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N’scape | November 08 1
N’SCAPE Team
Chief Editor
Ankit Sharma
Editing Team
Ankit Sharma, Shantanu agrawal, Raviranjan singh,
Saptarshi
Design and Layout
Navneet kumar
Cover Page Idea
Ram Chandra, Navneet Kumar
Survey Team
3rd yr: Saptarshi, Shantanu, Ashwani, Raviranjan, Ankit
2nd yr: Chandan Rai, Neeraj, Ashutosh, Saket, Sumeet,
Ashish, Sonal Supriya
Acknowledgements
Vishwaman Malviya (4th yr),
Deepak Mishra (2k8 Batch)
EDITOR’S DESK
Steven Brust said- “One nice
thing about putting the thing
away for a couple of month
before looking at it is that we start appreciating our
own wit, of course, this can be carried too far”, but it’s
kind of cool when we crack up a piece of writing and
realize we wrote it.
Writing is like exploration which often makes us
surprised where the journey takes us. To search new
avenues in the voyage of innovation we have a boat
called ‘N’scape’, which has been giving the wings to
the ideas of NIFFTians for quite some time.
Each and every year N’scape has gone through
innovative excogitations and some new originations.
This year too we have tried to present something very
new in the form of an exclusive survey on the
engineering life in NIFFT. There are always lot of
questions, some trendy, some funky and some
serious, related to life, related to career, related to
friendship and related to us. Many questions are
mysterious. We tried to find out those questions &
their answers and put them in front of our readers in
a very interesting and statistical manner.
We would feel pleasure to light on the methodology
of the survey. About ten teams each comprising two
students were made from B.Tech 2nd and 3rd year and
questions were asked from almost each and every
student of the college. It was very enthusiastic to see
all the students always ready to help in this task.
The experience of working over this edition of N’scape
was really pleasant. We hope the readers will find our
endeavor interesting.
If you have some queries or suggestions, feel free to
write us on [email protected]
Ankit Sharma
2 November 08| N’scape
Cover story: 05
Engg. Life @
NIFFT An exclusive survey, peeping inside the
Lives of budding technocrats, revealing
some very interesting facts and trends.
What’s there in my treasure
Newscape: 03 The ruining gymkhana
04 Kartavya-NIFFT
Articles: 11 Are we so changed?
11 Unforgettable school life
12 The green mystery
14 Solar Energy Timeline
15 Word of wisdom
16 Does CGPA really matter?
18 What not to do in a college other than IIT
19 The new embankment
20 Golden moment
23 Absolute &relative state of freedom
Funscape: 10 Boys without girls
13 Funny but real incidents during lectures
13 Sab Chalta Hai
17 Some Do’s & Don’ts for the budding technocrats
21 The first empty brain’s yield award 2008
23 B.E. vs M.B.A
Poetry:
24 Every night in my dreams
25 If Lost
25 This Is Life
25 A Psalm of Life
26 Insomniac called eyes
26 To be or not to be!
Alumni sections: 19 Phir who exams yaad aaye
28 And they walked away in sunset
Others 27 Crossword
28 Movie Review
29 Book Review
30 Point Counterpoint
31-32 Cartoon scape
N’scape | November 08 3
NEWSCAPE
The crisis with destiny!
The ruining “Gymkhana”
Gymkhana (derived from Urdu ,Hindu ,Hindustani
language ),word for racket court is an Indian term
which originally referred to a place where sports
events take place and referred to any of various
meets at which contest were held to held the skills of
the competitors.
In India the term gymkhana is commonly referred to
a gym, more generally a gymkhana referred to a social
& sporting club in Indian subcontinent &in other Asian
countries including Malaysia, Burma, and Thailand
etc.
The word gymkhana consists of gym which is
abbreviation of both gymnasium (Latin form, Greek:
gymnasium) and gymnastics (from the Latin
gymnasticus & the Greek gymnastikos) and khana or
khaneh meaning home which originates
from Old Persian word ahana changing
into xanak in Pahlavi
In the English speaking countries
gymkhana refers to as multi game
equestrian event performed to display
the training and talent of the horses and
their riders.
In NIFFT, Gymkhana refers to an old,
isolated, neglected place which boasts
over its luck once in a year during the
Saraswati Pooja celebrations, and remains in the
shackles of seclusion wiping its own tears during the
rest of the year
The NIFFT gymkhana was established with perhaps
the same reasons mentioned in the above part of this
writing. NIFFT gymkhana is equipped with a gym
(comprising of few old age body shaping articles) a
reading room comprising of some daily newspapers&
magazines, one old piece of guitar perhaps of ‘Beatles’
age, a harmonium, placed safely over a cupboard
from prehistorical ages, and a never beaten Congo
which too holds the historical importance. One
important fact we can rejoice over is that it receives
regular supply of newspapers and some magazines
which pay regular thanks to God if they get the
chance of being read by some worthy reader.
As a result of survey being made among 100
students it is found that about 50 % of total students
are unaware of this facility and out of the 50% aware
students 60 % are unaware which news papers and
magazines are supplied there
As mentioned already gymkhana refers to as social
and sporting club where different cultural & sports
events take place to test the skills of the competitors
but in NIFFT, Gymkhana unfortunately is unable to
justify with its own identity. It is severely suffering
with a disease called ‘ignorance’ of both the students
and the college authorities, there is lack of sufficient
resources and a lot is to be done to ignite the spark of
hope .The building being old and in the ruins has to be
repaired and
renovated .There must
be well equipped gym
and other sports
facilities to ignite the
students’ interest.
It can be ornamented
with the musical
instruments and
equipments for
boosting up the
cultural excellence of the students. A trained music
teacher and the physical trainer can be employed for
motivating students towards the extracurricular
activities. Students will also have to come forward for
the cause of its welfare. Different clubs including
musical, sports, cultural, literature, photography etc.
can be formed and different events and competitions
can be organized, this will generate in the souls of
students a spirit of competition as well as it’ll help us
to cherish our rich cultural heritage.
Thus its already high time when we all should wake up
and involve ourselves in the endeavor of
improvement of NIFFT gymkhana which in turn can
be turned as a golden platform for all-round
development of we the students.
4 November 08 | N’scape
NEWSCAPE
KARTAVYA-NIFFT
"You must be the change you wish to see in this
world". Whenever I read this, I feel the inner
conscience pushing me to dedicate myself more to
'KARTAVYA-NIFFT' , an NGO being run by the students
of NIFFT for disseminating the 'idea of education'
among the poor , deprived and underprivileged
children living in slums of Hatia.
The Kartavya was started one year ago. Our
immediate seniors worked hard day
and night to make it functional at
community hall, Hatia near NIFFT.
Earlier, people of Hatia were
skeptical about this concept, thanks
to the effect this materialistic world
has created in the minds of people
where every action of charity is
weighed in terms of personal gains
and losses. But at this juncture, the
help came from a local woman '
Sheela Didi ' who accompanied our seniors in
conducting surveys and convincing poor parents to
send their children at the 'KARTAVYA' centre.
In the past one year, it succeeded in developing the
necessary educational environment around the slums
of Hatia to help the masses become open to the idea
of education. The number of students taking
education at our centre increased to seventy five. A
poor orphan girl named ‘Anjali’ was inducted into a
private school ‘Shanti Niketan’ and all her expenses
are being borne by 'KARTAVYA NIFFT'. A more
important fact observed in the past one year was the
rapid increase in number of girl students at our
centre, quite inspiring in itself.
Now 'KARTAVYA-NIFFT' is one year old and a little
matured in its approach. We are regularly conducting
classes at our centre. We have divided students into
different groups and our attempt is to give individual
attention to each. We are also providing books,
copies, pencils and chocolates to our children on a
regular basis to motivate them to be punctual at our
centre. Besides, we have tried to incorporate some
innovative ideas to make education fun at our centre.
These include reciting poems and rhymes, story-
telling, playing songs etc.
Suggestions are also to impart knowledge of
alphabets and elementary mathematics through
multimedia. We are also trying to teach the benefits
of proper cleanliness and hygienic conditions to our
children since they are at greater risks of falling prey
to communicable diseases.
Even after such efforts we think only a little has been
done so far. We wish to achieve higher and for that
we certainly have some plans in our
minds. The expansion of our centre is on
the cards and will materialize too soon.
We are also going to open a library at our
centre in the months to come. This year,
we would brief the eligible students of
our centre for the Navodaya schools. We
are also looking at the prospects of
employing some local youth girls to teach
at our centre during semester breaks
when we become unavailable.
However, as an industry requires raw materials to
sustain an organization requires funds to function .We
are not an exception to this truth. At present, our
sources of income include students' contribution and
selling of old newspapers. . But, it is not sufficient. In
fact, we are facing some constraints in properly
implementing our plans owing to the lack of
resources. Recently, Rotary club has come forward
and promised us help. We are also in talk with some
eminent media persons for support. But
comprehensive changes will come only when NIFFT
assists us either personally or institutionally.
The sole motive of Kartavya is philanthropy. It also
provides an opportunity to experience the intrinsic
contentment by rendering service to the poor
children. So, open your arms to embrace the
opportunity to contribute manually and financially for
Kartavya and be a part of this family in its venture
towards educated India.
