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Pg : 2 SLam it down…

Pg : 4 teacherS’ day and Food without Fire

Pg : 6-7 they rocked, they raaS(ed), they reveLLed…

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Pg : 11 iSr and nSS drive at Fcait

The NSS Programme Officers and volunteers meeting of the NSS

implementing colleges of Gujarat Law University was held on 8th September 2017. NSS volunteers and Programme Officers from various colleges attended the meeting.

The programme was convened by Dr. Ashwin Purohit, Dean, Faculty of Commerce, GLS University. Program started with welcome speech by NSS Program Coordinator Prof. Vijay Tripathi, wherein he talked about history, aim, objectives and motto of NSS. Chief Guest of the function Shri

Kamalkumar Kar , NSS Regional Director, Ministry of

Youth Affairs & Sports addressed the gathering to

explain role and responsibilities of NSS volunteers.

Dr. Dharmesh Shah, Registrar and Member Secretary, GLS University graced the occasion and motivated students to take part in NSS activities. Dr. Bhalchandra Joshi, Provost, GLS University blessed the occasion and shared his life learning experiences of NSS camps. Shri Vadibhai Patel, Dean, Student Welfare instructed the officers to take special attention in organizing NSS activities. The Programme Officers interacted with the NSS coordinator regarding action plan of NSS Department.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN THEORY, RESEARCH AND PRACTICES IN MANAGEMENT

(GLSU-ATRPM 2017) organized by Faculty of Management at GLS University

Faculty of Management, GLS University organized the National

Conference on Advances in Theory, Research and Practice in Management (ATRPM-2017) on 23rd September, 2017. The prime objective of this conference was to provide a platform for exchange of ideas between experienced and knowledgeable researchers, practitioners and doctoral students in various fields of economy, marketing, finance and human resource.

Mr. Saumil Paronikar, AVP & Zonal Head, Tata AIA Life

Insurance graced the event as the Chief Guest and delivered a key note address on ‘Future of Management Practices’. The audience was mesmerized with his knowledge and expertise in the area of research.

Dr. Bhalchandra Joshi, Provost, GLS University, Ms. Chandni Kapadia – COO, GLS University, Dr Hitesh Ruparel, Director General, GLS University and Dean, Faculty of Management, Dr. Dharmesh Shah, Registrar, GLS university, Dr. Rajesh Asrani, Dean, School of

Doctoral Research and Innovation and Dr. Jasmin Padiya, Associate Professor, FOM, GLS Univerity, along with Mr. Saumil Paronikar unveiled book of selected research papers and conference proceedings.

The conference witnessed immense response with receiving 124 research papers from across the country, of which 109 research papers were accepted and selected by following a double blind review process. Of the selected 109 research papers presented at the conference, they were

awarded for the ‘Best Research Paper’ and ‘Best Presentation’ in ‘Corporate & Academics’ and ‘Students’ category. The winners received a cash prize and a certificate for the same.

The valedictory session saw a compelling keynote address delivered by Dr. Arnab Laha, Professor, IIM Ahmedabad on ‘Advancement in Management Research.

Prizes were awarded to the best research paper and the best presentation in ‘Corporate/Academic’ category and ‘Students’ category. Dr. Vinod

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Lakhani, Dr. Swati Tiwari and Dr. Sangeeta Jauhari secured the 1st prize, whereas Dr. Neha Shroff secured the 2nd prize for the best research paper in the ‘Corporate/ Academic’ category.

Ms. Malvika Keswani & Ms. Harmeet Kaur Gandhi secured 1st prize and Mr. Rajat Vora & Mr. Sagar Khambhati secured 2nd prize in the ‘Students’ category for the best research paper.

Dr. Megha Shah, Assistant

Prof., Faculty of Management secured the 1st prize, whereas Dr. Pinkal Shah secured the 2nd prize for the ‘Best Presentation’ in the ‘Corporate/ Academic’ category.

Ms. Hinal Shah & Ms. Devina Thakrar secured the

1st prize, whereas Ms. Bindiya Gupta secured the 2nd prize for the ‘Best Presentation’ in the ‘Students’ category.

The event concluded with a promise that the learning will continue to enrich for years to come.

