Team Kshitij 2014 Neha Patil - Cummins College of Engineering for
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Team Kshitij 2014 Neha Patil - Cummins College of Engineering for
Cummins College of Engineering for Women Our Source of Inspiration KSHITIJ 2014 Bharat Ratna Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve 1 2 KSHITIJ 2014 Chairman I give my best wishes to 'Kshi j' annual magazine of CCOEW. These are forma ve years for you students. During this period you should not only develop domain knowledge of field of your study, but develop you other skills which will make you a whole person. Our mission statement also gives top importance to developing good human beings. Magazines like 'Kshi j" give students opportunity to show case their talents and in the process develop them further. I am looking forward to reading the magazine. With best wishes, Vishwas Deval Cummins College of Engineering is one of the best colleges in India and abroad. Empowering young students to flourish themselves in today’s globalize world. Our students’ are self –reliant, confident, focused and dedicated towards their goal. Cummins College always endeavors to meet the growing needs of higher technical educa on by adop ng new technologies, providing resources and by developing posi ve a tudes. Our young girl students are well se led in different industries and also working as a successful entrepreneur not only in India but abroad too. Secretary I wish all the best and great success to all my students for their future prospects. Ravindra Deshpande List of members of local managing Commi ee of MKSSS’ Cummins college of Engineering for women Shri. Vishwas Deval - Chairman Shri. Bhalchandra Bhedasgaonkar - Member Shri. Prakash Karandikar - Member Prof. N. D. Pa l - Member Shri. Ravindra Deshpande - Secretary (Samstha) Dr. Madhuri Khambete - Principal Dr. Ashok Gaikwad - Representa ve, Teaching staff Prof. Sunil Divekar - Representa ve, Teaching staff Prof. Sachin Paranjape - Representa ve, Teaching staff Mr. Murlidhar Shendge - Representa ve, Non Teaching staff Cummins College of Engineering for Women From the Principal’s desk... At the outset I congratulate magazine commi ee for pu ng forth the edi on of Kshi j for the year 20132014. College ac vi es, achievements of students and staff, students’ views are beau fully put together in the magazine. Theme of this year’s magazine is Young’s modulus. It is the metric of object’s s ffness. It is named a er Bri sh scien st ‘Thomas Young’. Some materials show deforma on or change. Some materials are s ff and do not show deforma on. Like materials we can also classify people as s ff people who are not ready for any change and others who enjoy changes in life, they are flexible. People in second category, accept change in their living place, living style or surrounding. They are open to new friends and colleagues. They look for changing job responsibili es and accept changing roles. Such people are rich in experiences and are confident. They carry posi ve energy and make you feel comfortable. In spite of their age they look fresh and ‘Young’. What we can say about their ‘Young’s modulus’? Change is the feature of progressing life. Welcome changes and challenges in life those will make your ‘Kshi j’ wide. - Dr. Madhuri Khambete Principal Innova on has come a long way since the inven on of the telephone, airplanes, semiconductors have become a part of our everyday life andlast century is testament to its impact on society. Society is moving forward into an age of knowledge and cri cal thinking. We call upon our students to develop the habit of thinking out of the box and in turn, become capable to innovate. Our college encourages crea vity in the students, facilitates it through events like innova on, Avishkar, Techno – tryst, Techno – sphinx and Trinz. To promote self-learning, resources like e-books, journals both na onal & interna onal, NPTEL lectures, English language lab and a well-updated library are available. College takes efforts to groom students for the corporate world. EATON in associa on with CII conducted the Garnishing Talent Program for third year students. This year we have ini ated English language training for second year students. To develop the overall personality of students, cultural and sports ac vi es are encouraged. The NSS team has brought about a lot of social awareness through various ac vi es like flash mobs, lectures, blood dona on camp & visits to orphanages. But the high point of the year were the talks delivered by renowned social worker Smt. Sindhutai Sapkaland esteemed historian Shivshahir Babasaheb Purandare. So, overall a successful year for college! I wish you all the best for a bright future. - Dr. Vilas Todkar Vice Principal KSHITIJ 2014 From the Vice Principal 3 4 KSHITIJ 2014 This year Kshi j-The annual college magazine is themed as Young’s Modulus. The magazine is a pla orm to our students to present their innova ve ideas. I take this opportunity to thank our principal Dr Madhuri Khambete for her support and valuable sugges ons. I also thank the students of “Team Kshi j2014” for their enthusias c par cipa on in realizing this year’s edi on. - Namrata Karandikar Staff Co-ordinator Kshitij Magazine team The demography of India is rapidly changing and by 2020 it is set to become the youngest country in the world! The crux of the situa on is to tap into the huge poten al that this unique age group has. A boy a emp ng to paint the sky, as depicted in the cover page, speaks volumes about the audacity of the young minds to dream and the courage to achieve it. With them there are numerous possibili es; each unique and incredible! And their greatest strength perhaps is flexibility and adaptability. Hence the name Young’s Modulus, which in the physical world signifies the ability of any material to elongate or compress under stress. The underlying aim of selec ng this theme was to make our own selves aware of the immense power that we have and to strive to use it for the good of mankind. While we are busy working or being something, it is also important to enjoy the process and some mes take a moment to appreciate the greatest story that will ever be wri en – our lives. Hope you enjoy this issue. Happy reading! Team Kshitij 2014 Ofϐice staff Cummins College of Engineering for Women g Our Staff - Our Strength Computer Department Instrumentation & Control Department E & TC Department Information Information Technology Technolog gy Department Depa artmentt Mechanical Department Specialization in Single processing ME (Instrumentation & Control) Allied Sciences Staff Cultural Team Sports Team KSHITIJ 2014 Specialization in Biomedical Engineering ME (E&TC) 5 6 KSHITIJ 2014 Team Kshitij 2014 Sonam Shah (English editor) Priti Bharati (Magazine Secretary) Shreeja nandy Being a nature lover,i enjoy its tenderness.My childlike conscience is my best friend. Positivity of people spell a magic on me.Life is so beautiful with distinct creatures around me and it makes me feel so blessed and just bring a smile on my face. In tough times,i call my mother and her soothing voice seriously works like a medicine for me.Thus i am thankful to god that he has given me the best super-women. (Asst. Magazine Secretary) Harbinger of change through technology and humanity. I also believe that “adda” fuels creativity! Best days are those that begin with a cup of coffee and ends with a debate. Hiral Badgujar (Marathi Editor) I love chatting with my friends on various topics, right from Bollywood News to upcoming technologies. I take life as it comes and hate planning my future. I watch anime like Naruto Shippuden, Full Metal Alchemist and series like Castle, Friends, The Big Bang Theory etc, which are a definite stress busters. I like to sketch or read fiction in my free time or hangout with friends at different coffee shops. I like to spend holidays by travelling allover India. A happy-go-lucky girl, who likes travelling a lot. Chocolate is the thing I am crazy about. I like to write articles and personal dairy. I am an independent girl and want to be a successful entrepreneur. But more than that I want to be a good human being and that is what makes the journey of my life very interesting!!! Cummins College ollege of of Engineering Engi for Women Team Kshitij 2014 Neha Patil (Asst. Marathi Editor) Arpita Aman (Hindi editor) Sweta jha Everyone says that I am a book-worm but to me I am a net-worm. Surfing, surfing and surfing is my only business. I love my own company. I often go for window shopping. I enjoy eating Maggie late at night with my cousin. My only aim of life is to become an I.A.S officer and earn a lot and lot. (Asst. Hindi Editor) I am a free spirited girl, with unusual sense of humour, extremely friendly and just to know Very well liked. I am emotional, moody at times, concerned with the "greater goods" and express humanitarian interest. I typically love to travel and always up for adventure. KSHITIJ 2014 I am a computer freak. I like making new friends and living in hostel has made me realize that I easily get along with people. My favourite pass-time is writing poems. I am also a food junkie and go crazy over chocolates. I am a huge cricket fan and I make sure that I don’t miss a single match..!! 7 8 BE Computer ‘A’ KSHITIJ 2014 BE Computer ‘B’ BE Computer ‘C’ Cummins College of Engineering for Women BE E & TC ‘A’ BE E & TC ‘B’ KSHITIJ 2014 BE E & TC ‘C’ 9 10 BE MECHANICAL KSHITIJ 2014 BE INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL BE INFORMATION TECHOLOGY Cum Cummins mminns College College of of Engineering Engineerinng for for Women Women An appeal from the Dead 14 Department Of Instrumentation &Control 63 Corruption 15 Computer Dept Report 67 Youngest country, oldest leaders! 16 Information Technology Dept Report 71 Hindustan times youth survey 16 Come Back Soon 74 Wanted! – 21 year old with an engineering degree 18 Teacher 74 Young Politician - Agatha K. Sangam 18 A Song Of Life 75 Xenophobia 19 Somewhere Behind the Hills 75 Role of Youth in free India 20 Happiness Is Everywhere !! :) 75 What a comeback! 22 Am¶wî`mda ~moby H$mhr ! 76 My Journey to the red planet 24 ‘Whatsapp’ varIla AsaahI ek AnauBava 77 Mechanical Marvels : Clockwork Dreams 25 ‘oao gnZo 77 The Wonders of Youngistaan !!! 26 15 imainaTaMcaI BaoT ÑÑÑ 78 Being an Engineer! 29 gaiNat 78 Forgotten already ?? 30 inaYpap 78 Team Brisingr Racers 31 saayansa AaiNa To@naa^laa^jaI ek t%va&ana Quick Facts 32 AaiNa %yaatIla yauvaaSa@tIcaa vaaTa 79 Annual Report Dept. Of E & Tc 2013-14 34 Am`wî`mMm àdmg 77 jaaNaIva 80 Annual Report Department Of Mechanical Engineering 2013-14 38 SaaoQa 80 BAJA 2014 44 ‘karNa p`kaSaJaaot tulaaMca tovatM zovaayacaaya ²’ 81 National Service Scheme 45 AazvaNaIt jagataMnaa... 82 manaacao baaola 83 E-Cell Activities For First Half Of The Year 2013-2014 47 Jwb‘moha 83 Robocon 48 Mood Indigo 2013 - ‘Just about Write’ 85 Wall Of Fame 49 Raho Umarless !!! 85 Flashback 50 For the women of tomorrow 87 In Conversation with Rahul Rao 52 Youth Lingo 92 In conversation with Priyanka Nag 57 “You don’t pick your parents; Tech For Seva: The Enriching Journey 59 you don’t pick your partner.” In Conversation with Indo Gypsies 60 92 KSHITIJ 2014 KSHITIJ INDEX 11 11 12 KSHITIJ 2014 Creative Canvas Myriad of colours INDRANI GHOSH S.E. COMP A Introspection Cummins College of Engineering for Women SOCIETY The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities. KSHITIJ 2014 - Ralph Waldo Emerson 13 14 KSHITIJ 2014 Maitreyee A. Mhasakar F.E. C An appeal from the Dead Dear All, I am very eager to talk to you about something. Please spare a minute and read it till the end. I am the voice of a little baby girl and I have a dream. I know my mom will pamper me as I grow up. She thinks I will reflect her childhood and she will relive her’s again. My dad will be my superhero. I will soar the skies proudly sitting on his shoulders. Look! My brother has already started preparing the list of gifts he would gift me on the countless Rakshabandhans to come. I think I will become an astronaut, because for me the sky is not the limit. Like my brother I too am going to make my parents proud one day. Have I told you about my prince charming? He will be madly in love with me and be there for me in my every little victory and loss. My aspirations are same as you except for one fact i.e.You are alive and I am dead! I died just two days ago suffocating in the womb. Cause of my death is commonly known as ‘Abortion’. It was because the family didn’t want me. But I thought, once I grow up I will sort all my issues with them. I would have loved them so much they would forget the fact that they once had denied my existence. Alas! I wasn’t even given a chance to take my first breath in this world. Don’t sympathize me, I’m tired of all the meaningless words. What I want is a chance to see this world. Chance to experience everything good bad ugly! Can you give me that!? Bless yourself girl, you got this million dollar chance to live love and grow old. Is being a girl that big a crime to rob me of life. What is the difference in being a girl apart from the biological make? There are millions of the likes of me being slaughtered under the illusion. Yes an illusion that exists, despite all the education and degree that people earn. Who will think of us? You will read this article, feel sorry and then forget. This is the reason there is still female foeticide in India. No Nirbhaya law or any Nirbheek gun can change the scenario until girls themselves make a resolution to change the mind-set of the society. So will you take my voice forward? The society has managed to suppress mine! But you can reach out easily. Fight for girl’s dignity and help them to be independent. See to it that your father, brother, husband, son & friends respect women. Let the girl community appreciate each other’s existence. You have got a valuable chance make the most of it my friend and go thank your parents for it.I believe if each one of you will contribute to better the plight of our situation then there won’t be second girl like me. All the best! Have good life! Yours hopefully An Indian girl. Cummins College of Engineering for Women Trupti Parkar, FE Comp, 1405. Corruption- a socially accepted malpractice can be literally defined as moral detonation for greed of money or position in life. Perhaps, we the Indians have completely embedde this vice, this social disease in our blood, in our character, in our life. The coin word corruption has devastated our country from golden era to one of poor country in world. India ranks 185 on International corruption scale & this is an extremely shameful thing for all of us. So who is responsible for corruption? Friends, we all are responsible for it in some way. Corruption starts with a small amount & later it takes form of big monster like CWG scam, 2G scam etc. which amounts to near about 75 thousand crores which a common man cannot even express in words. Now corruption in India has become an axis between politicians, bureaucracy & criminals. There are delay tactics, red tapism, & other kind of harassment by government officials. Now people have become interest oriented rather than nation oriented. In any way this is all because of degradation of value system of India. So why has corruption become last stage cancer? This is because of our nature of unnecessary tolerance; lack of public outcry & lack of opposition to such malpractises.W3e have sowed an evil plant which grows like a wild fire, knowing no bounds, crushing morals, ethics & lives in whole world. Thousands of people are literally murdered everyday due to lack of medicinal facilities even though crores of rupees are sanctioned for it. This cannot be blamed to destiny. These are victims of corruption. This has led to poverty, unemployment, sucides of farmers, starvation deaths….But WHO CARES? We just have closed our eyes right? Out of total collected only 10% reach to us in form of development. Rest 90% is consumed by corrupts. Friends, corruption can be eradicated only & only when every child of our motherland, will rise together with dogged determination to fight against it. Basically, we must be the frontrunners in this fight. We should promise ourselves that we will never ever indulge in bribery. We should elect good character politicians. There should be electoral reforms, full proof laws with no discretion. There are many things to do, provided we are eager to do it. After 64 yrs of injustice, exploitation, poverty & corruption, it is time today to change India today for better tomorrow. Remember NOW OR NEVER. Friends, let us take an oath today that we will come together to kill the devil of corruption to lit the lamp of morality & ethics in order to bring back the golden glory of India…. KSHITIJ 2014 Corruption 15 16 KSHITIJ 2014 Deeksha D. Gadewar SE E&TC B Youngest country, oldest leaders! Incredible is an often heard epithet for India. Politics is a science to manage the country or state. Youth is an active worker of nation. A combination of both will indeed be incredibly awesome. Alas! The majority doesn’t believe in it and hence it is not encouraged. On the contrary politics is equated to corruption, malpractices and muscle power. So should the youth enter the politics? Indeed this question mark doesn’t suit the proclamation above, because, yes of course! Youths should participate in politics. Joining politics should be by design not an accident .Despite the presence of youth wings of all major parties , the role of the youth in national politics is inadequate. In the current Parliament, which has a mean age of 53 yrs, there are only 79 leaders who are under 42. Most of them are well educated. Moreover most of the young leaders are those who have an influential political background to back them up. BRITAIN, the country from which we derived much of our political framework, boasts of a 43 year old PM in David Cameron. Our neighbor Pakistan, recently appointed a 34 year old Hina Rabbani Khar as their foreign minister. Can we say the same for our country? In India, none of the young MP’s have been considered good enough to head an important ministry and have always been appointed as junior ministers. On the whole, the young politicians comprise of only 10 percent of the total clan. Here are some of them. I) Supriya Sule: - from the Nationalist Congress Party and currently an MP for the Pune constituency in Maharashtra. II) Rahul Gandhi: - Often advertised as the future Prime Minister of India. III) Agatha Sangma:-Representing the Tura constituency of Meghalaya, on the ticket of Nationalist Congress Party. Agatha is the youngest MP in the Indian Hindustan times youth survey Cummins College of Engineering for Women youth ratio often spark revolution changing thus changing established norms and systems. For instance in U.S.A the people born between 1940 and 1970 popularly known a baby boom- ers led the revolution of civil rights. We can even take inspiration from the role of Anil Kapoor in the movie NAYAK. So what are we waiting for? KSHITIJ 2014 parliament. Yes they are talked about all the time but we don’t see them in action. History shows us that generations with exceptionally high 17 18 KSHITIJ 2014 Kirti Raikar B.E E&TC B Wanted! – 21 year old with an engineering degree One of the most distinguished scientists in India, Dr. A. P. J Abdul Kalam’s addressed the engineering students from around 150 institutes at BITS Pilani saying, “There are two kinds of politicians, political and developmental. Our politicians at the moment are doing political politics. What we need is developmental politics which you can give.” This definitely is in view of realising his dream of India 2020. India, the world’s largest democracy does indeed requires the best minds to make it big and we the ENGINEERS are capable of carrying the torch. The incredible debutants of 2013, the AAP catalysed this with a question in our engineered minds, ‘CAN WE BE THE REPLACEMENT?’