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PU don gets National Integration Award Chandigarh, February 27 She has been awarded for making contribution to the fields of Sanskrit, Indian philosophy and culture, higher education and empowerment of women. The Prime Minister in exile of the Tibetan Government conferred the award on Dr Goel on February 15. New course The centre for IAS coaching and other competitive examinations at Panjab University is starting a new course designed to prepare students to face the job market. A 20-day course on ‘Personality development and communication skills’ is being offered. Lectures will be delivered by experts in psychology, communication skills and presentation. The classes will be held at the IAS Coaching Centre. Initially, the students of Punjab University will be enrolled for the course and the fee will be between Rs 1,500 and Rs 2,000. The admission will be open from March 1 to March 20. Orientation course The Centre for Adult Continuing Education and Extension, Punjab University, organised a two-day orientation course on ‘Research methodology for research scholars’ in the Department of Sociology. Thirty research scholars from various departments of the university attended the course. Ms Renu Gandhi was the programme coordinator. Lecturer invited Dr Tankeshwar Kumar, reader in Physics and member of the Senate, Punjab University, has been invited by the Abdul Salaam International Centre of Theatrical Physics, Italy. During his visit to Italy from May 22 to May 31, he will be participating in the research activities related to statistical aspects of quantum and classical system out of equilibrium. Refresher course The Department of Economics, Punjab University, organised a refresher course on ‘Development in economic theory, policy and applications’ for college teachers. ABVP rally Members of the ABVP observed ‘black day’ in city colleges and the university in protest against the alleged anti-student policies of the Punjab Government and Punjab University. Beret Singh, organising secretary of the Chandigarh unit of the ABVP, said the policies being pursued by the government were anti-students. Sarah Joshi, joint secretary of the Punjab unit, said if the government failed to revert all anti-student decisions, it would face a defeat in the coming Lok Sabha elections. He criticised the proposal by Punjab University to hike fee by 25 per cent. Result declared The result of the entrance test conducted by the Panjab University on February 25 for admission to MD and MS courses at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, has been declared. The copies of the result gazette will be available at the new enquiry office of the university and at the office of the Director, GMCH, Sector 32, from Saturday. |
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FROM SCHOOLS Chandigarh, February 27 As many as 120 students of Classes IX and X participated in a science exhibition. Neha and Preeti, both students of Class IX, stood first and second, respectively. Shiavni and Mona stood first and second from among students from Class X. In the science quiz, the team of Poonam, Nisha and Meena was declared winner. In the essay-writing competition, there were 22 participants. Poonam, a student of Class IX, Anurdha, a student of Class VII, and Preeti and Lalita, got the first, second and the third prize, respectively. In painting competition, Pooja, Pushpanjali and Suman were declared first, second and third, respectively, in Group A. In Group B, Mukta, Prabhati and Radhika were declared first, second and third. In Group C, Anshul, Sushmita and Savita were declared first, second and third, respectively. Training programme NTT students of the Raja Ram Mohan Roy Institute of Vocational Studies organised a function on the premises of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 44, on the concluding day of a 40-day teaching practice programme. A colourful programme was presented by the students. Quiz An inter-house quiz was held at MDAV High School here on Friday. Twelve students participated in the quiz. In the beginning, Rekha Arya, Principal of MDAV High School, welcomed the panel. The first prize went to the Shardhanand House and the second prize went to the Swami Dayanand House, while the Pandit Gurudutt House got the third prize. Map quiz 2004 St Kabir School, Sector 26, has bagged the first prize in the Map Quiz-2004. The quiz was organised by the Survey of India to observe Science Day. Thirteen teams participated in the quiz based on survey of India maps, hydrographics and general geography. The winners are: Karan Singla, Ishaan Mehta and Navkirat Singh, all from St Kabir School, Sector 26, 1; Tamilarasi, Rajni and Vinod Kumar, all from KV, Sector 31, 2; Abhishek Syal, Dhaarnatangri and Kanar Malhotra, all from St Kabir School, Sector 26, 3. Dance show Vivek High School, Sector 38, is organising a song, rhyme and dance show on the school premises on February 28. The tiny tots from nursery, LKG and UKG will present various items during the event. Health camp A free medical check-up camp was organised by the Lotus Foundation in Sector 49 here on Thursday. Slum children and elderly persons from the labour colony in Sector 49 were examined during the camp. As many as 200 persons were examined during the camp. Meanwhile, a medical check-up camp was held at Sarvhitkari Vidya Mandir High School, Sector 71. Dr Manraj examined the students. Education week Stepping Stone School, Sector 38, observed Value Education Week. During the week, Dr Sayal, a former chief of Vidya Bhavan, emphasised on the need of being nice. |
