Rendezvous with Vinod Sehgal
Tribune News Service

SAS NAGAR, Oct 9 — A rendezvous with Vinod Sehgal, famous ghazal and playback singer, was set for today evening by the Pinnacle Group here.

The show began almost an hour late. Vinod Sehgal commenced the evening with Bashir Badr's 'Agar Talash Karoon Koyee Mil Hi Jayega'. He apologised to the audience by singing 'Tumharey Saath Yeh Mausam Farishton Jaisa Hai, Tumharey Baad Bada Satayega'.

Groomed by the ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh, Vinod Sehgal was inspired by his father Sohan Lal Sehgal. He got his formal training from R.M. Kulkarni and Chiranji Lal Jigyasu, though he did admit in a recent press conference that the two most influencing singers in his life had been "Jagjit Singh and Ghulam Ali".

In his rendition of Ibrahim Ashq's 'Woh Ayenge Jab Se Suna Hai', there were strains of Ghulam Ali.

Vinod Sehgal's popular 'Banjarey Ka Chola Pehna' always manages to evoke a positive response from the audience, and so it was with today's audience.

The almost 1,000-plus audience today demanded more ghazals than his play-back songs, which prompted the singer to comment, "This is the first time that I am having an experience like this, since, out in the open people normally like to listen to fast beat and then dance to it, and not soft ghazals like this". Demands for "Potli Baba Ki', a title track of a popular television serial, and 'Chood Aye Hum Woh Galiyan' from film 'Maachis', however, kept pouring in.

The singer was ably accompanied by Prem Kumar and Gyan Chaurasia on the tabla, Jaswant Jassa and Ravinder at the guitar and V. Sharma on the flute.

Vinod Sehgal has also lent his voice for Pamela Rooke's 'Train to Pakistan', and Jaspal Bhatti's 'Mahaul Theek Hai', besides many Hindi films. His latest project is Jabbar Patel's ambitious film 'Dr Ambedkar'.

St Stephen's win team trophies
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Oct 9 — Hosts St Stephen's School, Sector 45, bagged the boys and girls team trophies in the first ICSE inter-school carrom championship (Chandigarh region), which began here today.

They ousted Yadavindra Public School, SAS Nagar, in both finals. Four schools in boys and three schools in girls are taking part in this two-day championship. St Stephen's earned nine points out of nine in boys and five points out of six in girls, while YPS secured five in boys and three in girls.

Results — Boys' team championship (league)- St Stephen's b YPS 3-0 (Anu Papneja b Harkirat Tiwana 25-6, 25-9; Deepak Bishnoi b Karan Singh 25-0,25-0; Amrinder Dhillon b Karan Sidhu 25-0, 25-0); YPS b St Xavier's-44 3-0 (Lovneet Singh b Hitesh 25-0,24-0; Harkirat Tiwana b Amit 25-0, 25-4; Karan Sidhu b Jatin 25-0 — conceded); St Stephen's b Minerva Public School 3-0 (Deepak b Vishal Thakur 25-0, 25-0; Anu Papneja b Gurdeep Singh 25-0,25-0; Amrinder b Satinder Singh 25-0, 25-0); St Stephen's b St Xavier's 3-0 (Money Bansal b Hitesh Chauhan 25-0, 25-0; Anu b Jatin 25-0, 25-0; Deepak b Fateh Pal 25-0, 25-0) YPS b Minerva 3-0 (Lovneet Singh b Gurdeep Singh 25-0, 25-0; Harkirat b Satinder 25-0 — conceded); Minerva b St Xavier's 2-1 (Gurdeep b Jatin 25-0 — conceded; Vishal Thakur b Fateh 25-0; Amandeep lost to Hitesh Chauhan 4-25, 0-25). Final position: St Stephen's 1, YPS 2, Minerva 3.

Girls' team championship (league)- St Stephen's b YPS 2-1 (Nabhi Sahni b Ukljot Kaur 25-0, 25-4; Sakshi Bawa lost to Bhavneet Kaur 7-17, 24-08, 25-0; Puneet Lamba gave walkover); YPS b St Xavier's 2-1 (Bhavneet Kaur b Amanjot Nagra 25-0, 24-0; Ikjot Kaur b Simranjit Kaur 25-0, 25-0; P.N. Nisha gets walkover); St Stephen's b St Xavier's 3-0 (Puneet Lamba b Amanjot Kaur 25-0, 25-0; Nabhi Sahni b Simranjit Kaur 25-0, 25-0; Poonam Jain b P.N. Nisha 25-0 — conceded). Final position: St Stephen's 1, YPS 2, St Xavier's 3.

The boys and girls singles events will be conducted tomorrow. The finals will be played at 3 pm.

Panchkula meet: DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, and Bhavan Vidyalaya, Panchkula, shared glory on the concluding day of the Panchkula district schools sports meet at Government High School, Sector 7. It was organised by the Sports and Education Department.

Results — athletics: 100 m (u-17) Ramandep Singh (BV) 1; (u-19) Lovtesh Patyal (DAV-8) 1; 200 m Lovtesh (DAV-8) 1; volleyball: (u-19) DAV-8 1; basketball: (u-14) BV 1, Manav Mangal, 2; (u-19) DAV-8 1, BV 2; girls u-19: DAV-8 1, BV 2.

'Practice yoga': Prof M. Lal, a yoga expert, called upon the people to follow yoga methods effectively as it would help in commom cold, bronchitis, sneezing, poor vision, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart-related problems. He said yoga had been ignored for long and commended the role of the Punjab Yoga Association in reviving yoga.

Professor Lal said excessive intake of salt, sugar, sweets and ghee, less roughage of diet and non-vegetarian food had led to constipation, high blood pressure, heart attack, paraylsis, cancer, piles and arthritis. He also highlighted the use of 'jal niti', which helped in treating headache and skin diseases.