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From The Editor’s Desk
N’SCAPE
team
Chief Editor
Manish Kumar Jha
Editing Team
Siddhant Biswal
Albert Linda
Amit Kumar
Design and Layout
Ayush Srivastava
Albert Linda
Cover Page Idea
Ayush Srivastava
Acknowledgements
Kumar Abhishek (Nifft
Alumni)
Jitin Nair (2011-2015
Batch)
Vikas Singh (2011-2015
Batch)
Martin Luther King Jr
said, “we should accept
finite disappointment but
never lose infinite hope.”
This is the befitting line
for us for too many challenges were in our path
but this horizontal component of infinite hope
kept us going and we
finally were able to resurrect the magazine after
four years.
Writing is the oldest and most satiable form of
getting pleasure through despair and joy rides in
the bewildering journey of life. Writing is not just
a form of manifestation of emotions it’s a integral
part of one’s identity which directly reaches your
heart. In order to give voice to students we created this podium called N’scape, which “was, is
and will” be a patron for students for displaying
their intellect. A magazine is the mirror image of
a college and is paramount in keeping intact,
the traditions and culture of a college.
Every edition of N’scape contains a plethora
of new saga’s where as the old traditions continue to flourish. This year also there are new
additions like addition of a new section called
“avenues” which highlights the virtues required
to flourish in one’s life and become successful,
similarly “facebooked” which features the prime
activities of a nifftian on facebook which has become an indispensable part of our lives.
The entire tenure of working on N’scape was a
enriching experience and I hope that our readers
would enjoy this fun ride called “N’scape”.
Manish Kumar Jha
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INDEX
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Meet the Director
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Cover Story
Outside The Engineering Shell
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Manifestation
NIFFTians on serious issues
Poet’scape
Penned by the poets of NIFFT
Avenues
Words of Wisdom for the road ahead
Technomania
Noting some of the biggest
happenings of the technological world
Funscape
For some light-hearted fun
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MEET THE DIRECTOR
Interview of our honorable
Director, Prof. P.P Chattopadhyay
Q1) Prior to starting the interview can you please tell us about your professional experience in brief?
Ans. I started my professional career in 1985 as a foundry engineer in Hindustan Motors Limited. Subsequently,
I was engaged in promotion of small scale industries under the Ministry of Industrial, Government of India.
Finally, I joined the erstwhile Bengal Engineering College as lecturer in Metallurgy Engineering Department in
1991. Presently, I am lien from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur.
Q2) It has been around three months since you have joined NIFFT as the director. Being the institute head, what
type of potential you have observed amongst the students and what things do you expect from them?
Ans. Besides the fact that I have taught a course in the last semester, I had the opportunity to interact with varying cross section of the students during last three months. I have found that the students of this institute posses
a unique mindset for core engineering, manufacturing in particular. Such an outlook helps them to inherit the
sincerity and ability to hard work. Most importantly, the students are actively engaged in serving the economically backward segments of the society through their social outreach programs.
Q3) NIFFT is going to celebrate its golden jubilee next year. Being the one of its kind, can we expect that our
institute will receive the “Institute of National Importance” tag?
Ans. In view of almost 50 years of dedicated service of NIFFT to the largest segment of manufacturing sector of
the country, the label of Institute of National Importance is rightfully awaited by the institute. The 12th planning commission has already recommended the upgrade and the issue is under active consideration by MHRD,
Government of India.
Q4) Both faculty members and students are an integral part of the college. What are your plans so that both of
them can work in balance manner?
Ans. The concern is not the balance, but synergy. This is what NIFFT has demonstrated in course of its existence
over the last couple of decades when the attention of the employment sector, and hence in technical education, was mostly drawn towards the information technology. Recently, the global concern in sustainable growth
has reinvented the primacy of manufacturing and NIFFT has taken the call. We are working intensively on the
upgrade of physical and academic infrastructure of the institute in conformance with the emerging paradigm
of component manufacturing technology. In this endeavor, the major emphasis will be on intertwining of the
faculty of academia and industry at different levels of academic and research programs of the institute.
Q5) Research in integral arena for a student’s growth. What are your views on opening a separate Undergraduate research Cell for B.Tech undergraduate students?
Ans. In fact graduate engineers are the vanguard in the voyage of technology. Therefore, the engineers must
possess strong scientific acumen, analytic ability and innovative bent of mind. Grooming of such qualities
necessities a specially designed training and research programs with particular focus towards the emerging
applications. In view of such need, NIFFT has taken an initiative to create an application research centre to embrace the need of the industry.
Q6) Mr Vikas Garg, chairman IIF had said that India need more NIFFT, what is your opinion over it ?
Ans. The underlying spirit is consciously the need of the high quality manpower development to cater the
emerging demand of manufacturing sector in our country. NIFFT is also looking forward for the IIF initiatives in
this direction.
Q7) NIFFT is deprived of many basic facilities like absence of laboratory facilities, absence of equipments in
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Gymkhana complex, absence of campus wide networking and internet facilities, status of lecture halls & CSDC Lab.
What is your roadmap to overcome these problems?
Ans. Engineering education is primarily driven by the employment market. In view of this, the sluggish growth of
NIFFT during the last decades may primarily be attributed to the shift in focus towards the service sector. Recently,
manufacturing sector has succeeded in drawing the attention of the stake. Presently, the institute is involved in
the rigorous exercise of upgrading the physical and academic infrastructure at the level of international standards.
Already, a comprehensive program has been initiated for refurbishment of the existing infrastructure and bridging up
the gap in respect of the laboratory, research facility and IT infrastructure. Recently, four of faculty members visited
some of the premier institutes specialized in UK and Germany. Similar visit in USA and Canada have also been scheduled. Such faculty members, under the guidance of the leaders in academia and industry in our country, will take in
the lead in preparing the blue print in upgrading NIFFT as a centre of excellence for component manufacturing technology with the status of Institute of National Importance.
Q8) Will it be possible NIFFT can tie up with some reputed universities for student exchange program, so that the
B.Tech students can pursue their summer or one semester at those institution?
Ans. Our faculty members are engaged in the interaction with reputed academic institutes in various countries to
materialize collaboration and MOUs in the focused research and academic programs. Such initiatives will lead to the
exchange program between the institutions.
Q9) A message for faculty members, staffs, alumni and other members of NIFFT?
Ans. Let us join hands in building up the clean, comfortable, caring and confident NIFFT.
Thanks a lot.
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COVER STORY
Manish Kumar Jha, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, B. Tech. Final year
Outside The Engineering Shell
Taking a look at the future prospects available beyond NIFFT...
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Inside campus,
Few say boring are books
Few say there's dearth of good looks
Few say professors terrorize
Few say mess food agonize
But when you have graduated from NIFFT
Everyone says those were the golden days of my life
Yeah, you guessed it right, these are the true words of a NIFFTian. On the first day of a NIFFTian in his
motherland (NIFFT) ,,standing at the threshold of Nirala/Kalpana chatrawas ,he can’t control appreciating the foliage of ashoka trees. Another thing which is uncontrollable are the eyes which are replete
with infinite plans and models. In the initial days, the entire hostel is filled with gossips about how you
cracked AIEEE/JEE MAINS and why were you unable to crack IIT and soon you become a prey for hunters waiting at divider, at Gupta or almost anywhere. Besides you also learn to assess people, planning
trips and movies ,take oaths that you will never smoke or drink ,little bit of studies and etc etc. And so,
on a vibrant note with few blurred outlines for future, the first year ends.
As soon as a fellow reaches second year, he/she starts to feel that he/she has to do something rather
than wasting his time as done in first year. So the second year students kick start their endeavour to
explore new paths to fail and rise, try new things, explore new options and, yeah, along all this seriousness people’s groups and friendships starts to thicken and yeah not to forget they gradually tend to
become tipsy as now they have to bear enough on their fragile shoulders. So, on a innovative note the
second year ends.
Now arrives the year which is considered the backbone of the engineering life. “THIRD YEAR” …hmmm
…. as now you are old enough in the trade. You tend to increase your seriousness towards the field
you have chosen, increasing your alumni contacts, getting inspired from them and not to forget the
responsibilities that you get now for organizing events under Students’ Gymkhana and the grand
“JINKS-PRANAV ” for which every NIFFTian waits throughout the year. Practicing GD’s, improving English, learning softwares and gathering technical knowledge, participating in various fests of different
colleges are the premier tasks that every Final year student focuses on besides the unmentionable
chronicles of adventure he does at various places like on palace like structure of Tagore Hills/wetting
your lips at Madhuban, again visiting Johna and Hundru falls etc. So on a stable and confident note the
third year ends.
Then starts the final year, the “do or die” year where studying is not an option but a compulsion, asking for tireless hours of practice. Preparing for your dream venture is a tough job that has to be done
and besides that nostalgia is also very common as one starts accepting that the carefree ride is getting
over. But you are also excited about the future prospects. So on a tiring and exciting note final year
ends.
But in order to continue the joy ride even after one graduate’s from NIFFT, one needs to get a good
career path. So we have taken the task to explore the three most sought after ventures MBA, GATE and
GRE. Let’s take a look at them.
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MBA
A MBA degree holder is a person who can predict the future market now, handle people in any situation and bring out the
best from them. MBA programs offer three different types of benefits, all of which vary tremendously from one school to
another.
Why to do MBA?
1. MBA-Career Changers: In business school, you’ll get a chance to think through a wide range of business problems in a
wide range of industries. You’ll gain the skills needed to perform a variety of specific job functions. Having an MBA can
make you attractive to a range of employers no matter what industry you worked in before B-school.
2. A credential that sends a signal to the marketplace: Prospective clients trust that I understand the complexities of their
world and the challenges they face … some people in my field had negative impressions of MBAs, there are many fields
and organizations in which MBAs are viewed with skepticism and even disdain.
3. Access to a wide and effective network: MBA is nothing but a compilation of case studies of thousands business
ventures their ups n downs . Business school emphasizes working in groups, and MBA students often learn as much from
their peers as they do from faculty, so it’s important to consider who you’ll be working alongside for two years. Those same
people will become your fellow alumni, and access to that network is one of the most valuable benefits an MBA program
can offer.The projects ,industrials visits ,case studies, solving problems with a group of peer teach a lot and prepare you for
the future.
4. Increase your salary potential: Graduates who hold an MBA degree are eligible for jobs that would not be offered to
those who hold only a high school diploma, an MBA degree is almost a necessity in today’s business world.
5. Alumni support: People benefit tremendously from the support of fellow peers and alumni in their career paths,
alumni are extraordinarily generous with their time and insights, and that’s undoubtedly a paramount thing in the success
of a person in his/her career path.
6. Benefit as an engineer: Operations and systems as a stream in MBA is meant only for engineers, Engineering makes you
a good executor, You get an edge through your prior exposure in operations research, numerical analysis, modelling,etc.
What is taught in MBA? Business school isn’t for the clueless...
1. Practical leadership and management skills. Management education has changed significantly over the last few decades. Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other
aspects of organizational life .MBA programs responded by expanding their offerings in areas such as strategy, organizational behavior and leadership. B-school curricula are still intensely quantitative, but as Stanford Dean Garth Saloner told
McKinsey, that having quantitative skills is a basic and necessity ,what matters are the leadership and qualities. Business
schools have realized that it’s not sufficient to provide quantitative and analytical training, their alumni will have the ability
to lead and manage others than through their talents as individual contributors. Saloner goes on to note that, “the softer
skill sets, an entirely different interpersonal skill set, the real leadership, the ability to work with others and through others, to execute, that is still in very scarce supply.” Ask yourself before joining and preparing for MBA, do you have what’s
required?
1. Leadership and managerial qualities, as they can’t be taught, just improved.
2. Aptitude towards out of the box thinking and new ideas. That’s why CAT doesn’t test your intelligence but your aptitude.
3. Decision making qualities, managing things, applying common sense in uncommon situations and the most important
is take decisions and make sure that your decisions are right, managing chaos at times, taking decision based on analysis
of data and sometimes on gut feeling.
4.Being ready for any situation and if it’s not right, be ready with Plan B and Plan C.
How to prepare for MBA ?
1. Lay emphasis on topics in which you are weak.
2. The book written by author ARUN SHARMA for all the four sections i.e (Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, Logical
reasoning and Data Intepretation).
3. Old CAT question papers.
4. Pagalguy.com
5. Totalgadha.com
6. cat.wordpandit.com
7. Read lot of novels.
Conclusion:
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No career paths absolutely require an MBA—it’s an optional degree and is nothing like a JD, an MD or the other credentials
that professions such as law and medicine make mandatory. There are many senior people in general management roles,
in consulting and even in financial services who don’t have an MBA—so don’t assume that the credential will necessarily
serve a meaningful purpose in your chosen field.
B school makes you a manager, it’s up to you how quickly you become a leader
In a way, B school gives you ladder to cross one step very quickly
Only thing is one have to have some work experience before joining MBA.
GRE
The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) is a universal test through which you gain admissions in
most engineering graduate schools and lately in business schools in the United States and is created
and administered by Educational Testing Service (ETS) since 1949. There are universities all over the
world which accept GRE scores. Even though some universities will say that GRE is not necessary to
take admissions there, still you should give GRE and score well in order to obtain the VISA for USA in a
hustle free manner and yeah, have a passport ready in hand. The examination fees of GRE is comparatively higher around Rs 10,000 so give it wisely.
The total marks of a GRE paper is 340 divided into six sections, five sections are of ‘Quantitative’
and ‘Verbal Reasoning’ with 170 marks each, the third section is analytical writing in which you have to
write two essays. There are two sections each in ‘Quantitative’ and ‘Verbal Reasoning’ and one experimental section which is not known. Since we all our from mathematical backgrounds so‘Quantitative’
is comparatively easier for us but verbal reasoning is tough. In ‘Quantitative’ the two sections have 20
questions and 35 minutes each to solve the two sections. In ‘Verbal Reasoning ’ there are 20 questions
and 30 minutes each to solve the two sections. Then you may get the experimental section which can
be either from ‘Quantitative’ or ‘Verbal Reasoning’. At the start of the paper you will get a AWA section
(analytic writing) in which you have to write two essays in 30 minutes one on a “issue task” and an “argument task”.
A Score above 320 is considered to be a good score and if you have the required research
publications and a reference from a professor from that university and if not from a professor of that
university then in general a good reference then your chances of obtaining a scholarship are high. For
eg one of my relatives with a score of 332 got 100% scholarship to study in USA. The score is valid for
5 years so the ideal time is to start preparing for GRE as soon as you enter Final year and to give GRE at
the start of 2011-2015 Batch. The SOP ‘s are very important.
PREPARATION
A variety of resources are available for those wishing to prepare for the GRE. ETS provides preparation
software called PowerPrep . ETS used to publish the “BIG BOOK” which contained a number of actual
GRE questions; however, this publishing was abandoned. Some of the books/materials required are:
1.Word Power Made Easy
2.The Official Guide to the GRE Revised General Test with CD-ROM, 2nd Edition.