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SLAM IT DOwN…

CELEBRATING wOMANHOOD

By Nirja Vasavada

Recently I came across a performance on social media by a young girl

called AranyaJohar. The performance was called “A Brown Girl’s Guide to Beauty”, presented by Shaadi.com and Unerased Poetry. The melodious guitar strings with which it started, gave a soothing feeling. Performance, however, was anything but soothing. It was meant to upset, disturb and unnerve you; and that’s exactly what it did. It was a slam poetry performance.

A new form of Spoken Word Poetry, Slam poetry is a rising phenomenon these days. A combination of anger, emotion,

expression and performance; slam poetry is one of the most vigorous ways to convey your message to the audience. No wonder then, that it is the most

powerful medium to voice social issues. Interestingly slam poetry has also become a medium of social advertising. The above-mentioned

performance is about the stereotypes that the society has generated about beauty for women – fair skin tone, thin body, long hair and so on. And the main purpose of having this ‘beauty’ is to get married to a ‘suitable groom’. When these stereotypes are slammed down by an online match-making site, it not only becomes their marketing but also their contribution in challenging the social issues that have been around for ages.

The most interesting part in slam poetry is the pace with which the words are woven in perfect rhyme and performed. It feels as if there is a race between mind, heart and body, where the

mind is weaving words, the heart is pouring emotions and the body is bringing this whole concoction of words and emotions into an enthralling performance on the stage. It’s an absolutely unabashed attack on the society. That’s where its power lies – in its brutal honesty.

You need not be a “literature person” to appreciate a slam poetry performance. If you have not watched it yet, just youtube some of the performances and it will leave you shaken.

(The writer is an Assistant Professor in English and Communication at FBA-

NRBBA)

By Arti Desai

Festivals in India are an integral part of people’s life. They portray the rich

cultural heritage of the country. Festivals bring a kind of enthusiasm in the routine monotonous life.

“Man is a social animal.” This sentence itself indicates how male oriented our society is! But surprisingly in this male dominated society Navratri is

the festival which celebrates the power of womanhood! It is the festival of nine nights celebrating the female force in the world. It is one of the most important festivals of India marked with much pageantry.

There are different stories woven around this festival. As per the tale in ancient scriptures, when the world was tortured by a mighty vicious demon known as Mahishasura and even the Gods could not defeat him, they all combined their energies and the mighty warrior Goddess Durga was born.The Goddess engaged the demon in battle and killed many of his comrades, like Chanda and Muna, and also came to be known as

Chamundeshwari. For nine days, the gruesome battle continued between the pious Goddess and the vicious Demon, however, on the tenth day, the Goddess subdued the ravaging beast and killed him. This sacred day is celebrated as Vijayadashmi. According to the epic Ramayana, Lord Rama along with his brother Laxman, trusted aid Hanuman and the army of monkeys, attacked the demon king and the great battle continued for tenth day. On the tenth da, the Lord killed the ten headed demon Ravana and rescued his wife. Since then Dushera is believed to be celebrated on that day till date. The word Dushera in itself can

be construed as Dasa Hara, which means cutting ten heads of the demon Ravana. Therefore the festival is celebrated to mark the triumph of good over evil. Navratri highlights the principles elucidated by the Ramayana.

Navratri is said to be India’s longest festival of dance. It is a celebration where people spend nine nights worshipping Goddess Durga, dancing, singing and most importantly dressing up with the beautiful traditional outfits! It is celebrated all over India. Especially Gujrat is very famous for it’s “Raas” and “Garba”.

If we look at the spiritual

aspect of this festival, it is about worshipping the woman power. A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture, transform and destroy! Navratri is puja of “SHAKTI”.Whenever an evil element takes birth on this earth, the power of woman plays a major role to destroy the evil.

In today’s world if we really want to worship different forms of Goddesses, we should learn to give respect to different roles of womanhood, which play a very important part on different stages of our life. The society where a girl child is killed before she’s born, where there have to be campaigns like “Beti Bachao”, the celebration of Navaratri becomes futile. Scientifically we may have progressed, but when these inventions are used for such a shameful purpose, that takes us centuries back. Women are not respected, and it is the most vulnerable part of our society.

True celebration of Navratri will take place when our society willstart giving due rights and respect to all women, when it willaccept and appreciate the real woman power in the real Goddesses living around us.

(The writer is an alumnus of GLS)

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ONE-DAY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ON“wRITING RESEARCH PAPERS AND PUBLISHING”

ACCOLADES FOR GLS UNIVERSITY

A one-day Faculty D e v e l o p m e n t Programme (FDP) on

”Writing Research Papers and Publishing” forfaculty members of GLS University in the academic year 2017-18 was organised on the 9th September 2017at the SMPIC Building premises by GLSCRD.

