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From The Wire to everything else, the Anatomy of an Islamist: Into the mind of Sharjeel Imam, mastermind of Shaheen Bagh – OpIndia

The EndGame of the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act has become evident after the mastermind of the Shaheen Bagh protests revealed his intentions of cutting off the North East from the rest of India. Sharjeel Imam, the mastermind, also happens to be a columnist at The Wire. If one had read his eulogy of Jinnah that was published on The Wire, then he or she wouldnt have been surprised with the path he has chosen for himself.

Sharjeel Imam can be heard saying in the viral video, If five lakh Muslims are organized then we can cut off the North-east from the rest of India. If we cannot do so permanently, then at least we can do it for months. Our responsibility is to cut Assam from India, only then will the Government will hear our voice. If we have to help Assam then we will have to cut Assam from the rest of India.

More disturbingly, he speaks of isolating Northeast India by blocking the Chickens Neck. The Chickens Neck is a narrow stretch of land of about 22 kilometres located in West Bengal, that connects the northeastern states to the rest of India, with Nepal and Bangladesh lying on either side of the corridor. Thus, Sharjeel has made his intentions very clear, he wants a Civil War in the country and ultimately, another partition.

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Before we speak of his article published on The Wire, we need to focus on some of the extremely problematic posts he has made on Facebook. It would give our readers some clue into how Sharjeel Imam thinks. First, theres the usual apologia for Yakub Memon and Afzal Guru that we have come to expect from Radical Muslims. According to them, executing two dreaded Islamic terrorists is valid grounds for Muslims to lose their faith in the country.

Source: Sharjeel Imams Facebook profile

Then, there is the justification for the Pulwama Terror Attack. Again, while it is true that sensible people would find this rhetoric extremely troubling, the justification for terrorism is a regular feature of the mainstream media. And Sharjeel Imam, here, is no different. He also accuses the USA, Israel and India of Islamophobia because the three countries are not willing to entertain justifications for terrorism.

Source: Sharjeel Imams Facebook profile

With regards to the ongoing protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, Sharjeels rhetoric is akin to the rhetoric peddled by the likes of Shehla Rashid and others who have continuously prevented secular parties from claiming that these are secular protests. Like others, Sharjeel, too, exhorts Muslims to stop liberals from hijacking what are essentially Muslim protests.

Source: Sharjeel Imams Facebook Profile

Now, we shall elaborate on the really problematic aspects of his ideology. It is pertinent to mention here that Sharjeel Imam is a student of Modern Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University. The most concerning aspect of his ideology is the fact that he places Jinnah in the context of India in the 21st century. He says about Jinnah, The more I read Jinnah Papers, the more I realize that almost all of Jinnahs political career was spent as the leader of a minority community, organising the community against odds, and against what he considered as the Hindu revivalist forces of his time, which intended to monopolize power after British left.

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Sharjeel continues, Seventy years later, the Muslims and other minorities of India know too well what he meant. In other words, Jinnah who was an Indian Muslim for the first 71 of the 72 years of his life, is infinitely more relevant for the besieged Indian Muslim minority than for Pakistani Muslims. In very specific ways, as an Indian Muslim politician fighting for minority rights, his methods, his arguments, his successes and his failures are lessons for us.

Sharjeel Imam goes on to assert that Indian Muslims should study Jinnah in order to understand the myth of Secular Congress. This is extremely problematic rhetoric. Sharjeel hasnt limited himself to praising Jinnah in the manner in which Mani Shankar Aiyar of the Congress party praises Jinnah. From his portrayal of Jinnah, it is clear that he wants Indian Muslims to emulate Jinnah and seize power in the country.

Read: An enemy community was foisted upon the Muslims after Independence: Shaheen Bagh mastermind Sharjeel Imam reveals real-agenda behind CAA protests

Where his thoughts about Jinnah become really clear is his article published on The Wire. From his eulogy of Jinnah on The Wire, it is evident that Sharjeel does not find any fault with Jinnahs conduct that led to the partition of the country. He does not even believe that partition was necessarily a bad thing. He says, In order to demystify Jinnah and to resolve such contradictions, a fuller discussion of Partition should have been a part of our educational setup. However, it has been made impossible to know such a historic figure by attributing violence of Partition to him. This as an attempt by Congress to hide its failures to accommodate the genuine Muslim demands and aspirations for political proportional representation.

Sharjeel did not stop there of course. He says that the questions raised by Jinnah are just the starting point of a larger debate which will inevitably take place again and again, as the situation of Indian Muslims is made to worsen. He believes that Jinnah led a righteous struggle to protect Indian Muslims from Hindu rule. Also, Sharjeel goes to great lengths to prove that Jinnah was a leader of Indian Muslims. He says, Indian Muslims, despite having been indoctrinated for generations now, retain some memory of Partition and Jinnah. For many of them, Jinnah is the author of Partition and yet one of the greatest leaders of Muslim India in the last century, who made the Muslim League into a national party by mobilising millions of Muslims across British India.

He states further, Jinnahs communalism is positive communalism as discussed above, and need not be understood through the contemporary meaning of the word. He did not believe that India was a nation, as is shown by the frequent use of the term continent as well as subcontinent. He was merely representing one community in this grand ocean of communities, and in this process, he was trying to secure rights for all numerically inferior communities.

