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Nikki Yadav murder case: Victim’s family planning to write to PM for justice

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Jhajjar: The family members and supporters of Nikki Yadav, who was allegedly murdered by her purported husband Sahil Gehlot, so he could marry again, are planning to write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that the accused be tried in a fast track court and receive stern punishment.
“We, along with 36 other communities, will jointly write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demand the case be moved to fast track court,” Yadav Samaj district chief Virendra Yadav, commonly known as ‘Daroga’ in the area, said.
Daroga said that in coming days they will hold a meeting with the members of Yadav community and decide their further course of action. “We are also planning a candle march to pay our respects to the deceased Nikki,” he said.
“We want the case to be fast track and Daroga from our community is planning to write a letter to the PM. My fight will continue till the accused is hanged till death,” said Nikki’s father Sunil Yadav, in his house at village Kheri Khummar, two km away from Haryana’s Jhajjar city and 144 km from Delhi.
Daroga said that there is extreme anger among the villagers and community members over the brutal murder of Nikki Yadav. “She should be given justice and the only way to give justice is if the case is heard in a fast track court and the culprit gets capital punishment,” he said.
Days after it was believed that Nikki and Gehlot were both live-in partners, the accused interrogation had revealed that the couple had actually tied a knot at an Arya Samaj temple in nearby Greater Noida in October 2020.
Nikki Yadav’s body was found in a fridge at dhaba, owned by Gehlot, in Mitraon village, outskirts of Delhi on Valentine’s Day (February 14). He had allegedly killed her on February 10 and gone on to marry another woman on the same day.
Police have also arrested Gehlot’s father, his two cousins Ashish and Naveen (a constable in Delhi Police) and two friends, Amar and Lokesh, for hatching a conspiracy to get rid of Nikki and go ahead with the wedding with another girl.

The interrogation of Gehlot revealed that he had earlier planned to push her out of a moving car and show her death as an accident.
As his plan could not work out, he then strangled her with a charging data cable in the car at Nigambodh Ghat parking and then stuffed her body inside the fridge in his dhaba.
Meanwhile, Nikki’s family members said that the murder of their daughter was not done in fit of rage but was a pre-planned conspiracy and so far they are completely satisfied with the ongoing Delhi Police’s Crime Branch investigation.
“As we see the circumstances of the murder, from no possible way it was the result of sudden outrage. They had planned it and Gehlot went to Bindapur flat with the intention to kill her. Everybody who is involved in the murder should be given a death sentence,” Parveen Yadav, Nikki’s uncle, said.
Nikki’s uncle is a Kargil war veteran and had even lost a part of his right arm during the war.
Nikki’s father, who runs an automobile business in Gurugram had shifted back to their house in the village from Dwarka in 2020 after Nikki’s grandfather Ramkishan asked them to, however, Nikki continued her studies in Delhi, said a relative.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 22, 2023
Doctor’s dilemma: To practice or write