3. Barron’s New GRE 2013 19th Edition
4. Free GRE Vocabulary Flashcards by Mgoosh.
5. Download the AWA prompts from the Argument and Issue pools and go through them.
6. quizlet.com
7. ManhattanGREPractice Test.com
8. Khan Academy.com
9. Solve a lot of mock test papers.
10. Read novels and watch English movies(now that’s the best preparation tip :-)).
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GATE
The examination of GATE doesn’t really need an introduction, especially in NIFFT. A large number of NIFFTians have
done pretty well in GATE. It is now a gateway to PSUs and
doing M. Tech. from reputed institutes like IISc. Bangalore
and top IITs. So the million dollar question is how to crack
this tough shell?
In order to throw more light on GATE ‘s
prospects and preparation we are interviewing NIFFT’s 2015 GATE (Metallurgy)
topper Vikas Kumar Singh (AIR 26)
Interviewer: First of all, congratulations
for your achievement. How are you
feeling?
Vikas: Thanks a lot, I am ecstatic after the declaration of
results.
Interviewer: So what do you want to say about GATE?
Vikas: GATE is a very competitive exam as can be seen from
the the fact that AIR 1 had a score of 84.6 where as my score
was 82.67. Every marks matters. It is not a tough exam but
you should be well versed in the curriculum and should have
knowledge about most of the stuff. You should cover the
syllabus as you don’t do PHD on any one topic).
Interviewer: Can you briefly tell us what are the different
important subjects and the marks that they carry?
Vikas: Physical Metallurgy and Mechanical Metallurgy are
the most important as 40% of weightage is from them.
Quantitative aptitude should also be considered with equal
importance as every marks matters it can be rank determiner (15 marks). Ellingham diagram is directly asked. In
Non-Ferrous, questions on different process of extraction
of different ores are asked in ‘Match The Following’ types of
questions mostly.
In Unit Process, the mechanism during extraction of ores
are asked (for example, In froth floatation, the depressant is
asked). In heat treatment phase transformations are asked.
For
1. Metallurgical Thermodynamics - A.Ghosh
2. Non-Ferrous- H.S. Ray
3. Physical Metallurgy
Solidification, alloy steel and non –ferrous ,Fe-Fe3C
should be studied from Vijender singh , Phase Diagrams from Raghavan, Optical, Magnetic and Semiconductor from Callister.
4. Maths - B.S. Grewal
5. Welding - Srinivasan
6. Heat and Mass Transfer- P.K. Nag
7. And as stated, Mechanical Metallurgy & Metal Forming Technology - George Dieter
Interviewer: Can you tell what are the questions asked
in various PSUs and other relevant interviews?
Vikas: In NALCO, mostly Non-Ferrous, In IOCL most
questions are asked on welding, pipeline maintenance
(corrosion science), Heat treatment, etc. In BARC, the
interviews are comparatively longer (may extend to 1
hour) so each and every section can be asked ranging
from Iron-Carbon diagram to NDT.
Interviewer: Any advice you want to give to GATE
aspirants from NIFFT ?
Vikas: The most important thing are questions, that
is, solve as many mock test papers, study efficiently
without wasting time a lot of time since a lot is not
required for preparation. You just have to utilize your
time well and the question banks (previous year
questions) are also very important. I found them most
useful.
Interviewer: Thankyou for sparing some time for fellow NIFFTians? We wish you great success in future.
Vikas: It was my pleasure to share the information that
I had. Thank you.
Interviewer: What are the prescribed books for the various
subjects?
Vikas: In Mechanical Metallurgy and Metal Forming Technology, “Dieter” is the best book (I personally was mesmerized
with the book :-)). In Dieter for Mechanical Metallurgy creepfatigue mechanism is very important other important topics
are dislocation, ch-4 (Plastic Deformation in Single Crystal),
formulas, facts and type of indentors are asked. For Manufacturing Process, the important topics are Fundamentals of
Metal Working, Defects in processes such as Rolling, Welding, NDT, Casting, Forging, etc. are asked.
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MANIFESTATIONS
Rohit Kumar Tiwari, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering,B.Tech 2011-2015 Batch
Ayush Srivastava, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering,B.Tech Final year
NIFFT – Standing Apart in a
League of Its Own
N
ational Institute of Foundry
and Forge Technology
(NIFFT), located in the outskirts of the city of Ranchi, near the
settlement of Hatia, bears the reputation of being Asia’s only technical
institution of its kind. Established in
1966 to cater the needs of the evergrowing industries that sought skilled
technicians for optimum performances, NIFFT has been developing
and growing to adapt to the new
technologies while still retaining its
core values. This is one of the major
reasons that has helped India be the
3rd leading country of the modern
global producers in terms of production by foundry.
Most of the other technical institutes
of India had actually started as smaller
institutes with a core technical specialization but later caved to the market
pressure. For the sake of having every
single student employed, even if in
an industry that it didn’t initially train
its pupils for, introduction of widely
demanded courses, with no concern
to any sort of decrease in quality level
of the education, were made. Being
an institution where a compromise
in quality is not an option, NIFFT has
never had to resort to such measures
for the sake of getting its students
placed in well-off core industries,
where they can learn and grow and
actually practice what they learned in
the class.
The impact of this is easily recognizable in the industries that seek
specialists in the field of foundry and
forge since NIFFT has established
a well-deserved reputation among
them. The name of NIFFT is easily
recognized among the experts of
these industries, becoming almost
synonymous with dependable in their
vocabulary. Undoubtedly, this is why
many of the leading experts in the
industries are proud to call NIFFT as
their alma mater.
The relevance of NIFFT has not at all
faded over time as even now, when
efforts are being made to convert
India into a manufacturing hub, it
must not be ignored that NIFFT offers
specialized courses in the field of
foundry and forge. The foundries play
a huge role in the automobile industry, steel plants, construction materials and equipment, etc. while the
forge is an irreplaceable part of the
aerospace industry, defense industry,
petrochemical industries and nuclear
markets, etc. Thus the two play a vital
role to the development of a country and thanks to its unmatchable
contribution in these two fields, the
institute eagerly awaits being awarded the title of INI (Institute of National
Importance).
Aside from providing excellent education to the budding future experts,
the institution also contributes the
development of the country by offering its services as a consultancy
and as a training center so that the
entire country can make good use of
the skills of its people. This helps the
industries become more efficient and
be able to keep up with the modern
technological advancements with the
least amount of increase in expenses.
Thus, it can be seen that NIFFT has
played a vital role in the development
of the country and its people in the
last five decades of its existence
and is still as important as it was
at the time of establishment. The
country is progressing at a rate
that calls for the technical institutions to provide skilled experts that
specialize in their core engineering
subjects. NIFFT stands, undoubtedly, as one of the leading institutions
who will be present with its experts
to answer the need.
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Sidhant Biswal B.Tech Final year
Intriguing Ireland
A look at the ‘The Emerald Isle’ and a schedule designed
to explore the sights that will stay with you long after you
have left the place, prompting you for yet another return
to this place that seems to have come straight from a
fantastical world.
Image credits: George Karbus (www.emerald-vision.com)
I
close my eyes and instantly I
am back in the lap of nature. It
isn’t difficult at all to remember
the smell of the green pastures
that stretched for miles in every
direction or the sea that seemed to
be dancing with the stormy skies
over the horizon. Ireland was like
a union of the most natural places
to have ever existed on this planet
and the beauty of it will never fail
in taking your breath away. Be it
the city of Dublin, where the old
and new combine in a fusion that’s
mesmerizingly unique, or the
castles and highlands of the countryside that will treat you with the
untouched silence of nature, The
Emerald Isle has a place for all who
seek an unforgettable experience.
About Ireland
A look at Wikipedia tells that the
island of Ireland is in west of Great
Britain and is split into two countries: Republic of Ireland, which
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covers five-sixths of the land, and
Northern Ireland, which is the part
of the United Kingdom.
The Irish culture has a notable effect on the world as it makes way
in literature, music, arts and dances
of both the past and the present.
It was a wonderful experience to
have such a close look at the culture and the people who proudly
honored them even now.
My journey through the place was
through a trip stretching over nine
days that even now feel too small.
I just hope I do the place justice in
my words.
Day 1: Dublin
The Ireland vacation started
with a street tour with the tour
guide, making visits to some of
the well-known places like the
famous O’Connell street while
also enjoying the common
Simple tips for
sight-seeing
Few things which you should
follow:
•Always keep your camera with
you while out of the hotel.
Make sure the storage card of
the camera is empty and the
battery is fully charged.
•Be kind and polite to others,
even if they may not be so.
There is no need to pick up a
fight in a land where you know
no one.
•Maintain a daily personal budget to avoid overspending. Any
unspent money can be very
useful in cases of emergency.
•Don’t hesitate to ask. By being
a tourist, you have the right to
be curious. Just remember to
be polite.
•Keep some basic medical
supplies with you at all times.
Also have a health card listing
your present health conditions,
allergies and contact details for
next of kin on you at all times.
•Take heed of what you’re told
by the tour guide or else you
put not only yourself but fellow
tourists at risk as well. Keep a
tour book with yourself as well
to have a deeper understanding of the places you visit.
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roads to see the city’s
roots.
Day 2: Donegal
I drove south to Ulster
American Folk Park
with the view of the
cozy cottages demonstrating the bygone
way of life in rural
Ireland. The calm drive
along the Donegal
countryside before
stopping for a guided
tour of the fantabulous
15th century Donegal
castle in Donegal town
made the day worthwhile. Meeting folks
that were very friendly
and welcoming didn’t
hurt either.
Day 3: Glengesh
writers.
Boats Museum before
the flight to Killarney.
Day 5: ConnemaraKylemore Abbey
The visit to the Kylemore
Abbey close to Connemara was a fantastic experience and the people
Day 5: Ring of
Kerry-Killarney National Park
The view of the Macgil-
Day 8-9: BlarneyDublin
The River Dargle falls as Powerscourt Waterfall, the
tallest waterfall in Ireland
Photo Credits: Wikipedia.org
Pass
It was a day for the visit
to the sea-side area of
the tour with the view
of the highest sea cliffs
in Europe. The snacks
were just so delicious
that the pleasure of the
view was enhanced
multi-fold.
Day 4: Belleek-Galway
It was a wonderful day spent in the
countryside, enjoying
the works of the local
craftsmen and artisans
and buying sovenirs for
the home. I also visited
the grave of W. B. Yeats,
one of the great Irish
and I’m afraid I’m out
of words to describe
the place. All I can do
to be fair to the place is
recommend all to visit
the place once in the
lifetime.
were so friendly that I was
tempted to just stay over
there. But as the day drew
to a close, I had to bid
them adieu. I did however
take enough pictures to
run out of storage memoriy though.
lycuddy’s reeks was an
indescribable thing of
beauty. It is the highest mountain of the
island and from there,
we headed to Valentia
Island, where I had the
amazing opportunity
to learn about the early
DAY 6: Cliffs of Moher Christian monks. The
It was time for a visit to
camera once again had
the breathtaking cliffs of
its memory card run
Moher and I feel slightly
out of storage space
dizzy just from rememwhen I made it to the
bering the sight from
stunning view of the
the reputed O’Brien
mountains in the vilTower. Managing the tight lage of Sneem. The rest
schedule, I squeezed in a of the day was spent at
visit to the Foynes Flying Killarney National Park
TRAVEL: INTRIGUING IRELAND
The tour was now
nearing its end, though
my desire to explore
this place had barely
been sated. Blarney is
a farming countryside
and the greens seemed
to go on as far as the
eyes could see. The
Blarney Castle and the
‘Rock of Cashel’ were
two amazing pieces
of architecture that
were fun to explore.
And then it was time to
head back to Dublin via
a drive along the Atlantic coast. The tour was
unofficially over and
so I headed out in the
evening to check out
the nightlife of the city.
I wasn’t disappointed,
to say the least, in what
I found there. Taking a
cue from Las Vegas, all I
will say about it is ‘what
happens in Dublin
stays in Dublin.’
The tour officially ended the next day after
breakfast and with one
last thanks to my guide,
I left for home.
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Picture: Lake Pichola, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India Image Credits: http://www.weareholidays.co.in
Dilshad Hassan, B. Tech. 2nd year
A Day in the ‘City of Lakes’
A small journal entry of the trip to Udaipur
I
felt the warmness of the
city the moment I entered
Udaipur, the most beautiful among the beauties, the
grandest even amongst all the
grandeur of Rajputana. This
capital of legendary kingdom
of Mewar, built by Maharana
Udai Singh around four manmade lakes is a heaven for
lovers of art. The beautiful
sceneries of Aravalli around
the city is an additional
beauty.
As I walked through
this beautiful heaven, I noticed the double quality of the
city- The sanctity of nature &
beauty and a great magnificent historicity. Whether you
spend your days in Udaipur
aimlessly wandering through
its maze-like lanes, taking a
slow cruise on Pichola lake,
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exploring the giant medieval
fortress and palaces that rise
from its shores, or setting off
to see the uniquely carved Jag
mandir and the ancient fort of
Kumbalgarh—or whether you
do nothing but loll on a comfortable divan from a hanging
Jharokha overlooking the lake,
you will find the White City as
the most relaxing part of your
sojourn in Rajasthan.
The city is known for its
gracious palaces, temperate climate, and beautiful views of its
real sense of space and peace.
The massive fort, museum and
monuments grab the eyeballs
with its unmatched sheer
structure and architecture.
Christened as the ‘Venice of the
East’ or the ‘Kashmir of Rajasthan’, this beautifully garnished
city is undoubtedly the most
romantic dream destination in
India. Seeing the sun embracing
the horizon, you wish the time
to freeze, to breathe in the
majestic aura and just relax to
imbibe the eternal feel of the
moment with the soul. As my
day ended in the Udaipur, I felt
it really heartbreaking to say
goodbye and was extremely
reluctant to do so.
I would gladly recommend everyone to visit the
place at least once.
MANIFESTATIONS
Photo credits: Kimberly Chason. Flickr
Nazish Kamal, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, B. Tech. 2nd year
The Worth of Hard Work
A tale of a long journey of life that was fueled by the desire to succeed...
S
uccess is all about hard
work, what people say,
but it was all about
survival for this ‘’not so bright’’
kid, who had nothing other
than the “faith and will” that
we come across in quotes
and inspirational speeches.
Brought up in the village of
AUL, dist. Kendrapara, Orissa.
The story of this boy may
sound just like another “rags
to riches” story but I will tell
you why it is so special.
Being the youngest son in his family which
survived on the money out
of selling peanuts, he had
the dream of going to school.
Mustaffa’s father tried his best
to get him admitted in the
school but he wasn’t able to
continue beyond a month due
to financial reasons. The owner of the school was the only
doctor in village was impressed
by this kid’s determination and
started his education directly
from 9th grade at the age of
17. He faced a lot of difficulties
in learning but the doctor took
complete responsibility of educating by giving him personal
tuitions and providing him with
all kind of financial support. With his guidance
Mustafa took up engineering in
AIM and his life became more
miserable. He stayed in storeroom of the mosque & had to
dwell upon friends for books.
His resilience and persistence
were tested like never before.
Since he was deprived of all the
facilities of a normal student it
took seven years to complete 4
years of graduation. He didn’t
give up at any moment because
the only thing he had was
strong faith.