The objective of the programme was to provide knowledge about writing research papersand publishing. Both these skills are necessary

for faculty members for their professional growth. .

The resource persons were:Dr. M. R. Dixit (Retired Professor, IIMA) and Dr. Amit Karna (Professor, IIMA)

The following topics were covered in the programme: • Becoming Aware and

Building Aspirations for Publishing in top rated journals

• Making publications happen: From abilities to action for submission

• Embarking on Knowledge Search and choosing the path

• Research Tools & Techniques and Excellence in Scientific WritingAlthough 35 faculty

members of GLS University were nominated for the programme,and al l ofthemparticipated.

The programme waswell received by theparticipants and they also enjoyed the programme.

COMMUNICATE, CONNECT, CONqUER…By Nirja Vasavada

The cases of suicides amongst teenagers have reached a scary level.

Almost every day we read in the newspapers about children, teenagers committing suicide – whether under the influence of the Blue Whale or for a petty reason like failing in board exams. We also hear it at almost all the ‘chai pechurcha’ discussions that “this generation doesn’t understand the value of life.” So can we get away with it? Just calling it a generational problem is not going to bring any solution. What, then, is the solution?

I strongly believe that the solution lies in communication. If we are able to communicate well with our children, that creates an environment of warmth which eventually leads to the feelings of friendship and security. The suicide ratio is increasing mainly because the youth today is vulnerable and prone to fall for the depression trap. The Blue Whale game creators identified this weak nerve and as we know, more and more children are falling prey to this vicious circle.

What is scarier is the fact that this is not restricted to one city, one state or one nation; but it has become a global concern.

Should we, then, turn to make them watch the Rajshree ‘Sanskaar’ movies instead of social media? We need to understand that if our children are moving ahead, we would have to move ahead with them. So if they are there on social media, the parent would also have to be on social media – not to keep watch over them, but to be with them, to be their friends, to provide them the same warmth and security that you would at home. The best way to curb depression is to make people feel your presence in their world, while giving them their space. It might be tricky for some of us, but hey, who said communication is easy!

(The writer is an Assistant Professor in English and Communication at FBA-

NRBBA)

Faculty of Commerce performed and won the prestigeous Garba

competition held at Ellisbridge Gymkhana on 27th September 2017. First prize winners were FOC- SMPIC who performed “Aradhana Ma Adhya Shakti ni”

while the Second prize winners were FOC-GLSIC who performed Rajasthani folk dance. Both the groups got an overwhelming response from the audience. There were 13 participating teams from different colleges and professional Garba institutions of

the state. The entire performance made the audience spellbound with its dance synchronization and variations. The winning performance was invited to give a guest performance at Friends Garba one of the most prestigious Garba venues in our city.

The folk dance “Aradhana Ma Adhya Shakti ni” was choreographed by Prof. Kruti Paritosh, Kuldeep Shukla and Khushboo Shukla and was supported by Smt. Bela Mehta. The Prof-in-charge for the same was Prof. Kruti Paritosh of FOC-

SMPIC.The Rajasthani folk dance

was choreographed by Kajal Vachheta and Yesha Jani. The Prof-in-charges for the same were Prof. Nimisha Shah and Prof. Gaurang Prajapati of FOC-GLSIC.

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N R HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOLN R PRIMARY SCHOOL

EDUCATIONAL VISIT

TEACHERS’ DAY AND FOOD wITHOUT FIRE

DIYA DECORATION COMPETITION

TRADITIONAL CREATIVITY

PRIDE OF N R HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

The students of N R Higher Secondary School, 11th and 12th commerce , had

the visit of the Central Bank of India, GLS area branch. This visit was organised with a view to making the students aware practically about the functioning of the Banking sector, as it is the spinal cord of the economy of our nation. The branch manager and the staff of the

CBI provided indepth information about the various functions and the working style of the bank like, bank A/C, various interest rate on various A/C, RTGS, NEFT, IFSC code, drafts etc. The faculties of commerce Mr. M.K. Shah and Mr. S.M. Patel accompanied the students to provide the practical knowledge of the subject “Organisation of commerce”.