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Hyderabad: The general perception about doctors is that their writing skills are confined to just scrawling illegible prescriptions. That’s true to a large part. However, the more enthusiastic among them indulge in health related articles or write for science magazines. But there are some who buck the trend and give even professional writers a run for their money.
There are many doctors who are accomplished writers too. Remember Robin Cook who churned out medical thrillers by the dozen. Or for that matter Somerset Maugham known for his plays, novels and short stories. He once remarked that there is no better training for a writer than to spend some years in the medical profession. One can’t forget the celebrated ophthalmologist, Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the character of legendary Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. There are many more doctors who have made it big as writers in different languages – not just English.
Closer home the Osmania University has produced a good number of doctor-writers, a fact not many know. The varsity which successfully experimented with Urdu as a medium of instruction imparted even medical education in Urdu. Former Chief Minister, Dr. M. Chenna Reddy, is among the celebrities who did his MBBS in Urdu. No wonder some Osmanians of yore were bitten by the Urdu bug and later turned out to be good Urdu writers. Some like Dr. Abid Moiz have even made writing a second career.
“Those days the MBBS degree certificates were given in Urdu language along with English. Some doctors even had their signboards and letterheads in Urdu,” he says.
Dr. Moiz has made a mark as a mizahiya nigar (humourist) and a science writer in Urdu. Now he has come up with a unique book which throws light on the Osmanian doctors who have contributed a lot for Urdu language and literature. The book – Jamia Osmania Ke Urdu Zaban wo Adab Parvar Doctors – lists 12 well known physicians and their contribution to Urdu literature. He has made painstaking efforts to ferret out information about some of the doctors whose works are all but lost. This is perhaps the first such book which brings out the writer among physicians. He intends to include some more doctor-writers in the second edition. The book also lists the experiences and impressions of seniors like Dr. P. Pentiah, Dr. Syed Kazim Husain and Dr. Syed Abdul Manan.
Well you have heard about doctors such as Raghunandan Raj Sexena, Raj Bahadur Gour, Taher Qureshi, Abul Hasan Siddiqui, Majid Qazi, Shyam Sunder Prasad, Sikandar Husain, Taqi Abedi, Sayeed Nawaz. But what many are not aware of is that these doctors are as good with their pens as with their stethoscopes. For them medicine is their lawful wife and literature a mistress. Today they are remembered more for their penmanship than medical credentials.
The book presents a good sketch of Dr. Taqi Abedi who is obsessed with Urdu literature. He loves to introduce himself as peshe se tabeeb, Urdu ka vakeel and adab ka mareez (doctor by profession, an advocate of Urdu with a weakness for literature). This Hyderabad-born Canadian physician is a poet, critic, author — all rolled into one.
What makes health professionals good writers? Well, it’s their sense of keen observation. Day in and day out they see life and death up close and spend time listening to stories of patients. So all the elements that make for a good story are readily available for them – disease, death, suffering and poignant images. All they need to do is to put them in words. “Writing helps doctors to unburden things that bother them in a more productive way,” says Dr. Moiz who laces his stories with dollops of humour and satire.
All in all Dr. Moiz’s book makes for an interesting read. It gives a rare peek into the sensitive nature of doctors. More importantly it tells why practicing physicians engage in creative writing – not for applause but for a cause.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 21, 2023
John Finnemore to write Cain’s Jawbone murder-mystery sequel

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A sequel to Cain’s Jawbone, a literary puzzle that has only been solved by a handful of people in the almost 90 years since it was published, is to be released.
Cain’s Jawbone is a murder mystery in which six people die, and was written by Edward Powys Mathers, known as Torquemada, who was the Observer’s cryptic crossword compiler at the time of the book’s release in 1934.
The mystery, originally published as part of The Torquemada Puzzle Book, can only be solved if readers rearrange its 100 pages in the correct order. It became a literary phenomenon after book fans on TikTok discovered it.
Tiktoker Sarah Scannell shares her puzzle quest. Photograph: @saruuuuuuugh/ TikTok
Since its publication, the puzzle has been solved by a small group of people and only four of them have been publicly identified; the most recent was British comedy writer and the creator of BBC Radio 4’s Cabin Pressure, John Finnemore, who figured out the solution when the book was rereleased in hardback by crowdfunding publisher Unbound in 2019.
Finnemore has now written an official sequel to Cain’s Jawbone, which will be published by Unbound next year. Currently known as Untitled Mystery, the title will be revealed to those who pledge during the crowdfunding campaign. A locked room mystery, Finnemore’s new whodunnit hinges on a person found stabbed to death in the study of a complete stranger. The room was securely locked from the inside, but no weapon – or murderer – has ever been found, and the police investigation discovered no credible suspects or likely motive.
Edward Powys Mathers AKA Torquemada. Photograph: Unbound
The murderer keeps, safely locked in a drawer, a box of 100 picture postcards. If arranged in the correct order and properly understood, these postcards will explain the murder in the study, and nine others that took place the same year. Readers need to re-order the postcards, one side of which features text, the other an image which is also a clue, in sequence to correctly solve and explain the 10 murders.
In a blog about Untitled Mystery, Finnemore said: “The picture side puzzles allow me to do two things: firstly, compensate for the arrival of the internet since 1934. You may now be able to Google an obscure Walt Whitman quotation, but you can’t Google ‘How on earth is this picture of a tree a puzzle?’
“Secondly, if Cain’s Jawbone had a flaw (which I don’t admit) it’s that it’s a little off-putting and seemingly impenetrable until you make a certain breakthrough. I think a lot of people had a brief look, thought ‘Well, that’s impossible’ and gave up. I certainly did, before lockdown came along and invited me to have another go. So the picture puzzles – which are also, to be clear, ridiculously difficult – give the solver something they can immediately get their teeth into, while they’re grappling with the madness on the other side.”

