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Friday,
September 28, 2001, Chandigarh, India  
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BATHINDA MEMORANDUM: In a memorandum submitted to the Union Railway Minister, Mr Nitish Kumar, the Public Grievances Association here demanded opening of more reservation counters at the railway station. In a press note issued on Thursday, Mr Sham Lal Bansal, press secretary of the association, said the present number of reservation counters were not being able to cater to the needs of railway commuters. PLEA: The Senior Citizens Council here has urged the Railways to make a special arrangement or to open a separate ticket window for senior citizens. In a press note issued here on Wednesday, Mr Lakshami Narayan Goel, president of the council, said there was no special provision for the purchase of tickets for the senior citizens due to which they were facing problems. SEMINAR: The district unit of the Lok Morcha, Punjab, will organise a seminar on the problem of debts in rural areas on Sunday at the Teachers’ Home here. In a press note issued here, Mr Jagmail Singh said various scholars and agriculture experts would participate in the seminar. HOSHIARPUR 2 BURIED ALIVE: Sarabjit Singh and Paramjit Singh, both labourers of Mirzapur Khadiala, died on the spot when they got buried under the debris while digging a well on Tuesday. They were reportedly digging the well when sand suddenly slipped burying them alive under it. BODY FOUND: An unidentified body of a person was found near a petrol station in Miani on Wednesday morning. The Tanda police has registered a case. 2 KILLED: Jai Kaur of Bahowal succumbed to her injuries at the local Civil Hospital on Tuesday night. She was seriously injured when she fell from a bicycle near Mahilpur on Monday. Ranjit Singh, an employee of ABC Paper Mill, Siala Khurd, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday. He fell from the crane block while performing his duty in the mill. TWO BOOKED: On a complaint of Joet Vimal, Diocese, Northern India Church, Chandigarh, the police registered a case under Sections 420, 408 and 120-B of the IPC against Vidya Sagar and Johan Dogan, advocate, Civil Courts, Ludhiana, on Tuesday. APPOINTED: Mr Brij Mohan Batra, a local Councillor, has been appointed special invitee of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee by Capt Amarinder Singh, President, PPCC, said a party spokesman here on Tuesday. KHARAR CHALLAN
: The police, on Wednesday, presented a challan in the court of Mr
Roshan Lal Chauhan, Judicial Magistrate, against Thakur Dalip Singh,
nephew of Satguru Jagjit Singh, chief of Namdhari Samaj. The court has
fixed October 8 as the next date of hearing. The challan had been
presented against five persons.
LUDHIANA PAINTING CONTEST: The Param Institute for Home Arts and Craft, Ranjit Nagar, is organising a glass and fabric painting competition on October 8. An eight-day camp for preparing students will be conducted from October 1 to 8 prior to the contest, said Mr Amarjeet Singh Riat, chairman of the institute. COMPUTER DONATED: The Ludhiana Welfare Society donated a computer to students of the School for the Deaf, Rajpura Road, at a function held recently. Giving this information, Mr Manjit Singh Matharoo, president of the society, said the students after taking computer education could become entrepreneurs in the field. Ms Suversha Kalra, Principal of the school, thanked the society. GURMAT TEST: The Directorate of Education and Training, Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle, will organise a gurmat test in schools of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi on Friday. Giving the information, Mr Satnam Singh, director, said 437 centres for over 24,000 students would conduct the test. He said the test would be of two hour duration. LECTURE HELD: The Punjab Agricultural University unit of Guru Gobind Singh Study Circle organised a lecture on the topic, ‘Spirituality, Struggle and Good Society are the Keys to Successful Living’ on Thursday. Addressing the gathering, Prof Balwinderpal Singh, editor of Punjabi monthly, Sada Virsa Sada Gaurav, stressed upon the need to have positive attitude in life. Dr Charan Kamal Singh, veterinary pathologist and teacher in charge of the unit, was also present on the occasion. SEMINAR: The Bethany Education Society, Mangalore, and Dharma Bharthi National Institute, Secundrabad, will organise a seminar on National regeneration through peace and value education at Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School, Sarabha Nagar, on Saturday and Sunday. Stating this in a press note, Sister Reshmi, Vice-Principal of the school, said the seminar would be conducted by Acharya Sachinand, founder of the Dharma Bharthi. MANSA ARREST DEMANDED: A delegation led by Mr Jagdish Rai Dhosiwal, president of the state unit of the SC and ST Ekta Bhalai Manch met Mr Dilbagh Singh Gill, Senior Superintendent of Police on Thursday and demanded immediate arrest of those involved in an attack on Mr Satish Parocha, a scavenging contractor, last week. They demanded action under Section 3 of the SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The SSP assured them that steps were being taken to apprehend the accused. MALERKOTLA PATIALA MEETING: In a meeting of Cinema Owners of Punjab at Tagore Theatre here on Thursday senior Akali leader Mr Surjit Singh Rakhra was unanimously elected president of the Association. The association is likely to take up important issues, like the excise entertainment tax, which is higher than states like Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat, and the recently imposed additional levy on high consumption as surcharge by the Punjab State Electricity Board. Mr Madan Kapoor, Mr Harnipal Singh
Kukku, Mr Upvinder Singh and Mr Gurraj Singh have been elected as vice-presidents, Mr Harjinder Singh was elected general secretary and Mr Anil Deepak as joint secretary.