. Rop- ing in IITians (or any engineer) as leaders has created a buzz in the political atmosphere. Though, was prevalent earlier, it started surfacing after the much in news AAP’s massive victory. Taking their cue all other political parties are scrambling to make changes in governance. Statistically around 30 to 40% of the politicians are engineers (or science graduates). The engineers who became prominent politicians and leaders are Manohar Parrikar- IIT Bombay, Arvind Kejriwal- IIT Kharagpur, Digvijay Singh, Prithviraj Chavan- BITS Pilani . The most amazement occurred when Kejriwal announced 3 engineers as part of his 8 member cabinet ministers’ team. To match the trend, the latest IT professional Young Politician Agatha K. Sangam (born July 24, 1980): Represents the Tura constituency of Meghalaya on the ticket of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). She heads the ministry of Rural development for the state. Agatha has a LLB degree from Pune University and also a Masters in Environmental Management from Nottingham University, UK. or engineer to enter into politics are Nandan Nilekani and V Balakrishnan- both former employs of Infosys. Glancing at the rigorous curriculum of engineering , we are trained to perform under high pressure , taught to improvise on the spot and think out of the box , taught to be logical and objective. Through the various fests and activities that we organise we even become a little of managers. Our college has a student panel too which is like the mini government. What more do we want in form of inspiration to urge us to participate in the process of running this country? Or are we waiting for somebody to tell us what to do? Cummins College of Engineering for Women Neha Pande S.E. E&TC B Xenophobia WHAT WE CAN DO? America? If it is so then, America is nowhere near being a post-racial haven. Not long ago Americans celebrated the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s acclaimed “I Have a Dream” speech, but have they really progressed as a nation? Have they triumphed over the obstacles of injustice and racism? Have they lived up to what Dr. King envisioned? Evidently not, because it is 2013 and Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014, is receiving racist backlash for her heritage. Looking at the other side of the coin, ideas about what kind of woman could adequately represent America have evolved over time. Originally, nonwhite women were not allowed to participate in the contest. It wasn’t until 1970 that a black woman competed. Since 1983, eight AfricanAmerican women have worn the Miss America crown. However, time and again, such bigotry sometimes compels us to think that “Is America really passing the stigma of Color discrimination? A superpower leads by example, so what example is the United States of America setting for the world to follow, because a developed country is the one where everyone lives in harmony with each other , only then can it be the epitome of development in all aspects. Life is too short for acquiring knowledge. Student life is mainly meant for studies. A student who devotes his full energy and time to his studies is a good son of his motherland. India needs mentally alert and able young men and women. It is the duty of students to acquire as much knowledge as they can during their student life. Let's think about is! KSHITIJ 2014 The Oxford dictionary describes xenophobia as ‘intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries’. The very recent victim of this is Nina Davuluri, an Indian American to be chosen as Miss America 2014. Nina, a 23 years independent medical student of Indian origin was back lashed with racist comments related to the proximity of the event date to the 9/11 anniversary and to antiIndian sentiment in American social media. News agencies cited tweets that misidentified her as Muslim or Arab, associated her with groups such as Al-Qaeda, and questioned why she was chosen over Miss Kansas Theresa Vail. Most of the people watching the Miss America pageant did not realize that Nina Davuluri is American — or they just chose not to. The 24-year-old — who was born in Syracuse, N.Y., meaning she’s a U.S. citizen — received a degree in brain behavior and cognitive science from the University of Michigan, earning both the Michigan Merit Award and recognition from National Honor Society. Does this by any means connect her to Al-Qaeda? America is one of the biggest superpowers of the world, with a history of racial discrimination, so what is it about colour that they cannot seem to let go, or is it just that Americans cannot stand the fact that Indians are proving themselves in 19 20 KSHITIJ 2014 RUTUJA V. PISAL TE EnTC A Role of Youth in free India “YOUTH WILL RESHAPE THE WORLD”, as all the educationists say and believe; if youth can reshape the world, then it is not too much to expect of the educated youths in India to save the nation from the evils with which it is afflicted today, almost 7 decades after Independence. And if this has to be turned into reality, then it is no wrong to expect the Nation to look forward to its youth to solve the grave problems that it is facing at the stroke. The hindrances in our development are poverty, overpopulation, unemployment, illiteracy and above all, not forgetting to mention ‘CORRUPTION!’ As Students it is our prime responsibility to fulfil our duties promptly and with utmost efficiency. But it is a matter of fact to wonder if we really are stepping towards its fulfilment. Let’s take for example, our Voting ID’s. Already being admitted into to a graduation course, I’m sure most of them might have crossed 18 and do possess a right to vote, elect political parties and make country a better place to live in. But have we actually entered the process? The question remains unanswered. Most of them don’t even possess a Voting ID and those who do, refrain from their responsibility of casting a vote. This is just one side of the coin; rather a part of it. Next, the other example! Our adult population recently when announced in all seriousness that the proposed Sardar Patel statue in Gujarat will be the WHAT WE CAN DO? tallest in the World, they actually sounded like a Dubai Sheikh taking credit for the highest building, biggest Island, or the largest Aquarium; something not for public good but for guinness book of records. Since its estimated cost is proposed to be a gigantic Rs. 2500 CRORE , many people argued that such money should instead go to public health, education, and a tireless battle against poverty. Unfortunately against the onslaught of wily political craft and expediency, they were fated to cry till hoarse. There are innumerable such examples to be given, but the point is we being contributing for the betterment. The narrow loyalties and the lethargy of people need to be shuddered off. It is not easy to solve these problems here and now, nothing hard and fast, agree! But at least a sincere beginning can be made and for this we can look forward to the spirited, enthusiastic youth to work on the areas where we currently lack. The Youth can, with their dedicate efforts and devotion inspire people to shake off their vitiation which has paralysed most of them into inaction. Since Youngsters are just beginning their life they are free from corruption and yet not affected by evils to which the elder citizens are fallen today. And so let’s just stop adding years to our life and start adding life to our years by contributing a bit of self to empower our future generations and ultimately our motherland ‘INDIA!’ It becomes the most important duty of students to be fully disciplined. They should be disciplined in every thought and action. No one can become disciplined in a day. We have to practice it in every day of our life. We will be doing a great service to the nation, if they become disciplined. It is essential in their classrooms as well as in their life outside schools and colleges. The damaging of public property, burning of buses etc., are all signs of indiscipline. They are anti national activities. Students must not indulge in them. Cummins College of Engineering for Women Deepika Padukone, born 5 January 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is an Indian model & Actress. She is the daughter of former badminton Champion Prakash Padukone. Her mother tongue is Konkani. Deepika has a younger sister named Anisha. She has been modeling appearances in print and television advertising campaigns for Liril, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca, receiving many prestigious modeling offers, including brand ambassadorship of the Jewels of India, an annual jewelery exhibition. She hit the international scene when Maybelline made her their new international cover-girl face. Actor Deepika Padukone was announced Entertainer of the Year at D Y Patil Annual Achiever's Awards in Mumbai on Sun- day night. Padukone made her cinematic debut through the 2006 Kannada film Aishwarya.The following year, she entered Bollywood through Om Shanti Om, for which she was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut and gained her first Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination. Her acting debut was received well and earned her awards in other ceremonies such as Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards, Asian Film Awards, IIFA Awards, Screen Awards, Stardust Awards and Zee Cine Awards. She appeared in commercial successful films such as – Love Aaj Kal (2009) and Housefull (2010). The former fetched her a second nomination for Best Actress, while the latter was a box-office success.She was most prolific at the Stardust Awards accruing eight nominations; including two across three categories – "Superstar of Tomorrow", "Best Comedy – Romance Actress" and "Best Drama Actress". Cocktail fetched her Best Actress nominations at the Filmfare Awards for the third time. It also won her the Smita Patil Memorial Award for Best Actress.At the 59th Filmfare Awards of 2014, she received the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her role in the tragic romance Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela, and received a second nomination in the same category for the comedy film Chennai Express. She is dynamic, Young, and definitely has achieved the top position in Bollywood. KSHITIJ 2014 Deepika 21 22 KSHITIJ 2014 Roshni Borse T.E. E&Tc What a comeback! Satyamev Jayate has painted a different shade in the dull history of television show comebacks. In an age of “ty” and “HBD” I am going to refer to it as SMJ! I decided to ask my fellow mates as to what they think of it. Let me begin by saying that, it was a fine bright Sunday morning when the hostel common room was filled with people glued to the T.V. And this was when the first episode of season 2 was aired. “Abuse against women is as much part of today as google and whatsapp. Hearing of it day in and day out sure dulls its impact, but when everything is put together and the big picture presented (as SMJ does) it reignites the horror and outrage in you.” says one. In other words, they place issues right underneath your nose. You can’t brush it away, you can’t ignore it. No other option but to face it. But when I sceptically commented that the effect is short term plus all we do is talk, a second year student who participated in the first episode - Pranoti Dhamal said “The show aired on T.V is just the tip of the iceberg. Few months before the episode we had a ‘I respect women because…’ campaign in Pune , which got an overwhelming 5000+ response in a day. Also the discussion on rape went on for five hours with a lot of experts from various fields participating in it.” At this point a doubt that creeps into the mind is how good is their story? A theory or a hypothesis is judged by the amounts of facts that back it up. And this is why SMJ scores very high in terms of credibility. Be it experts, Court rulings, social workers etc. related to the field or the very victims, they rope in quite the right mix of people and facts. Another mighty impressed student had to offer “What I like about the show is that it digs up dirty inconvenient truths buried in the daily din.” Quite true! We all have heard about the Nirbhaya case and known that it is not the only one out there. Most of us are also accustomed to the perception of police in public eye. But how many of us have actually pondered over the reason of it happening let alone inspecting it in different angles. And that is what I personally like about the show. They take up an issue and dissect it layer by layer. As was the case when they started with the dismal condition of police chowkies and moved on to bullying by politicians and seniors, finally ending it with a comparison with the British task force. Summing it all up in my roommate’s words – A deep chasm can’t be filled in a day. We can’t expect an immediate revolution. But if we practice being aware, being empathetic then change, even if gradual, will happen. And when it does we won’t have any reservations in embracing it. Cummins College of Engineering for Women KSHITIJ 2014 TECHNICAL 23 24 KSHITIJ 2014 Zareen Cheema FE MECH My Journey to the red planet As a child, I was always filled with a sense of awe when I looked up at the beautiful night sky. The celestial phenomena, the stars and planets kept me spellbound and as I looked up through my telescope I dreamed of sailing among those stars. This was the start of my personal journey. My dream of becoming an Astronaut! It was not until last December, 2013 that my outrageous dream of being an Astronaut was a step closer to reality. Mars-One, a ‘not-for-profit’ Dutch organization envisioned a manned human colony on Mars by 2025. After passing through a rigorous application process, I and 1057 other applicants were selected from an international pool of 2,00,000. I was the youngest astronaut from all over the world just at 18! I was ecstatic. The mission supported by leading scientists, researches, astronauts seeks to ultimately choose four people who will embark on the brave journey to Mars to establish the first human colony. A demonstration mission and communication satellite is scheduled to launch in 2018 followed by a Mars Rover in 2020 which will prepare the surface for the arrival of cargo including the inflatable pods for the Astronauts. Two years Cummins College of Engineering for Women The Mars-One mission symbolizes the effort put forward by all countries to expand in the solar system. With a total of four rounds, the application process will end in 2015 and four names will be announced. I strongly wish that one day my dream of becoming an astronaut will be fulfilled! Stay tuned for the next giant Mechanical Marvels : Clockwork Dreams “If you really want to understand something , then what you should do is build it.” Documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer which charts the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life. The film brings the past to life in vivid detail as we see how and why these masterpieces were built. Travelling around Europe, Simon uncovers the history of these machines and shows us some of the most spectacular examples, from an entire working automaton city to a small boy who can be programmed to write and even a device that can play chess. All the machines Simon visits show a level of technical sophistication and ambition that still amazes today. leap of mankind: visit www. mars-one.com and follow at twitter @zareencheema Image 1: With Mars-One CEO Bas Lansdorp at the NASA/NSS International Space Development Conference in San Diego, 2013, USA Image 2: At Advanced Space Camp, Huntsville, AL, USA, 2012 WHAT WE CAN DO? A nation does not live by its big factories, dams or buildings. It can live only by the character of its people. During three hundred years of foreign rule, our moral character was shaken. Students are yet in the process of training. It is their sacred duty to build up their character. They must learn from the very beginning the lesson of self-help, selfreliance and self-sacrifice. These are the essential qualities of character which they must acquire. They should learn to cooperate with each other in their class-rooms, on playgrounds and in other activities of college life. For them no duty is of greater importance than the development of character. KSHITIJ 2014 later in 2022 the essential life support system (LSS) will reach Mars and make the outpost operational by 2023. Before the crew arrival in 2025 the LSS will produce a liveable environment of 0.7 bar pressure, 3000 litres of water and 120 kg oxygen in storage. With the technology in hand, the only hurdle is finance. 25 26 KSHITIJ 2014 The Wonders of Youngistaan !!! This year with the theme of Kshitij as Young’s Modulus , I introduce you to five Kids who have redefined the meaning of “ age has no bar “ . These kids though small in age and experience have proven that they are passionate about their dreams as any other person. Sanjay and Shravan kumar : Meet 12 year old Shravan and 10 year old Sanjay. Apart from being kids , these two are the President and CEO respectively of their company Go Dimensions, making them the youngest CEO’s of India and also youngest promoters of a company who are studying in Class VIII and Class VI at a Chennai school. The focus of their company is to develop mobile application primarily in in the area of Education, Games, Lifestyle & Convenience for the IOS and android Platform. Their first product Catch me Cop, a mobile application was showcased at Apple’s App Store in only two months of its launch. In the CatchMeCop game application, a convict escapes from prison and there is a nationwide hunt for the convict. The convict has to run through a desert, a beach and a maze to outsmart the cops. There are multiple levels of this application, which saw nearly 2,000 downloads in the first month of development. The other popular applications include Apple’s App Store Alphabet Board which is a learning app for iPhone and iPad, Prayer Planet for religious prayers of distinct communities and Colour Pallette, a learning app for kids to learn colours. When most adults have trouble understanding Java code, these two kids have used the code to build mobile applications. The brothers have together developed four apps for the Apple Store, which have been downloaded more than 10,000 times from 20 countries. Cummins College of Engineering for Women Akrit Jaswal Next in line is Akrit Jaswal, who made it to the headlines at the tender age of 7, when he singlehandedly conducted a surgery upon a girl to separate her fingers that had become joined due to severe burns. Well, that was almost 6 years back. Today, at the age of 17 he is more popularly known as the smartest kid his age. He is presently working on earning himself a master’s degree in applied chemistry, Botany and Zoology. When Akrit turned six, doctors at local hospitals took notice of his interest in Anatomy and Medical science and started allowing him to observe surgeries. Inspired by what he saw, Akrit read everything he could on the topic. At the age of 7 Akrit was approached by an impoverished family that had heard about his amazing surgical abilities, to request him to operate upon their daughter for free. Her surgery was such a huge success that people began flocking from far and wide to seek his advice on related problems. After the surgery, Akrit was hailed as a medical genius. He was soon admitted to Punjab University and thus became the youngest student ever to attend an Indian University. That same year, he was also invited to London’s famed Imperial College to exchange ideas with scientists on the cutting edge of medical research. He has also appeared on oprah winfrey show on a segment dedicated to the most talented Kids. Talking of his dreams Akrit has once revealed that he has millions of medical ideas, but he’s currently focused on developing a cure for cancer. ‘I’ve developed a concept called oral gene therapy on the basis of my research and my theories,’ he says. ‘I’m quite dedicated towards working on this mechanism,’ the prodigy added. “I’ve been going to hospitals since the age of 6, so I have seen firsthand people suffering from pain, I get very sad, and so that’s the main motive of my passion for medicine, my passion about cancer,” adds Akrit. At the age of 15, Angad Daryani, isn’t your usual teenager studying for his SSC exams. Instead he is a school dropout-turned-entrepreneur.The home schooled teenager has already built India’s first 3D printer using DIY kits and wants to bring 3D printing to every household. He plans tp launch SharkBot, which is said to be “the fastest and most robust desktop 3D printer that can print any material except metal”.He decided to build 3D printer when he realized that people are importing these printers at a very high cost. He revealed that the cost of these printers is less than Rs 30,000. At the moment, he spends four hours every day working on SharkBot and already sells kits to help people make build 3D printers. Daryani had keen interest in technology from a very young age and built his first humanoid robot when he KSHITIJ 2014 Angad Daryani 27 28 KSHITIJ 2014 was just eight year old. He built a remote-controlled hovercraft in Class 6 by watching YouTube videos. By 13, he was building his own versions of the open source RepRap 3D printer. He now owns a company that sells DIY kits and Shark Kits to build just about everything from portable speakers to headphones and power supplies. Daryani has been constantly creating and making things ever since he was a child and is an advocate of using open source software and devcies so others can improve and build upon his work. He now builds mechanised products on robotics, automation and electronics technology fests and several other competitions. As for his thoughts on school curriculum, he believes that computer programming should be made compulsory for all students, just like English or Mathematics. Sindhuja Rajaraman Meet 14-year-old Sindhuja Rajaraman, the CEO of Seppan, a Chennai-based animation company launched only in October last. And we’re not kidding. A ninth-standard student, she was adjudged the fastest 2D and 3D animator by software lobby Nasscom at the Gaming and Animation Conclave 2010 at Hyderabad. Interestingly, she is also a brand envoy of design software major Corel Software. As head of this nascent firm, today she may give tough competition to some of the top CEOs when it comes to taking business decisions, that too quickly. But where did she start? It all started five years back when she wanted to take my mind off studies and do something new.Her father, who is a cartoonist, instilled in her the passion to do animation and taught her the entire process.She did her first mini animation project when she was in sixth standard on ‘do not disturb animals Things started rolling right when Sindhuja was offered by First Planet to work as Seppan’s chief executive. With an investment of Rs 10 lakh, First Planet seeded the firm and the entire thing happened within a day. “I did not even know what a CEO meant that time,” she says. And in a short span, she was handling three projects – Virtual Street, Garbo.in and First Planet. The Virtual Street project is about Thyagaraj Nagar, the shopping hub of Chennai where Seppan plans to showcase the entire area through animation while Garbo.in is a job for a Chennai based NGO to promote waste segregation methods. The third project is for her parent company. “It is a small animation film for freshers who want to join a new company. People who work with her also have loads of praise. Colleague M Partheepan says: “Though I have five years’ experience, there is lot that I have learnt from her. She possesses lot of technical skills which even I did not know.” “She is very creative and comes out with ideas within fraction of seconds during our routine meetings,” he added This brings us to the end of our introductory session. There are many such kids apart from these whose stories are inspirational and unbelievable at the same time. Many would feel that these stories are unreal but they are indeed very much real. These kids give us a proof of how harnessing the potentials of kids could do wonders. A salute to all these kids and to those who noticed their talents and helped them build on those to achieve their dreams. Cummins College of Engineering for Women Neha Shah B.E EnTC Being engineers we have busy schedule, but are we all really that busy? Busy doing assignments, completions and submissions? Well if that’s how our day goes like then we are not living it up as an engineer. In recess time, at the reception we see a lot of cool posters hanging ,a few good looking ones, sometimes people stop us and talk to us and what do we think? Why should we spend time and effort in participating in a competition when we are not even sure that we will get appreciation in return. By participating in a competition, you dig deep down into the subject and realise that it’s fun! Naturally you may not always win, and may not do so initially, but if you keep on competing you will learn the game and eventually you will win. I have been as a participant to almost every college in the city, sometimes in a team, sometimes individually. I began participating in paper presentation competitions in my S.E., not knowing what paper actually means. It began with ‘Credenz’, where we submitted a paper on Bluetooth and it turned out to be 12th std. students essay. Taking an oath that we will come back and leave a trail, we spent the next 3 months on drafting a paper on QR codes. We got shortlisted at few places and bagged awards at some. Every time we learnt something new. Almost a year after, we submitted our paper at ‘Credenz’ and it was shortlisted. We delivered the presentation and won! The student competitions allows one not only to showcase ones talent but also connect with top employers, build ones resume, challenge oneself and realize ones dreams. The charm of participating in a competition is that the outcome is up to us and our skills but the satisfaction of mastering something is incomparable. One also gets a lot of chances to volunteer for the alumni meet or TFS or a NAAC visit or any other event in the college. To volunteer is to give ones time. One gets a taste of disciplined study. Volunteering gives us a chance to pay back to the society who has always given you knowledge and respect. That’s about the world. Being elected as a ‘XYZ’ representative, for two consecutive years I want to stress on the fact that being a member of student panel counts. In most of the cases, if you are an elected member, people believe in your leadership skills. We learn to build a team, to allocate and use the resources well. The dedication and determination to make a difference stays with us throughout our life pushing us forward and helping us to change the world with our actions. So grab every little chance that you get in Innovation, Gandhaar, Pentacle, Eweek, Technosphinx, Triz or any other collegiate competition! Remember ‘We learn as we grow and we grow as we learn’. KSHITIJ 2014 Being an Engineer! 