Bal Niketan kids present colourful show
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 31
Students of Bal Niketan Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 37-A, presented a cultural programme during the annual day celebrations on the school campus, here yesterday.

Rhythm and zest were the hallmarks of the programme which started with saraswati vandana. The performances of tiny tots of Nursery and Kindergarten in rhythms and Chin Chin song was a treat to watch. This was followed by an English song, dandiya aerobics, Haryanavi dance, western dance etc.

The item ‘Desh Rangeela’ by Class VI added patriotic fervour to the function. The song ‘Soldiers’ sung by Class III students held everyone spellbound. At the end, the principal of the school read out the annual report and informed the audience that a separate nursery wing with theme-based classrooms, splash pool, sand pits, audio-visual room, new laboratories and libraries have been started.

College teachers hold protest
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 31
Members of the Homoeopathic Medical College Teacher Association, Sector 26, held a protest in front of the Administrative Block of Panjab University to press for their demands.

Wearing black badges to express their resentment, the staff members of Homoeopathic Medical College, Sector 26, assembled outside the Senate Hall and gave a representation to the Senate members. The association has been demanding implementation of conditions laid down by the university for granting affiliation to the college since 2002.

Dr Sandeep Puri, secretary of the association, said their demands also included pay scale, dearness pay and dearness allowance, and HRA at the rate of 15 per cent.

Teachers’ fast enters seventh day
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 31
The relay fast of the Substitute Computer Teacher Union, Punjab, entered its seventh day today.

A former minister in the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Mr Sewa Singh Sekhwan, met the protesters and assured them help if the SAD-BJP government came to power after the February 2007 elections. The Punjab Government had recently dispensed with the services of these computer teachers.

Ghazal singer Sudeep enthrals
S.D. Sharma

Chandigarh, December 31
The audience while in rapt attention listening to a five year child prodigy Master Sudeep rendering a film song “Aise toh na dekho mujhe, Seene se lga loonga..” at a Durga Puja function wondered in amazement at the emotional expressions, which were far from his conceptual grasp. That gave me an instant popularity and instilled a confidence in me that I could not only sing but mesmerise.

‘I was born and raised in the musical environment with Papa playing violin and Mama practicing Indian classical music religiously though none of them was professional’ says Sudeep while talking to Chandigarh Tribune. He was in city for a ghazal concert at the Chandigarh Press Club.

And now my wife Sitarist Anubha keeps the family tradition alive, he said.

“There are not many takers for ghazal, the sub genre of classical music, as it demands a prolific knowledge of Urdu, love for literature and of course the adroit mastery over the sur and tal, claims Sudeep. On the advice of my guru Shanti Hiranand, I learnt Urdu, its tallafuz to augment my ‘andaz-e-byan’ for rendition of ghazals, rubiyat to justify the lyrical intent of the qalaam,” he said.