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Contents
editorial board
V.S. Sasibhooshnan Nair
Dept. of Mass Communication & Journalism
Prof. C. Rajendran
Dept. of Sanskrit
Prof. Syed Amjed Ahmed
Director, EMMRC
Dr. M.N. Karassery
Dept. of Malayalam
Prof. Krishna Kumar
Dept. of Mathematics
Dr. P.M. Mubarak Pasha
DCDC
Dr. Janaki Sridharan
Dept. of English
Valsarajan P.V
Publication Officer
Editor: T.P. Rajeevan
Public Relations Officer
Published by Dr. P.P. Mohammed
Registrar, University of Calicut
Photos: Biju Uthup
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Cover story
Language as Technology 3
Feature
University extends its
Community services 6
Paths of a Scholar 9
Report
An unusual visitor 11
CU’s FM to go on air soon 12
Vice Chancellor’s Visits 13
Mathematics Talent Search and
Nurture Programme 2006 14
Adding spicy flavour to
Botanical Garden 16
Regulars
VC’s Column 2
Campus roundup 17
Campus flowers 22
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Education,particularlyhighereducation,has
become an important portfolio in social and
political governance nowadays. From the level
of a privileged, or, rather specialized issue that
it had been until a few years ago, it has now
become everyone’s concern, cutting across
divisions of class and caste. And, the recent
debate on reservation in professional courses,
and the students’ strike that paralysed the
country’s healthcare for weeks point to the gravity
of the issue: whether existing rules are sufficient
for ensuring equitable higher education.
At the time of Independence, there were
only 25 universities in the country. The number
of colleges was 700. Over the past few decades,
this has grown to 348 and 17, 625 respectively.
And, every year, new universities and colleges
are coming up to meet the ever-increasing
demand for more. In numerical terms, this is
tremendous development.
But, this has an equally lackluster side that
belies many of the claims with regard to
providing higher educational opportunities to all
sections of society, for statistics shows that
students from middle and forward classes that
constitute only 20 per cent of the population
grab a major chunk of the opportunities, leaving
the vast majority of the poor and backward in
utter doldrums. Added to this is the fact that
the privileged are mainly urbane.
So, how the benefits of the ongoing
developments in higher education can be made
to reach the weaker sections also, is the question.
Is this just a matter of governmental policy and
legislation? As evidenced by social history, there
has to be a social process of readying the society
before initiating any legislation that goes against
age-old beliefs and customs. This is an educative
activity, and, a reformative one as well.
The basic misunderstanding that often leads
one to an anti-reservation position is that
reservation robs the meritorious of their
opportunities and further results in academic
degeneracy. This argument ignores the social and
historical realities on which the very concept of
reservation rests. Reservation is a preferential
treatment given to the members of traditionally
disadvantaged and disabled groups until they
become competent to catch up with the
advantaged. It’s imperative that social
movements and awareness programmes must
precede legislations.
Kerala provides a perfect model for how
renaissance initiatives can facilitate harmonious
co-existence of various communities and how
each community can contribute to the overall
development of the society without
compromising its identity. Mostly, this social
cohesiveness is reflected in education. And, what
the Kerala experience stresses is that sense of
equity is a value that must sprout from within
the society.
Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain
Vice Chancellor
VC’s Column
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The Kerala Society for Linguistic Research
(KSLR) organised a one day national seminar on
Language Technology on March 29 at the
University Seminar complex to honour the
renowned linguist Prof. T. B. Venugopala
Panicker, on his retirement from the Calicut
University Malayalam Department. Briefing the
importance of the seminar, organised in
association with the Malayalam Postgraduate
StudyDepartmentofZamorin’sGuruvayurappan
College Calicut, Dr. Mahesh Mangalat,
Secretary, K.S.L.R., said use of language on
computer has thrown open new areas of
enquiries in language studies. Computational
Linguistics and Language Technology are new
directions in linguistics stimulated by this new
scenario of language studies. Application
software, ranging from text editors to graphical
programmes, which enable us to use our
LanguagLanguagLanguagLanguagLanguage as Te as Te as Te as Te as Technoloechnoloechnoloechnoloechnologygygygygy
language on computers, are undergoing rapid
upgradations with regard to the utilities, it
offer. The technology for these applications
currently envisages a global sharing of
information using computers. Of late, Indian
Languages are incorporated as a part of
Operating Systems, offering more
maneuverability, Dr. Mahesh said.
The seminar on Language Technology was
planned to introduce theoretical as well as
practical issues related to language usage on
computers. Scholars of repute from Information
Technology and Linguistics participated in the
deliberations of the seminar. Various softwares
ranging from text editor to text to speech
application were also showcased.
Dr. Daivasundaram of Madras University
inaugurated the seminar at a function presided
Dr. Dei Vasudevan, Madras University, inaugurating the National Seminar on
Language Technology
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over by Dr. G. Balasubrahmanian, President,
K.S.L.R. Prof. M. Ganesan, of Annamalai
University delivered the key note address. Dr
Mahesh Magalat Mr T.P. Rajeevan, Dr. B.
Sreedevi, Calicut University Linguistic Forum and
Mr. Sathyanarayan spoke.
M. Ganesan of Annamalai University in his
paper on strategies of corpus analysis said that
in the computer era language development and
technology development were having impact on
each other. The computer technology is one of
the powerful sources to keep large quantum of
data. In language studies data is the fundamental
need for any research. Language corpora are
essentially, bodies of natural language material,
which are stored in
machine-readable form.
Basically corpora are the
real representatives of the
contemporary language
used in different
domains and serve as the
authentic data for various
linguistic research. The
majoradvantagescorpora
are that any specific
information can be
retrieved selectively and
through computer
programs data can be manipulated for different
purposes, as they are stored in an organized way
and are in machine-readable form. These
capabilities make corpora a powerful resource
for linguistic research and its application in
software development.
Because of the corpora and computer
technology the linguists are getting a variety of
new information, which are otherwise not
possible to extract from language data. A new
branch of linguistic study called Quantitative
Linguistics is developed. Language is now viewed
from language use point of view and the type of
information available gives new dimension of
description. It is quite useful in knowledge
representation, language teaching, dictionary
compilation, Mr. Ganesan said.
In a combined paper on Development of
Lexical Resources Mr. M. Ganesan, Ms. V.
Geetha, Mrs. R. Saranya and Mrs. A. Kamatchi
said Lexical Resources (LR) is a blend of
Dictionary, Thesaurus and the concept of Word
Net. It aims at to provide the necessary
information to disambiguate the lexical items. It
is one of the useful tools to be incorporated in
an Automatic Machine Aided Translation, where
the lexical transfer is the major bottleneck
problem.
The LR builds the ‘concepts’ from the lexical
items based on the meanings conveyed and for
each concept the syntactic and semantic contexts
for the use of the lexical item will be provided.
The concepts are unique and can be sharable with
other languages. So the paper is an outcome of
the work carried out in
our center by a team of
researcher on, Lexical
Resources for Tamil.
An attempt is, here,
made to brief the
construction or
development of lexical
resourceswhichcanbe
used mainly by
machine for Words
Sense Disambiguation
(WSD). A few hundred
words have been taken
from different semantic domains (SD), and
syntactic and semantic conditions are given for
each sense exhibited by the lexical items.
Lexical Resources of a language is a blend
of the concepts of dictionary, thesaurus and to
some extent the grammar of that language. It is a
lexical database in machine-readable form; it
provides more grammatical and semantic
information than the ones available in a printed
lexicon/dictionary; it is a resource for all
information (like grammar, syntactic, semantic,
etymological, encyclopeadic, statistical, etc.)
about a word at one place. It differs from a
dictionary in a way that the words are organized
based on concepts rather than alphabetic order,
where words with similar or related meanings
are haphazardly scattered through the dictionary;
It differs from a thesaurus in a way that different
criteria for different categories of words are
The seminar on Language Technology
was planned to introduce theoretical as
well as practical issues related to
language usage on computers. Scholars of
repute from Information Technology and
Linguistics participated in the
deliberations of the seminar. Various
softwares ranging from text editor to text
to speech application were also
showcased.
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followed for classification rather then a single
criteria for all categories of words; It also differs
from a grammar in a way that the associational
properties of words in terms of semantics are
loaded to the lexical entries rather than describing
the structure
Concepts are innumerable. Considering all
those as base for a LR may not be practically
possible. Comparing to the size of concepts,
words in a language are limited. Those words
are capable of expressing more concepts; by
associating with different words are linguistic
units. Further the concepts are not shared across
language due to the
difference in culture,
region, occupation etc.
One way of limiting the
concepts is that they can
be extracted from the
lexical items of a
language. If one tries to
build to concepts for a
group of languages, all
the words in those
languages have to be
taken as base.
In any language
verbs are fewer than nouns as well as verbs are
more polysemous than nouns. Words in a
language can be categorized in to verb, noun,
adjective, adverb and function word. Among
them verb is the important category as it plays
the vital role in a sentence in conveying the total
meaning. The meaning of verb in a sentence is
realized by identifying the grammatical and
semantic relations between the verb and the other
arguments. Therefore the order of study of various
categories should begin with verb then noun,
adjective adverb and function words. The verbs
in a language can further be classified into
different semantic domains in order to relate them
easily with the verbs of other languages for
extractingconceptssharedbygroupsoflanguages.
Indian languages are rich in morphology and
the occurrence of morph in a word is relatively
fixed and well defined. Because of these
properties one could check the grammatical
correctness of words using morphological
analyzer. At sentence level word order is relatively
free only within a phrase but not across the phrase.
The phrase boundaries are either overtly marked
or indicated through agreements and other
properties. As Lexical Resources consists of all
those information, Grammar checker for Indian
languages could be easily developed.
Mr Lajish.V.L Senior Research Fellow,
School of Information Science & Technology
Kannur University said that automatic text
document recognition had been one of the
fascinating research fields within the Artificial
Intelligence sphere in
recent years and it is
also a most successful
application of automatic
pattern recognition.
Many problems within
the automatic text
document recognition
field remain areas of
active research, one of
the most important and
challenging being that
of handwritten isolated
word image recognition
with large vocabulary lexicon.
It is observed that certain letters have the
maximum probability after certain letters while
some others have practically little probability of
occurrence. The number of searches required to
identify the second letter in selected words by
two different methods were estimated and
compared. Whatever the approach on-line or off-
line, the heuristic knowledge based on the
calculated hierarchical probabilities can lead to
the development of efficient search algorithms
for isolated word image recognition.
Dr.Mubarak Pasha ,Director, School of
DistanceEducationchairedthevaledictorysession
at which Prof. T .B. Venugopala Panicker was
honoured. Prof. Chathanath Achuthanunni
released a book by Prof. Panicker. Prof.
M.R.Ragahava Varrier introduced the book. Prof.
K. Narayanan Dr. U. Jayaprakash, Dr. Joseph.
K. Job,Mr .P.V.Valsaraj, and Mr. C. J. George
spoke
Indian languages are rich in morphology and
the occurrence of morph in a word is
relatively fixed and well defined. Because of
these properties one could check the
grammatical correctness of words using
morphological analyzer. At sentence level
word order is relatively free only within a
phrase but not across the phrase. The phrase
boundaries are either overtly marked or
indicated through agreements and other
properties.
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The community extension services of
Calicut University got a fillip on Monday when
the university’s Adult Education Department
launched three forums in association with the
Chelembra grama panchayat.
