Festivity Edition
Volume III , Issue II
November 2014
Diversity is Integrity
Inside this issue:
Administration
Section
2
Alumni Section
3
Campus Diary
4-6
Editorial
7-8
Get Wit
9
Students’ Voice
10
TechBuzz
11
India is a landmark of diverse cultures and
traditions. There was a time when every single day of the year was celebrated as a festival throughout the nation. Festivals were
started to pass on legends, knowledge and
ethics to the successive generations. But as
time elapsed the number of festivals gradually waned. A festival is a tool to elevate life
to a state of exuberance and enthusiasm.
Its significance cannot be fully described
simply by few words.
in and around their homes. Eid on the other
hand embarks the end of the spiritual
month of fasting. The holy month of
“Ramzan” which purifies the soul and encourages prayer, save people from going to
hell and open the doors of heaven. The enemies turn friends and forget any feeling of
hardship that may be present and everybody celebrates the festival together with a
spirit of bonhomie and brotherhood. The
pleasure that is derived from visiting our
friends and relatives, exchanging gifts,
Making our lives a celebration, festivals act
sweets and greetings add much fun.
as an expressive way to define our glorious
heritage, culture and principles. They are The students, faculties and staff in our unimeant to rejoice speversity celebrate these
cial moments and
festivals with much
emotions in our lives
gusto and ecstasy and
with
our
loved
fill the bridge with real
ones. They play an
sense of commonality
important role to add
between these two disstructure to our soparate religions. Stucial lives, and condents are able to connect us with our families, friends and back- nect with new kindred spirits or experience
grounds. In addition to that they give us a collective effervescence with close friends.
distraction from our day to day, exhausting Nowadays one can go online 24/7 and find
and entangled routine of life, and give us people to chat with about common interests
some inspiration to remember the impor- but will hardly find such people where ditant things and moments in life. All festivals vergent occasions are celebrated in integare cultural in one way or another. They all rity.
serve the purpose of bringing happiness to
On the occasion of 197th birth anniversary
our lives, and strengthen our sense of secuof Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, the whole of the
larity and peaceful coexistence. At present
university was enlightened and illuminated
we may not realize their importance but
with the candles of morality and tolerance
when we are in our 60s or 70s and look
as preached by him to pay a rich tribute to
back on our lives, the experiences that we
the great social reformer and one of the arremember will be the ones where we enchitects of modern India. The program was
joyed with our friends and families.
concluded with the session of AMU-Tarana
Festivals provide a sense of meaningful con- followed by a traditional dinner which was
nectedness in this shared theater of life. attended by more than 200 people.
They act as an enormous receptacle for
Nowadays, unfortunately, a festival means
words, pictures and totems, ritually depossimply a holiday, and we wake up late and
ited during the week with a mixture of
plan to go for a movie or watch television at
laughter and tears. With the present air
home. As we become more reliant on our
filled with an aroma of festivals one after
smart phones, and more connected through
another, they provide a real opportunity to
the digital world, we are actually becoming
sink deep into connection with others and
more disconnected from each other. Real
with ourselves creating a mindset that
connection is what we are missing. Festivals
opens divergent windows of thoughts and
are as old as humanity, but in the present
expressions.
era there is a lack of a magnetic attraction
Be it Diwali, Eid, Dusshera or Sir Syed Day, to extraordinary human gatherings. There is
these festivals bloom our lives with incredi- immediacy available when we put down our
ble food, costumes, music and merriment, phones and dive into the present moment
and one will not be able to find a single lone on a festival because while preoccupied in
ranger anywhere in sight. Diwali, symbol- the web of virtual life we are forgetting the
izes the victory of light over darkness, right rituals that are taught by our ancestors.
over wrong and justice over injustice. The
- Radhika Goyal
word Diwali means “rows of lighted lamps”
B.Tech IV Year (CS)
where everyone follows the common practice of lighting small diyas and placing them
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Principal’s Interview
Administration Section
A WORD WITH THE PRINCIPAL
The Mirror team interviewed the newly appointed Principal sir of our college, Dr. Sher Afghan Khan, who is a
renowned name in the current engineering scenario of India. Dr. SA Khan pursued his B.Sc. Engineering from
AMU and M.Tech. and PhD from IIT Kanpur. He has also served as a scientist in the Defense Research and
Development Organization and has also been a part of many prestigious engineering institutes across the
country. Two months after taking his office, he shared his thoughts about the state of the college and his approach for striving towards its improvement. Here are the excerpts from the interview.
“Try to find the
grey areas of the
company and
work towards
improving them.
Once you come
up with a solution, you would
leave your footprints and would
glorify yourself
and your alma
mater too.”
Q.1 It has been almost two months since you took With this you would familiarize with all the methods.
over as the principal, what are the ups and downs Q.5 How was your experience at the DRDO ?
you experienced in this duration?
The overall experience at the DRDO was good. Here at
Since I have taken over, I have been constantly work- college you learn things that are available in the
ing towards improving the placement records. I strive books or the internet but there you have to develop
to provide better placement opportunities for our stu- and evolve the technology by applying the present
dents and I expect the students to take the reputation concepts and brief outlines that may be provided to
of the college to the next level.
you. You have to see the effects of even the most minQ.2 What do you feel about the present state of ute details that may be present in the project otherwise it may have serious consethe college and the stuquences afterwards. Developing
dents?
our own technology and materiI am satisfied with the preals not only instills a sense of
sent state of the college and
pride, but also allows the unthe students. Although I feel
checked usage of it.
the students need to be
Q.6 As you said IITs and
smarter.
