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ANUBHOOTI TEAM

EditorsSanjay KumarRajath Bhat

Profiles TeamAavish NaikMukesh MehtaArun KumarBharat Kumar B V

Advertising TeamAkash Nigam

Design TeamMakarand M KaneRahul K Mishra

Supporting MembersAmol DaniTej VohraKrishnan Pandalai

Disclaimer Note

All the works published here are the copyrights of the respective authors. Any matter or issue if raised, should be addressed to them. Editors, Art Director and Publisher have no legal bindings with text published. The Year Book is for private circulation only. No commercial benefits should be drawn.

Have you wondered why it takes a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? Isn’t it is because of the fond memories and attachment you share ?

Be it the zestful Holi celebrations or the countless discussions over the mess table, each one of you would have had some experiences to take away from your stay here at H1. Should you choose to reminisce about your life at IIT think about these incidents. Think about the favorite IPL team you supported and the excitement in the TV room when your team won. Think about friends you made and the funny incidents you shared. Cherish the memories of playing football under floodlights. Go back in time to the late night birthday celebrations and the canteen treats that followed. Remember the sad times, the happy times and when the nostalgia is at its peak, smile in comfort that these memories can never be taken away from you.

We would like to thank all the the inmates for their contributions, helping us put together this magazine, Anubhooti, a souvenir, reminding you of the roller coaster time you enjoyed here at H1 and at IIT Bombay.

On behalf of the H1 family, wish you all happy reading.

Editorial Team,Anubhooti

From Editor’s Desk

CONTENTS 1

6 COUNCIL SPACE

29 EXPRESSIONS

30 Why I like Naruto !Gautam Shenoy

33 Still I Love My CountryShashank Gupta

35 Flight of the Economy, Plight of the Poor

Anand Pratik

39 The PianoIman Mukherjee

41 Pen is Indeed Mightier than SwordTej Vohra

43 When Do We Stop Asking Why?Krishnan Srinivasarengan

47 Tech GC 2009 -10Manav Kataria

48 ‘Won Liners’ by Me, Myself

and Im(e)an ! Iman Mukherjee

CONTENTS 2

49 Miles to go before I sleepShashank Gupta

41 How can Cricket be so Popular in

India?Krishnan Srinivasrengan

56 ‘Seriously’ Funny WorldSantosh Phulare

57 Think Before You Follow!Makarand M Kane

60 Stop Waiting, Start WorkingNikunj Bhagat

62 The IFL Experience Iman Mukherjee

64 Thoughts in a Mumbai local trainManan Dedhia

66 One line can tell a lot :)Rohit Kamath

Tej Vohra

67 To err is “divine”, to forgive is

“human”Tej Vohra

70 The Monsoon TrekKrishnan Srinivaserangan

73 My Trip to HyderabadAbhisekh Sankaran

78 The Solitary GirlNitin Soni

78 A Cocktail of creativity, philosophy and discipline

Nitin Soni

81 PROFILES

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Hostel Awards 2009-10

1. Person of the Year (Cultural)Nitin SoniJai Narayan Tripathi2. Person of the Year (Organizational)Rohit Kamath3. Best Office BearerNikunj Bhagat4. Passing Out ColorBiswajit PandaSachin Randive

COLORSSports:1. Krishnan Srinivasarengan2. Rahul MishraCultural:1. Viral Thaker2. Avish NayakOrganizational:1. Manav Kataria2. Amol Dani3. Tej Vohra4. Nitin Soni

SPECIAL MENTION:Sports:1. Iman Mukherjee2. N Muniappan3. Abhijit Joshi4. Bhushan VirkarCultural: 1. Badri Narayan Patro2. Vinayak Sharma3. Rohit Kamath4. Surinder Pal Kainth5. Rajath Bhat6. Makarand Kane7. Iman MukherjeeOrganizational:1. Prakash Jain2. Anand Pratik

The awards are given following the rules and regulations given in the Constitution of Hostel-1. The inmates are selected by the Awards Committee- appointed by the Students’ Council of Year 2009-10 after scrutinizing the nominations. The Best Office Bearer Award has been decided on the basis of voting by hostel residents on 25th March, 2009.

The Award Committee constituted of the following members:1. Makarand M Kane2. Abhisekh Sankaran3. Swaroop Joshi4. Suryaprakash Upadhyay 5. Manu Tiwari6. Nitin Sagar7. Vijayakumar R P

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It gives me great pleasure to write this message for ANUBHUTI 2010, the yearly magazine of H1. It is indeed very gratifying to note that this activity has become a yearly event in H1 and is released during the Hostel Day. The magazine captures the experiences of the inmates during their stay in H1. It also gives an opportunity for the inmates to showcase their talent to reflect their thoughts. I would also like to thank the council for their selfless work to manage and take care of the hostel. The work of the council is challenging wherein they have to heed to the demands of the inmates and also manage their academics. It was indeed heartening to note that, as in the past, the current council also gave their full support in running the hostel affairs smoothly. This year a major change that was seen was the shift to adopting private mess in H1. The inmates have accepted

this change gratefully and hopefully are enjoying good food. I take this opportunity to wish all the passing out inmates best of luck for their future journey in life.

I am sure that the graduating inmates will cherish the

ANUBHUTI copy that they will take with them. All though they are moving out of H1, they are always welcome in the future to H1 to remember their stay

and association. Finally, I would like to appreciate

the effort and dedication put in by the editorial team

of ANUBHUTI 2010.

K. V. Venkatesh

Message from Warden

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I wish you all the best in the years following your presidency! I feel that you all must have put some efforts / contribution to this hostel in many ways. I would like to thanks the council for their contribution and giving valuable time to the hostel.

Most of you would definitely agree that the days you have spent in this hostel must be comfortable and certainly the best days of your lives.

Message from Hall Manager

God’s Blessings to you all as you move onto the next part of

your journey. May you be carried the wings

of angels!

With warmest wishes,

Prasad Matkar


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Message from Warden’s nominee

I am thankful to the council 2009-10 and the Warden of H1 who had shown their

confidence and honored me as Warden’s Nominee to serve my beloved hostel. It was indeed a great pleasure to contribute to the hostel affairs consecutively for two years, firstly as a Maintenance Councilor and now as Warden’s Nominee. Being a part of two councils, it was a nice experience to see two different ways of approaching the same goal – betterment of H-1.

Over the years, H-1 has raised its reputation as an active hostel in the institute. H-1 is a mix of both worlds; it has peaceful, calm environment as well as it has cheerful environment during cultural and sports activities. I always consider myself fortunate to be in H-1, which is my second home.

During the tenure as Maintenance Councilor, work involved overall administration and obviously the maintenance of the hostel equipments & facilities. This responsibility unknowingly enriched my personality with

qualities like tremendous patience, leadership, risk

taking ability, decision making, and source of

motivation.

This year, I worked with the new council as a Warden’s Nominee. It was great, to see

the zeal & dedication with which the council

members worked to make H-1 a proud place. Their

efforts are truly commendable.

I would also like to appreciate the efforts of Anubhooti team. All credits to the enthusiasm and their dedication to bring out this magazine.

To summarize, I simply say that the stay in H-1 was certainly the very good phase of my life. These memories would be cherished life-long.

Regards,

Biswajit Panda

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Message from the General SecretaryMy Hostel : Hostel One : Queen

of the campus

H1 has its own place in the history of IITB as it was the first

hostel to come up in the IITB premises. Decades gone by, H1 stands proud amongst all the other hostels as having a distinct vibrant , interactive and a serene atmosphere, ideal for housing research students both in Masters and PhDs.

I was very impressed with the culture of H1 when I first got the hostel and soon I cherished a dream of leading my hostel in the coming days. Today as I write this report, a sense of satisfaction grapples me, I feel proud of being the representative of a hostel which houses brightest minds in the country who, with whom I lived as a family from the time I got admission in this great institute. I thank all the inmates and alumni, who through their continuous efforts for H-1’s improvement, made the hostel reach a level of enlightenment that

it is today.

The friendly and supportive nature

of inmates made working for the hostel a pleasant e x p e r i e n c e . Personally I learnt a lot from

the experience and it will be my

one of the most cherished memories

I shall carry along.

Addressing and interacting with inmates, facilitating council meetings, managing mess workers, managing budget, inviting quotations through a formal process, organising functions, celebrating victories, festivals, organising workshops and orientations, encouraging inmates to participate etc, all of these have only brought out the best within me.

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institute, depicted through comic illustrations, was handed over to all the fresher inmates.

On the cultural front, H1 soon got into the groove with celebration of Independence day followed by Ganesh Festival. Ganesha celebration witnessed participation from large number of inmates for Eco-friendly Ganesha Idol making, strotra chanting, daily poojas, and finally the visarjan saw all inmates dancing to the drum beats on their way out to the Powai Lake .

This set the trigger for enthusiasm among the inmates and soon hostel witnessed overwhelming participation in Dussera, Deepawali and many other festivals that followed.

To identify H1 talents and to encourage participation a Freshie Cultural Night and a Hostel Idol competition was held. There was participation from the hostel in almost all the cultural GCs with H1 standing second in the PG Cult GC ranking.

Also four institute level workshops: one in Fine Arts and three for music were held.

Among institute events like Swar Sandhya, Kaladarshan etc., H1 inmates got a platform to showcase their talent. Also, PAF too saw inmates’ participation in fine-arts,

with already some experience of working for the hostel as a part of the welfare team for the previous council. Also we were already looking after the delivery of the equipment like washing machines, geysers, aquaguards and other items purchased by the previous council under the funds given by the institute.

The foremost problem to hit us was the voluntary shifting of elected members of the council from H1 to H12 and H13. That left the council stranded as the Web and Alumni Secretary, Mess Secretary and Cultural Secretary prepared to leave. The onus was on the remaining council to fill the vacant council positions. Finally the council nominated people for vacant posts of Cultural Councillor, Mess Councillor, Mess Secretary and Computer Secretary.

We started off with the aim of increasing participation and awareness of the inmates regarding the institute level workshops and General Championship events.

Hence a thoroughly planned Freshie Orientation was conducted for the freshers batch of 2009, with each council, including the General Secretary coming up with their plans aided by a presentation. Also, a rule book describing the rules of the hostel and the facilties offered both by the hostel and the

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prod and dance.

In the intercollegiate events, inmates participated in IIMB’s cult fest Unmaad and IIMA’s cult fest CHAOS.

A new Octapad and an Electronic Tanpura in the music room, new books in library and two new notice boards were procured. Also all the library books were catalogued.

I would like to thank our Cultural Councillor Rohit Kamath, Cultural Secretaries Vishal Vispute and Amol Dani, Library and Literary Secretary Krishnan Pandalai and Music Secretary Anand Pratik for the efforts that they took.

The cultural scenario has never been such vibrant before, thanks to their efforts.

On the Sports front, the determination of the Sports Co Tej Vohra and Secys Iman Mukherjee and Bhushan Virkar saw H1 sports enthusiasts brought to various sports camps followed by regular practising for the GCs well ahead in time. Consequently H1 approached every GC it participated with aggression which saw it making a mark in all of the 12 GCs it participated. Sports Co’s vision of resurrecting a Hockey Team for H1 was well achieved with H1 participating in both Sophie Hockey and Hockey GC with 16 players

overall.

Also, 5 players from H1 made it to the inter IIT sports training camp. During the tenure, a Basketball full court was constructed. A full Hockey kit comprising of Hockey sticks and protective gear, a new bench press for the Gymnasium, a multi-purpose exercise machine, weighing machine, twisting machine, bench press, weights and a Pool table were procured by the sports council. The Sports Council’s hard work did fructify and their efforts have resulted in unprecedented surge in participation in various sports from the Hostel.

They say it takes a good diet to remain mentally, physically and psychologically healthy. Hence comes the importance of mess. When we took charge our mess was still run by central government employed mess workers. Initially the mess burden was all onto our mess secretary Teja for more than two months .Then later he was joined by Mess Co Sachin and another Mess Secy Amit. Still, managing the non complying Mess workers was a big challenge. Finally our Council decided to go for privatisation and by december end our mess became a fully functional privatised mess with V.N. Caterers


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given the contract as per the legal process of tendering.

Mess Council introduced many new measures both before and after the mess privatisation like introduction of Chaas, Cocum and Rasna in the summers and wheat bread in tiffin. Also many new cuisines were introduced. Several polls were taken to induct the feedback of inmates regarding various items. Overall a balanced, nutritious and tasty food menu was strived for. Also despite of high inflation, the mess council successfully maintained the monthly mess bills within bounds.Kudos to them for their hard work.

Maintenance Council comprising of Maint-Co Nikunj Bhagat and secretaries Abhijeet and Rahul undertook the task of maintaining H1 hygienic and clean. Also the council did a great job in maintaining gardens and aquarium considering the fact that it went without a Garden and Aquarium secy throughout the tenure.

To curb the injudicious use of resources like water and electricity, maintenance council created awareness amongst inmates by putting up posters calling for saving precious resources. Also electronic timers were inducted in Geyser circuit to save electricity. Random checks of hostel rooms

were done periodically to nab those guilty of wasting electricity. The housekeeping personnel, along with the supervisor were kept on strict vigilance.

The start of the tenure saw purchase of Tata Sky Dish TV connection for inmates to watch matches hassle free and uninterrupted. Also new washing machines, aquaguards and geysers were procured. Recently a vacuum cleaner and speakers for TV room were purchased and the PA system was repaired. I guess all inmates will agree to the hard work put up by the maintenance council.

Computer Councillor Sanket and Computer Secretary Gautam were one of the busiest council members throughout regarding the frequency of tasks they undertook. Old worn-out switches and connections ensured that the computer council rush to inmates’ rescue whenever their internet connectivity went down. Finally LAN renovation was done in H1 and new computers were procured for the computer room. Thanks to the Computer Council’s efforts, H1 boasts of one of the best computer rooms in the institute.

On social front, the council did its bit by collecting voluntary donations from the inmates for the orphanage VATSALYA. Also hostel inmates including council members

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regularly attended sessions for NGOs like UDAAN, KRITAGNYATA and ABHYASIKA.

Our council throughout our tenure tried to maintain transparency in our working and minutes of meetings were regularly posted on forum and notice boards.

I hope inmates have found the working of the council hitherto satisfactory.

My Best Wishes to all passing out H1 inmates for their future. Hope they keep in touch with the inmates and with this Hostel.

Regards

Nitin Soni


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From the desk of Cultural Council

This was a splendid year for the overall cultural scene of H1. While institute

level competitions brought out the competitive spirit and team work abilities of the people, festivals celebrated within the hostel gave the feeling of being at home. We have tried our best to keep a very good balance between both type of events and H1 junta has actively participated in both. When we took over as the cultural council, our first target was to motivate people to actively participate in various cultural events in the institute and within our hostel. Due to busy schedules, H1 inmates hardly find time for extra activities and when they have time they hardly keep track of the cultural events. So we focused mainly on publicity of the events.