University Vice-Chancellor Syed Iqbal
Hasnaininauguratedaliteracycentre,afunctional
literacy centre and a forum for senior citizens at a
function held at Idimuzhikkal.
The University’s literacy centre will give a
boost to the ongoing literacy drive by the
panchayat. The functional literacy centre will
offer training in different job-oriented
programmes. The senior citizens’ forum will not
only take care of their geriatric needs, but also
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offer senior citizens a platform to air their views
and ideas.
Inaugurating the services, the Vice-
Chancellor called upon the layman not to
hesitate at the gates of a higher education
institution. The university, he said, is not an
inaccessible citadel for the ordinary people. “The
university is for the people. Its doors are open
to all,” he said.
Prof. Hasnain suggested that a survey be
conducted in the Chelembra panchayat limits
so that a clear picture of the people’s educational
standard could be gauged.
He also said that local bodies should show
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Vice Chancellor Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain inaugurating the literacy centre
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more care for the welfare of senior citizens. He
said the university would launch more health
and recreational programmes for senior citizens.
It was the first time that Calicut University
launched a community service by tying up with
a neighbouring grama panchayat. Expressing
pleasure at the people’s participation in the
functioning of local bodies, Prof. Hasnain said
that the panchayat system in Kerala was starkly
different from that in the North.
C.P. Shabeer Ali, Chelembra panchayat
president, presided over the function. C.
Naseema, head of the Department of Adult
Education, welcomed the gathering.
The Department of ACEES received a grant
of 14.25 lakhs for the tenth plan period for their
activities. For planning and conduct of the
programmes of the Department, an advisory
committee of 10 members from various fields
is formed with Dr. (Mrs.) H. K. Chauhan as the
UGC Representative.
The subcommittee for the Students
Counselling/ Placement /Career guidance centers
leading by Dr. T.P. Sasikumar, Director, ASC,
University of Calicut and Dr. C. Jayan, Head,
Dept. of Psychology decided the establishment
of 5 centres in five districts under the jurisdiction
of University of calicut with the Department as
the Nodal center. The department organizes one
day workshop to the college
teachers and school principals as
an orientation to the programmes
of the Counselling centers, on July
1st
2006.
Conduct of training
programmes for the rural masses in
collaboration with Jan Sikshan
Sansthan, Malappuram and training
programmes in Mushroom
Cultivation, Ornamental Fish
Farming, Medicinal Plant Culture,
Solid Waste Management, and
Pottery Decoration is organizing
by the Department in association
with IRTC, Mundoor. Palakkad .
It was decided to conduct awareness and
literacy programmes to the fishermen in the
coastal areas of Malappuram. Dr. K.N.Ganesh,
Head of the Department, History ( President ,
KSSP) will give necessary guidance and
supervision for the above programmes.
The Department decided to conduct short
term courses in Computer/ IT/Soft skill
development for various categories of employees,
for youth, students and teachers – from schools
and colleges under the guidance and supervision
of Dr. T.P.Sasikumar, Director, Academic staff
College.
Subcommitte meeting for Continuing
EducationProgrammesoftheDepartmentdecided
to Conduct Different certificate courses. The
committee consisting of Dr. B.R.S.Babu, Professor
Dept. of Physics, Dr. T.P.Sasikumar, Director,
ASC; Dr. A.K.Padeeep, Dept. of Botany, Mrs.
Vilasini, Principal, JDT Islam Nursing College,
Calicut, decided to conduct Certificate course
in Communication Skill, Certificate course in
Horticulture, Certificate course in Geriatric care,
and Certificate course in Tribal Medicine as an
initial step.
The department shifted its literacy center
to Chelembra Panjayat as a boosting to the
Literacy campaign going on in that panjayat.
Vice Chancellor with the people’s representatives
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The formation of Senior citizen’s forum in
three neighbouring panjayats of the university
is a new step for giving care and solace to the
Vice Chancellor Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain
inaugurating the workshop
people attained an age above 60 years. It’s a
collective of the elder group in the society for
their recreation and upliftment and an open
forum apart from their isolation which created
as a part of the modern society. Also the forum
will be an opportunity for sharing their feelings
and experience to the benefit of the society.
The first batch of the students in Fabric
Painting Course successfully completed their
training programme . They organized a display
of their products in the department and
certificates to the students were distributed by
Dr. C.Naseema , Director ( in charge) in their
farewell programme.
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Dr. N V P Unithiri started his career as a
primary school teacher. Later he took BA in
Malayalam and MA in Sanskrit privately, and
joined for doctoral research in Sanskrit at
University of Kerala where he became a lecturer
later. In 1978, Dr. Unithiri came to Calicut
University as a lecturer in Sanskrit and was
elevated to professorship and headship. In the
meantime, he was appointed as the Principal
Deanship (Pro-Vice Chancellor) at Sree
Paths of a ScholarPaths of a ScholarPaths of a ScholarPaths of a ScholarPaths of a Scholar
By Dr. R.V.M. Divakaran
Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady; a post
he held for three years from 1999.
PostsandpositionsDr.Unithiriheldinhiscareer
are many. They include Director, Kerala Language
Institute; Chairman, Cultural Publication Division
AdvisoryBoard,KeralaState;Generalsecretary,Kerala
SaahityaSamithi;President,PurogamanaKalaSahitya
Sangham.Hewasmanytimesnominatedtoacademic
bodiesofvariousuniversitiesinthecountry.
When individuals’ public life takes over their personal life, autobiographies often turn into
political, cultural or literary history of a period. And, when it is of a scholar, it naturally
becomes intellectual history. This is true in the case of Dr. Noonhil Madathil Padmanabhan
Unithiri, better known as NVP Unithiri, the renowned Sanskrit scholar and former head of the
Calicut University Sanskrit Department when he wrote his autobiography Nadannuvanna
Vazhikal (The Traded Paths), the publication of which coincides with his retirement from
service on March 31, this year.
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Dr. Unithiri has organized and participated
in a number of regional, national and
international academic seminars and has more
than a hundred research papers in an array of
subjects. He has authored as many as 23 books
in Malayalam, seven in Sanskrit and five in
English. A translator of equal standing, Dr
Unithiri has translated Kumaranasan’s Chandala
bhikshuki, Vallathol’s Sishyanum Makanum,
Acchanum Makalum and Magdalanamariyam,
ONV Kurup’s Ujjayini, P. Kunhiraman Nair’s
NarabaliandEdassery’sAmbadiyilekkuVeendum
into Sanskrit.
For the wider public outside academic field,
Dr. Unithiri is better known for his works about
the unfamiliar aspects of Indian philosophy. He
didn’t follow the usual ‘spiritual centric’ readings
of Indian tradition. His belief is that discourses
like Bharatiyata are not mearly Adhyatmikam.
Using the Marxian method of analysis, he
provided materialistic interpretation to the
Indian thoughts that are traditionally referred to
as theistic.
In his works like Bharatiya darsanathinte
ariyappedatha mukham(UnknownfaceofIndian
Philosophy), Vivekanandantesamakalikaprasakti
(Current Relevance of Vivekananda), Samuham
matam darsanam (Society, Religion and
Philosophy), Sastravum darsanavum prachina
bharatathil (Science and Philosophy in Ancient
India-Trans.), Sankaradarsanam marxistu-
veekshanathil (Philosophy of Sankara in Marxist
View), Matetaratwavum nammude samskarika
paitrukavum (Secularism and our Cultural
Tradition), Arashtriyatayude rashtriyam (Politics
of being Apolitical), Matavum matabhranthum
(Religion and Fanaticism), Hindutwavum
hindumatavum (Hindutva and Hindu Religion),
Materialistic Philosophy in Ancient India and the
Charvaka System of Philosophy, Dr. Unithiri
argues there was a strong base for materialistic
thoughts in India. He also explains how it was
over thrown.
Dr. Unithiri has also extensively written on
literature and literary theories. His doctoral
research was on the works of Poornasaraswati,
who wrote the masterly study Vidyullata for
Meghasandesa. Books like Samskrita sahitya
vimarsanam (Sanskrit Criticism) Samskrita
sahityathinte nizhalum velichavum(Shadows and
Lights of Sanskrit Literature), Bhasha-
bhushanathinte upadanangal (Alms of
Bhashabhushanam), Studies in Kerala Sanskrit
Literature, Vakrokti kavyajivitam) and a number
of research papers in this regard are precious for
literati.
It was Dr. Unithiri’s dynamic leadership and
decisive efficiency that helped Sanskrit
Department of Calicut University become one
of the vibrant faculties and guided it to the glory
of exemplary achievements.
Dr. Unithiri is now engaged in a UGC major
project on Science and Technology in Ancient
and Medieval India (Sanskrit sources). He says
the Indian traditions in architecture, medicine,
astronomy, chemistry, agriculture and other
technologies are not adequately studied using
Sanskrit. According to him, the main focus so far
has been onKavyas, NatakasAlankarasastras. Dr.
Unithiri was instrumental in introducing scientific
and technical literature in Sanskrit, both at
research and postgraduate levels.
Except for a few chapters, Nadannuvanna
Vazhikal is basically academic discussion.
Dr. R.V.M. Divakaran
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Visitors are not rare in Calicut University. And, the University’s guest
book lists a mind-blowing range from His Excellency the President of India
to the path-breaking poet-writer Mrs. Kamala Das.
But, recently, the campus community was surprised to see a rare visitor.
A frigate bird! The bird, weighing nearly 2 kg, found trapped in a bush
might have been affected by the strong winds that lashed the region. It’s
supposed that the bird landed on the Campus having lost its way during a
migratory flight.
Dr. Zubair Medammal, an ornithologist
at the university’s Zoology Department said it
belonged to the Fregata minor species found
in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Frigate
birds are also found in the South Atlantic, he
said.
Frigate birds are ocean birds. They attack
other sea birds, and hence the name frigate.
Related to the pelicans, frigate birds are also
called man of war birds or pirate birds. It was
the first time a frigate bird had appeared in the
region, Dr. Zubair said.
With imputs from Dr. Zubair Medammal
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The much-awaited community radio station
of Calicut University, ‘CUFM’, will go on air in
this academic year.
The university has already obtained the
preliminary sanction from the Ministry of
information and Broadcasting to set up the FM
station to broadcast educational and cultural
programmes.
It is for the first time that a university in Kerala is
being sanctioned license to start a community radio
station. The University and the I & B Ministry will
enteralicenseagreementonJuly15thisyear,priorto
the official broadcasting from the station, informed
UniversityVice-ChancellorSayedIqbalHasnain.
The committee, which was formed for the
establishment and smooth-functioning of the radio
station with Vice-Chancellor Sayed Iqbal Hasnain
as its chairman, will convene an official meeting
in the first week of June, prior to the signing of the
license agreement.
Pro-Vice Chancellor C.Gopinathan Pillai will
be the vice-chairman of the committee which has
Dr.Amjed Ahammed, Head of Educational
Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC).
Dr..Raghavan Payyanad, Head of Vatakara Folklore
Studies, Dr.C.D.Chakkappan, Head of Department
of Mass Communication, Department Students
Union chairman and one Syndicate Member as its
members. Dr.Sreedharan, Director, Roorky
Education and Multimedia Research Centre will
be a special invitee in the committee.
The University began the footwork to obtain
the license for the radio station in October 2005.
News and information such as educational and
examination news, counselling, various cultural
programmesorganizedbytheUniversity,speeches
and educational discourses by experts will be aired
through the FM station.