Shashank Kumar & Dhritiman Deka
B.Tech 2nd yr
Correspondents, NIFFT Kartavya Team
N’scape | November 08 5
Cover Story
Engineering life @ NIFFT An exclusive survey peeping inside the lives of some hundreds of budding technocrats, revealing some very interesting facts & trends
They were out from their shells, leaving their
juvenile, puerile fantasies some fair miles back.
Away from their dad’s diligence and the luscious,
yummy supper mixed with mom’s love, they are
chasing their rainbows paddling on as crusades in
search of new avenues. To start a new, peculiar
and a very different college life miles from their
house was a difficult task but Charles Darwin
inspired them with an emphatic word -
‘adaptation’ & they further inspired themselves
with another called ‘modification’. Feverish with
Eureka, resplendent zeal & many dreams the life
here becomes some complex, some simple.
Sometimes it rolls like a sine wave and
sometimes as simple as y=mx+c. Exploring leisure
while busy, smiling at stress and euphoria with
buddies, are some shades of engineering life here
at NIFFT.
We for the first time in the NIFFT chronicle have
tried to find out and spread these colors in front
of you.
Some funky, some voguish, some jazzy and some
serious questions were asked to 250 budding
technocrats to find out the trend of life in this
peculiar insti.
We started with the dawn, the time to wake up
and found that on the working days 42% students
wake up between 5 and 8am, 48% of our buddies
leave their beds between 8 and 8:30am and there
are some 4% lazy fellows who believe in getting
up just before class ,the scenario as expected
changes completely on Saturdays & Sundays
when 45% get up between 8 and 9 am, 41%
between 9 and 11 am and about 14%
‘khumbkarans’ snore even after 11am.
Time to wake up (working days)
Before 5am……………………………………………….……….6
5 to 8am……………………………………………..…………32
8 to 8:30am………………………………………………………48
Just before the class…………………………………………………
Time to wake up (on Saturday/Sundays)
8 to 9am…….…………………………………………………35
9 to 11am……….…………………………………………
After 11am…….……………………………………………..8
Are itni jaldi kya hai? …….........................................16
BIG uestion
Will they ever see the birds chirping in the pulchritudinous morning?
After knowing the time for the start of the day it was important to know when does it goes to completion. Some very
interesting facts were waiting for us-
BIG uestion
Are the nights really becoming insomniac?
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78% of NIFFT boys and very astonishing 100% girls sleep after 12 am even knowing about the next
morning’s class.
6 November 08| N’scape
Cover Story
Big question : Are the 5 % sages bathing rarely suffering from hydrophobia??
Small answer: They believe in true nationalism (saving water for the nation)
BIG QUESTION: are these 19% indolent engineers aspiring to become
microbiologist?
SMALL ANSWER: whats wrong in being JACK of ALL TRADES!
BIG uestion
What are these guys and gals hunting for in the dark?
Once upon a time I read some sages crying –“In the
healthy body there is a healthy mind”. The body will
be healthy if we are free from disease & once I heard
a doctor saying that disease don’t like ‘cleanliness’
and my washer man suggests washing to be a good
method of cleanliness but “Is washing of our body
daily really a good idea?” Let’s check it out
You take bath daily
Daily…………………………………
With a gap of one or two….....36
Once in a week………………………6
Rarely………………………..............5
Now when cleanliness is already much exaggerated, let’s talk about the cleanliness of the rooms in which our
buddies live. While 17% believe in daily cleanliness, 39% clean their rooms with a gap of a day or two.
Surprisingly 19% of indolent savages do not clean it until some fungus grows at some corner of the rooms.
How often do you clean your room?
Daily………………………………………………………………17
After a day or two………………………………………
Once in a month……………………………………………26
Until some fungus grows at some corner ….. 19
Studies remain an indifferent part of the life here. For some it is an interest, for some a compulsion and some
smarter guys try to make it an interesting compulsion.
When you get alarmed for exams?
I believe in regular studies………………………………………..9
15 days before ……………………………………………………….52
Its one night stuff …………………………………………………..
It rolls away before I get alarmed……………………………..7
For exam what do u rely on?
Your own notes……………………………………………………
Xerox of your batch mate’s notes…………………………..33
Internet……………………………………………………………………5
Seniors’ notes………………………………………………………….2
On Friday /Saturday nights while 40% boys say that they are “night watchman”, surprisingly 100% girls
admit to be owls.
Small answer: gone are the days of “early to bed and early to rise”
While about 53% boys say they take bath daily. Girls remain cleaner with 100% claiming they dare to be
attacked by cold water every day.
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N’scape | November 08 7
Cover Story
Kaveri, 43
Roti, 4
Pooja, 6
Silver Spoon, 16
Other, 31
About 33% visit library during the normal days while the number gets nearly doubled to 64% during the exams.
The stats make it clear that own room is the best
place for developing concentration or it gives strength
to the ingenuity. Surprisingly only 11% find library to
be the most preferred place for studies.
Hostel roof is not the new discovery. From my
childhood days, I have been watching many big
lenses holders having restless walks with kilos of
books in their hands, high on the roofs.
Are regular assignments
necessary for good
studies?
Yes no
Should regular projects be
given for better and
practical understanding of
the subject?
Yes………………………
No…………………………25
After the studious discussion, it was the time to investigate the paths of fun and frolics. Watching movies with
buddies or an aimless walk on solitary roads, behaving as if paparazzi or being trapped in “www”, there are many
ways through which the technocrats here entertain their souls and excite their spirits.
The magic of web dominated the other sources of amusement; about 49% love to be trapped in different websites
while surprisingly only 4% rely on television for a healthy entertainment. About 48% go to watch movies in
multiplexes/cinemas rarely, while 32% believe that watching movies on 72mm is directly proportional to the amount
of money in their kitties.
Go to watch movies in theatre/multiplex?
Every week…………………………………………………………….4
Twice in a month…………………………………3
Once in a month…………………………..13
Rarely……………………………….
Money hai to honey hai ………...32
The leisure favourite?
Internet …………………….…………………………………………
Television……………………………..……….……4
Newspaper/magazines/novels……16
Sports……………………………….…….13
Movies………………………………...18
Most happening tourist spot in
Ranchi
Rock garden…………..15
Pahadi mandir……………….26
Fun castle……………………..12
Ormanjhi zoo…………………...6
Dasam Fall/Johna Fall……………….….41
Best place for
immediate placement party?
Juice shop…………………18
hemant ‘s dhaba…………2
Others………………………………1
Manohar/mama ji’s shop……………..…
72
11
5
5
8
Own room
Library
Reading room …
Hostel roof
Group study
Most preferred place for study
60
40 75
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8 November 08| N’scape
Cover Story
FRUSTRATION BENCH: (the friend of all times)
Who discovered frustration bench, is still a question to be research upon, the NIFFT Research and Analyzing
Wing (N-RAW) suggests that like the other great discoveries it too may be a serendipity. The readers will be
suggested not to go with its name because it is a lovely place to kill the time even when you are not
frustrated.
The erudite say, “TIME IS MONEY.” But many of our skeptic buddies are not materialistic enough to accept them or if
they accept, it’s sure they are open handed. About 39% students love to invest their hours in chatting in some
specific hostel room, while 30% love to share their feelings with each other on “frustration bench”.
Most preferred place to kill precious time with loads of useless talks?
Frustration bench……………………………………………………..30
Hostels’ balconies……………………………………….………..16
Tea stalls………………………………………………………….…16
Specific hostel room (chatting room)……….....
Have you tried maggi/tea/coffee at midnight in hostel?
Yes 49
No 16
Sometime 18
It’s the daily business 17
Along with all fun and frolic our buddies are also serious about their future aspiration. They seem to be felicitous and
ingenious while talking about their career and future prospects. Some dreams, some fantasies sparkle their
passionate eyes and they cherish the illuminating plans to transform those dreams into reality. When asked about
the future aspiration, 435 prefer the job through campus while 32% foresee themselves on the managerial seats.
15% want to serve the society being an I.A.S./I.P.S.
Dream company?
TELCON……………………..12
TATA MOTORS…………..10
JSW……………………………18
VEDANTA ………………….12
Others …………………….
Dream sector?
Steel……………………………………………..33
Manufacturing/Auto mobile……
Software………………………………………6
Foundry and forge……………………….10
Research Projects……………………………… 9
Only 6% students in NIFFT prefer software as the dream sector while 75% want
themselves in either steel or manufacturing sector.
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BIG QUESTION: are girls the better midnight chefs?
SMALL ANSWER: of course they are!
100% girls say, making
maggi or tea at midnight
is their daily business
Only 3% wish to
leave their
motherland for
doing some higher
studies through
GRE/GMAT. 48
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N’scape | November 08 9
Cover Story
Core (steel and manufacturing),
96
Software, 4
Which sector is better(as per the present scenario)
When we planned to find out the scope of rising of some C.E.O. from our college, it was overwhelming that 51%
wanted to open their own organization.
Everybody loves his alma mater and so do our buddies. There are some splendid, some good things about it to be
loved. To find out various “bests” of this ‘foundry land’, what could be the better way than asking its reapers?
Best novel in seminary?
The Alchemist …………………………..31
TOXIN ………………………………………..5
The Monk Who sold his Ferrari…14
Five Point Someone………………. .50
Best lab?
