CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

MESSAGES FROM DIGNITARIES

MESSAGES FROM IEEE

BVPIEEE CORE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

CONFLUENCEAd Infinitum

Fervour GREENATHON

CHRONICLES OF 2009

FERVOUR 2010 Sneak Peek

LITERARY

POPULAR SCIENCE

MANAGERIAL

TECHNICAL

VIVE LE HESITATION

MY BRANCH

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief

ANUBHA KAPUR

Creativity

SHREY MALHOTRA

Section Editors

LITERARY : Anubha Kapur Ira Tiwari

POPULAR : Nikhil BhardwajSCIENCE Aneesh Jain

MANAGERIAL : Karan Sharma

TECHNICAL : Prem Tanwar Nitisha Jain

VIVE LE HESITATION : Surabhi Goswamu Kartikeya Ramesh

MY BRANCH : Priya Mittal Sakshi Dewan

GUEST SECTION : Saumya Joshi

Co-Editor Prateek Chaudhary

FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK

No, we are not literary geniuses, nor were meant to be.Neither do we belong to the ed-board of a leading daily!

We’re birds of a feather, flocking together.A confluence of 14 picked from the multitude; one that will do,

To swell a progress, start a trend or two.Deferential, but glad to be of use

Creative, cautious, meticulousFull of high sentence, but a bit obtuse!!!

PRATIBIMB symbolises the true BVCPIEEE spirit. It epitomizes the virtues and encompasses the laurels of this vibrant branch. Each year a new chapter is added to the pages of this golden chronicle and this time the responsibility has been bestowed upon us to give the school journal a new dimension, and color it with the palette of our creations!

We have been immensely enriched to be a part of this grand ensemble and to be instrumental in designing this souvenir of FERVOUR. We have strived to showcase the Passion for Perfection, the trademark of BVPIEEE, in these pages. PRATIBIMB - Fervour Special is replete with all the accomplishments and proceedings of BVPIEEE in the past 1 year.

We express our heartfelt gratitude towards our Principal sir, Dr. N.D. Kaushika, Prof. Rahul Bahl, our Branch Counselor and Mrs Yogita Arora,, the Editorial Mentor for their unflinching support, constant encouragement and munificent guidance.

To all the readers, we hope you enjoy flipping through the pages of this magazine as much as we did in creating it.

Anubha KapurEditor-In-Chief

Pratibimb, Fervour Special Edition

MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF MINISTER

MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER AND CHANCELLOR

HonourableDr. Patangraoji

Kadam

M.A, L.L.B, Ph.DFounder, Bharati

Vidyapeeth,Chancellor, Bharati

Vidyapeeth University, Pune

&Minister of Forests

Govt. Of Maharashtra

It gives me immense pleasure to note that the IEEE Student Branch of BVCOE is organizing the 4th edition of its annual festival FERVOUR 2010.

This magazine reflects the true spirit of BVPIEEE and I hope all of you will appreciate the hardwork that has gone in its making.

BVPIEEE has endeavoured to encourage the students of the college to foster an interest in the technical domain. I am sure that the efforts of the team will serve as a useful guide to the budding engineers to orient themselves in the matter of selecting technology for economic and cost effective execution of projects in the future.

This magazine reflects the competence and proficiency of the Branch and its proceedings in a striking and well-designed layout.

FERVOUR 2010 is an effort towards creating awareness regarding the global environmental issues with its central theme as GREEN-CLEAN. I take great pride in my students who are striving to shoulder responsibility in this direction and working towards the betterment of the society, the nation and the world by way of this noble endeavour.

I am confident that with the continued zeal of the staff and the dedication of the students BVPIEEE will continue to make progress in all spheres and move from strength to strength in the years to come.

I exhort the teachers and student members of BVPIEEE to aim for higher levels of excellence and wish them the very best for FERVOUR and their future endeavours.

MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY

Shri Vishwajit Kadam

SecretaryBharati Vidyapeeth,

BVPIEEE student branch has built a stride since its inception in providing a platform to our students to outreach a global interface.

FERVOUR is an effort to bring them

together to interact and nurture their personality skills and expertise in various domains of work.

The FERVOUR team has been very instrumental in bringing forth an event which caters to such a wide variety of interests pertaining to both technical and non-technical themes.

This journal embraces the activities and programs held all through the year by the team of staff and student members and its a privilege for me to offer my recognition to this progressive venture.

I envision the efforts of the group to escalate in the coming years.

Wish you all the best for your future endeavours.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Dr. N.D. KaushikaPrincipal

Director, School of Research and Development

Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of

Engineering

I feel immensely proud to know that the IEEE student Branch of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering is organizing its 4th

annual festival FERVOUR 2010.

Knowledge is widespread and knows no boundaries. The onset of fresh and innovative technologies has given the youth a perfect opportunity to hone their skills in various disciplines of science.

BVPIEEE has taken up a very noble initiative to encourage the young engineering minds to think new and contribute in development of innovative ideas leading to the implementation of sustainable and technically diverse projects.

The theme of this year’s fest revolves around the concept of GREEN Technologies and is a praiseworthy step in the direction of environmental awareness which is the need of the hour.

FERVOUR, indeed, is a celebration of the excellence of the students, a kaleidoscope of their talents and vibrant attitude.I congratulate the team of FERVOUR, all the IEEE student members and the branch counsellor, Mr. Rahul Bahl, for the immense hard work and dedication that has gone into the making of FERVOUR 2010.

May this event be hugely successful and make a mark of its own in the history of college fests.

MESSAGE FROM TRAINING AND PLACEMENT HEAD

Prof. Alok BasuHead

Training & Placement Department

I feel immensely proud to know that the IEEE student Branch of BVCOE is organizing the 4th

edition of its annual festival FERVOUR 2010 on such a grand scale.

BVPIEEE is doing a commendable job in organizing such events that promote the concept of technical innovation. The students, through this event, are provided with a perfect forum to interact and share their ideas and participate in various activities designed to test their skills.

I am happy to note that BVPIEEE has chosen GREEN CLEAN as the central theme of FERVOUR 2010. Our society is now standing at the crossroads, and it is high time we all act or else bear the repercussions of our actions. We must take up enough initiative to address the environmental issues being faced worldwide.

Through this magazine, I appeal to all the readers to judiciously use the available resources and preserve the environment and resources in every way possible.

Team FERVOUR deserves a huge applaud for this praiseworthy effort and I hope that this event can spread enough awareness regarding these issues.

I wish Prof. Rahul Bahl and all members of BVPIEEE a grand success for FERVOUR 2010 and all their future endeavours.

MESSAGE FROM IEEE VICE-CHAIR, MGA

Professor Mini S.

ThomasIEEE MGA Vice Chair,

MD

I congratulate the IEEE Student Branch of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering for organizing the 4th edition of the IEEE festival FERVOUR 2010 on such a large scale.

Providing ample opportunities for growth and learning of student members have been of tremendous interest to IEEE. Student members now represent about 20 percent of the total IEEE membership; there are more than 1,700 student branches in the world and around 450 in India currently. So, the gathering of student members from across Delhi and India is extremely important to IEEE and is just one more opportunity for networking for those in attendance.

In fact, IEEE is one of the most robust networks of peers, academicians, and professionals provided by any technical professional society in the world. IEEE will continue to increase its interest in its Student Members. They are the future of IEEE and provide the energy and hope for the continual renewal and revitalization of our organization in the years to come.

BVPIEEE is one of the vibrant branches of the IEEE Delhi Section and its student members are actively involved in various events and projects on a regular basis. This annual endeavour of BVPIEEE--- “FERVOUR”---- is an initiative to take the branch to greater heights.

My best wishes to the Branch Counsellor, Mr. Rahul Bahl and Team FERVOUR for their dedication and hard work and I hope this fest is a huge success, standing true to the IEEE name and legacy.

I welcome all the delegates to this event and wish each one, all success.

MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY, IEEE DELHI SECTION

Dr. Prerna GaurSenior member IEEE,

'Chair of Standing

Committee, Membership Development Committee'

Secretary, IEEE Delhi Section and WIE,

Branch Counselor, NSIT Students Branch

Dr. Rachana GargChair, Student

ActivitiesIEEE Delhi

Section

My heartfelt congratulations to all the members of the IEEE Student Branch BVCOE for Pratibimb and the annual technical fest FERVOUR 2010.

A nation’s wealth is the young generation of the country. They have to be guided properly so that their life finds a proper direction and their creativity is allowed to flower. On the academic front the IEEE students have been bringing laurels galore. It is important for the students to shape up their career by producing research in the form of papers that may find the path to be published in journals.

To IEEE students I would like to say that as iron rusts from disuse and stagnant water loses its purity, similarly inaction saps the vigour of mind. In your hands you hold the power of life and the potential of greatness so indulge in research and use yourself to the best. I would also like to congratulate the WIE affinity group on its successful second full year of operations. Lastly, I would like to take this opportunity to make a call to all new intakes to join IEEE and make full use of the facilities available, to do your institution, your parents and last of all yourself proud in this competitive world."

MESSAGE FROM STUDENT ACTIVITIES CHAIR, IEEE DELHI

SECTION

The IEEE Student Branch of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering is one of the most vibrant student branches of IEEE Delhi Section. It gives me immense pleasure to

know that you are organising your annual fest FERVOUR regularly and bringing out your fest magazine. This effort is really a good step for the development of students as it will encourage students to give vent to their innate talent and opportunities to express their views on various important issues. The theme of the fest, ‘A Clean and Green Globe’ is indeed the need of the hour. It is a global issue concerning not just the elite but the whole mankind and requires a good amount of conscious efforts in this direction. Organising a fest with this theme is the first step in this direction.

I congratulate the branch counsellor, Mr. Rahul Bahl and his team for their endeavour and wish them all the success for the future.

Daman Dev SoodSecretary, IEEE Delhi

SectionChair, Computer Society Chapter

I am extremely happy to know that the IEEE Student Branch of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering is organizing the 4th

edition of its annual festival FERVOUR 2010

on 12th, 13th and 14th March with a theme that is around GREEN-CLEAN.

The subject (Environmental Sustainability) is common today. The challenge is

a) by nature, humans oppose any changeb) this change is costly (initially, currently)

As the Copenhagen summit (that was also termed as Hopenhagen) did not end to the expectations of most of us, our responsibility as individuals and organizations has increased. There are some easy, simple and no (or low) cost steps that we can take in our day-to-day life, such as it does not take any time, effort or money to switch off when not in use.

Young engineers can come up with innovative ideas, but a great deal of work needs to be done with the ideas already available e.g. making LED bulbs cost effective for common man, making solar products cost effective for common man. And I look forward to this event and the IEEE Student members (more than anyone else) of BVCOE for such solutions. I am personally committed to the cause and am willing to work closely to provide all the support that I can.

I wish the organizers and the participants all the best and that the event achieves great success in meeting its objectives.

MESSAGE FROM THE BRANCH COUNSELOR

Rahul BahlAssistant Professor

(IT)IEEE Branch

CounselorBVCOE, Delhi

Nidhi GurnaniChairpersonBVPIEEE

It is a great pleasure to present before you the FERVOUR 2010, annual festival of the IEEE Student Branch of BVCOE. IEEE, in my opinion, is a beacon of excellence and holds a commendable position in the scientific world and is actively involved in futuristic projects and research work. It is my honour to be associated with such a reputed and praiseworthy institution of technological advancement. We, at BVPIEEE, consistently strive to promote the concept of technical innovation in our college.

FERVOUR 2010 - “GREEN CLEAN” is our endeavour to channelize the boundless potential of the youth in constructive, creative and contemporary ventures. The theme of the fest “GREEN CLEAN” is our initiative to express our commitment to the global cause of environmental conservation. The success of FERVOUR depends to a very large extent on the determination and zeal for perfection of the members. I appreciate their untiring effort for organizing a fest of the magnitude of FERVOUR and hope that they work with the same momentum and vigour in the future as well.

I hope you all will enjoy being a part of FERVOUR and celebrate with us this confluence of sheer talent and innovative genius.

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRPERSON

BVPIEEE

BVPIEEE takes great pride in presenting the 4th and much awaited edition of our annual festival - FERVOUR 2010 “GREEN-CLEAN”. After the immense toil and sweat put in by the team, our efforts have finally borne fruit. FERVOUR indeed is a celebration of the youth and its creative genius. I feel immensely proud to be leading a group of such intelligent, hardworking and responsible students who have time and again proved themselves worthy of being IEEE members. The past year has proved to be a landmark for BVPIEEE, with the stupendous growth rate and global integration with other student branches as well. For me,

the association with BVPIEEE has been quite a fulfilling and enriching experience. I thank the entire team of FERVOUR for putting in their best efforts, for this fest could not have been possible without their dedicated support.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

BRANCH COUNSELOR : Mr. Rahul Bahl

CORE

CHAIRPERSON : Nidhi Gurnani

VICE CHAIRPERSON : Ankit Ahuja

Moksha Sharma

SECRETARY : Dinesh Kapur

TREASURER : Suchir Gupta

JOINT SECRETARY : Nikhil Mittal

AUXILIARY

HEAD HR & PR : Prem Singh

HEAD PUBLICITY : Nivesh Aggarwal

HEAD INFRASTRUCTURE : Puneet Walia

WEB CONSULTANT : Ankur Vijay

WIE AFFINITY GROUP

CHAIPERSON : Megha Ronjhiya

VICE CHAIRPERSON : Seema Tiwari

WIE SECRETARY & : Nitisha JainSTAR CO-ORDINATOR

The ClassPerfection Personified

The Core Executive Committee of the BVPIEEE consists of 8 vibrant and vivacious people. All the myriad hues and shades of character mingle together to create this unique rainbow of BVPIEEE. They are truly inspiring... they are the perfect leaders... they are the pillars of BVPIEEE!

1. NIDHI GURNANI - Chairperson

To describe Nidhi would be to light a candle in a room flooded with light.

She is the Mastermind of the branch and has a brilliant knack of making sharp & quick decisions. Her inspirational leadership, strong intuitive ability and outstanding organizational skills all

make her the LADY WITH THE GOLDEN LAMP

2. ANKIT AHUJA - Vice Chairperson

Ankit is truly the backbone of BVPIEEE. His sensational marketing skills and extraordinary public dealing strategies have done wonders for the branch. The ultimate warrior with a Never Say Die attitude, he has the

most sparkling and radiant personality and his enthusiasm for excellence is unparalleled. And so we coronate him with the title MAN WITH THE

MIDAS TOUCH

3. MOKSHA SHARMA - Vice Chairperson

Moksha is loved and respected in the branch for her meticulous and conscientious attitude towards work. Her calm and composed

demeanour, pleasant and ever smiling disposition, constant patience to deal with situations is beyond comparison. All this and

more make her MISS CONGENIALITY of the branch.

4. SUCHIR GUPTA - Treasurer

Suchir is the most valuable and priceless asset of BVPIEEE. Being the Treasurer, his dealing with the crisp green leaves has been commendable and praiseworthy. Cautious and careful in making decisions, he analyses all the pros and cons before taking the final call. His logical approach in

money matters make him the FINANCE MINISTER of the branch.

