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 Blessings

I was very much pleased to know that this year also, the students of Ramrao

Adik Institute of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai are bringing out a magazine

of the Institute “The Wall ’09”, keeping the tradition of RAIT. The excellent

feature of the magazine is that it consists of two sections, one in English and

the other in Marathi. This time also the articles are of quite different style.

I had an immense pleasure to know that the release of “The Wall ‘09” is

coinciding with the “Birthday Celebration” of our dear Mr. Vijay Patil,

President, RAIT.

The efforts of students and the faculty members of RAIT are highly appreciated

for their enthusiasm and working tremendously to bring out this magazine.

I bless them all for their excellent future career.

With Blessings,

Padmashree Dr. D.Y.Patil

Founder President,

Dr. D.Y.Patil Group

And Chancellor, Dr. D.Y. Patil University,

Navi Mumbai 400706

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 Greetings from Shri Vijay D. Patil

I was extremely delighted to know that the students of Ramrao Adik Institute of

Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai are bringing out the college magazine- ‘The

Wall’ under the guidance of Director Shri Uday Shende, Principal Dr. Satish

Devane and Prof. A. N. Nakra. They wanted the magazine to be released on the

auspicious occasion of my birthday celebration on 17th September, 2009.

I highly appreciate the efforts of all of them who have worked very hard and

sincerely to bring out the magazine. I also congratulate the editorial team for

their excellent work in organizing both the sections of the magazine, namely,

English and Marathi which is a new venture. It is our pride that the articles are

of informative type dealing with art, history, culture, music, poetry, jokes,

etc.

I hope that the students will continue with our endeavor to promote and

strengthen the achievements of RAIT.

Vijay D. Patil

Pro-Chancellor, Dr. D. Y. Patil University

President, Dr. D. Y. Patil Group

Nerul, Navi Mumbai 400706

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 Compliments from Dr. Ajeenkya D. Patil

With the blessings of Satya Sai Baba and Sant Gajanan Maharaj, it gives me an

immense pleasure to know that Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Nerul is

bringing out a college magazine titled ‘The Wall’.

This time, the magazine has two sections- one of English and the other of

Marathi, which is a remarkable decision. Most of the articles are related to art,

culture, interviews, etc. which is a new venture.

I congratulate all the members of the Editorial Team who have worked very

hard and sincerely to bring out this year’s edition of the magazine.

With best wishes,

Dr. Ajeenkya D. Patil

Pro-Chancellor, Dr. D. Y. Patil University

President, Ramrao Adik Education Society

Nerul, Navi Mumbai 400706

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 Appreciation

We have immense pleasure to state that the students of Ramrao Adik Institute

of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai under the guidance of Prof. A.N.Nakra and

other faculty members are bringing out a magazine of the institute “The Wall

09”. The magazine has come out due to their hard work, untiring efforts and

enthusiasm well in time to coincide with the release of magazine on the

auspicious occasion of the Birthday Celebration of our respected President, Shri

Vijay D.Patil.

We highly appreciate the efforts of all of them and congratulate them for their

excellent work in organizing both the sections, i.e. English and Marathi. The

articles are of different nature, dealing with art, history, culture, music,

poetry and jokes etc.

Once again, we convey our Heartiest Congratulations to all the members of

Editorial Board for their excellent work.

Shri Uday S. Shende Dr. Satish R. Devane

Director Principal

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 Word of Praise

I have immense pleasure to be associated with the Editorial Team of “The Wall

09” magazine, which is being published by a team of students of Ramrao Adik

Institute of Technology, Nerul, Navi Mumbai. The students had worked very

hard to bring out the magazine well in time to be released on the occasion of

our President Shri Vijay D. Patil’s birthday, on 17th September. This has given

the students moral support with a very good experience.

I really have a very high appreciation for the enthusiasm of our students and it

is a great experience to read their articles, having salient language and with

different nicknames etc. This time there was a good response from the

students with their articles for publication. The magazine has a new feature

this year- it has two sections, one of English and the other of Marathi.

I wish BEST OF LUCK to all the members of The Wall ‘09 Editorial Team for

their Bright Future.

Prof. A.N.Nakra
Co-convener and Chief Editor

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 The Wall ’09 Committee

Patron:
Shri Vijay D. Patil, President, RAIT.
Advisor:
Shri Uday S. Shende, Director, RAIT.
Convener:
Dr. Satish R. Devane, Principal, RAIT.
Co-convener cum Chief Editor:
Prof. A.N. Nakra

Editor-In-charge:
Sushrut Munje - Instrumentation Dept.
Co-Editor:
Sneha Das - Computers Dept.
English Editorial Team:
Aninya Ahluwalia - Electronics and Telecommunications Dept.
Vijay Sharma - Electronics Dept.
Surabhi Srivastava - Electronics and Telecommunications Dept.
Shibani Sharma - Computers Dept.
Mayuresh Hedaoo - Electronics Dept.
Dhanashri S - Instrumentation Dept.
Marathi Editorial Team:
Chaitali Patil - Computers Dept.
Triveni Keskar - Information Technology Dept.
Technical Team:
Pratyush Anand - Electronics Dept.
S.P.Prashant - Electronics Dept.
Rahul Talekar - Instrumentation Dept.

Special Thanks to Saumya Pant, Mansi Jain, Azriel Samson, Anirudh Singh Chohan and
Ninad Jadhav.

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 The Wall’ 09 Masons
Photographed by Azriel Samson

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 RAIT
An Engineering College with a Difference

RAIT is a premier institution, holding pride of place among

all the institutions in the D.Y.Patil group as well as all the

technical institutes under the Mumbai University. It was

established in 1983 to promote excellence in technology

and for nurturing smart engineering talent. It is located in

the Padmashree Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyanagar campus at

Nerul, It is housed in a spacious building surrounded by the

breathtaking view of the velvety lawns and the verdant

gardens in the well main tained sprawling campus.

The institute is affiliated to the Mumbai University. It is

approved by the ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL

EDUCATION (AICTE) a statutory body of the Government of

India. RAIT is an 'A' grade college approved by the

Government of Maharashtra.

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 From the Editor

I t took days to form the final draft, hours of music to form the final draft, minutes of brain-

storming to form the final draft, seconds of yelling bouts to form the final draft and now finally
it’s all over! We are proud to present The Wall ’09 to dear RAITians (student and faculty) and
all those non-RAITians who will still read this edition and yes, appreciate the same.

What can you expect from The Wall?

The Wall Masons expect to produce a wholesome magazine complete with imagination of the
writers running wild and giving them the freedom of speech, which is the tradition of ever-so-
democratic RAIT. It has the views of the Management and what they believe can make this
institution better in its essence.

The Cover:
The Wall ’09 aims to initiate a positive change- in the way individuals think and in the issues
that we feel are lagging behind the times. Balance and harmony of two opposites is desirable.
Why not splatter our individual Walls with the change we want to see around us? :)

The Wall believes everyone will feel at home with the content. From the college societies to
the stereotypes, from blogs to Green Campaigns in the city, from random poetry to stuff on
music- The magazine caters to everyone’s needs.

We are thankful to the cooperative faculty members for their unwavering support on every step
which lead to making The Wall ’09 what it is right now. We are appreciative of the moral
support offered by President Shri Vijay Patil. The Wall is grateful to Shende Sir and Devane Sir;
without whose guidance and vision this magazine could not have evolved. We thank Nakra Sir
wholeheartedly for his suggestions and the ‘room’ he provided helped us achieve what we
wanted in the magazine. I would like to thank all my team-mates for everything that went in to
create The Wall ’09. I thank them a lot for bearing with me and my whims, crazy ideas and
loud laughs. I thank them again because The Wall loves them all for the sweat and blood they
put in with me.

The Wall misses its ex-Mason Arjun Kaushik (with all his grins and one-liners) and Tarun
Venkateshwar who was one of its enthusiastic readers. They met with a fatal accident on 7th
September ’09. May their souls rest in peace.

Sushrut Munje
Editor-in-Charge

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 Principal’s Interview
W here do you think RAIT stands with
respect to other Institutes of Technology
in India? How do you plan to set it apart?
RAIT, in my opinion, is a unique institute
because it encourages both -education and
extracurricular activities. RAIT has a
tradition of over 25 years. We encourage
students to participate in all festivals. Our
main aim is to groom students so that they
can enhance their managerial skills along
with technical knowledge.
RAIT is one of the best places for PG study
because the main motive is to encourage
students to undertake research. The main
reason is that India is lagging behind other
nations in terms of research. From the First
Year in the PG study, we encourage
students to write papers and be part of
seminars and paper presentations all over
the world. Our faculty i.e. Prof.
Chatterjee, Prof. Parmar and Prof.
Nikumbh have presented papers during
conferences in Germany, Singapore and
France respectively and it is just a start!
We believe that if the Faculty has that
capability, it will surely percolate down to
the students.
You recently visited Austria. Is RAIT is
planning to tie up with any foreign
university for any student exchange
programs or anything that promises global
exposure?
I was mainly at the University of Graz in
Austria. It is one of the best in the area and
fortunately, now they have started
education with medium as English. They
have also opened up cross-border
immigration options. But then- the
conference was keeping everyone busy and
we could not really get in touch with the
concerned people.
Also- since we are under the University of
Mumbai, tie up for cross migration with
other universities is not possible. Yet we
are making the same efforts in association
with the Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil
University. We want everyone to THINK
BIG. Exposure is just the thing we need and
RAIT is ready to encourage every single
student looking for the same.
The construction going on in the college.
What can we look forward to? How long
will it take?
We are adding three floors to the building.
They will be mainly for the Computer and
Information Technology departments. I
agree there has been delay in the
construction work but we aim to finish it up
this year. Wi-Fi which has been made
available only on two floors will be then
made available everywhere inside the
building (all six floors). The upper floors
boast of open spaces where we aim to
construct an open-air canteen and spaces
for students to have lunch, study or just
hang out. Government of India is providing
funds for modernization of laboratories and
not only look-wise. We have funds form
AICTE and CISCO has been approached for
more developments on the Post-Graduate
Academic front.
Sir, what about the condition of the
Basement Canteen and the washrooms?
We have plans to renovate the washrooms
and the canteen which I agree are in a bad
condition. But unless and until we are done
with the construction upstairs, we can’t
really work on these structures which are in
integral part of the college and are in
regular use.
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Are there any plans to restore the air-
conditioning of the Library? Can we have
a larger Reading Rooms plus Internet
Access?
Library was air-conditioned but the
machines had to be removed to make way
for construction upstairs. So again- until
and unless we’re done with the
construction activity, the library can’t be
made air-conditioned. We do have lots of
quality books but the access has been
provided only to PG students. Though we
believe that access must be made easier,
we need a guarantee that the books will be
well handled by the students. Also, I agree
we need a Reading Room for students but
for now we are making arrangements for
students to study throughout the night in a
couple of classrooms. If required, we can
keep the library open throughout the night
too. Internet access is also required in the
Library and we are working towards the
same. As of now- the college has 4 separate
lines providing internet connection to all
laboratories and the Society Control Rooms.
Wi-Fi has been made available.
Your take on the RAIT Alumni
Association?
The RAIT Alumni Association has two levels-
one is the group of Alumni who are working
from outside the college to provide current
students with all the opportunities and
information to make their climb on the
career ladder easier. The other is the group
of current students who work to increase
awareness in their peers about the methods
of functioning and the great help that the
RAA can be. I believe it’s a start and I’m
happy the RAA conducted its first seminar
(Mr. Jay Rege, 1997 Alum). More are to
follow and I hope the students will make
the best use of the same. It is
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commendable that the Alumni are giving
much of their busy time to RAIT.
Your suggestion to The Wall?
I believe The Wall should be the college’s
annual magazine and also a newsletter
providing people with news as to what’s
happening in RAIT. The magazine is read
outside the college and hence it should
reflect the rich and unique culture RAIT
has. We would like the magazine
committee to come up with regular
newsletters, even if net-based.
As to the content- it should be a
wholesome magazine. Creative freedom is
welcome and so is mature humor. Since it
also gives an opportunity to the
Management and the Faculty to present
their views and to give advice, we should
have our space in The Wall too. We want
the FE’s to contribute to the magazine in
greater numbers each year. The Wall can
be rightly termed as the ‘Face of RAIT’.
Interview conducted by:
Aninya Ahluwalia
TE (Electronics and
Telecommunication Engg.)
Sushrut Munje
TE (Instrumentation Engg.)
 SUC Addresses
T he Student Council of RAIT has always
been an effective and definitive voice of
the student body. Every year a new core
committee is formed with new ideas,
ambitions and plans. Here’s introducing the
SUC Core Committee ‘09-’10.
General Secretary - Aravindhan Nagarajan
aka ‘Dham’
Co-General Secretary - Rushil
Ramachandran
Cultural Secretary - Shivam Singh
Treasurer - Ishawn Arora
Marketing and PR Head - Tanveer Singh
Sports Secrataries - Melphin James and
Nikhil Porate
A chat with the new committee and it is
evident that this year is the year of
Change. New ideas are taking shape, bigger
plans are being made and more cooperation
is now expected from us students. A glance
at what The Committee has to say-
What are the changes in the agenda for
the SUC this year?
Dham - To begin with, we’d like for people
to start looking at the SUC as an open,
comprehensive body as against the close-
knit organization it was deemed as before.
All of you are part of the SUC and the Core
Committee is just your representative.
This year on, the SUC aims at working more
closely with the students, involving them
and evolving with maximum participation.
Rushil - We are looking beyond just cultural
events and are planning to create Brand
SUC, a spokesperson for everything RAIT.
With people working in coordination and
diligently, we are confident of creating a
respectable benchmark for our successors.
What are the incentives you are planning
to provide volunteers?
Dham - There is immense exposure when
you do a job for big events- talking to
companies, being street smart, confident
and learning to get your job done and done
well.
Tanveer- Other than that, there will be
Certificates given to people involved in the
events. These will look very good on your
CV and also add on to a colorful work-
record.
Dham- Of course nothing equals the joy of
working in a group and seeing a job
through. These are experiences you can
only have in college, and especially in RAIT.
The lessons and the memories are priceless
and enough incentive in themselves. Any
day.
How effective is the SUC in bringing
substantial changes?
Dham - See, the college is for educating
students and the SUC is, after all, The
Student’s Council. The management is
always interested in anything the students
have to put forth. Earlier also, the previous
SUC members, under the guidance and
cooperation of Vijay Patil Sir, helped in
collecting funds for diploma education of
three underprivileged students. This was
done under ‘Project Udaan’. We are, even
at present, always eager to help out
anybody in a crunch. With an eager
workforce and cooperation from the
administration, which we have always
received, we are confident of being
resourceful.
Horizon or Rhapsody? What is on the
cards this year?
Dham- A wholesome cultural event is on
the cards this year. Horizon OR Rhapsody,
we are working hard on making Big. Of
course, Horizon is extremely popular and
synonymous with RAIT, so there is demand
for our original fest to happen this time.
The groundwork for preparations will be
laid this semester itself. Volunteers are
expected to come around soon.
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What are your efforts towards RAIT Brand
Building?
Tanveer- There are sms groups, online
groups and extensive publicity on the UTV
Bindaas website also. All RAIT-ians are
requested to become a part of the SUC by
joining us at social networking sites and
sms groups. The email address-
rait.suc@gmail.com
Also type JOIN SUC_RAIT and send it to
567678. Thus, all news and updates will be
sent to your number making communication
simpler than before. Also, if anyone has
any queries, wants to volunteer or simply
has a grievance to report, they just need to
make a call.
Numbers: Tanveer - 99204855011
Dham - 9892515519
What do we students have to look
forward to this year?
Dham- There will be the FE night soon
enough. This time, we are aiming to make
it a big event, with active participation
from the first-years. A welcome party for
freshers where they can let go inhibitions
and have fun. Performances by FEs are
expected and we’ll be urging them to come
(We look forward to the awesome year, all ye SUC Core Committee members!) :P
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in
America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in
your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a
mask.
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forward. There will of course be Aakarshan,
the intra-college music event where
budding
singers can sing and have a ball. The
cultural fest has always been the highlight
of the college and is eagerly looked
forward to. Other than these, there will be
other odd events you can always enjoy.
Anything you want to send across to
everyone? What kind of cooperation are
you expecting from the students?
The Committee - One thing we do have to
say – “Come Alive”. We need people to
start being more proactive when it comes
to college activities. These are the years
when you can effectively build your
character and working for the college does
give you a peek into what the professional
world has in store for you. Dealing with
deadlines, time management and striking a
balance between important things in life is
all learnt and appreciated.
Interview conducted by
Sneha Das
SE (Computer Engg.)
-- Robert Orben
-- Jim Morrison
 What to Look Out For
R AIT always has something to look
forward to. Here are the events that are
scheduled to be held in the campus in the
coming months:
FE Night- This elaborate program is held as
an initiation for the FEs, where they can
perform, volunteer and generally be an
official part of something RAIT for the first
time. The freshers are given a platform to
showcase their talents. It is also awaited by
the seniors as it is from here they choose
and pick future volunteers and organizers
for cultural events. The participation from
the first year students is vital for this event
to be a success and a healthy audience is
expected this year for the same.
‘Aakarshan’ – This event is for the music
lovers. The musically inclined mass can get
on stage and just sing and play to their
heart’s content. And to an eager and
receptive audience. It is the platform for
showcasing your musical talent and getting
the kicks from performing Live. Do not miss
this opportunity.
Seminars- Seminars are held throughout
the semester on everything ranging from
foreign education to technical
examinations. The speakers are renowned
in their respective fields and there is a lot
to learn from every one of them. The
information given out on various
competitive examinations is extremely vital
for the uninitiated. One stop for everything
you would like to know for making it big in
your chosen career path.
Technical Fests– These festivals are
organized by the technical societies for
which our college is especially renowned.
The events have mass appeal as they
promise authentic learning value as well as
loads of fun. The certificates given out are
treasured as they can be valuable for your
PG courses as well as the placements.
Cultural Fests– This is THE thing RAIT is
famous for. Most awaited and hugely
popular, everything from organization to
participation is by the students with lots of
moral support from the administration. The
student committee works with mad
devotion for the same and the end product
is always memorable. If you want to have
the best time of the year to be really good,
get yourself involved.
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W hat was the best
thing about being a part
of this college?
What was your favorite
hangout place in the
college? And when were
you found hanging out
there?
What’s that one thing
about the college that
you’ll miss the most?
Something you’d like to
say to your juniors?
Is there a change or
improvement that you’d
like to see in our college?
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Alumni Speak!
“I made good friends while in college who have stood by me
through thick and the thin till date”
“Opportunities for Extra-curricular activities”
“Every thing, the best days of my life were spent in RAIT. It
taught me to look at the world in a new way”
“Never had a fixed hung out place, It kept changing since
the college building itself was evolving when I was in college
.It varied from the labs, canteen, stairs to the SUC room (in
the basement then) during Horizon”
“Erstwhile engineering canteen in basement (now I think it’s
a Diploma lab) Used to hang out there most of the time
(except when attending an occasional lecture)”
“Sharad, Boys Room/IEEE/SUC-Room/ whatever you call it”
“The quadrangle in the CBD college structure (it was very
easy to find people). You just had to shout out their name”
“This one is difficult to answer… Pretty much miss all of
college”
“As said everything, but most the friends and very important
dear Prof’s lectures”
“RAIT taught me perseverance. To work hard is in our
hands, believe in yourselves and hang in there the toughness
situation will get resolved”
“Enjoy the four years at college, but don't let the fun get in
the way of your grades”
“Have fun and Rock on!” \m/
“Well, it’s long list. For starters- some parts of the college
needs to be sanitized and white washed. Especially the
Canteen”
“More participation from the Industry and the Alumni. Was
as good as absent when we were in college”
“Changes are in transit and it feels good!”
What is the one thing “The Grit and comradeship of the RAITians. The welcome
about this college that smile that we get from the non-teaching stuff (only constant
you feel should never in RAIT) when we visit college”
change? “The freedom of expression. It actually was a unique feature
of RAIT when we were in college. It allowed students to find
their true character. RAITians are not just smart, they are
also street smart”

Your views on the “I liked organizing Aakarshan/Horizon and being part of

college events and fests… Technovate. I helped in organizing events/ going to various
companies to ask for sponsorships/ Compeering at events.
All this gave me a platform to develop my communication
skills/stage-confidence etc.”
“I think in our days there was pretty much some fest or
event that was always on the cards. It was fun and there
were always opportunities to learn new things. The stuff
that I carried from there still helps me in my work life.”

Are you proud of being a *chorus* HELL YEAH!! :D

RAITian?

Contributed by:

Pradnya M. Morje
1993 Alum (Computers Dept.)

Vishal Shanbhag
2002 Alum (Computers Dept.)

Rahul More
2007 Alum (Information Technology Dept.)

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to
divorce themselves from their predecessors.

-- Jim Morrison

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 Kalaraag
O ur very own platform for theatre,
photography, film-making and folk dances
Wide-spread contacts in the industry,
organizes national-level competitions. Best
known for their t-shirts, ‘unique’ seniors
and dedication (yes again) bordering on
hopeless devotion. The committee likes
IEEE
T he Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc is a Dallas-based
international organization promoting
innovation and interest in the field of
electronics. RAIT houses a branch of this
mammoth organization under the Bombay-
10 section. The society is completes 125
years in 2009 and IEEE-RAIT completes its
decade!
IEEE-RAIT takes pride in organizing the
most awesome Industrial Visits (in their
true form). Organizes two technical
festivals (Robotics, LAN Gaming, Paper
presentations, tech quizzes…) by the name
of ‘Whizion’ and ‘360 Degrees’.
‘Whizion’ is all RAIT (and takes place in an
odd semester) while the latter is created
by pooling in the gray matter of 6 different
colleges (RAIT, K J Somaiya, MHSS, SNDT, D
J Sanghvi, VESIT). It comes under the IEEE-
Mumbai section and takes place in the even
semester.
Best known for their wacky marketing
tactics and mass participation by students
of all years… IEEE conducts regular
membership drives and you can contact
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RAIT canteen and can be found chomping
on stuff. Kalaraag is ‘apna’ society which
always aims for the sky and achieves a leap
almost close.
Mukesh Patil
Chairman - 9867081083
them at any time to join. There are many
perks to being an IEEE member. Ask the
eighty or so collegians who are already in.
You get an internationally recognized
certificate and are introduced to innovative
ways of learning the same engineering. You
don’t have to be a member to participate
in the different endeavors at RAIT though.
You can still volunteer and participate in
the competitions go on their industrial
visits and much more…
Their recent industrial visits have been to
SAASE (Snow and Avalanche Studies Est.,
Chandigarh), Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO, Bengaluru) and
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL,
Bengaluru).
Students actually worship IEEE. Expect
music playing at high volumes and robots
whizzing at your feet when an IEEE fest is
on. Meant for nerdy and non-nerdy people
alike who drool over electrical circuits
(Electronics and EXTC fellas) but again,
people from all over just join and make it
larger than life.
Mihir Shah
Chairperson - 9819073100
 CSI
T he Computer Society of India with its
base in Chennai serves as a learning
platform for students from all around the
country who have an affinity towards
computers. However their inability to reach
out to the thousands of budding minds
through just one centre gives rise to many
student chapters nationwide and one such
student chapter is CSI-RAIT, a registered
member of CSI.
Expect the same madness during the CSI
fests as you witness in the IEEE ones.
‘Techknow’ and ‘Techmate’ are two of
their babies. ‘Techmate 2K9’ saw the
introduction of ‘Equinox’ – a state level
project competition for school students,
whereas ‘Techknow 2K9’ saw the induction
of ‘Techmela’ – a fun zone where there was
a perfect blend of intelligence, creativity
and entertainment.
ISA
T he International Society of Automation
(ISA) formerly known as The
Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation
Society is a non-profit technical society.
Interestingly, once upon a time, it was also
known as the Instrumentation Society of
America. Fortunately, it’s well-known by a
common acronym- (for all above aliases)
‘ISA’.
Last of the technical societies here in our
beloved college… ISA-RAIT emerged as a
phoenix should in 2008! Dependent on lone
60 Instrumentation students, (half of whom
are away working on other stuff and the
remaining quarter not giving a damn) the
CSI-RAIT prides itself in its Industrial Visits
too! BHEL-Haridwar followed by visits to
Mussorie and Dehradun in the past and the
most recent IV was to ARIES-Nainital
followed by visits to Raniket, Jim Corbett
and Agra.
It rivals IEEE-RAIT’s claims of supremacy in
the technical arena… lots of volunteers and
dedication bordering on lustful love… CSI
Committee lives in their treasured
underground dungeon err… Control Room.
Basically meant for computer geeks and
non-geeks (Comps and IT folks) but people
just get into their groove…
Quoting the current Chairman- “If you have
the driving force in you, be sure to get the
wings to fly here in CSI-RAIT”
Abdul Shariq
Chairman – 9892304253
last quarter makes this society almost as
big as IEEE and CSI in the college.
Seminars and Industrial Visits (local and
out-station) is what ISA-RAIT specializes at.
It organizes ‘Genesis’ which enjoys mass
participation from God-knows-where!
People come and come in droves…
volunteers are yelling themselves hoarse
against the crowd that wants to play games
on LAN, fiddle around with robots and do
all awesome things no matter what! Blah-
ness, where is thy sting?
Shreekant Tipugade
President - 982194723
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 RAIT Alumni Association
O ur Alums never forget RAIT because
they are RAITians all their lives.
An association which got noticed when our
dear old Mohsin aka ‘Wendol’, Soumendra
aka 'The Dark Lord' laid the foundation and
(also) dear old Animesh aka ‘Animation’
became the architect. They were assisted
by Soumendra's Archy 'The Dark Cat' with
all his purrs and scratches.
It has big plans to launch an
Entrepreneurship-Cell and Mentor-Mentee
Program. Aims to create a bond between
the current students (including zombies)
and the Alumni (who were and were not
zombies) willing to help… will result in lots
of career opportunities and awareness in
the RAIT spawn.
SUC
A rguably, the most powerful of all
societies since it holds all the political
reins.
Student Union Council-RAIT holds those
revered posts of GS, Co-GS, Treasurer,
Rhapsody Coordinator (or formerly- Chief
Horizon Coordinator), Sports Secretary et
al.
Instrumental in organizing Horizon and now
Rhapsody, the SUCers can be seen paying
frequent visits to the FE classes in order to
pull them out of their stupor and making
them stop playing the Zombie-game.
Controversy-friendly SUC has possession of
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Corporate-Outreach Cell is hell-bent on
building long-lasting contacts in the
industries that matter and bring those god-
like people to address seminars.
RAA also has a specific ‘RAIT Mumbai
Chapter’ slogging hard for betterment of
current students who need to show
enthusiasm too!
If there is an ambition to climb the career
ladder, RAA can provide with an experience
in handling formal stuff, internships,
recommendations and jobs.
Log on to the Official Alum Network:
http://alumni.rait.ac.in
Zeenat Khan
RAA GS – 9833544279
a large underground vault which has been
christened ‘SUC Room’ (Innovative, no?)
and a baby room which masquerades by the
name of ‘JAM Room’ (Much more
innovative, no?) since that’s where our
bands play their good music. Room is full of
graffiti which is a mixture of names,
abuses, Pink Floyd lyrics, Death Metal lyrics
and a notice- ‘Graffiti Is Banned’. (Duh)
SUC is what SUC does. It speaks out for the
students and maintains an excellent
rapport with all other societies, the
faculty, students and zombies.
Aravindhan Nagarajan (Dham)
GS – 9892515519
 The Wall
A definitive voice of the college by its
students…
Hatched in 2001, revived in 2006, it has
been an enjoyable ride for the ever-
growing magazine. Ever-growing it its
awesome-ness, retard ability, paper quality
and awesome-ness. We miss our Writer-
Seniors and so we invite their articles each
time because we want to maintain our
standard of rubbish-ness that is awesome-
ness.
No kidding, The Wall prints the voice of the
faculty and views of the students (not
zombies). The Wall rips apart stupid beliefs
and spoofs college societies. It conducts
polls, prints pictures, and publishes random
poetry (not all understandable) and a
dedicated Marathi section.
The team spends sleepless nights and good
food hours to produce this wad of papers
and all it gets is smiles, pats and
Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified
source.
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
appreciation in return. No money, no.
The Wall is built once a year and the team
lives it for the rest.
Contact Info:
Find us on the Alum Network, Twitter and
Facebook!
Articles specifically posted on Alum
Network for your comments. Tell us how
much you love The Wall or abuse us all you
can. Feedback is all we want!
Email: rait.thewall@gmail.com
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/RAIT.TheWall
Alum Network:
http://alumni.rait.ac.in/group/thewall
The Wall blog:
http://www.raitthewall.wordpress.com
-- Ron Nesen
-- Jean Harlow
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An Ode to the Friend
To,

Arjun Kaushik,

Superhero/Guru/Friend/Brother

I am still numb inside and some part of me always will be. But this is to celebrate your life and

remember your legacy. Thank you for always being the witty one around. Thank you for being

the Superhero who groomed his sidekick and the Guru that thought his ‘Chela’ to be himself.

Thank you for all the goodwill said and unsaid. Thank you for teaching me to laugh and enjoy a

little more. I know you won't read this but to everyone else that does this is to remind them of

the life you have lived and the indelible impression that you left behind.

To your family go our prayers and all our succorance. To your soul the knowledge that we have

cherished your being and will always do so.

This is what you wrote for me when you passed out of college and I intend to follow it.

"When my time comes,

Forget the wrongs that I have done,

Help me leave behind some

Reasons to be missed…

Don't resent me when you're feeling empty,

Just keep me in your memory,

Leave out all the rest."

