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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

छात्रों को उपलब्ध नहीं मूलभूत सुविधाएं

by: Swati Thakur
 
विश्वविद्यालय में पढ़ना हर विद्यार्थी का सपना होता है। विश्वविद्यालय में विद्यार्थी को उच्च स्तर की शिक्षा प्राप्त होती है।  प्रत्येक विद्यार्थी का सपना होता है की वे विश्वविद्यालय में पढ़ कर अच्छी शिक्षा प्राप्त करे। ऐसी ही बात है धर्मशाला स्थित केंद्रीय विश्वविद्यालय की। यह विश्वविद्यालय हिमाचल प्रदेश में कांगड़ा के धर्मशाला में स्थित है। धर्मशाला का मौसम आकर्षण का केंद्र है। स्वच्छ वातावरण में हर विद्यार्थी पढ़ना चाहता है। "शांत जगह पढ़ने के लिए अच्छी मानी जाती है।" इसलिए अन्य राज्यों के छात्र यहां पढ़ने के लिए उत्सुक होते हैं। वे दूर-दूर से यहां आकर इस इच्छा के साथ प्रवेश लेते हैं कि स्वच्छ वातावरण के साथ-साथ उन्हें विश्वविद्यालय द्वारा मूलभूत सुविधाएं भी दी जाएंगी।

 केंद्रीय विश्वविद्यालय शिक्षा के लिए अच्छा माना जाता है । यहां छात्रों को उच्च स्तर शिक्षा दी जाती है। यहां प्रवेश शुल्क भी अन्य विश्वविद्यालयों के मुकाबले बहुत कम है। यही कारण है कि यहां देश की कई राज्यों से छात्र पढ़ने आते हैं। बच्चे कई आकांक्षाओं के साथ आते है और उन्हें कुछ मुश्किलों का  सामना भी करना पड़ता है। केंद्रीय विवि पढ़ने आए छात्र हॉस्टल, कैंपस, कैंटीन, वाई-फाई, ऑडिटोरियम, एलसीडी प्रोजेक्टर और लाइब्रेरी में सीमित किताबें आदि जैसी मूलभूत सुविधाएं उपलब्ध नहीं होती है तो पढ़ने में परेशानी होती है।

केंद्रीय विवि में जब नए सत्र के छात्र प्रवेश लेते हैं  तो वे मूलभूत सुविधाओं से वंचित रहते हैं, तो उनके हाथ निराशा लगती है। विवि छात्रों से बातचीत के दौरान उन्होंने बताया कि वे छात्र यूपी,बिहार, झारखंड, पंजाब, दिल्ली से यहां पढ़ने आए हैं। "उमंग अरोड़ा, जो पंजाब से पढ़ने के लिए यहां आयी हैं, कहना है कि लाइब्रेरी में केवल सीमित किताबें हैं। जिसके कारण कई किताबें बाहर की दुकान से खरीदनी पड़ती है।" वहीं झारखंड से आए अजय का कहना था, “हॉस्टल न मिलने के कारण उन्हें शुरुआत में काफ़ी दिक़्क़त आई।“ कई छात्रों का कहना है कि परिवहन व्यवस्था की कमी होने के कारण छात्र समय पर क्लास नहीं जा पाते हैं। इतना ही नहीं केन्द्रीय विवि धर्मशाला के कैंपस में एक भी कैंटीन नहीं है जिसके कारण छात्रों को सारा दिन भूखा भी रहना पड़ता है।

ब्वॉयज़ हॉस्टल में रहने वाले हर्षल ठाकुर का कहना है कि ब्वॉयज़ हॉस्टल कैंपस से 15 किलोमिटर की दूरी पर है, जिसके कारण काफ़ी असुविधा होती है। पीजी स्तर पर छात्रों को एलीसीडी प्रोजेक्ट से पढ़ाने की ज़रूरत पड़ती है, क्लास-रूम में प्रोजेक्टर अच्छे से काम नहीं करते। "सुजाता गौतम जो दिल्ली से आई है उन्होंने बताया की कैंपस में एकमात्र पीने के पानी का कूल्लर लगा है, कभी बिजली न होने के कारण पानी नहीं आता और वह भी शौचालय के साथ लगा हुआ है।" कैंपस में छात्रों को बैठने के लिए उच्च प्रबंध नहीं है। केन्द्रीय विवि के धर्मशाला कैंपस में आडिटोरियम की भी सुविधा नहीं है।

इतनी असुविधाओं होने के बाद भी दूर-दूर से आए छात्र यहां मन लगाकर पढ़ते हैं। कम संसाधनों के बाद भी यहां पढ़ने वाले छात्र शिक्षकों के द्वारा काफ़ी कुछ सीखते हैं। बच्चे यहां मन  लगाकर पढ़ते हैं।

What winds the Dharamshala commuters most?


(Representational Image)

By Shalini Thakur

Dharamshala: "I think public transport here in Dharamshala is painful. Why would you get on a  Bus that doesn't leave to wherever you want it to head to, doesn't start wherever you want it to start from, and doesn’t stop at where you want it to stop?”, says Preshita Thakur, a daily commuting student at CUHP,who has to travel from Gahlian, a small village near Ranital in Kangra.