Read: Its official: Endgame of Shaheen Bagh protest is second partition of India. Listen to what mastermind and The Wire columnist says

Sharjeel adds, Jinnah argued that it does not matter if we are 15% or 25%, unless we receive safeguards, they have all the resources to monopolise power. In other words, the Muslim majority provinces chose to secede rather than stay in a Hindu-dominated centralised India, as they saw no other option. Hence Partition is not their responsibility, it is their compulsion by the conditions created by Congress.

Lastly, according to Sharjeel, Jinnah raised questions which are still relevant. As the largest religious minority in the world, Indian Muslims, are one of the major victims of majoritarian democracy. It is the political struggle of these hundreds of millions of besieged Muslims which will define the meaning of plural democracy for the coming centuries. He ends the article with the words, The AMU portrait of Jinnah must not go. If anything, we need thousands more.

Thus, it is fairly obvious by now that Sharjeel Imam wishes to replicate what Jinnah achieved in 1947. It is also clear that he considers Jinnah as an Indian Muslim who became disillusioned with politics in the country and thus embarked upon a righteous quest to partition India along religious lines. Whats really troubling here is the fact that a widely read Indian media outlet provided a platform to such an individual to spread his propaganda.

Questions must be asked about the mainstream media and intellectual elite who have provided cover to such individuals to run their propaganda. It also shows that the liberal class can be fooled by a Jihadi if he is good enough with words. The manner in which Sharjeel has eulogized Jinnah and portrayed his Jihad against India as a righteous struggle to protect the interests of Muslims should have been the first sign that he is an extremely dangerous individual. However, since he was able to cloak his bigotry in fanciful words, Sharjeel was given great respect by the liberal fraternity. It only serves to demonstrate how gullible the liberal establishment is.

Furthermore, the liberal establishment should at least now stop to reconsider the danger that their rhetoric poses to peace in the country. The love for Jinnah, the justifications for Islamic Terrorism in Kashmir, the whitewashing of Yakub Memon and Afzal Guru, liberals should at least now realize that they are only furthering the interests of Radical Islam by peddling such extremely dubious rhetoric. The liberal establishment should also realize what their whitewashing of history and peddling narratives of Islamophobia without any shred of evidence has led to. It has led to a situation where dangerous individuals like Sharjeel Islam are using the cover their rhetoric provides in order to further the cause of Radical Islam.

Read: Jinnah wali Azadi slogans raised at Shaheen Bagh: The true face of anti-CAA protests and what these slogans mean

It is also pertinent to mention here that Sharjeel Imams rhetoric eulogizing Jinnah is textbook Pakistani propaganda. He is regurgitating the propaganda points that the Pakistani establishment makes. Sharjeel doesnt once refer to the genocides that were committed by the Muslims in their pursuit of Pakistan, he doesnt once mention the call for Direct Action Day that led to the slaughter of innumerable Hindus. He conveniently ignores the genocide of Bengali Hindus that Pakistan committed in 1971. All of this was Jinnahs tree yielding fruits. And yet, Sharjeel doesnt once refer to them and continues to whitewash his legacy while demonizing the Congress party.

There is a certain kind of truth that only radicals like Sharjeel Imam are capable of saying. It is the king of truth that liberals try to whitewash for the cause of secularism. Where Sharjeel Imam really distinguished himself, prior to his recent call for civil war, is when he declared in a Facebook post that Muslims did not choose India due to ideals of secularism. He said, and it is true, that Muslims remained in India due to their property and other reasons.

Source: Sharjeel Imams Facebook Profile

The above Facebook post from September 2019 is the biggest slap on the face of the likes of Asaduddin Owaisi who like to boast about how they chose secular India over Islamic Pakistan. Imagine if a BJP politician had said such a thing. The entire liberal establishment would have nailed him to a cross. And here we have Sharjeel Imam who is provided a platform by The Wire and the liberal establishment which have helped the mastermind of the Shaheen Bagh protests at every turn by painting these protests as secular and about saving the constitution.

Sharjeel Imam has also flaunted the fact that Indian Muslims cheer for the Pakistan cricket team. He sees nothing wrong with it and, in fact, exhorts Muslims to not be on the defensive about it. Most conspicuously, however, he says that growing up, he had great knowledge about Saeed Answar but did not have much idea about Saurav Ganguly. He asks his audience to figure out the reason behind it.

Source: Sharjeel Imams Facebook Profile

The evidence of his bigotry is abundant in his Facebook posts. In another Facebook post, Sharjeel denigrates Idol-Worship and calls it Shirk. He also insults polytheism, the form of religiosity most Hindus subscribe to, by using it as an insult. He equates atheism, secularism, humanism, even nationalism, to Shirk.

Source: Sharjeel Imams Facebook Profile

Thus, what is clear from Sharjeel Imams Facebook posts and his eulogy of Jinnah is that he doesnt see any difference between Pakistani and Indian Muslims. He equates Nationalism to Shirk because the Ummah transcends national boundaries. He asks Indian Muslims to not be ashamed of celebrating Pakistans cricket team because he believes it is natural for Indian Muslims to identify themselves more with Pakistan than with India. In fact, he encourages Indian Muslims to feel that way. At the most fundamental level, Sharjeel Imam sees Jinnah as an Indian Muslim who revolted against Hindus in order to create the Islamic State of Pakistan. He sees Jinnahs Jihad as a righteous struggle for the protection of Muslim interests and he believes the oppressed Muslims of India should tread a similar path.