5. DINESH KAPUR - General Secretary

Dinesh, fondly known as D.K., is the most versatile member of the ExeComm.

An ace at quizzing, a top class orator, an excellent football player, and our country’s Climate Champion, Dinesh is truly the pride of BVPIEEE.

His systematic manner of work, fantastic time management skills, straight forward attitude and multitalented personality make him the

MASTER OF ALL TRADES

6. NIKHIL MITTAL - Joint Secretary

Nikhil is the most dutiful member of the branch. Any work given to him is fulfilled with sheer dedication and perfect timing. He has mature

conduct, level headed temperament and pleasing attitude. His accountable and trustworthy personality makes him MR DEPENDABLE

of the branch.

7. MEGHA RONJHIYA – Chairperson, WIE

Megha is the perfect example of woman power. Her quiet and reserved nature, yet the ability to perform every task with utmost sincerity and

diligence make her the sweetest and most adorable member of the branch. Her responsible and conscientious nature and ever smiling

demeanour make her THE SILENT DAMSEL.

8. SEEMA TIWARI – Vice Chairperson, WIE

Her chirpy and cheerful temperament is contagious enough to affect the entire branch and her presence makes the group lively and dynamic. Aiming for a career in the defence services, her personality reflects

dynamism, vivacity and a headstrong attitude for perfection and so she earns the title of of the branch

FERVOUR CORE TEAM

HR : Moksha SharmaPrem Singh

PR & CORPORATE : Megha RonjhiyaHOSPITALITY Prem Singh

Aman Grover

PUBLICITY : Ankit AhujaNivesh Aggarwal

PUBLICATIONS : Nidhi GurnaniAnubha Kapur

LOGISTICS : Saumya JoshiNikhil Mittal

EVENT MANAGEMENT : Moksha SharmaKarthikeya Ramesh

INFRASTRUCTURE : Ankit GargPuneet Walia

CREATIVITY : Soumya Balakrishnan

Shrey Malhotra

FINANCE : Suchir Gupta

MARKETING : Nidhi Gurnani& SPONSORSHIP Ankit Ahuja

Ankit Jain

NATIONAL STUDENTS : Megha RonjhiyaSYMPOSIUM Seema Tiwari

PLAN DE NEGOCIOS : Dinesh Kapur

WIE MEET : Nitisha JainPriya Mittal

WEB : Nivesh Aggarwal

THE BANKER TO EVERY INDIANVisit us at

www.statebankofindia.comCall Toll-Free Number 1800-11-22-11

MESSAGE FROM JOSEPH V. LILLIE

IEEE 2008-09 VICE PRESIDENTMEMBER & GEOGRAPHIC ACTIVITIES

IEEE 2005-06 TREASURER

I joined IEEE as a student member 39 years ago.  My years of active service to the IEEE have allowed me to keep abreast of technological innovation and at the same time develop my non technical skills.  In addition, IEEE has provided me the opportunity to meet members all over the world and to interact with those members so that together we could better serve the profession.  My experience has been very rewarding and I thank you for allowing me to visit with you during my recent trip to India.

I encourage each of you to maintain your IEEE membership and continue your active involvement in the largest technical professional society in the world.  IEEE has a lot to offer you and you have much to give to the IEEE.  My hope is that your IEEE experience will be more rewarding than mine.  Good luck to each of you as you complete your current studies and become a member of our profession.  I look forward to working with each of you in the future.

IEEE MACAU SPEAKS...

IEEE is not only a global institution dedicated to all electrical and electronics engineers, but with features that are far beyond than its own technical aspects. I was lucky enough to meet and interact with IEEE students and members from all over the world during the IEEE Singapore Power & Energy Bronze Honours at NUS in the IEEE 125th Anniversary Asia-Pacific Student Congress 2009, which has widened my horizon in both technical and social aspects. I have built up valuable friendships globally, and most importantly we are sharing similar ideas on how we perceive the world around us, and similar goals for our future career/studies.

All this has been possible due to the global network of IEEE.

A message for all the volunteers,

“Your abilities are only bounded by your imagination” Cheer up!!

Best Regards,FRANCISCO KAM

IEEE Macau Student Branch committee member

MESSAGE FROM PAKISTAN

I’m delighted to greet my heartiest congratulations to the enthusiastic organizing team of the 4th edition of the IEEE Student Branch Annual festival----FERVOUR 2010, of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering situated in the city of New Delhi which is also the birthplace of my beloved mother. It’s an honour and privilege to give my message for FERVOUR ’10 organizers, participants, attendees, and sponsors. The Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest technical society aimed at fostering technological innovation and excellence for the benefits of humanity. IEEE allows worldwide engineering, science and technological colleges/institutes/schools/universities to form Student Branches/Technical Society Chapters/Women In Engineering (WIE) Affinity Groups; the purpose shall be the dissemination of knowledge of theory and practice of all aspects of electrical engineering, electronics, radio, computer science/engineering, information technology, allied branches of engineering or the related arts and sciences, as well as the furtherance of the professional development of the students. Auspiciously Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering (BVCOE) is one of those institutions that have a vibrant IEEE Student Branch. Therefore, I hope FERVOUR will be helpful, encouraging and supportive for energetic and talented students to showcase their technical, research, intellectual, soft, leadership, art, managerial, & business knowledge skills besides providing a vital platform to meet & learn from engineering professionals, technological innovation gurus, industry & business experts, and academic icons.

My special message to all the volunteers of FERVOUR is that volunteering is a practice in which you input valuable money, precious time and most importantly, your priceless self energies, attitude and emotions but when you hit your target or achieve your goal you feel immense self satisfaction, pleasure. These feelings are there because you believe FERVOUR to be your own personal event and therefore the success of FERVOUR shall become a mega accomplishment of IEEE BVCOE Student Branch as well as for every individual volunteer.

Best wishes and good luck to all FERVOUR 2010 organising team, participants, attendees, sponsors, college faculty & administration and good luck for future endeavours of IEEE BVCOE Student Branch for

sculpturing students towards technical innovation for the benefits of humanity.

SAQIB MUNAWWARAdvisor 2010 / Chair / V. Chair 2008 /

General Secretary 2007 IEEE HIIT (Hamdard University) Student Branch,

Torchbearer as 1st Section Student Representative (SSR) IEEE Karachi Section,

(Sindh & Balochistan) Pakistan

IEEE PORTUGAL asks - Are you ready to lead?

You are a Student!You are a IEEE Student Member!

You are a IEEE Student Branch Member!

In my opinion a student branch is a first-rate opportunity to those who wish to seek technological innovation through their involvement as a IEEE Student Member and have the ambition to grow up, discover and develop. IEEE supported my ambitions and gave me a platform to realize my potential. Grounded on these values, I decided to increase my participation in IEEE, taking on the management of my Student Branch, with the belief that I could make a diference.

But the question is: What can I do for my Student Branch? As an IEEE Member we stand out in the amongst the crowd. In the beginning, as Chair of my Student Branch, my work was to tell my classmates how IEEE can change their life and inform them about the benefits and advantages of being a member. This year, my Student Branch has been awarded with The Largest Portuguese Student Branch Award in terms of achievement and membership and in

2009 with IEEE Iberian Exemplary Student Branch Award by SAC R8. Unquestionably, as an IEEE Student Member one should cultivate the following proficiency: Communications, Organization, Teamwork, Negotiating, Atittude, Ethics & Decency, Manners, Humour… add to this the will to always do new. Let us not forget, we live in the age of globalization, where knowledge will prevail over the old pratices. As students today, we define the future!

Isidoro GomesPast Chair of IEEE Branch Student

Polytecnic Institute of CasteloPortugal

GINI - INTEGRATING THE IEEE FAMILY

On the 13th of November, 2009 the R10 volunteer position hierarchy was changed for good. After the amazing success of the SAC Coordination Committees in R8 (Europe - Middle East - Africa) and R9 (South America), the concept finally landed in R10 (Asia Pacific) as well. The implementation was as tough as it was phenomenal. Never before in this region had student members been picked up to aid with SAC related activities. R10 is the world leader when it comes to membership numbers. And this reflects in the student membership numbers too with close to 30,000 student members! This SAC coordination committee development demands a special mention of Professor Mini S. Thomas who served as the Regional SAC (2007-2009) and sort of presented this as her parting gift to the region, right before she left her regional responsibilities to pursue her new profile at the IEEE Headquarters as Vice Chair, MGA.

I am fortunate enough to be a part of the SAC Coordination Committee as the RSAC Webmaster. As part of my job profile, I develop web platforms for information flow from RSAC to the sections and subsequently Student Branches and work on the Collaboration Platform implementation across GINI pilot sections.

GINI stands for Global Integrated Network of IEEE. It’s an R10 project, officially inaugurated at the R10 SC in Madras in January 2008. The progression from LINK to GINI(one section to entire region!) was done under the able guidance of Professor Mini Thomas who got together with the original founders S. Gopakumar and Prijoe Philips Komattu for the same, a feat that jointly won them the MGA Innovation Award for the year 2008.

In the initial phase of GINI implementation, five sections were handpicked. The sections were Delhi, Pakistan (all three sections i.e. Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi), Hyderabad, Madras and New Zealand.

The GINI committees from different pilot sections met up in July 2009 during the Singapore R10 SC to gauge their progress and decide on their future plan of action. By this time Mr. Prasanna Venkatesan who currently serves as the R10 GINI Coordinator had started to move into a position of heading the GINI project.

One of the biggest extensions of the GINI project is the collaboration platform which is a one stop solution to find out about all SAC activities happening in a given section. Just like the procedure being followed at GINI, the collaboration platform is being tested out with three pilot sections Delhi, Hyderabad and Pakistan at this point in time. Over a period of time, it shall help to aid in technical collaboration, industrial partnership programs and much more that is currently being worked upon.

In a nutshell, the GINI project has surfaced as the star project of an already vibrant region. It’s just the beginning of the project and we are still finding our footing in this vast ocean of possibilities. The future surely looks superbly exciting!

IMRAN ALIR10 SAC WEBMASTER

CHAIRPERSON, IEEE JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA

HOW IEEE BENEFITED ME

IEEE is an organization, participating in which can improve the personality of a person, be it technically or managerially. The globally integrated network of IEEE gives an opportunity to a person to explore the world outside the campus in the undergraduate level itself. Which other society in just $27 will provide you a chance to be a part of an all expenses paid conference to interact with students from 8 different countries?

A person getting involved in the activities under IEEE always adds value to his/her resume apart from the academics. The name IEEE has all the great inventors such Thomas A. Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and great inventions on science attached to its history. It provides the opportunity for youngsters to showcase their talent to the outside world. With the guidance of our Branch Counselor, Dr. Prerna Gaur (who has always been so supportive to us), the present EXECOMM has managed to reach new heights.

I wish the Team FERVOUR and the IEEE Members of BVPIEEE Student Branch all the very best and hope they put the best of their efforts to put up a great show in FERVOUR 2010.

SIDDI JAI PRAKASHCHAIRMAN

IEEE NSIT Chapter

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

Music, one of the most understated and yet omnipresent part of our daily lifestyle. Music calms the mind, soothes the senses and lightens up life. Since ancient times, this form of art has been treated as a reverie, as cogitation, as a passion, no less than a way of life. It has the power to create and give strength in people in the direst of situation. Musicians have been time and again heralded as visionaries, and rightly so.

But again, music has been a form of art that has been most affected by the changing times and conditions. The evolution of the musical art form has been interminable in time. With each passing decade, technology has shaped and altered musical forms, creating new nuances and immortalizing the old. Technology first started influencing music in the 1940s. Fresh out of World War II, the music of that era greatly depicted the widespread elation due to the end of the war, as well as the deep sorrow and agony at the huge losses to mankind. The advent of rock and roll, which included at that time jazz, country, folk, swing, and other types of music, was influenced greatly by the technology available at that time. Musical instruments such as the mandolin and the classic guitar were used by legendary artists and bands like Bill Haley and his comets. The electric guitar was brought into the mainstream in the late 1940s and early 1950s, then unknown that it was going to change the music industry forever. Since the recordings were done using microphones, tube valve amplifiers and 78-rpm discs cut by simple lathe machines, the sound quality of the discs available was less than modern day telephone voice quality. Thus, the leading bands and artists concentrated more on live performances and shows than on studio albums, which were recorded and aired on radio.

The music scene in the 1950s and 1960s saw a huge makeover owing to development in technologies. Amplification technologies led to the progress of the electric guitars, and when 19 year old Elvis Presley took up the heavily amplified electric guitar, it became a watershed point in the development of music. The 60s saw new electronics sounds coming in for experimentation and development of styles such as R&B, blues and of course, the pop!

It was the 1970s which saw mainstream integration of music with technology. Through the decades of the 70s and 80s, the use of heavy guitars, bass guitars, and electronic drums formed the technologically based genres like metal, progressive and early-on punk rock, with bands like Pink Floyd leading the scene.

The era also saw the immensely popular genre of hip-hop coming up. With the invention of new gadgets improvisation of music became much easier. The intertwining of music and the personal computer opened up a brand new avenue for musicians. Music composition and notation, sequencing, experimenting with and creating new sounds, and managing sound libraries all were accomplished faster with a personal computer. The Apply MIDI interface allowed easy connectivity of computers and electronic instruments. Disc jockeying became a mainstream profession as the ever popular disco carved its way into the minds and hearts of the masses.

Through the last two decades, we have witnessed numerous new genres such as funk, electronic jazz, electro, trance and techno. Producers have become artists, and DJs rule entire genres. But the value of the artists who were on their own without technological help still remains true. Indian maestros like Pandit Jasraj, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia have

immortalized their respective instruments. Their sounds can be replicated electronically, but people still want to see their ageless idols showcasing their inimitable talent.

Technological advancements don't turn poor musicians into great players. The distinct techniques and musical interpretations of great performers can't be recreated using technology. But technology can produce new musical effects and enhance the musical capabilities and possibilities of any musician. Millions of people wait years for their favourite musicians to come out with new songs and renditions. Songs which are created using manmade technological techniques, but which still hold some of the innermost parts of the human soul, to be cherished and celebrated in the lyrical form and to become eternal in time.

Music has come a long way since Edison invented the phonogram in the 19th century, and the avenue is still expanding. Radio gave way to the television videos. Apple’s iTunes changed the way we acquired our music, ushering in a new era of digital music downloads. Music has changed with time and conditions. Today, technology is an inseparable and cohesive part of music, but music still remains as it always was: an art as integral a part of man as his own heart and soul.

RAHUL CHAUHANJAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA

ATHEISM AS A RELIGON

In today’s ‘modern’ society a person who is an atheist is looked down upon and is treated as someone who does not take pride in his religion. But I think people have misunderstood the meaning of atheism and here’s my take on atheism that I would like to put forward.

The rational atheist marvels at the wonderful complexity of this world and he seeks accordingly to understand the intricacies of its workings. The spiritualist on the other hand assumes that the invisible hand of god must control anything too complex to understand.

