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Ordinance to restore Bhopal gas victims' property

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NK SINGH Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Government on Thursday promulgated an ordinance for the restoration of moveable property sold by some people while fleeing Bhopal in panic following the gas leakage. The ordinance covers any transaction made by a person residing within the limits of the municipal corporation of Bhopal and specifies the period of the transaction as December 3 to December 24, 1984,  Any person who sold the moveable property within the specified period for a consideration which he feels was not commensurate with the prevailing market price may apply to the competent authority to be appointed by the state Government for declaring the transaction of sale to be void.  The applicant will furnish in his application the name and address of the purchaser, details of the moveable property sold, consideration received, the date and place of sale and any other particular which may be required.  The competent authority, on receipt of such an application, will conduct...

P. C. Sorcar - Prince of Magic

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  Sorcar's famous 'Cutting a lady in Half with an Electric Circular Saw' .                                        NK SINGH Indrajal, the ancient Indian magic, is a great art, an art that entertains the eye and mind through suspense. It flourished in the royal courts of India. Remember King Vikramaditya, Raja Bhoj, Queen Bhanumati, for instance. Further back we find it mentioned in the epics, in the Tantra Shastras, in the Atharvaveda. Its masters kept it a secret. It was handed over from preceptor to pupil, father to son in great test secrecy. And this too much secrecy killed magic in India. Thereafter it survived in the streets as a means of livelihood of the illiterate, impoverished Jaduwalas, with only a limited repertoire and unaware of the vast changes occuring in the magical art ou...