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Himalayas their dance stage
And for this Swiss woman, a perfect place to be
State’s natural fibres have huge potential in cosmetics industry
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RIMC cadet gets exceptional achievement award
Anju’s research on Tunisia gets her JNU PhD
St Joseph Academy celebrates platinum jubilee
Teachers hold rally
Poonch students visit IMA
Navodaya Vidyalaya staff hold strike
Graphic Era beat Sai Institute by 8 wickets
84 teams to participate in 58th cricket league
Heritage School, Welham Girls triumph
SOS, RRRA emerge victorious
U-17 Cricket Tourney
Elephants give sleepless nights to villagers
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Himalayas their dance stage
Dehradun, November 16 Next, members of the company travelled to the Nanda Devi region where they spent one week making and filming dances on boulders at Mountain Shepherd’s Sri Ganesh base camp and on Gorson meadows with spectacular views of the snowy high mountains as their majestic setting. Filmmaker Logan Scheider used a 16 mm camera to capture the dances while Todd Laby shot high-definition videos and Atossa Soltani shot stills of the performances. The dancers worked tirelessly to build dances in five locations working collaboratively with director Rudolph. The dancers, namely Heather Baer, Melecio Estrella, Damara Ganley, Rachael Lincoln, Amelia Rudolph and Mark Stuver, managed freezing temperatures, uneven terrain and tough-cliff dancing with a good style and grace. This was helped along by their rigger Stephen Schneider and operations manager Thomas Cavanagh, who woke early and worked in tricky terrain to create safe environments for the dancers. Along with their own support staff, Bandaloop was helped by the wonderful and tireless staff of Mountain Sheperds, an Uttarakhand-based eco-tourism company specialising in the region around Nanda Devi. Dr Sunil Kainthola, the coordinator of Mountain Sheperds, along with his staff of eight, took care of housing, tents, logistics, travel and Raja, the cook, made outstanding meals at 3,500 metres. The Mountain Shephard group is unique in several ways. It is actively involved in issues of livelihood security in Uttarakhand and its staff collectively own the company and they actively employ and train women. The Bandaloop support team included three women. Uttarakhand Himalayas is an amazing location for adventure travel and film locations. The geology, fauna, flora and local community life is both beautiful and fascinating. Project Bandaloop has plans to create a short film with the footage from Nanda Devi that celebrates the power and vulnerability of this unique World Heritage Site. This trip to the Himalayas was somewhat of a pilgrimage for Project Bandaloop the name of which stems from the fictitious tribe in Tom Robbin's novel “Jitterbug Perfume”. A semi-immortal tribe of playful mystics, it is said to have lived in caves in the foothills of the Himalayas and the longevity of which was due to a dance they performed called “Bandaloop”. This is the first time Project Bandaloop has travelled to and performed in the Himalayas, but they hope it is not their last.