The atheist loves learning new things and even loves being proved wrong. The spiritualist accepts imparted wisdom as true without questioning it. The atheist accepts that his allotted time on earth is what he has and thinks therefore about what values are important to him. Granted, in some cases it leads to self indulgence and in pure hedonism, but in my case it has made me feel that my human duties lie in tending to this planet and trying to make it a better place for the sake of my own and everyone else’s children. But chances are that the spiritualist, having placed all responsibilities on God will assume that god will take care of it. The atheist identifies himself as a human being; the spiritualist identifies as a Muslim, a Hindu, and a Christian. Most importantly, the spiritualist identifies people not of his religion as the ‘other’, which at extreme, results in bombs, destroyed temples, mosques and churches. So, please believe that many of us non-believers have arrived at our beliefs and values in a serious way. When is the last time you’ve questioned your own beliefs?

PRATEEK BAGGAJAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA

NEETA MA’AM - Our Ex-Branch Counselor

Mrs. Neeta Pandey, a perfect blend of patience, dedication and diligence, has been with the IEEE Student Branch of BVCOE ever since the inception of the branch way back in 2005. Her great dedication to work has been the prime key to her unmatchable vibrant personality. She was the one and only driving force for the creation of such a vibrant branch which has become a brand name today. I would like to make a petty effort to pen down her enumerable achievements with the BVCOE family.

Our ex-branch counselor Mrs. Neeta Pandey completed M.Sc. (Electronics) from Rajasthan University, M.E. (Microelectronics) from BITS, Pilani and finally Ph.D. from G.G.S.I.P. University in 2009. She has worked for CEERI (Pilani), CARE (IIT, Delhi), PCCS (Noida) and BVCOE. Currently she is serving Delhi Technological University (formerly DCE).

Very tough were the beginning days of our IEEE Student Branch. Even after six years of establishment of the college, the interface for students to interact with the external technical world was missing. It was this primary reason which sparked the idea of formation of a technical forum or society. Under the able guidance of Mrs. Pandey, IEEE Student Branch of BVCOE was created in August, 2005 and officially inaugurated on 31st Jan., 2006. Mrs. Pandey continued her unending efforts to motivate the students to take up the membership by organizing various orientation sessions for them in the classes. Groups were formed for senior students to train the juniors. Guest lectures were organized under her guidance to let the students learn about technical topics and cutting-edge technologies. Activities like ROOTS, whose aim was to motivate the students of Class XIth and XIIth to opt for engineering as a career option, were also started.

Our branch embarked upon various other projects like FERVOUR (the annual technical fest), STAR activities, lectures from eminent personalities, mock interviews and placement activities. Students were performing brilliantly in every activity and bringing laurels to the branch and the college, be it in or outside college. One more feather in the list of her achievements was the official inauguration of the Women In Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group in Sept, 2007. The achievements of the branch kept on increasing by leaps and bounds under her supervision. National events like National Students Symposium and Plan De Negocios were also organized which opened new doors of cross college interaction and helped to build new bonds with other IEEE student branches.

The able guidance of our new branch counselor Mr. Rahul Bahl is equally motivating and supportive, but we surely miss our philosopher and guide Mrs. Neeta Pandey. She has been a motherly figure for all the student members and has always promoted the interests of the students and the branch above everything else. Her ability to connect to every student member, identify their talent and bring out the best in them by carving out a niche for them in the activities of the branch, has been commendable. She has never imposed her opinions on the branch and was open to new ideas, however contradicting they might be. Innumerable students stand witness to the wonderful job she has done to make better engineers out of every student she has taught or every student member of the branch who has had the honour of working with her.

ADDRESS TO THE BRANCH

Mrs. Neeta Pandey

Assistant ProfessorDelhi College of

EngineeringEx- Branch Counselor, IEEE Student Branch,

BVCOE

Going down the by lanes of memory, I remember that the journey has been long but joyous. The beginning of the branch was a difficult endeavor. But the enthusiasm with which the students worked with me and the support which I got from the management, faculty and staff of the institute made nothing seem impossible.

I still remember the day when we got the approval for IEEE Student Branch in our college. That was the day which marked the beginning of a great era to come. The talent of students which was latent due to the lacking interface with the technical world had to be channelized. And these students were the ones who did it.

The glory, name and fame achieved by this student branch is solely due to the work done by the students. I am thankful to the students for suggesting my name for the Outstanding Branch Counselor Award. Though the award was received by me, but it was the togetherness and teamwork due to which we accomplished every goal that we had set.

I would also like to thank the management without whom the idea of taking this branch to great heights would have remained a dream only. The support and encouragement from our Principal, HODs and faculty has been endless. I thank each and every one for their motivation and dedication. I enjoyed each and every moment spent with the students and the management.

I feel very proud when I hear the new achievements accomplished by this branch. It gives me immense pleasure to hear about the grand scale on which FERVOUR 2010 is going to be organized. There may be challenges ahead in the years to come but I am confident that the youth of the branch will connect very well with the society in making India a stronger power. I wish you all the best for the

upcoming FERVOUR and all the other activities in the womb of future.

May God be with you in all your endeavors.

The IEEE Student Branch of Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering has since its inception aimed at promoting IEEE among students as a common platform to share their technical perspective through interactive sessions. Our endeavour is to harness the boundless youth potential and create a rich pool of technical expertise as well as artistic talent. This is done by conducting interactive sessions to share opinions, views and individual perspective which shall eventually lead to intermingling of technical competence and the creation of a unified and progressive vision.

FERVOUR 200930TH -31ST JANUARY

The annual IEEE fest Fervour 2009 was organized in the month of January by the student branch. This extravaganza witnessed some truly eye catching events and was held on a much larger and magnanimous scale than its predecessors. With a wide spectrum of activities, the fest drew massive participation not only from numerous Delhi and NCR colleges, but also from premier institutes all over the country. The 2-day fest encompassed events ranging from technical to managerial, from literary to informal; thus providing the students with a perfect opportunity to portray their vivid capabilities and showcase their talents in various fields of learning.

The following were the main highlights of the fest:-

Plan De Negocios: Business Plan Contest

Our country India is an upcoming economy which is at the moment trying to build a stable and secure infrastructure. To meet our requirements we are making efforts to seek new technologies and innovative ideas that can be converted into major successful ventures. The Business Plan contest was a platform for such ideas to be heard and for start up projects to be felicitated for their efforts.

National Students Symposium

Fervour 2009 organized a “One Day Students Symposium”, on the theme Emerging Technologies: Challenge For The Future, on January 30, 2009. This national symposium provided an opportunity for budding innovators to showcase their talent. It was an ideal platform for the students to present their ideas and work in the areas of technical research.

International Education Fair 

Realizing the importance of higher education abroad, IEEE student branch at BVCOE organized INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FAIR (IEF) as one of its major events. IEF at FERVOUR' 09 had participation from many elite organizations including USEFI, N+I FRANCE, KANGAROO STUDIES and others. These groups and organizations are involved in assisting students applying to foreign universities for post graduate courses. The response was stupendous and the students gained a lot of knowledge.

Other Events Organized Following is the list of the events organized under Fervour 2009 as per their respective category: 

 1. Technical Events  Being the fest of a premier engineering college, various technical events were organized to give an opportunity to the students to test their technical skills. These were:

Trace the maze Brainstorming - The recall game National Student Symposium ROBOEXOTICA Project Exhibition Line Follower Robot Competition Circuit Making Automation Quiz

2. Managerial Events Fervour 2009 provided an opportunity to the students to develop their managerial skills by organizing various managerial events. The Managerial Section was one of the major highlights of the fest. The various managerial events were as follows:

Plan De Negocios Case Study Markkinointi-MBA Guru Conundrums Business of Cricket Bullz N Bears

3. Literary Events Fervour 2009 provided the students with an opportunity to hone their literary and oratory skills by presenting an amalgamation of varied literary events, ranging from quizzes to group discussions. The various Literary Events were :

Connect the dots - The General Quiz Speak your mInD!! Debate Spin-a-yarn

4. Gaming Events Fervour 2009 organized two major gaming events in order to entertain the students and to encourage their gaming skills.

LAN Gaming-RUINATION EXPLORE- The Treasure Hunt

6. Informal Events

Besides the technical, managerial and literary events, a whole lot of informal events were also organized in order to incorporate some fun in the fest. Following are the informal events:

Matki Phod PENgeance-The Pen Fight Meet OR Delete Filmy Chakkar RJ Crazy-FEVER 104

7.  Sports events  Keeping in mind the importance of sporting activities, two sports events were introduced in Fervour 2009. The sports events were:

Futsal Chess

 FERVOUR 2009 was a huge success and it fulfilled its promise of bringing out the technical as well as creative side of every student involved in it.

IEEE SEMINAR IN COLLABORATION WITH GTT (GLOBAL TALENT TRACK) - 27th AUGUST, 2009

In the month of September 2009, IEEE dignitaries from the Head Organization, USA visited our college for a seminar on the growing diversity of IEEE and its current and future prospects. This seminar was held in collaboration with Global Talent Track (GTT). Joseph Lillie, an

eminent scientist and IEEE President Elect 2010, and James Prendergast, IEEE Executive Director, presided over the seminar. They shared their experiences within the IEEE community and encouraged the students to be actively involved in the field of technology. The other dignitaries included Peter Sobel, Matt Loeb and Cecilia Jankowski. We were delighted to hear the views of such distinguished people and be in their august company.

DR VIKRAM SARABHAI ROTATING SHIELD QUIZ - 23rd

October 2009

The Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Rotating Shield Quiz was held in the month of October. This annual event saw massive participation with over 92 teams registering for the quiz. The teams belonged to premier colleges of Delhi like BVCOE, NSIT, DCE, MAIT, AMITY, ST. STEPHENS COLLEGE etc. Only 6 teams passed the preliminary stage to qualify for the finals. 4 gruelling rounds were held in the final stage which tested the knowledge of the participants in nearly every sphere of technology, history and current affairs possible under the sun.

WIE STAR PROGRAMS – 20th January, 2009The IEEE Student Branch is a student body affiliated to the world’s largest technical society, IEEE. The Women In Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group was started by the branch in 2007 which aims at motivating women to excel in the realm of engineering. We have been actively involved in a number of activities and counselling sessions to propagate the importance and future prospects available in the field of science and engineering for the girl child.

WIE administers the IEEE Student Teacher and Research Engineer Scientist Program (STAR) to mentor young women in junior and high schools. It addresses the young girls who are discouraged from careers in science and provides technical support network for teachers and a mentoring program for students.

The student members from our branch visit various schools and a session; talking to the students, especially girls about the scope and excitement of the various career options available to them, especially in science and technology.

The students of Govt Co-ed Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, Inderpuri and Govt Sarvodaya Co-ed Vidyalaya, New Police Lines were given such an orientation session highlighting the background as well as future opportunities in the field of science and engineering. The audience comprised of 33 girls and the session was 1 hour long.

ROOTS- Reaching Out in Oblation to Schools

ROOTS is a flagship activity of IEEE-BVCOE. Students go to their respective schools for guiding students about engineering as a career and as a tool for national & human development. An Essay writing competition was organized for schoolchildren who visited our campus.

DELHI SCHOOL SUMMIT (FERVOUR 2009) - 30TH, 31ST

JANUARY

This event was basically aimed at inviting more and more of the school students to the college and imparting awareness to them about the significance and importance of the field of Science and Engineering. Fervour 2009 provided the school students with an opportunity to showcase their artistic, creative and oratory skills through various events organized especially for them.  The Delhi School Summit was a huge success and the events gave a good exposure to the students and helped them to hone their skills.

PRATIBIMB - 30th March & 27th November 2009

The official journal of the IEEE student branch of BVCOE released its first issue of the year in the month of March 2009. It included articles catering to a variety of subjects such as literary, managerial, popular science, technical, guest section etc.

PRATIBIMB is a perfect reflection of the perfection that we strive to achieve in our endeavours as a part of the IEEE family. It is a vivid portrayal of our aims and fundamental objectives as a student branch. Articles were collected from students of the college and put together in a perfect collage of different ideologies and innovative thoughts. PRATIBIMB is a symbol of unrestricted self expression and creativity.

The mega issue of Pratibimb was released online in a completely new and fresh design and format in the month of November 2009.

FERVOUR GREEN DRIVE

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need but not for every man’s greed”

FERVOUR 2010 has a vision....to create awareness regarding the environmental challenges being faced worldwide......to ignite the spark of conservation of Mother Earth......to judiciously use the available resources......to reuse and recycle.

FERVOUR has taken up an initiative in this direction to promote the concept of environmental conservation as we are standing at the crossroads and have to act fast else bear the consequences of our reckless attitude.

We have designed a few major events to be included as part of our Green Drive:-

Recycling of all papers utilized in various events of the fest Demonstration of paper recycling by eminent

environmentalists All documentation and publicity to be done on electronic

media Planting of saplings by faculty members Business Plan and National Student Symposium project

themes as GREEN TECHNOLOGIES Minimizing the use of banners and maximising electronic

publicity by means of LCD screens in the college campus. Printing the magazine using Garamond font that utilises the

least amount of ink. Painting FERVOUR with the colour of nature “GREEN”

So come join hands with us in this celebration of youth.....of harmony.....of innovation.....the onus lies on us because when Nature Calls.....Humanity has to Listen!!!!!

ANUBHA KAPURBVCOE

SAVE OUR HERITAGE! SAVE OUR TIGERS!

Tigers have been part of the ecosystem for thousands of years. Recent killings of our national animal have led to the danger of it disappearing from our country’s forests. Its existence is under great threat.

This is even more shocking given that there were a total of 40,000 tigers in India in the last century. Tigers were considered a part of our heritage. And now only 1,411 are believed to be left. This huge difference shows the merciless slaughter of this beautiful animal.

The Indian Government, which has been spending billions of rupees on border protection, should also allocate funds for protecting tigers and their natural habitats. The illegal trade in poached skins between India, Nepal & China has been a cause of critical concern. In India, a local poacher may sell tiger body parts for anything from Rs 8,000 to Rs 15,000.

There are various NGOs working towards the cause. You can join them or fund them by donating a suitable amount of your choice. There are many websites which have taken up the campaign in a major way. You can publicise and blog about the urgency of this matter on these sites and thus spread awareness about this issue. Another initiative can be to educate the poachers in prison to become conservationists and stop others from entering into this trade.

The politicians must now recognize the importance of this matter and must act towards it seriously. With hefty sums spent on the development, a small share of millions wouldn’t matter much.The co-operation of major names in the industry and the NGOs can help a lot in spreading awareness about the matter. The media has to be brought into the picture. Without it, the cause cannot be heard by the masses. Editors of various newspapers and news channels can educate people on the sensitivity of the matter and motivate them to donate money for the causeRenowned social workers and various famous celebs can head the cause and rally people around them to address this grave issue.

The ultimate goal is to educate the people about the rapidly diminishing number of the big cats because it is you who can make a difference!