DRDO implement practical
Q.3 What are your expectaapproach, so how can we intions and how the present
duce practical methods in our
state could be improved?
college?
I expect my students to have
We have to enhance industrial
impressive levels of smartness
exposure in our college. The
and body language. I am thinking of initiating a percourse material must be modified as per the requiresonality grooming program. In my opinion this imments of the industry. Organisations try to avoid
provement won’t happen overnight, it requires long
training people after hiring. They want trained emterm dedication so the program would span throughployees to work with. Students may do their final year
out the course period of four years, so that students
projects in liaison with the organisations and when
having good technical knowledge as well as communiyou have contributed satisfactorily to them, they
cation skills may perform better. As far as teaching
would automatically absorb you.
faculty is concerned, the vacancies need to be filled.
Q.7 Would you like to give any message to the
Q.4 You have done your masters and doctorate
readers?
from an IIT. What difference do you see in the atYou are here to learn. Try to learn sincerely. Ask the
mosphere of an IIT and AMU?
teachers of the practicality and the importance of the
I feel the teaching as well as studying approach is difsubjects. I would say that you all are very capable.
ferent. There, comparative study is done while here,
You are our ambassadors and will shine upon the
most of the study is practice-oriented. For example,
world once you get out of here. I want you all to give a
there at IIT you would solve a single problem by all
good impression of the college and the university.
different methods available to solve such problems,
FROM THE DEAN’S DESK
Q. It has almost been a year of you being the Dean
of The Faculty of Engineering and Technology,
what changes did you see in the college during
this course of time?
“Always remem-
Ans. I see a whole lot of positive changes in the college during my tenure as Dean of this faculty. Students are now eyeing for international ventures to
enhance their exposure and are taking pride in being
associated to our college and if it continues to be the
way it has been going, our college will be at the pinnacle of engineering institutes all over the country.
ber that the Alma Q. Recently the Vice-Chancellor has announced a
Mater you belong
to is well known
for its aestheticism and culture.“
Training and Placement Cell in NCR region. How
do you see this act, changing the shape of the
placement trends of the college?
Ans. This is undoubtedly a great step to boost the
percentage of campus placement from this college as
travelling to Aligarh may sometimes be a bit tedious
for the companies’ HRs. Moreover, new and upcoming
companies are converging to our college looking for
the bright minds of the college which itself signifies
the importance of a Placement Cell at an easily accessible location.
Q. These days students are coming out with many
ambitious projects which consequently require a
lot of money, but due to shortage of funds or existence of obsolete technology a compromise is
made. How do you prepare to encounter this issue
in future?
Ans. Yes this has been a problem for many students
undergoing certain projects but since TEQIP-II has
started funding our institute, numerous money related problems have been solved. Recently we got instructions by TEQIP-II authorities that this grant
shall be extended for two more years.
Q. Any message that you would like to give to the
students of this faculty?
Ans. Being given the responsibility of this faculty’s
dean, it becomes my duty to be a mentor to all my
students. It is my first priority. For the students, I
would like to advise them to get focussed, study with
an aim in your mind and always aim for the sky. You
should always remember that the alma mater you belong to is well known for its aestheticism and culture.
Try to preserve, maintain and continue this great legacy.
Alumni Meet - 1989 Batch
Alumni Section
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ZHCOETIANS’ 89 BATCH CELEBRATES THEIR SILVER JUBILEE
The ZHCETIANS of 1989 batch celebrated their 25 years of graduation with an alumni meet from 7 th-9th November, ‘14. Alumni
from different parts of the world along with their families visited the campus. Some of them were visiting for the first time after
their graduation. Back then ZHCETians were called ‘ZHCOETians’. They organized an interactive session with the present students. Alumni from different fields inspired and shared their experience, knowledge and wisdom with the students.
Mr. Pradeep Mittal, an entrepreneur, started the
session with a presentation on entrepreneurship.
He discussed who an entrepreneur is, what are
his/her key qualities and what are the advantages
of being one. He shared his story about how the
road to entrepreneurship is a long one and not a
run-off-the-mill kind of job.
Mr. Mittal was followed by Mr. Imtiaz Siddiqui, regional manager at ISA
SRL, gave a presentation
on ‘What is Success’. He
defined what ‘sUccess’
really means and what
do we need to achieve it.
He told that the most
important quality of successful people is persistence.
After that Mr. D.P.
Mathuria, an engineer in
CWC (Central Water Commission), told about the
perks of being in a government job, and how government jobs provide us with a chance to be innovative. He also mentioned, that as an engineer, we
can serve in three fields in government; administration, socio-infrastructure, and infrastructure.
He was followed by Mr. Gagan Agarwal who explained what are the future options for an engineering graduate. He broadly classified them into
NGO sector, Entrepreneurship, Government Sector
and Private Sector. Mr. Neeraj Agarwal, an engineer
in Technip, described about work environment and
job opportunities in the project industry.
Mr. D S Chauhan, an IPS officer and currently joint
commissioner of police of Hyderabad, shared about
his life after engineering. He mentioned that even
after having a job in HCL and M. Tech. from University of Roorkee, he went for IPS because there he
found his true passion. He
said that the administration
sector is the most misunderstood sector in India. Although this career is a challenging one, it’s the job satisfaction and the feeling of impacting the society, that
keeps one running.
Don’t wait for
good things to
happen on
their own.
Take action.
The final presentation was
given by Mr. Rajesh Pandit
who is senior executive director at CBRE. He said everyone needs to be a PHD
(passionate, hungry and disciplined) holder for being
successful. He presented a list of the do’s and don’ts
in one’s professional life, in a very attractive and
impressive manner.