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And for this Swiss woman, a perfect place to be
Nainital, November 16 A Swiss woman, who spent her life in Southern France, Catherine had come touring to Indonesia, Nepal and India where she spent a few days in Sikkim and Darjeeling along with her two children. It was at that moment that she realised that it was amidst the Himalayas that she really wanted to be. Having played her roles as a responsible mother, a wife, professional architect and scenograph, who used to design exhibitions, Catherine finally adhered to the call of the Himalayas. “I just came to Delhi and boarded a bus to Nainital with the address of academician and social activist Shekhar Pathak given to me by a friend. I rented a room in a local hotel and then went to meet Shanta Mohan, a woman in Bhimtal who opened the doors of the Himalayas for me,” she told The Tribune while chatting with this correspondent at a roadside tea stall. She went on to stay in Kausani but it was only after three years that she found the ideal place to reside. “I wanted a place where I could have total seclusion so that I could be alone and I could work. The family of JC Pandey understood my needs and gave me just the place I wanted to live in. Now, I am a part of their family. They take me to every single social ceremony and I have been to several Jaagars with them,” she said. Hence, over the major part of the last decade, she has been making sketches, illustrations and paintings. Her works capture the various facets of human life. She has illustrations depicting the eyes of her daughter, expressions of a man in Kumaon who lost his son, a woman cooking in the traditional Kumaoni kitchen and women working in the fields, to name a few. A well-travelled person, she has works showing locales of Chile, Peru, Spain, Vietnam and several other places. She has also come out with works on hyper realism and landscapes and even done a colourful abstract that she calls “My life”. “Till now, I never showed my works to anyone, not even my family. But, now I am being told that I must exhibit them. You are amongst the first to see them,” she said while pointing that she does not want to sell her works but just share them. For the past three years, she has collaborated with filmmaker Michel Coqblin to make a film on the life on an illiterate girl from Digori village, whose life has undergone a change with the help of an NGO named Avni. An excellent weaver of Muga silk, Hema is the central character in the film. “I went with her to Dilli Haat and that was the first time that she saw a train or a big city. Although shy in her behavior, she was very good at presenting her product before the prospective customers. The thing I liked about her was that she did not want to remain in Delhi but wanted to return home,” Catherine said. The film will be ready for screening very soon. She goes back to France at repeated intervals to visit her family, only to come back to the Himalayas.
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State’s natural fibres have huge potential in cosmetics industry
Dehradun, November 16 Studies of available secondary data and some primary field surveys done by the CTD, a non-governmental organisation, have revealed Uttarakhand has a good potential of plant extracts towards preparation of cosmetics. The studies have also taken into account available technologies, assessment for small and rural entrepreneurs, assessment for small and rural enterprises, current industrial and market trends to ensure a better understanding of the existing scenario. It has been linked to natural fibres and plant extract for cosmetic applications. The CTD’s initiative comes at a time when global market for cosmetics has surpassed $ 150 billion and the current projects put revenues from the global natural cosmetics market in excess of $ 10 billion before 2010. More importantly, India today stands as the second largest exporter of herbal cosmetics and related products to the world market after China. The people in the West in particular are laying much emphasis on plant extracts due to herbal properties. This has made cosmetics from plant extracts very lucrative. Further, the cosmetics market in the country is growing at a rate of 15-20 per cent per annum and is valued at around Rs 4,460 crore, that, too, excluding homemade cosmetics. Fibr bearing plants such as sisal, bhimal, bhang and Himlayan nettle, that are found in abundance in Uttarakhand, are used for rope-making and other hand-crafted products. Parts of some plants such as pangar (aesculus indica), churu (bassia butyracea), malu (Bauhinia vahlii), bhimal, reetha have traditionally been used as body soaps, shampoos and washing detergent and some of them can be used to prepare cosmetics. With the aim of bringing all stakeholders linked to natural fibres and plant extracts in Uttarakhand to a common platform, the CTD, New Delhi, today conducted an interactive workshop on “Rural enterprises for grass-roots livelihoods” in Dehradun. The centre hopes for better results in the near future. Stakeholders such as producers, collectors, NGOs, self-help groups, industry and development agencies together deliberated upon issues. They discussed an action plan towards development and demonstration of appropriate technology packages and enterprise models for generation of local livelihoods through manufacture and marketing of value-added products from locally available natural fibres and plant-based extracts used in the cosmetics industry. “We are embarking on a long-term action research as part of the core support programme to develop and demonstrate models in new technology sectors of natural fibres and plant-based extracts used particularly in cosmetics, focusing on Uttarakhand initially but in a manner extendable elsewhere in India,” said D Raghunandan, Director, Centre for Technology and Development. Referring to Uttarakhand, Raghunandan said while a supply chain had to be established, there were factors that needed to be addressed while embarking upon natural fibres and plant-extract cosmetics. Taking part in the deliberations, the Uttarakhand Bamboo and Fibre Development Board, which is engaged in the promotion of bamboo and natural fibres, welcomed new initiatives for setting up rural enterprises based upon natural fibres. Board’s Chief Executive Officer STS Leptcha, however, added it was certainly a daunting task encouraging local villagers to take to plantation of natural fibres, particularly until issues such a bulk availability of fibres, machinery support, adequate marketing backing and other factors linked to it were addressed at the earliest. “There is a clear need for a systematic and sustainable utilisation of fibre materials in such a manner as to generate sustainable local livelihoods and value addition to local reserves,” Leptcha observed. A scientist with the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi, Sunil Agarwal said the DST-backed every venture aimed at generating grass-roots livelihoods. He said while natural fibres kept a big market, there was immense employment opportunities linked to it.