Ruju chauhan, a student of XI commerce had Received the trophy in

“AITA under 18” in lawn tennis in singles as well as in doubles. She has also got the first position in singles as well as in doubles girls under 16-category. She has proved her skill as a sportperson amongst 16 competent.

N R Higher Secondary had defeated tutorial high school by

1st innings lead in the [two days cricket] under 19 Diwan Ballubhai school tournament held at Motera. Satyam Khamrai and Mihir Vachetta scored 252 and 230 respectively. Batsmen from N R Higher Secondary school toyed with tutorial bowlers and did 599 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 130.3 overs. The Match awarded to N.R Higher Secondary school for their fabulous efforts.

Students of N R and G.L.S Secondary and Higher Secondary had showcased

their artistic skill by decorating Diya, Aarti Thali and Dandiya. Using different material, the students had done the fusion of

their talent with tradition. Each item decorated by the students introduced their artistic aptitude. Mrs Bela Mehta, The school co-ordinator was there to encourage the participant’s skill by judging them.

On 5th September 2017, N R Primary School celebrated Teachers’ Day

in a unique manner. Students of Std. VIII became teachers and taught in – Std. II and Std. VII. Girls had put on sarees and boys

had formals.There was a sandwich

making party by Std.VIII. They had brought bread, chutney, Amul butter, Cucumber, Ketchup. Students prepared these sandwiches in presence of

teachers and garnished it with Sev. Students ate these sandwiches to their heart’s content. Std. II and Std. VII were also given these sandwiches.

This day was indeed Joyous for Teachers’ as well as students.

N R Primary School held ‘Diya Decoration Competition’ on 19th

September, 2017.

Students participated very enthusiastically in this competition. Boys and girls made beautiful diyas with

various colours and designs.Tempo of Diwali – ‘the

Festival of lights’ was seen among the students.

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FOC- GLSIC

ACHIEVEMENTS

SIR L. A. SHAH LAw COLLEGE

Students of Sir L. A. Shah Law College, Mr. A. T. Vivek and Ms. Yashashvi

Soni were declared winners at the Gujarat University Inter Law Collegiate Moot Court Competition 2017 organized by the Gujarat University School of law and represented the Gujarat University at All India Moot Court Competition organized by Galgotias University, New Delhi in association with the Bar Council of India. Both the students have entered into second round (Quarter Final) of the competition.

BLOOD DONATION CAMP

It is truly said that “Blood Donation will cost you nothing but it will save a

life!” believing in that Gujarat Law Society organized a blood

donation camp. A large number of members of GLS family participated wherein 526 bottles were given by the Staff members and students at large.

I.M.Nanavati Law College team won best performance

prize in Quiz Competition in Gujarat University Youth

Festival 2017-18.

YOUTH FESTIVAL PRIzES

HACC won prizes in the following events at the youth festival of the

Gujarat University Ellisbridge South Zone (inter-college level) held on 14-16 September 2017:

Folk DanceCollageRangoliClay modeling On-the-spot paintingStreet PlayAt the zonal level, the

college Folk Dance bagged the first prize and will represent the university at the Regional level youth festival. ShanuPanchal won the second prize in Clay Modeling too at this level.

H.A. COLLEGE OF COMMERCE

I.M.NANAVATI LAw COLLEGELECTURE SERIES SESSION-II

Faculty of Commerce - GLSIC has arranged and organized a Lecture

Series where eminent speakers come and motivate the Commerce students and also help them to increase their knowledge. The Lecture Series was commenced on 12th August, 2017, Saturday by GLSIC College and inaugurated by Shri SudhirNanavati with his first lecture.

In the Second Session CA Dhinal Shah and CA Sunil

Talati were invited to deliver the lectures on- “GST- An Overview” and “Changing Landscape of Indian Taxation System” on 31st August, 2017 at 9:00 am at H H Auditorium Hall.The Professor in-charge of this Lecture Series was Prof GaurangPrajapati.The purpose of this Lecture Series was to give an exposure to undergraduate B.Com students of our Institute through various experts in different fields, which would help in enhancing their careers immensely.

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They Rocked, they Raas(ed), They Revelled…Various colleges of GLS University and Gujarat Law Society celebrated the festival of Navaratri in different ways. While some colleges participated in competitions and gave a wonderful performance of stage garba, some others had fun dancing on the dandia beats in their college campus. The pictures given here show how for those few hours students forgot all the stress and revelled in the festival of dance and music.