The session ended on a high note with students
gaining a lot of knowledge about different prospects
after engineering and how successful they can be in
their lives by following the right direction.
INTERVIEW WITH KHUSHBOO MIRZA
1. Being a part of Indian Space Research Organization, or ISRO, what is the feeling exactly
and how do you make yourself a part of the
amazing work being done there?
It feels great to be a part of ISRO. Every day here is
full of new challenges and opportunities to learn
new things. You get to work here closely with scientists having experience ranging from 30 years to
people recently graduated.
2. How and when did you get an inspiration to
join ISRO, professionally?
I was always fascinated with anything related to
space since my childhood. I used to watch a lot of
Discovery Channel which further developed my
interest in the subject. When I got to know about
ISRO's vacancy in my final year, I just applied and
forgot about it. Meanwhile I joined Adobe. Afterwards, I did get a joining offer from ISRO. It was a
tough decision to quit a lucrative job at Adobe and
join a government job, but I knew that, this is
where my interest was and joined ISRO.
3. Enlighten us about the Chandrayaan-1 project, and how did you contribute to the same.
Chandrayan-1, being the first lunar mission of India, was very special. We had to take care of the
satellite from integration till launch. As a member
of the team, I participated in all the phases of the
satellite from integration to thermovac test, wind
tunnel test, solar panel deployment and making
sure that the satellite is in good health. The best
part of it all was watching the launch of the satellite
live at Shriharikata.
4. About your college life, any special memories
you want to share about Aligarh Muslim University
or ZHCET? How did it help in getting you where
you are now?
Memories of time spent at AMU are always close to my
heart. Whatever I am today is because of this institute.
The various opportunities of learning you get here
through free interaction with the teachers, the college
fest, student union elections and forums like ingenious solutions etc. are beyond comparison to anything
else. You won’t get such opportunities to learn so
many skills together, later in your life. One should
make the best use of it.
5. What do you think your juniors, currently studying here, need to do to join organisations like
ISRO?
It requires a little hard work and dedication. You need
to be good at your basics. If you are preparing for
GATE, it would help you in getting through ISRO and
other similar exams.
6. Any personal message you want to share with
the readers, based on your experience?
I am delighted to know about the college’s newspaper
"THE MIRROR”. The team is doing a great job of connecting the alumni to the students through this column. I wish the best to all the students at ZHCET.
This is the best time of your life make the best use of
it. You surely are going to miss it.
Khushboo Mirza
is an alumnus of
Electronics engineering, 2006
batch and currently is a scientist at ISRO. She
has worked on
the Chandrayaan
Project and also
worked for Adobe
Systems.
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Around the Campus
Campus News
Team Green warriors ranked 18th Nationally
Team Green Warriors from Zakir Husain College of Engineering &
Technology, Aligarh Muslim University under the umbrella of SAEZHCET Collegiate Club participated in
EFFICYCLE-2014 organized by the
The team secured “Society of Automotive Engineers18th rank nation- India” (SAE India). The team designed
and fabricated a Three-wheeled Electric-Hybrid Vehicle that could
ally out of comrun on human power and electric power simultaneously or alternapeting 260 teams. tively. The motive of the team was “Reduce pollution, Ride the Solution”.
The team secured 18th rank
nationally out of
competing
260
teams. The event
was held in Punjab
University,
Chandigarh from
9th to 12th October-2014.The overall project was done under the supervision of Faculty advisors Mr. Nafees Ahmad and Dr. Syed Fahad Anwar, faculty
of Mechanical Engineering Department.
Writing Myntra: The Modern writers’
Cult
Writing Myntra is a startup venture, an online
based community of writers, artists and poets, targeting an international audience and involving people from all over the world. Seeking to work around
a pseudo-nonprofit model, the founders hope to create a self-sufficient and active community of likeminded, passionate individuals producing and promoting works of literary and intellectual importance
in order to achieve an ever-lasting effect on the literature of this generation. Writing Myntra wants to
be a cult for the elite in the modern writing scene,
searching for talents within the shadowy depths of
the Indie community of writers and giving them the
limelight that they so deserve.
Web: www.writingmyntra.com
Fb: www.fb.com/writing.myntra.journal
Team:Syed Yusuf Ali (B.tech II Mech), Mayank Tripathi (B.com I), Rohit Kumar (B.tech II Chem)
Students of ZHCET excel at
International Conference
Belal Ahmad Siddiqui (III Year Chemical) and Sharif Kidwai (II Year Electrical) were awarded with a gold medal
and a certificate of excellence for their
presentation at the International Research Conference on Science, Health
and Medicine – 2014, Dubai UAE. The
conference was organized by Zelus International, UAE, in collaboration with
the University of Modern Sciences, Dubai. Their paper was titled ‘Graphene’s
Application to Boiler Fabrication and
Design’. Bhanu Pandey (II Year Electrical) was one of the authors as well.
Project in Minds
It is a website which lets engineering students share
their college projects and browse projects that have
been done by other students.
It’s common that students don’t come to know what
projects are being done around them. PIM helps students to be updated with the latest projects mania,
be it latest robotic boat built or award winning research paper in IIT. PIM has 40-50 projects from all
around ZHCET. They range from hobby projects
which were scrapped after few errors to abstracts of
research papers which won in techfests of IIT Roorkee and Bombay.
Projects are not shared in a way in which someone
may infringe the rights of its true owner. With over
100 members PIM is a big community of students
sharing what they have done and leaving something
to learn for their juniors in years to come.