RISHAB DHAWAN

BVCOE

FLAGSHIP EVENTS

PLAN DE NEGOCIOS 2010

The IEEE Student Branch of BVCOE is aware of the presence of deserving ideas which need to be nurtured into successful ventures. This contest is thus a platform for such ideas and start-up ventures to be heard and felicitated for their efforts. The purpose of this event is to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of young students and to formulate new ideas to be implemented. The event is judged on the parameters of feasibility of the concept, strategy, corresponding analysis – market and financial, innovation, social impact and overall presentation.The event is supported by Department of Science & Technology Govt. of India.The Business Plan event is subdivided into 2 categories:--

1. Post Graduate2. Under Graduate

NATIONAL STUDENTS SYMPOSIUM

FERVOUR 2010 presents National Students Symposium- “Green Technologies, Challenges for the future.” This national level paper presentation presents the students with an excellent opportunity to propose innovative ideas in various fields of research. The theme of this symposium is Green Technologies and is an effort to urge the youth to develop sustainable solutions for the existing problems of the nation.

The event is supported by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India.

TECHNICAL EVENTS

FIGURE OUT THE PATH (Robotic Line Follower)

This contest tests a builder's ability to construct a robot which can follow a simple line course. The primary objective of the contest is speed and accuracy.

MAZE WARRIORS

The event combines the excitement of ROBO MAZE and ROBO WARRIORS. There will be two teams competing against each other. Each team will have to protect its own flag from the other team and avoid touching the other team’s flag in order to win the event. The teams will begin in their own halves, moving through the maze and proceeding towards the other team’s flag. The track will comprise of obstacles and

pits. If the team falls into the pit or moves out of arena, they are disqualified.

DIGI MANIA   (Digital design ICE matrix maze)

As the name speaks for it, the event demands the participant’s knowledge in designing a digital circuit as per the design specifications thrust upon him. The first round involves the participant to answer 25 to 30 questions based on simple digital logic and digital IC's. The final round

requires the team to design a digital circuit based on the specifications given to them within a time limit.

PROGRAMMING - CRACK THE VHDL CODE & C/C++ CHAMPS

To give the students an opportunity to test their programming skills we are organizing a VHDL code cracking competition, as well as a C/C++ programming event

BUILD A PC

This is a PC assembling event which requires in depth knowledge of the hardware support.The students shall be given a certain amount of time to assemble the components and create a functional PC.

MANAGERIAL EVENTS

BUSINESS OF CRICKET

This is a unique quiz comprising of business and cricket strategies. There shall be a preliminary round after which the final round shall consist of a Virtual Bidding pool of 50 players using a certain amount of virtual money allocated to all teams.

AD-MAD - the Advertising Contest

AdMad - the Advertising Contest is an event for all the creative geniuses. Ad Mad is an event for all those who have the ability to cast a spell on buyers.

THE STRATEGIST (CASE STUDY)

The event is aimed to bring out the best amongst the participants when exposed to real world business problems. The event would test the comprehending ability, decision taking capability and overall resource management ability of the participant.

BULLS AND BEARS

Pick a brokerage or a mutual fund of your preference, or hedge them, and that’s just the beginning. There’s a world of options in this virtual world, with minute by minute graphs of shares, and news flashes giving updates on market moods. It is real stock market game played with virtual money. The players face real time share price fluctuations and trade accordingly. This event allows you to understand the vagaries of the stock exchange and gain experience before you take the markets head-on.

MISCELLANEOUS

PRISM 2010 DEBATE COMPETITION

PRISM 2010 is a platform for dispersion of ideas and thoughts in a transparent manner. It focuses on the theme of the fest “Go Green”.It’s a mega event and will provide a unique and challenging opportunity for the students to display their debating potential and voice their opinion.

Film Faire - A Big BVPIEEE Production

The storyteller in you is awaiting a chance. This event is a chance to turn an experience at ‘FERVOUR 2010’ into a story; a chance to see a story turn into a film and capture a myriad of human expressions in the process. To all the budding filmmakers – pack your bags, grab your cameras, tie your shoelaces and head towards FERVOUR 2010. FERVOUR 2010 gives you a chance to bring out your inner artist, capture our story and showcase it to the world.

BATTLE OF WITS

A perfect appetizer to Fervour 2010, "Battle of Wits" is the clash of minds running with the speed of light. For all those who have a photographic memory, sharpen your minds, match your wits and PROVE yourself! Battle of Wits is a recall game. There will be a preliminary elimination

round and a final round, both rounds will test the mental agility of the participants.

CULTURE VULTURE

This event is a chance to showcase your skills and knowledge about the different cultures of the world. CULTURE VULTURE aims to test your knowledge about the various cultures of the world.

GREEN CLEAN EVENTS

FACE PAINTING

This event aims at bringing out the creativity of the students and giving them a chance to express themselves with colours. The theme of the event is Environment and its Myriad Shades.

ART ATTACK The Graffiti

The event is designed to give the students with a palette and a brush to paint FERVOUR with their imagination, creativity and artistic genius. The theme of this event is Go Green Go Clean!!!!

CAN YOU SEE THE TRUTH?

The rain had just begun. He picked up his pace. He was hoping to catch one of the quicker buses to his destination. Out of the corner of his eye, and through the veil of his perception he saw another man struggling. The rain had picked up too. He stopped to observe this individual. Cars zipped past him. Was he in a state of apprehension?

“Excuse me, can I help you.”

“(Hesitantly) – Ah yes, um, actually I need to cross the road, but you will get wet in the rain.”

“It doesn’t matter, let’s go.”

“(Gratefully) – Thank you so much. So, where are you going?”

“I am going that way.”

“Then we are going in the opposite direction. This is out of the way for you.”

“Not at all, I will catch a bus from there.”

“So, where do you live?”

“Somewhere in this region, 7-8 kilometers from here, do you want to take the escalator or the ramp?”

“The escalator will do, I think.”

During their conversation, the two negotiated NUMEROUS sidewalk ledges (climbing up and down), cars and awkwardly placed sign/advertisement boards to make their way to the foot-over bridge. Just as the relevance of the questions picked up, the instructions and cautions to avoid obstacles came thick and fast. They picked up their pace. One was in the lead with the other almost struggling to keep up. One focused on getting to the destination, the other preoccupied. Since, they were concentrating on their steps, the questions faded. They reached the foot of the escalator.

“We are at the escalator.”

“(Attentively) Ok”

“Take your step now. Bye.”

I was too caught up in the crossfire of emotions going through my head. I felt discomfort, guilt, contentment, confusion – all at the same time. As I saw him ascend, his face contorted with an impulse of fear. He looked deserted. I realized, I had helped him onto the escalator, but how would he get off? A heavy rush came between us and I couldn’t get onto the steps, leave aside forcing my way through the crowd. I couldn’t see him. I just prayed he would be alright.

He did not know he had to turn right after getting off the moving stairs. He walked straight, slowly, with caution. I realized he was making his way back down to the side where he started from.

My work was far from over. I scurried towards the ramp, ran up to the second level where he had stopped. He realized he was going the wrong way. He turned slowly. I quickly rejoined him.

“Sorry for leaving you like that, I got a little confused.”

“(Relieved) It’s alright. So where are you going? Do you study somewhere here?”

“I am going to my college. It is a considerable distance from here.”

“(Hopefully) – Do you travel everyday?”

“Yes, but the time varies.”

“(Slightly dejected) – You must be running late?”

“Nah, I have plenty of time. I’ll get you to the other side first.”

We crossed sides, and got off the correct ramp. I was probably walking too fast for his comfort. He never complained. He was grateful. We reached the other side. I asked a sensible looking fellow to help the man onto a suitable bus. I bid him farewell. He thanked me, he said goodbye. I walked away.

I realized, I had not handled the situation in the best possible way, but my intentions were good. I was awed by the situation. I was trying to be too nice, too gracious almost to the extent of showing pity for this stranger. In retrospect, I came to the understanding that while asking me all those questions he was hoping our travel timings or route would

match. My reading of the situation could be absolutely wrong. Maybe he was simply being nice.

I and many I know, complain about traveling long distances. We complain about the lack of a routine, of comfortable transportation and so much more.

The man I helped today was blind.

I wonder how he feels each day. We should be grateful for the blessings we have and enjoy. I was humbled today. I deserve no praise, no credit for what I did. In reality, I am guilty for not having done something like this earlier in my life. The state is guilty for turning a blind eye towards its responsibilities. Society is guilty. I wonder how he travels on days when fools don’t ‘help’ him cross the road.

What kind of world do we live in? We all have our own destiny, they say

DINESH KAPURBVCOE

SIMPLE PLEASURES OF LIFE

Life is a handful of short stories, Yet at the end of the dayYou don't bother to look at itWith the sun setting by,You let it sway.

I guess it's time nowThat you impress yourself.To grow as a person,Than shrink into an elf.Find your fears and try to fly over them.Even at failure,You'll be overwhelmedAfter all if you're failing, you're not the only onePick yourself upUntil it's all done.Learn from the mistakes committedAnd try again,No matter how insanely it drives you insane.

Not trying may feel more comfortable,Than taking risksThat you're sure capable.But that's not LIFE,Or you think it is ?Each moment is a new canvas,So turn it into something vivid.We all want happiness,And definitely, no pain,But this isn't how life works'Cause we've to have our sharesOf equal loss and gain.

Come on guys, go outside the lines.Just don't stand still.Shape up your lives,

It's all on your will.Turn on the internetWhen you really need to push itAvoid the lonely rooms,

And try getting outside.Live your life,As if it's a wild ride.

I know clumsiness hovers,But don't let it.You've got to know, you in yourself are an epic.

So go and make that count for something.Feel and make your life worth living.I'm sure we have people around n aboveWho'll be cheering us for this,With gallons of love.

Reach high,For the stars hidden in your soul.Dream deep,For your eternal goal.In the end, you'll realize to keep pace,Tie your shoe lace right, and run the lost raceI'm not asking for much, but just a mile.At best, I consider this,As dying with style.

At times you find yourself uglyBut you don’t ever need toWe've all got beauty,Only when we begin to think so.In someone, in the way they walk,

In others, the way they talkIn some, to find beauty in others for a whilein others an elegance whenever they smile.

All too hard for you ?Believe me; you'll be in love with yourself, if you really do.'Cause I don't want youTo fall for the wrong one,To let you fill your life with drop-dead darknessInstead of the shining sun.

The simple pleasures of lifeWill one day flow through in a tide

And with that life, you'll want to fly to the moonBut rememberI'll always need you,So I too intend to come around soon!

SONAL SAHNI

DEEP…BLUE…SEA

Since time immemorialPeople are drawn to it every day…

Some to watch its ebb and flow,Others to be immersed in its

gentle powers,And even more to feed an

inevitable curiosityAbout this world beneath our

world

What’s beneath those gentle waves?

Creatures that call the sea their home….

And invite you to come down for a visit, erasing all boundaries of the

blue horizons.You go below the surface…..Above

the waves……Beyond your expectations…..

When the tide comes in, the ocean floor becomes a stage.

And one can celebrate the vibrancy of cities by the

sea…..Immerse the soul in an underwater circus where gravity

and grandeur perform in full splendour.

And suddenly the ocean floor doesn’t seem so calm anymore.

Exploring the uncharted waters, one gets a feeling of immense

ecstasy. The waves move back and forth, move side to side, upside down

and inside out.

Stepping foot into these waves takes on a journey through a sunken city on the wings of a

mystifying boat. With the tide, you gently come back ashore and fervently wait to rush into the arms of the ocean once again.

As the night quilts the world, against the setting sun, the ocean

becomes a canvas of colour, exuberance and energy. The pull of

the moon sweeps you away to

where magnificent creatures and shimmering fireworks soar into the

sky. And the electrifying spirit of the

sea fills the shore. Those spectacular, breathtaking

moments bring the water and sky to life and the soul experiences

pure bliss…..

The sea is divine and it casts off into the night its magic,

enthralling the world and leaving it spellbound…..

ANUBHA KAPURBVCOE

YOUTH

Minds that are fresh, hearts that are clean,

Life is long – a delicious dream,Rosy cheeks, complexion fair,

The springtime of Life is in the air.

Like a new fledged flower you may blossom

And grow, may your leader soul.Escape the cold winds that blowBut O happy lad! Let not your

spring time fade away,And turn into a Winter’s day.

For you, the generation that shall rise,

And after this hell into a paradise.

Be a paragon of all that’s good and right;For you are the one who shall bring light.

Be forever divine, carriers of peace,

Like the dove,Look at the world through the window of love.

O! Youth of the world unite,Become one spirit and fight,

Against wrong, against evil, against all sin,

March ahead with the power of GOD within!

RAHUL KAKKARTSI – SONYERICSSON

SONY GHAZIABAD

LIFE’S STRUGGLE

I am dead sure and certainThere lurks something behind the curtain

A curtain that would never liftHowsoever others may like to shift

To the next iron-gateFor their own ends to investigate.

All things go round and roundTension may be all around

Though life’s enigma may all confuseYet truth underlying, none can refuse

All may be terribly afraidOn seeing a dangerous shade.

Just a whiff of fresh air may enlivenAll objects and species divine-drivenHuman life is just like a blank paper

On which one may write one’s own venture“So take the liberty after some trouble.

For a sure success YOU MUST STRUGGLE.”

NEHA KAKKAR

LOOKING BACK...THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT, FROM THE BEGINNING..

1000 BC: Human civilization is at the verge of a dawn. Civilizations in different parts of the world have developed trade links. Hence they are beginning to understand each other. Much of the phenomena in nature are unexplained to humanity. Indians have made remarkable progress in terms of these mind matters. Vedas provide a deep insight to their expertise. Still a lot is to be understood. This lack of understanding forms the root of a lot of human problems. It will remain the same for the next three thousand years in different manifestations.

0 AD: There have been strong interactions between different parts of human civilization. Alexander is the first known person to have had the ambition to rule the world and having done substantially in this direction. He was defeated by Chandragupta Maurya when he attacked India, and was killed by his generals on the way back home, suggesting that typical human behaviour has not changed since centuries. India, China and Europe emerge as main centers of learning. Most of the scientific domains are vague and largely misunderstood. In India, King Ashoka gives the world what can be regarded as the primary draft of the universal declaration on human rights.

The concept of universal equality is born. The world has just seen the most remarkable man to have ever walked on the face of the earth, Gautam Buddha. This status will remain unchanged for next two thousand years. Judaism and Buddhism are the religions practised my much of humanity.

1000 AD: Humans have started showing their ugly side in a big way. The advent of Islam and earlier Christianity has led to holy wars and crusades. Europe is on the path of moral decline, and more so is India. Internal feud and disunity in both these societies have led to a large number of external invasions. Buddhism gave way to Hinduism which is largely a mix of ancient pagan traditions and revered epics. Indians have lost the true knowledge their ancestors had expertise on. There has been some progress in the scientific front. The decline of Europe and India has given a huge blow to human learning.

2000 AD: Europe turned around in the period of 15th century, giving much of the scientific progress to humans till date, while India went deeper into the oblivion. Indians are now far away from the path on which they started. In the last two centuries, the unknown America has emerged in a big way, leading the world in almost all fields today. European colonialism led to backwardness, but more importantly, the integration of large parts of the world including America. The fundamental principles like equality and freedom are parts of rulebooks of a large number of nations. Revolutions have turned monarchy to democracy all over the world. The world today is far less fragmented than it has been ever before. Free thought is the flavour of the day. Very few people agree, but I believe we are getting better. It shows.