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FOC (SMPIC) – PERFORMING AT ELLISBRIDGE GYMKHANA WHERE THEY WON 1ST PRIZE

FOC (GLSIC)- PERFORMING AT ELLISBRIDGE GYMKHANA WHERE THEY WON 2ND PRIZE B.D.(ARTS) COLLEGE Smt.SADGUNA C.U. ARTS COLLEGE (FOR GIRLS)

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NRBBANAVRATRI ARTI BY SHRI SUDHIR NANAVATI AT GLSID

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FCAIT

INTEGRATED MBA PROGRAMME, FOM IMPARTS CORPORATE EXPOSURE TO ITS STUDENTS

Faculty of Management ensures students are provided a platform to

interact with the corporate fraternity on regular basis throughout their academic year. Corporate guest speakers provide knowledge, expertise and share real-life experiences with students which help them immensely in developing a perspective on how corporate function. Keeping this in mind a series a guest lectures were arranged for Integrated-MBA students wherein industry experts from diverse fields shared their experiences.

Mr. Anurag Mehta, founder of Virtues: Training and Development Academy, with more than 18 years of experience, addressed the students on ‘How to develop a winning mind set’.

On similar lines, to enhance students’ corporate interpersonal skills, Mr. Mehul Soni who was previously associated with TCS and now runs his own training center, delivered a lecture on ‘Interpersonal skills’.

Mr. Krunal Shukla, Brand Manager, Rasna International shared a scintillating guest lecture on ‘International marketing’. The interactive session provided the students an opportunity to gain insights on how international markets work.

Mr. Tejpal Sheth shared his knowledge regarding company law. It was a very interactive session and he covered many aspects of company law. He shared his insights on various cases of company law which gave the students an opportunity to have practical knowledge.

Mr. Gautam Chavan,

Government Sales head, Gujarat, Vodafone briefed the students on sales techniques and other marketing strategies from his two decades of experience with industry. Students were captivated with his knowledge on sales and marketing.

With an objective to provide practical knowledge about the functioning of capital markets, a guest session was delivered by Mr. Ashish alongwith an industrial visit to BSE, Ahmedabad. The experience provided the students insights on the functioning of capital markets.

GUEST LECTURE ON “ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS USAGE”

Faculty of Computer Applications and Information Technology organized a seminar on “Assistive Technology and its

Usage”, delivered by Mr. Ranchod Soni [Project coordinator, Computer Labs and an English teacher at Blind People’s Association] on 27th September 2017 for the students of MSc (IT) programme.

Mr. Soni explained various aspects of assistive technology and how this technology can be used for improving the lifestyle of visually challenged persons. The basic idea of this seminar was to make students aware about the troubles, which visually challenged people, are facing and how assistive technology can help them to make their life more easier. The main problem, which every visually challenged person faces is to get the knowledge from books whether it is in the form of hard copy or e-book. Technology can be used to solve of this problem to a great extent, Visually challenged persons use OCR Software, which converts the written characters into speech. Mr.

Soni was assisted by Mr. Chaudhary (Principal at Blind People’s Association), Mr. Jignesh (Technical Assistant at Blind People’s Association) and Ms. Nidhi (Technical Assistant at Blind People’s Association) who demonstrated the usage of various tools like smart stick, talking wristwatch, smart braille PDA, smart magnifier. The students appreciated the seminar and become aware of what role a software engineer can play in uplift of the society.

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FOM

EVOLVE2017– A SOFT SkILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

With the changing times, the face of the corporate world is

also changing, wherein the need-of-the-hour is to have state-of-the-art professionals who are agile enough to meet the growing demands of the industry. ‘Evolve’ was set up to meet the growing needs for soft skills among professionals.

For the Academic Year 2017-18, ‘Evolve’ focused on developing soft skills of the II year MBA and PGDM students by conducting workshops on Resume Writing, Group Discussions, Interviewing skills and Body Language by Ms. MittiLimbachiya, Corporate Trainer, Life Coach and NLP

Practioner. This was followed by Aptitude Tests and Internal Mock Interviews conducted by team evolve.

With an intention to provide a first-hand experience of corporate interviews to II Year students, mock interviews with Industry Experts were conducted wherein they got the opportunity to discuss their knowledge on industry of their preference, job opportunities and industry expectations as well as received constructive feedback on how to improve their chances of cracking an interview.

Participants showed great enthusiasm and were eager to apply their newly acquired skills into the corporate world.

