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Foreword by Pranab Mukherjee
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The choice of a successor to Indira Gandhi did not prove difficult. The Congress Parliamentary Board members formally presented their recommendation to the President and Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as the Prime Minister on 31 October 1984. He had already entered politics in June 1981, after the death of Sanjay Gandhi in June 1980, by getting elected to the Lok Sabha from Amethi. In 1983 he had become one of the seven new General Secretaries of the Congress.
Challenge of Terrorism and Fissiparous Tendencies
When Rajiv Gandhi took the reins of Government, the situation was grave. In reaction to Indira Gandhi's assassination by her two Sikh guards, there were nationwide riots against the members of the Sikh community. Nearly 2,800 people were killed in Delhi alone. The first task of Rajiv Gandhi was to quell the riots and restore confidence among the Sikh community. Another crisis that had to be handled was the Bhopal Gas Leak tragedy in which 2,000 people lost their lives and thousands were affected. The next task was to secure a mandate from the electorate.
The general elections to the Lok Sabha were anyhow due in a few months in the normal course. He considered it necessary to hold the elections on schedule as that would help him get the people's mandate also. The elections demonstrated the people's sympathy and love for Indira Gandhi.
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The party under her son's leadership was returned with an unprecedented majority. Of the 543 seats, 415 had been secured by the Congress Party, a record not achieved ever before in its history. This was attributed not only to the 'sympathy wave' but also to the desire on the part of the electorate to ensure unity and integrity of the country.
However, more complex than these was the problem of terrorism in Punjab and Assam on the one hand, and the ethnic issue concerning people of Indian origin in Sri Lanka. Soon after assuming office, he had ordered the release of key Akali leaders in January 1985 who had been detained since the days of Operation Blue Star and lifted the ban on the All India Sikh Students Federation. He ordered an enquiry into the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and elsewhere in November 1984, and soon talks began with Akali leaders in order to find a settlement to the Punjab problem.
In August 1985, he announced a settlement with Shiromoni Akali Dal led by Sant H.S. Longowal according to which the major Akali demands were conceded and others were to be reviewed. The elections were fixed for September 1985. However, Longowal was assassinated on 20 August, the very day he announced that Akalis would take part in the elections. Not long thereafter, the Akali Dal Government led by Barnala got destabilized and had to quit.
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The State was back under the Central rule. Along with this, lawlessness and killings of innocent people escalated. The Punjab problem called for fresh initiatives and Rajiv came out with an action plan. This included "Operation Black Thunder", a smoothly carried out operation to clear the Golden Temple of arms and gunmen. A number of incentives were offered to the state to tackle the problem of terrorists. While all this was a setback to the terrorists the final solution to the problem was to take a few more years.
In the case of Assam too, Rajiv Gandhi succeeded initially in defusing the crisis by reaching an accord with the main warring group on 15 August 1985. Apart from the general grievance of underdevelopment, their agitation was against the influx of illegal Bengali-speaking immigrants who had reduced the Assamese to a minority in their own region. According to this accord, foreigners who had come between 1951 and 1961 were to be given full citizenship, including the right to vote, and those who came between 1961 and 1971 would not have voting rights for 10 years.
Those coming after 1971 would be deported. This put an end to the agitation by the students and cleared the way for elections to the state assembly. The student agitators, under the banner of Assam Gana Parishad, formed the government. However, a series of agitations began in different parts of the country including one in the North-East for Bodoland. The Gorkhas of West Bengal were also agitating for greater degree of independence.
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In Bihar, the Jharkhand agitation started. In Mizoram, there had been insurgency for a number of years under Laldenga and Rajiv Gandhi arrived at an accord to put an end to it. Meanwhile, the unrest in Jammu and Kashmir was assuming serious proportions. In July 1986, the government of G.M. Shah was dismissed and President's rule imposed.
Rajiv Gandhi entered into an alliance with Farooq Abdullah for the assembly elections in 1987. However, Abdullah proved to be ineffective and after that, the secessionist movement became active in the state.
Initiatives in Foreign Policy
The Sri Lankan Tamils issue was another major concern of the Rajiv Gandhi government. In 1983, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils took refuge in Tamil Nadu when the Tamil areas in the north-east of Sri Lanka became the site for heavy repression by the government. The government had ordered the blockade of these areas and when India sent relief supplies, these were turned back by the Sri Lankan navy.
This area was the base for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an organization fighting for Tamil independence from Sri Lanka. After discussions with the Sri Lankan government, an Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement to establish peace and normalcy was signed on 27 July 1987.
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According to this agreement, the Tamil areas would get substantial autonomy, the LTTE would be dissolved and the Indian army would come to the help of Sri Lanka if necessary. The accord was not popular among certain sections of the Sinhalese and the Tamils. The Sinhalese resented the intervention of a foreign army and the Tamils were unhappy with the forced disarming of the LTTE. After signing the accord, Rajiv Gandhi was even attacked with a rifle by one of the sailors at the guard of honour ceremony.
The whole world condemned this heinous attack on him and admired his cool and fortitude amidst grave provocation. The Indian Army agreed to a phased withdrawal from Sri Lanka which began in 1989. On the Western border, Pakistan was not quiet. When Rajiv Gandhi became the Prime Minister the relations between the two countries were marked by a high degree of mutual suspicion. Before he could do anything to repair the strained relations, new fissures developed.