We had a motivating orientation session for the new entrants of H1, introducing them to the various cultural activities and their respective clubs. Data related to the interests and hobbies of each inmate was collected which proved to be very useful in identifying the right talents during GCs. This was followed by fresher’s welcome party where the new inmates were

given an opportunity to showcase their talents which included

dance performance, singing, poetry

and jokes recitation by many. This triggered the

hidden energy within them and

as one of the inmates mentioned that they were

back to enjoying the student life. Orientations were also held for individual genres of cultural events such as Dramatics, Film making, Music, Debating, Dance and Fine arts.

Due to sudden break out of swine flu and due to restrictions from the institute we could not celebrate Dahi Handi. But this did not stop us from celebrating our Independence Day with full enthusiasm and patriotism.

As a tradition Eco Ganesha idol was made in H1 by our inmates and Ganesh utsav was celebrated in full swing for five days with bhajans and Atharvasheersha recitation from inmates. Nashik dhols were

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arranged for and inmates forgot their submissions/tensions while dancing in the Visarjan procession.

H1’s first ever drama team was formed and they brilliantly performed in the sophie prod event of dramatics. The same play written

by Surinder Pal Singh was selected among top six plays for the national level drama competition held at the fest Unmaad of IIM Bangalore.

Since H1 had no participation in debating events a work shop was organized and a mock debating competition was organized in coordination with Hostel 12. Very good debaters were identified in both Hindi and English sections

who won almost all the rounds of debating and H1 secured 5th position overall in the debating league.

On the day of Dussera, H1 saw a Ravana effigy burning as a symbolic gesture of the good conquering

over the evil. Many people volunteered to prepare Ravana effigy. As per the tradition of H1, a beautiful ‘Pookkalam’ (rangoli of flowers) was prepared by our Keralite friends, on the occasion of Onam.

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and reached the fort at 6am. The scenes of hills covered by clouds were breath taking. We couldn’t believe our eyes if what we could see was reality or some fantasy land from the movie LOTR. While it was raining heavily, we had our lunch of hot Pitla Bhakri with spicy chutney in a small hut. It was a memorable trip and we were back in the campus by 9:30pm for dinner.

H1 was clubbed with H12 for the dance GC. The theme of the p e r f o r m a n c e was humorous where Ravana tries to go back in time and win over Sita in a swayamvar but ends up in ‘Rakhi ka Swayamvar’. Sachin Randhive and Aavish Naik were among the lead dancers supported by Badri Narayan, Viral Thaker and others in acting. The team, which also included a few council members, gave an entertaining performance in the convocation hall and won the third prize. H1 also participated in the movie making GC with a short film titled ‘Our Mess’.

Festival of lights Diwali was celebrated by decorating the hostel with traditional lamps. Pooja of Goddesses Lakshmi was also performed followed by bursting of crackers. Carols were sung by the

inmates to celebrate Christmas and also had delicious snacks and cool drinks. New Year was celebrated in a new way. Music was arranged in the footer ground where few of our inmates came forward to showcase their DJing talent. It was a fun filled celebration where we had hot samosas and Jalebis and danced to the music around the camp fire.

On the Republic Day, we had a flag hoisting ceremony followed by Associate Warden’s address to H1ites. The program also saw enthusiastic freshers voicing their views about India and our responsibilities

towards her betterment. This time we gave a new definition to our patriotism - we initiated a money collection drive to help an orphanage. People contributed whole heartedly and H1 made a contribution of around 16000 rupees for the orphanage, ‘Vatsalya’.

Indian classical music workshop was organized in coordination with the music club Saaz. All the music lovers attended and learnt different technicalities of appreciating the Carnatic form of classical music. For the first time Word games GC and Painting workshop was conducted in our mess to increase

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the participation from H1. Twelve members participated in each of this event.

H1 won more GC points for the year when Jai Narayan and Nitin Soni

won the third prize in the creative writing GC. This was followed by Krishnan S winning 4th position in the 2nd round of photography GC and Manav Kataria winning 3rd position in the 3rd round.

The singing competition of H1, The Hostel Idol, was organized in the month of March. Our very own Abhisekh Sankaran judged the event and Iman Mukherjee became the new hostel Idol. Holi celebration stood up to its expectation, where

along with natural colors, one could see people’s clothes flying around. One could not stop the energetic H1ites from dragging unaware people, just out of their sleep, right into the mud pond. T-shirt design

competition was held. Though the response was less, we got a very vibrant design for our hostel T-shirt.

We encouraged people to participate in other institute

Events such as Swar Sandhya and Kaladarshan. More than ten paintings and many photographs by H1 inmates were exhibited in Kaladarshan. This year also we had significant participation in PAF.

Skit Performance in Sophie Prod GC


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Vishal Vispute

Music Secretay: Anand Pratik

Library & Literature Secretary:

Krishnan Pandalai

Two in dance and many others participated in Fine arts and Prod of PAF.

We have procured an Octopad, a guitar processor and a Tanpura for the music room. This will further enrich all genres of music in H1. H1 library has around 1000 books distributed among many genres. The library was not a very popular place, due to which it was somewhat in a state of neglect. Now it has been cleaned and all the books are arranged according to genre and the library is functional again. The library remained open for 3 days a week which encouraged many people to visit it and issue books. Many new books have also been procured to cover wider tastes of the readers.

At the end, we would like to thank our Warden and Associate Warden for their valuable suggestions and moral support throughout our tenure. We would also like to thank all the inmates especially those who contributed in multiple genres of Cultural activities and made our experience a memorable one. It was a very good learning experience for all of us and we hope that in future H1 performs even better on the cultural scene of the institute.

Cultural Council

Councillor: Rohit Kamath

Secretaries: Amol Dani

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From the desk of Maintenance Council

The Maintenance Council took charge in April 2009. The three of us, still in

our first year then, had little idea of what lies ahead. Faced with the challenge of managing an entire hostel with over 300 inmates, seemed tremendous. But the belief we had in each other and our desire to do something good for the hostel helped us sail through. The contr ibutions given to the hostel by the previous Maintenance Team was commendable and our main role was to preserve what’s already in place and to add our bit to make the hostel a wonderful place to stay. At the outset, we arranged for the renovation of 2nd floor bathrooms in the 3rd wing, which were in utterly unhygienic conditions. Initiatives were taken to ensure that the housekeepers have the necessary amenities like naphthalene balls, scent balls etc. We have revised the schedule of the daily work of the housekeepers keeping in mind the hostel maintenance requirements and the inmates’ availability and above all we made sure that duties are rendered on time.

As and when the new batch arrived, we mobilized ourselves

to make them aware of the hostel facilities, culture, rules and

regulation. The entire council got involved

in preparing for the Freshie O r i e n t a t i o n , which was quite a success

and helped the inmates blend in with

the new atmosphere. Freshie Orientation also helped us to pick out enthusiastic people, who wanted to volunteer for H1 maintenance activities and would probably be our successors next year. We cashed this opportunity to spread awareness among students about energy and water conservation, through posters and by sending mails on the forum. The efforts were appreciated by the inmates but they weren’t effective in curbing the enormous electricity that the hostel consumes. Still, our hopes were high and we tried to reduce the usage of power hungry geysers by installing electronic and mechanical timers in some wings. This effort was highly commended by the Head of Electrical Maintenance but could


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not be pursued further, because the institute has decided to install solar water heaters in our hostel within a couple of months.

This year the institute started Technical GC events. We motivated the students to participate in these events and also funded their activities. It was a moment to cherish, when our hostel stood second in the event Transformers. To revive the zeal among the students for Tech competitions, in the GBM we proposed for the creation of a post of Tech Secretary, which was unanimously accepted.

We took the initiative to organise the long neglected cycle stand, it was a real mess with no order and discipline before we intervened. We must say it was one of the most difficult tasks that we handled during our tenure. It was really difficult to induce sense of responsibility in few residents and the cycles were always parked out of place which created a lot of obstruction for the others. Apart from few glitches, we received a lot of support and co-operation from the students, which kept us always motivated all along.

During our tenure, we equipped the hostel with extra washing machines, geysers, new public announcement system, a home theatre system and vacuum cleaners.

We wish to thank our

housekeepers (Asif, Suresh, Prakash, Prashant, Gautam, Dheeraj-ji, Powar, etc) for their meticulous work throughout the year to keep H1 neat and tidy. It was their commendable dedication that they always turned up right on time for their work, be it any day or festival and hardly gave us any chance to complain. We must also call for a special round of applause for our Hall Manager, Mr. Prasad Matkar and Verghese-ji for helping us during all the highs and lows throughout our tenure. Their contribution to the hostel functioning is absolutely invaluable. Lastly we wish to thank the H1 residents for giving us a chance to serve this hostel and for making our stay in IIT a memorable experience.

Before signing out, we would once again like to request all the H1 residents, current and future, to use the valuable resources like electricity and water judiciously. We must always remember that what we take for granted may not be even available to others.

“TODAY’S WASTAGE IS TOMORROW’S SHORTAGE”

“A THING WHICH BURNS NEVER RETURNS”

Maintenance Council

Councillor: Nikunj Bhagat

Secretaries: Abhijeet Kadam

Rahul Agarwal

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From the desk of Mess Council

Mess is the place where food is served and food is essential

for survival. So the responsibilities of the mess council are perhaps the toughest in any hostel. Even the smallest of issues, invites loud reactions from the inmates. Also managing the mess workers is another pain in the neck. We decided to join nevertheless and tackle problems as they come. And so we have a story to tell.

When we took charge, situation of mess was far from proper. So our first task was to improve the status of the mess. It took us around a month to regain discipline in menu, working of mess, workers shift, etc. Later we were faced with inflation related issues. So, after careful analysis we could find some drawbacks in the then existing system. So firstly, we introduced a card system which helped us in regulating the consumption of food & in turn to maintain the mess bill in spite of inflation. Also we modified raw material purchase system which helped us buy commodities of daily use at lower prices that helped to reduce mess bills by a reasonable amount. Similar initiatives were taken up in optimizing

consumption of non-veg dishes. Maintaining weekly stock register,

daily count, wastage register and monitoring rebate

register also helped us to control

mess bill.

D e c i d i n g the mess menu

was a very tedious task. Maintaining a menu

that satisfied every inmate from every region was very difficult. But regular polling helped us to reduce disputes about mess menu. We introduced seasonal items, new vegetables, salads, new chat/fast food items, cold drinks in summer, various kinds of sweets, wheat bread etc.

Due to change in institute policy, H1 mess was privatised in the later half of the academic year.

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our concerns were given proper attention by the hostel co-ordination unit. After the finalization of the contractor, council had to ensure proper handover and stock audit of the mess. However, along with the G Sec., all this was done smoothly. A grand farewell party was organised for

the mess staff.

The council along with many other things faced a lot of criticism and even a hunger strike. However, like the saying “the show must go on”, the council worked relentlessly to ensure that their inmates get delicious and healthy food.

Mess Council

Councillor: Sachin Randive

Secretaries: Amit Sata

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From the desk of Sports Council

A healthy mind resides only in a healthy body.

With this as our motto and inspiration, we took charge of

the sports affairs of H1 and immediately got working. To begin with, a lot of follow-up was done. A new pool table and new s o p h i s t i c a t e d gym equipments and weights were procured immediately. Also an intra-hostel cricket tournament “Googly” was conducted in May and was a big success. The start of the new academic year brought along with it a new set of unforeseen challenges. The whole structure of sports GC was revamped. On top of it, with most sports stars of H1 passing out or shifting to other hostels, the council was left with the task of identifying new talent from amongst the new inmates of H1. So we set about this task seriously and with 5 players making it to inter IIT camp, we believe that we have succeeded in this task.

This year H1 participated in 12 sports GCs – badminton, tennis, table tennis, squash, water-polo,

volleyball, board games (carom + chess), volleyball, cricket, football,

basketball and hockey. We especially take pride

to state that H1 made it to the quarter finals of water polo and hockey.

Many players made it to the

round of best 16 and further, in badminton,

carom, chess and table tennis. Also, H1 participated for only the second time in hockey GC since its inception.

Back home, a new basket ball court was constructed near the volley ball court. With this, H1 is the only hostel in the institute to have its very own full basketball court. Also, high quality acrylic boards were acquired for the same. New lights were installed at the footer ground as well as the volley + basky court and all the power hungry, short living halogen lamps throughout the hostel were replaced by the brighter and more energy efficient metal halide lamps. This has increased the enthusiasm of inmates as now


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they can practice even at night. The gym is now up to date with the addition of pull up bars, weighing machine, weights and associated accessories, the new sophisticated multi purpose exercise machine,

bench press and twist machine. The old and dilapidated TT rackets were replaced by new high quality rackets. The cricket kit was made complete with the addition of new protective gear and a bat. New poles were installed at volleyball court. Also an entire hockey kit was procured with specialised sticks for different playing positions and protective gear. Towards the end, with IPL fever catching everyone, another intra-hostel cricket tournament – HPL was conducted. It was an unprecedented success, with participation of 10 teams.

As mentioned earlier, 5 players from H1 made it to the inter IIT sports training camp. Krishnan S (cricket) even made it to the team. The others are Abhijit Joshi (table tennis), Munniappan N (hockey), Russell Q and Praveen (volleyball). We hope that this number increases

in future.

We conclude this report with the famous saying:

‘1’ for all and all for ‘1’

Sports Council

Councillor: Tej Vohra

Secretaries: Bhushan Virkar

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From the desk of Computer CouncilThe 2009 -10 was a very

interesting year to be in the computer council

of Hostel 1 as a lot of changes happened for the best, in that year.

Before get into that, let us explain how things were and the journey forth, to how things are now.

W h e n we first got the reins of C o m p u t e r Council, the situation was as follows.

The computer room had four computers, most of them not working properly due to hardware defects. People who wanted to use the net after 12 am (due to LAN BAN) were seen with their laptops inside. The ethernet cable structure of Hostel 1 was prone to a lot of problems. In fact there was also an infamous 23:40 LAN Shutdown problem that persisted for many months.

IP conflicts were on the rise, computer bombardments would result in many people losing connectivity. To add a moot point, there were only two of us to handle it (Though we should have had another Computer Secretary as per

constitution norms).

Our Journey starts here. The first thing

we did was to fix the existing

computers in the computer room. And a new server

machine was bought. But we

were back to square one because of the older

machines, which were so bad, that we could not repair them beyond a point.

Then we along with other hostels residents met the members of CC(Computer Centre) and MLC(Middle Layer Committee). Luckily a new draft was underway. Two major developments saw the coming of a new age in the computer council in the various discussions.

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cables in the infrastructure and 2 ports per room. We ensured that this transition went as smoothly as possible and after 3 months to till date we have a very robust wired network in Hostel 1. We also fixed the loose ends as far as revamping was concerned and after it was done, we haven’t received a single complaint as far as network is concerned. Also the infamous 23:40 LAN problem vanished due to this!!

The second development was the sanctioning of new computers in Hostel 1. The CC agreed to make the procurement on the condition that the MLC members are allowed to inspect the rooms and discuss how many new computers are required and the security arrangements be looked after. We and the MLC members came to a mutual agreement that 9 computers (Including the server) should suffice for our room, given the space and necessity constraints. So we called the carpenter and decided on the cabinet designs. After 3 months, the cabinets were ready (We are making this sound easy, but there was a lot of misunderstanding here and there which we had to handle). Then we spent our time setting up the machines. This was no easy task as we had to set up each and every machine and set up the NIS, NFS, FTP servers on them. Also

the security arrangements made it difficult for us to easily repair the machines if the need arose. Still we persevered and after setting up NIS logins, attaching USB cables and cleaning the room, we got an excellent computer room.