SAS NAGAR TRAINING PROGRAMME: A two-day “Organisational effectiveness”, a training programme by the Central Board for Workers Education, concluded on Thursday at the Milk Plant. Inaugurating the programme, Mr
S.K. Sharma, General Manager of the plant, was of the opinion that persons working at the machines were more important than the machines and therefore such training programmes play important role in development of human resources. The workshop was conducted by Senior Education Officer of the Central Board for Workers Education, Mr J.P
Phogat. Dr Nareshanand, a Chandigarh-based psychiatrist, Dr Dazy Zarbi, Programme Coordinator of Panjab University, Chandigarh, and Mr
D.R. Prashar, Regional Director of the Central Board, delivered lectures during the programme.
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INSTALLATION CEREMONY: The installation of the Lions Club Chandigarh Greater was held at Lions VTC, Sector 30, here on Wednesday The president, Mr Ravinder Pal Singh and his board of governors were installed by the former District Governor, Mr Satish Mahendru, at a ceremony. The District Vice-Governor, Mr Darshan Monga, was the chief guest. Mr Singh informed that the club has a computer centre, a sewing school and a reading room at the VTC. SENIOR CITIZEN: The Chandigarh Senior Citizens Association would arrange two picnics for its members to Sahara Resorts on the Chandigarh-Kalka highway and Kasauli Resorts near Garkhal on September 28 and October 28, respectively. The members desirous of joining the picnic could contact the vice-president (phone no: 602028) and secretary administration (phone no: 600029), according to Mr V.S. Sodhi, secretary, public relations. MUSICAL SHOW: A musical night would be organised by Seagrams blenders pride at the Chandigarh Club on Friday. A Delhi-based model, Shefali Talwar, would host the show. The show would be exclusive for members and would constitute a lucky draw. In addition to this, the club would also host an ‘‘Awadh food festival’’, which would feature delicacies by master chef M.K. Quereshi. The festival also starts on Friday. URGED: The Footpath Workers Rozgar Bachao Samiti has urged the Chandigarh Administration to implement their accepted demands of the roadside workers. The demand was put forth at the meeting of the samiti, presided over by Mr Devi Dayal Sharma, general secretary of the AITUC. The meeting regretted that despite several agitation their demands had not been implemented. In a press note it threatened to launch an agitation if the demands were not implemented within three weeks. WEBSITE LAUNCHED: The Commonwealth Youth Programme Asia Centre launched its Cyber Youth Club and a website at a function organised at the CYP centre here on Thursday. The club was inaugurated by the Head and special advisor, Youth affairs of Common Wealth Secretariat, London, Ms Jane Foster. The website, www.cypasiayouth.org, provides virtual free space where young people would be able to interact by exchanging their cultures. Information on job counselling, education links, news, games, discussion forums, chat channels etc. can also be accessed on the site. The CYP Asia website, www.cypasia.org, which was inaugurated by the Director Information Technology, Mr Vivek Atray, is aimed at providing detailed information about the CYP centre, its mission, objectives and activities. COLOUR CONTEST: As many as 300 students participated in all-India camel colour contest held at Government Senior Secondary School, Daulat Singh Wala, Bhabhat, here on Thursday. Class X to XII students made colourful drawings on the topics, including festivals, environment and family relations. The results of the competition would be declared later on.