Communication lab ………………..76
Metrology lab………………………….. 7
Metallographic lab…………………. 5
Cad/cam ………………………………….12
Best machine in the college?
Rapid proto typing machine ………….45
CNC machine …………………………………17
Pneumatic hammer……………………… 27
Optical emission spectroscope ……..11
Most liked practical?
Metallurgical/manufacturing………………….. 41
Electronics/electrical……………………………. 29
Physics/ chemistry ……………………………………6
Hammering …………………………………………25
Most liked author for metallurgy?
Robert E. Reedhill…………………………………. 9
Donald R. Askeland ……………………………………45
Sydney H Avner …………………………….25
R. N. Tupkary ………………………..21
Most liked author for manufacturing?
Beer & Johnson ………………33
R.S Khurmi ……………………..26
P.N Rao …………………………..22
J.P.holman …………………………………………….19
The most beautiful building of the campus
Main building …………………24
Administrative building...10
Workshop ……………………….3
Cafeteria ……………………………30
Any of the hostels…………………………. 33
Best magazine in the library
Any Engg. Journal…………….. 14
PC quest …………………………..9
Scientific American…………2
Electronics for You……… 13
Science reporter ………….42
Most liked subject of humanities
Economics …………………………………..26
Communication skills…………………. 22
Industrial psychology ………………….13
Industrial Management ………………40
Most liked subject of metallurgy and materials
Physical Metallurgy ………..39
Steel making…………………..10
Iron making…………………….16
Mechanical Metallurgy ….35
AN EMPHATIC FACT: Ambanis and Mittals are becoming the favourite icons.
Hope we don’t have the communist readers!
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10 October 08| N’scape
HUMOUR
‘BOYS’ without ‘GIRLS’
Many people would rate this topic ridiculous after going through. But believe it or not what I am going to unfold is
really relevant especially in colleges consider BOYS as one of most exploited class in today’s world. The superior class
who is exploiting them is none other than GIRLS…hahaha…sounds funny na. If you
ask people who don’t have a girlfriend the reasons for it, they would say “koun
tension leta hai!!! Who wants girlfriend man!!! Being single rocks. I am single and
happy…see there are no long phone bills…See how independent I am…blah blah”
But something else bubbles inside. And I want to show you the funniest part of it,
they throw the kitchen sink at impressing girls but at last they return empty
handed. lets call them sages as they pretend to be(waiting for nirvana).
You can find them in the following places:-
1. In the gym: trying to build their muscles. Someone should have told them that
broad chest attracts girls. Our sage missed to note that money is also kept in the
chest pocket.
2. On G-talk and yahoo messengers: trying to
find a girl to flirt with. Our sage should have
missed to note that only those cases which are
of no use in reality are left in the virtual world.
All others are busy with their boys in some
corner (Ya! corner) of the world.
3. In front of women’s college: trying to attract some chicks. Here our sage drives
in an ultra modern bike. Sports black glasses irrespective of the weather, shirt
which is torn in different styles to indicate fashion. Little does he know that our
girls there are in need of drivers who can drive a two wheeler and leave them at
home, nothing more.
4. Orkut and other social networking sites. Here you can see our sage having his
best edited photograph (Reality scares) in his profile. He visits as many girls as he
can in a day (Hard sellers) and scraps them by crushing his creative machine.
“Hey!!! I generally don’t scrap unknown people, but your pic caught my eye.
Couldn’t move without scrapping you. Can we be friends?” Intelligent way of begging for friendship right? Friendship
is scraped, sorry sacred!
5. Along with boys who already have a girlfriend. Right! Your guess is perfect. “Yaar…..your girlfriend’s roommate
yaar cute gal, please yaar ask her to introduce me to that queen. I will bring two old monks this week yaar”. Hmm.
Bribe! Our sage can become a Government officer but never get a girl.
Well friends! jokes apart, the main motive of writing this article is to show that you gain nothing by running after
girls. Instead you waste your precious time and energy which can be utilized in shaping your career and in other
creative works. You are young generation and can do wonders if you utilize your energy in right direction.
Pratiyush Uttpal
B.Tech 3rd yr
N’scape | November 08 11
Are we so changed! A heavy wind is blowing around the newly lighted sun. People are busy going for their work. The flowers are
blooming and the birds are chirping. A school girl is seated in a school jeep. In front of her is kept an open book. She
is reading and is motionless. The jeep is full of unceasing noise and hurrying students. The driver is busy driving to
reach his destination in time. All are in their own mood.
Suddenly three sweet looking puppies young and innocent came in front of the jeep having no fear of being
knocked down by the vehicle. The jeep driver is smacking his horn to encourage the pups to move away. Disturbed
by the noise the girl stands to understand the situation. She persuades the driver to stop the jeep because she
knows that the pups unknown to the meaning of death will have their life ended in a very cruel manner if the jeep
does not take a break. Her book is thrown away on the jeep floor but avoiding it the girl goes on shouting at the
driver. But it is too late. The leg of a pup is crushed under the tyre. The girl bursts in anguish and pain. The pup is on
the road lying helplessly with no one to pay attention to it. She is persuading the driver to stop the jeep and pick up
the pup to bandage its wound. But the driver says, “That’s life".
She sinks deeper and deeper into a bottomless well. In the heart of heart she feels the pain of the pup and the
selfishness of today human beings. While returning from the school she sees the pup lying dead on the road. "That’s
life", the word re-echoes again and again in the girl's ears.
The girl was no one else than me and the jeep was none other's, it was my jeep.
How selfish we are! How selfish we are!
Deepmala
B.Tech.2nd yr
UNFORGETTABLE SCHOOL LIFE
Dear Readers,
As a teenager I always wanted to get into some reputed institution and I feel I am a bit lucky to get into
NIFFT. But today I remember my school days. Those days of adventure & mysteries were beautiful chunks of my life.
It was like our second home. We spent nearly twelve to fourteen years at school. Especially the last two years at
school when we got into +2 classes were awesome. As a student I think these years are meant for parties and
hanging out with friends, “NO STUDY ONLY MASTI & MASTI!!!- The new theory of life was originated .Teachers were
very friendly. They were always there to make us understand the ups and downs of coming life. Spending time with
friends was the only motive for which we used to go to school. Today our entire close & dearest friends are away
from us but their memories are still present in our hearts. We can never forget that life when any sought of tension
was an alien word for us .Sometime I wish to go back to school like the small kids do. I once again want to carry the
loads of books on my back.
No one can forget it or even dare to think to do so. It’s really UNFORGETTABLE!!!
Akanksha
B.Tech 1st yr
12 November 08| N’scape
The green mystery
“There is a garden where lilies & roses
are side by side
And all day between them in silence
The silken butterflies glide
I do not enter the garden
Though I know the road thereto
And morn by morn to the gateway
I see the chirping birds go
They bring each light on their faces
But they cannot bring back to me
What the lily say to the roses
Or the songs of butterflies be”
If you really want to listen the butterflies’ ‘enchants
the lily’s conversation with roses or if you search the
fragrance of serenity, don’t just see the birds passing
like me, rather go for an exotica into that garden
which is none other than the NIFFT nursery which
holds in itself the sweetness of nectar and the glory of
green. Many of us don’t know about the unfolded
mystery of this small nursery. So I would like to tell
you something about this place.
There are large numbers of foliage as well as
flowering plants. Foliage plants are those which don’t
have flowers but make you insane with the beauty of
their leaves. The different foliage plants in the nursery
are: Crotam (20 varieties), Arelia (4-5 varieties),
Collius, Palm, Caladium etc. Collius is a plant which
has beautiful pink, green coloured leaf, There are
about 5-6 varieties of Collius in the NIFFT nursery. If
you are the flower lover then this place may be a
genuine attractor for you.
There are wide range of beautiful flowers like
Gladalia, Balsam, Garvara (mixed coloured flower),
Dahlia (which is being developed) etc. To have an
emphatic fragrance of rose you may move to the
garden being developed by NIFFT nursery. There are
about four varieties of roses namely-
1: Hybrid Tea – which is white in colour and always
blooms in single.
2: Flouribanda – yellow in colour and three to four
flowers in bunch
3: Polyantha – which also blooms in bunch.
4: Miniature – 5-7 flowers bloom in one bunch.
Some good variety of succulent are also found here.
Succulents are plants which need very less water.
Some succulents being grown in this nursery are
Furcoria, which has beautiful bicolor long leaves and
Green Mother Tongue with flowering long leaves.
Spera, money plant and Monostriala are some
climbers you can find here. Spera on one hand has
very small leaves while Monostriala has big leaves and
it climbs on a big tree. Some other beautiful plants
like Crysanthamum (two to three colours), Bigonia
(with a circular type leaf like a lotus and exquisite pink
flower), Dracina (2-3 varieties) with red, white &
bicolor resplendent leaves will definitely give ravishing
sense to your eyes.
A splendid unique plant, Bethlehem cloth which is a
foreign plant is also found here which has a peculiar
quality of blooming its flower every night and
shedding it off before dawn.
Some picturesque varieties of grasses can also be
seen here, Dainala and Chinese grass are among these
varieties. Some beautiful trees like Palm, Alkesia,
Banyan etc. are also grown in its vicinity.
