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Tribute to Amrita Shergill
Rain revives winter
Bhagwant Singh takes over as DC
Outgoing DC honoured
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Feeling The Heat
Farmers block rail, road traffic
Food street for Amritsar on pattern of Lahore
City girl is Dhee Punjaban
The winners of ‘Dhee Punjaban International Heritage Contest-2009’in Amritsar. Photo: Vishal Kumar
Drama
Salil Bhatt congratulates Rahman, Zakir
Warfare to get more sophisticated: DRDO chief
Residents jubilant over collection of door-to-door garbage
Bharti leaves DAV Public School in splits
Bharti Singh being honoured by Dhani Ram, regional director of DAV, and Neera Sharma, principal of DAV Public School in Amritsar. Photo: Vishal Kumar
One held with smack
Senate member
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Tribute to Amrita Shergill
Amritsar, February 10 Amrita Shergill was born on January 30, 1913 in Budapest, Hungary. She was the daughter of Umrao Singh Shergill
Majithia, a Sikh aristocrat and Marie Antoinette Gottesmann, a Hungarian. Her father traced his lineage to a well-known aristocratic family near Amritsar. A renowned scholar of Sanskrit and Persian, he also studied philosophy and religion, besides astronomy, photography and carpentry, and was fluent in many languages. Talking to The Tribune from England, columinist Narpal Singh Shergill said non-resident Indians were eager to extend any sort of help including financial in setting up the proposed Museum in the name of great artiste. Harcharn Bains, the media adviser to the Chief Minister, has also assured Narpal Singh Shergill that the state government would make all efforts to honour the great artiste by opening a state Museum of Art and Culture in Amritsar. He also thanked Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for the move to open the proposed
museum. Shergill said he was happy that paintings from artistes from Punjab would also be put up in the proposed museum at Amritsar. It may be mentioned here that Narpal Singh Shergill had raised this issue in October 2007 through his regular column Indians Abroad News Online. He had also traced the history of Amrita Shergill. Her father was connected to Majithia Sardars including Lehna Singh Majithia
and founder of The Tribune Sardal Dyal Singh Majithia. Her father was a renowned scholar of Sanskrit and Persian, he also studied philosophy and religion, besides astronomy, photography and carpentry, and was fluent in many languages. Amrita spent the initial years of her childhood in Europe. She started painting early
on and her mother was quick to spot the inherent talent in her The second phase of her artistic career began in 1938 when she moved away from naturalistic shadows and began to concentrate more on imaginary treatment. She had a tremendous influence of the Indian art scene. Amrita's mother disapproved of her daughter's lifestyle and wanted her to settle down in life. Amrita was engaged to an Indian man for a few months, but she broke it off. This had
a deep impact on her psyche. She married her Hungarian first cousin Dr Victor Egan in 1938 and then moved to Lahore. |
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Rain revives winter
Amritsar, February 10 According to him, the rain had arrived at an opportune time when the wheat crop needed second phase of irrigation. However, the farmers were no longer required to irrigate their crop, thereby saving electricity as well. Dhillon said rainwater was manure for the crops as it brought with it high volume of nitrates which subsequently formed urea. He said rain would also prolong the winter, apart from ensuring a good yield of crops. Steady shower during the entire day brought life to a standstill. Low-lying areas in the city were inundated with water creating problems for pedestrians and automobile vehicles. Inclement weather also affected rush of devotees to the Golden Temple and other historic shrines. It renewed winter with the mercury dropping a couple of notches forcing residents to pull out their woollens. According to doctors, the rain had settled down dust which had been causing throat infection and allergy. |
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Bhagwant Singh takes over as DC
Amritsar, February 10 He said he would discharge his duties with utmost sincerity and try to live up to the aspirations of the people. Earlier, Bhagwant Singh, along with his family, paid obeisance at the Golden Temple and later offered tributes at the Jallianwala Bagh memorial. After taking the charge, the DC held a formal meeting with the senior officials of the district administration and advised them to give priority to the welfare of the people. Talking to media, the DC said he provide better facilities to thousands of pilgrims who visited the holy shrine from around the country and abroad. He said he would continue to pursue development projects currently under way in the city. |
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Outgoing DC honoured
Amritsar, February 10 Honouring him with a memento and shawl during a special programme, samiti patron Mahesh Behal said even after 60 years since Independence, the consecutive Central and state governments failed to grant this status to those who were killed. He said the samiti toiled hard to get this status. However, the labour bore fruit when the outgoing DC put in his sincere efforts. He said the future generations would remember Pannu for this and the families of these martyr would remain indebted to him. Among others who were present on the occasion included Bhushan Behal, Sohan Lal Bharti, Nand Lal Arora, Tek Chand, Harnam Das Arora and Pardeep Sareen. |
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Feeling The Heat