High Court Chandigarh, February 27 Taking up the petition filed by city resident Capt Mohinder Paul Goswami against the state of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, a Division Bench, comprising Mr Justice Swatanter Kumar and Mr Justice Amar Dutt, also asked the respondents to explain whether the payments for the advertisements were being made through government, or personal account. The case will now come up on March 2. In his petition, Capt Goswami had also sought directions to the states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, besides Union of India, to frame guidelines so that “politicians were not able to play with public exchequer”. The petitioner had added that the respondents should also be directed to work out the total expenditure incurred on the issuance of advertisements. The respondents should then be asked to pay for the advertisements through “private funds”, instead of public exchequer, the petitioner submitted. Giving details, the petitioner had added that some of the political parties had started projecting their leaders through advertisements in newspapers before the general elections giving details of achievements and promises. The ads, he contended, were not benefiting the public at large. |
Insulating arts from western influence Chandigarh, February 27 In keeping with the paced times, the Akademi has been reviewing its funding programmes to preserve the huge corpus of Indian traditions in their original form. After running a successful project designed to preserve kudiyattam, the nearly-extinct dance theatre tradition of Kerela, the Akademi is now diverting its funds to popularize living traditions like the sattriya and Manipuri dance forms. These traditions are significant because, unlike bharatnatyam which has been taken out of the temple precincts, these are still practised in the ritualistic settings. Both sattriya and Manipuri are performed in sacred spaces. In that sense they are among the few living traditions in India, apart from kudiyattam which has been recognized by UNICEF as one of the mankind’s most ancient and celebrated oral traditions. Spelling out his strategy the Secretary, SNA, Mr Jayant Kastuar, said, “The Akademi has to act cautiously with regard to disbursement of funds. Over the past, many people have been coming to us asking for funds in the name of art promotion. It has become a virtual trade these days, but we have our own means to identify who means business and who means promotion. We have an annual availability of Rs 7 crore to support training programmes in arts, apart from funding organisations.” Recently the Akademi has also taken upon itself the task of preserving rare instruments and rare instrumental arts. Informed Jayant Kastuar, who has to his credit extensive research work in the fields of kathakali, chhau, sattriya, kuchipudi and Odissi dances, “Our priorities keep changing according to the needs of the time. Apart from regular programmes, we have initiated training programmes in rare instruments like the sarangi and the pakhawaj. These are mainstream Hindustani classical music instruments but in comparison to the sitar, flute and the tabla, they are not so popular. So we invite gurus and hold workshops to train youngsters in these rather rare arts.” The SNA has also initiated a project to train artistes in the making of rare instruments, like those used in Rajasthan and Kerela. Earlier the Akademi had popularised dhrupad, which has few takers. Added Kastuar, “In the South our major concern is also to preserve the old, traditional bharatnatyam, which has suffered tremendously ever since the art form has been modified. The entire line of old bharatnatyam gurus has been dwindling. We are now securing the tradition.” As an artiste, Jayant makes sure that he keeps performing, no matter how busy his schedule. Trained in the Jaipur kathak tradition by Pt Durga Lal ji, he has participated in various festivals like the Buddha Mahotsava, Sarnath and the Natyanjali Festival, Chidambaram. He is, however, best remembered as the Adviser to the International Odissi Dance Festival held in Washington in 2003. The festival was a tremendous success. |
