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Master Samsar Chand Kaul Master Samsar Chand Kaul (1883-1977) was a renowned educationist, ornithologist and environmentalist of his time, when subjects like bird watching and study at natural history was unknown in Kashmir. By profession, he was a teacher in the then C. M. S. School at Fateh Kadal, later Central High School, Srinagar, continuously for 65 years and developed interest among the students in the natural history around; besides teaching of his usual academic subjects. His keenness in inculcating aptitude among the students towards glorious and everlastting surroundings of mountains, birds, flowers and forests was appreciated by the then British Principal of the School, Mr. C.E. Tyndale Biscoe, who, while writing a foreword to Master Samsar Chand's book "Beautiful Valley of Kashmir & Ladakh", wrote as under:
"I am most grateful to Samsar Chand for having taught his boys to love birds through his teaching of natural history".
Books and Articles:
The Dal Lake
The Manasbal Lake
The Wular Lake
The Hari Parbat and the Shankarachar Hills
Khir Bhawani Spring
Mountain Climbs
The Mysterious Cave of Amar Nath
Pahalgam
Sonamarg
Wild Flowers
Wild AnimalsNov 08, 2008
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Prof. O. N. KoulURL: http://iils.org
BOOKS:
http://iils.org/publications.htmlNov 08, 2008
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Pandit Arun Kaul http://koausa.org/music/vyethtelevision/arunkaul.htmlNov 08, 2008
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Ashok PanditAshok Pandit shot into prominence with Filmi Chakkar - one of the more successful comedies on satellite TV. Soon after he made Tere Mere Sapne, a serial that depicted the story of a joint family set in today's milieu. He also has to his credit one of the most successful countdown shows on satellite TV - Colgate Top 10.
However the projects that are closest to Pandit's heart are the ones he is currently working on - a serial called Muqammal for Star Plus which is "a woman's search for a complete man".
Pandit is also fiercely passionate about his first movie Meri Zameen. The movie is set in the backdrop of the Kashmir problem and brings to light the plight of the Kashmiri Pandit community to which he belongs. In fact it was this passion and anger that made him shoot a documentary 'Sharnarthi Apne Desh Mein' which won the RAPA awards for the best documentary last year.
Today, Pandit along with wife Neerja, who is a playback singer, and their two children constitute a happy family but one meeting with this talented film-maker makes it clear that Kashmir is very much a part of his sensibilities.
[Courtesy: Indian Television]Nov 08, 2008
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Dr. Harikrishna KaulHarikrishna Kaul is one of the major Kashmiri playwrights of the modern era. He started his literary career during his college days in early fifties, writing short stories in Hindi. He continued writing in Hindi till mid-sixties when he switched to writing in Kashmiri and immediately established himself as a major Kashmiri playwright and short story writer.
Harikrishna Kaul's plays are about ordinary people who provide us an opportunity to reflect on ordinary as well as larger issues of life and existence. The characters are real flesh and blood characters that one can easily relate to. The old man Lala Sahib of Yeli Watan Khur Chu Yevan is perhaps the best example of such characters created by Kaul. This widower and father of two middle aged sons painfully finds himself becoming increasingly irrelevant in the affairs of the family. His futile search for importance in the homes of his two sons ends up in his inability to decide where to go. He has nowhere to go. This character lives in the memory of all Kashmiris who heard the play on Radio or watched it on the television.
Another example of memorable characters created by Harikrishna Kaul is the old accountant of the humurous play Dastar. His uniquely archaic approach to office work became a legend and his famous lines Rama Lagay Chaanya Lilaye could be heard on the streets of Srinagar years after the play was first shown on television.
In mid seventies Kaul's play Natak Kariv Band was first staged at Srinagar's Tagore Hall. This play draws on the epic Ramayana and has Hanumana revolting against Rama's decision to banish Sita. As the play unfolds the audience finds Rama representing the ruling politicians who are ever ready to betray Sita, the people, for the sole aim of staying in power and Hanumana unmasks this betrayal crying Natak Kariv Band. This play is a milestone in Kashmiri literature and has been staged in Hindi as well as other Indian languages. The chief minister of the state, Shiekh Abdullah saw a performance in Delhi and was deeply moved.