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RIMC cadet gets exceptional achievement award
Dehradun, November 16 Like his mythological namesake, Arjun has done exceptionally well, both in academics, as well as in co-curricular activities through a disciplined approach in his life. He demonstrated his calibre and won a number of gold medals and other medals. Because of his extraordinary skills and capability for adaptation he was given the dispensation to climb the Mt Banderpunch (White Peak) having a height of 6,102m (20,340 ft). He became one of the youngest persons to conquer the peak. He has also displayed talent in boxing, athletics, X-country, obstacle race and hockey. At the tender age of 10 years he had successfully done parasailing and paragliding organised by the National Adventure Foundation held at Koirengei, Manipur. He is studying in Class IX at RIMC. Not only is he an excellent academician, but also a guitarist. He was also adjudged the Best Athlete in the recently held Inter-Section Athletics Competition at RIMC. Moreover, he is an excellent swimmer and an exceptional cross-country runner. He has been awarded College Blue in mountaineering, half-blues in athletics and obstacle race, College Merit Card in hockey and X-Country. He has also been awarded the A-Grade for his basic mountaineering course at JIM, Pahalgaum, Jammu and Kashmir. The award was presented to cadet Khangjrakpam Arjun on the occasion of the Children’s Day at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi by Motilal Vora, MP in the presence of Dr Karan Singh, MP and President, ICCR, Krishna Tirath, Minister of State for Women and Child Development, and Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, MP. Colonel H Dharmarajan, SM, Commandant, RIMC, congratulated Cadet Arjun for achieving this extraordinary feat and said he was happy to hear of more feathers being added to
his cap.
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Anju’s research on Tunisia gets her JNU PhD
Dehradun, Novembr 16 For the past 20 years Anju has been researching on Tunisia. Starting with the position of women as her initial topic, the research scholar was conferred upon the degree for her thesis on “Foreign Policy of Tunisia: A transition from Colonial to Post-Colonial Era, 1946-66”. “Though for the past several years I have been researching and writing articles, books related to various topics in Tunisia, formally in 2008 I re-registered myself at JNU and recently received my doctorate degree for the foreign policy of Tunisia as my thesis topic,” said Anju. Unlike other Muslim-dominated countries, Tunisia, a country in North Africa became independent on March 20, 1956, and with 99 per cent Muslim population is a unique country known for providing equal opportunities to both men and women in all spheres of life. Anju is also India’s first woman to research on Tunisia and was motivated to start her journey of continuous hard work and reading for being inspired by a country, which has a modern outlook and follows a sense of partnership and gender equality. “I started the research on Tunisia primarily because nobody has ever taken a keen interest to cover a Third World country like Tunisia. Under the guidance of my mentor, I was thoroughly surprised by the way people of the small country live in harmony, respect each other and hence since then I planned to never look back,” said an elated Anju.
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St Joseph Academy celebrates platinum jubilee
Dehradun, November 16 The four-day festival began with the presence of the chief guest Prakash Pant, Uttarakhand Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, principal Brother AJ George, renowned dignitaries, alumni’s and staff members. Since 1934 till date, St Joseph Academy, one of the premier schools of Dehradun, has gained recognition for producing excellent results in
all spheres. Addressing the gathering Principal George said, “When we honour the past, we recognise the future.” Following it was a prayer dance, which invoked God’s blessing with a divine note. Making everybody nostalgic was a beautiful and informative power point presentation by students of the school. Next was a tribute to the Almighty and a foot-tapping bangra dance performance by little one’s of class V, who literally created a scenic view of the yellow fields of Punjab. However, keeping the mood alive and fresh series of dance such as the famous ‘Black or White’, an immortal number, by king of pop Michael Jackson, Rajasthani folk dance and western folk dance by the enthusiastic juniors were performed. After such rocking dance presentations there was a soothing instrumental music show and a captivating play titled ‘Jamun Ka Ped’ discussing the existing hypocrisy in society. To add more variety and spice to the grand celebrations, a Marathi dance and other such entertaining presentations were performed by senior students also. The heartening celebrations concluded with principal thanking the chief guest who was elated to be a part of such magnificent celebration.