When most of us today are worry about pollution,
global warming etc. this place like NIFFT nursery gives
a great peace to our mind and shows us the
pulchritudinous side of life.
Ankit Sharma
B.Tech 3rd yr
Editorial Board
N’scape | November 08 13
HUMOUR
Funny but true incidents during lectures • It happened when I was in my 11th std. The teacher was teaching something and the backbenchers (including me)
were eating something. He said to utter something, we quietly uttered. He got angry and said “ZOR SE BOLO”. We all
stood up and said “JAI MATA DI”.
• During my B.Tech 2-2 lecture, sir was teaching & a plane came back from the last bench. Sir remarked quickly “who is
sending these planes” and people shouted from backside – “Pakistan Murdabad” :)
• One of our school teachers had the habit of Pronouncing P as F, and B as V! On our farewell day, he said, “Voys I feel
vad that today you'll be farting. But after all it’s a fart and farcel of life! I am feeling too emotional to fart with you
voys vut remember you feofle will always v an imfortant fart of my life.”
• One of our school teachers had the habit of pronouncing ‘s’ as ‘sh’. Once a student asked him a numerical problem
and just after him another one asked the same problem. The teacher then said to the boy it’s the ‘shame’ problem I
have told that boy just now so go and ask him. The boy asked, “Is it the same one sir?” He said, yeah ‘shame shame’.
Very ‘shame’!
Pratiyush uttpal
B.Tech 3rd yr
Sab chalta hai !!!
14 November 08 | N’scape
S lar Energy Timeline4.5 billion years ago: Solar energy reaches the earth
7th Century B.C.E.: Magnifying glass used to
concentrate sun's rays to make fire
3rd Century B.C.E.: Greeks and Romans use "burning
mirrors" to focus sunlight as weapons of war to ignite
fires and burn sails of enemy war ships
20 A.D.: Chinese document use of burning mirrors to
light torches for religious purposes
1600s: Educated people accept the idea that the sun
and stars are the same
1643-1715: Reign of French King Louis XIV, ("Sun
King"), is an era of solar experiments
1695: French Georges Buffon
concentrates sunlight using
mirrors to ignite wood and melt
lead
1767: Swiss scientist Horace de
Saussure invents first solar
collector (solar hot box)
1800s: Wealthy Europeans build
and use solar-heated
greenhouses and conservatories;
French scientist uses heat from
solar collector to make steam to
power a steam engine
1839: French scientist Edmund Becquerel observes
photovoltaic effect
1860s: Post Civil War U.S. development of solar
energy; pioneers find that water left in black pans in
the sunlight gets hot
1861: French scientist Augustin Mouchot patents
solar engine
1870s: Augustin Mouchot uses solar cookers, solar
water pumps for irrigation, and solar stills for wine
and water distillation (most widespread use of solar
energy)
1891: Baltimore inventor Clarence Kemp ("real father
of solar energy in the U.S.") patents first commercial
Climax Solar Water Heater
1892: Inventor Aubrey Eneas founds Solar Motor
Company of Boston to build solar-powered motors to
replace steam engines powered by coal or wood
1897: Kemp's water heaters used in 30% of homes in
Pasadena, CA
1908: Los Angeles: Carnegie Steel Company invents
modern type of roof solar collector
1936: American astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbott
invents solar boiler
1941: Approximately 60,000 solar water heaters in
use in Florida
1950s: Architect Frank Bridgers designs world's first
solar-heated office building; Low-cost natural gas
becomes primary heating fuel
1954: Birth of solar cells (photovoltaics)
Late 1950s: Extensive use of solar cells in
space industry for satellites
1973: Energy shortages/oil embargo;
Indifference about solar energy begins
to decline
1974: Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC),
largest state solar center, is established
1977: President Jimmy Carter installs
solar panels on the White House and
promotes incentives for solar energy systems
1990s: Tokyo has approximately 1.5 million buildings
with solar water heaters (more than in the entire
U.S.); Israel uses solar water heating for
approximately 30 percent of their buildings and all
new homes are required to install solar water heating
systems; Greece, Australia and several additional
countries are ahead of the U.S. in solar energy usage
1994: The first solar dish generator to use a free-
piston Stirling engine is hooked up to a utility grid.
1996: The world's most advanced solar-powered
airplane, the Icare, flies over Germany. Its wings and
tail surfaces are covered by 3,000 super-efficient solar
cells, for a total area of 21 square meters.
1999: Construction is completed on 4 Times Square in
Continued…
N’scape | November 08 15
HUMOUR
New York, the tallest skyscraper
built in the city in the 1990s. It
has more energy-efficient
features than any other
commercial skyscraper and
includes building-integrated
photovoltaic (BIPV) panels on
the 37th through the 43rd
floors on the south- and west-
facing facades to produce part
of the building's power.
Shantanu Agrawal
B.Tech 3rd yr
Editorial Board
WORDS OF WISDOM 1. Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them.
2. The word "politics" is derived from 2 words, first "poly" meaning
"many" and "ticks" meaning "blood sucking parasites".
3. Rule 1: Teacher is always right.
Rule 2: When teacher is wrong, refer to rule 1.
4. Hardware is the part of computer which you can kick. Software is the
part of computer which makes you kick the hardware.
5. Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye opener.
6. Don't keep a negative attitude such as "I will not succeed”, “I will not
succeed”. Instead keep a positive attitude such as "I WILL fail”, “I WILL
fail".
7. Money is not everything - There is MasterCard & VISA.
8. Every man should marry. After all happiness is not the only thing in life.
9. Success is a relative term - it brings so many relatives.
10. Your future depends on your dreams - so go to sleep.
11. There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every
morning.
12. "Hard work never killed anybody - But why to take the risk!"
13. We must believe in luck .For how else can we explain the success of
those we don't like.
14. Men who live in glass houses should change clothes in basement.
15. My mom said I’d be a procrastinator. I said "just you wait".
16. I miss my wife, but my aim is
getting better.
17. When everything comes in
your way, you are in the
wrong lane.
18. In a country of free speech,
why are there phone bills?
19. The guy who invented the
first wheel was an idiot. The
guy who invented the other
three, he was the genius.
20. The trouble with being punctual is that no one is there to appreciate it.
KHALID
B.Tech 2nd yr
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PEOPLE’S VOICE
16 November 08 | N’scape
DOES CGPA REALLY MATTER?
Does CGPA matter???? This question has made many
graduates’ eyes insomniac. This is one of the most
burning and debatable topic in engg. colleges.
Everybody has different opinion about it. Some say it
is not much of importance, some say it is necessary to
have a good CGPA. This creates a lot of confusion
among students especially for a new comer. In
colleges let me tell you the situation is like that if you
score well, and get a good GPA, it matters a lot. For
those who don’t score its bullshit... they just score
(the HIGH kind) and live happily.
So I thought to write this article, what I am going to
write is completely my view about CGPA.
Let me first tell you where the high CGPA helps:-
• It helps when you approach any company for
summer training or for project.
• A good CGPA is of immense importance if you
are planning to get into a good B-school.
• Most IIMs provide explicit mark for your past
academic performance. So if you are planning
for MBA, good CGPA is a big plus point. If you
will take a close look on the profiles of
toppers of CAT, they have one thing in
common: excellent academic record.
• -If you are going to apply for foreign
university.
Where it is not important??
-In your campus interviews! I know this is a bold
statement. Actually, you need to clear CGPA
cut-offs (6/7) to apply for companies. Once
you sit for a company, it all depends on how
you perform in your interview & tests. They
hardly take a look at your CGPA. There are
very few exceptions to this.
-In getting recognised from professors for
aping - here what matters is how much your
Prof. is familiar with you. How good you are
in academics is secondary. So, a guy who
soaps the Prof. stands more likely to get a
good repo than a studious guy who hardly
met the Prof!
But how many of you completely know the
importance of your CGPA? Let me show you
a very interesting study made by IITians about how
important your CGPA is?
It depends upon the field in which you go after
engineering, which may be:
1) Research
2) Corporate/Industry (Core and Non-Core)
3) Government
4) NGO
Now for the sake of clarity, let’s base the importance
of CGPA on the scale of 0 to 10
Types of Career Importance of CGPA
Research 7.5
Corporate (Core) 6.0
Corporate (Non-Core) 1.0 to 5.0
Government 2.5
NGO 1.0
A good CGPA definitely helps. It boosts up your
confidence. If you have a good CGPA it shows your
over all pious ness towards studies. It gives you that
extra edge over others. It at least gives you a chance
to sit for your dream company.
But this does not mean that a person having higher
CGPA than other is more talented or vice versa. Good
CGPA doesn’t not always reflect
intelligence/smartness/creativity and vice versa. CGPA
cannot measure the capabilities of a person. You need
to be multitalented if you really want to succeed in
life. Those who make CGPA the means to the end,
miss the dynamism and team work which intends to
instil, and this can be a deciding factor in their future
professional success. Small check one would find that
the academic toppers are
rarely the ones to have
multiple offers or to be placed
first.
Does CGPA alone make a
MAN??
1) Really not. There have been
examples of great men without
very high CGPA. But it can be a
+ve point if you have it.
2) Is it enough for living?