The station will also broadcast the folk art
forms of Malabar and the cultural programmes of
students under the aegis of Vatakara Centre for
Folklore Studies.
Within one year from the date of signing of
thelicenseagreement,whichhasathree-yearterm,
the university will be required to complete all the
necessary formalities like obtaining the clearance
of Standing Advisory Committee on Radio
FrequencyAllocation(SACFA),settingupbroadcast
facilities and obtain Wireless Operating License
form the Ministry of Communication and IT.
As per the rules, the university is not entitled
to use the frequency for any commercial purposes.
Moreover, the university will not be entitled to
bestow any degree or diploma certificate by distant
learning through the broadcast programmes.
Courtesy: The Indian Express
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Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain,
Vice Chancellor of the University
visited the Kingdom of Bahrain
from April 8 to 15, 2006. During
his visit, Prof. Hasnain interacted
with many dignitaries in the
Kingdom including Indian
Ambassador Balakrishna
Shetty,Ahlia University President
Prof. Abdulla Y Al Hawai,
educationalist Hassan Al Mehri
and Ali Hassan Kunhali.
Prof. Hasnain participated in
a seminar on Educational
Prospects in the Middle East, held
in Al Noor International School
and delivered the keynote address.
In his address, Prof. Hasnain urged
the Universities in Kerala to start
more distance education centers in
Vice Chancellor Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain
attended the International Hydrological
Conference for Managing Water Resources in the
Asian Developing Countries held from June 8 to
10, in the historic Chinese city Gungzhou. This
was the first hydrological science meeting for
Asian countries held in China. The conference was
organized by Centre for Water Resources and
Environment, Zhonghshan (Sun Yat-Sen)
University. Including 85 foreigners, total 350
scientists participated in the conference.
Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain presented a paper
on Glaciers of High Mountain Water Reservoirs.
It was the only paper dealt with high altitude
hydrology. In his paper, Prof. Hasnain said that
the impact of global warming on high altitude water
resources, especially those in the Himalaya, would
result in acute water scarcity in heavily populated
Asian countries like India and China. The paper
was well appreciated and discussed by the
participants.
Prof. Hasnain’s suggestion to make the
conference a continual affair with the sponsorship
of interested stakeholders in the region was also
accepted.
the region to cater to the educational needs of emigrant students
and human resource requirements in the Middle Eastern job
market.
School Principal Hassan Al Mehri and School Chairman
Ali Hassan Kunhali also spoke.
VVVVVice Chancellor’ice Chancellor’ice Chancellor’ice Chancellor’ice Chancellor’s Vs Vs Vs Vs Visitsisitsisitsisitsisits
Vice Chancellor Delivering a speech at Al Noor International
School
Vice Chancellor at Gungzhou, Guodong
province
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The Fourth Mathematics Talent
Search and Nurture Programme was
conducted in the Department of
Mathematics from May 8 to 27, 2006.
Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain, Vice-
Chancellor inaugurated the programme.
The programme was conducted
under the guidence and financial
assistance from the National Board for
Higher Mathematics, Mumbai, under the
Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of
India. Prof.V. Krishna Kumar,
Department of Mathematics was the
Director of the programme.
report
MAMAMAMAMATHEMATHEMATHEMATHEMATHEMATICS TTICS TTICS TTICS TTICS TALENT SEARCH ANDALENT SEARCH ANDALENT SEARCH ANDALENT SEARCH ANDALENT SEARCH AND
NURNURNURNURNURTURE PRTURE PRTURE PRTURE PRTURE PROGRAMME 2006OGRAMME 2006OGRAMME 2006OGRAMME 2006OGRAMME 2006
MTS & NP is modelled on the National
Level Mathematics Training and Talent
Search (MTTS) programme – a well known
programme in Mathematics, running for
the past several years. The basic objective
of the MTS & NP- is to impart training on
how Mathematics should be done, to a
select group of students. This is achieved
by giving courses on Algebra, Analysis and
Geometry, fundamental to Mathematics,
with emphasis on problem solving. Indeed
the objective is to impart the theme of the
famous book by Polya entitled “How to
Solve It”. The whole process is designed
in such a way that there is minimum
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lecturing and more of problem solving.
Here again the problems are to be solved
by the students and the instructors only
monitor the progress and give only
suggestions, if necessary, by way of asking
probing questions. During the process of
solving problems students learned how to
ask the right questions and arrive at the
solutions.
The method of imparting Mathematical
knowledge is different from the
conventional methods. The anchor person
controls the proceedings with tutors moving
around the class monitoring the progress
of each student in problem solving. To
ensure that each student gets personal
attention there are sufficiently many tutors,
each tutor looking after at most five
students. Every student is encouraged to
solve problems all alone.
The 18 day programme had activities
spread over four sessions a day. There were
no examinations; however, at the end, the
students are graded based on the assessment
of their overall performance, by the
Director in consultation with the other
teachers.
This year also applications were
invited from Final year B.Sc. (Mathematics)
students of all colleges affiliated to the
Universities in Kerala. 140 applications
were received. The Department selected 40
students, giving representation proportional
to the number of applications received from
each University. The selection of the
participants was based on their
performance in Mathematics at the H.S.E,
I year, II year B.Sc. and the
recommendations of their teachers on their
Mathematical ability. Finally 35 students
went through the programme. An
interesting feature was the presence of two
students of Physics who have shown
exceptional interest in Mathematics.
Indeed their performance justified their
selection for the programme.
In addition to the faculty members of
the Department, some Mathematics
Teachers from affiliated colleges were also
encouraged to participate as tutors for the
programme. Dr. Jayanthan from Goa
University, Dr. M.T. Nair from IIT- Madras,
Chennai and Dr. V. Rajendran from
P.S.M.O College, Tirurangadi were the
external anchors for the programme. Dr.
M.S. Balasubramani, and Dr. P.T.
Ramachandran, all Faculty members of the
Department also anchored some of the
classes.
Dr. Gopinathan Pillai, Pro-Vice
Chancellor of the University participated
in the closing ceremonies and distributed
the Certificates to the participants.
A picnic was organized to Wayanad
on the last Sunday. A Cultural Evening
was arranged and the participants
grabbed the opportunity to present their
extracurricular talents.
The overall progress and the
effectiveness of the MTS & NP were closely
monitored through constant interactions
with the participants and weekly
feedbacks received from them. Based on
the assessments on the progress, fine-
tuning of the programme was carried out
every week.
The participants were given five well
known books in Algebra, Linear Algebra
& Geometry and Analysis. All the
participants who joined stayed throughout
the programme. The Department feels that
this is a very positive aspect of the
programme on three counts : Firstly, the
participants were students with real
interest in the subject. Secondly, the
participants were able to appreciate the
finer aspects of the subject and improved
their skills in handling mathematical
problems. Lastly, eventhough they were
strangers to one another in the beginning
they were one at the end. Everyone left
with cherished memories of a lively and
vibrant programme.
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report
Campus : Ginger house, which is a rare
collection of plants belonging to the family of
ginger (Ningibereaceae), located in the botanical
garden has become a centre of attraction for
students and researchers.
The ginger house was inaugurated by
Prof.Dr.Syed Iqbal Hasnain, Vice Chancellor,
University of Calicut on 26 April. It was launched
as part of the research project ‘Further Studies on
Zingibereaceae’, sponsored by the Science and
Technology Department of the Central
Government. HSBC and the Botanic Garden
Conservation International (BGCI), London, gave
the financial help for the House.
ThecollectionincludesgingerfromNortheast
India, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and exotics
from China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
About 70% of ginger plants, collected from
different parts of India are kept in the ginger house.
There are about 800 accessions belonging to 150
taxa.
Dr. M.Sabu, Reader and Officer-in-charge of
Botanical Garden, Dr. A.K. Pradeep, Varsity
Curator and co-investigator of the research
project, Dr.P.V. Madhusoodanan, Head of the
Dept. of Botany, Porf. K.S.Manilal, former Head
of the Dept. are the persons who worked hard
to make this endeavour successful.
The ginger house is a valuable asset for the
University as few universities in the country have
such a rich collection.
MARY DEEPA DAVID
Adding spicy flavAdding spicy flavAdding spicy flavAdding spicy flavAdding spicy flavour to Botanical Gardenour to Botanical Gardenour to Botanical Gardenour to Botanical Gardenour to Botanical Garden
Vice Chancellor Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain
inaugurating the Ginger House.
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Academic Staff CollegAcademic Staff CollegAcademic Staff CollegAcademic Staff CollegAcademic Staff College announces newe announces newe announces newe announces newe announces new
prprprprprooooogggggrammesrammesrammesrammesrammes
The Calicut University Academic Staff college (ASC) has
announcedthisyear’svariousrefreshercoursesandorientation
programmes. Theschedulesoftherefreshercoursesare given
below.
Bio-Technology and Bio-Informatics (August 3 –23);
ComputerApplication(September28September-October18);
Mathematics / Psychical Science / Computer Science /
Engineering/Geo-Sciences & Geographic Information System /
Remote Sensing (October 2- November 15); Social Science /
Engineering/Management(November2-November22);Social
Science/ Education/Multimedia/Web Technology (November
30-December20);Mathematics/PhysicalScience/Computer
Science/Engineering/SkillforE-ContentDevelopmentJanuary
4- January 24)
There will be four Orientation Programmes.
In addition to these the ASC will organise Workshop for
College Principals on August 28 and 30.
The ASC Director Dr. Sasikumar said the Academic
Advisory Council also had planned courses are in Remote
Sensing & Geographic Information System, Climate Change &
Impacts,Bio-Technology&Bio-Informatics,Computing&Data
Base, Web Technology & Communication, Comparative
Literature & Linguistics, Multimedia, Advanced Management,
Geo-Sciences&GeographicInformationSystem,AppliedSocial
“Students are not supposed to be slaves and meek followers of any ideology, but should become
masters and frame their own ideas. The ultimate aim of education to make students bold enough to
fight against social injustice’, opined P.T. Kunhumuhammad, renowned film director and cultural
activist while inaugurating the Department Students’ Union of Calicut Univeristy campus for the year
2005-06. The function was held at Seminar Complex on March 21.
Sitara Krishnakumar, Kalathilakam of Interzone Arts Fest, was the Chief Gust at the programme.
She said that it was a golden opportunity to participate in the inaugural function and expressed her
aspiration to work as a member of the Union in the future.
Dr.A.B.Moideenkutty, president of DSU, Vedavyasan, CUSO, V.Stalin, Employees Union, Sreejesh,
Chairman of Centre for Physical Education Union and Rajeesh Kumar, Editor, DSU participated in the
programme.
The programme was presided over by Abdulla Nawas P.K, Chairman, DSU, Sujith C.C, General
Secretary, DSU welcomed the gathering and Shilpa K, Vice Chairman, DSU Proposed a vote of thanks.
The function was followed by a Music Night.
DSU InauguratedDSU InauguratedDSU InauguratedDSU InauguratedDSU Inaugurated
Dr. T.P. Sasikumar,
Director, Academic Staff College
Sciences, Social development, Skill for
E-Content Development.
LastyeartheASCconductedcourses
in Environmental Science, Economics,
Information Technology and Physical
Education. A training programme on
‘Multimedia E-Content Development’
was also conducted in association with
Consortium For Educational
Communication in collaboration and
EMMRC.
campus roundup
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The first batch of Continuous Professional
Development Programme, conducted by the
Department of Library and Information Science
in Collaboration with Kerala Library Association,
Calicut region, completed the course on May 6.
