`Sohrab who?' here goes: he is the son of Adil Mirza and Noora Begum, owners of the Universal Bakers chain in the city, which is popular with the hip set. Sohrab, 23, is a year older than Sania. After a B Com from St Mary's College, he took admission in a British university for an MBA. He is expected to fly to UK soon.
Adil's father, Samad Shakebai, better known as Samad Seth, is an Iranian businessman. Early in his career in Hyderabad, he was a caterer to Prince Azam Jah, the eldest son of the last Nizam. He married into Hyderabadi nobility - Shaheda Begum. While Seth set up restaurants, Begum was involved in social work, essentially girls' education. They have three sons - Kamran, Nariman and Adil, and a daughter. The family is now into real estate business.
......On the surface, my life goes on as a happily married mother in an affluent Sydney suburb who enjoys reading, travelling and gardening. .....But often, in my dreams, I am being chased by soldiers or hanging off the side of a cliff, unable to save myself. It has taken me a long time not to panic when I hear a helicopter overhead
oBreath have its regular cycle, it can change radically with different activities.
§After extreme physical activity it can go up to 100 times a minute.
§But serious and correct breathers can breathe four to eight times a minute, as they take in more oxygen and expel more carbon dioxide with each exhalation and inhalation.
·Patanjali Yoga Sutra
oThis is the Three Step Rhythmic Breathing (3 SRB)—
oThree steps being:
1.Technique
2.Volume
3.Rhythm.
oIn 3 SRB,
§The chest and abdomen have to rise and fall simultaneously
§Lungs filled to normal capacity
oThe correct rhythm followed, involving
§3 Seconds to inhale
§2 Seconds to exhale.
oContents of air
1.A life-sustaining force in the air
2.oxygen
3.nitrogen
4.carbon dioxide
5.Taoists also discovered ions—floating charged particles.
oThe air high up in the mountains has the maximum concentration of ions.
oThat is why, apart from the serenity and isolation, many Taoists lived in the mountains of China.
oThe most important are negative ions, which supply the electric current within our body's cells.
oIn the cities nowadays, these ions are depleted by pollution and constricting spaces. Any depletion in these negative ions makes us weak and depressed.
oResearch has shown that ionizers in space capsules keep the astronauts alert and energized.Evidently, the movement of breath regulates the body.
India has a history of entrepreneurs seeking to walk the corridors of power, but not many have taken the electoral route, opting to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
This election has seen prominent businessmen or executives jump into the fray, largely spurred by a public resentment for traditional politicians following the 26 November terror attack in Mumbai.
But no state has seen a surge as in Andhra Pradesh shift from funding political parties to actually fighting the grime comes from a turn of heart.
At least 19 entrepreneurs and executives of listed or privately held companies are contesting for Lok Sabha in AP
The list doesn’t include smaller businessmen or contractors in the fray for the 294 assembly seats.
Infrastructure moguls, film producers, media barons, software entrepreneurs—everyone is there, waving party flags, making speeches.
founder-chairman of Lanco Group, L. Rajagopal Rao, Already a Congress member of Parliament
film producer Vamshi Mohan, a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidate. Vijayawada
Vice precident of ABN Amro: Meera Sanyal, executive vice-president and country head of investment bank ABN Amro Bank NV, has taken a sabbatical to fight the election as an independent candidate from Mumbai South, the seat of the November attacks.
Deccan Aviation Pvt Ltd, Bangalore: G.R. Gopinath, who pioneered low-fare airlines in India with Deccan Aviation Pvt. Ltd, contested from Bangalore South, also as an independent candidate.
Four Soft Ltd :“giving back to society” according to Palem Srikanth Reddy, managing director of software firm Four Soft Ltd contesting the Kadapa constituency on a TDP ticket.
He is taking on chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s son Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, a Congress candidate and owner of a Telugu daily and a news channel, apart from cement and power plants.
Madhucon Projects Ltd,TDP candidate Nama Nageswara Rao, managing director of Vs candidate in Khammam, Renuka Chowdhury