Amritsar, February 10 Shawl Club general secretary Pyara Lal Seth expressed his concern over the power shortage during the winter months and also in the peak woollen season and added that the state government had no interest in providing uninterrupted power supply to the industrial segment. He said the shortage of power had added an extra burden on fuel cost as the industry was cuffing up three times more on running the units on diesel-run power generators. He said the government must come out with a clear policy on power situation in the state as the industry was facing the brunt of load shedding. Meanwhile, the food processing industry, especially the rice milling units catering to the export needs and running continuous processing units, have urged the government to announce a clear power strategy as they were unable to meet their export commitment in view of the large power cuts. A senior officer of the electricity board, preferring anonymity, said that unable to provide any solutions to the power problems faced by the state and added that the things may take a few more months before the power cuts were finally curtailed. |
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Farmers block rail, road traffic
Tarn Taran, February 10 Farmer leader Budh Singh condemned the union government for not reducing the prices of the petroleum products. The leaders also put forward other issues like waiving off the debts of the farmers and exemption of taxes imposed by the union and state governments on the petroleum products. The leaders warned that if the government failed to accept their demands, farmers’ organisations would intensify their agitation. |
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Food street for Amritsar on pattern of Lahore
Amritsar, February 10 The city, known for his mouth-savouring delicacies and special dishes, have been toying with the idea of establishing a food street for last many years with different government organisations churning out plans with multinational food chains consultants. Municipal corporation commissioner D.P.S. Kharbanda said the corporation have sought the nod from the Central government who had proposed to fund the Rs five-crore project for a multi cuisine ethnic food street with total Amritsar flavor for thousands of tourists and devotees who visit the city daily. He said the project would be likely to be located near the Lawrence Road Chowk, which would be easily accessible to the local residents and the outsiders. He said after receiving the final approval the administration would invite the prospective vendors to establish their eating outlets in the most hygienic environment. Kharbanda said although the corporation have short-listed several sites, the likely location would be near the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Panorama, an ideal site for the food corner. He said the several Amritsar authentic cuisines include Amritsari Fish, stuffed kulcha, jalabies, firni and other mouth-watering dishes, which are the favourite for tourists. He said this would be a major landmark for the visitors and added proper facilities like sanitation and cleanliness would be provided besides adequate parking for the vehicles to visit. He said it would first of its kind in the country where genuine and purely ethnic Amritsari dishes would be available besides several other cuisines for a complete food court for the city. The MC commissioner said panel of experts would be engaged for designing the Amritsari food court and top food chains would be invited to participate in this ambitious project with specialised food items for the people visiting the city. |
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City girl is Dhee Punjaban
Amritsar, February 10 Mandeep Kaur of Tarn Taran was the first runner-up while Mandeep Kaur Grewal of Raikot bagged the third position in the contest. They were awarded with saggi and pippal pattiyan of gold and jhanjran (anklets) besides receiving mementoes and phulkari from the organisers of the magnificent event. As many as 41 girls from Punjab took part in the competition, who attired in typical Punjabi traditional clothes, depicting the folkloric traditions of Punjab. PCPC director Davinder Chhina told The Tribune that involvement of young Punjabans in the event aimed at promoting and projecting the talent of daughters of Punjab. He said more such international Dhee Punjaban events would be organised in Sydney and South Australia, Calgary and Surrey (Canada), Bergamo (Italy), Hamilton (New Zealand) and California (USA) so that Punjabi daughters living overseas could participate and showcase their talent at these international events. Prominent Punjabi folk singer Dolly Guleria, theatre personality Neeta Mahendra, Dr Sarbjeet Kaur Sohal (state-awardee) Mohali, Amritsar BBK DAV College professor Rupinder Kaur, international folk artist, giddha coach Vimpi Parmar (Patiala), Arjuna-awardee professor Suman Sharma and Dr Sarabjot Kaur (Government College for Women, Ludhiana) were awarded with Dhee Punjaban awards 2009 by the PCPC for their outstanding works in the field of education, art, culture, sports and Sikhism. Dolly Guleria and other educationists were the judges for the event. Out of the participants, several girls won the titles of tor Punjaban di, suchaji mutiyar, giddhe di melan, akarshak personality, akarshak pehrawa, dilkash muskurahat, lambi gutt, bilori akhaan, koyal wargi awaaz, saru warga kadh, gagar wargi Punjaban, surahidaar gardan wali Punjaban, tikhe talwar nak wali Punjaban, dhamak Punjaban di, Punjaban jatt, pratibawan Punjaban, sandli wargi Punjaban and giddhe di murailan. Khalsa College honorary secretary Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina, Dr Kirat Sandhu, daughter of late Manveen Sandhu of the Springdale Education Society, and principal Dr Kuldeep Kaur Dhaliwal were present on the occasion. |
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Drama
Amritsar, February 10 They performed in the Bharat Rang Mahotsava XI, an annual theatre festival held by the NSD, which concluded recently. They were part of the only Punjabi play selected from across the state “Ishq Su Jag Da Mool”. A musical play, it is directed by Rajinder Singh, himself an NSD passout and it is written by him along with Balram Singh. Scenes of the story are juxtaposed with modern life and changed meaning of love. In all 62 plays also from abroad were showcased in the festival. About 25 artistes performed on the stage in the play. Ravi and Amandeep said since childhood they aimed to be performing artistes. Lasting 110-minute, the play connected the widely famous romantic story with the materialistic contemporary society. Ravi performed the role of a disciple of a Mullah and also choreographed. Amandeep Singh wore four hats in the play, including King Kyadoh, Jogi, Inder and a contemporary character - Aman. Ravi has been acting in plays in schools and with independent theatre groups. Aiming to be a professional artiste, Ravi also has a flair for writing plays. He has written a play “Ehsas”. He has tied up with Doordarshan Jalandhar to telecast the play in its regular programme. Amandeep, who had participated in a 40-day national theatre workshop supported by the NSD, is preparing to be an anchor. |