These arose from a routine military exercise carried out by the Indian army in the deserts of Rajasthan after due notice to Pakistan. Pakistan retaliated by stepping up the troop movements on her side of the border not only across Rajasthan but also Punjab. The tension was soon relieved following official level talks and the pull-back of the troops on both the sides.
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It was a few months later that Rajiv Gandhi undertook a visit to Islamabad at the invitation of Pakistan and signed accords with his counterpart Ms. Benazir Bhutto, which envisaged both countries abiding by the Simla Agreement. However, this did not stop Pakistani support to terrorism in Punjab and Kashmir.
He visited China in 1988, being the first PM since Nehru in 1954 to do so. The aim of the visit was to improve trade, extend consular contacts and set up mechanisms to solve long-standing problems. To build good relations with China, India did not condemn the massacre at Tiannanmen Square in June 1989. He also visited the US in 1985 where the US agreed to give India a super-computer for processing weather data.
Rajiv developed a very close relationship with the Soviet leader, Gorbachev. He was very keen on foreign affairs and expended a lot of time on it. Apart from visiting foreign countries, the two main issues which he took up were nuclear disarmament and struggle against apartheid.
As far as disarmament is concerned, he followed in his mother's footsteps by getting governments in different parts of the world to put pressure on the nuclear super-powers to disarm. He shared this passion with Gorbachev.
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In November 1986, on Gorbachev's visit to Delhi, a plan for disarmament was spelt out known as the Delhi Declaration. The Action Plan for Nuclear Disarmament was presented by Rajiv in June 1988 at the UN General Assembly.
According to this plan, all nuclear weapons were to be eliminated by 2010. Rajiv got most of the Commonwealth countries, except the UK, to support him in his struggle against apartheid. He set up the AFRICA (Action for Resisting Invasion, Colonialism and Apartheid) Fund at the Non-Aligned Summit meeting at Harare in 1986. In support of the independence of Namibia, Rajiv Gandhi gave diplomatic recognition to SWAPO, the main nationalist organization and popularized the cause at all international gatherings which he attended.
Rajiv's Vision for the 21st Century
Unconventional and dynamic in his approach, Rajiv Gandhi created quite a stir when he questioned the "vested interests" within the party and called them "power brokers". The occasion for this was the Centenary Celebrations of the Congress Party in Bombay in 1985. He was keen to democratize the party and bring in the youth. Similarly, he was frank to admit that the funds earmarked for development schemes did not reach the targeted groups but gone into the hands of middlemen. He found many shortcomings in the way the state governments implemented the centrally-funded schemes at the grassroots level.
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The strengthening of Panchayati Raj Institutions was a very important objective that Rajiv Gandhi took up on a war footing in order to meet some of the above deficiencies. A National Perspective Plan for Women drafted in 1988 was meant to provide reservation of 30 per cent of seats for women in panchayati raj bodies. He decided to amend the Constitution to provide for direct funding to the local bodies by the Centre instead of having to go through the state governments.
This provoked a lot of criticism and opposition from vested interests. He ultimately failed to get the necessary legislation passed, as in the Rajya Sabha all the opposition parties combined to defeat the relevant Constitutional Amendment Bill. He also initiated the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana to provide employment to at least one member of every poor family in a village for 50-100 days in a year. This concept was to later evolve into the National Employment Guarantee Scheme.
His new education policy was to focus on the rural areas and envisaged model schools in each district under the name of Navodaya Vidyalaya. Like Indira Gandhi before him, Rajiv Gandhi was also acutely aware of the issue of environmental sustainability. A new ministry of environment was created in his time and environmental clearance was made mandatory for all big projects.
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He proposed that a Planet Protection Fund be created. Rajiv Gandhi found it difficult to carry on with some of the members of the old guard. They also found his style of running the party with meticulous professionalism not in tune with their approach. Some senior leaders were removed from the party and a few were replaced by younger persons. In his anxiety to make quick changes, he shuffled and reshuffled his team both in the Party and the Government frequently.
Even some of his colleagues who acted as his main advisers in the early years of his Prime Ministership deserted him, when he refused to toe their dictated line. The promises of reform in the party, which he made in his famous Bombay speech as a corollary to his attack on the "power brokers" in the party, could not be fulfilled. Party elections, long overdue, were put off again and again. But he introduced other measures to deal with the tendency of politicians to cross the floor. The Anti-Defection Act was passed in 1985. He also favoured greater freedom for government media.
Rajiv Gandhi repeatedly reminded the country of the necessity of preparing for the 21st century and took some dramatic steps in that direction. He spearheaded India's computerization programme. He reduced import duties on components and foreign competition was allowed in this sector. He wanted India to participate in the information and communication revolution.
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Every district was to be connected with the Central Government through a computer network. He set up six 'technology missions' which aimed at applying science and technology to six areas which were grossly underdeveloped. These were drinking water, literacy, health of pregnant women and children, milk production, edible oil production and telephonic communication.
Besides stressing the use of modern technology like computers and decentralization of decision-making at the community level, Rajiv Gandhi's government initiated moves for removing controls over industries and demystifying the budgetary process. The process of economic reform which had started with Indira Gandhi's return to power in 1980 was taken forward considerably by Rajiv Gandhi, preparing the ground for the big shift that was to occur in 1991.
The report of the Economic Administration Reforms Commission, headed by L.K. Jha, came in handy for him to take steps towards liberalization in the industrial sector. During his tenure from 1984-1989, the economic growth rate was 5.5 per cent, breaking the barrier of the 3 to 3.5 per cent growth rate which the Indian economy was hovering around for quite some time.