29 30 KSHITIJ 2014 Key to changing a memory... According to an article in Los Angeles times in May2013 the key to changing a memory, or deleting some portion of it, may lie in first allowing a person to “reactivate” it in its original form. After that, memories appear highly amenable to manipulation before they’re sent back into storage. (Justin Renteria) Vaidehi Hoshing Sharvari Samant Proud to be B.E. Forgotten already ?? “So Ms. Z draw the biasing circuit of CE amplifier “. The interviewer from ABC company asked me. With a jolt I realized that I did not remember the symbol of a BJT! So I drew a block quoting it as BJT instead! Later, during discussion with my friend, we realized that there were so many concepts learnt enthusiastically and forgotten equally enthusiastically. Though subjects like History, Chemistry, and Geography etc. come foremost, the most mind boggling ones were the most recent, covering the previous four years. Starting with the First Year of Engineering itself, quantum physics (what was it about?), titration (what was in the burette and what was in the pipette?). We thought, we would have just improved (you know after entering the department and all that...) but oh boy, we still had a huge list! The concepts that top the list in not finding residence in our extremely small memory were: 3 phase transformer (how does it work? Don’t remember…) JFET, diac, triac (Symbol? Characteristics??) The PERFECT definition of an active component? How did delta-sigma ADC work? (Hmmmm.. Still thinking…) S.E. Project: All enthusiastic about building the AM receiver but never really figured out how did multiplication actually happen in the circuit? (Oops!) In a very important subject like Microcontroller Applications, just one unit on PIC? (Injustice to PICs and to us too!) We have been so enthusiastic in forgetting these concepts that even the best teachers could not salvage the situation... Sorry teachers.. ! Dear juniors, we hope that you take this up as a challenge and remember all the concepts till, and even after, you pass out. Cummins College of Engineering for Women Team Brisingr Racers practical world and eventually its problems. Calculations... Designing…Analysis…were the only tasks for us in the coming month. And the day had finally arrived it was, 20th September 2013, at KIIT Bhubaneswar, ODISHA. The event was inaugurated Dr S. Thirumalini, member of SAEINDIA. Also many other delegates from different companiesmade the event more grand with their presence. 174 teams had arrived at the venue along with their faculty advisors. 5 team members accompanied with faculty advisor- Prof. Yashwant Munde represented our college.We were a bit nervous at the same time very proud to walk in through the crowd which was immensely populated with the opposite gender. We presented our best. And as they say hard work is always paid…achieving 15th AIR our joy knew no bounds. It was a celebration time. For now we have come half the way, we are yet to reach the destination. Follow us on: www.facebook.com/ pages/Team-BrisingrRacers/1441283156084714 KSHITIJ 2014 It is in the genes of Mechanical Engineers to imagine the world on wheels. We are no different. It all started on 20th July 2013, SAE SUPRA 2014 got it’s yet another team –‘BRISINGR RACERS’ (we had officially registered to represent CCEW, Pune). Now, let me tell you what is SUPRA all about!! It’s a national level formula racing competition in which students from colleges all over India participate. Imagine 20 girls about to manufacture a racing car within a span of a year… How cool is that! The second all girls team in India. We also knew that the competition will be a little tough for us and that we have to survive many hurdles to get into the finals. And the very first hurdle was ‘Virtuals’. In the virtuals we had to present a design of our car. Just to ensure smooth and organized working we divided our team into various departments such as steering, suspension, chassis, electronics, brakes and tires, etc.Every department made a detailed study not only through the Rulebook provided but also through market surveillance. This was the first time we interacted with the 31 32 KSHITIJ 2014 Quick Facts • A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers. • One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle. • It is impossible to lick your elbow (busted) • A crocodile can’t stick it’s tongue out. • A shrimp’s heart is in it’s head. • People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze,your heart stops for a mili-second. • A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. • Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. Cummins College of Engineering for Women KSHITIJ 2014 D E PA R T M E N T REPORT 33 34 KSHITIJ 2014 ANNUAL REPORT DEPT. OF E & TC 2013-14 I am happy to put forward the Annual Report of E&TC dept. for the year 2013-14. The academic year 2013-14 was marked with a number of events, in the cocurricular and extracurricular fields. In this academic year, the second shift moved to final year. As a consequence of which, the students and the staff strength increased considerably. Also, our college has been recognized as Centre for PhD in Electronics and Telecommunication, which is the feather in the cap!!! The department also has won the first Prize in the interdepartmental event in GANDHAAR competitions. With the cooperation of the staff and students, the department conducted following events: I) Guest Lectures organized: 1. 18-07-13: lecture by Mr. S. H. Nabar was arranged for BE E&TC students on the topic Project Planning & Management. 2. 06-08-13: lecture by Mr. S. H. Nabar was arranged for BE E&TC students on the topic Design of Digital Panel Meter W.B.S. 3. 20-8-2013: for SE E&TC students, a guest lecture by Prof. Y. Ravindra, PICT, Pune was arranged on the topic Signals and Systems. 4. 11-9-2013: a guest lecture by Mr. Abhay Tambe (Reanu Electronics), was arranged on the topic Practical Aspects while selecting CPLD/FPGA from application point of View for BE E&TC students. 5. 12-9-2013: a lecture on the topic Recent Trends in wireless Communication by Prof. M. S. Sutaone, COEP, was arranged for BE E&TC students. 6. 16-09-13: a lecture by Mr. Krishnan Kutty, KPIT Infosystems was arranged for BE E&TC students on the topic Digital Image Processing. 7. 23-9-2013: a lecture on the topic PIC Microcontrollers by Mr. Prashant Shirpurkar, Logic Power, Pune was arranged for TE E&TC students. 8. 17-01-14: for BE E&TC students, a guest lecture by Ms.Bilwa Jadhav was arranged on the topic Hybrid vehicle (Automotive Electronics Domain). Ms.Bilwa is Ex-Student of E&TC branch Cummins College and she is currently pursuing M.S. degree Course at Purdue University. 9. 14-2-14: a lecture on the topic TQM and Six Sigma arranged for TE E&TC students. by Mr. Amit Dixit, Suzlon Pvt.Ltd. Was 10. 18-2-14: a lecture on the topic How to manage money and be a smart investor by Mr. Umesh Soman (Financial Consultant, Bombay Stock Exchange) was arranged for BE E&TC students. Cummins College of Engineering for Women II) Workshops / Seminars organized: 1. Two day seminar on ‘High Performance Computing’ sponsored by BCUD, UoP. This seminar was held between 9th and 10th October 2013. 30 participants participated in the seminar. 1. Two day BCUD, UoP sponsored workshop on ‘Android’ was organised on 9th and 10th October 2013 by Department of Electronics And Telecommunication Engineering. 30 participants participated in the seminar. 1. One week Faculty Orientation Workshop on ‘Integrated Circuits’ was organised by Board of Studies, Electronics, University of Pune and Cummins College of Engineering from 2nd to 7th December 2013. Around 95 faculty members from various engineering colleges participated in the workshop. The workshop was inaugurated at the hands of Dr. P. W. Wani, Dean, Engineering Department, University of Pune. Dr. D.S. Bormane, Chairman, BoS, Electronics, UoP and Prof. Atal graced the ocassion. 1. Two days Hands on Wokshop on Speech Signal Processing by Dr. Sandeep Phatak (Senior Manager, Tata Motors, Pune) was arranged for M.E. E&TC students on 20th and 24th Jan 2014. III) Industrial Visits Organised: 1. Visit to FTII, Pune was arranged on 3 August 2013 for IEEE student branch members. 2. Visit to BSNL, Pune was arranged on 12 & 13 August 2013 for SE (Div: A, B, C) E&TC students. 3. Visit to Mogora Cosmics Pvt Ltd, Bhosari, Pune was arranged on 20, 21 & 23 August 2013 for TE (Div: A, C) E&TC students. 4. Visit to Ubique Systems Pvt Ltd, Pirangut, Pune was arranged on 23 & 26 August 2013 for TE (Div:A, B) E&TC students. 5. Visit to Smartlink Systems Pvt Ltd,Goa was arranged on 25 Jan 2014 for BE E&TC students. • The details of department faculty invited as resource person for Workshops / Seminars / Conferences are as follows: • Prof. P V. S. Shastry : Invited as Guest Speaker to deliver lectures on following topics: • “Use of ICT in Commerce Teaching”, This seminar was sponsored by BCUD, UoP & organised by Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, Pune & Zilla Parishad Education Board (Higher Secondary) on 26/07/2013 at MIT Junior College, Pune. • “SOC Design Consideration” on 13/09/2013 at PVGCOET, Pune. This two days seminar was sponsored by BCUD. • “VLSI Design Techniques” at N B Navale Sinhgad College of Engg. at Solapur. • “VLSI Design” conducted by Cadence India at Pune. Topic: “My Experience with Cadence” on 23/ 08/2013, at the event conducted by Cadence India at pune. • Conucted the workshop for 1 day on “Analog communication” at “Faculty Orientation Workshop for KSHITIJ 2014 6. Visit to All India Radio High Power Transmitter, Hadapsar, Pune was arranged on 18, 19 and 20th March 2014 for SE (Div: A,B,C) E&TC students. 35 36 KSHITIJ 2014 SE (Elex/E&TC) ” conducted by BOS, University of Pune at Raisoni College of Engineering, Pune on 5/12/2013. 2. Dr. P Mukherji : • Invited as guest lecturer for UoP Faculty Orientation Workshop on 20th June 2013 at PICT. • Delivered lecture on ‘Laplace Transform’ at IOIT, Pune on 23/08/2013. • Conucted the workshop for 1 day on ‘Analysis of systems in the presence of noise’ under Analog Communication at Faculty Orientation Workshop for SE (Elex/E&TC) conducted by BOS, University of Pune at Raisoni College of Engineering, Pune on 06/12/2013. • Speaker in Video lecture series by MSBTE on ‘Modulation Techniques’ and ‘Digital Image Processing’ at Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University on 20/01/2014 and 18/02/2014. 3. Prof. B. V. Pathak : Invited as Guest Lecturer for ‘Correlation and Spectral Density’ at Faculty Orientation Workshop for SE (Elex / ENTC) conducted at PICT, Pune on ‘Signals and Systems’. 4. Prof. M. S. Patankar : Delivered Guest Lecture on the subject ‘Electromagnetics’ for S.E. (E&TC) students on 15/01/2013 at Navshayadri Education Society’s Group of Institution’s Engineering College, Naigaon Tal. Bhor, Dist. Pune. (Duration of Lecture – 6 hours). • The details of the papers presented by the staff members are as follows: 1. Dr. M. B. Khambete & Prof. A. S. Divekar: 01 Journal paper in Springer. 2. Dr. P. Mukherji: 01 IEEE paper 3. Prof. P.V.S. Shastry: 01 IEEE paper 4. Prof. Mrs. A. S. Patil: 01 paper in International Conference 5. Prof. S. N. Ohatkar: 02 papers in International Conference, 01 IEEE paper, 01 paper in International Journal. 6. Prof. S. R. Choudhary: 01 paper in International Conference 7. Prof. Mrs. B. V. Pathak: 01 paper in International Journal, 8. Prof. M. S. Borse: 01 paper in International Journal, 9. Prof. M.A.Dixit: 01 paper in International Conference and 01 paper in International Journal. 10. Prof. Mugdha Dewasthale: 01 paper in International Conference 11. Prof. Sachin Paranjape: 01 paper in International Journal. • A total of 21 staff members attended various Faculty Development Programs, workshops and conferences during this academic year. The details of the prizes won by our students are as follows: 1. Shalaka Kulkarni is selected as the ‘BEST OUTGOING STUDENT’ for the current academic year. 2. Meera Kulkarni and Shweta Tembhurnikar filed provisional for patent Application no. 2772/ MUM/13 Title: Solar Powered Wireless Mobile Charger 3. Mukta kulkarni, Vaidehi Hoshing and Meera Kulkarni are selected in the final round for M.S. Program at Purdue University, USA. The results are awaited. 4. Manasi Bhide won 1 Gold Medal and 1 Silver Medal at 10th ICE SKATING NATIONAL Level Cummins College of Engineering for Women competition on 22nd December 2013 to 4th January 2014 at Shimla . 5. Cummins College Sports Team won Overall Championship at ZEST held by COEP. Following students form E&TC department are the part of various sports teams: Shalaka Kulkarni, Varada Gholap, Pallavi Bade, Shilpa Karad, Tanvi Gunbharit, Sayali Borage, Christincy Kharkrang, Shruti Kavishwar, Sukhada Vadabhat, Ketaki Bhatkhande, Pranoti Awalwkar, Mayuri Chaudhary, Pratiksha Chatur, Kalyani Oak, Shrutika Jaiswal, Aayushi Gupta, Ashwini Jadhav, Unnati Kargaonkar. 6. A paper on the topic ‘Multiple passkey initialization and authentication for implementing security on hardware designs’ by Pragya Mishra, Priyanshi Pavecha, Sugandha Sharma got selected at IETE National Journal of Innovation and Research Vol. 1 Issue 2. Also Pragya Mishra is currently working in Electrical & Innovation department for Baha, India 2013-14. 7. Prajakta Joshi and Arpita Kshirsagar won 2nd prize at National Conference and project exhibition. 8. Neha Shaah and Kalyani Upadhye Won 3rd prize at Project Competition ‘TechManthan’14’ held at JSPM hadapsar on 19th feb 2014. Project topic: Developing Portable Device Drivers for 8 bit Microcontrollers. 9. Sneha Deshpande, Chaitrali Joshi and Meghana Gaopande presented a paper on ‘Energy Efficient Unobtrusive Monitoring of Sensors’ at International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering Technology. 10. Arpita Kshirsagar and Shweta Nahar won 2nd prize at Paper Presentation competition at PVG college. They also won 2nd prize at Project Competition for TFS at CCOEW, Pune. 11. Sharwari Samant and Neha Shaah won 2nd prize at MATLAB madness (Techcraft) competition at PVG, Pune. 12. Trupti Mujumdar and Shruti Kaushwar won 2nd Prize at DigiTrix competition at PVG, Pune. 13. Ankita Paranjape won 1st prize at T-shirt painting competition at AISSMS, Pune. 14. Roshani Pawar won 2nd Prize at Dance Competition at Pune Festival. 15. Meghana Pathak, Roshni Patil and Aishwarya Wagh won 1st Prize in Trio Dance Intercollegiate competition at CCOEW, Pune. 16. Srushti Sheth and Gayatri Rokade won 1st prize in Intercollegiate Deabte competition at CCOEW, Pune. 17. There are many more prizes won by our students in various technical, non-technical and sports intercollegiate events. • I heartily congratulate the students and the staff of the Department for striving to achieve excellence in various fields as described in the report. KSHITIJ 2014 18. Approximately 90 (UG + PG) students of our department have been placed in various prestigious companies till date. 37 38 KSHITIJ 2014 ANNUAL REPORT Department of Mechanical Engineering 2013-14 It gives me immense pleasure in writing the departmental report for the AY 2013-14. The mechanical department is in the 7th year of growth. After satisfactorily completion of one year as Head of Mechanical Engg. I feel very proud about my faculty due to their great contribution towards the development of the department and student’s excellent team work for the every task allotted to them. The individual faculty is also little bit started thinking of higher studies i.e ME and Ph.D. which is appreciable. Dr Anuradda Ganesh, Professor - Emeritus IIT Mumbai has been working as Cummins Chair for the institute and under her valuable guidance the department will grow vertically and move towards the apex. The placement of Mechanical students is good for the academic year 2013-14. But from this year there is challenge to the TE students for the placement in Cummins also as they are asking for the students with throughout first class. This time BAJA -2014 did not performed well but this unsuccessfulness may open up the right path for the next BAJA-2015 after the critical analysis on the their performance and of the present vehicle. First time SUPRA is started in the college and we have lot many expectations from them. I hope the SUPRA team will definitely performed splendidly in technical inspection, maneuoring and endurance race in the competition at Chennai. The department is in developing stage and has wide scope to provide outstanding facilities of research for the betterment of the students in upcoming years. The department is looking forward for starting of PG Course in Mechanical Design and Research Centre. The department is also looking forward for the fulfillment of short term and long term goals set by the faculty for overall development of the department. A message to all final year students – be a part of the department, interact and share your experiences and expectations with the juniors for the betterment of the department , became a active alumni member, after passing out from such wonderful institution. ALL THE BEST to the students in their pursuit of an academic Degree at the department. Workshop organized by Department: 1. National Workshop in collaboration with College of Engineering, Pune on Advances in Analysis, Measurement and Control of Noise, Vibration and Harshness on 19-21 June 2013. 2. One Day workshop of University of Pune on Syllabus implementation of Fluid Mechanics on 29th June 2013. 3. One Day workshop of University of Pune on Syllabus implementation of Material Science and Metallurgy on 3rd July 2013. Cummins College of Engineering for Women Industrial Visits for Students of SE , TE and BE Mechanical : . a. Adinath Agro Processed Food Ltd (Second Year) b. Vaibhav Laxmi Metal Works (Second Year) c. Boiler Visit (VIT College) (Second Year) d. Uran dam hydraulic Power station (Third Year) e. City pride theater visit on central air conditioning facility (Third Year) f. SNDT water supply visit (Third Year) g. Nimbalkar Agriculture Research Institute (Final Year) h. Nuclear Power Plant , TAPS, Tarapur (Final Year) Final year B.E. Mechanical Engineering Result Analysis 1 Total no of Students 66 First Class with Distinction First Class Higher Second Class Fail % 33 22 07 04 93.93 Final Year B.E. Mechanical Engineering Result :May 2013 (TOP 10 Students) Sr.No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Student Name Jyoti Jadhav Marathe Rujuta Atul Sonawane Dipali Shivaji Garud Meera Vikas Mrunal Sawant Manvi Vibha Suresh Vishakha Pandey Pargaonkar Isha Nitin Umarani Bageshree Prasanna Veer Aishwarya Sanjay % Scored 78.8% 77.7% 77.5% 77.1% 76.2% 75.7% 75.4% 75.1% 74.5% 73.3% KSHITIJ 2014 Sr.No 39 40 KSHITIJ 2014 Guest Lectures Series in Mechanical Engg. Deptt. For Academic Year 2013-2014 Semester I Sr.No. Name of Subject Class Expert Faculty Date 01 Dynamics of Machinery (DOM) BE Mr..Rajesh Ashkhedkar KOEL R & D Centre 4 / 10 / 2013 02 CAD/CAM Automation BE Mr.Vilas Umbare 11 / 9 / 2013 03 Industrial Fluid Power BE Prasanna Umarani 30 / 9 / 2013 04 Energy Audit & Management (EAM) BE Achyut Mehandale 14 / 8 / 2013 05 Automobile Engineering BE Mr.Pradeep Jawale ( ARAI ) 23 / 8 / 2013 06 Quantitative and Decision Making Techniques BE Prof.Khairnar (CCOEW Pune) 26 / 9 /2013 07 Machine Design I TE Prashant Vaidya Forbes Marshall 3 /10 / 2013 08 Theory of Machines II TE Prof.Dinesh Burande, SCOEP 12 / 9 / 2013 09 Heat Transfer TE Dr.Sewatkar (COEP ) 26 / 9 / 2013 10 Computer Oriented Numerical Methods TE Mr.Umesh Dhindore 1 / 10 / 2013 11 Industrial Engg. and Management TE Mr Dhamankar Forbes Marshall 4 / 10 / 2013 12 Fluid Mechanics SE Dr. Puranik IIT Bombay 14 / 9 / 2013 13 Material Science SE Mrs.Sangita Kapote 8 / 8 / 2013 14 Thermodynamics SE Mr Desale AISSMS 5 / 10 / 2013 15 Manufacturing Process I SE Prof. Sachin Yewale 13 / 9 / 2013 Workshop Organized by Students 1. Static & Dynamic of Vehicle conducted by Elite Techno Groups on 9th July -15th July 2013. 