As love would spare
nobody, Mustaffa was madly
in love with none other than
the doctor’s daughter. Like
everybody, he aspired to
become a civil servant and he
cracked IRS examination in his
first attempt and there was no
looking back.
He married his loved
one and presently he took
adsorbtion & is working as GM
in NTPC, Rihandnagar. But his
success didn’t stop here. Being
the only educated person
from his family, he made sure
his family came out of poverty,
and ensured the education of
all 12 kids in his entire family.
All he did in life was to prove
over & over again that we
shouldn’t limit ourselves.
We can go as far as
our mind lets us to. If we believe, we can achieve. Starting
education so late, no one can
even dream of graduating. He
went to become a civil servant
and I am proud to be his son.
THE WORTH OF HARD WORK
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Ashutosh Saraswat, Manufacturing Engineering, B. Tech 2011-2015 Batch
#MY CHOICE:
FIGHT FOR FEMINISM
The video ‘My Choice’ made ripples in the society both for
the reasons it sought to and for criticism that, most likely,
wasn’t expected. It’s time to play the devil’s advocate to the
critics and looks at how society treats such a misunderstood
global issue.
T
he last time the words
‘women’s empowerment’
were so vilified was when
Rahul Gandhi decided to use it as a
full-stop at that epic Arnab Goswami interview. A lot has been said
about the video called #My Choice
featuring Deepika Padukone and
98 other women from Mumbai.
First it was lauded by people for
being empowering and then it was
castigated by a bunch of intellectuals and feminists for a variety of
things which included:
•Promoting bimbo culture
•Being elitist
•For looking like a rip-off of The
Ring
•Being anti-male
•Being anti-marriage
•For being opportunist
•For being not relevant to rural
women
•For not having a sense of humour (a hilarious mash-up with
Govinda’s Meri Marzi was taken
down by YouTube at the behest
of Conde Nast, the company
that owns Vogue).
So, let me play the
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devil’s advocate to those who
criticized the video. Does Deepika or any of her contemporaries
in the video ever say that males
don’t or shouldn’t have the
same rights? Do they claim that
the video was made for rural
Indian women? Do they ever say
that promiscuity is the only way
to women’s empowerment?
What’s wrong with challenging
the institution of marriage?
This video was obviously made
for the urban elite who have
access to YouTube, the internet
and have time to discuss things.
A lot has also been said about
the fact that it’s made by Vogue,
a magazine well-known for telling women how to be beautiful
for more than a century. The
truth is that this video was probably dreamed up in a corporate
meeting at Vogue with one intention – make something viral,
so that they remain relevant in
this day and age. And they managed to do that as the video has
already racked up over three
million views. All said and done,
Words of Wisdom
Deepak Kumar Saw, Manufacturing Engineering, B. Tech 2nd year
Few things which you should
follow:
•Stay away from Anger. It hurts
only YOU. If you are right then
there is no need to get angry,
and if you are wrong then you
don’t have any right to get
angry.
•Patience with family is love,
patience with others is respect.
Patience with self is confidence
and Patience with GOD is faith.
•Never Think Hard about the
PAST, it brings only tears...
Don’t think more about the FUTURE, It brings fear... Live this
MOMENT with a smile, it brings
cheer.
•Every test in our life makes us
bitter or better, Every problem
comes to make us or break us,
The choice is ours whether we
become victims or victorious.
•Beautiful things are not always
good but good things are
always beautiful.
•Do you know why God created gaps between fingers? So
that someone who is special to
you comes and fills those gaps
by holding your hand forever.
Happiness keeps You Sweet
but being sweet brings happiness.
MANIFESTATIONS
it was an ad for Vogue,
sugar-coated with feminism and the video has
achieved that, because
they are in the news!
And it certainly did not
warrant the feminism
vs anti-feminism debate that it started.
Socialism became synonymous with laziness,
secularism and liberalism
came to mean minority appeasement and
feminism became malebashing. Now let me say
before we go further that
seems to have been
hijacked by nut jobs
who think that it is simply synonymous with
misandry (just to prove
my point, the word is
so rare that MS Word
ness.
It is this same
enthusiasm which is
giving the movement
a rather bad name.
Like the time when Dr
Matt Taylor, part of the
team of the Rosetta
The question of
consent
One thing that keeps
getting my goat is the
fact that people keep
attacking Deepika and
their ilk for appearing
in item numbers, doing
roles where women are
objectified or laughing at jokes. At the end
of the day, we have to
remember that all of
them are professionals
who need to work, and
if that means ending
up in stereotypical
female roles in a maledominated industry,
that’s their choice. It’s
this concept of consent
that a huge part of the
population – male, female or otherwise – has
trouble understanding.
Or as the women say
#MyChoice, not yours,
theirs!!
The double standards of modernday ‘feminism’
It’s sad how concepts
lose their relevance
over the course of time.
Min ulla feum in henim iureetue tat, ver aute vercil iril
cons. Kept in sent gave feel will oh it
I am a feminist in the true
sense of the word. According to the Wikipedia
definition, ‘Feminism is a
collection of movements
and ideologies that share
a common goal: to define,
establish, and achieve
equal political, economic,
cultural, personal, and
social rights for women.
This includes seeking to
establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment.
A feminist advocates or
supports the rights and
equality of women.’ Sadly,
the feminist movement
actually think it’s an
error, while misogyny
is not)!
Objectifying works
both ways
I believe in a world
where if women are
comfortable objectifying men, they shouldn’t
scream bloody murder
when the opposite
happens. Obviously, I
would prefer no one
got objectified, but
if we started doing
that, 90% of the media
would be out of busi-
mission was forced to
apologize for wearing
a t-shirt with space
babes, bondage gear
and guns. So instead of
celebrating a historic
moment where their
team landed Philae on
a comet after a 10year, four-billion mile
journey, he was actually forced to apologize
for his sartorial choices.
He said before breaking down in tears: ‘The
shirt I wore this week
– I made a big mistake
and I offended many
people. And I’m very
sorry about this.’ And
that is the sad flipside
of feminism, which is
completely hurting the
fight for equality.
SOCIETY: #MY CHOICE: FIGHT FOR FEMINISM
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Nirmala begged the people who saw the
accident to appear in the court but they
refused. The policeman receiving the bribe
tried to close the case by writing “HIT AND
RUN BY UNKNOWN VEHICLE”.
H
i, My name is
Karthik. Here I’m
to say a story of a
woman who fought just
like a man to help her
children achieve success
in life.
There was once a woman
named NIRMALA. Her parents were
very poor. Nirmala had two elder
sisters and one younger brother. As
financial problems arose in her family, her parents refused to pay for
her education. She was very ambitious and wanted to complete her
education. She pleased her parents
and somehow she managed to get
admission in ST.JOSEPH’S WOMENS’
COLLEGE. As you all know that life
in hostel would be horrible .Same
was in case of Nirmala’s but in a
different way. She had no proper
dress to wear. Her parents worked
very hard to make her complete her
education. Keeping this in mind she
never wasted her parents’ money.
She even never went to any movies
thinking that would waste her parent’s money.
Basically parents think of
getting the girl married after her
schooling in older days. Same was
the case in Nirmala. But Nirmala
refused and said to her parents that
she wants to continue her education. For this her parents somehow
agreed and made her study B.A
ARTS. She completed her education
and now her parents decided to get
her married. She was married to a
man named Tirupathi Rao.
Life was happy after their
marriage and even had three
children. Being the only educated
in her family Nirmala was fond
of education. One certain night
Nirmala was shocked to hear that
her beloved husband was expired
in a road accident. Her heart was
shattered into pieces and couldn’t
make up her mind. Some of the
people present at the accident
of her husband told Nirmala that
the lorry driver bribed the policemen. Nirmala begged the people
Kartik, B. Tech 2nd year
THE WOMAN WHO
FOUGHT LIKE A MAN
The story of a woman who stood up to the society for the sake of her family and become everything for her children...
N’SCAPE 2015: MANIFESTATIONS
MANIFESTATINS
who saw the accident to
appear in the court but
they refused. The policeman receiving the bribe
tried to close the case by
writing “HIT AND RUN BY
UNKNOWN VEHICLE”.
Nirmala lost her
beloved husband and she
too decided to die along
with her three children.
Nirmala had no courage
to face life and said to her
children, “I CAN’T LIVE
WITHOUT YOUR FATHER,
LET US DIE BY DRINKING
THIS POISON”. To this, her
elder daughter KIRAN
MAI replied “MOM, THIS
LIFE IS GIVEN BY GOD
AND WE HAVE NO RIGHT
TO KLL IT BY OURSELVES.
MOM, JUST PROVIDE US
EDUCATION AND FOOD”.
Nirmala was surprised to
hear that from her elder
daughter. When they
were about to pray, two
strangers who preached
the word of GOD came
to her house and they
were saying words like
“DON’T FEAR THE LORD
ALMIGHTY CREATED
YOU AND HIM ONLY YOU
SHALL TRUST”. She didn’t
know who those strangers were. She then understood that they were the
messengers of GOD and
she understood that GOD
wants her to live. Nirmala
had a close connection
with her elder daughter
because she was the only
one who gave courage
to her. She had no job to
make her children study
so she begged the principals of the schools in
which her three children
family to support financial problems .
Life was somewhat happy .One day
Image Credits: juananibalcanto.deviantart.com
were studying. Her three
children were doing well
in studies so the principals decided to help her.
Nirmala having
faith in God didn’t die but
tried to face life. Nirmala
was everything for her
children. Years passed
and her eldest daughter
was studying her engineering. Kiranmai was
able to get a job basing
on her intermediate
marks. Her mom was very
happy and her happiness
had no limits. Her daughter had to discontinue her
engineering which was
her dream and join the
job for the sake of her
Nirmala had to hear
the bitter news that her
daughter KIRANMAI is
no more. She heard that
her daughter was killed
in a bus accident. Her
sorrow had no limits.
Her other children were
crying because they lost
their loving sister with
whom they fought and
shared all their happiness.
KIRANMAI was the only
courage that Nirmala was
having but she’s no more.
Nirmala lost her husband
when her chidren were
small and from that time
just as a chicken protects
her chicks, Nirmala was
protecting her children .
She never lost
faith in GOD and even
trusted him more. Her
family members suggested to get married for second time and leave the
children in an orphanage,
but the LOVE she had for
her beloved husband and
for her loving children
didn’t allow her to do so.
She had no job when her
husband had died but
managed to make ends
meet and she made her
three children complete
their schooling. In spite of
losing her daughter, she
didn’t lose trust in God.
Now everyone
appreciates her for her
daring, i.e., being a single
parent, she managed
to make her children
complete their education
because she knew the
value of education. By
GOD’S grace her daughter and son is about to
complete engineering.
She was just like a man
who fought alone in her
life. I have never felt bad
when my amigos were
saying about their fathers
because all I have is my
loving mom and my cute
sister. PROUD TO BE HER
SON.
THANK YOU GOD
FOR GIVING A WONDERFUL MOM and making me
know what life is ….
TRUE STORY: THE WOMAN WHO FOUGHT LIKE A MAN
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Ashutosh Saraswat, Manufacturing Engineering, B. Tech 2011-2015 Batch
“In the end,
we only
regret
chances that
we didn’t
take.”
“You only live
once but if
you do it right
ONCE IS
ENOUGH.”
“The happiest people
DON’T
HAVE the
best of everything, they
MAKE the
best of everything.”
LIVING LIFE TO THE
FULLEST
Most people live and die in their own bubbles of comfort, moaning about their issues yet not lifting a finger to make things right
for themselves. Living life doesn’t mean just trudging through
the daily routine every single day. Live life. Embrace passion. And
with these little acts, change the world. With just some words,
the idea is put here to be more alive...
N
ot everyone has passion. Not
everyone is moved emotionally
by what they do. And, that’s
extremely unfortunate. But fortunately,
you are not like everyone else.
The winning organizations in
every industry are filled with passionate, vocal, active people (also, we have
more fun doing what we do). To us, it
isn’t even really ‘work’ in the sense that
it flows naturally and feels more like
creative freedom.
I think that truly passionate
people are not understood by much of
the world. I’ll give you one example: I
don’t watch TV anymore. I tell people
this, and it feels like many of them mentally file me in a category of being weird
or socially deviant. Most people cannot
imagine a world without television.
This is unfortunate, and altogether sad.
We are at such an incredible turning
point in society, and the world is changing for the better due to people with
passion.
The world is shifting, and
where before intellectuals used to be
isolated and work on projects in a vacuum, now new social tools are allowing
them to work together on deep projects
that benefit everyone. Imagine, a group
of complete strangers working together
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to create something incredible, inspiring and useful – all for free, and all due
to pure internal motivation and desire
to help the world. Remarkable naa !!…
isn’t it?
Are you a part of a global project like Wikipedia? Or, global conversations about what you do professionally
or are interested in personally? If not,
you should be – the tools exist to interact with extra ordinary minds in our
world, learn from them, and get better
results and get inspiration for whatever
you are doing. That’s the way towards
success.
Sorry if you’re a TV watcher, but if you
watch even more than a little amount, it
is a waste of life. I don’t mean to offend
you, but really think about it: you are
given a plenty amount of time to physically exist on this planet and do something to change things for the better,
and then you are gone. By watching TV
for endless hours, you’re making your
life a big hell, the most precious gift
there is.
By watching TV you make
the ultimate sacrifice – you could be
reading, writing, making art, or actually
interacting with your friends, family and
other professionals in your industry.
Would you rather look back at a life
MANIFESTATIONS
spent passively absorbing
nonsense, or one spent
changing the world for
the better and creating
what inspires you. The
choice is obvious, this
article is for my those
friends who are still under
drowsy condition in respect of their fore coming
life .
Here’s what too
many in society do:
•Get up in the morning
•Work, thinking inside the
lines the entire day
•Come home
•Watch TV
•Sleep
It is an altogether
unremarkable existence.
And, those people probably produce ultimately
unremarkable results and
lead average lives. If you
wake up in the morning
and aren’t inspired every
day to throw yourself into
your work and life with
100% passion, you’re not
living it. I don’t understand how someone can
live even one day like
this. Perhaps they’re in
the wrong field, or have
lost that creative spark.
But regardless, there is no
other way for truly intelligent people to live other
than taking an active,
passionate role in life and
pouring their soul into
something that inspires
them.
The planet is
billions of years old, and
your lifespan is merely a
cosmic blink. There’s not
a day to waste.
Life is what we make of it... and we achieve nothing until we start.
Avantika Gupta, B. Tech 2nd year
CHANGE: THE ONLY CONSTANT
From toddler to a lively adult, from meat eating four pawed sapiens to evolved humans, from telegrams to whatsapp, from enormous PCs to nanoscale chipsets , from discovery that earth is round
to search for our mates in other galaxies, from a seed to a tree. What’s common in all the examples
above?
Everything changes its form, evolves,grows. The passage of time is an inevitable truth and so is change
brought along with it. For better or worse, nothing ever remains same;constant. Even the milky way
galaxy is continously expanding, governments in some place may be overthrown as I write this article,
neither Hitler nor Gandhi could pause time, change had to be there. In our lives also neither happiness,
joy, success nor grief, resentment or regret stays. Everything withers with time. As Shakespeare said“time is a devil which feeds on itself”.
