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ACCOLADES FOR THE BEST AMONG THE BEST

(Top) IIMA director Sameer Barua felicitates SEWAfounder Ela Bhatt at the institutes golden jubilee

celebrations on Saturday. Mrinalini Sarabhai, whose late

husband Dr Vikram Sarabhai was one of the founders of

IIMA, emphasised that her husband had hoped that the

institutes students would play a major role in eliminating

poverty in India. Alumni Arvind Mahajan also spoke about

the need for students to look at the plight of the poor. At

right, Ms Sarabhai reminisces with Ela Bhatt.

Niyati Rana

"When Vikram (Sarabhai) founded this institute,he envisioned that students of IIMA would look atthe poverty in the country. I am not sure if that ishappening right now.I would request students tobe helpful to the poor of India," said MrinaliniSarabhai,wife of late Vikram Sarabhai who wasone of the founders of the India's top B-school Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad(IIMA). She was speaking as the chief guest atthe golden jubilee inaugural function felicitationceremony at IIMA on Saturday evening.

Chairman of the institute, Vijaypat Singhaniaand director of the institute,Samir Barua, apartfrom hundreds of alumni,former professors andstaffers got together to share nostalgic moments atthe IIMA's landmark Louis Kahn Plaza. MrinaliniSarabhai also talked about the process and stepstaken with commitment by Vikram Sarabhai,Kas-turbhai Lalbhai and Jivraj Mehta toestablish this premier institute.

One of the alumni of PGP '78 batch,Arvind Mahajan, also endorsed Mrinalini Sarab-hai's call to students to contribute to the upliftmentof the poor in India."India has two parts and 70%of its people are not so privileged. Students ofIIMA should help balance the two parts," he said.

Another alumni also stressed that IIMA stu-dents should look beyond the corporate world."The institute is named Indian Institute of Man-agement and not the Indian Institute of BusinessManagement, one of the professors had said to

us. Apart from corporate world,students shouldalso go for NGOs,art, media, public service etc,"he suggested.

Director of the institute,Samir Barua, saidthat he was overwhelmed by the occasion."I haveseen generations of students graduate under thecare of generations of colleagues," said a nostal-gic Barua. He added in his note that IIMA com-munity will make the place a true paradise oftruth and action as well,not only India's but theworld's best place.

Do your bit for Indias underprivileged: Mrinalini at IIMAGolden jubilee celebrations kickstart at the management mecca, with former professors, alumni and staff getting together at the Louis Kahn Plaza

DNA Correspondent

Mohzil Pathan,the youth who wasseriously injured in the road ac-cident at Shivranjani crossroadson Saturday, that also killed hisfriend, owns the bike that he wasdriving.

The incident happened in the

early morning when the two werespeeding and lost control of the ve-hicle thus hitting a divider. So se-vere was the impact of the accidentthat Pathan's friend,Arafat Shaikh,who was riding pillion with him,went flying from the bridge and felldown. He later died in a hospital.

Police have so far recorded the

statement of Yusuf Pathan,father of

Mohzil,said investigating officer SJ

Pathan. Yusuf is the owner of Capri

Restaurant at Relief Road. Yusuftold the police that the bike was pur-

chased by his son Mohzil three days

ago and the papers are still with the

old owner.

However, so far the police havenot declared who is exactly theowner of the bike. Police sourcessaid that as Mohzil was driving thebike they wanted to ask him for thedocuments. "Mohzil is still criticaland he may be shifted to some oth-er hospital. We will try to get astatement from him once he is outof danger," said Pathan.

Primary investigations haverevealed that once Arafat left his

office in Satellite, the two wentfor some tea.

"As there was no traffic, Mohziltook to speeding which resulted inaccident," source said. The acci-dent occurred in the wee hours ofSaturday.

6 house break-ins reported

Six house break-ins were re-ported from the city. Three hap-pened in Naroda and one each

in Sabarmati, Maninagar andKalupur.

The incidents took place be-tween December 8 and 11 and valu-ables and cash worth Rs5 lakhwere stolen.

In the incidents, which hap-pened in New Naroda, cash andvaluables worth Rs2.35 lakh werestolen from a house in ShrustiPark Society. Apart from this,cashand valuables worth Rs25,500 andRs47,000 were also stolen from Nar-oda area. In the Sabarmati,Maningar and Kalupur incidents

the loss was pegged at Rs49,000,Rs49,000 and Rs90,000 respectively.

