Students of Birla High School (Girls’ Section) celebrated the World Salad Day in style recently. For the event, there were four groups — Chalukyas, Pallavas, Mauryas, Kushanas, and the challenge was to prepare a salad that would be nutritious, tasty and presentable. The Chalukyas rustled up a sprout salad while the Pallavas made a fruit salad. The Mauryas came up with a vegetable salad while the Kushanas made a digestive salad with raw papaya, herbs and sauces. The Kushanas were adjudged the winners as their presentation was innovative and had nutritional value. Indeed, the celebration turned out to be a lip-smacking treat for us.

Subarna Gangopadhya,
Birla High School (Girls),
Calcutta

DELHI
On the fast track

Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) has introduced a unique initiative called the Toyota Technical Education Programme (T-TEP) at Sir C.V. Raman Industrial Training Institute at Dheerpur in Delhi. Under this programme students will be exposed to the latest automotive technologies to enable them to become skilled technicians. TKM has partnered with six technical training institutes — Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Industrial Training Centre, Delhi, St. Joseph’s Industrial Training Institute (Don Bosco Industrial Institute), Mumbai, Mohanmull Chordia Jain Industrial Training Centre, Chennai, Deshpande Institute of Vocational Training Udyog, Hubli, Government Industrial Training Institute, Bangalore and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation Industrial Training Center, Pune. So far, 66 technicians out of the 74 who underwent this training at these institutes have been employed by Toyota.

Cuttack
Tribute time

Sahitya Akademi in collaboration with Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, organised a national seminar on Sarala Devi and Indian nationalist literature on September 1 and 2, 2007. Eminent writers, professors and research scholars took part. It was a first of its kind event, where the first woman freedom fighter from Orissa got her due. Sarala Devi’s contribution to Oriya and Indian literature is immense. So it was heartening to witness people from different walks of life pay tribute to her. Sachidananda Mohanty, professor and head of the department of English, University of Hyderabad, was responsible for making this event a success.

Kasturi Bose,
MA English,
Ravenshaw University

CALCUTTA
War of words

On August 31, 2007, the journalism and mass communications department of Seth Anandram Jaipuria College hosted an intra-departmental seminar on the Scenario of Indian Journalism in the 19th Century and the Role of Reformers. Four first year students — Sohini Dutta, Ria Ghosh, Sreyashi Ghosh and Shayan Acharya — spoke on the topic. The seminar ended with an interactive session and a speech by Prof. Abir Chattopadhyaya, faculty head, journalism and mass communications.

Shayan Acharya,
Journalism and mass communications,
Seth Anandram Jaipuria College

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