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The Political Challenge and the Resurgence of Opportunistic Anti-Congressism
Rajiv Gandhi also made efforts for strengthening the capability of Indian Defence Forces and arming them with the latest weapons. Among the many deals towards this end was the one involving the purchase of howitzer guns from the Swedish firm, Bofors. This turned out to be the root cause of one of the biggest crisis ever faced by any Government in the past.
The Swedish Radio reported that millions of dollars had been paid as bribes to Indian officials by the Bofors to get the contract. This triggered nationwide agitation for enquiry and action against those found guilty. This came on top of a few other allegations over the purchase of submarines from West Germany and appointment of an American detective agency Fairfax to investigate into the dealings of some industrialists. The opposition mounted an agitation demanding Rajiv's resignation.
Added to these, Rajiv Gandhi faced innumerable problems from within the party. The electoral debacle in Haryana, Kerala and West Bengal also damaged the image of the Party. V.P. Singh, Arun Nehru and others, who were very close to him in earlier years, left the Party and joined the opposition parties. By then, the five-year term of Rajiv Gandhi's Government was coming to an end. The first year and a half of his tenure was quite smooth sailing for him.
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He was projected as a leader with a clean image and as a man of vision, keen to prepare the country technologically for meeting the challenges of the 21st century. This euphoria heightened the people's expectations which could not be fulfilled. The second half of his term was not that smooth. His problems were aggravated by a severe drought in many states following the failure of the southwest monsoon. However, the worst drought situation of 1987-88 was handled most efficiently.
But, by far the most serious problem was the one created by the Bofors deal. On this issue, all the opposition parties were united. They demanded his resignation on the basis of a report of CAG, and the Opposition members of the Lok Sabha resigned en masse in mid-1989. It paved the way for electoral adjustment among the non-Congress parties reviving the practice of opportunistic anti-Congressism as a central mode of political mobilization rather than substantive ideological issues.
It was against the backdrop of a series of unfavourable factors that Rajiv Gandhi ordered the general elections to the Lok Sabha in November 1989.
The National Front
The right-wing opposition parties that had earlier combined and broken up, started moving closer once more to give a united fight to the Congress. They combined under the banner of a National Front, keeping intact their separate identities.
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The National Front had electoral adjustments with the Left Front and the BJP. By then, V.P. Singh had left the Congress Party and aligned himself with the Janata Dal, a constituent of the National Front. A disturbing feature of this period was the coming together of many otherwise diverse anti-Congress groups like the Left and the BJP, ensuring their support to V.P. Singh.
This association lent political legitimacy and credibility to BJP and also blurred the mark of communalism from its image to some extent. This political collusion also led to the coming together of regional and national secular non-Congress parties with the Left parties and the BJP. By October 1988, the Janata Dal came into being with the merger of Jan Morcha, Janata Dal, Lok Dal and Congress (S).
The Bofors deal and the Nehruvian concept of secularism became the main issues at the polls. The latter had come to the fore with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's claims over the site at which Babri Masjid had been erected and its moves to build a temple for Lord Rama there. This had led to communal clashes. The VHP went ahead with the laying of the foundation stone a few days prior to the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP secured electoral advantage from this move.
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The 1989 elections were marked by unprecedented violence and the results went against the Congress Party. In fact, no party could get the majority to form the government. The Congress emerged as the single largest party with 197 seats and 39.5 per cent of the vote share and as such was invited to form the government with the help of its allies. But, Rajiv Gandhi chose to stay in the Opposition. The National Front took the reins of government with V.P. Singh as the Prime Minister.
The Congress Party reposed its faith in the leadership of Rajiv Gandhi undeterred by the election reverses. In the Southern states, the party's performance was quite impressive. Both Andhra and Karnataka had been recaptured by the Congress. Soon after the Lok Sabha elections, the Assembly elections were held in eight states. In most of these, Congress suffered heavy losses. Only in Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh could it form the government.
However, the scenario did not remain static. The National Front government soon got into trouble, some inherent in the very composition of the Front and some others made by itself.
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In the latter category, fell the now famous Mandal Agitation. In his zeal to project himself and his Front as the champion of the downtrodden, V.P. Singh sought to implement the recommendations of the Mandal Commission set up during the Janata rule in 1977-1979 in respect of reservation quota for backward classes in educational institutions and employment.
The recommendations reserved 27 per cent of the jobs in government and public sector undertakings for the backward classes. This increased the total reservations to 49.5 per cent since SCs and STs already had a reservation of 22.5 per cent. Reservations in educational institutions and promotions were also to be implemented in the future.
This announcement was criticized by many: even people in support of reservation as a policy thought that the suddenness of the decision was unacceptable. Political allies of the government opposed it as a unilateral move on the part of V.P. Singh. Others pointed out that the method of identifying backward classes was faulty and that no consensus had even been attempted before the announcement. The worst impact was on society: it divided people into castes and engendered caste politics and resentment among the youth. It was also argued that this policy benefited only the elites among the backward classes without helping the really deserving, making it a subject of caste-based political mobilization.
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The youth in North India reacted sharply and violently. The students realized that the reservation of nearly half of government jobs would mean a severe restriction of career opportunities and also that this would not help the really underprivileged sections. Students led the agitation and were supported by teachers, government officials and housewives. Anti-Mandal protestors attacked public property, burnt buses, organized demonstrations and meetings and discussions in the press.
