make-up for bride” by Amrita Shergil.

“No name” by Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003).

“The head” by F.N.Souza (1924-1999).

“Jesus Christ is crucified” by Jamini Roy (1887-1972).

“A farmer family” by M.F. Husain (1915).

“Thorn crown” by F.N.Souza (1924-1999).

Compiled by P. Lan

India says oil, gas cooperation with Vietnam in the East Sea will continue | Look At Vietnam

India says oil, gas cooperation with Vietnam in the East Sea will continue 

April 17, 2012

An Vietnamese oil rig in the East Sea

An Indian official has reiterated that India will not step back in face of China’s warnings against its collaboration with Vietnam in exploring oil and gas in the East Sea, the Vietnam News Agency reported Friday.
The East Sea is the world’s property, and no one has right to control it unilaterally, the report quoted Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Planning Ashwani Kumar as saying.
India is fully capable of protecting its financial interests and national strategies, he said.
Earlier, on April 6, Indian External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna made the same statement about the East Sea, saying that trade-ways must be free of any national interference, the news agency reported

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Last September China warned Indian companies against entering oil and gas agreement with Vietnam in the East Sea, after learning that India planned a project to explore oil in two blocks offshore Vietnam.
In October, Vietnam and India signed an agreement on expanding oil exploration and production in the sea.
Recently China made the same objection after the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) signed an pact with the Russian energy giant Gazprom to set up a partnership to explore gas in the East Sea on April 5.
In response to China’s comment, Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi on Thursday said all the oil and gas projects that Vietnam is cooperating with foreign partners on are within the country’s sovereign territories and in accordance with international laws.

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Indian sailors flood into Saigon

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May 15, 2011 about Social

This week, nearly 500 Indian sailors flooded into Saigon during a four-day friendly Port Call.
Sailors in pressed white uniforms could be seen everywhere, on city sidewalks and parks, taking in the town.
In the midst of the visit, the crew took time to welcome members of Saigon society aboard.
On May 10, Rear Admiral HCS Bisht (Flag Officer of the Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet) hosted a dinner reception on the rear deck of the INS Delhi.
Far from the ship’s imposing military batteries, Vietnamese military officials, Ho Chi Minh City diplomats and other invited-guests dined on curry and puris under orange striped tents.
The Navy band provided a full-evening of Bhangra, costumed qawwali and Bollyood melodies.
Captain Srikant, a thin, avuncular commanding officer of the INS Dehli worked the deck with rare charm, offering his guests a warm handshake and a glass of Indian rum.
He referred to the piquant beverage as “Indian diplomacy.”
And it seemed to work. Guests remained onboard until 10 p.m., after which members of the crew cleared the deck and set out for a night on the town.
The following evening, Cmdr. Vikas Datta, the ship’s highest-ranking flight officer, expressed his gratitude after a full day out in town.
“Saigon is warm and welcoming—a great city with lots of history and a super place to visit,” he said. “The hospitality shown to the Indian Navy is much appreciated.”

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70 years without eating? 'Starving yogi' says it's true

Prahlad Jani, an 82-year-old Indian yogi, is making headlines by claims that for the past 70 years he has had nothing -- not one calorie -- to eat and not one drop of liquid to drink. To test his claims, Indian military doctors put him under round-the-clock observation during a two-week hospital stay that ended last week, news reports say. During that time he didn’t ingest any food or water – and remained perfectly healthy, the researchers said.

But that’s simply impossible, said Dr. Michael Van Rooyen an emergency physician at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate professor at the medical school, and the director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative – which focuses on aid to displaced populations who lack food and water.

Van Rooyen says that depending on climate conditions like temperature and humidity, a human could survive five or six days without water, maybe a day or two longer in extraordinary circumstances. We can go much longer without food – even up to three months if that person is taking liquids fortified with vitamins and electrolytes.

Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican convicted of firearms possession and imprisoned by the British, died in 1981 on the 66th day of his hunger strike. Gandhi was also known to go long stretches without food, including a 21-day hunger strike in 1932.

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Prahlad Jani was studied for two weeks.

Jani, dubbed "the starving yogi" by some, did have limited contact with water while gargling and periodically bathing, reported the news wire service AFP. While researchers said they measured what he spit out, Van Rooyen said he's clearly getting fluid somehow.

"You can hold a lot of water in those yogi beards. A sneaky yogi for certain," he said. "He MUST take in water. The human body cannot survive without it." The effects of food and water deprivation are profound, Van Rooyen explained. “Ultimately, instead of metabolizing sugar and glycogen [the body’s energy sources] you start to metabolize fat and then cause muscle breakdown. Without food, your body chemistry changes. Profoundly malnourished people autodigest, they consume their own body’s resources. You get liver failure, tachycardia, heart strain. You fall apart.”

The yogi, though, would already be dead from lack of hydration. If he really went without any liquids at all, his cardiovascular system would have collapsed. “You lose about a liter or two of water per day just by breathing,” Van Rooyen said. You don’t have to sweat, which the yogi claims he never does. That water loss results in thicker blood and a drop in blood pressure.

“You go from being a grape to a raisin,” Van Rooyen said and if you didn’t have a heart attack first, you’d die of kidney failure.

