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Pt Bhimsen Joshi’s tuning with Jalandhar
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46 diarrhoea cases in Vikrampura locality
Maintenance blues hit PUDA Complex
Bring us World Cup, kids to Bhajji
Playing it for the Left
Ekta yatra was just a political stunt: BSP
Young World
2 killed as mobike, canter collide
2 commit suicide on rail tracks
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Pt Bhimsen Joshi’s tuning with Jalandhar
Jalandhar, January 27 The maestro is gone but the streets of Kot Kishan Chand and Baliyon Ki Bagichi in Jalandhar bear testimony to the times when the legend used to live and sing here. “He came to Jalandhar in 1933 and stayed till 1936. His house was at Baliyon Ki Bagichi and he used to eat at hotels. He was really devoted to Baba Harivallabh. Baba ki samadhi ko roz pranam karta tha. (He used to pay his respects to Baba’s samadhi everyday). Used to say ‘I am what I am because of him’,” adds Pt Shastri. He closely guards ‘Bhimsen’, a Marathi book on Pt. Joshi, one of the most precious collectibles in his little library. Arun Kapoor, vice-president of the Shree Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Mahasabha, who has been attending the sammelan since 1965 (and has heard stories of times before that from his father), says during his stay at Jalandhar, Pt Joshi used to serve the musicians at the samadhi of Baba Harivallabh. “At that time it used to be a huge maidan around the talaab with very few buildings and lots of little paths crisscrossing through it. One of these paths used to lead to Kot Kishan Chand nearby, where he used to take music lessons.” “He loved the sammelan. He began performing here in 1954 when he was still a junior artiste. He used to come here a couple of days before the sammelan and would stay on till the end,” says Kapoor. “His voice was something special. The sammelan would never see another like him. In those days, artistes were dedicated to the sammelan. Pt Joshi too was one of those. He always took what the mahasabha gave him. For him it was a sacred land. He considered performing here a privilege. He was a regular at the festival from 1954 to 1978,” Kapoor adds. When it comes to Pt Joshi, the year 1971 rides high on Kapoor’s mind, “He sat down to sing at 10 in the night and sung on till 10 in the morning. He had an amazing amount of stamina. I remember he sung raag Darbari, Baageshwari and a bhajan in Bhairavi. He also sung the immortal thumri ‘piya ke milan ki aas’ in raag Jogiya. It was an electric concert,” Kapoor quips. Rakesh Dada, treasurer of the Shree Baba Harivallabh Sangeet Mahasabha, is a big Pt Joshi fan. Dada has precious recordings of Pt. Bhimsen Joshi’s concerts, including the one in raag Kalashree (which derives its roots from raag Shree and raag Kalvati), which was created by Pandit Joshi. He also preserves an autograph given to him by the maestro in 1967, in his collection. “Pandit ji sung to hushed audience at the Harivallabh. His voice was unparalleled and he had a lot of control over his breath. In those days we used to have multiple performances by a single performer and sometimes Pt Joshi would perform both in the afternoon and in the evening. His bhajan ‘jo bhaje hari ka naam’ was a huge hit with the audience,” Dada quips. |
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All-India Balwant Singh Kapur Memorial School Hockey Tournament
Jalandhar, January 27 Indian Hockey team skipper Rajpal Singh gave away the prize of Rs 1 lakh to the victorious team. This was the third consecutive win for the Government Model School boys in the tournament. The seven-day-long tournament had started on January 20, which saw players from across the country at their best, exploring the hidden talent and adapting new hockey skills. While school hockey teams from across the country competed in the tournament, but it was hockey teams from Jalandhar, the hub of hockey in the country, which were leading during the seven-day hockey extravaganza. Skipper of the Government Model School team Akashdeep Singh termed the tournament at par with the Nehru Cup and said it had been helping them by laying a strong foundation for them. “The best thing about the Balwant Kapur hockey tournament is that they are actually promoting the national game at the grass-roots level and that, too, without any vested interests. Moreover the facilities that we get during the tournament are the best,” he added. From witnessing the leading (under-17) hockey players from various academies in action to providing