SANSHODHAN 2017 – SUMMER INTERNSHIP COMPETITION

‘PARISHTI 2017: STATE-LEVEL SUMMER INTERNSHIP COMPETITION’

A Summer Internship Competit ion – Sanshodhan 2017 was

organized by Faculty of Management, GLS University to admire, appreciate and evaluate, the practical learning of the 8 selected projects out of 300 students of MBA and PGDM Programme. The competition provided a platform for II Year MBA & PGDM students to showcase their research conducted during the 6-8 weeks of their summer internship.

Mr. Alap Bhatt from CARE

Ratings and Mr. AnandBhardwaj from Harsha Engineering graced the event as industry experts. Panel of experts evaluated the projects on various criteria like adoption of research methodology, analytical tools, findings & conclusion and overall presentation.

Students had the opportunity of interaction with these industry experts and received constructive feedback on how to improve their research further. Of all, the following projects were awarded for their

practical implications and well suggested findings with respect to the industry of their project.

1st Rank: Setu Dani and Ushmita Rajput: Cash Prize of Rs. 7000

2nd Rank: UrviGanatra: Cash Prize of Rs. 5000

3rd Rank: Mahendi Jobanputra: Cash Prize of Rs. 3000

The event ended with a promise to thrive in the area of research and contribute the learning to the corporate, students’ fraternity and society at large.

Faculty of Management, GLS University, organized a State-level

summer internship competition – “Parishti, 2017”. The event provided a common platform to students of Management Institutes across the State to showcase their practical learning and their contributions from their summer internship.

A total of 34 projects were shortlisted from 45 projects, involving institutes of high repute like B.K. School of Management, K.S. School of Management, Ganpat University, Amity School of Management amongst others.

The event was divided into

three tracks – Marketing, HR and Finance to impart justice to all the specialized summer internship projects, providing them with valuable inputs and constructive feedback. A panel of judges were invited to judge the projects of several criteria like research methodology, findings, conclusion and overall presentation.

Students of Faculty of Management, Setu Dani & Ushmita Rajput and Urvi Ganatra who won the college summer internship competition ‘Sansodhan 2017’, participated but were not considered as a part of the competition to ensure unbiased judgment.

The 1st position was secured by Nilesh Dhage representing Raju Shroff Institute of Business Management. The 2nd position was secured by Dr. Linsha from Christ Institute of Management and the 3rd position was secured by Riya Jain of Amity Institute of Management. The best presentation of the event was awarded to Heena Gajjar of ITM Universe, Baroda.

It was truly a learning experience for all the participants as well as a motivation for all the 1st year students to undertake their summer internship with utmost sincerity and passion.

RALLY FOR RIVERS

NSS Unit of Faculty of commerce (SMPIC) participated in Rally

For Rivers Campaign organized under the leadership of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev to save rivers and save water for future generation. NSS unit of the college participated in the rally on 1st September, 2017 .

The purpose of rally was to create awareness of the public

for this event. Student volunteers distributed pamphlets amongst public to save rivers. The campaign was a great success in promoting the need to save and create water resources, for the maintenance of ecological balance in order to safe guard the future life. The signing campaign was held in college to support the cause.

FOC (SMPIC)

10OctOber 2017

GLS VOICE RECOMMENDS

Compiled by: GLSCRD

A.OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS :1. Top Class Education Scheme for SC Students

2017Last Date: October 31, 2017More Details: https://scholarships.gov.in/2. Post-matric Scholarship for Students with Dis-

abilitiesLast Date: October 31, 2017More Details: https://scholarships.gov.in/ 3. Scholarships for Top Class Education for Stu-

dents with DisabilitiesLast Date: October 31, 2017More Details: https://scholarships.gov.in/ 4. Gates Cambridge Global Scholarship 2017Last Date: October 11, 2017More Details: https://www.gatescambridge.org/ 5. Youth Photo Contest 2017Last Date: October 12, 2017More Details: http://www.oecd.org/dev/inclusiveso-

cietiesanddevelopment/registration-form.pdf 6. Adobe India Women-in-Technology Scholarship

2018Last Date: October 13, 2017More Details: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F

AIpQLSf7dUDnAByr8SDlXwkgGMQLJkUrT434A4saMZzWRGaJohBIVw/viewform

7. Tata Trusts Vocational Scholarships 2017-18Last Date: October 13, 2017More Details: http://www.igpedutatascholarship.org8. YouWeCan Scholarship for Cancer Survivors