Some time in the future we will see a day, when everybody gets what he deserves…

When people learn the true value of peace and love, when only the deserving get to govern…

When humans won’t need passports to explore mother earth…When everyone kisses the stars in the night sky goodbye and goes to bed

without a worry.

GAGANDEEP SINGHBVCOE

GAME CHANGER

Let’s travel back in time to the start of this millennium. Fresh off the Y2K block, nothing seems disrupted, and we’re good to go.

You don’t need to pay attention to note the apparent lack of cellular communication. In fact, coming from the second decade, it’s downright absurd that people aren’t talking to ghosts while walking on the streets. Anyway, this is what life was like back then. 

Come 2003, mobile phones had begun their invasion. More and more people were succumbing to these new rectangles which worked as phones. Sooner than you could say ‘onomatopoeia’, these phones were everywhere, like ants in a house desperate for pest control. Apparently, it took you two years to say that word, because by then, there were more phones on the planet than there were people. 

And all of this didn’t happen without reason. These rectangles didn’t stop at merely functioning as phones. Their screens grew bigger, brighter and even evolved to display colorful pixels. With such a dizzying array of features, mobile phones began displacing products that weren’t even of the same genre. People no longer needed bulky alarm clocks and Canon met its most formidable competitor on the digicam market. 

Oh, the telephony!

With all battles won, were we finally going to witness the end of the cellular era of the Information Age? Was this the end?

No. Two years later, after you said that word again, ‘Apple Computers’ scratched its name and became ‘Apple’ with the launch of the iPhone. Now, people with a deeply myopic vision had no predictions to make, but every other human being had a new phone to buy. This new rectangle was not just another mobile phone, mind you. It created a revolution within a revolution. It completely changed the game any mobile phone was playing, for it was the first phone to have just one button. We had seen touchscreen phones in the past, but this was different. This entire rectangle of a phone was a screen and nothing else.

Soon afterwards, veterans like Nokia and Sony Ericsson had no option but to play the game this way. Following the iPhone’s launch in 2007, product designers changed their blueprints and began manufacturing similar looking phones. However, Apple grew larger in a very rampant nature owing to the fact that all these other clone phones would, at best, mimic the functions of the iPhone. People of the Earth quickly learned that these were merely competing to be iPhone-killers, and noted that the iPhone was never referred to as its-own-clone-killer.

Another onomatopoeia later, today we’re back with a rectangle that completely changes all the other rectangles. Hopefully, this is not the end of the cellular era of the Information Age, either. Windows Mobile 7 is coming up, stay tuned for that.

By the way, this was written on an iPhone. Just so you know. 

ABHAS SINHABVCOE

NUCLEAR FUTURE

There was a time, when nuclear energy was merely an exotic, futuristic technology, the subject of experiments and the “stuff” of science fiction.

But, in today’s era, IT IS A REALITY.

We all here are abreast about the Earth’s unstable condition of limited supplies of coal and oil.What after these are over? Have we changed ourselves to survive without them? Or do we have an alternative?

The best answer to this is Nuclear fission, which releases 10 million times greater energy than is released by the burning of fossil fuel and that too without the emission of greenhouse gases which can save us from the ongoing "global warming" crisis. In fact, a thermal power plant releases 100 times as much radiation than a nuclear power plant of the same wattage.

The alternatives are available such as construction of solar collectors, wind farms etc. but my question is what about the thousands of hectares of land it requires and that TOO when there is already dearth of land. A Nuclear power station is so compact that it occupies typically the area of a football stadium.

For nuclear power generation we need raw materials like uranium. The uranium-238 which is easily convertible to the fissionable form of uranium-235 is found everywhere in the crust of the earth and we can recover 4 billion tons of more uranium from sea water.

Chernobyl Accident was the perfect example of what not to do with a nuclearreactor: faulty design, unstable reactor with no containment structure, operated in an experiment with all security systems disconnected lead to massive destruction. BUT The Three Mile Island could have been the worst “possible” accident, a core meltdown, andyet no one died because of the design of the containment structure.

It is in our hands that nuclear power plants are made safe by seeing to it that they are well designed, well operated and well maintained.

Therefore, nuclear energy is not only clean, but it is also safe, reliable, durable and competitive.With our economy which is constantly pulsating with the rhythm of modernity we will need more and more power from nuclear energy. It is our responsibility to promote peaceful application of nuclear energy for benefit of the entire human race so that exhaustible resources will not be binding on the needs of “hoi pilloi”.

SHIVEE BHARDWAJBVCOE

STEM CELLS

Stem cell technology is a rapidly developing field that combines the efforts of cell biologists, geneticists, and clinicians and offers hope of effective treatment for a variety of malignant and non-malignant diseases. Stem cells are defined as totipotent progenitor cells capable of self renewal and multilineage differentiation. Stem cells survive well and show stable division in culture, making them ideal targets for in vitro manipulation. Although early research has focused on haematopoietic stem cells, stem cells have also been recognised in other sites. Research into solid tissue stem cells has not made the same progress as that on haematopoietic stem cells. This is due to the difficulty of reproducing the necessary and precise three dimensional arrangements and tight cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions that exist in solid organs. However, the ability of tissue stem cells to integrate into the tissue cell architecture under the control of the host microenvironment and developmental cues, makes them ideal for cell replacement therapy.

Haematopoietic stem cells are a somatic cell population with highly specific homing properties and are capable of self renewal and differentiation into multiple cell lineages. Human haematopoietic progenitor cells, like stromal cell precursors in bone marrow, express the CD34 antigen, a transmembrane cell surface glycoprotein identified by the My10 monoclonal antibody. However, pluripotent stem cells constitute only a small fraction of the whole CD34+ population, which is by itself rather heterogeneous regarding phenotype and function. The best way to define haematopoietic stem cells is from their functional biology. They are known to restore multilineage, long term haematopoietic cell differentiation, and maturation in lethally cytoablated hosts. Haematopoietic stem cells can be obtained from bone marrow, peripheral blood, umbilical cord blood, and foetal liver.

The use of peripheral blood stem cells in both autologous and allogeneic transplantation has become routine as they can be collected on an

outpatient basis and also promote a consistent acceleration in haematopoietic reconstitution after engraftment. Umbilical cord blood stem cells have been used progressively in paediatric patients, from both related and unrelated HLA-matched donors. In recipients with severe T cell immunodeficiency disorders, fast engraftment is required together with a low risk of graft versus host disease and a low viral transmission rate. Since umbilical cord blood stem cells can be expanded in vitro or frozen for storage in cell banks they have been used in clinical trials for both autologous and allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

WINNIE NARANGBVCOE

WHAT IS DIGITAL FORENSICS?

Cyber activity has become a significant portion of everyday life of general public. Thus, the scope of crime investigation has also been broadened.

The Digital Forensics can be defined as, “Application of Physical Sciences to Law in the search for truth in civil, criminal, and social behavioural matters to the end that injustice shall not be done to any member of society.”

Digital forensics includes computer intrusion, unauthorized use of corporate computers, child pornography, and any physical crime whose suspect had a computer. At the most basic level, digital forensics has three major phases: Acquisition, Analysis and Presentation.

The Acquisition Phase saves the state of a digital system so that it can be later analyzed. This is analogous to taking photographs, fingerprints, blood samples, or tire patterns from a crime scene. As in the physical world, it is unknown which data will be used as digital evidence so the goal of this phase is to save all digital values. At a minimum, the allocated and unallocated areas of a hard disk are copied, which is commonly called an image. Tools are used in the acquisition phase to copy data from the suspect storage device to a trusted device. These tools must modify the suspect device as little as possible and copy all data.

The Analysis Phase takes the acquired data and examines it to identify pieces of evidence. There are three major categories of evidence we are looking for:

Inculpatory Evidence: That which supports a given theory Exculpatory Evidence: That which contradicts a given theory Evidence of Tampering: That which cannot be related to any theory,

but shows that the system was tampered with to avoid identification.

This phase includes examining file and directory contents and recovering deleted content .The scientific method is used in this phase to draw conclusions based on the evidence that was found.The field of cyber forensics, still in its infancy, possesses a strong need for direction and definition. Areas of specialty within a professional environment, certifications, and/or curriculum development are still questioned. With the continued need to standardize parts of the field, methodologies need to be created that will allow for uniformity and direction.

Though the R & D in this sector is trying to enhance the present tools used in this discipline, it has served several fields and industries till now and has rather emerged as a mainstream science with the prime areas like:

Computer forensics (hard disk, removable media acquisition and analysis)

Network forensics (network intrusions, abuse, .etc) Software forensics (examining malicious code, malware, etc.) Live system forensics (compromised hosts, system abuse, etc).

AAKRITI BATRABVIMR

HELP LINES

The two revolutionary (or so claimed) steps taken with respect to making governance better that will be discussed in this essay are “Helplines” and “Websites for each government department”.

Talking first about the Help lines, especially in the state of Delhi; there are more than two hundred fifty helplines available to the citizens claiming to be at their service in any kind of emergency or requirement. But with more than 250 long eight digit landline numbers to remember, and also which one for what, is definitely not something that falls in the ambit of human capabilities. And perusing through your directory in case of an emergency to look for the right number may not be the best option to take considering it is after all an emergency we are talking about.

What, in this case is needed, is one common helpline. Say a small easy to remember number like 123, which can be called for any and everything. With this, I am not proposing to eliminate the existing helplines and make the investment thereof redundant. What I am proposing is an intermediary channel of 123, through which the calls will be directed to the relevant number as per the need of the caller. An example shall serve to explain this better. Let’s say I have to call the crime helpline to report a suspicious activity in my area. Under the current mechanism, I will look it up on the internet or the directory, and after finding the number, call them. There exists a high probability that some damage has already happened meanwhile. However, under the proposed mechanism I will simply dial 123 and they will direct me to the crime helpline. This serves the purpose of an emergency helpline!

It also helps to achieve increased efficiency of the government officials on the helpline. Since the call will be recorded by the call centre operating 123, and fortnightly submissions be made to the Head of Department concerning the helpline, the operator sitting at the helpline to receive calls will be less callous and more efficient in his working.

The second problem I will lay emphasis on is ignorance and the claimed solution of websites for each department. Under the RTI Act, every department is required to disclose a certain amount of information suo-motto. However, looking at the relevance and ease of accessibility to the citizens, even the websites which are launched for each department fail considerably. As a citizen, not a research scholar, what I essentially need from the website is that information regarding their work and the benefits I can derive from them. Also I am interested in the schemes, policies and initiatives they have in store for which I am eligible.

Under the current mechanism, a person may be able to get this information only after he reaches the department’s site (assuming he knows which department’s site to look into), looks up the entire site for the schemes they offer, check his eligibility for the same and then understand the application procedure. The citizen has to repeat this for every department he thinks is even slightly connected to him. Chances of him becoming resilient due to all this efforts involved are high, and he may choose to be ignorant about the benefits he can potentially avail. Thus, the expenditure incurred on the scheme is rendered redundant.

An efficient proposal here is one common web portal, wherein the existing schemes and department’s information will be available at one point. Though there exists the state website, a common portal should be created whose USP (Unique Selling Point) will be the schemes available to the citizens and the ease in accessibility that will be created with respect to the same.Under this site, a certain set of commonly applicable eligibility will be provided to choose from. After filling the tables, an exhaustive list of all the schemes and policies for which you are eligible will be listed, and on clicking further the details of each will be displayed. In addition to this, there will also be links to various government departments’ site, at the tab of “Departments”.The entire purpose of these two propositions, and that is where my vision holds for a change, is convergence of initiatives using technology so they not only become cost-effective but also efficient in process.

CHEISTA KOCHHARVENKATESHWARA COLLEGE

DELHI UNIVERSITY

FOREX TRADING MARKET

There are thousands of economies and central banks all over the world that influence the exchange rate between the currencies. This exchange rate is basically established by central banks, such as the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America. The Forex is an abbreviation of the term Foreign Exchange. Just as the rise and fall in the stock market can be used as a means of trade, the differences in the exchange rate of the two currencies is used in order to trade and reap the financial benefit of the exchange rate.

Forex is also known as a currency trading market or an FX. The basic working principle of the Forex is based on the simple economic model of barter exchange. The supply and demand facilitate the needs of each other. For example, a businessman in the United States needs a specific amount of Euro currency, and at the same time, another businessman in England needs some Dollars. The two parties that are the ends of the barter exchange transact with the help of a Forex broker, and the need for Dollars and Euro is satisfied.

The best trick to really get the grasp of the Forex market is to have a look at the economies that you wish to trade in. It is best that you stick to a specific pair of currencies like USD and Euro or USD and Yen, or even Euro and Rupee. The best way to keep a tab on the behaviour of such economies is to take into consideration trends in these economies, by studying the changes in the prices of the recent past or studying the annual GDP and National Income.

There are also other economic indicators, such as prices of gold and silver or the prices of oil that can be used to predict and forecast the increase and decrease in the currency exchange rate. You may also observe the seasonal rise in the rates of exchange and also observe the upward and downward projections. The best strategy is to patiently observe growth and sell before the economy starts going into a downward projection.

If you are planning upon trading and investing in the Forex exchange market, then it is extremely important to get the right Forex trading education. It is also important that you arm yourself

with the good knowledge of macroeconomic theories. It must be noted that the changes in the Forex market are heavily governed by the Laws of Demand and Supply. Thus, it is necessary to grasp and understand all the essential economic theories.

AKSHAY PANDEYIET, LUCKNOW

MULTIPLICITY OF AGENCY:A POTPOURRI OF DDA, DJB, DSIDC, MCD, NDMC, PWD

‘It was a job anyone could do, everyone thought someone would do, but nobody did. ‘This is technically known as ‘Multiplicity of Agencies’. To govern 1,484 km2 of National Capital Territory (NCT of Delhi) we require copious

autonomous agencies which cannot be held responsible collectively and don’t want to be accountable individually.

I look at my city and recall the proverb ‘Too many cooks spoil the pie’; Delhi being the pie let’s see who all want a piece of it? Delhi Development Authority (DDA) is the biggest colonizer of our country involved in establishing new colonies. It is financed by the Union Government. The Municipal Corporation is the premier body for provision and maintenance of urban services, sanitation and certain community facilities in Delhi. It lacked power in regard to the planning, development and disposal of urban land (held by DDA). The Legislative Assembly of Delhi has powers to make laws in respect of all the 68 matters in the State list except public sector, police and land. (The Delhi Police is controlled by the Home Ministry). New Delhi Municipal Committee functions more as an administration set up under the Ministry of Home Affairs through the Lt. Governor, Delhi. This area is the well maintained North Avenue, South Avenue and the region around India Gate.

The so called Governance Stratagem being followed in Delhi contravenes the whole concept of strategic alliance. Delhi is neither a State nor a Union Territory. For years the elected representatives have been pressing the legislation to make Delhi a proper state. This would render all the powers and responsibility of law, sanitation, infrastructure, town planning an intrinsic part of Delhi Government’s portfolio. I beg to differ, if bestowing statehood was the perfect solution than there would be no justification for the poor status quo in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh (they rank in the bottom three and are home to one third of our total work force.). I would never want Delhi to lose its innate character. So I present a non political solution.

