EDUCATION

Delhi Govt to fill up posts of ST category teachers
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 28
The Government of NCT of Delhi will soon fill the thousand-odd vacancies of teachers of Scheduled Tribe (ST) category in the schools run by it. According to Education Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan, ST candidates possessing caste certificate issued in any part of the country can now apply for Government of NCT of Delhi posts.

The minister said the Centre has withdrawn the ban on filling vacancies in the ST category and scrapped the criterion of having “Delhi Origin” for appointment to these posts. Accordingly, the government will soon notify the 1,006 selections made in the ST category.

The Government of NCT of Delhi, he said, arrived at the decision in a meeting called by the Chief Minister after the communication dated August 21 was received from the Union Government.

The government would also consider notifying the selection of all those candidates who fulfilled the criteria of belonging to the category of Scheduled Caste (SC) or Other Backward Caste (OBC) as listed for the Union territory of Delhi and based upon the criteria of “Delhi Origin” as was the case earlier. There were a total of 2,814 SC/OBC posts vacant in the Government of NCT of Delhi.

CULTURE

ARTSCAPE
Paintings inspired by the tricolour 
Tribune News Service

Shallu Jindal and Naveen Jindal of Jindal Foundation, which has organised the ‘Tiranga’ paintings exhibition.

Tiranga- Rights and Responsibilities’, an art exhibition, had the artists incorporating images of the National Flag, its colours or motifs in their works.

Organised by the Jindal Foundation for Performing and Creative Arts, the exhibition concluded here recently.

It was an attempt to communicate, through art, the right of each and every Indian to fly our Tricolour and be inspired by it to live by its ideals. This right also spells responsibility, beautifully displayed by the artists and photographers through this exhibition, the organisers said.

The exhibition, which concluded here, will tour the rest of the country. The Jindal Foundation, which is now two years old, will continue to celebrate the theme ‘Tiranga’ for the next five years.

Mr Naveen Jindal said, “I am happy that leading artists from across the country have come together to express their feelings and emotions for the tricolour through various colours, media and styles. To me, the ideals of the flag mean to do one’s job well while keeping the country’s interest in mind.

I feel when a person displays the national flag, he rises above his religious, regional and political affiliations, and shows his love for his country.”

Each work at ‘Tiranga’, be it ‘kiosk’ in stainless steel framework and rubberstamps by Reena Saini Kallat or ‘flag’ by Manisha Parekh was subtle in its expressions. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh’s ‘Tiranga Bharat’ was a speaking tree of multiple traditions and cultures representing the land of the Tiranga.

An interactive project by Jitish Kallat, it provided the visitors the opportunity to participate by playing with saffron and green colours on sheets of paper, to use the child’s inkblot painting method of folding the paper and squeezing the colour in between to finally spread them.

The result were butterfly-like patterns formed by the collision of the two complementary colours. The central fold of the paper was a metaphor for the axis of governance that needs to tilt neither left nor right to create the much needed symmetry in our highly polarised polity, explained Ms Shallu Jindal, president of the foundation.

She elaborated, “The artists have used the image of the Tricolour or have incorporated the colours and motifs of the flag in some way in their works.

These exhibits communicate our feelings about the flag, the freedom as well as the responsibility that comes with its display and our expressions of what it means to be an Indian.”

Egyptian memories

Mappings, a seminar and an art show will be on at the Visual Arts Gallery in India Habitat Centre from September 20 to October 2.

The show will display works of 16 prominent artists including Anjolie Ela Menon, Paresh Maity and KS Radhakrishnan.

Endeavouring to renew links between the two ancient civilisations of Egypt and India, the Bayer AGS Group took 16 artists to Egypt in March this year. It was also an exercise in cross cultural exchange and initiation of cross-referencing of a visual language.

The shift of the geographical space and the fertile environment resulted in a brand new work created by this talented group of 16 artists.

‘Mappings’ will showcase their work that illustrates the different trajectories and the external and internal spaces of these individuals.

The show will later move to Cairo where the artists drew their inspirations and then created the works in India drawing from memory and imagination.

Art for sight

Venu Eye Institute, in an unprecedented initiative, set up an art gallery, Venu Art for Sight- gallery of contemporary Art, in Sheikh Sarai Institutional Area, Phase II.

The gallery was inaugurated by the legendary cricketer Tiger Pataudi and his wife Sharmila Tagore, who are the ‘sigh ambassadors’ for the institute.

The first exhibition at the gallery will display a collection of 30 paintings by some of the country’s most renowned artists like Adi Moolan, Yusuf Arakal, Arpana Caur, Sanjay Bhattacharya and Rimi Dhumal. The entire proceeds from the sales will go towards the treatment of the patients at the Eye Institute.

MUSIC ZONE
Radhe-Radhe

GNP Audio-Video has come out with audiocassettes, CDs and VCDs of Radhe-Radhe Part-I and II. Produced and directed by Sanjeev Nayyar of ‘Jagran Ki Raat’ fame, the music has been composed by Chandrakamal and Nagesh Narda has sung the bhajans. The VCD brings to life Sri Krishna’s birthplace Mathura, Brindavan’s Sri Bankebihari Temple, the famous Iskcon temple, Nidhi Van, Radha Damodar Temple and the Ranganathji Temple.