Read: Shaheen Bagh protests: Deep dive into how JNU student and The Wire columnist Sharjeel Imam went from let us burn Constitution to saving it

Let this not be forgotten. The liberal establishment helped a Radical Islamist like Sharjeel Imam achieve his objective perfectly. While the Liberal Establishment accuses ordinary BJP voters of being fascists, they are the ones who collaborated with someone who whitewashed a Jihadist who was responsible for the death of millions and millions of Hindus.

Sharjeel Imam has been at the forefront of the anti-CAA protests from the very beginning. In a video that had gone viral on social media by the 17th of December, he could be seen inciting Muslims to do Chakkajam in Delhi and wherever they have sufficient numbers. He called for Muslims to bring entire cities to a halt. There are over 30% urban Muslims in UP. Do you have no shame at all? Why cannot you do Chakkajam in UP? The area in Bihar where I am from, the rural Muslim population is 6% while the urban Muslim population is 24%. Indian Muslims mostly live in cities. So it is upon you. You can bring your cities to a halt. If anyone asks you not to, disown them he was heard saying in the viral video.

There is another aspect that needs to be investigated here. A thorough investigation needs to be conducted into the extent of the collusion, if there was any, between Sharjeel Imam and the students of Jamia who gave a call for Jihad. As we have reported earlier, days before violence erupted in the national capital, the students Barkha Dutt labelled Shero gave a call for violent Jihad. While Sharjeel Imam eulogized the man responsible for the partition of the country, the Jamia Jihadans eulogized the men responsible for the Moplah massacre which resulted in the slaughter of hundreds and thousands of Hindus. Like Sharjeel, one of them did express great grief at the execution of Yakub Memon.

The role of the media also needs to be investigated amidst the current unrest. Slogans such as Hinduon se Azadi and yet, they were whitewashed the media. Slogans of Jinnah Wali Azadi were raised at the Shaheen Bagh protests and still, these protests were painted as secular. It needs to be investigated whether the Liberal Media is doing so due to their ideological affinity towards Radical Islam or whether there are more sinister reasons behind it.

The role of politicians needs to be investigated as well. AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan was spotted with Sharjeel Imam, it also needs to be mentioned that Amanatullah himself is accused of inciting riots. Hehad created ruckus outside Delhi police demanding the release of a 22-year-old Muslim youth named Furkan who is accused of instigating riots in Jamia Millia University in December. There is every indication of a grand conspiracy here. And as had said earlier, this is truly the Khilafat 2.0.

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Performer of the Week: Chandra Wilson – TVLine

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THE PERFORMER | Chandra Wilson

THE SHOW | Greys Anatomy

THE EPISODE | Help Me Through the Night (Jan. 23, 2020)

THE PERFORMANCE |In Thursdays winter premiere of Greys Anatomy, as Bailey struggled to regain control following her miscarriage and the accident that had imperiled husband Ben, Wilson sketched a portrait of a woman on the verge that was so real, it all but ached.

Sometimes, the actress used broad strokes when Bailey pushed aside her roiling emotions by ordering Schmitt to do the same, for instance, and when she panicked that Helm was going to die on the operating table right in front of her. Other times, Wilson drew in fine lines as when she let terror and relief fight in her eyes in the moment that Helms heart restarted.

But what really made Wilsons portrait of grief and rage such a masterpiece was the finishing touch that she put on it. When Richard assured Bailey that her residents were fine everyone was fine, she at last allowed herself not only to express the feelings shed been choking down but experience them. Wilsons voice as raw as a fresh wound, Bailey replied that no, everyone wasnt fine she wasnt.

With that, her portrayer let boil a toxic cocktail of anger and sorrow as Bailey marveled that her daughter had been there one moment and the next, shed just been gone. And thered been nothing Bailey could do but stand there and lose her. In that moment, we were helpless, too. As Wilson submerged Bailey in grief, we could only sit there and watch, in equal measure heartsick and impressed.

HONORABLE MENTION | We know that the Powers That Be already have an idea of wholl get a spinoff once the crime drama ends in a few weeks. But if theres any wiggle room left, wed like to lobby hard for Elisa Marie because in Sundays episode, Mattea Conforti was gold. Weve always liked her portrayal of Proctors young daughter, but this weeks installment displayed her ability to play the aching reality of an innocent girl manipulated by a world full of very bad people. Elisa Maries internalized grief over her parents deaths came through in all of Confortis choices, cresting with the way Elisa Marie seemed unable to decide whether to fear Tommy or tell him her sad life story. If Conforti is this good this young, we cant wait to see what the coming years will bring.

HONORABLE MENTION | Anxiety is a cruel condition that creates an all-consuming inner torment while its sufferers struggle to maintain status quo. Niles Fitchs performance in Thursdays This Is Us proves that he absolutely understands that painful dichotomy. Fitch was so believable while college-age Randall tamped down his worries, and then heartbreaking as those worries resurfaced as inescapable nightmares. But we were most impressed with the scene in which he and new girlfriend Beth discussed the prospect of therapy. Fitch spoke quietly but firmly, showing Randalls hesitance to discuss this debilitating aspect of his personality but he allowed some vulnerability and hope to seep in, as well. Perhaps most impressively, Fitch closely mirrored co-star Sterling K. Browns approach to Randalls situation, lending the hour a throughline that strengthened the episode on the whole.

