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Feminine Era: Celebrating the Women’s day

International Women’s Day celebrated each year on March 8 remains as a vibrant day in the women’s calendar. In the words of Late Pt Jawaharlal Nehru: “You can’t tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women“.

As we will be celebrating women’s day on 8th March, I feel that it is my duty to express my gratitude to all women in my life, as a mother, sister, friend, and peer to all known and unknown women.

International Women’s Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women’s groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day.

International Women’s Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for “liberty, equality, and fraternity” marched on Versailles to demand women’s suffrage.

The idea of an International Women’s Day first arose at the turn of 20th century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies.

International Women’s Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for “liberty, equality, and fraternity” marched on Versailles to demand women’s suffrage.

The idea of an International Women’s Day first arose at the turn of 20th century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies.

Forbes magazine has made a list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Magazine looked for women who run countries, big firms or influential nonprofits organization for compiling the list. Their rankings are a combination of two scores: visibility in press and media and the size of the organization or country these women lead.

Top ten ladies selected for year 2010 are

1. Michelle Obama (First Lady Michelle Obama,U.S.)

'Operation Gratitude' at Rfk Stadium in Washington, D.C., America - 19 Jan 2009

2. Irene Rosenfeld (Chief Executive, Kraft Foods)

3. Oprah Winfrey (Talk show host and media mogul)

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4. Angela Merkel (Chancellor, Germany)

5. Hillary Rodham Clinton (Secretary of State, U.S.)

6. Indra Nooyi (Chief Executive, Pepsico, India)

7. Lady Gaga (Singer and performance artist)

8. Gail Kelly (Chief Executive, Westpac)

9. Beyoncé Knowles (Singer and fashion designer)

10. Ellen DeGeneres (Talk show host)

The list of dedicated dynamic women personalities of Udaipur are

  • Ms.Girija vyas( Chairperson of National Women Commission)

  • Rajni Dangi (Sabhapati of Muncipal corporation)

  • Mrs.Padmaja Kumari (Jt. Managing Director, HRH Group of Hotels)

  • Mrs. Anshu Kothari (Secretary General of Udaipur Chambers Of Commerce and Indust)

  • Mrs.Shradha Gattani( Managing Director, Oriental Palace Resorts)

  • Dr. Sweety Chhabra(Managing Director, NICC)

  • Mrs. Alka Sharma (Founder, Central Public School (CPS)),

  • Mrs.Meera Ranawat (Chairperson of Techno India NJR Inst. of Technology)
  • DR. Sudha Kothari (Gynecologist)

and many more like them working in their respective field with hats off confidence and grace.

Women are often not thanked or shown gratitude. I doubt if a man can ever do what a woman does and manage both the career and family with the patience and zeal of a woman. A man too takes care of both but there are many aspects that a woman is capable of doing but a man is not. It’s not to put down the men, but we have all witnessed this at our place and elsewhere, so I take the liberty in saying these powerful statements.

Honouring Gratitude from Team UdaipurBlog to all Women across the globe.

You May Also Check : It’s our day – It’s Women’s Day

– By Chetna Purohit

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About the author – Chetna Purohit is a young Udaipurite pursuing her Engineering in Computer Science (2nd Year).

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Gandhi Shilp Mela: Art and Craft Fair in Udaipur

Gandhi Shilp Mela

The National Crafts Fair, also known as the GANDHI SHILP MELA started in Udaipur from 4th March and will continue till 13th March 2011 at Town Hall. The craftsmen and artisans from all over India have gathered in our city to show their extraordinary masterpieces as well as talent. This event is organised by Rural Non Farm Development Agency (RUDA). According to an estimate, this year the trade till date has exceeded Rs. 10.5 Lakhs. A huge overwhelming crowd is seen enjoying the fair.many items such as furniture, wooden items, show pieces, garments, accessories, etc can be seen at display and for sale.

Here are few glimpses of the Gandhi Shilp Mela.

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Gandhi Shilp Mela

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Talent of Udaipur now Featuring on Indian Television

It is indeed a very happy moment for the whole Udaipur to know that one of us,an active Udaipie, and a great talent,  Mr. Yogi Sachdev is now featuring on television too in a show called Chand Chhupa Baadal Mein.