Harikrishna Kaul's characters like the ones mentioned above are still popular in a Kashmir that is fast loosing its touch with a secular past.
The exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir valley in late eighties has robbed Kaul and indeed all other Kashmiri Pandit playwrights the platform on which they presented their plays. There are no audiences or listeners or viewers. So his literary contibution is now mostly in the genre of short stories and novels. He has won many national awards for his writings, including the Sahitya Academy Award, but has lost his audience.Nov 08, 2008
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Moti Lal Kemmu Born in 1933 in Srinagar, Shri Moti Lal Kemmu graduated from Jammu and Kahmir University in 1953. He received specialized training in Drama and theatre from Prof. C.C. Mehta at Baroda University from 1961 to 1964 under a Govt. of India scholarship. Later he served in different capacities, in the cultural establishment of Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir from 1964 to 1991, during which period he also wrote, acted and directed plays in Kashmiri. He emerged as an important Kashmiri writer with his plays: Teen Asangati Aikanki (1968), Lal Drayas Lol Re (1972), Trunove (1970), Tshai (1973), Natak Truche (1980), Tota Tol Aina (1985). Several of his plays were also translated and produced in Hindi.
He was actively involved in preserving the age-old, dying folk theatre of Kashmir, by reorganising Bhand artists into regular groups, now working in the valley under his guidance and support. He is the founder of many theatre groups such as Abhinava Bharati, Kashmir Bhagat Theatre, Shahwali Lika Rang, Luka Theatre Bombay, National Bhand Theatre, Wathora etc.
Shri Kemmu has also been writing well researched articles on folk theatre, music, dance and culture of Kashmir in Kashmiri, Urdu, Hindi and English, which have been published in prestigious journals. Shri Sidharth Kak's documentary film The Bhands of Kashmir was produced under Shri Kemmu's expert guidance.
Shri Kemmu is presently a Senior Fellow (Literature) of Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, devoting his time to writing of plays and a book on folk theatre of Kashmir. He has also organised a number of actor's and playwrights' workshops in Kashmir and made significant contribution to the promotion and dissemination of Kashmiri arts and culture. In recognition of his service to Kashmiri arts and literature, Shri Kemmu has been honoured with several awards by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Rashtra Bhasa Prachar Samiti etc. He received the Sahitya Akademi award in 1982 for his contribution to Kashmiri literature as a playwright.Nov 08, 2008
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Moti Lal Saqi Poet, writer, folk-lorist, researcher Moti Lal Saqi passed away in the wee hours of May 21, 1999 in New Delhi after a massive heart attack. Earlier in March he had undergone surgery for a heart ailment at Jammu, and was now recuperating at his eldest son, Vijay Saqi's residence at Sarojini Nagar. The tragic news of his death was received with great shock by his numerous friends and admirers in Delhi who rushed to bid him a tearful farewell. With his demise the Kashmiri Pandit community has lost yet another Nov 08, 2008
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Prof. ON WakhluEx-Principal, REC SrinagarNov 07, 2008
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Dr. Ashok RainaSource: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/mar98/corn0398.htmNov 07, 2008
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Dr. Pradhiman K. KawDr. Pradhiman K. Kaw was born on January 15, 1948. He had a brilliant academic record securing first position in his Master’s degree. He completed his Ph.D. degree at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1966 in a span of 2 years and had the distinction of being the first student to be conferred a doctoral degree by the Institute.
He joined the University of Princeton as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in 1967 where he discovered the phenomenon of laser induced anomalous heating of plasma and filamentation instability. He subsequently joined the research staff of the University of Princeton in the year 1969. Dr. Kaw came back to India in 1971 as an Associate Professor at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and became Professor in 1974. Concurrently, he held the positions of National Lecturership, Visiting Professorship at Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Consultant at University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of Cornell.