HONORABLE MENTION | In Season 2 of Netflixs Sex Education, Aimee Lou Woodsuperbly dramatized the rollercoaster of emotion that befalls a victim of sexual assault. But it was in Episode 7, when her character Aimee could no longer balance her myriad states of mind, that the actress really shined. If he could do something like that, then anyone could, she broke down to her friends. I always felt safe before and now I dont. As Aimee grew more cognizant of her feelings, Woods vulnerability and mannerisms sold her characters psychological damage. With support from her gal pals (and a trip to a junkyard), she pushed through the rage. Im angry that a horrible man ruined my best jeans and nobody did anything and now I cant get on the fking bus! she screamed while smashing a car to pieces. Woods performance allowed us to witness the devastating effects of sexual assault on a young woman. By the time Aimee courageously reboarded that bus, Wood had transformed her from fearful victim to brazen survivor.

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Irish star Richard Flood in dark period of unemployment before landing Greys Anatomy big break with Dr McW – The Irish Sun

ACTOR Richard Flood found himself in a dark period of unemployment before landing his big break on Greys Anatomy.

The Dubliner, 37, will send temperatures soaring as hunky Irish heart surgeon Dr Cormac Hayes in the latest season of the hugely successful medical drama.

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Its a massive turnaround for the dad-of-one who struggled to find work after his Red Rock character Garda James McKay was killed off in the old Virgin Media One soap in 2016.

Flood said: Right after Red Rock, things got a bit scary. Previously, I had a good job, it was pretty well received and I thought surely it would lead to something else.

But auditions didnt go well, the phone didnt ring. Nothing was hitting and that period was pretty scary.

I was living in Dublin, I had a family to look after. Its the nature of this work but that doesnt help when youre going through it. It was a pretty dark period for me.

Now Flood looks set to become the next George Clooney who originally got his break on ER as the new hot doc at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

Introduced to viewers at the end of the mid season finale in November, fans reckon Floods Dr Hayes is a new love interest for Ellen Pompeos Meredith Grey who was previously married to Patrick Dempseys Dr McDreamy.

And despite being personally vetted by Pompeo, 50, before landing the role, Richard is careful not to give any spoilers away.

He explained: Im so new to the show, I have no idea whats coming. And its Greys Anatomy they keep their storylines top secret.

Ellen, shes the producer, shes been on it for 16 years, she is the show, its her thing so it made sense for me to meet her during the [casting process].

Richard said the straight-talking TV star is far from a diva on set.

He said: Ellens a really big deal and I was nervous to work with her. But theres something so normal and disarming about her.

I just felt like I was working with another actor who was there to do the job.

During his debut episode, viewers learned Dr Hayes had tragically lost his wife earning him the nickname, Dr McWidow.

Flood laughed: My mates think its hilarious. Patrick Dempsey was McDreamy and I get McWidow. He sounds a bit miserable by comparison.

Raised in the south Dublin suburb of Clonskeagh, Flood got his first taste of small-screen success alongside Amy Huberman and Jack Reynor in a TV adaptation of Cecelia Aherns Three Wise Women in 2010.

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Landing bit parts in Titanic: Blood and Steel and Killing Kennedy with Rob Lowe, Richard scored the lead role in short-lived crime saga Crossing Lines.

And while the series was canned after only three seasons, love blossomed with Italian co-star Gabriella Pession.

Married in 2016, the couple share a five year-old son, Julio.

Currently, Richard splits his time between their home in Milan and his base in L.A. while shooting Greys Anatomy.

But spending time away from his young family is proving a difficult struggle.

He said: We live in Milan most of the time and Im flying in and out of LA and being away from them, that can be really difficult.

Im trying to find a way to manage it. With Greys, hopefully they can come out here for an extended period next year.

Whenever I get a gap in my schedule, five or six days, Im back over to Italy. I mean, its a bit of a trip but its so worth it.

And while the couple try to alternate their work schedules so one is always there for Julio, Richard admitted a recent clash in jobs left him worried for the welfare of his young son.

The newcomer said: Hes a very happy little man, very content.

But its only when Gabriella started shooting a film in Italy recently and I was over here doing Greys, there was about two weeks where he didnt see either of us which I was worried about.

But he handled it like a champ. And Gabriellas mum was there, my parents went over.

Hes surrounded all the time. Hes very happy, very safe and secure. Thats the main thing for us.

Starring in the longest-running medical drama in history 16 seasons and counting Richard is prepared for the crazy fans and paparazzi attention because Gabriella, 42 is so famous in Italy.

He explained: Shes a big star in Italy, been really famous for 20 years so its part of life for her and in turn, for us. Im not sure you get used to that kind of attention.

Its a weird thing when you have guys on the street taking your photos. But Ive learned a lot from her on how to handle it.

However, Richard has already had a taste of life in the spotlight thanks to his starring role as Garda James McKay in Red Rock.

He laughed: I remember being in the pub of Grafton Street at Christmas and people flocking over, dying to tell you how much they liked Red Rock. It was fantastic.

