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Abohar Amritsar CONCLUDED: As many as 260 Granthis took part in the three-day Gurmat camp concluded at Gurdwara Chohla Sahib on Saturday. An SGPC press release issued here said that the camp was organised by its Dharam Prachar Committee. Batala Fatehgarh Sahib Faridkot Nawanshahr EXPRESSED: Mr Iqbal Singh, president, Punjab Pradesh Saini Sabha, in a letter to the Chief Minister, Haryana, Mr Bhupender Singh Hooda, has expressed concern over the alleged boycott of candidates belonging to the Saini community in about 30 villages of Jhajjar district in Haryana. He urged the CM to take appropriate action to put a check on such incidents of caste-based discrimination and social boycott. SEMINAR HELD: A seminar on ‘Soil health and proper use of water resources’ was held at Krishi Vighyan Kendra, Langroya, Dr Surjit Singh Gill, Director, Extension Education, Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana, presided over the seminar which was attended by a large number of farmers of the area. Phagwara BODY FOUND: An unidentified body was found from outside the local railway station on Saturday. The deceased appeared to be migrant and in his thirties. The cause of death could not be ascertained. FATAL FALL: A woman passenger fell to her death from a moving bus here on Sunday. The police has booked the driver and conductor of the bus for negligence. It was learnt that a 35-year-old woman was to get down from a private bus opposite JCT Mill. She had not yet got down from the bus when the driver moved the bus. The woman stumbled into roadside bridge structrure and died.
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Panipat Sonepat SNATCHED: Two unidentified motorcycle-borne youths are reported to have snatched a bag containing Rs 20,000 from a woman who was going on a scooty along with her daughter near the office of the Life Insurance Corporation in Sector 15 here on Sunday. According to a report, the suspects pushed the woman from the scooty and she fell down on the road and was injured seriously. KILLED: A woman was killed on the spot when she was hit by a tractor on the Sonepat-Meerut inter-state road near Khewra village on Sunday. She has been identified as Bimla Devi. |
Nurpur SATTA MENACE: In order to check the growing menace of satta in the town, the local police on Saturday conducted a raid in the town and arrested two satta agents along with satta slips used in the gambling. Kishor Kumar and Dwarka Dass, local residents, were arrested under the Gambling
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Thirty minutes of FAME
Intriguing indeed is the story of a small village of Gurgaon called Choma Khera, mentioned in the records as Daulatpur Nasirabad. In 1978, it suddenly was bestowed an all-American identity and the reason for this was that the then US President Jimmy Carter chose to visit it during his nine-day tour to India in January that year. What interest could the buoyant US President have had in this obscure, back-of-beyond village? Well, it was a sentimental bond. Carter’s mother, Lillian Carter, who was an active volunteer in the US Peace Corps, came to India in the 1960s and stayed in this village. And it was in Nasirabad that she worked as a nurse. So, Carter along with then Prime Minister Morarji Desai and Devi Lal visited the village and offered to develop it. The Indian hosts immediately said that they would do so and promptly renamed it Carterpuri. But, much to everybody’s dismay, barring a few boards with the new name being posted here and there nothing much was done by way of development. Now in the rapidly developing global Gurgaon, it is hard indeed to locate this village with most of the land taken up by HUDA’s Sector 23 on one side and Palam Vihar on the other side. What remains is a strip of houses, a temple, a school and some old-timers who can recall the half an hour of fame that came the way of this village, which has seen three-naming ceremonies so far. Home is where the heart is The holy city of Amritsar is emerging as a super-speciality centre in the medical field. After patients from neighbouring Pakistan coming here for heart surgery, patients from European countries too are heading to the city. Patrick Brigham, a 60-year-old Englishman, came here all the way from Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, for enhanced external counter-pulsation (EECP) treatment to open his blocked arteries. After this treatment he will not be required to undergo bypass surgery. Brigham says that after going through various initial tests, doctors in Bulgaria had advised him to undergo bypass surgery. He searched in vain for the EECP facility in various hospitals in his country. He then went to England for the EECP but the waiting list there was very long. He then surfed the Internet and came to know of a Amritsar hospital which was providing the EECP facility at a cheaper rate than in the USA. He would have to shell out $ 12,000 for this treatment in America, while in India it costs only $ 2,000. Dr S.J.S. Randhawa, who has been treating Brigham, says that those patients who have chest pain or breathlessness of cardiac origin and do not wish to undergo coronary artery bypass can go in for EECP directly. He claims to have treated one patient each from Dubai and Canada. In tune with the times
He’s young, suave and his work is music to the ears. Bhanu Ahuja, a Ludhiana-based disc jockey, has carved a niche for himself in the world of DJs. He was among the pioneers in this field in Punjab and has now brought out a music album ‘U and Me’. Bhanu made a foray into this field at a time when the DJ phenomenon was confined mostly to metros. “A friend had thrown a party. By chance, the orchestra people failed to turn up. I suggested that I could get my music system and the party could go on. The music proved to be a smash hit. That was my first shot at disc jockeying. Since then, there has been no looking back,” he remembers.
A postgraduate in business management, Bhanu always knew that run-of-the-mill jobs were not his cup of tea. Thankfully, disc jockeying “happened” to him. “Much has changed in the last few years. About a decade back, orchestra ruled the roost. Today, orchestras are dying down. It’s the age of DJs. There are now more than 400 DJs in Punjab,” he says. It was not easy going for him initially. Lack of a DJ culture and technical glitches in the hired music system made his work rather difficult. But he persisted. His big break came when the Sutlej Club of Ludhiana asked him to perform at a party being hosted there. Soon, he became popular as DJ B. He claims to have introduced the concept of rain dance in the town. “I used my own sprinkler system. The rain dance craze caught up in swanky hotels and resorts,” he elaborates. He started getting calls from hotels and resorts in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and other neighbouring states. He even went abroad to do his shows. He received some awards too, including one from the Ludhiana Management Association (LMA). Not content to rest on his laurels, he signed a contract with a Mumbai-based company and produced his music album. “As a DJ, one should be open to experimentation,” he says, adding that these days he’s busy with a Hindi album, “Bombay Jalwa”. “You don’t have to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth. You can script your own success,” he signs
off. Contributed by Nirupama Dutt, Sanjay Bumbroo and
Jupinderjit Singh
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