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Salil Bhatt congratulates Rahman, Zakir
Amritsar, February 10 He was here today to participate in the annual classical music festival which was postponed for tomorrow following showers today. Salil, son of renowned Mohan veena player Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, said it was recognition of rich Indian musical tradition. He said Zakir Hussain had entered the club of sitar exponent Pandit Ravi Shankar and Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. His father had won the grammy along with American guitarists Ry Coodar 15 years ago and brought a great change in string instrument by creating Mohan veena. About his tomorrow’s performance, he said compositions would be based on Basant Mukhari, Kirvani, Jog and Bilawal-Bihag. Salil specialises in playing high-speed taans, stroke and stroke-less taans with equal mastery. Salil has been giving solo concerts for more than 15 years and has performed all over the country as well as abroad in the USA, UK, UAE, Europe. Salil represents the tenth generation of the famous Bhatt lineage of classical music artistes, where music has been flowing for more than 500 years. |
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Warfare to get more sophisticated: DRDO chief
Amritsar, February 10 Dr Sudershan Kumar, director, Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO), while delivering the keynote address, said research was being conducted in the field of defence for implementing nano technology to upgrade the modern weapon system and make it more safe and light. He said the present age was of unmanned vehicles and sensors were being developed for this purpose. The present soldier would be better equipped during the present high-tech warfare. Talking about current war planning, he said the DRDO would be required to produce safeguard equipment for fighting nuclear, biological and chemical warfare. He said the DRDO was fully abreast of the modern needs of the warfare and would be able to provide latest equipment for the defence forces in view of the futuristic wars. During his speech, the vice-chancellor stressed on the need to implement futuristic concepts like smart materials and structures for their utilisation in wide and varied fields of practical application in life. He complimented the postgraduate department of physics and electronics for organising such a conference while adding that themes and topics like development of sensors, VLSI, solid state ionics, superconductors and molecular electronics are of vital importance in the development of the scientific spectrum. He said GND University had diverted a large part of its revenue towards research and development projects of such materials. He emphasised that the present-day higher education was research-based and it would lose its luster if some new concepts were not developed and something substantial was not done in this field. Dr V.K. Sharma, principal of the college, said the research papers presented during the conference and the brainstorming sessions would contribute to the new trends in material sciences. |
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Residents jubilant over collection of door-to-door garbage
Amritsar, February 10 A resident of Shastri Nagar, Seema Mehra, a housewife, said the collection of garbage for a changed objective had changed her perception towards it. Though she had been reading about the importance of garbage as manure and other beneficial purposes for a long time yet the truth never dawned upon her like this. However, she realised its importance when people started coming to collect garbage for the newly initiated SWM project. She said since the project took off she had not noticed mounds of garbage placed on either sides of the lane she lived in. A working woman, Sukhwant Kaur, resident of Basant Avenue, felt that the project had the potential to change So far the term standard of living had come to mean owning spacious bungalow, four wheelers and other material things. However, its real meaning was to live in hygienic condition and turn not only the house but surroundings free of garbage and other unhygienic material. Wearing gloves and supporting yellow and brown colour uniform, the workers associated with the SWM project go home to home to collect garbage. The workers have their own problems. A worker, Rajinder Kumar, said unmindful of the fact that they had to visit so many houses to collect garbage, yet people take lot of time to provide them dustbins for collecting garbage. The management of municipal solid waste includes collection, segregation, storage, transportation, processing and its disposal. Apart from collecting door-to-door garbage, the workers are also collecting it from non-designated dumping places like nullahs and open sewerages. |
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Bharti leaves DAV Public School in splits
Amritsar, February 10 Bharti, who recently won the Kalpana Chawla
excellence award, was invited to the annual function of pre-nursery as the guest of honour. The tiny tots of the school, dressed up as giraffes, butterflies, mangoes, apples, strawberries, capsicum, octopuses, crocodiles and whales taught the elders a lesson or two in nature
conservation. Earlier, school principal Neera Sharma extended a floral welcome to chief guest Dhani Ram, regional director DAV along with Aruna Anand of the DAV College of Education and guest of honour Bharti Singh at the morning and afternoon sessions of the annual function. |
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