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Shiv Sena Trains Guns On Mosques, Seeks Ban On Loudspeakers

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Mumbai, India (AHN) – India’s right wing regional political party, Shiv Sena, has voiced its concern over Muslim loudspeakers, kept atop mosques. The loudspeakers are used as means to communicate with Muslim devotees who live in the vicinity, but cannot come to the mosque for their daily prayers.

The move comes after police registered a noise complaint against Shiv Sena’s Dussehr rally. Now, Shiv Sena’s publication “Sammana” has asked the government to take action against the mosque loudspeakers.

An editorial, published in Saamana, wrote, “Loudspeakers blaring out ‘azaan’ atop mosques in Bhendi Bazar and Behrampada areas disturb sleep and studies of children. Action should be taken against them also.” Azaan is the Muslim call for prayer while Bhendi Bazar and Behrampada are two Muslim-dominated localities in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

It is the Maharashtra State Police’s Dadar police station that has booked the party for going against the Bombay High Court ruling asking the party to go ahead with its annual rally at Shivaji Park (a silence zone), provided its speakers did not exceed the 50-decibel limit.

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Inspired By Do Dooni Chaar, Sachin Tendulkar Wishes To Act

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Mumbai, India (AHN) – A recently-released Hindi film about a middle class family’s struggle to live a better life has inspired cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar to seriously consider acting in films as an alternative career.

Sachin, who triumphed yet again with his 49th Test century in Bangalore recently, approached acclaimed Bollywood filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a request for a screening of “Do Dooni Chaar” for his family and close friends. Chopra, who himself is very impressed with this debut work of director Habib Faisal, promptly arranged a screening of the film in Mumbai, where Sachin, his wife Anjali and close friends enjoyed the light and frothy film.

In fact, so overwhelmed was Sachin after watching the movie that he even expressed his desire to work with Faisal whenever the opportunity arises.

Do Dooni Chaar, which means “Two Two Are Four,” is a working class comedy about the travails of a family of four. The father is a mathematics teacher with limited means while his wife and children dream of a better life, replete with all amenities, including a car.

It is this dream to own a car that drives the teacher to extreme means in order to realize his family’s ambition.

If Faisal’s views are anything to go by, it is the middle class ethos of the film, which inspired the cricketer’s wish to act. Says Faisal, “Sachin did express a wish to relax with my film after his triumph last week. Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a good friend of Tendulkar’s. And luckily for us, Vinod too loved Do Dooni Chaar.”

He further said that the cricketer seemed to have connected to the film because he is still grounded in his middle class roots despite having become a cricketing icon himself.

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Tips to prepare your kid for first school

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If your child is 2+ and if you are planning to send her to a playschool, here are some useful tips for their preparation to make their journey comfortable. School is totally a new environment for kids as they meet new people and make new friends. Changing the atmosphere at home to resemble that at playschool before they start going, will help children in adjusting well in their first school. Getting used to school depends upon the toddler’s nature too. Some take just one day and some a month’s time.

 

 1)      Talk a lot about the school: toys, games, children, teacher, outdoor games: Create an enthusiasm in the kid for the school by telling her about the playschool. Visit the school and make a note of all things that are going to amuse your kid. Let your kid know about the toys, colorful pictures, see-saw or slides that are available at the school.

2)     Show her school going kids: Introduce her to some elder kids who go to school. You are lucky if you know children going to the same playschool. Let them talk to your kid about the excitement they have at school.

3)    Introduce them to books: Buy colorful board books and make them acquainted with pictures of animals, birds, vegetables, fruits and alphabets. They will be interested to find the same in playschool too.

4)    Create a routine and change their timings: Children should be made to change their routine at home according to school timings at least fifteen days before they start going to school. Wake them at a time suitable for going to school at the right time. Change their diet timings according to the lunch or snack timings at school. Sudden changes in timings of rest and food will add to their initial resistance to school.

5)   Play CDs: Children usually at playschools are taught rhymes etc by playing different animated CDs. As children love animations, play some CDs at home and tell them that they can have more of them at school.

6)  Visit the school a few times with your kid: Take her with you to the school a few times before her first day to school. Make her acquainted with the teachers, so that she does not find them as strangers on the first day.

7) Leave them at someone’s place: Try to leave them at a friends’ or relative’s place for a few hours for a few days so that she gets used to staying without you. She will know that you will be back in school after sometime. This will decrease separation anxiety.

8)  Try different food items: Make her taste different items and varieties and see what she likes best. In this way you can be prepared for making arrangements for their tiffin box.

9)  Buy new items for school: Take her for shopping and buy all new things like bag, shoes, tiffin box and water bottle and tell them they can use them on their first day to school.

10) Be with her on the first day: Many playschools allow parents to stay with their kids on the first day. You can spend some time with her and show her the toys, outdoor games and introduce her to other kids in the school.

 

What ever the preparation may be, children do cry on their first day to school. After all, they are being left at a place full of strangers when only you mean the world to them. It is a common site to see mothers shedding tears after sending their child on the first day to playschool. This is all about “letting go” thing. Fine with it, just do not show your emotions to your kid. Remember that it is only a temporary phase. 

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