So the basic conclusion is - live every moment of this limited life, learn, explore, grow, make yourself
best as human , a personality and make world around you the best place to live in; contribute with
full zeal and potential to every aspect of god’s wonderful creation- universe. Because everything will
change but your contribution may make a mark. So when I say you have limited time, I literally mean it.
‘BREATHE IN EVERY MOMENT ‘
INSPIRATION: LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST
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“
To keep a lamp burning, we
have to keep putting oil in
it.” – Mother Teresa
This simple statement explains
China’s pursuance of military and
economic doctrine coined as ‘string
of pearls’ by US analysts. Lamp
represents China’s economic heart
while oil can be transcribed as
blood which fuels it. China is the
fastest growing economy at present which increases its dependence
on crude oil. China imports approximately 60 % of its oil from Middle
East which is expected to reach
75% by the end of 2018.China also
imports oil from Africa and Central Asian countries. Ports, SLOC
(Sea Line Of Communications)
and pipelines act as arteries which
carries blood (crude oil) to China’s
economic heart. Just like choking
of arteries causes heart failure any
disruption in China’s oil route will
derail its economic growth. So, it’s
very important for China to have an
easy access to energy source and
maintain its flow unabated and unhampered. There are several other
incentives which gives impetus for
continuing this policy.
Meaning of String of Pearls
‘Pearls’ can be aptly defined as
sphere of influence secured or
maintained through diplomatic,
economic, and military means.
It is in the form of airstrip in
Parcel archipelago, deep water port in Sittwe (Myanmar),
container shipping facility in
Chittagong(Bangladesh), navy
base in Gwadar(Pakistan) ,intelligence gathering installations near
Malacca Strait in Hambantota(Sri
Lanka).The number of these
‘pearls’ and their strategic location
led to the term ‘string of pearls’.
Means to establish ‘pearls’
China adopts various strategies to
establish influence (pearls) over
countries of its interest. Some of
the strategies are as follows.
Aid and infrastructure build-up
Dollar diplomacy had always
been the oldest trick to exert
influence over other nation. It
is achieved by providing cheap
loans, grants and technical expertise to the host nation. China has
undertook massive infrastructure
build up in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,
Pakistan and Myanmar. This is the
main reason why most of the India’s neighbouring countries have
allied themselves to China.
Establishment of Common
ground
China effectively integrates its
stake with that of host country
.This helps China in fostering a
win win relationship and increases trust of host nation on China.
Two classic examples of it are
Myanmar and Pakistan.
•Pakistan – China helped Pakistan
in building Gwadar port which
was needed by Pakistan to reduce
its dependence on Karachi which
was blockaded by India in 1971.
China invested about 200 million
US$ in first phase which was four
times to that of Pakistan contribution. In return China got its naval
Harshvardhan Singh B.Tech 2011-2015 Batch
STRING OF PEARLS
The relationships between India and China have never been clearly defined and with
the changing global infrastructure, it cannot be denied that China’s policies need to
be closely abandoned. One of the most prominent of theories is ‘String of Pearls’.
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MANIFESTATINS
base (Gwadar is recently
handed over to China )
near Strait of Hormuz
through which 40% of oil
passes. China is also sympathetic to Pakistan’s lack
of conventional firepower
in comparison to India.
China is leading supplier
of arms to Pakistan.
•Myanmar- China actively
supports Junta government which is a dictatorial regime run by military.
Myanmar is internationally isolated due to the
human right violation by
its government. Support
of China (permanent
member of UNO with
veto) grants legitimacy
to the government.
China is also involved in
infrastructure build-up
in Myanmar and built a
deep water port in Sittwe.
This port has brought
Bay of Bengal within easy
reach of China. This will
increase China’s ability
to tackle any situation in
Malacca strait through
which re than 60% of its
oil passes. A project was
sanctioned by Junta government that will conjoin
China’s province of Yunnan with Myanmar’s western coast. This new dual
pipeline, nearly 4,000km
long, which facilitates the
transference of oil and
gas from the offshore
Shwe fields in the Arakan
State to Kunming, China’s
capital in Yunnan province, saw the commencement of a giant investment by Chineseto the
tune of US$29 billion over
a 30 year period.
Motivation behind
Pursuing ‘String Of
Pearls’
It is very important to
understand why China
is spending billions of
dollar in other countries
and what are its interest.
China’s involvement in
Asian subcontinent has
caused sleepless nights to
India strategists.
SOCIAL FACTOR
1.3 billion Chinese people
are ruled by CCP(Chinese
Communist Party) in one
party political system. So
they are solely depended
on CCP to get their economic condition right.
Chinese do not have
power to change political
party. If CCP fails to maintain its economic growth
and meet the aspiration
of the people there will
be civil unrest against
the government. So it’s
very important for CCP
to maintain its economic
growth which is directly
related to continuous and
unhampered supply of
crude oil. Also development project in other
countries not only infuse
wealth but also creates
employment opportunities for Chinese people.
Gwadar’s rail and road
linkages and the development of the Karakoram
connecting China and
Pakistan, through the
Khunjeraband the Uzen
oilfield and pipeline deal
in Kazakhstan worth
US$4.4 billion brings business to underdeveloped
province of China Yunan
and Xinjiang.
CHOKE POINTS IN
THE SUPPLY ROUTE
This factor is the focal
point behind Chinese
pursuance of ‘string of
pearls’. China is geographically separated
by large distance from
middle east (major source
of its oil) which makes its
supply route vulnerable.
China depends mostly
on sea routes (SLOC) for
its oil supply and there
are many choke points
which can be used by
hostile forces to block this
supply. One such choke
point which former head
of Chinese government
Mr.Hu Jintao mentioned
was ‘Malacca Dilemma’.
MALACCA DILEMMA
Malacca is a strait in
Indian ocean which connects Indian and pacific
Analyzing
the Malacca
Dilemma
POLICY ANALYSIS: STRING OF PEARLS
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ocean and worlds 25% of trade passes
through this strait. This strait separates Malaysia and Indonesia. Countries like China, Japan, South Korea are
heavily depended on this sea route for
all their supply especially energy.
Council. String of Pearls is a multifarious attempt by China to deny India
any access to strategic ports, shipping lanes, pipeline opportunitiesand
transport routes essential for getting
energy.
Out of 5.62 million barrel of crude
oil required by China daily approximately 4 million barrel pass through
this strait. We can see bottleneck
feature of Malacca strait which can
be easily blockaded by Indian Navy
using Andaman and Nicobar island.
Chinese Admiral Zhang Ming once
said that that India could use Andaman and Nicobar islands as ‘iron
curtain’ to block China’s supplies at
straitof Malacca. We can see black
line connecting all the ‘pearls’ running parallel to China’s supply route.
Chinese know that Indian navy is the
most important player in Indian ocean
and ‘string of pearls’ is an attempt by
China to prevent it from becoming
“India’s ocean”.
INDIAN RESPONSE
ECONOMIC FACTOR
Even though China invests huge
amount of money in other countries
but it also gains from this development work. First of all China gets new
market for its cheap manufactured
products. Huge development project
add to the fortune of Chinese companies simultaneously injecting funds
from China’s left pocket back into
its right, this self reinforcing cycle of
‘inter pocket money transfers’ thereby
keeping foreign capital outflow to a
minimum.
INDIA
Just like China, India is also one of the
fastest growing economy and hence
serious contender to China in energy
table. If we look at the photoabove
we can observe how strategically the
‘pearls’ are placed which seems like a
string to strangle India. State sponsored Chinese company outbid Indian
company in gas and oil concession.
Veto power helps China to block
any sanctions passed in UN Security
N’SCAPE 2015: MANIFESTATIONS
Before looking into India’s possible
response to Chinese ‘String of Pearls’
we have to examine why China was
successful in establishing its influence
in the subcontinent. One of the most
important factor was economic and
military might of India. Neighbouring
countries did not appreciate India’s
rising power and instead of taking
advantage of thriving economy they
sought China as a leverage against
India. For example Pakistan after moving away from US moved closer to
China .China fully utilized the opportunity and established a naval port in
Gwadar and acquired new market for
its weapon. The poverty of Indian subcontinent also proved boon for China
to exert their influence through Dollar
diplomacy. Indian foreign policy had
always been directed against Pakistan and failed to appreciate Chinese
threat. It is appalling to see that Indian
subcontinent which thrived in ancient
times due to commonalities in culture,
language ,philosophy are now ridden
with insecurities and fear. It is failure
on Indian part that it was unable to
boost confidence and sense of trust
in its neighbours due to defective
foreign policies. India should make
more use of SAARC and not merely as
platform for India and Pakistan grievance redressal. Just like neighbouring
countries of India feel threatened
by its rising power same is the case
with China. Taiwan is not recognized
by China, Vietnam had fought wars
with China and we all know about
hatred for Japan (atrocities done by
Japanese army in China during WW2)
in China. India can enter into alliance with Pacific countries who are
threatened by rise of China. India’s
closeness with Vietnam ,Taiwan, Japan
and South Korea has caused stir in
China’s diplomatic circle. India has
now shifted its attention to China. BJP
government is working fast to counter
Chinese moves. Recent visits by Modi
to Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Maldives and
Seychelles is clear indication that government is determined to beat China
in its own game. Modi has activated
the first of the Indian Navy’s planned
32 coastal surveillance radar (CSR)
stations in the Seychelles, marking the
beginning of the rollout of an Indianled maritime surveillance project set
to have stations in the Seychelles, the
Maldives, Mauritius and Sri Lanka.
This is aimed to track movements of
Chinese navy in Indian Ocean. We
should never forget that China is
highly deceptive in its policies and we
have learnt that lesson hard way in
1962. Indian policy makers should not
fall for China’s assurance of ‘peaceful
rise’ or deal regarding 33 billion dollar
investment in India. India should be
pragmatic while dealing with China
and capitalize on its vulnerabilities.
Source
Challenge and Strategy: Rethinking
India’s Foreign Policy- Rajiv Sikri.
Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy- David
Melon
Centre for Security Studies in Taiwan:
CSS
Indian defence Review
MANIFESTATIONS
Ayush Srivastava, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, B. Tech Final year
(SOCIAL) DUTY CALLS ALL
The present day India faces many issues that need to be rectified urgently. Whether it be lack of a
proper education system or a missing support group network, there are numerous little ways in
which everyone can help serve the nation.
T
he year of 2015 marks
the 50th anniversary
of the end of the second world war and we have
been blessed to be free from
a third one as of yet. One of
the most traumatic events
of the war was the nuclear
bombing of Japan and the
terror and the damage of
this still hasn’t left the people, physically or mentally.
But that doesn’t mean that
the country is still in ruins.
Rather, as it is well-known,
Japan is one of the most
developed countries of the
world, going head-to-head
with other developed countries. So how did it manage
to shrug off something so
devastating as if it were just
a minor inconvenience?
People say that a country
doesn’t make its people, it
is the people who make the
country. I don’t doubt that
this was inspired by Japan
and the people who made
it. Even before the dust had
settled, they were back on
their feet and were rebuilding what had been lost. No
one paid them to do so and
it cannot be that people
didn’t have losses to mourn.
But they still came forward,
answering the call of social
duty when their country
needed them the most.
Today, India stands at crossroads, both on an internal
level and at the global stage.
We make new discoveries
that aim to make life simpler
yet we have thousands of
Indians who are fighting a
daily struggle to survive.
The divison between the
rich and the poor has never
been so noticeable and the
frustrations of the suffering are rising, making them
prone to acts of violence.
It can then be said undeniably that the country stands
on the edge of a precipice,
where any mistake can make
it tear itself apart. And so the
country calls its creators, its
residents, its children, all the
Indians for help. It matters
not whether the person
is rich or poor, literate or
illiterate, abled or differently
abled... what matters is a
true dedication for being
willing to help. Because as
much as we are creators of
the modern-day India, it is
our motherland as well.
I ask those who hesitate:
Does the country ask you to
abandon what you do? Does
it ask you to ignore your
own flesh and blood? Does
it force you to deny yourself
basic sustenance for its sake?
The answer to all of them is
a resounding no. You can be
a social worker, a volunteer,
or even a part-time helper.
If nothing else suits, you can
just do what you know best.
All it asks for is that you put
some thought for its welfare
as well whenever you make
a choice.
One week of your time
equals 168 hours and even if
we take out all the unavoidable hours (8 hours for sleep
daily, 8 hours of work for 6
days, 2 hours of travel for 6
days, 4 hours of cooking and
eating), you are still left with
40 free hours. Since even the
time taken above as unavoidable is actually flexible,
is it really hard to pull out a
meagre hour and a half for
the country?
There is no need to become
a politician or a big celebrity to bring out a change.
You can teach the underprivileged, work at a support
helpline, start a help group
or even just run promotions
for charities and NGOs. Even
your offer of doing their
taxes for them wouldn’t be
unwelcome. What really
matters here is that you do
something to help the country and its people.
Most people hem and haw,
claiming release from this
because there are others
around them who aren’t
doing anything either. What
you think as ignorance could
(note: COULD - because
some really are lazy) be a
search for a leader or an idea
they can rally behind. Even
the biggest of change starts
from just one person. So
why not start with yourself?
“Be the change you want to
see”, said Mahatma Gandhi
and he clearly preached
what he said. Only the
people who live here know
what needs to be taken care
of. I am not ignoring NRIs
here. It’s just that, short
of uprooting your whole
lives to return here, nothing comes to mind. But
that’s a point to be noted
(not my blank mind, mind
you). All the ideas I present
here came from me so can
anyone imagine the number
of ideas we will have if every
Indian contributed?
So never bemoan that no
one does anything and start
now. The country calls us
and it is our duty to respond.
Fear not if you are the first to
stand up. Or the last (though
you should have gotten up a
little earlier). It doesn’t show
anyone’s lack of care (except
the aforementioned lazy
fellows’). And lastly never
be unwilling to step aside
for someone whose cause
is true and just. There can
always be someone who is
willing and capable to lead
what you started into the
future. After all, everyone
deserves a chance to outshine others.