a platform to the newcomers, the tournament was surely a package for the schoolboys. Players who had already proved their mettle in the Nehru Cup, New Delhi, during the past years were the main attraction during the matches. Deepinder Deep Singh, also from the victorious team, said the tournament had been providing the best exposure to the players, as it was a bag full of newcomers and experienced schoolboys On being asked about their favourite hockey player in the Indian Hockey team, the players said Sardara Singh. “There is a lot to learn from him. As budding players we just love his aggressive style of playing hockey,” said Jugraj Singh, another player from the team. All-India Balwant Singh Kapur Memorial School Hockey Tournament Coach from Bihar Regimental Centre (BRC), Danapur, B. Mahapatra expressed his happiness about participating in the tournament. “Every year we look forward to this tournament as it helps in bringing the hidden potential of our boys to the forefront. Our boys get to learn something from the best hockey teams of Jalandhar. Moreover, the facilities and hospitality that we get during the tournament are simply out of the world,” he said, adding that probably Punjab is the only state across the country where hockey is doing great. “Hockey needs many such grass-roots level tournaments to make it a success saga across the country. The Balwant Kapur hockey organising committee is doing a great service to the nation by conducting this tournament,” he quipped.
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46 diarrhoea cases in Vikrampura locality
Jalandhar, January 27 As many as 46 cases of diarrhoea have been diagnosed in the locality. Besides, six cases of repeated vomiting and four fever cases have also diagnosed by the survey teams, which reached the locality after getting information from the residents. Confirming the cases, District Health Officer Dr R.L. Bassan said on getting information about the prevalence of gastro cases there, two teams comprising sanitary inspectors surveyed around 87 houses and checked over 400 persons in the evening. Around 3,000 chorine tablets were distributed in the area. He said the exact reason behind the outbreak was yet to be identified. However, it seems that there was a fault in the drinking water supply of the area. Diarrhoea outbreaks during the ongoing winter season had put the corporation authorities in a fix. As the chances of such outbreaks during peak winter months are far less as compared to summer seasons, the health profile of city residents is likely to witness new lows in the coming summer months, which provides favorable environment for the occurrence infectious diseases. Moreover, excessive load on sewerage channels makes the situation worst during summer.
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Maintenance blues hit PUDA Complex
Jalandhar, January 27 The parking area in the complex has deep trenches, rubble and wild growth all around. The entry to the parking lot is extremely difficult and all vehicles entering the market area get damaged. The worst part is that most corners remain littered with filth that is never cleaned up. The market area is also being allowed to be used by auto scrap dealers, who dump the shells of accidental cars there. Car dealers also have been occupying a huge area in the parking lot, to which many dealers have been objecting. The SCO owners are also upset over the ill-maintained service lanes. They also lament that there are no toilets and the public toilets constructed in the area had been lying locked ever since. PUDA officials could not be contacted for comments. |
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Bring us World Cup, kids to Bhajji
Jalandhar, January 27 Even Bhajji too was courteous to stop his vehicle mid-way in the cricket ground and listened to what children were saying. Bhajji was here to award prizes to the winners of the cricket match which was held in the memory of his father, Sardev Singh. Harbhajan along with his mother was the cynosure of all eyes as people thronged the stadium to have a glimpse of the star off-spinner. Earlier the organizing committee of the tournament distributed small replicas of bats to amongst the crowd for which people virtually jostled to get one. Especially the children rushed towards the stage to get their bat, without fearing the strong police network. Talking to the media about the tournament, he said that the from next year it would be an altogether special affair as he more renowned cricket teams would participate in the tournament. “I will ensure to invite star cricketers like M S Dhoni and Varinder Sehwag to make the tournament more popular”, he added. On being asked about the preparations of the Indian cricket team for the world cup he said the team was in form to compete in the upcoming world cup. “Indian team is ready and capable to beat any international team”, he added. He also said that the Indian Cricket team would gift the World Cup to ace cricket player Sachin Tendulkar for his immense contribution to the Indian cricket. Earlier in the day, Air India, Delhi team clinched the overall trophy during the cricket tournament by defeating Malik Club, Delhi by five wickets. |