The agitation was widespread in urban North India and in many cities like Delhi, Kanpur, Varanasi, protestors were fired upon by the police and some students attempted self-immolation. The main theme in this anti-Mandal agitation was against caste as an organizing principle of society and as a criterion for securing jobs. Caste identities were consolidated in the process and caste consciousness rose sharply among students.
During the 1980s, a new party called the Bahujan Samaj Party emerged in North India under the leadership of Kanshi Ram and later, Mayawati. This party declared that winning elections and entering the government was its primary aim. Initially, it sought to mobilize the backward castes and the minorities. In recent years, it has, become a party of Dalits which forms alliances with any other major political party in order to gain political office.
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Apart from this, the problem of terrorism in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir continued. The V.P. Singh government withdrew the Indian Peace Keeping Force from Sri Lanka and following this, there was infiltration of LTTE into Tamil Nadu creating a serious law and order problem. The V.P. Singh government did not last long. The BJP withdrew its support from the government on the Ram Mandir issue. One of the constituent parties of the Front, headed by Chandra Shekhar, broke away and with the backing of the Congress, formed the government. This government lasted only a few months.
Rajiv Gandhi Lost Life for the Nation
Elections to the Lok Sabha were ordered in May 1991. The Congress Party went to the polls well prepared. Being in the Opposition, the party leaders devoted greater attention to the strengthening of the organization at the grassroots level.
For two decades, organizational elections had not taken place in the party. Periodically, attempts were made towards this but they did not materialize. The PCCs were set up with nominated members and the Central leaders decided PCC presidents. However, in order to promote a more effective interaction between the grassroots level party workers and the leadership, training camps, workshops, etc., were organized. This helped the Central leadership to get a first hand idea of the needs and aspirations in each constituency and take suitable steps to fulfill those.
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Rajiv Gandhi planned the election strategy on the basis of scientific assessment of the party's prospects in each state and chose the party nominees with great care. He himself undertook extensive tours to campaign for the party candidates. This took him to Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu to campaign for the Congress candidate. On the evening of 21 May 1991 he reached the venue of the election meeting. All of a sudden, there was a loud bomb explosion close to him. Within seconds, his body was found blown to pieces.
Like Mahatma Gandhi, and his mother, Rajiv sacrificed his life in the cause of the country. His mother paid the price for trying to bring peace in Punjab and he became the victim of his efforts to settle the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka. The LTTE, which had harboured a grievance against him, was suspected to have masterminded the killing of Rajiv Gandhi. He was the youngest among the three martyrs all of whom significantly died in the cause of maintaining secularism, unity and harmony between communities.
Rajiv Gandhi was no more but the electoral campaign he built up paid rich dividends. In the elections, the Congress was returned to the Lok Sabha with enough strength to form a government. But, the question of leadership remained.
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Sonia Gandhi made it clear that she would not like to be considered for it. Senior leaders agreed to elect P.V. Narasimha Rao as Congress President.
In the first election in two decades on February 27, 1992, Rao was formally elected as President. Fifty-seven nomination papers, each signed by 10 PCC members from different states, were submitted in support of Rao's candidature. After the election results were published, again through the process of consultation and consensus, P.V. Narasimha Rao was unanimously chosen the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party. This marked the beginning of a new phase in Congress history.
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I wrote venus in December 2011, I edited it in January 2012 and published it February 1st.
Venus is my second self-published poetry collection.
Have you ever been in love?
As a thank you for all the support I've received from the people on protagonize all these years, I've decided to share my second poetry book 'venus' in its entirety. Down the line I may even post 'Letters of Neon'.
The thing is, without Protagonize, I probably wouldn't still be writing.
I started writing for fun when I was quite young, it quickly turned into something serious when I found some like-minded people on a band forum. My new passion for poetry was encouraged and my love for writing grew. However, over time, my fellowship of writers withered and one by one they left, leaving me without companions. There was a year or two gap where I carried on writing but had no one to share it with.
Then I found Protagonize.
I have to thank you because the praise and encouragement I received for my compilation Blue Sky Drowning gave me the much needed push to self-publish my first book, and then a second. Now I'm working on a third and this is how I want to thank you for your words of kindness.
For me, Venus, as Earth's supposed sister planet, represents duality and alien qualities. It represents a need to develop understanding, but it also masks the ability for us to understand under a tremulous cover of deadly storms.
Perhaps it is no wonder Venus has been the symbol of females for such a very long time.
Venus is a collection of poetry that delves into the turbulent nature of human relationships and seeks to find that path of luminous stars that will guide us through the brightest and darkest of our days. It isn't simply about women. It is to find a path through the ferocity of emotions and ultimately, to the one thing that matters most, love.
If there were a path of brilliant stars stretching deep into the sky, burning away the permeating darkness of fear and misunderstanding, would you not follow them?
Take your first steps, Stargazer…

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eChapter 3f
The scorching sun drove into Laikirr's scales. He had never felt such heat. He had to find shelter. His mouth was dry; he didn't have enough energy to move on. The young Golden dragon collapsed into the burning, red sand. Why in the world would Glyphon want to live in such a barren wasteland? Laikirr thought to himself, Why would anyone?
He closed his eyes, thinking back to when Lirria was taken. He felt ashamed for letting her be kidnapped, and by Duavrock at that. He felt a tear leak out of his eye. Quickly, before it soaked into his scales, he shook his head, splattering the tiny little firey tear onto the desert sand. It sunk right through, leaving a tiny hole in the sand. All of a sudden, the earth underneath him gave way, only to be replaced by a large spring of water. He spluttered to the top and noticed trees growing at an impossible rate around the oasis. He gaped at what his dragon tear had been capable of.