Monsoon forecast for 7 south Asian countries/end of April

PUNE: This year's monsoon forecast will have a special dimension as the India Meteorology Department (IMD) here is set to do forecasting for the entire south Asia region for the first time.

The IMD, in association with organisations like the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pashan, and Switzerland-based World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), will forecast the performance of the south-west monsoon for seven south Asian countries.

"The special initiative for regional forecast has been undertaken for the first time," said A K Srivastava, National Climate Centre, IMD. "This forecast will be known as consensus-based forecast and is expected to be released at the end of April," he added.

According to IMD officials, the South Asian Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF), a special group set up for capacity building in monsoon forecasting in south Asian countries, will be instrumental in co-ordinating the forecast.

The first meeting of this initiative, called SASCOF-1, will be hosted by the IMD in Pune from April 13. Experts from the SASCOF member countries Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will attend the meet besides several regional and global experts. The WMO is supporting this initiative through its Climate Information and Prediction Services.

"The WMO has agreed to assist in co-ordination of SASCOF sessions until a permanent arrangement is worked out. It has been agreed that the first session of the SASCOF will be held by India and subsequent sessions will be hosted by other participating countries by rotation," said Shrivastava, who is co-ordinating the initiative from Pune.

He said, "The SASCOF will initially have exclusive focus on the summer monsoon. The needs for covering other aspects of the sub-regional climate will be addressed in due course."

The forum includes appraisal of country perspectives, assessment of capacity building needs, global and regional indicators, consensus outlook generation and issue and user interaction. Experts from participating countries will receive guidance in using, interpreting and downscaling global seasonal prediction products, and in developing a consensus outlook.

According to weather experts, accurate prediction of south-west monsoon is very crucial for the region. The south-west monsoon (June September) rainfall accounts for 75-90 per cent of the annual rainfall in most of the countries in the region. The rainfall is important for crops that are dependent on monsoon rains. The summer monsoon rainfall is also important for hydroelectric power generation and meeting drinking water requirements.

"Monsoon prediction and outlook is a shared challenge for many South Asian nations due to the lack of expertise and infrastructure. The SASCOF will help deal with these issues," Shrivastava added.

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India claims pirate ship sunk

An Indian warship has exchanged fire with a pirate "mother vessel" off the hijacking-plagued Horn of Africa, leaving the ship ablaze, an official said Wednesday.

A file photo shows the Indian frigate Tabar, which was involved in the skirmish.

Indian naval spokesman Nirad Sinha said: "Given the condition we left it in, it would have sunk by now," he said.
The skirmish took place Tuesday evening about 326 miles (525 kilometers) southwest of Oman's Salalah port when the frigate INS Tabar spotted a suspected pirate ship with two speedboats in tow, India's Defense Ministry reported.
Capt. Pottengal Mukundan, of the International Maritime Bureau, in London said: "The pirates have been operating with impunity in these waters, and it is time now, it is well overdue that we send a signal to the pirates that they cannot conduct these criminal operations without sanction."
The defense ministry said in a written statement: "This vessel was similar in description to the 'Mother Vessel' mentioned in various piracy bulletins."
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Three other vessels have been captured since then in what a London-based maritime official called a "completely unprecedented" situation.
The Saudi owners of a hijacked oil supertanker carrying an oil cargo worth up to $100 million, which pirates Tuesday anchored off the Somali coast, said they were negotiating with its captors.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal said he could not confirm if a ransom had been demanded, but said the owners of the 300,000-ton Sirius Star were "negotiating on the issue," The Associated Press reported.
In its clash with the pirate vessel, the Tabar's crew hailed the ship and demanded it stop for inspection, and the pirates threatened to destroy the Indian ship, the ministry reported.
"Pirates were seen roaming on the upper deck of this vessel with guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. The vessel continued its threatening calls and subsequently fired upon INS Tabar," the ministry said.
The Indian frigate returned fire, setting the pirate ship ablaze and setting off explosions on board, the statement said. Two speedboats in tow behind the ship fled; one was found abandoned after a pursuit by the Tabar.
Michael Howlett, assistant director of the International Maritime Bureau in London, which tracks pirate attacks, said the recent upsurge in activity was unprecedented. "We've never seen a situation like this," he said.
On Tuesday, pirates hijacked a Thai fishing vessel and a Chinese-flagged Iranian cargo ship carrying wheat in the waters off the Horn of Africa.
A third ship -- a Chinese fishing vessel -- was hijacked Saturday, but word did not reach authorities until Tuesday, Howlett said.
Noel Choong, who heads the IMB's Piracy Reporting Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, said 95 pirate attacks have taken place so far this year in the Gulf of Aden.
Of those, 39 resulted in successful captures; 17 of those vessels and their crews -- a total of about 300 sailors -- remain in the hands of the pirates.
But the seizure of the 300,000-ton supertanker Sirius Star took place well south of the gulf, in the Indian Ocean off Kenya.
Pirate attacks are spreading farther north to the Gulf of Aden and farther south off the Kenyan coast, Choong said.
"The risks are low and the returns are extremely high for these pirates," he told CNN. Pirates know that their chances of getting killed or captured during a hijacking are very low, he said.

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