CALL FOR ACTION: (SOCIAL) DUTY CALLS ALL
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एक बन्दा जो 16 17 वर्ष का है ,को जब इश्क होता है ,तो वो एकांत मेँ बैठकर सोचता है ।।
वो अकेले मेँ अपने प्रियतम को अपने पास महसूस करता है ,ये सिलसिला बहुत दिनोँ तक चलता है ।।
एक अजब सी शाम थी,वो हमारे पास थी ।
फासले बस कुछ पलोँ की फिर वो मेरे साथ हो ।।
दरमियाँ कुछ इस तरह से कम सी होती रह गयी ।
फासले बस कुछ पलोँ की फिर वो मेरे साथ हो ।।
बात ये उस वक्त की है ,जब वे मुझसे थे जुरेँ ।
सारे शिकवेँ और गिले थे हमसे जा करके मरु े ।।
पर जब उनकी सादगी से हम हुए थे रुबरु ।
तब मुझे ऐसा लगा जैसे हो मेरी आबरू ।।
बस फासले अब कुछ पलोँ की फिर वो मेरे पास हो ।।
दिन ये आधा सा लगे,रात जैसे हो भरी ।
अब तो मेरे शाम को भी कुछ बना दे ऐ परी ।।
जन्नतोँ तक हो सफर ये तो तुमको ज्ञात हो ।
हम हमी मेँ डूब जाए ऐसा कुछ आभास हो ।।
फासले पर कुछ पलोँ की फिर वोँ मेरे पास हो ।।
फूल जैसी हो खिली पर मखमली एहसास हो ।
दे खकर ऐसा लगे जैसे लबोँ की प्यास हो ।।
पास तुम इतनी रहो कि हम कभी बिछरेँ नहीँ ।
प्यार हम इतना करेँ पर करवटेँ बदले नहीँ ।।
और फासले बस कुछ पलोँ की फिर वोँ मेरे साथ है ,
अब एक अजब सी शाम हैँ फिर वो मेरे पास हैँ ।।
Bhupendra Kumar
B.Tech Final year
N’SCAPE 2015: POET’SCAPE
poet’scape
साथी तुम भी हाथ बढ़ा दो
तपता सूरज आसमान में
किंतु जीवन अंधियारा है,
आशा का एक दीप जले तो
घोर निशा भी उजियारा है ।
उम्मीदो के दीये जला दो,
साथी तुम भी हाथ बढ़ा दो ।
गिरने का भय उडने ना दे
सपनो के आकाश मे,
मन पंछी बन उड़ जाता
‌‌‌‌‌अगर होती हीम्मत पास मे ।
हौसलो के पंख लगा दो,
साथी तुम भी हाथ बढ़ा दो ।
पराधीनता शीत लहर सी
रग-रग लहू जमा देती है,
स्वाभिमान की चिंगारी जो
ज़ंजीरे पिघला देती है ।
खुद्दारी की आग लगा दो,
साथी तुम भी हाथ बढ़ा दो ।
-- निशान्त सिंह
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कशिश तो आज भी उतनी ही है .
तुमसे मिलने की....
पर डर लगता है ..कही शलाखे मक
ु द्दर ना बन जाऐ......
Sengervaani
जब किसी से प्य‌
र होता ह‌
ै
तो आखों
‌‌‌‌‌‌‌
में स‌‌
पने और
‌‌
दिल में ‌अरम‌ान होते हैं ,
दनु िय‌ा ल‌गे खाली और अपना ही संस‌ार होता है ,
जब किसी से प्य‌
र होता है ।
Dilkush Meena
B.Tech 3rd year
आज एक और मक
ु ाम पार कर रहा हूँ
घोसले को छोड़, दनु िया में बढ़ रहा हूँ
आसमानों की चाह तो हमेशा से थी
पर आज उड़ने से डर रहा हूँ
कभी तो बहुत जल्दी थी, अंजाम की
तो फिर क्यूँ आज ...
आँखो की चमक को, आँसओ
मे बदल रहा हूँ
ु
कशिश अधूरी कहानियों की है
और ग़म इस बात का
की उन्हें अधूरा ही छोड़ रहा हूँ
अरमानों की मोटी किताब सी है
कुछ हँसाती कुछ रूलाती, याद सी है
सब छोड़ आगे बढ़ रहा हूँ
हाँ, आज एक और मुकाम पर कर रहा हूँ
हाँ, आज एक और मक
ु ाम पर कर रहा हूँ.
Viskas singh senger
Btech 2011-2015 Batch
N’SCAPE 2015: POET’SCAPE
poet’scape
खुद से लड़ाई
सपनों की दनु िया में बेवजह खुद को झोकता हूँ,
मुझ को लगता है मैं खुद ही खुद को रोकता हूँ।।
खुद को समझ पाना भी एक पहे ली लगती है ,
अब मुझे जिंदगी और मौत भी सहे ली लगती है ,
तू आलम ना पूछ मेरी लाचारी का,
अब तू परीक्षा न ले मेरी समझदारी का,
न जाने क्यों हर वक्त किस्मत को कोसता हूँ,
मुझ को लगता है मैं खुद ही खुद को रोकता हूँ ।।
नदियाँ समंदर में मिल कर खो जाती है ,
मेरी विद्वता मुझमें धुल कर सो जाती है ,
जब मैं दे खता हूँ बच्चों को नंगे पाँव चलते हुये,
मैं रोकता तो हूँ पर मेरी आँखे नम हो जाती है ,
न जाने क्यो हर वक्त अपने आँसुओं को रोकता हूँ,
मुझ को लगता है मैं खुद ही खुद को रोकता हूँ ।।
Ashutosh Mishra
M.Tech 2013-2015 Batch
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तेरी याद आई
मेरे दिल की धरकनो से,
हल्की सी आह आई ।
दिल ने तुझे पुकारा,
मझ
ु े तेरी याद आई ।।
पर क्या करू अभी मैं,
तू दरू है ओ यारा ।
तेरी याद हीँ सहारा,
तेरी याद हीँ गुजारा ।।
एक पल भी ऐसा ना हो,
जब तू ना याद आई ।
क्या करता मैं बेचारा,
बस ओढ ली रजाई ।।
फिर रात में जो तुम,
सपनोँ में चली आई ।
में री धरकनोँ ने धक धक,
कर दी मुझे बधाई ।।
रात तो सपनोँ में कट गयी,
अब फिर है सुबह आयी ।
मझ
ु े तेरी याद आई,
फिर तेरी याद आई ।।
Ashutosh Mishra
M.Tech 2013-2015 Batch
N’SCAPE 2015: POET’SCAPE
poet’scape
नफरतों का असर दे खो,
जानवरों का बटं वारा हो गया,
गाय हिन् दू हो गयी,
और बकरा मुसलमान हो गया ।
मंदिरो मे हिंद ू दे खे,
मस्जिदो में मुसलमान,
शाम को जब मयखाने गया ;
तब जाकर दिखे इन्सान ।
ये पेड़ ये पत्ते ये शाखें भी परे शान हो जाएं..
अगर परिंदे भी हिन् दू और मुस्लमान हो जाएं
--सूखे मेवे भी ये दे ख कर है रान हो गए..
न जाने कब नारियल हिन् दू और
खजूर मुसलमान हो गए ।
--न मस्जिद को जानते हैं , न शिवालों को जानते हैं
जो भूखे पेट होते हैं, वो सिर्फ निवालों को जानते हैं ।
अंदाज ज़माने को खलता है .
की मेरा चिराग हवा के खिलाफ क्यों जलता है ।
में अमन पसंद हूँ ,मेरे शहर में दं गा रहने दो...
लाल और हरे में मत बांटो ,मेरी छत पर तिरं गा रहने दो ।
Deepak Kumar Saw
B.tech 2nd year
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न जाने कौन सी बात थी उस अजनबी में ।
न जाने किस कि इतंज़ार थी मुझे उसकी गली में ।
साेच कर यही रातभर मैं जागता हूँ।
न जाने कौन से वादे किये थे उससे उस घड़ी में ।
पलट कर दे खता हूँ और फिर मँह
ु माेड़ लेता हूँ।
गुनाह मैं कर लिया था बसा कर उसकाे अपने दिल मे।
तम
ु
हम
सर
सर
हमें फूलाें के बदलें फूल दाे कांटे नहीं लेंगे।
जिगर पर ज़ख्म लेंगे, जख्म पर मरहम नहीं लेंगे।
हम दिवाने कभी पाबंदियो का ग़म नहीं लेंगे।
मह
ु ब्बत कर न लेंगे तब तलक दम नहीं लेंगे।
यह कैसा है आलम।
मझ
ु े कुछ समझ नहीं आता।
तेरे हुस्न के दिवाने हैं चारों तरफ।
मेरे इश्क के चरचे हेेंै चारो तरफ।
मैं हाे जाउँ गा फ़ना व बऱबाद।
तुम न दे खना किसी और आशिक कि तऱफ।
आधी रात को जब मुझको तेरी यादें आती हैं
छोड़ कर बिस्तर मैं, अपने गज़लें लिखने लगता हूँ।
तुम इतने ज़ालिम निकले कि तुम्हें याद नहीं अब आती हैं।
और मैं तेरी यादाें में हर रात को रोया करता हूँ।
पुरानी यादों को अब मैं यूं ही दोहराता हूँ।
तेरी बेवफाई कि फरियाद अब खदा
ु से सन
ु ाता हूँ।
हम फूल भी हैं, तलवार भी हैं
ज़ालिम को मिटाकर दम लेंगे।
एक बार जो हम कद़म बढ़ा लिये।
मंजिल पर पहुँच कर दम लेेंगे।
N’SCAPE 2015: POET’SCAPE
चाहो जितना जोर लगाओ।
पिछे हटने वाले नहीं।
पर अगर कफ़न बांध लिए।
को कटा कर दम लेंगे।
रात को नींद नहीं आती।
दिन को चैन नहीं आता।
तेरी बाहों में सोता हूँ, तेरी यादों में खोता हूँ।
तेरी चाहत की मंदिर को अपना घर बनाता हूँ।
मैं अपने अश्कों से अब अपनी प्यास बझ
ु ाता हूँ।
तेरी यादों में अाकर मैं खुद को भुल जाता हूँ।
अगर मुझसे मुहब्बत नहीं ताे रोते क्यों हो।
तनहाई में तेरे बारे में अकसर सोचता क्यो हो।
अगर मंजिल जुदाई है तो जाने दो मुझ।े
लौट कर आओगे कब पझ
ु ते क्यो हो।
Shabaz
2nd year
poet’scape
सारांश
ये कविता मैंने ‌अस्सी साल के आदमी के ऊपर लिखी थी जो अपनी बीबी के
चेहरे पर जिंदगी का सारांश दे ख रहा है |
तेरे चेहरे कि सिलवटों में कहीं मेरा अंश है ,मैं सोचता हूँ यही मेरा सारांश है ,
जो एक कदम न मिला पाऊँ तो क्यों ठहर जाती हो तुम,
जो एक साँस चढ़ जाये तो क्यों बहक जाती हो तुम,
क्यों काँपती हथेलियों को यूँ सहलाती हो तम
ु ,
क्यों सुबह उठते ही मुझको जगाती हो तुम,
तेरे हाथों की लकीरों में कहीं मेरा वंश है ,
मैं सोचता हूँ यही मेरा सारांश है ।।
जो मर गया है उसकी याद में मर नहीं सकता,
मैं जिंदगी से प्यार करता तो हूँ पर जी नहीं सकता,
यूँ तो मंजिलों की ख्वाहिशों में ढूढूँगा फिर तुझ,े
पर मैं सब
ु ह की चाय अकेले पी नहीं सकता,
मेरा ये जीवन तेरा ही अंश है ,
मैं सोचता हूँ यही मेरा सारांश है ।।
ऐसा नहीं कि अब मैं तझ
ु से मोहब्बत करता नहीं हूँ,
बस फर्क ये है कि मैं तिल तिल मरता हूँ जीता नहीं हूँ,
बहुत याद आता है तेरा हर बात पर रुठ जाना,
और आज आलम ये है कि मैं किसी को मनाता नहीं हूँ,
तेरा रूठना रूलाना मेरे जीवन का अंश था,
मैं सोचता हूँ यही मेरा सारांश था ।।
Ashutosh Mishra
M.Tech 2013-2015 Batch
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गायब है
इनसान कॆ बदन सॆ इनसान गायब है ,
तहज़ीब कॆ नाम पर चॆहरों सॆ मस
ु ्कान गायब है ।
मॆरॆ अब्बा जहाँ सॆ रोटी-ए-ईमान लातॆ थॆ,
शहर कॆ चौराहॆ सॆ आज वो दक
ू ान गायब है ।
उमर कॆ सोलवॆ पडाव पर जो ख़त लिखॆ थॆ,
ज़हन सॆ आज वो मोहब्बत कॆ पैग़ाम गायब है ।
पर कटॆ हो तो और बात थी,
पर ज़दा परिंदो की उड़ान गायब है ।
निशान्त सिंह
माता और पिता
ईश्वर से भी ऊँचा है इस जग में जिनका स्थान,
वे है माता पिता करो तुम ह्रदय से उनका सम्मान ।
धरती से भी बड़ी है माता, ममता की तो वो है खान,
पिता के आगे छोटा लगता है मुझको ये ऊँचा आसमान ।।
जन्म के पहले से ही माँ करती जीवन का सरस उत्थान,
जन्म के बाद पिताजी करते जीवन की हर राह आसान ।
माँ से संस्कारों की शिक्षा और मिलता प्रारं भिक ज्ञान,
उं गली पकड़ पापा सिखलाते, सही गलत की क्या पहचान ।।
खुद से भी पहले बच्चों की माँगो का रखती जो ध्यान,
ममता का सागर उरे लती, माता सच में है महान ।
बच्चों की हर इच्छाओ का रहता सदा जिनको ज्ञान,
सहर्ष पिताजी परू ा करते रखकर चेहरे पर मुस्कान ।।
जीवन के हर मोड़ पर दःु ख को हर कर सुख का दे ते दान,
इनके बिना सही में जीवन की है राह नहीं है आसान ।
गलती से भी जीवन में अगर हो जाए इनका अपमान,
शीश झुका चरणों में माँगो मिलेगा माफी का वरदान ।।
ईश्वर को ना किसी ने दे खा ना ही किसी को उनका ज्ञान,
माता पिता में ही मैंने तो सदा पाया अपना भगवान ।
लाख हो दौलत, लाख हो शोहरत, इनके बिना है सब सुनसान,
इनकी कमी हो तो सच में जीवन हो जाएगा वीरान ।।
जीवन के दो यही रत्न है , इनका है अमुल्य योगदान,
इनके बिना शुरु ही ना होगा जीवन का नामोनिशान ।
सेवा करो सदा इनकी तो पाओगे मीठा वरदान,
बिना तपस्या स्वर्ग पाओगे, जग में बनोगे बड़े महान ।।
N’SCAPE 2015: POET’SCAPE
Vikash Singh
B.tech 2011-2015 Batch
poet’scape
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I MAY HAVE A THOUSAND FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK
BUT NONE ARE MINE...
Waiting over a cliff... a sight of the horizon...
Random thoughts in the air... a glass full of run...
Flashbacks of the shadow... that once walked with me...
Has parted ways... before I could perceive...
No friends to ring... no girls to sing...
Just me alone... and my six string...
All hopes devoid... all questions stood...
Still in my mind ... and on the facebook ...
My last post... dated long six weeks...
No likes or comments ... even smiley or tweets...
No tags for me ... wished someone to cross the line...
I may have a thousand friends on facebook... but none are mine...
Peering down the clouds... into the rolling deep...
Tonnes of darkness... pulled me into sleep...
But someone caught me... like an anchor so strong...
Pulled my thoughts and body... and abused along...
Forever stupid... you psychopath moron ..
Had been searching you in the whole god-damn town...”
A smile broke... a tear ran down...
Some words of praise... some more antique abuses accompanied along...
I logged off facebook... peeped into cloud number 9...
I may have a thousand friends on facebook... but I am sure... some are mine...