Yours truly,

Aravindhan Nagarajan

Sidekick/Chela/Friend for Eternity

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 *Title*
I was pretending to work when I got the
Esteemed Editor-in-Charge's mail saying-
"Mate, can you send in your article asap? Or
rather- what you gonna write on… :)
Looking for nothing in particular… actually
parting words… or what it feels like being a
pass-out… know you won’t make it sound
cheesy. :P"
Describing the amazing experiences I've had
here and how it feels to be ex-RAIT needs a
lot more than one article but ‘The Wall’
has its rules. So this is my weak attempt at
describing my RAIT experience. I'll break it
down for you Year-wise.
FE- Seems like ages ago that I walked into
the campus with dreams in my eyes. (Yes,
we are one of the few colleges in the city
to boast of a campus) I was in the middle of
planning my entire future when I heard the
ever so dreaded voice of a senior calling
out- “OI FE IDHAR AA!!!” After the initial
‘introduction’(during which I was severely
reprimanded for not telling my FULL name
(like it appears on the mark sheets) I was
asked to recite the FE Anthem(extinct now,
I think), which is now etched into my head
thanks to my knack of finding seniors in the
weirdest of places, local trains (I actually
recited it in front of a TC once… imagine
local train+TC+you with hand down there
and finger in the mouth jumping around=
UTTER MADNESS) Center One, movie
theaters… you name it and I've embarrassed
myself at the place. During the whole
ragging period we were made to sing,
dance, act like an air force jets, and many
more innovative things (pretending that
you're a map of India is not easy…
pretending that there's an earthquake
happening in ‘South India’ is more
difficult). The whole thing ended by the FE
Night. This was also when we met new
people, discovered that BUNKING is ok (I
came from school where u got screwed for
bunking). And of course HORIZON, my first
ever HORIZON was the best thing in the
whole of my FE… Rappelling, Unchained,
Euphoria, Informals and soooo much more
happened. Of course as a Security FE
volunteer, you get abused but what the
heck we soaked it all in. Never before had I
seen Controlled Anarchy happen. Of course
we also discovered that the XEROX machine
is the best invention after the light bulb,
and that ‘Easy Solution’ is the solution to
all exam worries. In the middle of it all we
did manage to get squeeze in submissions,
exams and lectures, you know to keep the
Profs happy. :D
SE- Year, when the whole ‘specialization’
begins. We are supposed to learn specific
things about our branches
Computers/Tronix/Extc/Instru/IT. To most
of us, it was the year that new friendships
hatched in the first year were cemented,
on a personal note I discovered the joys of
living away from home (the pains as well),
the usual submissions, fight for printouts,
mass bunks, frequent trips to Centre One
and KG's continued. HORIZON seemed
better this year. VIVAS happened as well in
my opinion they should have a tagline…
something like WHO DARES WINS would be
apt because most of the times its treated
like a Commando Operation behind enemy
lines… get in fast… stay below the
External's radar… and GET OUT ASAP… they
were more of a way of determining who
can confuse the External the most.
Statements like- “Kya paagal hai External”,
“He's asking the ENTIRE syllabus” are
common. Sadly, this was also the year
when the library was turned into the dump
it is now (it was an AIR CONDITIONED
heaven before), the lifts stopped working
and construction began. The best part of SE
was that we were juniors no more and the
pleasure of shouting “OI FE IDHAR AA” was
just the icing on an already great year.
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TE- The toughest year, academically. (of
course you have to study moron). I call this
the 'relationship year' friends become just a
little more and love is all around. There is
a mad rush among prospective GS, CS,
Treasurer, IEEE/CSI/ISA Chairman to work
and prove that they are the best. HORIZON
organization is done mostly by the TE's
simply because of the “I want a POST”
mentality. Some of us really didn't care
about posts so we chose to work for 'The
Wall' (incidentally your current GS was the
big boss at that time and the best editor-in-
chief this magazine has seen… and will
probably see… come to think of it most of
your current committee has worked for The
Wall … so if u want posts this is the new
place to be I think). Placements also
happen this year and you can be confident
about getting a job with the placement
committee working overtime to get
companies to college, these guys are good.
HORIZON happened and I think it was the
best I attended.
BE- The most ‘MAAF’ year, ever. Bunked
more this year than ever before. Treated
this as the most ‘MAAF’ year academically
koi SCENE hi nahi hua. This was also the
CAT/GRE season year. People get all
serious about their lives and future and
start preparing for these exams. The entire
atmosphere of college changes. Here's an
example how-
Before CAT/GRE season:
Me: Dude weekend kaisa tha?
Friend: Sahiii!!! I managed to catch the
latest Mallika Sherawat movie!
During CAT/GRE season:
ME: Dude weekend kaisa tha?
Friend: Positively delightful… watching
Mallika Sherawat gyrate to the foot tapping
number managed to levitate my
despondent spirit greatly!!
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ME: HUH??!!
FRIEND: Practicing my Word List man. On
the cover it said 'most effective when used
in everyday life'
RHAPSODY replaced HORIZON this year and
honestly it was just that… a replacement
which never lived up to the original (to put
it very very very mildly).
Farewell happened and we bid a tearful
goodbye to our ALMA MATTER.
Some of you out there may not agree with
me when I say that these days will be your
best ever but trust me, getting up and
going to office everyday should not be
something you look forward to (sure the
money helps) you may not like the crowd or
the infra, but the people here are the best
you'll ever find. Out here there's nobody to
say MAAF YAAR when a SCENE happens,
nobody to argue about the football scores.
Enjoy your days ladies and gents, get to
know your seniors… at least introduce
yourself to them… read THE WALL :D… and
yes you may not believe it but actually pay
attention to the Profs sometimes at
least!!!!
That's all folks… my RAIT experience. In the
end, I'd just like 2 say…
RAIT is like and old treasure chest you
discover, of course it catches your
attention instantly, piques at your curiosity
and you want to know everything that's in
the box. You open it and you are held in
awe, you go through the items one by one
and it leaves you more and more
enchanted, more surprised and more
curious than ever!! You glee with joy as you
find familiar items and want to know more
about the rest. That's how RAIT is to you -
familiar, surprising and not to mention
awesome as hell.
Arjun Kaushik
2009 Alum (Computers Engg.)
 Smile and Capture the Spirit of Humanity
T he modern world has become
stressful rat race in which grim faced men
a positive vibes across the work place. It can
and women rush around like so many rats,
trying to ‘achieve’ their goals. In our mad
rush to win the rat race, we compete
aggressively, ferociously guarding our
territory. We try to grab power and feel a
great thrill when we possess what others
covet. Our unsmiling visage, our stiff body
language, all conveys an impression of
hardness. However, when we achieve
everything we realise that it is an empty
victory, because we have won the rat race
but we have forgotten to be human.
So how can we add the human touch in our
lives? There are many heart warming
aspects that mark us as human-for e.g. our
unique ability to smile. We may have
noted that, animals lack the intelligence to
recognize humour and they never smile or
laugh, except when they are presented as
cartoon characters like Mickey & Donald or
Tom & Jerry.
Despite being gifted with this unique ability
to smile, most of us are extremely inhibited
and rarely do so. Why do we hold ourselves
back? - It could be our ego, our hidden
complexes or simply a lack of initiative on
our part or sometimes a fear of being
snubbed by others. However, a smile costs
nothing but it can change the world around
us. It can motivate unhappy students; it
can lighten a tense atmosphere; it can send
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
build an unspoken bond that promises
camaraderie and team spirit in our work
place whether it is your office or home.
There are several professions, where a
smile becomes a symbol of a deeper
connection. One might have observed the
practised simile of an airhostess; the suave
smile of a politician and the reassuring
smile of a doctor. Whatever the situation,
a smile must be genuine. Like Shakespeare
has said in ‘Othello’, one can smile and
smile and still be a villain. Therefore a
smile should symbolise truthfulness and
inner warmth and not be a hypocritical and
mechanical exercise.
Smiling can indeed bring back the human
touch in our environment. Like Chuck
Boyer, a writer who has worked with many
major companies in the corporate world
including the IBM head quarters in New
York says, after having interviewed more
than 2000 managers, directors and senior
executives “in the thousands of
professional interactions you will have over
the course of a full career, these tiny
human moments- real human
moments…….can and will make a large
difference in how well and how much you
will enjoy working with someone”. So
folks! Let’s flash those teeth and bring
smiles in our lives and charge the
surrounding with positive energy.
Prof. Anupama Shenoy
Lecturer, Communication Skills
-- John Ruskin
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 As Usual
T error has time and again struck.
Causing more damage than before.
Soldiers have once again come to our
rescue; the braves have once again lost
their lives, and the terrorists have once
again been successful in their ruthless and
heinous cause.
And as usual, India is showing sympathy and
regret.
Resignations are being thrown. But who is
to take responsive action?
We got a proof as to what brought terror to
the city, but what use is proof if nothing is
made out of it?
The CST station, which is the biggest hub of
Mumbai, which connects harbor, central
and main lines of the local trains, where
more than 10 lakh people board and alight
trains on a regular basis, did not have
enough security arrangements to prevent
an attack in its very heart. What chance
does the rest of the city have unless there
is vigilance and cooperation from every
quarter- from the administration as well as
the common masses? And are we different
from what we were prior to the attacks?
Maybe yes, but is the change substantial? Is
it enough to prevent future catastrophes?
Or are things very much the usual?
There needs to be a more visible, tangible
change… The Taj has been stripped off its
sheen, its magnanimous royal structure;
but India talks about peace. The wanton
attacks can still continue, maybe with
increased force and terror. The prominent
landmarks are still in danger of being
destroyed. We are in our comfort zones
thinking that somehow, we are away from
the shocking truth that is Terrorism.
Everyone in our homes is safe.
We have developed immunity, a tolerance
for in-competency and mediocrity. We
board the train or bus, no matter how
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crowded or dingy it is. We are now resilient
by force, not by choice. The local police
charge a fine to the private buses if they
find people standing in it. But that rule is
not applicable to the Government-run
transport buses. The government will allow
malls to be built in areas where people
desperately want housing. Cliché, but the
poor are getting poorer and the rich,
richer.
Until we take a stand, decide to deserve
more, things will continue as usual. The
trains will always be less than required.
The lavatories at stations will stink as bad.
Common man will suffer. The politicians
will extort as much money as they can, but
they will get away with it very easily. And
the law would be as oblivious as always.
Politicians will declare more money in
crores but no one will dare ask her about
its source, because that’s donation from
poor as they put it. But if a middle class
guy declares a meager amount, full
whereabouts with legitimate proof would
be demanded from him. The soldiers and
the local public will be distraught in
Kashmir, but the Government will ask for
Peace, rather beg for peace. More pilots
will lose their lives, in crashes. And if there
are more people like Salaskar and Karkare,
there will be those who will take them
away from us.
A lot has been said to boil the bloods of
those who can still fight back. Till then,
why don’t WE try? Why don’t we instill a
desire to change?
Until then, it would be As Usual…
Prof. Kumar Tekchandani
(Electronics and Telecommunication
Department)
 RECOs
I mportant points required
Recommendation Letter for Admission in
in
Foreign Universities with Financial
Assistantship
The excerpts of the discussions which I had
with Ms. Jullian, Admission Program Office,
Houston University on Thursday, 29th
November 2007, about the admission of our
students for MS/PhD Program in various
universities of USA. She told me that the
following points are carefully looked into
for admission and grant of
assistantship/scholarship.
A. General Intellectual Ability
1. A keen and alert observer shows
evidence of long detailed memory.
2. Shows an interest in problem
solving and is flexible and
resourceful in problem solving
3. Has a quick grasp of concepts and
underlying principles and can see
relationships between ideas and
events.
4. Asks provocative questions
B. Creative Intellectual Ability
1. Is curious and asks many questions
2. Produces work which is fresh, vital
and unique, creates new ideas,
products and processes and does
the unexpected.
3. Shows unusual capability for
concentration, imagination and
originality on tasks that interest
him/her.
4. Prefers talking about ideas and
problems
5. Exhibits emotional sensitivity,
expresses intense feelings
6. Enjoys variety and novelty in
learning experiences
C. Leadership Intellectual Ability
1. Is self-confident with peers and
adults
2. Demonstrates a willingness for and
possesses skills for decision making
3. Is willing to take risks; tends to
think independently
4. Exhibits organizational skills with
tasks, peers, time and materials
5. Carries responsibility well, works
well in situations that requires
initiative and independence
6. Shows sympathy and tolerance
towards others and generally
relates well with others
7. Can express self well, has good
verbal skills and is well understood
Prof. A. N. Nakra
(Department of Engineering
Sciences)
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 Cursors to Cruise With
C ollege has been a lot of things.
Educative, tough, fun, irksome,
wholesome, hostile, competitive, friendly-
like life zipped. If you are thinking this is
by a schizophrenic patient, hold your fire. I
am just on about how it is decidedly
confusing to describe the college life. So
much so, I won’t even try to try. It is
something you live through, walk out of,
then miss sorely I guess. And though you
don’t want to be dictated how things
should be, I’ll still give pointers. I am a
responsible student of life.
There is something different about the
college you have stepped foot in. You come
armed with ideas on how to brave friends
and foes and more often than not, these
plans go for a toss. So it’s best if you let go
of presumptions and be ready to learn
things anew.
Here’s a peek into what all I learned in a
year. The important stuff, that is. Also,
always squalling after being pronounced
precocious, I thought I might as well go
ahead and give people a reason to call me
that. Things I realized and found useful:
 Don’t crib about being friendless.
Talk to yourself. If that is boring,
you probably are bad company.
 Listen to people. Everybody is a
story. Learn from stories.
 If you want to keep promises, you
don’t need to make them.
 You just need to want things bad
enough to have them.
 If you are not enjoying what you
are doing, hard work will get you
nowhere.
 Martin Scorsese is a crazy genius.
 Time passes. That is both awful and
awesome. Be in awe of Time.
 Archive things you like, like The
Wall ’09. And Like The Wall ’09.
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 A little drama is very much fun.
 Too much drama is not. Life’s Got
To Be boring at times.
 Seniors want to be assured of their
seniority. Maybe they forget. They
expect reminders.
 Puddles in the washrooms should
not shock you. Nor should many
other things. Be Shock Resistant.
 Notes taken down in class do help.
Really.
 Cooperation has ‘co’ as its prefix.
That is for a reason. Help out to be
helped out later.
 Music will save your soul. Keep you
sane. And keep you out of trouble.
 Preparation Leave is a blessing.
Examination Days-ugly, biting
curse.
Normal days-whatever you can
make out of them.
 Traveling can be fun. But it is
usually Very Annoying.
 Earphones, best invention since the
wheel.
 An Empty train to a commuter is
like water to a thirsty chap.
 Floors can be fun to sit on. So can
wet grass, dry dirt and footpaths.
 Air conditioning, ultimate luxury.
 You WILL miss that train. Period.
 Always out of cash when you need
it. Period.
 You get asked just what you didn’t
study. Period.
 You HAVE to study at some point.
Sounds simple, but not so easy to
appreciate.
 It is important to multitask. Or you
won’t complete stuff.
  Self pity does invite resentment thinking deep.
faster than anything. Yes, you start
 Presentation IS important. Buy a Tons more but they aren’t for free.
nice pen and make lines after every Anybody who is particularly harried can
line. join me in the quest to amass more
 Sometime you have to try to be knowledge.
happy. As in try hard.
 Drab is drab only as long you are. Sneha Das
SE (Computer Engg.)

End of Teens Religion or Extremisim?

End of teens,
Naïve am I?
Is it time to choose formals over Jeans? OR just camouflaging my ethics till I die?

20 years, Facing the same smothering cubicle,

Was it here that I first hid behind my thin
Full of vivacious grins, smiles but also cuticle?

tears. Enduring those fanatics,

You think I’ll be a part of your antics?
Celebrations and cakes,
Prejudiced creed,
An unfading simulacrum of the best days Will rather settle with an imbecile breed

Gifts and Surprises, Soon the clan approaches,

As I lay helpless fearing the consequences
Spending savings to thwart the surmises.
A shower of verses,
Dawn of responsibilities? I duck to see past the brain washed forces.

Or is it time to unravel the new fantasies? They try to corner me,

They try to conquer me.
A day marking the Induction of a “new” life
Every action is subtle,
Time again to kick start a new day with the More hypnotizing and brutal

same old psyche. A death? A murder under the pretext of

despotism?
No, just religious extremism

Mayuresh Hedaoo
TE (Electronics Engg.)

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all
doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
-- Jim Morrison
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 Stereotypes in College
A lthough, every college has
completely different and unique kind of
a
crowd, there are certain rough similarities
among the students attending these
colleges. Although I may have missed out
on certain kind of people, I tried my best to
cover almost all of them. Many people will
fall into more than one of the given below
categories, still, you can identify which
ones you or your friends qualify to be a
part of by going through them.
RAIT can be roughly divided into various
categories like–
The Padaku nerds- You can recognise this
kind by the simple fact that you will always
catch these people in the lecture halls,
(even if they have to sit all alone as a
consequence of the rest of the class
carrying out a mass bunk). They are
generally the first benchers, and always
have a book under their nose, figuratively
speaking. Many of them even have their
lunch in the lecture halls.
The Make-Up Star / the Brand Conscious-
This kind has a whole wardrobe full of
latest, and branded clothes and
accessories. Everything they wear has to be
branded even if that means they have to
shell out loads of money from their
wallets/purses. More often than not, the
girls who are in this category, make sure
that their make-up matches the clothes
they wear and may get upset if someone
else has the same kind of clothes or
accessories as them. They are the fashion–
conscious sect of the society.
The Quiet-one- This is the sort, who
doesn’t communicate much with people.
They are generally occupied with their own
thoughts and are sometimes mistaken to be
arrogant or haughty, as they don’t seem to
be too open to people.
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The Music Fanatic- This section of the
crowd can be easily spotted by the simple
fact that they almost always have
headphones fitted snugly into their ears.
Their most prized possession is their I-pod
or mp3 player, or even their music phones
(if they are like me ;)).
The Sports Star- This group is always seen
playing one of the many sports, they can
either be found sweating it out on the
football ground or playing basketball or
cricket, etc. with their fellow group
mates…
The Bhukkad- This kind is always hungry,
they are almost always found in the college
canteen, eating or ordering one of the
many items that are present in the long
menu list. Their most trusted method of
killing their boredom and passing time is
going to the canteen and hanging out with
pals and not to forget, carrying out the
important task of eating….
Selfless, ever ready to help- This kind is
the one who’ll always be there for you
whenever you need them, through thick
and thin. They are the best of friends you
could ever ask for, they will always be
there for you when you are going through a
rough patch and want someone to lend you
a ear or help you out in facing the big bad
world. Make sure you have atleast one, if
not more, friend from this group.
The Always-broke- These people will
absolutely NEVER ever have money with
them, they will always be going about
borrowing some from someone or the
other. The canteen’s bill is taken care of by
their ever ready to help, mates, they will
not only fund their various needs like food
and outings but also offer to buy some
more stuff for them when ever need be.
The Entertainer- This one is fun to be
with. They always manage to crack you up,
with their jokes or antics, or atleast
entertain you with their many stories
involving themselves or the campus. They
are the ones which provide free
entertainment in the campus and add
colour to our often monotonous lives.
The Self-Obsessed- This kind is generally
so into themselves that they hardly seem to
remember about anyone else around them,
they will be always seeing and doing what’s
in the best of their interests. They will be
nice to people if they’ll turn out to be of
any use to them, ever, else they’ll just do
what they feel like doing.
The All Rounder- This kind is rare, but
generally present in almost every campus.
They are good in everything, right from
debates to creative work and studies to
sports. You will often wonder if there is
anything in the whole wide world they
cannot do. They are very well known due to
their participation in almost everything
that goes around the campus and are very
popular.
The Movie Fan- This sort knows A-Z of each
and every movie, man has ever managed to
create. He will be a walking – talking
human encyclopedia on movies (you can
place his opinions about movies, next to
that, offered by imdb.com). He/She knows
so much about movies, it’s crazy. Always
consult this kind, before making plans to
watch any movie, be it of any genre.
The Party Animal- As the name suggests,
these are the kind who are always ready to
party. Even if you call them at the middle
of the night, they will jump with
excitement as soon as they hear you utter
the word “Party” from your mouth. They
can be trusted upon to know a lot about
throwing parties and you can ask them for
help if you ever plan to organise one, coz
you can be sure about the fact that they
would be knowing all about which caterers
to hire or which restaurant to go to and
what sort of music suits the entire
occasion.
The Fighter- This kind lives to fight. They
love arguing, rebuking or beating and
punching people up. If someone doesn't
agree with them or insults them, they beat
the crap out of the opponent, until he
realies the major folly he committed by
coming in their way. Although they
generally get violent only when they have
been given a particular reason to do so,
they sometimes enjoy the attention they
get when they are fighting with people so
much that they start getting aggressive
without any specific purpose. Your safest
bet is to stay away from such souls as
there's always the risk of getting beaten
black and blue if u hang about anywhere
close to them, when they are feeling like
hitting someone, to vent out their anger or
exhibit their "violent streak".
Saumya Pant
SE (Electronics Engg.)
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 Horizon 2k8: An Organizer’s Perspective
L et me warn you, this is a highly
personalized article and I didn’t keep
notes, so there might be some holes that
will need to be plugged in by other people.
And it may also make for a really boring
read, being somewhat like a memoir.
Pre-Horizon:
Our core organizing committee was Vivek
(GS), Venky (CS), Alok (Treasurer), me and
a few other people. Ours and more
specifically my work began much earlier
around October-November when I presentation, with our coup-de-grace, the
successfully argued that the brochure
needed rewriting and to my consternation
it was befitting that I got the job. Sigh.
After a month or two of haggling over
pricing of events and which new events to
include, it was ready with notable inputs
from Dham and the Creative Team. The
logos were jointly designed and created by
Zubair, Melphin and Pankhil. Amit Shetty
created the brochure artwork and we
plagiarized the design (with due
permission) from Shetty’s earlier work on
the ‘Silent Lucidity’ album cover.
The next obvious stage of creating a
suitable presentation came next. We had
the videos, the pictures and the content,
the only thing needed was an arresting
presentation. After an unusually long delay
because of laziness on the part of team
members and inconclusive ideas, we passed
the buck to Pankhil who created a stunner.
Unlike previous years, when the
presentation was a just a two-three slide
thing, which embarrassed not only the
Corporate people who we showed it to, but
also ourselves; this was a colourful yet
sober, catchy yet subtle presentation.
Someone came up with the idea of burning
it all on black, labelled CDs with the
‘Horizon’ logo. And I think it looked
astonishingly eye-catching at a very cheap
cost.
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Our first important meeting: 7th Dec, 07. I
remember the date because it was
immediately after our first 7th semester
exam paper, with a Vice President of
Reliance Fresh, a contact of Vivek’s. Off we
were on my rickety old splendor and with
my old laptop, this thing had a battery life
of 15 minutes on full charge and yet never
disappointed us in front of Corporate folks.
The meeting went beyond expectations.
The laptop withstood a deluge of important
business calls that the VP got and ran for 30
minutes and died much later after the
meeting was over. The VP loved the
Channel [V] footage, and especially the
huge crowd scene at the end. Like any guy
from marketing, his eyes popped out at the
sight of the huge (Channel [V] trickery?)
crowd and he promised to get back to us.
We were sure our first check was within our
reach. But we forgot Mukesh Ambani. Anil
splurges on such events, and if Anil does it,
Mukesh would never. Fresh was owned by
the former. Our hopes were dashed. There
were many such appointments where we
visibly impressed our quarries, yet failed to
get the green.
By the New Year, we had covered a few
other need not be mentioned companies
and started work in earnest. With the
exams nearing an end, our working
committee was almost decided. Shitiz and
Nishant (then TE’s) were handed Stalls and
a recovery target of a Lac set for them.
Shitiz delivered the first check on Jan 5
from a local bakery guy. I think it was the
earliest possible cheque ever for Horizon.
The second major cheque was our biggest
catch, Raymonds, a contact of an Ex-
RAITian and not an Alumnus. Vivek and a
four member team gave the presentation
to a packed board room and we struck
gold. By the end of Jan, we had already
flicked our Major Sponsor and people got a
little complacent. However, we Core
Organizers personally saw to it that all the
major brands were covered. Automobiles
(Vivek), Computer companies, Networking
sites (me), Telecom companies (Venky,
Dhruv, me,) Apparel, FMCG, TV Channels,
Media Houses by a host of other people
including Zinal, Rushil, Dham, Shitiz,
Dhruv, Rohit Mulay and of course our
attempt at receiving charity through
benevolent donations (Alok). Our schedule
in the month of Jan-Feb was packed; we
set out every day at 9, did our stuff, met
up with the other teams in the city or
headed back ecstatic at the slightest
corporate attention or disillusioned at
being ignored. Evenings were generally
spent at CCD – Vashi or Belapur unwinding
or the fabulously ‘cheap’ Café Vihar.
A few notable raids or attempts that need
mention here-
Bigadda.com: Initiated by me and Vivek
through a contact from Ninad, the best
presentation of my life and still no major
funds. We were a little late, by only a few
days. The deal was effectively tie-up by
Zinal.
Airtel: Tanveer’s big contact and I mean
bigger than really big. Multitudes of
meetings, Venky’s high profile detours to
Malad, 10 days and nights of preparing
different proposals each day and submitting
them next day and redrafting it again the
next.
We were all exhausted, it had gone on to
such a high level, that we were expecting
nothing less than Atif Aslam from them and
he is damnedly expensive. We offered them
business deals, package deals, sell-out
deals, All Navi-Mumbai college deals,
everything that can be possibly put on the
table and not. When you have financially
exact minds like Venky’s and Kedia’s, my
letter writing capabilities and an
assortment of exotic touches, you know the
outcome is going to be a cracker. Airtel
was a harbinger of doom, although we
never noticed it. Venky’s clutch plate got
screwed, Kedia’s bike almost got stolen,
Animesh’s car banged into another’s (I was
in it) all on the way to Airtel meetings and
we knew it was ill, yet we ploughed on.
The final outcome almost midway through
Feb was trivial change, below our most
conservative estimations. But something is
better than nothing though this adage was
to be proved wrong on the eve of Horizon.
A few others that need mention are-
Powerhorse: The guy said he could do
Paintball, but later backtracked and
offered the Organizers only complimentary
crates, which we politely refused.
Indiatimes.com: My personal failure. I
screwed up and paid the price for being too
greedy. When you are offered a check of
40k for only website publicity and a few
banners and you take a hard-line expecting
them to come back and negotiate with
folded hands, dude you need to visit a
shrink.
Indiagames.com: My chums from Horizon
2007, this time I expected more than Yana
Gupta from them. They were in the midst
of office location changes, policy changes,
and a takeover from UTV and were positive
for more than a Lac for Paintball and LAN
gaming and then did a volte-face on me.
Kreeda.com: These guys took us on a ride
for a month by agreeing to buy out
Footloose in Jan, it was my first score, and
then chickened out after a bad experience
at Somaiya college. They again asked for
quotes on Backdrops and Side-drops worth
Lacs of rupees and made me run to Kalina,
and then again said they weren’t
interested. Venky’s polite, yet insanely
hilarious telephonic tirade at the woman
was magical and will be remembered for
years to come.
The funds were almost in, Venky, who had
done nothing up till now was given his job,
the allocation of funds. The work he was
best at and well worth his salt. We had to
keep in mind our commitment to ‘Project
Udaan’ (Venky’s brainchild), the education
of underprivileged children which also had
its fair share of ups and downs. Venky being
Tamil, none of the events got what they
expected, in fact they got much lesser than
what they actually needed and many were
bluntly told to go hit the streets.
Successes late in the day were SBI (Nipun,
at the very end), Savsol (Dhruv, Fashion
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Show), etc. Our artistes were confirmed,
Pritam for the main night, and Gary Lawyer
for Pronite.
Other anecdotes worth mentioning:
Shitiz’s miraculous procurement of pizzas
for the organizers every evening, from
Smokin’Joes for a week preceding Horizon.
Sushrut’s and Pratyush’s great job with the
Free Press Journal.
The charade called CSI going cultural, and
trying to upstage Horizon. When will people
learn that Horizon is too big a Goliath for a
pebble to bring down that easily.
Another Horizon upstaging act-
The whole college knew ‘Horizon’ was
slated for March 7-9. A bunch of idiotic
opportunists wanted to organize a national
level sports event called ‘Sparks’ and took
the same date from VP (Vijay Patil sir) as
‘Horizon’. It doesn’t give a good impression
to take such fights to VP. Especially ones
that can be settled in the SUC room with a
few volleys of the choicest abuses. We had
to compromise and pre-pone Horizon,
wrong decision no. 2 of the festival for me.
The purported Sports Event never took
place.
Rohit Mulay and Arjun’s bike accident and
subsequent hand and leg fracture, and in
the words of a friend; the ‘manhus’ bike
turned out to be Mohsin’s. Pfff.
Sakshi, Sameer and Ankit Jain’s separate
forays to garner money for the
Discotheque, the War of the DJ’s and all
night Hookah Lounge.
The entrapment of Masala Chai for the
massive, grand yet eventual fiasco Hookah
stall plus the hookah lounge courtesy
Dhruv, Shitiz, Nishant and the gang.
If you see, pre Horizon work up till now was
done by no more than 15 people. We did a
count one of the nights prior to the event
and found only 12 people had turned up for
publicity.
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Jasneet and Tanveer had worked hard upon
the posters, but none of us were
professionals like Shetty who was busy with
other commitments and the result was a
pretty weird mix of colours and hues of
every kind. A few nights before Horizon, we
went around plastering the posters on the
walls with ‘pappi’ glue. With due credit to
all the people who worked hard, student
participation has dimmed down, was it
because of Venky’s diktat of no free
alcohol or anything else? We’ll never know.
We did the plastering, and someone hit
upon a brilliant idea. The Med festival was
happening around the same time, and they
were putting their Rs. 10 a piece poster
inside the campus. We had an enjoyable
time pulling as many down as we could
before we were caught and some of us
actually pretended to be FE’s and said that
we thought their fest was over. Well, we
were not to take such things lightly, if they
had quality, we had quantity and the urge
and the creativity and the dire need and
the ingenuity. We plastered a huge 50
poster thing right in front of the Mechanics
Lab which spread around 15-20 meters, the
entire length of the wall reading HORIZON,
and another one at the Law Entrance
reading RAIT with a sign post. These were
well visible from 50-100 meters away. Plus
the redecoration of RRC, with the entire
Nirvana tree area plastered, seating,
legging and the tree too not being spared.
The next morning RAIT and HORIZON were
all over the campus and we were in
business and the college authorities were
enraged, but the wave passed, people
started taking enthusiasm.
I'll end this part here, and complete the
last few days prior to Horizon and the
festival itself sometime later.
Mohsin Dingankar
2008 Alum (Electronics Engg.)
 RAA Begins
S oumendra Nanda sat in his office in
front of the cool glow of his five-year-old
15-inch Powerbook G4, on a cold winter
day of 2007 in Hanover, New Hampshire.
He dreamt of a place in a galaxy, not so far
far away, but one that was worlds apart
from his current existence. He was
travelling back in time to 1997 when he
first saw RAIT on his first day as an FE.
Looking back, those 4 short yet amazing
years seemed to have flown by just so
quickly. It seemed like an eternity back
then, but in retrospect he wished it had
lasted longer and he had taken more
pictures of all the great moments.
RAIT is not just a college, it’s an
experience. It has its highs and it has
probably twice as many lows. Every one
who graduates from RAIT laments about
how great RAIT was back in his or her day
and how it just isn't the same any more. I
bet I could make a fortune selling T-shirts
that say "Boy am I glad I graduated from
RAIT back in my day when it still rocked!”
Did RAIT really rock harder in the good old
days? Could you or anyone prove it? Well,
until recently, we RAITians did host an
awesome rock show at a fest we called
Horizon, but the truth is that since the very
beginning of its short history, (with the
exception of magazines like Engineers’
Voice and The Wall), both RAIT and its
Alumni have done a pathetic job of
formally recording our history.
Two proverbs come to my mind: If you
don't know where you have been, how can
you know where you are headed? And if
history has taught this world anything, it’s
the truth that if you don't know your
history, you are doomed to repeat it.
Honestly, the good-old-days at RAIT weren't
always that good. We had our share of
broken lab equipment, virus-filled PCs that
struggled to boot, power-cuts on Fridays,
unusable toilets etc. If you have been here
long enough, you can guess the list.
So, we made the best of what we were
given and many of us worked hard to make
a difference in each other's RAIT
experience. I cannot comment on the state
of RAIT today since the ‘news’ section of
our main RAIT website is never updated,
but I sincerely hope some things have
changed for the better.
Yet, we RAITians somehow still managed
the impossible. Most of us still managed to
graduate and leave the place and go on to
successful careers! We all left with our
heads held high and proud of the fact that
we were RAITians and knew that RAIT
would always be a part of us.
After graduating, we all went our separate
ways. Most of us stayed in touch with our
closest friends, but a fair number of us
from the older batches lost touch with each
other. The saddest part was even though
we missed RAIT and had our share of happy
memories, almost all of us lost touch with
RAIT. For a number of reasons not worth
visiting here, RAIT never seemed to miss us
and never reached out to us, its Alumni.
The RAA was started by a set of wise RAIT
students in 2003 who set out to correct
some of these problems. In 2007, Mohsin
Dingankar became the RAA GS.
At around the same time, I was sitting in
Hanover, in cold New Hampshire trying to
finish my PhD. I was extremely fortunate
to be in an institution that was living proof
of the amazing things that can be achieved
when alumni, current students and
management worked together. Its secret
was simple: Provide the absolutely best
education possible and in return alumni
build a bond with the college that lasts a
lifetime. This bond is the reason; alumni
gave back generously to their alma mater
and help the next generation enjoy an
educational experience that is as good, if
not better than the one they experienced.
And at Dartmouth College (a tiny college
with only 1000 undergrads in each batch),
the alumni gave back to the tune of
$2,000,000,000. Yes, that’s Two Billion
Dollars. Sure they have the advantage
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of having been around since 1769 and RAIT
has only been around for since 1983, but
clearly there are lessons worth learning
here. So I started taking notes.
I wondered what could be done to help
RAITians around the planet to connect with
each other and with the next generation at
RAIT. We alumni had a mailing list or two
on YahooGroups and elsewhere, but they
were unfiltered and full of spam. Privacy
controls was almost non-existent and you
would keep getting requests to publicly
post your personal details for the RAIT
database. We had and still have an RAIT
Orkut group with over 3000 members. The
most common activity on that group is to
play "slap the person above you" or "give a
nickname for the person above you" on the
forums.
I figured there had to be a better way. So
to cut a long story a short, after a fair bit
of research and development, I made an
experimental RAIT site called the "RAIT
Alumni Network"
From day one, I was committed to keeping
the site free and free of spam, while
protecting the privacy of all RAITians on it.
After all if the CEO of a famous company
went to RAIT, he probably did not want the
world (or even all RAITians) to know his
private phone number and email address
(at least not without his consent). Mohsin
was one of the early adopters of the site
and he realized its potential. He put his
weight behind it (all 100 lithe pounds!) and
pushed the college management to accept
it as the "official" RAIT alumni networking
site. With a bit of voodoo, the site now
appears at http://alumni.rait.ac.in and
looks to most new-comers as though it was
built and is managed by the amazing
people who manage RAIT, whom you can
read about at www.rait.ac.in. I honestly
wish that were the case. The truth is the
site is run purely by unpaid alumni and
student volunteers. I am personally not
aware of any other alumni organization on
this planet that operates quite like we do,
and runs purely on the true RAIT spirit.
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Some bragging rights: We now have tons of
photos, videos, blog posts, official Class
groups and regional chapters (including 8 in
the US)! Ironically we have more RAITians
in the US chapter than we do in the Mumbai
chapter. We have updated the alumni site
dozens of times to make it more useful and
load faster and are always listening to what
RAITians want us to do next. We even have
an alumni-written constitution for how we
should govern ourselves. Everything on the
alumni portal has been contributed by
members like you and we have plenty of
room to grow!
We managed to publish a professional-
looking alumni magazine, imaginatively
titled the RAIT Alumni Magazine or [RAM]
and are working on the next issue! We
reach out to RAITians on cutting-edge
social-media tools like twitter and have
hundreds of fans cheering us at Facebook
We helped 700+ professional RAITians to
connect on Linked-In.
We will fight to keep old RAIT traditions
alive and aim to start a few new ones! And
yes we will also have Alumni Reunions. :)
These are not just "my" bragging rights,
these are "our" collective bragging rights as
RAITians and it’s up to us to add
accomplishments to this list that we can all
be proud of, just as we are all proud to be
RAITians. I think it’s safe to say that
moving forward, our RAIT history will be
well-preserved (in print and at least in
digital form), but only if we work together
to sustain all these efforts.
By building the RAIT Alumni Network, we
hope we gave you "A New Hope" and
managed to inspire both current RAITians
and alumni-alike. To current RAITians
reading this, our next collective Episode is
unwritten. If you want to make a
difference in the world, you have to take a
stand and you have to fight for what you
want and believe. Every RAITian can make
a positive impact in each other's lives if we
work together.
There are many problems at RAIT and in
the world at large. And the first step to
solving problems is to talk about them. We Reconnect with RAITians today at
hope you will come together at the RAIT http://alumni.rait.ac.in, invite your
Alumni Network to start or join a friends and help us keep RAIT rocking for
conversation, and will challenge yourself to the next 25 years.
overcome your inertia and to follow up
your ideas with action. We have great And may the Force be with you!
opportunities in the RAA rebellion for
people who want to show leadership or
want to learn how to work in a team.
Anybody who wants to help the RAA is
always welcome to join us and lead the Soumendra Nanda
way. 2001 Alum (Computers Engg.)