The programme was aimed at skill development
of working librarians as well as Library and
Information Science graduates. The first phase,
on the topic ‘Library Automation and Digitisation’
was inaugurated by Prof. M.Parameswaran, former
head of the department.
A valedictory function to mark the
completion of the programme was inaugurated
by Pro-Vice Chancellor C.gopinathan Pillai at the
Department of Library and Information Science.
In his inaugural address, he said “development in
Library Science will aid in the quest for knowledge
campus roundup
Equipping librarians for excellenceEquipping librarians for excellenceEquipping librarians for excellenceEquipping librarians for excellenceEquipping librarians for excellence
and it is indispensable for better future and
progress of the country’. He distributed certificates
to the participants in the function.
The programme had four modules: each
module had duration of one week aimed at giving
orientation in the Library Software package like
SOUL, BOOK MAGIC, LiBSOFT, COHA and
Digtal Library Software GREEN STONE. This is
the first unique venture of the type ever conducted
by a Library Science School in Kerala. Twenty-
six Prticipants attended the course.
Chief Coordinaotor Dr. Jalaja V, Head of
theDepartment,PresidedoverthefunctionManoj
Kumar P welcomed the gathering and Dr.Dinesan
Koovakkai, Coordinator, proposed a vote of
thanks.
DHANYA.T.S
Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr. C. Gopinathan Pillai inaugurating the Valedictory function.
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Vice Chancellor Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain with Prof. N. Radhakrishnan, Chairman,
Indian Council of Gandhian Studies.
Well-known writers Mr. Vaisakhan and Mrs. Sara Joseph
when they visited the University.
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Asking the students to put in their brains
and knowledge in Science for the development
of the country, Dr.Syed Iqbal Hasnain, Vice
Chancellor inaugurated the National Science Day
celebration of the Department of Biotechnology
on February 28th
at the Department. He
remembered the effort and hard work of Sir.
C.V.Raman in putting forward the effect of
scattering of light, in whose memory National
Science Day is celebrated. Prof Krishnakumar,
faculty, Department of Mathematics, chaired the
function.
Various programmes were hosted in
connection with the week-long celebration,
which started on Feb 24th
. Students from various
colleges and schools participated in the lecture
series and elocution competitions. During the
campus roundup
National Science day celebratedNational Science day celebratedNational Science day celebratedNational Science day celebratedNational Science day celebrated
lecture series Dr. Ishwara Butt of Indian Spices
Research Centre gave a lecture on ‘Management
of Plant Viral Diseases’.
Students were also given hands on lab
training in Biotechnology-related topics during
the programme.
SOUMYA CHANDRAN
Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain inaugurating the Science Day Celebration.
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One cannot resist stopping for a while to have
a closer look at this handsome evergreen climber.
A native of Colombia, this extensive climber was
introduced into the University Botanical Garden
in early 1980’s. Botanically called Saritaea
magnifica, it belongs to the family Bignoniaceae,
which has contributed many well-known
ornamental trees and climbers.
The plant produces its large bell-shaped
mauve flowers in bunches of three or four in leaf
axils or at the tips of branches. The flower has a
funnel-shaped tube and a 5-lobed corolla. The
throat of the tube is pale yellow with longitudinal
purple veins. The leaves are bifoliolate and glossy
green usually with a tendril by which they climb
upon trees.
The plant putforth its magnificent blossoms
soon after the monsoon, and the flowering often
extendup to summer in Kerala. Being very hardy
and free flowering, Saritaea is much appreciated
in tropical gardens to cover and beautify old
leafless trees and pergolas. The plant grows
vigorously in humus rich soil with good drainage.
campus flowers
Magnificent climberMagnificent climberMagnificent climberMagnificent climberMagnificent climber
The plant does not make much demand and does
well if planted in pits filled with a mixture river
sand, bone meal and compost. Being a spreading
plant, it requires pruning at regular intervals,
especially after flowering to keep the plant in good
shape. Saritaea seldom sets fruits and seeds under
Indian conditions, and is generally propagated from
cuttings from one-year old stem of about 25-30
cm long, with the thickness of a pencil. To initiate
rooting, the cut surface can be treated with root
hormones such as Indole acetic acid (IAA) or
Naphthalene acetic acid (NAA). The treated
cuttings can also be raised in polythene bags
containing equal parts of rotten farmyard manure,
one part of river sand and one part of red soil.
Once the plant is firmly rooted, the polybags can
be transplanted in a well-lit location in the garden,
provided with a strong support to climb. The plant
requires plenty of space, light and water. Within
two years of planting, it will produce hundreds of
bell-shaped mauve flowers adding beauty to
homestead gardens.
A.K. PRADEEP
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List of Ph.D. Degree Awarded from March to June 2006
Sl. NAME OF SUBJECT TOPIC OF RESEARCH NAME OF GUIDE
No. CANDIDATE
1 B. Ramasubramanian Botany “Studies on the variability, genetic Dr. K.V.Mohanan
Divergence and Crop Improvement
in Tea (Camellia assamica
Masters wight)”.
2 Bharathan.K.M. Malayalam kky-N-cXw IS-Ø-m-Sns Bkv]-Z-am°n Dr. Raghavan
Hcp t^m°vtem¿ ]Tw Payyanad
3 Vidhu Priya.A. Zoology “Investigation on the Alpha Dr. T.C.Narendran
Systematics of Acridoidea
(Orthoptera) of Kerala”.
4 Santhosh.A.M. Psychology “A Psychological intervention Dr. C.Jayan
strategy to control debilitationg
factors in sport performance”.
5 Rajitha Menon.A. Psychology “Certain Psychological correlates Dr. C.Jayan
of Athlets – An analytical study”.
6 Sheena.N. Microbiology “Studies on the theraspeutic DR. K.K.Janardhanan
potential of Ganoderma Lucidum.P
– Kartst Reishi, Occuring in Kerala”.
7 Radhakrishanan.C. Psychology “Psychological components and Dr. Anitha Ravidran
values in adolscent depression”.
8. Maya.K.M. Biochemistry “Biochemical variability in nutmeg Dr. T.John Zachariah
(Myristica fragrans) and related
Taxa Myristica Fragrans related Taxa)”.
9 Shereena.J. Botany “Effect of Temperature on Dr. Nabeesa Salim
Physiology of Reserve mobilisation
to Pisum Sativum L. Seeds during
germination”.
10 Anto.P.V. Botany “Demographic studies on selected Dr. A.K.Pradeep
species of the genus Calamus L
(Arccaceae)”.
11 P.M.Sreedharan Malayalam “{ZmhnU Imhy-aow-amwk kn≤m¥hpw Dr. C.P.Achuthan Unni
{]tbm-Khpw ˛ Ddq-_v, Fw.-Sn.-hm-kp-tZh≥
mb¿ F∂n-hcpsS {][m tmh-ep-Isf
Ah-ew-_-am°n Hcp ]Tw”
12 Balakrishnan.M.V. Malayalam “ae-bm-f-Ønse imkv{X kmlnXy Dr. V.S.Ramakrishan
{]ÿmw ˛ A]-{K-Y-m-fl ]Tw 1960-90
Ime-L-´-Ønv {]tXyI Du∂¬”.
13 Mohandas.P History “A Historical Study of the colonial Dr.K.K.N.Kurup
investments in Malabar and the
Nilgiris in the nineteenth century”.
14 Veerankutty Library & “Authority control of Romanized Arabic Dr. Jalaja.V.
Chelattayakkot Information Names in Online Public Access
Science Catalogue”.
Ph.D. updates
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15 Sreeja.D. Education “Development of an Instructional Dr. C.Naseema
Strategy based on Vygotsky’s
approach for teaching Basic
Mathematical Concepts at the
Primary Level”.
16 Shaik Mohammed.K. Arabic “Role of Islamic Organisations Dr. T.P.Mohammed
in the Development of Arabic Abdul Rasheed
Language and Literature in Kerala”.
17 Priyamol.M.S. Journalism & “Communication Strategy and Dr. Chakkappan.C.D.
Mass Propaganda Techniques of
Communication Communist movement in Kerala
(1930-1957)”.
18 Sinu.P.A. Zoology “Influence of different land use Dr. M.Nasser
corridors on insects pests and
insects natural enemy guilds of
paddy agro-ecosystems”.
19 Abdul Jaleel.U.C. Chemistry “Synthesis, Thermal and Dr.GeethaParameswaran
Spectral studies of some Transition
Metal Complexes of Schiff Bases”.
20 M.V.Kochuthressia Botany “Cytotoxic and Bio-chemical Dr. John E. Thoppil
Effects of some Organophosphorus
pesticides in Alluim Cepa. L. and
Alluim Sativum L.”.
21 Abdul Ahad.P.N. Arabic “Shiah Group And its Influence Dr. T.P.Mohammed
on Islamic Arabic Literature – Abdul Rasheed
A Critical Study”.
22 Babu.M.N. Philosophy “”A Study on Heidegger’s Thinking Dr. S.Radha
and Hermeneutical Phenomenology”.
23 Elyas.K.K. Immunology “Isolation and Characterisation Dr. D.M.Vasudevan
of tumory associated antigens
and their significance in Host
Immune responses”.
24 Shalima.P. Physics “Studies of Interstellar Dust”. Dr. K.Neelakandan
25 Shamina.M. Botany “Characterisation of the Dr. P.V.Madhusoodanan
Cyanobacteria Scytonema
Cincinatun Tharet ex Born et Flah
(Scytonemataceae) and
Westiellopsis Prolifica Janet
(Stigonemataceae) of acidic
soils of Kerala”.
26 Bindu.M.P. Biochemistry “Effects of different types of Dr. P.T.Annamalai
stress on lipid Metabolism
and Antioxidant Status”.
27 Zakkariya.K.K. Arabic “A Critical study on ‘Muhammed Dr. K.V.Veeran Moideen
Nasirudheen Albani’ and his
Literary Works on the
Prophetic tradition”.
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28 Sasi Kumar.P. History “The Role of Non-communist Dr. K.K.N. Kurup
Left Movement in Kerala
Politics from 1942-1977”.
29 Usha Kumari.A. Zoology “The mineral profiles of purple Dr. Sabu K.
heron (Ardea purpurea) in Thomas
relation to the habitate
Suitability”.
30 Laly John.C. Statistics “Statistical Methodology for Dr.M.Manoharan
selection procedures in
poultry Breeding”.
31 Harinarayanan.M.K. Botany “Enthobotanical and Dr. M.Sivadasan
Vegetation Studies in the
Attappady Valley
Kerala, India”.
32 Sujanapal.P. Botany “Vascular Flora of Dr. N.Sasidaran
Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary”.
33 Ajaikumar.K.B. Biochemistry “A Study of the anticancer Dr.JosePadikkala
activity of selected plants in
Apiaceae family and
comparison with their
cultured Callus”.
34 Deepa.P. Education “Certain Psychological Dr. V.Sumangala
Variables as predictors of reading
comprehension in English of
Secondary School pupils
of Kerala”.
35 Lalithambika.M.V. Malayalam “DØ-c-tIc-f-Ønse IWn-bm-∑m-cpsS Dr.K.K.Karunakaran
Pohn-Xhpw kwkvIm-chpw”.
