Kolkata - The Statesman 12TH AUGUST 2020 Page 7 PDF
Kolkata - The Statesman 12TH AUGUST 2020 Page 7 PDF
Kolkata - The Statesman 12TH AUGUST 2020 Page 7 PDF
T
hese difficult pandemic months
T
he devastating explosion in screens through the 1970s and the sacre but he faced no penalties apart and though they dislodged the Pales- or less vertical railcar up to where the Maharajadhiraj visited the “Dacca
Beirut last week that bloodied destruction brought upon the city by from having to step down as defence tinians from there, there was a huge 650m above the sea is gigantic statue Sevasram” and the Ramkrishna Mission.
the beautiful Lebanese capital the Israeli invasion in 1982 and the minister. In fact, he later rose to the undesired consequence. of Virgin Mary as she stands, head
yet again, inflicting a tragic loss
of over 150 lives, injuries to some 3,000
massacre by Phalangist militiamen in
the Palestinian refugee camps of
highest office in Israel and continued
with his efforts to exterminate the
A breakway faction of the Shia
Amal militia formed the militant
dipped to a side, surveying the city.
We took a break at a restaurant with
TEA ESTATE
people and billions of dollars’ worth of
damage to the infrastructure, was
Sabra and Shatila in 1983.
I remember vividly a Yasser Arafat
Palestinians.
Lebanon’s delicate power bal-
group Hezbollah which sought both
spiritual and material support from
stunning city-sea views.
Here as my parents sipped coffee
SHOOTING CASE
heartbreaking. clip where he is being interviewed in a ance, representing its population mix Iran or Iranian ally, Syria, in the neigh- we saw a sommelier pour alcohol Silchar, Aug 11
Even by battered Beirut’s stan- sandbagged position as Israeli rock- with a powerful Maronite president, bourhood. It is one of the few forces from different coloured bottles in two In connection with the Khoreal shoot-
dards this must have been the most ets are flying overhead before slam- a Sunni prime minister and a Shia in the region that have held their own thin glasses for a well-heeled couple. ing case, in which the Deputy Commis-
significant single-day damage inflict- ming into civilian areas, and he points speaker put in place after the French against the Israeli Defence Forces and For a 12-year-old it was no less than sioner of Silchar acquitted Mr. Reed,
ed on the unfortunate city that has to the sky and says with great irony in occupation forces left in 1946, was forced the latter to end its occupation magical that the different colours Assistant Manager of the Khoreal Tea
survived civil wars, Western occupa- his voice: “And they call us terrorists?” coming under immense pressure with of south Lebanon. seemed to form horizontal stripes in Estate in Cachar, of the charge of shoot-
tion, Israeli invasion, air attacks and The following year, once the Ariel the influx of Palestinian refugees after However, much before, in late the glass and did not mix. ing dead a coolie. A memorial was sub-
massacres over the years. Sharon-led Israeli military lifted its the 1967 Arab-Israel war. October 1971, when I accompanied From those serene images to an mitted to the Chief Commissioner of
Videos shot by citizens from their siege of the two Palestinian refugee The war, which saw Israel capture my parents on a road trip that took us explosion that caused widespread Assam on behalf of Taramani, the wife of
flats at different distances from the camps, which had been enforced to the West Bank and other Arab/Pales- from Pakistan to Lebanon via devastation in one of the most beauti- the deceased. In that memorial the
port left no doubt about how this enable the Phalange gunmen to run tinian territories, saw the large-scale Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria, the ful cities in the world will never be applicant prayed for an appeal against
stockpile of ammonium nitrate was a amok unchallenged and kill up to expulsion of Palestinians including young mind of a school-age boy could easy to reconcile to. But then this the order of acquittal. The Deputy Com-
disaster waiting to happen because it 3,500, mostly, unarmed Palestinian PLO fighters, many of whom relocat- see none of the undercurrents. world never ceases to shock and missioner of Cachar today served a
had not been removed from the port (and Shia) men, women and children, ed to Jordan. They launched attacks All I remember to this day is the shake you endlessly. notice on Taramani, informing her that
and disposed of, even after seven years the soul-destroying images started to on Israel and King Hussein did not sheer, natural beauty of Lebanon and the Chief Commissioner of Assam is
of having been confiscated from a ship. reach the outside world. approve of this because he feared the jewel in its crown, Beirut. I recall Dawn/ANN. willing to hear arguments of her pleader
regarding the shooting case. Taramani
is directed to intimate by the 13th
CROSSWORD NO 28041 instant if she is willing to engage any
pleader to argue the case, and, if so,
which place is preferred.
ACROSS 22 Fetching last of quail eggs half 6 Groucho finally put on Zeppo's coat
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION 1 Weeps, dropping back in to
doctors (6)
edible (7)
24 What a concert venue might have
with the essence of manic energy
it's a gas (5) PRESS STRIKE
4 Cummings on COVID's return,
embodying King Henry VIII,
to give up (7)
26 It's painful below (10,5)
27 Artist starts to draw in a tiny,
7
8
Curious, hip career unconvincing
beard? (5,4)
Writer eagles on the smallest golf
ENDED
perhaps (8)
10 Barely any road cycling before a
overcrowded room it heats up (8) course (6,9) Bombay, Aug 11
28 Staunch Republican in office (6) 9 Bags containing last of autumn's The strike which commenced nearly
drink spill each one (1,4,2,3,5)
nuts, perhaps (6)
11 Vegas trickster's entertaining a DOWN 14 Support director covering Elvis' All two months ago at the Times of India
sort of band (7) Press came to an end today. For some
1 Cross lecturer had dug out some Shook Up for broadcast (9)
12 Rubbish former tennis player visits
America (7)
insulation (7,8) 16 It's not about weight (3) time it has been evident that the strike
2 Occasionally Doug breeds 17 Hesitate as I pick up fish, wrapped was broken. A large number of new
13 Come to finger gangster (5)
monsters (5) in bacon, say (4,1,4)
15 Business degree for learner during
3 Stupid PPI call cut short without 19 Herb, duck and orange cooked (7) employees who were engaged enabled
a secret procedure it'll make you the work to be continued, and many of
salesman looking up one might go 20 Nurse don't open camel coat (6)
sweat (5,4)
18 Axes chop and sharpen instrument
over documents (5,4) 23 What lives and grows in a region the men on strike have been returning
5 One with common sense bottling from Africa to Iberia keeled over (5) to work independently of their leaders.
... (9)
hydrogen to begin with 25 Baked bread hamper (5)
21 ... good man suspect's axe stroke (5)
engineer's not outsourced (2-5) This morning the general body of the
men offered themselves for re-employ-
ment unconditionally. Some were told
NOTE: Figures in parentheses denote the number of letters in the words required. (By arrangement with The Independent, London)
their places had been filled, but most of
them were again taken on.
CMYK