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on

how we can keep helping RAITians at the
RAIT Alumni Network: "The place for
RAITians to reconnect with each other and
with RAIT".

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 It’s just the beginning. Wanna join in?
R ecently, I was chatting up with my
dad and in a shocking revelation he told
me, “Beta, in my days, boys-to-girls ratio in
my institute was 300:1. In my department
(F.Y.I, its Mechanical Engineering…not
surprising since Civil and Mechanical were
the only ones that could APPARENTLY
guarantee you a ‘secure’ future.) there
were no girls! But our institute was such
that guys weren’t treated well; leave alone
the girls, so the girls anyway stayed away.”
(The institute in question is a very
prestigious engineering college in Uttar
Pradesh which was established even before
the IITs. Conversion to IIT is still in dispute.
It was well known as an active hub of Youth
Politics and Student Leaders before
university elections were banned. It was
also very popular for various anti-social
activities…*coughs*… if you know what I
mean. And if you are an engineer and still
haven’t guessed it, go drown!)
“I have seen more of this world than you,
my child” telepathy conveyed. I took note.
I thought of RAIT; then, in my first year and
how it stands now! Sure, it has history and
its masons. But very few girls who have
taken the first few steps…I can probably
count them on my fingers.
Very honestly, I think we are a part of a
transitional phase in RAIT. There was a
time when ‘Chalta-hai’ attitude was
prevalent; students ruled and had lots of
stories/tips to pass on to juniors. Then,
there was a lull, a dip in participation, a
disinterest among students and ‘care a
damn’ attitude for college. And now, there
have been changes in college, changes that
everybody has noticed, no? Updated labs,
stricter professors! I think that’s cause
times are tougher; technology has
advanced; recession is a bitch; competition
is killer.
My statistics show (I like to come up with
my own surveys…I do them in my
head…don’t come running asking for proof
!) that out of the first ten rankers in every
class, 6 are girls!* But why hasn’t a single
girl figured in the SUC in the past 26 years
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of RAIT?** I don’t exactly mean that class
rankers make for great event managers,
but they certainly make for smarter minds!
The point being, we cannot neglect the
complacence among the female folk of
RAIT.
Speaking of sports, there is very little that
happens for girls. We have had some
outstanding players in the past, with great
fortitude, doing our college proud. Every
year, there are teams going to BITS Pilani
and participating in other tournaments.
Maybe, just maybe, we do have some
fantastic zonal/state/national level female
players among us, lying in ambush in some
weird ass corner of the college. Forget
about your long nails chipping, tanning in
the sun, your hair going haywire, or just
thinking that “sports- ah! That’s meant for
the guys!” …just go out there and have fun.
Go haunt our Sports Secretary, you’ll surely
find your way into the team!
Look around you’ll find a lot to do.
Opportunities are equal, both for boys and
girls. YOU need to go grab them.
You may crib about a zillion things, but the
only way out is to make the most of where
you are. Wriggle your way in and out of
things. Trust me; it will do YOU a whole lot
of good.
Sing, dance, speak, exult, create, play,
imagine, think, innovate, envision,
visualize, execute, fight…go girls…KICK ASS!
Simply put, join in. A Lady Representative
is what, in my opinion, the need of the
hour. I hope Mr. GS is listening! ;)
P.S: DO NOT be intimidated by the
antisocial activities, or the male folk in
college. Do not be scared of attending FE
night/ Horizon/ Aakarshan. Come and have
a good time…these are the days that make
your 4 years of RAIT.
If ever any godforsaken incident happens
anytime through the year, bring it to our
notice, we’ll deal with it!
Lastly, Dream on!
Aninya Ahluwalia
T.E (Electronics and
Telecommunication Engg.)
 Over The Years
T o Begin With -
FEs Speak :
We opted for RAIT because we’d heard
good things about this place. About
Horizon, the campus, cultural activities and
of course placements. Coming out of a
purely academic atmosphere, experiencing
freedom of mind here is definitely an
upside. There’s a lot of room given for self
discovery through extra curricular
activities.
We are looking forward to being a part of
the fest. Also, we have heard the FE Night
is going to be a lot of fun. The CSI events
were also informative and very new
conceptually for a lot of us.
RAIT has more or less lived up to our
expectations. Though, the infrastructure is
very old, where can we complain about the
washrooms? And the canteen serving
unhygienic food? Positive side, the teachers
are good and their efforts and experience is
very visible. The seniors visit our classes
asking for participation and it does give us
an idea about what is happening around the
college. The campus is beautiful and boasts
of a lot of hang out corners after lectures.
So far, the RAIT experience has been good
and enriching. We hope it continues to be
so and we become better overall by the
end of four years…
Inputs from
The Uninitiated
BE Speaks :
RAIT was my option because I wanted a
wholesome place to be in. Besides
academics, I wanted to participate in other
activities and basically do everything. RAIT
did give me the chance to do so to quite an
extent.
RAIT has changed a lot over the past three
years. There’s a definite improvement in
the infrastructure, with better labs and
upgraded computers. The hierarchy which
did exist before is kind of falling apart with
the seniors becoming more approachable
than they were before. On the flip side,
the interest in extra curricular activities
seems to have reduced and the crowd is
not as vibrant and active as it was before.
RRC, which was THE place, maggi and cold
coffee and all, is now shut. That was a
blow.
I’ve learned many things. About time
management, deadlines, the general
workings of a corporate world. I’ve also
been introduced to people who have taught
me lots about life in general. Learned
Marathi, because well, you have to. My
teachers always pushed me to better
myself both academically and otherwise,
providing support and guidance. The
director Mr. Shende and the principal
Mr.Devane have been particularly
encouraging.
Here is what I will say to the present bunch
of students- Live your college life, be open
minded and make use of every opportunity
you get. Doing all this, do remember to
have as much fun as possible and striking a
balance between studies and other
activities. There is a cheerful ambience
about this place, enjoy it. There is a lot of
responsibility awaiting us all outside these
doors; it is up to us what we carry on from
here. Let these be a confident mind and a
spirited attitude.
Inputs from
Stiff-Upper-Lipped BE(s)
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 Yay!
R AIT (our college, in case you tend to
be absent-minded) has split personality, at
least in appearance.
Lower half: awesome, old-fashioned bricks
Upper half: awesome, chic-looking glass
panes
What can get better?
Yay!
I had a toy-tank once. It had been made in
Russia. No, not the Soviet Union. Yes, my
tank was politically right-wing and not a
‘Commie’. It was huge, remote-controlled,
could climb over pillows and run fast if I
wanted it to. Then one cloudy day, the tiny
speaker inside caught my fancy and I
smashed and smashed and smashed that
beautiful tank against the wall… It took one
whole day for me and my equally stupid
cousin to just break the hard-plastic-
armored vehicle and get that tiny magnet
out. I lost my tank forever. But I got the
magnet. :)
Yay!
The other day, I took it as my responsibility
to complete a Tom Clancy novel in one day.
That certain day was, unwisely, the day
before the Analog Electronics exam. So, not
surprisingly at all, I failed in the exam…
miserably. Don’t sympathize if you were
ever going to. :)
But I completed the book in one day.
Yay!
There was this time when I yelled and
yelled a lot at my girl (now my ex).
I was angry. Later- I regretted it.
But the damage had been done.
We still exchange rude texts when the
either of us feels jobless and immature to
the core. Her guy then calls me up but
that’s another story altogether. :) Thing is-
I lost a person in my life forever.
Yay!
Place was Vashi-InOrbit’s CCD and four Ed-
Team members were busy talking stuff on
the magazine. A certain bloke Rahul (who
claims to be a Jedi Knight) mentioned an
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Egg sitting on a wall, falling down and
shattering into a mess. This mention was
applauded by Siddhesh, Pratik and Me. Yes
dear people, we had almost decided upon
dear old Humpty Dumpty to be our mascot!
Humpty Dumpty the Noble and Broken Egg-
mascot of RAIT’s The Wall. You can say we
were high on coffee or we had lost it or we
were all trying to create something really
really different from the usual stuff.
Needless to say, this idea was bashed up by
the remainder of the Ed-Team. The four
members were not ridiculed but were
indeed surprised at their confidence that
others are going to love their ‘eggs-cellent’
idea of a mascot. :)
So Humpty Dumpty, impaired forever
anyway, was lifted away by all the King’s
horses and all the King’s men. They took
him away from the work-table of The Wall
forever. We lost the idea of his inclusion
forever.
Yay? :P
It was the 20th of July 2009 and the first
day of college after summer-monsoon
vacation. I felt good walking across the
Glass Doors again, seeing the same old
crazy crowd and a couple of changes
(including new paint and the board with
room numbers written on it). I didn’t insult
my intelligence by hoping that the elevator
must have started working… but did expect
a change in washrooms. Voila! I was
pleasantly surprised indeed! The ground
floor washroom had one pot less! It does
teach us tolerance, doesn’t it? We learn to
control our bladder and consequently our
sphincter. ‘Self-control’ lessons which
prove to be helpful someday later for sure.
:) In case we ever decide to follow China
(our slant-eyed neighbor) in the population-
curbing measures.
Yay!
RAA stands for RAIT Alumni Association.
How many of you know that? If more than
10 people around you are aware of the
same, I’m jolly happy! :)
Yay!

Yesterday the Ed-Team was talking about
the zaniest place in the college.
- I argued that the beloved Washrooms
with their glorious wet ruins are the
best.
- A girl preferred the Air-Conditioned
Library where the cold is enough to
make an Eskimo happy.
- Then a pal suggested the Law
Gymnasium where all other activities
are barred because the gym is solely
dedicated to Physical Exercise. So
naturally, it’s where we focus on health
and fitness regimes… everything but
drama, dance and event-planning.
Right? Right?
- A bloke then advised us Glass Doors
where we are allowed to stand
wherever we want to… the Lawns
where we are allowed to sleep on the
grass.
- Someone stood by the Basement
Canteen but we all tore the idea down.
That place is way too good for
comparison. Our choices stood no
chance before the all-conquering
Basement Canteen in terms of pure
awesomeness.
- Unchained Arena? Naah… it is way
too clean and crowded for our taste.
- The Red Rock Café? But it’s always
crowded and most importantly OPEN…
not enough space to order one’s coffee
and also- the impressive tiling work can
be intimidating to wanna-be Engineers.
- SUC Room? Too well lighted, smoking
is not allowed and looks like anything
but an Anti-Social den.
Billy Joel lovingly sings-
“We didn’t start the fire.
Though we did ignite it, we’re trying to
fight it…”
Yay!
The other day I was walking alongside
Darth Vader (of the ‘Star Wars’ fame) to
the basement canteen. Yes, the very
famous hideout which lies in the cluster of
well-ventilated Polytechnic laboratories.
He went on ‘breathing’ (Mr. Vader never
speaks, he breathes) about meeting Aragog
(of the ‘Harry Potter’ fame) in the so-
called dungeon (Canteen). I then called up
Megan Fox (of the ‘Transformers’ fame)
and asked her out for a chat over coffee in
the same Hideout aka Canteen.
Yay!
She readily agreed because she loves
Coffee-Bite candy (available in the market)
mixed in hot water with 5 tablespoons of
sugar. And that’s exactly what the ‘coffee’
found in basement Canteen tastes like.
Umm… such aroma!
Yay!
So there were Darth Vader and Aragog in
deep conversation… here I was making out
with Megan Fox… Sid (the sloth of the ‘Ice
Age’ fame) prancing around… Results being
announced and everyone getting
distinctions… A.R.Rehman performing at
RAIT…
Yay!
Am I getting carried away?
I don’t think so… I’ve been in the Basement
Canteen for just around 2 hours… it’s
ventilated…
There is absolutely no danger of excess
heat and excess CO (Carbon Monoxide, in
case you skipped studying for 12th)
concentration. That is because there are
fans… no sorry, exhaust fans… no sorry
again, WINDOWS for absolutely amazing
ventilation.
As Simon Webbe would laughingly sing- “No
worries, no worries…”
So I’m perfectly alright in the head, thank
you.
And the ambience, fresh-paint is anything
but a sore-eye!
It’s making me puke… err, revitalizing me!
Need to write another article as long as I
stay conscious… err, excited. :)
Love you all, especially girls!
Yay!
Sushrut Munje
TE (Instrumentation Engg.)
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 Silent Lucidity
S ure enough, I am a deployed soldier
helping out our injured ones coming home
at this time and everyone loves your
Eclipse songs too. Better believe it; I play
your songs as much as I can, so everyone
may hear it. If you don't mind, here is my
address of a friend where I get mail.
Thanks guys, and here’s my address:
… Silent Lucidity is also a term used to
… describe the act of controlling your dreams
I appreciate it, and I will play it as much as
I can thanks.
This was probably the mail that made all
the hard work and sacrifice, we ever made,
worth the while…
It all started sometime in the year 2003
when a bunch of guys got together. We all
had one thing in common and that was the
desire to play the guitar, preferably on
stage. This bunch of SEs were preparing for
the FE night. Everyone wanted to be in a
band, playing the guitar of course! Now a
band with five newbie guitarists would
have spelled disaster, therefore, we had
two play the guitars, one was asked to sing
and one was asked to play the top two
strings of a six string guitar, a bystander
who said he could play the drums was
thrown the sticks. And I just stood by
hoping I could be in a band someday, this
band.
The two guitarists from that day (Ashley
and Ganesh), the guy playing the two
strings (Sandeep) and I (Himanshu) along
with a FE (Chakku) who sang impromptu
with the band that night went on to form
Silent Lucidity. All this wasn’t as
immediate as it sounds, it took many
months before the band was formed
sometime in 2004. Soon after, a few
months and a couple of shows later,
Ganesh left the band leaving the four to
continue with Silent Lucidity. To clarify,
Sandeep played the Bass guitar and I played
the Drums, Ashley juggled between rhythm
and lead guitars while Chakku handled the
vocals.
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Silent Lucidity means a small phase of
sanity between long phases of insanity, for
the band members it was just that. The
Jams have been the most memorable; with
each performance the shows always
compelled us to get better; the
appreciation humbled us; the love of our
friends supported us!
(lucid dreaming). We loved to Jam and to
test how we were progressing we would go
out to perform in a competition or any
show that we could get. We encouraged
active feedback and jammed harder to iron
out our flaws. In spite of all the passion and
hard work, it wasn’t until January 2006
that we actually started sounding like a
decent band. We believed in making
original music, hence recorded a two song
demo and played them at every chance we
got! The band was ambitious, to the extent
of booking a three hour long show when all
we had was 30 minutes worth of music. We
had a little more than 45 days to prepare,
nevertheless we pulled it off and that too
in an impressive fashion.
Sitting outside RRC (now-extinct Nescafe
outlet outside Dental College) one
afternoon, I got a call from Go 92.5 FM.
The voice on the other end said, “Your
band has been short listed among the top
ten bands. When can you come to the radio
station? We need to record few promotional
interviews.” This was our lucky break - a
competition inviting original music from
Indian artists from any genre. Surprisingly,
Silent Lucidity was the only rock band in
the top ten. We took the competition by
storm, not only survived our first break but
also went on to rock the finals at
Polyesthers in Colaba. Silent Lucidity stood
third at this competition. The success
meant that we could get extensive radio
play for our original “Eclipse”. The band
was on a high and firing on all cylinders!
That night we performed another show at
(Not Just) Jazz by the Bay and the
subsequent morning we rocked at RAIT for
Unchained – the amateur Rock band
competition as part of Horizon. I am sure;
the idea of performing three shows in 24
hours would thrill even the most hardcore
stage performer to the extent of goose
bumps. All this new-found recognition
provided us with the honor of performing as
a guest band in a college festival in
Ahmedabad. We were on the road, hanging
out with other bands and performing a kick
ass show on a cold evening in January. We
were in dreamland!!
The final semester of Engineering (for three
members) had the band playing fourteen
shows in those three months. Soon the new
album was being planned, interspersed
with a lot of memorable shows, band fights
and some hard hitting jam sessions with
neighbors pelting stones at our window as
we continued to rock! In spite of all these
glitches our passion for Rock shone bright
and the album was released. The album
sales exceeded all expectations as it sold
out on release night.
But just when you would expect it to take
off, the band split. The album launch was
the last gig for Silent Lucidity. Within the
next 15 days the band had dispersed across
the globe, real life had taken over.
Perhaps, Silent Lucidity lived up to its
meaning and our dreams were controlled,
but for me Silent Lucidity provided those
few moments of sanity in this insanity
that’s life.
August 2006, the issue of RSJ (Rock Street
Journal) Magazine [for the uninitiated, this
is the Rolling Stones Magazine of India, this
is huge!] had an article about a band called
Silent Lucidity. It was an article about the
album launch gig and the album review for
‘Emotikon’ which released on 14th July
2006. But there was no band to celebrate
this feat; because as fate would have had
it, the band was already spread across
three cities in two different continents!
What should have been a new beginning
turned out to be their final bow to the
audience. Ironically, the album launch gig
was the last that the band played.
“…dream is over… or has it just begun?”
Silent Lucidity, Queensryche
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 Wired Anxiety
W ired Anxiety is the new wave of
heavy metal at RAIT. Home to Unchained,
formerly Amrock (Amateur Rock), one of
the most coveted gigs of Mumbai’s
underground music scene, RAIT is a metal
culture-rich haven that WA thrives on.
The band was formed by two quintessential
RAITians, Priyam & Niti Nirvan. The
formation of the band was almost meant to
be. The members hung out together since
they were kids, so it was inevitable that
they’d take up music as they took up
everything else- as a ‘fad’. So when
Priyam’s elder brother, a trained drummer,
landed a new drum-kit in his room, the
very next day a new band was formed.
Priyam was automatically assigned the
percussionist’s role and Ninad was shoved
up as vocalist, as none of the others were
ready to stand on the stage without an
instrument to fidget with. Niti and Keshav
promptly purchased electric guitars and
amps and, soon enough, cacophony
conquered the building. Now all they
needed was a bass guitarist. We all are
familiar with the paucity of bass players in
a world which is ridden by a plethora of
guitarists. Priyam and Niti had to canvass
all the F.E classrooms making an ‘official
announcement’ (LOL) for the requirement
for a bassie. A hand was meekly raised,
that of Adwait’s, (F.E. metal head… LOL)
who was to become the final supplement to
the line-up.
Line-up:
Niti (RAIT) – Guitar
Priyam (RAIT) – Drums
Adwait (RAIT) – Bass
Ninad (TSEC) – Vocals
Keshav (SIES) - Guitar
The name ‘Wired Anxiety’ commands an
instinctive surmise of being a psychedelic
rock or, at most, progressive metal band.
Not even close. It is a Melodic Death Metal
group, which has undergone metamorphosis
from Extreme Thrash. The logo/crest
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salvages some sense for the name. The logo
has been designed by Dheeraj, another
typical Metal-head RAITian, Priyam’s batch-
mate, and a talented, prolific logo-
designer.
The band attributes its influences to Black
Sabbath, Children of Bodom, Death and
Pantera. In their first-ever gig, at
neighbouring SIES, their repertoire
consisted of only covers. This, they admit,
is an embarrassing account. The set list
included trite tracks like ‘The Trooper’ by
Iron Maiden and ‘Sad but True’ by
Metallica. It was after that gig they
decided to play originals. As of now they
have three, viz. ‘Hell Shall Cry’, ‘Deprived’
and ‘Ascent to the Abyss’. The band’s
philosophy is to capture and explore the
grim facet of life with groovy, melodic
music. Lead guitarist Keshav delivers solos
reminiscent of Randy Rhoads and Janick
Gers while vocalist Ninad renders guttural
screeches. Their music is a sort of a
haunting melody on the backdrop of a
crunchy metallic sound. You can listen to
their maiden original on www.xion.fm,
myspace.com/wired anxiety (for free! :P).
Within 6 months of inception, they got to
open for Zygnema (Thrash Metal) at ‘Calm
like a Bomb’, the Main-Stage Rock Fest at
Father Agnel’s COE, Vashi. A month on, in
March ’09, Wired Anxiety won ‘Sattva’-the
Main Stage Metal Fest at NM College,
beating seasoned bands that had performed
at ‘Unchained’ (RAIT’s most-awaited Metal
experience) the same year. They also
shared stage with Launch Pad’09 winners
‘Reverse Polarity’. Their maiden victory
won them studio recording with Xion
Studios. This, the band unanimously opines,
was the platform and the breakthrough
they needed to take their music seriously.
An honest confession!
Now, as the new gigging season beckons,
they are striving to conquer everything
there is!
The Wall Masons
 Metal-Head Haven
R AIT as an institute reaches far beyond
its title as an Institute of Technology.
It has always been famed for its extra-
curricular enthusiasm and confluence of
cultures. Cultures not just geographic or
political, but extending to Art and Music
also. Amongst the myriad genres of music
that RAITians cultivate, there is one
particular genre that stands out as original,
radical and one that it is proud of the most
- Metal.
In the mid 90s, a group of pioneering RAIT
students decided to break free from the
perpetually existing ethos of pop music
competitions. It was the golden period for
Heavy Metal or Rock in general and the
perfect time to bring it to their own
beloved college. With a modest budget and
with their own hands, they kindled a rock
band competition called ‘Amrock’ (Amateur
Rock), hoping to provide a head-start to
budding Metal enthusiasts, to subsist on a
stage dominated by Pop or Bollywood
music. Little did they know that they had
started an era, a cult that was later to
become a sensation amongst youngsters of
the country!
At that time there were very few events
that allowed Metal, let alone support it.
But those that were, ‘Independence Rock’
for instance, had loyal and passionate
followers that never let the fire die. This
clan of Young Turks was welcomed by RAIT
with open arms, at ‘Amrock’. It became a
revelation; a symbol of the college. It
became an important annual event on
every aspiring Rock musician's calendar.
‘Amrock’ evolved to be ‘Unchained’, slowly
but surely becoming a veritable advocate
of hardcore Metal music.
Heavy Metal is a relatively new genre of
music, very deep in itself, yet still
developing. The music is very young at
heart, which explains the absolute majority
of youngsters as its followers. Some say it’s
a medium for Catharsis. Others say it’s a
source of energy. But what it definitely is-
is a phenomenon rapidly growing
indiscriminately all over the world. It is a
common thread that connects the youth of
the world, encompassing all and alienating
none. It is overwhelmingly powerful in its
core, but not very easy to like. It will
always be the music of a select few; of
those who dare to step out, of those who
dare to question the credence of what the
public deems ‘Cool’ and ‘Hep’. Fickle and
feeble minds cannot digest the vastness of
its Spectrum of Sound. From a deep bass to
a screaming treble, it will but appear as
noise to shallow ears. From simple rhymes
to intricate incomprehensible technical
pieces, metal stresses on the fact that that
it is but Imperfection that leads to
creativity.
Unchained supports this belief and it
believes in Metal. Since inception it has
created some of the Best and Biggest Metal
bands of the country. Winners of
‘Unchained’ (‘Amrock’) include ‘Kryptos’,
‘Myndsnare’, ‘Demonic Resurrection’,
‘Pentagram’ all of whom are regarded to
be top notch in their respective genres.
Due to an unfortunate mishap some years
ago, ‘Unchained’ has been denied an
official stage and finance by the
authorities. But rather than discouraging, it
further intensified the Metal-heads' resolve
in keeping the legacy alive. ‘Unchained’ is
held every year in the month of January in
an atmosphere of a venue so befitting a
metal fest, that one simply credits it to
destiny.
It is up to us to further enrich this symbol
of RAIT by giving it all we can give, and
fulfill the dreams of the mavericks that
sought to put our institute on the country's
musical map.
See you at Unchained 2010
\m/
Niti Nirvan
TE (Electronics engg.)
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 12 Best Covers
‘R espect’ - (Aretha Franklin)
{originally by - Otis Redding}
Yes. The song that is widely considered to
be The Soul queen's signature song, the
song that exemplified the feminist
movement, is played in numerous movies
and completes every oldies compilation out
there was done by a black Guy! And though
Otis is also most famously known for
another cover done by (‘Satisfaction’ by
the Rolling Stones) him, Aretha's powerful
version overshadowed his own. Not in only
in terms of the performance but also in
terms of popularity.
‘All Along the Watchtower’
(The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
{originally by - Bob Dylan}
When the greatest guitarist of all time
covers a song written by one the most
profound songwriters and poets it has to be
SOMETHING.
This cryptic song soon became one of the
greatest songs done by Hendrix and is
widely considered as one of the greatest
covers of all time. So much so that Dylan
himself has admitted that he is
overwhelmed by this performance and used
to emulate this version of the song in his
later Live shows especially after the
untimely death of Hendrix.
‘The Man Who Sold The World’ - (Nirvana)
{originally by - David Bowie}
This song was performed by one of the
greatest bands to come out in the Nineties.
Nirvana covered this relatively unknown
David Bowie song in their 1993 live
performance of the MTV Unplugged series.
The Song was popularised by Kurt Cobain so
much so that people seemed to erase from
their memory the fact that Bowie sang it
first and ultimately became one of the
songs that was associated with him
(Cobain) the most.
P.S. The entire album of the MTV
unplugged series contains some fine covers
done by Kurt and his men.
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‘Black Magic Woman’ - (Carlos Santana)
{originally by - Fleetwood Mac}
This Song is- Santana's BIG song. It is
STUPID to think of Santana and then not
think of the one song that DEFINES the
greatness that this band is. ‘Black Magic
Woman’ was a song which seemed like it
was tailor-made for them. And nobody even
knows that Fleetwood Mac were the ones
who were behind it. Yes and that is how
they play the song whenever they do- by
reminding the audience that they did NOT
cover this song… Santana Did.
‘Hound Dog’ - (Elvis Presley)
{originally by - Big Mama Thorton}
Elvis was always accused of stealing music
form the African-Americans and taking
credits for Rock ‘n Roll which has African-
American origins. But then all this was
around fifty years ago. And who cares?!
‘Hound Dog’ will always be remembered as
An Elvis song. Cause he is Elvis. He is Fab.
Not taking anything away from Big Mama
and the fact that her music is done by so
many people and yet she got no recognition
just because she was a black woman. But
Elvis' performance just lays rest to any sort
of this criticism this man receives and the
frenzy caused by him is something no one
can ever equal.
‘With A Little Help From My Friends’
(Joe Cocker)
{originally by -The Beatles}
Though the Beatles version was very
popular, everyone should take a page from
Joe Cocker's book to know how a cover
should be done.His version is radically
different from the original being more of
rock ballad with very powerful vocals
complete with Guitar lines from none other
then Jimmy Paige and an entire choir to
add to the beauty of this song. The song's
popularity soared when it was used as the
theme song for one of the most wonderful
shows to ever come out of American
television- ‘The Wonder Years’. And yes of
course the fact it still haunts.