2. Workshop on “Good Governance Needs Great Women” on 2nd Feb 2013. Cummins College of Engineering for Women NSS CAMP: 1. NSS CAMP organized on 18th -24th December 2013 at Kalyan Village , Dist Pune Innovation 2k14: Mechanical Engg. Department hosted National Level Technical Festival INNOVATION 2k 14 on 28th February & 1st March 2014. Total number of student participant’s entries were 1111 Nos. in 13 events and 03 workshops. 1 BAJA 2014 Total 23 students participated in national level SAE BAJA 2014 competition on 20th -23rd February 2014 at Pithampur Indore. Faculty Achievement: Dr R B Ingle has received BCUD grant Rs. 2.30 Lakhs from University of Pune to develop the Bio-Composite Lab in the deptt. for AY: 2013-15. Dr R B Ingle, Dr G S Chandekar & Prof A A Bhosale worked on various LIC committees and UGC interview panel of UOPune.. Students Achievements: Jyoti Jadhav Priyanka Chandna Murti Award Best Out Going Student Award A.Y. : 2012-13 A.Y. : 2013-14 Supra Team has cracked Virtual Design competition at- Bhubneshwar, in Sep-2013. Neha Nerurkar and Prajakta Joshi of T.E. (Mechanical) participated in ‘Jagruti- IMTMA Youth Programme’, on 24th and 25th January 2014. This programme was organised by,’Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers Association’, at Banglore International Exhibition Centre.T Sr.No. Name of the Coordinator Journals / International Conference Title Date 1 Dr.Gautam S. Chandekar and Ajit D. Kelkar The Scientific World Journal Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 325783, 14 pages http://dx.doi. org/10.1155/2014/325783 Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Textile Hybrid Composites Subjected to Low Velocity Impact Loadings Volume 2014 (2014), KSHITIJ 2014 Paper Presented by the Faculty: 41 42 KSHITIJ 2014 2 Prof.A.A.Bhosale International Conference (ICMO-2013) , New Delhi Non Destructive Method for Ripening Prediction of Papaya 16-17 September 2013 3 Prof.S.A.Kedar International Conference (ICMO-2013) , New Delhi Lateral Transfer Device for Hospital Stretcher 16-17 September 2013 4 Prof.N.R.Patil International Conference (ICMO-2013) , New Delhi Design , Manufacturing and performance Analysis of spiral coil pimp 16-17 September 2013 5 Prof.A.A.Bhosale International Conference (ICMO-2013) , New Delhi Analysis of Lubricating oil Deterioration in Four Wheeler 16-17 September 2013 Paper Presented by the Students: Sr.No. Name of the Student Journals / International Conference Title Date 1 A.Shinde,P. Kamble.P.Wagh,P. Zende International Conference (ICMO-2013) , New Delhi Non Destructive Method for Ripening Prediction of Papaya 16-17 September 2013 2 Gandhali Deshpande, Aditi Bhusawalkar, Maithali Yawalkar, Kangkana Sarmah International Conference (ICMO-2013) , New Delhi Lateral Transfer Device for Hospital Stretcher 16-17 September 2013 3 Dipali Sonawane,Rutuja Navale Sujal Gaikwad International Conference (ICMO-2013) , New Delhi Design , Manufacturing and performance Analysis of spiral coil pimp 16-17 September 2013 4 Ketaki Joshi,Trupti Karadkar,Kushbu Mangidkar, Pradnya Mundhe International Conference Analysis of Lubricating oil Deterioration in Four Wheeler 16-17 September 2013 5 Priyanks Deo, Kirti Petkar ASM International, Pune Chapter Functionally Graded Materials Issue No.10, Nov.2013 Dr. Ravindra B. Ingle Professor and Head, Deptt. of Mechanical Engg. Cummins College of Engineering for Women BAJA-2014 TEAM KSHITIJ 2014 Inaugural Ceremony of the NVH workshop on 19th June 2013 43 BAJA 2014 44 KSHITIJ 2014 The dream event for every mechanical engineering student took place from 20th -23rd feb and the experience was exhilarating. Every aspect of the manufacturing of the All Terrain Vehicle taught us something new, something uncommon, something that you wouldn’t know unless you decided to venture outside the confines and the comfort zone of your class room. Our team worked hard throughout the last 10 months to come up as a successful team comprising of 23 members from all years of Mechanical Department. With the help of faculty advisors our team was able to overcome numerous obstacles that came our way. Owing to our extensive research, we cleared the Virtual round with positive results. To improvise on our previous vehicle we tried to explore new possibilities by making unconventional choices like the use of AISI 1018 steel as our roll-cage material. Initially, we were a little hesitant due to its high cost and labour charges. We opted for it owing to the numerous advantages it offered. We reduced the weight of the “BAJA buggy”, by switching to a more light weight and robust material which helped us overcome the problem we faced last year. The sub assemblies of the vehicle were also modified in order to meet standards for driver comfort and vehicle ergonomics. Being a part of BAJA, we had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience of designing and fabricating an All-Terrain Vehicle. This gave us exposure to the practical side of Mechanical Engineering and also to interact with professionals in the same field. Most importantly we learnt to work as a team and to value each other’s opinions. When we were on the BAJA track, our priority was firstly our vehicle and then our team and lastly ourselves. Selfless hardwork and dedication was our motto throughout the event. We did face a breakdown during the race but owing to our team’s spirit and quick thinking, we overcame the obstacle. Due to the driver’s never-say-die spirit and determination, we completed the race with 23 laps! Our ever supportive workshop staff and faculty advisors tirelessly guided us through our endeavour. The journey has been very educative and successful and we vow to keep up the winning spirit, dedication and hard work until we emerge successful! - Pooja Shivale Patil TEAM VITESSE Cummins College of Engineering for Women National Service Scheme NSS scheme is conducted under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India and NSS cell, Higher and technical education, Govt. of Maharashtra. The aim of National Service Scheme: The motto of NSS is ‘NOT ME BUT YOU’. Our college is granted for one unit of 50 students under University of Pune. Students from all the departments are selected by conducting interviews. Various activities and a special residential camp are conducted under NSS. Advisory committee for NSS includes Principal Dr. M. B. Khambete (Chairman), Mr.Praful Meshram (Program Officer), Mrs. Anuradha Fukane , Mr. S.P.Soman, Mrs.Kamalakar, Mrs. Daimiwal, Mrs Salgar , Mrs. Vishakha Kulkarni,Mrs. Navare, Mrs. Prachi Ingale, Mr. Hajare, Mr. Gawande, Mr. Adhav, Mr. Ajay Purandare, Mrs. Dixit, Mr.G.R.Padalkar ,Mr. Pawar and Mr. Mhasawade. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. Orientation Function: We started our activities with inauguration function on16th August, 2013. It was an introductory session for second year volunteers. On same day we felicitated the previous year Winter Camp volunteers. We planned the activities which is to be done in whole year. Rice Plantation: We 180 volunteers did Rice Plantaion at Vinzar, taluka Welha on 23rd August, 2013. Rakshabandhan : We celebrate Rakshabandhan on 20th August, 2013. Our girls went outside the college campus and tied Rakhies to Police, Traffic police, PMT bus drivers ,conductors and Fire brigade employees. Sadbhavana Visit : An Educational trip was organized by Army of Jammu & Kashmir under Sadbhavana visit. A group of 20 girls visit our college. We interact with them and encourage them for higher studies. Tree Plantation : Tree plantation was organized by NSS Cummins at Kalyan village. On same day we felicitated the previous year 10th std toppers by giving them Oxford dictionary and cash prize. Blood Donation Camp : On 17 Sept, 2013 blood donation camp was held in our college campus. Teachers, Non-Teaching staff and students donated blood to Janklyan Blood Bank. We donated school bags, books and stationary to school students at Kalyan village. Voters Registration : We did voters registration camp in our college campus and create awareness about voting. Teacher’s day celebration at CCOEW on 05th Sept, 2013. New Year celebration at “Sukhnivas ” oldage home which is at MKSSS's campus. Lecture on Disasters and Management by Dr. Dandekar . Vission Express Camp : NSS CCOEW have organized Eye check up Camp in CCOEW's campus. Experts from Vission Express came to our college for check up . Flashmob to spread the Republic day message at Cummins Campus on 24 January, 2013. Bhaubij-nidhi Show: In our Gandhar NSS Cummins did a play, which gave the message of Bhaubij-nidhi. And we are going to collect bhaubij-nidhi in college. SPECIAL CAMP: Our college has adopted village Kalyan, Tal. Haweli. It is just 35Kms away from Pune. We have conducted KSHITIJ 2014 REGULAR ACTIVITIES: 45 46 KSHITIJ 2014 the special residential camp of 7 days at Kalyan from 18th Dec to 24th Dec. 2013. Twenty seven students attended the camp. Following activities were conducted for seven days such as :16. Inauguration of NSS camp on 18th Dec.2013 at the hands of Dr.M.B. Khambete, 17. 18. Swachhata: Volunteers cleaned Grampanchayat office area and area near two temples on 19 Dec 2013. Team Building Session by Mr. Rajendra Fukane for all the NSS Volunteers. 19. Village Survey: Volunteers did the water survey by going to every home. 20. Educational 21. For 8th and 9th std. lecture on study techniques was conducted by the volunteers. 22. Mr. Soman conducted talk on “Importance of Forts in Maharashtra”. 23 .Various competitions were organized for 8th, 9th, 10th Standards. 24. Field work at Mr. Dimbale's farm: the bunch of grass carried by the volunteers from his farm to his home. 25. 26. Trekking to Sinhangad fort: Mr. Soman explained the importance of Sinhagad fort before and after the Shivaji reign on 23th Dec.2013. Health and hygiene Session organized for school children bu Dr. Piyush Garud. 27. Career Guidance Session by Mr. Deepak bagade for Tenth Standard Students. 28. Kirtan of Mrs. Mangalatai Kamble for the villagers arranged on last day night by NSS. programs were conducted for school students of 8th, 9th, 10th Standards. I congratulate to all the volunteers for such a huge success of National Service Scheme 2013-14. Praful Meshram NSS, Program Officer. Cummins College of Engineering for Women E-CELL ACTIVITIES FOR FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR 2013-2014 2nd August, 2013: Friendships Day Celebration This was the first event organized by E-Cell for the 2013-2014 session. It was aimed at familiarizing the students with the E-Cell and NEN. Different games were organized to make friendship stronger. Prizes were distributed to the winners. Impact: More than 100 students participated in the games. They enjoyed the event and got refreshed. This event generated a profit of 192/-. 13th August, 2013: FE Orientation We had a FE Orientation Session on the 13th of August. The first year students were briefed about the E-cell and the work that is done by us. Our motive was to introduce the first year students to NEN i.e. National Entrepreneur’s Network. 13 September, 2013: TeenEntrepreneur th E-Cell organized TeenEntrepreneur to celebrate Engineer’s Day. The events organized were: Events: Debate: Topic of the debate was “Jobs v/s Entrepreneurship”, with 15+ participants, the best videos were sent to IIT Bombay. Poster designing: The topic of the poster design competition was “T-shirt and logo designing for Entrepreneurship cell”, with 15+ participants Investor’s hat game: This was a business simulation game, where participants understood the working of the stock market by making paper cuttings like circles, rectangles and triangles and selling them in the market. Its price varied with time, like shares. The one who made the most profit was declared as a winner. Mad ads: Participants had to make advertisement on the spot, of the products given. This increased their creative thinking. Click it! : Participants had to click pictures of the given things, in a particular amount of time. Impact: 60+ students participated. It gave them a platform where they expressed their thoughts & ideas, interacted, enjoyed and opened up. Certificates were distributed to all the participants. 4th October, 2013: Talk by iSEED iSEED: Indian school for entrepreneurs and enterprise development. It is an educational institution that nurtures committed young individuals aspiring to be entrepreneurs. It is an educational hub to foster an entrepreneurial community of students, faculty, alumni, practitioners, and Investors. Concentrated on topics like: Entrepreneurship & myths about it, why entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurs and demystify it challenges. Impact: With 30+ attendees, students learnt a lot and cleared their doubts about entrepreneurship. KSHITIJ 2014 Entrepreneurship Cell “CUMMINS YUKTA” is the National Entrepreneurship Network division of Cummins College of Engineering For Women, Pune. The E-Cell has organized the following events in the first half of the session 2013-2014. 47 48 KSHITIJ 2014 Dare to dream, Work hard to make it reality, Feels great to see your dreams growing! 2014 In 2011 this idea initiated to participate and challenge our talent. Now its our passion and pride. Its symbol of our TEAM EFFORT and VISIONARY guidance of our respected GURU. ROBOCON 2014 One 8-Axes Autonomous Bot and one 7- Axes Manual Bot was designed. Very Talented and Entusiastic, our own Team ROBOCON 2014 marked presence of our college @ ROBOCON. Over all 90 colleges from all over India participated. Cummins was one of the only other college having all girls in Team. ROBOCON Arena Four tasks to be performed were : See-Saw, Pole Walk, Jungle Gym and Sitting on the swing Parentbot Cummins College of Engineering for Women WALL OF Congratulations ! FAME Best Outgoing Student IT Priyanka chandna Krishnali Penta Best Outgoing Student Instru Best Outgoing Student Mech Smriti Kher Shalaka Kulkarni Best Outgoing Student E & TC Best Outgoing Student Comp Diksha Raina Sudha Murthy Sports Award Winner KSHITIJ 2014 Ashwini Nair Student panel 49 50 KSHITIJ 2014 JULY SEPTEMBER Panel Elections & Rice Plantation AUGUST Dahi Handi Spic Macay & TFS OCTOBER NOVEMBER Examination YEAR 2013 -14 in FLASHBACK nel Dahi Handi Rice Plantation Rice Plantation Alumni Meet Innovation 'Nidra Bhang' : Street Play Cummins College of Engineering for Women FEBRUARY DECEMBER JANUARY Zest Winner & Alumni Meet Gandhaar Pentacle Innovation Robo Wars - Innovation MARCH IET Mini Project & BE Farewell Spic Macay IET Mini Project Competition Gandhaar KSHITIJ 2014 Holidays 51 Panel Elections 52 KSHITIJ 2014 In Conversation with Rahul Rao Shreeja Nandy Komal Lagu What is it that you do? Basically with infinite journeys and foliage outdoors I along with three other partners/friends run this company, with a primary focus on wildlife adventure and trekking. Infinite journey is a brand – just like any other travel house making tailor made trip packages. We design holidays for people. But the trips that we conduct ourselves are essentially focused on nature, wildlife trekking adventure with a major emphasis on students. Cummins College of Engineering for Women If this issue is resolved effectively and in time, then we save a community from going against the tigers. Also the people living around the forests depend on resources from it. Relocation of these villagers is important and has to happen side by side. What are the places you have covered so far in your trips? Within India all places possible like Ladakh in north to Arunachal in east, Gujarat, Annamalai hills in the south (possibly all destinations which have good wildlife), Himalayas. In the last five years we went to Africa, recently to Antarctica. At present we are planning to go to Brazil for the amazon trip. We also have had treks to Nepal and Bhutan and we will be going shortly to Sri Lanka. So this is what we are doing currently. These are trips essentially focused on nature. How do you identify locations for your trips? Is there a selection procedure? We have a calendar that we decide once we are over with one season. We try to incorporate places that we haven’t covered before. Then we have a rekki trip done by our team and then its opened up to the people. You know you can’t have a trip without exploring it yourself. Can you describe your journey so far? How it all came together? How foliage was instituted. How old were you when you started FOLIAGE? 21. (We are amazed...) This is a profession which is unique in the sense that it is not mainstream. At that age there is a lot of peer pressure, parental pressure etc. you tend to do things which everybody else seems to be doing. How did you decide to follow this (passion)? It was about the right things happening at the right time. Having the right team. It just clicked (is what i would really say!) We gave ourselves a period of a year and we always had our degrees. But this is what we were intensely passionate about. And so far it has worked out good! (Smiles) I must say that we are extremely lucky to have people around us who are equally passionate. From a group of just 4 now we are say around 23 in number. The important thing is today we are in a position to offer a career to likeminded people. (That is what we are extremely happy about). I and my three other friends/partners - Gaurav Purohit, Abhay ganekar, Rahul Bhusari. We started off this company 14 years ago. Before that we used to lead/organise camps and treks for other NGOs. But then we decided to convert our passion into a full-fledged profession once we finished our studies...... KSHITIJ 2014 (okk ..reminiscences about it.....and then jokingly asks how much space do you have in that (read camera)?....) 53 54 Who is your idol? KSHITIJ 2014 Since we have love for nature our idols are definitely people who have worked extensively in this area. David Attenborough. There are Indians like Fateh Singh Rathore - pioneer of wildlife conservation. (They are who come to my mind immediately) then B.D Arjun Singh. Talking about wildlife and nature. What are your views on the need for conservation at present? The need for conservation is not an overnight need. It didn’t come up yesterday. It has been there for a while. It is just that there are too many people and too less resources and now people have bigger aspirations- big house, big roads etc. Everything is derived from nature. It (conservation) has to be a community effort. The urban population consumes more than the people living in the woods, contrary to popular beliefs. How much do these trips help in it? Wildlife tourism or eco-tourism if done in proper way helps the local people in a great way. It develops infrastructure and brings in revenue due to influx of people. Also it indirectly helps in monitoring species. Say for example tiger tourism - now you have a sizeable amount of people wanting to see tigers and it brings a lot of pressure on the authorities since they are paying to see the tiger. And if it is not seen then it is reported. So it is a machinery wherein patrolling of the tigers are done without the government having to invest huge capital. But there is a negative side to it too. The tiger show in Bandhavgarh was banned because it was particularly done for the tourists. So how do you keep in check such bad practices? Every activity has to be controlled and has to be implemented from the machinery within. The government has taken some steps like reducing the number of vehicles etc. So there are things happening. If a tiger has to go away from that particular place it can’t be stopped so tourism is not really the disturbance. The larger problem is to restore tiger corridors. There is also a need to compensate villagers who have lost cattle to tiger. So this is where man-animal conflict happens. If this issue is resolved effectively and in time, then we save a community from going against the tigers. Also the people living around the forests depend on resources from it. Relocation of these villagers is important and has to happen side by side. But unfortunately due to lack of resources these things are hard to achieve. Coming to the technology part what are the new techniques/ devices that are used now, which wasn’t there 10 years back? Digital photography is one of the major contributors. It is used extensively in the field. Since you don’t have to process the film immense number of photos can be clicked. Also due to the trends of posting photos in social media lot of people become aware directly or indirectly. It’s a change from when you had to get the photos printed and pay to take a look Cummins College of Engineering for Women Apart from digital cameras..... As far as research work is concerned. Lot of radio telemetry devices have come in. GPS tracking (Thinks for a moment) - Due to the GPS enabled radio collar we came to know that a tiger had walked from Kanha to Pange, which is a distance of more than few 100 kms. It is incredible! It actually passed through villages and inhabited areas. (His excitement infects us as well….) immediately. Can you tell us about some of your most memorable moments? (Sighs...and grins) Ohh well there are a lot many... One or two from India and the recent Antarctica trip…. We had a killer whale under our zodiac. That was an amazing moment. And when a tiger walks by, (with a sparkle in his eyes) even after 20years of observing it doesn’t cease to amaze you and give you goosebumps. (Smiles) nature itself is inspiring and really special. As for incidents there are countless. You have conducted tours both in India and foreign. What difference have you found? Each day in the wild is something new and exciting.... There