School students visit Mohindra College
Patiala: A contingent of 43 students and faculty of Satya Bharti Senior Secondary Adarsh Model School, Jhaneri, in Sangrur district visited Government Mohindra College, Patiala. The students interacted with the faculty of the college. College Prof Suresh Sharma elaborated the achievements of Mohindra College, including the top level national ranking by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). Principal Shallu Sharma, administrative officer Krishan Kumar, Ranbir Singh and Sukhwinder Kaur among the faculty of Adarsh School accompanied the contingent.
International Literacy Day
The NSS Wing at University College, Ghanaur, organised a function to celebrate International Literacy Day on Thursday. On the occasion, principal in-charge Dr Kulwinder Singh said "NSS does not exist simply to clean dirty streets, but also to help dust off the cobwebs that impair our rationality and to aid in wiping out the symbolic grime that we carry in our hearts." Dr Kulwinder said "We celebrate this International Literacy Day cognizant of the fact that along with education, we need to bring about a social transformation in society as well." Referring to UNESCO's theme for this year's celebration, "Reading the Past, Writing the Future," he added that only by combining these skills of reading as well as writing today can we build a better tomorrow. While addressing students, chief guest Tarlok Bandhu focused on two significant aspects in a student's life - teachers and books. He further claimed that instead of focusing solely on the syllabi, it would be more advantageous if students tried to understand the socio-economic and political dynamics of each problem. Programme officers Dr Teginder Kumar, assistant professors Harpreet Chahal and Manjeet Singh were also present on the occasion.
Annual youth festival
The Golden Jubilee of Annual Youth Festival of Punjabi University, Patiala-Fatehgarh zone, would be hosted at Aryans Group of Colleges, Banur. Punjabi University has allotted its youth festival to Aryans Group to be held from September 27 to 27 on the Aryans campus. The first joint meeting of this youth festival was held on the Aryans campus in which representatives of around 35 colleges participated. Dr Gursewak Singh Lambi, director, Youth Welfare Department, Punjabi University, presided over the meeting. Dr Gursewak Singh Lambi said Aryans had achieved many milestones in the field of cultural activities in the last nine years and this is why Punjabi University had decided to give 2016 youth festival to Aryans.
Workshop on
cultural diversity
The Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur National Integration Chair is organising a seven-day workshop on the theme 'Cultural Diversity in India' at Punjabi University, Patiala. Professor Sucheta Mahajan, History Department, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, spoke about the origin of the concept of nationalism in Europe in the 19th century with the emergence of nations of Germany and Italy based upon one language. She said India did not adopt the European model based upon one language and in the making of the nation (India), the interest of various cultures, languages, classes and regions were taken into account. Dr Bodh Prakash from Ambedkar University, New Delhi, spoke about the hybridization of various Indian languages. He said no language could claim to be a pure language as every language had borrowed words from other languages. Dr Dalbir Singh Dhillon, director, World Punjabi Centre, traced out the phenomenon of the enrichment of the Indian culture with the Greek, Parthian and Kushan invasions
which had a lasting impact on the Indian culture
and customs. — TNS