In addition to this, we procured a few tools to maintain the machines including a star screwdriver set, LAN Tester, SMPS tester etc.

So in this one year, a lot of problems that existed were solved and we ended up on the greener side of the grass. A few things we could not do due to lack of time were to hold a LINUX awareness session and to scrap the old machines. Hopefully this will be on the new council’s agenda.

So all said and done it seems quite a lot. There were times when we had to choose between our academic work and council work. However with a sense of enthusiasm and responsibility, all went well as far as we were concerned.

Wishing the new computer council the best during their tenure.

Computer Council

Councillor: Sanket M Lad

Secretary: Gautam Shenoy

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Kishimoto, it is a story of a boy (Naruto), who has a mysterious and dangerous power, wanting and aspiring to be the best shinobiz (ninja) in the country. And as the story progresses, we see his development from a seemingly useless misfit all the way to being

the most powerful being on the planet.

Elemental and other forms of magic called Ninjutsu are a common tool that are frequently seen in the series in addition to a variety of other techniques. Hell, there is even a technique that allows you to bind an opponent by manipulating his shadow of all things. But this is not alone what

Rasengan!! Tsukuyomi!! Chidori!! Heard of these before? If so then Naruto

needs no introduction. For the rest of the frogs in the well, Naruto is one of the most popular Japanese Shonen(Boys) anime and manga(Japanese Comic) series ever made, frequently claiming #1 on the polls. Introduced by Japanese author Mr. Masashi

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makes Naruto so addictive and so interesting. In the rest of the article, I’ll explain as a die hard Naruto fan why I like Naruto and why it is rated as #1 on the web. And I’ll do my best not to spoil anything.

First of all it is the amazing technique or Jutsu list. It is very very large with different characters having different techniques. The techniques may be physical fighting(taijutsu), illusionary techniques(genjutsu) and magical techniques(Ninjutsu). Each ability has it own strengths and weaknesses. Some weakness/strengths are obvious. eg. Earth beats water beats fire beats wind beats lightning beats earth. Its like a rock – paper – scissors kind of a thing. Not all are elemental however, some involve basis hand to hand fighting with some spice. Some techniques are mind blowing including the Sharingan(an eye technique) but to tell anymore would be to spoil the story which I wouldnt want to.

Next is the amazing character development. Not just Naruto but the other characters are also developed quite well. In fact it was revealed that Naruto was not the most popular character of the series. With different characters having different abilities and when you see how they mix and match up, you get to see some class A

fights. In some cases you will see a character having strengths that almost make him invincible and you ask yourself “Man how the *#%$ are they gonna take him down?”.

Then later on a weakness is revealed and you get to see how they take the character down, how they discover his weakness and what strategies they employ etc. This alone keeps the viewers hooked for a while. Also as it is a

weekly series, only a little of the story is revealed at a time keeping you in suspense for the rest of the week.

Bad guys really aren’t that bad in Naruto. You get to see how they work and yes, you sometimes sympathize with them. Yes... you actually do show sympathy. The author likes to show the Bad guys in shades of grey(and not just black) and except for a select few, most are really just misguided individuals. But the philosophical discussions that take place are mind boggling

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and really force you to see things from a completely different angle. This leads to even more interesting fights as you sometimes don’t want them to happen. Believe it or not I was once sad, not because a good guy was killed but because a bad guy was.

Good guys die. Why would this be interesting? Because in Naruto, good guys dont always win. In fact the toughest thing for an author to do is to probably kill his best character. This happens many times in the series. But the battles are generally epic and worth the cost. This is to show that such things will happen in the Naruto universe and in a shinobi world.

The Strategies: I have already covered this, but the strategies and games played by the characters on each other is probably worth mentioning again. Even seemingly inescapable situations are escaped from using some presence of mind and alertness.

This alone keeps you hooked onto the series. In fact there is a character called Shikamaru who specializes in strategies. I cant reveal anymore, sorry, but to me, this character alone kept me hooked on.

The different plot twists are also equally appealing. And that adds to the charm of the story already so well portrayed. And the

series continues.

Well having said this much, “Why wouldnt you like Naruto?” is a better question. Unfortunately I cant think of a reason. You have to watch it to see if you like it. If you dont like it, well... I dont care. I like it and thats important. For those interested in reading the manga, you can read it(along with zillions of other Mangas) on www.onemanga.com. Every week it is updated. For the anime, there are sites which give it for free as well. Also note that it is more fun to watch the Naruto Anime in Japanese with English Subtitles. Makes it seem authentic.

For the fans: Even I am waiting for Pain vs Naruto battle on the Anime. Its gonna rock.

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Three men sitting on a bench,Our past, future and present.

Mr. Past looked like glory personified,As he smiled and replied….

Our country, our motherland,Celebrating uncountable years of existence.

I don’t remember how many invaded,But were reduced to history pages.

His chest swelled as he narrated his story,I must be proud, I belong to such a country.

Having peeped into the past,Its time for Mr. Present to be asked.

Why do you look in such a dejection??The only reason are the people’s notions.

They object, I am adopting a western stardom,But what’s wrong if my mother is still our values and tradition.

Yes, we celebrate Fourteenth February,But what means to us is still Holi, Diwali.

They say I am getting over-populated,I ask them who the hell is responsible.

All the more it can be easily eradicated,Given that the people are well educated.

Believe me educating people is not a big deal,But what if they turn up just for a free mid-day meal.

Some say that the corruption here is on the riseI want to know, have they ever denied a bribe.

Still the people force for a healthy dowryAnd they are the ones saying we belong to a corrupt country.

Don’t blame me for the increasing unemployment

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What if the youth just want the unemployed-allowance?Countless are such notions

Which need a major correction.In such a scenario, I have a query

Do you still love your country?Without a word further, Mr. Future was quick to respond

Seems like Mr. Present has been facing the brunt all along.Yes, he was absolutely right all through

He is nothing different from you.He is the mirror of your society

And too, decides the shape of my body.Its time you look underneath your collarAnd check the foundation of your pillar.

It’s a dream of one and manyTo develop the nation by 2020.Believe me, the day is not so far

Given that everyone plays his part.So let us make our nation a better place to be

Because, Still I love my country,Still I love my country

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perennial problem of poverty?

Drought is, beyond doubts, among the more serious problem this country faces and drought ‘relief’ almost equally beyond question, is rural India’s biggest growth industry. Functions of drought ‘relief’ involve laying roads, digging wells, sending out water tankers, building bridges, irrigation channels, repair tanks. And could you imagine the money that goes into this industry? ‘The rich state of Maharashtra spends over 2000 crores on emergency measure in combating drought and on other water-related problems. During 1995-1996 over 5000 crores were allocated to deal with the water-problems of only 3 districts of Orissa – Kalahandi, Balangir and Koraput.’ [1] (Some of the poorest districts of the country).

The system of classification of drought prone areas according to Government is done by a scheme called Drought-Prone Areas programme (DPAP) which includes hundreds of villages like Kalahandi, Balangir, Koraput etc. On the other side, analyzing the rainfall data in these areas, you will be astounded to know that regions which have

Quite contrasting to all the articles contributed to the hostel magazine,

I felt like sharing my views on some national issues more useful than boasting about my work as the hostel council. I will consider my work discerning, if it awakens even a single soul to put his country before his region and religion. This article is a result of some of the books and editorials I have gone through on this topic.

From the age of liberation from the British Raj followed by Congress rulers’ “License Raj” Indian economy has come a long way crossing myriads of barriers and ‘licenses’ to become one of the fastest and consistently growing economies in the world.

Nevertheless, before we could get any far along with our optimism – problems like double-digit inflation have hit us. And looking beyond the ‘Headlines’ and ‘Breaking News’ of the present day TRP - crazy media; gives us an actual insight about the impediments in the path of India.

The paramount question that India faces today: Have our economies taken heed to the

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their average rainfall well above the ‘normal’ rate have still been enlisted under the DPAP programme. For instance, in the past 20 years lowest rainfall Kalahandi has been 980 mm, which is way above what some districts get during ‘normal’ monsoon months. Annual rainfall in Lonavala seldom falls below 3000mm and still it is enlisted as a DPAP block. Same goes with some of the poorest districts of the country. And the credit for enlisting such blocks, goes to all the ‘stakeholders’ who ‘fight for the cause’ ensuring they get a fruitful share of the profit. The Contractors and Politicians who take up ‘the cause’ (to get a better share of the benefit) by complaining that – ‘our block got far less funds than the others, the Collector is ignoring us’, thereby embarrassing the Collector, who pitches in for the state government (also to get a better share), which in-turn pitches at the Central Government for more funds…thereby completing the circle or rather hierarchy of fraud.

Equally farce is the Public Distribution System announced by the Centre which spends lakhs of crores in providing subsidised amenities – which after having reached the hand of the poor crossing innumerable hurdles, becomes a source of income to the poor, who sell it at a price of

just few rupees more than what it cost them – came to be known as ‘subsidized rice income [2]’. Apart from this, the poor have been chased by the development in the name of Dams (which could seldom manage to generate not more than few tens or in rare cases hundreds of MW), mining projects etc.

Since 1951, about 26 million were displaced by various projects out of which 40% are Adivasis, with false assurances of providing them a better livelihood. For instance, Chikapar – a village in Koraput District of Orissa has been thrice chased in the name development amidst false assurances of rehabilitation. The impact of such migration which deprives the scores of families of their livelihoods has only increased their dependency on loans, leaving no money for medical expenses. ‘Today, one in two Indian children is malnourished, the world’s worst rate’ [2]. Tuberculosis in India is killing two persons every three minute, nearly 1,000 every day [3]. Over three-fourths of all the tuberculosis cases that exist at any time world- wide are in this country. [1]. Infant Mortality

Rate (IMR) figures indicate India among the first 30 nations out of 250 nations participated in the survey [4]. There are more poor in India today than was the population of the country in 1947

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give us a trivial image of unending woes of India’s poor. Though the percentage spending of GDP in such areas has increased over the years, these woes have remained unanswered in successive budgets. Only then will the meaning of India’s ‘growth’ be complete when it will fight its way out of the quagmire and consider ‘Inclusive growth’ as the paramount objective. And it alone cannot be achieved without its

citizens becoming socially responsible, and feel fortunate enough to the country, which gives you an opportunity to serve; because as Swami Vivekananda says: “The social worker should never believe that

she or he is actually improving the world, which is, after all, illusory. Service should be performed without attachment to the final results. In this manner, social service becomes karma yoga, the disciple of action that ultimately brings spiritual benefits to the server, not to those being served.”

This article addresses only one of the several problems faced by the nation today: poverty, but we are one billion strong people, and imagine the revelation that could be brought if each of us, take up a

[1], yet the government celebrates the swift decline of poverty.

Primary education in the rural areas has seldom shown any sign of improvement. The actual gap between SC/ST literacy levels and those of the non-SC/ST population grew worse till the end of 2000. The all-India figure of literacy among Dalit women is just above 10%, which is about 8% for tribal women.[1] Fewer SC/ST students (which dominate the India’s poorest districts) are enrolled in the first place, but their drop-out rates are even higher. Of non-SC/ST students nearly sixty of every hundred enrolled drop out in classes VI-VII. For dalits that figure is seventy and for tribals, eighty. So those who most need an education largely get filtered out by class VII [1], and still we find Government boasting about the achievements of reservations, which have over the years splintered the actual purpose of reservations by politicizing it. Rather than ensuring that truly disadvantaged actually imbibe the fruits of primary education which is every citizen’s right according to Article 45 of the constitution.

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“If everyone cared and nobody cried. If everyone loved and nobody lied If everyone shared and swallowed their pride. Then we’d see the day when nobody died” - Courtesy: ‘If everyone cared..’, Nickelback

Anand Pratik

References

[1] ‘Everybody loves a good drougth’ by P. Sainath, Penguin Books.

[2] ‘Breakdown in Balangir’ by Priya Ranjan Sahu, Hindustan Times March 29, 2010

[3] Tuberculosis Control India – Statistics

[4] Health Information of India, Govt. of India, Central Board of Health Information.

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The PianoLike a polished gem, Stands oblique amidst a huge foyer.Breaking the silence,Crisp sounds of steel under hammer.Harmony of the extreme emotions,In black and white. Then, occasional runs of melody,To set the tone right. Mesmerizing with a resonating artificeEbony and ivory, Spiritise the walls of the cold edifice.Music in the air, takes every pebble,To eternal bliss. Slender fingers, halt, on Major emphasis.The Pianist bows, With an ovation, the audience vows.

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Disclaimer: The following article is largely a figment of author’s imagination and is to be strictly read in a light mood. If you attempt to argue regarding the worth and the veracity of the article, it will end up being nothing but a waste of time and energy.

I believe everyone of us learnt the proverb - “The pen is mightier than the sword” way back in our elementary school days. And this creature used to turn up now and then in our history textbooks in chapters like Renaissance, French Revolution and many times in the Indian independent movement as well to cite examples where fiery literature formed the basis of revolution.

Internet traces its origin to the 16th century. According to urbandictionary.com the statement means the following - “The pen is mightier than the sword means a pen (literature) can cause a change in the public opinion on a large scale peacefully, whereas, though

a sword can change a person’s opinion by force, the result is temporary and unsatisfactory.” But the author feels that there is much more to this proverb than just this definition. So he (no gender bias intended. I am a boy and hence the ‘he’) would like to share some of his ideas with the universal intellect.

As far as the citation of examples in historical texts are concerned, they are in accordance with the definition stated above. But there are other strange situations where this proverb fits perfectly. However it may not

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constitute a singular community which is responsible for needless pain to countless of people everywhere in the world. And there is no escaping them as nothing is “mightier than the pen”.

A few examples should make the allegation clear. Let us first take up sports issues. It is very well known that extreme and needless criticism

comply with the definition. An IITian would agree that he/she is at IIT because luckily the “pen” is mightier than the “sword” (read political or other external influence or threats). Similarly, to a local Don’s son, the college examiners pen (often the one with red ink) is considered more powerful than the biggest and scariest knife of his father. In both these cases, we are nowhere considering any change in opinions of any kind. Yet the phrase fits perfectly as claimed.

But apart from this, the author feels that there is a whole new dark and hidden (and more relevant for the current scenario) meaning to this ever popular proverb. It is accepted beyond arguments that the pen is indeed mightier. But have we ever

“It is very well known that extreme and needless criticism has affected adversely many sports players”


ANUBHOOTIhas affected adversely many sports players. Take the case of 2008 Olympics hockey qualifiers. Indian team played very well but lost out in the finals narrowly. Newspapers all over the country started bitching about the team. But in all of this pandemonium the real reasons for failure were never discussed as the critics were ignorant fools who did not know anything about the game and consulted the very people actually responsible for India’s non-qualification. Result - India lost one their best coach ever (he resigned) and since then the team is not able to reach the level they had achieved two years back. All this due to ignorant and unmonitored journalism. Let us look at another example. If somewhere in the world, communal riots or natural calamities take place, the media is suddenly charmed by this opportunity. All the news media are full of it. And the descriptions are so graphic that many people are exposed to needless trauma. But this is nothing compared to what is done on-site. The mourning victims (already in a traumatised and tragic condition) are interviewed and asked horrid questions like - “how do you feel about the loss of a family member?” by these metal hearted people on the pretext of “bringing reality to public”!

