- Navaneetham Post-concert, Sivamani addressed the gathering saying “If you want to be successful, first throw away your ego.” crowd that there is indeed music in everything. The performance was simply breathtaking. Stephan Devassey’s solo performance on the keys was beyond words. The audience was left spell bound at the performers. Stephan Devassey walked into the spot light amidst resounding ap- plause. His music took everyone by
Volume III, Issue 5 25th July, 2011 And the heavens roared! Music is an art form whose me- dium is of sound and of silence. It has a magical power that can take one to different places and moods within no time. Everyone present in Christ University auditorium on 24th July at 6pm experienced that magic. e most awaited mu- sic concert ‘Heaven’s Fury’ by Si- vamani and Stephan Devassey was organised by e CSA, Dept. of Law and Dept. of Media Studies. It was a breath-taking performance by the two music legends. e con- cert began with video screenings on Christ University and Centre for Social Action followed a talk by the respected Vice Chancellor Fr. omas C Mathew of Christ University. Stephan Devassey walked into the spot light amidst resounding ap- plause. His music took everyone by storm. Much to the audience’s sur- prise, Sivamani entered from the crowd. He then joined Devassey on stage. ey started the concert with a prayer using instruments thus bringing out a divine effect. It was truly a ‘Heaven’ly perfor- mance. Fury was depicted by the way he played the keyboards. e cameras could barely catch his fingers moving due to the speed at which he played the instrument. Being the genius that he is, Si- vamani used props such as water, suitcases and the walls of the au- ditorium therefore proving to the crowd that there is indeed music in everything. e performance was simply breathtaking. Stephan Devassey’s solo performance on the keys was beyond words. e audience was leſt spell bound at the performers. Kevin from first year MS Commu- nication who attended the concert says, “It was a very different ex- perience. He made music out of anything and everything- wooden walls, spoons. e thunder outside was over shadowed by Sivamani’s fury. I felt it was completely worth the time that I spent here in spite of it being a Sunday.” Post-concert, Sivamani addressed the gathering saying “If you want to be successful, first throw away your ego.” e concert ended with Rahman’s Oscar winning ‘Jai Ho’. As they rounded up the show however, the audience demanded an encore. ey were more than willing to en- chant the audience one last time. is was truly one of the best con- certs held at Christ University and we hope there will be many more to come. - Navaneetham “ If you want to be suc- cessful, first throw away your ego! “
Transcript
Volume III, Issue 525th July, 2011
And the heavens roared!
Music is an art form whose me-dium is of sound and of silence. It has a magical power that can take one to different places and moods within no time. Everyone present in Christ University auditorium on 24th July at 6pm experienced that magic. The most awaited mu-sic concert ‘Heaven’s Fury’ by Si-vamani and Stephan Devassey was organised by The CSA, Dept. of Law and Dept. of Media Studies. It was a breath-taking performance by the two music legends. The con-cert began with video screenings on Christ University and Centre for Social Action followed a talk by the respected Vice Chancellor Fr. Thomas C Mathew of Christ University.
Stephan Devassey walked into the spot light amidst resounding ap-plause. His music took everyone by
storm. Much to the audience’s sur-prise, Sivamani entered from the crowd. He then joined Devassey on stage. They started the concert with a prayer using instruments thus bringing out a divine effect. It was truly a ‘Heaven’ly perfor-mance. Fury was depicted by the way he played the keyboards.
The cameras could barely catch his fingers moving due to the speed at which he played the instrument.
Being the genius that he is, Si-vamani used props such as water, suitcases and the walls of the au-ditorium therefore proving to the
crowd that there is indeed music in everything. The performance was simply breathtaking. Stephan Devassey’s solo performance on the keys was beyond words. The audience was left spell bound at the performers.
Kevin from first year MS Commu-nication who attended the concert says, “It was a very different ex-perience. He made music out of anything and everything- wooden walls, spoons. The thunder outside was over shadowed by Sivamani’s fury. I felt it was completely worth the time that I spent here in spite of it being a Sunday.”
Post-concert, Sivamani addressed the gathering saying “If you want to be successful, first throw away your ego.”
The concert ended with Rahman’s Oscar winning ‘Jai Ho’. As they rounded up the show however, the audience demanded an encore. They were more than willing to en-chant the audience one last time. This was truly one of the best con-certs held at Christ University and we hope there will be many more to come.
- Navaneetham
“If you want to be suc-cessful, first throw
away your ego!
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Changing the face of Social Media.
Christ University, 20 July:
Prof. Sree Sreenivasan was invited as a guest lecturer by Department of Media Studies, to address its undergraduate, postgraduate stu-dents and teachers in the Main Auditorium. He spoke on Social Media and how it could be put to better use apart from networking.
Prof. Sree Sreenivasan is The Dean of Student Affairs and a Journalism teacher at the Colum-bia University, having a teaching career, spanning seventeen years. He said “I will ruin the Social Me-dia for you all”. When he made such a statement the audience was shocked but soon they real-ized what he was trying to convey. Through his lecture he brought to light the ways in which Social Me-dia could be fruitfully used apart from just connecting or network-ing with people.