At the time of independence we decided to be a country of the people, by the people and for the people. Yet we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy which is the only real definition of a mixed economy. We have 29 services distributed amongst 6 major control blocks. So the first step is to prepare a database to integrate all these services over one trestle. It provides fast and easy access to government services and makes a dialogue with the Government a cinch. It also cuts down on nepotism. With this new IT based system the government is able to keep a database of citizens, which helps in better targeting of welfare programs and minimize the catachresis of funds. A virtual town hall meeting allows citizens to

watch the proceedings of municipal colloquy, and also enable them to coproduce a decision which otherwise is not subject to public debate.

The worry of Delhi is not confined within the administrative boundaries of NCTD. The elucidation for many problems of Delhi lies beyond its borders. In order to achieve orchestrated development, it is necessary that Delhi is planned integral to the Region and there should be an amalgamated approach towards the NCT. In this context it may be suggested to merge DDA, NCR Planning Board and Delhi Urban Art Commission into a Delhi Cosmopolitan Development Authority, which will evolve cohesive plans and programs at various parochial levels of regionalism and make them liberal in the process.

Harnessing public participation is the last brick in the wall of dexterous administration. To keep the performance of each department under public scrutiny we bring the common body under RTI and thus it demands delineation for disbursement of funds and efficient utilization of resources. Thus we substitute the opposition party with the supporters who deserve justification for each developmental project taken up (or rejected) by the administrator.

I quote Mrs Shiela Dikshit’s incapacitated request, “Presently the Delhi Government is a customer of the Central Government.” My solution would stimulate a sustainable progress by disbursing funds of the tax payers, who writhe due to lassitude of multiple agencies at present. With this strategy in place citizens would pursue a sobriquet of ‘Nonpareil’ city instead of a political party inculcating a vote bank.

KARAN SHARMABVCOE

SOME INTERVIEW SOFT SKILLS

Perhaps you're a new entrant into the job market who is lacking experience in job interviewing. Or perhaps you're a job market veteran whose resumes and cover letters yield loads of interviews but you never seem to get the offer job. And the leading mistake in interviewing is not being fully prepared. It behooves job seekers to use every conceivable means possible to prepare for the interview and to allow ample time to fully prepare. Understand that interviewing is a skill and preparation practice, one must try to enhance the quality of this skill. Preparation can make the difference between getting an offer and being rejected.

There is no one best way to prepare for an interview. Rather, there are specific and important strategies to enhance one's chances for interview success. Every interview is a learning experience, so learning that takes place during the preparation and actual interview is useful for future interviews.

The first thing to be taken care of is some research on the company. The last thing you want to do is sit for an interview with a company that you are not familiar with. Familiarizing yourself with the company allows you

to be better prepared to answer questions and possibly even do a little bit of the asking. Find out how large the company is, when it began, exactly what they do, and write down a few questions to ask them as well. Asking questions is a great way to let the interviewer know that you have done your homework and are interested in learning more. It's the potential employee that sits there and simply nods that won't get a second chance.

During a job interview, you're going to have lots of questions thrown at you, some simple and others that are designed to make you think. My personal favorite is, "Tell me about yourself." I guarantee they don't want to hear about your love of superheroes or dogs, or enjoying sleeping until noon on the weekends. Stick to the basics and try to talk more about your professional personality.

Make sure you have the proper things with you when you go on a job interview. Always be dressed in a professional manner, even if you think the dress code for that particular job is casual. You should always be wearing nice clothes, and never wear jeans to a job interview unless you are instructed to do so. Also make sure that you have an updated and error-free résumé with you, and also have some questions about the job in the company ready to ask the interviewer when given the chance. Ask why the position you're interviewing for is available, what is the growth opportunity etc.

Most important thing to remember about a job interview is that if you put too much stress on yourself you are going to fail miserably. Though the interview is an important part of getting the job, you have to look at it for what it is. Either you are qualified for the position or you are not. The more relaxed you can become about a job interview, the better you shall be when you are talking to a potential employer. Remember that a job interview not only decides if you are right for the job, it is also to decide if the job is right for you. You may go through an interview and realize that the job is not what you thought it was, and you may not want it, no matter how good or bad the job interview may go.

Lastly, this is very important that is too open to be neglected. It's the thank you note or follow-up letter. It is your chance to say again something you mentioned on the interview or bring up something you forgot to mention. It is also a nice gesture and a simple matter of politeness.

URMILA PULLAT

ILS Law School PUNE

WHAT DO ATHEISTS PRAY ABOUT?

What do atheists pray about? What do they mean when they

say, "I wish"? Who do they think is listening?

Who do they think is seeing their dreams with them,

and giving them the strength to make them come true? If not GOD, then who?

What do agnostics mean when they say, "I don't know...I'm not

sure"? How do they comprehend the

cocoon, formed by a mere caterpillar,

out of which emerges the butterfly?

How do they explain the art and skill of the beaver building its

bower? How do they explain the wonder

of birth? How do they explain DNA and

diversity? The intricacy and wisdom of

Nature? How do they explain the origin of

LIFE? If not from GOD, then from

whom?

What does one mean, when one says, "The only person

I believe in, is myself"?

What if one day, everything were taken away?

What if one had no sight, no speech, no mobility?

What if everything one had worked for, all the wealth, the

luxury, were gone? All doors closed?

And hopelessness prevailed? What reason would one have to

live? How would one find the strength

to go on? Who will be the saviour when everything YOU were is lost?

If not GOD, then who?

SIMI THOMAS

THE MOST DIFFICULT WORD…!

It’s good to meet people, new and different,

Sure enough, meetings, not always are pleasant,

Not instantly, do I suggest, bursting out into celebrations,But, life’ll be a lot better, if we

could do without hesitation.

Time’s precious, right? Then why waste it with intention,

Derive the best you can, of each timeless session,

People will go, gold-encrusted memories made to stay here,

Words adorned with smiles, will keep lingering on near.

Eyes, that behold your eyes, must leave an impression- everlasting,Don’t stare spot on, but stealing

glances would seem you’re fasting,

Shoot right on; speak your heart out, dazzling daydreams, nasty

nightmares,

For you never really know, if another chance will be there.

Grudges, just vent out; if held, they’ll clog your veins,

Make happy, but make clear, drain out the negativity, before

you’re drained,If the other’s in pain or remorse,

hold hands firm to relieve,Wipe off tears, but don’t burden your soul, your heart too needs a

sieve.

Parting, yes, is the toughest part; but there’s always hope to meet,

Leave with a smile, a warm embrace; promise you’re going,

but there will be a retreat,“Never say never”, you’ll get

crossroads somewhere down your changed lanes,

It’s way too hard to say ‘Goodbye’,

So make it easy, just say… “See you again!”

SURABHI GOSWAMI

WOMAN OF THE SOFT RIVER

We. Walking along a field.A lonely field with nothing but

hay stacks.A woman, by the soft river.

Fog. Night. Fire fly.The whole field is a sea of chains.

Chains of walking lights.Fireflies dance.

We. Special audience before death.

Death on display.The field with no crops left.

Scorched by the sun and now the moon standing near its edge.

Death like a director, setting up the stage... the props.

The woman standing by the soft river. A wife, a daughter, a

mother?Death? May be.

The signs of life are gone.The green of a leaf turns yellow with a ting of fall-winter night

coloured darkness.

A bird's nest. The eggs get stiff under the liquid darkness of the

Joshua tree.The sky smells of sleep. With a

woman's touch, death pulled the blanket of night over the soil.The soft water rinses the river banks again and again. Wind

blows drunken.No directions.

Everything waits. The earth stops rotating in its awe.

Creation holds its breath in disbelief. There!

There's the sun!After such a night, it's still rising.

We are the witness. As the ovation dies down, death, the stage director, takes the final

bow and leaves.

Next play, LIFE ... or something similar it may be called.

They say, there's GOD behind it all. If you ask... frankly, I don't

have an answer.There IS a balance, black and

white and lots of gray.

There is ONE. A power...The script writer.And it's not me!

Tough timeDarkness clamps down

We sing of religionOf God's princes'

With Thorn crowns

Religion is soldTo those who make

The highest bidBut all he really wanted, was

One good deed

With religionNow we try to control

The power of godFor our own goal

For our own means.

But, there is ONE power,It is, though I’m yet to see,

it does, somehow, handle it all,And, I’m sure… it’s not ME!

YOUR STEP, ITS MILE

A day in the life of a dog: "Dear diary, The sun set on me much the same way it did yesterday. The giant-of-a-woman next door had me in for a feast today when she threw last night's leftovers in the garbage bin. The kids pelting me with stones like every other day has stopped bothering me, now that I have an angel in human form feeding me every now and then. Poor woman, she faces the wrath of those gruesome neighbours, who are hellbent on kicking me, your wretched keeper, out of the society, possibly even kill me. All because I'm not of a commercially recognised breed, so plainly, not good enough for them. But the fact that I breathe the same air as them, survive on the same elements vital for living as them, have nearly the same needs as them--none of any essence to anyone? "  As if the oft desultory conversations of the fellow human beings around you weren't enough, ever wondered about the catastrophic consequences of God's other creations having had the ability to speak too? The above anthropomorphism of a dog, presumably smarter than your average homo-sapien ,goes on to suggest the problems borne by it in the daily course of life. Being stray probably won't win him your sympathies, but it doesn't always pose the dangers you, you, and yes-YOU, accuse him of !  Firstly, the word 'stray' in itself, is a misnomer, robbing the dogs of pedigreed status, when they actually are of the Pariah dog-breed, a purebred variety. 'Stray', defines the status of the dog, which is 'homeless'. Often people have been seen showing their pets off, in the name of social status, tastes, conditioning et al, while the so-called stray ones are looked down upon, perhaps with the added effect of a wrinkled nose! If not that, they are by and large considered second-class citizens of the canine world, when they too have the dog-like features of your very own doberman or chihuahua.  Secondly, these 'stray' dogs are considered a nuisance, responsible for spreading rabies, infections, howling and barking at the most inappropriate times, biting human beings and even causing deaths. The urban cities of the developing countries are teeming with these dogs, whose population growth has been more of a 'steady outbreak'. Killing them has been a measure adopted by many countries, including India, but with far-from-successful outcomes. This is because an average bitch is capable of giving birth to two litters of pups a year, and nothing but sterilization can prevent the situation from spiralling out-of-control. This way, not only is the mass-killing, for no fault of their own, prevented, but it scales down the multitude of dangers posed to the residents around them. It guarantees lack of urge to mate, curbs migration (wherein a dog

tries to enter another's territory) and thereby, the risks associated with them are cut down drastically. All it takes is a simple sterilization operation, along with vaccinations, to let us and these dogs reside together in harmony.

The dog-lovers are often berated and unrealistically expected to house all the stray dogs, vaccinate, nourish, train, get medically examined...in a nutshell, adopt the stray dogs as their own. While many are more than willing to do the aforementioned, often at the cost of their comfort and health, would it not be more humane if we realised that some people have more heart than money? All we need is a concerted effort on the part of the dedicated NGOs and the residents affected by the misconceived menace, to stabilise the pariah/mongrel population and instill

confidence in everyone that these homeless dogs can be just as fun, steadfast and reliable at minimum expenditure, as your worth-a-fortune St. Bernard.

Dogs are loving and lovable creatures, one of the few which can adapt to urban and rural households without much effort. They are in dire need of shelter, food, and most importantly, your love, care and affection. A dog is for keeps, and forms an unbreakable bond for life. Your sweetheart may leave you in the lurch, but dogs are hardwired for unwavering loyalty. This is one investment, which is not only beneficial, but therapeutic to both sides. Think about the joy which will enthrall you vicariously when it will come charging towards you on your arrival after a hard day at work, its tail wagging wildly. It wipes off the fatigue and promises instant rejuvenation. The little pleasures in life are precious and your little/medium-sized/large scamp, might just be what you're looking for!

 In the end, it becomes vital to reinforce what this article purports to do-- dogs are valuable 'mates for life', and while the supposed 'purebred' kind may have diminished the lure of their pariah counterparts, it is the homeless which have more urgent needs than the ones already being conditioned and trained. We all need love to sustain life, and these full-of-life quadrupeds deserve nothing less. A step towards their welfare, and miles of faithfulness for life. The following lines, if anything, sum up the feeling:

'It walks with its head held high,needs u during the day,

returns the favour by night.

The bond thus formed,survives the tests of time.

That with the purest of hearts,is my friend, 'tail-wagger', guide.'

HAPPY PETTING!

MEGHA MEHTABVCOE

INFIDELITIES OR TRUE LOVE

Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds

Or bends with the remover to remove...

-William Shakespeare.

The Bard and his take on true love. These remain the oft quoted lines from the his pen. True

love does not alter if/when it finds alterations. What happens when people simply fall out of love? Or when they look for love, fresh romance in other places? Infidelity, cheating, two timing... all are taken as synonyms. But I beg to differ. What follows is an exploration of infidelity keeping in mind some of the examples from real life of the same.

Infidelity is generally described as cheating by one or both the partners who are in a relationship, generally marriage, and who seek comfort, love or physical intimacy outside the marital/ relationship space. And as upright social and moral observers we condemn them. From a third person's perspective, that is to say a disinterested observer, condemning or criticizing is pretty easy. We sit on the platforms of our high moral values and judge other people and pronounce sentences on them. How can we decide or interfere with someone else's personal happiness or sorrows?

This brings us to the next question or issue. Why do people stray or feel the need to find love or to get into relationships? And what is the guarantee that we wouldn't do the same if we were in their places? This is not a defense of infidelity but rather a self exploration. Someone once said that we condemn most in others what we fear in ourselves. I think many of the scornful and angry voices upholding the sanctity of marriage

and the rest of the issues belong to those who have felt the urge to deviate. If one is in a loveless marriage, fixed in a routine and dreadfully sure of what the future would bring, is that sufficient ground to look for happiness elsewhere? What about someone who is a victim of domestic violence- does this make a good enough case for infidelity? Would it even be infidelity in this case?

Let us accept that love, the nature of love changes. The way we look at love, in fact, changes drastically. And most important of all, people and circumstances change. Infidelity and attraction are the basic instincts of a man/woman. It is the primitive call or the gypsy-like wandering urge in human beings. It all becomes then a matter of choice- to hold on or to give in to temptation. We are led by our desire for personal happiness and very rarely does one sacrifice that for mundane reality. Those who make that sacrifice would tell you what a tough fight they had.

A friend once remarked that she would kill her spouse if he ever cheated on her. Yet we see people who have no other option but to forgive and forget when such incidents do happen. They make "adjustments/ compromises" and look the other way. This also reminds me of TV shows where people are invited to do loyalty tests on their partners/ spouses and check their commitment. Such absurd voyeurism and telecasting of the private on the public space disgusts the intelligent viewer who would, I am sure, rather work on his relationships than watch such outrageous programs.