In fact a question intuitively comes to Tsar’s mind - is this is any

different from terrorism? If you are holding any position of repute or are popular in public, then you are vulnerable to these pen terrorists who can defame you anytime anyplace. In fact people may have already started taking up defaming contracts like contract killings. And above all there is nothing much you can do to stop the pen. So this, the author feels, is the dark and hidden meaning of the proverb which, he believes, has come into prominence especially in the last decade. So how does the intellect react to this? The author eagerly awaits the answer.

Another Disclaimer (!) : The author in no way is against the mass media. He is only disappointed at the misuse of its power by a few.

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stone-age to the renaissance to the modern period. The history of scientific progress is filled with such questions and a lot has been written about it. But as with everything, asking why questions also has a limit, especially when it comes to science. Because at some point of time the why questions push the answer away from science and towards Philosophy. For instance repeated why questions about physics would finally lead to the question “Why Universe exists?”, which unfortunately is not answerable by science, at least for now and is the domain of religion and philosophy.

But, doesn’t it point out that why questions only push the limit of science like in the previous example? Yes, but only if the right people ask that question, i.e. if I

The core of science is introspection. As Kipling’s poem summarizes, asking

questions is the fundamental way to improve thinking abilities. The questions of where, what, when and who, are concerned with information enrichment. The how question allows to understand a flow of an event, a process, or a thought. But it is the why question that stands foremost in the exploration of the rationale and reasoning behind an understanding. That is why most of human beings’ intellectual achievement come out of why and its complement why not.

The Dilemma of Why:

There is no need to illustrate the whys and why nots that humans have asked, from the

When Do We Stop Asking Why?

Prologue:

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew);

Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

- Rudyard Kipling


ANUBHOOTIhave to ask ‘Why Universe exists?’, it should be after I understand the answer to how, what etc. for the same. If not, it would only yield an answer that is same as received by why questions that politicians throw at their opposition parties.

So when do we stop asking why? And how does it matter if unqualified persons ask why?

When do I stop asking why?

To answer this question we need to introspect how does why

question improves a person’s knowledge. When a person asks why, say to understand a new concept, he/she tries to map it to his/her existing knowledge. It is beautifully put by arguably the greatest science teacher 20th century has seen, Richard Feynman, in the series of short lectures on science, “Fun to Imagine” (available on Youtube). Feynman remarks to a question on “Why magnets attract?” that “If you are physics

student, I can explain it based on some fundamental theories, but for a layman, it is impossible for me to explain magnetism based on what you already know. Sorry! You just have to accept that it attracts due to some force, that’s all”.

So I need to stop asking why, the moment there is a need to learn more, to understand the answer to my question. This comes by experience, but examples are aplenty. Like in case of educational

systems, we have these ideas of “prerequisites”. For instance, a PG course will have a UG course as a prerequisite and so for a person to ask why question in a PG course, he/she should have understood the UG course. Hence the moment to stop asking why follows.

Simply put, people need to be qualified to ask why. What qualification depends on the type of why question.

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smart looking person asking a lot of why questions, rethink whether he/she really is smart or dumb not to understand his/her limitation.

Epilogue:

Kids ask lots of why questions and the elders don’t know how to answer them based on what the kid currently knows. So they either give an arbitrary belief system based answer (like folk tales, religious beliefs etc.) or would shut them up. As a grown up intellect, it is important to tell the kids that they have to learn more before understanding their answer to their why question and give them direction towards learning such prerequisites. We should not shut up the kids, but rather we should know when we should shut up ourselves.

PS: Article inspired by Feynman’s explanation in the “Fun to Imagine” series and author’s introspection of bad and good question.

Krishnan Srinivasarengan

How does it matter?

How does it matter if unqualified people ask why questions? It creates bad impression, sometimes on the person asking question, sometime the one answering the question. First to the person asking questions: If he/she continues to ask why beyond the above said limit, then a knowledgeable crowd will only look down at the person.

Not able to know when to stop asking why questions is usually attributed to superficial thinking abilities, that the person doesn’t want to dwell deep, but rather just graze the top.

Second, to the person answering the questions: He/She would try to give answer based on some prerequisites which the person asking question doesn’t have. This will continue to prolong the why question. Not many people have the capability to identify the validness of a why question, like Feynman does. Hence, in this case, a not so knowledgeable crowd would look down at the person answering the question.

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an exception of Anand Prateek! We called our bot the “Graviton”.

We also had a discussion group initiated wherein we screened popular science documentary “the Elegant Universe”. It was a 3 part series with active audiences from H1 and H10 – thanks to the involvement of the astronomy club – Krittika. The screening was followed by discussions on parallel universes, anti-matter, relativity theory and many such interesting ideas. The sessions were organized and moderated by Abhisekh Sankaran, Uttam Bhat and myself.

The freshers also participated in an event called “Formula1” – A remote controlled car racing event. Enthusiastic participants were: KL Srinivas, Mohit Singh, Shashank Gupta, Jatin Kanjaria, Badri Narayan Patro, Bharat BV and Husain Manasawala.

Sagar and I attempted hard to participate in the Maze-Line Follower (Tech GC2) but the bots hardware gave-up and we were devoid of time, energy and sleep to do any further amends. Tech GC3 was based on an Online TechHunt. H1 did receive an anonymous participation; And I am yet to figure-out who the caped-crusader really was?! We also had a showcase of interesting hobby projects at H1, where Nikunj and Chirayu’s ‘Bicycle based mobile charger’ was

Till last year, the concept of ‘Tech General Championships’ was

unheard of in H1. This year, for the first time in its history H1 recorded #7 in overall Tech GC (+ Energy GC) – defeating H4, H9, H10, H11, H12 and H13 in the process!

Believe me, I didn’t expect any of this when we started:

With a vision to tap the fresh inmates this year, we conducted a small Tech Orientation at the beginning of the council year. This was followed by the first ever PG Tech orientation at H1 with participants from H9, H10, H11 and H1.

H1-Tech – the tech forum was created to gather information from all the science and tech clubs of IITB and kept the students informed about interesting events and happenings around the campus.

H1 Participated in Tech GC for the first time in an event called “Transformers” – a mechanical contraption design challenge and bagged the best design award and the 2nd place! Surprisingly the entire team that pulled it off was from Electrical Department with

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While writing this article, I must not miss out on the opportunity to thank all the participants and to every single bit of efforts they have put to make H1 Tech, in its very first year, a great success. Kudos guys! I am sure the new guys too will set out in full spirit to outshine this year’s performance!

Manav Kataria

displayed.

This time even the IITB Student Satellite project has 4 active contributors from H1 - Sagar Bhokre,

Nikunj Bhagat, Husain Manasawala and Viral Thaker. Frankly speaking, this would have been impossible without Sagar, Nikunj and Husain who were always ready and eager to participate in any/all activities. Their never ending support and enthusiasm was invaluable to make H1 Tech successful!

H1 also received tremendous contribution from Siddharth Jain and Mayank Pandey who supported H1 Tech, inspite of being from H9! It was a great pleasure to initiate tech events among the PGs. I never expected we could achieve


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‘Won Liners’ by Me, Myself and Im(e)an !

“Just pick any Real, and find the next! It’s not that far off.”

- On an enigma called ‘Infinity’

“One who is always humble enough to expect a reply to his best shot.”

- To define a good TT player.

“Possibly, the only instance where the number of affluent options, by far, outnumber the amount of competition.”

- About the love-seeking girls in IIT.

“Trees give us both. The cradle, and the coffin.”

- Against deforestation.

“If there is anything, that has come any close to be identified as divine, it is the Internet. Soon, things will depend on how well we use it.”

- On the evolution of the Web.

“Being average isn’t a sin, as long as you don’t want to remain there.”

- On being a mediocre lad.

“Is there anyone/thing today that we trust more than our brakes?”

- On the unruly traffic in the metropolis.

Iman Mukherjee

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Miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.

Yet, the world is full of grief,And I need to make it at ease.


Yet, there are children who become orphan,Just because their mothers have sold them for a sum.

Yet, there are teens who have lost their way,Just because no one gets them out of the foray.

Yet, there are people who weep,Just because they have nothing to eat.

Yet, there are people who die,Just because they couldn’t buy.



Yet, there are children who could not study,Just because their fathers can’t afford the money.

Yet, there are girls who are confined to home,Just because its the family norm.

Yet, there are farmers who commit suicide,Just because the seeds are not subsidized.

Yet, the rich are getting richer,Just because they have all the power.



Yet, the system is all corrupt,

Miles to go before I sleep


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Make haste, or the system will react.They will give you a non-constitutional tag,

Because constitution is nothing but a packet in their bag.Be it anywhere the story is the same.

The heads have all the powers vested in them.But it can’t stop us from making the world bright.

Given that we work, all to our might.If you believe one and one make eleven,

Then the lion can be defeated in its own den.So its time to change from somebody to everybody,

Because it’s the only way to victory.So, I plead again…

Yet the world is full of grief,And we need to make it at ease.

Miles to go before we sleep,And miles to go before we sleep.

Shashank Gupta

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can’t reach. But could it spurn popularity of a sport? I don’t think so. It is rather due to the versatility that cricket offers that people play cricket and make it popular. Wait, did I say versatility? Isn’t that cricket requires a huge oval ground to play or that it requires exquisite equipments which on a man resemble a warrior going to the battle field ? No. If you leave those who have grown up playing cricket only in big lush green grounds with well laid pitches and practised inside 3 sided mosquito nets, others would recall at least 10 different forms of cricket that they have played in their life.

Exquisite equipments and big ground? Rethink:

The ground:

It is well known that, in India, the so called “tennis balls” are used the most not for playing tennis but for playing cricket. So much so that there are “tennis balls” manufactured exclusively for playing cricket. Indians respect Tradition, so we have left the name

Prologue:

Let’s accept. Cricket is the most popular game in India, at least for the sake

of this article. But is it possible to imagine that in a still developing country like ours, that a posh looking, celebrity filled, infrastructure hungry and equipment wielding sport as the most popular one? It is well known that the cricketers are making forays into arenas like advertisements which are the stage for actors and models and this pushes up their financial rating. And all these give an illusion that cricket is in the league of elite games (like golf, pool) far beyond the reach of common public of this country. Or is it so? As a person grown with cricket all around different forms, I beg to differ, even in my whimsical times, like when I was writing this article.

Some attribute this popularity to watching cricket on TV. Agreed, that thanks to many wonderful schemes (like the free TV scheme by the TN government), the idiot box has reached places where even water, food and clothing

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cricket with their appropriate balls (e.g. Baddy cricket). And if not anything we have our palms which could act as bats for most type of balls. I remember the childhood days when we hunt for bats and end up looting the firewood stock, nor can I forget the bat we made for our own, carved out of a wooden scrap lying on the road side. Long before the mongoose bat that Hayden used ‘for the first time’, I have used mongoose, raccoon, rat, mouse, beaver and similar bat species. Yeah, may be my sixes were never farther than 25 meters, but Hayden cannot claim to be the first.

The ball:

Are there balls beyond tennis/rubber and cricket balls (beyond those ‘pink’ balls that MCC is planning)? Practically infinite, I say. How can we forget those weightless, gravity defying plastic balls, which can be hit so well that it makes you feel like Yusuf Pathan. Then there were those cork balls, which resemble sober and calm, but can hurt as much as a cricket ball. And even the ball need not be actual spherical rubber stuff but something that is small enough to be hit for a distance by the so called bat. Very many different candidates come to my mind. I still have vivid memories of playing in the streets of Madurai with the Coconut tree trunk as the bat and Hing ka dubba

of the ball with tennis. Along with a bat, we can take to any place and start the game. In narrow lanes between houses, in the balcony and inside the house (not inspired by Dhoni), inside class rooms (to impress class mates), on the road (especially with the next door beauty watching), between two wings in a hostel (Yay!), tennis court, hockey ground, and so on (yeah, include cricket ground). During one of my visits to a hilly village near Kumily in Kerala, I found that cricket was played on a barely flat surface, where the slope was more original and truthful than the mythical slope in Lord’s pitch. The bowlers had to literally run down the hill climbing down and up several meters during an over. Not just hills, even the beaches are not left out, for it gives a great opportunity for people to show off their diving skills.

The bat:

What if we don’t have a cricket bat, which might be expensive to many people? No worries!! All that is needed is some structure with enough width and height and can make balls run in all directions. It can be made of wood or steel or iron or cobalt or nickel or gold, doesn’t matter. Then there were those writing pads which became bats in the class during the recess time. There were the racquets of tennis, badminton, so as to play

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One of the main reasons for cricket being popular is because it falls under the category of Calvin Ball. As with Calvin ball games, it doesn’t get constrained by rules. Wait, aren’t there bodies like MCC, ICC regulating how cricket is being played? Heck, who cares? Not even BCCI cares, then how can you expect the Indian public to worry about them. We can change the rules at will to suit the climatically, geographical, political, horizontal, and vertical and many other arbitrary conditions. Think of this great feasibility. Depending upon a variety of factors, like the number of people available, the type of equipment available, the kind of place, the amount of time, you have a version of cricket. And the rules of the game generally depend on who argues best and who has the power.

What is a game of cricket if it doesn’t have fights about rules. Most people find it joyful to spend more time arguing about rules rather than actually playing itself. You start the game with bare minimum rules and the rules for sixes, fours, wides, noballs, wickets, catches are argued upon as the game goes by. Hence there are multiple strategic breaks like in IPL, just that these breaks don’t have boring commercials rather than interesting fights.

This freedom from rules gives

as the ball with the electric post donning the role of stumps. In fact, for a long time my highest score in a cricketing innings was hit when the ball was a rubber toy stolen from our neighbour’s kid. Then there are always ‘quick to make’ paper balls (rolled paper), which most often are made out of the Exam question or answer papers and form the vital part of the cricket played inside the class room during the recess time. The list here would go on.

How about stumps? Any set of wooden sticks held up with stones, an electric pole (even if the street dog has marked its boundary there), wall paintings (of stumps), cooldrink tray, a chair, an array of bricks and many other such innovative reusuable structures can form stumps. So the next time you say that cricket requires exquisite equipments and infrastructure, think again.

Cricket is a Calvin ball game:

(Calvin ball is a fictitious game invented and played by Bill Watterson comics’ characters Calvin (6 year old kid) and Hobbes (Calvin’s pet tiger). Calvin hates to play the typical sports filled with rules that constraints your joy and creativity. They want to play games where rules can be changed dynamically so as to suit people, especially Calvin himself so that he could win.)