Team members: Abhay Mittal, Pratik Varshney,
Palash Kulshreshtha, Arun Attri, Areesha Anjum,
Aasiya Aijaz, Manish Tomar and Armita Burjwal
For More Details :www.projectinminds.com
https://facebook.com/projectinminds
62nd Annual Convocation Ceremony in AMU
More than 4,000
degrees were
awarded to the
University students with 240
gold medals
given to the outstanding performers .
The 62nd Annual Convocation ceremony of Aligarh Muslim University was held on 16th October 2014 at the Athletics Ground, AMU.
More than 4,000 degrees were awarded to the
University students with 240 gold medals
given to the outstanding performers. Director
General, Islamic Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (ISESCO), Rabat, Morocco
and Secretary General of Federation of Universities of Islamic World (FUIW), Dr. Abdulaziz
Othman Altwaijri was invited as the Chief
Guest. Among the Guests of Honour were Dr
Shamsheer Vayalil Parambath, Managing Director, VPS Health Care, Abu Dhabi, UAE and Mr Nadeem A Tarin,
General Manager, Salman Al-Terais and Partners Limited, Riyadh, KSA. University’s Annual Report was delivered by AMU Vice Chancellor Lt. Gen. Zameeruddin Shah (Retd.). He also announced the establishment of the
Innovation Council which will award two "outstanding researchers of an academic year" with a prize of Rs. 1
Lakh. He further stated that a University student and a University School student would be handed Rs.
50,000 and Rs. 25000 respectively for best innovations by students during the "Sir Syed Innovation Festival".
How to secure PayTM..
Placements
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Congratulating the four students namely – Palash Kulshreshtha, Pratik Varshney, Hamza Owais and
Daud Zaidi for getting placed in Paytm during campus placement. Here are some excerpts of their advice during an exclusive interview with the mirror team:-
Q1. What qualities do you
the pattern of “EAT CODE REthink a student should possess to
PEAT”.
get placed in companies, providing high packages, like Paytm?
Q3. Did your college life at
Palash - For computers most of the ZHCET contribute in any way to
companies look for data structures your placement?
and algorithms.
Palash – Yes indeed ZHCET conPratik - For CS/IT students, the
tributed in every way. Companies
concepts of OOPS, Data Structures
ask considerable questions from
and Algorithms are very important.
the projects. In addition to that
Also the student must possess good
doing hobby projects also helped
programming skills.
somehow.
Hamza - Do not be lazy, and be a
Pratik - Yes, the advice of my senlittle less 'raulebaaz'. Have a good
iors helped me a lot.
knowledge about DS and algoHamza - Yeah it
rithms. And if you are into extradid, I organised Lacurricular, you need to understand
ser Tag event at
that they don’t look for just that.
ZARF, and the inDaud - Paytm basically concenterviewers were intrates on algorithms and data
terested in that.
structure.
Web designing skills
Apart from that I
definitely work in your favour. In
did some projects
my case knowledge of Search Enlike Graphical User
gine Optimization and Keyword ReAuthentication which I guess
search, Adwords added a bonus to
helped me a lot.
my account.
Daud - Yes, as I had previously
made many sites for our college,
Q2. According to your experiincluding the ones for Camplinked
ence, what plays a bigger role,
– College Placement Portal and
your CPI or your communication
Paradigm’14, techfest held earlier
skills?
this year. I showed them, and they
Palash - Definitely communication
were greatly impressed.
skills according to me plays a much
bigger role than just having a good Q4. To whom would you like to
CPI.
dedicate this achievement of
Pratik - One must yours?
have decent comPalash - Family, friends, placement
munication
skill
coordinators and ZHCET.
and above average
Hamza - Well my senior Baqir bhai
CPI. Some compagave me a lot of good advice. Mennies give privilege to
tors who were there with us the
programming and
whole time. My friends for guiding
commu ni cat i onal
me and criticizing my personal life
skills.
and a lot of other similar stuff. My
Hamza - I think if one is technically
family who weren’t ashamed of me
sound than CPI and good commuafter not being selected in TCS and
nication skills are just add ons. If
WIPRO.
you are unable to express yourself
Daud - To all the student of elecgrab a pen and a paper. Don’t be
tronics branch who think that takashamed to say that you will be
ing Electronics Branch is the worst
fully committed to your job and
choice they made in their lives
they won't regret giving you the job.
Daud - None, the main role is
played by your knowledge about Q5. Any advices for juniors who
website development. Paytm doesn’t would like to follow your footconcentrate much on CPI or com- steps?
munication skills. They even don’t
Palash - Attend “@ingenious solucare about your branch. According
tions” sessions, they help a lot in
to one of the HR himself, they were
improving communication skills.
looking for a guy who could follow
Do a few projects/research papers
during these 4 years. You
can go through projectinminds.com
for projects of our college. For computer students practice Algorithm
and DS from reputed books; Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen
Rivest, Algorithm design manual:
Steven Skiena. If you face any
problem then contact your seniors
freely at facebook.com/groups/
programmersforum.zhcet/
Pratik - Try to understand code
and try to develop it in your own
way and preferably in a language
different from the source program.
In this way you'll not only improve
your programming skills but also
gain the interest and confidence of
developing the programs by yourself and then you’ll start developing your own programs. You can
also find various interview experiences and programming problems
on geeksforgeeks.org website. Also
you must use LINUX and its tools
like bash, vi, emacs, git, etc.
Hamza - Your concepts on data
structure and algorithms should
be crystal clear. Watch videos of
Naveen Gupta on data structure
and Algorithm. Buy Introduction to
data structure and algorithm by
Cormen. Learn about trees, bst
and tree traversals, Sieve, Sorting
Algorithms, DS for Graphs, BFS,
DFS, Application of Graphs, Dynamic Programming, String algorithms etc. Check out the questions asked in google code jam.