Infidelity is definitely a word/concept / issue that is coming out of the closet. It seems like an instant gratification solution, an escape for some and an addiction for others. It is a matter of choice, an individual one, where a person chooses to take a particular path in his/ her life. Maybe a last chance to see what the "road not taken" holds or what lies at the other end of the spectrum. Either way, we don't have the right to condemn what we have not experienced.

MEGHA KALRANEW DELHI

LEGAL WIRETAPS COULD LET HACKERS IN

Review details of a lawful intercept scheme used to access equipment made by the networking giant Cisco reveals that they pose a potential danger. Weaknesses were identified in the communication protocol that could let hackers perform illegal wiretaps. Cisco is the only company to have made the details of its system public.

It's not just the router vendor and the [Internet service provider] who have an interest in how this interface is built. Many networking and Internet companies have built backdoors into their systems to deal with a growing number of Internet wiretap requests. These backdoors provide members of law enforcement who have a warrant with immediate access to communications. But there is growing concern that these avenues could inadvertently make it easier for hackers to steal information. The espionage that prompted Google to consider pulling out of China last month drew attention to the existence of these wiretap backdoors after a prominent security expert suggested that such a system may have been used to infiltrate Google's network.

The Cisco wiretap system uses a simple protocol, details of which have been published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. A law enforcement agency submits a request to a representative of an Internet service provider. This representative then sends a request to the device used to perform the surveillance, which is known as the intercept access point. For certain Cisco routers, the wiretap request is sent as a single packet of information, using a networking service called the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

There are a number of problems with this setup. First, he says, it's too easy to bypass the authentication built into the system. The SNMP protocol provides a lot of information when access is denied, which can help an attacker guess the correct username and password for accessing the system. Worse yet, a vulnerability disclosed in 2008 would allow an attacker to gain access to one such system with only 256 attempts (a trivial number for an automated system). Though patches have been issued for this flaw, service providers often do not keep routers patched because of the difficulty of taking them offline.

Furthermore, while it would be possible to block repeated attempts at unauthorized access, and alert an administrator, the system that was analyzed isn't designed to do so. And finally, although Cisco recommends that encryption be used, the system doesn't require it. Without encryption, it's impossible for a lawful intercept system to function safely.

Simple changes to the SNMP protocol could make it much more secure. It also calls for companies to implement the system in a more secure way--by separating lawful intercept requests from regular network management traffic, encrypting data, and enforcing stricter controls over where requests come from and where intercepted data is sent.

Cisco published its lawful intercept infrastructure in 2004 so that it could receive this type of peer review. Cisco has already addressed many of the software and hardware vulnerabilities that researchers have found. Cisco has been talking with these researchers, and plans to review their recommendations for changes to the architecture and infrastructure employed.

Although some experts say the entire concept of a permanent interface for intercepting communications undermines security, some believe that a system such as Cisco's can help ensure

that intercepts are performed lawfully, providing it is properly protected against unauthorized access.

Steven Bellovin, a professor of computer science at Columbia University who researches network security, says that if lawful intercept systems must exist, he would like to see them offer better protections. "Its engineering vulnerability into your network and the question is how well you can protect it," he says.

NIVESH AGGARWALBVCOE

HACKERS GETTING INTO AIRPLANES' FLIGHT COMPUTERS

As if we didn't have enough with crotch bombs and the TSA, the FAA is now saying that "[passenger networking] may result in security vulnerabilities" exposing flight systems to hackers. But, how serious is this danger?

The FAA says that their airworthiness tests "do not contain adequate or appropriate safety standards for these design features." So basically, it seems that there's a grey area for now, leaving the responsibility to the airplane manufacturers. They gave these guidelines to Boeing, but that's about it:1. Boeing must ensure electronic system security protection for the aircraft control domain and airline information domain from access by

unauthorized sources external to the airplane, including those possibly caused by maintenance activity.2. Boeing must ensure that electronic system security threats from external sources are identified and assessed, and that effective electronic system security protection strategies are implemented to protect the airplane from all adverse impacts on safety, functionality, and continued airworthiness.

In theory, the flight systems and passenger networks on the Boeing 747-8 and the ever-delayed Dreamliner are separated. There is some crossover and [the industry] is trying very hard to make sure the numbers of crossover points are very limited.

What does “crossovers point” mean? And why don't just keep both networks separated to avoid any potential hacking nightmares? That would fix any potential security breaches, right?

It seems that this may not be the case, which is what the FAA is hinting at in their guidelines: The mere existence of two networks in a plane—one accessible by the passengers—is a security hole in itself. The FAA says that Boeing should find a way to prevent "access by unauthorized sources external to the airplane, including those possibly caused by maintenance activity."That's the key. While it could be quite difficult to do, tampering with the networking systems inside the plane is a possibility during the maintenance stage. And, if history has taught us anything, any security system can be broken, no matter how well engineered it is. Add to this the fact that planes are now being connected to the internet itself, and you have the potential ingredients for some remote hackers to do something bad.

As they admit themselves, the FAA doesn't have regulations for these inflight networking systems. This makes me a bit nervous. It is not that their regulations or tests could make things hacker-proof—nothing is hacker-proof—but the idea of leaving this responsibility to private companies is not good enough, as demonstrated in recent times.

The only 100% secure option is this: Fly without any kind of passenger networking. But then again, would you live without your newly-acquired habit of viewing YouTube cat videos during flights? Would you sacrifice your inflight mail or your web browsing, like you have already sacrificed your dignity at the security checkpoint? Should we stop running our always-connected lives because of a remote security threat?

Maybe we need to update the True Odds of Airborne Terror Attack chart. Maybe there's nothing to worry about. Do terrorist have the resources to coordinate a sophisticated attack like this, and take control of a plane in any meaningful or dangerous way? Probably not. But let's nail all these issues before they become a real problem.

GAURAV SHARMAMDIS, SINGAPORE

B.L.A.D.E.

Researchers at SRI International and Georgia Tech are preparing to release a free tool to stop "drive-by" downloads: Internet attacks in which the mere act of visiting a Web site results in the surreptitious installation of malicious software. The new tool, called BLADE (Block All Drive-By Download Exploits), stops downloads that are initiated without the user's consent.

When your browser is presented with an [executable file] for download, it's supposed to prompt you for what to do. But software can also be pushed onto an unsuspecting user's computer without ever asking for permission.

In the fourth quarter of 2009, roughly 5.5 million Web pages contained software designed to foist unwanted installs on visitors. Such drive-by downloads target computers that are not up-to-date with the latest security patches for common Web browser vulnerabilities, or are missing security updates for key browser plug-ins, such as Adobe's PDF Reader and Flash Player. Attackers use software called exploit packs, which probe the visitor's browser for known security holes.

The research group has been putting BLADE through the paces since January, exposing a few virtual desktops equipped with the software to new exploit sites identified each day by security experts. Each malicious URL is tested against multiple software configurations covering different browser versions and common plug-ins.

So far, BLADE has blocked all of the more than 5,150 malicious programs foisted by some 1,205 unique drive-by URLs tested. During the test period, Adobe's PDF Reader was by far the most-targeted browser plug-in, accounting for more than half of the applications targeted by drive-by exploits. Sun Microsystems's Java platform attracted nearly one quarter of all drive-by

attacks, while the bulk of remaining exploits targeted vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash and Internet Explorer.

BLADE's approach appears unique, and that it may be effective at stopping drive-by downloads in the short run. That is, until the technique is widely incorporated into commercial products. Tools like BLADE are great--they're another layer of protection, but they certainly aren't a panacea.

ASHISH GROVERUSIT

CLOUD COMPUTING VERSUS GRID COMPUTING

Service types, similarities and differences, and things to consider

Introduction

Cloud computing is one of today’s most-discussed technical topics. Despite the relative decline of grid computing and unfulfilled promises of utility computing, cloud computing appears to be catching on in both industry and academia. Compared to its predecessors, cloud computing seems to be better positioned in terms of economic viability, cost-effective approaches to scale and reliability, early adoption of interfaces, and open source implementations.

To get cloud computing to work, you need three things: thin clients (or clients with a thick-thin switch), grid computing, and utility computing. Grid computing links disparate computers to form one large infrastructure, harnessing unused resources. Utility computing is paying for what you use on shared servers like you pay for a public utility (such as electricity, gas, and so on). With grid computing, you can provision computing resources as a utility that can be turned on or off. Cloud computing goes one step further with on-demand resource provisioning. This eliminates over-provisioning when used with utility pricing. It also removes the need to over-provision in order to meet the demands of millions of users.

Infrastructure as a Service and more

A consumer can get service from a full computer infrastructure through the Internet. This type of service is called Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Internet-based services such as storage and databases are part of the IaaS. Other types of services on the Internet are Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) .PaaS offers full or partial application development that users can access, while SaaS provides a complete turnkey application, such as Enterprise Resource Management through the Internet.

The IaaS divides into two types of usage: public and private. Amazon EC2 uses public server pools in the infrastructure cloud. A more private cloud service uses groups of public or private server pools from an internal corporate data center. Both types can be used to develop software within the environment of the corporate data center, and, with EC2, temporarily extend resources at low cost—say for testing purposes. The mix may provide a faster way of developing applications and services with shorter development and testing cycles.

Cloud computing

With cloud computing, companies can scale up to massive capacities in an instant without having to invest in new infrastructure, train new personnel, or license new software. Cloud computing is of particular benefit to small and medium-sized businesses who wish to completely outsource their data-center infrastructure, or large companies who wish to get peak load capacity without incurring the higher cost of building larger data centers internally. In both instances, service consumers use what they need on the Internet and pay only for what they use. The service consumer no longer has to be at a PC, use an application from the PC, or purchase a specific version that's configured for smartphones, PDAs, and other devices. The consumer does not own the infrastructure, software, or platform in the cloud. He has lower upfront costs, capital expenses, and operating expenses. He does not care about how servers and networks are maintained in the cloud. The consumer can access multiple servers anywhere on the globe without knowing which ones and where they are located.

Grid computing

Cloud computing evolves from grid computing and provides on-demand resource provisioning. Grid computing may or may not be in the cloud depending on what type of users are using it. If the users are systems administrators and integrators, they care how things are maintained in the cloud. They upgrade, install, and virtualize servers and applications. If the users are consumers, they do not care how things are run in the system.

Grid computing requires the use of software that can divide and farm out pieces of a program as one large system image to several thousand computers. One concern about grid is that if one piece of the software on a node fails, other pieces of the software on other nodes may fail. This is alleviated if that component has a failover component on another node, but problems can still arise if components rely on other pieces of software to accomplish one or more grid computing tasks. Large system

images and associated hardware to operate and maintain them can contribute to large capital and operating expenses.

Similarities

Cloud computing and grid computing are scalable. Scalability is accomplished through load balancing of application instances running separately on a variety of operating systems and connected through Web services. CPU and network bandwidth is allocated and de-allocated on demand. The system's storage capacity goes up and down depending on the number of users, instances, and the amount of data transferred at a given time. Both computing types involve multi-tenancy and multitask, meaning that many customers can perform different tasks, accessing a single or multiple application instances. Sharing resources among a large pool of users assists in reducing infrastructure costs and peak load capacity. Cloud and grid computing provide service-level agreements (SLAs) for guaranteed uptime availability of, say, 99 percent. If the service slides below the level of the guaranteed uptime service, the consumer will get service credit for receiving data late.

NITISHA JAINBVCOE

MR. RISHIPAL

ADDITIONAL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF POLICESOUTH DISTRICT, DELHI POLICE.

1. Sir, please tell us something about your journey to this successful position?

After completing B.Tech in Electronics and Communication, I joined All India Radio through Indian Engineering Services. But soon I realized that I couldn’t have lived in that position all through my life. To make my presence felt and pursue the childhood dream of serving the nation, I joined Indian Police Services.

2. Being a technical student, what motivated you to join the Indian Police?

Having a technical background is always beneficial for every future endeavor which you pursue. Being a technical student you have a broad horizon. So this extra skill set helped me further in dispensing my job responsibilities.

3. What are the day to day responsibilities of this job?

The basic responsibility of an administrative job is to enforce law and order to let a peaceful environment flourish. We try to maintain law and order in such a manner that all and sundry should enjoy the basic rights provided to them by our constitution. 

4. After seeing the level of corruption which is prevalent everywhere today, what motivates you to put forth your greatest effort?

I would like to oppose to this propaganda of corruption being prevalent everywhere. I would not deny the absence of corruption but the degree in which people perceive it is very high. Corruption is something which has been developed by us and we are the ones who will have to eradicate it. And the very thought of corruption itself is the greatest force which motivates me to work against it.

5. Which is more important-creativity or efficiency?

As far as the administrative jobs are concerned creativity is of little use. Being in a routine job a person doesn’t get the chance to show his creativity. In general creative people can be efficient, and, conversely, efficiency can be expected of creative types. For me creativity has always been an added attraction along with efficiency.

6. What is your advice and motivation to the young minds like us for serving our nation?

My message for the younger generation is---Respect the nation and upholds the dignity of independence which could be achieved only by the sacrifices of millions. Set your goals and put your best forward to achieve it. Planning the work and working the plan must be the agenda for the Gen-X.

JAI HIND.

MR. ASHUTOSH PANDEY

DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL (FLA)TELECOM ENGINEERING CENTRE.

1. Tell us something about your professional life Sir.

I did my graduation in Electronics and Communication in 1985 and based on the Engineering Services examination of the same year joined Indian Telecom Service. Since then I have worked on various posts in Department of Telecom and MTNL.

2. What kind of job profile does MTNL offer?

MTNL is providing telecom services in Delhi and Mumbai. It offers opening for Management trainee and Junior Telecom Officer (for engineering degree holders).

3. What skill set should a student possess to be placed in telecom department?

Technology in telecom is changing at a fast pace. The students desirous of joining telecom sector should have a knack to adapt to fast changing technology. They should be in the habit of reading technical journals and keeping themselves abreast of the latest in the field of telecom.

4. In our education students mostly acquire theoretical knowledge as compared to practical. How do you think this gap could be bridged?

Institutes should have regular interaction with the industry and the feedback should be given to the authorities to design the course accordingly. For example RF design (spectrum being the scarce resource) could be given as an optional for the students specializing in communication.

5. What are the day to day responsibilities of this job?

My job is to make specifications for the telecom industry so that there is no problem of inter-operability and the equipment is safe for the user.

6. What are the organization’s strengths and weaknesses compared to its competitors?

Currently I am working for Department of Telecommunication so there is no competitor.

7. How do you personally define success?

If you are able to lead a happy and contended life you are successful.

MRS. RAJESHWARI PANDEY

ASSTT. PROFESSOR-ECE DEPTT.DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (DTU)

1. Tell us something about your Professional Life ma’am?

I did my B.Tech from J.K.Institute of Applied Physics from Allahabad University. I pursued my M.E. in electronics and control from BITS (Pilani). I carry a teaching experience of 16 years at various places such as BITS (Pilani), PCCS (Noida) and DCE (now DTU).

