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Exploring hidden talents of kids
Panchkula, May 30 Ms Geetika Sethi, director of The British School (TBS), believes that the parents are not an active participant in the teaching-learning process of the child and achieving desired landmarks in a child’s academic graph remain a mere dream. “We believe that small things make big impact on the child’s mind. Small day-to-day activities matter more than taking the child to the clubs, fast food joints or the multiplexes,” she adds. At the TBS, mothers were given the important tips and guidelines which would help them in the upbringing and progress of their children, both academically and in the sphere of co-curricular activities. The TBS Summer Programme, open to its students only, is designed in such a way that the participation of mothers in the workshop will help them explore their hidden talents. Experts from Pidilite Industries, Ms S.Jindal and Mr Pankaj Bajaj, taught various skills of handicraft to mothers and the children. They learnt the art of fabric painting, glass painting, floating candle-making, glass mosaic work, bread craft, block printing, new technique of tie and dye. A trendy and nutritious “TBS Recipe List” with innovative ideas will be prepared and released for and by the mothers which will save their time and energy everyday while preparing the food for their young ones every morning. During the course of the workshop, the mothers will also be made conscious of their fitness. They will be given chance for workouts and dance with the help of experts. Apart from these fundamental and essential skills, they will also be inculcated moral values, social responsibilities and personal hygiene during this programme. To mark the culmination of the programme, a valedictory function will be organised on the school premises on June 3 where the mothers and children will showcase their dance skills learnt during the summer programme. An exhibition will also be put up to display the tiny-toddlers’ creations.
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Camps for kids to beat summer languor
Mohali, May 30 Bal Bhawan, Phase IV, is organising a summer camp for children between the ages of 4 and 16 years from today to June 23. Apart from activities in art and craft, the children will be taught karate, aerobics, western dance, bhangra, etc. Refreshments will also be provided to the children. Tiny Tots Foundation School, Phase X, is organising a camp from June 1 to 18 in which children will be trained in theatre, folk dance (belle) and choreography. They will also learn the basics of music and painting. The school Principal, Ms Harpreet Kaur, said experienced directors and actors of a well-known theatre group Sargi Kala Kender, Mohali, will teach students these arts. The participants will be divided in two age groups - 3.5 to 5 years and 5 to 14 years. Children will have a night campfire on the school premises. They will be introduced to celebrities of literature and dramatics. Ms Harpreet Kaur said on June 18 the participants would perform the art they had learned during the camp before their parents and teachers. Golden Bells Public School, Sohana, is organising a swimming workshop during the vacations at the school pool. The camp is from June 1 to 30 and there are separate timings for boys and girls. The summer camp of Anees School, Sector 69, began on May 25 and will continue till June 15. Children are learning clay-modeling, card-making, stone-decoration, tile-decoration, flower, wooden wheels and photo frames making, etc. Activities like aerobics, exercise, sports, yoga and general knowledge improvement are common for all students. Computers, splash pool, bhangra, talent show and a trip are also part of the activities of the camp. Smartkids Kindergarten Campus in Phase X is offering the only air-conditioned summer camp at the school. Even two-year-old children can be the part of the camp that begins today and will continue for a month. For children between two to four years, activities like singing, dancing, yoga, story-telling, colouring and pasting, etc have been organised. For children between five and eight years, activities like phonics, craft skills, picture-reading English-speaking, yoga, jazz, etc have been organised.
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Importance of maths highlighted
Chandigarh, May 30 The inaugural function was presided over by Prof R.P. Bambah, Professor Emeritus and former Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University. Professor Bambah, in his presidential address, informed the participants of the recent researches in mathematics, particularly Fermat’s Last Theorem and Goldbach’s Conjecture. He gave an example of Prof Andrew Wiles, who became fascinated by Fermat’s Last Theorem at the tender age of 10 and made it his aim to provide a proof in which he was successful in 1993 after nine years of hard work. He exhorted the students to aim high and strive towards the deep understanding and valuable researches in mathematics. Prof S. Kumaresan, Member Secretary, National Board for Higher Mathematics, and Professor, the Department of Mathematics of Mumbai and the Director of the programme, informed the audience about its aims which was to expose young students to the excitement of doing mathematics, to enthuse them to learn advanced topics and to encourage independent mathematical thinking. As many as 55 students of B.A./B.Sc. I and II have participated from eight neighbouring states. The programme is funded by the National Board for Higher Mathematics. The guests were welcomed by Prof Sudesh Kaur Khanduja, Chairperson, Dept of Mathematics.