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Teachers hold rally
Dehradun, November 16 Perturbed with the government’s negligent attitude towards their genuine demands, the association members submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. The main demand of the members were pertaining to publication of service rules for teachers engaged in basic education, separate directorate for basic education, equal treatments for everybody, curtailing the frequent issuing of the government orders and special transfer policy for teachers, who are working in the remote areas since the Past 17 years. Along with president of the association Virendra Singh Krishali, present at the rally were treasurer Ravindra Singh Pundir, spokesperson Vinay Gurang and other members of the association.
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Poonch students visit IMA
Dehradun, November 16 The students cherished the visit and understood the working of the cadets. The students are on the tour from November 10 to 22. Earlier, the students had visited Science City in Jalandhar and Chandigarh. In City Beautiful they visited IT Park and Sukhna Lake. They are scheduled to go to Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy (LBS) in Mussoorie on Wednesday. The students are also scheduled to meet the Governor on Wednesday.
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Navodaya Vidyalaya staff hold strike
Haridwar, November 16 The employees complained that despite working assiduously in the school hours, the non-teaching employees worked almost 16-18 hours taking care of the food and residential accommodation of the students. Yet, they were not paid according to their work level and also till date there was no provision of pension for them. They alleged that their compatriot level schools and institutions such as Central School, Open Schools and NCERT, CBSE schools, employees got pension and GPF benefits, but they were not entitled to this benefit. This posed problems for them financially and career wise, said Shalabh Mittal, representative of the employees union.
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Graphic Era beat Sai Institute by 8 wickets
Dehradun, November 16 Graphic Era won the toss and opted to field first. Sai Institute bowed in front of its rival bowling attack. Sai’s batting line up totally failed
to click. Vishal Singh with 21 runs, Vikrant with 17 and Adil Butt with 15 runs were the main scorers for the batting side of
Sai Institute. Sai was packed off for just 67 runs in 15.4 overs. For Graphic Era Abhishek and Aachal scalped two wickets each. Gurmeet, Romy and Siddasth took a wicket each. Batting second, Graphic Era had no problem achieving the target. It scored 72 runs at the loss of two wickets in 9.3 overs. Opening batsman Anmol scored 13 runs, while all-rounder Siddasth played an unbeaten knock of
29 runs. Amit also contributed with 15 runs (not out). For Sai Institute, Gaurang Singh and Adil Butt got one wicket each.
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84 teams to participate in 58th cricket league
Dehradun, November 16 As many as 84 teams from clubs, work organisations, institutes, colleges and schools are taking part in the competition. The tournament will be held on the cricket grounds of the Survey of India, ONGC factory, MP College, Kalinga and Col Brown School. Addressing a press conference, Hira Singh Bisht, president, Uttarakhand Cricket Association, said there would be different categories for schools, colleges and institutes in various age groups. Bisht said there were also plans to make a state team that would go to other states to participate in the cricket tournaments. He added that the players who gave a good performance in the district-level tournaments would have good chances to represent the state later. Bisht stressed that the effort of this district tournament was to motivate players to participate in it. He informed that a good number of players from both rural and urban areas were participating in the tournament. “This has been our endeavour that more and more players from rural areas come forward and participate in the tournaments. This will give them exposure and better chances ahead in the sport,”
he said. Shedding a light on the tournaments to be organised this year by the association, PC Verma, said that the Junior Cricket League would be organised in the memory of Prakash Chand Dutta, son of Ramesh Chand. To promote women cricket in the state Dhane Tournament would also be
organised. Verma said after the District League 3rd Senior Inter District Tournament would be held from February 15 to 22 and on the basis of this tournament senior Uttarakhand team would be selected. The association will organise All-India Woman Cricket tournament from February 25 to March 5. In addition to this 28th Gold Cup Cricket Tournament will be held from May 8 to 23. The Cricket Coaching summer camp will be conducted at Col Brown School from May 15 to July 5.