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catch, you change rules to have one-pitch catches. If you can’t at all run, then remove runs from the rules and make the number of balls a batsman bats without getting out as the score. It’s so flexible, you see. Given the different versions of roles that people can play in the team, sometimes you wonder how they can ever be part of a team. For instance, how can we imagine people like Venkatesh Prasad doing the roles for India when they can’t even bat against a 6 year old bowling or field a slow moving tennis ball. But they did, because of bowling excellence.

Other forms of cricket:

Is that all, you ask? No, I say. If everyone goes off and you are all alone, you still needn’t lose hope. Open up your computer and start playing for Dhanier, Tenhelker, Sehway. EA Sports cricket apparently doesn’t have the rights to use Indian players’ names and hence has some above mentioned completely unrelated names. Though Sachin Tendulkar might have hit the second two hundred in an ODI innings (after Belinda Clark), there have been innumerable number of quadruple centuries that my friends have hit against hopeless teams in EA Sports cricket. And not to forget those other wonderful versions of games like Anil Kumble cricket,

cricket the ultimate joy to people master games with specific rules. For instance, the worst player in the regular cricket played in Hostel-1, would be the best player in the box cricket played in the same place. As Calvin would say, “Down with the rules”.

Who can play cricket?:

Cricket offers a good balance between the ultra fast paced sports and the ultra slow paced ones. It’s slower than those “you blink, you miss sports” like the legball, and it is far faster than those “games played outdoors”. As with most sports, cricket also is beyond the segregations of region, religion, caste, community, species, genus, family, etc. But unlike other sports cricket fits everyone in the league i.e. there is a place for everyone in some form of cricket or the other.

Let me give an example: Can you imagine to play a sport when your leg is injured? You may say golf, but I consider golf as one of those “games played outdoors” rather than a sport. Here you spend most of the time moving around huge lawns on some kind of lawn mowers rather than ‘playing’. So all sports will ditch you, but cricket won’t. You become a keeper and make a rule to rule out runs behind the wicket. While you bat we will have a bye-runner.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t

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cricket’s popularity, it is necessary to note that a lot of comparisons have been made largely to make fun and nothing really serious (except may be about golf). I have been part of the various club and institute cricket teams over the last 14 years and have had an urge to write this for years based on what all have I seen. And also I have enjoyed being part of and playing Football, Basketball, Hockey at various levels and do appreciate and understand those sports well. So it is best to take the article lightly. Signing off for now,

Krishnan Srinivasrengan

Alan Border cricket etc., apart from those coming in different mobile phones.

And even if the Electricity board plots against you and cuts the power, even if you don’t have any equipment to play cricket, you still can be with cricket. For this gets us to one of the simplest, purest and easiest form of cricket: “Book Cricket”. All you need is a decent enough book and may be a pen and paper for scoring i.e. if you bother to add score. It is suspected that the term ‘’bookie’’ for those who are involved in gambling in cricket comes from book cricket. For you can easily mark those pages with ‘0’ and ‘6’ and open those pages as you wish to suit the need of the player. For instance, after watching India loose the 1992 World Cup match against Australia by just 1 run, I resorted to book cricket and made India thrash Australia by more than 400 runs, with even Venkatapathy Raju scoring a 50.

Epilogue:

The next time you see an enthusiastic chap walking along the corridor practising a shot without a bat or bowling without a ball, you will realize the impact of this sport. Unlike other games you don’t even need to play cricket to be with the cricket. It is that simple and that flexible.


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• If swimming is a good exercise, then why are whales fat?• Why is that everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants

to die?• Shall I say that there is racial discrimination in chess as white

piece is moved first?• If money doesn’t grow on tress then why do banks have

branches?• Why does a round pizza come in a square box?• Why doesn’t glue stick to its bottle?• Why do you still call it a Building when it has already been

built?• If its true that we are here to help others, then what others are

here for?• If you aren’t supposed to drink and drive, then why do bars

have parking lots?

Compiled by,Santosh Phulare

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and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation.”

Well, I don’t want to get into the long patriotic speech of the kind which goes on blaming forever and suggests nothing concrete. The point is that we are force to learn our history as told by the foreigners. So the history might be manipulated; at least the one written during the British Rule. What we learn or read today is based upon the English texts based on original Indian texts. Historical texts are mainly regional Indian languages or what are known as PRAKRIT languages. But there is a whole lot of our documents are written in Sanskrit and very few people understand the language. It is the mother of all Indian languages. They say that it is the origin of Indo-European languages but I am not a linguist and hence would not like to comment on that. Not only our cultural heritage is

Today I came across a news in TOI saying that “India beats US bid to patent

Ashwagandha”. Many news of such kind often appear in the newspapers and we just forget about the news after reading it. This is our attitude towards our heritage, though we pledge in our school-days that “I am proud of India’s rich and various heritage”. And that is not a wonder, because in the British Rule, several Indian generations were forced to think the way British wanted us to think, the reason was simple - we were slaves and they wanted to continue ruling us. British strategy for education in India was based on the some principles. One of them lies in Lord Macaulay address to the British parliament on 2nd February 1835: “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old

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and Siddha. They mainly work in the area of patents. Ashwagandha patent that I have described in the beginning is of that category.

But in my opinion this is not enough! There are other heritage documents that demands research; Vaimanika Shastra; for example. There are also some human sciences like political science Arthashastra as it is known in Sanskrit. And it is high time now because such studies have started in other parts of the world already. As an example you may visit the site of Kyoto University of Japan or say that of Heidelberg University of Germany.

Now one may ask, what is the use of all this? Everything boils down to “slave-mindedness” as I would like to call it. And the immediate effect is evident: in form of “patents”. Imagine USA claiming patent for a theory which originated here. The same thing happened with Ashwagandha, and a few years back it happened with Turmeric or Haldi. So we awake only after something disastrous happens. In this respect I remember one more incident quoted by Jairam Ramesh, our Environment and Forest Minister for States. As he said we need indigenous solutions to our problems. If we depend on others then it is clear that they will try to cash such

preserved in the Sanskrit but also astonishing evidences of scientific studies in India are in Sanskrit. Clearly it is necessary to look at the available texts in Sanskrit for the knowledge of scientific heritage. And such work is going on in the very institute that we are part of, IIT Bombay. The centre is called CISTS - Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit.

The research at the centre is mainly in the areas of Astronomy and Grammar of Sanskrit and many interesting things have come up with the research; e.g. the MADHAVA Series. We are familiar with the Taylor’s series which expresses a function at a point in terms of values of function and its derivatives at some other point. Now this is a thought provoking concept in its own respect. But a special case of Taylor’s series was proposed by Madhava, an astronomer from Kerala: the series for sine function. It’s now formally accepted internationally and you can search Google for the same. This is just one instance. It is due to the centres such as CISTS that this is possible. The other important organisation is Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) which is a collaborative project of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). This library is mainly for the alternative medical sciences including Ayurvedic, Unani

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we follow certain things from other countries. We as the learners of science should analyse the history of India for scientific traces before others do that and tell us. And let me be clear : I am not saying that we should follow the traditions blindly; I am not against development anyway.

A musk deer keeps searching from where the musk smell comes from, but the hunter knows it and kills the deer. Such a case should not happen with India.

Makarand M Kane

opportunities. e.g. few years back, Indian paddy fields were blamed for excessive methane emissions, methane being a more dangerous greenhouse gas than CO2. Our scientists then had to disprove that thing. Now that is just one case. And it is good that we disproved it. But such an intellectual attack having vested interests would be quite common. And unless we develop a different mentality, these cannot be defended. If we bring the rich heritage that is embedded in various texts and think indigenously then only this can happen.


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many leaders who fought against injustice and cruelty, and all of sudden we are now having an acute shortage of them?

Let me tell you what I think have happened. We became greedy. Earlier people had respect and concern for our values, we cared to help others, we valued honesty, we valued self-sacrifice and all of these now seems to be replaced by ignorance, greed and self-indulgence. Most of us are just too busy making money, having a good life and think everything else not concerning them can go to hell! The only reason that our political structure is disarrayed today is because the educated people have shied away from it, people don’t care enough about it. This has given

way to all the goons to enter politics where they can strive successful ly. Then it is not a big surprise to see such people

spending our money on making statues, travels, holidays, etc. I must say its high time now; the

Let’s start with the question, “Why does everyone lately refrain

from taking responsibilities?”. I have seen a general notion among the people that politics is a “gutter” and try to keep distance from it as far as possible. But, shouldn’t we take a moment to think before we start mocking or blaming about the corruptness or incapability of a politician. All of us are waiting for one good person, one person who is selfless, one who will improve our political structure, one who will rid us of our miseries. In short, one who will clean this “gutter” for us? So, where can we find such people? Has, Indian soil stopped producing the brave hearts like Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Bhagat Singh? No, I don’t thinks so, it hasn’t. Those people are right here, amongst us, maybe even you. But then what happened in last 60 years since independence, which has brought about such a radical change, wherein when we earlier had so

Stop Waiting, Start Working

“It is really a shame to watch so many educated people in India just taking off every year, in search of new life abroad.”...

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So stop waiting for others, step up to take the lead and start working yourself.

Nikunj Bhagat

educated ones should step up and take up the responsibility to develop developing India.

Speaking of taking responsibilities, it reminds me of tough time we had in motivating people to bear the hostel level responsibilities. It is the time for electing new Hostel Council but unfortunately no nominations are being received. As one of my friend correctly pointed, “How can there be a post without work?” If you feel that taking a responsibility will distract you from your studies, then I must say you are so wrong. Taking a responsibility teaches you to become self-reliant, managing your time effectively and most of all helps you to build your character. These are invaluable things which are cashed on longer runs so I say to all my readers don’t be myopic in your vision.

It is really a shame to watch so many educated people in India just taking off every year, in search of new life abroad. But think of those people who have stayed back for the sake of the country. What would have happened to India had they also left it stranded. What would happen if we didn’t have army men guarding the borders? What would happen if we didn’t have highly skilled doctors in government hospitals, working at skimpy salaries? I am scared to


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appreciate every aspect of life. They believe that all disciplines have evolved into being equally interesting. Thus, they follow their forte with utmost diligence and bring things alive to the best of their abilities. Very much the reason, the institute can boast of events like PAF (Performing Arts Festival), Mood Indigo, Techfest etc. which are, easily, the forerunners in their respective leagues when compared to their contemporaries. One of such amazing concepts is the Institute Football League (IFL). It is a tournament for encouraging football lovers and giving an opportunity to players, managers and spectators a common platform to celebrate the sport at its highest level. The format is quite similar to the other premierships and the champions league. Eight most popular clubs in the world take on each other in a round robin fashion. At the end, the one who tops the table, wins! This year the participating teams were Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool,

In the depths of our respective dreams, we are all, the special ones. Like

a rock star, facing a stadium full of fanatics, thousands of watts of sound in the air, amidst the fumes of dry ice, bathing under the limelight with a guitar in our hands. Or sometimes, walking down the red carpet between the aisles of applause, recollecting the acceptance speech, rehearsing a smile for the lady waiting with the golden figure in her hands. For football lovers, it has always been a lush green field, a shining ball under a flood lit arena, twinkling flash lights from a million clicks at kick-off, cheers from the colourful spectators, their anthems, their Mexican waves and the uproar each time the ball touches the net.

The moment one chooses to major in academics, all efforts of bringing such dreams to reality seem to come to a screeching halt. But, not here in IITB. Students here

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tournament is, one gets to experience some quality football, be a part of a team and make new friends. Playing under the lights is a privilege and only the underwent can value. Jerseys of professional clubs is an added attraction. Apart from these, it also forms a very important part of the learning curve. It teaches a lot about the game, teamwork, managerial skills and much more. I enjoyed it to the fullest. As IFL 2010 comes to an end today, I look back on all the memories I shall keep for a long time to come. I truly regret not playing as a fresher. But, I thank God for giving me the wisdom to have registered for IFL 2010. Looking forward to an awesome IFL 2011. Looking forward to the encore. Dream on !

Iman Mukherjee

Arsenal, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Real Madrid with Barcelona finishing as champions.

It usually is organized in the spring semester after the Inter-hostel General Championships. All aspiring managers and team owners use this opportunity to identify talent and sketch out their strategy for the auctions. All registered players have to pay a minimum amount for their jersey replicas. At the auctions, every registered player is bid for. Bidding prices vary from 1 for newcomers, to 450 odd for the famous inter-IIT team players. Teams are usually as big as 20 - 25 players so that at least a playing eleven can be made available on any given day.

Once teams are formed, the manager forms Google groups and/or sms groups to inform and update his team about practice slots and scheduled fixtures. He also analyzes the opponent’s strengths and weaknesses beforehand and accordingly instruct the strategies and formations during the games. It is also crucial to make the 3 compulsory substitutions during the IFL specified time durations of the game. Each half is 25 minutes and includes a 5-10 minutes break making it an hour for every game. There are 7 match days with 4 games scheduled per day so as to finish just before PAF.


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Oh, still the noisethe rush and the bustle.

Leave me alone,blank yourselves out.

Push those earphones in a little more.Listen to what they say,

isolating whats outside, whats real.

And when the surroundings shut outits only shapes moving.

Lips shaping and faces contortingSilent emotions spewing, in vain.

Shielding themselvesin their own little microcosms

Face reflecting a collagepart fear, part anger

part apathy and part hope

And all i can dois look at all this and smile

mutterand babble something to myselfand enter the shell of my own little world.

Manan Dedhia

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“Every body continues to be in a state of rest until someone kicks their butt.”

“Kal submission hain toh aaj shuru kar, aaj hain to ab, pal main maggu ka ho jaayega, baith ke taapna tab”

“If you cannot go faster aim to go deeper”

“Most people are famous for the things they did using half their ability.”

Rohit Kamath

“There are more people injured due to soccer than terrorism”

(On football)

“Murder by Sandpaper”

(Defines a very painful examination / experience)

Tej Vohra

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the religion or something, I would advice them to think maturely.) It is said that he did not know his son Ganesh that well. On the fateful day when he was returning home, Goddess Parvati had gone for a bath (or some similar work). Apparently due to lack of doors at her house or for a similar reason, she asked Ganesh to guard and keep all visitors at bay till she completed her bath/work. So, the obedient son sat outside the house with a ’Gadaa’ (mace) to keep an eye for the visitors. When Shankar Bhagwan came home, Ganesh, not recognizing the person, refused to let him in. Shankar Mahadev was enraged and in one stroke killed the ‘meddlesome’ boy. After this, when Parvatiji made him realise what he had done, Shankar Bhagwan admitted his MISTAKE and brought back the child to life by fixing the head of an elephant on his body. (Keeping the Indian Penal Code in mind, Mahadev Shiv can be booked for murder as well as poaching. I still wonder why the innocent elephant had to be killed for Lord Shiva’s folly.) Now, Shankar Mahadev is not a human for sure (unlike Shankar

Surprised? Agitated? Find it boring?

If you have these kinds of feelings, then I would advise you to not make premature views.

As children (and in many cases, even as adults), we were always told (mostly by our english teachers), that “To err is human; To forgive is divine.”

The first part of the proverb is often given as an example to people who (apparently) make mistakes and are ready to accept it. It is also used, by some very smart people, as an excuse when they commit a blunder. The latter is often quoted as an epitome of greatness when someone is really angry on someone or is in a mood for revenge.

