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Chandigarh November 30, 2020

Miss Fresher and Mr Fresher Chosen Online

Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University Chandigarh under the stewardship of chairperson, Prof. Deepti Gupta, organized an online “Fresher’s Party” , an initiative taken by the students of MA English Final Year to welcome and celebrate the newly joined batch.

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Prakhar Sinha, Class Representative, MA Final Year welcomed everyone and introduced the fellow anchors of the event, Bazila Javid and Udbhawana Abeer. 

The event started with a warm welcome by the MA II students and an inspirational speech by Ms. Jasmine Grover urging the new students to enjoy their days as students of Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University.

 This was followed by a song by Jasnoor of MA II and a poem by Priyanka of MA I. A quiz on ‘popular culture’ was organized by Ms. Parul Ahlawat where questions from Bollywood and English TV shows were asked in a rapid-fire round, and the winners were rewarded with e- certificates.

Melodious song performances were given by students of both the years, which kept everyone entertained. New students were highly enthusiastic about the event and actively participated in every party game that was organised. 

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The highlight of the event was a funny dance performance by Prakhar, which left everyone laughing uncontrollably. Prakhar, Tanya, Poorva and Vandana also presented a peppy Bollywood number which set everyone grooving. 

New students recited their own poems, and some delivered speeches on social issues like women oppression, excessive academic pressure and no access to quality education in remote areas.

 Final year students highly appreciated these speeches and rewarded them with thunderous rounds of applauses. Mehak Ayaz and Roohie won titles for best speech and poetry respectively.

This was followed by the online Fashion Show. The participants were asked to record their ramp-walks at home, which were streamed during the meeting. The show was judged by senior students who specialized in modelling and fashion. Mr. Fresher was awarded to Shivanta Vashishth and Miss Fresher was awarded to Anshika Mehta, who stole the fashion show with their performances. They were given e- certificates.

The event ended with the new students thanking their seniors for working hard and for organizing an event that brought smiles to their faces in these extraordinary and challenging times. 

Professor Harpreet Pruthi and Professor Pratibha Nagpal joined in to welcome new students and congratulated the final year students for their efforts. The event concluded on an emotional note where everyone wished to see each other soon, in person. The innovative idea of an online Fresher’s Party was a big success.

Chandigarh November 26, 2020

NSS & University Institute Of Hotel And Tourism Management(UIHTM), PU organized a webinar on Rights and Duties under Constitution of India to celebrate National Constitution day today.

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Dr. Naveen Kumar, Programme Officer, NSS, Panjab University formally welcomed and introduced the dignitaries among more than 200 attendees.

 Prof. Devinder Singh of department of Laws, the key speaker of the event enlightened the participants about the efforts, hardwork and struggle behind the coming up of the Constitution of India. The constitution has given us various institutions, principles and many things. For common man, we have been given the rights and duties. Fundamental rights are enforceable however duties are advisory in nature. Prof. Singh apprised the audience with the fact that duties were incorporated subsequently after due deliberations during review process at later stage.  Participants were made to understand that we have a duty towards environment, culture and therefore, we shall respect and appreciate our constitution, nation and culture. It was deliberated that Citizens have become right centered during recent times, but forgot that in the rights, duties are hidden, and duties and rights go hand in hand. Recent example of pandemic times was used to substantiate the argument that one shall think of contributing during the testing times. One should have sense of social responsibility while performing our duties so as to satisfy the right demands of the citizens. At last, the speaker advised that as a teacher, one should contribute by way of his knowledge so as to make future generations responsible.

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Dr. Arun Singh Thakur, Assistant Professor, UIHTM proposed vote of thanks, and untiring support and able guidance of Prof. Prashant Gautam was well recognized, and the efforts of students’ coordinator team including Diksha Guatam, Suruchi Rishi and Kartikay Nikhanj were appreciated.

Chandigarh November 27, 2020

Professor KK Kailash of Hyderabad Central University made a presentation on ‘Generations of Constitutional Studies in India’ in the Department of Political Science, Panjab University to  commemorate  the constitution day. 

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The lecture was presided by Professor V. R. Sinha, Dean Research, Panjab University. Professor Sinha in his inaugural remarks drew the attention of the faculty members, research scholars and the students that as citizens we are committed to the supreme law of the land in the form of the constitution which is both a sacred and a living document. 

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Welcoming the speaker Professor Ashutosh Kumar pointed out that the Constitution of India performs the following task: setting up the institutional-legal design of democracy; structuring the norms and values that govern the democratic politics; mapping out the rules of the game by introducing checks and balances; establishing both elected and non-elected institutions and finally giving us a vision of what it means to be an Indian citizen. Recalling the dominant concerns of the constituent assembly members who faced huge challenges, he referred how while framing the constitution they were committed to establish and strengthen democratic institutions, ensuring national unity, integrity and security and to bring about social and economic changes for the betterment of marginal people and groups.

Professor KK Kailash in his Constitution Day lecture, presented an overview of the academic literature in the form of commentaries and treatises by the legal luminaries, law and social sciences academics that has come up in the last seven decades of our independence. He classified them into four generations chronologically and showed how they have been thematically distinct from each other in terms of their research focus. The first generation of literature on the constitution reading was legalistic, descriptive and morphological in nature burdened by constitutional history of India. There was an attempt in these works to read the Indian constitution in terms of colonial legal and constitutional reforms, evolution of norms, conventions and procedures after its commencement. 

He further added that these texts also entailed the comparison of the Indian Constitution with the liberal constitutions of older democracies. Second generation of the studies focused on the social, cultural and political milieu that shaped the minds of the constitution makers. It also focused on the ideological strands that influenced the making of the constitution. Also was an attempt to relate the foundational principles enshrined in the constitution to the cherished principles that guided the nationalist movement in India. The third generation of the studies focused on the ensuing debates about some of the constitutional provisions related to secularism, affirmative action, rights, citizenship, welfare, role of the state, among others from a political sociological perspective. Fourth and the current generation of studies are being undertaken by former graduates of national law schools of India who due to their advantage of being trained both in constitutional law and also social sciences have been undertaking legal-theoretical studies of the Constitution of India which are political also in the nature. Their focus has been mainly on the public institutions and offices of Indiasetup under the Constitutional provisions, the doctrines like basic structure and also a deeper analysis of the constituent assembly debates.

Chandigarh November 26, 2020

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To commemorate the constitution day also known as Samvidhan Diwas, various departments of Panjab University, read out the Preamble and pledged to uphold the values and principles of the Constitution, today.

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            Prof. R.K. Singla, Dean of University Instructions, Prof. Sukhwinder Singh, Director, Computer Centre, along with the staff of VC office, Computer Centre, DUI office and Dean Research office  took the pledge.