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TREASURE Rohtak, March 13 Dr Jain has published 97 research papers in prestigious foreign journals published by the Academic Press, Pergamon Press, North-Holland Publishers, American Institute of Physics, Institute of Physics, UK, etc. Dr Jain has also been a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Physics, Federal University of Riode Janeiro, Brazil. He was awarded the prestigious research fellowship by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to work at the Munster University in Germany. Besides, Dr Jain is referee of the Physics B and the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied physics,
Pramana. Dr Pawan K Jaiwal of the Department of Bio-Sciences is another distinguished scientist and a major source of research grants from various national funding agencies for the university. During the last six years, a sum of Rs 30 Lakh has been sanctioned for his major research projects by these agencies. Dr Jaiwal has more than 70 research publications to his credit. He has edited nine books including a set of two volumes on Biotechnology of Leguminosae being published by Kluwer Academic Publishers of the Netherlands. He has so far completed six major research projects funded by the UGC, the
CSIR, the DST and the DBT on Biotechnology for the improvement of grain legumes. He has a number of other distinctions to his credit. These include DST young scientist project, INSA Visiting Fellowship and DBT Overseas Associateship for advance research in Switzerland. The research team led by Dr Jaiwal has developed protocols for efficient transformation and regeneration of mungbean and blackgram for the first time in the world. Dr Rana Partap Singh of the Department of Bio-Sciences is another poet-scientist with distinction at Maharshi Dayanand University. He has written a number of books on poetry which have been awarded first prize by Haryana Sahitya Academy. He is associated with some NGO groups working for science communication. Besides, Dr Rana Partap Singh has 70 research papers and nine books published to his credit. He is also a recipient of
INSA, New Delhi and UNESCO, Paris fellowships for advanced research. He has been twice a Visitor to the University of Guelph Ontario in Canada and once to Yunan Agricultural University, Kunming in China. Dr Singh is editor-in-chief of an international research journal, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of three other research journals. He has completed many research projects funded by the UGC, the DST and the
DBT. He is associated with a multi-institutional mega research project of
DBT. Dr Surinder Kumar Gakhar of the Department of Bio-Sciences is yet another distinguished scientist at this university who needs no introduction. And the more one goes deeper into the academic excellence of the Maharshi Dayanand University faculty, the more hidden treasure one finds. But alas! The Maharshi Dayanand University scientists do not have patents registered. The only exception is the most distinguished scientist Prof Anil K Madan, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He has eight patents to his credit. Prof Madan is totally devoted to the excellence of his faculty. |
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DAV engg college strike enters seventh day Rewari, March 13 The agitating students, who were sitting on a dharna out side the main gate of the college, told journalists today that a notice had recently been issued by the principal directing the students to deposit Rs 7,050 each without delay while they had already paid required fees at the time of admission. They alleged that the directive on fresh payment of Rs 7,050 was arbitrary, unwarranted and unjust. They said that the college authorities were also charging Rs 11,500 by way of annual rent of each hostel room occupied by four students at a time. They maintained that the rent was exorbitant and far from being justified. They complained that students were being made to pay Rs 2,000 each for Internet facilities, which were extremely erratic. Besides, the deployment of teaching staff in the college was also poor and detrimental to the interests of the students. Girl students complained that they were finding it hard to cope with the poor hostel facilities as well as the absence of a permanent warden. The striking students, who had also burnt an effigy of the principal yesterday, today announced that they would continue to boycott classes till the authorities accept their demands. A number of guardians of students, who had come from Panipat, Fatehabad and Sirsa, in response to a telegraphic directive of the principal, Mr N. L Arora, expressed indignation at the absence of the principal who was reportedly out of station today. Terming the fee hike and non-provision of other basic facilities as totally unjust, they urged the higher authorities to intervene and solve the problems. The college has 86 students, including 12 girls, on its rolls at present. |
ARTS SCAPE Love and hate, pain and beauty - all come together in Vijender Sharma’s artworks. Harmony, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Vijender Sharma, was inaugurated in the beginning of the week at Sridharani Gallery. Presented by Gallery Art Indus, this exhibition is on view till March 23. Vijender Sharma completed his MFA from the College of Art, Delhi, and has had solos and group shows in both India and abroad. Vijender draws his strength not from style, rather handling of the medium and content. His language is simple but his manner of utterance only proves that it is not simple to be simple. Vijender’s works are lifelike, if a casual observer sees the surreal images, he will never believe that they are paintings. Behind every startlingly alive painting of Vijender, there is a cynical laugh at the ways of the world — be it a politician wearing a joker’s make-up, or an eyeless vendor of countless eyes or an umbrella hanging alongside a saffron niche in the wall. Every painting is disturbingly lifelike. “I don’t want you to just look at a painting and move on,” says Sharma. “I want you to become a part of the work and feel its intensity.” In fact, Vijender’s oils are amazingly three-dimensional. And after viewing a painting, one would be stunned by the truth within. A truth that is straining against clinging sheaths of polythene, tied down by thin red cords. You want to reach out, rip off the sheaths and free everyone straining for the horizon. But you can’t. And his art says all this things.
A passing shadow Fate, destiny and its uncertainties can disrupt or bring prosperity in any individuals’ life. An action and an event undertaken by an individual can have long lasting consequences that can disrupt or bring prosperity in the future life. Ann Bhalla’s ‘A Passing Shadow’ is a reflection on these two facts of life. Her novel set in the sprawling city of Delhi, deals with the life of two men and a little girl whose lives are intermingled by the cruel hands of fate. Happiness, sadness, excitement, anxiety, sympathy and anger are a few of the emotions that sweep away a reader’s mind while going through this novel. The characters have been presented and sketched in a truly lifelike manner and that makes it doubly impossible to put the novel down until the last page is read. One feels the sympathy for the central character, Tara, as her life is nothing less than a journey through a valley of only trials and tribulations. A must read for all the hardcore sentimental and emotional readers. The writer Ann Bhalla was born in a small town in the South of India, where she spent her early years. She moved to Delhi with her parents and after completing her schooling worked in the United States Agency for International Development until her marriage in 1970. She relocated to the United States with her family in 1980 and worked at the World Bank in Washington, DC for the next 18 years. After leaving this job, she wrote her first novel ‘A Season for All Things’. And it was published a year later to
favourable reviews.
Observations from life Divya Batra is holding an exhibition of her paintings from March 14 to 18 at the Convention Centre, India Habitat Centre. Divya’s subjects are drawn on observations from life. She is intrigued by the ordinary moments as they can hold great insight into the extraordinary. Her current exhibitions titled, “In the ordinary”, deals with this subject matter. Everyday subjects with strong narrative overtones are used in many of her compositions. By using simple elements of line, colour, light and gestures one tries to direct the viewers eye towards the tries emotion hidden in the composition. She finds that the human form can be used as the ideal communicator. The human form can speak a language of its own. She has tried to interpret these visual elements in her figures so as let the viewers find themselves in the composition. Her works on display are all oil on canvas. A graduate in Arts, BFA, from Delhi College of Art, she is continuing with Masters at OSU Ohio State University. Besides, Divya is also into clay pottering and designs for Fab India. |
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