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Yogi Sachdev

Passed his 12th from Alok senior secondary school Yogi Udaipur is a fascinating actor and is proving his talent in front of whole world. He is president of well known group of youngsters of Udaipur named “The Yuvaz” which is a social cum entertainment group. With his 10 other group members he had done ample of charity to the needy people of Udaipur. He is now acting in the serial Chand Chupa Badal Mein which is broadcasted around 8 pm from Monday to Friday on Star Plus. He has made Udaipur proud and gave an inspiration to other young bloods that see their future in Indian Film Industry or Television Industry.

Recently we had a talk with him and he said that he is about to come in further more episodes and hopefully will maintain the continuity.  Lets wish Yogi all the very best and hope for his great success in his career. 🙂

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CBSE Exam Misconduct: Carelessness of a Teacher: Will the Students get Proper Justice

30 students of the CBSE 12th COMMERCE had to suffer due to carelessness of the invigilator, when the question paper for writing the exam was provided to them 25 minutes late, and taken back on due time without providing any extra time.

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This incident happened at the St. Mary’s Convent School, Fatehpura on 3rd March. This school was allotted as the examination centre to students of St. Anthony’s School. The commerce students were gathered to write their 1st examination of Business Studies. The examination was to begin at 10:30 a.m., and at the same time the bell too was rung, but the invigilator could not hear it. Approximately after 25 minutes, i-e- at 10:55 a.m. when he saw the students of the adjacent class writing their exam, he issued orders to distribute question paper to the students. Due to this, many questions were left un-attempted of almost all the students.

The school administration accepted its fault and declared that 10 minutes were provided extra to the students, but the students deny it. The report of the incident has been sent to CBSE for final decision requesting bonus marks for students.

The question is, will the students get proper justice? Let’s all hope for the best.

Source :- Dainik Bhaskar

by Aman Asnani

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Technoholix: A National Techfest at GITS starts Today

To unite all the ignited minds of all engineers all over Udaipur, Geetanjali Institute Of Technical Studies, popularly known us GITS is organising a grand Techfest called Technoholix.

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Technoholix started as an intra college event held in year 2008. Last session Technoholix went big, inviting participation from engineering colleges all over Udaipur with an endeavor to bring spirit of knowledge, culture and festivity.

This is a National Level Inter College technical symposium being conducted by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of the Geetanjali Institute of Technical Studies, Dabok (Udaipur) for the students of the Computer Science fraternity.

It defines itself as a conglomeration for the creative, the intellectuals and the inquisitive, Technoholix is the platform for the engineering in a student. With participation from over colleges across the Udaipur and multiple events testing students’ prowess in both technical and non-technical aspects, this is an ideal place for all ignited minds.

This year Technoholix is being organised from 3rd to 5th March 2011 with various interesting and creative events.

Click here to download a print-friendly copy of the Technoholix 2011 event schedule

The special guests of honour will include

  • Dr. Deepak Garg, Thapar University, Treasurer, IEEE Delhi Section
  • Mr. J.K. Verma , Director, NIC
  • Mr. Akhtar Bohra, UNICO Pvt. Ltd.
  • Mr. Abhishek Dhabai, Chief Advisor, Information Security, Consulting Division, NCSA, India
  • Mr. Ravindra Singh Saigal, Sr. Manager, Risk Department, TCS (Mumbai)

Registrations are open. Registration process will be done through sending SMS. The details for SMS can be viewed on the registration page of the Technoholix website

For more details log on to http://www.technoholix.gits.ac.in
as well as http://www.facebook.com/technoholix2011

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All the Best Udaipur

Photography By Prasun Bannerjee

 

Exams! Either a controversy, or a thrill, or a success, or sadness. It always brings a nostalgic memory, the exam fever, the syllabus fear, late night studies, combine studies and many more. This word is truly a word that always adds a spice to our life.

It’s the beginning of the exam season with month of March today. The most important exam for the first step of career, i-e the (CBSE) board exams are starting from today.

The first paper for CBSE 2011 board examinations will be of physics, which is meant for the science stream of class 12th. For a detailed time-table, click on the links given below (Source: CBSE)

We, at UdaipurBlog, wish every candidate appearing for their exams “All The Best”. May your luck and preparations, both favour you at their best. Work hard and fight for every mark, and don’t try to use any unfair means. 🙂

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Pulse Polio: Do Boond Zindagi ke

Polio Sunday at polio booth

Its the pulse polio campaign again. Every state, every city, every street, every home is participating in the movement to eradicate polio from India. A three day nationwide campaign has started in the country from today. Udaipur has shown a positive response to the campaign and many parents can be seen bringing their children to the polio booths.