As he swam to the bank, once again surprised at how large the pool had become, he slurped water down his parched throat. When he reached the bank, he sighed in exhaustion, collapsing onto the now cool soil. Immediately, he slipped into a deep sleep with no dreams, only the darkness of true sleep.
Laikirr woke suddenly, his vision blurred by his tiredness. He glared into the desert and his oasis around him. "Who's there?" He called out hoarsely. He stared out over the pool in front of him. The moonlight shone evenly onto the surface. Out of nowhere, a rock landed on his head. He jumped forward, plunging head first into the water. His head shot up out of the water and he spluttered and choked. Now, he was wide awake.
"Who's there?" He bellowed in fury. He glared around the oasis.
As he turned a large pale orange dragon landed in front of him. It was about twice his size. Laikirr jumped back, only to have the large he-dragon laugh heartily at him.
"Who are you?" Laikirr did not like being laughed at. He glared at the dragon before him.
It cocked its head to the right and smiled toothily. "Well then. I haven't seen a Goldie in a very long time." He smiled at Laikirr in amusement, making him growl under his breath. "My, aren't you an aggressive one. Calm down now young dragonling. I am Treskial."
Laikirr continued glaring at him, and then stopped to think. Maybe I could ask him about Glyphon. He stared into Treskial's eyes and said, "I am searching for the FireStrom Glyphon, the Master of Flight. It is of uttermost importance. Do you know where he is?" He forgot momentarily about respecting his elders and quickly added, "My lord Treskial." He bowed his ever so slightly.
Treskial pursed his lips, giving off a slightly pearly essence. Laikirr ignored this. "Well, if I must say so myself, it is quite an honour for me to tell you that I know exactly where Glyphon lives." He smiled a hidden smile.
Laikirr felt his excitement travel through his entire body. "Please can you tell me where he is, please. I'll do anything."
"Well then, I guess if you'll do anything I may be able to help you." He smiled another toothy smile. "Come with me, I am hungry youngling. Let us eat some fire ants." He started walking away, expecting Laikirr to follow him.
"Excuse me?" Laikirr exclaimed, "This is of uttermost importance. Please!"
Treskial just kept walking. "Patience is a virtue. Come now so I can have some company for the time being."
Laikirr sighed in frustration and pounded after him, stamping his feet as loud as he possibly could, but only found it harder to walk. His feet were sinking into the sand every time he hit his feet into the sand. He pulled his feet from the thick sand and jumped over the sand agilely and stealthily.
They stopped in front of a strange mound, where the older dragon blew a small vein of fire onto the top of the mound. Laikirr felt his impatience growing. From a small hole at the top of the mound, hundreds of ants started coming out. Treskial flicked his long tongue from his mouth and licked some of the ants into his mouth. When he started chewing, it made a loud crunching noise. "Oh, I always like them crunchy." He looked to Laikirr and said, "Have some, but remember to bite before they bite you." He chuckled quietly at his own joke.
Laikirr eyed the mound suspiciously; he felt a slight wind glide over his scales. He put his mouth over the hole in the mound and sucked the ant from the hole. He felt them squirming in his mouth and spat them straight into Treskial's face. Looking up into Treskial's face he stumbled backwards. The older dragon's face had become a mask of complete anger.
"You foolish little hatchling!" he bellowed in anger, making Laikirr flinch.
"But I need to find Glyphon. Please? You said you would help me." He stared adamantly at the older dragon.
"Are you that worthless in flight boy? Is that why you wish to find the Master of Flight?" He thundered, "You have no patience, no respect or discipline to become my apprentice!"
Laikirr felt the sting of his words. His eyes widened and his mouth fell open, exposing his sharp teeth, as he realised whom he had spat in the face. "You're Master Glyphon?" His voice came out as a tiny whisper.
"Yes you idiotic hatchling! I am Glyphon. I am the Master of Flight, and had you shown me enough patience I would have taken it upon myself to make you my second apprentice." He stared at Laikirr and asked, critically, "Have you nothing to say for yourself boy?"
Laikirr stared into the eyes of the Master of Flight. He remembered Lirradon telling him stories of the four FireStroms. He remembered all those times when he had played with all the other drakes, when they had asked him to tell them the stories.
"Say something fool, there is a sand storm coming and I do not wish to be stuck in it."
"My father told me you were like this. You care for nothing but patience."
Glyphon looked at the young dragonling sceptically. "Who's your father?"
"Lirradon, the Great Golden Dragon of the Straphetal Dragons, Leader of the Haillek Clan." Laikirr paused, wondering whether or not to tell Glyphon his own name.
Glyphon's eyes widened slightly. He had an intake of breath. He stared down into Laikirr's eyes and said, "It was nice meeting you." At that he flew away.
As soon as Glyphon was gone, Laikirr started to feel the wind he had felt earlier become stronger, faster. He took off into the air, after Glyphon. He would not loose him. He flew hard.
All of a sudden the wind he had felt earlier struck him hard, throwing him to the side. He forced his wings to move against the wind. He could feel sand spattering against his scales. This was the sand storm Glyphon had been speaking of, and it was only the beginning. Far away, he could see Glyphon swerving and diving. He was moving away from the wind, sometimes plunging into it. He mimicked the movements and flew faster. Soon he would catch up to him.