2017Last Date: October 15, 2017More Details: https://www.youwecan.org/ 9. E-Medhabruti Scholarship Scheme 2017Last Date: October 17, 2017More Details: http://www.dheodisha.gov.in/cafas/

cafas.aspx 10. FAER McAfee Scholar Awards Program 2017-

18Last Date: October 30, 2017More Details: http://faer.ac.in/faer

B. OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS:1. UNESCO-Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum

Prize 2017Last Date: October 31, 2017More Details: http://en.unesco.org/teachers/Hamdan-

prize2. RMIT University International Tuition Fee

Scholarships, Australia - 2017Last Date: October 31, 2017More Details: https://www.rmit.edu.au/ 3. EU-India Platform for Social Sciences and Hu-

manities (EqUIP)Last Date: November 30, 2017More Details: http://icssr.org/ic%20programme/

EU-India%20Platform%20for%20Social%20Sci-ences%20and%20Humanities.htm

C. OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS:1. The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship

in Women Studies 2018

Last Date: October 15, 2017More Details: https://woodrow.org/fellowships/

womens-studies/ 2. Facebook Research Internship 2017Last Date: October 15, 2017More Details: https://www.facebook.com/careers/

resume?req=a0I1200000LT6fzEAD 3. Doctoral Degree Scholarships in Cancer Nurs-

ing 2017Last Date: October 15, 2017More Details: https://proposalcentral.altum.com/ 4. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan Scholarship 2017Last Date: October 20, 2017More Details: http://www.scholarship.rsks.in/login.

php 5. Max Weber International Fellowship, Italy -

2018Last Date: October 25, 2017More Details: https://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAd-

min/AcademicService/Fellowships/MaxWeberFel-lowships

6. CCI National Level Essay Competition 2017-18Last Date: October 31, 2017More Details: http://www.cci.gov.in/7. Chulabhorn Graduate Institute Post-graduate

Scholarship Programme for the academic year 2018

Last Date: October 31, 2017More Details: http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/

mhrd/files/Public%20Notice%20%28Chulab-horn%20scholarship%29.pdf

SCHOLARSHIPS / FELLOwSHIPS / RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Lipstick Under My BurkhaDirector: Alankrita ShrivastavaWriter: Alankrita ShrivastavaStars: Ratna Pathak, Plabita Borthakur, Konkana Sen Sharma, Aahana Kumra

Reviewed By Nitin Pillai

We are not ready. As a nation, we are ill-prepared to view

Alankrita Shrivastava’s creation about the lives of four women in the sleepy town of Bhopal, which is not mainstream. The plot echoes the routines of a 55 year old widow, a college student, a housewife and a soon to be bride, however the routine is only limited to the introduction of these characters. Ten minutes into the movie we are introduced to an aspect, which made many cinegoers cringe, snigger, laugh and taunt.

T h e d i r e c t o r unapologetically portrays the forced duality that these women are arm twisted into. While the matriarch-Usha Parmar (Ratna Pathak), respected and feared by all, finds solace in erotic pulp fiction; the college going Rehana Abidi (Plabita Borthakur) sneaks out to sing

Miley Cyrus tunes and steals in order to fit in with her college mates. Shireen Aslam (Konkana Sen Sharma) must hide from her dominating husband that fact that she is the star sales girl for her company because he prefers her to be at home to take care of their 3 boys. Leela (Aahana Kumra) would prefer to travel the world with her boyfriend rather than being tied down in marriage for social

stability and acceptability. The leading ladies of the

movie, without any theatrics, guide you into a world were women are suppressed, their desires ridiculed and thwarted. Usha’s liking for her swimming instructor is condemned and she is chastised by the same people who live off of her, Rehana’s passion for singing and her desire to fit in with the college crowd is censured by her

parents and her so-called friends. Shireen is assaulted by her husband when she confronts him with his infidelity and Leela’s engagement is broken off by her finance as he gets to know of her past. All women, are condemned by society for what they wished, rather than what they did. The movie claims that had this been done by the men, most of them would be allowed, applauded or even

encouraged to do so. However, the regressive mindset that still prevails shackles women into doing or dreaming anything which doesnot fit the society’s mould.

