EDUCATION

Rechecking sets things right
From Our Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, July 14 — Certain social studies students of New Public School, Sector 18, have a cause to rejoice since their marks have increased after their original mark lists were sent for rechecking.

The students had scored poorly in social studies and when the mark lists were sent for rechecking they were surprised to notice that their scoring had improved considerably.

Mr R.D.Singh, Principal of the school, informed that when the students got their marksheets they could not believe that they had fared poorly in social studies. But after rechecking, they got additional 15 to 20 marks. With this, their overall percentage had also improved. “As many as 15 students are better off after this,” he said.

He said the marks were not yet known as these had not been disclosed yet by the CBSE Board. The board had asked the students to submit their original detail mark sheets to make the corrections.

Pragati Garg, one of the benefitted students, said that with this increase their percentage had also increased to a great extent. Parents of these students had flayed this type of irresponsibility on the part of the CBSE Board. Had the students not gone for rechecking they would have been the main sufferers, they said.

According to official sources of the CBSE Board, it was not a mistake in checking but a fault of computer. It may be a misprint or negligence while addition of marks.

Water tariff hike proposal flayed
Tribune News Service

SAS NAGAR, July 14 — The proposed hike in water tariff and sewerage cess in the town by the SAS Nagar council has come in for sharp criticism from different quarters. Mr Hardeep Singh, a member of the SGPC, demanded that the opinion of the public must be sought before the hike was effected. He said the government should wait for an elected body to take charge in the council.

Mr T.S. Chabra has written to the Punjab State Human Right Commission to restrain the Local Government Department from increasing the water tariff as a case regarding supply of water, unfit for human consumption in the town was already being considered by the commission.

Senior secondary class result
Tribune News Service

SAS NAGAR, July 14 — The result of the arts stream of the senior secondary-level examination of the Punjab School Education Board is expected to be declared tomorrow though no official confirmation in this regard was available.

An official of the board said even if the merit list was declared by the board tomorrow, availability of the gazettes to the public could take some time.

Prayaas timings
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, July 14 — Prayaas, a rehabilitation centre for handicapped children, Sector 38-B, will revert to its old timings of 9 am to 3 pm on all working days with effect from July 17. However, the timings on Saturday will be from 9 am to 1 pm, according to an official press note. 

CULTURE

Paintings exquisite, expressions divine
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, July 14 — Adorning the images of gods has been the forte of a particular clan of artists from Tanjore, who are highly revered in the field for their knack of dressing up the images with gold and other rare stones. This art form, which has particularly grown and developed in Tanjore village, is currently doing rounds of the city, with about 35 exotic Tanjore compositions mounted on the walls of Art Folio in Sector 9, for art lovers to savour.

As far as the history goes, this traditional art form from South India has been used for centuries to decorate images of gods. This complicated art is now fast becoming exclusive to a few families where artists with their groups continue to keep the tradition alive.

These iconic paintings are mostly done on a wooden base called Palagi which is processed over several days before painting work can start. In some cases glass is also used as a base but that has now become rare. After the base is prepared, the form of the figure is made in low relief with a mixture of gypsum, sawdust and glue. It is studded with stones and twenty two carat gold leaf called Reku that is transferred onto the embossing.

The background and the figure are painted in bright solid colours like red, black, yellow, green and white and very little shading is done. The main figure dominates the composition and the subsidiary images are much smaller in scale. Traditionally, images of lord Krishna in his adult form and many scenes of Krishna Bal Leela were depicted in these paintings though Lord Ganesha, Goddess Durga, Lord Balaji have now also become common. The artists have started catering to the tastes of more and more people by creating images of Lord Gautam Buddha, Lord Mahavira, Lord Hanuman, Jesus Christ and Guru Nanak.

The gallery has the collection framed in traditional wooden frames carved specially for these paintings. The paintings are exquisite and the expressions of the figures divine. There is Bal Krishna on his jhoola, with his flute and in Lord Ganesha’s lap coming alive in all his divinity in the adornments of gold and precious stones.

The paintings are available in a large variety of sizes and are priced accordingly. Tanjore paintings are a craft in itself and a piece of this specialised art would be a prized possession on any collector’s wall. 

Serial on Partition
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, July 14 — The teleserial “Tuta wala khu”, based on the novel of Punjabi novelist Sohan Singh Sital will be telecast on Lashkara channel at 8.30 p.m. tomorrow.

Directed by Mohan Singh, the 104-episode serial shows how a traditional well becomes a meeting point for two persons of different faiths, who ultimately turn foes in the wake of riots on the eve of Partition.

Prominent among the artistes, who have acted in the serial are Kulwant Khatra, Dr Sahib Singh, Shavinder Mahal, Vijay Tandon, Pinky Saggu, Sucheta, Dr Ranjit and Baljit Zakhmi.