As I say, its a bit weird but ultimately, if everyones being nice to you, whats wrong with that.

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Set to be launched into orbit on Tinseltowns A-list, Flood revealed feeling unsettled by the next George Clooney association.

He said: Ill happily take it although I think its a bit of a stretch. Im really excited by whats to come but you just dont want to get too ahead of yourself.

Its about taking it all one step at a time.

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Station 19 Season Premiere With Greys Anatomy Crossover Tops Thursday; Outmatched Solid In Debut – Deadline

ABCs third-season premiere of Station 19 in its new 8 PM slot in a two-hour crossover with its flagship Greys Anatomy gave thee network the two most watched and top-rated shows in primetime Thursday.

With Greys showrunner Krista Vernoff now in charge of both shows and three more crossovers in the works this season under Vernoffs unified command, Station 19 (1.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, 6.98 million viewers), now at 8 PM, returned as the nights most-watched program, gaining four-tenths in the demo from its Season 2 finale in May.

It was followed by Greys (1.4, 6.65M), settling nicely into its new slot. Its demo number was even with Greys fall finale back on November 21.

In an interview with Deadline in November, Vernoff said the two shows will interconnect every few episodes. We dont want to do it every week, we dont want to create a mold, we dont want to fall into any kind of pattern, we dont want people to ever know what to expect, she said.

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Also on Thursday, Fox premiered its Jason Biggs-Maggie Lawson multi-camera family comedy Outmatched (0.7, 3.23M), which rode the strong lead-in of Last Man Standing (0.8, 4.40M), the latter up a tenth compared with last week.

NBCs comedy lineup Superstore (0.7, 2.73M), the penultimate episode of The Good Place (0.6, 2.11M) and Will & Grace (0.5, 2.30M) all saw one-tenth bumps, leading into the season finale of Perfect Harmony (0.3, 1.42M), which was even in the demo and saw a slight viewer uptick. With its 13-episode first season now finished, the 20th Century Fox TV-produced series starring Bradley Whitford awaits a renewal decision which likely wont come til closer to the May upfronts.

The CWs night included Supernatural (0.2, 1.02M), down a tenth as it continues its final-season run, and Legacies (0.2, 720,000), which was even with last week.

CBS comedy lineup was in repeats, with the networks night capped by The Gayle King Grammy Special (0.3, 2.63M) ahead of Sundays Grammy Awards telecast.

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Grey’s Anatomy recap: Who survives the accident at Joe’s Bar? – Entertainment Weekly News

When we last left Joes Bar outside of Grey Sloan Memorial, a car had slammed through the brick wall, flinging debris everywhere. It was a satisfying fall finale. Who will survive? Who is critically injured? Can Meredith save the day? Did Averys face get injured?

Shonda Rhimes answers these questions in a two-hour crossover event with Station 19. Its 120 minutes of flashbacks, oozing blood, drunk residents, emergency surgeries, and lots of baby talk. My butt was clenched the entire time.

Why? Because the front end of a car is teetering on a wall, threatening to fall down inside Joes Bar. Theres a bunch of rubble blocking the door. And some jackwagon left a cement truck parked right up next to the back door, preventing any of the scared and wounded from escaping.

Its fortunate that Ben and Avery are inside the bar and able to help people. Its unfortunate that all of the residents who were boozing it up are currently bleeding, screaming, or in shock. Helm, who is clearly hurt herself, orders someone to help Simms, who is clearly bleeding. Parker and Schmidt are in shock and Brody is certain they are all going to die.

Avery springs into action and barks out instructions. Schmidt turns an unconscious Simms on his side and holds his head still. Nico and Brody help assess Helms injuries as she blurts out her own diagnosis. Shes pretty sure her internal organs are bleeding and shes going to die.

Avery makes her take a few shots of whiskey, and even though its a dire situation, drunk Helm immediately becomes the comedy relief we so desperately need in this stressful situation.

Meanwhile, Ben builds a pyramid out of liquor boxes so he can see inside the car. Joan, the driver, is hysterical because her husband is dying of a heart attack, which is why she was driving like a madwoman in the first place. Ben teaches Joan how to perform CPR on her husband while Station 19 firefighters arrive on the scene.

From what I can gather, Andy and Sullivan were super into each other, but now they are not. The looks they give each other fall anywhere between shade and cold shoulder. Andy is working on moving the parked cement truck and asks Vicky how she was able to move on from her fiancs death.

She has Dr. Jackson Avery as her new lover, thats how. Vicky decides Andy should get a hot doctor, too. I hear DeLuca is free.

When Joans husband stops breathing, Ben is able to shock him back to life, thanks to supplies passed through the broken windows from the firefighters outside. Darling firefighter Montgomery wiggles his way in through the back window of the car and manages to get the husband on a gurney. Then he asks Joan to unbuckle her seatbelt so he can do the same to her.

Of course, its stuck. But never fear. Joan has scissors. She can cut it off and they can all get back home to the dog. Just as Joan pulls out the scissors, the car falls forward and the point of the scissors poke straight into Joans carotid artery. Montgomery cant save her and this devastates him to the core. Later, he and Vicky go to the couples house and feed the dog since Joans husband is having heart surgery. Im glad the key was under the front door mat and the alarm was non-existent.