The brilliance of cinematography is evident in the binary sets. Most of the scenes where suppression occurs are based in small, confined rooms (rooms of the housing colony, narrow staircases, and store rooms) which adds to the claustrophobia. Whereas the scenes of liberation are shot in open spaces such as the swimming pool, parking lot and foyers of the housing colony.

Lipstick Under My Burkha is bold, honest and audacious. Unfortunately it is not for everyone. Most of us will squirm in our seats or turn the other way as the move plays out reality, we may get over our awkwardness and may start guffawing at what is happening by ridiculing the story line primarily because we have not matured up for such a movie. We are not ready for Lipstick Under My Burkha, and it is shameful that we are not ready, yet.

(The writer is an Assistant Professor in English and Communication at FBA-

NRBBA)

11OctOber 2017

EVENTS & ACHIEVEMENTS

FCAIT

SEMINAR AND wORkSHOPISR AND NSS DRIVE AT FCAIT

GLS CSI Student Branch has organized seminars on “Open Source UML

Diagram Software” on 12th August, “Machine Learning” on 19th August and “Apache Cassandra” on 24th August for students of BCA and iMSc(IT). The resource persons were the faculties of FCAIT, GLS University.

Prof. Rinkal Shah conducted a seminar on “Open Source UML Diagram Software - Tia” for students of Semester V, BCA. The aim of this seminar was to provide the basic idea about how to draw UML Diagrams using Open Source software which will help students for software development project.

The seminar of “Machine Learning” was delivered by Prof.Tripti Dodiya which provided an introduction about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in current scenario.

The Resource person for the event “Apache Cassandra” was Prof. Nirav Suthar. The

aim of this seminar was to provide the basic idea about Apache Cassandra.

Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and NSS (National Service

Scheme) team members of Faculty of Computer Applications & IT – BCA & iMSc(IT) organized “Tree plantation” on 10th August, 2017 and “Cleanliness drive” under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on 29th August, 2017.

“Save trees, decorate the nature with green.” Believing in this, a Tree Plantation activity was organized to keep society green and spread the awareness

about importance of trees. The saplings of different herbs were planted within the GLS campus by team members.

With a motto “One step towards Cleanliness”, team members organized cleanliness drive under Swachh Bharat campaign. Students cleaned the campus and its outer area by dividing themselves in groups. The main purpose of this program was to create awareness among the students regarding cleanliness and its benefits.

GENDER SENSITIzATION wORkSHOPS CONDUCTED BY SAUHARD AND wDC, GLSU

“Can you wear whatever you wish, whenever you

wish, without fearing anyone?” was the question asked by the young fellows of Sauhard to some of our students. The question sounds quite simple, and as expected most girls answered negatively while most boys answered positively. The next question was specifically to boys who answered positively: “so can you wear a skirt in a party without any fear or hesitation?” There was no answer, there was only laughter. This was a question that nobody had ever thought of. In the next ten minutes there were a number of questions asked, like “Have you seen a female coolie, a male nanny or a female truck driver?” Most answers to these questions were in negative. This was at an experimental workshop by Sauhard fellows Rajvi Parmar and Bhavi Barad at Faculty of Business Administration (NRBBA).

Following this workshop GLS University’s Women’s Development Cell in collaboration with Sauhard initiated these gender

sensitization workshops at all the institutes affiliated to GLS University, and received an overwhelming response from students as Faculty of

Management, Faculty of Computer Application and IT, Faculty of Commerce conducted these sessions.

The workshop was divided

into three parts: Youth Parliament, Debate and Role Play. The main idea behind keeping this workshop was to make students think and

question the stereotypes related to gender prevail in our society. More than 250 students across GLS University benefited from this workshop.

12OctOber 2017

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“HEALTHY CAMPUS”– NSS DAY CELEBRATION AT FOC (SMPIC)

NSS department of Faculty of commerce (SMPIC) celebrated NSS Day on 25th

September 2017. A half day programme was organized on the same day. Early in the morning a

program was organised in association with healthy campus wherein the volunteers cleaned the campus and sensitized people on keeping the institution clean and green. Shri Hari Om Gandhi, Narcotics Control Bureau

Zonal Director addressed the gathering and appreciated the work of NSS volunteers. Officials of the Ahmedabad zonal unit of the NCB and members of the ‘Healthy Campus motivated and encouraged the students to

undertake activities to promote healthy living on campus. The Programme was organized by NSS unit of the college under the guidance of Prof. Vijay Tripathi, NSS Programme Officer.