EDUCATION

Career-cum-IT fest ends
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Feb 11 — On the concluding day of the “Mrs and Prof Roshan Lal Verma Career-cum-IT fest, 2001” organised by the GGDSD College Students Council and the Computer Club, a seminar was held on “Applying UML in the unified process”.

A panel discussion on “IT scenario in the country — next two years” was also held.

In the afternoon session, an inter-college “Just a minute” contest was held in which Shivani from the GGS College, Sector 26, stood first, Divya Vij from the GGDSD College second and Harleen Kaur of the GGS College and Harshit Sekhon of GGDSD college, third.

Various companies like Wintech, CFA, CIST, UNISOFT, ATEC, SPICE, ZAP, SSI, etc had put up their stalls for career counselling. In addition to these, fun games, music stalls were also put up by the students.

CULTURE

Cultural show in aid of quake-hit
From Our Correspondent

ZIRAKPUR, Feb 11 — An impressive cultural show was organised at the Silver City, a construction company, near here, today in the aid of the earthquake victims of Gujarat.

A number of renowned Punjabi folk singers, including Raja Hasan Anindita, Kulbir (Chandigarhia), Boota Mohammed, Mohammad Saddique, Ranjit Kaur, Parminder Sandhu, Kuldeep Kaur,Sukhwant Kaur Sukhi, Zamil Akhtar, enthralled the audience.

The show began with two slokas of Kabir presented by Kulbir. A song Tere pichhe ho gaya faquir kudie presented by him was well received. It was followed by old melodies Pyar hua ikrar hua, bekhudi mein sanam presented by Raja Hasana and Anindita.

Dil lutia jamalo nae, pawara pai gaya and mirza presented by Boota Mohammed was appreciated by the audience.While Zamil Akhtar enthralled the audience with his nicely sung Mele bich too ghumadi.

A new pop singer, Sukhnain, of Gora chitta mukh fame also performed.

The donors were asked to donates to the Gujarat Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. 

An evening of rhythm and melody
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Feb 11 — It was a delightful show. Today’s performance by Dr Suresh Gopal Shrikhande was laced with melody, and was all about a delectable blend of youth and maturity. Ever since the recital was announced by the Pracheen Kala Kendra authorities, it was being much awaited.

The wait, however, finally ended with Dr Shrikhande performing at his melodious best. A disciple of Pandit Nivruti Bua Sarnaik, Dr Shrikhande began his recital with raag Bihag in Vilambit khayaal, Kaise sukh sove. Man ki veen baaji in drut khayaal was equally powerfully rendered. Then came the next rendering in the form of Baar baar binti karat hari (raag Bageshri) in Madhya laya ek taal. This was followed by a delightful tarana in Drut.

All through it was a spell-binding performance by the great vocalist who further established an association with the audience by singing a Kabir bhajan Beet gaye din bhajan bina re, set in Mishra Shivranjani raag. Last but not the least came a thumri from Dr Suresh. Chailava na daro gulaal, in raag Mishra Bhairavi, won the singer great applause as it bared the exquisite blend of classical and thumri traditions which his voice offered. 

Parivar milan organised 
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Feb 11 — As part of the “Sanskriti varsha” celebrations, the Bharat Vikas Parishad organised a parivar milan at Fragrance Garden in Sector 36 here today.

The programme started with the Ganapati vandana and was followed by a painting contest for children. A special programme of pitamber varan pratiyogita, indicating importance of Basant, was also organised, according to Mr Varinder K. Verma, convener of the programme.