There are 3906 villages in Kangra, most of which are not have proper bus services. Many villages have just a couple of buses plying to them daily. When they stops operations unexpectedly, due to bad weather or some other uncertain circumstances , people in these villages and students suffer. Other modes of public transport are not affordable for most.

 ”Buses are our principal mode of public transport to nearby places", says Kuldeep Chand(64), an old man who lives in Dari in the outskirts of Dharamshala with his family. However, bus rides are not always a pleasant experience for him. Bus drivers and conductors often behave rudely or use abusive language, complaints Kuldeep. Elderly people like Kuldeep who suffers from Arthritis and other ailments, finds it difficult to enter and exit a vehicle. "One day when I pleaded to a conductor to give some extra time to get down from the bus, he shouted at me", says Kuldeep.

 “The day I was about to hire a taxi to Indrunag, the taxi driver pitched a price of 300 Rupees, I was totally shocked," says Umang Arora who hails from Jalandhar, but presently stays in Dharamshala for her studies. Umang complaints that she has come across several taxi drivers in Dharamshala who demand exorbitant charges from their passengers.

However, taxi drivers in Dharamshala have their own woes to deal with. The daily rise in fuel prices has made a dent to their daily earnings. “It is difficult if the taxi is your only source of income” Kamlesh Kumar explains. Kamlesh Kumar is a local taxi driver in Dharamshala, who lives with his family in Garoh, a village nearby. He says it is a hard task to maintain a taxi in Dharamshala. "Honestly, the petrol prices affect us very much. Servicing and repairing the vehicle from time to time also affect us and it becomes very difficult to survive when you are the only source of income in your family," says Kamlesh.

People like Umang, who are from cities where app-based taxi services are ubiquitous, finds their absence in Dharamshala bizarre. “App-based taxis back home were very convenient as they can be availed at any time, at any route based on our convenience. Drivers can not demand excessive rates too”, she adds.

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Mausam aayenge jayenge…hum tumko bhool na payenge - the ghazal legends, Hussain Brothers

By: Sunil Kumar Mishra
Ustad Ahmad Hussain and Mohammed Hussain during a performance (Image Credit - The Hindu)

Mausam aayenge jayenge…hum tumko bhool na payenge (Seasons will come and go but we can never forget you) is a great ghazal by Hussain Brothers (sons of Rajasthan based renowned thumri singer and ghazalkar Ustad Afzal Hussain ). This ghazal is a favoutrite of many ghazal lovers.





The Pink City (Jaipur) in Rajasthan, the city to which Ahmed Hussain and Mohammed Hussain (Hussain Brothers) belong to, have made deep impressions in their compositions.  The city's influence in them is acknowledged by several of their work, like...
 “Musafir hai hum to chale ja rahe hai, bada hi suhana gazal ka safar hai;Pata puchte ho to itna bata dun, hamara thikaana gulabi nagar hai




The duo started their career in Thumri, by singing as  child artists for All India Radio, Jaipur. Guldasta was their first album, which was released in 1980. It brought a lot of success in the life of these two brothers and made them legends in Indian gazal history. 

Since then, they have released about 50 albums in which Rahnuma, Sarmaya, Veer-Zara, The Golden Moments - "Purkaif Hawayen Hain" The Golden Moments - "Pyar Ka Jazba" The Golden Moments - "Mausam Aayenge - Jaayenge”,Ai-Saba, Tasveer , Pyar Ka Jazba , are few prominent albums.





Their recent album under Saregama label "Khwab Basera" is also a very notable one among the large corpus of popular ghazal performance from Hussain Brothers.



Music cuts across all barriers in case of Hussain Brothers and those who love their music. The bhajans composed by them on Hindu deities for albums like Shraddha , Bhavna, Anupam Vani are very popular.

In an interview with Rajya Sabha TV, Hussain Brothers acknowledge several factors which influenced their style. Almighty Allah, their father and the Mishra family of Jaipur, Sitara Devi, Kalyan Ji and Anand Ji played great role in shaping up the style, they said.

       Shakhsiyat with Ustad Ahmed Hussain & Ustad Mohammed Hussain

Hussain Brothers got lot of accolades for their performance of the qawwali –“Aaya tere der pe diwana”. It attained mass appeal when included in the popular Bollywood movie Veer- Zara in 2004, on the request of Yash Chopra.





Hussain brothers have performed in different countries and have mesmerized people with their music across national boundaries. Fans of their work have even started a Fan Club for them in the US.

The use of slow and high pitch is integral to their distinctive style that made them different from other gazalkars. In the words of Ahamad Husaain; Gazal ko samajh kar gana he gazal ka asli maene hai kyonki;ai gazal tere adeb ki missal kya deta, tu tawaif ke labo par bhi be-adeb na hue’ (It is important to sing ghazls with understanding its real meaning).

Listening to their work, where the mesmeric rendition is enmeshed with the way in which the ghazal  communicate the deep philosophy and the sad reality of life, is the zenith of bliss for any ghalzal over. Like they sing in this ghazal on the journey of life.

“Zindagi ki raah me, aise makam aate rahe
Chod de manjil to manjil ke payam aane lage
Ajnabi mahfil se bhee abto salam aane lage
Zindagi ki raah me, aise makam aane lage”