Consult your seniors. Like for me, I
started doing all this very late,
competitive coding. If you are in
CS branch in any year, start from
Tomorrow. Aim for GOOGLE.
Daud - Start working on project related to website.
Copying a template and editing
them won’t take
you
anywhere.
Also, knowledge of
CMS like JOOMLA or DRUPAL is a
bonus and similar is with SEO and
keyword research.
“ Paytm doesn’t
concentrate much
on CPI or communication skills.
The only ability
that an ideal person for them
should have is the
ability to CODE.
According to one
of the HR himself,
they were looking
for a guy who
could follow the
pattern of “EAT
CODE REPEAT.”
For Computer Science Students , If
you like programming than you
must solve various
standard problems, preferably
competitive problems (popular
competitive programming websites are projecteuler.net,
spoj.com, topcoder.com, codechef.com, hackerrank.com, hackerearth.com etc.).
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ZHCET Conquers TCS
Placements
Achievement of some of the seniors, best described with their own posts.
With over a 100
placements,
ZHCET shows the
quality of talent it
produces every
year.
Maryam
Viqar
Faraz
Islam
Charu
Dixit
Ankur
Sharma
Faisal
Noor
Sagar
Bhardwaj
Ayush
Gupta
Aman
Abidi
28 students also
got selected in
Wipro’s Campus
Placement drive.
Piyush
Varshney
Mind over Matter
Editorial
Diwali – The Festival of Lights
Mid semester exams are over
(finally!!) and it's the time to celebrate. On this resilient occasion, I
could not think of a topic other
than the festive month of October.
The month of October 2014 really
brought a chill factor alongside.
With a plethora of holidays lying
in the very month, people can
really shift their attention from
the never ending ‘rat race’, towards their families. Shopping,
interior decoration, renovation are
a normal phenomenon these
days. Many people prefer Amazon
and Flipkart over their daily
chores. (technology is really flying
high these days). Train tickets are
not available and buses are over
crowded. (Who wants to ruin
these precious holidays??).
Dussehra marked the beginning
of this festival season, followed by
Bakra-Eid, then Sir Syed Day and
lastly the festival of lights-Diwali.
Let's throw some light on this festival. Children are really fond of
diwali. (Wonder why ??) Crackersof course are the main reason.
The left over crackers are often
utilised whenever India wins a
cricket match afterwards. Diwali
as we all know is the ancient
Hindu festival associated with
lights. On this auspicious occasion Lord Ram came back to
Ayodhya after defeating the
'notorious' Raavan. Raavan- the
evil side and the dark character,
was really treacherous and utilised his mendacious skills to a
large extent, made every possible
move to defeat Ram but he just
couldn't succeed.
Diwali is always remembered as
the victory of good over evil, hope
over despair, but it teaches us a
lot more. Talking about practical
lives, one thing is certain a human mind is a combination of
Ram as well as Raavan. Let us
assign them certain names like
positive and negative. Whenever
our anger, greed, selfishness, ego
dominates over love, altruism,
affection, forgiveness, our negative character is displayed and
when the latter dominates, our
positive character is highlighted.
However to achieve the path of
success, Raavan has to be defeated and Ram has to emerge as
a victor. Having self control is
very important in the tumultuous
situations of life. Hope and patience are the two very substantial things in life which should
never be left behind in the long
run (I hope you all have seen the
movie- "The Shawshank Redemption"). Even the darkest of characters have a small percentage of
positivity lying somewhwere deep
inside. However to recognize this
riveted quality is a matter of serious concern, which requires full
dedication and determination.
(quite a cumbersome task!!).The
one who instills these qualities,
often tastes the fruit of success.
Am I right or am I right ????
-Manav Jain
B.Tech 3rd Year Electronics
India—The land of Festivals
Indians love festivals. Period.
Now I am sure all of you most
heartily agree. And why not.
These festivals give us joy, happiness and life really starts
making some sense. Every occasion to celebrate life is most welcome. And festivals are synonymous with celebration, the celebration of life, family and
friends, of success, of food, of
everything good and joyous. “Tu
na hindu banega, na musalman
banega, insaan ki aulaad h insaan banega”. This is the motive
behind every festival. There are
certain parts of the world which
once visited make an inerasable
mark on our hearts, India is one
of them. The Indian calendar is
full of festivals. Being a secular
country, it houses numerous
religions and each has its own
set of festivals which the entire
nation celebrates with great enthusiasm which dignifies unity.
Sticking to the topic FESTIVITY,
I would like to talk about the
festival “DIWALI” and the special preparations done to cele-
brate it. Diwali also known as
the ‘festival of lights’ is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated
each year at some point during
mid–Oct to mid-Nov. The festival
spiritually signifies the victory of
light over darkness, knowledge
over ignorance, good over evil
and hope over despair. Whatever your faith, you can join us
in the festivity. The festival
preparations and rituals typically extend over a five day period but the main festival night
of Diwali coincides with the
darkest, new moon night. People
clean their homes and decorate
them for the festivities. It is also
one of the biggest shopping seasons in India. People also buy
gifts for family members and
friends which typically include
sweets and seasonal specialties
depending on customs. Helping
the underprivileged people, giving them joy and praying for
them makes our festival complete and gives intense happiness. Depending on the region,
prayers are offered before one or
more deities, with the most
common being Lakshmi, the
goddess of wealth and prosperity. Youths and grownups alike
come forward to help with lighting and preparing for fireworks.
On Diwali night, fireworks light
up the neighborhood skies.