Up ahead, he saw Glyphon move toward the ground. He landed and disappeared into a cave. Laikirr flew, his limbs aching. He plummeted down toward the cave, landing with a thud behind Glyphon.
He stared down at Laikirr, his eyes wide. "You truly are the son of Lirradon." He moved over to the shaking young dragon and folded his wings over him. "Come now, my boy and tell me where my dearest drakehood friend is."
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Despite Earlier Claims, Metformin Not Found To Improve Survival Rates After Cancer
The study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, failed to show an improved survival rate in older breast cancer patients with diabetes taking the drug metformin, a first-line treatment for diabetes. However, the authors caution further research is necessary to validate the study's findings.
"Metformin is a drug commonly used by diabetic patients to control the amount of glucose in their blood," said the study's lead author Dr. Iliana Lega, a research fellow at Women's College Research Institute. "Although existing scientific literature suggests that drug may prevent new cancers and death from breast cancer, our study found the drug did not significantly impact survival rates in our patients."
Scientific research has found metformin is associated with an up to 30 per cent reduction in new cancers and a reduction in tumour growth in non-diabetic breast cancer patients treated with the drug, Dr. Lega notes in the study.
To test the drug's anti-cancer properties, the authors examined 2,361 women, aged 66 or older who were treated with the drug and diagnosed with breast cancer between April 1, 1997 and March 31, 2008. The women were followed from their date of breast cancer diagnosis until their death or until March 30, 2010. The researchers found no significant statistical correlation between cumulative use of metformin and death from all causes or a significant reduction in deaths due to breast cancer.
"What makes our study so unique is that while the effects of metformin have been well documented, previous research has not examined the cumulative effects of the drug on patients, particularly breast cancer patients with diabetes," Dr. Lega said. "This is important given that diabetic patients may switch drugs over the course of their treatment."
The authors note a lack of data on body mass index, breast cancer stage and a short followup period for breast-cancer specific deaths, limit interpretation of their findings. Further research is necessary in a younger population of patients with breast cancer and diabetes.
"Understanding the effects of metformin on breast cancer patients is critical in helping address the gap in cancer outcomes in patients with and without diabetes," she added. "The findings will help physicians inform treatment plans for patients with diabetes."
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Huddled in the back of a newspaper delivery truck, they quickly relocated to a temporary newsroom in Baton Rouge. Jim Amoss is the editor of the Times-Picayune and he joins me now. Jim, welcome to the show. JIM AMOSS: Thank you very much. It's good to be here. BROOKE GLADSTONE: So give me some of the nuts and bolts about how you're doing your job, how you're communicating with your reporters and how you're communicating with your readers. JIM AMOSS: The communication with the reporters is perhaps the most difficult because all the modern tools we've all come to rely on have broken down. It's no longer second nature to just pick up a cell phone because the cell phone won't connect. We've had to improvise but we've been publishing the newspaper without interruption on the Internet in PDF form, including on the day, Tuesday, the day after the storm when we trekked over six hours out of the torrents of New Orleans and through southwest Louisiana. BROOKE GLADSTONE: The newspaper that you've been publishing online includes at least partly a kind of a blog, doesn't it, consistently updated with short news pieces and dispatches from readers? JIM AMOSS: Blogging is an absolutely essential part of this whole effort. And yeah, it informs the stories and we harvest from it for the stories, as well as from our own reporting. And it also is an important link to readers. And our readers are scattered in a huge arc across the south, having fled the city. And one thing we're doing beginning tonight is putting out our first print edition in the hopes that we'll be able to reach many more people who haven't had access to the online version of the newspaper. BROOKE GLADSTONE: You're talking about Thursday night. Will the biggest problem be getting it into the city? JIM AMOSS: Well, distribution is going to be a gargantuan task, yes. And we will be distributing it in the parts of the city that are accessible to us, and also places to which we know our readers have evacuated - shelters, hotels. Baton Rouge has become a virtual New Orleans in exile. It's - the population here has swelled hugely, and we know it's our audience. BROOKE GLADSTONE: You said one of the biggest problems was communicating with your reporters. Do you find you lose touch with them from time to time? Do you, do you worry about where they might be? JIM AMOSS: I worry, especially our, our reporters who've penetrated some of the really inaccessible parts of New Orleans and really cannot be reached. Today we heard from a reporter who had found his house and was using it as a base from which to report, and then heard reports that there were armed gangs roaming his neighborhood and his life was threatened. And we finally were able to get him to safety. Another reporter was dispatched to the Gulf Coast to cover that side of the hurricane, and we have not heard from him yet. And we, we are terribly fearful as to what has happened to him. BROOKE GLADSTONE: I can't imagine that there would have ever been a story where the reporters would be so much participants. Probably some of them are homeless. I wonder how that affects the reporting? JIM AMOSS: Oh, I would say the majority of us are homeless. I mean, that, that's almost the, the predicate condition of being here. I am surrounded by the most courageous journalists in America. And it's utterly sustaining to be among them and to, to be working side by side with people who are committing fantastic journalism, even as they don't know what has happened in some cases to their own families - people who have lost everything. BROOKE GLADSTONE: Are there elements of this story that you know that only the Times-Picayune can really cover because you know the city so well? JIM AMOSS: Well, I think every day there are aspects of our reporting that could only spring from an intimate and long-standing knowledge of the city and all its idiosyncrasies and peculiarities. Inevitably the national media will be focused on the best-known tourist spots of New Orleans, the French Quarter. And that will blind you to what's happening in the rest of the city. On the very afternoon of the storm I think we were the first to notice that the water was rising even after the storm had gotten quite out of our area. And we had two reporters return from their neighborhood. They had ridden to it on bikes and they had observed the torrents coming through where the canal had been. And that was the beginning of the reports that the aftermath was worse than the storm itself and the real inundation was just beginning. And that is something that you couldn't have expected a national media to observe. BROOKE GLADSTONE: What's the story that you've been trying to get all week that you just can't get at? JIM AMOSS: There still are parts of the city that are just right now terra incognita to us. We just can't get to some parts. And the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I think, is a tale of disaster that has yet to be fully told. And we're, of course, always balancing our storytelling ability with our willingness to put our reporters and our photographers in great danger. BROOKE GLADSTONE: What do you want people outside of New Orleans to know about your city that hasn't really been conveyed in the coverage so far? JIM AMOSS: Well, I think inevitably the coverage focuses on the most spectacular observable events, and in the case of the past two days the most spectacular observable events have been the horrible looting and the lawlessness in the streets. And so I imagine that some people must have the impression that this represents New Orleans. 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Shero said dental work isn't Crosby's issue; it's jaw. "No wiring. That's good news. We'll see what the next few days bring"
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Have you heard, Square-Enixe's latest handheld produce is going to have so much exposition bloat that it will need to be dumped into the willing mouth of fans via two whole UMD's. I am speechless, two UMD's?! On a portable? Just to fit in Square-Enix's trademark archaic text and pre-rendered video based exposition? Blimey!