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Workshop on improving life skills
Panchkula, May 30 The one-day workshop by Mr Prabal, president of the academy, saw corporates from BEL factory, Panchkula, Solan and Baddi participate in the seminar. Principals of various schools and colleges and entrepreneurs from the region also participated. Mr Prabal said it was only by developing people’s skills that one could set goals, improve efficiency, resulting in increased efficiency and success. The workshop emphasised the point that the desire to succeed was not of much use unless you had the desire to prepare for success. He elaborated on the efficiency enhancement course that he had designed for various segments. The Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Punjab, Mr Sanjiv Kalra, was the chief guest. He applauded the academy and said that such workshops would help in nation-building. Mrs Satnam Kaur, Senator, Panjab University, was also present.
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B.Ed forms submission date
extended
Chandigarh, May 30 The last date for receipt of application forms for joint B.Ed entrance test has been extended from May 31 to June 7 up to 5 pm. The remaining schedule will, however, remain the same.
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Tests for Army Sports Institute
Chandigarh, May 30 The test will be held at the Kharga Stadium, Ambala, on June 13 and 14, at 14 Gorkha Training Centre, Sabathu, on June 16 and 17 and the Katoch Stadium, Jalandhar, on June 19 and 20. Final selection will be done at the Raina Stadium, Chandimandir, on June 22 and 23, a statement issued here said.
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Foundation Day celebrated
Mohali, May 30 The school honoured the teachers in whose subjects the children scored more than 95 per cent. These include, science teacher Ms Monica Sharma, Ms Meenu, Ms Harbeen, Mr Nishant, Ms Rakhee Kapoor and the school counsellor Alka Mahajan. Principal Jaya Bhardwaj congratulated the staff members and said that the school was planning to start +1 & +2 classes from next year after getting the due affiliation. She said the students and teachers put in extra efforts. The students brought laurels to their alma mater by winning overall trophy in the painting competition organised by Generation Saviour Association.
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40 cases settled at Lok Adalat
Chandigarh, May 30 According a press note issued here today, 53 cases of the Chandigarh State Cooperative Bank were taken up at the adalat, organised under the aegis of the Mr Justice Amar Dutt, Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman of the Authority. In one of the cases, an amount of Rs 9 lakh was awarded. Mr Sant Parkash, Member-Secretary-cum-Judge of the Permanent Lok Adalat, who presided over the adalat, informed that any person could submit an application to get his dispute settled before going to the court. Cases related to family disputes, recovery of loans, labour problems, property disputes, compoundable criminal cases, electricity, water and telephone disputes were taken up at the adalat, he added. The Authority was also providing free legal aid to various sections of society, whose income was less than Rs 50,000 per annum. Besides, persons belonging to the SCs and STs, and women, irrespective of their annual income, were also offered free legal aid, Mr Sant Parkash added.
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Adding colour to special lives
Chandigarh, May 30 The unique endeavour is the brainchild of director of the department Madhvi Kataria, who has had this plan up her sleeve for a while now. “I had been thinking of involving senior citizens in some kind of fruitful activity and when I went to the Senior Citizens Home in Sector 43 and asked if they wanted to come and work with these boys, they agreed.” So, in came octogenarian Ajit Singh, who taught art in his earlier days, armed with Desmond Morris’s “The Biology of Art” to demonstrate to the boys that art is a liberating expression of the mind. He believes: “Nobody can teach art. All I am doing is creating an atmosphere to create something so that one can look upon me as a conduit to creativity.” Ajit Singh will come twice a week to teach the children. However, this does not seem to be a one-off effort. According to Jyoti, volunteering on this project, several senior citizens of the home have expressed their desire to be involved in some activity or another with the boys. So Gian Kaur, who is a trained nurse, will give guidance on first aid techniques, and Baldev Singh and his wife, who have been coming to counsel the boys, will continue to do so by hearing their problems. The boys have already gone and bought 153 books to stack their library with. The glow was visible in the eyes of the boys who filled reams of paper with their works. Ajit Singh was pleased at the response of the boys: “The most valuable thing is love and affection. If that is lacking, the human mind turns to negativity. I found the boys very friendly and respectful.” Ms Kataria believes that integration of a project like this with members of the Senior Citizens Home gives a sense of purpose and direction to both the younger and the older generation. With a genuine space constraint for the boys in the current location, this art class came as a pleasant diversion. |
Painting exhibition begins
“Mein aakash nahin kshitij chhuuna chahti hoon, Udnaa nahin mein chalna chahti hoon…” (I wish to access the horizons not the sky, and love to walk than to fly..) The scribbled note from the poetess painter, Nirmala Singh, greets you to her repertoire of 35 attractive exhibits adorning Gallery Jodh here. Veritable titled “Saying it with flowers” all creations are a testimony to the austere and unique vision of Nirmala as a prolific poet and a painter of rare potential as there exists an interactive duet between most of the paintings and its lyrical expression tagged along.