Later, family members friends
celebrate the night over food
and sweets. Diwali also marks
the beginning of new year.
Festivals often serve to meet
specific purposes, especially in
regard to thanks giving. These
festivals offer a sense of belonging for religious, social, or geographical groups and they also
seek to inform members of tradition and the involvement of
communities. Elders sharing
stories and experiences provides
a means for unity among families. Last but not the least, unity
and diversity is what our country boasts of and celebration
consists of marking an event
with festivities in a joyful and
exuberant way.
-Palak Bansal
B.Tech 2nd year CS
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Mind over Matter
Editorial
Festivity—The Joyous Fondness
There is
something
inexorable
about everybody.
Festivity, that joyous fondness, an
emotion of forgetting everything
and just turning into a wild
beaming soul. Festivity is about
spreading yourself and going beyond the edge, screaming with
ecstasy and forgetting all the miseries you were engraved with. As
we are living in the country
known for traditions, diversity
and festivals, how can we forget
mentioning that this is the best
time to cognize joviality. Even the
inadequacies of some of the people hardly matter. the sincerity of
old and depth of their feelings is
what counts the most.
The sequence of festivities lead to
convey simultaneously a series of
thought between people, perhaps
between contradictory ones,
through this essential beauty of
life and nature or the passage of
time, and now is their turn to forget all that bad, which happened
to them.
Everyone seeks to crack a smile
for their loved ones, by doing an
extra effort. There is something
inexorable about everybody, the
excitement, the joy of enjoying
with people. Togetherness, essentially, is the essence of all festivities. What good would be celebrating festivals without family or
friends.
It is the moment for all, when all
seems right in the world. Everything is as it should be, and being
present in that moment stirs the
soul and warms the heart. This
concept of individuality can also
be found in poetic forms, like
Robert Frost wrote in 'The Road
Not Taken". These feelings signify
self-liberating power, and contrast
sharply with the romantic view of
life. In spite of losing hope in our
frantic lives, we get pragmatic energy to overcome our internal
struggle, with the hopes of resolving problems easily. Climbing up
in our social life, the time and
way people are brought together
in culture with huge enthusiasm
is thumping.
So, by spending time together, we
overcome flaws, which normally
stuck, by lack of communication
and egotism. We break the bond
based on lies, and play-acting and
commence another substantial
alliance with adequate deposition,
which leads us to live our lives
more readily.
- Mirza Kashif
B.Tech 1st (A1F)
The Great Election Carnival
Each cracker
seems to be
full of fun
but you can’t
buy the
whole shop.
The festive season has once again
stepped in. Like every year, it has
brought in lots of fun and amusement with Eid and Diwali and is
all set for bringing in much more
of these with Christmas and the
New Year just round the corner.
But wait a second, are all these
the only festivities the season has
to offer? NO. There’s one more
festival that had just knocked on
the doors of Aligarians-The
AMUSU Elections.
If you are wondering over the
thought that why am I referring to
the Elections as a festival, do
have a look at the following-First of all, go back in time and
notice the milieu of the university.
You will recall that there was
loads of hustle bustle going on---volunteers running helter skelter,
mobs of students pacing around
the campus for canvassing, rallies!
Didn’t the scenario remind you of
a busy marketplace on the eve of
a great celebration?
Now focus on all the candidates
who were contesting for the various posts—each of them had a
very unique, interesting, innovative and thoughtful set of agendas
to offer. This surely would have
put you in the very same turmoil
as you go through in a shop of
sweets or crackers (to whichever
you may relate better). Each
sweet seems tempting but you
can’t choose all. Each cracker
seems to be full of fun but you
can’t buy the whole shop (and
burn a hole in your dad’s pocket,
literally!)
If you had taken a good view of all
those colourful banners and posters spanning the whole campus,
you will agree that they surely
seemed similar to all those beautiful and vibrant festoons of lights
and flowers which add to the
charm of every festival.
Last but not the least, even the
results have a festive streak.
Whichever side tastes victory
brings in the cheer with sweets,
crackers, garlands, music and all
the stuff that makes up a celebration. While the losing side packs
up its show, only to prepare for a
better and “Popular” one the next
year.
I hope that by now you can perceive the festive shade of elections. To wind up, I would just
say that now that you have taken
in the jolly spirit and participated
in this Voting Fest (hopefully),
your job does not end here alone.
Make sure that your opinions
reach the Cabinet from time to
time because it does not make
sense to summon someone at
your service without telling them
what to do. Stay updated and
utilize this fest to the best of your
benefit.
-Anushka Chawla
B. Tech 1st (A1A)
DO IT NOW
If you have hard work to do,
Clear as song of bird in spring,
If you have a smile to show,
Do it now,
Let each day some music bring;
Show it now,
Today the skies are clear and
blue,
Sing it now.
Make hearts happy, roses grow,
If you have some kind of words to
say,
Let the friends around you know
Tomorrow clouds may come in
view.
Yesterday is not for you;
Say it now,
Do it now.
Tomorrow may not come your
way,
If you have a song to sing,
Loved ones will not always stay;
Sing it now,
Say it now.
Let the tone of gladness ring
The love you have before they go;
Show it now.
-Syed Saim Ali
B.Tech 2nd
year
(Chemical)
Get Wit
Editorial
9
MORALITY “MOST NEEDED FOR PEACE”
In the present time man is running a blind race. He is just running & running after a materialistic goal & leaving all his moral
values & gaining nothing worthwhile. Man is fighting to make a
temple or apparently God has
ordered them to do so. While morality is the first thing which is
being taught by each & every religion of the world. Morality
teaches us to do only those actions, which are universally
liked. It doesn’t expect us to exploit others & use others as a
means for realization of self interest.