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God the true healer: expert Chandigarh, February 27 In city to deliver a lecture on “Peace is Possible” under the auspices of the Christian Science Society, Chandigarh, Ms Master says that love and positive thinking is the most potent force in the universe. “You may give every possible nourishment to a child but he will flourish only if he gets love. This has been established by medical science. And love is just another name for God”. Based in Mumbai, Ms Master gave up a successful 25-year career as a paediatrician, because she was convinced that spiritual healing was a more effective way of helping others out of suffering. Her new approach to healthcare, she says, changed not only her own life for the better, but many other lives as well. This dramatic change did not come suddenly. For 10 years, she studied the textbook on spiritual healing, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy. This book was first published in 1875 and has been translated into 16 languages and nearly 12 million copies of this book have been sold. Since 1995, the book is included on the recommended reading list of the Harvad Medical School Symposium “Spirituality and Healing in the Medicine”. Today it is read in more than 130 countries As a scholar and teacher, Ms Master was accustomed to research. She has a degree in paediatric medicine from the University of Bombay and undertook a two-year fellowship at the Cornell University Medical Center in New York. As she studied, she says, she experienced healings, such as relief from recurring migraine headaches. Her perspective changed. She no longer saw misery, sickness, poverty, and corruption as hopeless conditions, but learned about an infinite Creator who is good, caring, always a help, and not a creator of evil. Whenever she saw a desperately ill child for whom medicine had done everything it could, she instinctively turned to God. At home, she opened the Bible and Science and Health, studied and prayed with pertinent passages, till she herself felt sure of God’s presence and powerful love. Invariably this blessed the child also, who was soon cured, she says. Many such experiences convinced her that God was the true healer. She then decided to leave the practice of traditional medicine. Almost immediately people called her for help through prayer. In explaining her practice, she says that prayer is not imploring God, but scientifically understanding God to be an ever-present healing power in peoples’ lives. Jer Master |
Nek Chand’s UK friends remove Indian blots THE eight volunteers of the Nek Chand Foundation, UK, today bid adieu to the master sculptor, Nek Chand, and the Rock Garden after attending a month-long graffiti removal and awareness camp. They hoped that the visitors to the “sculptor’s paradise” would be more respectful and not redo the damage to the sculptures or the walls. The volunteers, led by Mr Wilfrid Wood, sculptor and graphic designer, said they had painstakingly removed graffiti from the first and second phase of the Rock Garden and this would be followed by volunteers of the Nek Chand Foundation, USA. They said they were touched by the hospitality showered on them by Nek Chand, volunteers of the Friends of Nek Chand and by local schoolchildren, who helped them in removing the graffiti. The other volunteers in this group included freelance stone mason Rene Rice, architect Iain Jackson and his wife Joe Jackson, fine arts student Isabel Brunt, editor of a publishing house Holly Hall, curator Abi Isherwood and architect and grand- daughter of Nek Chand, Shefali Saini. This group of men and women have given a new look to the Rock Garden by using simple techniques for mud plastering of the walls, removing graffiti and cleaning the water features in the garden. Speaking about their experiences, Iain Jackson, who is also writing a thesis on Rock Garden and Chandigarh, for his doctorate, said nowhere in the world had such wonderful sculptures been erected. “In terms of scale, quality of sculptures and creativity there is no matching the Rock Garden and its creator, who has brought the City Beautiful on the world tourism map,” he said, adding that the visitors book at the garden was a testimony to this. Wilfrid said they had the most memorable time in learning sculptor-making from Nek Chand. “We also tried to repair some of the damaged sculptures and realised the creativity of Nek Chand when had plastered the gangly legs of birds,” he said. Agreed Rene Rice, a stone mason, “Graffiti by lovers should not be allowed. Though it is harmless, but it spoils the aspect of the place. But we enjoyed every moment of our stay here — be it at the Rock Garden enjoying Nek Chand’s hospitality or moving around the city or getting a feel of real India in the suburbs and villages around Chandigarh.” He added that he hoped to see Nek Chand in the UK next January, where a seminar would be organised on Nek Chand’s art. As many as 250 delegates and members of the Nek Chand Foundation would participate. Nek Chand was also all praise for the volunteers. His female guests — Isabel Brunt, Holly Hall, Joe Jackson and Abi Isherwood were all too pleased with the gift of bright glass bangles from their host.