Out back, Andy has called every firefighter in Seattle to come help push the cement truck out of the way. When they all come barreling through the back door, Andy is surprised to see her father is among the helpers. He berates her unit for taking so long to get there and leaves her standing in a pile of rubble.

In a flashback, we learn that Sullivan pulled away from Andy because he is nervous that if anyone finds out they are in a relationship, he wont make battalion chief and she wont make regular chief. Moreover, Andys dad thinks shes a slut (her words, not mine) because she continues to date everyone at Station 19. Bonus: Andy has no idea her dads cancer is back.

Simms is placed on a gurney and rushed out to the ambulance. Parker, who continues to ask about the bomb and if they are in the green zone, is ushered out by Schmidt as Helm continues to yell, I dont want to die! Save all the lives!

Avery: Youre not dying, Helm. Youre drunk.

A grateful Miranda reunites with Ben. Because of her miscarriage, he doesnt want her to go back to work. But she insists because shes the mother hen and two of her little chicks are in bad condition. Ben is given privileges at Grey Sloan, but Miranda makes him promise he wont go into an OR.

Miranda hides in the supply closet. Just when shes about to do that Greys Anatomy scream thing, she hears sobbing. Its Schmidt. Hes about to lose it. Together they assure each other that their friends and colleagues will not die on their watch. Meredith arrives with reinforcements in the form of Webber and Owen. Now all of Baileys chicks are under one roof!

After everyone scatters to different ORs, Ben makes Webber promise he will stick to Miranda like glue. Shes in no condition to operate and she needs someone she trusts near in case she loses it. Webber is the man for the job.

Amelia and Teddy take Parker for a CT scan. Its clear hes suffering from PTSD. Teddy wants to gab about baby stuff and Amelia stiffens. As you may recall, the little bundle of joy Amelia is carrying is more than likely going to have red hair. Fortunately, she doesnt have to have that awkward conversation because Parker is MIA. They go on a hunt around the entire hospital and eventually find him in the hyperbaric chamber.

I dont know which set is more delightful to me. The hyperbaric chamber or the room with plants in it.

Meredith starts out with Helm, who continues to diagnose herself. She also asks to scrub in for her own surgery. Hilarious. But the best part of drunk Helms monologue was when she admits she loves Dr. Grey and condemns Schmidt for getting her fired. Meredith accepts the compliment with confidence and Schmidt collapses to the floor.

All signs point to heart attack, but since hes not even 30 years old, that seems unlikely. Teddy finally figures out that he has broken heart syndrome, which is an actual medical thing. He has to be monitored.

Avery and Owen handle Simms head injury with Koracick hovering. This drives Avery crazy. Why must Koracick micromanage? My favorite part was when Brody slammed Dr. Altman for dating Dr. Koracick after he left the room. Avery rolled his eyes and broke the news to Brody that the man standing to her left is actually dating Teddy. Which begs the question: When is the wedding?

Whoops. There is no wedding date because there is no engagement ring. Hes been waiting for the right time. And we all know that time is going to be moments before Amelia tells him, Hey Owen! Youre going to be a daddy again!

On a side note, big props to the Greys Anatomy makeup department. When Avery peeled Simms face off of his own skull, I might have experienced some digestive distress. So very realistic.

Its at this point that Owen notices fluid around some blood that dropped onto the paper sheet. That means Simms brain is leaking. Koracick flies in to save the day, angry that this wasnt caught sooner.

All ends well. The surgery is a success. Avery and Owen share the good news with Simms grandmother, who wonders if Tommy did the surgery? It turns out that Koracick is not a tin man. He personally moved Simms grandmother to Seattle so they could be together. He has a heart after all! Koracick thanks Owen for the catch and rewards him with a hearty handshake.

This gives Owen all the courage he needs to run through the hospital, find Teddy, scoot her into a hospital room, and drop to one knee. Thats right. This place is as good as any to propose. He whips out a whopper of a diamond ring, but Teddy doesnt say yes right away. She doesnt want Owen to feel obligated to propose.

Of course, he doesnt feel obligated. Hes loved Teddy F-O-R-E-V-E-R and he wants to spend the rest of his life loving her. Teddy says yes and they run through the halls to tell all their medical friends the good news. They even run up to Amelia and Link just as Amelia is about to spill the beans about her baby boy. This will not end well. However, I do concur that Scout is a cute name.

Across the hospital, Helm is crashing after Link set her broken leg. Miranda and Webber rush in to figure out whats wrong and end up having to crack her chest open. It was touch-and-go for a few minutes, which led Miranda into a tailspin. She hands the scalpel to Webber and they finish the job, all while Miranda chants, You will not die. No one is dying today. Helms heart starts beating moments later.

Lets do a roll call, shall we? Helm is alive and well and has forgiven Schmidt for tattling on Meredith Grey. Check. Simms face skin has been stretched back on his skull and hes in recovery. Nice. Parker has been found and is getting the help he needs. Good. Schmidt needs a few weeks to mend his broken heart. Lovely.

Miranda, however, is not fine. Through a beautiful dialogue performed by Chandra Wilson, we feel a shred of the pain her character feels. She cant help her baby. She cant do anything but stand there and lose her. It was heartbreaking to watch Miranda weep in her mentors arms.

