chandigarh noted poet lyricist and film director gulzar has agreed to accept the pu tagore chair the chair was created at pu on february 18 1961 after the university grants commission ugc initiated the tagore centenary scheme and instructed universities to create a chair in the name of rabindra nath tagore distinguished writer and art critic dr mulk raj anand was the first to get chair professorship from 1962 to 1965 thereafter noted hindi novelist literary historian essayist critic and scholar dr hazari prasad dwivedi was appointed as tagore professor and he held the chair till 1967 the chair has been lying vacant since 1967 it is an attempt to revive the chair we are going to commemorate the centenary year of balwant gargi and i asked gulzar to be part of celebrations the idea is to bring to fore public contributions in the fields of arts fine arts and literature being an icon gulzar is the most apt person for the chair said pu vicechancellor prof arun kumar groveractivities of the chair will include a series of lectures and interactive sessions with faculty members students artists writers and intellectuals in the region the faculty of languages expects to gain much from gulzars visit in the areas of creative writing translation studies film theory dialogues and scripts once he is here we will release his book again and his interactions with students and faculty members will be webcast said prof grover gulzar recently translated the poetry of tagore in two volumes of the gulzar translates tagore collection namely nindiya chor crescent moon in english and baaghban the gardener in english he sent the books which will be released this year as a gift to pu vicechancellor prof arun kumar grover on tuesday