Looks to me an awful lot like Square is still living in the past, dunnit? Such things have their fans I suppose, but I never cared for clumsy storytelling in games anyway, and I certainly don't care for it enough to want to tolerate it in the obnoxious unnecessarily padded out games that Square continues to want to put out.
At least Final Fantasy XIII had pretty graphics to distract me, but this is a PSP game fergodssake. Someone needs to sit down and have a heart to hear, or a slap to slap, with Nomura and gang about the irrelevance of narrative and needless exposition in modern game design so they instead can focus on the immediate moment to moment experience of playing a game.
As a fan of good game design I can tell you that I never cared for developers and their laughably clumsy attempts at creating engaging narrative. I have dozens of RPG's in my collection but I couldn't tell you what the so called story of any of them amounted to other than grind until you beat the last baddie.
If I want a masterfully told narrative I'll seek out a medium fit for its delivery, e.g. a classic novel. When I play a game I want a good experience, and hours wasted with clumsy text or video based exposition trying to relate to me a plot that I do not give a rat's fart about does not amount to a good time, or even a good use of my time. For cheeseuses sake, developers, trying to tell me that something epic is going on, or showing me that my character is doing some cool shit I could myself never pull of with the laughably archaic menu based gameplay of your title got old right around when we ditched the 90's for the Oh's.
Games are interactive experiences, and developers who focus on giving a better moment to moment experience always make better games than those who bring everything to a screeching halt just to show you a flashy video, or some talking heads spewing out mostly irrelevant text.
Sure, crafting a good experience and having a good story is not impossible, Vagrant Story proves as much. But what developers who are too in love with their own waning ability to spin a tale forget is that in games brevity is always, always, always, always, always the soul of wit. No game features a story that is worthy of an 80 hour delivery. If you are an RPG try to get your point across in 20 or so hours or get the fuck out you clueless git. Neither your story nor your repetitive gameplay or bland dungeon design warrant any more than a maximum 20 hour game, so at least act the part.
Then again to me RPGs are more about good fluid combat design married with adventuring interesting exotic locales, so having no story at all is righto with me as in, say, Demon's Souls. But hey, I guess obnoxiously lengthy clumsy exposition has its fans, but look out Square, that shrinking demographic ripe for extinction will not pay the bills forever.
Of course the few remaining starving fans of the genre would likely scamper out of their hiding spot under the festering cauldron of this genre to nibble on my femurs for saying all of this, in that regard I suppose any manner of obnoxious approach to game design is bound to have its hunchbacked proponents. But lets ignore those tossers, because bowing to fan demand will only lead you down the path of stagnation and festering, just take a look at what anime has become. So I do see a dire need for JRPG developers to at least clean up their act just a little, fan outcry or not, or risk becoming irrelevant to all but a small niche of die hard and fast dying old school RPG fans with a high tolerance for some very unfortunate genre conventions.
I am playing Persona 3 right now, a highly regarded RPG by most fans of the genre. I am at the 80+ hour mark and for at least the last 50 hours of that I have been pulling out my hair in frustration because I need this damn game to sodding get it over with and end already. I wish I was the kind of person that could just abandon a game mid through, I wish so much that I could be a quitter, becuase I think that way I could just stop playing most JRPG's at around the 20 hour mark where they have blown all of the richness of their meager load in your face and would as a result love the genre much more for it. Alas neurosis forces me to stick around for well beyond that until all that goodness has dried and I will in my boredom be picking its dry scabs off of my skin for the remaining 60 or so hours.
I am sure there are people that will disagree, but there is no characterization, exposition, plot, narrative or story in here, or in any game, to warrant so much of my damn precious time. 80+ hours, think about that for a second, that is 8 regular games and yet Persona 3, or any JRPG for that matter, offers me absolutely no experience over what I get out of a single regular length game. So in the time it has taken me to trudge through the lethargic experience I could have had 8 varied and great experiences with 8 other games instead pissing it all away on one really drawn out boring one.