‘Me and Bobby McGee’ - (Janis Joplin)
{originally by - Kris Kristofferson but
performed first by Roger Miller}
This easygoing beautiful song never quite
belonged to anyone before Janis sang it.
She was known to perform the Most
Awesomest covers- ‘Summertime’, ‘Piece
of My Heart’, ‘Ball and Chain’. This song
proved to be a massive hit for her.
Unfortunately it came a little too late. The
song had hit no. 1 in the US charts after her
death and became the second no. 1
Posthumous Rock single. Becoming a lead
single from her album ‘Pearl’, it reminded
us of the awesome talent that was Janis
Joplin.
‘Nothing Compares To You’ –
(Sinéad O'Connor)
{originally by - Prince and The Family}
This heart wrenching love song was
originally written by Prince for his side
project ‘The Family’ but hardly came to
anyone's notice till Sinéad O'Connor sang it
a few years later. This song not only topped
almost all worldwide charts but quickly
became one of the most acclaimed songs of
the Nineties. The vocal talents of Sinead
help bring out the emotion this song exudes
and make it one of the most heartbreaking
love songs to touch people.
‘I Can't Tell You Why’ - (Vince Gill)
{originally by - The Eagles}
I will HAVE to say this. This song is one of
the Most Underrated Eagles Song Ever. And
is to me the Best Eagles Song Ever. (Yeah,
more then ‘Desperado’) And what makes
this song awesome besides the whole
simplicity of it is the Awesome Guitar Solo,
which got replaced by a saxophone solo in
the version by a Country singer- Vince Gill.
And though he did not make it more famous
than it already was or more than it should
have been, he still stayed true to the
beauty of the song and gave it his own
velvet touch.
‘Hurt’ - (Johnny Cash)
{originally by - Nine Inch Nails}
This song is Something because when a
Hard Rock song written by Trent Reznor is
covered by a Country Legend Johnny Cash
well it had to be Something. :P
Johnny Cash not only took the song away
from Trent but made it reach heights which
it never could reach. Though it is a well
written song (the Lyrics are simply
amazing) and primarily an angst song.
Cash's version touches those places in your
heart the one's you did not know existed.
Undoubtedly one of the Best covers ever
and the fact that it was released after his
death along with a video which showcased
his life, this Song will go down in History as
one of the Best works Of the Legendary
Johnny Cash.
‘Nobody Knows You When You’re Down
and Out’ - (Eric Clapton)
{originally by - Bessie Smith}
This Blues classic originally was performed
by its very own Empress Bessie in 1920's.
Therefore only a True Master of music like
Eric Clapton can cover this song without
insulting the Greatness of the Woman who
sang it before and introducing this Blues
classic for a whole new audience who is
blissfully unaware of the great talent that
was Bessie Smith. His version done at the
MTV unplugged concert may not be that
good compared to the other gems he sang
that night but his cover is still worthy of a
mention.
’Hallelujah’ - (Jeff Buckeley)
{originally by - Leonard Cohen}
If this version does not gives you the
Goosebumps, I’m pretty sure you’re not
Human. Jeff Buckeley's version is
Indescribable. And he got the emotions
right. Though Cohen wrote the words, Jeff
takes this song and makes it his own with
the sheer power of his vocals which exude
with Every Note, the Beauty of this song.
An Amazing composition that this is
Buckeley does a much better job with
his outstanding vocals that will Haunt you
and yet Calm you. That’s the beauty of this
Song and its Singer.
Shibani Sharma
SE (Computers Engg.)
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 The Muse in Music
I ts 1:30 AM and I’m Having trouble
sleeping. As I type these words, a song is
playing on my speakers. This one is called
“Thank You Louise” and is by Ryan Adams
(NO, Not Bryan... Ryan). I’ve been playing
this song a lot lately. It’s about a lady who
does a lot of good deeds for other people
but ironically, karma never works for her
and a bad tragedy happens in her life. A
week back probably, this song would have
seemed farfetched to me. I wouldn’t have
ever related to it. But this last week has
been a strange one. Sad unexpected events
have occurred. As I listen to the song, I feel
a little less sad, just because it’s there for
me to listen to.
It’s quite a feeling when you connect to
music in that way. For some of us, it’s just
the music that draws us towards a song. It’s
the lyrics for some people. But when a
song, connects to you on both these levels,
it is invariably, an intoxicating experience.
Especially if the song happens to be about
something, which you have been going
through in life. I am sure there is a song for
every emotion we feel. Whether its
heartbreak, loneliness, trouble, happiness,
love, hate (Killing and Bloodshed for you
HEAVY METAL douchebags), we can turn to
songs for relief. Also, they can make you
feel emotions in a much more potent way.
That’s the reason why loners or outcasts
tend to resonate more to music. They feel
understood and accepted by listening to a
song and relating it to their own life. Now,
I am not trying to suggest that a great song
can cure cancer and end wars, but it can
certainly take you to a place of comfort
and break the blues. Bob Dylan is
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considered such a great songwriter for the
very same fact that his songs have both
musical and lyrical qualities to them. He
crafted his songs in a way that was
musically brilliant and yet, dealt with
issues and worries of ordinary people. Thus,
he became an icon and the voice of his
generation. Sadly though, very few artists
seem to have that ability in our time. With
the exception of a few like John Mayer,
Ryan Adams, Coldplay etc., all we hear is
noise. Everything from plastic pop songs
like ‘Boom Boom Pow’ by the ‘Black Eyed
Peas’ to noisy heavy metal songs adds up to
be nothing but gibberish over badly
arranged music. Consequently, we still
have to go back to 80s rock and 90s grunge
to find something that we can put our head
into and listen. We therefore find ourselves
listening to bands like Pearl Jam, Guns N
Roses, Nirvana even though they are no
more the mainstream music that we hear
on the TV or radio. It’s unfortunate that we
live in a time where good music is hard to
find, so I wish all you folks have the time of
your life experiencing music and finding
what you like.
It’s really not my motive to criticise music
in any way. I just want to inform my friends
about the beauty of music that’s around
them and what they might be missing out
on. I also want to say a little about the joys
of playing and creating music. Speaking as
a musician, I can say with my hand on my
heart that there is no other thing in the
world that compares to the joy of making a
song or even learning to play your favourite
one. I urge all of my friends to pick up an
instrument and try a hand at learning
music. Speaking from 1st hand experience,
it can change your outlook on things
completely. So good luck finding music that
speaks to your heart and mind. I know for a
fact that it’s a rewarding hunt. Happy
Listening!
Apparently ‘Crash Courses’ are quite the
craze amongst us engineering students... So
here is one is ‘Good Music’
Bob Dylan (Hurricane) - This Song is a
story of a shootout that takes place in a Bar
in New Jersey. Dylan captures many
aspects of human behaviour through this
song. Must hear for all.
Elliott Smith (Twilight) - This song is about
being with someone you don’t love and
loving someone you aren’t with. Elliott
Beautifully captures both sides of the coin
in this song. To songwriters, this song is a
musical masterpiece.
John Mayer (Gravity) – This song is written
in a way that it can be applied to anything
when you are feeling low. Also, the music
perfectly complements the lyrics of the
song and adds different hues to it.
The King is Dead. Long Live the King.
C irca 1989 - A grainy VHS tape on
Cable ('Bad') was my first exposure to a
performer who was so compelling to watch,
that it left me really dazed. To put it
frankly, hadn't seen anything like it before.
This was a different kettle of fish when
compared to ABBA, for sure.
What puzzled me most at the time was why
the dude was proudly calling himself 'Bad'?
Wasn't that a… you know… bad thing? I
couldn't understand a word of what he was
singing (WTF were “Shamone!”, “Owww!”
and “Cootchie coo!” supposed to mean
anyways?!). But there was something about
the way he moved, and the way he
performed, that demanded that you kept
MuteMath (Chaos) – This one is for all of us
who love good old fashioned rock n Roll.
This hard hitting number talks about being
in a state of metal disharmony!
Portishead (Glory Box) – This song is one
you might have heard in a score of some
movie but never noticed it as it should be.
Must hear song for all the women (this song
is Feminist).
Jason Mraz (I’m Yours) – A recent radio
sensation, this song is just a short feel good
song. A song for everyone!
City and Colour (Against the Grain) – This
song talks to me when I am feeling down.
Almost gives me advice when I feel
conflicted and confused.
Coldplay (We Never Change) – This song is
a simple observation of a mind of an
ordinary man. An ordinary man’s hopes and
fears. Beautiful Words over great
music....Need I say.
Anirudh Singh Chohan
TE (Electronics Engg.)
watching. He was the first point of entry
into the big bad world of 'western' music
for me. There was no MTV here, yet. He
was the personification of what the West
had to offer, music-wise. My only exposure
to that stuff prior to 'Bad' was in the form
of a couple of mix-tapes filched from a
cousin, full of 80s Pop Gems like 'We Built
This City', 'Madonna's Eyes' and 'Party All
The Time'. This guy's music was on another
totally different class level, and it was
evident that there was a lot more to Pop
than 'Love Touch'. Like good, bouncy music
which didn't sound right off the bat cheesy,
even to a kid in the third standard.
Add to that the dancing moves which
seeped into my veins like Smirnoff Green
Apple Twist does these Friday nights.
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 It got to a point wherein I had to actually
learn how to consciously control it in
slightly more austere and public
surroundings.
The moonwalk was a slightly more difficult
proposition. Try hard as you would to
perfect it, you invariably ended up looking
like you were walking backwards trying not
to step in something of animal/human
origin. And of course, classmates at that
age can be very ruthless in their criticism.
Childhood innovations then included
sprinkling the mother's talcum powder in
generous quantities on the floor, and then
achieving markedly better results. This
workaround lasted (quite gleefully, I must
add) till that parsimonious lady suddenly
found herself buying two tins a month.
After that, it was trying it out with socks on
feet, which was not exactly the same thing,
but worked all the same.
I still remember watching ‘Moonwalker’ -
the movie with desperate devotion, and not
caring a damn about niceties like plot and
such assorted blahs. He turns into a robot
at the end of the movie, and a spaceship
too. The way I looked at it, 'Hell, if he
could do the Moonwalk and do those bends
in the 'Smooth Criminal' video, he's entitled
to do just about anything that he wants. I'm
watching.'
'Thriller' was yet another dose of pure
childhood pleasure. Every bleeding song
was radio worthy - there was just no filler
material on it. The sound was a little dated
for me, when compared to 'Bad', but there
was something very fresh about his voice on
that record. A sure grower, and once
hooked, 'Beat It' and the title song were on
heavy rotation. My parents especially were
very disturbed by that laugh at the end of
the title song.
'Dangerous' happened at the peak of my MJ
obsession. I remember staring at the
cassette cover for hours, while the cassette
was blaring on in the background. The man
released videos that single handedly took
the scene to another level. At that age a
super sultry Naomi Campbell (phew!) in the
mix definitely made things more
interesting. 'Black or White' even featured
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an Indian dancer! Yay! MTV must have
made a sound fortune off the back of this
album's videos alone… played in an endless
loop, on the hour to boot. Of course, that
was when you know, MTV used to play
music videos (remember those?!) almost
exclusively (gasp!). 'Smooth Criminal'
remains one of my all time favorite videos
ever.
Post 'Dangerous', I kind of outgrew my
obsession with the whole thing, and
gradually drifted off his music completely.
Part of the whole growing up process, I
guess. Add to that his personal woes which
really affected his output as an artiste, and
overshadowed his achievements to a large
extent. To the point where the music was
totally forgotten, and all that was
projected was a freak in financial trouble.
Of late, the odd iPod shuffle randomness
would invariably hit me with a shot glass
worth of nostalgia - think the intro of
'Wanna Be Starting Something' or 'The Way
You Make Me Feel'.
His reach, and his popularity, at the peak
of his powers, was a truly global
phenomenon (tip - think of all those
countless, milked-to-death-due-to-
dehydration 'Mai Ka Lal Jai Kishan' jokes, in
the best of Bollywood comedies on offer).
There is no one today, to cut across
barriers like he did, and achieve the same
kind of connect with audiences the world
over. Blame it on the shortened shelf lives
of musicians these days, or the shorter
attention spans of people in general, or
maybe, just accept that there was no Pop
Star even remotely in his league, once he
faded from the limelight. Think Boy Bands
and the unspeakable things they did to the
Pop music industry in general. All but killed
whatever little hope you had of listening to
something with a little more depth, even
though it was labeled 'Pop'. Everything
these days is an ephemeral niche. He was a
lot more than that.
Travel well, MJ.
Tapan Hoskeri
2001 Alum (Instrumentation Engg.)
 ‘Nisarg’ - The Nature Club
I heard a thousand blended notes
while in a grove I sat reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

To her fair works did Nature link

the human soul that through me ran;
and much it grieved my heart to think
What Man has made of Man.

–William Wordsworth

The Goals of the club are to spread the

N ature has always been a magical and
enchanting part of our life. The various
shades of the trees, the sweet chirping of
the birds or the pleasant scent of the
beautiful flowers, joyfully swaying
together in the breeze, are all capable of
uplifting our mood even at terrible times.
message of conservation through quality
articles, and to build awareness along with
a sense of responsibility among people,
towards environment protection and its
importance. The Club’s aim is to have a
cleaner and healthier environment, and
give a chance to students to truly be able
to appreciate nature.

Still, despite all the beauty that nature
provides us with, we ruthlessly destroy it
by felling trees, spoiling our various
resources with poisonous substances, and
wasting them carelessly. All this has
resulted in a wide number of problems, like
global warming, respiratory diseases, and
other abnormalities.
Keeping in mind all this and more, RAIT-
Kalaraag has decided to introduce its very
own Nature Club by the name of ‘Nisarg’,
comprising of a group of interested
students, that will help in generating
effective awareness about the environment
and its related problems. This club will act
as a channel, so that the students at
college level are encouraged to take up
environmental action in communities, assist
in biodiversity mapping and wildlife
censuses, etc. Inter-college workshops for
the youth will be organized on generic
development concerns and specific themes
on conservation biology and environmental
sciences. In addition to all this, these
students will get the added benefit of being
able to attend nature camps at subsidized
rates.
Activities like nature walks and bird
watching, if included in the club activities,
would definitely make it more fun and
exciting. Visits to wildlife sanctuaries, to
gain more information about the different
kinds of species, may also help in making
people realise the increasing rate of
species depletion taking place and the need
for immediate action. Tying up with
different NGOs may also be done in order
to widen the audience and help raise funds
for carrying out the many activities. Tree
plantation trips and various workshops and
seminars on nature may help a great deal
too… Creating awareness among individuals
about the various harmful effects of using
polythene and other non-biodegradable
substances and of throwing stuff in the
middle of the street (instead of using the
dustbins), by holding speeches and
presentations for the common man, may
result in a more well informed and
responsible society. ‘Nisarg’ hopes to make
RAITians aware of the efforts which need to
be put in to make the entire world a much
cleaner, greener and better place to live
in.

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To make this possible, let us join our hands
and take a step forward to save nature
along with all its glory, for now and
forever. Let us plant a hope for a better
tomorrow… Let us plant a tree!!
Nature Baba ko gussa kyun aata hai?
B y the sound of it, Nature Baba seems
to be an ageing, bearded saint-type.
Negative. Nature Baba is a 22 year old guy
named Hari Chakyar who lives in the city
of Ambernath... a regular guy who started
a campaign, which has its basis in
educating people about the environment
and everything detrimental happening to
the not-so-green world.
Hari Chakyar took it upon himself to start a
potentially revolutionary campaign that too
one that only nature could gain from. Many
will wonder why in the age of roaring
motorcycles and air conditioning in every
cranny, this lad braved to work for a cause.
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“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with
joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the
fields has the power to move you, if the
simple things of nature have a message
that you understand, rejoice, for your soul
is alive.”
- Eleonora Duse
Kalaraag RAIT
Hari, who primarily is an assistant to film
writer Anuraadha Tiwari (of Fashion and
Jail fame), woke up one day to a
scorching temperature of 42 deg cent in
his town, Ambernath. Something that was
quite unimaginable a few decades ago.
While many don’t acknowledge the
change, and others choose to ignore it,
Hari decided to be the change.
His vision was not a fleeting one; it was
something that would NOT be forgotten
in a week. And so, an oath taken in the
“heat” of the moment still lives on.
The play “NATURE BABA KOK GUSSA KYUN
AATA HAI” is a ten minute play where
green issues are discussed in an engaging
and effective manner. This play is staged
twice at the Ambernath station to
appreciative crowds, every day.
This campaign signifies that in a time
when youngsters hunt for ways to flaunt
their coolness, nothing is cooler than
showing you care. We all dream of good
futures for ourselves, and then our
children, without doing our bit for the
planet where we harbour these dreams.
It is time we join hands with people who
dream big, people who dream green. If
we care, we have to show we do. Here’s
how...
Do your Bit:
If you have decided to do something,
Nature Baba and his gang are there to
help you out. All you need to do is to
decide on a spot to plant a sapling that
you can look after. Nature Baba and his
gang would plant it for you and you just
 have to protect it from grazing animals,
pesky children and yes, water it too.
Watching it grow into a handsome tree is
a reward in itself.
Go green the simplest way by saving
water, saving electricity and saying ‘No’
to polythene bags. WALK instead of
driving to a nearby location. A walk with
your special someone is more romantic
too. Read rather than watching senseless
television programs. Reduce your Carbon
Footprint and help Nature Baba!
Contacting Nature Baba:
If you want to contact Nature Baba then
you can do the following:
Contact :
Phone Number: 9323388803
Blog:
http://emotionalballies.blogspot.com,
http://nature-baba.blogspot.com/
E-mail: duke.ambarnath@gmail.com
On Facebook: Just search for the group
and become a member and be a part of the
activities.
The Wall Masons
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 The Basketball Diaries
L et me start with the start of the
season, full of hopes, aspirations and
endless possibilities.
The Team:
Getting together the team itself was a
great task. We had lost a few key team
members in the past leaving us with a team
of improving talent and a collective lack of
height!
We held our selection rounds in August
hoping to find some Diamonds in between
the Stones. Savio aka ‘Papa Bear’ and
Melphin aka ‘Kobe’ were our Chief
Selectors. The whole group went through
the drills on a slightly damp day at YMCA,
CBD. Finally the team was selected.
We already had a few first teamers from
last year with Kobe, Papa Bear, Jerrin aka
‘The Animal’, Nitin aka ‘Road-Runner’ and
Srikanth aka ‘Sri’. To this we added lover-
boy Harshad, the Mexican Abhishek aka
Carlos and the lanky Dhanraj, an Animal in
the making.
(Others tried and failed… one fellow even
got his mom to call and recommend him
plus giving some excuse for his poor
performance… Damn!!)
We also hastily got together the girl's team
(with a lot of coaxing and pleading!) and
after a few rounds of practice we were
ready for the Pilani tour…
Pilani:
After an entertaining train and bus ride we
reached the great B.I.T.S. Pilani, our
destination for a week.
Our first match was on the following day.
The team was gelling well and we coasted
through our opening group stage game with
a combination of pure grit and team work.
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It was clear that we were better at defense
than at going forward but we got through
on the brilliance of Kobe and other
moments of magic.
In the second match we came up against
Shaq, the one man attack team but with all
of us on song we got through.
In our final group stage game we came up
against a local Jaipur team G.I.T.(Damn!!).
A very tough and brutal game followed,
with a lot of swearing and bad refereeing.
We let the game slip from our hands after
The Animal got into a brawl which saw the
whole bench pour onto the field. After a
few tense moments the game resumed but
the intensity was gone and they romped
over us in dubious fashion.
Finally we were beaten by a very good and
humble home team in the quarters. This
brought an end to our great Pilani sojourn.
Back home the semester exams were
approaching so we left the basketball and
started working those ball pens…
Even Semester Travelling:
The semester was full of tournaments all
far and wide. We lost in the semi-finals of
our own ‘DY Patil Dynamic Youth Games’,
then lost in various other stages of various
other tournaments, most notably we came
second in the ICT tournament after
squandering an 8 point lead to the best
team in the Mumbai University.
Those days we hardly could attend college
and we were almost traveling weekly to
Matunga, were most of these tournaments
were held. It was a tiring experience
numbed by the sweet smell of success at
various stages. Even if we did lose it was
satisfying as we all felt that we had put in
everything into the game. Those were our
best few weeks of College Basketball. But
there was still something missing, we could
all feel it coming… VICTORY!
Victory in a Tournament, the Pinnacle of
the Season, the Cherry Top finish
It was the TSEC tournament. After an
impressive defensive and offensive display
we beat KJ Somaiya. Everybody chipped in
with their best performance and afterword
we were too drained out to even go out and
celebrate. It was a victory of our faith's
perfection. It was a season which was my
most fulfilling till date.
CPL
I t’s the final day of the season, Ajax holds
the much fancied Arsenal to a goalless first
half. Juventus and Arsenal had a shot at
the Most Coveted Trophy known to man,
well not really but at least they thought so.
Juve choked earlier in the day and lost to
Milan- the team full of veterans’ just like
its namesake in Italy. Arsenal came back
hard in the final 20 minutes to score two
goals and take the game and the league on
a goal difference!
Of course, being SE’s, they received the
trophy and prize money six months later
after a lot of coaxing and cajoling but
that’s a different matter all together.
Before you think I’m hallucinating, this is
an account of the last day of CPL 2008. For
the uninitiated, CPL stands for College
Premier League. I know the name lacks
imagination but not the idea. CPL is a RAIT
tradition, one of the few things to look
forward to during the Odd Semester, a full-
fledged league complete with some
exciting football, managers, transfers,
rivalries and even fans! (Read: friends). In
a nutshell, it has it all.
The year begins and old teams are on the
look out for potential replacements for
those who have retired (Read: passed out).
Corridors are buzzing with rumors of
What will I remember forever?
Danny's amazing 3point attempt, Kobe's
back-to-the-basket shot, the Savi-Dance
and our many interesting times together.
That's all folks…
The Animal
2009 Alum (Electronics and
Telecommunication Engg.)
transfers. No money changes hands with
transfers but there is the mandatory Jersey
Photo. The posters are put out, entry
collected and the season begins with
qualifiers for the new teams.
Let me paint you a picture-
The ground looks like this during a CPL
game… Two teams of 7 players, players
wearing cheap replica jerseys of top
European clubs, walking around thinking
they are the real deal; taking shots,
discussing strategies and even praying. A
few friends of the players who double up as
fans crowded around the defunct fountains.
Newbies are being asked very politely
(honestly) to mark the entire playing area.
Few others are on ball duty. Some junkies
with droopy eyes in a corner (they are
there quite often, NOTHING to do with CPL
at all). And sometimes, if you are in luck, a
cow for gardening purposes. Can’t afford a
lawn mower. Someone taking a leak near
the corner flag, “emergency man, couldn’t
wait”. Huge guy with a whistle in the
centre as the referee because it gets
heated sometimes in the middle. Need
referees who don’t get intimidated easily.
Linesmen who are tricked into doing the
job by promises of attendance. Yeah like
any professor is going to listen to you when
you say “Ma’am I was linesman for CPL”.
Sometimes players walking in midway,
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“Sorry dudes had pracs”. The odd fight.
Ah and yes there is Football. The beautiful
game. Most games are hard fought with
players well distributed between the
‘clubs’. Strategies, formations, man
marking everything you could possibly do in
a 7 a side game. The football team also
gets some much needed practice. Then
there is the post match analysis where
people just rip on each other and
completely verbally undress those who
goofed up but football still takes centre
stage. However something missing from the
CPL scene is the female support. If you are
reading this and if you are a girl; please
turn up for our games. It might just make
some people play better, lift their spirits a
little. For the betterment of the team. And
for guys who play football- turn up, the CPL
is not elite or exclusive. There is a
‘transfer window’ to accommodate new
players. Cant say when though… depends
on the Sports Secretary.
It has taken longer than usual for CPL to
start this year but hopefully by the time
this gets printed, the first round of matches
would be done. For FE’s it will be their first
taste of RAIT Sporting Culture and for BE’s
the beginning of the end as far their
sporting activity in the final year goes.
There is no lack of enthusiasm in college as
far as sports go and CPL is an ideal outlet
for that enthusiasm especially in the Odd
Semester when there is nothing substantial
happening on the sporting front. All that
said the principal reason as to why
everyone is gung ho about CPL is just that
it is pure, simple FUN. Bigger and better
this year. Be a part of it, soccer-crazy or
otherwise.
Abhishek Jathan
TE (Electronics and
Telecommunications Engg.)

CPL ’08 Champions

Arsenal
Sarvesh Desai

Swapnil Lawande

Rameez Wadekar

Harshad Sali

Prathamesh Kadam

Sumit Shinde

Abhishek Jathan

Abhay Suryavanshi

Guruwinder Singh

Vishal Kowe

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 Clubbed
“E k RC laana phull ice ke saath”, he
ordered looking rather smug. Finally
relaxed he sank further into his chair and
let his gaze wander. He was at Malhar;
Anarkali down the road is better. However
he felt a sense of belonging at this place
and also he knew the waiters here by name
and so he was here. Light-bulbs hung low
from the ceiling were so dim; you can
barely tell the person opposite you, let
alone the table beside. This is where the
men sipped double Officer’s Choice one
after another, between heavy drags of
chhota Gold’s Flake. As for the boys a beer
would mean the Kingfisher Strong,
reputably mixed with whiskey again with
their favorite ‘Garams’. You’d be the
luckiest ever to find for yourself lager and
today he thought he would also indulge
himself with one; after all he deserved it if
the day gone by was anything to go by.
As the stereo at the counter blazed
depressing notes of unrequited love he
thought aloud “This izz life mahn!” And
with a satisfied grin plastered over his face
he recollected the day gone by……He wore
his favorite black shirt today as he was
asked to look presentable and entered the
place. “Bling” ‘twas called and rightly so
cause as he looked around he could see the
guys dressed in their designer best and the
girls….rather babes in their shortest! He
wished his best friend Pappu was here ….
Boy he’d love to see the ‘rapchik items’
here! Oh the girls with their voluptuous
curves and sensual movements made him
feel fuzzy. He glimpsed them groove with
guys but he couldn’t decipher the reason
why they gave him a disdainful look each
time he let his gaze wander towards them.
After all he wasn’t letching….atleast not
now.
Wooing girls was a social hassle. Good girls
stay among good girls; and men will be
men. Never the two must mix. Families
prefer it this way. Over time, he gets
perturbed as he anyway turns out as
someone you would never trust your
unmarried daughter with. Parents will find
for him a girl, once he finds himself a job.
Religion and caste will protect this
wonderful arrangement of class. If he gets
lucky with neither a job nor, therefore, a
girl, which is relatively rare, there is
always dadagiri and street-activism to
express his failure on others. February 14
isn’t still a date he marks excitedly on his
calendar as Valentine’s Day. A boy holding
a girl’s hand is for him a moment of severe
envy and deep resentment. He can’t stand
those lost in love. He can barely fathom
the fun they have at a disco, that too
dancing. He cannot have it. He’d rather
have them shut down. So seeing these
youngsters gyrating to loud music (which he
personally found trashy) and moving so
close to each other, hand in hand, only
made him cringe. It isn’t that alcohol
doesn’t make him, sitting in the corner,
move. He dances, but only at weddings,
where men gyrate against men because one
of their friends is finally getting married.
So here he was surrounded by pretty chicks
and happy couples all around which made
his feelings of resentment reappear. What
annoyed him furthermore was the sight of
the females here casually sipping and
smoking. Thus, the final straw was the sight
of so many females openly boozing and
smoking giving complete disregard to our
rich culture and tradition. Such loose
morals better suited the western world and
not his very own neighborhood. Even if they
like their apple martinis or their iced
whiskies they should get sozzled at home,
ideally on the terrace, under the
moonlight, over aggressive business
conversations. Ideally the women, the
wives, are trained by tradition to serve
soda and fresh pakodas on a floral plastic
tray, before late dinner, and a drunken
husband in bed. If he’d have his way she
wouldn’t want to be near the bar; ideally
nowhere close to even that paan-shop.
She’ll be cat-called and stared at, until she
is uncomfortable enough to leave.
So finally he reached into his pants, to the
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cell phone of his, and made that all Next day the nationwide newspapers
important call… screamed:
CLUBBED!!
“Club attacked in Mumbai by a right wing politico-religious group. The women were
mercilessly dragged and beaten up by the moral police in a suburban pub…”

As he picked up the newspaper and read the headlines, he just grinned broadly…
Vijay Sharma
TE (Electronics Engg.)

Metropolitan Momentum

T he soaring numbers and the rising

hope; the ticking time and the impatience;
the tightening of backpacks and the
steadiness of the order that could be
equated to an airplane about to take-off!
And, the fight begins! A never ending
plethora of experiences but just the spice
of early mornings and a loophole through
monotony!
If experience makes one wiser, then it has
made me smarter and innovative… in
finding better ways and means to reach
destinations on time in the diciest
situations. And credit must be poured on
the means of transit that welcomes
overflowing and unlimited bombardment of
humans!
Not to forget, extensive shower of furious
females with the strength of a 100
monsters! It has to be the Mumbai railways
that carry all hanging, standing, sitting,
leaning, mourning, etc… rushing souls!
As a matter of fact, that made me aware
and alert of-late, life in the fast lane is
fun! It’s not something that I look forward
to after a head-spinning day or a
maddening morning… but it brings that
little twist in the routine of life. Well, it is
a big event for someone who has had a first
rendezvous with, life in a train, after 12
long years of protection and perfection that
got onto the nerves like smoke in lungs!
A 30-minute transit is not an idle affair…
there is lots to keep the lost soul
entertained. With females of the weirdest
sense becoming your fellow listeners of
complaints, another set of females testing
your patience and balance by trying their
marketing skills through the pissing-off
crowd! Adding up, to high heeled freaks
killing your innocent toes mercilessly, and
the cell-phone addicts glued to it, no-
matter-what!! To list I could as well write a
thesis on the countless events that seem so
much amusing than that RJ hammering
nonsense into the ears!
The pace at which the urban life runs is
just so flabbergasting… and being a part of
it, watching your pace steadily increasing
by the day, to catch-up no matter what…
brings a realization that its only the speed
and precision that matters most; I think
that IS the reason why Mumbai never
sleeps?!

