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NIFD students celebrate success
Chandigarh, October 28 At a special felicitation ceremony organised for winners at NIFD campus, all NIFD students came together to applaud the efforts of the winning team. The NIFD team comprised 45 students from BSc and diploma batches of fashion design, textile design and interior design. The team led by three faculty members participated and won six prestigious awards “Rithambara” — The Fashion Show, Roots — The Folk Dance Competition, Jitterburg — The Western solo dance competition, The Mall — Blind Date Competition, Mehendi Competition, and the Best Male Model trophy . Antaragni, the annual cultural festival of IIT Kanpur, is one of the biggest college fests in India. It attracts participants from all major colleges of India. This year it had 2000 participants from 80 leading colleges and institutes of the country. It had competitions like fashion show, folk dance competition, western solo dance competition, quiz, debates, dramatics, Blind Date competition, rock show, mehendi competition etc. NIFDians stood out and proved their mettle by defeating institutes like IIT Delhi and Kharagpur, Miranda House Delhi, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and DSC Delhi. The celebration was followed by Divali dance bash where students dressed in traditional attire jived to peppy tunes.
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City schools celebrate Divali
Chandigarh, October 28 The Eco Club along with the Science Club of Mount Carmel School, Sector 47, organised a rally to spread awareness on harmful effects of crackers. The main theme of the rally was ‘say no to crackers’. Around 60 students and teachers participated in the rally. They also visited Ramdarbar and addressed the residents requesting them not to pollute environment by bursting crackers, instead celebrate the festival of lights by confining to lighting up their homes. They also made them aware of the wasteful expenditure on pollution spreading and life endangering crackers, which could be avoided by to saying no to crackers. Ryan International School, Sector 48, organised fun-filled activities like diya decoration, card making, rangoli making and candle making on the occasion of divali. A rally on pollution-free Divali was also
organised. The students of Shishu Niketan Public School, Sector 43, celebrated Divali with the inmates of the senior citizens home, Sector 43. The students presented a brief entertainment programme also. The Sparrow eco club of Moti Ram Arya Senior Secondary Model School, Sector 27, organised Deepak decoration competitions.
Government Girls Model Senior Secondary School organised an anti-cracker rally in which about 250 students took part. The Cassia eco club of the school organised various functions in the school.
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Lack of access to education ‘hampering’ growth
Chandigarh, October 28 In his lecture, Prof. Chadha said the Indian economy has a shining side and dark side to it and the contrast between the two is visible. He stated that the Indian economy was a mature hub centre of manufacturing goods and the share of India in the international market was increasing. Indians across the globe have also established their supremacy in the field of information technology. The dark side of the economy is mismatch between high growth and rising unemployment and resulting in jobless growth. Another disturbing feature of the growth process is the poor trends in agriculture sector in the form of deceleration in growth rate and deterioration in the standard of living of millions of people depending on agriculture. In this age of knowledge-based organisations, quality of human resources makes all the difference in the international arena according to him. He, however, lamented that the lack of access to education to public at large was coming in the way of reaping the advantages of knowledge-based growth in India.
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Ghazals, folk songs dominate youth fest
Chandigarh, October 28 In the session of skits, mime and mimicry, nine colleges participated. The themes varied from AIDS awareness, corruption among police and women empowerment. Gursharan Singh was the chief guest during this session. Competitions were also held for the fine arts items of embroidery, dasuti, phulkari and bagh with knitting, crochet work, phulkari and mehndi design dominating. Results: classical musical vocal — Aditya Sharma, DAV-10, 1 and Gagandeep Singh, Govt College-11 2; light music vocal (geet) — Naval Mehta, GC-11, 1 and Surmandeep Singh, DAV-10, 2; ghazal Surinder Khan, DAV-10, 1 and Ashutosh Saroch, GC-46, 2; folk song — Rajan, GGDSD-32, 1 and Vijay Kumar, GC-46, and Sandeep Brar, DAV-10, 2; mime — GC-11, 1 and SGGS-26, 2; mimickry — Puneet, GC-11, 1; skit — GC-11, 1 and DAV-10, 2; essay writing — Jaspreet Kaur, GGDSD-32, 1 and Gurpreet Singh, GC-11, 2; short story writing — Sanket Sharma, GC-11, 1 and Deepali Bhandari, SGGS-26, 2; and phulkari — Geetanjali, GGDSD-32, 1 and Madhu Bala, RSD College-Ferozepore, 2.
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Le Corbusier memorial lecture held
Chandigarh, October 28 He was speaking at the Le Corbusier memorial lecture organised at the Chandigarh College of Architecture here. He said though there were certain flaws in the planning of Le Corbusier, but he was greatly inspired by his works. “ His contribution to the city planning can not be ignored,” said Mr Kathpalia. Earlier, the UT Home Secretary, Mr Krishan Mohan, who was the chief guest on the occasion, gave away prizes to the meritorious students. He also released the college magazine “Mosaic” and inaugurated the exhibition of students of the college.
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High court Our High Court Correspondent
Chandigarh, October 28 The petitioner, advocate H.C. Arora, has pointed out that enormous inconvenience was caused to the public during the rally in which over one lakh followers of the dera participated. The city was virtually under siege for hours during the rally. The rally was organised to oppose the ongoing investigation by the CBI into allegations of sexual exploitation at the dera as also some murders, including that of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati three years ago. The CBI was asked by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to probe the allegations. An interim report submitted by the CBI has said there is prima facie indications of instances of sexual exploitation at the dera. The followers allege that their dera head as also the management have been falsely being implicated in the cases, especially the one pertaining to sexual exploitation, which was based on an anonymous complaint. In his petition, Mr Arora has stated that in order to control the rallyists, the UT Administration had to deploy over 3,500 police personnel and 200 commandos of the Punjab Police. He has also said that life was thrown out of gear due to the large number of protesters, who choked city roads. The dera management should be asked to reimburse the expenses incurred by the UT and also compensate for the inconvenience caused to the general public, the PIL states. Mr Arora has cited the judgement of the Mumbai High Court, imposing a fine of Rs 20 lakh each on the BJP and the Shiv Sena for having thrown life in Mumbai out of gear by calling for a bandh.
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Koodiyattom exponent spell-binds audience
Chandigarh, October 28 He was in the city for a dance concert at St. Johns School Auditorium organised under the aegis of the Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture among the Youth (SPIC-MACAY). “UNESCO rightly declared the 2000-year-old dance form as Intangible heritage of humanity” in 2001, maintains Margi Madhu. Perhaps, the earliest known form of enacting Sanskrit drama in Kerala, it has the toughest and the most detailed training in facial expression, especially of the eye. Margi Madhu traces the origin of Koodiyattom to attempts by the peasants of Kerala to give expression to harmony and rhythm in the murmur of waves and the plaintive notes of the wind. The dance form was later codified. While on the verge of extinction, it was rejuvenated by the heritage status accorded to it by UNESCO. A proponent of the traditional purity of the dance form he has composed dance dramas Bhasa’s ‘Karanbhara, Kulshekhra’s Vyangya Vyakhya and Shakespeare’s Macbath, besides publishing a book on Koodiyattom. Margi Madhu and his equally accomplished dancer wife G. Indu with their ensemble performed ‘Koodiyattom’ in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, Japan, France, Spain, Germany and Korea. Margi Madhu and ensemble performed Koodiyattom here, depicting a legend from the epic ‘Mahabharata’ titled ‘Kalyanasowganddhikam’. During the performance, the audience spell-bound, frequently burst into applause. Dr Shakuntla Lavasa and Pushpinder Cheema honoured the artistes on behalf of SPIC-MACAY. |
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