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Playing it for the Left
Jalandhar, January 27 The plays, the fillers even the speeches in the intervals are loaded with passion and have loads to say on the injustice meted out to innocent masses. January 25, this year was no different. The evening began with the documentary ‘Uth Gaye Gawandhon Yaar’ by Ajay Bhardwaj and the telefilm ‘Jutti’ by Surinder Sharma. The first play of the evening was the much anticipated Sandal Bar, the outcome of the collaboration between Harjit Singh and group Yuva. As is characteristic of Singh’s style, the play was a passionate effort and it showed through in the special attention paid to minute details. The build up to the play was slow but pleasant. Harjit Singh first made the audience fall in love with the tribals of Sandal Bar, their music, their soulful odes to their ‘majjhiyan’ as they sung ‘devan dudh diyan kaliyan’, their charming Baloch dialect, their pride and their simplicity; then almost cruelly made spectators witness the downfall of these very laughing people for no fault of theirs. The exchange between the cops and tribesmen, where the ‘license’ or ‘papers’ to their ancestral land is demanded from them, was loaded with irony. The play would get extra points on research, aesthetics, costumes and the stage presence of the actors. All actors were ‘there’ and alive, none of them were limp as mostly happens with plays with big casts. The play was clichéd in the sense that it adhered to the same old rules of Punjabi theatre. At places, the technical aspects, too, wreaked havoc on what would otherwise have been an effective scene. The part where the tribals are fired at by the police, the audience could hardly listen to the sound of the gunshots. A laudable thing about the play was that all actors were good singers, a fact that lent both dreaminess and believability to the play. Next came Rabb Ji Thalle Aao. Directed by Keerti Kirpal, the play was funny from the word go. The comic timing of the actors was masterful, the little Gurnoor Singh being the greatest goofball of them all. The performances were so effortless that they almost seemed extempore, the punches spontaneous. Kirpal presented ‘Rabb ji’ as a modest guy in raggedy jeans, a black coat and hat, who Gurnoor kept calling Sunny Deol. The simple-on-the-surface punches in the play, if observed deeply, very intelligently hinted at matters much more serious. The place where the three brothers, strip ‘rabb ji’, dress up in his clothes and make him go back dressed in a sheet of paper was indicative of deeper, sinister human inclinations. Intelligent humour is a rare entity and the play had oodles of it. Navchintan Kala Manch’s Hanere Chanane, written by Harmesh Malhri and directed by Hansa Singh, was a chilling satire on the addiction menace and the tendency of godmen, politicians and the police to work in tandem make it thrive for their vested interests. The play began with soothing fire lanterns. The other plays presented on the occasion were Rahat, directed by Gurshran Singh and Sunder Baag written by Kewal Dhaliwal and directed by Pritpal Singh. The evening introduced one to a lot many fiery men fighting for and/or supporting the cause of the unprivileged. Not just the plays, the interludes too were brimming over with the justice-for-all rhetoric. There were men (migrant labourers) from Haryana who sung: Kangaali ke ghat pe mila ek insaan Pucha uska naam to bola Hindustan Katora liye khara tha?.. Manmohan ne Bharat becha Lalu beche Bihar Surinder Sharma, the man who made the telefilm ‘Jutti’ based on the Muntazir Al-Zaidi (and all other shoe-throwing incidents), seemed unhappy about the fact that none of the shoes thrown on politicians had hit the target. ‘Jadon tak jutti da nishana theek nahin baithega, masle hal nahi honge (as long as the shoe doesn’t hit its target, problems won’t get solved),” he laments.