Obviously not. Nobody is going
to offer you job without any
test/interview but yeah it can
give you a +ve edge in interviews and test calls.
Diary Entry
September 2nd 2008
I have got 8.91; the A in P.T. could fetch me 9…….
Mom, I promise, next time
it‘ll be more than 7………
N’scape | November 08 17
3) Is it an achievement to be proud of? Yeah sure it's
an achievement of a person to maintain good CGPA.
Now it depends on person to person whether to be
proud on this or not! So no comments.
4) Survival of the fittest? Yeah it may be a criterion to
be fittest along with other capabilities.
Best approach according to me is to have a healthy
balance. CGPA is required - as it’s a pre interview filter
so it’s vital to maintain a respectable CGPA. However
once you cross the elimination round and sit face-to-
face with the interviewer all that matters is your
knowledge, attitude and communication skills. Smart
people will anyhow manage decent if not very good
CGPA. A decent CGPA (not necessarily an extra
ordinary one) combined with confidence and
flamboyance would make you a winner. You should
be multi dimensional if you have got to differentiate
yourself from others. In the end what really matters is
what you have learnt rather than CGPA. And how
much you can use it!! But CGPA never kills then why
to take a risk!
Pratiyush Uttpal
B.Tech 3rd yr
“For 81%, extracurricular activities are equally important along with CGPA”
Some Do’s and Don’ts for the budding technocrats*
Do’s
v Take bath at least once in a month
v Utilize your time in internet surfing &
gossips
v Peep into others’ copies in exams
v Go for a rampage in the hostel
v Have several girl friends for spiritual health
v Have greed and anger if you want to
grow in life
v Always cross the thin boundary between
the ‘just seeing’ and staring ‘(concern The
Three Mistakes of My Life by Chetan
Bhagat)
Dont’s
v Always live in your own room
v Maintain pin drop silence in class
v Always wear your own clothes and shoes
v Study in library
v Use your own class notes during exams
v Use perfumes or deodorants as if your
room mate has ……
v Pass your B.Tech degree without a single
fine in your kitty
Statuary warning: Following of the above rules may be injurious to your health .Copy and paste of the above into your life is the motivational offense. *take this seriously at your own risk.
Harinath Yadav
B.Tech 3rd yr
Yes, 81
No, 19
Is there the need of organising extra curricular activities?
HUMOUR
PEOPLE’S VOICE
18 November 08| N’scape
WHAT NOT TO DO IN COLLEGES OTHER THAN an IIT
One fine, day like any other, the old landline rings and
its papa: “beta results to aa gaye hain, par
tumhara naam nahi hai”. And you feel like I am
gone, it’s all over! Yeah, I am talking about the phase
which every student of NIFFT must have gone
through. The day IIT results were out. Hmm… not got
selected, then the most boring but crucial stage
begins. The name of colleges you skipped a month
ago now needs to be relooked into. “Well an NIT
serves no less than an IIT”. Now what else could be
said after a sorry show in the JEE? As you started
going through the list of colleges, a unique name
strikes, NIFFT! Yes, the same name which you ignored
in the AIEEE brochure a month ago, now suddenly
seems really better than an IIT. Well perhaps what
could one say?? “Are yaar foundry, forge ka bahut
scope hai”. You knew or you didn’t but you pretended
at least, that’s good for a start!
First year starts and you want everything you would
get in an IIT. Do you get it??? I’ll leave this for you to
answer. The year passes in comparing between what
you have got and what you wanted. Perhaps, this is
not required. Here is the first thing which you
shouldn’t do in a college other than an IIT, because:
“Don’t underestimate your worth by comparing
yourself with someone. It’s because we all are
different and each one of us is special.”
Second year starts and slowly (but not surely) .You
start adjusting and accepting what you have achieved.
Still the expectations don’t fall, but now you are tired
of cursing like you used to do in the 1st year. But the
effort and the zeal which would have been evident if
you were an IIT 2nd yr student is still missing. That’s
where India loses some of the good quality brain
material. The pain of not getting into an IIT doesn’t
allow them to focus technically. This is the second
thing which you shouldn’t do in a college other than
an IIT. I’ll give you the reason why:
“Worrying and feeling pity doesn’t empty tomorrow of
its sorrows, it empties today of its strengths.”
Now comes the 3rd year, most important I guess. Well
college doesn’t excite you much and now you have
virtually surrendered to the realities. Now you don’t
expect much and know that you have got to make the
most out of whatever you have. But do you succeed? I
am sure many of us don’t. I have heard many of the
3rd yr students saying “are yaar 2 saal bache hain bas
nikal jayen job ke saath”. This is where they go wrong.
Doesn’t your college deserve your effort? It’s our
foremost duty to contribute towards the
development of our college.” Kash IIT me hote!” You
can dare to think this but can’t dare to work towards
reaching the standards of an IIT. Thinking determines
what you become. If you want to work separating
yourself and taking a broader spectrum, your college
can accomplish everything you wanted it to, when you
joined it. But the problem is that criticizing takes all
the time. Who the hell wants to do something? This is
the THIRD thing you shouldn’t do in a college other
than an IIT. The reason is simple:
“Too many people today know the price of
everything and the value of nothing” –Oscar wilde
Well if you realized the value of nothing you would
surely love whatever you have and work for its
improvement. Think about it. Gone through a lot? But
wait ladies and gentlemen. Final year awaits you.
Tension, tension and more tension. Placements,
companies coming for pooling, and what not?
Students start getting placed and start separating
themselves from the college. Those who get placed
think it’s over. I have accomplished the aim I was here
for. What else is left? Just a year of masti and let the
college stay as it is!! What do I have to do? This is the
FOURTH and the FINAL thing which you shouldn’t do
in a college other than an IIT. Finally the reason, why:
“Half of our mistakes in life arise from thinking
when we ought to feel and feeling when we ought
to think.”- Robert Frost
Thinking what to do and not simply feeling sorry
would fetch results. When you felt bad in the 1st yr
……Continued on page no. 19
N’scape | November 08 19
THE NEW EMBANKMENT
After all my growl and grumble to seize the limb of enchanting future in the frills of IITs, I have finally though quite
figuratively boggled in perplexity ‘banked my course at an academia named NIFFT’.
On checking into NIFFT I was in great dilemma, whether it’d appease my whims or not? But its statistical records
heedfulness contained my affright to a great extent. More ones, I sighed in sheer composure at the very first sight of
its growing campus booked in oozing weather added to my awe.
Next of course blessings, of course; it was the time for some bitter faster, which hooked me in as soon as I landed my
space in the hostel, ready for some unread treat to my appease. Funky furniture, thumping beds, yawning bulbs, A.C.
windows but their glasses flawed at their messy treat, even more diving were the wobbly toilets sailing in sizzling
stinks. ‘Mess’ did ditch its contemporaries, outcast with some croaky repast. “After all it’s all ‘SARKARI’”!! The trailer
was yet to come, of course the haunting and taunting goblin of ragging, a term which I had only heard of but wasn’t
much acquainted. But not to worry for long, my knowledge was soon riffled and even hopped by our discerning
elders. This periodically merchandised customs, which has definitely produced certain desperately fatal products,
was in a sedate and calm stance, accustoming its real senses. Though,a tiffy tapeline sometimes – I now understand,
its importance and ‘why it is there?’
Anyways ……!!!!!!!! Whatsoever the initials were, things that’d stand uphill afterwards are really promising in this
DEEMED FORGER: NIFFT – which strongly statues itself amidst the lusty and bouncy IITs and NITs. So we call it as
“THE HABITAT OF TITANS.”
Saurabh Kanchan
B.Tech 1st yr
Phir woh exams yaad aaye….. What not to do in…..
“Kaisa Hua?” is the most probable question that we used to interchange
after writing the papers. The answer used to be even more typed with
something like 'good' 'alright' or 'just okay'. Now, after writing so many of
them such conversations seem mere formality. The indifference is not only
with the performance but the eagerness for results too has vanished over
time. One of my friend used to say, "Exams to hamesha achchhe hote hain,
results hi kharab ho jate hai".
My personal experience suggests that results remain the same if not bad
over the years. In first year I used to prepare weeks ahead of exams, in
second year. Time shrinked to a few days; one day in advance in 3rd year
and almost JOTS (just one night stuff) in final year, but results are
consistent throughout, zeroing near 7.5. Anyway, that does not matter
anymore.
I remember kind of relief and joy we felt after board exams in 10th, 12th and
after competitive exams. The papers have become more tedious, degrees
higher but finishing off exams doesn't seem that type of ecstasy now. Yes,
the bigger wait is for vacations and it still remains…….
Vishal
2k7 Batch
cant you do something so that your
successors don’t feel so? Don’t you
have the responsibility of at least
starting a trend, of working towards
it? What the caterpillar calls the end
of the world, the master calls it a
butterfly. So, think positive and start
working for yourself and for our
college .Your college can become
what u want it to be. So, stop
comparing it to an IIT. Your
uniqueness is your individuality and
your strength, excel in that and you
will achieve wonders. Just think and
work accordingly. I hope its fine with
everyone including me. Start
thinking and working of course!
Himanshu Singh Raghuwanshi
B.Tech 2nd yr
ALUMNI SECTION
20 November 08| N’scape
yes10%
no90%
Are there adequate sports facilities (for girls) in NIFFT?
