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Students flay varsity
officials CHANDIGARH Addressing a press conference Chand Singh Madaan, Chairman of the Haryana Students Association, said that a meeting of the Assistant Superintendent of Police, the Vice Chancellor, the Chief Security Officer of the campus and the SHO recently discussed the security changes needed on the campus. Students were not consulted. Mr Madaan said that “it was informed that there was a move to have ‘challans’ for violation of traffic rules on the campus. This was denied by the senior authorities but the students would appreciate non-intervention of police on the campus. They were literate enough to manage their own traffic”. He also said that police raids in hostels were surprising. The wardens should be competent. Only in case of an emergency should the police be called. Mr Madaan also asked for an enquiry into the alleged party bash at the Law Department canteen day before yesterday night. It was a colourful bash which needed a study and appropriate action. Mr Bhupinder Singh Bhuppi, the council president, said that administration interference on the campus was not welcome. Mr Munish Anand, a former president of the council, said that traffic rules should also be observed in front of the girls’ hostels, particularly during evenings. |
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Spread education
fast: Pathak CHANDIGARH Addressing a seminar on Power of education in the information era, organised as part of the martyrdom celebrations of Lala Lajpat Rai, Professor Pathak said with the recent advances of technology, connectivity and digital age, the faster spread of education in every part of the country was possible. Mr Onkar Chand, secretary of the Servants of the People Society, wanted service to be the basis of politics. Calling Lalaji as “political sanyasi” he wanted the Indian talent to be used for the removal of poverty and illiteracy particularly in the rural areas. Prof S L Sharma, retired Professor from the Department of Sociology, referred to the gradual growth of society from the agricultural revolution to industrial revolution and now to the information revolution. Prof B. D. Gupta, Professor Emeritus of the PGI, wanted education to be used as a tool to spread awareness and act as the greatest vehicle in the socio-economic uplift. Mr N.S. Kalsi, Director Technical Education, Punjab, Mr T.R. Sharma and Prof P.P. Arya were also among speakers. Earlier, rich tributes were paid to the
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20 research papers
presented CHANDIGARH Two technical sessions, one on Women entrepreneurship and another on Management and enterprise support system were conducted today. More than 20 research papers and articles were presented on the two themes by various authors. |
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Students awarded by school CHANDIGARH In another dance item Jalwa the students depicted the love of soldiers for their motherland. Mr Sajay Sardana, Principal of the school, read out the annual report of the school. Mr P.K. Verma, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Punjab was the chief guest. Almost 100 students, who had excelled in sports, academics and various competitions like maths quiz contest, science quiz contest, extempore speech, declamation contest and other activities were awarded. |
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Mithun is DAV
Mr Fresher CHANDIGARH The main event of the day was doubtlessly the modeling section which involved first the fifteen participants walking on the ramp to a punjabi pop beat. The second round was the talent round where the participants were tested for their wit and talent. The function started in the true DAV tradition with the utterance of shlokas followed by Punjabi and Hindi songs, dance, mimicry and poetry recitation sequences. The chief guest of the function was the Principal, Mr R.C. Jeevan, who in his address assured the college’s complete support to promote the talent among the students. The college’s students council president, Gurpreet Singh Brar, thanked the college Principal, teachers and his fellow students for organising the function. Earlier, Prof Umesh Vinayak, chief warden of the hostels welcomed the guests and wished the students all the best. |
Artistic samplings of Indo-German friendship CHANDIGARH The chain of exchange programmes goes on and the Indo-German friendship was taken a step further with the opening of an exhibition of photographs and ink drawings at the Alliance Francaise here today. My Germany, My India, as the show is aptly called, presents a sampling of works on India’s cultural perspective by a German photographer Heidi Sabrautzky, and a historical insight into Germany through the ink and pen drawings by Panchkula- based artist Pimi
Khanna. Pimi, who has lived a better part of her life in Germany (1972 to 1996), is a graduate of Allahabad University and has studied fine arts at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi. She has also participated in a number of group shows in Germany, USA and India. Heidi, on her part, was into textile designing in a big way, although her heart was always into photography. Seeds of association between the two artists were sowed while Pimi was in Germany. But it took shape when Heidi came to India in 1994 and devoted herself entirely to photography. Informed
Pimi, “We feel very strongly about each other’s culture. It was later that we were given a chance to put up our exhibits on the theme My Germany, My India.” The exhibition, which will be on till December 2, was inaugurated today by the Director of Max Muller Bhavan, New Delhi. The works are truly professional. Pimi has virtually recreated the history of five German cities — Hildsheim, Hannover, Bremen, Celle and Goslar — in her ink drawings. The striking feature of the works is their directness and immense detailing. So as Pimi draws the Chapel of Ducal Palace, Celle or the City Hall of Hannover with her 0.13 mm point, she reconstructs a lot of charm which the German cities sport. In her details she captures the spirit of the places which are famous for their vibrancy on the one hand and intimacy on the other. Says
Pimi, “Each of these works has taken me hours. I used to sit on the streets to register the minute details of these monuments and places. The works were so engrossing that I often became immune to the passage of time.” Pimi’s emotional
investment finds a reflection in her works. Be it the one where she draws people on the medieval streets of Goslar or the one where she records the bubbling
pathways of Hannover in ink, all works successfully omit the superfluous, and hence attain beauty. As Michaelangelo had himself admitted; Beauty is in the elimination of all superfluous. Heidi’s prints are impressive in their own right, and present a comprehensive view into the contrast of Indian situations. Talking to The Tribune, the German photographer said, “The most striking thing about India is its contrast. Where on the one hand the earth is parched for want of water, on the other there are ice-capped hills. It’s all so inspiring, so beautiful.” Heidi’s pictures reflect the desert aura of Rajasthan from where she picks up plain images which are extremely telling. There are also gilmpses of the architectural might of desert land, the minarets of Ranapur to mention one print. The contrast is seen in the mountainous grandeur of Lahaul Spiti which Heidi seems to have extensively toured. “I was especially amazed at the Kalachakra Mandala ceremony which is performed in the Tibetan
monasteries. They invest tremendous patience in the making of the Kalachakra,” said Heidi. She also captures moments in the lives of Himachalis. Her frames which capture a Himachali woman smoking and yet another yawning in a moment of time are quite telling. |
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