is much better control and organisation there, maybe due to less pressure on the resources… About your trip to Antarctica, it is below zero temperatures, the scenario is different .Could you tell us more? Is it that they are more aware there? You can visit Antarctica only in summer - early December. The warmest temp. for us was 4 degrees. It is once in a lifetime adventure! I had never thought that we could go there. The landscape is untouched and pristine. One has to actually see it physically to believe that something of this magnitude They are less populated. Here when the government is deciding the budget, nature and wildlife are concerns not at the top of the list because there are other pressing concerns which have to be addressed Exactly! and type exists on this planet. It was really special. We had a prose about Antarctica in school, about the Students on Ice expedition. It (Antarctica) has stuck in the mind ever since..... The reason of fascination stems from the difficulty in accessibility. There is Drake Passage which is notorious. Both the oceans come and meet there. Atlantic and Pacific coming together gives rise to huge turbulence .And one has to cross these for two days! Also seeing the wildlife community there survive such harsh temperatures is a learning experience. Polar bears? No, polar bears are not found down. They are in the Arctic. We will be having an expedition coming July in the Arctic. We will be able to talk about that once we return. Talking about wildlife photographs what according to you is a good picture? All of them are visually stunning! A picture should speak for itself. There are various attributes such as technical etc. But for a wildlife photograph it is not that important. The challenge is to capture the KSHITIJ 2014 at them. The gear has become accessible and user friendly. If you click a picture and can look at it immediately you have a chance to improve on it. 55 56 KSHITIJ 2014 moment. A tiger bringing down a boar - it might not be technically good, but the moment itself is so rare, there can’t be retakes. One has no control over the subject, very little reaction time and there are so many limitations such as vehicle, location etc. It’s all about right time, right gear and right light. What is your favourite area of photography? Everything actually - Birds, animals and landscape maybe a little bit more..... Which was your first camera? I used a cannon prozumer (??) and have been using one throughout. My first one was a cannon s2is and now i use an Hs50Is. While taking a photo have you ever had the thought that in the process you missed enjoying that moment yourself? Yes that happens many a times. We get carried away about capturing images of what is happening. All of us, many We have a few briefing sessions for the students. Actually wildlife doesn’t want to harm you it is usually the other way around. In and around Pune what are the hotspots for experiencing wildlife? a times, we keep the camera aside and enjoy. In Antarctica when the whale was very close we were just watching it. Some things are beyond the camera and one has to learn to differentiate. That’s a very difficult decision to make.... Yes! When in nature don’t you feel scared of being in such close proximity to the untamed animals? Not really! What is to be kept in mind is the right distance from animal or bird. The animal usually walks away or gives a warning if they feel threatened. This warning has to be identified. The right kind of knowledge is important and that is why one has to travel with people who know about it. The local knowledge is also important. The local guides have immense knowledge about wildlife. So before embarking on journey are there training sessions? Around 120kms from Pune there is Bhimashankar wildlife sanctuary? The advantage of the city is its location. In the east there is dry grassland, in the west - Ghats. The variety of wildlife is huge esp. birdlife. 80kms away there is Tamini where leopards can be spotted. Kaus plateau is a lesser known jewel particularly for flowers. How do you think, us as youth should do to contribute to conservation? It lies in how well you can plan your day using minimal resources. So the introspection has to start. It shouldn’t be because someone told you to do so. Lastly where do you see yourself in 10 years? (Confidently) Well travelling more and more. Exquisite and exotic places! Cummins College of Engineering for Women In conversation with Priyanka Nag - Priti Bharati True inspiration : a young techno-women Could you please share your experience of being a young techno-women? Ans: Technology is for everyone...it doesn’t depend on a person’s gender. When the usage ratio is almost 50:50, there is not much reason why the contribution ratio needs to differ. Being a techno-woman doesn’t make me feel anything special...unless treated specially or differently (treated like a minority). I don’t wanna believe that a woman cannot love computers just as much as a man does. We love to spend 18+ hours of our day in front of this amazing machine, we love coding, we love playing games during those work intervals....what is it that makes us any different? I have been in love with computers since my childhood days. Later the love got converted into passion and I took this up as my career option. Had been an KSHITIJ 2014 She do not need an introduction. She is a modern Indian tech diva .Being a supporter of FOSS and presently involved with a few Open Source Communities like Mozilla and Wikipedia. She is currently an intern at a start-up called ‘Purple Gear Software Pvt. Ltd.’ A developer by profession...a content writer by passion. Technical writings, blogging etc are her hobbies. Lets have a look at the nice conversation about her love for technology. 57 58 KSHITIJ 2014 awesome journey for me. From being a Microsoft trainee to being a Mozilla Contributor...from the closed source world to the Open Source world, I have had an awesome journey. What is this Open source community and what role do you play here? Ans: Wikipedia describe Open Source as “Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design.” In a layman term, when along with a software, I have the freedom to modify it in a way I want to(and the process of doing so being completely legal)...that is Open Source. One of my friend had once described it as -”When along with free food you have the freedom of complaining about it and also modifying the recipe as per your needs, thats Open Source.” Open Source projects are all community driven. These projects are never made in one single room. Hundreds of people from across the globe work together. The most interesting point is, not all of these people are paid, some are paid staffs while some are just volunteers who work only because they are either passionate towards the work or towards the mission for which they are working. What you love most about technology? Ans: Technology is ever changing and thus never can you say you are bored of it. I get to face new challenges everyday. Thats what I love about technology. Also,technology is power...the power to build the world wide web! What are your recent works? Ans: I am working in an Organization called The PurpleGear, in Baner. One of the products I am currently working on is called ‘TalentOjo’, you can find the product at ‘www.talentojo.com’. I am currently a PHP developer. Other than work, I do a lot of things for Mozilla. I began my journey with Localization and from there after a year and half,have worked on several different projects and currently am working with the team of ‘Mozilla Developer’s Network’ commonly known as MDN. Tell us about the different challenges you have ever faced? Ans: Learning new technology is a challenge in itself but it is something I love doing. The biggest challenge we all probably face here in India is the lack of understanding of Open Source. ‘Why you are contributing to Mozilla’ and ‘Is Mozilla going to hire you’ are two very famous questions we have to deal with at all times. Its difficult to explain people the Open Source idea and the passion that drives us to work for it. How you find yourself different from the crowd? Ans: I am not different at all...I am just passionate towards something that not everybody understands. Often at my work place, my colleagues do not understand me when I talk about Open Source but more than a challenge I see it as an opportunity to spread awareness. Does in any way your life changed after coming into the world of Mozilla? Ans: Life has changed in every possible way. My love for technology has increased to a great extent. The connection and networks build through Mozilla wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. When you get a chance of sitting next to David Walsh and Luke Crouch for 3 days of Workweek in Paris or get a chance of sharing a meal with Christian Heilmann its an awesomely proud feeling. You are a face of Indian women who are crazy about technology.We would love to know what and who inspire you to be so passionate? Ans: The number of female contributors in Open Source world is really low but Women can’t be Cummins College of Engineering for Women I just do whatever I like and since I like it, I end up putting my 100% to it. Hey we would love to hear from you how you managed to to be so much focused inspite of many distractions you must be facing everyday? Ans: You need to focused for work...when its passion, external force is not required. When you love what you do,your brains coordinate is the most perfect manner. I am just lucky to be able to make a carrier out of my passion. tech savvy is a very wrong concept. I have been inspired by a lot of women but for sure its Michelle Baker is at the top of the list. She is a living prove that a lady can do everything a man can and sometimes even better. You work in so many areas of technology but what you love the most? Ans:I love what I do most...being a Mozilla Evangelist. What is your success mantra? Ans: Well...never had one :P How you want to see your self in near future? Ans: I just wanna keep working...leaning is the main target, the remaining benefits are all just side effects ;) Our girls will pass out as an engineer and indeed they are crazy about technology so please give some message for our young minds? Ans:I am not sure if I am yet at the stage where I can give message to inspire others...but if I had to, it would be very simple-”Don’t work cause you are asked to..work simply because you love what you are doing.” Very rarely does one come across an initiative that brings together technology and social service and Tech for Seva is one of those few. We were lucky enough to serve as volunteers for such a noble cause. Little did we realize that it would prove to be an enriching journey in itself. This journey started from the weekend meetings that were attended by people of age groups . But everybody contributed with equal energy and enthusiasm. Due to this we never really felt burdened by the work given to us. Just in a matter of few days everybody knew each other on first name basis. This was a pleasant change from what we normally observe in our college life and even though it was a really small thing it provided a personal touch to our interactions. The student competition showcased a variety of innovative ideas for bringing about development in the fields of education, livelihood and health. During the conference we were lucky enough to get an opportunity to interact with eminent scientists and CEOs and know about their social service initiatives. It was both interesting and inspirational to listen to their views about using technology for social service. Despite of their heroic acts these people are amazingly down to earth and can effortlessly strike a chord with the youth. The conference also brought into lime light the unsung heroes who are working at grass root level in order to improve life for the less fortunate. Though these were people from all walks of life, they had a common objective. This objective and the hard work of the organizers and volunteers was the driving force behind the immense success of this conference. KSHITIJ 2014 TECH FOR SEVA: The Enriching Journey 59 60 KSHITIJ 2014 In Conversation with Indo Gypsies Shreeja Nandy Kalyani Gadgil Indogypsies is a folk/fusion/world music band. They seamlessly blend filk music with a myraid of genses ranging from New age, Western, Indian classical etc. How did you all come together to form the Band? Did you know each other beforehand? Nayan - I always had an idea about forming a band based on fusion music. (Not the usual ones trending).It took me four years to find everyone and I was in my final year of Engineering. I met Durgesh in our college fest and started jamming with another friend (our ex-bassist). We formed an instrumental band and started performing. After a few concerts we thought of taking it to the next level. Then we found Saurabh (lead vocalist). (Durgesh - Saurabh was busy in Engineering so he said no. Nayan pitches in... Everyone laughs) S (jokingly) - actually in 11th and 12th we used to participate in Ganpati festivals etc. Durgesh was in the same locality as me so we were familiar with each other. During my interview round in final year I decided to pursue my passion and not do a regular job. I called up Nayan and asked for an update. He said they were a 3piece band and that they needed a vocalist. I said okay great! (Grins) (Private joke between Saurabh and Durgesh) N - Then we found percussion. Initially IG was an 8piece band. It was difficult for the managers as well as the organizers. No one was easily ready to give us an opportunity for a show. (We jokingly - esp. if it’s a Girls college...)We decided to cut down the number, some left due to personal reasons. We found Vinayak - Tabla and Aditya – base. We found Amit - drummer through Channel V auditions. I still remember the date 12 Dec 2013. To Amit - Please describe your experience so far? (You guys know I am a DJ) I was playing in a club and Mahant(ex -bassist) called me out of the blue. We were classmates in school. I couldn’t recognise him at first! He asked me to help out with the drums in the band. He agreed to send in a few of their songs and asked me whether I would practice on them? (Laughs) I heard the song and was amused. It wasn’t rock or Bollywood. The output was brilliant, I was curious about where they had recorded it. I heard it only twice (guiltily... even they don’t know it) and i joined them for jamming session. (Everyone.... yes it was visible in the jam saurav - we didnt say anything because you were there for the first time...peals of laughter from everyone) They were accommodating w.r.t to my style and we competed in a competition. After a few initial hiccoughs I was part of the band fulltime. And you have never regretted making the choice... No never. N - We won the competition. S - Then we had a perfect lineup. The problem that usually Cummins College of Engineering for Women D - The best thing is everyone stays nearby. S- We jam every day , we are able to sit together and work on the lyrics.... You mentioned that you walked out of an interview. That need a lot of courage - to follow what you want! ( To Saurav) Everyone has priorities in life and you have to decide what they are. ‘Settling down’ is an abstract term. For me the first priority is happiness. And that comes from doing what you love and not money and other materialistic things. (We all are doing what we love; I guess that is why we are happy right now. (Smiles)...) Of course there are hurdles, Indian music Industry is growing but still at the end of the day we realise we are into music even after going home from the jamming session. That is brilliant! Passion is really important esp. since you are creating something out of nothing. That needs dedication. How intensive is the work? The bonding and the amount of time that you have to invest..... Aditya-(glances at his band mates) It is all about how you feel. For me we are as a whole and not individuals. When we are jamming we are together. That is the link. We had different priorities but for all of us our first priority is the Band (and that makes everything fall into place.) S - We realised there are too many things to do. Not just making music. Backstage settings, management (our manage Naem is a big help to us) our sound guy Sangeet(you have already heard his name so much!). N - There are a lot many people behind us. Not just six of us. You can even say the audience is also a part of this process. So how is the Indian music scene right now? As you said it is growing esp. Indo fusion. It is no more rock and death metal. Yes it is growing. There are lot of artists now. For instance Raghu dixit, Indian Ocean, Euphoria etc. Indian Ocean has been playing since the 90’. At that time there was no platform, they had to struggle a lot. Now there are multiple platforms like Channel V, radio channels. On Radio city 91.1fm there is a show for independent bands Freedom band. D - Also the number of music fests like NH-7 weekender is giving a boost to it. S - The social media is the ultimate tool. You can collaborate with other musicians. You can buy music online. Put up own songs..... N - It is still a long way for Independent singing. Bollywood! (Yes ...biggest competition) KSHITIJ 2014 crops up is that one has to give one’s 100 per cent to this. No other occupations. We are lucky to have found all. 61 62 KSHITIJ 2014 N - But things are changing. D- Mind sets are changing. We hope for the best Definitely, you are doing a great job might we add. You are in a city right next to Bollywood, what kind of problems do you usually face? N - The first and biggest problem is finding support. When I passed out of Engineering, my parents said that I should find a job, music will keep happening. So i found one but it required me to travel here and there. My dad agreed that I should concentrate on music. Another challenge is as I said before Bollywood. People want to hear known songs instead of original ones of an independent band. So one needs to be confident about one’s own creation and it also has to be fresh. Apart from music what are your other interests? Am - only music. N - I like theatre acting and i do poem recitation etc. S- I like to trek and travel. I am a loner actually (jokingly adds- don’t know how I got into this profession. N - And he has a telescope of his own, D - theories) Yes i have many theories. Lot of things actually but music is the predominant one. Please tell us at least one of them? (Peals of laughter...) D - I’m into production (music) etc. mostly music..... ( other mates pitch in comedy.... dialogue mimicry of Akshay Kumar movies) Who is your favourite movie character? (Smiles). I am a big fan of Nana Patekar... (Applause from band mates) Kis line me aa gaya hoon? (Standard dialogue when things are going bad) Vinayak - For me of course music comes first, apart from that cricket and reading. You are a Tabla player in a band with drums base guitar etc. The entire rock scene is set. How do you look at this ensemble? Initially I didn’t know about fusion bands. I used to listen to the genre but. When Saurav approached me with a proposal to join band I thought about it. I wanted to do something on my own, create music. The creative part is fun. S - In all of us Vinayak is the most learned in music V - I started learning the tabla when i was in 2nd standard How long is that! You come from a classical background. There is a culture shift. In classical you have to follow your kayda..... S- He has forced us to change so many of our songs. He told us this is not the kayda. So you bring discipline to the group. (To Vinayak) What about you Aditya? Music …short and sweet Did you start on the lead or base? Adi - I started on acoustic guitar 6-7 years back. I found a friend in college and formed a band. It failed and i got demotivated. I was not able to find a genre I like. Suddenly these people (Band mates) come in the picture. Mahant and I used to learn together. He was leaving so.... I liked the music and wanted to be a part of it but I was a guitarist and not base player. So I was in a dilemma of whether I should join the band. I had questions like “will I be able to play?” and would it be upto the mark because these people have brilliant quality. It was a huge responsibility. So I initially refused because of lack of preparation. There was a temporary bassist but soon it was vacant and i thought again and picked up base. They pushed me and encouraged. I learnt more from the jam than actually going to someone else. He introduced to my sir. Sir taught me a lot of techniques. So yes now it is music although I am a sound engineer. I like photography, I like adventure, I like a lot of things but main focus is music. (D - #Iphone!) Where do you see yourself in two years from now? S - We see ourselves a long way further. We are already in process of recording our music video which is soon to be released on MTV and other channel probably. We are also making a music album and having a nationwide tour by the end of this year. There are other plans in the channel and our manager Naem is looking out for many of our shows. We are hopeful to perform internationally in some time. Best of luck for your future journey... Cummins College of Engineering for Women DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL It gives me great pleasure to present the progress of our department for the last year. The students of our department have come out with flying colours. Students of our Department have excelled in academics in the last year. Four individual prizes were bagged by students of the department from the University of Pune. They are listed below: 1) ‘The Principal G.K.Ogale Memorial Prize’ has been awarded to Ridhima Pathak for securing first place in Instrumentation and Control Branch for the Bachelor of Engineering Degree examination held in May 2012. 2) ‘Late Satish Phadke Prize’ has been awarded to Ridhima Pathak for having passed the B.E. (Instrumentation and Control ) Examination held in may 2012 with highest number of marks. 