Speaking of babies, I am happy to report that Jo did not steal the one she found at Station 19. I can also report that I can watch Dr. McWidow hold a baby all the livelong day, which is probably going to happen since Justin Chambers is no longer on the show. I have so many questions about that situation, but thats another post for another time.

Finally, remember that guy who had a heart condition and his wife just had a baby and Maggie left him on the operating table to go quit her job? Lo and behold, the dudes heart started beating again and DeLuca is so excited, he heads straight to Maggies house to tell her.

DeLuca: You did that. You saved him.Random Lady: Maggie Pierce? Youve been served.

Maggie is being sued for wrongful death. FROM HER COUSIN. Maybe Dr. McWidow can hold her for a few minutes to make it all better.

Meredith. Alex. Bailey. The doctors are definitely in on Shonda Rhimes' hospital melodrama.

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Um, Who the Hell Are Blake and Brody on Greys Anatomy? – Cosmopolitan.com

[There are spoilers ahead for last nights Grey's Anatomy. If youre not caught up, dont keep reading! I warned you.]

Last nights Greys picked up exactly where any good mid-season premiere should: In the middle of a crisis, with half the characters in a state of this is life or death. Thankfully, everyone survived, but some of the characters who *did* survive were seemingly...random? And people no one had ever heard of before?

Im talking specifically about Blake and Brody, two people whose names I had heard so few times that I had to google them while watching. Last night, Blake got an entirely new face while Brody was seriously bruised in the face department. It felt like we as audience members were really supposed to care about them, but its hard to care when you have no idea who they are! I wasnt the only one who felt that way.

If youre a Greys fan account and you have to remind people who a character is, thats a problem!

As a quick refresher, Blake is Blake Simms, who is Tom Koracicks protg or something. Truly, never heard of him! He came from Johns Hopkins with Tom, and has apparently been hanging out at Grey Sloan ever since?? IDK.

And apparently, Brody is Hannah Brody, this girl...

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Shes been a resident with DeLucas class since the beginning, which, who knew!!

This isnt to shade any of these characters, obviously. Greys has always been an ensemble show, but its a little jarring when people who were very minor characters before are now treated like major characters. Either way, happy they both survived!

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Kutz introduces students to the program Anatomy of a Recession – The Campus

Alleghenys Center for Business and Economics kicked off its spring semesters lunchtime learning lecture series on at 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16,. in Quigley Hall Auditorium by welcoming Trustee John Kutz, 83, to give a presentation titled Anatomy of a Recession.

The presentation was centered on three main questions: How close could we be to the next recession? Will growth hold steady, weaken or pick up by the end of the year? What factors are most important to watch to help keep people on track?

Shannon Putnam, 20, began the lunchtime learning lecture by introducing Kutz.

While at Allegheny, (Kutz) was a double major in economics and German, and a member of Delta Tau Delta, Putnam said. After his graduation from Allegheny, (Kutz) received his MBA from the (Joseph M.) Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

Putnam said one of Kutzs favorite memories of Allegheny is the relationships he built with professors at the school.

Additionally, one of (Kutzs) proudest moments with Allegheny is his son, Tim, 18, carrying on his familys Allegheny legacy and finding success after graduation, Putnam said.

Like his father, Tim Kutz was a double major in economics and German, and a member of Delta Tau Delta.

Kutz began in the investment industry in 1998, and spent nearly 18 years as managing director of retirement plan services at Victory Capital Management before serving the Ohio Valley region as sales director for Legg Mason.

Kutz began his presentation by asking students and faculty in the audience to raise their hands if they knew his son.

I am very proud of him, Kutz said, (Tim) is killing it, and that is what happens when you have a great liberal arts education from Allegheny College.

Kutzs presentation focused on capital markets and reviewed where the United States economy stands, relative to a possible recession.

However, Kutz first introduced the audience to Legg Masons program, Anatomy of a Recession.

(Anatomy of a Recession) is a program we update on a monthly basis to the extent that the variables that we will cover that tend to foreshadow economic change, Kutz said.

Kutz first asked audience members if they knew the definition of recession, before explaining that recession is two consecutive quarters of GDP decline.

We are trying to do whatever we can in this economy to avoid a recession, Kutz said. This is why we created (Anatomy of a Recession).

Kutz continued by defining the vocabulary terms, market crash and pullback.

A market crash is defined as a decline in the market by more than 20%, and it is a duration of more than a year, Kutz said.

Kutz said that the U.S. has experienced six market crashes since the 1960s. All, except for one, of these market crashes resulted in a recession.

Declines in the market that are fewer than 20% and last less than a year are considered pullbacks, according to Kutz.

Market crashes are nearly three times more likely to result in a recession, Kutz said. Market crashes and recessions go hand-in-hand.

Kutz explained that the U.S. is in the 11th year of a full market coming out of the financial crisis. Kutz also mentioned that the recovery from the financial crisis of the early 2000s has been shallow compared to other recession recoveries the U.S. has had since World War II.

As a result, businesses and consumers dont feel good about this recovery, Kutz said. There is a myth that because (the U.S.) is so long into this economic cycle this is what you are hearing on television it has to come to an end, and that is not the case whatsoever.

Countries such as Canada and Japan have experienced much longer economic cycles, according to Kutz.