Hitesh Godhwani
B. Tech 2011-2015 Batch
We met, we integrated,
it was destiny as u said
fortunately & unfortunately you were good at maths
i was bad at it, unfortunately
but you substituted me using your maths skill
Our integration was definite, as i thought
but i was dead wrong about being right.
it was INTEGRATION for sure, but an indefinite one
and that also ended on substitution method
Destiny integrated us, but your mathematical skill,
is differentiating me successively
i hate cunning substitution done by you,
and i will never be able to integrate myself
Even i get a definite integral with lower and upper limit!
THATS THE BEAUTY & UTTERMOST UGLY PART!!
Rajvardhan
Nifft alumni
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TAKE ME BACK
I want to go back to the time,
When getting high meant flying on my swing,
When Dad’s shoulders were the highest place in the world,
When worst enemies were my siblings,
When the only thing that could hurt me were skinned knees,
When the only things broken were toys,
When tears were because of empty stomach,
When each morning brought a day to play,
And “Good Byes” only meant till tommorow,
When cartoons were a part of my life,
When the staircase led to a new world,
When ‘A’ was only for Apple,
When mud pleaded me more than Gold,
When I worked only for chocolates,
When hatred was only for them who touched my things.
I just wish someone to Take me back...
Ragini Deogam
B.Tech 2014-2018 Batch
I WALK ALONE
Beneath the scarlet sky
where little chirpers fly,
crawling over thorny bed
drenched in sweat of crimson red,
working my fingers to the bone,
I talk alone,
I walk alone.
On back, perceiving giggly noise
but I hear the inner voice,
my dreams bizarre to them
like a sprint winnig lame,
no bivouac,no milestone,
I talk alone,
I walk alone,
Every dusk ends with a dawn
as a deer dear to fawn,
my dreams to me,not at all a freak
loosing liquidity without a magic trick,
they all stood beside as mate
as appeared the golden gate,
no longer I talk alone,
no longer I walk alone.
N’SCAPE 2015: POET’SCAPE
Nishant
Btech 2011-2015 Batch
poet’scape
WISH LIFE WAS A FAIRY TALE
In the witches and wizards land
Seeking silently for the magic wand
Inside the fairy world moving farther
Searching for a fairy god-mother
Waiting for a shooting star
Sending prayers above so far
Wish life was a fairy tale
Or the happenings like a movie trail
In every problem there is someone to guide
At every crossroad somebody helps to decide
After all struggles, follows a happy ending
But in reality, it's always a scary beginning
Every decision alone to make
Every situation alone to face
No magic that can undo the wrong
No support to make you strong
Uncertainty follows every action
Anxiety rules all the reaction
But far from reality like a child
Heart keeps roaming in the wild
Searching for magic here and there
Looking for happiness every where
Wishing life was a fairy tale....
Or the happenings like a movie trail.
Awantika Jha
B.TECH 2011-2015 Batch
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Puppy Eyes
Her silly excuses… Her senseless explanations…
Her trivial conflicts… Her complex equations…
Yes they annoy me… They really do…
But can’t stay mad at her… Just ask her to say “B-L-U-E-T-O-O-T-H”…
Her late replies… Her constant teasing…
Her never ending desire for eating…
Still can’t hate her… I keep asking myself why…?
There lies the answer… in those Puppy Eyes…
Her short temper… Low balance on her mobile…
She might be talking to others… but my number she forgets to dial…
Anyhow she knows it… She knows how to make me free…
Ah! That smile… and calling me her mp3…
Her poor memory… Her swift reading through these lines…
I wonder if it matters to her… as much as these rhyme…
Her promises for my birthday gifts… Her every single lie…
All forgotten… Once you look into those Puppy Eyes…
I smile imagining her… with her pocket sized hands…
Dare you ever forget me dear lady… this poem is my second…
I know she does care… and likewise she does ignore…
Sure I hate her… Still I love her more…
We sometimes quarrel… Though every time she wins the dispute…
But what the hell… She is so damn cute…
I wish He keeps her grinning… Never ever make her cry…
I am sure He fell in love with her… while making those Puppy Eyes…
poet’scape
"..all our love was just a beautiful painting..I made the outlines..u filled the colors...but over the
years when i look back...colors are faded away but the outlines are still there..."
Ashish
Nifft alumni
I've just realised there is a fire inside me.
I've just realised there is a liar inside me.
A liar who always said "you cannot do it",
A liar who always said "who cannot prove it"?.
But now I must confess that I was wrong.
All my negative thoughts are now gone.
Now I've got my aim,
Which was lost some where.
Now I'm moving towards it with courage and dare.
Bravely against all the storms,my flames will fight.
Even in difficult times,it will keep burning bright.
It doesn't matter if I am not famous or known.
But,I'll always do deeds for the happiness of my own.
I'm full of confidence and all my fear is dead.
I'll face this world with a smile on my face.
On each one's heart,I'll have my trace.
Ragini Deogam
B.Tech 2014-2018 Batch
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Your Lone Naked Hand
The sky is getting dark again.
Seductress sister of the light: the darkness.
For all the eternal times she loved me
But her face I never knew.
A woman like that,
The darkness of Falgun night, thick she grows.
Mind wanders off to an old extinct city.
The beauty of a grey palace old.
By the Indian ocean
Or maybe by the Pacific
Or maybe by the shores of Tayor sea,
It lied. The city extinct now.
A palace there lied.
Filled with furniture most precious.
Arabic carpets, Kashmiri shawl, ruby and pearl from Berin’s waves.
My depleted heart, my dead eyes, my dead disappearing dreams.
And you lady.
All these were in that world, that day.
Abundant orange sunshine was there.
Abundant orange sunshine.
And you were there.
Falgun nights bring me those fables from the sea.
Painful silhouette of such beautiful towers and tombs.
The extinct smell of pears
Grey manuscript of lion’s and deer’s hide.
Rainbow cut-glass window panes.
Our peacock coloured curtains from this room, to that, to the room further.
Our curtains and carpet, red sunshine
Red wine in red glasses!
And your lone naked hand.
Your lone naked hand.
Jibanananda Das
N’SCAPE 2015: POET’SCAPE
poet’scape
Journey...
Waiting for a ride...I hope it’s unto real...
I just can’t hide...my wishes won’t heal...
You behind my back...squeezing by my side...
Gripping my shoulders...to the perfect ride...
A trip down the lane...where my childhood sleeps...
A journey once again...to the shadow of a tree...
A road to cover...that meets in the moon...
My boulevard baby...starts and ends with you...
Beyond dense leaves...dancing with the wind...
Across timber stars...that smiles and sends...
A message through the oceans...serene and wide...
You are the one...for my perfect ride...
Under the Tuscan sun...beneath starry skies...
We don’t speak aloud...just stare in the eyes...
You say a million words...I perceive sweet bliss...
My solitude begins to blur...and I am desiring a kiss...
Responding the slumber affection...embracing the blues...
Tasting your allure...clean as strawberry juice...
A bath at the beach...with sun on the high...
Flowers dripping down...from heaven above the sky...
I come so close...I feel you breathe...
I close my eyes...whispering to thee...
That I am waiting for a ride...I know now it’s real...
I just can’t hide...my wishes won’t heal...
- The anonymous nifftian
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NOISE
Half won arguments that etched my past...
Secret crushes that ended last...
Rumors that ignorantly ran and swelled…
Moments when you made my heart melt…
And how I wish… I could’ve screamed it off…
Should’ve ended that shit… once in for all…
But all that remains is a dent…
And I write these lines SILENT…
Words that I read in my mind… but never dared repeat…
Guys who appeared all good and kind… but never proved to be…
Trust… lost and gone… vanished in the ocean of doubt…
But never could I come up with a question through my mouth…
And you knew I shall never retort…
So you confronted me with another assault…
Lies and love are things I rent…
And I bear it all SILENT…
The minutes shall certainly rewind in time…
The nasty words shall again mime…
I wonder if ever I’ll use my lips…
Or continue penning down like this…??
Because I presume I am better off speaking through rhyme…
And continue by inscribing another line…
And I am yet to figure how to end…
But by being SILENT…
Hitesh Godhwani
B.Tech 2011-2015 Batch
N’SCAPE 2015: POET’SCAPE
poet’scape
THE BITTER VOYAGE
Picking up the thorns...that poisoned my life once...
Soothing the petals...and its half opened buds...
Whacking by novels...bathed in dust...
I opened my thoughts... jammed with rust...
The gems and treasures within me unknown...
The portrait of a lady...blurred...but breathing still...
The seeds of love... drenched but unsown...
In a soil...that needed some affection to heal...
Putting down the curtains...that hid me from reality...
I peered down to the gloomy world...
Unable to bear the perceptions of anomaly...
I shut it up...deluding to be bold...
I was alone...alone in this illuminating darkness...
Alone...with no one for company...
Others thought me to be a maniac...with life full of ugliness...
But words...radiant and sunny...
Gambling my life...over my fate...
I came to a decision still and steady...
I asked this world for a mate...
But it said...” I’m just not ready”...
Losing my faith...falling in front of everybody...
I drew up the curtains...decided to die in illusion...
My small world would never need “somebody”...
To accompany me on my cushion...
Hitesh Godhwani
B.Tech 2011-2015 Batch
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Vivek Saurabh, Manufacturing Engineering, 2003 - 2007 Batch
NIFFT, My Alma
Mater
From the pen of an alumni, a few words regarding the
Alumni meet that took place on April 19, 2015 and the
place that started it all...
F
irst, it is praiseworthy that our
Alumni Meet is happening
after the gap of 11 years.
Retrospect:
Last time, in year 2004, I was a 2nd
Yr student of the institute. It was
very exciting moment for us to
meet the alums. But, I had a one
annoying thought that “why not
these alums connect to NIFFT quite
frequently? “. Henceforth, I had a
pledge in my mind that I will not be
like those Alums and will connect/
contribute on a constant basis.
Once I passed out in yr 2007, I was
able to continue that interaction
with the institute but it faded
out with the graduation of all the
batches which I had interacted
while I was on campus (faded after
graduation of batch 2006-2010).
Then, I realized that why our Alums
doesn’t interact with the institute
on the regular basis.
N’SCAPE 2015: AVENUES
Way forward:
In conclusion, we need a process
driven interaction rather than just
personal catch-up. This meet of
today is a great achievement but
the effort will get nullified if we
are not meeting the next time, if
we are unable to laid the process
for upcoming continued interaction. Building this process is like an
investment and it’s ROI should be
calculated over the span of 10-15
years to get it approved by budgetary committee of the institute. I will
suggest that without any further
debate on pros and cons the roadmap of next 10 Alumni Meet and
other sessions should be laid down.
Benefits can be seen across any
premier institute like IITs, IIMs and
so on. In last 11 years, if things have
not happened let both the Alums
and the Institute take the responsibility. Even if the attendance of first
alum meet is Zero, we should not
rethink to stop. It is an investment
and it has to pay-off in long run- in
terms of employ-ability, industry
interaction and so on. But, we can’t
run away from the brutal truth
that NIFFT has been at loss. And,
Institute has to play a major role in
driving this initiative.
Some brutal facts:
Talking about another brutal truth
is that good amount of the alums
doesn’t attribute their success to
NIFFT, which is quite saddening but
we can’t make that an hindering
excuse. I believe we still have good
amount of people who take pride
in graduating from NIFFT and have
taken the flag of NIFFT high. Let’s
focus on those alums, to start with.
On this session theme
It may sound rude, but the matter
AVENUES
of fact is that in a given
short time of event- our
focus should be more on
talking about sustaining
the process. Discussion
of Make-In- India can
take another stage, even
though I am also a big
proponent of MII.
Employability : Engineering vs. Beyond
Engineering
Also, there has been
tremendous debate that
whether NIFFT should
promote engineering job
or should also motivate
non-engineering skills of
the student. But, if we see
the bigger picture- the
world no more works in
a silos. Skills beyond engineering (I am avoiding
to use the Management
word straight away) is
highly essential even to
grow in the engineering
domain. Be it R & D or
Manufacturing, we can’t
isolate them with the
market; we can’t isolate
them with the Customer
Demands, requirement
and the Experience.
Although, it was heartwarming to listen that
number of NIFFT students
cracking premier MBA
school has been on rise
(again avoiding to say
IIM upfront) but still that
diversity is quite less.
Just to restate my pointour engineering skills
should be strengthened
everyday but we should
not isolate ourselves from
upcoming management
awareness. Personally, I
believe in 2-3 year work
experience before joining
a management sessions.
Also, if you see the from
employability perspective, even manufacturing
core firms likes of Tata
Group, Mahindra, TVS
they prefer both engineering topper with good
soft skills. In summary, we
have to broaden our love
and affection for the core
engineering to soft skills
training as well.
Example is abundent: IIT
is premier engineering
college. If you take their
placement number- it is
not surprising to know
that out of 4400 IITian,
1200 joins IIMs fresh from
the college (the numbers
are just exemplary). Even
though, IIT still keep its
core engineering flag
high.
Take Pride in NIFFT
NIFFT has always been
full of potential and opportunities, we need a
vision to achieve more
and an executor to make
that happen.
The team starts from
Director & Professor,
existing students and
end with Alumni. Let’s
give a new start to our
vision and work collectively to achieve it. The
decision should consider
every stakeholder of the
institute. Let ask for hard
question to ourselves: Do
we really want NIFFT, as
a big name in Engineering domain? OR we are
just want to keep running
the existing business as
usual. We have to dream
big first. Hence, we have
to take entire team along.
Alums come handy in
this, if not today but must
be tomorrow. We don’t
need to prove it- we have
history of a premier institute behind us.
Egg or Chicken ?
At the end of day, it is
our choice- whether you
want Alum meet to end
as a picnic spot or we
want Alum meet to shape
as a strategic discussion
platform. Fortunately,
this initiative has to come
from the Institute first, as
Alums are worthless people if not given a push by
institute, as they aligned
to different organization. They have their job,
family. They will prefer to
spend weekend with the
family rather than calling
someone at institute. So,
We- Alums, need a push
(at the end of day, we are
still engineers). :)
My Introduction
I am a proud graduate
of NIFFT. I graduated in
year 2007 in ME stream. I
was a part of Cricket team
which used to play in
tournaments of BIT Mesra
& ISM . I was “Cultural
Secretary” for JINKS 2006.
I have been scolded out
of the class for so-called
sleeping. I have been
asked to submit extra
assignment to compensate short attendance.
I have got a D in 4yr-1st
Sem (needless to mention
the course). Although,
my grade card says that I
am the Overall topper of
2003-07 (ME) batch.
Beyond that, I worked for
TATA Motors for 4 years
from 2007-2011. Then,
I joined Post Graduate
Diploma in Management program from IIMAhmedabad. Currently, I
am located in Bangalore
with a global IT integrator
with prime focus on SAP
ERP solutions.
And, I give all credits to
my 8 years of engineering
exposure ( 4 yr in NIFFT &
4 yr in Tata Motors) which
has build me as a better
manager.
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HIMANSHU SINGH RAGHUVANSHI, MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING, 2007-11 BATCH
LOOKING AS FAR AS IT
MATTERS
In the words of one who has gone through what we do, here are some pieces of wisdom
to help you shape your life at NIFFT.
