South Korean author wins Nobel Lit prize Han kang, best known for her book The Vegetarian, on Thursday became the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature Prize ‘an innovator in contemporary prose’ vijayawada l friday l october 11, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 16 l late city EDITION “She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in a poetic and experimental style, has become an innovator in contemporary prose,” Nobel committee said Won booker in 2016 for the vegetarian Han began her writing career in 1993 by publishing several poems Han’s The Vegetarian, which tells the story of an ordinary woman’s decision to stop eating meat and the consequences, won the Booker Prize in 2016 | P13 CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Ratan cremated, his legacy lives S u d h i r S u r ya w a n s h i @ Mumbai It’s rare for a businessman’s demise to draw a spontaneous outpouring of emotion from the lay public. But when the person in question is visionary industrialist Ratan Tata, 86, their sense of void is quite understandable, as his work touched millions of lives. Thousands of people thronged the lawns of the National Centre for Performing Arts at Nariman Point on Thursday to pay their homage to him. Known as much for his philanthropy as for his bold acquisitions abroad, he infused the quality of trust and integrity into the Tata brand. His people-centric approach propelled him to realise his dream of an under `1 lakh car in the massy Nano. Though it failed the Ratan, a rare market test, his reputation of bizman: CM having his heart in the right place remained intact. Also, After paying the Nano plant site shook up homage to the West Bengal politics like nevindustry titan, CM er before. Chadrababu Naidu He was known to chase iderecalled his as, not wealth. Under his leadassociation with ership, the salt-to-software Ratan Tata. He behemoth grew more than 70 described Tata as a times in size. rare businessman The last rites were perand a great human formed at Mumbai’s Worli who always stood Crematorium with full state by his ethics | P4 honours in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah, his cabinet colleague Piyush Goyal, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, his deputy Devendra Fadnavis, and Congress leader and former chief minister Sushilkumar Shinde. Shah stood in for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had to fly to Laos to attend the ASEANIndia and East Asia summits. Earlier in the day the Maharashtra cabinet rec, ommended to the Centre to consider honouring Ratan Tata with a posthumous Bharat Ratna. The state government as well as a few others declared a day of mourning and the national flag was flown at half-mast across government offices. The Mumbai Police paid tribute to Tata with a gun salute. Family and friends as well as top officials of Tata group joined the ceremony . Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran, Neville Tata and others during last rites of Ratan Tata, at Worli Crematorium in Mumbai on Thursday. State IT Minister Nara Lokesh also attended the funeral | PTI He valued leadership with trust A titan has left us. Although Ratan Ratan was a unifier. Tata never had the reputation outHis first real test as a leader came side of India that he should have when he was appointed as chair of had — and richly deserved — he TELCO, later Tata Motors, at a time was the dominant figure in when a vicious strike had Indian business for more brought the Pune plant nearthan three decades. ly to a halt. Ratan’s method Like many great leaders, of resolving the strike was he did not at first aspire to a typical of his later leaderposition of leadership. He ship style. once said that in a perfect He went down to the shop world, he would have become Morgen Witzel floor, talked to the few rean architect. Writer, management historian. maining workers, listened to Nevertheless, as JRD Tata’s Author of Tata: Evolution of a their grievances and promCorporate Brand leadership of the Tata Group ised to do his best for them. drew to its close in the late These workers talked to their 1990s, it was clear that Ratan was the striking colleagues and told them that only obvious choice to succeed him, the Ratan was a leader they could trust. only man who could hold the group to- Gradually the strikers began returning , gether. The “satraps” who aspired to to work, leaving the leaders of the succeed JRD were divisive figures, but strike isolated. “Leadership with trust” was one of Ratan’s values, and he did his best to live by it. Following the collapse of Tata Finance in 2001, he famously promised that every investor and depositor would get their money back; no one would lose a single rupee. Eight years later, I asked him if he had known at the time how much money Tata Finance had lost, and how much the Tata Group would have to pay back. His answer was startling. “No,” he said calmly. “I had no idea. In my mind, I was prepared to liquidate the entire group, sell off every asset we had, in order to pay that debt. We had to do this.” I asked him why “Because if we had . not, no one would ever have trusted us again,” he said. “And everything we have worked for would have been Continued on: P14 thrown away .” GO issued to curb official interference in temples E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Vijayawada/Rajamahendravaram In a historic move, the Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday night issued orders restraining administrative authorities of temples from interfering in Vedic and Agama issues. The order was issued in compliance with Section 13 (1) of the AP Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowment Act, 1987 to preserve the sanctity of customs and traditions of temples. The development is significant as it comes in the wake of the recent controversy surrounding the alleged use of adulterated ghee in making Prasadam at Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirumala and amid growing demands for autonomy to the temples in conducting rituals. Endowments Commissioner S Satyanarayana told TNIE that government order 223 was issued so that no administrative authority interferes with the Agama traditions of temples. The opinion of senior most Archakas or religious staff of a temple shall prevail while making decisions on important religious matters, such as choosing the mode of performing rituals and Sevas to the deities, fixing Muhurta (auspicious time) for performing Yagas, Kumbhabhishekams, introduction of new Sevas P4 and rituals, he explained.
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