Ritika Gandhi
SE (Electronics Engg.)

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 The Wall-Nuts!

RAIT talks. And it talks weird. Rumours are a part of the wacko life here. Snippets from the rumour
mill that works overtime to churn out crazier products...
 Microsoft- Yes, the very same, ‘Bill gates’-wala- is opening its office on the top two floors.
Yaha, the SEZs are all bombed…
 CCD is opening a branch in RAIT, replacing RRC (Red Rock Café). They must be in Dire need
of crowd and publicity.
 The Rhapsody budget was ‘rumoured’ to be a whopping 3 Crore. *faints*
 This is a direct quote from a prominent RAITian. “Arre yaar, aankh bandh kar… imagine
kar… apna stadium… beech mein stage… lights… full on sound… aur A.R Rahman stage pe…
crowd pagal ho jayega… stadium full hoga… soch pagal, soch” - yes, Rehman was coming.
Winning the Oscar and all the acclaim was not enough. Unless you get a standing ovation
from RAITians, there is little claim to your fame…
 Heard the latest? Rhapsody was a Big Success.

1(down): First thing you’ll say when someone calls you, 4(down): You sit lectures for it. You decorate your
AND is a disastrous adaption of a novel.(5) assignm ents for it. You live in fear of it. (8)
2(down): What you need before the last day of 5(down): Knee-jerk reaction when you’re frustrated,
every submission. upset, angry, in
(5) panic… (5)
1(across): Fate of 6(down): ______
most Esha Deol mera hit-hit
movies (4) soniye… (:P) (4)
2(across): The one 7(down): Hangout
favor you always for the young and
ask of those friends the hungry (:P). (8)
of yours who do sit 8(down): The hunt
for lectures. (5) for which begins in
th
12(down): the 6 semester,
Something that’s Continues for a
with your friends long-long time. (10)
most of the time, 9(down): Students
‘cause you want to swear by the notes
share all the stuff in given here.(8)
your PC. (9) 10(down): You feel
3(down): The only smug at ________
thing for which you conscious People,
will stay up all cause you have the
night, surrounded plagiarized fake
with stationary. (10) stuff too (:P). (5)
11(down): Your
professor WILL get
mad over this, but
you do it anyway ;)
(4)

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 1. Find the clues and figure out this piece of a famous sitcom song:

I’lcll buee tchelre fuoer ycoulue,

‘Cacusel yuou’re tehecre floure mcle touoe.

2. What “one word” secret message is contained here?

The two of us come from a land near the sea to meet him, are not aware? Why not?
Where is he?
He's in the kitchen-eating pea and drinking tea.
Oh, I see.
3. A French scholar found this scribbled on a nursery wall. Help him figure it out

UN PETIT D'UN PETIT SA TONDEUR VOL,

UN PETIT D'UN PETIT A DEGRE TA FOLLE
(Hint: Read it out loud... :P)

Instructions: Invented in 1878 by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, this word ladder
requires you to reach from the top clue to the bottom clue. You have to do so by altering a single
letter at each step. Each step on the ladder must be a valid word! So let’s see how high your
vocabulary climbs…
1. Work on the hints, and figure out the words…. 2. Now, try this without the hints!

TEARS

Blue <-
An adhesive
Sad
He put in his thumb,
and out came a__
Add
Pious
Fasten ‘em up
<-

Pink SMILE

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 Lenny Bruce – The Man Who Spoke Too Much
“I 'm sorry if I wasn't very funny tonight. I
am not a comedian. I am Lenny Bruce”.
Lenny Bruce. You could call him the one man
who revolutionized Stand up act as we know it
today. Or you could cal him a True satirist. Or
just a man who is too honest for a world that
refuses to see the truth.
“I'm totally corrupted. I mean, really. My
whole act, my whole economic success,
whatever that is, is based solely on the
existence of segregation, violence, despair,
disease and injustice. And if by some miracle,
the whole world would suddenly tranquilize,
be pured, I would be standing in an
unemployment line somewhere. So you see, I'm
not a moralist”.
While stand up comedians in his time were
content with cracking jokes about Mother-in-
laws and women in general Lenny chose to
explore the taboo subjects like racism,
homophobia, sexual fantasies, Jewish-Christian
relations, Presidents and the likes..
“I really dig what they do with a homosexual in
this country. They put him into a prison with a
lot of other men. That's a really good
punishment”.
Lenny appealed to a very rare yet intimidating
sort of audience. The one who were
intellectuals in Jeans and not tuxedos. His wit
and the frankness, with which he spoke, made
him a poster boy for liberals propagating
freedom of speech. Yet all he wanted was to
make people laugh.
“The comedian I'm discussing now is not
Christ's jester, Timothy," he said. "This
comedian gets paid, so his first loyalty is to
the club owner, and he must make money for
the owner. If he can upgrade the moral
standards of his community and still get
laughs, he is a fine craftsman”.
“The only honest art form is laughter,
comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake
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three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha --
they'll take you away, man. You can't”.
He got branded as a sick Comic eventually for
all that he spoke about. But the truth lies in
the fact that the branding happened by, and
because of, the pretentious world who would
not see in any circumstances that the so called
rebellious or taboo subject that he yapped
about are in fact Very true.
“I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go
down to my grave accused of it and always by
the same people: the ones who eat in
restaurants that reserve the right to refuse
service to anyone.”
He eventually became more of a talker then an
‘act’. He would then go on about saying things
that came into his head without pausing to
even censor or translate, He spoke and he
spoke till each member present grasped his
very excitement and understood that here was
man who wasn’t afraid to speak his mind in the
most honest sense of term.
“Are there any niggers here tonight? Could you
turn on the house lights, please, and could the
waiters and waitresses just stop serving, just
for a second? And turn off this spot. Now what
did he say? "Are there any niggers here
tonight?" I know there's one nigger, because I
see him back there working. Let's see, there's
two niggers. And between those two niggers
sits a kike. And there's another kike— that's
two kikes and three niggers. And there's a spic.
Right? Hmm? There's another spic. Ooh, there's
a wop; there's a polack; and, oh, a couple of
greaseballs. And there's three lace-curtain Irish
micks. And there's one, hip, thick, hunky,
funky, boogie. Boogie boogie. Mm-hmm. I got
three kikes here, do I hear five kikes? I got five
kikes, do I hear six spics, I got six spics, do I
hear seven niggers? I got seven niggers. Sold
American. I pass with seven niggers, six spics,
five micks, four kikes, three guineas, and one
wop. Well, I was just trying to make a point,
and that is that it's the suppression of the
word that gives it the power, the violence, the
viciousness. Dig: if President Kennedy would
just go on television, and say, "I would like to
introduce you to all the niggers in my cabinet,"
and if he'd just say "nigger nigger nigger nigger
nigger" to every nigger he saw, "boogie boogie
boogie boogie boogie," "nigger nigger nigger
nigger nigger" 'til nigger didn't mean anything
anymore, then you could never make some six-
year-old black kid cry because somebody called
him a nigger at school”.
He wanted only to talk on stage with the same
freedom he exercised in his living room. But he
ended up visiting FBI headquarters in San
Francisco to complain that there was a
conspiracy between the courts of New York and
California to violate his rights. He got arrested
15 times in a span of two years for obscenity.
He was banned outright from several U.S.
cities, and in 1962 he was banned from
performing in Sydney, Australia. At his first
show there, he got up on stage, declared "What
a fucking wonderful audience" and was
promptly arrested.
“There seems to be a pattern," he said, "that
I'm a mad dog and they have to get me no
matter what -- the end justifies the means."
Since Lenny always talked about his
environment, and since police wagons and
courtrooms had become his environment, the
contents of his performances revolved more
and more around the inequalities of the legal
system, His tirades against the police and the
law and his right to Freedom of speech.
“In the halls of justice, the only justice is in
the halls”.
He ended up carrying law books. His hotel
rooms were always cluttered with tapes,
transcripts, Photostats, law journals, legal
briefs. With club owners increasingly wary of
hiring him, Lenny devoted more and more time
to the law. Indeed, it was his own legal
research that provided a foundation for his
defense in his New York City obscenity trial. His
most relevant argument concerned the statute
he was accused of violating. Having obtained
the legislative history of the statute from
Albany, he discovered that, in 1931, the law
was amended to exclude indecent
performances by actors, among others. Hence,
the law had been misapplied to him. His
argument didn't prevail .The DA recommended
that no mercy be granted, because Lenny had
shown a lack of remorse.
“I'm not here for remorse, but for justice. The
issue is not obscenity, but that I spit in the
face of authority”.
The face of authority spat back, and Lenny was
sentenced to four months in the workhouse.
During his later years the increasing drug use
affected his health. By 1966 he had
been blacklisted by nearly every nightclub in
the United States, as owners feared
prosecution for obscenity. Lenny Bruce was
then found dead in his bathroom in August 1966
at the age of 40. His official cause of death was
"acute morphine poisoning caused by an
accidental overdose”.
Lenny’s good friend the lunatic Phil Spector
was quoted as saying that he died form “an
overdose of cops”.On December 23, 2003, 37
years after his death, Bruce was granted a
posthumous pardon for his obscenity conviction
by New York Governor, George Pataki, It was
the first posthumous pardon in the state's
history. Pataki claimed his act was "a
declaration of New York's commitment to
upholding the First Amendment."
Lenny Bruce served as a pioneer of free
comedic speech, opening doors for the current
plethora of young performers whose abuse of
that freedom would undoubtedly offend Lenny.
But he would be the first to say, that's the risk
of freedom of speech. (As said by Paul Krassner
editor of his Biography “How to talk dirty and
influence people”)
Shibani Sharma
SE (Computer Engg.)
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 Epoch - For the Movie Lovers
C olour did make movies brighter. But
the charm of the good ol’ black and white
movie will never fade away. Watching a
City Lights or Metropolis always takes you
to the ‘30’s, when the life was so different
and so very same. Though there have been
scores of classics since the 1960’s, here are
two of my favourite movies from the golden
era :
It’s A Wonderful Life-
Director: Frank Capra
Cast- James Stewart, Donna Reed
Year- 1946
A movie as genuine and honest as this one
is rarely made. The message is so earnest
and true, even after repeated viewings it
does enough to up your morale. The first
time I watched this movie, I was captivated
by every aspect of it.
The brilliance of director Frank Capra is his
vision. By discovering this movie in his mind
and then filming it to perfection, he has
done a favour to generations. It’s A
Wonderful Life is a journey of self
discovery that ends in the protagonist,
George Baily realizing the worth of every
man, including himself. That everyone is
indispensible to the world is a notion not
many can nurture in the face of
disappointments and defeats.
A piece of art such as this movie, is a
reminder of the greatest gift, Life. The
dialogues are ingenious in their subtlety.
The supernatural element , the Guardian
Angel takes the movie forward without
inviting any cynicism about his presence
The unfolding of the fantastic script, the
fresh characters, the beautiful Donna Reed
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and the script that can reduce you to tears
without trying too hard ,make this movie a
masterpiece. James Stewart as George has
become the character, all of him, giving
one of the most memorable performances
ever. To every movie fan, and every
Skeptic, it’s A Wonderful Life is a
wonderful experience one can’t miss.
Casablanca-
Director- Michael Curtiz
Cast- Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
Year- 1942
The ultimate romance, where love is
depicted in many shades and forms. Love
for one’s nation, love for freedom, love for
the ‘one’, love for the one who is not the
‘one’ but prized anyway…The characters
are rich in history and attitude, never ideal
but always intriguing. Some scenes like the
one with the whole cafe singing the French
National Anthem loud over the Germans,
the knock-on-wood song bit, the
confessions of Ilsa Lund, are so powerful in
meaning that you gauge the FEEL of the
tale without a lengthy script.
This narrative is about human emotions
which form the ladder that takes us to an
alluring tale of love, loss, pride and
sacrifice. The protagonists are one of the
strongest ever seen and are played
amazingly by the lead actors. Humphrey
Bogart as the quiet ill-tempered man is
bewitchingly attractive and the end only
augments his appeal. Bergman is ever-so-
beautiful and her character is far ahead of
her generation. A MUST watch movie for
romantics.
Sneha Das
SE (Computer Engg.)
 Be the Change You Want To See
“W hat’s your name?”
“Rahul. Naam toh suna hi hoga!” he replies
looking smug.
It was my first day at the Akanksha centre.
Yes, I signed up for Teach India this year.
For the uninitiated; Akanksha is an NGO
that educates underprivileged children
from the age of 3-18 years.
So, that early Sunday morning, I walked
into St. Stannislaus high school in Bandra.
Very honestly, I expected the Centre to be
amidst a few shady and intimidating lanes.
But my musings came to a halt when a 3-
storey dilapidated school building emerged
behind a beautiful church. One could see
vague traces of green and white paint that
once adorned the walls, peeling off. The
architecture looked rather Victorian and
really old!
Also that this building was meant for the
‘privileged’!
Turning left, an undersized single-storey
lodge-like accommodation welcomed me
with a cluster of happy faces, excited
squeaks and waving hands! I waved back at
them. When you visit someone, you just
know it intrinsically if you are genuinely
welcome…and here I was! :D
All of them were running around, laughing,
giggling, yelling, dancing and doing cart-
wheels…only until prayer began. **flash
back to old school times**
Today was Art Class! And the li’l champions
had to master Warli painting. These
extremely rudimentary wall paintings use a
very basic graphic vocabulary: a circle, a
triangle and a square and designs are
created. It’s a skill…a skill that can be sold
for thousands!
Rahul, the funniest and the sharpest of the
lot, was particularly not interested in
‘painting-shainting’ as he put it. :P
“Aee, anaadi. Mein khiladi tu anaadi,
samjha naa!” he teased his friend Aslam,
doing a little jig. Aslam, helplessly looked
at me, hoping I would say something.
“Speak in English, Rahul!” I said. Also
figured, I can’t be strict. :P :P
Just then, I turned around to another
volunteer and muttered something in Hindi.
“O didi, speak in English!” he snapped
back.
“Arre didi, lots of didis and bhaiyas came
to home and told about school…mein pehli
baar aaya idhar…dekhte hain kitni padhai
hoti hai…nahi toh baap ka business hai
naa!” he says unintentionally challenging
me. Can you believe this kid is only 6?
“Didi, you have gone to Delhi? I have gone
to Delhi, Allahabad, Agra. 3 places. I saw
‘Chak de! India’ in Delhi.” After probing
further, “Humlog maal-gaadi mein baithke
gaye the!...it was very…umm…good!” he
said struggling for a better word.
Midway, through his painting, (I could see
less of Warli painting and more of Salman
Khan’s bulging biceps on his sheet!) while I
was attending others, he stood up and got
into a fist fight with Aslam.
“Say sorry” I said, pulling them apart.
“Chal chal, Hindu-Muslim bhai-bhai, aaja!”
he said and hugged Aslam.
Is this issue so deep-rooted that even 6 yr
olds have surrendered to age-old political
conflicts? Where has all the innocence
evaporated? And why wasn’t it shocking for
me to hear something like this?
I figured that the only way to keep him still
was to engross him in a conversation.
He was bored…of the painting…of Salman
Khan and his biceps. “Buddha ho gaya hai
woh!” he said nonchalantly. Everybody
laughed. Mr. Salman Khan…you have clearly
lost a fan in Rahul! ;)
Just then, he promptly tore his sheet of
paper, got a few extra sheets and in
minutes made 6 different types of
airplanes. I was AMAZED. Those were not
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and threw around when there wasn’t a
teacher in sight, but really innovative,
complicated yet amazing stuff.
“What do you want to be when you grow
up?” I asked not quite having an answer
myself. The question that most of us loved
answering as kids but now dread more than
anything else.
“Pilot…But I want to know one thing”
“What?”
“How do planes crash ?!!?!”
(hahhahahhehehehohoho!) And this went on
and on….
Just when we were leaving after the two
hour session, he tugged at my denims and
said, “Didi, u’ll come naa next Sunday?”
“I should be asking this, will you be coming
next Sunday Rahul?”
“Haan toh kya!” he said giving me a
toothless grin.
This is just one student…I have met sharper
and brighter kids with talents unparalleled.
We, the ‘privileged’ lot don’t quite
understand what we have and are letting
go. They have much less and there’s much
more that they deserve!
The joy of brightening a child’s life is
mammoth-like. Try it sometime!!
These kids are smarter than most of
us….very inquisitive, very ambitious…with
zeal to come up in life and help more
people. It’s unbelievable but most of them
want to become Social Workers in future.
I have a lot to learn from them. :)
To Rahul and all his friends: Shine on, you
crazy diamond! :D
If interested, please visit the websites:
www.teach.timesofindia.com
Aninya Ahluwalia
TE (Electronics and
Telecommunications Engg.)

These Are My Favourite Things

Flambé that dances on brown roasted chicken,
Curries that bubble when they boil and thicken,
Icy blue mocktails with spriglets of mints,
These are a few of my favorite things.

Dollops of ice cream stacked in a bowl,

Juicy Kebabs laid on a bed of hot coals,
Jumbo grill sandwich with number of onion rings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

Rich creamy Kulfi that slides out of moulds,

Crispy red parathas with layers and folds,
Caramel custard and all sorts of puddings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the clock ticks,

When the time stops,
When I'm famished and meetings are dreary and bore,
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I'm not hungry anymore! :D

Dhanashri S
SE (Instrumentation Engg.)