F
oundry, Forge ....may be the least
of the glamorous names that
feature in an Engineering course
brochure. When you are as young as
18, you don’t know what these terms
actually mean unless you enter the
real world. Although the advent of
the boom in the IT industry and mass
recruitment in the sector, which in
itself promises a glamorous career, has
perhaps taken the sheen off the core
sectors and that too Foundry Forge being a rare specialization in Engineering.
But that can be a blessing in disguise
let me tell you. I know most of us aren’t
a happy lot while entering NIFFT, but
you can utilize the most of the available
resources to maximise your chances
of creating a launch pad. Don’t believe
people who say getting a good job is all
you have to strive for in a college. Doing
well after entering an organization is
the foremost challenge for which you
should prepare yourself.
Academics has a lot of focus
in colleges. But an industry oriented
approach is missing which I feel doesn’t
let the students know what the industry
expects and demands of them.
So, I will try to offer you the
best advice to start your career on a
booming note.
First Year :
Always a fun year. Take some time out
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and complement yourself because you
have ended up in a decent place after
all the hard work.
a)Enjoy the campus life and yes don’t
forget to take Engineering Drawing
seriously. One of the most important
subjects and you need to remember
the basics for as long as you live (in a
manufacturing industry that is).
b)Learn to use the Internet smartly. I
feel the difference between NIFFT and
other institutes at our times was that
other students used the internet very
well. Stuffs and content like NPTEL and
foreign universities’ material are there
aplenty. You just need to strike the cord
for four years.
SECOND YEAR :
By the end of the first year, school memories start getting thinner and you have
already fetched lots from college to tell
your school mates. You must enjoy the
2 month vacation to the fullest without
bothering about anything because you
are going to push hard the rest of the 3
years.
a)Start realising what the syllabus holds
in store for you.
Grade Points are as important
as anything in a college. So push hard
for a good score.
AVENUES
People will tell
you that even decent
marks can’t get you jobs
but believe me low grade
points can be an irritating
bottleneck (don’t ask me
why i haven’t been getting an IIM Shillong call all
this while).
The most crucial year of
course. You are put up
against the most important subjects. Up till now
you must have a clear feel
of what you need to do.
a)First feel of Foundry.
Hmmm....Now you get to
see three types of people.
Some with a liking for it....
some indifferent...give
them anything they’ll
study without much fuss
!!!....and the third one
with a direct aversion
b)Subjects like Machine
Design and Mechanics
need to be taken seriously because although
you aren’t a mechanical engineer but these
are very important for a
NIFFT engineer as well
(this is how you’ll be
called in an industry).
Start having a feel of the
subjects pertaining to the
metal industry.
Image Credits: Anurag Sir & Ashish Sir
B. Tech. 2010 2014 Batch
THIRD YEAR :
toward foundry (I was
by far the third kind). No
point forcing yourself,
but still FOUNDRY is your
‘marque’. Have a read of
books like Rosenthal (it
may turn out to be your
boss’ favourite book....as
in my case....a good appraisal in prospect) .
The world of tomorrow
will only respect specialists. One reason why
countries like Japan have
been standout performers is that every individual is respected for the
specific talent. Welders
have separate grades and
even they may rise to the
executive level in that
grade. Similarly for technicians, and very soon
the Industries worldwide
will imitate the model for
Image Credits: B. Tech 2007-2011 Batch
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retention of talent.
The fifth semester is the
perfect time to realise
what your need to do
after you pass out of
college. Academics....
Industry.....whatever....
just be in a position to
decide. Otherwise the
coming two years, you’ll
keep dancing to unfamiliar tunes.
b)So try mastering your
marque. You’ll have
enough subjects to learn
the nuances in the coming two years. And once
you have knowledge of
machine design, Mechanics, Foundry....the perfect
time to go for designing
softwares.PRO-E should
be a must....PROCAST,
WEBCAST the next on
the list.
The biggest
rumour which goes
around in NIFFT is that
these softwares are only
essential for people who
are going to work in a
Foundry....STOP STOP....
even for companies who
procure the foundry/
Forge components from
suppliers, you need the
give the semi-finished
drawing (in few cases)
and validate the components coming in. So
stop fooling yourself and
go for at least these two
softwares( if not more...
they’ll anyways add to
your cv).
FINAL YEAR
Get yourself a decent
job because that is the
best thing you can do
in the Seventh semester
(with Modern Methods of
Manufacturing and a few
more subjects in store....).
a)You’ll have the first feel
of Forge and as you did
in Foundry, keep going
for it...
b)I guess you must have
decided your future, so
give it a full go.
The biggest
mistake students commit is by relaxing in the
2011-2015 Batch. Study
as hard as you can and
party harder....utilise the
library (maybe I am the
wrong person to say so...
but still)
c)Go for a good Project
because this question in
an interview will haunt
you for the rest of your
life otherwise.
And take heart
from the fact that after
gruesome four years
you are emerging out a
specialist...a rare breed....
be proud of it....because
you’ll stand out in an
industry believe me.
You’ll be an asset to any
manufacturing industry
you walk in. So take heart
from the fact and be prepared for a launch. Biggest challenge that NIFFT
today faces is creating a
brand without too much
glamour and popularity
associated with it.
“ It’s the students
who make and
shape a college,
get involved right
now and create a
tag for yourself.”
A decent job + sound knowledge + Hard work = #WINWINSITUATION
A good job + Below par Knowledge + Casual Attitude = #STUCKUPCAREER
Academics has a lot of focus in colleges. But and industry oriented approach is missing which I feel
doesn’t let the students know what the industry expects and demands of them.
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AVENUES
ANSWER THE CALL OF THE
WILD BY INTERNING WITH
WWF INDIA
LEARN TO DISCOVER BY
TRAINING AT TIFR
Shashank Priya, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, B. Tech. Final year
The Nature calls...
The option of interning at World Wide Fund for Nature for the ones interested in serving the nature.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
is an international non-governmental
organization working on issues regarding
the conservation, research and restoration
of the environment. It is the world’s largest
independent conservation organization
with over 5 million supporters worldwide,
working in more than 100
countries, supporting around
1,300 conservation and environmental projects. WWF is a
foundation, in 2010 deriving
57% of funding from individuals and bequests, 17% from
government sources (such as
the World Bank, DFID, USAID)
and 11% from corporations.
It has invited students to
pursue internships projects.
The internship will provide
exposure in the fields of wildlife and forest
conversation and will involve field visits.
About WWF-India: - The World Wide Fund
(WWF), India is the Indian part of the WWF.
It has an autonomous office in Delhi.
About the Internship: – This is an ideal
internship for students wanting to work
with wildlife. This internship is
aimed at providing exposure
to participants in the field of
wildlife conservation. It will not
only enrich the students with
practical knowledge of forest
& wildlife but it also be lifetime
experience & lot of fun also.
Eligibility: - All students of all years studying in recognized colleges, universities and institutions
of higher learning are eligible to apply for the Internship.
Duration: – The duration of the internship will be between 1 to 6 months. Interns will have to be
committed to work for atleast 1 month.
Location: - Head office in Delhi. Internship location maybe anywhere in India.
Stipend:-It is an unpaid internship.
Contacts:-wwfindia.org, Tel. No.- +91-11-41504815,+91-11-41504810
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Shashank Priya, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, B. Tech. Final year
A Summer of
research
The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research opens its doors for a
training program of two months duration, aiming to train the future
scientists.
ABOUT TIFR
The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
(TIFR) is a research institution in India
dedicated to basic research in mathematics
and the sciences. It was established in 1945
with the support of J.R.D. Tata, and Homi J.
Bhabha was appointed its first director.
It gained deemed university status in 2002 works
under the umbrella of the
Department of Atomic
Energy of the Government of India.
programmes in which talented students are
given an exposure to research activities in
areas of Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics (Astronomy
& Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics
& Material Sciences, High Energy Physics,
Nuclear & Atomic Physics and Theoretical
Physics). The programmes
are held at the Mumbai campus of the Tata
Institute of Fundamental
Research as well as at the
National Centre for Radio
Astrophysics (NCRA),
Pune.
About VSRP
TIFR conducts summer
Eligibity:- Pre-2011-2015 Batch students of B.E./B.Tech. Internship is provided in seven departments of TIFR, namely; biological sciences, chemical sciences, astronomy & astrophysics,
condensed matter physics & material sciences, high energy physics, nuclear & atomic physics,
theoretical physics.
Dates:- Advertisement is generally put on institutes website in December. Last dates vary from
department wise but it is generally mid January to mid February.
Duration:- Internship is of around 2 months. It starts from mid May to 1st week of July.
Stipend:-Rs 7000/- month. Apart from that, return sleeper class fare & shared hostel accommodation is also provided.
Contacts:- www.tifr.res.in Tel.No.- (022) 2278 2875 / 2629 /2241 E-mail:- [email protected]
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Divyansh Singh, Manufacturing Engineering
B. Tech 2011-2015 Batch
DEFENCE
A VIABLE OPTION
An in-depth look at the life of adapting a life as
one of the armed forces.
“W
hen you join
the services,
it not just
another job, it’s a way of
life” , this is the standard
response you get when you
ask anybody from a defence
background about the career prospects of the armed
forces. It is true in some way
as your whole routine, day
to day activities even your
thought process change.
We all should give a career
in the armed forces serious
thought.
Lack of job satisfaction leads to tremendous
frustration and results in
job-hopping. Jobs in the
civil world (the rest of the
world as addressed by defence personnel) whether
with the government or the
corporate leave one with no
alternate avenues if stuck
with a frustrating portfolio.
On the contrary, the sheer
variety, sense of purpose,
responsibility and pride, negate any job dissatisfaction
in the Forces. The service
also offers opportunity
for courses and postings
abroad. The Indian ArmedForces is renowned all over
the world and interaction
with foreign armies is
extensive. Service with UN
Forces provides exposure
and travel opportunities
across the globe.
For an effective
career, a long-term strategy
is essential and this is possible only if continuity and
job security is assured. The
Forces has been structured
to ensure that its personnel
work with unhindered dignity. Additionally, statutory
rules and regulations exist
to safeguard the interests of
the servicemen adequately
both while in service and
after retirement.
As far as pay is concerned
salaries have shot up consequent to the Sixth Pay
Commission. While the pay
and the allowances of an
Forces officer may superficially appear to be at par
with other Central government services, and may be
less than that offered by the
corporate sector, the quality
of life and non-inflationary
nature of the perks, which
the Forces offers outshine
the other services. Government job entitles you to
many hidden perks, which
you may NOT quantify
while calculating remuneration.
On one hand is a
job with a thick pay packet
but with the drudgery of
a 9AM to 9PM schedule,
no avenues and time for
extracurricular activities,
no scope for adventure and
excitement, no social status,
lack of family life, threat of
being terminated with a
month’s salary. On the other
hand it is a job which offers
you challenge, adventure,
excitement, honour, prestige, self-respect, safety and
security for the family and
to top it all the love, respect
and esteem of our countrymen.
In the somewhat
chaotic social and economic conditions that prevail
nowadays, Armed Forces
life is an island of sanity and
social order that is the envy
of our countrymen. Quality
of life is an important attribute and has no parallel
in any other service.
But like everything
in existing in nature there
are certain limitations of
this career as well:
•Lifetime Employment (you
can’t leave once you join –
no opportunity to job hop
for greener pastures)
•Frequent Transfers (unstable family life, problems
of long distance marriage in
case of a working spouse or
for children’s education)
•Regimentation (no one
likes curbs on their lifestyle)
•Restrictions (speech, marriage, appearance)
•Modest Career Prospects
(slow seniority based promotions, no incentives for
high achievers, moderate
salary, early retirement)
•War - let’s face it...that’s
what you’re there for. You
could minimize your risk by
picking a cadre that doesn’t
involve actual combat.
Combat situations are
stressful in itself though.
An unsettled family
life and its adverse effect on
children’s education further
contribute to the disadvantages of this career.
At end I just want
to say that life in the armed
forces is adventurous challenging and tough. Not everyone is cut out for it, but
those who are, should give
this career option a serious
thought.
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Abhijit Chaudhari, 1997 -2001 Batch
THE JOURNEY OF GATEFORUM
From the pen of an alumni, the story of how the e-teaching site GATEFORUM came into existence...
I
still have vivid memories of my
first day (in the year 1997) at
NIFFT. While there was a sense of
excitement and anticipation at the
beginning of a new life, there was
also a tinge of disappointment at not
having cleared IITJEE. But the blues
lasted only a few days and I soon took
to the campus like fish to water. A
special mention must be made of my
batchmates and seniors for ensuring I
didn’t feel like an outsider (I had come
all the way from Hyderabad). The next four years
I spent in the campus
taught me many things,
the biggest learning being believing in myself
and dreaming big. What
I also got in NIFFT was an
environment that encouraged you to think and this
helped me a great deal
ever since.
During my MBA I realized I
wasn’t cut out for the corporate world and after passing
out, teamed up with a few
friends (from my school and
NIFFT) to start off on my own.
The idea of GATEFORUM
took birth to plug the huge
gap between the preparatory
tools GATE aspirants wanted
and what were available. We
faced many hurdles initially,
An interview call
GATEFORUM is now one of top sites for
from an IIM was
GATE preparation
considered the Holy Grail
and getting calls from all six
with the usual funds crunch,
was too absurd to even think
ideas not working out the way
about. But the encouragewe wanted them to which led
ment of friends and a single
to many internal conflicts and
minded approach to CAT
misunderstandings. But all
helped me pull off 6 calls (that through the struggles we did
I joined IIM Lucknow after this not lose sight of the goal and
is a story for another day).
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continued to believe in our
dreams. Slowly but steadily
GATEFORUM grew – grew
to a stage where we are the
largest organization in the
field of GATE training, having
trained more than 1.5 lakh
students since inception. But
this is only half the job done
and we still have a long way
to go. My parting words for
all students of NIFFT – grab
everything this
wonderful institute
has to offer, start
believing in yourself
and then as they
say, impossible is
nothing.
TECHNOMANIA
Durgesh Shukla, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, B. Tech 3rd year
GRAPHENE - A NEW
CLASS OF MATERIALS
Graphene has been declared as a new class of materials that now the entire industrial world is focusing on. Here’s a look at this newly discovered
material...
G
raphene is a two
dimensional
(2D) crystalline
material which has
recently been analyzed
as a new class material. This new material has a number of
unique properties
which make researchers and scholars to
take deep interest in
it. The two scientists
who have made the
decisive contribution
to the development of
a new material , Andre
K. Geim and Konstantin S. Novoselov ,both
at the University of
Manchester(U.K.). For
this they are awarded
the NOBEL PRIZE in
PHYSICS in 2010. The
method they adopted
to extract thin layer
from graphite is very
simple and effective
mechanical exfoliation method. Extracting thin layers from
graphite from graphite
crystals with scotch
tape and then transferred these layers to a
silicone substrate until
they got a monolayer
2D honeycomb like
structure.
There are various types of graphene :
(a) monolayer graphene (b) Bi- and
tri- layer graphene(c)
few layer or multilayer
graphene (d) Graphene
oxide etc…
Different types
of graphene have different properties due
to number of layers.