Time is not a reason for an economic expansion to stop, Kutz said.

Kutz also discussed what is referred to as the recession-risk dashboard, which is comprised of four main pillars.

The first of these four pillars is financial indicators.

(Financial indicators) tend to be the first to weaken when our economy starts to go into a downturn, Kutz said.

In addition to financial indicators, the pillars also include inflation variables and the consumer sector. Finally, the fourth pillar is business activity.

Using a stoplight analogy, Kutz described the U.S. economy in terms of red, yellow and green. Kutz labeled the current U.S. economy as yellow, meaning cautionary. Red is used to mark a recessionary economy, and green an expansionary.

(The recession-risk dashboard) was designed to give investors and consultants ample time to act, Kutz said. (The economy) doesnt flip overnight from green to yellow to red. There is a time horizon that should allow people to do things within their portfolio to take the risk out of their portfolio.

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The worst movies the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ stars have been in – Insider – INSIDER

Shonda Rhimes' ABC hit "Grey's Anatomy" has been on the air for 16 seasons, and throughout its long run, the show has featured many talented actors in its ensemble cast

Despite having appeared in many successful films, not all of the stars' work has been a hit with critics.

Here are the worst films the medical drama's cast has been in, according to critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Note: Critic scores were accurate at the time of publication but are subject to change.

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Film review: The anatomy of a comeback in Panga – Livemint

For such an unhurried film, Panga has a bracingly violent start. All of Bhopal is sleeping, except for Prashant (Jassie Gill), whos getting kicked by his wife, Jaya (Kangana Ranaut), in bed. These arent light kicks either. Ranaut isnt an actor given to half-measures and Id wager Gill left the set that day with more than a few bruises. Not only are the kicks satisfyingly hard, they have a certain rhythm and coil to them. Theyre athlete kicks.

Its a nice detail, because Jaya is an athlete, or at least was one. A national-level kabaddi player, she quit the sport to take care of her son, born prematurely and with low immunity. She never returned to kabaddi, working instead at a railway ticket counter and investing all her energy in her precocious school-going child and loving husband. She feels a pang now and then, but tells herself that neither her umar (age shes 32) nor kamar (waistline) would allow a return to the game.

In Ashwiny Iyer Tiwaris first film, 2016's Nil Battey Sannata, a working mother joins her daughters school so she can first learn and then tutor her in math. Panga, too, has a mother risking embarrassment for her child: once the boy learns that Jaya left kabaddi for him, he badgers his father to persuade her to make a comeback. In a montage scored with an Annu Kapoor comic number, Jaya starts training again, with the intention of giving up in a month. But when the time comes, she cant. She left kabaddi, but kabaddi never left her.

Its barely a surprise when the super-supportive Prashant an endearing, if slightly wishful, creation insists she try and make her way back to the national team. Tiwari and co-writer Nikhil Mehrohtra carefully unpeel the various levels of social indoctrination that someone like Jaya must overcome before they can follow their dreams, not only practical problems (Prashant is inept around the house) but her own guilt at what in her mind amounts to abandoning her child.

For a sports film, this is a timely idea to be grappling with (Sultan, in 2016, also dealt with it). There are more prominent Indian women athletes today than perhaps ever before, and some like Mary Kom and Sania Mirza have returned to their sports after becoming parents. But in a more general sense, the film is an empathetic look at the social cost of continuing with ones life after marriage and children. That Jaya should consider herself lucky that she actually is lucky, as shes told by several women to get to do the thing shes good at, is one of the more poignant reiterations of this film.

Nitesh Tiwari is credited with additional dialogue and screenplay, and theres a hint of Dangals unnecessary villain in the figure of national team captain, who for no reason keeps slighting Jaya. I can see why the film tries to introduce a late-stage antagonist, though; Panga is easy-going to a fault. Its not often one gets to say this about a Hindi film, but there are moments when it could really use some drama. The kabaddi isnt badly executed but because the film takes its time building to Jayas comeback, the final championship is both rushed and predictable.

After a series of high-strung, if often brilliant, performances in Rangoon, Simran, Manikarnika and Judgmentall Hai Kya, its a relief to see Ranaut play in a more down-to-earth style. Jaya is more comfortable in her skin than Rani Mehra, but Queen does come to mind: its the same homemade-sweater-wearing, chaat-eating, cautiously progressive middle-class milieu. Gill does little but look lost and smile broadly a surprisingly winsome strategy. Richa Chadha, in a very Richa Chadha role as an outspoken coach and friend of Jayas, is supremely relaxed. She even gets to do a little shout-out to her own line from Gangs of Wasseypur: Ghoor kaahe rahe ho?" The best adaptation of a famous line, though, is by a character whos there in just one scene, the doctor who tells Jaya, Ab goli kha".

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Are Greys Anatomy And Station 19 Trying To Become The Next One Chicago? – CinemaBlend

After Bailey went on a firing spree in the Season 15 finale, Alex and Richard wound up moving to Pacific Northwest General, with Owen eventually making the jump from Grey Sloan Memorial to Pac-North as well. Naturally, viewers started speculating that a new series was in the works, but Greys Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff debunked that speculation in early January, saying to TVLine that while she loves hearing talk of a Pac-North series, shes not spinning it off.

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