GOLDEN MOMENT
We must take advantages of fertile condition created by Beijing
Are one gold and two bronze sufficient? Certainly not
for a country with more than a billion populations but
it has certainly made the atmosphere fertile for
sporting culture in our country. The three hundred
percent increase in number of medals won by India
then the last Olympic and its best ever performance
at the Games has suddenly resulted in the country of
a billion waking up to the significance of Olympics.
The three medals have certainly end up the famine of
medals in our country.
Decades of ill treatment and neglect,
which is responsible for poor performance
of India at Olympics, might just be about
to change. When the country was reeling
under the impact of serial blast at
Karnataka and Gujarat, the gold shot by
Abhinav Bindra made India go hysterical.
Many thought it just to be aberration but his
performance was followed by near-podium finishes in
badminton, tennis and archery. Just when it looked
like a tale of so near yet so far, bronze medal won by
Sushil Kumar and Vijender Kumar made the Indians
happy again. Two other Indian boxers Jitender Kumar
and Akhil Kumar just lost their way on the brink of
winning medals, but they have certainly lit India’s
hope for London Olympics.
Cricket has always been blamed for the poor
performance of India in other sports. But if we see the
time of rise of cricket in India – it was after
outstanding victory in world cup 1983. The fact clearly
shows that a good performance made by a country in
a particular sport makes it popular in that country. For
the first time media narrated India’s success at
olympics in a manner commonly associated with
cricket. All of a sudden Abhinav Bindra became the
talk of the nation and Vijender Kumar was offered a
role in a Bollywood movie. Cricket, the nation’s
religion, Times Now poll revealed, suddenly slid in the
popularity chart. According to survey, 53% of sports
fan in Chennai and 44% in Kolkata were glued to the
Olympics. In contrast, 41% sports fan in Chennai and
29% in Kolkata watched the Indian cricket
team in action against the Sri Lankans. In
Mumbai, an amazing 64% of the fans were
unaware of the ongoing cricket series
between India and Sri Lanka. Several state
government and Indian Railways have
already promised a handsome reward to
the medal winners. Surprisingly, BCCI, an
organization which has nothing to do with Olympics
has promised to reward Abhinav Bindra with a
handsome amount of money
Certainly India’s success at Olympics has made
atmosphere conducive for these sports, but yet we
have to build necessary infrastructure and facilities for
our sports men. India’s sports needs an overhaul and
these three medals only create a possibility of such a
change. Unless the government, sports
administration, IOA, corporate comes forward to
embrace Olympic sports, Beijing 2008will survives as
an aberration.
Ashwini kumar
B.Tech 3rd yr
Big Question: why the big country like India wins very few medals in Olympics?
Small Answer: for answer, have a heedful glimpse on the above data.
PEOPLE’S VOICE
yes37%
no63%
Are there adequate sports facilities (for boys) in NIFFT?
N’scape | November 08 21
The first empty brain’s yield (eby) awards 2008
v The nomination for the ‘I Can’t Bear’ award are-
• Attending sudden called, mammoth evening maths class
• Regular morning P.T
• Wasting approx millions of calories in forging an innocent piece of iron
• Rubbing of an obstinate piece of steel, thinking that …. “Ek din ayega microstructure dikh jayega”.
And the award goes to: “Attending sudden called mammoth, evening maths class”
The award in the critics’ choice categories goes to: “Regular morning P.T”
v The nomination for ‘Sab Chalta Hai” award are-
• The fearless running of a tobacco shop at the NIFFT gate, four yards away from the board
prohibiting the selling of tobacco.
• The running of a mess in so called NIFFT canteen since pre historic age.
• The use of NIFFT 50 seater bus for taking back just 3-4 students from school daily.
And the award goes to: ‘the fearless running of tobacco shop……
The award in the critics’ choice categories also goes to: ‘The fearless running of tobacco
shop……
v The nomination for the ‘Natural Calamity’ award are-
• Scarcity of girls in NIFFT.
• Two hours continuous class of any one subject.
• Solving each and every question along with all parts of the maths exam before 10 minutes of the
given time.
And the award goes to: “two hours continuous class……
The award in the critics’ choice categories goes to: “Scarcity of girls in NIFFT”
v The nomination for ‘Aisa Nahi Ho Sakta’ award are-
• Khandelwal sir stopped taking extra classes
• A student of NIFFT gets his bonafide made within few hours
• Sharmajee wearing black shirt white pant
And the award goes to: “Khandelwal sir stopped taking extra classes.”
The award in the critics’ choice categories goes to: “a student of NIFFT gets his bonafide made
within few hours.”
22 November 08| N’scape
COVER STORY
Science reporter won the race of best magazine, congrates to
CSIR. Rapid prototyping machine with its advanced FDM
technology is preferred by 45% students. It is a matter of proud
for our institute that such type of advanced technology is
present in very few technical colleges of India including ours.
Not surprisingly 25% of our body builder buddies like
hammering (practical) the most and about 27% feel
Pneumatic hammer is the best machine of the college.
The point opposition can raise: it is not as sophisticated as
CNC or RP machine.
OUR PARTY’S clarification: it saves our millions of calories
wasted in beating an innocent piece of iron.
Communication lab is the best lab of our college with 76%
students having this idea; regarding the most beautiful building
the views are distributed. Donald R. Askeland is the happy
man successful in trapping students in his “grain
boundaries”.
‘The Alchemist’ gets triumph in getting 31% votes while Chetan
Bhagat as expected holds the nerves and continues to be the
writer of youth with 50% of the votes in his favour for his
nationwide best seller – “FIVE POINT SOMEONE”.
BIG QUESTION: why the difference in level of satisfaction?
SMALL ANSWER: I have seen most of the girls sitting in air-conditioners in R&D section in a well known integrated
steel plant while boys heating up at the blast furnace!
Engineering is an art that deals with ingenuity and to be a good artist we must have power to think & rationalize.
Developing a club like robotics can be a halcyon gusto for the rational attitude of the techies. When we asked about
the need for establishment of such club about 91 % stood firm in its favour. When we talked about students-
teachers relationship 63% said that it needs to be improved.
# To get more information either see ‘office-office’ or try to have bonafide at least once.
Lack of good hygienic canteen is still a big problem. 93% students dream for a spot where in the evening some
theories, some laws, some events and some life stuffs can be discussed with the sip of coffee and a taste of cake.
41% say they will attend the class for some professors’ lectures even if teachers stop taking attendance and 88%
think that there is the need of renovation of existing machines and equipments
It was quite hectic to collect all the data for this survey but equally relishing to present it in front of readers for the
first time. There are still many questions to be unfolded, as we all know life is tank of unfolded mysteries and when it
comes to the life of budding engineers, the mystery superimposes with concepts and logics, it was a small trial to
unfold some of these superimposed mysteries, hope you all liked it.
If you have some suggestions and queries; be free to write us on [email protected]
Do you feel this is one of the best places for technical education in the country?
Are you satisfied with the placement scenario of NIFFT?
55% boys while 100 % girls are satisfied with the placement scenario of NIFFT
For girls:
“If you are content with the best you have
done, you will never do the best you can do”
Yes, 34No, 66
Yes, 55No, 45
78% students are unsatisfied with the cooperation of academic affair’s staff.
N’scape | November 08 23
ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE STATES OF FREEDOM
Metals are good conductors of electricity and heat, unlike non metals. Although electrons constitute a major component of both, the nature of these particles makes the difference. While in non-metals electrons are not free, in metals there are both free and non free (bound) electrons. The free electrons are responsible for most of distinguishing properties of metals.
Similarly there is the value of freedom in material bodies. Its importance is no less in life. If a person is asked to choose between wealth and freedom, a rational man would probably choose the latter. The history of civilization is the progress from bondage to freedom. Indeed the richness of civilization depends on the degree of freedom enjoyed by the people.
Freedom is related to necessity. If our necessities are ignored, we do not enjoy freedom. Anybody can think freely. However if the society or state imposes constraints in translating our thoughts into action, it deprives us of our freedom. If we are not responsible, freedom is of little value.
No one is entirely free or wholly bound. Every one of us enjoys some degree of freedom and is bound in some way or the other just as opposite coexists in nature. We also have both freedom and bondage. Bondage rather freedom, binds us together, be it in the family, society or in large entity like the country. Bondage resulting from love, affection and gratitude and sense of duty is a virtue. Sometimes we are bounded by law and rules which we accept as our duty.
It is the bondage among constituents, rather than their freedom, which is responsible for stability of a material too. The science of materials can show how bondage, combined with freedom leads to extraordinary characteristics. It can be testified spiritually on the basis of what lord Krishna says to Arjun in the Bhagwat Geeta “abandoning all other activities, come into my fold (bondage), I shall free you from all worldly bondages."
Richard Doley
B.Tech 1st yr
BE vs MBA An MBA and a BE student go to a camping trip, set up
their tent, and fall asleep. Some hours later, the BE
wakes his MBA friend, “Look up at the sky and tell me
what you see." The MBA replies, "I see millions of
stars”. "What does that tell you?" The BE asks.