If we look nowadays for little
benefits of our own, we don’t
hesitate to do bad things to others. We are distressed by a small
pain in our life & seek a solution
for it as soon as possible. But
after such a bitter experience of
our own, we like to put others in
hot water, which cannot be done
peacefully. But morality doesn’t
come of its own. For this we need
patience, honesty, truthfulness,
equality, etc. Means to say, we
need a moral treatment. But inspite of known as “moral beings”
we have lost our real identification
for which we are distinguished
from other creatures.
Moreover we expect good
from others but we don’t initiate
doing good things. What in the
world we are yearning for ourselves, doing least for others. We
are denying our moral values,
which are the most blessed thing.
Mahatma Gandhi said, “If one
man gains spiritually the whole
world gains with him & if one man
falls the whole world falls to that
extent.” Means to say if a single
man improves himself spiritually
& listens to what his conscious
tells him, he can impress others to
do the same. Had Mahatma Ghandhi not followed the moral way to
fight for freedom, either we would
have patronized immense blood
shed or would have still been fettered. Morality is the ultimate solution, which can bring peace.
Moral teachings are not
something to be found in a book.
Our conscience itself is the best
teacher & what we need is to only
keep looking into our conscience.
When a young one comes to this
world he is like a plain paper &
what moral he gains through his
mother is printed as an unshaken mark, but as he grows up
in the world he is absorbed in the
worldly games of acquisition of
things, which serve as a slow poison to destroy his peace of mind.
At that time also we need guidance that is our conscience.
If each &
every person
follows
moral law
there is no
need for political laws
by the state.
If each & every person follows moral law there is no need
for political laws by the state.
Moral laws are above these laws.
If we look in today’s perspective
there is a need for reintroducing
moral values worldwide. Let us
make morality feasible to keep
the world a peaceful place for us.
STATE NO BAR
“Why did a sardar take a plumber Would you still call Gujaratis as
with him to the examination hall? money hounds? Move over to
Dr.Rajendra Prasad now, he was
Because he had come to know the first president of free India. He
that the paper had been was a Bihari yet he was a lawyer
leaked!!!! ;-)”
par excellence, one of the most
Jokes like these on sardars are trusted men of law in his time. Do
not rare findings today. Each one you still think of Biharis as unof us definitely comes across educated??
umpteen of these, be it on facebook, whatsapp, or any other
form of social media. Over the
time a Sardar has now acquired
a status similar to that of a jokera person who becomes the
laughing stock for people
because of his stupid antics. But are all Sardars
loud mouthed people with
no practical sense?
The question mark does
not encircle Sardars alone.
To get my point clearly,
just think about your daily
interactions with your family, friends, just anyone
around you. How many
times do we come across the notion that Gujaratis are die hard
businessmen and Biharis are a
pack of illiterate, ineloquent villagers? Now, think about Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our
nation. He was a Gujarati yet he
chose rags over riches. He could
have led a luxurious life by dint
of his brilliant law career, yet he
chose to liberate others of their
penury by sharing it with them.
The basic idea is that a specific
foible or peculiarity of a particular
person should not be earmarked
as the characteristic trait of the
whole community. No man re-
ceives an inherent habit in his
blood just because he is born in a
particular sect of people. Instead
he acquires his personality from
the people and the environment
around him. So even a Punjabi
can be very soft spoken (eg.
Dr.Manmohan Singh), a Jat can
be refined and sophisticated to the
core.
Sadly though, we live in a society
which is increasingly becoming
habitual of judging a person by
his surname. But we often tend
to forget that our view of the
world depends on the shade of
glasses we use to perceive it.
Each one of us has two choices1) Blindfold your eyes with
those age old prejudices and add
another instance to that rusty
pile of biased experiences. Here I
call your experiences as biased
because when you deal with a
person with a preconceived notion in your head, no matter
whatever he does, you tend
to relate it with your bias
(even if he does the diametrically opposite of what you
had expected from him).
2) The other way round is
that you can take off your
glasses and toss them far
away. Go by your own instincts to form your opinion
about those around you and
choose your own methods of
dealing. Not only will this enhance your social sense, but it
will also help you to reveal your
genuine self to those whom you
come across leaving no scope for
any pointless hesitation.
The choice is entirely yours…….
Go by your
own instincts
to form your
opinion
about those
around you
and choose
your own
methods of
dealing .
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The Voice
Students’ Voice
The object of exercise of a student’s union is to promote social,
cultural and intellectual development among the students. Our
newly elected president has come
up with a promising pledge of
‘UNION4U’. We expect a selfless
and visionary union which would
resolve the most pertinent issues
of AMU which include hostel accommodation to all needful students along with taking care of
the hygiene of all the halls. Furthermore, good academic infrastructure is the need of the hour
in the university. Next in line is
eve teasing. Girl students often
restrict themselves from travelling
around the campus even for an
educational cause. Who will take
up our cause other than the
AMUSU?
-Saania Beg
II Year (Electrical)
Effacing the bygones and keeping an
optimistic view, I think that the
AMUSU is laudable this time. Their
promises won’t be ostensible. The
leaders are audacious and they are
actually struggling for campus upliftment since years. This springs up a
hope that many of our issues including
hostel and administration could be
solved by their endeavors and present
scenario would rally.
-Shivani Agrawal
III Year (CS)
Water turns into steam with a
difference of only one degree in
temperature and steam can run
the biggest engines in the
world. We expect our new cabinet members to have the
strength of steam and a ‘desire
to do’ in their hearts. We are
supposed to be “Engineers by
technology”
rather
than
“Engineers by Book” and for this
we need better infrastructure,
smart classes and use of creative teaching techniques. Finally, our biggest expectation is
that they should not be fairweather leaders who lend their
umbrellas when the sun is shining and withdraw it the minute
it rains .