36 Matha V.L.R. Engineering “Neural Integrated Simulation Dr. Nagaraj.B.N.
Anjaneyulu approach for modeling of
mixed traffic flow”.
37 Suresh Kumar.P. Medicine “Prevalence of Insulin Dr.T.Ramakrishna
Resistance in Type-2
Diabetes Mellitus”.
38 Benny Varghesse Psychology “Efficacy of Holistic Dr. J. Baby
Methods in the cure of
certain Mental Illnesses”.
39 Anilkumar.P.M. Education “A Critical Study of the Dr.Ayishabi.T.C.
effectiveness of English
Curriculum for Secondary
Schools of Kerala to
develop moral maturity
among the learners”.

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  • 1. 1CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k Contents editorial board V.S. Sasibhooshnan Nair Dept. of Mass Communication & Journalism Prof. C. Rajendran Dept. of Sanskrit Prof. Syed Amjed Ahmed Director, EMMRC Dr. M.N. Karassery Dept. of Malayalam Prof. Krishna Kumar Dept. of Mathematics Dr. P.M. Mubarak Pasha DCDC Dr. Janaki Sridharan Dept. of English Valsarajan P.V Publication Officer Editor: T.P. Rajeevan Public Relations Officer Published by Dr. P.P. Mohammed Registrar, University of Calicut Photos: Biju Uthup C.U. NEWS P.O. Calicut University Pin- 673 635 Kerala, India Tel: 0494 - 2401144 to 52 & 2401665 to 75 Fax: 0494 - 2400269. Telegram: UNICAL http://www.universityofcalicut.info 1CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cover story Language as Technology 3 Feature University extends its Community services 6 Paths of a Scholar 9 Report An unusual visitor 11 CU’s FM to go on air soon 12 Vice Chancellor’s Visits 13 Mathematics Talent Search and Nurture Programme 2006 14 Adding spicy flavour to Botanical Garden 16 Regulars VC’s Column 2 Campus roundup 17 Campus flowers 22
  • 2. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 c m y k Education,particularlyhighereducation,has become an important portfolio in social and political governance nowadays. From the level of a privileged, or, rather specialized issue that it had been until a few years ago, it has now become everyone’s concern, cutting across divisions of class and caste. And, the recent debate on reservation in professional courses, and the students’ strike that paralysed the country’s healthcare for weeks point to the gravity of the issue: whether existing rules are sufficient for ensuring equitable higher education. At the time of Independence, there were only 25 universities in the country. The number of colleges was 700. Over the past few decades, this has grown to 348 and 17, 625 respectively. And, every year, new universities and colleges are coming up to meet the ever-increasing demand for more. In numerical terms, this is tremendous development. But, this has an equally lackluster side that belies many of the claims with regard to providing higher educational opportunities to all sections of society, for statistics shows that students from middle and forward classes that constitute only 20 per cent of the population grab a major chunk of the opportunities, leaving the vast majority of the poor and backward in utter doldrums. Added to this is the fact that the privileged are mainly urbane. So, how the benefits of the ongoing developments in higher education can be made to reach the weaker sections also, is the question. Is this just a matter of governmental policy and legislation? As evidenced by social history, there has to be a social process of readying the society before initiating any legislation that goes against age-old beliefs and customs. This is an educative activity, and, a reformative one as well. The basic misunderstanding that often leads one to an anti-reservation position is that reservation robs the meritorious of their opportunities and further results in academic degeneracy. This argument ignores the social and historical realities on which the very concept of reservation rests. Reservation is a preferential treatment given to the members of traditionally disadvantaged and disabled groups until they become competent to catch up with the advantaged. It’s imperative that social movements and awareness programmes must precede legislations. Kerala provides a perfect model for how renaissance initiatives can facilitate harmonious co-existence of various communities and how each community can contribute to the overall development of the society without compromising its identity. Mostly, this social cohesiveness is reflected in education. And, what the Kerala experience stresses is that sense of equity is a value that must sprout from within the society. Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain Vice Chancellor VC’s Column
  • 3. 3CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k The Kerala Society for Linguistic Research (KSLR) organised a one day national seminar on Language Technology on March 29 at the University Seminar complex to honour the renowned linguist Prof. T. B. Venugopala Panicker, on his retirement from the Calicut University Malayalam Department. Briefing the importance of the seminar, organised in association with the Malayalam Postgraduate StudyDepartmentofZamorin’sGuruvayurappan College Calicut, Dr. Mahesh Mangalat, Secretary, K.S.L.R., said use of language on computer has thrown open new areas of enquiries in language studies. Computational Linguistics and Language Technology are new directions in linguistics stimulated by this new scenario of language studies. Application software, ranging from text editors to graphical programmes, which enable us to use our LanguagLanguagLanguagLanguagLanguage as Te as Te as Te as Te as Technoloechnoloechnoloechnoloechnologygygygygy language on computers, are undergoing rapid upgradations with regard to the utilities, it offer. The technology for these applications currently envisages a global sharing of information using computers. Of late, Indian Languages are incorporated as a part of Operating Systems, offering more maneuverability, Dr. Mahesh said. The seminar on Language Technology was planned to introduce theoretical as well as practical issues related to language usage on computers. Scholars of repute from Information Technology and Linguistics participated in the deliberations of the seminar. Various softwares ranging from text editor to text to speech application were also showcased. Dr. Daivasundaram of Madras University inaugurated the seminar at a function presided Dr. Dei Vasudevan, Madras University, inaugurating the National Seminar on Language Technology Cover Story
  • 4. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 c m y k over by Dr. G. Balasubrahmanian, President, K.S.L.R. Prof. M. Ganesan, of Annamalai University delivered the key note address. Dr Mahesh Magalat Mr T.P. Rajeevan, Dr. B. Sreedevi, Calicut University Linguistic Forum and Mr. Sathyanarayan spoke. M. Ganesan of Annamalai University in his paper on strategies of corpus analysis said that in the computer era language development and technology development were having impact on each other. The computer technology is one of the powerful sources to keep large quantum of data. In language studies data is the fundamental need for any research. Language corpora are essentially, bodies of natural language material, which are stored in machine-readable form. Basically corpora are the real representatives of the contemporary language used in different domains and serve as the authentic data for various linguistic research. The majoradvantagescorpora are that any specific information can be retrieved selectively and through computer programs data can be manipulated for different purposes, as they are stored in an organized way and are in machine-readable form. These capabilities make corpora a powerful resource for linguistic research and its application in software development. Because of the corpora and computer technology the linguists are getting a variety of new information, which are otherwise not possible to extract from language data. A new branch of linguistic study called Quantitative Linguistics is developed. Language is now viewed from language use point of view and the type of information available gives new dimension of description. It is quite useful in knowledge representation, language teaching, dictionary compilation, Mr. Ganesan said. In a combined paper on Development of Lexical Resources Mr. M. Ganesan, Ms. V. Geetha, Mrs. R. Saranya and Mrs. A. Kamatchi said Lexical Resources (LR) is a blend of Dictionary, Thesaurus and the concept of Word Net. It aims at to provide the necessary information to disambiguate the lexical items. It is one of the useful tools to be incorporated in an Automatic Machine Aided Translation, where the lexical transfer is the major bottleneck problem. The LR builds the ‘concepts’ from the lexical items based on the meanings conveyed and for each concept the syntactic and semantic contexts for the use of the lexical item will be provided. The concepts are unique and can be sharable with other languages. So the paper is an outcome of the work carried out in our center by a team of researcher on, Lexical Resources for Tamil. An attempt is, here, made to brief the construction or development of lexical resourceswhichcanbe used mainly by machine for Words Sense Disambiguation (WSD). A few hundred words have been taken from different semantic domains (SD), and syntactic and semantic conditions are given for each sense exhibited by the lexical items. Lexical Resources of a language is a blend of the concepts of dictionary, thesaurus and to some extent the grammar of that language. It is a lexical database in machine-readable form; it provides more grammatical and semantic information than the ones available in a printed lexicon/dictionary; it is a resource for all information (like grammar, syntactic, semantic, etymological, encyclopeadic, statistical, etc.) about a word at one place. It differs from a dictionary in a way that the words are organized based on concepts rather than alphabetic order, where words with similar or related meanings are haphazardly scattered through the dictionary; It differs from a thesaurus in a way that different criteria for different categories of words are The seminar on Language Technology was planned to introduce theoretical as well as practical issues related to language usage on computers. Scholars of repute from Information Technology and Linguistics participated in the deliberations of the seminar. Various softwares ranging from text editor to text to speech application were also showcased.
  • 5. 5CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k followed for classification rather then a single criteria for all categories of words; It also differs from a grammar in a way that the associational properties of words in terms of semantics are loaded to the lexical entries rather than describing the structure Concepts are innumerable. Considering all those as base for a LR may not be practically possible. Comparing to the size of concepts, words in a language are limited. Those words are capable of expressing more concepts; by associating with different words are linguistic units. Further the concepts are not shared across language due to the difference in culture, region, occupation etc. One way of limiting the concepts is that they can be extracted from the lexical items of a language. If one tries to build to concepts for a group of languages, all the words in those languages have to be taken as base. In any language verbs are fewer than nouns as well as verbs are more polysemous than nouns. Words in a language can be categorized in to verb, noun, adjective, adverb and function word. Among them verb is the important category as it plays the vital role in a sentence in conveying the total meaning. The meaning of verb in a sentence is realized by identifying the grammatical and semantic relations between the verb and the other arguments. Therefore the order of study of various categories should begin with verb then noun, adjective adverb and function words. The verbs in a language can further be classified into different semantic domains in order to relate them easily with the verbs of other languages for extractingconceptssharedbygroupsoflanguages. Indian languages are rich in morphology and the occurrence of morph in a word is relatively fixed and well defined. Because of these properties one could check the grammatical correctness of words using morphological analyzer. At sentence level word order is relatively free only within a phrase but not across the phrase. The phrase boundaries are either overtly marked or indicated through agreements and other properties. As Lexical Resources consists of all those information, Grammar checker for Indian languages could be easily developed. Mr Lajish.V.L Senior Research Fellow, School of Information Science & Technology Kannur University said that automatic text document recognition had been one of the fascinating research fields within the Artificial Intelligence sphere in recent years and it is also a most successful application of automatic pattern recognition. Many problems within the automatic text document recognition field remain areas of active research, one of the most important and challenging being that of handwritten isolated word image recognition with large vocabulary lexicon. It is observed that certain letters have the maximum probability after certain letters while some others have practically little probability of occurrence. The number of searches required to identify the second letter in selected words by two different methods were estimated and compared. Whatever the approach on-line or off- line, the heuristic knowledge based on the calculated hierarchical probabilities can lead to the development of efficient search algorithms for isolated word image recognition. Dr.Mubarak Pasha ,Director, School of DistanceEducationchairedthevaledictorysession at which Prof. T .B. Venugopala Panicker was honoured. Prof. Chathanath Achuthanunni released a book by Prof. Panicker. Prof. M.R.Ragahava Varrier introduced the book. Prof. K. Narayanan Dr. U. Jayaprakash, Dr. Joseph. K. Job,Mr .P.V.Valsaraj, and Mr. C. J. George spoke Indian languages are rich in morphology and the occurrence of morph in a word is relatively fixed and well defined. Because of these properties one could check the grammatical correctness of words using morphological analyzer. At sentence level word order is relatively free only within a phrase but not across the phrase. The phrase boundaries are either overtly marked or indicated through agreements and other properties.