The MBA ponders for a minute. "Astronomically
speaking, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies
and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, it
tells me that Saturn is in Leo. Time wise, it appears to
be approximately a quarter past three. Theologically,
it's evident the Lord is all-powerful and we are small
and insignificant. Meteorologically, it seems we will
have a beautiful day tomorrow. By the way what does
it tell you?" The MBA asks.
The BE keeps silent for a moment and then speaks,
"Practically, someone has stolen our tent".
“ENGINEERING = 100% COMMON SENSE”
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is
lost. He reduces height and spots a man down
below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts,
"Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"
The man below says, "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon,
hovering 30 feet above this field."
"You must be an engineer," says the balloonist.
"I am," replies the man. "How do you know?"
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told
me is technically correct, but it's of no use to
anyone."
The man below says, "You must be in management."
"I am" replies the balloonist, "but how do you know?"
"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are,
or where you're going, but you expect me to be able
to help.
Pratiyush Uttpal
B.Tech 3rd yr
HUMOUR
24 November 08| N’scape
POETRY
EVERY NIGHT IN MY DREAMS
Every night I fly and fly in my dreams in sky;
I tell you this is a truth I never say a lie.
Seeing me the sun is ashamed of his glory;
He chirps in front of me like the bird Lowery.
The Moon is jealous of my beauty;
As he has never seen such a Sweaty.
The stars are afraid of my shine;
And hide themselves as fear on their spine.
With a pencil on my heels;
I own Mittal Steels.
I have won the noble prize;
And have the bungalow of biggest size.
I am praised by all whether big or small.
Aishwariya, Salmaan all stand in front of my house and crave for my autograph;
I give them that, thinking we should help people of low economy graph.
Then I feel that my phone is ringing;
I think it must be Bill Gates calling.
I come to receive the call,
And realize that the night was too small.
The alarm clock is calling;
And a new day is waiting.
I take a deep… Jamhai!
And realize that I am still on my ‘old Charpai’
Sonal Supriya
B.Tech 2nd yr
Every night I fly and fly in my dreams in sky;
I tell you this is a truth I never say a lie.
Seeing me the sun is ashamed of his glory;
He chirps in front of me like the bird Lowery.
The Moon is jealous of my beauty;
As he has never seen such a Sweaty.
The stars are afraid of my shine;
And hide themselves as fear on their spine.
With a pencil on my heels;
I own Mittal Steels.
I have won the noble prize;
And have the bungalow of biggest size.
I am praised by all whether big or small.
Aishwariya, Salmaan all stand in front of my house and crave for my autograph;
I give them that, thinking we should help people of low economy graph.
Then I feel that my phone is ringing;
I think it must be Bill Gates calling.
I come to receive the call,
And realize that the night was too small.
The alarm clock is calling;
And a new day is waiting.
I take a deep… Jamhai!
And realize that I am still on my ‘old Charpai’
Sonal Supriya
B.Tech 2nd yr
EVERY NIGHT IN MY DREAMS
N’scape | November 08 25
POETRY
If Lost Once passing through a solitary way,
Through that echoing wearily & the furious sun of May.
a thought reflected in me,”…….Am I lost?”
For I gained nothing from the unsteady & ever-expanding past.
Those mighty men for their eminent deeds acquired salvation,
Their morale inspired the ‘astray’ in the epoch of conscientious-instigation.
But ‘where am I…...’ in this illusory multitude.
Lost in dimensions.
Forgotten my ‘self’ and the perpetual grandeur of exertion.
Thereafter noticing the sun sacrificing himself for the divine intention.
Rather illustrating me the essence of self immolation on the path of completion.
I, in me am the ‘sacred flame’.
Until having a feel of obligation
Intervolved with filthiness,
Will perform unless absolution………
Shirish Kumar
B.Tech 3rd yr
THIS IS LIFE
When things don’t go right,
When there is no ray of light,
When there is no place to hide,
And it is too hard to survive
Tel yourself -GO ON! This is life.
When there is no friend,
When Life is on the dead end,
When world is not a paradise,
When your confidence dies,
Tell yourself -GO ON! This is life.
Swagat khuntia
B.Tech 1st yr
A PSALM OF LIFE
From the cradle to the grave,
Juvenal and naive
Let you beat not just battle,
The mighty and adorable.
They are like horses whip less,
Out to give you world of distress,
Till you conquer time and again,
None is there but grim and pain.
Life is not just live and dies,
It’s about win of thy,
Let it end not with thee,
But last long in legendary.
Mohit
B.Tech 2nd yr
26 November 08| N’scape
POETRY
Insomniac called eyes The passion the desire or I don’t know who you are,
To get to have my heart just tries
That leaves me insane runs me cold
& leaves in me something insomniac called eyes
I may call you a dream, to fulfill which
I wish, I would always wake,
I may call you drop, the drop of rain
That shines with a vibgyor, like a jewel on a lake.
It’s just your thought that fills in me,
Fills in me a fragrance so nice
That leaves me insane, runs me cold
& leaves in me something insomniac called eyes.
They say time is punctual, I call it whimsical
For it seems to me walking like a snail
Having concord with solitary, miles from you
In an ocean so wide when I go for a sail
To feel your air, for a glimpse of yours
I dig so many restless strides.
That leaves me insane, runs me cold
& leaves in me something insomniac called eyes.
Tryst with destiny, or a promise to my soul
Confluence with you ,I feel is a must
Like at the far end of my sight when sky as a whole
Meets the earth as if quenching its thirst
The meeting you thought makes me
Anxious and my soul then just flies
That leaves me insane runs me cold
& leaves in me something insomniac called eyes
Ankit Sharma
B.Tech 3rd yr
To Be On Not To Be
To be or not to be the one all time dilemma,
Of the man created on the stage of life from his
minima.
Why the world always move towards the fast and
glory,
Leaving behind the beautiful nature& the serenity of
our earth, the hours?
Every sincere body is running for double-rooms &
wanting their if sequined,
Wasting the, all credits of their present time for the
late future yet not tuned.
How can one think of such things all the time?
Whether he is connected to white business or crime?
In this race against time and nature,
We lose the glittering moments of our life and culture;
Also the happiness of giving to others with returned
blessings in tones,
And sharing the pain of the worst hours with our near
ones.
Isn't it useless to throw once given priceless life
thinking for eulogized?
Without initiating something that could help others to
feel prized.
Beautiful life we have go, so why don't we surrender
our 'Me',
For some fruitful works &the betterment of 'Three'
To be or not to be is not the part of our life only,
Is it so actually how we worked for our character &
the society?
And it is something how we are attached to our
nature and the euphony of our malicious
future……………!
Abhishek Saxena
B.Tech 1st Yr
N’scape | November 08 27
CROSSWORD
Across
1: The total area occupied by the NIFFT campus [5]
3: Manufacturer Company of the pneumatic
hammer.[6]
5: The total variety of roses you can see in NIFFT
campus. [4]
7: The type of plastic used by NIFFT Rapid Prototyping
Machine to make prototypes. [3]
9: The media partner of Jinks -06? [9]
12: The Deputy Secretary of Ministry of Steels who
was chief guest in the seminar on energy conservation
organized last year in NIFFT. [11]
13: Manufacturer of NIFFT Rapid prototyping
machine.[9]
15: The most expensive magazine in the NIFFT
library.[18]
17: The total number of
lathe machines in the NIFFT
workshop? [4]
19: Nickname of the
professor from Australia
who along with his guest
lecture in Pranav-08 stole
the show with his jazzy
songs praising Sachin and
Ganguly[7].
20: Sitting capacity of the
NIFFT auditorium. [12]
Down
2: The Company offering
highest salary package in
NIFFT [ 6]
4: Name the internet service
provider (ISP) for NIFFT
other than BSNL. [4]
6: The name of the NGO
being run by the NIFFT
students to educate the poor underprivileged tribal
children. [8]
8: Special plant in NIFFT nursery whose flower grows
at 7 in the evening and dies and sheds off after the
dawn. [14]
10: The machine with a reciprocating motion
generally used for planning the surface or making
grooves on the work piece. [6]
11: The binder generally used in sand casting in the
foundry shop. [9]
14: The first album of Mohit Chauhan, the famous
singer who gave his electrifying performance in Jinks
08. [9]
16: The winning club of the 1st Pranav Priyadarshi
memorial intra cricket tournament. [10]
18: Surname of the curator of the NIFFT cricket pitch.
28 November 08| N’scape
MOVIE REVIEW
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION: A TALE OF HOPE
“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free”.
This is the nitty-gritty of this great American drama
film ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ starring Tim
Robbins as Andy Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as
Red. The movie is based on the Stephan king’s novel
‘Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption’. The
movie revolves around the concept of ‘hope’. How
hope can change the life of a person and make
impossible possible.
The movie portrays a young banker Andy Dufresne
wrongly convicted for murdering his wife and her
lover on strong circumstantial evidences and is
sentenced to two back to back life imprisonments at a
notorious prison named Shawshank. At prison he met
a person named ‘Red’ who is at Shawshank for nearly
two decades and is known for smuggling cigarettes
and other things for prisoners. Within a few months
Andy becomes acquainted with Shawshank and
corruption prevailing there. He had to face worst
conditions at Shawshank including harassment and
rape by a group of homosexual inmates commonly
known as ‘The Sisters’. Andy stayed at Shawshank for
nearly two decades and suddenly one day he escaped.
