EDUCATION

S.M. Ilyas joins as Director, CIPHET
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Sept 26 — Dr S.M. Ilyas today joined as the first regular Director of the Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET).

He has wide experience, having served in many capacities at various institutes and organisations.

He has 31 years’ of research experience in post harvest technology, renewable energy sources and has developed a large number of equipment and storage structures. Besides, he has also spent 8 years in operational research trials and six years in large-scale trials of farm equipment in backward districts of a few states in India.

Honour for Samrala don
From Our Correspondent

LUDHIANA, Sept 26 — Dr N.L. Sharma, Head of the Department of English, Malwa College, Bodli-Samrala (Ludhiana) was invited by the India-Australia Asia writers, Teachers and Scholars Association (AAASA) to present his research paper on India-Asia-Australia connections and Asian immigration experience in Australia, as reflected in the fiction of Asian diaspora in Australia with special reference of Yasmine Gooneratane’s ‘Quest for new Horizons’ as articulated in her pioneer work.

Dr Sharma’s paper explores the Indian - Sri Lankan and Australian cultures as treated and illustrated in the Indian-Asian diasporic literature of Australia. Fifty eminent writers, scholars and teachers of English from universities and colleges in Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India attended this conference. The subject of concern was the inter-relationships among India, Australia, New Zealand and other Asian countries aiming at finding out ways as to how these countries could come closer in matters of common interest.

More than 40 research papers were presented on Indo-Australian Literature by teachers, scholars and writers of international repute.