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Heritage School, Welham Girls triumph
Dehradun, November 16 The winning team lead the first half 15-8. Shradha Jain, Anu and Saleen Pandey of THS scored six points each and were adjudged the best shooter. While in a Pool A one-sided match, Welham Girls’ School (WGS) drubbed Raja Ram Mohan Roy Academy (RRRA) 22-4. Tanya Kapoor of the winning side scored eight points and was adjudged the best shooter of the match. Tomorrow fixtures: First match: Raja RamMohan Roy Academy RRRA vs Unison World School (UNS) Second match: The Aryan School and Summer Valley School
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SOS, RRRA emerge victorious
Dehradun, November 16 All quarters witnessed neck-and-neck competition. The winning side was lagging behind in the first two quarters marginally 6-7 and 14-16 respectively. However, it managed to put behind its mighty rival in the next two quarters. SOS won the third quarter 22-20 and fourth 26-25. Shidhart Badani top scored for the side with 12 baskets while for THS Guarav and Rohit Bhatt scored six points each. In another match of the day, hosts RRRA beat GRD Rajpur 38-24. The hosts won the quarters 9-5, 25-11, 31-17 and 38-24. Amit Singh and Shashank scored 13 and 11 points each for the wining side. Statin scored seven points and Mukul scored 5 for GRD. However, couldn’t save their team from losing. They had started well but in the middle part of the game the hosts managed to edge past them.
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DAV, ACA cruise into semifinals
Tribune News Service
Dehradun, November 16 In the first match, ACA prevailed over Kasiga School by eight wickets. Batting first, Kasiga was all out on 59 in 15.5 overs. Virpal Singh with 16 runs and Divyansh with 12 runs were the main scorers for the batting side. While for ACA Siddharth claimed four wickets and Nishant Rana got three wickets in his kitty. Replying ACA reached the target scoring 62 for two in 8.4 overs. Vishal was the principal scorer for the Kasiga side. For the bowling side, Rahul and Virpal Singh took a wicket each. DAV Public School also registered semifinal berth by beating Doon Boys by 51 runs. DAV scored 111 in 20 overs. Pulkit (27) and Avinash (26) were the mainstay of its innings. They led the team from front and helped the team to set a handsome target. For Doon Boys Himanshu and Deepak got three wickets each while Niraj pocketed two. Batting second, Doon Boys were taken for surprise by deadly bowling attack of Ankur who claimed six wickets. He gave away just six runs in his three-over spell to scalp six wickets. Saurabh also got two wicketsin his kitty. Niraj made 16 runs, Deepak scored 9, Sunny hit 8 and Himanshu chipped in five runs for the batting side. They failed to convert their individual scores to big number and the team suffered a loss.
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Elephants give sleepless nights to villagers
Nainital, November 16 According to the information available, elephants have destroyed a large quantity of paddy, mustard and sugarcane over the past few days, besides causing damage to the infrastructure in these villages. On Saturday evening, three elephants entered Bhandev Navar village after breaking down the boundary wall of the village. The repeated efforts of the villagers to drive them away by raising a noise and throwing torchlight on them proved futile. A lensman from the local media, who had gone to click a photograph of the elephant, had a narrow escape when it chased him. Similarly on the same night, elephants entered the villages of Haripur-Shivpur, Sunalpur, Narirampur and Padampur Devaliya. The sirens of the vehicles of the Forest Department proved futile in driving them away. They went on to destroy standing crops in several fields in these villages.
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