3) ‘The Late Shri Yashwant Moreshwar Saptarshi Memorial Prize’ has been awarded to Ridhima Pathak for having passed the B.E. (Instrumentation and Control ) Examination held in may 2012 with highest number of marks. 4) ‘The Principal G.K.Ogale Memorial Prize’ of Rs.6400/-has been awarded to Radhika Saraf for securing highest number of marks and standing First at the S.E. (Instrumentation and Control ) Examination held in May 2012. 25 students from Instrumentation & Control department have secured ranks in University of Pune exams held in May 2012.The table below gives the details of rank holders. BE Instrumentation and Control Sr.No. Name of Student Rank Score 1 Ridhima Pathak 1st 1167 / 1500 2 Aditi Bhalerao 2nd 1165 / 1500 3 Snehal More 4th 1153 / 1500 4 Divya Kadam th 5 1152 / 1500 5 Nishita Sant 6th 1149 / 1500 6 Devika Oak 7th 1132 / 1500 7 Sweety Agrawal 8th 1123 / 1500 8 Ankita Kulkarni 9th 1122 / 1500 9 Divya Vasudev 10th 1120 / 1500 TE Instrumentation and Control Sr.No. 1 Name of Student Shraddha Bhawalkar Rank Score 1st 1151 / 1500 KSHITIJ 2014 Shalini Murali 63 64 KSHITIJ 2014 2 Pooja Deshmukh 2nd 1139 / 1500 3 Saie Saraf 3rd 1125 / 1500 4 Rashmi Agarwal th 4 1120 / 1500 5 Mugdha Marudgan 6th 1090 / 1500 6 Akshika Kacharoo 7th 1079 / 1500 7 Rujuta Mhetre 8th 1064 / 1500 8 Bhagyashree Bhosale 9 1063 / 1500 9 Tejashree Sabale 10th 1062 / 1500 th SE Instrumentation and Control Sr.No. Name of Student Rank Score 1 Radhika Saraf 1st 1133/1500 2 Krishnali Penta 2nd 1107/1500 3 Kamini Ramesh 3rd 1083/1500 4 Sayali Bhagwat 5th 1064/1500 5 Disha Waghela 7th 1052/1500 6 Apoorva Kelkar 8th 1037/1500 7 Ekta Ghonge 9th 1036/1500 Forbes Marshall Award for the academic year 2012-13 has been awarded to the project “Universal Wiring Harness Tester” to Bhagyashri Bhosale, Namrata Jadhav, Shital Jadhav, Pooja Khadagale and their Guide Prof. A. K. Joshi & Mr. Deepak Tekmal. Shivani Matto, Prajakta Kale, Ekta Ghonge, Arshi Mohini have participanted in the All India Technology & Innovation contest Techno-Champ 2013, organised by John Deere Technology Center, India and got the second prize for their paper titled ‘Tractor tyre designing system’. M.S.Anushree, Neha Upadhyay, Himani Hotkar, Uma Salvi got the Second Prize in Tenchnobells event of Innovation 2K14, the National Level Technical Event held on 28th Feb-1st March ‘14 in CCOEW, Pune. Ms. Sayali Kothmire & Surabhi Kausadikar got the Second Prize in Ideation event of Innovation 2K14, the National Level Technical Event held on 28th Feb-1st March 14 in CCOEW,Pune. Rutuja Chaturbhuj, Revati Deshpande, Neha Godse, Shreni Sonaniskar got the Third Prize in Tenchnobells event of Innovation 2K14, the National Level Technical Event held on 28th Feb-1st March ‘14 in CCOEW, Pune. Cummins College of Engineering for Women Ms. Sayali Joshi have participanted in Various Swimming Competitions held in Zest, Summit which were National level competitions and Pentacle, Melange, Kurukshetra which were state level Competition and won first/ second positions in 50m backstroke, freestyle Relay, / 100m prizes. Ms. Maitreyee Patwardhan have participanted in Various Swimming Competitions held in Zest, Summit which were National level competitions and Pentacle, Melange which were state level Competition and won first/ second positions in 50m backstroke, freestyle Relay, / 100m prizes. She also won the Best swimmer award at Ms.Ruddhi Kadam & Disha Waghela have secured First Prize in Mad Talks at Credenz ‘13 event organized by PICT. Ms.Ruddhi Kadam and Ms. Sanskriti Shankara played in Various Basket Ball competitions like Zest, Pentacle, Damini Inter-collegiate tournament and were responsible for winning the trophies for our college. Ms. Rucha Kulkarni & Gauri Ghate are winners at Badminton competitions held at Zest, Pentacle, Damini, Summit Inter-collegiate tournament and won the trophies for our college. Ms. Krishnali Penta was selected as the Best Outgoing student of the year 2013-14. 10 research papers were presented by the PG students at National & International Conferences and journals. Prof. Ashok Gaikwad is awarded Doctorate in Instrumenta on & Control from Swami Ramanand rth Marathwada University, Nanded under the guidance of Dr. R. H. Chile. The tle of the thesis is ‘Development of op cal fiber chemical sensor”. Dr. Ashok Gaikwad delivered a lecture on ‘Op cal fiber chemical sensing’ in IEEE Communica on Society, Pune sec on. Prof. Swati Madhe and Prof. J. P. Gawande have attended one day workshop on ‘New Trends in Biomedical Research’ held on 1st February 2014 organized by VIT,Pune. Prof. J. P. Gawande has conducted a Guest lecture on ‘Digital Filter Design’ for T.E. Computer Engineering students in Sinhgad Academy of Engineering, Pune on 3rd Aug 2013. The important publications by the faculty are listed below: KSHITIJ 2014 Prof. V. D. Hajare has participanted in National seminar on ‘Scilab & its Application to Globle Optimization & Deffercial Equation’ organized by E&TC deparment of R.C.Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur,Dist- Dhule on 24th-25th Aug 2013. 65 66 KSHITIJ 2014 Sr. No. Title of Paper Name of Staff Publication Details 1. An Intensity modulated Optical fiber sensor with concave mirror for measurement of displacement A.D. Gaikwad, J. P. Gawande, A. K. Joshi Journal of Optics, published by Springer 2. Design of PID Controller based on Reduced Order model and Characteristics ratio Assignment Method Prof. V.D.Hajare IEEE Multi-Conference on System and Control, Hyderabad 28-30Aug ,2013.IEEE-978-14799-1557-6\13 3. New Approach of Threshold for Denoising ECG signal using Wavelet Transform Prof.H.T.Patil INDICON-13 Organized by IEEE Bombay section & IIT Bombay 4. Design of Decentralized PI controller based on Characteristics Ratio Assignment Method For TITO Process Prof. V.D.Hajare INDICON-13 Organized by IEEE Bombay section & IIT Bombay 5. Frequency Analysis with Reduced Model Order Based PID Controllers for Higher Order Systems Prof. V.D.Hajare National Conference on Instrumentation Control and Signal Processing-ICSP 8,9 July 2013 Dr. Ashok D. Gaikwad Head of the Department Instrumentation & Control Cummins College of Engineering for Women Computer Department Annual Report It is delightful to share the vibrant happenings at the department throughout this year. The year was full of curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. Continuing on the lines of last year, this year too, Cummins College received the “Computer Society of India (CSI) - Best Student Branch Award” in recognition to its outstanding contribution to the various CSI National level activities for the year 2012-13. Innovation 2K14 was the National level Technical event held on 28th Feb. & 1st March 2014. Mrs. Meenal Kamlakar, Mrs. Vaishali Salgar and Ms. Swati Shirsath were the faculty coordinators from the department. With the active contribution of the student and staff volunteers, the department organized and received tremendous response for the events such as: Software Project Competition, Workshop on windows application development and treasure hunt. Microsoft AppFest, the competition of Microsoft application development was organized on 15th and 16th Feb 2014 in which around 100 students from different departments had registered. More than 25 wonderful apps were developed out of which 10 apps were shortlisted. Before the AppFest, 3 workshops were conducted on different Microsoft technologies like Azure, Win Phone App Development and Windows 8. Mrs. S. V. Tikhe, Mrs. Rakhi Dongaonkar, Mr. P. G. Date, Mr. Mahendra Deore, Mrs Swati Shirsath, Ms. Parmeshwari Sabnis and Mr. Harshad Mhasawade were instrumental in the overall coordination and execution of the workshops and the Microsoft AppFest. It is our immense pleasure to state that Prof. Mrs. Supriya Kelkar has successfully completed her Ph. D. Mrs. Juhi Ameta achieved Gold Medal for obtaining first position in M. Tech. at Banasthali University, Rajasthan. Congratulations to both for their great achievement!! Ms. Soudamini Patil, Ms. Sarika Hulyalkar, Ms. Abha Mishra, Ms. Jyoti Langhi, Ms. Swati Survase and Ms. Deepali Nagrale are the new staff who joined the department in 2013 – 2014. Mrs. Nutan Deshmukh, Mrs. Varsha Pimparale and Mrs. Shilpa Pant completed their M. E. Computer. The most awaited cultural festival “Gandhar” witnessed the enthusiastic participation of the department students and faculty members as well! The very enjoyable “Teacher’s Show” gave the faculty members a chance to stage their hidden talents, but of course not without the help of our dear students. The department show received the position of second runner up. Mrs. Varsha Pimparale, who was the staff coordinator for Gandhar from our department, deserves a special mention. Best outgoing student was awarded to the most deserving “Ms. Smriti Kher”. Mrs. Rajashri Kulkarni, Mrs. Varsha Pimparale and Mrs. Vaishali Salgar attended a faculty orientation workshop on “QT Open-source framework” on 15th February 2014 at AIT, Pune. Mrs. Sunita Jahirabadkar and Mrs. Chhaya Gosavi attended a workshop on syllabus discussion for T. E. (Computer) 2012 course on 14th February 2014 at Padmashree Dr. D.Y. Patil Institute of Engg. Pune. Mrs. Shital Barekar and Mrs. Shilpa Pant attended a FDP on “Mathematical Modeling for Programmers and Advanced Microprocessor Techniques” in January 2014 at PK Foundation’s PK Technical Campus in association with Skylabs. Mrs. Rakhi Dongaonkar, Ms. Gitanjali Salunkhe and Mrs. Aditi Raste attended a workshop on “Object Oriented Multi-core Programming” at PICT in December 2013. Mrs. Nutan Deshmukh and Mrs. Shital KSHITIJ 2014 The faculty members of the department have always been keen in participating in various conferences, development programs. 67 68 KSHITIJ 2014 Barekar attended a FDP on “Mobile Application Development Using Android: A Next Generation Platform” in December 2013 at PICT. Mrs. Aparna Hajare attended a syllabus revision workshop for Theory of Computation at T.E. (Computer) on 12th December 2013 at Sinhagad Institute of Technology and Science. Mrs. Aparna Hajare, Mrs. Pranjali Deshpande, Ms. Gitanjali Salunkhe and Mrs. Juhi Ameta attended a workshop on “High Performance Computing” sponsored by BCUD, UoP on 9th and 10th October 2013 at CCOEW. Mrs. Aditi Raste, Mrs. Soudamini Patil, Mrs. Vaishali Salgar, Ms. Sarika Hulyalkar attended a workshop on “Android” sponsored by BCUD, UoP on 9th and 10th October 2013 at CCOEW. Prof. A. N. Muchrikar and Mr. Hitendra Khairnar attended a workshop on “Educational Level IP Awareness Program” on 5th Sept 2013 at University of Pune. Prof. A. N. Muchrikar, Mrs. Sunita Jahirabadkar and Mrs. Rakhi Dongaonkar attended a seminar on “Big Data” organized by Infosys, Pune. Ms. Parmeshwari Sabnis attended a workshop on “Ubiquitous Computing” in August 2013 at Sinhgad College of Engg, Pune. Mr. Prakash Date and Mrs. Sakshi Mandke attended a FDP on “Data Structures and Problem Solving” on 10th Aug 2013 at PICT, Pune. Mrs. Pranjali Deshpande and Mrs. Shilpa Pant attended a FDP on “Digital Electronics and Logic Design” on 27th July 2013 at VIIT, Pune. Mrs. Madhuri Tasgaonkar attended a FDP on Microprocessor Architecture. Mrs. Varsha Pimprale and Mr. Mahendra Deore attended a FDP on “Operating Systems and Administration” in July 2013 at Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Narhe. Ms. Manisha Jadhav and Mrs. Swati Shirsath attended a FDP on “Discrete Structures” in June 2013 at Anantrao Pawar College of Engg, Pune. Mr. Hitendra Khairnar and Mrs. Pranjali Deshpande attended a workshop on “Massively Empowered Classrooms” on 6 July 2013 at PICT, Pune. Mrs. Aditi Raste attended 5 days workshop on “Essential Abstractions in GCC” in June 2013 at IIT Bombay. Mrs. Meenal Kamlakar attended a FDP on “Matlab Applications in Engineering and Sciences” in May 2013 at College of Engineering, Karad. Mrs. Meenal Kamlakar and Mrs. Varsha Pimprale attended FDP on Embedded Image Processing in May 2013 at Sinhgad College of Engineering, Pune. Mrs. Rita Shelke and Ms. Gitanjali Salunkhe participated in a workshop on “Database Management Systems” hosted by IIT Bombay in May 2013. A session on “Hadoop” by Dr. Sandeep Deshmukh for B. E. students was organized by Mrs. Pranjali Deshpande on February 21, 2014. As a part of ACM-W Student Chapter activities, a talk on “Early History of Fortran- The Making of a Wonder” by Dr. Uday Khedkar, IIT Bombay; was organized for T. E. students on 17th February 2014 by Mrs. Chhaya Gosavi. A talk on “Research - What, Who and When” by Dr. Abhijat Vichare was organized for T. E. students on 3rd February 2014 by Mrs. Aditi Raste, Ms. Parmeshwari Sabnis, Ms. Jaishri Chourasia and Mrs. Juhi Ameta. On the occasion of Engineer’s Day, a panel discussion on “Life in IT” having panel members as alumnae from different branches, was coordinated by Mrs. Soudamini Patil in Sept 2013 for T. E. students of all branches. B. E. students attended a session on “Latest trends in software testing” by Ms. Uma Bedarkar. A session on “Introduction to Database Management and its use in industry” by Ruchi Majumdar, Oracle Consultant, Eaton and Prachi Solanki, Oracle DBA, Eaton was organized by Mrs. Sunita Jahirabadkar, Mrs. Rakhi Dongaonkar on August 8, 2013 for T. E. students. A session on “Attitude at work” by Mr. Prem Apte, Mr. Kiran Laturkar was organized by Mrs. Rakhi Dongaonkar in July 2013 for T. E. students. A session on “Big data and Hadoop” by Neha Israni and Gargi Nagar from TCS was organized by Mrs. Rakhi Dongaonkar on July 19, 2013 for B. E. Computer and IT students. One week course on “Core Java” was conducted by Mrs. Chhaya Gosavi, Mrs. Rakhi Dongaonkar, Mrs. Saudamini Patil, Mrs. Rita Shelke, Mrs. Manisha Jadhav, Mrs. Vaishali Salgar, Mrs. Nilofar Attar, Ms. Cummins College of Engineering for Women Gitanjali Salunkhe, Ms. Jaishri Chourasia and Mrs. Juhi Ameta from 2nd – 6th September 2013 for the members from CIL, which was coordinated by Mrs. Rakhi Dongaonkar. Mrs. Chhaya Gosavi, Mrs. Madhuri Tasgaonkar, Mrs. Varsha Pimparale, Mrs. Sakshi Mandke and Mrs. Nutan Deshmukh conducted a three days “Latex Workshop” for faculty members of Computer Department in June 2013. Mrs. Meenal Kamlakar and Mrs. Chhaya Gosavi published a paper on ‘Various techniques using block based SVD in different color per channels for secure, robust and moll efficient watermarking.’ in IJERIA, August 2013 issue. Mrs. Nutan Deshmukh published a paper on “Providing data security on cell phone” in IEEE ICMIRA, December 2013. Dr. Sandhya Arora published a paper on “Studies on some Soft Computing Techniques: A Case Study for Constrained Handwritten Devnagari Characters and Numerals” in International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, July 2013. Mrs. Sulkshana Nagpurkar published a paper on “Survey on test case generation from UML based requirement analysis model ” in IJOART, May 2013. Mrs. Juhi Ameta published a paper on “Improving the quality of Gujarati-Hindi Machine Translation through part-of-speech tagging and stemmer-assisted Transliteration” in International Journal on Natural Language Computing, June 2013. Ms. Jaishri Chourasia published a paper on “Identification and authentication using visual cryptography based fingerprint watermarking over natural image” in Springer (CSI Transactions on ICT), Dec 2013. Mrs. Sunita Jahirabadkar published a paper on “Algorithm to determine ε-distance parameter in density based clustering” in Expert Systems with Applications, 2014. Ms. Parmeshwari Sabnis published a paper on “Survey of Map Reduce Optimization Methods” in IJACTE, Feb 2014. Mrs. Archana Ogale published a paper on “Performance Evaluation of MIMO-OFDM system with real time image input” in IEEE WOCN, July 2013 and on “Performance Evaluation of MIMO-OFDM system with MATLAB simulink” at ICAET in May 2013. Mrs. Chhaya Gosavi published a paper on “System Call Analyzer” at RACE-2013, in March-13. Mrs. Sakshi S. Mandke presented a paper on “Extraction of Frequent Subgraphs from Graph Database” at c-PGCON, March 2013. Mrs. Varsha Pimprale presented a paper on “Network Intrusion Detection system (NIDS) for Real-Time data using Naive Bayes” at c-PGCON, March 2013. Students of SE had the industry tour of Persistent Systems Ltd.; students of TE visited Revolta, Flurotech and BE students visited DSK SUP Infocomm in August 2013. TE students further visited Persistent Systems Ltd. in March 2014. We take the pride in portraying the achievements of our students at various levels. Ms. Monica Marathe and Ms. Sunanda Shanbag from B. E. Computer have been selected for joining school of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University for Fall 2014 under Cummins Fellowship Program for Purdue University. Radhika Saswade from B. E. Computer is been recognized as a top performer for the 2012-13 Google student Ambassador program. Radhika saswade is been selected as competitive applicants in Accelerating information technology innovation (AITI) Mumbai. Students of BE, Radhika Saswade, Mayuri Naware, Monica Marathe, Shikha Mehta, Kavita Balhey, Anagha Lagu, Madhuri Varma, Neha Naladkar, Sunanda Shanbhag and Amrita Hotwani completed their internships at John Deere in various topics in June 2013. KSHITIJ 2014 Smriti Kher, was felicitated by Dr. Anand Deshpande at Persistent Systems Ltd. in recognition of standing first in college in T. E. Computer. 69 70 KSHITIJ 2014 Ketaki Joshi’s paper on ‘Endocopic nanobots and direction mechanism for the robotic swarm’ was selected at ICACCI International Student Research Symposium which was technically sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, held at Mysore, India in August 2013. Ketaki Joshi worked on ‘Burglar Detection and improvising of the image quality using Computer Vision’ using OpenCV at ViAN technologies. Komal Gujrathi won the first prize at the paper presentation competitions conducted at COEP in September’13 and at PVG COE in August’13. Sanzal Sharma and Smriti Shrivastava Stood first in Robotics Workshop at MITCOE in August 2013. Neha paliwal has been selected as a IBM Campus Ambassador for 2013-2014. Snehal More won the first prize at the paper presentation competition at PVG COE. Apurva Mulay and Krati Jain won the second prize at Codeville held at MindSpark, COEP. Pooja Bhuse won the second prize at Robotics workshop conducted by SKN COE ,September’13. Cummins College is been awarded with Overall championship in annual sports meet of COEP, ZEST; beating all the co-education colleges in INDIA. From Computer Department Ishwari Chitnis, Madhura Pise, Renuka Godse, Pallavi Rokade, Jagruti Wagh were the part of a team who received first place in Basketball. Sunanda Shanbag was a part of a team who received first place in Football. Jagruti Wagh was a part of winning Basketball Team at Damini , held at Cummins College. Mrs. Meenal Kamlakar, Mrs Vaishali Salgar, Mrs. Smita Lokare and Mr. Harshad Mhasawade participated in the various NSS activities, throughout the year. Our students were involved in activities like blood donation camp, eye check up camp, Gandhar show for Bhaubij-nidhi, tree plantation, new year celebration at old-age home. Also, five students from the third year were the part of the special residential camp at Village Kalyan held in the month of December 2013. Till now, excellent number of students has been placed from the final year batch of 2013 – 2014. Our Heartiest Congratulations to all the students and faculty members for the various achievements!!! We are proud of the progress of the department and hope to see continued progress and development and wish the students the very best in their pursuit of an academic degree at the Department. Ms. Shilpa S. Deshpande Head of Computer Engineering Department. Cummins College of Engineering for Women Annual Report Department of Information Technology I am happy to present the annual highlights of Department of Information Technology. This year Mr Praful Meshram got the admission for doctoral studies at Nanded. Mrs Radhika Bhagwat got the admission for doctoral studies at University of Pune. Mrs Prachi Kadam and Mrs Harshada Modak cleared the Ph D entrance test of University of Pune. Mrs Harsha Sonune completed her M E from MITCOE. Mr S Tabish completed his M Tech from COEP Pune. Mr M R Velankar presented three papers in the area of music analysis. He presented a paper titled as ‘Automatic emotion detection using speed of music’ at National Physics laboratory, Delhi. He presented another paper at an International conference on Industrial applications of Signal Processing as ‘Journey towards personal music search’. He presented third paper at International conference on Electronic systems, Signal Processing and computing Technologies titled ‘Novel approach for music search using music contents and human perception.’ This year, the Technical secretary Priyanka Pendharkar from TE IT and her entire team of Innovation 2014 brought a crowd of 2200 for participation in various events. Thanks to Priyanka Pendharkar as technical secretary and to Kajal Oswal, as the publicity head. The core team from TE IT for Innovation having leaders and motivators like Priyanka Pendharkar, Suvarna Salve, Aparajeeta Ranjan, Bhakti Lavare, Pooja Hirve, Himani Katyal, Kajal Oswal, Pragya Vishalakshi, Sneh Mujjo and Saloni Chandel really worked hard and the other students from the class cooperated them very well. KSHITIJ 2014 Priyanka and her team has done a complete documentation of everything in organizing Innovation and has kept the accountant happy. I think this is the greatest appreciation the Team Innovation has received. 