He
escaped
from the
prison in
an unimaginable way that no one can even dream of.
The movie also deals with corruption and inhuman
practice prevailing at the prisons of America .It also
tells how a prison life can make adverse effect on
their inmates and raises questions on the judiciary
system. The presentation of the movie is outstanding.
The whole movie looks like showing the darkest
picture of life. But it suddenly shocks the viewers by
sudden escape of Andy and fills their heart with
ecstasy. The movie gives us a message never to lose
our hope because hope is a good thing and good
things never die.
The story is beautifully woven. Direction is amazing.
Tim Robbins is impeccable in his role. Morgan
Freeman is as great as ever. No wonder the movie is
often ranked amongst the greatest of all time. A must
watch that no one should miss.
Ashwani kumar
Btech 3rd yr
And they walked away in sunset Some bright men came to the center stage to enact a play that lasted for four years (without much of an audience).
They braved heat & dust and cold pain to become someone that they never knew existed inside their hearts &
minds. (Actually no one knew that is to say it was a common knowledge)
After a hard day in field, moistened by some showers that showed up occasionally, and hardened like steel by the
heat, they walk in the sunset as the world around looks on.
And the day comes not without animation, not without its own highs and lows, its own joy and tribulations, for they
are the actors on a stage, and only a farce can end without animation.
Not many understand this, for they have many more years to complete before they the truth dawns, the
understanding descends upon them, before they know the world to be a stage.
After this poetic introduction, quite befitting the play, I take a bow before the audience, and await their judgment
for introductions are what make things roll; else the life is much too predictable to engage any interest.
Adios! We will meet again, in a new day, under a new sun, with a new play to enact, a new farce to witness.
Ankur Tripathi
2k7 batch
ALUMNI SECTION
N’scape | November 08 29
BOOK REVIEW
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The 3 mistakes of my life
From the writer of FPS and 1N@CC comes another book. NYT accredited him as India’s best selling English novelist. Two of his books are soon to be on the big screen. He is none other than your own CB i.e.
Chetan Bhagat.
I know I m sounding like trailing a blockbuster Bollywood movie but believe me that’s what you will experience while going through the “The 3 mistakes of my life”. It has everything cricket, religion, politics, Indian style love story (which many of us fantasize) and not to forget the Bondi beach!!
Fans have lapped this one like the previous two. But still somewhere down the line one feels that Mr. Bhagat always wanted this book to be grabbed by a director than a mere reader. I am not being sarcastic but if you go through the book you’ll find this thing yourself. Without a doubt this book resonates with FPS, the only difference being that this time it’s in the real sense of world, strugglers are not IITians but 3 middle class friends. What strikes you about CB is that he knows the nerve of the Indian masses and he writes what India loves to read!!
Generally book reviews are not meant for storytelling but still I’d like you to be acquainted with the plot.
The book is about 3 friends Govind, Ishaan and Omi from Ahmadabad. All three belong to lower middle class to middle class and all of them have different passions in life. Ish is crazy about Cricket (well who isn’t?? in this 100 crore Cricket frenzy nation :)), Omi is religious in nature who dabbles with politics simultaneously and Govind is a true business man. He is maths fanatic who has clear focus that he wants to be a business man and nothing else. Ok that was
about the three male characters but to complete any love story (another characteristic of Chetan’s books), you need someone from fairer sex as well. And that’s where the character of Vidya (Ish’s sister) steps in. Govind starts telling the story which includes his poor state of life, his business with friends Ish and Omi, the great test match between India and Australia in which Laxman played his best inning, the Gujarat earthquakes, the riots, his uncalled love for Ish's sister (this part I liked the most like many of my mates) and about the gifted Ali. During this scheme of dramatic events Govind tends to commit the so stated three mistakes which turn his life upside down.
The author has as usual added facts with fiction, and leaves the reader wondering whether this is for real? I would soon be writing a mail to Chetan Bhagat asking him to clarify on the topic as I would really like to meet up with Ish, Govind and Vidya and know what they are doing and also about the characters in the other two books.
Finally the pros and the cons:
Why read it?
Ans is simple if you are a CB fan and a Bollywood freak. Furthermore read it if u liked previous two books, this one is another CB signature.
Why not?
If you are a Rushdie punk or for that matter a literature maniac, the book would least match your expectations.
At the end I wish I could teach tuitions too and visit Bondi beach.
Ravi Ranjan Singh
B.Tech 3rd yr
Editorial Board
The page of newspaper you prefer to
open after the front one?
Page 2-3……………………………………………………6%
Sports page………………………34%
Editorial…………………………………………………..23%
Global……………………………………………………..16%
Entertainment/movie masala………………….21%
PEOPLE’S VOICE
30 November 08| N’scape
POINT COUNTERPOINT
SHOULD THE NAME OF NIFFT BE CHANGED?
I am against the motion .After years of struggle by
both the students and faculty of NIFFT, our institute
has been able to be recognized as one of the
prominent institute of India in field of Foundry and
forge technology. Now if we will change the name of
NIFFT then again it will take it several years to
establish its new name in this competitive education
sector where every institute is wasting money for
establishing its name and fame, it is true that when
we tell anybody that we study in NIFFT then the first
question that comes from the opposite side is “is it
national institute of fashion technology?".But slowly
people have started knowing about our institute and
now the scenario has changed and people ask
whether it is NIFT or NIFFT? So the name which tells
us its specialization in foundry and forge sector should
definitely not be changed.
Sonal Supriya
B.Tech 2nd yr
In my view the name of NIFFT should be changed
.Although being a central government technical
institute and even after 40 years of its establishment
its facing the crisis of exposure, may be because of the
traditional tag of ‘foundry and forge stuck to it ‘.Most
of the students seeking admission in different
technical institutes do not even know about ‘foundry
and forge’ stuff and so the NIFFT. If someone comes
to know about it then he/she is always in dilemma
about the foundry & forge and so is hesitant in taking
admission here .If name of NIFFT is changed to
something like ‘national institute of materials
technology ‘ or ‘national institute of metallurgy and
manufacturing tech’, it will definitely help in
overcoming many dilemmas .
The fear of losing identity is out of question; rather its
identity will spread as an institute of metallurgy,
materials and manufacturing which will surely display
positive impacts.
Harinath Yadav
B.Tech 3rd yr
A man's strength is only limited by its perception. It’s
a pretty sick thought to bring to our minds such as
changing the name of this elite organization as
changing the name of a brand won't be doing any
good to the quality of the brand , some say we should
change the name because it’s quite rhyming with
NIFT .Then instead of pondering over a substitute to
NIFFT name it’s time to comply to the needs of the
future to a next level, because if we are in a position
to realize that about 20 years established NIFT has
shaken the 40 years of foundation being established
by NIFFT then we must try to find out our weaknesses
We need to burn thoughts to bring new ideas to life
rather than changing it.
Pushpendra Singh
B.Tech 1st yr
As we all know that "NIFFT" itself is quite popular
name for Indian Industries but among general public,
it’s still lacking fame .Mainly people misunderstand it
as "NIFT" due to the glamour hidden behind NIFT and
it is an indubitable truth. But changing the name of
NIFFT might come up with some kind of confusion for
industrial personnel. On the other hand, changing the
name of NIFFT like of ISMU and IT-BHU might create
curiosity among the people and they will come to
know about NIFFT. But it is quite difficult to make it
such a big issue of education sector Thus, the name
should not be changed and it should remain as it is.
Abhijit Kumar
B.Tech 3rd yr
No doubt that presently the phantom of ’F-F’(foundry
& Forge ) is spreading over B.Tech degree courses &
seizing its autonomy , moreover ,for adding up new
streams to the present courses NIFFT really should get
a new recognition .But it wouldn’t be enough to
change the name only if there is not any effective
advertisement strategy for the future.
Shirish Kumar
B.Tech 3rd yr
N’scape | November 08 31
POINT COUNTERPOINT
Lot has been talked about changing the name of NIFFT
and giving it an appealing name. In my opinion
changing the name won’t help. The problem with
NIFFT does not lie in its name but in its lack of
advertisement and exposure. NIFFT is the best college
in foundry and forge technology and hence its name
shouldn’t be tampered. NIFFT has earned a good
name among the industries over the years and
changing its name will only create problems for the
institute. NIFFT can become a famous college only by
its proper marketing and exposure and not by
changing its name.
Ashwini Kumar
B.Tech 3rd yr
Truly speaking, I don’t think that the name of NIFFT
needs a change. The name NIFFT that is NATIONAL
INSTITUTE OF FOUNDRY AND FORGE TECHNOLOGY
defines the specialty and uniqueness of this
institution. NIFFT is the biggest institute of foundry
and forge in Asia and no other name than NIFFT can
show its peculiarity. The second reason that I think is
that we all know that NIFFT is very popular in
industries but lacks the fame among general people.
So if at this stage if the name of NIFFT is changed then
it is possible that NIFFT may lose its identity. In this
case neither NIFFT nor the new name will be known in
general. So to avoid this situation we must not think
to change the name of this unique institution “NIFFT”.
Kundan Kumar
B.Tech 3rd yr
Shirish kumar
B.Tech 3rd yr
Before ‘Freshers’ After ‘Freshers’
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