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 Slumdog. You?
H is is a relatively posh address. Firstly,
his place warms up to the Arabian Sea on
all sides, and not from a particular corner
of a certain room as most sea-view
apartments in Mumbai do. He lives in a
neighborhood where auto-rickshaws don’t
go. His boulevard adorns only homes which
Bollywood stars, Business honchos and
corrupt Babus can afford. The horizon
boasts of outlines of Skyscrapers kissing the
skies on one end and an endless expanse of
the Arabian Sea in all its hues on the other.
His locality is dotted with meticulously
manicured gardens and sophisticated
boutiques run by posh, hot and mostly
eccentric women. It’s at a neat
intersection from where the promise of a
modern city starts. Seeing this you
wouldn’t be foolish to think that finally our
politicos have lived up to their promise of
making our city ‘world-class’.
Most would prefer his tony life-style on the
beach-front near the heart of the city. Few
can afford it the way he can. He has the
moonlit sky for a roof, and he’s never
bothered to pay heavy mortgage or life-
threatening rent for his place. He wakes up
to greet two separate sky-lines of Mumbai
every morning: ones to his left make the
mid-town districts; to his right are high-
rises that carefully hide the squalor that
stretches for miles beyond.
His comes across as a chatty, lively,
relaxed, confident yet quaint youth. He
carries an entry level Nokia handset. Just
the other day he was showing off his newly
acquire debit card. Like most Indian youths
he is passionate about cricket and you’d
spot him in his Indian jersey playing cricket
every Sunday evening. You’d easily mistake
him for just another city-slacker from the
labyrinth of the city’s middleclass who dot
the college campuses across the city. He
also has a job to boast of. He works as an
Assistant Peon in an office nearby and he
doesn’t have to travel halfway across the
city like most of us. After all he isn’t just
some uneducated bloke who is just too lazy
to work. (I know most of you were secretly
hoping for him to turn out into some
impoverished chai-walla.) He already seems
super-rich and satisfied to me. And I am
envious! He has hoarded nothing, hence
nothing to lose. Ambition is a bitch. He has
little. I understand his sentiment. On some
nights he works on billboards, unless it’s
the season of weddings, where he makes
more, waiting tables. When he manages
twice his daily income, he makes peace
with what he has, drinks rum, lolls around
happy, the usual holiday stuff. (Now you
see why I was green with envy)
He has mostly nothing to worry about in life
and sticks to his carefree ways. Mostly. His
only worry is the police which demand
‘hafta’ from him every Monday as rent for
his park-bench-abode. If he fails, he is
picked up under the Bombay prevention of
Beggary Act or at times labeled a Druggie.
He is neither. Yet he is beaten up by cops
who just wait to flex their muscles. Hence,
he makes it a point to pay them on Sunday
itself. The only other trouble are the men
who drift occasionally to his bench when he
is away; but they are dealt with a couple of
obscenities easily.
He is no Slumdog, at least not yet. In
hierarchy, he figures much lower. The slum
closest to him would mean a home-deposit
of Rs. 25000 and a monthly rent of about
Rs. 900. It gets much more expensive if he
moves to the celebrated Dharavi about Rs.
2000 a month; higher deposit, and even
more towards Bandra or Andheri. There are
100,000 homeless in Mumbai. They cannot
afford slums. There are 11 night-shelters in
Delhi. Mumbai has none. No wonder he’s
content. One day when he decides on
settling down he’ll maybe carry his bride
into one at Behrampada. Till then the park
bench is just fine.
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Usually such conversations on the supposed
downtrodden like him border on hope or
despair. However he isn’t waiting to be the
object of someone’s guilt or pity. He likes
to earn his own bread and has tremendous
Self Respect. Nor is he hoping to land up in
some reality show on television and walk
off with a million bucks. Only Middle-class
dreams are made of these things. He is but
a simple man who is content with his state
of affairs. But his is no far-off ghetto.
You’ve certainly crossed his home, and
maybe even looked through his face. He
makes better conversation than most of my
friends.
Television minus Vision
T he Idiot Box has been living up to its
name with ferocious commitment. There is
no originality, entertainment quotient or a
spark of decent ingenuity anywhere in the
100 odd channels ruling the roost. There is
NO vision, no aim other than pure
commercial success. Networks are
competing to churn out bizarre, irreverent
series aiming at channeling sadistic
viewership. I refuse to believe technicians
and minds behind the flood of high drama
series do not acknowledge the absurdity of
their programs. They go ahead and sweat
to air them anyway. In that case, what
gives them the complacent promise of
guaranteed audience? Ahem, it’s us really.
Though we love to hate a cat fight in a
‘reality show’ or the pretext of a
swayamvar, we go ahead and tune in
anyway. We all have our reasons. Laughs.
Jeers. Ah… witty commenting. Any which
way, we do provide TRPs. We do make
these show run and re-run. All the while
taking away the chance for a genuine script
writer to pluck the courage and try
something refreshing.
The idea of a ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S.’ or a
‘Seinfeld’ from an Indian network is almost
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The next time we speak patriotically of
India, or the love for Mumbai, it may be a
good idea just to know who we speak of,
besides ourselves.
Agreed we are not a country of Mystic
Sages and Holy Cows, and we do speak
English and not Indian but remember the
next time you just turn a blind eye the
slums realize that it’s a reality that most
actually live. Daily. After all it’s no great-
shake activism to know where you live.
Vijay Sharma
TE (Electronics Engg.)
laughable. And THAT is pitiable. Does
decent script writing need tanker loads of
cash, technology or studios? Nada. It just
needs a creative brain willing to think
different. Willing to take the road away
from common plagiarism. An idea can turn
into a legendary franchise minus gaudy
backgrounds, over the top production and
star-figures.
Production houses here seem to be
amazingly at ease, coming up with B grade
products. There is a need for someone
gutsy enough to invite a change. Try a
decent sitcom, an intelligent talk show, an
authentic talent show. The more quality
centric one gets, the less strife there is for
publicity. Word of mouth proves to be
enough. Popularity becomes a natural
successor. Not a contorted and
manipulated after-product as in the case of
the running ‘hit’ shows.
The responsibility to shun mediocrity lies
with the media and the audiences equally.
The news channels, more like the
entertainment channels, are hell bent on
screening tardy shows over and over at all
odd times. There is a call for a regulatory
body to supervise contents on channels
supposed to be giving facts, news and
updates. The repose being enjoyed by news
makers, who are cashing in on the thirst for
entertainment, needs to be detracted. How
else do people catch a break from the in-
your-face sorry reality of Indian television
and media? How else do people believe
there is still hope in the media industry?
How else to digest that the millions earned
From the Anarchy Within
“Anarchy of Thoughts in the Void of Silence”
I n the still sanctity, there exists no law to
govern the directions in which our mind
wishes to travel. We think and we think a
lot… the physical consequences are but a
slight wrinkle on the forehead, burning
wrath inside, wild mirth or a gentle smile
playing on the lips.
The spiritual consequences? Inner turmoil
since the thoughts proceed in no direction.
Or rather- don’t proceed at all. They are
stuck and we are stuck. And they flow
through your head… some silent some
screaming… with nothing to hold them
back… with nothing to make you
understand. Confusion is a word.
To make it simpler- every thought has its
own mind and it follows it to the end. No
free thoughts are suppressed thanks to
‘anarchy’ and contradictions achieve a free
reign.
Anarchist Philosophy: There should be no
government to rule the people. If every
individual acts sensibly, there is no need
for a government. That is the ideal state
and can be called as ‘Self-Rule’.
But for functioning of a State, some
thoughts HAVE to be suppressed to make
way for the Greater Good or rather- to
follow the path approved by the majority.
by the television industry is not really a
huge joke on us viewers?
Sneha Das
SE (Computer Engg.)
Anarchy of Opinions exists in the
unfathomable depths of a Soul, and that
has to be accepted. True strength of will is
when you choose certain Free Thoughts
that complement each other, link them and
bring them out to represent a single strain
of your Individuality… and this through the
supposed Chaos, through the Anarchy of
the Void.
This chain of Yours is what appears to the
world and only you know what it has taken
to achieve it. The better it gets, the more
loved you are. It is all about Your place in
the world, Your reactions to minor and
major ripples in the smooth fabric of
Consciousness, Your relationships with
every single life form and everything You.
A Wall or rather- ‘The Wall’ which
represents what You are to the world. You
make graffiti on this ‘Wall of Your
Individuality’, you paste Issues related to
absolutely anything just because you want
to let the World know of your stance on the
same. And it is up to You in the end to
implement everything You believe in. :)
Through Anarchy, You rise up and build
Your own Wall. The Wall.
Sushrut Munje
TE (Instrumentation Engg.)
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 The Night Before
I t’s a cold quiet night. He doesn’t want
the conversation to end so he circles
around the neighborhood once more. He
ambles home listening to the voice at the
other end. The undoubted confident words
pierce his ears, their arrows puncture his
heart; his throat is so dry that he cant
really voice and vent the consuming poison
that doesn’t kill but stifles and mutes.
His vacant body reaches home; not numb
but numbing and crumbling from inside.
He slowly switches off his cell-phone. He
wishes to drown in a pool of alcohol. All
that is left of the vodka he fancies is an
empty bottle. So he gulps down water
instead, cool water that soothes his
unnerving nerves.
He resolves to plunge into the Xeroxed
notes. But the words on the page seem to
be melting; the ink seems to be melting,
The Hangover
L et me see if I can be more brief than
this sms I received:
" A complete guy flick. 4 Guys losing it at a
bachelors night out in Vegas....completely
drunk...drugged one of them marries a
stripper...they kidnap Mike Tyson's
Tigress.....Wake up finding out that one of
their friend is missing (the groom) and have
no memory of their wild wild night."
No I do not think I can. Every once in a
while there comes a flick which is just a
fun ride all the way through from the first
scene to the end. THE Hangover is just that
and more!
Three friends and the groom's weird man-
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dripping like wet paint dripping from a
wall. And as the words dribble, he feels the
words inching towards his memory only to
dangle from a while and finally fall to the
floor. Who knew words could thaw?
He lies there on the sofa and lets his
thoughts run free. He thinks about his girl
and wishes that she was here. He would
embrace her and forget about his misery.
But alas!
The night is sleepless. The eerie silence
carries the message of hopelessness;
announcing that everything would not be
the same, come morning. What’s left to be
done, but reluctantly not?
The night won’t reply so his answer is
"Maybe…"
He hopes.
The next morning, he is still hoping....
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child freak brother-in-law 'Alan' go for an
ultimate boy's night out in Vegas. The
writers of this movie get it bang on
everything that you could possibly think off
for an ultimate night out experience at
Vegas and throw in a whole lot more.
Imagine the surprise on the face of Alan
when he finds out that there s a TIGER in
his bathroom the next day when he is about
to take a leak. The 3 protagonists Phill,
Price and Alan are remarkably well written
and portrayed with what I am sure is
amazing on-screen spontaneity.
Make sure that you catch this flick or get
the DVD the moment it is out.
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 We Shit Alone
O f all the things we enjoy doing with
the bits of population we are fond of, there
are some things which we really prefer to
do alone.
Also, in some cases, we've got no choice.
Say- you ask your bud, "Hey mate, I feel my
bowels loosening up. Wanna accompany me
to the loo?" Be sure you won’t get
"Awesome man! Let's go…" as a reply.
So you see you've got no choice in such
cases.
Apply it anywhere... when you are in a
shitty situation, you are alone.
And again- it just happens that you're alone
and that's always the best way to deal with
the crap.
Most of the crappy aka shitty aka pathetic
things in life can't be understood by your
best mates. These are the elements which
come in your inner sphere and it is best
others can't invade that space... even
though you're willing.
Beyond a certain point, you're always alone
in the dark.
It's like you keeping the door open and
others not understanding the point of
coming in when you're in the middle of
excreting excreta.
You Shit Alone.
Interesting thing is- others can decide
whether to provide the light or not.
In residences of normal people, the light
switches are somewhere near the door so
that you don't find yourself stumbling over
the non-existent rats in the dark...
Anyways, if you have enough individuals
loving you with good intentions for your
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hygiene, they tend to switch on the light
(should be a CFL) if you forget to do so.
That ensures your job is done in a neat
way.
Did you understand that they did not
trample in and made it easier... but just
switched on the light, gave you the needed
visual support and thus you had a
(hopefully) clean job done.
But hey! You did the job.
You (always) Shit Alone.
Now don't start bugging me by telling your
childhood stories. Yes, even my dad/mum
have helped me but then.. I was a child! I
needed people to help me out of tight
situations!
Now that I've grown up, I can get myself
out of constipating situations!
I (since long long back) Shit Alone.
And the best thing is-
We always feel better after doing it. That
means letting go of ruddy elements (or
rather- excreting excreta) makes us feel
better and we become a new individual!
So we learn that when we shit alone, with
necessary help in form of CFL lights, we
always feel better than we used to.
So it is best to understand why we shit
alone and get done with it in a nice
manner.
Thanks for going through one of my most
nonsensical posts… which makes sense in a
most nonsensical manner.
But then- this is how I excrete the excreta
in my Cranium.
And that too alone.
:)
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 My “Hare Raama Hare Krishna” Kurta
V enue:
airport!
Bangalore…oops! Bengaluru
I loved the smell of Bangalore the second
that I arrived.
I, on one hand, was in my Nike sweatshirt,
favorite pair of track pants and Converse
sneakers. Ruffled and messed up hair with
iPod plugged into my ears blaring loud
music. I was having a hard time pulling the
mammoth-like luggage along! The one to
be blamed for this is my mom. My mother,
like all Indian mothers, likes to pack the
entire house for a trip :P
Rupa, on the other hand, was smiling.
Dressed in her plain white chikan
‘Lakhnavi’ salwaar kameez with her hair
pulled back in a loose bun, rustic
‘kolhapuri’ chappals adorning her feet, she
stood tall with a book clutched tightly in
one hand.
She was Czechoslovakian. I was Indian.
And she still had something that I didn’t!
We hopped into our cabs and were on our
way to Puttaparthi, a sacred town which is
a good 150-200 kms drive from Bangalore.
It is a place of worship and is believed to
be the home to the notable religious leader
Shri Sathya Sai Baba. Rupa was sent by the
ashram to help us around.
Rupa, her father an Indian and mother
Czechoslovakian had lived 21 yrs of her life
in Czechoslovakia and came to India with
the intention of discovering her roots. She
worked in a bank in Bangalore for about a
year. India fascinated her and so she
embarked on this journey to discover her
spiritual self. That’s when she visited
Puttaparthi and fell in love with the place.
She has been serving the ashram for nearly
five years now!
In case you are wondering, we are
ultimately women and we can most
probably share our entire lives in a cab
journey :P
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Thanks to our driver, we reached
Puttaparthi in five hours instead of three!
Venue: Ashram in Puttaparthi
It was half past four when we reached the
ashram. At the entrance from the look of
it, it seemed like there were more
foreigners than you’d expect at an Indian
ashram. There were people from all over
the world belonging to all age groups. Now
I am not a ritualistic person but certainly
have immense faith in God in all its forms.
And for me that place is sacrosanct even
though it was my first time there.
Sacrosanct because it’s a faith that has
been passed on by my parents and you
never question parents, do you?
And this is when I had, what I call, my
‘Jaago-Re’ moment and wondered, “What
makes these educated, urban men and
women from a different (essentially
western) part of the world come to the
SPIRITUAL HUB* called India and spend time
in saris and singing songs for Baba?”
I didn’t know the next two hours of my life
will not only give me a clearer perspective
but also open up my eyes to a different
India that we young something-teens, living
in an urban setup can never think of!
The moment we stepped into the temple
we started hearing of excited cries from
devotees “Today, Baba is coming again.
Very rarely he makes an appearance twice
a day” For the first time in my life, I felt
lucky and stupid at the same time. I
thought of how we were destined to be late
and that probably because Baba knew that
we were coming that he decided to forgo
his afternoon snooze and bless us by
making an appearance. Silly I know! Stop
laughing!! :P :P
We were divided into two groups – men and
women - and made to sit in this HUGE
gathering hall where Baba addresses
thousands of devotees. Baba arrived.
Everybody- silent. The effect that Baba’s
presence has on an audience cannot be put
in words. Rupa informs us that this is the
time of the day when Bhajans are sung in
the glory of God. Bhajans begin. And this
was the mix of people surrounding me:
My mom: sitting right in front of me.
Previously chatting with a young lady,
Harsha, recently married, educated till her
5th grade (I told you! Two women-few
minutes-and you have entire life stories
being shared) she had come from Gujarat
to serve at the ashram for a week! When
Bhajans began, my mom went into a
trance, closed her eyes probably praying to
god to bless her children with some brains
and wisdom :P
To my right: was this gorgeous European
40-something woman who had it all figured
out - yellow chiffon saree, bindi, gajra,
bangles, shlokas, bhajans et al. Midway,
she suddenly erupted and started singing-
“Shiva-shiva-shiva-shiva-shiva-shiva-shiva”-
so loudly, with a twang, that it actually
made me giggle!
Behind me: Japanese mother- daughter
duo. The mother knew perfect Hindi. She
told me (in perfect Hindi!!) that this was
their 6th time here.
To my left: Two Gujarati middle-aged
women. They had lots of miraculous stories
to share.
Me and Rupa, in the centre: The
atmosphere around me was so charged that
it was impossible to not let go and
surrender to my faith for those brief
minutes. During the routine, there were
women crying hysterically, with their head
bent touching the ground. Old women
sitting on the porch looking tired - of the
day, of life! There was such a lot of pain
and anguish in the air that it made me feel
trivial. Rupa gave me the ‘I know what it
feels like-I have been there’ look.
The routine ended. Everybody relaxed. Two
women, out of thousands, fainted.
It was time for Baba to go. Harsha turned
to us and said, “Look look, now the chair
on which he is sitting will suddenly
disappear!” Rupa and I looked at each
other, we knew nothing of the sort would
happen and gave each other a known smile.
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It was later that I discovered that the
European lady’s son had blood cancer.
Doctors gave up on him. Said he wouldn’t
live for more than a month. It’s been 10
years now and he’s still surviving. There
were hundreds of such stories.
Such is power of faith, of conviction!
Rupa’s words: “It’s just the faith that
brings thousands of these people here
every day, every year! If it had not been
Baba, but someone else and their faith so
strong, they would have still come, in
thousands!…I have seen more life here
than I would have seen in any city…Some of
us are sadomasochistic; some of us thrive
on having our minds messed with. Be it
academics/career/family/friends/job/love
/health, there is always something playing
Ball with our hearts and minds and we
somehow feel justified in being the victim.
At least, I learnt to do away with that
after coming here!”
I couldn’t agree more. I mean I’m a city girl
with city sensibilities and feel it’s nearly
impossible for me to give up everything I
have and settle somewhere far. It requires
courage- and lots of it at that!! And I guess
that is what she had and I didn’t -
COURAGE.
*Spiritual hub: I had heard of financial
hub/industrial hub/commercial
hub/agricultural hub…but Spiritual Hub was
new and more so hilarious because it came
from Rupa!! Yeah that was how she would
sum up India in a word. 
P.S: I saw a lot of firangs in this particular
kurta. And I thought it was cool and very
hippie like. I bought it before entering the
ashram. Now that I look at it, I no more
think of it as cool/hippie like. The kurta,
which I know interestingly call my “Hare
Raama Hare Krishna Kurta” (!!) only
reminds me of how open-minded I was
after the experience.
Jai Ho!!
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 The Placebo Effect
W ell... this is one topic
particularly caught my interest, and lured
which
me into writing an article on it. I had heard
of this phenomenon before in one of the
episodes of the ‘Big Bang Theory’ where
Raj, one of the main protagonists, who
suffers from a condition of not being able
to communicate with women, unless he’s
drunk, consumes a bottle of what he thinks
is alcohol and starts flirting with a species
of the opposite sex. Later he realizes,
thanks to Howard (his friend), that he had
actually consumed a non alcoholic
beverage and alcohol had had absolutely no
hand in his communication. Hence, in
actual fact he'd just been a victim of what
is called The Placebo Effect.
It refers to a phenomenon where a person
in reality consumes or is made to consume
a substance which he believes is a
medicine/drug which will help cure his
ailment. But the substance is actually not
that, but an inert substance not containing
any of the believed chemicals in it. Since
the person is not aware of this fact, his
condition improves without even consuming
the said chemicals…
A Placebo is a pharmacologically inert
substance that helps in producing a similar
effect on the patient as would have been
produced by a pharmacologically active
one. It is a Latin word and means- “I shall
please”.
It is a very fascinating phenomenon, and
reinstates the fact that our brain plays a
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major role in our wellness. Placebos have
been found to cure major illnesses, like
pain, depression or even cancer. But due to
the fact that it is deceptive and equivalent
to fooling someone, into believing that he
is consuming a substance which is
pharmacologically active. This practice may
result in the doctor patient’s relationship
going sour.
Well, since every coin has two sides to it,
and as Wikipedia puts it, an opposite effect
also exists and is known as Nocebo or “I
shall harm”. It is similar to the Placebo
effect, but in this case, instead of the
patient recovering, he reports worsening of
conditions, after being administered inert
substances… This may be caused due to the
patient having a negative attitude towards
the entire treatment he’s going through or
might just be pure coincidence.
Whatever be the causes for this effect, it
sure has given people enough reason for
being curious to know more about it and
that is why studies are on in this particular
field of science. Scientists are researching
on the causes and consequences of the
Placebo effect, and are coming up with
rather interesting details. One would
wonder how is it possible to benefit from a
substance which does not even have the
ability to cure you. But then, my dear
friends, such is the power of your mind!! :D
Saumya Pant
SE (Electronics Engg.)
 Reincarnation
Y eah, so, we have half an hour. An
article is expected out of us. If we fail the
deadline-the editor is gonna kill us…we’re
not sure we’d pay him back in kind. It all
depends on what we ‘re-incarnate’ as :P
Yes, people, Re-incarnation. Believe in it or
not…you sure as hell can’t help being
intrigued by it.
This is one concept which we have been
exposed to since our very childhood. Be it
Mahabharata (or if you were out of touch
with the ‘beliefs’... ‘Bollywood’ sure must
have introduced it to you.
Reincarnation-a highly interesting, though
dubious concept. Each life that the concept
of re-incarnation allots you is meant for
you to learn new lessons. In one life, you
could be a tiny ant, in the other you could
be a rich human with a luxurious life. The
old souls…the ones which have spent some
time on earth are the wise ones, while the
slightly immature ones would be the new
souls, who’ll learn their lessons over-time.
And when they are through with their
spiritual enlightenment, they attain
‘moksha’ (salvation) where they become
one with the universe.
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"...our journey
is eternal as we are sucked into black-holes
of the cycle and blasted out the other side
to be re-incarnated into whatever our
atoms gather to create in the super system
that is the universe. All of which is a
matter of pure chance.
A "good" life results in rebirth to a higher
quality form, and a "bad" life results in
rebirth to a lower quality form. This
forward and backward progression is based
on the Law of Karma, a central foundation
of Hinduism and other Eastern-based
philosophies.
The Bhagawat Gita says:
Worn-out garments are shed by the body;
Worn-out bodies are shed by the dweller
within the body. New bodies are donned by
the dweller, like garments.
The idea that the soul (of any living being -
including animals, humans and plants)
reincarnates is intricately linked to karma.
Research indicates that a person's previous
(parallel) incarnations can apparently
shape certain aspects of their emotional
dispositions as well as their physical body.
For example Burmese children who now
remember previous lifetimes as British or
American air force pilots shot down over
Burma during World War II. All of them
have fairer hair and complexions than their
darker coloured siblings.
Some people still bear marks or scars from
other lifetimes. Some people have fears
and phobias as results of past life
experiences. It is as if the template of the
modern body remembered the experiences
of the former body and reformed a new
body with the old problems and physical
markings.
Quite a sketchy picture, no? How about
some incidents, which even science failed
to explain:
The one thing that got us both stunned was
a news piece about a World War II pilot,
who crashed to death, coming back to life.
James was Fighter pilot Huston’s re-
incarnation.
The little James started recollecting stuff
from the tender age of 2 itself. James’
sceptic parents researched everything, and
each of it hinted at the same thing- He was
the re-incarnated pilot. He remembered
everything, right down to the detail of the
plane he was flying.
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But how legitimate are the beliefs?!
Numbers of people in the world are
increasing. Endlessly. Every minute. So, a
little basic math would render the very
basis of re-incarnation redundant.
But, as believers contest, all life forms re-
incarnate. And we really aren’t keeping a
record of reptile population (or for that
matter, any other species) and, with
species going extinct, re-incarnation
concept stands somewhat agreeable!
(Forest department needs to glorify us!
They can now blame extinction on re-
incarnation! Ha! :P)
3G
T heory:
We all rely on the largest network in the
world, the internet.
Networking is the basis of making the world
into a global village. Internet, mobile
phones, ATM, television, online banking has
become an integral part of our life.
Today we can buy tickets, shop for clothes,
call for food, get to know the farthest
place on earth just on the click of a button
or by dialing some numbers. Internet has
become more accessible and handy with
the generation of new networking systems
provided to us by our cellular service
providers.
Let us know some basic facts about the
data providing technologies (1G, 2G and
the recently introduced 3G) and their
working.
2G refers to the second generation wireless
telecommunication technology. While its
predecessor 1G made use of analog radio
signals (FM/AM radio signals are analogue.
transmissions are plagued by interference
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The most obvious objection to
reincarnation is that there is no evidence of
a physical process by which a personality
could survive death and travel to another
body. But then, the very existence of soul
is ambiguous!
So, in the end, we’re back to square one!
Somewhat intrigued, somewhat sceptic!
Shivani Deshpande
BE (Information Technology Engg.)
Surabhi Srivastava
SE(Electronics and
Telecommunications Engg.)
caused by multipath interference, which
occur when the FM signal bounces off
buildings, mountains, airplanes, and even
weather conditions. ……..signals adjacent
in time overlap each other due to the signal
components arriving at different times.)
2G used digital radio signals. Digital Audio
Broadcasting provides crystal clear sound
Three primary benefits of 2G networks over
their predecessors were that phone
conversations were digitally encrypted(to
convert text into code), 2G systems were
significantly more efficient on the
spectrum allowing for far greater mobile
phone penetration levels; and 2G
introduced data services for mobile,
starting with SMS text messages..
Digital voice data can be compressed much
more effectively into the same amount of
radio bandwidth.
The digital systems were designed to emit
less radio power from the handsets. This
meant that cells could be smaller, so more
cells could be placed in the same amount
of space.
 Although 3G was successfully introduced to
TALKING ABOUT THE IN THING……. users across the world, some issues related
to it
3G cellular phones were first launched in
Japan in October 2001. “Raising the bar” Cost of 3G phones is high,
3G network can serve both 2G and 3G users
in the same frequency band.3G allows Lack of coverage in some areas,
greater data transfer speed. 3G network
achieved greater network capacity through
improved spectral efficiency. 3G has to High prices for 3G in some countries,
deliver packet-switched data at great
speeds. Demand for high speed services in a hand-
(Packet switching is a digital network held device,
communications method that groups all
transmitted data, irrespective of content, Battery life of 3G phones is less.
type, or structure into suitably-sized
blocks, called packets. The principal goals Conclusion:
of packet switching are to maximize 3G is an exciting new technology that is
utilization of available link capacity, being incorporated into mobile devices
minimize response times and increase the across the globe. Users are now able to
strength of communication). download data and do a variety of other
tasks they never imagined possible all via
3G networks enable network operators to their 3G cell phones.
offer us a wider range of advanced
services. It provides us with faster
connectivity with improved quality benefits
of video calling. With 3G technology it is
possible to access any site on the Internet Yash Verma
by using your phone as a modem for your Just another FE
computer. 3G networks have potential
transfer speeds of up to 3 Mbps(about 15
seconds to download a 3-minute MP3 song).
3G phones are like mini-laptops and can
accommodate broadband applications like
video conferencing, receiving streaming
video from the Web, sending and receiving
faxes and instantly downloading e-mail
messages with attachments.
A great deal of potential exists for new
applications in the future as 3G packet
based networks will allow users to be on
line all the time.

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 Why Students make good Entrepreneurs?
W ell, I am sure certainly that the
topic will definitely give you a sort of
liking, joy and optimism. We have found
many of our classes and instructors to be
discouraging. Hardly few of them ever
thought of giving it an idea. A lot of
instructors are negative about our
prospects and would make off-handed
remarks. For many public education
students, the academic experience does
not bring out that much recognition,
leadership or business emphasis. Instructors
are generally not very reinforcing or kind.
But this is what many industry professionals
feel. They certainly feel that students, if
properly guided in the right direction and
given the encouragement, they can surely
come up with ideas that are really great
and fantastic. This can definitely be seen
from the festivals that students of various
colleges organize in every college. Not to
mention the recent Intel Innovators Award
where few blokes wearing spectacles and
looking like geeks had actually coined up
ideas to change the world around them.
And guess what, they were either students
or had just passed out.
It has been found out by various
professionals, companies and surveys that
many startup founders had began their
company either they were students or
shortly after graduating. There may be
many factors lying beneath their success
for few of them, like parents already in
their field or anything, but most of them
had started from ground level. Not to
mention the history of the world’s greatest
companies ever- Microsoft and Google, who
were started by their respective founders
when they studying and ultimately they
even dropped out of their college. And I am
sure that the list must be long. However,
here is the list of some points on which the
argument can be proved to be valid.
Starry-Eyed Optimism: Let’s face it;
starting a company takes a fair amount of
optimism. You have minimal resources, and
the odds are severely stacked against you.
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To overcome this potentially troubling
reality, founders must to some degree
exercise suspension of disbelief and
demonstrate a degree of optimism to take
that initial step. I think this is easier to do
when you’re a student. You’re more
equipped to be optimistic than if you were
a corporate drone trudging through life
with Dilbertian bosses and having the life
energy slowly drained out of you. Students
(in general) are happier people and more
capable of the optimism that is required to
get started. Clearly, there are exceptions
to this. I’m sure there are a few people in
corporate land that are not faking
satisfaction or happiness, and are generally
optimistic people. My hat’s off to them.
The world needs people like you to help
make big companies functional so the rest
of us can use your products and services.
Trusted Peer Network: One of the great
things about being a student is that you
have the opportunity to meet and work
with a lot of different people. If you do it
right, you can get to know some of these
people pretty well by working on projects
with them and hanging out with them
outside of class. This group of people can
often make great co-conspirators and
collaborators. On the other hand, if you’re
stuck in a big corporate world, chances are
you’re interacting with a limited set of
people with very well defined activities
many of whom you may not like anyways.
Why is this so? Simple, because in
corporate-land you often don’t get to pick
who you work with. When you’re a student,
to some degree, you get to pick who you
“hire” for your social and academic groups.
One of the single largest contributors to
startup success is the ability for more than
one person (however exceptional) to come
together and collaborate.
Higher Risk Tolerance: Let’s face it, when
you’re a student your opportunity cost is
likely lower than most other points in your
career (even if you’ve been in the
workforce for a little while and decided to
go back and get that MBA). When you’re
sitting there in class and an idea comes to
you, it doesn’t really cost all that much to
give things a try. Besides, who needs all
that sleep anyways? Students often find it
easier to take the initial entrepreneurial
leap because the new startup idea isn’t
competing with a regular paycheck. It’s
competing with classes and academic work.
Many academic programs (even the
excellent ones) don’t consume 100% of the
available energy of an entrepreneurially
minded student. There’s time left over for
starting companies.
Abstract Thinking: In many academic
programs (and especially the better ones),
students spend a fair amount of time
thinking about abstract concepts. This is
particularly true in engineering, computer
science or even a business program.
Learning about things like microeconomics,
data structures or calculus is to learn about
abstract ways to think about complicated
things. You look for patterns and structures
and frameworks to explain the world. As it
turns out, this kind of thinking is very
useful when it comes to thinking
strategically (but objectively) about a
startup. Without this, it becomes too easy
to focus too much on tactics and execution
-- without sufficient thought to the larger
problem. Since students are exposed to a
fair amount of abstract thinking, it may
come a little easier to them to think about
strategy, competition and how their
offering might (just might) change the
world.
Applied Learning: As a student, you’re
quite often “drinking from a fire hose” and
bringing all sorts of new information into
your brain. Some of which “sticks” and
some of which doesn’t. Along the way, a
few of these concepts may shake your
understanding of the world a bit and every
now and then light-bulbs go off as you
begin to understand what all the fuss is
about. As a student, it’s often very, very
tempting to try and apply some of these
concepts that are new and exciting and do
something with them. One of the easiest
ways to do this is to build a startup that
somehow implements or expands on the
idea.
One of the great things about startups (and
particularly software startups) is that it is
so easy to get started. Getting started is
simply a matter of beginning to think about
a problem and solving it. All the legal stuff,
company formation and other details,
though important, don’t have to get in the
way (and are not that hard). One of the
biggest barriers to entrepreneurism is that
initial leap of faith. And students seem
reasonably capable of taking this leap on a
frequent basis. Although the theory is not
confined to business alone, it applies to
science as well. Newton, Einstein, Abel,
Galois, the list of 20+ achievers is endless.
G H Hardy once famously remarked that
mathematics is a young man’s game.
Apart from the above mentioned points,
one of the underlying reasons can be that
college years can be a real source for
positive reinforcement and bonding. This is
necessary for any kind of success in life.
You should always set out to surround
yourself by positive and supportive people.
And although in a few institutions like the
IITs and IIMs in India, students have the
powerful networking opportunities with
faculty and guest lecturers. And that can
surely be invaluable. However, some feel
that being a successful entrepreneur has
nothing to do with being a student or not. A
student’s usual motive is to learn; an
entrepreneur’s motive is to earn (keeping
the morality aside for time being).
Whatever one wants to do, he has to do it.
It only matters whether you have the heart
to face the odds.
To wrap it out, I can say that if you are a
student or recent graduate, this is a great
time to think about starting a company.
Keeping your minds open, look for patterns
in the problems that you are seeing, and
try and find unique and compelling ways to
solve the problems that people care about.
And as a famous quote goes like….
“Starting a company is really easy. It is its
survival and growth that’s hard.”
Sagar Agarwal
TE (Computer Engg.)
Source : www.onstartups.com
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 Placement Scene
T he RAIT placement department has
been effectively functioning for the past 20
years having placed thousands of aspiring
candidates waiting to plunge into the
corporate world.
It was initiated by Prof.R.J.Kulkarni,
Prof.N.S.T.Sai and many others from the
year 2002 onwards, Prof A.N.Nakra took
over the Training and Placement Cell in
association with seniors. He continued till
the year 2007. For a brief while
Mrs.Sundarvalli was handling the affairs.
Prof. A.V.Vidhate heads the training and
placement department of RAIT. In his
tenure as a Training and placement Officer
since 2007, along with Prof. A.N.Nakra
hundreds of talented engineers have been
successfully placed through the Campus
placement program. Here are a few
excerpts from the interview with
Prof.Vidhate.
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Could you tell us about the vision of RAIT
Training and placement cell (TPC)
We, at RAIT believe in nurturing and
grooming our students so as to develop the
roots and yet remain well grounded. We
also intend to provide such an extensive
platform where the students can develop
wings and fulfill their dream to rule the
new horizon. I personally think it is this
paradoxical idea that has given us such
great stories of success, the stories of our
students making it big in the industry. I
guess it is this vision that has blessed us of
having thousands of alums holding a very
high post in the corporate sector.
Do you think the situation will change
now as compared to last year thanks to
Recession?
Probably yes. But then the growth won’t be
tremendous. I think all the companies that
will approach this year will have more
specific requirement and they will give
more stress on academic performance.
There is a chance that the academic cut-
offs may increase by 5-7%.
Sir, could you highlight the placement  Importance of Successful counseling
process? & mentoring for professionals.
 Motivational & moral Boosting
The process of placement is basically seven measure
phase Process. I will describe it for you in
brief.
PHASE G:

PHASE A:
 Mock/simulated exercises
 In Basket Training.
Parameters of competency/competency
segments.
After following these seven steps the
placement procedure is complete.
 Concept of total personality
development
Basically the placement situation is
 Bridging gaps between company
handled by the placement committee that
expectations and academic learning is elected in the sixth semester. It consists
of 4 to 5 candidates of every Department
PHASE B: who share responsibilities. The committee
consists of the following sections:
 Developing verbal and non-verbal
communication skills  Marketing team
 Developing self-esteem and  Resource management team
confidence building schemes  Technical team
 Event management team
PHASE C:  Database management team.

 Developing emotional intelligence Are there any pointers you would like to
and interpersonal skills give to RAIT students?
 Managerial and leadership skills.
The basic requirement of Placement is that
PHASE D: the student must have a academic
excellence. At RAIT the student body is a
 Development of positive attitude perfect blend of intelligent and average
 Development of meaningful students. Till last year it was minimum of
perceptions 58% and no live ATKTs’. However the
situation has changed now and it is
deciphered from the market survey that
PHASE E: the minimum percentage required will now
hike to 60%. That is first class is now
 Value additions for self and the necessary. However academics is not the
organizations. only thing that is important. A student’s
 Invent your own superlatives profile should be like a vibrant canvas
 Overcoming inferiority and painted with different colors. It should be a
superiority syndromes and hesitant perfect mix of academic and
approaches extracurricular activities.

PHASE F: The following are certain points I would

like every student to make note of...
 Tips for conducting well in-group
interacting sessions.

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  Try and give maximum importance
to your academic performance.
Maintaining a first class from the
first semester is quite important.
Companies coming for the campus
interview surely give maximum
importance to academics.
 Apart from that the basic
fundamentals is of utmost
importance, it help clear ideas and
will help you out in the corporate
world where your in-depth
knowledge of a subject help you a
lot.
 Logic development is necessary.
Students tend to learn the content
of the subject without
understanding. But that does not
really help. Logical thinking must
be developed.
 Doing some certified courses in
one’s selected field could help
building an impressive profile
 Students should be a part in inter
as well as intra collegiate
activities. Such experiences help
the student in the longer run.
 One should try and be a part of
some social activity. It helps to
develop overall personality of the
student.
 I stress upon a student taking an
industrial training within his
course. This scenario emphasizes
the vital importance of a good
industrial placement as an integral
part of an engineering degree.
There is no doubt that students
who do not undergo an industrial
placement are less likely to find
employment than those with
industrial experience.
Could you name a few companies that
come for campus placement every year?
We have an interesting mix of Software
companies, MNC’s and core companies
coming for campus interviews every year .I
would like to mention that in spite of more
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than 35 IT industries there are campuses
like GE, Reliance Energy, Packt Publishing,
Transasia Biomedical, Infosys, Zeus (e
learning sector), Emerson , L&T, Rallis
India, ASB systems (marine accessories).
We also have public sector companies like
the Indian Navy coming in for campus
placement.
What according to you should a student
do to brace himself to become ready for
placements?
As you know, because of recession the
situation is not conducive for progress in
placement yet .But yes a student can
develop himself by opting for internships
and projects in the vacations, by
participating in programs like ‘Campus
Connect’, by doing an internationally
certified course like the Oracle program.
Student can obviously mail the TPC for
help.
What is the importance of internship
according to you?
Well, internship does help one get practical
knowledge about the industry .Hence it is
good if you can opt for it. After the third
year we have provision for internship
training programs with organizations like
ONGC, BARC, BPCL, ShreeRam Chemicals
and fertilizers etc…
That is a really great idea. I would like to
ask one last Question. Once a student is a
pass out and he wants to enquire about
job opportunities can he still approach
the placement cell?
Yes. This facility exists. A graduate from
RAIT can always contact us with related
queries by mailing us at
placements@rait.ac.in.
Dhanashri S
TE (Instrumentation Engg.)
 Off The Wall
“L ife ain’t so bad at all if you live it
Off the Wall”
A humble tribute to the Late King of Pop,
Michael Jackson, who died a pretty early,
ugly death… I’ll be frank, like many people
around me; I paid heed to his music after
he died.
And I am not proud of the same.
He was and will always be a musical genius.
Now let’s talk about the issues at hand.
And also about the issue of The Wall you’re
holding in your hand at the moment. It may
be lying on the table in front of you but
that’s another story altogether. Thing is-
you’re reading what you’re reading right
now.
‘The Wall’ hatched in 2001 and struggled
its way to where it lies right now. It
improved itself and saw through its allotted
quota of successes and failures (Very
Important!).
Why the name? What does ‘Wall’ signify?
What does ‘The-Wall’ signify? ‘Wall’ is open
to individual perceptions… ‘The-Wall’
makes that very ‘Wall’ something particular
and personal. So we know we ain’t talking
about ‘A-Wall’ but something our very own-
‘The-Wall’.
It symbolizes a barrier which can be
created for protection; it can be of
ignorance, of unity or be just a feeling of
depression. Berlin Wall, Wall of China,
Hadrian’s Wall and even the ‘wall’ Sir
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) built around
himself as a Metaphor during one of his
most memorable concerts in history. Walls
can be broken and many a times, they are
built to be broken. When we bridge the gap
caused by religious divide or when we ask a
certain someone out on a date, it is like we
are breaking a wall for a new beginning.
A wall can be assumed as an immovable
finality… something which stands tall and
goes through the trials of Time. Every
individual has his/her own wall which the
world sees. Graffiti on this Wall can be
called trendsetting because though
rebellious, it stays there forever where
people read it… and follow it… and it gains
a Cult Status. This kind of a wall can be a
single ‘Personality’ or even a ‘School of
Thought’.
Also-
It can also be something which just carries
age-old graffiti of ignorant beliefs which
make no sense in today’s world! What do
we do in that case?
We do new graffiti on the old ones… we
paste new issues on individual Walls… we
put up hoardings and huge posters… and
that’s it. We all do similar stuff and stay
satisfied.
Why not call it ‘Moderate’ satisfaction?
We say that The Wall is a silent entity.
We say it showcases what we throw at it.
We say that The Wall is built to protect
We say The Wall is broken down to connect
We believe The Wall is awakened to Lead.
A time comes when fresh issues on The
Wall become a part of the mundane
routine. And then there lies an option of
taking issues ‘Off the Wall’ and taking them
to the streets with like-minded people. A
righteous revolt led by the right people
does the trick!
The Wall stands for an individual and it
stands for a single Inspiration. Walls with
similar issues can blend into one. It is
clearly up to the people who stand closest
to the wall to make revolutionary graffiti
on this ONE wall thus symbolizing Unity.
Something for the masses to read,
understand and change. Change is good
because the Graffiti does not just remain
as a part of The Wall but is also ripped off
it in form of execution. Individual minds
blend into one to do great deeds…
individual walls can blend into one single
monument of Truth.
Time to forget the Walls we live in if they
make no sense… Time to blend them and
Time to forge new ones…It is Time to take
all the right ideas off the Walls and
implement them the right way.“Beat it!”
The Wall Masons
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 Ajab Team Ki Gazab Kahani
(Title by the Technical Team)