However, I think that the whole thing is quite the opposite.

Let us take the example of our Mahadev, the God of Destruction, Shankar Bhagwan. (Disclaimer: These thoughts are not meant to be demeaning to Hindu religion. I am quoting known incidents. So to those who find these as an insult to

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he should have forgiven the child for failing to recognize his hitherto elusive father rather than cruelly

behead him. Again our s c r i p t u r e s are filled with many acts of

punishments meted out by the God, who is supposed to forgive. Compare this with the case of human beings. Once a Human forgives someone, he/she never thinks of punishing him/her eventually like God. So, isn’t forgiving more an element of the human domain? At least this what I think. All theories or conjectures are incomplete without stating the assumptions made. Here I have only assumed the literal meaning of proverb and have tried to make only literal correction. Also, I consider forgiving as a great act (no two thoughts about it) and erring as undesirable. And lastly, I do not, in any way, claim to be a non erring or all forgiving person. (That was for those who draw a character sketch of people from their writings and expression of thoughts.)

Conclusion: If what I have

Mahadevan). But he did commit a mistake, which by all means (I am sure people will agree) was a BIG one. We also have heard about Indra, the king of Gods, who attacked Hanuman by a... (Guess what?!) MISTAKE. (There are many tales about Indra’s mistakes). We also find many incidents in our scriptures about God’s mistakes. So erring, instead of being confined to the set of humans, can be safely thought of as a part of the bigger universal set comprising of humans, Gods, demons and all other creatures we know of. These things make me believe that to err is indeed divine, but because they are Gods, their blunders and mistakes are deliberately overlooked (They are supposed to set an example after all!). So this highlights the (apparent) flaw in the first part of the proverb.

While it is always stated that forgiving is a divine act, at the same time, we are also told to believe that everyone gets punished (eventually) by the God for his misdeeds. But hey! God is divine. Isn’t he supposed to forgive? Again taking the example of Lord Shiva,

While it is always stated that forgiving is a divine act, at the same time, we are also told to believe that everyone gets punished (eventually) by the God for his misdeeds.

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back of your mind always.”

PS: The French eat more meat than the Americans and the English and yet suffer fewer heart attacks. The Italians drink more wine than the English and the Americans and still have lesser cases of heart attacks.

Conclusion: Eat drink whatever you want. It is probably speaking English that kills you. :D

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written here convinces you, then I believe that the following can be concluded.

“We were taught wrong english at school.” or rather,

“The Englishmen got it all wrong from the beginning.”

By the way, the author did recieve a comment which he thinks must be put up along with this article. It was from none other than our very own Makarand Kane. It goes :

“If that is your feeling about that proverb then I would like to say something:

1. The sayings like this are drawn from general observation. So rather one should say: Humans err more than Gods and seldom forgive as compared to Gods.

2. The Indian mythological stories are often adulterated infinite times before they reach to us. So it is not correct to draw any serious conclusions from such stories.

3. To err is human: Whenever you commit mistake don’t let the regret win over your self. To forgive is divine: Whenever you get angry then think twice. Revenge is bad. But if you forgive then you will be treated as divine.

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The monsoon treks ... Missing those wonderful monsoon treks ...

The sky is overcast,

The climate is humid, The clouds are dancing To the tunes of thunder,

It’s an another monsoon weekend, We are in another trek.

The sky opens up, And starts pouring down,

The trees of the rain forests, High and dense to stop even sun,

And its punishing rays, Could do nothing but to get wet,

And let us soak in rain, but We are not complaining, because,

We are enjoying it.

It’s still raining, We get new friends,

Whom we don’t notice, For we are busy with, Things from the sky, They climb our legs,

And call for attention, By biting us up,

‘Yikes! Leeches’ cries one, ‘Oh! There they are’, laughed one,

We drive them away, with Salt and tobacco,

And it is still bleeding, but We are not complaining, because,

We are enjoying it.

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It’s still pouring down, We are in the open now,

With the rocks and grass around, Totally wet and drowning.

Our weights have increased,

By the water that has soaked us, And now the wind blows, Blows to chill our bones,

And the wet cap flies, I chase it on the slopes, The rocks are slippery, I slip and fall in a pool,

And get up smelling mud, but I’m not complaining, because,

I’m enjoying it.

We are still in the open, The visibility is too low,

A little away there’s a black giant, Is not clear if it’s a rock or an elephant,

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Or are we heading due North, Instead of going east,

Just then the mist clears, We run in all directions to scout, But the mist soon comes back,

And so do the scouts, We don’t know where we are,

And we decide to munch food, but We are not complaining, because,

We are enjoying it.

It is dark and pouring outside, With the incessant rains continue,

As the stream nearby roars, We sit inside tents, shivering, And searching for a dry cloth,

For even the sleeping bag is wet, And we try to sleep, still wet,

With the wind blowing the tent off, And water tries to enter,

Through every possible opening, And the thunder keeps frightening.

The night passes through, With barely some sleep, but

We are not complaining, because, We are enjoying it.

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entrance of the fort where if you clap normally, the sound is heard very clearly far away at a hill top within the premises of the fort! Likewise from that hill top you could shout something with moderate effort and that would be heard far below down in some parts of the city! This was an ancient system of signalling. In certain places in the fort, you could speak something softly into the walls and at another end, it would be heard clearly! Probably this is one reason for the origin of the phrase ‘Deewaron ke bhi kaan hote hain!’.

The next day was a trip to Ramoji film city. The campus is a huge one with an area of 3000 acres! We first saw the use of pre- recorded/template scenes. In their demonstration was the scene from Sholay where Basanti is urging Dhanno to run faster to escape the bandits. A person from the audience was called and asked to sit on a cart without wheels but which had two sticks jutting out from the region of the wheels if they had been there. The ‘actress’ had to just hit a hypothetical Dhanno with a rope saying whatever she felt would be appropriate to urge Dhanno (like ‘Bhaag Dhanno, aaj

I had been to Hyderabad (University of Hyderabad in Gachibowli) during January’10 on a two week trip for a Winter School on Logic and its Applications (Well that shows how illogical I have been all these years that i went for a “school” and that too in logic :P). The trip was wonderful, more for the non-academic parts than the academic !! There were lectures throughout the day starting from 9am and ending at 5pm with 4 lectures on either side of lunch. Most lectures were spent either dozing off or trying to grapple with what was going on but not having much clue at the end J.

We were a group of 10, 4 from IITB and 6 from Kolkata and went around a lot. The article would further contain our field trips around Hyderabad to test out Logic.

Our first trip in the city was to the Golkonda fort, where the light-and-sound show in the evening aroused a sense of awe. After being ruled by Hindu, Mughals kings, the fort got deserted after the British arrival. There are some amazing things about the architecture of the fort. There is a place close to the

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After this was a simply awesome virtual reality experience. We were taken to a small theatre for a computer generated ‘film’, which began with a view of Ramoji film city itself. The lift, from which the view was, began to ascend and we began to get a high level view of the whole campus. Suddenly the scene shuddered and we felt that too in our seats! An earthquake! Building after building began to fall from the distance and this ripple was travelling towards us. The lift was soon hit and we ‘felt’ it. The glass of the lift broke (this scene was just outstanding!). Soon the lift began to descend and it hit a water pipe which broke. And guess what --- water sprinkled on us! :D Fortunately, the lift didnt do a free-fall or else I would have had a heart fail for sure!

teri Basanti ki izzat ka sawal hai’!) and keep looking back regularly at hypothetical bandits. Another person (not in the scene) would be making one of the sticks go up and down which would essentially cause the cart to seem to be moving. And the full-fledged scene was live in front of us on the screen with bandits heatedly following Basanti riding Dhanno!

The next device was using simple instruments and tools for producing sound effects. The horse-hoofs’ sound was produced by striking plastic eggs :) Sound of thunder (for a different scene) was produced by rubbing a vertically hanging sheet of metal with another metal. Sound of rain was by dropping sand on a mike! All these were good old technologies.

With Charlie Chaplin (!), at Ramoji Film City

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they had collected lots of artifacts during their reign, now as museum.

Some interesting artifacts that we saw:

A statue which is a man from the front and the back of the same statue is a woman!

A big clock from the British times which neither works on electricity nor is its spring wound by someone. I am still clueless about how this clock works. But the interesting visual part of the clock is

that a few minutes before any hour, a man comes out from behind a door in the clock and as soon as the clock strikes the hour, the man beats a drum for sometime signalling that that hour has begun!

Finally I just made it in time to see an absolute sculpting marvel. This statue is called the ‘Veiled Rebecca’. The story goes that Rebecca was a beautiful young woman and a man fell for Rebecca and proposed to her. Her silent blushing reaction is what the artist has tried to capture. The statue shows a shy Rebecca with her eyes looking slightly downwards, a slight shy smile, with one hand to her bosom and the other slightly off

After the movie ended we found that the place where we were standing in the line to get into the theatre was all broken! The walls and floors had cracked, plasters had come out at places and there were pits on the floors. This wreckage seemed to be really caused by the earthquake seen in the movie. It takes a while to realise that this place is a copy of the original entry place where the ‘destruction’ was an intentionally created one! Amazzzing!

After this was the tour of the sets.

On another day evening all of the group went to Char Minar - an imposing structure right at the center of a street. The lighting and the different colours made for an attractive sight. This place is famous for pearls and there are pearl shops lining the streets. We went around looking at different types of pearls and oysters decorating the shops and bought some. After this, we had food in some restaurant and returned to Gachibowli.

Our last trip was Sahlarjung museum was by bunking a session. We could only see a little of Sahlarjungs who were kings and

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room and it reminded me of school time :) I agonized the students for about 1.5 hours on some basics of a specific Logic as a guest lecture.

After the visit to Sahlarjung museum we had no more further visits and after bidding adieu to our great friends from Bengal, we drove towards our exit, the airport.

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her body. Now there is a veil over her which is a very thin one, almost transparent and her expressions are visible from across the veil. There are subtle folds at different places in the veil which make for a very artistic visual.

On one day, I visited IIT Hyderabad (IITH) where two seniors (also H1 alumni), Sobhan and Ravindra have recently joined as faculty at Computer Science and also bumped into an old teacher of mine Prof. S. S. S. P. Rao. All of IITH is a single building housed inside a huge ordinance factory. The entire faculty sits in one common Staff

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but never revealed...

A lone traveller having renounced worldly pleasures.. searching for answers within..

Goes far off the field...heading to the lone hut..

A belongingness felt ... passing by her abode.. for every flower...leaf besides her hut spoke of life..

The winds swaying across the scarf that hung past the wall...

His heart throbbing faster as he stops.. There comes out she..and goes inside..having looked at the traveller..

The traveller stood silent...for the senses numbed by the moment..

Throws off hands in the air..thanking the boundless sky.

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The Solitary Girl

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creativity? While the context of philosophy is not secluded from creativity, it gains a certain significance as it has been a potential tool in bringing a change in the mind-set of the masses. Hence the existence of various ideology based schools of thought, religions and political parties.

Philosophy relies more on wisdom. And creativity is above wisdom. It defies discipline. It defies conventional philosophies. Also it can be argued that philosophy is more of discussing ideas while creativity is more of generation and implementation of new ideas.

A question is asked, throughout the ages gone by during which Homo Erectus evolved to Homo sapiens archaic to Homo sapiens neandertalensis to the present Homo Sapiens Sapiens - what significance did these three attributes hold for him?

The early man, or more specifically Homo Erectus, discovered fire (as biologists claim) by rubbing stones out of curiosity and achieved the breakthrough. So one might wonder, whether creativity should be held supreme

Whenever we think of India’s struggle for freedom, the man who gave the slogan “Tum mujhe khoon do, mai tumhe azaadi dunga“ comes to our mind. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose indeed put-forth an example of the power of three attributes viz creativity, philosophy and discipline combined together. As a freedom fighter he was quite creative in his plans, being philosophical gave him the vision for a free India and the discipline of the troops provided the confidence and the strength to pursue his vision.

Creativity is best described as the power of human imagination and is mainly attributed to the thinking power of the right hemisphere of the brain.

Philosophy is the study of fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

Discipline in simple terms can be explained as following a particular code of conduct and is self imposed for the grown ups.

But the question remains: Is philosophy not linked with

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during a Press Conference in Iraq.

The disciplined ones are the most productive ones in terms of a fixed assigned task. But a staunch disciplined person becomes susceptible to getting mechanised, indecisive when it come to out-of-box thinking, getting fatigued by the same old mundane job and becomes insensitive to the various possibilities that may exist. Abdul Karim Telgi’s discipline with minting fake currency landed him in jail.

As per IITB’s lingo , extreme designations namely Fodu for a creative guy , Maggu for a Disciplined guy and Poltu for a political/philosophical guy are used. The one who fits the equation 1/3rd (Fodu +Maggu + Poltu) is termed as God. What equation do you fit into?

Note: The author suffers form acute indiscipline syndrome and his room (Room 222, H1) is a testimony to a perfectly messed up individual. So are the views expressed. Also the author is a self proclaimed philosopher and a creative God. The author got beaten up by a mob purely on philosophical grounds. The creativity of the author almost landed him in jail at one point of time in his life.

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among the other attributes for human survival. Some may argue that the concept of a family and therefore society was also the brainchild of the Homo Erectus which led to the structured modern world of human societies and of interdependence of humans on each other. Discipline, on the other hand came later in human evolution after the Cro Magnon, but it holds its own significance as it helped the early man to sustain himself and get stability.

So in comparison to our primate ancestors, what balance of creativity, philosophy and discipline do we need as a modern man (Homo sapiens sapiens)?

Creativity as a matter of fact will keep opening hitherto hidden opportunities for man. But excess indulgence in it may lead to exclusion from the real world problems. To cite an example, M F Hussain suffers from hyper creativity.

Pure philosophical minds are the most active ones when it comes to society, humanity, human rights, and for whom the adrenaline rush never falls short of supply.

George Bush got goose-bumps during a splendid display of adrenaline rush by an Iraqi television journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, a hardcore philosopher,

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PROFILES

Source: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=221

FIRST LAW“A grad student in pro-crastination tends to stay in procrastination unless an external force is ap-plied to it”

SECOND LAW

“The age, a, of a doctoral process

is directly proportional to the flex-

ibility, f, given by the advisor and

inversely proportional to the stu-

dent’s motivation, m”

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Surajit Das

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Biswajit Panda

Rahul Shrivastava

Dhaval C Patel

Shah Ankit Kiritkumar

Abhijeet Kadam

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Ramesh Raju navan

Ashwani Sharma

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M Rajeshwar Rao

Dillip Kumar Dash

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Jugun Prakash Chinta

Ameya Diwan

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Sunil Kumar

Amit V Sata

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Permanent Address : Koolakkoollu house-”Ishavasyam”P.O. perdala,Badiadka-671551Phone - 9869101325

Roll No : 04408304Department : Humanities and Social Science (Cell for Indian Sci-ence & Technology in Sanskrit)Room No : 73email ID :

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Best poster Award-(APT-2009 NewDelhi)Best oral award - RSS2009-Chemical engineering conference IITBombay

Permanent Address : 45, Dhali road,Vela sook stores,Udumulpet,Tiruppur(DT)Tamil NaduPhone no.-9930966188

Roll No : 07402007Department : Chemical Engg. DepartmentRoom No : 115email ID :

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Best life in H1

Vijaykumar K. Jadhav

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Roll No : 4407806Department : Control & Comput-ing, Electrical Engg.Room No : 119email ID :

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Memories at H1/IITB

I can not forget my days at H1. this is a best hostel from my point. The eve-ning meetings with friends is absolutely unforgatable.

