The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

“Wine Studio” for bubbly lovers
Varinder Singh
Tribune News Service

Residents of the city, the heartland of Doaba region, seem to have acquired an intense fascination for wines. To satiate their taste buds, the city has got an exclusive Wine Studio in the posh Lajpat Nagar Market.

The Wine Studio, as claimed by its proprietor Sunny, is first of its kind outlet in Punjab, which, exclusively caters to needs of the wine lovers and which boasts of a huge variety of Indian and imported wines, based on liking of men, and women as well.

What is more interesting is revelation made by Sunny that more and more women have started preferring wine as a drink. “We have a large number of customer base of women, most of whom prefer red wines or a combination of vodka and flavoured sparkling soda. Those belonging to rich families go in for champagne,” Sunny said.

Wine Studio offers an array of brands of exquisite Indian and imported wines and champegne, that include, Rancarede, Listel, Vin Ballet, Hoor, Riveria, Joie, Deinhard, Andre, Sula, Madera, Syrah, Chantilli, Cabernet, Cuvee, Satori, Carlorossi, Malambo and Baron De Meriac. “We have almost all of red, white and pink wines. Presumably, people of Jalandhar have developed a taste for wines. Our outlet has maximum variety of wines to offer to our valued customers, who also come to us to have their pick of all kinds of imported cheese and yoghurt,” Sunny maintained.

“At the outset, we had never expected that people of Punjab, particularly, Jalandhar, where people are known for their preference of hard liquor, would except wines. But we are amazed over their response and their sense of tasting wines in their true and peculiar styles. Not only urbanites, we have customers, who come all the way from far flung villages to enquire about wines. Though high prices prove to be a big hurdle for some people, but, they settle for nothing less than low price tag Indian wines,” Sunny said.

City student tops video conferencing contest
Varinder Singh
Tribune News Service

Sahil Sareen, a local student, has bagged the first prize in the senior group of the India’s first video conferencing-based National Digital Elocution Competition organised by the Reliance WebWorld (RWW).

Interestingly, a whopping 5200 registrations and 3700 video mails were received from across 105 cities of the country during the competition, according to an official communication faxed to the Tribune by the Reliance Infocom.

“We are elated to learn about the achievement of our son,” said Dr Rajesh Sareen, the father of Sahil Sareen.

Each of the mail, according to Mr Sunil Buch, Head, Marketing and Product Management, Reliance WebWorld, sent by participants of the age group of 9-14 years, was judged by independent judges. “We found that the children had come forth with original thoughts and ideas while presenting the topic of their choice. The competition was aimed at providing students with a real broad band technology platform on which they could interact and express their extra curricular talent better,” said Mr Buch.

Anees Backer from Kochi and Mridula Kapur from Bareily were adjudged as first runner up and second runner up, respectively.

From Schools and Colleges
Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service

Cultural programme

Lyallpur Khalsa Collegiate Senior Secondary School organised a cultural show ‘Jashan’ on Friday. The students performed rare feats as they danced to the foot tapping beats of bhangra and gidha. Mr H.S. Sidhu, chairman, Punjab State Electricity Board, was the chief guest. The function was presided over by Mr Balbir Singh, former MP.

Annual day

The senior wing of Apeejay School organised its 28th annual prize distribution function on Thursday. Mr A.P. Saxena, Commissioner, Income Tax, was the chief guest on the occasion. The students performed a prayer dance and presented various cultural items. The cultural show had variety of programmes, including Spanish dance, ‘music-mani’ and ‘Mujrim Kaun’, a Hindi play. Young magician Master Khan mesmerised the audience with his performance. Mr Yash Raj Aggarwal, general secretary of Apeejay Education Society, proposed a vote of thanks.

Dance contest

An inter-house solo dance competition was organised at Sanskriti KMV School on Tuesday.

Most participants performed steps with much confidence. In sub-junior category, Ishita Sharma bagged first position. Arshpal Singh stood second. Paramvir Klair and Arjuna Sharma shared third position. In junior category, Anchal Singh got first position. Rahul Jain stood second. Third position was shared by Himanshu Sharma and Anmol Saini. Principal of the school, Ms Usha Pandey, congratulated the winners and gave certificates to all.

Inter-house contest

An inter-house solo and dance group competition was organised at Lawrence International School on Monday. Students presented various folk dances such as Rajasthani, Gujrati and Haryanvi. In the category of sub-junior, Sukhleen stood first and Shivani secured second position, respectively. Among participants from middle section, Harleen achieved first position and Sonal Bedi was second. In senior category, Bhagat House was adjudged the best. Mr V.K. Mehta, Principal, congratulated the winners.

Cultural show

Class IV students of Apeejay School, Model Town, performed a cultural show on Monday. The students depicted beauties of Kashmir, problem of terrorism and desire of residents for peace through a play. Mr S.S. Kwatra, chief guest, was welcomed by Ms R. Sood, Principal, and Ms A. Kinder, headmistress.

Punjabi week

Eklavya School celebrated Pyari Punjabi, a week to promote the language, which concluded on Thursday. The school was decorated with cutouts charts in the shape of hand fans on which information about Punjab and Punjabi culture was written. The children greeted their peers and teachers wishing ‘Sat Sri Akal.’ The pre-primary students recited poems ‘Makhan khao’, ‘Pari’, ‘Amb’ and ‘Rail’ and told stories such as ‘Pyasa kaan’ and ‘Hankari barasinga’. The teachers taught them courtesy words such as ‘Dhanwaad’, ‘Kirpa karke’ and ‘Maaf karna’, Ms Seema Handa, director said.

Reading day

Students from CT Institutes observed ‘World Read together’ at CT Public School on Friday at 12 noon. The teachers, non-teachings staff and Class IV employees also joined the students. Ms Lakhwinder Kaur, Principal, also remained engrossed in reading books.