moment when she can’t take the

T he magazine is finally out and for
incompetence of the work around. A short
person with smooth and silky hair and scary
eyes… She voices her weird ideas at all
some it may be a collection of thoughts,
ideas, articles and probably even a collage times. No wonder she’s the Co Ed. Also,
of RAITian Spirit. But for some 15-20 uses the word “Ditch” a lot. She has done a
youngsters, it has been more than just lot of editing work, let’s say, major amount
Spirit. We’ve worked with whole hearted of work… fooling around and finishing
devotion to bringing out the college and its other’s lunches is like her hobby… a big fan
thoughts and opinions. Days and nights of of movies and sings to
brain storming, afternoons minus lunch, herself always (all the
long hours of editing, long arguments, lots time, quite good too!).
of hopping and jumping, missing lectures, And yes, did I mention
practicals, every bus and train, hunting for she is also the BT (Brain
funds and quality guaranteeing Printers… Twin) of Ms. Shibani
Phew! Sharma? (another
Finally, all of that is done. All this wouldn’t exuberant person, read to know more!) So
have happened if it wasn’t for our very own you can imagine the chaos that ensues …
Editor-In-Charge and his clever, crazy
battalion. And just for satiating your Then there’s the English Editorial Team.
curiosity, here’s an introduction to the Ms Aninya Ahluwalia, she is another crazy
crew of The Wall ‘09 Committee. The Wall character, with even scarier eyes. She
Masons, who brought out this year’s bosses us around. A LOT, like we are
splendid edition. pawned by her or
something. Another
Let’s start off with the Editor himself. perfectionist and very
Mr. Sushrut Munje… aaah yes! Heard that particular of every little
name before, haven’t you? Maybe only too detail. Ask me, I was the
often. Little need to model when she turned
write much about photographer. Must
him, he’s quite admit, she did a brilliant
famous. For those of job, second only to me. When she gets over
you who haven’t, Mr. excited and has a surge of crazy ideas
Munje is a very (trust me, she has too many), she shouts
particular person. He and claps so loudly my ears hurt. I guess
looks out for others must have surely felt a sonic boom
simplicity and minimalism. Perfection- he’s too. She dresses up uniquely, also is a
always striving for. Apart from drinking smart-talker and gets the work done in tip-
coffee, shouting, “Timaeeh!!”; going crazy top fashion (at-least wants to), short-
and penning down every thought, he is tempered and a quick learner (now she also
prone to changing his point of views rather does the technical work). Never listens to
sporadically. That’s when things get heated me, so we end up arguing all the time and
up (especially considering that he is very apparently now she is not happy with what
diplomatic). A Sagittarian, just like a I have written …
centaur, he runs everywhere like a horse Then we have
and shoots arrows in the air aiming for the Ms Dhanashri S, a chirpy girl with a sweet
stars. Always running, smiling and chirpy voice and a cute smile,
about every Damn Thing! (he is very who gets psyched very
optimistic) quickly-too quickly.
Suddenly here, suddenly
Then there is the Co Editor Ms. Sneha Das. there… and then no-
Now that’s another crazy personality. I where. Maybe her
think she exercises her super Co Ed powers imagination takes her
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grow. (she is very imaginative) Then we have
THE Mr. Vijay Sharma. Super sarcastic,
Mr. Mayuresh Hedaoo super witty and super fast. A cool guy he is,
A guy with a smile plastered on his face. no doubt. Low waist jeans, squeaking
When he comes, when sneakers and music tuned
he goes and where he to his ears. He has a
goes is totally another unique way of speaking,
story. Suddenly pops up that the technical team
at the HQ, gives some has mastered. His
details of the sarcasm is as sharp as his
quotations (helped a tongue, it’s a big mystery
lot in getting details of in understanding,
sponsors and printers), constantly on the whether he is sarcastic or not. Helps a lot
phone and then suddenly vamooses. An in getting things done (running around and
ultra busy guy, he has his hands in many convincing the printers, so very often) and
pies…and look, he’s back again! He is a big voicing out opinions is never an issue for
fan of The Doors and a very funny guy, if he him, his constructive criticism is worth
starts laughing, he won’t stop for a very listening. A big fan of Nirvana and The
long time and his laughter is very Doors
contagious (you might catch it too) And he
is an ACTO (Assistant Chief Technical Then comes the Marathi editorial team,
Officer), IEEE-RAIT. Now if that is not cool, comprising of only two members.
what is?
Starting off with
Then there’s the rambling BT of the Co-Ed Ms. Chaitali Patil- A small little girl…don’t
Ms Shibani Sharma. Always talking about know much about her,
music, like All the Time. Another wacko me-self. Usually pops
person in the crew, and during important
the Co Ed ‘s partner in editorial work. But
crime. The duo always whenever she comes in,
keeps rambling about she gets the work done
music and ‘FEEL’, quickly and rushes out.
whatever that is. Time is a big issue for
Sarcastic and chirpy, this girl. Has a cute laugh and talks very
always giving a Colgate quickly and animatedly.
smile, a know-it-all Then we have
(totally! ask her any damn thing). Her
articles are too long, at least I think so. Ms. Triveni Keskar.
Expresses herself way too frankly! And A quiet girl (but usually is
makes me do the strangest things, she likes talking on the phone),
to be sarcastic, but my bad luck that I usually comes once in a
never got to get a FEEL of it, or did I? while to check up on
things for the Marathi
Moving on there’s section. According to
Ms. Surabhi Srivastava. what I think, she must have done a lot of
A quiet girl (major articles gathering and editing. Did u know
correction: she is the she is also very artistic?!
opposite of being quiet)
with an active mind. Most The Marathi editorial team really works
of the time, cribbing and hard. You will know what I mean, when you
over working herself. But will go through those pages
thanks to her laptop,
more than half the work was done on time. Then in the end, comes the Tech and
Imaginative and always penning down her Creative Team- the people who really
‘musings’, has worked really hard for the (*Editor coughs hard*) do the work and I am
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and Creative Team kicks-ass, no doubt!
Until we get bossed around, then it’s a big
lame drag.
Starting off with the tech savvy
Mr. Pratyush Anand. In the initial working
days, this maestro did
the work as a consultant
but later this dude with
his wicked speed got
stuff running faster and
better. He is full of PJs
and pranks, a sporty guy
always ready to do something fun. He also
hugs and kisses people (yes, when he’s
particularly psyched). Without him, the
creative team wouldn’t be what it is. He
gets pissed off very quickly but that’s okay,
he IS the man who got stuff started
(Godspeed!). He collected the information
on the printers and other essential
technical details. A very hip and funky guy
in his very own way. Helpful always!
Moving on,
Mr S P Prashant, the rookie who shook us
all by his superior skill
and calmness. I think he
is the only sane person in
the team. But I think-
with his being with us,
even he might begin to
have bouts of craziness.
He is a good listener, the
one who listens to all of
us and I mean ALL of us. Even though
secretly in his head he doesn’t want to and
gets frustrated. He has made The Wall
poster. Yes! He has helped make it all
happen. A quiet, cool, calm, creative and a
technical person who happens to have
landed in a group, where he is constantly
bossed around and always bullied by Mr.
Pratyush and me. Also, he laughs at my
jokes so yes, he has a good sense of humor.
And then there is ME. But before I write
about myself, you should know about the
others who helped us out-
Azriel Samson (the curly haired hip guy,
who helped us out with the printing stuff),
Mansi Jain (the quiet girl who helped in
making some interesting articles), Anirudh
Singh Chohan (the plump caucasian who
with his awesome bike took the Editor for
long Sponsor-Talk rides, across the city),
Ninad Jadhav (who took time off from his
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busy schedule of IEEE events, academics
and French studies, to help us with the
poster work), Saumya Pant (helped us with
the laptops till late nights and wrote what
The Wall had asked her to write) and other
friends who have always been ready to lend
a hand, a leg and even a paw or a laptop
and a crazy mind.
Yes! Finally coming back to me, well to be
honest, it is kind of hard to write about
myself and my contribution to the
magazine (especially when I have no idea
how much I helped) but what I can do tell
you is that, over the past more than a
month or so, I had the greatest opportunity
of being able to make acquaintances with
so many interesting people. Maybe before I
would call them strangers, batchmates,
class-mates, colleagues or even team
members but truly now, I can call them my
Friends… Because of them I have learnt a
lot and will continue to…. Thanks to them,
I have got to see a new me and so here’s to
them, to leave a mark on each of our
Walls.
Editor’s Note: The guy has been humble.
He aimed to finish the article with not a
word about himself but every single thing
about the Team noted by his observant
self. Rahul Talekar (RST) has been a fun
guy to work with and with his ideas getting
crazier each day- The Wall thanks him for
the sweat he put in. Helped me
revolutionize the usage of Southpark
quotes, helped Pratyush and Prashant with
the techie work, provided feedback on
every aspect of the magazine and drew the
MOST AWESOME caricatures of the entire
team. He loves random talks about
Horoscopes, Helix-Robot-Tracks (ISA),
Towelie (Southpark), Food, food, Chocolate
Walks (from the Hospital Rock Café) and
the dope levels. Very imaginative, very
creative, crazy and very wacky… That’s RST
for you! :)
At the end I wonder, will I live through this
yet again or would I just have to look back
and replay all over-again the magic of The
Wall ’09 !?
Rahul Talekar
TE (Instrumentation Engg.)
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Answers to The Wall-Nuts!

Word Grid:
Answers-> Down: 1. Hello 2. Xerox 3.Submissions 4. Termwork 5. Abuse 6. Love 7.
Canteens 8. Placements 9.Tuitions 10. Brand 11. Bunk 12. Pendrives.
Across: 1. Flop 2. Proxy

Implicit Intentions:
ANSWERS: 1. I’ll be there for you, ‘cause you’re there for me too.(Remove all the words ‘clue’
from among the letters.) 2. Hangover 3. Don’t cry over spilt milk. 4. Tennis 5. CRYPTIC (take
all the words which sound like letters, and put those letters together.)

Term Trial:
Answers (1): Blue, Glue, glum, plum, plus, pius, pins, pink.
(2): Tears, Bears, Beats, Seats, Slats, Slits, Suits, Suite, Smite, Smile

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 marazI kT\Ta saMpadkIya
samast RAIT marazI vaacak pirvaaralaa ‚ navyaa marazI kT\T\yaacaa
namaskar²

THE WALL cyaa marazI kT\T\yaavar AaplaM svaagat² drvaYaI-P`amaaNao

yaMdahI ha marazI kT\Ta Aaplyaa svaagatasaazI sajja Jaalaaya. pNa “d vaa^la”caa
marazI kT\Ta Aata yaotaoya‚
‘navyaa kivata‚navao laoK
navaI klpnaa‚ navaI Jaop’ Gao}na²
marazI AismatocaI maana ]McaavaNyaasaazI
maraza ittuka maoLivaNyaasaazI..
pUNa-t: navyaa $pat‚ rMgaat AaiNa vaoSaat Aalaolyaa hyaa kT\T\yaacao navao sva$p
tumhalaa na@kIca AavaDola.

ha kT\Ta GaDivaNyaasaazI EaI.ivajaya paTIla sar‚ EaI.dovaNao sar‚ EaI.SaoMDo

sar‚ EaI.naak`a sar yaaMcao sava-taoprI sahkaya- va P`aao%saahna imaLalao. ha kT\Ta
]BaarNyaasaazI AaiNa sajaivaNyaasaazI tumha imaHa¹maOiHaNaIMcaI KUp madt JaalaI.
maukoSa paTIla yaanao banaivalaolao mauKpRYz AaiNa ]maoSa vasa[-kr yaacao vyaMgaicaHa
yaaMnaI kT\T\yaacaI SaaoBaa AiQakca vaaZivalaI² Aata AapNaca ha kT\Ta AiQakaiQak
$Md k$na sajavaayacaa Aaho.[cCa Aaho‚ kovaL tumacyaa ]dMD
P`aitsaadacaI‚tumacyaa P`aomaacaI..

marazIvar AaiNa RAIT var AsaMca P`aoma vaaZt rahU Va. ha navyaanao
sajaivalaolaa kT\Ta saadr krtanaa Aamhalaa KUp AanaMd haot Aaho.kaya maga‚
yaotaya naa‚ kT\Tyaavar ifrayalaaÆ %yaacaI sajaavaT phayalaaÆ ina puZIla vaYaI-
punha navyaanao tao sajavaayalaaÆ

My marazI‚ maaya RAIT!

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 smarNaatlaa naTsam`aaT…
klaMdr AiBanaota‚ ijavaalaa jaIva doNaara imaHa‚ saamaaijak¹rajakIya
kaya-kta- AsaM bahurMgaI vyai@tma%va mhNajao‚inaLU fulao..1931 saalaI
saMskRtIcaM maahorGar Asalaolyaa puNao Sahrat %yaaMcaa janma
Jaalaa.trI baalapNa ivadBa-¸ maQyaP`adoSa ASaa P`adoSaatca
gaolaM.vaiDlaaMcaa BaajaI ivakNyaacaa QaMda. maaoza Baa} packrat.
kuTuMba maaozM pNa Aa[- maaozI QaIracaI haotI.itnao sagaL\yaa Garcaa
baardanaa saaMBaaLlaa. ]darmatvaadI ivacaaraMcao saMskar inaLUBaa}Mvar
Aa[-cyaa kRtItUnaca Jaalao.dhavaIpya-Mt iSaxaNa Jaalyaavar 80 $pyao pgaaravar %yaaMnaI AamD- faosao-sa maoiDkla
ka^^laojaat 10 vaYa- maaL\yaacaI naaokrI kolaI. maataIt hat GaalaUna baI $javaNaara¸ fulaM fulaivaNaara¸ raopaMcaI
AasqaonaM kaLjaI GaoNaara ha jaatIcaa maaLI.
SaaLotlyaa jagatap naavaacyaa iSaxakamauLo raYT/saovaa dlaaSaIhI %yaaMcaM naatM jauLlaM. Saovaa dlaacyaa
klaapqakat Baa} kama krIt. Saovaadlaacyaa “puZarI paihjao”¸ “kuNaacaa kuNaalaa maoL naahI”¸ “ibanaibayaaMcaM
JaaD” yaa laaoknaaT\yaaMt %yaaMnaI kama kolaM. inaLUBaa}Mcyaa AayauYyaalaa klaaTNaI doNaarI klaakRtI mhNajao “kqaa
Aklaocyaa kaMVacaI”. yaanaMtr %yaaMnaa “ek gaava baara BaanagaDI” ha icaHapT imaLalaa AaiNa inaLU fulao sTar
Jaalao² g`aamaINA ZMgaacyaa KlanaayakI BaUimakaMcaa %yaaMcyaapuZo Kca pDlaa. inaLUBaa}Mcyaa AiBanayaalaa KrM Aavhana
imaLalaM saaoMgaaD\yaa¸saamanaa¸ipMjara¸ isaMhasana¸ Saaipt¸ jaOt ro jaOt¸ caaorIcaa maamalaa¸ puZcaM pa}la yaa icaHapTaMnaI.
‘maorI baobaI kI SaadI’¸ ‘kanaUna ka iSakar’¸ dao laDko daonaao kDko¸ saUHaQaar¸ maa^M baoTI¸ jaaga huAa savaora¸
ihrasat¸ idSaa¸ Gar baajaar Asao Anaok ihMdI icaHapThI %yaaMnaI gaajavalao. P`aoxakaMcyaa manaavar javaLjavaL AQa-
dSak rajya kolaM. saMpUNa- karikdI-t 170 icaHapT yaaMcyaa naavaavar Aahot. $porI duinayaonaohI %yaaMnaa Anaok
purskar do}na salaama idlaa.
SatoYau jaayato SaUr: sahsHaoYau ca piNDt: È
va@ta dSasahsHaoYau data Bavait vaa na vaa ÈÈ
yaacaa Aqa- SaUr vya@tI janmaNyaasa Satk laagatM. pMiDt vya@tI janmaNyaasa hjaar vaYa- tr va@ta janmaNyaasa
dha hjaar vaYa- pNa danaI vya@tI janma Gao[-la kI naahI¸ yaat maaHa SaMkaca² inaLUBaa} maaHa yaalaa Apvaadca²
AiBanaota mhNaUna laaokiP`ayatocyaa iSaKravar AsatanaahI inaLUBaa}MnaI saovaadlaacyaa idvasaaMpasaUna AMgaat maurlaolaM
kaya-kto-pNa saaoDlaM naahI. laaokcaLvaLItlyaa kaya-k%yaa-Mnaa ]%pnna imaLavaM mhNaUna ]BaarNyaat Aalaolyaa
saamaaijak kRt&ta inaQaIsaazI gaavaaogaava if$na %yaaMnaI lagnaacaI baoDI yaa naaTkacao P`ayaaoga kolao. vaoLaovaoLI
kaya-k%yaa-McaI madt kolaI. AKorcyaa AajaarpNaathI puNyaatIla “svacC }jaa- gailacC karvaayaa” yaa
janaAaMdaolanaatIla laGaupTacaM P`akaSana krayalaa to AavajaU-na hjar haoto.saamaaijak baaMiQalakIcaI %yaaMnaa jaaNaIva
haotI.samaajaacao ?Na to jaaNat haoto.%yaamauLoca maaNaUsa mhNaUna to yaSasvaI Jaalao.
Svar ]Mcaavat¸ Sabd taoDt¸ ivaiSaYT hola kaZt baaolaNaara¸ trIhI kQaIhI maaonaaoTaonasa na vaaTNaara %yaaMcaa
Aavaaja Aaja Aaplyaat naahIÂ trIhI puZcaa P`adIGa- kaL tao Aaplyaa kaLjaacaa zava saaoDNaar naahI..
–hisata gavaaNakr
SE (Computer Engg.)

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 p`omaat pDlyaavar Asaaca vhaovacaa

maavaLtIcaa ikrana jasaa ]gavatok Qaavata…

$par itcyaa BaaLlaa mana tsaaca itcyaa maagao Qaavata.

itnaa nausata baGalyaana trI hDo maaJyaa kaLjaat jaaovata

itcyaa­maaJyaa p`omaacaao vhaL Asaao fuTana vhavata.

AbaaolaIcaao gajarao itcaao hLUca maaka KuNaona saaMgata

itka baGalyaar¸maaor ksaao maaJyaa manaat qaušqauš naacataÑ

sapnaatsauQda itnaa maga yaovana maaka BaulavaUna jaavacaa

maaJaa kaya naI tumacaa kaya p`omaat pDlyaavar Asaaca vhaovacaaÑÑ

­AaiSaYa prba
TE (Electronics and Telecommunication Engg.)

iSalpkar dgaDatUna iSalp kaortao.%yaamaagao inaima-tIcaa AanaMd Asatao tsaa kaoNaItrI

yao}na to pahNaar Aaho va pahUna AanaMidt haoNaar Aaho AaiNa %yaa AanaMdat Aaplyaa
jaIvanaatlyaa sauKdu:KaMnaa saamaaoro jaaNaar Aaho ha AaSaavaad Asatao.

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 Aroro² caYmaa laagalaa²
maaJyaa ³A´ip`ya gaaoYTIMcaI yaadI
banavalaI¸ tr P`aqama hjaorI laavaola ASaI gaaoYT
mhNajao , maaJaa caYmaa² palak¸ gaajar , [%yaadI
BaajyaaMcyaa naavaDImauLo¸ dUrdSa-na, saMgaNak yaaMcyaa
³sauyaaogya,pNa´ AitvaapramauLo AaiNa JaaopUna
pustkM vaacaNyaacyaa vaoDamauLo ‘caaLISaI’SaI maaJaa
saMbaMQa ‘Azra’vyaatca Aalaa.

DaokoduKI, DaoL\yaaMtUna paNaI yaoNao, [%yaadI ikrkaoL

laxaNaaMkDo pahta‚ ‘gaMBaIr ~aasa sau$ haoNao’ yaaplaIkDo
maaJyaa ‘dula-ixat’ DaoLyaaMkDo dusara kahI ]payaca
]rlaa naahI AaiNa AKor maaJyaa AayauYyaat DaoL\yaaMcyaa
dvaaKanyaacaI vaarI krNyaacaa yaaoga Aalaa.

dat‚ DaoLo‚ kana‚ naak‚ Gasaa‚ %vacaa‚ [%yaadI

gaaoYTIMmaQyao specialization krNaay`aaMbad\dla
maaJyaa manaat lahanapNaIpasaUnaca Aadryau@t BaItI
³Aadr 5 T@ko‚ BaItI 95 T@ko²´ Aaho. yaaMnaa eka Avayavaacaaca AByaasa Jaopt naahI kI kaya‚ ho malaa
far pUvaI-ca pDlaolao ek AnauklanaIya kaoDo Aaho.iSavaaya‚ AitSayaao@tI ha yaa specialists caa AavaDta
AlaMkar Asaavaa AaiNa duQa-r raogaacao inadana kolyaaiSavaaya Aqavaa Sa@yata vat-ivalyaaiSavaaya $gNa Aaplao baaolaNao
manaavar Gaot naahI‚ Asaa %yaaMcaa ³gaOr´samaja Asaavaa‚ Asaa maaJaa Ka~aIvajaa AMdaja Aaho. evaZMca kaya‚
Da^@TrkIcyaa Sapqaosaaobat‚ ‘maI specialization kolaolyaa AvayavaakDo dula-xa krNaay`aa jagaatIla kaoNa%yaahI
vya@tIlaa samaja doNao‚ ha maaJaa janmaisaQd AiQakar Aaho‚ AaiNa tao maI imaLvaNaarMca’ ASaI SapqadoKIla yaaMnaI
GaotlaI AsaavaI ASaI malaa SaMka vaaTto. ivaSaoYa mhNajao‚ jao Da^@Tr yaaMpOkI kaoNa%yaahI Avayavaat

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specialization krtat‚ %yaaMnaa %yaa Avayavaabaabat kmaalaIcaI Aasqaa‚ icaik%saa AaiNa AiBamaana vaaTtao.
mhNajao‚ P`a%yaok dMtvaOV ‘Aaplyaa ³va [traMcyaa´ dMtpM@tI AaiNa %yaaMcaI svacCta iktI mah%%vaacaI Aaho’‚ yaa
“Aqa” pasaUna‚ to ‘dataMcaI inagaa na raKlyaamauLo eKad\yaalaa Kaoklaa ksaa hao} Saktao’ yaa “[it” pya-Mt sava-
P`akarcao sallao ³na maagatahI´ Aaplyaalaa do} Saktao.

maud\d\yaavar baaolaayacaM mhNajao‚ ikmaana tasaBar‚ naMbar laavaUna vaaT paihlyaavar maI DaoL\yaaMcyaa Da^@TraMnaa
BaoTNyaacaa ‘ABaUtpUva-’ xaNa Aalaa AaiNa %yaapuZIla javaLjavaL AQyaa- tasaat‚ ‘[tko caaMgalao DaoLo imaLNyaasa maI
Apa~a Aaho’ yaa vaa@yaavar maaJaahI ivaSvaasa basaola‚ evaZo spYT‚ KrmarIt AaiNa P`aKr vyaa#yaana maaJao DaoL\yaaMcao
Da^@Tr malaa doto Jaalao. %yaaMnaI maaJyaa DaoL\yaaMcyaa isqatIvar P`akaSa TakUna maaJyaa Dao@yaat P`akaSa paDNyaacaa
kolaolaa P`aya%na AKor safla Jaalaa. yaaogya inavaD na kolyaamauLo caaMgalaa na idsaNaara caYmaa gaLI pDNao‚ yaa
AalaIyaa BaaogaasaI maI saadr Jaalao AaiNa malaa ‘caYmaa’ ha navaa saaqaIdar imaLalaa²
­ iHavaoNaI kosakr
SE (Information Technology Engg.)

kadMbarI mhNaUna ]llaoK Asaavaa¸

%yaalaa sau$vaat hvaI PaNa SaovaT nasaavaa¸
P`a%yaok panaavar maO~aIcao Sabd Asaavaot¸
pNa %yaa SabdaMnaa pUNa--ivarama nasaavaa²²

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 maoGa saavaLo
vaodnaa maoGa saavaLo
dUr maavaLo
maI dgaD TakNaM baMd kolaMya kMzat fulaaMcyaa AaoLI
pNa trMga ]zayacao qaaMbalao naaihet
maI kolaMya baaolaNaM baMd pNa saavalyaaMcyaa AaDaoSaalaa
Sabd saucaayacao qaaMbalao naaihet najar caaortao caMd` kaortao
kaoNa tuJyaa kpaLIÆ
Jaaop laagat naaihca raHaBar
pNa trIhI svaPna idsat Aahot Ana\ ]nhat QaUL vaahta
imaTlyaa jarI papNyaa trI sahja Acaanak tulaa pahta
AEaU gaLayacao qaaMbalao naaihet GauMgaUr tuTtao DaoLI…

Avya@ta AsalaI trIhI maukoSa paTIla

BE (Electronics and
Baavanaa xaNaBarhI mart naahIe Telecommunication Engg.)
jaKma yaotoya Ba$na hLUhLU
pNa vaodnaa vhayacyaa qaaMbalyaa naaihet..
p`a.raKI mauLo
(Department of Computer Engg.)

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Jak maarlaI AaiNa…
9.30 to 5.30 raoja raoja taoca taoca idvasa toca toca lecture,
KT laagalyaavar Ajauna eka subjectcaI tyaat pDto Bar.
kuzUna bauQdI saucalaI AaiNa dhavaI Paasa Jaalaao,
Jak maarlaI AaiNa maI [MijanaIArIMgalaa Aalaao.
Paaoranao Kup iSakavaM, [MijanaIAr vhavaM
Aaš vaiDlaaMcaI haotI hI ekcaM AaSaa,
nakao tI lafDI AMgaaSaI
mhNauna paorgaa maartaoya maaSaa.
ka^laojamaQyao AsaunahI ka^laojasaazI JaTlaao,
Jak maarlaI AaiNa maI [MijanaIArIMgalaa Aalaao.
dusa­yaaMkDo pahtanaa jaIva AgadI tuTtao,
imaHaalaa trI ksaM saaMgau?
tao pNa yaaca ivaSvaat tr jagatao.
AsaM vaaTtyaM sagaLM jaga AaplyaakDo baGatyaM,
nausatM baGatcaM naahI tr ifidifid hsatyaM.
AarSyaasamaaor ]Baa rahUna svat:var hsalaao,
Jak maarlaI AaiNa maI [MijanaIArIMgalaa Aalaao.
Circuit maQyao component,kI componentcaM circuit,
Practical naahI kolaM tr sau$ haoto ikTikT.
Resistor AaiNa capacitorcaa duSmana maI Jaalaao,
Jak maarlaI AaiNa maI [MijanaIArIMgalaa Aalaao.
9-9,10 -10 assignments maI ilahItao,
ekanao jar daona idlyaa tr dusara tIna dotao.
iSaxakaMMmaQyao assignments doNyaacaI sau$ haoto AaoZataNa,
ek idvasa ilaihta ilaihta jaatIla maaJao p`aNa.
Experiment krta krta maIcaM ek experiment banalaao,
Jak maarlaI AaiNa maI [MijanaIArIMgalaa Aalaao.
Viva Gaotanaa iSaxak vaaTtao malaa yamadUt,
baajaUlaa basalaolyaa externalmaQyao idsatao malaa ica~agauPt,
p`Sna ivacaartanaa to krt naahIt care
]%tr naahI idlaM kI mhNatatM “come next year”.
%yaaca externallaa maI zssana dot raihlaao,
Jak maarlaI AaiNa maI [MijanaIArIMgalaa Aalaao.
Lecture maQyao basalyaavar Vayacao ekmaokaMnaa miss call,
KroKuro naahI PaNa Takayalaa imaLtat kagadI baa^la,

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GarcyaaPaoxaa maI lecture maQyao jaast Jaaoptao,
vaYa-Barat vahIcaM ekcaM pana ilaihtao,
toca toca chapters vaacaUna maI tr purta maolaao,
Jak maarlaI AaiNa maI [MijanaIArIMgalaa Aalaao.
Result baGatanaa yaoto Kup Kup majaa,
exam mhNajao Aata vaaTU laagalaI Aaho sajaa,
resultcaa maaJyaavar kQaIca effect naahI pDlaa,
karNa manaasaarKa result kQaIca naahI laagalaa.
dusa-yaaMcao f> caohro baGat raihlaao,
Jak maarlaI AaiNa maI [MijanaIArIMgalaa Aalaao.
hrvalao maaJao baalapNa yaa [MijanaIArIMgacyaa naadat,
sagaL\yaaMnaI imaLuna malaa kolao purto barbaad.
Admission GaoNaa-yaa maulaamaQyao malaa maaJaa BaUtkaL idsatao,
yaa narkat yao} nakaosa ha sallaa maI %yaalaa dotao.
svat:maQyao svat:caM Aist<va SaaoQat raihlaao,
Jak maarlaI AaiNa maI [MijanaIArIMgalaa Aalaao.
-
- maMdar maaLvadkr
TE (Electronics and TeleCommunication
Engg.)

qaaoDISaI gaMmat!
saasaurvaaDI maaJaa doSa Aaho.
saasaU–saasaro saKosaaoyaro maaJao baaMQava Aahot.
maaJyaa baayakaovar maaJao P`aoma Aaho.
itcyaa Aa[-–vaDlaaMcyaa GaratIla ivaivaQatonao naTlaolyaa vastUMvar maaJaa DaoLa Aaho.
itcyaa baapacaa Garjaava[- banaNyaacaI paHata maaJyaa AMgaI yaavaI¸ mhNaUna maI sadOva P`aya%na krIna.
maI maaJao saasaU–saasaro yaaMcaa maana zovaIna AaiNa P`a%yaokaSaI svaaqaa-nao vaagaIna.
maaJao saasaU–saasaro lavakrca kaSaIyaaHaolaa jaatIla¸ ASaI maI P`ait&a krIt Aaho.
maaJaI baayakao va maovhNyaa yaatca maaJao saaO#ya saamaavalao Aaho.

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 t$Na marazI saMgaItP`aomaIMcaM EaQdasqaana

banalaolaa¸ navanavaIna ka^mpaosaISansasaiht

zovaNaItlyaa kivataMnaa AiQakca bahardar
banavaNaara¸ Aaplyaa P`aaMjaL pNa ivanaaodI
ka^maoMTsa\maQaUna savaa-McaI manao ijaMkUna GaoNaara
Aaplaa AavaDta saMgaItkar¸ mhNajaoca EaI.salaIla
kulakNaI-- yaaMnaaI ‘d vaa^la’ cyaa maaQyamaatUna
Aaplyaa P`aitinaQaISaI maarlaolyaa gaPpa :

d vaa^la : Da^@TrkItUna saMgaItakDo vaLNyaacaa inaNa-ya ksaa GaotlaatÆtao Gaotanaa¸

GarcyaaMkDUna sapaoT- imaLalaa kaÆ
salaIla : maI 3 vaYaa-Mcaa AsalyaapasaUna gaaNyaacaa AaiNa saMgaItacaa Qyaasa haotaca.pNa
Da^@TrIsauQda AavaDto¸ mhNaUna tIsauQda manaapasaUna kolaI.daonhIcyaa iSaxaNaat kuzohI
tDjaaoD kolaI naahI.GarcyaaMkDUna sapaoT- navhta tsaa¸ pNa ivaraoQahI kQaIca Jaalaa
naahI.
d vaa^la : saMidp Kro AaiNa tumacaI maOHaI kSaI JaalaIÆ ‘AayauYyaavar baaolau kahI’caI
saMklpnaa kSaI sfurlaIÆ
salaIla : kamaacyaa inaima%tanao jaSaI Anaok maaNasaM BaoTtat¸ tSaIca AamacaI AaoLK JaalaI
AaiNa ekHa kama kravaM¸ ASaI [cCa inamaa-Na JaalaI¸ mhNaUna ‘AayauYyaavar..’caI P`aorNaa
imaLalaI.
d vaa^la : tumacaM AavaDtM gaaNaMÆAavaDto gaayak¹gaaiyakaÆ
salaIla : [tr saMgaItkaraMcaM mhTlaM tr ‘maaJao jagaNao haoto gaaNao’ AaiNa maaJaM svat:caM
mhNajao¸ ‘AataSaa Asao ho..’