  • 6. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 c m y k The community extension services of Calicut University got a fillip on Monday when the university’s Adult Education Department launched three forums in association with the Chelembra grama panchayat. University Vice-Chancellor Syed Iqbal Hasnaininauguratedaliteracycentre,afunctional literacy centre and a forum for senior citizens at a function held at Idimuzhikkal. The University’s literacy centre will give a boost to the ongoing literacy drive by the panchayat. The functional literacy centre will offer training in different job-oriented programmes. The senior citizens’ forum will not only take care of their geriatric needs, but also UnivUnivUnivUnivUniversity extends its commersity extends its commersity extends its commersity extends its commersity extends its community servicesunity servicesunity servicesunity servicesunity services offer senior citizens a platform to air their views and ideas. Inaugurating the services, the Vice- Chancellor called upon the layman not to hesitate at the gates of a higher education institution. The university, he said, is not an inaccessible citadel for the ordinary people. “The university is for the people. Its doors are open to all,” he said. Prof. Hasnain suggested that a survey be conducted in the Chelembra panchayat limits so that a clear picture of the people’s educational standard could be gauged. He also said that local bodies should show Adult Education Department opens three forumsAdult Education Department opens three forumsAdult Education Department opens three forumsAdult Education Department opens three forumsAdult Education Department opens three forums Vice Chancellor Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain inaugurating the literacy centre Feature
  • 7. 7CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k more care for the welfare of senior citizens. He said the university would launch more health and recreational programmes for senior citizens. It was the first time that Calicut University launched a community service by tying up with a neighbouring grama panchayat. Expressing pleasure at the people’s participation in the functioning of local bodies, Prof. Hasnain said that the panchayat system in Kerala was starkly different from that in the North. C.P. Shabeer Ali, Chelembra panchayat president, presided over the function. C. Naseema, head of the Department of Adult Education, welcomed the gathering. The Department of ACEES received a grant of 14.25 lakhs for the tenth plan period for their activities. For planning and conduct of the programmes of the Department, an advisory committee of 10 members from various fields is formed with Dr. (Mrs.) H. K. Chauhan as the UGC Representative. The subcommittee for the Students Counselling/ Placement /Career guidance centers leading by Dr. T.P. Sasikumar, Director, ASC, University of Calicut and Dr. C. Jayan, Head, Dept. of Psychology decided the establishment of 5 centres in five districts under the jurisdiction of University of calicut with the Department as the Nodal center. The department organizes one day workshop to the college teachers and school principals as an orientation to the programmes of the Counselling centers, on July 1st 2006. Conduct of training programmes for the rural masses in collaboration with Jan Sikshan Sansthan, Malappuram and training programmes in Mushroom Cultivation, Ornamental Fish Farming, Medicinal Plant Culture, Solid Waste Management, and Pottery Decoration is organizing by the Department in association with IRTC, Mundoor. Palakkad . It was decided to conduct awareness and literacy programmes to the fishermen in the coastal areas of Malappuram. Dr. K.N.Ganesh, Head of the Department, History ( President , KSSP) will give necessary guidance and supervision for the above programmes. The Department decided to conduct short term courses in Computer/ IT/Soft skill development for various categories of employees, for youth, students and teachers – from schools and colleges under the guidance and supervision of Dr. T.P.Sasikumar, Director, Academic staff College. Subcommitte meeting for Continuing EducationProgrammesoftheDepartmentdecided to Conduct Different certificate courses. The committee consisting of Dr. B.R.S.Babu, Professor Dept. of Physics, Dr. T.P.Sasikumar, Director, ASC; Dr. A.K.Padeeep, Dept. of Botany, Mrs. Vilasini, Principal, JDT Islam Nursing College, Calicut, decided to conduct Certificate course in Communication Skill, Certificate course in Horticulture, Certificate course in Geriatric care, and Certificate course in Tribal Medicine as an initial step. The department shifted its literacy center to Chelembra Panjayat as a boosting to the Literacy campaign going on in that panjayat. Vice Chancellor with the people’s representatives
  • 8. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 c m y k The formation of Senior citizen’s forum in three neighbouring panjayats of the university is a new step for giving care and solace to the Vice Chancellor Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain inaugurating the workshop people attained an age above 60 years. It’s a collective of the elder group in the society for their recreation and upliftment and an open forum apart from their isolation which created as a part of the modern society. Also the forum will be an opportunity for sharing their feelings and experience to the benefit of the society. The first batch of the students in Fabric Painting Course successfully completed their training programme . They organized a display of their products in the department and certificates to the students were distributed by Dr. C.Naseema , Director ( in charge) in their farewell programme. Mail Box Bill Aitken is a renowned travel writer.
  • 9. 9CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k Dr. N V P Unithiri started his career as a primary school teacher. Later he took BA in Malayalam and MA in Sanskrit privately, and joined for doctoral research in Sanskrit at University of Kerala where he became a lecturer later. In 1978, Dr. Unithiri came to Calicut University as a lecturer in Sanskrit and was elevated to professorship and headship. In the meantime, he was appointed as the Principal Deanship (Pro-Vice Chancellor) at Sree Paths of a ScholarPaths of a ScholarPaths of a ScholarPaths of a ScholarPaths of a Scholar By Dr. R.V.M. Divakaran Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady; a post he held for three years from 1999. PostsandpositionsDr.Unithiriheldinhiscareer are many. They include Director, Kerala Language Institute; Chairman, Cultural Publication Division AdvisoryBoard,KeralaState;Generalsecretary,Kerala SaahityaSamithi;President,PurogamanaKalaSahitya Sangham.Hewasmanytimesnominatedtoacademic bodiesofvariousuniversitiesinthecountry. When individuals’ public life takes over their personal life, autobiographies often turn into political, cultural or literary history of a period. And, when it is of a scholar, it naturally becomes intellectual history. This is true in the case of Dr. Noonhil Madathil Padmanabhan Unithiri, better known as NVP Unithiri, the renowned Sanskrit scholar and former head of the Calicut University Sanskrit Department when he wrote his autobiography Nadannuvanna Vazhikal (The Traded Paths), the publication of which coincides with his retirement from service on March 31, this year. Feature
  • 10. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 c m y k Dr. Unithiri has organized and participated in a number of regional, national and international academic seminars and has more than a hundred research papers in an array of subjects. He has authored as many as 23 books in Malayalam, seven in Sanskrit and five in English. A translator of equal standing, Dr Unithiri has translated Kumaranasan’s Chandala bhikshuki, Vallathol’s Sishyanum Makanum, Acchanum Makalum and Magdalanamariyam, ONV Kurup’s Ujjayini, P. Kunhiraman Nair’s NarabaliandEdassery’sAmbadiyilekkuVeendum into Sanskrit. For the wider public outside academic field, Dr. Unithiri is better known for his works about the unfamiliar aspects of Indian philosophy. He didn’t follow the usual ‘spiritual centric’ readings of Indian tradition. His belief is that discourses like Bharatiyata are not mearly Adhyatmikam. Using the Marxian method of analysis, he provided materialistic interpretation to the Indian thoughts that are traditionally referred to as theistic. In his works like Bharatiya darsanathinte ariyappedatha mukham(UnknownfaceofIndian Philosophy), Vivekanandantesamakalikaprasakti (Current Relevance of Vivekananda), Samuham matam darsanam (Society, Religion and Philosophy), Sastravum darsanavum prachina bharatathil (Science and Philosophy in Ancient India-Trans.), Sankaradarsanam marxistu- veekshanathil (Philosophy of Sankara in Marxist View), Matetaratwavum nammude samskarika paitrukavum (Secularism and our Cultural Tradition), Arashtriyatayude rashtriyam (Politics of being Apolitical), Matavum matabhranthum (Religion and Fanaticism), Hindutwavum hindumatavum (Hindutva and Hindu Religion), Materialistic Philosophy in Ancient India and the Charvaka System of Philosophy, Dr. Unithiri argues there was a strong base for materialistic thoughts in India. He also explains how it was over thrown. Dr. Unithiri has also extensively written on literature and literary theories. His doctoral research was on the works of Poornasaraswati, who wrote the masterly study Vidyullata for Meghasandesa. Books like Samskrita sahitya vimarsanam (Sanskrit Criticism) Samskrita sahityathinte nizhalum velichavum(Shadows and Lights of Sanskrit Literature), Bhasha- bhushanathinte upadanangal (Alms of Bhashabhushanam), Studies in Kerala Sanskrit Literature, Vakrokti kavyajivitam) and a number of research papers in this regard are precious for literati. It was Dr. Unithiri’s dynamic leadership and decisive efficiency that helped Sanskrit Department of Calicut University become one of the vibrant faculties and guided it to the glory of exemplary achievements. Dr. Unithiri is now engaged in a UGC major project on Science and Technology in Ancient and Medieval India (Sanskrit sources). He says the Indian traditions in architecture, medicine, astronomy, chemistry, agriculture and other technologies are not adequately studied using Sanskrit. According to him, the main focus so far has been onKavyas, NatakasAlankarasastras. Dr. Unithiri was instrumental in introducing scientific and technical literature in Sanskrit, both at research and postgraduate levels. Except for a few chapters, Nadannuvanna Vazhikal is basically academic discussion. Dr. R.V.M. Divakaran
  • 11. 11CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k Visitors are not rare in Calicut University. And, the University’s guest book lists a mind-blowing range from His Excellency the President of India to the path-breaking poet-writer Mrs. Kamala Das. But, recently, the campus community was surprised to see a rare visitor. A frigate bird! The bird, weighing nearly 2 kg, found trapped in a bush might have been affected by the strong winds that lashed the region. It’s supposed that the bird landed on the Campus having lost its way during a migratory flight. Dr. Zubair Medammal, an ornithologist at the university’s Zoology Department said it belonged to the Fregata minor species found in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Frigate birds are also found in the South Atlantic, he said. Frigate birds are ocean birds. They attack other sea birds, and hence the name frigate. Related to the pelicans, frigate birds are also called man of war birds or pirate birds. It was the first time a frigate bird had appeared in the region, Dr. Zubair said. With imputs from Dr. Zubair Medammal An unusual visitorAn unusual visitorAn unusual visitorAn unusual visitorAn unusual visitor report
  • 12. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12 c m y k The much-awaited community radio station of Calicut University, ‘CUFM’, will go on air in this academic year. The university has already obtained the preliminary sanction from the Ministry of information and Broadcasting to set up the FM station to broadcast educational and cultural programmes. It is for the first time that a university in Kerala is being sanctioned license to start a community radio station. The University and the I & B Ministry will enteralicenseagreementonJuly15thisyear,priorto the official broadcasting from the station, informed UniversityVice-ChancellorSayedIqbalHasnain. The committee, which was formed for the establishment and smooth-functioning of the radio station with Vice-Chancellor Sayed Iqbal Hasnain as its chairman, will convene an official meeting in the first week of June, prior to the signing of the license agreement. Pro-Vice Chancellor C.Gopinathan Pillai will be the vice-chairman of the committee which has Dr.Amjed Ahammed, Head of Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC). Dr..Raghavan Payyanad, Head of Vatakara Folklore Studies, Dr.C.D.Chakkappan, Head of Department of Mass Communication, Department Students Union chairman and one Syndicate Member as its members. Dr.Sreedharan, Director, Roorky Education and Multimedia Research Centre will be a special invitee in the committee. The University began the footwork to obtain the license for the radio station in October 2005. News and information such as educational and examination news, counselling, various cultural programmesorganizedbytheUniversity,speeches and educational discourses by experts will be aired through the FM station. The station will also broadcast the folk art forms of Malabar and the cultural programmes of students under the aegis of Vatakara Centre for Folklore Studies. Within one year from the date of signing of thelicenseagreement,whichhasathree-yearterm, the university will be required to complete all the necessary formalities like obtaining the clearance of Standing Advisory Committee on Radio FrequencyAllocation(SACFA),settingupbroadcast facilities and obtain Wireless Operating License form the Ministry of Communication and IT. As per the rules, the university is not entitled to use the frequency for any commercial purposes. Moreover, the university will not be entitled to bestow any degree or diploma certificate by distant learning through the broadcast programmes. Courtesy: The Indian Express CU’CU’CU’CU’CU’s FM to gs FM to gs FM to gs FM to gs FM to go on air soono on air soono on air soono on air soono on air soon report
