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His stuttering was so bad that on some days he avoided going to school as his class mates made fun of him. At times he was unable to get even one word out let alone a whole sentence. However his passion was acting, he knew that that is what he wants to do in life.

Xelf, A Kolkata based Web Service by Ridhi and Amit Agarwal covered by Indian Express

Xelf, a website created by two city-based entrepreneurs promises to make your book-reading experience and affordable and hassle-free one. “Xelf is the first online book rental library in Kolkata. We have an exhaustive collections of paperbacks and hard-covers which can be delivered directly to your house, without the need to purchase. The delivery and pick-up is free and there are no late fees,” informs Ridhi Agarwal, co-founder of the website.

Xelf was created by Ridhi and her friend Amit Agarwal, with one motto- to offer a cost effective, convenient online service to the book lovers of the city where they can read more and save money. “The reason why we started Xelf was simple- we felt that there was a need for something like this in Kolkata- where people are culturally rich and yet they might not have the time to visit a library themselves. They just reserve the books online and we deliver them. We are already working with various schools and colleges in Kolkata to plan corporate memberships for their students,” says Ridhi.

Ridhi and Amit decided to fall back on word-of-mouth publicity to promote this website. “Our friends were very helpful.At the same time we have been very active on Orkut/Facebook,” says Ridhi. The entire funding for Xelf was done from both their savings. “Xelf has been running since the last 2 months and the response from Kolkata has been very good and we have great expectations from this city. Once we have created a sizeable base here, we plan to start operations in other cities like Durgapur, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati ,” sums up Ridhi.

Congratulations to Ridhi and Amit

ISTANBUL — A protester threw a shoe at the managing director of the International Monetary Fund at the end of his speech at a university on Thursday in the prelude to I.M.F. and World Bank meetings in Istanbul.

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Selcuk Ozbek threw a sneaker protesting a speech by the International Monetary Fund’s chief in Istanbul.

The protester, Selcuk Ozbek, a student at Anadolu University, shouted, “Get out of the university, I.M.F. thief!” threw a white sneaker and ran toward the podium where the managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, stood. But televised images showed Mr. Ozbek being quickly tackled by security guards.

A female student then tried to unfurl a banner but was surrounded by security officials, allowing Mr. Strauss-Kahn to calmly answer a last question before leaving the hall.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn played down the episode. “I was glad to meet students and hear their views,” he said in a written statement released afterward. “This is what the I.M.F. needs to do, even if not everyone agrees with us. One thing I learned: Turkish students are polite. They waited until the end to complain.”

He filed no official complaint, and Mr. Ozbek was freed by the police later in the evening.

“I think this is how global capital should be welcomed wherever it goes,” Mr. Ozbek told NTV on a live broadcast. “The anti-imperialist youth of any country responsible for their future should act this way.”

Mr. Ozbek said his shoe was returned to him after his protest.

Like his inspiration, Muntader al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes in December at President George W. Bush in Baghdad, Mr. Ozbek, 24, works at a news outlet. He is a full-time editor on the politics desk at Birgun, a left-wing daily, his department confirmed.

The hurled shoe lost speed after it hit a seated student posing a question with a microphone in hand, and so it missed the director, slow-motion television pictures showed. But while a Turkish shoe company claimed to have made Mr. Zaidi’s shoe — a statement that promptly increased its sales worldwide — Mr. Ozbek’s shoe was reported to have been made by Nike.

Halil Guven, the dean of Bilgi University, where the event occurred, said that the university was used to protests because it often served as a site for controversial speeches and events.

Sign in to Recommend More Articles in World » A version of this article appeared in print on October 2, 2009, on page A4 of the New York edition.

ISTANBUL — A protester threw a shoe at the managing director of the International Monetary Fund at the end of his speech at a university on Thursday in the prelude to I.M.F. and World Bank meetings in Istanbul.
Skip to next paragraph
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Salih Zeki Fazlioglu/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Selcuk Ozbek threw a sneaker protesting a speech by the International Monetary Fund’s chief in Istanbul.

The protester, Selcuk Ozbek, a student at Anadolu University, shouted, “Get out of the university, I.M.F. thief!” threw a white sneaker and ran toward the podium where the managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, stood. But televised images showed Mr. Ozbek being quickly tackled by security guards.