All works put by Nirmala Singh, mainly on rice paper in mixed media, reflect joyous optimism and a celebration of romance with nature. Be it the fascinating creation “Anandit” enriching your soul with the feel of fragrance or the “Vistaar” wherein the clusters of flowers lose their colour and form in a bid to scale the horizons. Her shows had been inaugurated by the top national celebrities which established her credentials in the realm of art for which she owes to her husband, Wing Commander RK Singh. Talking to the Chandigarh Tribune, the self-taught postgraduate Nirmala claims that since she is not burdened with the knowledge from any training , she depends upon the ideology of “minute observation” of a thought before conceptualising and transform it to the painting form. Referring to some works with philosophical content like “Bhav vibhor” capturing the absolute ecstasy, “Antardwandh”, reflecting the inner conflicts, and “nirvaan” a rendezvous of fresh and dry, leaves the poet in her recites, “rangon ke saaye chaaye hain, phoolon mein – hasrat banker aur patton mein harkat bankar”. The exhibits will be on display at Gallery Jodh, 741, Sector-11 till June 7 between 12 pm to 6 pm. OC
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Charismatic creations of nature on canvas
A distinct dissimilarity has been the salient feature of the life of Shiv Kumar Batish hailing from a sleepy village of Patiala district, now settled at Panchkula. Way back in early fifties while his schoolmates used to indulge in pranks or popular sports of the pastoral living the suave Shiv preferred to be lost in the cradle of nature, admiring its mysterious formations like tendrils laden with flowers, sprawling green fields and thick forests. Shiv used to extract momentary pleasure through the glimpses of such picturesque scenes which jostled his intrusive mind until the genuis of a painter grew in him to capture the charismatic creations of nature on canvas and different mediums.
Another contrast of his life was unfolded when having completed his diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Thapar College of Engineering and Technology, the young Batish opted for farming at his village discarding the white collared jobs in 1962-63. He led many babudom aspirants by example and his endeavored role of ‘ Jai Kisan’ was warmly lauded by the then Chief Minister Giani Zail Singh and a Deputy Union Minister at his native village. A self taught Batish goes by the dictates of his inner feelings to translate his vision to reality on the canvas in varied mediums. His creations reflect the feel of a concept and treatment, at times raw, but in close proximity with the life of a common man. His prize winning work ‘Blind Following’ vividly depicts and deprecates the contemporary trends of young turks falling prey to Western lifestyles. Shiv had delved deep into the Indian mythological philosophy to explore the ‘Sacred and the profane’ in life and depicting it in visual art form in his classic creation ‘ Drishta’— a series of 14 works. These works celebrate the spiritual imagination of the common people who venerate the divine in diverse manifestations. Another work ‘Underfed’, adoring his studio, depicts the plight of the rampant menace of population. Childhood associate of Bollywood music director Late S.D. Batish, Shiv Kumar claims to be a singer while having successfully portrayed the theme inherent in the lyricism. ‘Na zubaan ko dikhayi deta hai naa nigahon se baat hoti hai…’ Batish’s trail of ‘contrasts’ has yet another feature which credits him to be a cut above the rest that he never sells his works though a few of his gifted creations adore the houses of her doctor daughter, Sangeeta in London and executive engineer son Ajay Batish in Nigeria. The founder president of Unique Society of Artists, Shiv Kumar Batish, and his associates put up group shows only to propagate the art in the region.
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