Untitled Mystery teaser cover.
The crowdfunding campaign for Untitled Mystery has already been supported by 580 people, in just five days. Cain’s Jawbone has now sold 500,000 copies of its English-language paperback, according to publisher Unbound, and is a bestseller in six other countries.
John Mitchinson, publisher and co-founder of Unbound, tells me that he could not “have predicted quite how enthusiastically readers and puzzlers all over the world would embrace Cain’s Jawbone”. And that there is no one better than Finnemore, “to lay down an even more absurdly difficult challenge”.
“Not only does Untitled Mystery offer us 100 pages to re-order but also 100 images to decipher for further clues,” he continues. “It is entirely in keeping with the spirit of this project that he won’t even tell us its real title.”
Two people solved Cain’s Jawbone shortly after the novel’s publication – Mr S Sydney-Turner and Mr WS Kennedy – winning £25 each. When a copy of The Torquemada Puzzle Book was presented to the Laurence Sterne Trust in the late 2010s, Patrick Wildgust, curator at the trust’s home Shandy Hall, set out to solve it. Once he’d done so, Unbound reissued the title with a £1,000 prize to anyone who could solve it within a year; Finnemore was the only person to do so.
The Torquemada Puzzle Book.
Unbound launched a second phase of the competition with the publication of the paperback edition in February 2021. An undisclosed number of people managed to solve the puzzle by the end of 2022, although Unbound has decided to keep entries open for another year. Those who got the puzzle right have been invited to be founder members of The Cain’s Jawbone Club. The club is only open to those who have officially solved the puzzle, who will receive a certificate and a badge which carries a symbol that will only be meaningful to solvers. They will also be invited to a one-day conference this summer at Shandy Hall.
Last year Unbound partnered with AI platform Zindi to challenge people to use artificial intelligence to solve Cain’s Jawbone. They gave people 75 pages of the novel and asked them to put them in the correct order using natural language processing algorithms. Natural language processing is a branch of AI that looks at the interactions between computers and human language. No one was able to accurately place all 75 pages in order. Zindi data scientist Amy Bray says this was partly because the algorithms “are trained on recent works so there is the hiccup that they probably wouldn’t work as well on language from the 1930s.
“There were also items only humans would have understood, such as the shortening of names,” she says. “This made for a tricky machine-learning challenge but left me feeling reassured. Applying machine learning to one of the hardest problems, you still needed human intervention to get it over the line.”
For those who find it impossible – with or without AI – Unbound is planning an official Cain’s Jawbone Handbook, which will offer a step-by-step guide to solving the puzzle, due to be released in late 2024 or early 2025.
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )

February 15, 2023
MP: Miscreants torch church, write Ram on walls; search on for culprits