Biker Pathan still unconscious

Kinjal Desai

MICAns did something different dur-ing this year's alumni meet. For thefirst time, they organised two newevents.First was the 10-year reunion oftheir alumni and second was the first

ever leadership summit.While MICAns got nostalgic about

their alma mater, they also deliveredspeeches during the leadership summit,and were awed by student's enthusiasmand concentration, something theymissed during their days.

"Initially, MICA lacked discipline,it be-ing a place of creativity, many interpret-ed it in different way,that t hey would getaway by dressing in a particular fashionand the like, which I haven't seen thistime.There was lot of vigor with whichthe event was organised and the disci-pline I saw during the summit, even whenthe going was tough,showed that certainamount of maturity had grown into stu-dents today as compared to the casualnessduring my time. MICA has a unique op-portunity to produce creative leaders,andtherefore,they can do far more humanconnected work than other marketing in-stitutions could possibly do. Entrepre-neurship is a norm and if MICAns don'texploit it, then I don't know who will,"Ashutosh Wakankar, Director at Centreof Gravity, from MICA's 1999 batch,said.

While other speakers agreed about theincreased enthusiasm and vigor withwhich students worked for alumni meetsand summits, some even stated thatyoung guns had lot of opportunity to gothe unconventional way of earning theirlivelihood.

According to Arjuna award winnerand former Olympian,Viren Rasquinha,a speaker at the summit, "Today's youthhas enormous potential, which they arelocking away. But institutes like MICAcan help students unleash that potentialwhich sometimes takes a leap into the un-known and takes a long trip. It is not al-ways necessary to go down the conven-

tional way, rather do what you are pas-sionate about the most."

Talking about opportunities in sportsfor budding marketers, researchers andmore, Rasquinha said that, "There is a

growing trend of people opting for thealternative route, one of them beingsports.I think those days of having hon-orary federations, wherein people knownothing about how to market sportsmenand a particular sport, has gone. Soon,there will only be paid professionals whowill look after all aspects of sports.Moreso, sport is considered as a tool for com-panies to reach masses,as it cuts acrossall barriers. Figuring out how to marketsports is not only a huge challenge butalso a huge opportunity and we are defi-nitely on the cusp of a breakthroughwherein there would be immense job op-portunities in sports."

MICAns get a packagedeal this reunionGet-together was followed by leadership summit

Kinjal Desai

In a first-of-its-kind competition,school students from across India wit-nessed the immense potential of math-ematics in everyday life.'Mathcovery',which was organised by EducationalInitiatives (EI), was the first attempttowards introducing school childrenin the age group of 10-15 to a newworld of mathematics and its appli-cations.

"This is the first year that we organ-ised Mathcovery. It was during the sum-mer holidays of 2010 that we began cre-ating the event. The aim was to takemathematics to as many students aspossible,for the subject to evolve from

being about just calculations into onethat involves creativity as well," saidpublic relations and marketing man-ager of EI,Aditya Shah.

The idea,according to Shah,was todetect the mathematicsthat prevails in our sur-roundings, and to inte-grate it into our daily lives.Over 10,000students participated in the event fromacross India,but only 20 made it to thegrand finale round held at AMA inAhmedabad. 15 schools from the statesent their students to participate.

While Raaga Srinivas from Na-tional Academy of Learning in Ban-

galore noticed the presence of mathsin Bharatnatyam - in the form ofgeometric angles, Sriman Acharya

from Anand NiketanSchool saw maths in rail-way reservation systems,

in the form of permutations andcombinations.

Another student, Antriksha V,found maths in poetry and ap-plied the rhymezone applicationto the same. Some students alsospotted maths in art, others inmigratory birds.

Helping kids discover the maths around them...

TOPSTORY

DNA Correspondent

The Income Tax department in Ahmedabadhas unearthed black money of Rs355 crore in

close to 200 surveys in the first eight monthsof the current financial year, a top official ofthe department said on Saturday.

"We have conducted 191 surveys betweenApril 1 and November 30 this year,whic h haveled to disclosure of Rs355.83 crore.In the sameperiod last year, the number of surveys was341,while disclosure was Rs289.78 crore," saidDS Rastogi,chief commissioner of incometax,Gujarat.

Rastogi said that number of surveys bythem has been much lower than last year,butdisclosures have been high.

The above figures do not include the detailsof surveys and disclosures in operations bythe Directorate General of Income Tax (In-vestigation Wing).

Giving details about tax collections,Rasto-gi said that the collections have been robust.

