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SPECIAL FOCUS ON ROHTAK Rohtak, April 24 Maharshi Dayanand University is perhaps one of the universities in this region where most of these conditions are met. Maharshi Dayanand University is one of the biggest universities in the country, with nearly 2.5 lakh students enrolled for its various courses. Last year, about 2 lakh students took their examinations in about 135 centres. Unfortunately, out of these, about 5,000 students were caught using illegal means. In order to eradicate this menace, some changes were made in the supervisory staff and even few papers were cancelled in some centres. The students of these centres were shifted to other examination centres located in other districts. Moreover, special flying squads were put on duty. These changes, to a large extent, led to the eradication of the use of unfair means in the examinations. In order to declare the examination results as per schedule, the Maharshi Dayanand University follows the system of spot evaluation. And for this, it has created centres at 15 stations. And for this, it has created centres at 15 stations. Every step is taken to maintain secrecy at these centres. The end result of this has been that examination results have been declared on schedule by the university for the last several years. On the other hand, many universities and state education boards in the region have failed to measure up to this challenge of conducting the examinations fairly and smoothly. Unfortunately, there are regular reports of mass copying in the examinations conducted by the education boards. The Kurukshetra University has had to cancel all the examinations due to paper leakage and reschedule its examinations recently. In
such a situation, it is encouraging to note that Maharshi Dayanand
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MDU admission Rohtak, April 24 According to a university press
release, the prospectus of the entrance test can be obtained from the
colleges of education up to May 12. The candidates are directed to
submit the application forms till May 20. OC |
MUSIC
ZONE The programme is being organised by Saigal Sangeet Sarita, which is dedicated to immortalising Saigal’s music and has held several similar functions in the past. In the centenary year, it is spearheading the year-long celebrations, which will include a retrospective of Saigal’s films, a research project on the artiste’s musical style and voice culture, a website dedicated to the singer, and release of a complete set of CDs of Saigal’s songs. Also, a series of stage performances, where Saigal’s songs will be sung by local artistes, will be organized in New Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Jalandhar, Kolkata and other cities, culminating on April 4, 2004, in a concert in New Delhi. The people behind the celebrations are Dinesh Sharma, a singer who specializes in Saigal’s songs, R. P. Sinha, a retired bureaucrat, who is into Saigal’s classical ghazals, Vinod Dua, well-known media person and Amarjit Singh Kohli, an organizer of stage shows. Kundan Lal Saigal was no ordinary singer. He created the grammar of film singing in the initial stages of the talkie era in the 30s, setting standards that are impossible to surpass. He was the first superstar of the Indian cinema and the original Devdas. He acted in about 35 films, including 7 Bengali films, and played a vast range of characters such as Surdas and Tansen. He worked in Calcutta as well as in the Bombay film industry and was the singing star till his death on January 18, 1947, at Jalandhar in Punjab. The range of Saigal’s recorded music is vast. Besides film songs, he has sung Khayal, bandish, ghazals, geets, bhajans, hori and dadra in numerous ragas. He sang in Hindi, Urdu, Pushto, Punjabi, Bengali and Tamil. The musical evening will provide live renderings of Saigal’s music. The great-grandson of Saigal, master Prithvi, will be a special guest. Also, a 12-year-old boy, Sahejmeet, will sing a Saigal song and, thus, herald the late artiste’s magic for the younger generation. There will also be an audio-visual presentation entitled “Bhool Jaiyyo Na,” showing glimpses of the life and works of the immortal singer scripted by TV celebrity Vinod Dua and produced by Dinesh Sharma. |
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Making others aware of our musical heritage ‘Sangeetam’, a musical institution, started its journey in 1972 with the famous musician couple, Pt. Arun Kumar Chatterjee and Mrs Shefali Chatterjee, along with eminent film personality, Sri Pahari Sanyal. Originally based in Kolkata, this organization is dedicated to spreading pure Indian music around the country by offering training of high standards and organizing cultural events. It has enjoyed the long-standing encouragement of music maestros such as Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta, Pt. Shankar Ghosh, Pt V. G Jog, Pt. A. T. Kanan, Dr M. R. Gautam etc., who have also participated and performed in its functions. A galaxy of young artistes like Rashid Khan, Tejendra Narayan Mazumder, Kushal Das, Sarath Chatterjee, Bikram Ghosh and Tanmoy Bose, who are very popular in the world of classical music, have presented the pure elegance and subtle nuances of Indian classical art forms over the last thirty years. The present music scenario in India is witnessing a phase of western influence. Indian classical music is not only rich and traditional, but has endless variety and purity. It’s the only form, which can bring peace and harmony to this world. It is high time we spread the awareness of our rich musical heritage among the younger generation in India and exposed them to the pure form of Indian classical music. This could be possible through concerts of Indian classical (Hindustani and Karnatic) music, rendered by maestros as well as young well-established artistes and the holding of such concerts in different parts of India, along with close interaction between musicians and students through lecture demonstrations. ‘Sangeetam’ started its Delhi chapter a few months back with the objective of imparting professional training to students, felicitating great masters, holding seminars and discussions, and organising an annual competition for talent search. |
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ARTSCAPE Since then, he has gone on to carve a niche for himself in the photography circuit as one of the most versatile and innovative young photographers. Trained in Digital Photography from New York, Munish continues to work on complex assignments in fields, which are as varied as fashion, advertising, food, interiors, travel and editorial. He works on both analogue (120mm and 35mm) and digital cameras. His photographs and concepts appear regularly in leading national magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Femina, New Woman, Savvy, Life Positive, Savvy Cook Book, Society, Society Fashion, Society Interiors, In touch with Fashion, Wedding Affairs, Health and Nutrition, Teens Today, Reader’s Digest, Arcade, Showtime and several others. Amongst his other major achievements are several covers for prestigious magazines like Savvy, Life Positive and Teens Today, a photo feature in Mojo, a British music magazine, etc. He has shot famous celebrities like, Pandit Ravi Shanker and Anoushka, Meera and Muzzafar Ali, Anil Biswas, Nandita Das, Anita Kaul Basu, Mona Bhattacharya, Vinod Khanna, Sylvie, Radha Raja Reddy, Geeta Chandran, Najma Heptullah, Roshan and Naina Balswar to name a few.
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By the special, for the special The foyer of the Shri Ram Auditorium here came alive with an exhibition-cum-sale of a different kind last week. All the products and exhibits were handmade by mentally challenged people. In the evening, these aspiring artistes staged Munshi Prem Chand’s famous play, Idgah. The skills of the actors left the audience spellbound. The vocational training centre of the Society for Child Development played a major role in this event.
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A concert of legendary singer-actor Kundan Lal Saigal’s songs is being held on April 28 at the FICCI Auditorium here to mark the beginning of the celebration of Saigal’s birth centenary year. The programme has been aptly named “Kya Jadoo Hai”, which encapsulates the magic of Saigal’s music. The late singer was born on April 4, 1904, at Jammu.
SANGEETAM' presented a concert at the India Habitat Centre Basement Theatre last evening. The programme consisted of felicitation of sitar maestro Pt. Debu Choudhury, followed by vocal recital by Pt. Madhup Mudgal.
BASED in New Delhi, Munish Khanna graduated from the prestigious Government College of Art, Chandigarh, with a degree in Applied Art (Advertising photography) in 1993.