Permanent Address : 8/603adarshnagar-2modinagar-201204ghaziabadUP

Arun Tyagi

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Memories at H1/IITB

Flashback to few years ago, this was the time I started living by myself in hostel 1.Those were my pleasant hostel days. I always have a very special softcorner for those days as well my hostel 1 janta

I think hostel 1 is the best hostel in the campus, beauty of trees & well maintained,

I would like to say that hostel 1 is my home & inmates are my family mem-bersMore memories to cherish and more stories to share…….. Now im leaving hostel 1 & don’t want to cry.

Few lines on tears fill my eyes

“Tears fill my eyes. As i think of you and me,the past,I realize show must go on so i pick myself upI face the world alone Tears fill my eyes...”

Permanent Address : Mazi Sainik Nagar, Plot No.59, S.No.154/2,Yearawada, Pune-411006

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Me: Asami Aasami!!Exp: H1 is ideal for PhDs, lots of silence, intellectual discussions and good food (I have been in H4 so I could say this!)Goal: To realize our manhood by serving society and nation.

Permanent Address : B-1/30 Servatra Society,Paud Road, Kothrud,Pune - 411038

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Cultural Secretary, 2009-10

First, it all starts with IITB. I loved every second spent here. After a stint in industry, this was life at full throttle, of course with the studies. First year was hell busy; we all were neck deep in assignments, quizzes, and labs. The group studies, night-outs, lecture bunks, movies in labs…. everything was such a fun.The learning experience was awesome, I was fortunate to study under one of the best faculties across the globe [in IITB lingo, profs are GOD]. Frankly everyday I did look forward to attend lectures, obviously with some excep-tions, where bunks were essential ;-) The project in the second year, was like rediscovering self :-) Loads of lab hours, hardware phase of project…all are sweet memories. And then the Lab duties, TA work (correcting & con-ducting quizzes) was altogether a new and wonderful experience. [Wonder-ful because you get to be a demi-prof ;-)]Even the new learning on the linguistic side, just in the first month I en-riched my vocabulary with ‘fart’, ‘daya’, ‘god’, ‘muchax’ etc. Now looking

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back, these are essential part of my daily vocab :-)H1 [Room No 33 & then 128]: Its been a very pleasant stay here. Very reli-giously I say this, I am proud to be a part of H1. First year I was part of cult welfare team. All the festival celebrations, GCs, cult events..I enjoyed a lot. These events were kind of break-aways from hectic academic schedules, they refreshed me a lot. The most important part H1 gave me was bunch of friends, the friendship which I will cherish life-long. H1 is always very cool & natural and the life here is never dull. Sports, cult events…all these activities bonded us very well. H1 gave me an opportunity to learn our national game Hockey. It was very memorable experience to represent H1 in Hockey GC. Also the cricket, footer games were essential part of the day. In the second year, I was nominated for the post of cultural secy. Being a part of council was quite hectic, but it indeed was good learning experience. My work saw me as, PFA Secy, Dance Secy & Social Secy. Organising festivals, motivating junta for Fine Art, night-outs for Dance GCs, Anubhooti, Valfi…all are the loving memories. I would go on endlessly to express feelings about my stay here, would be very nostalgic….So to summarise, IITB Rocks !!! H1 Rocks !!!


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Mess Secretary (for the year 2008-09)

It is not easy to write down when the mind is overflown with memories. Staying in hostel with friends has been a really wonderful experience. One major timepass at hostels is playing games and chatting with friends. Though I rarely played the game I enjoyed watching everyone play the game. Chatting at the mess table were really refreshing. I cannot do any-thing but relive those memories in my minds.

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Cultural Councillor

I had wonderful moments in IIT Bombay,especially in hostel-1. I have seen five VALFIs each one of these events were very grateful and successful i thank god to give this opportunity to me and i wish all of you would get great success in your life.

Permanent Address : 08, SHANTHAI PETTAI ST,ARACHALUR ERODE-DT,TAMIL NADU.PHONE:9869710369,0424-2358025.

Roll No : 04411003Department : Metallurgical Engg. and Material Science.Room No : 142email ID :

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S Prabhakaran


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Maintenance Councilor of Hostel 1, 2008-09Warden Nominee of Hostel 1, 2009-2010

It was really a nice stay in the hostel 1. I will miss the hostel days....

Permanent Address : RA-40, Phase II, Bengal Ambuja,City Centre, Durgapur-16Burdwan-713216West Bengal

Roll No : 06411007Department : MEMSRoom No : 144email ID :

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Biswajit Panda

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Computer secretary, 2008-2009

I have to say, I enjoyed my stay at H1. This is like home now. Its location is best, people are best and you have every facility without much hassle.

Permanent Address : Paras vihar colony,Naka Chandra Badani,Lashkar, Gwalior (M.P.) 474009

Roll No : 05430004Department : Dept of Biosci-ences and BioengineeringRoom No : 149email ID : [email protected]

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Permanent Address : Plot No. 434/1, Sector 8Geetanjali parkGandhinagar-382008GujaratPhone no - 9969085774,

9324579925

Roll No : 06407007Department : Department of Electrical EngineeringRoom No : 150email ID :

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Dhaval C Patel

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I like the most beautiful thing of h1 is its lively atmosphere which inspire me to work with enjoyment. My hobbies are to play cricket, carom and table tennis. My life is just like h1 lively and green.

Permanent Address : 73/870, Panchavati Apt.,Sola Road, Naranpura,Ahmedabad-380013,Gujarat, India

Roll No : 08323301Department : Systems and ControlRoom No : 151email ID :


Shah Ankit Kiritkumar


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Maintenance secretary 09-10

I joined H1 on July 2008. I have been in H1 for last 2 years and now it is like 2nd home for me. There are lots of unforgettable and sweet memories here which I will take with me. I am going to miss all night parties at H1 canteen, sharing funny moment at mess after classes (specially after DMT class), fight to complete assignment on last day but finally give up and copy paste from others, playing cricket at footer ground not even thinking about MTP and so on. The best things which H1 give to me are friends for lifetime. Now it’s about to be end of my M. tech here (in case I complete my project on time) and time to leave but it’s a part of life and we have to keep moving on. To all H1 junta I just want to say study well and enjoy your life. Best of luck for future!!

Permanent Address : New ama para, Mohan nagarDurgDist- DurgChhattisgarh 491001

Roll No : 08307043Department : Communication and Signal processing, Electrical Engg.Room No : 158email ID :

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Abhijeet Kadam

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Music Secretary for six month and resigned for official reason

I joined the institute July 2005 and from Jan 2006 i have been staying in Hostel-1 for sometime in room no.177 and in 159. Hostel-1 is the best place for research scholars,good environment, good feeling, good friend circle and also paves a way to interact with our neigh-bors. I cannot forget our moments in Hostel-one.

Thank you foll all providing a peaceful environment for doing a better re-search and for giving an opportunity for writing this my personal opinion.I wish all my hostel mates all the best and to have an enjoyable and peace-ful life

Permanent Address : S/o R.Palanichamy,Thoothai, Kothangulam(P.O),Sivaganga Dist.,Tamil Nadu-630610.Phone no. 9869697809

Roll No : 05403313Department : ChemistryRoom No : 159email ID : [email protected]

P Kalanidhi


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Garden and Aquarium Secretary, 2008-09

I am really privileged to be in IIT Bombay. It is indeed the best institute where i could interact with the best professor and get knowledge from them. I learned lot of things from them, both technical as well as about life in general. Life would not have been so pleasing doing PhD without staying in hostel-1, apart from being nearby to the department to reach easily for the academic purpose. Its also close to the SAC to attend all the cultural programs as well.And also close to the swimming pool and ground to do exercise. This made me never to change this hostel.Social ambiance here in hostel felt like one big family.Here we enjoyed every festival with verve in a traditional way.Made lot of good friends like Debabrata maji, Rahul shukla, Brajesh Pandey to name a few. Apart from having fun outings with friends , I could get lot of knowledge from other inmates , know their cultural background through their eyes. I would be really missing this hostel life after leaving , but he memories will be very sweet. Life moves on.

Permanent Address : Room No-6, Vaity Complex,Sion-Trombay Road,Opposite To Homi Bhabha Sci-ence Centre,Mankhurd, Mumbai-400088Phone : 09833484461

Roll No : 05407009Department : Electrical Engg.Room No : 162email ID :

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Ramesh Raju Navan

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Cultural Secretary ANUBHOOTI magazine committee member

Cultural Secretary award

I have spent my fours of my Ph.d in hostel one. I never feel alone as i was always surrounded by many friends. I enjoyed each and every festival in hostel one it is like as unity and integrity in single place. People are very friendly. We use to meet new people’s in mess and canteen.I took cultural secy post in 2006 and enjoyed. It was a duty for me, instead for duty it like enjoyable moment and take it hand and introduced new cultural involve-ment in Hostel-1. I really missed this place and in future i want to remain in connect with this hostel.

Permanent Address : Sharma Kunj C-1/31Yamuna ViharDelhi-110053.Phone no - 9899443468

9819338625

Roll No : 05430306Department : Department of Bioscience and BioengineeringRoom No : 164email ID :


Ashwani Sharma


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I have stayed in different hostels/rooms etc. in last 9 years (suddenly real-ized that it’s been real long!!), the stay at H1 is the most special. I have some of the most amazing memories from here.. I was a part of H1 even before I officially joined. The part (/122) in my room no. will tell you that :) ... The occupants of that room, which almost everyone knows is my “second home”, Bhooshie and Vijay (these two are only the official occupants, btw. The list of ‘actual’ occupants is a long one and not to be disclosed ;-).. ) have been two of my very close friends. This hostel has witnessed many impor-tant memories of my life. I have definitely learnt a lot of things here..When I entered H1 last year, I had to handle some very crucial things along with Bhooshi, Vijay and some other friends.. We used to have night-long discussions.. I think I lost some sleep and gained some wisdom in the whole process... :-)Had a very memorable stay for about an year. Enjoyed celebrating all the festivals - a trademark of H1 ! ... The two years at IITB have shaped my life very interestingly.. I have been a RSS-swayamsevak since childhood. But I got to learn a lot more things in

Permanent Address : 103, “Abhinav Sai”,T-6, Lakshmi-Nagar,Nagpur - 440022. MaharashtraPhone : 0712-2224255

Roll No : 08305013Department : Computer ScienceRoom No : 165,122email ID :

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Swaroop Joshi

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these two years about our work than before. Got exposed to a totally new dimension of working with college-students. Met a gem called Manoj. I really have no words to describe him... “Jeevan ke safar me raahi, milte hai bichhad jaane ko..” Separation is inevitable.. but I am sure the fragrance will be forever there ... Thanks a lot, H1.. All the best, H1 ...


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Something is missingleft behind Life is oneit doesnt’ rewindMysterious futurepass was lostPresent is giftwhich vanishes fastWho will win andwho will loseEveryone behind the golden shoesLots of questionsconfused mindwhere is the answerlet me find

Permanent Address : Madhurathi, Navnath nagar,Gulmohar roadAhmednagar-414003Phone no. 9029713433

Roll No : 08335001Department : Centre for Tech-nology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) Room No : 168email ID :


Nikhilesh Bagade

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Cultural Secretary“TECHFEST 2010” 1st prize winner

Hostel 1 Queen of the Campus, this was really second home for me.It is difficult to write in words about my memory in hostel one. This was my first experience in Hostel. I never thought about such a sensational stay in hostel.Here i laugh,cried,played,fought,organized events and danced. I will never forgot the festival we celebrated here, cricket matches in TV room and on footer ground, Ganapathy pooja, Holi, picnic and many more. H1 gave me lots of memory and lots of friends which will be ever for my entire life.

Permanent Address : “DEVKUL”B-49 Ashok NagarNasik, MaharashtraPhone no - 09703958313

Roll No : 08335008Department : Centre for Tech-nology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA)Room No : 168email ID :


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Poem:

Get your color backFromcolorless cloud havinggolden shinewithsilver edgewho sends us perlfrom cloudy eyewhich isgrayish black

Get yourcolors backfromrainbows pallethavingwater brusheswith greenish canvaswhoprays for naturefromhot of heavenwhich iscolored sack.

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Thanks IIT and H1 for making my stay @ IIT. thanks EE guys(specifically com-munication eng guys), for accepting me in this group and helping me in my academic and other activities. All the best for my RA(comm) friends for their final year and all the outgoing friends and classmate a happy and successful endeavoring life ahead.

Permanent Address : S/o N.Dayananda, # 3458/1,5th cross, 2nd main M.C.C. ‘B’ Block,davangere - 577004,Karnatka, INDIA

Roll No : 08307409Department : Electrical Engi-neering (Communication)Room No : 170email ID :

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N D Divya Kumar


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Place like H1 would be always memorable for me forever. I enjoyed a lot with my friends. When I will be leaving this place lots lots of swt memories i would like to carry with me. I like one thing very much that it gives mes-sage to all i.e. “Unity in diversity”. Please maintained this forever At end i would like to say to thanks to all those hostel inmates whose I don’t know or vice verse. Special thanks to my all communication guys and juniors for helping me in my ups and down..All the best and I hope in every field, you all will rock wherever you go as you people do.

Permanent Address : S/O Shree Pramod Kumar Sax-ena, 888/1, Rajrooppur,Allahabad - 211011

Roll No : 08307410Department : Electrical Engi-neering (Communication)Room No : 170email ID :

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Nishant Saxena

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The amount of time spent in my abode here at hostel-1 is indeed most fascinating though equally overwhelming ups and downs had happened outside hostel activities.I am thankful to the anubhooti team members for giving this platform to share and reach across you some of my thoughts. I did have a wholesome blend of life here at hostel -1 IIT Bombay as a me researcher i do my share of contemplating on tiny thoughts.Invariably a thought disturbed me which asked whether my stay here at H1 is the most productive thing i could do at this given time of my life.In other words i am here just by chance, an accident. Comrades! if i have learnt any thimng precious from this nearly four years of stay then this would be the answer to this intriguing question,well i am glad i found i am not here by chance and reason is you who also shares my fate.The reason for ny conviction is to knowing you and have had a meal around you and by your table.It is the fun of sitting around those carom boards and unceasing comments on the silver screen right in front of the round table council meetings.The ever table tennis enthusiast baddy part-ners and opponents,swimming companions,reading mates and my beloved

Permanent Address : AO Baptist Church,5th Mile Sugar Mill Colony,Dimapur,NagalandPhone - 03862242069

Roll No : 06408804Department : Humanities and Social SciencesRoom No : 173email ID :


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fellow shipping buddies.I owe you all for giving me an answer to my quest.Now i you have been there the you ought to know that i have been blessed through all those times and having said that am sure the only that i could think of now is to say that i am grateful to you whom i have befriended some where during the small conversations corridors rush and many familiar places, i will cherish you for being with me on this path of the journey.

