SPOTLIGHT

Designated National Research Fellow by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research Prof Sheryar Ookerjee will research "Human Reason.” This two-year appointment by the Government of India’s human resource development ministry is in recognition of his contribution to the subject of philosophy for over 50 years, notes a press release. Ookerjee retired as professor of philosophy from Wilson College.

At the two-day Kabir Sat Sang on June 5 an 6, 2004 organized by Shree Kabirwadi Mandir Trust, the Satya Kabir Aajivan Gaorav Samman (lifetime achievement award) was conferred on 80-year-old kirtankar Parvez Katrak (left). The citation appreciated his efforts of the last 35 years in organizing more than 1,500 free katha-kirtans including those on Kabir’s thought-provoking and moral-building couplets and poems.