2. Ma’am, please tell us some of your achievements in IEEE. Your recent endeavors?

I have been an IEEE member since the past seven years. I held the position of chairperson, WIE IEEE Delhi section (’07-’09). During this period various activities were organized like technical lectures, industrial visits, and social activities summing up to a total of 10. Among these “Self Defence - A proactive approach for working women” by the Crime against women cell, Delhi Police received large scale participation from industry and academia. Other than this promoting education among girl child of economically weaker section, a programme of WIE is very dear to my heart. During my chairpersonship I received a grant of Rs.300000/- for organizing technical lectures and workshops

from AICTE, which has been a benchmark. For my contributions to WIE I received a letter of appreciation from IEEE Headquarters. The inception of WIE, DCE branch affinity group took place under my chairpersonship. Currently I am holding the position of treasurer of WIE, IEEE Delhi section.

3. Why did u decide to be a teacher?

I have a natural flair for teaching and had been enjoying it since childhood. After one year experience in the industry the belief of teaching being the right profession for me strengthened.

4. How do you groom your students for the soft skills which are required these days to be successful?

“A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.” As a teacher we can only give guidelines for their overall development, however the methods need to be devised themselves. Overall behavior and personality matters a lot in this competitive world.

5. Ma’am, few words for our student members of IEEE.

It’s my message to each and every student pursuing technical courses that they should join some or the other professional society of their stream. IEEE provides a forum for interaction among people of similar interests. It’s an excellent medium for improving the managerial and technical skills of an individual. Moreover IEEE can help one to payback the society.

THE FONDUE

The first time I ate Swiss Fondue I was really delighted. It delighted me not just because it was appetizing after a tiring hike in the mountains, but also because it seemed to symbolize a lot more.

Let me first explain what Fondue is: It’s a Swiss dish consisting of cheese melted in a pot, mixed with a little white wine and eaten hot by dipping small pieces of bread in it (using long forks, of course; you wouldn’t want to burn your hands with cheese). The word “fondue” comes from French, meaning “molten”; hence the name for this dish of molten cheese. Normally, people eat it together, sitting around the table, dipping their breads in the same pot. According to tradition, if anyone loses his or her piece of bread in the cheese that person has to do something interesting or embarrassing.

So, on the table in this wooden restaurant at the base of the mountain, I saw not just a melting pot of cheese but a melting pot of cultures, mixed with a wine of ideas, eaten with the bread of excitement. The table was shared by two Indians- one from the north, other from the south, a Thai, a Vietnamese, an Ivorian (from Ivory Coast) and a Swiss originally from Madagascar. It was a fondue indeed- a cultural fondue.

The reason I told this story of the Swiss cheese fondue is that while recollecting the memories of my experiences with the IEEE student branch, the one-word description of the branch that popped up in mind was- fondue! Why? Perhaps because it was conceived to be one. The branch was conceived and constituted to be a fondue of all co-curricular activities in college in which all the students can dip their breads to eat together and grow together.

In 2004-2005, BVCOE was still a young college and student activities were few and scattered. The students used to look enviously at other colleges and universities who already had a culture of hosting fests and organizing other events. A unified platform was lacking in our college where everyone could contribute and from where everyone could benefit. The IEEE student branch was thus conceptualized as such a platform.

I consider myself fortunate to be one of the first few members of the branch. The experience of establishing the branch was a big learning experience. The endeavor was to establish a sustainable organization that would add value to the engineering education of all of us and would continue to do so for the students in the future years. Initially, it seemed that the name of IEEE would sell itself, motivating students to join in numbers required to build a strong, sustainable team. However, anyone who knows about marketing and sales would know that just because a hundred people endorse an idea or product does not necessarily mean

that those hundred will buy it too. I learned this; the other founders learned this; very soon. That is why the branch had to be a product that would be a value add-on for all the stakeholders.

The key ingredients needed for all this were vision, passion, motivation and determination. This experience taught valuable lessons in team building and teamwork; just what is required to enjoy the fondue with a group of friends. One of the most challenging yet interesting parts was to identify the right people for the right job.

In my personal experience, the cheese fondue tastes best when eaten after one is tired and really hungry after trekking up a mountain. Establishing and running a branch often brings up

obstacles and problems. And again I think that this fondue (the branch) tastes best (to put it metaphorically) only after surmounting these mountains of obstacles and problems. There were birth-pangs, procedural hiccups and occasionally unhappy or unmotivated team-mates. Working around the problems is a challenge but the results are always rewarding.

I must felicitate the members who took over the branch in the subsequent years and ensured that not only it kept on existing but grew bigger and better every day. What started as a wishful project in a professor’s cabin on the second floor has become a reality- a big and successful branch. I was delighted when the branch organized the first version of Fervour. Today, I’m all the more happy that it has turned “Bigger, Cleaner, Greener.” I have no doubt that it would have been an impossibility but for the hard-work and dedication of each one of its members. I wish each one of you all the best and hope that your hunger remains and the fondue called BVPIEEE keeps on getting bigger and better to feed more and more people.

By the way, if you get an opportunity, you must try the Swiss cheese fondue. Bon Apetit!

ANURAG MANGLAEx-Chairperson, IEEE SB, BVCOE 2004-2005

MS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from EPFL, Switzerland

MEMOIRS

Its been almost over a year, since I crossed the threshold of BVCOE but its seems just like a few heartbeats ago that I was walking across that much familiar path campus of the college… hanging out with my friends in the grounds… sipping coffee in the canteen… attending lectures… conducting the IEEE meetings that used to go on for hours… and of course the fun we had preparing for FERVOUR.

The college and the academic curriculum has indeed helped me to develop and hone my technical skills and apply them in my field of further learning. There have been many pillars of strength but there is one which has been pivotal in my growth as an engineer over the course of 4 years. And that is my association as a member of the highly acclaimed IEEE organization.

I enrolled as a student member in our college’s IEEE Student Branch in my first year itself and since then was actively involved in all the activities and proceedings of the branch. IEEE has widened my perspective of thinking and opened new avenues of learning for me.

Being a student of the Instrumentation and Control engineering, I was very fortunate to have access to some very detailed research work and technical papers available in the colossal portals of the IEEE digital library. The study of papers written by eminent scientists across the globe helped me to gain better understanding of the subjects of my engineering domain such as Robotics, SCADA systems, Biomedical Instrumentation etc. I have always believed that it is essential to do an in depth study of subjects rather than cramming up on a superficial level. The vast amount of technical knowledge available to me through IEEE facilitated my efforts to clear the concepts of various subjects and clarify my doubts. The IEEE magazine SPECTRUM also

contained such articles and case studies, catering to various disciplines of science that they truly enriched my knowledge and induced in me a passion for technical research.

I also gained a lot of exposure during my days of working as a coordinator and later on as part of the core team in the annual IEEE fest FERVOUR. To interact with students from other branches, share their perspective and work with them as a team helped me in building my confidence and testing my managerial skills.

And then in my 4th year I was selected to lead the IEEE Student Branch and take up responsibility as the Chairperson of the branch. It was one of the most cherished moments of my college life. The post was an honor and it demanded myriad qualities of leadership, management and creativity. I grew as a person during that period and discovered many

latent skills. It was a mammoth task to implement all our ideas and organize the annual fest FERVOUR 2009, but my team of dedicated and hard working members left no stone unturned to make the event a huge success. Our branch counselor, initially Mrs. Neeta Pandey and later on Mr. Rahul Bahl were very supportive of my suggestions and guided me well during my tenure as the Chairperson. Receiving the JK PAL Memorial Award for the Best Student Member in my final year also was a moment of great honor.

IEEE Student Branch of BVCOE has played an instrumental role in shaping my personality and my career and I am forever indebted to this world class organization that stands for excellence, perfection and brilliance.

To my juniors, I would like to advise that the quality of a student’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. So I urge you all, that whatever may be the task at hand, accomplish it with complete dedication and your perseverance will surely bear fruit.

I wish my successor Nidhi Gurnani and the entire BVPIEEE family all the luck for FERVOUR 2010. Hope you guys put up a great show that outshines the last as well. I pray that may BVPIEEE grow from strength to strength.

DEEPSHIKHA GANGALEx-Chairperson, IEEE SB, BVCOE, 2008-2009

Currently in TCS, Ahmedabad

RENDEZVOUS

RAJA BANTHIAEx-Chairperson, IEEE SB, BVCOE, 2007-08

Currently in TCS, Ahmedabad

Q. Sir, what is your current job profile?I am working as an Asst System Engineer in Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Ahmedabad on Enterprise Application Integration Project of Paramount Pictures, US.

Q. What motivates you to achieve greater heights in life?Money & Power are the primary factors that encourage me to strive for the best.

Q. Where do you see yourself in 5 yrs from now?I’m yet to give that a serious thought.

Q. How do you deal with competition?Ah… I love wars & competition. It increases my performance, capability & level of thinking manifold. The best method to deal with competition is to accept it head-on, set targets & work passionately to achieve them.

Q. Are you a competitive person?I think…I am.

Q. What does it mean to be successful?For me, to be successful means to be satisfied with what you are, what you have and what you can achieve.

Q. How do you determine or evaluate success?Being successful is always relative. When you achieve what you had strived for it is termed as success. It may be good grades, a good life partner, good salary, good job, etc. depending on the individual’s preference & priority.

Q. You were a part of the team that established or laid the foundation stone of BVPIEEE. How and what motivated you into taking up this initiative and getting involved with IEEE?I was bored with academics and wanted to do something which would involve people, challenges, management & excitement. I was not on top of the academic ladder. And I hate mediocrity. So I thought that this is the area which matches my skills & capabilities and I can be a real achiever here. This was my prime motivation.

Q. How well did you work under deadlines??Tough question….. We used “flexible” deadlines…

Q. Did you prefer working alone or with others??I preferred working with a team.

Q. How well did u get along with your subordinates??‘Subordinates’ is a wrong term to use. Let’s call them- juniors. I got along well with most of them.

Q. What kind of equation did you share with your seniors??I enjoyed very cordial & friendly relations with my seniors. I used to see them as guides & mentors from whom many practical things could be learnt.

Q. Was there an instance where you felt you could put in more effort than you could actually manage at that time and place??

Yeah… I felt it during Fervour 2008.

Q. What was the hardest decision you ever had to make?That’s a secret!!

Q. How did you work your way up to the top??The Mantra to reach the top is- “Innovate & Integrate”. INNOVATE by generating new ideas and creative ways of implementing them & INTEGRATE on three fronts- seniors, colleagues & juniors. Establish good relations on all three fronts; prove your worth and you will automatically reach the top.

Q. Which hurdles did you face in organizing various events and FERVOUR??Externally: Brand name & age of the college matters the most while hunting for sponsorships & calling for participation. We faced difficulty on this front.Internally: Lesser autonomy & authority created hurdles many a times.

Q. What is your idea of encouragement to other junior members??Leadership opportunity, learning platform and many other “benefits” you can understand!!

Q. In which areas specifically have you gained an upper hand by heading our college's prime student group??Communication & leadership skills, proximity with the Mighty & Meeks of the college and exposure to varied situations & persons.

Q. What suggestions do you have for our present members?? Learn from each moment in life. Opportunities come to everyone, only few take advantage. Think beyond certificates. A certificate is only an expression, real

learning, actual achievement is deep within us. Nobody would ask for the certificates, but everybody would ask for the qualities which these certificates represent. Strive for that.

Innovate & Integrate. Read & Grow. Lastly, take care of the environment.

Q. How has IEEE helped you in your personal and professional life?

IEEE provides two types of opportunities- Technical and Managerial. My affair with IEEE falls in the managerial domain. It has been a strong

force in driving my abilities & thinking. The communication skills- verbal as well as written, which I gained during my tenure as Chairperson, are helping me a lot in my profession. IEEE has also helped me develop networks, broaden my viewpoint, etc. In fact, these skills have helped me in bagging the best project in TCS Ahmedabad. The list is long. I couldn’t articulate all of them. In one sentence- IEEE educated me for life.

EXPRESSIONS

As I look back on the years of my life, I realize that the best phase was the time I spent in mycollege, with my friends and colleagues.

Being an Instrumentation & Control engineer, my post graduation in many ways relates to thework I had done through graduation, the core concepts which I had studied through my curriculum has paved a path for my specialization by providing a foundation in the subject as awhole. There are significant differences in the educational structure in foreign universities and India. In universities abroad, there is respect for our weaknesses but more emphasis is laid on problem solving than absorbing loads of derivations and theories.

Students never shy away from asking even the most simplest of questions. At the same time, thefaculty answers them with utmost sincerity without making the student realize his inabilities. Thefocus is on learning and not on competition.

Competition is not something which bothers me as I just do what I want to do and strivetowards personal satisfaction and not public recognition. Meeting short term objectives continuously is my idea of evaluating success.

My time back in BVCOE IEEE BRANCH brings back memories of sheer excitement of startingsomething from the scratch and making it a huge success. The excitement of planning a bigevent without a single penny in pocket but loads of dreams in hearts is inexplicable.

I got along very well with my subordinates as well as my seniors. There was never an instancewhere I felt our team could put in more effort than we could actually manage at that time andplace. Giving big perks to sponsors for relatively small gains was one of the hardest decisions I

ever had to make during my tenure as Vice Chairperson.

It was the confidence gained through experiences, not the count of certificates which made mework my way up to the top. Persistence made me stand out from the rest. Understanding humanrelations and dealing with public opinion are some areas I have specifically gained an upper handby heading our IEEE student branch, which in turn has extensively helped me to hone my skillsin professional and personal spheres. I would wholeheartedly recommend the present membersto just learn and enjoy their work at BVPIEEE.

ABHISHEK SHARMAMS in Operations Research, Virginia Tech, USAEx-Vice Chairperson, IEEE SB, BVCOE, 2008-09

REFLECTIONS

Some of the most memorable journeys of life never end; the experiences remain with you throughout your lifetime. My 4-year long journey at BVCOE is my most treasured memory till date.

Working as a telecom engineer, I realize that my work relates to those key elementary subjects Ihad studied through graduation. Even though, India‘s education system does not stress on core

competency building and innovation, it is gradually introducing new patterns to bridge the gap. Success for me is satisfaction from what I do and how happy I am with my work, profession andpersonal life. And I deal with competition by concentrating on my individual performance. I takeon life as it comes and don‘t plan that far; so my future endeavours are very speculative.

As a part of the team which laid the foundation stone for BVPIEEE, I took initiative by promoting technical and organizational skills among all the members of the branch. As a team player I preferred working with others and had good ties with everyone. Deadlines were not thatdifficult to meet and it was just the question of time management.

I worked my way up to the top by concentrating on my core skills which are Networking and Public Relations and IEEE gave me an opportunity to

test and hone these skills in various situations. My marketing skills have been prominently enhanced through my role as the head ofstudent branch. Even though we sometimes had difficulties persuading our sponsors, they weredealt with determination and patience.

IEEE has significantly been an aid in my personal and professional growth as it has helped merealize my strengths and weaknesses, and work towards improving the same. I suggest ourpresent members to align their career goals with the activities of BVPIEEE and find their placein the branch as along with technical education it is important to have certain essential soft skillswhich can be gained only through such enterprising activities.

ADITYA KANTEx-Vice Chairperson, IEEE SB, BVCOE 2007-08