Press Release Playwrite 2024

Press Release Playwrite / Sports Lit Fest 2024

 

Sports Women shine in Playwrite

-        The winning streak of positivity, performance, and WPL highlighted sports women's resilience

 

Chandigarh, April 20: The seventh edition of the sports literary festival, PlayWrite, opened here at CII today, with noted sports journalist former Deputy Editor of The Hindu and Sportstar Vijay Lokapally delivering the keynote address.

Lokapally commended the growing trend among women to opt for sports and aspire for winning medals especially when the facilities and infrastructure are improving in the country.

Vivek Atray, co-founder of Playwrite, with Hardeep Chandpuri, remembered the late Novy Kapadia who mentored along with Lokapally to setup the platform for the celebrated sports achievers to come together and inspire the younger generation for making sports as a career.

Jitin Talwar, in his keynote speech said that many opportunities are opening for women in sports, which is a lifetime of learning to live in the moment, learn to accept defeat, and respect one's opponents.

The first session, 'Shooting for the Stars' featured Avneet Sidhu, IPS, the AIG of Police and former Indian shooting champion from Punjab, as well as Olympian Shagun Chowdhary from Rajasthan, the first woman to qualify and represent India in the Olympics in Clay Pigeon Shooting, and holder of multiple Asian championship medals. .

Former sports journalist Saurabh Duggal skillfully brought out their struggles to excel in the sports despite the patriarchal social pressures, initial hiccups and journey of ups and downs with lack of sporting facilities in shooting, yet parental support helped them grow. 

Shagun lamented the unfortunate politics in sports that keeps many budding sports people competing effectively in the national and international arena while Avneet pointed out that every sports person gives his/her best in the sports field, and there is always one crucial moment that can make or mar your performance in the field.  Both sportswomen endorsed the need for the people to applaud every sports person who competes in the sports field.

Tennis or Pickleball session had professional tennis player Rashmi Mohan who represented India in 45-plus category and participated in ITF World Tennis Masters Tour in Portugal and world championships, while Neeraj Yashpaul, another professional tennis player and silver medalist at 'Khelo India University Games' at Odisha, explored the need for more youngsters opting for this highly competitive sport.

In conversation with Prasang Raheja, a legal professional, Rashmi spoke about the challenges of starting late in life in the game, but biggest hurdle had been the lack of support from professional bodies and the government.  The need is to create a much-needed culture of sports in our country

Hardeep Chandpuri, publisher, radio personality and cofounder of Playwrite moderated the session on 'Soccer in the Hinterland' with Bahadurgarh football team's technical director Rohit Parashar, former Indian coach and ex-chief of NIS, along with head coach Sudarshan Singh, and senior coach Vinay Joon who is also secretary of CBFC, explored the dimensions of the young players being identified at the grassroot level and groomed to excel.

Identifying young people should be a constant endeavour and a coach not only prepares them but grooms them for on and off the field, said Joon.

Football is an affordable sport and 'catch them young' efforts of Bahadurgarh Football Team have paid off in selecting the right talent at a young age.

Psychologist Simar Onkar underlined the importance of the hitherto ignored area of psychology in Indian sports. He said while there are coaches for fitness, diet, gym training, and the sport, the mental fitness is the most ignored area which needs to be understood and practiced by the sports people to stay mentally fit.

WPL:

The second last session on WPL evinced keen participation of the audience, as well known cricketer and highest uncapped Indian player, Kashvee Gautam, took the centre stage with ex-Radio jockey and sports commentator for IPL and ICC tournaments, Aditi Rathi, and architect Mukta Goyal who had been a gold medalist in taekwondo, red belt in judo-karate, and state badminton champion, as well as professional cricketer.   

Moderated by noted cardiologist Dr. H.K. Bali, who had been following women cricket since 70s, said that women cricket is getting more and more competitive and popular amongst all ages especially the aspiring sports women.

Women like actress and anchor Mandira Bedi donated her entire brand endorsement money to the development of women Indian cricket team in 2003, and since then there had been no looking back with WPL 2024 marking the turning point in Indian women cricket, recalled Aditi.

Aditi from Carmel Convent School as well as Mukta started their journey into sport with cricket

A young budding cricketer, Aditi from Carmel Convent School also joined the stage. She said that her parents have always supported her cricket endeavours. Cricket Started as a part of her fitness journey.

Dr Bali complimented all the sportswomen and expressed happiness that more and more women are entering the sports arena and in many ways outdoing men in their performances.

The Playwrite concluded with interesting session on Olympian Challenges moderated by Vivek Atray, with Radhica Sreeman, Manjusha Kanwar, Prabhjot Singh, and Vijay Lokapally. 

Supreme Court judge releases Mac Sarin's autobiography

Chandigarh, 26 March: An autobiographical coffee table book, "I Did it My Way" by senior lawyer Manmohan Lal Sarin (Mac Sarin) was released here today at Hotel Taj Chandigarh.