Now then here is too much more happier days that’s beckoning for you and i so long! Live well!

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Second in rapid chess 2005-06Third in PG Sports Chess in Maths department

I do not want to sound cliched by saying how i enjoyed staying in H1 etc,But what i liked most about H1 is its proximity to maths department, I used to stay in H7 for first two years and at the top of that i used a bicycle to get to my department.Well don’t bother about these skeptical looks.Igno-rance is blissful as calvin used to say.The canteen (Satish) being an integral part of H1 that makes my stay worthwhile.The timing till 2:30 AM inspired me to go to another movie.Well i do not want to go through my elaborate list of friends.The few i hold precious know or should know how simply mere words would not justify the feelings/relationships

A few idiots randomly picked (not stupid).

AMEYA@188: suddenly less interested in research,I would be grateful for any clue what so ever.

Permanent Address : PIN-786125..Bordoloi Nagar,Tinsukia, Assam - 786125

Roll No : 05409003Department : MathematicsRoom No : 176email ID : [email protected]

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SAJID@77:Officially a H1 inmate but who cares.

GANESH@87:Its a treat to watch him going through his daily routine of food intakes.

PRAMOD@102: An avid sports person so much dedicated to the baby swimming pool that he never graduated to the one meant to be.

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Maintainence Secretary (2008-09)

I really enjoyed my stay at IITB especially in Hostel-I. I always feel H-1 is like my home.

Permanent Address : s/o M. Bulli verayya,Thimayyapalem,Chebrolu (post),Vunguturu (mandal),West Godavari (disit),Andhra Pradesh - 534 406

Roll No : 05403312Department : ChemistryRoom No : 180email ID :

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I am here at IITB for my M Tech course as a sponsored candidate. I work with State Pollution Control Board, Orissa. I am married and I hv two daugh-ters.

I came to H1 on 18th August 2008 after 1 month of joining and since then I am in Room no. 182 with my partner Sudip. Due to study after a gap of 16 years(my present age is 39), it has been really a hectic journey for me and most of my time has gone for studying only. However I have been active in badminton and those having any interest in badminton in H1 must be knowing me. I have represented hostel badminton team in both the years and in 2009-10 I was top in H1, got defeated in 3rd round of GC. Also I have been a regular late night visitor of H1 canteen where I usually take Chicken manchurian rice. Canteen has been a nice experience and some people also demand a sabji which satish and all recognise as dillip sabji, patented in my name. Overall H1 life will be memorable and will be cherished upon.

My message to all the inmates of H1 is to enjoy life, which is definitely best

Permanent Address : H2/63, Sri Satyasai Enclave,Khandagiri, Bhbaneswar-751030,Orissa, India

Roll No : 08318401Department : Centre for Environ-mental Science and Engineering (CESE)Room No : 182email ID :

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Dillip Kumar Dash

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even today among all hostels. This is the right age to enjoy and will never come back again. I have always thought like Could I been a little more younger, life here would have been much more colourful. Finally i wish all the best to all my H1 inmates for a happy and successful professional and personal life.


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I am a student sponsored by Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India.I am working in State Govt. organization since 1999. Still I am full of enthusiasm in all kind of matter. After a long gap, i.e. 12 yrs, once again I back to hostel and tried to enjoy the hostel life as its way. I like to play key-board and table tennis. I have a good relation with all the hostel inmates.

Permanent Address : A-7/15 Konnagar Abasan,134/3, C.S.Mukherjee Street,P.O.-Konnagar,Dist-Hoogly,West Bengal-712235Phone - (033)26745206

Roll No : 08318402Department : Centre for Environ-mental Science and Engineering (CESE)Room No : 182email ID :

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Permanent Address : Jugun Prakash ChintaS/O J. S. M. Prasad,Brahmin Street,Bandarulanka,Amalapuram Mandal,East Godavari District,PIN-533221Andhra Pradesh.Phone-08856236639

Roll No : 05403310Department : ChemistryRoom No : 183email ID : [email protected]

Jugun Prakash Chinta

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Mess Secretary for year 2008-09Valfi Finance Head for 2008-09

I enjoyed and enjoying my stay of almost 4 years in hostel H1. It’s really a Queen of Campus as it takes care of all the inmates.I learned a lot from hostel and hostel life along with the responsibility I shared and fulfilled. I would like to be alumni of H1 it self as it gives all the H1ites the different pleasure than any other thing.I will be very happy to keep in touch with my alma matter and my hostel. I got different friends and came across different peoples from all over the India as well as abroad.So all the H1 junta be a part of H1 and keep in touch with H1 in coming future as our alma matter.

Permanent Address : Ameya DiwanC/o. Mr. Pramod DiwanShri-Kripa Pathology Lab,Near Vyapari Library, Old Civil CourtAmalner - 425 401Dist Jalgaon

Roll No : 06402004Department : Chemical EnggRoom No : 188email ID :

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Ameya Diwan

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Enjoined hostel life and activities. Hobbies playing chess and cricket. Goal is complete the PhD and get in to a good research group.

Permanent Address : Cheruvathery HouseP.O. ChovvurThrissurKerala-680027

Roll No : 05406004Department : Earth SciencesRoom No : 195email ID : [email protected]

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Computer Secretary (2008-2009)Returning Officer in Hostel Election Committee, 2010

Myself, Sunil Kumar, doing PhD from the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering. I am in Hostel 1 since my joining IIT-Bombay in January, 2006. I was very happy to know that I have been allotted Hostel 1, as many of my friends told me that it is the best Hostel in campus. Throughout my tenure in IITB/Hostel, I met with many inmates who helped me a lot in all areas. I am very thankful to all those friends specially my batchmates Kashy-ap, Rahul, Aswani, Anshul, Nithin, Navneet, Kamleshwar, Prashant Kodgire, Vijay R.P., Vijay H., and R. Bhide. I am not listing the other names because it will be a long list otherwise. I feel that Hostel 1 has very good environment/atmosphere for study. People listen to the other inmates problem and try to solve. I never feel alone in hostel. As H1 is a PG hostel having students from all streams, many times it helps a lot to discuss in field which someone is not expert. I was part of almost all festivals organized in the hostel premis-es. It is very difficult to get such homely environment. Playing with comput-er is my hobby. Whenever I find time, I try to explore various software like Adobe packages, Corel etc (even hardware some time). In future, I want to opt for a career which allow me to do research and teaching.

Permanent Address : Qr. No. 1-010, Sector - 2C ,Street - 9, Bokaro Steel City,Dist - Bokaro, Jharkhand - 827 001

Roll No : 05430305Department : Department of Biosciences and BioengineeringRoom No : 238email ID : [email protected]

Sunil Kumar

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I Amit sata student of M-tech, when I saw the hostel-1 i was really impressed,it was very well maintained well organized hostel. In fist year of M-tech due to very heavy course work ,quizzes etc.I could not participate in hostel activities except inter hostel cricket tournament.I have represented hostel-1 in inter hostel cricket tournament and i feel very proud about it.Then in second year my all batch mates left hostel-1 but i could not do so.I don’t understand why i couldn’t do it.Finally i realized that i was very much attached with hostel one.I felt like home here. I was nominated as mess seceretary in june 2009 the i decided it is time to pay back to hostel that i got in previous year from hostel-1.During my work i was supported by mess manager ,hall manager and all inmates. In hostel i came in contact with many new people like Sachin,Tej Vohra,GPS Tej,Nitin Soni,Abhijeet and many more and they became my good freinds.I will always miss the evening cricket that we played at fotter ground. At the end i am very thankful to providing very special memory in my life which i will never forget.

Permanent Address : Shub Laxmi,Old Papiya Vadi,Near HJ Doshi Hospital,Rajkot - 4, GujaratPhone : 9825217702

Roll No : 08310301Department : Mechanical De-partmentRoom No : 240email ID :

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Education is a part of life in hostel days. Don’t treat it as the only life. Live other parts of life such as gym, sports, gathering, PAF, hostel posts etc. This makes life complete and are the first steps to become a complete man.

Permanent Address : Flat 08, Chandraprakash Society,3rd Flor Sanewadi,Opposite to Fabindia,Aundh, Pune - 411007Phone : 9892194601

Roll No : 04427802Department : SJM School of ManagementRoom No : 245email ID :

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Mess Councillor, 2009-10

Hostel 1, it has been my second home. I love this place and everything that belongs to H1 because, “it is my hostel..”.To recall from the beginning, there are many things which I did here. So many games I have learnt. Even the hockey which I never expected myself even to watch. Everything in this hostel I will cherish in future. I never felt so much of love for hostel, hostel pride in the past as I am feeling now while I am writing this message. I had never had such a huge amount of interac-tions with my seniors as well juniors too. I am very glad that all hostel 1 junta accepted me too and gave their lot of love. (I still remember the night before my birthday :p )

Permanent Address : AT Post-Degaon,Tal-Pandharpur,Dist-Solapur,Maharashtra 413304Phone : (02186)252260

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Library and literary secretary- Hostel council 2008-09 Election committee member- 2010

Myself, Kashyap Dave, is a Ph.D. student at Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering. First of all, I would like to thank all my batchmates (in par-ticular, Sunil, Rahul, Anshul, Ashwani, Nitin, Navneet, Kamleshwar, Prashant Kodgire, Vijay H, Vijay RP and R. Bhide) and inmates of Hostel 1 who have made my stay a memorable and pleasurable at Hostel 1. They have always supported me, evolved me into strong and affectionate character. Hostel one is the coolest hostel of the campus. It harbors thunder of knowledge in its peace loving environment. Needless to say, it provides an ideal platform for any student to build its personality. Many many thanks to all staff of Hostel 1 who have contributed to my healthy and cordial stay in Hostel 1. IIT Bombay blended with strong academics and rich heritage has provided me an opportunity to shape up my career. I hope to live upon the reputation my beloved Institute.

Permanent Address : C/o Vikarna dave,Flat No. 203, Mangesh Apart-ment,Plot No. J-3, Opposite Vollyball ground, Laxmi Nagar,Nagpur- 440022

Roll No : 05430001Department : Department of Bioscience and BioengineeringRoom No : 255email ID :

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Kashyap Dave

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My self ..tried to explore all for the first time in my life (apart from studies), for which H1 had been the best place for me. I feel I could not have done all of them with in my short drop of 2 years, if I have been in any other hostel of IITB. Thats how I kept my head in a range of different activities from sports to dance, music, PAF, Tech fest, Mood Indigo..and special of all Hostel council and Placement office.The only bad and good experience was when I was impeached from coun-cil...but that made me enter PO. The council and inmates kept moving me in all cultures of H1..HOLI, JANMASHTAMI, INDEPENDENCE DAY, VALFI etc..The things that I learnt from IIT, CTARA, H1 is proper management of TERM TIME, ENERGY, RESOURCES and MONEY..and giving preference in the same order...which will give the real success.Don’t forget that Indian people, as per vijay information (2008-09 G.Sec) >20 lakhs spent on each of us for 2 yrs. so we are in debt for this mother India.The only suggestion I can give..esp. to all IITian’s and inmates leave all your cloths of ego, regionalism and wear new fashions of Interaction, Love, spiri-tuality and patriotism..that will give all personal and social benefits...I will be in touch with H1 always..and will fulfill things I could not do esp. biogas plant for H1 mess and Alumini network of H1...H1!H1!

Permanent Address : s/o Pochaiah Rajaram,H.NO. 1-44/1, (PO)(MO)(VI) Lingampet, (Dist.) Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh - 503124. Phone: 08465271502

Mobile: 09769317713, 09533535660

Roll No : 08335007Department : Centre for Tech-nology Alternatives for Rural AreasRoom No : 258email ID :

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Permanent Address : 128/64 ‘Y’ Block,Kidwai nagar,Kanpur - 208011Phone : 986956722

Roll No : 05430310Department : Biosciences and BioengineeringRoom No : 275email ID :


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Cultural Secretary 2006-07, 2008-09Swar Sandhya Organizing Team 2007-08

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Computer Secretary 2006-2007Web and Alumni Secretary 2007 (resigned in between)

Introvert, Good experience initially (year and a half) but later did get much time to enjoy hostel life due to work pressure

Permanent Address : “Madhav Baug”, Mulgaon Vasia,Dist-Thane - 401201,Maharashtra

Roll No : 05417001Department : Energy Science and EngineeringRoom No : 287email ID : [email protected]

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Memories at H1/IITBअतीवमनोहरवातावरणं वर्तते॥ I enjoyed a lot here. Studying herein this IITB campus that too in this hostel 1, is one of my best memorable things to cherish for a long time in my life. I am fortunate enough to spend such a wonderful life in this hostel.

Permanent Address : B/0 U Subrahmanya GhanapathiDoor no: 1-4-73/4Bank colonyKamakoti Nagar R T C Work shop RoadVijayawada -12Andhra Pradesh

Roll No : 05408807 Department : Humanities and Social SciencesRoom No : 22email ID : [email protected]

U K V Sarma

Carol singing during celebration of Christmas.

A glimpse of inmates celebrating, Diwali by bursting crackers. The festival of lights was celebrated by placing diya all around the hostel.

Big turn up on fresher’s day. New inmates were given an opportunity to showcase their cultural talent.

Rise of good over the evil. Dussera celebrated by burning Ravana effigy in the hostel ground.

Swar Sandhya... an evening to remember Iman playing keyboard; Jai Narayan Tripathi from hostel was overall co-ordinator of the event

Ganapati bappa moriya!! Visarjan of H1 eco-Ganesha. The idol was prepared by the hostel inmates.

Pookkalam (Rangoli of Flowers) made by inmates during Onam.

Bura na mano Holi hai!! Holi celebrations in the hostel

This is a clay sculpture by Nitin Soni showcased in Kaladarshan (KD). Kaladarshan had many entries from H1.

Breath taking view from the top of the Raigad fort. A memorable journey to tip of the hill. We were blessed by the awesome monsoons of the Konkan.

Painting Workshop.

Our very own cricket team played brilliantly in the GC.

Standing from left: Arun Kum

ar, Prashant Singhal, Mukesh M

ehta, Bharat Kumar B.V., Tej Vohra, Akash N

igam,

Sanjay Kumar, Rahul K M

ishra, Aavish Naik, M

akarand Kane, Amol D

ani, Rajath Bhat, Krishnan Pandalai Sitting from

left: Prof. K.V.Venkatesh, Prof. R.B.Sunoj

Team Anubhooti 2009-10

Anubhooti .... It is not just ‘experience’, it also refers to the feelings which have been inculcated and have become an integral part of who we are.

This Anubhooti’ reflects imprints of Hostel1 onto every resident!

This yearbook is an effort to fit ‘our anubhooti’ into these finite number of pages!

Documents

Anubhooti - Indian Institute of Technology Bombayhostel1/downloads/anubhooti...mess table, each one of you would have had some experiences to take away from your stay here at H1. Should