GNDU to confer Honoris Causa on eminent cardiologist Dr Tarlochan Singh Kler, artist Arpana Caur

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, November 17

An Indian cardiologist, medical administrator and writer, Dr Tarlochan Singh Kler, who is also a Chairman of Pushpawati Singhania Hospital and Research Institute and former director of Cardiac Sciences at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, will be honoured with Honoris Causa at the 47th annual convocation of the GNDU scheduled to be held on November 22. Along with Dr Kler, eminent Indian contemporary painter and graphic artist Arpana Caur will also be honoured with Honoris Causa. While Dr Kler will receive the degree of Doctor of Science in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Caur will receive the Doctor of Philosophy in the faculty of visual arts and performing arts.

Prof Karanjeet Singh Kahlon, Registrar of the university said Governor of Punjab and Chancellor of the Guru Nanak Dev University, Banwarilal Purohit will be delivering the convocation address on this occasion. Dr TS Kler pursued his MBBS from Patiala and his MD in Medicine and DM in Cardiology from PGI Chandigarh. He has been a recipient of India’s most coveted awards and honours such as Padma Bhushan (2005). He said the award of this Honorary Doctrorate was an appropriate acknowledgement of the extraordinary contribution to society.

Kahlon also said that Arpana Caur is a self-taught artist and painting graduate from the University of Delhi with a Master of Arts degree in Literature. “Caur crafts deeply imaginative pieces of art and is well-known for her courageous and fantastical explorations of the figures of female and nature. Her work is generally related with social history, antiquated mythologies, & folk art forms and is created in a unique symbolic and feminist language of her own,” he said.

The university is celebrating another mega event of 52nd Foundation Day on November 24 (Wednesday) at different venues with various activities on the university campus. Dr Karamjeet Singh, VC, Jagat Guru Nanak Dev Punjab State Open University and Prof Raghuvendra Tanwar, Professor Emeritus (Modern History) Kurukshetra University and Director, Haryana Academy of History and Culture will deliver an academic lecture at the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Auditorium of the university on the foundation day.