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Narmadapuram: A church was torched and defiled by unidentified persons in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district, police said on Monday.
The incident came to light on Sunday when some people went to the church, located in the Chaukipura area which has a considerable tribal population, to offer prayers.
A case has been registered against unidentified persons and efforts are on to trace the culprits, Itarsi sub-divisional officer of police (SDOP) Mahendra Singh Chauhan told PTI over the phone.
According to an initial investigation, the vandals entered the place of worship, built around five years ago and located 40 km from the district headquarters, by removing a window net and burning it from inside, the official said.
Some religious texts and other items including furniture were also destroyed in the fire, the official said quoting a complaint filed in connection with the incident.
When some people went to the church on Sunday to offer prayers, they found it burnt and its inside wall having the word “Ram” inscribed on it, local devotee Denis Jonathan claimed while talking to PTI.
The church, located in Sukhtawa village of Kesala block, was connected to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, he said.
SDOP Chauhan said teams have been formed to identify and nab the vandals and a case has been registered under Indian Penal Code Section 295 (Injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class). To a query, the police official denied any tension in Chaukipura area following the incident.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 13, 2023
62% of Indians want ChatGPT to write love letters this Valentine’s

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New Delhi: Around 62 per cent of Indians who were surveyed are planning to use the AI chatbot ChatGPT to help write their love letters this Valentine’s Day, the highest out of all the countries surveyed, with 73 per cent also using AI to boost their dating profiles, a report showed on Thursday.
With ChatGPT starting to infiltrate every aspect of our daily lives, 78 per cent of Indians surveyed were also unable to spot the difference between a love letter written by the AI chatbot and the one written by a human, according to the report by cyber-security company McAfee.
The vast majority (60 per cent) of Indian respondents preferred a machine-generated love note.
The most popular reason given for using AI as a ghost-writer was that it would make the sender feel more confident (59 per cent), others cited lack of time (32 per cent) or lack of inspiration (26 per cent), while 14 per cent said it would just be quicker and easier, believing they would not be found out.
However, 57 per cent of respondents said they would be offended if they found out the note they had received was produced by a machine.
“With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s important to stay vigilant and use security solutions that can help safeguard your privacy and identity and protect you from clicking on malicious links a scammer might send,” said Steve Grobman, McAfee Chief Technology Officer.
“It is easy to drop your guard when chatting to a potential partner but it’s important to be on alert if you’re asked suspicious requests for money or personal information,” Grobman added.
With the rise in popularity of artificial intelligence, particularly tools such as ChatGPT that anybody with a web browser can access, the chances of receiving machine-generated information are on the rise.

In fact, 76 per cent of Indians admit to being catfished — which is when somebody pretends to be someone they’re not online — or knowing somebody who has.
Additionally, 89 per cent of Indian respondents have engaged in direct conversations with strangers on social media across platforms, compared to 66 per cent globally.
“Those looking for love are often more vulnerable to scams, and cybercriminals use that to their advantage, engaging in long, sophisticated attempts to steal from their victims,” said the report.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 9, 2023
‘Find it difficult to write’: Salman Rushdie speaks out after attack Salman Rushdie

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London: Months after a near-lethal attack that left him debilitated and without vision in one eye, Sir Salman Rushdie says that he is “lucky” and has been told that he is “doing very well”. But he still finds it difficult to type or write.
I was “lucky … my main overwhelming feeling is gratitude. I’ve been better. But, considering what happened, I’m not so bad,” he said in an interview with journalist-author David Remnick in ‘The New Yorker’, the BBC reported.
The award-winning novelist was attacked on stage at an event in New York state last August and spent many weeks in hospital. He subsequently lost vision in one eye.
“The big injuries are healed, essentially. I have feeling in my thumb and index finger and in the bottom half of the palm. I’m doing a lot of hand therapy, and I’m told that I’m doing very well,” he said.
Rushdie said it was difficult to type and to write due to a lack of feeling in some of his fingertips. He also said that he has barely been out since the attack, other than to go for hospital appointments.
“I’m able to get up and walk around. When I say I’m fine, I mean, there are bits of my body that need constant check-ups. It was a colossal attack,” Rushdie said.
He said he also has mental scars from the attack and that he is having to rethink his approach to security. Rushdie has lived without security for more than two decades.
“There is such a thing as PTSD, you know,” he said. “I’ve found it very, very difficult to write. I sit down to write, and nothing happens. I write, but it’s a combination of blankness and junk, stuff that I write and that I delete the next day. I’m not out of that forest yet, really.”

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 6, 2023