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Ekta yatra was just a political stunt: BSP
Phagwara, January 27 Talking to newsmen here today, former opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly alleged that the BJP failed to live up to the image of the main opposition party in Parliament and politicised the Republic Day celebrations at the cost of peace and national integrity. Kainth said the Republic Day and the Independence Day should be solemnised by all sections of the society keeping aside political interests. He said the people of Jammu and Kashmir are as nationalist as the residents of the other states. And nobody should flare up sensitive issues to get political mileage. Jalandhar: The Bahujan Samaj Party will hold a state-level rally in Chandigarh on January 31 against the Punjab Government for not withdrawing criminal cases registered against Dalit youths during post-Vienna violence in the state. |
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Young World
Jalandhar, January 27 The Republic Day was also celebrated in the campus of Cambridge International School, Phagwara, on January 25. The celebrations began with the unfurling of national flag by the principal followed by the speeches by students. The students of Classes I, II and III narrated the stories of great freedom fighters. A patriotic song was sung by the students of Classes VI and VII. The students of Classes IV and V presented a dance on the song “Vande Mataram” which was followed by a talk show and a quiz based on our constitution. Book fair A two-day book fair was organised by Hans Raj Mahila Vidyalaya (HMV) on January 24 and 25 for its students and college staff. Various book publishers from nearby places participated in it. Students who had bagged prizes during the current academic session were encouraged to select books for their prizes from the fair. Students selected Three students of BCA-III of the Prem Chand Markanda S.D. College for Women, namely Heena, Sakshi and Manorama, have been selected by Wipro Technology. The selected students would further carry their masters’ degree programme in computer applications from BITS, Pilani. Principal Dr Kiran Arora congratulated the students. Panel discussion The postgraduate department of Doaba College organised a panel discussion on “Academic accountability: Need of the hour”. Educationist and president of the Arya Shiksha Mandal and College Managing Committee Chander Mohan and former Registrar of GND University, Amritsar, Dr R.S. Bawa and many other dignitaries spoke on the occasion. The issue of teacher-student relation as a pillar of the education was discussed at large. The role of teacher in disseminating education to students was also discussed. Gold in mimicry The students of Lovely Professional University have brought laurels by bagging gold medal in mimicry and bronze medal for western group song at the 26th All-India Inter-University National Youth Festival. The event was organised by the Association of Indian Universities at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. An LPU contingent of 14 team members participated in five competitions. More than 900 student-artists from 63 universities from all over India competed under different categories. Feeling much elated, the winners from LPU, Mohit Bajaj, Sakshi, Palki, Shilpa, Renu, Annesha and Akashmita said, “We had to prepare a lot for these competitions under continuous hard work and practices day and night.” Meanwhile, the Lovely Professional University celebrated the Republic Day. The departments of security, cultural affairs, sports and education of the university joined hands. More than 3,000 students added variegated colour to the celebrations. Cultural performances and other displays of attraction were made by the students hailing from all states of India and 16 foreign lands. Industrial visit Phagwara: Students of the Science Department of Kamla Nehru College for Women undertook a research-based industrial visit at Ludhiana. The students interacted with experts at the factories to know about the functioning of the various divisions.
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2 killed as mobike, canter collide
Phagwara, January 27 Two youths, Nasib Singh and Manjit Singh of Dameli village, were killed when the motorcycle on which they were returning to their village was hit by a canter near the Panchhatt turn on the Phagwara-Hoshiarpur road yesterday. The accident occurred when the canter driver lost control over the vehicle on a turn and collided with the motorcycle. The bodies of both youths were handed over to their family members after post-mortem conducted at the Civil Hospital. The police has registered a case against the canter driver and impounded the vehicle. Meanwhile, the decomposed body of a middle-aged person was found from the main sewerage pipe connected with the water treatment plant near Palahai yesterday. It was learnt that the sewerage pipes were found blocked due to the decomposed body in one of the pipes. The body was taken out from the sewerage pipe and sent to the Civil Hospital for post-mortem. — OC |
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2 commit suicide on rail tracks
Jalandhar, January 27 The mutilated body of a boy was found on the Jalandhar-Amritsar track at the Bidhipur level crossing this morning. The Railway Police has sent the bodies to the Civil Hospital’s morgue. The police has initiated inquest proceeding in both cases. |
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