PROPERTIES
Graphene has a
number of remarkable properties which
makes this material
special. It is the only
form of carbon in
which every atom is
available for chemical
reaction due to its 2D
structure. Defects within a sheet have special
the chemical reactivity.
Graphene burns at low
temperature (350 oC).
It is commonly modi-
fied with oxygen and
nitrogen containing
functions group and
analyzed by infrared
spectroscopy and X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy.
ELECTRONIC
Graphene is a zero
gap semiconductor
because its valence
and conduction bands
meet at dirac points .
Electrons propagating
through graphene’s
honeycomb lattice
effectively lose their
mass producing quasiparticles that are described by a 2D analyze
of the Dirac equation
rather than the Schrodinger for spin -1/2
particles . Experimental
results from transport
measurements show
that the graphene has
a remarkeable electron
mobility at room temperature with reported
values in excess of
15000 cm2V-1s-1.
Additionally , the
symmetry of the experimentally measured
conductance indicates
that hole and electron
mobilities is nearly te
same. The mobility is
nearly independent
of the temperature
between10K and 100K.
he corresponding
resistivity of silver , the
lowest known at room
temperature . However
for room temperature
graphene on SiO2
substrate scattering
of electrons by optical
phonons of the substrate is a larger effect
than scattering by
graphene’s own phonons. It has conductivity higher than the
conductivity of copper
which is 0.6x106 ohm1cm-1. The thermal
conductivity of graphene is dominated
by phonons and has
been measured to be
approximately 5000
Wm-1K-1. Copper at
room temperature has
a thermal conductivity
of 401Wm-1K-1. Thus
graphene conducts
heat 10 times better
than copper.
THERMAL
CONDUCTIVITY
Thermal transport in
graphene is an attract-
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ed attention because
of the potential for
thermal management applications.
Early measurements of
thermal conductivity of
suspended graphene
reported on exceptionally large thermal
conductivity of approximately 5,300 Wm-1K-1
at room temperature..
Potential for this high
conductivity can be
seen by considering
graphite , a 3D version of graphite that
has a basal plane
thermal conductivity
of over a 1000 Wm1K-1(comparable to
diamond) . In graphite ,
the c- axis (out of plane
) thermal conductivity is over a factor
of ~100 smaller due
to the week binding
forces between basal
planes as well as the
larger lattice spacing.
In addition, the ballistic
thermal conductance
of graphene is shown
to give the lower limit
of the ballistic thermal
conductances per unit
circumferences , length
of carbon nanotubes.
MECHANICAL
The carbon-carbon
bond length in
graphene is about
0.142nm. Graphene
sheet stack to form
graphite with an interplanar spacing of 0.335
nm. Graphene is the
strongest material ever
tested , with an intrinsic tensile strength of
130 GPa and a Young’s
modulus of 1TPa . A
1m2 graphene hammock would support
a 4 Kg cat but would
weigh only as much as
one of the cat’s whiskers at 0.77 ( about
0.001% of the weight
of 1m2 of paper) . The
spring constant of
suspended graphene
sheets has been measured using an atomic
force micoscope (AFM).
Graphene sheets were
suspended over SiO2
cavities where an AFM
tip was used to apply
a stress to the sheet
to test its mechanical properties. It has a
breaking strength of 42
N/m. Steel has a breaking strength in the
range of 250-1200 MPa
= 0.25 - 1.2 x 109 N/
m2. For a hypoethical
steel film of the same
thickness as graphene
this would give a 2D
breaking strength of
0.084 - 0.4 N/m. Thus
graphene is 100 times
stronger than strongest steel. Gaphene is
also relatively brittle,
with a fracture toughness in the range of 15
- 50 MPa m1/2. Later in
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2014, the Rice University team announced
that graphene showed
a greater ability to
distribute force from
an impact than any
known material , 10X
that of steel/unit
weigth.
MOST IMPORTANTLY
OF ALL FACTORS, USE
OF ‘SUBSTRATE’ IS
REQUIRED WITHOUT
WHICH GRAPHENE IS
OF VERY LITTLE USE.
THE USAGE OF SUBSTRATE
Interaction with the
substrate material
often lead to a loss of
the amazing properties
that characterize this
special form of carbon
. The major task on the
way to practical applications is the search
for suitable substrate
materials. The scientists used SiC with
hydrogen applied to
its surface as a sample
. Scientists from the
Max Planck institute for
Solid State Research in
Stuttgart only developed the specially
prepared semiconductor material a few years
ago. Before the use of
hexagonal boron nitride graphene devices
. Researchers found
that SiO2 substrates
are highly disordered
, exhibiting characteristics far inferior to
the expected intrinsic
properties of graphene
. While suspending graphene above the substrate yields substantial
improvement in device
quality, this geometry imposes severe
limitations on device
architecture and funtionality. Realization of
suspended like sample
quality in a substrate
supported geometry is
essential to the future
progress of graphene
technology. On SiO2,
the carrier mobility is
limited by scattering
from charged surfaces
states and impurities, substrate surface
roughness and SiO2
surface optical phonos.
Hexagonal Boron
Nitride (h-BN) promises to be an ideal
substrate dielectric for
improved graphene
-based devices . h-BN is
an insulating isomorph
of graphite with boron
and nitrogen atoms occupying the inequivalent A and B sublattices
in the Bernal structures
.The atomically planar surface should
suppress rippling in
graphene which has
been shown to me-
TECHNOMANIA
chanically confirm to
both corrugated and
flat substrates. The
dielectric properties of
h-BN compare favourably with SiO2, allowing the use of h-BN
as an alternative gate
dielectric with modes
of h-BN have energies
two times larger than
similar modes in SiO2,
suggesting the possibility of improved
high-temperature
and high electric field
performance of h-BN
based graphene devices over these typical oxide/ graphene
stacks. To fabricate
graphene on h-BN we
employ mechanical
transfer process.
FUTURE APPLICATIONS
Due to its interesting properties ,it has
a wide and important
applications Researchers and scholars are
taking deep interest
in development and
study more properties
of graphene . When
graphene is used
alone or combined
with other materials or
substances the possibilities are infinite.
It has enormous potential when used as a
membrane to seperate
liquids . It could see
huge progress in water
purification and treatment in developing
countries , and even
provide more efficient
desalination plants. It
can make the world a
safer place. In aircraft
technology and cars .
Through clothing for
the defence industry.
Due to its tremendous
mechanical and electrical properties , it has
agood application in
industrial areas. Since it
is a transparent conductor it can be used
in applications such
as touch screens,light
panels etc..The mobility of graphene is very
high which makes
interesting for electronic high frequency
applications. Graphene
absorbs light and retains it as energy. Add
this to its strength and
flexibility and bendable mobile phones
and cameras with
enormous battery life
are even closer.
When graphene
is used alone or
combined with
other materials or
substances, the
possibilities are
infinite.
THIS IS ONLY THE
START. THESE ARE
ONLY THE FIRST STEPS.
THE POTENTIAL OF
GRAPHENE IS LIMITED
ONLY BY OUR IMAGINATION....
The Geeky NIFFTian
BIMETALS
miniat. Illa con utet nulput
Bimetals are a combination of two metals or materials such that parent properties are accessible i.e sticking the two metals
such that they have a common interface. They are generally formed by explosion welding, diffusion bonding, centrifugal casting, continuous casting, compound casting etc. The methods are distinguished and are mainly selected such that the bonding
at the interface of the two metals is maximum. At the interface diffusion bonding is mainly responsible for the bond strength
between the two metals .Diffusion bonding mainly depends on temperature gradient which are described by Fourier ‘s laws
and concentration gradient defined by Fick’s laws. The two metals are selected such that they follow Hume- Rothery rules are
followed ,then more will be the affinity of metals for each other.
They are different from coatings which are also combination of two metals in terms of thickness the thickness of coatings is
lesser than that of a bimetal so they are prone to eradication in the form of flakes and thus they can’t be used in situations
where the required wear resistance of the external material is required to be high.
They are used in situations where both properties of metals are desired for eg for manufacture of automobile engines, pistons,
hydraulic breaks , ball bearings, space structures etc.
A simple bimetal can be produced by sand casting by top pouring, thorugh sand casting.
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Akarsh Singh, B. Tech 3rd year
WHY MATLAB?
A look at why MATLAB is gaining ground over other similar softwares when it
comes for practical usage
M
ost of the computer vision
researchers are
using exclusively matlab.
Let’s have a look at some
of the reasons why they are
switching to it.
1) Researchers need
fast prototyping
In research environment,
we have (hopefully) often
new ideas, and we want to
test them really quick to
see if it’s worth keeping on
in that direction. And most
often only a tiny sub-part of
what we code will be useful.
Matlab is often slower at
execution time, but we
don’t care much. Because
we don’t know in advance
what method is going to be
successful, we have to try
many things, so our bottle
neck is programming time,
because our code will most
often run a few times to get
the results to publish, and
that’s all.
2) Everything I need is
already there
Matlab has really a lot of
functions that I need, so
that I don’t have to reinvent
them all the time:
change the index of a
matrix to 2d coordinate:
ind2sub extract all patches
of an image: im2col;
compute a histogram of an
image: hist(Im(:)); find the
unique elements in a list
unique(list); add a vector
to all vectors of a matrix
bsxfun(@plus,M,V); convolution on n-dimensional
arrays convn(A); calculate
the computation time of
a sub part of the code: tic;
%%code; toc; graphical
interface to crop an image:
imcrop(im);
The list could be very long...
And they are very easy to
find by using the help.
The closest to that is
python...But It’s just a pain
in python, I have to go to
google each time to look
for the name of the function I need, and then I need
to add packages, and the
packages are not compatible one with another,
the format of the matrix
change, the convolution
function only handle doubles but does not make an
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error when I give it char, just 5) Documentation
Everything is very quick to
give a wrong output... no
access, everything is crystal
clear, and function names
3) Concise code
are well chosen. With
To normalize all the colpython, I always need to
umns of a matrix ( which I
google stuff, look in forums
need all the time),
or stack overflow.... comI do: bsxfun(@times,A,1./
sqrt(sum(A.^2)))
plete time hog.
To remove from a matrix all
colums with small sum:
A(:,sum(A)<e)=[]
What language can beat
that?
And of course, I rarely need
to make loops, everything is
included in functions, which
make the code way easier
to read, and no headache
with indices. So I can focus,
on what I want to program,
not how to program it.
4) Plotting tools
Matlab is famous for its
plotting tools. They are very
helpful.
Python’s plotting tools have
much less features. But
there is one thing super annoying. You can plot figures
only once per script??? if I
have along script I cannot
display stuffs at each step
---> useless.
TECHNOMANIA
P. V. S. Chaithanya B.Tech 2nd year
HISTORY THROUGH
METALS
Metals have existed since time immemorial and can be used as a measure to examine the human evolution
H
ow do we define history? If
you ask me, I define history
as usage of metals through
pace of time. Have you ever wondered why we study early human
history as Stone Age, Iron Age and
Bronze Age? It was with metals that
human history started. Advancements in field of metallics are one
of the most precise evidence for the
evolution of human nature. Metals
are for mankind and only men of
faith can utilize them. They speak
to us, but unlike us they speak only
truth. What is their specialty that
made them so prominent and dominating in human history? It’s because
they are transformable.
Metals are just a bulk of rocks and
sand during the pupa state of Homo
sapiens. Once we learned how to
process crude metal ores to get various metals, they started changing
our lives. They depicted lives of early
settlers of Harappa and MohenjoDaro like copper mirrors. We made
utensils and weapons out of them to
survive and protect ourselves. As human nature began to evolve, we are
not satisfied we created greediest of
things “the money” in form of gold,
silver, copper coins. It is that very
greed that made us to forge steel
swords and spears, barrels and bullets from metals, to shed blood and
to kill each other. It is why metals are
created for? Here the miracle happened, the metals are transformed.
It is in India that Charaka and
Susruta discovered the
applications of metal powders in
ayurvedic medicines. That which
can take life, can also give it back.
During the time of economic crisis,
Acharya Nagarjuna used ultimate
metallurgy i.e. turned base metals
into gold and helped the Satavahana
king. The credit also goes to various
chemists who discovered various
purification and alloying techniques
for various purposes. After industrialization in Europe, usage of metals
increased exponentially. Machines,
automobiles, construction works are
various fields of their ever increasing dominance. Their applications
are extended to every field, creation
of new alloys paved way for it. We
started using metals in ways we have
never imagined.
Conventional methods are not
satisfying human zeal. We invented
something that began to satisfy both
our needs and nature. We created
a digital world where everyone is
connected. We began to see things
differently, now we seek the ultimate
truth. Once again metals are transformed. We are now studying metal
nanoparticles and their applications.
They started giving unimaginary results which are going to change the
course of history once again. Metals
always gave mankind something
very important and what is that? It
is “the hope”. Since the beginning
of history, properties of metals are
treated as special. That is the reason, why we call men with great
inner strength, who are capable of
providing us with hope in times of
despair in this miserable world as
“the iron men”. We need to create
new polymers and composites to
replace metals in some particular
fields, because metal ores can also
get exhausted. Meanwhile we should
explore new possible applications of
various metals in different fields because still there is a lot to learn about
metals. Isn’t it?
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GIRLFRIEND AND A BOY’S BUDGET
Warning ! please laugh out loud (especially nifftians without a gf) this article is not for preaching.
When one looks at a college couple, he imagines the miserable condition of the boy. And if the issue is looked into from the
boy’s point of view, it certainly appears to be so. It is really an uphill task to manage two different lives out of one pocket.
Dating and budget, probably two words that never go simultaneously in a single sentence. When surveyed, men said they
feel they are expected to pay for the date. On the other hand, what woman said was that they expected the man to pay only
for a rare exception- the case when they asked the man out. But a very few percentage understands that what it takes for a
good trip out, is not money but a good company. A cheap date in college life is not such a big comical issue.
A true relationship is built on trust and not money, but these sayings go for a very less fraction of girls, the majority mostly
believing to change their partners time to time. To put a live example before you all, I myself witnessed a girl changing
three boyfriends in a single year from the same class, Moreover, the boys rather were addicted towards the girl even after
knowing her character. So is this what the modern definition of love has changed to? I have also seen boys who are totally
dedicated in a relationship ( in that case, some girls as well). They do, whatever they can to save money for dating and gifts.
Some common examples include not eating in mess for few days and living on bread, selling books of previous semester
in bookstores (second handed), asking for money from parents for different fake reasons such as on the name of: form for
exams, buying books, clothes, shoes,etc…. the counting increasing to level of imagination.
On a pen-off note, it is worthwhile to say that trust and loyalty are the necessary ingredients of a good relationship. It can
only be maintained if both boys and girls understand one other completely.
Neva eva eva eva take her to CCD /pizza hut/Yo china /archies/fork n
cork/for shopping and don’t tell her that you have a birthday (say u don’t
remember ;) ).
P.S.- Take her out to romantic but economical places like gardens, restaurants offering discount
to students, etc. It will make a nice pair and a good night-out.
The Frustrated NIFFTian
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Bhook pyaas, sutta chai sab sab bhula diya maine
Lattu bann naacha divider pe har sham Jodi jamaane humari
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Wo ayi thi meri jaan banke
Wo jayegi meri jaan leke
CHILL maama CHILL
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