The characters are cardboard thin and the story is insipid. Dungeon design is so boring that the actual gameplay sections feel like going work, which is the last thing I want to sit down for after coming home from 9 hours of that daily wankery. And there is the kicker, these sentiments all have a familiar clang to them, because I feel the same for all but a handful of JRPG's made in the last quarter of a century.
Now I might have remembered this game as an overall good experience regardless of its shortcomings if it had gotten things done and over with within 20 or so bloody hours, but by endless padding and dragging of feet it forces me to remember it as an awfully insipid pissing away of my time.
The problem is that games of this type do not need to be this long, don't bother disputing it because not even a whole courtyard full of mob lawyers could successfully argue against that fact. JRPG's just do not feature enough worthwhile exhilarating content to support a 80+ hour venture. Alas a decade long tradition of bloat dictates their length, so they pad things out by pointless exposition and bland dungeon design or repetitive battles of the same enemies that can be killed by mashing the damn attack command. In fact the developers even admit to this fact themselves by giving you the option of putting said mashing of attack on auto pilot in most newer titles.
At least have the decency to cut down the staggering amount of padding and bloat. Outside of Vagrant Story and Demon's Souls I do not remember having played a single RPG in the last 10 years that would not only have lost nothing, but gained much, by tossing half of itself straight out the window and just focused on giving players the best parts of itself in a lean and economical manner.
Yet here we are in 2011 and the 80+ hour venture continues, even on handhelds which is laughable enough and all this with no possibly sane reason other than, it is tradition.
Yet whenever I bring up these facts to the 3 people alive in the west who yet give a whale's fart about this carcass of a genre I get assaulted by accusations of not being a "true fan", or wanting to ruin this by now esoteric genre. Wonderful I say; I wish someone would let me blow that old rickety structure to smithereens with a well placed tactical nuclear strike. Then at least some interesting mutants would inevitably wobble out of the hilarious spectacle of destruction, which beats the hell out of watching the entire gelatinous insipid mess continue to fester.
What the hell happened to you Japanese designers? I used to love JRPG's so much, why'd you have to piss so much bloat and exposition on while neglecting all of the important bits? You used to be cool man, cool as like an arctic cat...


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Welcome to the walkthrough for the iOS game Dummy Escape, if you are looking for ways to make it to the next level, and to improve gaming experience as a master player, you've come to the right place. Here you will find Dummy Escape tips, tricks and guides, as well as the opportunity to share your own discoveries to help others move on and beat the game.
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The launch of the new Freesat joint venture between the BBC and ITV last month, was so low key that most people won't have noticed its arrival.
Looking at some of the online chatboards at the moment you'd be forgiven for thinking this might be because of a lack of confidence by a new satellite service taking on Sky's strength. Disgruntled consumers, on sites such as joinfreesat.co.uk, complain about a lack of boxes in the shops, poor sales experience when they've tried to buy one, and a general lack of information about the service.
But it would be a mistake to read too much into Freesat's first few weeks – and Sky certainly won't take much comfort from the fact that its new rival has arrived with a whimper rather than a bang. There is plenty of time for Freesat to make its mark. After all, Freeview is now in more than 15 million homes and it has been around for less than six years. The new Freesat service has even greater potential to significantly change the landscape of digital television, and create real competition for Sky in the area of satellite television.
On the face of it there isn't much that separates Sky's own "freesat" offering and the new BBC/ITV service. Sky's free service has more channels – about 200 in total – and the installation of a box and dish will cost about £150. Freesat has fewer channels, about 80, but this will grow, and a box and installation will cost you £130-£150.
For Sky, "free" boxes are digital Trojan horses to get inside people's homes and then entice them to the world of pay TV. The new BBC/ITV service, on the other hand, does exactly what it says on the tin and there won't be any attempt made to "spin-up" people to pay services.
There are two imperatives behind the BBC/ITV launch of Freesat – the first is short-term, and concerns the digital switchover. About 27 per cent of the country cannot receive digital terrestrial television (DTT), so Freeview boxes are not an option for them. Even when the analogue signal is switched off, boosting the DTT signal, some 10 per cent of homes will still not be able to receive Freeview.
So digital switchover presents Freesat with clear opportunities for growth and a very obvious market to go after. But it is high definition television (HDTV) that really underpins the logic of Freesat's launch. Freeview, for all its success, has serious limitations when it comes to HD capacity and will be able to carry only four channels – with the first three due to launch in 2009. High definition is the next wave of television; over time it will replace standard definition in the same way colour sets replaced black-and-white ones.
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At present Sky believes that its 18 HD channels are a premium service that it can charge customers extra for – and so far about 500,000 Sky customers have agreed, paying £10 a month in additional subscription for access to HD services. Yet more than 9.6m "HD-ready" TV sets have been sold in the UK, suggesting that the vast majority of viewers aren't persuaded to pay a subscription to access HD content (at least so far).
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The clear contest in the digital market is free versus pay, rather than Sky versus Virgin or any other pay service. And that battle will take place increasingly in an HD world. It may have arrived quietly into the market, but Freesat is HD-ready – and that is likely to make it a major player in years to come.
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Today we woke up around our usual time of 7am and got ready for another day trip. After breakfast, we walked back to the bus station, this time taking it to St Gilgen (We had gone past it when we had gone to Hallstatt). Once there, we explored the town and caught a ferry, traveling the lake to another little town- St Wolfgang. In St Wolfgang after walking it a bit, we noticed a path leading around the lake. We ...
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