Supreme Court Judge Mr. Justice A.G. Masih, former chief justice of Allahabad High Court  Mr Justice S.S. Sodhi, Mac's elder brother Jawahar Lal Sarin, IAS (retd), his childhood friend Noni Chawla, and motivational speaker and author Vivek Atray, IAS (retd), released the voluminous coffee table book on the occasion.

A Johnian, philanthropist, honoured internationally, and a hardcore promoter of voluntary blood donation in the country, Mac Sarin has always been on the forefront in preserving and protecting the basic heritage character of our city, besides nnumerous worthy social causes.

"'I Did It My Way' was perhaps my toughest 'brief', yet, I have presented my 'case' with downright sincerity and utmost humility…and I have tried to keep my storytelling honest, relevant, candid, precise, and positive," he said.

He said that writing of the book took him three and a half years, and though originally he had throught of limiting it to only professional anecdotes but in this process of revisiting his life, led him to rediscover the rich legacies of his ancestors, their struggles, successes, passions, and the values of life, that led him to chronicling his entire life spanning over seven and a half decades.

The book is a collectors item who loves the history of the city, the values that used to guide the professional legal practices and the way one need to stand firm against all odds to follow the right principles, he says, yet the entire narrative about people, places and incidents stays positive.

This book will act as a template for the young lawyers, since the profession is not only extremely demanding, and besides knowledge, hard work, dedication, creativity and agility, it requires a strong conviction to succeed, according to Mac.

Numerous leading legal luminaries, and who's who of the city attended the function,  

Press Release Virtual Health Care

AI to redefine patient health care industry, says Harvard Professor Dr Jag Singh

Chandigarh:  Dr Jagmeet (Jag) Singh, a Harvard University professor says that digital devices and artificial intelligence shall make virtual care of patients a reality and more sustainable, at the release of his book "Future Care: Sensors, Artificial Intelligence, and the Reinvention of Healthcare" in the city yesterday.

Based on his extensive research over the years at Harvard Medical School, Dr Jag Singh, an electrophysiologist in cardiology, said that AI is being now evolved to empower the doctors to provide highly personalized care to the patients on the basis of the individual's data captured through different types of senors and wearable devices.

Dr Jagmeet Singh, cardiologist, physician, scientist, author, and Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA, was in Chandigarh for the release of his book "Future Care".

Dr Jagmeet (Jag) Singh who has been working through his research on device technologies and electrical therapies for cardiac disorders, feels that rapid digital transformation holds a lot of promise in not only in drastically improving the way the health care is delivered, but improving human lives.

With AI and ChatGPT, even the role of the cardiologists will change 30 to 40% in a next decade with the metamorphosis that the medical field is undergoing with digital transformation, and expanding the role of the cardiologists to even predict the medical emergencies that a patient might have with AI, and take appropriate preventive measures.

"Every organ in human body can be potentially monitored remotely through sensors to enable doctors to proactively intervene in advance, Dr Jag Singh said. There are already several sensors available to detect heart failure 13 days and lung cancer as early as six months in advance, he said.

There are more than 500 wearable devices that can be synced with smart phones to give early warnings and inform the doctors for corrective measures.

Padam Bhushan awardee, Dr. T.S. Kler, a renowned interventional cardiologist, formally released the book of Dr. Jagmeet Singh and said that the medical community will have to upgrade itself to provide better and sustainable health care to the critical patients, and save their lives.

"Future Care" makes an interesting read since it is all about patient stories and Dr Jag Singh's personal encounters with disease management and how timely intervention through AI help and data analytics could save lives.

The book also talks about the new hybrid models required to help hospitals of the future to go virtual and adapt a hybrid model in patient care and remotely monitoring large number of patients through AI based diagnostic tools.

Dr Jag Singh reiterates that the essence of our research is to improve lives through forecasting and averting emergencies and disease through timely interventions.

Addressing some of the city's discerning audience including several senior cardiologists, diagnostic experts, and medical professionals, Dr Jag Singh advised them to adapt the new technologies to their advantage and patient care.

Notable among those present during the function included renowned radiologist Dr. Ladbans Kaur, cardiologists Dr. U.P. Singh, Dr. H.K. Bali, Padamshree Dr H.S. Chawla, Dr. T.S. Mahant, eye specialist Dr. S.S. Grewal, Punjab's DGP Sanjeev Kalra IPS, among others.

Caption: Chief Guest Padmabhushan Dr TS Kler second from left, author Dr Jag Singh (second from right),  Padamshri Dr H S Chawla, Dr HK Bali, released the book

Media Invite 18 January 2024 at 4:30pm

You are invited to cover the Welcome Meet that Rotary Club of Chandigarh is organising in honour of the visit of world President of Rotary International, Dr. Gordon R. McInallye and his wife Heather, to Chandigarh. 

Venue: Chandigarh Judicial Academy, Sector 43B, Chandigarh 

Date: 18 January 2024
time: 4:30pm 

Rotary Club of Chandigarh

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