Ludhiana, February 9
Contests for shabad singing and home science and fine arts events were organised at the inter-college cultural festival held in the Guru Nanak Khalsa College for Women in Model Town here today.

Students from over 12 colleges participated in various contests. Fine arts contests, included collage-making, designing, imaginary composition, still life painting and full life drawing. In collage-making, five students participated for which the topics were ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Fashion’. In designing, 11 contestants were told to design a saree border in a traditional pattern. For the eight students who participated in compositions, there were two topics, ‘Any fair’ and ‘Modern village’.

Thirtyone contestants participated in the flower arrangement competition, 22 in rangoli and 20 in the embroidery contest. In flower arrangement, there were two categories — fresh arrangement and fresh-cum-dry arrangement. Shivani, a BA III student of the Government College for Women, used pine cones, fresh carnations and drift wood pieces for her arrangemnt titled ‘Golden Beauty’. Jyotica from the host college decorated zerbera flowers in a base of coal pieces for her arrangement titled ‘Wild fire’.

In shabad singing contest, teams from five colleges participated. Students from SCD Government College sang ‘Tum saach dhnavo mugadh mana’ while students from Government College for Women recited shabad ‘Mohan nind na aawe’. Ms A.K. Bansal, Principal, appreciated the efforts of the students and gave away the prizes.

Results of the contests are: Collage-making: Sukhbir Kaur from AS College Khanna (1), Lucky from Guru Nanak Girls College (GNGC) (2) and Sarika from Guru Nanak Khalsa College (GNKC).

Designing : Ashwinder Kaur from Ramgarhia Girls’ College (1), Prabhjot Kaur from GNKC (2) and Amrit from GNGC (3).

Still life painting: Gagandeep from GNKC (1), Chandeep from GNKC (2) and Deepti from Devki Devi Jain College (3).

Full life drawing: Balwinder from DD Jain College (1), Sonam from GNKC (2) and Varsha from DD Jain College (3).

Composition: Gur Assis from GNKC (1), Navjot from Ramgarhia Girls’ College (2) and Avneet from DD Jain College (3).

Embroidery: Sarabjot Kaur from GHG College, Sidhwan Khurd (1), Harpreet from GNKC (2) and Manpreet from GNGC (3).

Rangoli: Mandeep from Mata Ganga College, Kottan (1), Hardeesh from Mata Ganga college, Kottan (2) and Jaswinder from Ramgarhia Girls’ College (3).

Ludhiana, February 9
Shamak Davar who can sing in Hindi, Punjabi and English comfortably, performed along with students of his school at Harsheela Resorts last night. The function which was attended by Bollywood’s popular stars, Priety Zinta, Raveena Tandon, and the star-turned politician Vinod Khanna, was organised by Mittals of AirTel to celebrate its launch of mobile services in the state yesterday.

The stage was set in a most bewitching and imaginative manner. The beautiful coloured lights and artificial smoke billowing out presented a replica of any ostentatious set that one witnesses in the films. Music and colourful costumes of the dancers added new magical dimension to the evening of fun and dances.

Students of Shamak’s dance school danced to the popular numbers from ‘Taal’, ‘Gadar’ and ‘K3G’. When Shamak came onto the stage, the atmosphere was charged. Shamak has choreographed many popular dance numbers of different films. He started with an English number to move onto popular Hindi and later Punjabi tunes. The audience was disappointed as Priety and Raveena just made a brief appearance on the stage. However, Vinod Khanna was welcomed by the crowd but they did not want him to convass for his party.