"The finance ministry has given us a tar-get of Rs17,136 crore for the current finan-cial year. As of December 7, the tax collec-tions have touched Rs8,645 crore. We areconfident of easily exceeding the target forthe year," he said.

In fact, he exuded confidence that incometax revenue from the state would grow 20% as

compared to the previous year's figure ofRs15,240 crore.

200-odd surveys

unearth Rs355 cr

worth black money_ Cash stolen in KagdapithRamesh Khatri, a resident of Ashadeep Appartments at LG Corner inManinagar has filed a police complaint in which she stated that boys in theage group of 12 to 15 years escaped with a bag containing Rs85,000 in

cash. Khatri had filed the police complaint with Kagdapith police station.

EDUMATTERS

Pics:DhavalBharwad.DNA

Ex MICANS (LtoR) Parush Sharma, Ashutosh Wakankar, Rajesh Sharma andSiddharth Deshmukh

Theatre personality Tahira Nath

Pics:Piyush

Patel.DNA

City 2Education is that which does not merely give us information, but makes our life in harmony with all existence. TagoreAhmedabad, December 12, 2010

Kinjal Desai

Kicking-off their golden jubilee cele-brations in a grand manner,IIMA con-ducted the domino show and is all setto enter the Limca Book of Records.

While their intention was to break

the earlier record of 7000 dominoes,which was set by Microsoft India dur-ing the launch of Windows 7, with10,000 dominoes, they went a stepahead. They made use of 11,000 domi-noes and almost created the golden ju-bilee logo on the stage of their RJMathai auditorium.

Secretary of IIMA's media cell,GlenD'Silva said, "A team of about 20 stu-dents were working throughout nightsfor the past 10 days to practice for thisevent. We thought we were a team of20, until we came across students whowould just walk in and help us or sup-

port us while be got the precision ri ghtof creating the Limca record."

Students had placed an order fornearly 16,000 pieces of dominos fromthe old city, which were made of com-pressed sawdust - quite different fromthe regular wooden ones. Following

the dominos show was the launch offour books, written by IIMA facultymembers.

'Strategies for Growth' by ProfAtanu Ghosh,'How to be a Better Man-ager' by Prof TV Rao,'The PersuasiveManager' Prof MM Monippally, and'Business and Intellectual Property' by

Prof Anurag K Agarwal,were releasedas a start-off ceremony to the golden

jubilee celebrations.

Domino effect to fetch a record

Microsoft India had earlier set arecord of 7,000 dominoes, whenthey launched Windows 7. IIMAcrossed that record on Saturday,with 11,000 dominoes.

MICA organised two new

events the 10-year

reunion of their alumni and

the first leadership summit

Juniors:

1 p

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: Subhiksha S Mathematics in

Aviation Sri Sanskara SeniorSecondary School, Chennai

2

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: Raga Srinivas Mathematics

in Bharatnatyam National Academy ofLearning, Bangalore

3

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: Devasri Turakhia

Mathematics in dabbawalas trade Billabong International School - Mumbai

Seniors:

1s

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: Mohammed Safiulla

Mathematics in card magic TitanSchool, Hosur

2nd pr

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: Vaidik Shah criminal justice

Rustomjee Cambridge InternationalSchool Mumbai

3r

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: Jayraj Gambhir

Mathematics in square wheels AmityInternational School Ghaziabad

And the winners...

EVENTS Buffet lunch 3D presentation

3D images of the Sabarmati

Riverfront project, from the

eyes of an architect. At

Amdavad ni gufa. From 4 pm to

8 pm, Dec 12 - 19.

Art exhibitionExhibition of arts and crafts bystudents of IDEAL institute. At

Ravishankar Raval

Kala Bhavan. From

11 am to 8 pm,today.

Art showFrangipani Art & Salvatore

Ferragamos art show at L&P

Hutheesing Visual Arts Centre.

11 am to 10

pm, today.

Photo exhibitionExhibition of photographs

on Ahmedabad at the

Alliance Francaise. From

10 am to 8 pm, till

December 16.

Rhythm & Hues,

debut painting exhibi-

tion of Subir Dey. At

Contemporary Art

Gallery. From 4 pm to

8 pm, today.

PlayPlay titled Rashmirathi

at Natarani, Usmanpura.

8.30 pm onwards, today.

Vegetarian buffet meal at

Pepperazzi, with soups &

pastas, besides main

course. At Pepperazzi,

Polytechnic. From 12 pm

to 2.30 pm, today.

Art exhibition