This is a three day campaign. For the 1st day, i-e today, many booths have been set up at all places in the city, in every prime and sensitive location, where a team of medical students/doctors are present to provide the polio vaccination. Today this programme is scheduled till 5 p.m. in the evening. For an estimate, there are about 20+ booths in the city by the government medical college students, and even more by the private medical colleges, and at all the hospitals.

For the 2nd day, the team will be doing the field work which will include door to door survey to ensure that every child has been vaccinated, and if not, they must be provided with it. The same will be done on the 3rd day too to ensure no child is left on the second day too.

Along with this arrangement, there are many mobile vans which will travel all around the city and the peripherals for ensuring the perfect success of the programme, by supervising the programme, as well as covering all remote areas, such as any construction sites, slums, etc. The mobile van will consist of a doctor/supervisor, two nurses, and two medical students on an average.

(as told by a medical student at a polio booth)

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This is an UdaipurBlog appeal to all the alert Udaipies to kindly take your children up to the age of 5 years to the nearest polio booth, as well as encourage your neighbours, your household workers(if any). Spread the awareness and help the country to develop, grow and prosper. 🙂

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Chain Reaction: Cycling towards a Healthier Life

chain reactionPaddling down along the roadways of beautiful Fateh Sagar Lake on a sunny morning was surely supposed to be a lot of fun. Enjoying the morning raga amidst the beautiful natural landscapes of Aravalli hills and the lakeview was a thing which couldn’t go unnoticed with young Turks all set on their firefox bikes cycling down from Fateh Sagar Lake to the uphills of Badi Lake, just for the joy of cycling and enjoying the nature at its best.

A group of young enthusiasts in the leadership of Mr. Nitin Hiran the owner of firefox bike station in the City went on for fun and adventures ride on their Firefox bikes. The journey stated at Madhuban where all the members gathered and cycled across the Fateh Sagar lake and the fun and adventurous trip ended at the uphills of green Badi Lake.

The initiative is aimed to encourage cycling among the citizens and motivate people towards adventurous sports and a healthier- happier life. The fun ride also brings along with it joy of enjoying the nature and greenery around and know other vibrant & enthusiastic group members across different age groups creating a good platform for like minded people.
These types of activities might be new to Udaipur City but they have been happening around in metro’s such as Delhi , Mumbai and Bangalore to encourage people towards a healthier and happier life. With oil prices and pollution levels rising up this is a good step towards a different and changed world. There are different groups and people who come forward and take part in such activities.

These groups also have different active online communities such as :

1. www.mumbaicyclist.blogspot.com

2. www.crcc.net

3. www.delhibycycle.com

4. www.cyclingfederationofindia.org .

This group Chain Reaction has been doing similar activities in the past and will continue doing such adventurous and fun activities in and around Udaipur discovering new trails and pathways just for the joy of cycling and spirit of adventure.

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Nitin Hiran
Nitin Hiran

Besides being an entrepreneur Mr. Hiran is also a Nature lover, photographer and an outgoing adventurous personality.

Do get in contact with Mr. Hiran and join his league “Chain Reaction” for the upcoming fun and adventure.

Contact Mr. Hiran : nitinhiran@gmail.com ;  nitinhiran@yahoo.com

You can also call him up for more details : +91-9530080180

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49th Maharana Kumbha Sangeet Samaroh

Since 1962 , Maharana Kumbha Sangeet Kala Trust organizes The Maharana Kumbha Sangeet Samaroh in loving memory of Maharana kumbha who was not only an proficient musician but also a great authority on the subject and science of music. The foremost motive of the celebration is to promote the Indian classical music and art. Maharana Kumbha was a great ruler of Mewar and was an extreme lover of science of music and legendary commentaries in Sanskrit. He believed that Music (sangeet) is the elixir of life. It is not simply a part of entertainment. It is essential to develop sensitivity and compassion, the most important aspects of human life. Thus in the fond memory of Maharana Kumbha, The Maharana Kumbha Sangeet Kala Trust promotes and encourages indian classical music, dances, arts, drama, and other activities of cultural importance.