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BILASPUR NAHAN NURPUR PARWANOO SHIMLA |
Ranchan a multifaceted genius It is difficult to write about a person whom you have personally known over the years but whose intellectual prowess has remained an enigma. His long voyage for the search of the self started with the publication of the first collection of poems, “The Splintered Mirror” (1960). The college teacher and the avant-garde poet merged their entities into a persona that defied understanding. With a begging bowl he knocked at the doors of the sages and seers only to pass on alms to the younger generation. To say that Dr Som Ranchan had taught English and American literature in the colleges and universities in India and USA is to say the obvious. Then again to talk about his writing in various genres of literature is just an attempt to touch the tip of the iceberg. Dr Ranchan had been a fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Shimla, for three years and in October 1998, he submitted his research thesis,
“Autotherapy,” based on the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh. The most distinctive feature of Aurobindo’s philosophy is that he does not subscribe to the illusionist school of thought widely prevalent in India. The illusionists proclaim that this world is all illusion —
“maya.” But Aurobindo professed that this material world is as much a part of the divine as the inner being. Basically, he is a poet and his collections like “America with Love”, “To Vivek then I came”, “Loose Ends”, and “Love Poems” have considerably enriched English poetry written by Indians. Sometime ago he ventured forth into fiction. He came from Lahore to Shimla on partition. Shortly after his postgraduation in English literature, he went to the USA, where he stayed for about a decade. He retired as Head of the English Department at Himachal Pradesh University, where he remained from 1977 to 1992. How come he has so close an affinity with Punjabi culture ? “You know I was born and brought up in Lahore. I appeared for matriculation in March ,1947 at Lahore and then I moved with my family to Shimla where my father waked in the office of the Accountant-General, Punjab. For Intermediate, I shifted to Doaba College, Jalandhar, and mostly stayed at a village, Phambian (Sham
Churasi), where my maternal grandparents lived. How does he view his stay in America for about a decade? “For me it was no less than a rebirth. On my earlier visit to America, as a research scholar, I presented my Ph.D thesis on Walt Whitman and the Great Adventure with the Self, at the University of Wisconsin. It was, however, on my second visit in 1966 as a university teacher that I realised my true affinities with that country”. His longer poems such as “America with Love”, have
tightly knit structures and have epic dimensions. Still at places they betray lack of unified sensibility. “ The texture of my poetry is determined by the fact of my being in the self. Now, my texture comes from diverse registers. It has do to with my diverse relationships and exposure to various disciplines. My interaction with the hippies, blacks, yogis and sufis has enriched my mind. Their language becomes my own language because they become part of my inner space”, he says.
Bangkok honour
for scholar Dr Adrash Batra, an alumni of Mukand Lal National College, Yamunanagar, has recently been selected by Assumption University, Bangkok (Thailand), as a visiting professor in tourism. It is interesting to mention that he has been offered this assignment without any interview keeping in mind his pioneering work on eco—tourism — a new concept emerging in the tourism industry. Dr Batra was awarded Ph.D. by Kurukshetra University in his unique work “Eco-Tourism in Shimla Region” in March 2001. He has established himself as an outstanding scholar on tourism through his articles and research papers published in journals of repute. Dr Batra comes from a family of teachers. His father, Prof
K.L. Batra, is teacher of political science. In his opinion, there is an urgent need for promoting eco consciousness among foreign as well as domestic tourists. He foresees a bright future for the tourism industry.
Monsoon nightmare About half a kilometre stretch of the road across the Fazilka railway station leading to the court of the SDM, offices of the DSP, the Block Development and Panchayat Officer, three schools and hundreds of residents in the Civil Lines has virtually turned into a pond these days. The reason for this stagnant water is that there is no effective drainage system along the road. Water accumulates on this road and even a drizzle is enough to make pools of water. Thousands of people have to use this road to go to work. In addition, 4,000 students of schools and residents, including VIPs have to pass through stinking water on the road. Potholes on the road have caused several accidents. The stretch of road is on a low-lying area across the railway lines. Moreover the proposal to lay sewers to drain off water in the affected area is hanging fire for several years as it is yet to be approved by the railway authorities for laying sewers beneath the railway track. A number of gardens and yoga centre also surround this area. As a result, hundreds of people keen on a morning or evening walk are deprived of it. The plight of about four dozen families whose residences are located on this road is miserable. Foul smell from stagnant water is poses a grave threat to their health. Sometime back as an ad hoc measure, water used to be drained out of the land belonging to the railway authorities adjoining the BDPO houses. But a portion of the wall in that area collapsed due to stagnant water and the officers raised the level of ground by filling earth which has aggravated the situation. Contributed by
N.S. Tasneem, Ashwani Dutta and P.C. Nagpal |
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