  • 13. 13CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain, Vice Chancellor of the University visited the Kingdom of Bahrain from April 8 to 15, 2006. During his visit, Prof. Hasnain interacted with many dignitaries in the Kingdom including Indian Ambassador Balakrishna Shetty,Ahlia University President Prof. Abdulla Y Al Hawai, educationalist Hassan Al Mehri and Ali Hassan Kunhali. Prof. Hasnain participated in a seminar on Educational Prospects in the Middle East, held in Al Noor International School and delivered the keynote address. In his address, Prof. Hasnain urged the Universities in Kerala to start more distance education centers in Vice Chancellor Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain attended the International Hydrological Conference for Managing Water Resources in the Asian Developing Countries held from June 8 to 10, in the historic Chinese city Gungzhou. This was the first hydrological science meeting for Asian countries held in China. The conference was organized by Centre for Water Resources and Environment, Zhonghshan (Sun Yat-Sen) University. Including 85 foreigners, total 350 scientists participated in the conference. Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain presented a paper on Glaciers of High Mountain Water Reservoirs. It was the only paper dealt with high altitude hydrology. In his paper, Prof. Hasnain said that the impact of global warming on high altitude water resources, especially those in the Himalaya, would result in acute water scarcity in heavily populated Asian countries like India and China. The paper was well appreciated and discussed by the participants. Prof. Hasnain’s suggestion to make the conference a continual affair with the sponsorship of interested stakeholders in the region was also accepted. the region to cater to the educational needs of emigrant students and human resource requirements in the Middle Eastern job market. School Principal Hassan Al Mehri and School Chairman Ali Hassan Kunhali also spoke. VVVVVice Chancellor’ice Chancellor’ice Chancellor’ice Chancellor’ice Chancellor’s Vs Vs Vs Vs Visitsisitsisitsisitsisits Vice Chancellor Delivering a speech at Al Noor International School Vice Chancellor at Gungzhou, Guodong province
  • 14. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14 c m y k The Fourth Mathematics Talent Search and Nurture Programme was conducted in the Department of Mathematics from May 8 to 27, 2006. Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain, Vice- Chancellor inaugurated the programme. The programme was conducted under the guidence and financial assistance from the National Board for Higher Mathematics, Mumbai, under the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India. Prof.V. Krishna Kumar, Department of Mathematics was the Director of the programme. report MAMAMAMAMATHEMATHEMATHEMATHEMATHEMATICS TTICS TTICS TTICS TTICS TALENT SEARCH ANDALENT SEARCH ANDALENT SEARCH ANDALENT SEARCH ANDALENT SEARCH AND NURNURNURNURNURTURE PRTURE PRTURE PRTURE PRTURE PROGRAMME 2006OGRAMME 2006OGRAMME 2006OGRAMME 2006OGRAMME 2006 MTS & NP is modelled on the National Level Mathematics Training and Talent Search (MTTS) programme – a well known programme in Mathematics, running for the past several years. The basic objective of the MTS & NP- is to impart training on how Mathematics should be done, to a select group of students. This is achieved by giving courses on Algebra, Analysis and Geometry, fundamental to Mathematics, with emphasis on problem solving. Indeed the objective is to impart the theme of the famous book by Polya entitled “How to Solve It”. The whole process is designed in such a way that there is minimum
  • 15. 15CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k lecturing and more of problem solving. Here again the problems are to be solved by the students and the instructors only monitor the progress and give only suggestions, if necessary, by way of asking probing questions. During the process of solving problems students learned how to ask the right questions and arrive at the solutions. The method of imparting Mathematical knowledge is different from the conventional methods. The anchor person controls the proceedings with tutors moving around the class monitoring the progress of each student in problem solving. To ensure that each student gets personal attention there are sufficiently many tutors, each tutor looking after at most five students. Every student is encouraged to solve problems all alone. The 18 day programme had activities spread over four sessions a day. There were no examinations; however, at the end, the students are graded based on the assessment of their overall performance, by the Director in consultation with the other teachers. This year also applications were invited from Final year B.Sc. (Mathematics) students of all colleges affiliated to the Universities in Kerala. 140 applications were received. The Department selected 40 students, giving representation proportional to the number of applications received from each University. The selection of the participants was based on their performance in Mathematics at the H.S.E, I year, II year B.Sc. and the recommendations of their teachers on their Mathematical ability. Finally 35 students went through the programme. An interesting feature was the presence of two students of Physics who have shown exceptional interest in Mathematics. Indeed their performance justified their selection for the programme. In addition to the faculty members of the Department, some Mathematics Teachers from affiliated colleges were also encouraged to participate as tutors for the programme. Dr. Jayanthan from Goa University, Dr. M.T. Nair from IIT- Madras, Chennai and Dr. V. Rajendran from P.S.M.O College, Tirurangadi were the external anchors for the programme. Dr. M.S. Balasubramani, and Dr. P.T. Ramachandran, all Faculty members of the Department also anchored some of the classes. Dr. Gopinathan Pillai, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University participated in the closing ceremonies and distributed the Certificates to the participants. A picnic was organized to Wayanad on the last Sunday. A Cultural Evening was arranged and the participants grabbed the opportunity to present their extracurricular talents. The overall progress and the effectiveness of the MTS & NP were closely monitored through constant interactions with the participants and weekly feedbacks received from them. Based on the assessments on the progress, fine- tuning of the programme was carried out every week. The participants were given five well known books in Algebra, Linear Algebra & Geometry and Analysis. All the participants who joined stayed throughout the programme. The Department feels that this is a very positive aspect of the programme on three counts : Firstly, the participants were students with real interest in the subject. Secondly, the participants were able to appreciate the finer aspects of the subject and improved their skills in handling mathematical problems. Lastly, eventhough they were strangers to one another in the beginning they were one at the end. Everyone left with cherished memories of a lively and vibrant programme.
  • 16. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 16 c m y k report Campus : Ginger house, which is a rare collection of plants belonging to the family of ginger (Ningibereaceae), located in the botanical garden has become a centre of attraction for students and researchers. The ginger house was inaugurated by Prof.Dr.Syed Iqbal Hasnain, Vice Chancellor, University of Calicut on 26 April. It was launched as part of the research project ‘Further Studies on Zingibereaceae’, sponsored by the Science and Technology Department of the Central Government. HSBC and the Botanic Garden Conservation International (BGCI), London, gave the financial help for the House. ThecollectionincludesgingerfromNortheast India, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and exotics from China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. About 70% of ginger plants, collected from different parts of India are kept in the ginger house. There are about 800 accessions belonging to 150 taxa. Dr. M.Sabu, Reader and Officer-in-charge of Botanical Garden, Dr. A.K. Pradeep, Varsity Curator and co-investigator of the research project, Dr.P.V. Madhusoodanan, Head of the Dept. of Botany, Porf. K.S.Manilal, former Head of the Dept. are the persons who worked hard to make this endeavour successful. The ginger house is a valuable asset for the University as few universities in the country have such a rich collection. MARY DEEPA DAVID Adding spicy flavAdding spicy flavAdding spicy flavAdding spicy flavAdding spicy flavour to Botanical Gardenour to Botanical Gardenour to Botanical Gardenour to Botanical Gardenour to Botanical Garden Vice Chancellor Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain inaugurating the Ginger House.
  • 17. 17CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k Academic Staff CollegAcademic Staff CollegAcademic Staff CollegAcademic Staff CollegAcademic Staff College announces newe announces newe announces newe announces newe announces new prprprprprooooogggggrammesrammesrammesrammesrammes The Calicut University Academic Staff college (ASC) has announcedthisyear’svariousrefreshercoursesandorientation programmes. Theschedulesoftherefreshercoursesare given below. Bio-Technology and Bio-Informatics (August 3 –23); ComputerApplication(September28September-October18); Mathematics / Psychical Science / Computer Science / Engineering/Geo-Sciences & Geographic Information System / Remote Sensing (October 2- November 15); Social Science / Engineering/Management(November2-November22);Social Science/ Education/Multimedia/Web Technology (November 30-December20);Mathematics/PhysicalScience/Computer Science/Engineering/SkillforE-ContentDevelopmentJanuary 4- January 24) There will be four Orientation Programmes. In addition to these the ASC will organise Workshop for College Principals on August 28 and 30. The ASC Director Dr. Sasikumar said the Academic Advisory Council also had planned courses are in Remote Sensing & Geographic Information System, Climate Change & Impacts,Bio-Technology&Bio-Informatics,Computing&Data Base, Web Technology & Communication, Comparative Literature & Linguistics, Multimedia, Advanced Management, Geo-Sciences&GeographicInformationSystem,AppliedSocial “Students are not supposed to be slaves and meek followers of any ideology, but should become masters and frame their own ideas. The ultimate aim of education to make students bold enough to fight against social injustice’, opined P.T. Kunhumuhammad, renowned film director and cultural activist while inaugurating the Department Students’ Union of Calicut Univeristy campus for the year 2005-06. The function was held at Seminar Complex on March 21. Sitara Krishnakumar, Kalathilakam of Interzone Arts Fest, was the Chief Gust at the programme. She said that it was a golden opportunity to participate in the inaugural function and expressed her aspiration to work as a member of the Union in the future. Dr.A.B.Moideenkutty, president of DSU, Vedavyasan, CUSO, V.Stalin, Employees Union, Sreejesh, Chairman of Centre for Physical Education Union and Rajeesh Kumar, Editor, DSU participated in the programme. The programme was presided over by Abdulla Nawas P.K, Chairman, DSU, Sujith C.C, General Secretary, DSU welcomed the gathering and Shilpa K, Vice Chairman, DSU Proposed a vote of thanks. The function was followed by a Music Night. DSU InauguratedDSU InauguratedDSU InauguratedDSU InauguratedDSU Inaugurated Dr. T.P. Sasikumar, Director, Academic Staff College Sciences, Social development, Skill for E-Content Development. LastyeartheASCconductedcourses in Environmental Science, Economics, Information Technology and Physical Education. A training programme on ‘Multimedia E-Content Development’ was also conducted in association with Consortium For Educational Communication in collaboration and EMMRC. campus roundup
  • 18. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18 c m y k The first batch of Continuous Professional Development Programme, conducted by the Department of Library and Information Science in Collaboration with Kerala Library Association, Calicut region, completed the course on May 6. The programme was aimed at skill development of working librarians as well as Library and Information Science graduates. The first phase, on the topic ‘Library Automation and Digitisation’ was inaugurated by Prof. M.Parameswaran, former head of the department. A valedictory function to mark the completion of the programme was inaugurated by Pro-Vice Chancellor C.gopinathan Pillai at the Department of Library and Information Science. In his inaugural address, he said “development in Library Science will aid in the quest for knowledge campus roundup Equipping librarians for excellenceEquipping librarians for excellenceEquipping librarians for excellenceEquipping librarians for excellenceEquipping librarians for excellence and it is indispensable for better future and progress of the country’. He distributed certificates to the participants in the function. The programme had four modules: each module had duration of one week aimed at giving orientation in the Library Software package like SOUL, BOOK MAGIC, LiBSOFT, COHA and Digtal Library Software GREEN STONE. This is the first unique venture of the type ever conducted by a Library Science School in Kerala. Twenty- six Prticipants attended the course. Chief Coordinaotor Dr. Jalaja V, Head of theDepartment,PresidedoverthefunctionManoj Kumar P welcomed the gathering and Dr.Dinesan Koovakkai, Coordinator, proposed a vote of thanks. DHANYA.T.S Pro-Vice-Chancellor Dr. C. Gopinathan Pillai inaugurating the Valedictory function.
