Himalayan Times (1953)

July 12, 11.63

ifiimnlilnUH Uiii.CE,

PANGDAT TSANG
LEAVES FOR PEKING

( By Our Staff Reporter )

Kalimpong, July 8
Tibet’s Trade Agent
in India Mr. Pangdat
Taang left here today by
plane for Calcutta enroute
to Peking where he has been
invited to attend the Chi-
nese Industrial and Ttrade
Conference to be held on
July 16th. Mr. Pangdat
Tsang is heading a dele-
gation of 17 Tibetans from
Tibet all of whom will
fly to Peking from Cal-
cutta on July 10th, The
delegation includes Rimshi
Chapasey an officer incharge
of Tibet government mint
at Lhasa. Tibetan mint is
completely in Tibetan
hands, he said here and
although the mint machi-
neries were old they were
turning out good quan-
tities of paper currency
and silver and copper
coins.

PROHIBITION OF SMOKING
IN VEHICLES’
Darjeeling, July 6
In exeroise of the
power conferred by sub-
section (3) of section 1 of
the prohibition of Smoking
in Passenger Vehicles Act,
1953 (West, Bengal Act
XVI of 1953)', the Govern-
ment has appointed the
1st day of July, 1953 to
be the date on which the
said Act shall tome into
force.

ART EXHIBITION IN

KALIMPONG

Kalimpong, July 8

Under the auspices of
the local Maitri Sangha,
Sj. R. C. Sathi. an eminent
artist of Lucknow and
student of Sj. Ashit Kun ar
Haidar, one of the greatest
artists of modern India,
exhibited his paintings
numbering one hundred
and five in the local Town
Hall on Sunday the 28th
June 1953. Xhq exhibition
remained open from 9 in
tjie morning till 7 in the
evening. Though the wea-
ther was not favourable,
quite a large number of
visitors attended the ex-
hibition The organisers
recorded names of about
300 literate visitors who
took great interest over
the technique, the special
characterisation and the
ideas underlying different
pictures.

, The artist was very
happy to see that within
an hour of opening the
exhibition, three of his
best paintings were sold
.out to some good critics
amongst the visitors.

! His landscanes from
Badri Nath, Mussaurig
Kalimpong were much
appreciated by almost all
the visitors. Amongst his
other paintings, “Surya &
Kunti" “Purusha & Pra-
kriti” & “the creation of
Urbashi” were much spo-
ken of by the lovers of

Five

FACTS AND FIGURES

_ i. During the period
June 13 to June 24, the ■
volume o( telegraph traffic,
at the Kathmandu Post and
Telegraph Office in con-
nection .with the Everest
Expedition, rose (rom 2,600
to 20,000 words pei^, day;
the congratulatory and'press'
telegrams dealt with totalled
125,090 words:

2. The six cities of
Ahmedabad, Bombay, Cal-
cutta, Delhi, Kanpur and ,
Madras use 56 per cent of
the country’s generated elec-
trical energy.

3. Madhya Pradesh
has the .largest area under
forests, which cover 66,
sq. miles as against only
■'135 sq. miles in Ajmer.

4. As a result of the
Darriodar . Vtilfey Projects
60 000 persons .will receive
compensation - for being dis-
placed or for the loss of
their lan-'s. '

5. During 1952, India
produced 416,769 hall .he-
arings against 234,3^9 >n
the previous year.

Indian art. “Kanchan’’
& “Kanak champa”, the
two paintings which resem-
bled Chinese art, were also
much appreciated. One
of his interesting pictures
was “whether do or not’’,
in which the excited con-
dition of human mind
was depicted in an unique
way

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