-Rubeena Aafreen
I year (Electronics)
“What are the expectations and
hopes of the students from the
newly elected AMUSU?”
-Yamini Sarawat
The elections of the AMUSU have just
got over. I, being a part of this University also have some expectations
from the newly elected cabinet members. Today when the entire country
is focusing on a cleaner India, we
don’t even have enough dustbins in
the campus of ZHCET. So, I expect
from the new cabinet to be more
sensitive towards the issue of cleanliness, to preserve the beauty of the
campus. Also, realizing the importance of Internet, I expect that the
new union must take an initiative to
make Wi-Fi services accessible
throughout the campus.
I year (Electronics)
-Pallavi Gupta
We expect from AMUSU to demonstrate integrity, strive for quality activity and engagement, act in
a professional manner befitting
their role, and to follow University
Union’s rules and procedures,
including equality and confidentiality procedure. A better understanding of student perceptions of
quality and standards, leading to
the possibility of more effective
relationships within and across
institutions. A more developed
understanding of how perceptions
vary across student groups, institutional types and regional settings.
I year (Electronics)
-Mohd Mohsin Ikram
As the newly elected Student’s Union is eagerly
waiting for its oath-taking ceremony, we the
students also await the fulfillment of our expectations. The common issues like cleanliness,
students’ rights etc. were much stressed upon
during the canvassing period. Another serious
problem faced by our friends in SN Hall is their
inability to attend any proper coaching for the
prestigious GATE exam. There is also a need to
promote the College Week and other extracurricular activities as these play a major role in the
overall personality development of a student. I
expect an action on these important issues first.
III Year (Chemical)
Firstly, I’m proud to be a part of Aligarh Muslim University. But there
is always scope of improvement as nothing is perfect except that it
has to be made perfect. So what I expect from my university is to be
more qualitative with the academics. The teaching which was practiced some 10-15 years from now is still in practice. The course is
somewhat out-dated which needs to be updated so that it can flush
with the latest teaching methods.
- Khyati Rajani
III Year (B.Arch)
Tech Buzz
Technical
News Updates
Google Glass is officially banned from movie theatres.
With its easy video recording feature, American National Association has banned it to prevent piracy.
Andy Rubin, the creator of Android has left Google.
WSJ report says he is leaving the search giant to
setup an incubator for hardware start-ups. His last
role at the company's robotics division will be taken
up by James Kuffner.
Microsoft has announced a wearable fitness
tracker with cloud based services at the price of
$199 thereby making its entry to wearable space.
10 sensors monitor heart rate, UV light, sleep and
of course, distance travelled. It can check your
emails and even pays for coffee as the software
company seeks to challenge Apple and others in
the still-infant market of wearable devices.
Web Corner
Coursera.org
Quora.com
Courses from physics, engineering, humanities,
medicine, biology, social studies, mathematics, business, computer science, and others. This site has
over 800 courses from 114 institutions to offer. It
provides free online courses from well-reputed colleges like Stanford, Princeton and other universities
across the globe. One can learn from online lectures,
give weekly quizzes and assignments and could earn
certificates of accomplishment absolutely free. There
are verified certificates available at premium. It also
has its official iOS and Android app to learn on the
go.
It is a question and answer website where you can
find questions on every possible topic. Whether you
want a solution to a tough algorithmic problem or
just want some tips on how to impress a girl/boy on
a first date, you would get all possible topics to discuss here. You ask, you answer, get upvotes for your
answer, and earn credits. If you have a certain number of credits, you can even ask your question to
Barack Obama. Isn’t that amazing?
App Corner
Google Keep
Google, with its famous search and mail services,
has much more to offer. This unique app has tremendous usefulness especially for students. You can
easily create notes, to-do lists and reminders. Tick
the done items in the to-do list or archive notes and
lists to a safe place. If you delete a note by mistake,
you can easily recover it from recycle bin within 10
days. This is not all, it is cloud based, so you can
access your saved notes from a web browser even
when your dear phone is not with you.
English Dictionary- Offline
As the name suggests
this English dictionary
is offline version, so
you can easily search
for a word even when
you are not connected
to the internet. With
all the possible meanings in all the possible
contexts, it gives synonyms and antonyms of
the words as well.
With feature of accessing recently searched words through history, this
app is must to have for all.
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Meet The Team
The Team
The Mirror team recruited new members last month. We mention special thanks to
Kishwar Ma’am, Department of English , Aligarh Muslim University
for carrying out the recruitment procedure for us.
Meet the fresh talent !
MANAGING HEAD
Tushar Singhal (III Electronics)
Mohammad Saad Baig(III Electronics)
CHIEF EDITORS
Radhika Goyal (IV CS)
Belal Ahmad Siddiqui (III Chemical)
DESIGN HEADS
Sahil Abbas Zaidi (III Electronics)
Shubhi Agarwal (III Electronics)
EDITORS
DESIGNERS
MARKETING TEAM
Aqib Siddiqui (IV Electrical)
Asher Ahmad Farooqui
Zaid Pervez (III Electronics)
Faisal Khan (IV Electronics)
(III Electronics)
Karan Agarwal (II Electronics)
Rajat Kant Goel (III CS)
Yusra Hamid (III Chemical)
Palak Bansal (II CS)
Anushka Chawla (I CS)
Ayush Tiwari (III CS)
Shruti Sharma (II Electrical)
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