  • 19. 19CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k Vice Chancellor Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain with Prof. N. Radhakrishnan, Chairman, Indian Council of Gandhian Studies. Well-known writers Mr. Vaisakhan and Mrs. Sara Joseph when they visited the University.
  • 20. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 20 c m y k Asking the students to put in their brains and knowledge in Science for the development of the country, Dr.Syed Iqbal Hasnain, Vice Chancellor inaugurated the National Science Day celebration of the Department of Biotechnology on February 28th at the Department. He remembered the effort and hard work of Sir. C.V.Raman in putting forward the effect of scattering of light, in whose memory National Science Day is celebrated. Prof Krishnakumar, faculty, Department of Mathematics, chaired the function. Various programmes were hosted in connection with the week-long celebration, which started on Feb 24th . Students from various colleges and schools participated in the lecture series and elocution competitions. During the campus roundup National Science day celebratedNational Science day celebratedNational Science day celebratedNational Science day celebratedNational Science day celebrated lecture series Dr. Ishwara Butt of Indian Spices Research Centre gave a lecture on ‘Management of Plant Viral Diseases’. Students were also given hands on lab training in Biotechnology-related topics during the programme. SOUMYA CHANDRAN Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain inaugurating the Science Day Celebration.
  • 21. 21CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k One cannot resist stopping for a while to have a closer look at this handsome evergreen climber. A native of Colombia, this extensive climber was introduced into the University Botanical Garden in early 1980’s. Botanically called Saritaea magnifica, it belongs to the family Bignoniaceae, which has contributed many well-known ornamental trees and climbers. The plant produces its large bell-shaped mauve flowers in bunches of three or four in leaf axils or at the tips of branches. The flower has a funnel-shaped tube and a 5-lobed corolla. The throat of the tube is pale yellow with longitudinal purple veins. The leaves are bifoliolate and glossy green usually with a tendril by which they climb upon trees. The plant putforth its magnificent blossoms soon after the monsoon, and the flowering often extendup to summer in Kerala. Being very hardy and free flowering, Saritaea is much appreciated in tropical gardens to cover and beautify old leafless trees and pergolas. The plant grows vigorously in humus rich soil with good drainage. campus flowers Magnificent climberMagnificent climberMagnificent climberMagnificent climberMagnificent climber The plant does not make much demand and does well if planted in pits filled with a mixture river sand, bone meal and compost. Being a spreading plant, it requires pruning at regular intervals, especially after flowering to keep the plant in good shape. Saritaea seldom sets fruits and seeds under Indian conditions, and is generally propagated from cuttings from one-year old stem of about 25-30 cm long, with the thickness of a pencil. To initiate rooting, the cut surface can be treated with root hormones such as Indole acetic acid (IAA) or Naphthalene acetic acid (NAA). The treated cuttings can also be raised in polythene bags containing equal parts of rotten farmyard manure, one part of river sand and one part of red soil. Once the plant is firmly rooted, the polybags can be transplanted in a well-lit location in the garden, provided with a strong support to climb. The plant requires plenty of space, light and water. Within two years of planting, it will produce hundreds of bell-shaped mauve flowers adding beauty to homestead gardens. A.K. PRADEEP
  • 22. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 22 c m y k List of Ph.D. Degree Awarded from March to June 2006 Sl. NAME OF SUBJECT TOPIC OF RESEARCH NAME OF GUIDE No. CANDIDATE 1 B. Ramasubramanian Botany “Studies on the variability, genetic Dr. K.V.Mohanan Divergence and Crop Improvement in Tea (Camellia assamica Masters wight)”. 2 Bharathan.K.M. Malayalam kky-N-cXw IS-Ø-m-Sns Bkv]-Z-am°n Dr. Raghavan Hcp t^m°vtem¿ ]Tw Payyanad 3 Vidhu Priya.A. Zoology “Investigation on the Alpha Dr. T.C.Narendran Systematics of Acridoidea (Orthoptera) of Kerala”. 4 Santhosh.A.M. Psychology “A Psychological intervention Dr. C.Jayan strategy to control debilitationg factors in sport performance”. 5 Rajitha Menon.A. Psychology “Certain Psychological correlates Dr. C.Jayan of Athlets – An analytical study”. 6 Sheena.N. Microbiology “Studies on the theraspeutic DR. K.K.Janardhanan potential of Ganoderma Lucidum.P – Kartst Reishi, Occuring in Kerala”. 7 Radhakrishanan.C. Psychology “Psychological components and Dr. Anitha Ravidran values in adolscent depression”. 8. Maya.K.M. Biochemistry “Biochemical variability in nutmeg Dr. T.John Zachariah (Myristica fragrans) and related Taxa Myristica Fragrans related Taxa)”. 9 Shereena.J. Botany “Effect of Temperature on Dr. Nabeesa Salim Physiology of Reserve mobilisation to Pisum Sativum L. Seeds during germination”. 10 Anto.P.V. Botany “Demographic studies on selected Dr. A.K.Pradeep species of the genus Calamus L (Arccaceae)”. 11 P.M.Sreedharan Malayalam “{ZmhnU Imhy-aow-amwk kn≤m¥hpw Dr. C.P.Achuthan Unni {]tbm-Khpw ˛ Ddq-_v, Fw.-Sn.-hm-kp-tZh≥ mb¿ F∂n-hcpsS {][m tmh-ep-Isf Ah-ew-_-am°n Hcp ]Tw” 12 Balakrishnan.M.V. Malayalam “ae-bm-f-Ønse imkv{X kmlnXy Dr. V.S.Ramakrishan {]ÿmw ˛ A]-{K-Y-m-fl ]Tw 1960-90 Ime-L-´-Ønv {]tXyI Du∂¬”. 13 Mohandas.P History “A Historical Study of the colonial Dr.K.K.N.Kurup investments in Malabar and the Nilgiris in the nineteenth century”. 14 Veerankutty Library & “Authority control of Romanized Arabic Dr. Jalaja.V. Chelattayakkot Information Names in Online Public Access Science Catalogue”. Ph.D. updates
  • 23. 23CU NEWS April June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ c m y k 15 Sreeja.D. Education “Development of an Instructional Dr. C.Naseema Strategy based on Vygotsky’s approach for teaching Basic Mathematical Concepts at the Primary Level”. 16 Shaik Mohammed.K. Arabic “Role of Islamic Organisations Dr. T.P.Mohammed in the Development of Arabic Abdul Rasheed Language and Literature in Kerala”. 17 Priyamol.M.S. Journalism & “Communication Strategy and Dr. Chakkappan.C.D. Mass Propaganda Techniques of Communication Communist movement in Kerala (1930-1957)”. 18 Sinu.P.A. Zoology “Influence of different land use Dr. M.Nasser corridors on insects pests and insects natural enemy guilds of paddy agro-ecosystems”. 19 Abdul Jaleel.U.C. Chemistry “Synthesis, Thermal and Dr.GeethaParameswaran Spectral studies of some Transition Metal Complexes of Schiff Bases”. 20 M.V.Kochuthressia Botany “Cytotoxic and Bio-chemical Dr. John E. Thoppil Effects of some Organophosphorus pesticides in Alluim Cepa. L. and Alluim Sativum L.”. 21 Abdul Ahad.P.N. Arabic “Shiah Group And its Influence Dr. T.P.Mohammed on Islamic Arabic Literature – Abdul Rasheed A Critical Study”. 22 Babu.M.N. Philosophy “”A Study on Heidegger’s Thinking Dr. S.Radha and Hermeneutical Phenomenology”. 23 Elyas.K.K. Immunology “Isolation and Characterisation Dr. D.M.Vasudevan of tumory associated antigens and their significance in Host Immune responses”. 24 Shalima.P. Physics “Studies of Interstellar Dust”. Dr. K.Neelakandan 25 Shamina.M. Botany “Characterisation of the Dr. P.V.Madhusoodanan Cyanobacteria Scytonema Cincinatun Tharet ex Born et Flah (Scytonemataceae) and Westiellopsis Prolifica Janet (Stigonemataceae) of acidic soils of Kerala”. 26 Bindu.M.P. Biochemistry “Effects of different types of Dr. P.T.Annamalai stress on lipid Metabolism and Antioxidant Status”. 27 Zakkariya.K.K. Arabic “A Critical study on ‘Muhammed Dr. K.V.Veeran Moideen Nasirudheen Albani’ and his Literary Works on the Prophetic tradition”.
  • 24. CU NEWS April-June 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24 c m y k 28 Sasi Kumar.P. History “The Role of Non-communist Dr. K.K.N. Kurup Left Movement in Kerala Politics from 1942-1977”. 29 Usha Kumari.A. Zoology “The mineral profiles of purple Dr. Sabu K. heron (Ardea purpurea) in Thomas relation to the habitate Suitability”. 30 Laly John.C. Statistics “Statistical Methodology for Dr.M.Manoharan selection procedures in poultry Breeding”. 31 Harinarayanan.M.K. Botany “Enthobotanical and Dr. M.Sivadasan Vegetation Studies in the Attappady Valley Kerala, India”. 32 Sujanapal.P. Botany “Vascular Flora of Dr. N.Sasidaran Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary”. 33 Ajaikumar.K.B. Biochemistry “A Study of the anticancer Dr.JosePadikkala activity of selected plants in Apiaceae family and comparison with their cultured Callus”. 34 Deepa.P. Education “Certain Psychological Dr. V.Sumangala Variables as predictors of reading comprehension in English of Secondary School pupils of Kerala”. 35 Lalithambika.M.V. Malayalam “DØ-c-tIc-f-Ønse IWn-bm-∑m-cpsS Dr.K.K.Karunakaran Pohn-Xhpw kwkvIm-chpw”. 36 Matha V.L.R. Engineering “Neural Integrated Simulation Dr. Nagaraj.B.N. Anjaneyulu approach for modeling of mixed traffic flow”. 37 Suresh Kumar.P. Medicine “Prevalence of Insulin Dr.T.Ramakrishna Resistance in Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus”. 38 Benny Varghesse Psychology “Efficacy of Holistic Dr. J. Baby Methods in the cure of certain Mental Illnesses”. 39 Anilkumar.P.M. Education “A Critical Study of the Dr.Ayishabi.T.C. effectiveness of English Curriculum for Secondary Schools of Kerala to develop moral maturity among the learners”.