Here are some Photos & Videos captured by, Yash Sharma

It was the 49th Maharana Kumbha Sangeet Samaroh, a much-respected and eagerly awaited event of Indian Classical Music. Unsurprisingly, expectations from this event are always high since chief legends of Indian Classical Music performs in this outstanding Event. The function was performed on 3 different days at Sukhadia Rangmanch , Town Hall in evenings starting from 7.30 pm till midnight. Many legends of Indian classical music performed in the samaroh this year like Santoor Legend- Pandit Bhajan Sopori , Flute legend- Pt. Hari prasad chaurasia , Kathak legend- Smt. Rani Khanam and Tabla maestro- Ustad Zakir Husssain. also Padma Bhushan Pandit Rajan-Sajan Mishra, Pt. Rajan Sajan Mishra, Sh. Sudhir Pandey, Pt. Vishwamohan Bhatt and Sh. Ram Kumar Mishra etc.

The three day sangeet celebration was an enormous event and the audience was left spellbound by the charismatic performances of the various legendary performers of Indian classical music. The event created a terrific classical music splendor in the city of lakes for the past three unforgettable and overwhelming days. Here is a brief description on performances of the various artists on the respective days :

Day 1: It was the foremost and the sweetest evening with performances of Santoor and flute .As expected on the first day with the sweetest musical instruments we have i.e, Flute and santoor. An amazing evening with splendid santoor recital by Santoor Legend Pandit Bhajan Sopori and also accompanying a marvelous Flute Recital by Flute legend Pt. Hari prasad chaurasia which completely and charismatically altered the ambience of the hall – filling it with unprecedented colours of joy, peace and harmony.

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Day 2 : It was the second subsequent evening of the celebration and hence was organized for some warm kathak dance show. Smt. Rani Khanam (the only Indian Muslim Female Classical dancer of note) created a bold dazzling evening performing on Islamic verses and duet vocals Recital by Padma Bhushan award winner Pandit Sh. Rajan Sajan Mishra (Vocals) accompanied by Pt. Vishwamohan Bhatt (Mohan Veena) and Sh. Sudhir Pandey & Sh. Ram Kumar Mishra on (Tabla). The audience got delighted and overwhelmed watching the immense kathak performance live.

Kathak Dance

Day 3: It was the third and the ultimate evening of the celebration. I will not call it the last evening since it was an evening which got engraved in everyone’s heart and mind thus was an ultimate evening. It was an Ustad’s (maestro’s) evening. Yeah u guessed it right, it was a tabla night actually a Zakir Husssain’s (maestro’s) Tabla night. So, now I hope you would have understood why I described and sounded like that or may be I sounded like that because I am, myself a huge fan of the table maestro Zakir Hussain. I feel contented to tell you that Ustad’s tabla Recital made the audience speechless. I think his performance, my god, was out of the world and nobody can describe his performance in words. Ustad while performing also cracked some great jokes and tales. His super sense of humor made the audience giggle and hoot many times. Ustad left the stage promising his next year arrival to the city and made people extremely happy and fulfilled.

Zakir Hussain

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Post contributed by : Yash Sharma

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Eid-Milad-un-Nabi fete transcended Udaipur

Today Udaipur Saw massive Eid-Milad-un-Nabi celebration where Muslims celebrated the birth of Prophet Mohammed. Milad-un-Nabi  is also known as Barawafat or Mawlid.

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The Birth anniversary of the Holy Prophet is remembered on 12th Rabi-ul-Awwal of the Islamic lunar calendar year by all Muslims. The Holy Quran was revealed by the Holy Prophet Muhammad. The same day marks the death anniversary of the Holy Prophet.

In India the Biggest Processions of Sunni Muslims are celebrated. Today more than 1 Lakh people gathered and covered almost 10-15 Kms of Udaipur City. The Procession was started from city centre from Anjuman passing through Ghanta Ghar, Hathi Pole, Silawat wadi, Chandpol, Ambavgarh, Mulla talai and finally ended at the Shrine of Hazrat Maulaana Zahirul Hasan Saahab Rehmatullah Alaih.

To celebrate the event whole city was decorated by Green flags and Lightning’s. In Procession people enjoyed the various dishes like Kheer, Mutton Pulao, Gajar Ka Halwa, Ice Creams, Sharbat, Badaam Shake etc.

Important facts:

  • It is one of the biggest Procession of India celebrated by Sunni Muslims.
  • Approx 1 Lakh people participated in the traditional Milad-un-Nabi procession, which was described as the biggest-ever.
  • Procession of Milad-un-Nabi is continuously celebrated from 1965.
  • The procession starts from Anjuman and ends at Shrine of Hazrat Maulaana Zahirul Hasan Saahab Rehmatullah Alaih.
  • Procession covered the 10 Km city area.

Here are few snaps of Procession:

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Article contributed by :

Raza Rahil Hussain.