71 72 KSHITIJ 2014 Practically the entire TE IT class volunteered for Innovation 2014. The core team handled the responsibility in a disciplined way and they received a comment of appreciation from the Head of Mechanical Department saying ‘आपने तो डाटनेका चान्स ही नही िदया’ Second year students helped the TE IT volunteers to run the events smoothly. Geetanjali Mane, Aarushi Kaul and Shradhha Raka sang Sarasawti vandana at the inauguration. Mrs Sneha Thombre, Mr Praful Meshram, Mr Aniket Barve and Ms Ruhi Bramhwar organized a ‘National Network Security competition’. Himani Kelkar, Rishika Priya, Komal Doke, Manasi Khanuja, Stutie Gokulpure, Pradya Unavane, and other students from third and second year were the volunteers. They got a huge response of 250 student registrations. The winners will get training at IIT Delhi. IET students’ chapter organized a Mini Project competition on 2nd March 2013. Forty groups participated in this event. The competition was held in two rounds. The preliminary round short listed seven groups for the final round. Three award winning teams were identified from the final round. The second year students are quite enthusiastic. Ms Neha Tapkir, Fatema Nashikwala, Nishighandha Karle, Stutie Gokulpure, Pallavi Kulkarni, Rishika Priya completed the online courses from reputed foreign universities. Ms Bhagyashree Kulkarni, Snehal Mhetre and Priyanka Gupta were the members from Robocon team. They are quite confident for handling the electronics from any multidisciplinary robot. Himani Katyal, Aparajeeta Rajnan, Saloni Chandel, Aishwarya Thoke’s ‘Zodiac Signs and match amking’ and Sheha Lata’s ‘Life Skill’ Microsoft Windows 8 application got selected in the top ten applications in the appfest conducted by Microsoft. Ashwini Nair, Avanti Aajaychandrashekahr, Aditi Athawale and Rasmi Ghan’s project got selected in the Cloud Hackathon, a competition organized by IBM. Around 45 students got placed though campus. Five students got placed in Microsoft. Mr Praful Meshram was the Program officer for the NSS activity in the college. The NSS cell conducted residential camp of one week at Kalyan gaon. This time, the NSS team has planned to collect Bhaubeej Nidhi. They had kept a desk during two days of Innovation and received an aid of Rs 12000.00 from various faculty members and students. Komal Doke, Pradya Unavane, Pragati Bangar and Mr Milind Kolambe helped in organizing Pentacle, the intercollegiate sports competition. Diksha Raina got the Sudha Murthy gold medal for sports achievements. Pragati Bangar participated in the volleyball competition. This time in Gandhar, the final year students received the Best class award and the department received the Best Department Award. The credit goes to all the winners of various competitions in Gandhar and their participation in all the events. Mrs. M. Tokekar HOD of Information Technology Cummins College of Engineering for Women L I T E R AT U R E Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013 Youngest author ever, to win the prestigious award. KSHITIJ 2014 “It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.” 73 74 KSHITIJ 2014 Come Back Soon.. Dedicated to my best buddies Shreya Dange FE Instru and Tejal Gaikwad FE ENTC From Vaishnavi Deshpande BE Comp C As I take a step towards home I turn back one more me And as the meframe comes to a freeze Once again I drown into those memories Every me I sit back and recall Over and over ll I’ve remembered it all All those moments I’ve spent with you Even those that made me part from you two That first day when I saw you Our first task together- the face pain ng Playing mom-in-law, the songs you’d sing Your smile contagious as anything The applause a er your first dance The first nickname you gave Crazy puppet eyes, gaming all night Mu ering in sleep and every pe y fight The two of you I so adore Without you, life’s not as good anymore I spend my days wishing you’d be back Trying to make sense of life, but I’ve lost track You know not of the reasons old and new And what it all had come down to Over our friendship that I never thought I’d lose It’s your be erment that I had to choose Because all through our happy mes together And through these changing weathers Everyday that I’ve ptoed to get a glance of you two I’ve said to myself that I’ll never be far from you I feel shameful for I’ve made you cry I take the blame and a million sighs Dying for a chance to explain to you How incomplete a musketeer is without the other two I hope me heals our broken es I pray, for all I need is that most valuable “hello” And I know memories shall clear those hazy skies Because we never never meant goodbyes No ma er how endless it seems I’ll be right here, wai ng I hope this effort is worth to tell you cartoons That I’m missing you, please come back soon TEACHER Teacher Oh! Teacher You are life’s important feature Teacher Oh! Teacher You enable us to make bright future You have a powerful brain Which is fresh as Rain You are also a part Which is full of studies and art You are the architect of country But we are the future of country Whenever my name will shine You will be remembered by this heart of mine!!! PRACHI JADHAWAR TE E&TC (C) Cummins College of Engineering for Women A Song Of Life Somewhere Behind the Hills In the rapture of life and of living, I li up my head and rejoice, And I thank the great Giver for giving The soul of my gladness a voice. In the glow of the glorious weather, In the sweet-scented, sensuous air, My burdens seem light as a feather They are nothing to bear. Living away from home is never easy.. I li up my eyes to Apollo, The god of the beau ful days, And my spirit soars off like a swallow, And is lost in the light of its rays. Are tou troubled and sad? I beseech you Come out of the shadows of strife Come out in the sun while I teach you The secret of life. Come out of the world – come above it Up over its crosses and graves, Though the green earth is fair and I love it, We must love it as masters, not slaves. Come up where the dust never rises But only the perfume of flowers And your life shall be glad with surprises Of beau ful hours. Come up where the rare golden wine is Apollo dis lls in my sight, And your life shall be happy as mine is, And as full of delight. They are all miles apart, Somewhere near the seas. A gush of wind comes to me, With their memories. I am living my dream, S ll with gloom my heart fills. When I try hard to find them , Somewhere behind the hills. - Mugdha Khedkar FE Comp I look at the stars of night, The skies unite us all. Hope they all are safe, Behind the unseen wall. HAPPINESS IS EVERYWHERE !! :) Some mes its part of dreams , That comes true. Or perphapsits just doing, What we like to do . Happiness comes from laughing , Laughing together , And from braght change, In some unpleasant weather. It’s found in the wonder of the blue sky above, In the magic of being with Someone we love. And when happiness seems , To be nowhere around , REMEMBER !! It’s just wai ng to be a friend ! :) - GEETIKA YADAV T.E Comp ‘ C ‘ KSHITIJ 2014 In the strength and the glory of power, In the pride and the pleasure of wealth (For who dares dispute me my dower Of talents and youth- me and health?) , I can laugh at the world and its sages I am greater than seers who are sad, For he is most wise in all ages Who knows how to be glad. Somewhere behind the hills, Lies my home. The hills hide me from them. I am all alone. As distances increase, They come closer to me. Somewhere above the horizon, Their smiles will be. 75 76 KSHITIJ 2014 saaO.AasaavarI jaaoSaI [laoi@T/kla iDMpaT-maoMT Am¶wî`mda ~moby H$mhr ! doi nhmQ>o 5.30 JOa Pmë`mda Ë`mbm EH$ Q>nbr ‘méZ ~gë`m~gë`m Xhm {‘{ZQ>| noJÊ`mMr gd`! 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B©. H$m°ån. "~r' KSHITIJ 2014 ‘Whatsapp’ 77 78 KSHITIJ 2014 15 imainaTaMcaI BaoT ÑÑÑ kala ra~I baabaa maaJyaa KaolaIt Aalao haoto ]badar kuSaIt Gao}na iplau mhNaalao haoto kuÉvaaLNyaat %yaaMcyaa iktI maayaa haotI p`omaacaa trMga %yaaMcyaa DaoLyaat idsat haotI AcaanakcaM %yaaMnaI maafI maaigatlaI KUp idvasaatM vaoL nM dota AalyaacaI KMt vya@t kolaI hLUhLU to baaolaayalaa laagalao maQyaoca Aalaolao huMdko igaLayalaa laagalao jaD Aavaajaat puTpuTlao to nasatosa javaLjarI‚ trI AazvaNaIt sada Asatosa baabaa baabaa mhNataMnaa DaoLo imaTlao trI idsatosa tU baaobaDo baaola tuJao iktI JaTkna spYT Jaalao‚ jagaacao DavapocahI tulaa samajaayalaa laagalao trIhI laokI‚ maaJaM tr tU AjaUna iplaUcaM Aahoca. AaBaaLat ]DNaar ek kaomala paKÉca Aahoca. %yaacaM AaBaaLat tU ]Mca ]Mca iBariBaravaM AaiNa maaoz`zM hao}na punha GarTyaakDo prtavaM tU prttosa taovaMr manaalaa QaakQaUk laagalaolaI rahIla‚ DaoLyaat tola GaalaUna tuJaI vaaT maI paihlaM tuJyaa svaPnaaMsaazI paorI maI svatÁlaa gahaNahI zovaolaM garjaocaI p`%yaok gaaoYTM tulaa pUrvaola. baabaa mhNat kahI idvasaaMt lagnaacaI haoSaIla AaiNa ek idvasa Barlyaa maMDpatUna Aamacyaa pasaUna dUr inaGaUna jaaSaIlaM‚ loakI trIhI ha baap tuJyaa pazISaI sadOva ]Baa Asaola kQaIhI vaLUna baGaM‚ maaJaa caohra tUlaa AanaMdIca idsaola iktIhI maaozI JaalaIsa trI AsaM GaT`T kuSaIt yaayaca ivasaÉ nakaosa evaZMca saaMgaayacayaM iplaa‚ sadOva AanaMdI rha‚ sauKI AayauYyaM DaoLo BaÉna pha‚ DaoLo BaÉna pha. gadgadUna Aalaolyaa manaanao baabaaMkDo baGaNyaacaa QaIr kolaa‚ AEaUMnaI iBajalaolaa %yaaMcaa caohra laala laala Jaalaa‚ ekmaokaMcao AEaU iTpt AamhI GaT`T imazI maarlaI‚ baabaaMcaI hI 15 imainaTaMcaI BaoT maaJyaa AayauYyaatIla ek saaonaorI kavya banaUna gaolaI‚ ek saaonaorI kavya banaUna gaolaI. ku.naoha yaaogaoSa maalapuro (S.E. E&TC ‘A’) gaiNat BaUgaaolaacyaa gaaolaatUna Aaya-BaTanaaM SaUnyaacao vaoD laagalao %yaaMcyaa hyaa vaoDanao Aamacao far naDlao yaa gaiNatacaa AByaasa krta krta Aamacao taoMD kaLvaMDlao gaiNat eoicCk kra mhNaUna laaKao laaok laZlao pNa sarkarcaohI gaiNatavarca ADlao jalaisaMcanaacyaa GaaoTaLyaat Aijatrava saapDlao pavalaaopavalaI gaiNat mhNaUna rajakarNaI ADKLlao evaZo saaro Anaqa- eka gaiNatanao GaDlao ?tujaa PaaTIla inaYpap dovaa Aata tU pNa caalaU kolaasa ka Ba`YTacaar Æ EaImaMt krtao svaOracaarÊ garIba haotao laacaar matasaazI rajakarNaI krtao p`caar dovaa Aata tU pNa caalaU kolaa ka Ba`YTacaar Æ BaajaI naahI majakDo mhNaUna Kavaa laagatao Aacaar dovaa Aata tU pNa caalaU kolaa ka Ba`YTacaar Æ laaok mhNatat tUJyaakDoca Asatao gmè¶m jagaacaa samaacaar saaMga ro dovaa ka kolaasa tU Ba`YTacaar Æ AnyaayaaivaÉdQa laZayacaM mhNaUna kÉna zovalaI tlavaarIlaa Qaar dovaa Aata tU pNa caalaU kolaa ka Ba`YTacaar Æ garIbaanaoca paLayacao Asatat ka iSaYTacaar Æ dovaa Aata tU pNa caalaU kolaa ka Ba`YTacaar Æ jaIvaalaa jaIva doNaara maaNaUsa jaIvaalaaca mauktao catur QaUt- laaMDgaa GaraGarat Gausatao kr jara yaacaa kQaItrI ivacaar dovaa Aata tU pNa caalaU kolaa ka Ba`YTacaar Æ ?tujaa PaaTIla Cummins College of Engineering for Women naoha p`tap paTIla saayansa AaiNa To@naa^laa^jaI ek t%va&ana AaiNa %yaatIla yauvaaSa@tIcaa vaaTa ekivasaavao Satk ho yaM~ AaiNa tM~ yaacyaa yaugaanao JapaTUna gaolao Aahoº yaacyaa ekUNaca naadmayatomaQyao tM~&anaacaa ek tojasvaI p`kaSa Ba$na raihlaa Aahoº karNa pUvaI- naagaacyaa fNyaavar ]BaI AsaNaarI pRqvaI Aaja saMgaNakacyaa sËInavar ]BaI Aaho Asao mhNata yao[-la AaiNa ho maanaNaarI AajacaI t$Na ipZI Ap`%yaxapNao tM~&anaacao mah%va AaiNa &ana AQaaoroiKt krto yaat kovaL ek navasaMjaIvana ivacaar naahI¸ tr hI laaKmaaolaacaI zova Aahoº tM~&ana hI iva&anaacaI ek SaaKa Aaho. prMtu maanavaI maoMdUcyaa ivastarkxaa pahta¸ mhNajaoca ‘With rising orbits of thinking processes in thoughts from biological term of brain to explore-experience & excel up to successful implementation of ideas’ AsaM maanalaM tr vaavagaM zrNaar naahI.karNa ho ivaSva 20 vyaa Satkat fa[-lsa AaiNa kagadp~aMcaa iZgaara haoto¸ jao Aaja 21 vyaa Satkat ek CaoTsa faolDr Aahoº tM~&anaacaa ha psaara far maaoza Aahoº qa`I DI¸ PlaaJamaa¸ saIDI AaiNa pIDI – – – ! yaaMcyaa saaobatInao ‘jagaNaM’ hahI ek pasavaD-ca banalaa Aahoº [-–maola Asaao¸ vaa ekaca Ka%yaacyaa vaapratUna Anaok sauivaQaa doNaara gaugala saarKa ‘naoTsama`aT’ .. ! vaa^Tsa\ A^p AaiNa fosabaUkcyaa Aagamanaanao saMpUNa- ivaSva jaNaU kuTUMbaca banalao Aahoº tM~ ho &anaacyaa vyaa#yaaMnaa navaa Aayaama doNaaro zrlao Aahoº mhNaUna tr ho ‘tM~a’ cao ‘&ana’ zrto ² tM~acaI BaaYaa iflaaosaaofImaQyao vaacatanaa qaaoDISaI gaMmat vaaTtoº karNa Aaplyaa r@tvaaihnyaa mauMba[-t sau$ Jaalaolyaa maaonaaorolasaar#yaa Aahot AsaM maanalaM¸ tr tM~&ana ho Aaplyaa AMgaat vaYaa-nauvaYao- iBanalaM Aaho ho KMr² pNa yaacaa ivasfaoT ihraoiSamaa–naagaasaakI saar#yaa GaTnaa AaiNa ANauivaVUt taraMmaQaUnahI idsalaaº %yaamauLo naakarta yaoNaar naahI ASaI fijatI AaiNa svaIkarta yaoNaar naahI Asaa qaaT Aahoº ‘japlao tr Aaplao’ Asaaca kahIsaa ha ivalaasaI KoL Aahoº maaNaUsa Aajacyaa Qaava%yaa jagaacaa p`vat-k AaiNa saarqaI Aahoº ha saara p`kar mhNajao tM~acyaa BaUmaIvar samasyaaMcao caËvyaUh naYT krNaaáyaa kilayaugaacaa AiBamanyaUhI Aaho¸ AaiNa kQaIkQaI puZo idsaNaaáyaa idvyaacaI tIva`ta SamavaNaara EaIkRYNahIºº² tM~&anaanao savaivaSvaat ek ikmayaa saaQalaI Aahoº AsaM ho tM~&ana AaiNa %yaacaa AagaLavaogaLa Analysis––² Am`wî`mMm àdmg Am`wî`mÀ`m àdmgmMr OUy J§_VM Ý`mar OJUo gmaIo Agbo Var di>Uo {Zami>r ! Ooìh>m ñdßZm§À`m n§Im§Zr C§M Pon KoVbobr Voìh>m H$moRo> AmZ§XmMr nIaU Pmbobr Va H$moRo> `mVZo{Z H$i>di>bobr ! gh>OVoÀ`m emoYmV©mV Amho> Ag§»` Aer di>Uo OUy àË`oH$mbmM dmQ>Vo Amho> {j{VOmn`©§V nmoh>moMUo ! H$Yr h>i>ydma gmX Va H$Yr ~o^mZ ^amar KoV OUy h>moV Amho>V A{ñVËdm-Am{ñVËdmV ^oX ! `oWo H$Yr dmQo> jUmMm Xwamdm Va H$Yr ImÌrMm {dgmdm Ogm gmogmQ>²`mMm dmam AZ nmdgmMm Amobmdm ! H$Yr aIaIUmao D$Z Va H$Yr dm`©mMo dmh>Uo Va H$moRo> ^aboë`m Am^mi>|Mo `mVZoZo H$mogi>Uo ! H$Yr `oB© Moh>`©mda IwX²H$Z h>gy AÝ S>moù`mV Amgdm§À`m gar dmQo> AmR>dUr§Mr nmD$bdmQ> {h>adi>Umar Va H$Yr ^aH$Q>Umar ! `oWo {H$Ë`oH$ Ago Amho>V _¥JOi> Moh>ao H$mh>r AZmoi>Ir ñdmW©r Va H$mh>r _wIdQo> gmo`ao ! {dah>mMo YmJo OUy àË`oH$mMo ~m§Ybobo {H$Vrh>r H$mh>r Ho$bo Var ho> jU Z gwQ>bobo ! H$Yr H$ù`m§Mo C_bUo Va H$Yr \$wbm§Mo H$mo_oOUo h>r AJ{UV Aer di>Uo OUy dmT>VM OmUo ! IaM Am`wî`mÀ`m àdmgmMr OUy J§_VM Ý`mar OJUo gmaIo Agbo Var di>Uo {Zami>r ! - ^m½`lr nJmao KSHITIJ 2014 SE Comp. ‘B’ 79 80 KSHITIJ 2014 jaaNaIva kQaI kQaI vaaTtM …. saUya- naahI banata AalaM trI idvaa hao}na jaLt rhavaM‚ kaLaoKat Baodrlaolyaa manaalaa qaaoDM trI QaOya- VavaM … kQaI kQaI vaaTtM …. pavasaacaI ek sar hao}na saRYTIlaa gaaoDvaa Vavaa‚ duYkaLI jaIvaaMcyaa vaaLvaMTat Anaaimak gaarvaa AaNaavaa …. kQaI kQaI vaaTtM …. )dyaalaa ]lhaisat krNaarM fUla hao}na fulat rhavaM‚ marNyaacaI tmaa na baaLgata dusaè¶mMsaazI KuDlaM jaavaM … kQaI kQaI vaaTtM …. AiEataMcyaa hakolaa ivaSvaasaacaI saad VavaI‚ badlyaat f@t yaacyaa AanaMdaEaMUcaI maaotyao GyaavaI. kQaI kQaI vaaTtM …. inarBa` AakaSaaprI inassaIma‚ inarMtr jagaavaM‚ AaQaarhIna vaaTsaÉMnaa Aaplyaatca saamaavaUna GyaavaM. kQaI kQaI vaaTtM …. maatIcyaa laokraMsaazI mamatocaI }ba VavaI‚ samaajaamaQyao jagatanaa maaNausakIcaI gaa~M fulavaavaI… maga hI kaLI Aa[na@kIca Aaplyaalaa kuSaIt Gao[-la ‚ itcyaatca ivailana hao}na gaolyaanaMtr tI maa~ Aaplyaa naavaacao gaIt gaatca rahIla …. gaIt gaatca rahIla … AaiNa hIca KrI jaaNaIva Asaola ?NaanaubaMQaacaI … maaNaUsa mhNaUna jagaNyaacaI … maaNaUsa mhNaUna marNyaacaI … saayalaI p`maaod paTIla S.E.- COMP B. SaaoQa mana Aaja [tkM iWQaa JaalaMya ¸ kI kuzlaaca iknaara maaJaa vaaTt naahIyao … saarM kahI javaL Aaho Ana` maI maa~ AnaMt saagarat ekakI laZtIyao¸ maaJaM taÉ BarkTvaUna TakNaa–yaa vaadLaSaI …Ñ manaat Aatvar kaLaoKahUnahI Bayaanak¸ na AaoLKNaaMr¸ f@t jaaNavat rahNaarM … saunasaana¸ BayakahUr maajalaMya¸ manaatr kahItrI vaadLasaarKM vaahtMya ¸ kahItrI ]gaacaca ¸ Aivart salatMya ¸ … pNa salatMya kaya hoca ]majat naahIyao¸ maaJaM AsalaolaM vastu%%va kI nasalaolaM Aist%%va Æ kuNaasa za}k ¸ yaa p`SnaaMcaI ]%trM kQaI imaLNaar¸ kI saarMca rahIla f@t AnaiBa& ¸ …. Anau%trIt …. Æ jaIvaasa jaaLNaarI vyaaQaI tr jaDlaIyao kovhacaIca …. pNa itcaa ]gama … itcaa ]gama … tao maa~ hrvat caalalaaya AaiNa maaJaa jaIva %yaa hrvaNyaabaraobarca kuzlyaatrI BayaaNa kaLaoKat ivart caalalaaya …. kuzo to naahI Avagat pNa¸ jaaNavatMya maa~ sagaLM kahI …. Aat Kaolavar … jyaalaa kahI AMtca naahIyao … KrMca ¸ ho mauKvaTo kuzvar BaoDsaavaNaar Aahot maaiht naahI pNa %yaaMnaa vaagavaNaM AataSaa jaDavat caalalaMya … ho vastu%va¸ ho saalaMkar¸ hI AaBaasaI maayaa … mana ivaTlaMya yaa saa–yaalaa¸ gaudmartMya to kaLacyaa Daohat … yaa saa–yaa AnaiBa& jagaat ekca gaaoYT maa~ kLlaIyao malaa¸ maaokLa Svaasa malaa tovhaca Gaota yao[-la ¸ jaovha kLola %yaa gaUZ naaBaIMcao Aist%%va ….. ÑÑÑ %yaa gaUZ naaBaIMcao Aist%%va ….. ÑÑÑ saayalaI p`maaod paTIla S.E.- COMP B. Cummins College of Engineering for Women iSalpa kraD BE E & TC tao idvasa....16 iDsaoMbar 2012.... kaoTyaavaQaI BaartIyaaMsaazI AgadI naohmaI saarKa² tUhI %yaaMcyaapOkI ek…%yaa idvaSaI saMQyaakaLI‚ idvasaBaracyaa rgaaDyaa¹¹naMtr sauhdacyaa saaqaInao prtIcyaa vaaTonao inaGaalaIsa Aaplyaa GarTyaakDo¹¹¹¹mammaI ikMvaa D^DInao svatÁcyaa gaaDItUna tulaa saaoDayalaa vaa AaNaayalaa yaavaM‚ ASaa GaratIla tU navhtIsa…laaokla‚ basa‚ maoT/ao‚ AadI saava-jainak vaahtUk vyavasqaotUna Qa@ko Kat jyaaMnaa jagaavaM laagat ASaa kaoTyaavaQaI BaartIyaaMmaQaIlaca tU…samaaor irkamaI basa pahUna tulaa AanaMd Jaalaa AsaNaar…daostacyaa saaqaInaM iKDkIcaI jaagaa pkDt‚ gaujagaaoYTI krIt Garapya-Mt jaata yao[la AsaM tUlaahI vaaTlaM AsaNaarcaM ASaa CaoTyaa CaoTyaa AanaMdacao izpko jaaoDt idvasaBaracaI catkaoratlaI raMgaaoLI pUNa- krayacaI savayaca Aaho naa Aaplyaalaa² tUhI ASaaca vyavasqaocaa Baaga haotIsaº samaaor daona payaaMcaI idsatayaot mhNajao tI maaNasaMca AsatIla Asaa tU samaja k$na Gaotlaasa AaiNa %yaatca 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naKiSaKant paMGarlaolyaa %yaa janaavaraMnaa kaya kLNaar sausaMskRt s~Icyaa vas~aMcaI ikmmat Æ pNa maga¸ yaa ivakRtIlaa pyaa-ya naahI ka Æ itlaa baahor kaZNyaacaa maaga- Ñ na@kIca Aaho ………… eka%mato baraobarca vaOya@tIk p`ya%na samaajaat badla GaDvaU Saktat¸ taohI AmaUlaaga` Ñ pNa ho rajakarNaatUna haoNao naahI …… p`%yaok maaNasaacyaa ivacaaraMcaa saacaaca badlaayalaa hvaa¸ AaiNa ho ijavaMtanaa marNa yaatnaa doNaarI vyavasqaahI sauQaaÉ Sakt naahI. eKadyaacyaa naavaanao maoNaba%tI maaocaa- kaZayalaa vaoL AsaNaa– yaa pNa Aasapasacyaa pd dilataMsaazI vaoL nasaNaa–yaa inad`avasqaotIla samaajaakDUnahI haoNao naahI ……… maga … kaoNa krNaar Æ ksaM haoNaar Æ kI haoNaarMca naahI ‘s~I janmaa tuJaI hI khanaI¸ )dyaI AmaRt nayana paNaI ……’ AsaMca rDt– kZt jagaayacaM ka s~Inao kayamaca Æ naahI mauLIca naahI ² mauLIca naahI ² tU ]z¸ sabala banavaM svatÁlaa … hoca iSakvaUna gaolaI tI ²² 29 iDsaoMbar 2012 laa AKor tI gaolaI¸ sauTlaIsa mhNaayaMca kaÆ hao tsaMca mhNaayalaa hvaM kaLjaalaa caTka laavaUna gaolaI tI ² hao¸ pNa jaata jaata ek maa~ saaMgaUna gaolaI ––––––––– “kuNaa EaIkRYNaasaazI AmaRt mhNaUna ivaYaacaa GaaoT maIrosaarKa¸ naahI dyaayacaayaM¸ karNa pir%yaaga Aataa inarqa-k zrtaoya Ñ kuNaa ekvacanaI ramaasaazI kaTyaakuTyaaMcaa vanavaasa saItosaarKa¸ naahI BaaogaayacaayaM¸ karNa ivaSvaasa Aata payadLI tuDvalaa jaataoya Ñ kuNaa QaRtraYTasaazI DaoLyaaMvar pT\TI baaMQaUna naahI jagaayacayaM¸ karNa inaÁsvaaqaI-pNaa Aata SaUnyaat ivartaoya Ñ kuNaa paMDvaaMcyaa AaQaaranao d`aopdIp`maaNao mahaBaart naahI GaDvaayacayaM¸ karNa svabaLavar Aata laZa idlaa jaataoya Ñ kuNaalaa trI sabala krNyaasaazI Abalaa mhNaUna naahI GyaayacayaM¸ karNa %yaa sabalaolaa sadOva tuJaaca AaQaar imaLtaoya Ñ [traMnaa baL doNyaacaM saamaqya- tuJyaat Asatanaa ivart ivart naahI jagaayacayaMÊ karNa …… karNa p`kaSaJaaot tulaaca tovat zovaayacaaya Ñ” KSHITIJ 2014 ‘karNa p`kaSaJaaot tulaaMca tovatM zovaayacaaya ²’ 81 82 KSHITIJ 2014 Snehal AazvaNaIt jagataMnaa... ek vaYa- ksaM saMpla ho kLMlacaM naahI¸ AsaM vaaTtM kI¸ Aa<aaca dhavaIt haotI¸ baaravaIt haotI AaiNa Acaanak pihlao vaYa- pUNa- Jaalao Asao vaaTtoº vaYa- ksao gaolao samajalaca naahIº Aa<aaca kahI idvasaaMpUvaI- p`vaoSa Gaotlaa AaiNa Aa<aaca pihlyaa vaYaa-caa inakala hatI Gaotlaa AsaM vaaTtMº Asaao pNa yaa vaYaa-t KUp kahI navaIna iSakayalaa imaLalaM¸ phayalaa imaLala va KUp AnauBavaayalaa imaLalaMº pihlao pihlao KUp vaogaLca vaaTayaca navaIna caohro¸ navaIna vaatavarNa¸ navaIna sava-kahI AsaM vaaTayaca kI¸ maI kaoNa%yaatrI navaInaca ivaSvaat AalaI Aahoº to eka KaolaIt¸ eka plaMgaavar Aapla vaastvyaº daona vaoLcaM to ivaivaiQacavaIMnaI yau@t ASa jaovaNaM¸ ra~Icaa saaDoAazcaI hjaorIº AaplaI tyaarI krayacaI AaiNa jaayacaM ka^laojalaaº sagaLM kahI AapNaca krayacaMº ka^laojakDUna AalaM kI AaplaI AaplaI kama krayacaIº sagaLM ksaM ekdma inaraLM kQaIkQaI tr ivaica~hI vaaTayacaº GarcaI pdaopdI AazvaNa yaayacaIº AsaM vaaTayaca kI maI lahanaca barI haotI¸ maaozI kSaalaa JaalaIÆ tI drvaajyaajavaL AaplaI vaaT pahNaarI Aa[-¸ Aalyaavar ka^laoja ksaM 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AaplyaaSaa Jaalyaaº navaIna badlaalaa hLU hLU maI Aaplaosao kolaoº KUp saaáyaa jaIvaalaa–jaIva laavaNaaáyaa p`omaL maOi~NaI malaa imaLalyaaº kaoNaI Garcyaa AazvaNaIMnaI rDayalaa laagalaaoM kI lagaoca ekmaokaMnaa saava$na Gyaayacaaoº Aaja maI rDlao tr malaa saaMBaaLayacaI AaiNa ]Va kaoNaI rDlao tr maI itlaa samajaavayaacaIº KUp ekmaokaMnaa samajaUna GaotlaMº kaoNaI kQaI kaoNaavar icaDlao naahI vaa ragaavalao naahI sagaLo ekmaokaMcyaa lahana–sahana gaaoYTI samajaUna GyaayacaM pNa ho na@kI kI raoja kaoNaI naa kaoNaI “malaa GarI jaayacaM” Asa mhNaayaMca pNa sava-jaNa itlaa maaayaonao samajaavayaacaoº mhNajao ekMdrIt kaoNaacyaa Baavanaa ]caMbaLUna Aalyaa kI kaoNaI trI maI Aaho tuJyaasaazI¸ kaLjaI nakao k$ AsaM jaaNavaUna VayacaIº hLU hLU sagaLyaaMSaI p`omaacao¸ Baavanaocao AtUT Qaagao jaaoDlao gaolaoº mhNatat naa¸ ‘ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE’ AsaM jaNaU Aamacaa maO~IBaava Jaalaaº kQaI AsaM jaaNavalaM naahI kI hI maQyap`doSacaI¸ gaaovyaacaI¸ rayapUrcaI¸ caonna[-caI kI baulaZaNyaacaIº AamhI 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Aata ka^laojamaQyao ekmaokaMbaraobar jaa} laagalaao ekacyaa $mamaQyao tasana\tasa basaU laagalaaoº ek~ jaovaNa k$ laagalaaoº ek~ AByaasa¸ Asaa[-namaoMT¸ mastI sava-kahIº kaoNaapasaUna kahIhI lapUna naahI¸ sava-kahI hsat–KoLtº kaoNaacaI tbyaot barI nasaola tr itnao gaaoLyaa Gaotlyaa kI naahI¸ kahI Kalla kI naahI¸ yaavar sagaLyaaMcaI kTaxaanao najar AsaayacaIº Aata AamhI KUpca caaMgalyaa maOi~NaI Jaalaao Aahaotº ek~ isanaomaalaa jaaNa¸ QamaaMla krNaM ho Aata navaIna naahIº pirxaocyaavaoLI ra~ ra~ jaagaNaM to ma^gaI banavaNaMº eka ra~It sagaLa AByaasaËma jaaNaUna GaoNaMº ekMdrIt AamhI sagaLo $Llaao Aahaotº ekmaokaMnaa caaMgalyaap`karo samajaU Saktaoº sagaLyaa KUpca gaaoD Aahotº manaanao far hLvyaa¸ p`omaL Aahot¸ tovaZyaaca mastIKaor sauQdaº p`%yaokamaQyao ija&asaa dDlaolaI Aahoº sagaLyaaM eka hakot ‘Aao’ doNaaáyaa Aahotº AaiNa KUp kahI saaMgaNyaasaarKM – – – – – – – naM saMpNaar¸ na baaolata yaoNaarMº “Everyone HOSTEL LIFE” should ENJOY Cummins College of Engineering for Women manaacao baaola mana maaJao baaolatI Ê jara qaaMba maaJyaa laoka Ê pNa kaL saaMgatIÊ maja vaoL naahI eoka. nakao tI KocaaKocaÊ nakao tI QaavapLÊ hvao f@t malaaÊ maaJyaa manaacao to baL. nakao xaNaaoxaNaI tI kaTCaT ptMgaacaIÊ AnauBavaayacaI malaa tI saad iSaKraMcaI. badlato jaga saaMgao Ê badla svatÁlaa Ê ksao kaya kaoNaI Ê hrvaola AapNaalaa hr ek idvasaacaa rMgaÊ dMga navaanavaaÊ KuNaavataoya malaaÊ tao daona xaNaaMcaa ivasaavaa badlato vaatavarNaÊ badlato caohoroÊ Aaja baajaulaa kaoNaItrI Ê ]dyaa kaoNaI dusaroÊ ksaa daTlaa BaaovatI maaJyaa kaLacaa ivaLKa baalapNaIMcyaa AanaMdacaa mana Gaoto kanaaosaa kivata hI spurlaIÊ jaovha qaaMbaivalao yaa manaalaaÊ jar naahI AavaDlaI risakalaaÊ tr gaolao 3 tasa layaalaa ku.snaohla naorkr T.E. E&TC ‘B” Jwb‘moha Nutan Sali KSHITIJ 2014 EImÚm Jmoï>rMm eodQ> EImÚm Jmoï>rMr gwédmV AgVo. gwIXþ:ImÀ¶m g§J‘mMr hr doi AJXrM {d{MÌ AgVo. Aly§Mo ‘moVr AmR>dUrÀ¶m g§{YàH$memV M‘H$V AgVmV. åhUyZM gmè¶m§À¶m Am¶wî¶mV B§ÐYZw gmH$maV AgVmV. Amnbo XþamdVmV, Zdo JdgVmV. OJ ho AmnbM AgV§. ew^oÀN>m§Mr AmR>dUtMr {eXmoar KoD$Z nwT>o Om¶M§ AgV§. {‘iob gmW, H$moUr PQ>Ho$b hmV, OrdZ Ag§M AgV§, ‘§{Ob Amnbr, añVm Amnbm ho H$Yr {dgam¶M§ ZgV§. g§H$Q>mV gd© ~i EH$dQy>Z, JJZmbm {^S>m¶M§ AgV§. Vmao Jdgbo Var, ‘wim§Zm ‘mVrVM KÅ> R>odm¶M§ AgV§. g§H$Q>m§Zm ‘mV XoD$Z Amnb§ {ZemU§ ’$S>H$dm¶M§ AgV§. nmdgmV PmS>§ ’w$bVmV, CÝhmV Jwb‘moha ìhm¶M§ AgV§. 