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Walking-talking-garden look Mohali: Split personality shirts are in! And so are the turn up sleeves and dusty feet. Patch work on large knits and the walking-talking-garden look is all you need to look trendy. And if you think this is enough, the fisherman vest on men is all set to set warm a women’s heart this summer..... Welcome to the world of fashion forecasting.... Harleen Sabharwal style. A professional fashion forecaster, Harleen has been in the business for 12 years and is passionate about future fashion trends and talking about them. And certainly not through her hat. ‘‘There is no formula nor one comes across any set of rules that can result in successful fashion forecasting. But if a person follows fashion trends passionately, the task of fashion forecasting may become easier. One has to develop the skill with trial and error method. the skill demands total devotion from the practitioner of the refined art of fashion production,’’she says. At the Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology, Mohali, on Friday, to conduct a fashion forecasting workshop, Harleen gave students and faculty the low down on fashion trends this summer. Summer-2004 is going to be a riot of floral colours, garden shades and a wild blend of material. “Splash is in. Harleen also believes that a fashion clairvoyant should have a vivid imagination and clear perceptions with an urge to excel in infusing people’s aspirations into an apparel design, which is fully in harmony with time, mood and culture. For example a large part of this summer’s men wear will be inspired by the block buster — The Lord of the Rings. Baggy trousers, the dusty shades flowing, long over wears. Further, mens wear will be dominated by light suits and the traveller look. ‘‘The most important accessory for men will be the tie. In fact the tie is the shirt now. And the trend is to match the two in colourful prints to give that split personality effect,’’she said.
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YEARS ago when Rana Jang Bahadur, a lecturer in dramatics at Punjabi University, Patiala, shifted base to Mumbai, he did not know that life in the tinsel town would be tough as it was. But after years of struggle, the educationist with a double MA in Punjabi literature and dramatics, is quite satisfied with the way life and Bollywood has treated him. A regular in televisions serials and many comedy films, Rana Jang Bahadur is now starring in a positive role in the latest Punjabi film “Nalayak”. In Mohali to shoot for the film, Rana Jang Bahadur talked with pride about his roles in films lile “Yalgaar”, “Dulhe Raja” and “Zor”. Particularly impressed with Govinda with whom he has worked in many films, Rana Jang Bahadur added that he was again starring in a Govinda production titled “Sukh”. His other forthcoming productions include Ahmad Khan's “Lakeer” and Kundan Shah's “Ek se badhkar ek”.
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Jayant presents nuances of Jaipur kathak JAYANT Kastuar today appeared before people in his favourite role — that of a performing artiste. At a special show organised by Pracheen Kala Kendra, secretary of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi, performed kathak, displaying its nuances. An accomplished singer and dancer, Jayant presented the intricacies of Jaipur style of kathak, which he imbibed from his guru Pt Durga Lal ji. He began his presentation with Ganesh vandana, which signified an invocation of peace. Later he presented the technical aspects of kathak, dancing thaat, tode, tukre, paran etc.
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Barista’s new flavour targets students BARISTA now offers a cuppa wholesome coffee for Rs 20. The pioneer in bringing the coffee culture to city, on Friday launched “Coffee House Special” — a full bodied beverage, which will help in reviving the association and emotions with coffee houses of the past. Mr Brotin Banerjee, Head Marketing and Strategy, Barista Coffee Company, who was in Chandigarh for the launch of the new flavour, said it would help in reviving the association and emotions with coffee houses of the past. Barista was the only house to have espresso with Arabica beans, and the credentials of the new flavour were also based on Arabica, and had been launched in the city for the first time, he added. He said Barista had launched the flavour to expand the coffee-drinking culture. “This is an important breakthrough for us and its competitive pricing will help in generating the desired profits. We are specially targeting the students with this flavour,” he added.
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