He was involved with the setting up of Institute for Plasma Research – a National level Institute- in 1986. Under his leadership as the Founder Director, the Institute is recognised for its work in several frontier areas of research in Plasma Physics.
Dr. Kaw was first to demonstrate the coalescence instability in a chain of magnetic islands, critical to Tokamak Plasmas. He investigated the stability of dissipative drift waves in sheared magnetic fields, which led to the crucial re-examination of the toroidal effects in drift instabilities. In his more recent work, he has found novel non-abelian plasma oscillations in quark-gluon plasmas- a subject of considerable interest in high-energy heavy ion collision experiments.
A number of honours, titles and distinctions have been bestowed on him, including Honorary Doctor of Science by the Gent University of Belgium in 1991. He is a Fellow/Member of several national and international Science Societies/Academies and Committees.
During his distinguished career as a scientist, Dr. Kaw has written over 150 research papers. He is presently the Associate Editor of Journal of Plasma Physics (U.K.). In recognition of his distinguished contributions to the growth of science in this country, he was awarded Padma Shri in 1985 and Bhatnagar Price in 1986.
In honouring Dr. Pradhiman K. Kaw, we recognise the conspicuous contributions made by an alumnus of I.I.T. Delhi as an outstanding scientist, an able administrator and a planner, who has carried a name for himself in the international scientific community.
Sir, I pray that Dr. Kaw be conferred the Distinguished Alumni Award of I.I.T. Delhi for the year 1992.
Submitted by: "Avtar Kaul" Nov 07, 2008
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Dr. Autar MattooDr. Mattoo, Research Leader of the Vegetable Laboratory at Beltsville, Maryland, is known internationally as an authority in two diverse programs: molecular aspects of chloroplast function with particular emphasis on the photosystem II reaction center proteins, and regulation of ethylene biosynthesis and fruit ripening. His pioneering investigations have provided fundamental new knowledge and novel concepts.
Dr. Mattoo elucidated the complete metabolic life history of a key component of photosynthesis and demonstrated its reversible, photo-regulated posttranslational covalent attachment of phosphate and palmitic acid (palmitoylation). Dr. Mattoo successfully applied an aspect of these basic fundamental discoveries in co-developing an ultrasensitive thermostable biosensor, for rapid detection of residual herbicides in soil and water.
Dr. Mattoo pioneered the regulatory interaction and metabolic linkage between biosynthesis of polyamines and ethylene in higher plants. He applied this new knowledge to produce transgenic tomatoes transformed with a regulatable polyamine gene, providing a novel strategy to genetically engineer crops for high lycopene, better fruit juice quality, and longer vine life attributes.
Dr. Mattoo?s accomplishments are documented in 196 research papers published in high-impact science journals. He has guided more than a dozen Ph.D. students and advised 75 or more research associates and visiting scientists from the U.S. and from foreign countries in biochemistry and molecular biology. He twice chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Senescence, and served on Technical Advisory Committee of US-Israel BARD. Dr. Mattoo has presented over 100 invited lectures at national and international meetings, as well as over 90 guest lectures at various Universities and research Institutes. Dr. Mattoo was recognized as the: Beltsville Area Scientist of the Year (1998), ARS's Distinguished Senior Scientist of the Year (1998), Secretary of Agriculture's "People Making a Difference" award (1999), and USDA Secretary's Honor Award for Scientific Excellence (1999).
Source: http://www.ba.ars.usda.gov/lectures2003/mattoo.htmlNov 07, 2008
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Pradman K. QasbaPradman K. Qasba, Ph.D.
After receiving his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Synthetic Chemistry from Munich University. Germany, Dr. Qasba studied the transcription of phages and animal viruses during his postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, and later at the Laboratory of Biology of Viruses, at NIH. He initiated the molecular biological studies of Golgi glycosytransferases and alpha-lactalbumin and is currently investigating their structure-function relationships. Nov 07, 2008
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