83 84 KSHITIJ 2014 Shreeja Nandy T.E. Mech The following was one of the topics given for creative writing in Mood Indigo2013 - ‘Just about Write’ 42 It is like God! If you write it numerically then four and two are related mathematically. When I have to memorize a phone number I pray that the sequence be as magical as this. Magical because be it a coupon number or a friend’s roll no. it can be memorised in a jiffy! Imagine the fiasco if after agreeing to save a friend’s attendance record one simply can’t recall his roll no. during roll call. Or we can say the number out loud as two and four and then we can dance all night long to it – Captain America for people who find it difficult to proceed conversation beyond the general weather. We all know about 1942 or I should say knew – when we studied history in school. Because all I can recall now is that it was the middle of WW II and that the Great Depression had ended that year. Talking of depression there was a little ray of hope for saas-bahu –saga bored audience in the form of Anil Kapoor’s telefilm 24. But the relief was some and not total (As it always happens with us and god!)And while we are at it there are 24 hours in a day. What can be more important than that? Another form of 42 is to be found in paintings. Together they become the ducks and flamingos in a pond, while separately 4 can be a sitting man (As they say God appears in different forms.) It would have been very convenient for me if there were 42 deities worshipped in India but that is just wishful thinking. And as for me I start my day with 42. Sometimes it signifies that it is 3 minutes to commencing of lectures and I have to walk faster and on days that feel adventurous it signifies that I have just three minutes to do the impossible – getting up from bed to sitting in class! DSC prize for South Asian Literature : Cyrus Mystry for Book “Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer” The prize, is given to the best work or translations of a work on or about the South Asian region. At the very edge of its many interlocking worlds, the city of Bombay conceals a near invisible community of Parsi corpse bearers, whose job it is to carry bodies of the deceased to the Towers of Silence. Segregated and shunned from society, often wretchedly poor, theirs is a lot that nobody would willingly espouse. Yet thats exactly what PhirozeElchidana, son of a revered Parsi priest, does when he falls in love with Sepideh, the daughter of an aging corpse bearer... Derived from a true story, Cyrus Mistrys extraordinary new novel is a moving account of tragic love that, at the same time, brings to vivid and unforgettable life the degradation experienced by those who inhabit the unforgiving margins of history. LIFESTYLE KSHITIJ 2014 Cummins College of Engineering for Women 85 86 KSHITIJ 2014 Cummins College of Engineering for Women For the women of tomorrow Dr. Atul Rakshe, Pune Ayurvedacharya, B.J., F.I.I.M., Maestro Di Ayurveda (Italy), Ayurveda Bhushan (2013) drraksheatul@gmail.com 091 9422034506 www.cozwecare.org Today’s Indian woman is probably the most outgoing, multi-tasking, family-oriented, active and responsible in the world. At the same time, women in India are found to have most unexpected physical, emotional and mental health issues. For the people in our nation, especially women, last 2 decades were like a roller-coaster ride. The changing lifestyle and food habits have started showing a strong and lasting impact on women’s health. Our women are falling prey to ailments and disorders regardless of their cast, creed and demographic status. What? Here are few important health concerns: Menstruation: These days, girls may have their first menstruation (menarche) at as early as even 10 years of their age. This might be an impact of changing hormones. So is the pattern of menstruation. Many of the girls do not menstruate ‘normally’. They may have excessive bleeding, scanty menses, painful periods, irregular menses and white discharge (Leucorrhoea). Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most frequently seen ailments among young women. PCOS has many signs like weight gain, unwanted hair growth, irregular periods, oily skin and dandruff. PCOS may result in Primary Infertility. Hair and skin: Pimples (Acne), under-eye dark circles, pigmentation are not less common. For skin and hair, women tend to try various shampoos, creams, lotions and popular products. These products have their own limited effects and side effects. Actually, the best skin and hair treatment is based on the correct ‘nourishment’. Obesity: KSHITIJ 2014 Dry hair, split ends, dandruff, lustreless hair, hairfall and premature greying of hair have become so common that almost every girl faces them. 87 88 KSHITIJ 2014 Though there has been a lot said and done about women’s obesity of late, it remains a very important health hazard. It affects the vitality, energy levels, hormones, fertility and welcomes diseases like Diabetes, Arthritis and high Blood pressure. Improper food habits and lifestyle are the main causes of women’s obesity. Anaemia: A study has proved that over 50% Indian women have less haemoglobin in their blood. This is regardless of the class. Students, politicians, educators, mothers almost all segments of society. Hypothyroidism, fatigue, stress, very dry skin, different types of cancers-the list can go very long. Why? Here are some very important reasons: Lack of physical activity: As soon as the girl turns 14, her physical activity reduces to minimum. Girls’ physical activity gets cut down due to sitting long hours, no cycling-sports-dancing-walking and very minimum household activity due to ‘studies-school-classes’. Junk food: India was never so foodie when it comes to ‘buying of food’ is concerned. Last 20 years have made girls and women get out of their homes for various reasons. Unfortunately, the available food options are only ones, which may feed and not nourish. Junk foods are generally very dry, contain high amounts of chemicals, salts and fats. Aerated soft drinks, noodles, pizzas, burgers and high amounts of tea and coffee have become a part of today’s women’s daily routine. Here are some facts about ‘junk’ food: ‘Big food brands hide harmful effects’: Centre for Science and Environment Junk foods contain very high levels of trans-fats, salts and sugar – which inevitably lead to severe ill health and diseases like obesity and diabetes. Here are some examples: Noodles: Single pack contains 3.5g of salt; daily recommended intake is 6g. Negligible fibers; 70% just carbohydrates. Super Noodles (Masala): 0.7g trans fats/100g though company claims zero trans fats Chips (Snack Smart): 3.7g trans fats/ 100g. Earlier sold as zero trans fats chips, but claim knocked off later Chicken Zinger: 16.9% fats; cAloo :8.3% fats. 35% calories in veg burger come from fats; 47% in non-veg WHO says an adult male can have 2.6g of trans fats a day, female 2.1g and a child 2.3g The NIN benchmark for maximum salt for one person is 6 gram, while the WHO puts it at 5 gram. The normal 80-gram packet of Maggi noodles that many of us gobble up almost on a daily basis has over 3.5 gram of salt – enough to take care of over 60 per cent of our daily salt intake. It released the results of laboratory tests carried out on 16 major food brands that the young particularly like, such as noodles, fried chicken and Aloo Bhujia. CSE’s director general Sunita Narain said that what makes junk food so unhealthy are the high Cummins College of Engineering for Women levels of salt, sugar, fats and carbohydrates in them. Our new study, which looks at the nutritional value of these foods, is to make people aware of what these foods really contain and what they will do to our health. Chemicals in daily life: Knowingly or unknowingly we use a large number of chemicals everyday. Shampoos, tooth pastes, creams, lotions, talcum powders, perfumes, deodorants, hair colours, soaps, mosquito repellent coils-liquids and any more. These chemicals have effects on health. They may induce allergies, asthma and even cancers. Change: How? Walk: Everyone can plan to walk for at least 40 minutes everyday. You don’t have go to a gym or even ‘go for a walk’. Find reasons to walk. Walk small distances regularly. Remain active: Keep active at home and at the workplace. Leave the chair and walk for few minutes after every 40 minutes. A set of 12 ‘Suryanamaskars’ everyday is highly recommended. It is easy, consumes less time and needs no equipments. Eat healthy: Try to take 3 to 4 small meals everyday. Remember, breakfast is the best meal of the day. Dinner should be as light as possible. Do not consume water, sweets or fruits immediately after food. Try to walk for a few minutes after each meal. Avoid dry food like chips, wafers, pohe, pizzas. Drink enough water. Try to eat at least one fruit every day and a leafy vegetable. Soak 4-5 almonds in water overnight and eat early morning with 2 walnuts, 2 dates, a few resins and 2-3 apricots. Dr. Atul Rakshe is the founder president of Shree Niramay Ayurveda Kendra and Beyond horizons health and social circle (BHHAS India). He is the convener of International Ayurveda Association (IAA) since 2001. He is the faculty and visiting consultant at Yukti (Portugal), Praanam (Spain), The heal school (Rome), Joytinat (Italy) and Ayurveda biologics (The Nederlands). He is the member of International Advisory board of The Ayurveda Federation South Afrca (TAFSA). He was the guest of honour of the first ‘Dolce India’ festival at Corinaldo Italy. He is the founder member of Societa Italiana Prof. Kulkarni Ayurveda (SIPKA) at Rimini, Italy. He was the Executive president and organizing secretary of many International and domestic Ayurveda conferences dedicated to ‘Evidence based Ayurveda’. He is associate editor of Deerghayu annual (Marathi) and Deerghayu International (Peer reviewed English journal for Ayurveda and health sciences). He has received the title Maestro di Ayurveda (Italy 2010), Ayurveda Parangat 2011, Ayurveda best research paper award 2013, International Ayurveda Bhushan award 2013. KSHITIJ 2014 Cut down salts, sugars and oils. A total recommended oil consumption per person per month is 600 ml! Avoid chemicals. Consult a doctor. 89 90 KSHITIJ 2014 Harshita Srivastava SE COMP C YOUTH LINGO Basic Rules Of Our Language (what you call- GRAMMAR) First, don’t spell conventionally. It’s not teens. It’s teenz. The golden rule: If it’s plural, replace the S with the Z. Add how many ever ‘z’s you want if it’s the last letter in the word. Such as boyzzzzzz, folkzzzzzz, galzzzzzzzz etc. Similarly, if it’s a word that begins with C, replace it with K. Kool? Use Abbreviation (Get yourself a crash course in it). The most important of them all is LOL - laugh out loud. Using LOL during a chat or in a text message indicatez ur kool. You don’t have to worry about Upper case or Lower case because most teenz are Case blind. lolzzzzz! You could also use ROTFL (rolling on the floor laughing), ROTFLWTIME (rolling on the floor with tears in my eyes. Boycott vowels and if there’s a double letter in the word, use just one or replace it with a vowel that sounds more like it. Sample: Look would become luk. Better wud bcum btr, ok? In fact, ok itself is considered a waste of a whole letter since O is understood, rather silent, when teenz say the word. So it’s just K. purged from teen lingo. So please spelt pl still sounds formal and hence to communicate the kool vibe, please is spelt pliss or plees, love is spelt lou, alright becomes awrite or aite and sorry becomes sowwie. You can start a sentence with Awwwww... and end with kissie wissie or huggie wuggie. You can also end with any number of question or exclamation marks because teens love being dramatic...awwww! so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not all teens use the wrong spelling because they want to save a few letters from being used, some of them use it to illustrate or stress the importance of magnitude of the emotion with which the word is said. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Soooooooooooooooooo Cuuuuuuute!!!!! Huggie Wuggie. Kissie! Teens don’t understand nouns. They have one word that refers to all material and abstract nouns - Thingie. And one word to be used as adjective - bling. Watz dat thingie u hd 2 do dis wk? Gimme ur thingie 2day. They have two words when they have to talk about someone - Dude or Babe. Hey luk, dat dude frm da dance thingie v wnt 2 las wk cald. He ‘nt wt dat bling babe NE mo. kool noooo?! lolzzzzzz! And here are a few universal one’s which have stuck despite the generation leap! All official or formal sounding words have been Cummins College of Engineering for Women Say What ???????? Emo (abbr., emotional. Originally a category of rock music, it now describes a dramatic person who listens to those songs.) “You’re usually called it if you seem like the depressed type.” My bad (n., my mistake) “If I make a bad pass at ball practice, I’ll say ‘My bad’ to a teammate.” -Scott, 16, Columbus, OH KSHITIJ 2014 Buggin - Acting strange. “Why you buggin?” Flossin’ - v. Show off one’s wealth - often while driving. “Now I’m just flossin’.” Give it up! - A request to applaud for something. “Gentlemen, give it up for . . .” Got the dragon - To have bad breath. Hot - Dangerous. “It’s hot up in here!” Let’s roll - A phrase used to express that it is time to leave. Peeps - Short for “peoples.” Meaning friends and family. Props to my peeps.” We’re up - Something said when it’s time to leave. “Hey, we’re up!” Weak - adj. No good, a bad situation. “This is weak. BF4L (abbr., best friends for life) “It’s how we sign off instant messenger. And we’ll say it to clear things up if we’ve had a fight.” Chillaxin (v., chillin’ combined with relaxin’) “My friends say it if I call them after sports practice to see what they’re doing.” MOS, DOS, POS (abbrs., mom over shoulder, dad over shoulder, parent over shoulder) 91 92 KSHITIJ 2014 “You don’t pick your parents; you don’t pick your partner.” What do you do when your favourite t.v. series has concluded its season, and the next one isn’t due until a couple of months? – You search for a new one. At a time when several of the extremely popular series ( read Breaking Bad , Castle , Sherlock, Downton Abbey etc.) are off air, it is indeed a tall order to find a replacement. For those of you, who love whodunits, add a generous helping of freakiness to it and wham! You get True Detective – the latest anthological drama based on crime. Remember Lincoln Lawyer? Loved the laconic but stellar Matthew McConaughey as a keeper of the law? Then there is all the more reason to cheer! Matthew McConaughey (Rust Cohle) shares the star cast with Woody Harrelson( Martin Hale) portraying a detective duo chasing a serial killer, while each one battling with his inner demons. The story opens with a silhouette setting fire to a field and then it switches to present day in an innocent room at the police headquarters. Just as the word predictable starts to creep into your mind and you have already imagined four steps further, there is a turn to the plot forcing you back to square one. And this happens every single time you start to trail off. (Kudos to the screenplay!)Another element that sets it apart from most of the crime thrillers is the degree of restraint in the narration. It is slow paced and reveals one aspect at a time, which makes you literally cry out loud! At the end of first episode we still don’t know how they operate, what is the plan of action, why Martin is unhappy in his marital relationship. Take another instance, at the very beginning Rust turns up drunk at Martin’s house. The how and why are revealed towards the end of the episode, which brings us to another aspect i.e. multiple timelines. There is a present day, the past where all the investigation took place and in the past two parallel timelines. (No I’m not trying to scare you off this show!) The most important scene in a whodunit is the crime scene and this one doesn’t disappoint. A ritualistic murder of a prostitute in the middle of a field may not sound fantastic but wait till you see it. A sense of foreboding and eeriness prevails throughout; landscapes feel barren even though they are lush green .Sometimes their patrol car is the only one on the road against the backdrop of factories. As if it is a line separating the good within and evil without. And not to forget the hypnotic note in which Rust delivers his realistic view of life, man and motive. While he doesn’t miss an opportunity to exert his view, Martin the god –fearing- guynext-door tries every to avoid it. The poker face of the former and the flinching of the later bring a smile to your face if not laughter. Surprisingly both the characters feel real , in light of our expectation of the actors to play just the opposite role. So settle in for an hour of mismatched duo, powerful story and delivery and unconventional cinematography every Sunday at 9PM on HBO defined. - Shreeja Nandy Cummins College of Engineering for Women PURUSHOTTAM AND FIRODIYA atre based play competition where the theatre basics are tested. Skills such as script writing and acting are the most important parts of the competition. Along with the appropriate presentation of the script, apt technical support is also considered as a part of judgement. Theatre disciplines and rules are mandatory to be followed and each team given a time of 60min to present themselves. No outside professional help is encouraged which make the students use their art in the most impressive forms. In 2013, Cummins College of Engineering for Women presented a play “RIHA” in the purushottam competition. It was written by Manjiri Godbole(B.E Computer) and directed by Shreya Apte(B.E Instrumentation). The play revolved around a widow (Nafisa Sheikh) whose husband was abducted and never returned back. It parallely depicts another woman (Zara Qureshi) whose brother was also missing. Nafisa tries to find her husband and is ready to go to the end of the world to find him. Whereas Zara has already given a closure to her as well as her family by believing her brother to be buried in an Unmarked Grave. The story begins with Nafisa believing that her husband is buried in the same grave where Zara and her family think her brother is buried. It is a story of letting go of your past and sccepting the present for a better future. The prizes won for “RIHA ” are: Best Writing : Consolation: Manjiri Godbole (B.E. Computer) Best Set Designing: Vibha Kalantri (T.E E&TC). Firodiya Karandak on the other hand is as good as a short Film making experience which not only includes the theatre basics but also many more technical and art events to help the story move around. A live band, a group of dancers, a big and impressive set and various light effects define Firodiya. Firodiya is a stage where you can present all the artforms you ever knew and which deserve a recognition. In 2013, Cummins College of Engineering for Women presented a play “Aur Koi Aasama Hoga” in the firodiya competition. It was written by Manjiri Godbole(B.E Computer) and directed by Nupur Lele(B.E Computer). The play revolved around two rag pickers (girls) and their dreams about how they would be leading a life ahead. It start- ed with both of them to believe in all the things around them and trusting that the world was definitely a good place to live. They dream of owning a house which they would get if they win a competiton advertized by a chocolate manufacturing company. The elder of the two gets caught up in human trafficking while searching for the key to her dreams and in a moment all her dreams are shattered. The younger of the two is able to locate her missing elder sister only to return back alone. It is a play depicts relation between two sisters and their love for each other. The prizes won for “Aur Koi Aasama Hoga” are: Best Singer : Shruti Kharwandikar (T.E Instrumentation) Best actor in negative role : Ketki Hanamshet (T.E Mechanical) Best Set Design : Vibha Kalantri (T.E E&TC) KSHITIJ 2014 Purushottam Karandak and Firodiya Karandak are the two most prestigious intercollege play competitions in Pune. Colleges all over the city are proud and eager to be a part of these competitions. Purushottam Karandak is a the- 93 94 KSHITIJ 2014 Q1- How do you spend your free time in college? A- cold coffee in canteen with friends B- write write ups C- Check out notice boards for different competitions notices or listen to other college students who have come for publicity Q2- What you do when you go home or back to hostel after college? A- Sleep as you were up for most of the night watching movies or series / Have food & 4’o’ clock tea B- Revise college notes and do homework C- Surf on the net Q3- What type of series do you watch? A- Comedy nights with Kapil B- Gyan Drashan channel C- Murder mysteries / Vampire Diaries or supernatural Q4- How active are you in college activities? and in which? A- Sports B- Sit idle C- Cultural or Technical (choose your favorite) Q5- What plans do you have after you complete your B.E.? A- Start your own business B- Get placed C- M.S./M.Tech/MBA Answer: A-relaxed lifestyle B-serious lifestyle C-curious lifestyle