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lata maMgaoSakr AavaDtat ho vaogaLM saaMgaayacaI garjaca naahI¸%yaaMnaa tr maI saMgaItatlaa
dovaca maanatao.Aatacyaa gaayakaMmaQalao malaa SaMkr mahadovana\ AaiNa hrIhrna\ KUp
AavaDtat.gaaiyakaMmaQyao sauinaQaI¸ Eaoyaa yaaMcyaabaraobarhI kama krayalaa AavaDola.
d vaa^la : ‘saa ro ga ma p’ caM navaM SaoD\yaula krtanaa ksaM vaaTtMyaÆ
salaIla : KUp Cana AnauBava Aaho² ]%tma gaayakaMbaraobar knao@T haota yaotM¸
myauiJakbad\dla baaolaayalaa imaLtM¸ Aaplyaa qaa^Tsa\ maaMDayalaa imaLtat¸ prIxaNaacyaa
AnauBavahI AavaDtao.

d vaa^la : tumacaI ]dahrNaM AaiNa ivanaaodI ka^maoMTsa\ P`aisaQd Aahot saa ro ga ma p

maQalao² to ksao kaya saucatat²
salaIla : KrM tr maI kahIca zrvaUna jaat naahI. maI pUNa-pNao bla^Mk Asatao AaiNa
f@t gaaNyaakDo pUNa- laxa dotao ÂmhNaUnaca kdaicat saucat Asaavaot. tsaM vaacana pNa
bay`aapOkI Aaho AaiNa mau#ya mhNajao sToja var baaolaayacaa AnauBava AaiNa AavaD¸ daonhI
Aaho¸%yaamauLo saucatM.
d vaa^la : tumacaa AavaDta CMd kaoNataÆ AavaDtM pustk AaiNa AavaDto kvaIÆ
salaIla : CMd mhNajao¸ KrM saaMgaayacaM tr¸malaa maaNasaM jamavaUna sagaL\yaaMSaI gaPpa
maarNyaacaI¸ gadI-SaI saUr jauLvaNyaacaI KUp AavaD Aaho.AavaDtM pustk… ‘inaSaaNaI Davaa
AMgaza’.AavaDto kvaI¸jaunyaaMmaQyao baa.Ba.baaorkr¸kusaumaaga`ja¸AartI P`aBaU
AavaDtat.navyaaMmaQyao saMidp¸ikSaaor¸vaOV Cana ilaihtat.
d vaa^la : saMgaIt xaoHaatlao tumacao AadSa- kaoNaÆ
salaIla : Asaa ‘ek’ AadSa- saaMgata yaoNaar naahI.AadSa- Anaok Aahot. malaa sauQaIr
fDkoMcaI isaMiPlaisaTI AavaDto.(dyanaaqaaMcaa saMgaItacaa AByaasa Kaola Aaho. AiBaYaokI¸
KLo kaka AaiNa SaMkr mahadovana\ yaaMcyaahI ka^mpaoisaSana maQyao vaOivaQya AaiNa naavaInya
Aaho. P`a%yaokakDUnaca kahI naa kahI GaoNyaasaarKM Aaho.
d vaa^la : tumacyaa Fyaucar Pla^nsa bad\dla Aamha risakaMnaa saaMgaa naa..

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salaIla : navao Albamasa\ krNyaacaa ivacaar Aaho yaMda¸ 1 marazI¸ 1 ihMdI. ‘(dyaamaQalao
gaaNao’laa risakaMcaa ]%tma P`aitsaad AaiNa AiBaP`aaya imaLtaoya. ‘saMQaIP`akaSa’caohI kaya-k`ma
yaapuZohI krNaarca Aaho.
d vaa^la : Aatacyaa navaIna saMgaItkaraMnaa tumhI kaya saMdoSa ValaÆ
salaIla : maI evaZMca saaMgaona kI¸ klaakar mhNaUna P`aamaaiNak rha.Aaplyaa kamaavar
EaQda zovaa. 10 EaImaMt¸ sauMdr gaaoYTIMpoxaa manaapasaUna banavalaolaI ek saaQaI gaaoYT malaa
mah%vaacaI vaaTto.sajaavaTIpoxaa ikMvaa iktI pOsaa Kca- krtaoya yaapoxaa AaplaM kama iktI
KrM¸ iktI jaonyau[na Aaho¸ yaalaa mah%va Va.
Aaplaa AmaUlya vaoL idlyaabad\dla salaIla yaaMcao AaBaar² AaiNa %yaaMcyaa
]%trao%tr yaSasvaI gaItP`avaasaasaazI ‘d vaa^la’ kDUna SauBaocCa²
SabdaMkna : iHavaoNaI kosakr
SE (Information Technology Engg.)

AayauYyaat Anaok AaQaar sauTtat AaiNa navao saapDtat.pNa

Dao@yaalaa CLNaa¹yaa p`SnaaMcao AaoJao jyaacyaapuZo nao}na inaQaa-
stpNao zovaavao Asaa sahnaSaIla gau$ far @vaicat BaoTtao.

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baaMQavaaMnaI
Aa%myaatUna
kuMpNao svat:ca paDlao baaMQavaaMnaI
mauDdo maanavatocao gaaDlao baaMQavaaMnaI

itraiht Aalao gaajavaUna gaolao Aa%myaatUna

la@tro svakIyaaMcao taoDlao baaMQavaaMnaI
gaLta fUla
AapNaasamaaor Jaukola taoca Aaplaa
na JaukNaay`aacao kNao maaoDlao baaMQavaaMnaI pDavaI BaUla

kaorD\yaa gaaHaI…
Kupsalaa pazIt saura Aaplaa
Aapulaoca r@t saaMDlao baaMQavaaMnaI dIzIsa naahI Baana

CL¸ kpT¸ AnaItI; JaalaI inakamaI

]saNao dana
taTat ivaYa maaJyaa vaaZlao baaMQavaaMnaI
maaiJayaa naoHaI…
kolaot vaar baoCUT jyaa paapaI hataMnaI
itrDIsa toca KaMdo laavalao baaMQavaaMnaI
­ maukoSa paTIla
BE (Electronics and Telecommunication
daoYa Vavaa kuNaa ivacaaravaa jaabaÆ Engg.)
paayaaSaI ramaSaasHaI¸ baaMiQalao baaMQavaaMnaI

ivasarlaat [t@yaat tumhI baaMQavaaMnaao

tumhasaazIca AayauYya¸ vaaihlao baaMQavaaMnaI

­ Amaaola baaivaskr
TE (Electronics Engg.)

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 maaJaM Gar¸ jaunaM haotanaa..

AjaUna iSaFTIMgalaa AvakaSa Aaho.

itqalaM fina-car tyaar JaalaM¸ kI saamaanaacaI baaMQaabaaMQa sau\$ hao[-la.
kpDo¸ pustkM¸ JaaDM¸ BaaMDI
sagaLM itqao hlavaUna GyaayacaM Aaho.
saamaana hlavatanaa jaimanaIvar pDlaolyaa KuNaa maaHa tSaaca zovaavyaa laagaNaar AahotÂ
maaJyaa vaoD\yaa manaacyaa eka kaopy`aat¸ maaJaM jaunaM Gar Aaho..

rMgapMcamaI KoLtanaa ]QaLlaolyaa rMgaaMcao kNa gaccaItlyaa AakaSaat AjaunahI Aahot.

idvaaLIlaa saarvalaolaa gao$ AjaUnahI kDokDonao saacaUna basalaaya.
Aa%ta JaaopaL\yaava$na ]ztanaa¸ AjaUna qaaoDa vaoL SaaMt basaUna rhavaMsaM vaaTtMya..

JaaDaMnaa GaatlaolaM paNaI¸ maatI vaahUna naotM saaobat..

tI maatI jamaa haoto¸ itqao gaccaIt mauMgyaaMnaI vaa$L kolaMya.
mauMgyaaMcaI ]%saahat baaMQaabaaMQa sau$ Aaho.
%yaaMcaM vaa$L maaHa ekTM pDNaar¸ yaacaMca malaa du:K AahoÂ
maaJyaa vaoD\yaa manaacyaa eka kaopy`aat¸ maaJaM jaunaM Gar Aaho..

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 dovapUjaa krtanaa caukuna kqaItrI iBaMtIlaa laagalaolaM hLd¹kuMku Aa[-laa idsatMya.
yaa Garat kolaolyaa P`a%yaok hLdI¹kuMkvaacaI tyaarIcaI AazvaNa jaNaU k$na dotMya..
baahorcyaa KaolaIt eka iBaMtIvarcao paopDo pDUna¹pDUna A#Ka jagaacaa nakaSaa ]maTlaaya.
baabaaMnaa Anaok kivata¸ laoK ilahItanaa yaaca KaolaInao paihlaM Aaho.
ilaihlaolaI panaM javaL zovaNaar AamhI¸ pNa saaMDlaolaI Saa[- DaoLo SaaoQat AahotÂ
maaJyaa vaoD\yaa manaacyaa eka kaopy`aat¸ maaJaM jaunaM Gar Aaho..

navaM Gar¸ navyaa jaaomaanaM¸ navyaa P`aomaanaM ]BaM k$.

tohI yaa Gara[tkMca AavaDola¸ yaacaI malaa KaHaI Aaho.
jaunaM Gar idsalaM AQaUna¹maQaUna¸ kI pavalaM na@kI itkDo vaLtIla.
caar xaNa GarakDo pahtaca¸ Garacyaa sahvaasaatIla AazvaNaI jaagyaa haotIla.
%yaaMnaa SaaMt krNyaasaazI DaoL\yaaMtIla AEaU puZo sarsaavaNaar Aahot.
Ekca KrM¸ jarI maaJaM navaM Gar¸ yaa Gara[tkMca ‘maaJaM’ AsalaM¸ trI
jaunyaa Garacyaa eka kaopy`aat¸ maaJaM vaoDM mana Aaho…

-iHavaoNaI kosakr
SE (Information Technology Engg.)

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 tuJaI maaJaI maO~aI…
tuJaI maaJaI maO~aI…ksturIp`maaNÜ duima-L AsaNaarI‚
malaa tu Ana\ tulaa maI‚inarMtr saÜbat rahNaarI²²²
KUp KoLNarI¸KoLvaNaarI¸
hsata­hsataca duÁKalaa AaplasaM krNaarIѲÑ
tuJaI maaJaI maO~aI…
ekmÜkIMsaazI sadooOva t<pr AsaNaarI‚
saarM Sharing-Caring yaatUna fulat jaaNaarI²²²
tuJaI maaJaI maO~aI…
dÜGaIMcyaa AayauYyaacaa AivaBaajya GaTk AsaNaarI‚
maayaa¸AapulakI¸samajadarpNaa yaaMvar idvasÜMidvasa bahrNaarI²²²
tuJaI maaJaI maO~aI…
AayauYyaacyaa vaaTovar ekmÜkIMnaa maaga- daKvaNaarI¸
iktIhI saMkTo AalaI trI ekHa rahUna %yaaMcyaasaazI laZayalaa sajja AsaNaarI²²²
tuJaI maaJaI maO~aI…
taÉNyaacyaa baagaot svaPna pahNaarI pNa‚
vaastvaacaM Baana zovaUna ijaMkNyaasaazI laZNaarI‚
AaiNa laZta­laZtaca AijaM@ya rahNaarI‚
Aaho AaplaI maO~aI²²²²²²²²²
¹caOtalaI paTIla
TE (Computer Engg.)

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 ek “ku³maaf kra´mau”laaKt

namaskar maMDLI² ‘d vaa^la’nao AaplaM manaaorMjana krNyaasaazI AjaUna ek maulaaKt GaotlaI. yaa maulaaKtItIla
GaTnaa va paHao Aaplyaa klpnaoP`amaaNao AapNaca zrvaavaIt² yaacaa vaastivak jaIvanaaSaI saMbaMQa AaZLU Saktao²
trIhI saaQamya- AaZLlyaasa tao inavvaL yaaogaayaaoga samajaU nayao² tr maga Gyaa rIsk AaiNa caavaa³saa^rI´ vaacaa²
paHa pircaya :
saUHasaMcaalak : ‘caha ivanaa marNa’ foma¸ marNa jaaokr.
pahuNao klaakar : iglasaorIna¸ daiganao¸ maaoz\yaa iTklyaa¸ [%yaadI kMpnyaaMcyaa ]%kYaa-sa karNaIBaUt zrlaolaI¸
‘ko’kmaova¸ “ik%yaokda kpUr”²
qaoT BaoT :
ma jaao : ksaM vaaTtMya ik%yaokda¸ vaa^la saazI maulaaKt VayalaaÆ
ik k : ka^la maI “ik k” naa^T ik%yaokda² Dbala ‘k’ lakI fa^r maI²
‘ka^la’ saazI maulaaKt Vayalaa malaa KUp AanaMd haotaoya.
ma jaao : AgaM to ka^la naahI vaa^la Aaho.
ik k : Asaudo ro..naahItrI Aaplyaalaa ekHa vaoL Gaalavaayalaa kuzo imaLtao..
ma jaao : AhM¸ AhM..³Gasaa Kakrtao.´ tuJaI 5 vaYa- caavalaolaI¸ I mean, caalalaolaI maailaka nauktIca
³ekdacaI´ saMplaI.tovha ksaM vaaTtMyaÆ
ik k : du:K tr Aahoca ro..pNa maI Aata ek navaIna knsaoPT Gao}na yaoNaar Aaho.saasaU¹saUnaaMcaa irA^ilaTI
Saao² ‘kuNaItrI kuNaacaMtrI kahItrI laagatM’²
ma jaao : ha Saao Aaho² barM ¸barM² tUu KUp EaQdaLU AsalyaacaM kLtM..
ik k : hao¸ maaJaI ‘baalaajaI’ var KUp EaQda Aaho²
ma jaao : tuJyaa lagnaacaM kaya gaMÆ
ik k : tU tyaar Aahosa..Æ
ma jaao : ³ dcaktao²´kayaÆ
ik k : Aro¸mhNajao maaJyaasaazI maulaM SaaoQaayalaa²
ma jaao : hao na@kIca² malaa maulaM SaaoQaayalaa KUp AavaDola² mhNajao..tuJyaasaazI..on that note,AapNa ik
k laa ikk maa$na¸ mhNajao¸ cahacaa kIT do}na inaraop doNaar Aahaot² AapNa Aamhalaa sahna kolaMt yaabad\dla
Qanyavaad²
¹varda Baagavat
TE (Computer Engg.)

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maaya
[-valaISaI hI icamaNa­paaKro
Aa[-cyaa ]drasa ibalagalaI¸
kLo na %yaaMnaa naatIgaaotI
mhNao ekTI maaya hI BalaI.
vana­vana BaTkUnaI itnao ]paSaI
jamavaUnaI AaNalaI caNao­kabaUlaI¸
prtUinayaa Aaplyaa GarTI tI
laokraMsaI %yaa Ka} GaatlaI.
idvasaaMmaagaUnaI idvasa ]laTlao¸
paKraMnaI %yaa pMK psarlao¸
mhNat haotI jaI maaya hI BalaI
itca itlaa saaoDUnaI gaolaI.
icamaNaI tI ekakI pDlaI¸
AQaI- sarlaI¸ AQaI- ]rlaI¸
AazvaNaIMnaI %yaa ipllaaMcyaa
tLmaLlaI tI vyaakuL JaalaI.
paKraMnaI %yaa ivaSva paihlaa¸
dah jagaacaa Asa*ya Jaalaa¸
AKor ipllao GarI prtlaI¸
pNa Aa[-nao jaIva Taklaa..
vaoD\yaa manaa
vaoD\yaa manaa ka ro hsaSaI¸
vaoD laavaUnaI tU majasaI
vaavarto maI yaa jagatI¸
ek raiQaka QauMd jaSaI.
saaMga tulaa maI saaMgaU kSaI
kaoNa jaagavaI raoj inaSaI
vyaakULlaoho tna­mana maaJao¸
ek haovayaa tyaaSaI.
maMd JauLuk hI vaay`aacaI
krI gaudgaulyaa dohaSaI¸
saaMga k$ tulanaa %yaacaI
gaaoD tuJyaa %yaa spSaa-SaIÆ
AEaUQaar hI nayanaaMcaI
iP`at maagato tujapaSaI¸
saaMKga kQaI va$naI naoSaI
tU majalaa tuJayaa doSaIÆ
­P`aa.rajaEaI
(Department of Computer Engg.)
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“gaNaptI baaPpa maaoryaa”mhNat gaNaptI baaPpalaa inaraop dotaca maharaYT/ ivaQaanasaBaa inavaDNaukIcao
vaoQa savaa-Mnaa laagalao Aahot. sava- puZarI dova KucaI-cyaa va sa<aocyaa laalasaopaoTI kaya kaya krtat
ho %yaaMsaazI mhTlaolyaa AartItUnaca vya@t haot Aaho….

puZa­yaacaI AartI
yaugao A{avaIsa inavaDNaukIlaa ]Baa ¸KucaI-saazI Gaoš jaagaaojaagaI saBaa
matdaraMcyaa BaoTI puZarI Aaloa gaa ¸carNaI maa)aa zovaI mhNao ]QdrI jagaa
jaya dova jaya dova jaya puZarI dovaa ¸KucaI-cyaa vallaBaa¸sa<aocyaa vallaBaa¸caavao jaIvalagaa ÈÈ
KadI sadra gaLa Gaoš kr jaaoDUnaI gaazI ¸ gaaMQaI TaopI maaqaI Ana\ gaMQa lallaaTI
gauMD smagalar ina%ya yaotI BaoTI ¸paolaIsa baa^DIgaaD- puZo ]Bao rahtI
jaya dova jaya dova jaya puZarI dovaa… ÈÈ 1 ÈÈ
Qanya %yaaMcao kaya- ]GaDUnaI svat:cyaa SaaLa¸ DaonaoSana Gao]na iSakvaI EaImaMtaMcyaa baaLa
gaaor­gairbaaMcyaa hatI dovaUna ivaLa¸ mhNao tumhI Saotat Gaamaca gaaLa
jaya dova jaya dova jaya puZarI dovaa… ÈÈ 2 ÈÈ
AaovaaLunaI Aar%yaa AaiNa basavaunaI gaNaptI ¸%yaaMcyaa saaxaInao ho Ba`YTacaar kirtI
kSaI imaLola hao %yaaMnaa mau@tI¸%yaaMcaI Asao f@t pOSaavarca Ba@tI
jaya dova jaya dova jaya puZarI dovaa… ÈÈ 3 ÈÈ
laaoksaBaa ivaQaanasaBaa jaovha inavaDNauka yaotI¸]maodvaar maMDLI Aaplya darI yaotI
Zaola taSao vaajavauna p`caar kirtI¸pOSaacaa maihmaa ¸AaSvaasanaaMcaa maihmaa vaNaa-vaa iktI
jaya dova jaya dova jaya puZarI dovaa… ÈÈ 4 ÈÈ

­ p`a.]dya kaiSad
(Department of Engg. Mathematics)

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 maharaYT/ AaiNa saMtsaaih%ya
maharaYT/alaa jyaa bahuivaQa prMpra laaBalyaa Aahot %yaat saMtprMPara samaRQd Aaho.”&anadovoa ricalaa
payaa È tuka Jaalaasao kLsa ÈÈ” Asao maharaYT/atIla saMtprMParocao vaNa-na koloa jaato.saMnyaaSaacaI paorM
mhNaUna %yaa kaLcyaa kma-z samaajaanao vaaLIt Taklaolyaa &anaoSvar maharaja AaiNa %yaaMcyaa
inavaR%tI ¸saoapana ¸mau@ataš yaa BaavaMDaMnaI PairisqatISaI JagaDUna &anaacaI tpsyaa kolaI.vayaacyaa
AvaGyaa 16vyaa vaYaI- &anaoSvaraMnaI ‘Baavaaqa-dIipka’ ha Ajaramar TIkagaM̀`qa ilaihlaa.¸jaoa puZo
‘&anaoSvarI’ yaa naavaanao p`isaQd\
Jaalaa.
‘AmaRtatohI pOjaa ijaMko’ Asaa Aa%maivaSvaasa p`kT krt saMtaMnaI marazI BaaYaosa sauvaNa-kaL
p`aPt k$na idlaa. marazI saMtaMnaI ekca ek pVrcanaa na krta kavyaacao gaaOLNa ¸ABaMga
¸Baa$D Asao Anoak p`kar hataLlao.samaajaatIla ]cca­naIca Baava ¸ivavd%tocaa dMBa ¸kma-kaMD yaaMvar
tukarama maharajaaMnaI ABaMgaatUna p`har koloa.tukaramaaMcaI ABaMgavaaNaI mhNajoa p`Kr sa%yaanao
QagaQagaNaarI AnauBavaaMcaI KaNacaM²²² “SauQd baIjaapaoTI È fLo rsaaL gaoamaTI ÈÈ” ho %yaaMcao vacana
scat:laahI pUNa-pNao laagaU haoto.eknaaqaaMnaI gaaOLNa ¸Baa$Do rcalaI.samaqaa-MnaI vyavahar&ana
saaMgaNyaasaazI manaacao Slaaok ¸dasabaaoQa rcalaa.saamaaijak pirvat-na GaDvaUna AaNaNyaasaazI AaiNa
sava-saamaanyaaMcao p``Sna¸samasyaa saoaDivaNyaasaaTI saaopa maaga- daKvalaa.Sabd &anaacaa AhMkar
imarvaNaa­yaa pMiDtI prMprot janma GaovUanahI saMtaMnaI k$Naolaa maaoTo sqaana idlao.
laaOikk suaKapasaUna AaiNa SaarIrIk ]pBaaogaapasaUna AilaPt rahUna samaajaoannatIsaaTI
saMt JaTt raihlao.%yaamauLoca samaajaat pirvat-na Jaalao.maharaYT/acaI jaDNa­GaDNa haoNyaat saMt
saaih%yaacaa vaaTa far maoaTa Aaho.jagaBar p`isaQd Asalaolaa ha saMtsaaih%yaacaa vaarsaa AapNa puZo
naoNao KUp mah%%vaacao Aaho.
­caOtalaI paTIla
TE (Computer Engg.)

maanavaI vyavaharat savaa-t mah%%vaacao calana mhNajao Sabd AaiNa %yaMatUna inamaa-Na
haoNaarI BaaYaa..

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 AayauYya ]w\vast Ast
AayauYyaat kQaI kQaI AayauYyaacyaa vaaTolaa yaa¸ek vaLNa imaLalao
AsaM kahI vaaTtM dao xaNaaMcyaa ijaMdgaIthI¸Baya to gaMufUna goalao
P`aSnaaMcaM AaiNa SaMkaMcaM ksao jagaavaoÆksao maravaoÆzrvaavao ho kuNaI
AaBaaL manaat daTtM..
baobaMdacyaa sa<aocaI hI¸ek Ajaba khaNaI
caalaavyaa laagatat iktItrI
taoD SaRMKlaa Apmaanaacyaa¸poT marazI manaa
vaogavaogaLyaa vaaTa
]Mca Jaop Gao itmaIramaQaUnaI¸caotvaUna AiBamaanaa
maQyaoca yaoto vaLNa
tr kuzo fuTtao faTa.. QagaQagaNaa­yaa tuJyaa manaavar¸igaQaaDaMcaI gast
barocada kLt naahI CodUna AakaSaIcyaa saUyaa-¸Jaalaa ]wvast Ast
kravao trI kaya
AsatM DaokM baiQar ­AaiSaYa prba
TE (Electronics and Telecommunication
va saunna hat¹paya.. Engg.)
P`aSna Asatat Kup
nasatao ]%traMcaa p%ta
isarIAsa maamalyaacaI yaar
basato hao}na qaT\Ta..
na kolaolyaa gaaoYTIMcaI
imaLt Asato sajaa
pNa AsaM AayauYya jagaNyaacaI
Asato vaogaLIca majaa²

¹varda Baagavat
TE (Computer Engg.)

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 tUca saaMga ip`yao…

nadIcyaa kazavar¸%yaa SaaMt ASaa GaaTavar,¸maI ekTaca saMQyaakaLI basalaolaa Asaona¸

Saojaarcyaa maMidratIla idphI tsaaca tovat Asaola¸paNyaacaa p`vaah SaaMtpNao vaahat Asaola¸
pxyaaMcao qavao prtIcyaa maagaa-laa laagalao AsatIla¸
vaa­yaacaI maMd JauLUk SarIralaa hlakasaa spSa- k$na jaašla¸
nakLtcaM tuJyaa Aist%vaacaI jaaNaIva k$na došla¸
maQaUnaca paNyaat pDlaolaa dgaD tI SaaMtta BaMga krola¸
maI ]%sauktonao maana var k$na samaaor pahIna…
Ana\ maga.. daoGaaMcyaa vyaakUL nayanaaMcaI najarBaoT haošla.
eolatIravar maI¸pOlatIravar tU…
AapNa ekmaokaMcaI vaaT pahat Asatanaa
Aaplyaat AsaNaara paNyaacaa p`vaahca AaplaI vaaT ADvaola…
prtIlaa jaaNaaro pxaI kaolaahla k$ laagatIla…
GaaoMGaavaNaara vaarasauQda Aata Aaplyaalaa ivaraoQa krola¸
maMidratIla idpjyaaot Aaplao Aist%va vaacavaNyaasaazI QaDPaDU laagaola..
JaaDaMcyaa panaaMcaI saLsaL vaatavarNa AiQakca gaMBaIr krola…
maga tUca saaMga ip`yao¸yaa savaa-Mnaa DavalaUna ekmaokaMnaa BaoTNyaasaazI Aasausalaolao
eolatIr Ana\ pOlatIr Aata ksao gaM ek haotIlaÆÆÆ

­Ainakot ZvaLo
TE (Electronics and
Telecommunication Engg.)

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 AnauBava
idladar vaaTlao to saaro fukDo inaGaalao
ihro vaaTlao to kacaI tukDo inaGaalao

DaoLo JaakUna zoivalaa Barvasaa jayaaMvar

saalaoca saaro jaatIcao BaamaTo inaGaalao

saaolaUna caaMbaDI svakIyaaMcaI¸ vasHaatIt Jaalao

mhNatI Aataa svadoSaa¸ kI gaaomaTo kravao

tU jaagaivalaIsa caotnaa fulapaK$ ]Dalao

spYa-taca AMgaI ]Bao raomaTo jahalao

]Dtaca baatmaI tuJyaa maaJyaa haokaracaI

idllaI­gallaItUnaI taoMDI baaoBaaTo ]Dalao

baalapNaI GaotlaI ]sanaI¸ poinsala saaQaI

BaaMDNaat Aaja tohI¸ vaaBaaDo inaGaalao

jaHaot Aaja ifrlao¸ AijaM@ya maaJao gaaDo

maOdanaI ]magalao Aaplao toca BaaDo inaGaalao

fuSaar@yaaMcao fvaaro JaaDlao janaaMnaI

toca tbaolyaatIla laMgaDo GaaoDo inaGaalao

­Amaaola baaivaskr
TE (Electronics Engg.)

ASauQd ivacaar vaa ASauQd klpnaa hI ASauQd kmaa-evaZI vaa[-T gaaoYT Aaho.

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 Da^.DI.vaaya\.paTIla Aa^^iDTaoiryama

iSaxaNa AaiNa ik``Da yaasaaTI jasaM “Da^.DI.vaaya\.paTIla ivaVapIT” p`isaQd tsaoca to AaNaKI eka
gaoaYTIsaaTI p`isaQd ­ tI mhNajao “Da^.DI.vaaya\.paTIla Aa^^iDTaoiryama”²²yaa Aa^^iDTaoiryamamaQyao jaovha
pihlyaa saoimasTrmaQao maI ‘klaaraga’cyaa ‘rajyastrIya ekaMikka spQao-saaTI’ pihlaM pa}la Tovaloa tovha
malaa maaJyaa iSaxaNa saMsqaosa svat:cao Aa^^iDTaoiryama Aaho yaacaa KUp AiBamaana vaaTlaa.
vaatanaukUilat yaM~aNaa ‚677 Aasana ]plabqata ‚p`Sast [maart ‚p`kaSa AaiNa saMgaIt yaaojanaa yaa
sauKsaaoyaIMnaI sausajja AsalaolaM ho Aa^^iDTaoiryama Aaja ivaValayaatIla maaJyaasaar#yaa naaT\yapo`maIMnaa GarcaM
vaaTtM.
‘klaaraga’cyaa rajyastrIya tsoaca AaMtrmahaivaValayaIna ekaMikka spQaa- ‚naR%yaaivaYkar ‚short
film festival ASaa ek naa Anaok spQaa- AnauBavatanaa ho Aa^^iDTaoiryama maaJaM kQaI JaalaM to kLlacaM
naahI..rMgamaMcaavar koloalyaa talamaI‚maoakLyaa vaoLat Aa^^iDTaoiryamamaQyao koloalaI majaa ‚Aa^^iDTaoiryamamaQyao
samaarMBaasaazI kolaolaI sajaavaT..saarM ksaM AgadI Aa%ta Aa%ta JaalyaasaarKM vaaTtyaM.kovaL spQaa-ca
naahI tr ‘sahI ro sahI’‚ ‘saarKM CatIt duKtyaM’ ‚‘maraTI baaNaa’ ‚‘dadacaI gala-f`oMD’ yaaMsaar#yaa
vyaavasaaiyak naaTkaMnaI ho Aa^^iDTaoiryama gaajavalaM.
hLUhLU AamacaM ho Aa^^iDTaoiryama badlatyaM.saMcaalakaMcaa ]%saah ‘klaaraga’maQaIla ivaVaqyaa-McaI
klaosaazI AsalaolaI tLmaL Aa^^iDTaoiryamavarIla po`ma yaMamauLo ho Aa^^iDTaoiryama AaNaKI bahrola.Cana
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Takola AaiNa samast klaapo`maIMnaa maaoihnaI Gaalaola yaat SaMkaca naahI.
­caOtalaI paTIla
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 D. Y. Patil Stadium

With a huge International Stadium in the campus, what

more can we ask for?! Impressive and complete with everything a
cricket crazy crowd (and cricket teams) can ask for- DYPSA Stadium
sets drool rolling!

It has witnessed IPL Season 1 last year and now it awaits the first
ODI match in a few months!

Look out for the grand show at ‘apna’ Stadium!

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