The recent Mumbai blasts saw many film celebrities tweet their comments on Twitter. This helped the celebrities in directly connect-ing with the public at large unlike earlier when they would have had
to wait for the media to approach them for their comments. The networking site also saw many Mumbaikars come forward and offer help to their fellow beings who were affected by the blasts. He highlighted the growing pop-ularity of the social networking sites in India and how they can serve more meaningful purposes.
The focus of the lecture was to help budding journalists realize how they can use this social me-dia effectively that would benefit them and the society at large.
Prof. Sreenivasan believes that the social media will help jour-nalists in finding new stories or ideas, connect better and deeper with the audience, grab eyeballs of the people to their work that can be posted on these sites and come to rescue in social situations like that of the Mumbai blasts.
With the changing trends in the social media, the question re-mains as to what happens to it from here, whether the graphs continue to indicate a significant growth in their popularity, mem-bership and whether people are willing to realize the potential of this new media?
- Ritika Singh
I will ruin the Social Media for
you all!“
Media Conclave is a platform wherein the final year students of MS Communication make paper presentations on topics of their choice. This week’s Media Conclave was held on Saturday, the 23rd of July at 10am in the PU Block of Christ University. It took place in the presence of an esteemed guest Mr. Lawrence Liang, an expert in legal issues and a film enthusiast.
The Conclave started off with Mr. Lawrence’s presentation. He spoke about how media bleeds into our everyday life and we can’t escape it; about the relationship between im-age and visuals and also between stillness and movement in visual media. He spoke about the concept of Solitude being shown in movies. He quoted Prof. Stanley from Har-vard University who says, “There is no such thing as a bad film.” for there is always something to justify that ninety minutes of solitude. He also spoke about how things have evolved over time- the distance between the viewer on his/her seat to the theatre screen with a large crowd to today when we watch movies on a computer screen all alone- showing that this might be the end of a celluloid world.
He also spoke about the three reg-isters of time in films. He showed a video clip of how a Train has been used as a metaphor of media per-meation. Watching a movie is like looking into a train or out of a bus while travelling. We are constantly engaging in a sensorial world out-side. He then showed a clipping from Psycho the movie in One minute and the same movie hav-ing duration of 24 hours. He also discussed about the narrative of Zidane the movie. After this very insightful lecture, the paper pres-entations followed.
MEDIA CONCLAVE
Prof. Sreenivasan at the Guest Lecture
The first presentation was by Sumi-tha who spoke about ‘Effective Use of Whitespace in Logo Design’. In the presentation she covered what logo designing is, the science of whitespace usage, logo designing ethics, why use whitespace. She said that a logo should be describ-able, memorable, and effective. She covered five case studies on- the whitespace usage in the logos of Adobe, WWF, Dabur, Tata and Union Brand. She showed how the logos initially have gradually be-come what they are now with the effective usage of whitespace in them. With the usage of whites-pace, it should be simple, clear, can have hidden meanings and care should be taken that the right amount of spacing is used.
The second presentation was by Mithun who spoke about ‘Video Piracy and Effects on Indian Cin-ema’. He spoke about the possible stages of piracy in pre-production, production and post-production. The possible stages are Story leak-age, stealing scripts, plot leakage, internet download, pirated CD copies, broadcast. There is always a loss of revenue. It was found that 20% of people are against it, 40% are moderate users, 40% are des-perate for piracy. He spoke about the effects that piracy could cause and ended the presentation with an apt saying- ‘Proactive Approach is always better than reactive ap-proach.’
The third presentation was by Sam-rat Dey which was on ‘Computer Games based on films’. By using examples of games such as Avatar the Game, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix, Enter the Matrix, he explained the similarity of the movies and the games and how these adaptations have helped in boosting sales of the games.
It was found that 90% of people would watch a film if they liked the game. He also showed videos of Transformers and a video review of Avatar the game. These games place the player in the shoes of their favourite character. The old trend of making games into films have paved the way for making games from films.
Keval then presented his paper on ‘Analysis and Comparative study of changing trends in VJing’. He spoke about the history of VJing- MTV and how VJing is done in real-time. VJing is a new form of story-telling. He spoke about the various events where VJing takes place, namely, - discs where we can hear, feel and see the VJ, Live events such as theatre, music con-certs, dance shows, Music videos and remixes similar in style to a DJ, Multiple stories and Commer-cial ads- showing video examples for each of these.
The final presentation was by Ken who spoke about ‘Growth and in-crease of movies based on true sto-ries’. These could be, Movies based on an event of incident such as The Social Network, Movies based on life of a person such as Gandhi, Iruvar, Movies based on books such as 127 hours, The Blind Side.
The reason for this upwards trend is that inspirational stories affect audiences only if they are True. Films of social importance seem more important if they are an-chored in reality. ‘Based on true Story’ has become a badge in the present cinema world.
Media Conclave ended with Mr. Lawrence Liang giving his feed-back and he also spoke about the legal issues concerned with media. Media Conclave was truly very in-formative and insightful wherein we as an audience acquired knowl-edge on a range of subjects.
- Gayathri Gopalakrishnan
An interview with Navneetham, 1st MS. COMM student and her preparation for DARPAN.
Question-“How is your experi-ence in Christ so far?”
Navneetham-“According to my perspective, I would say that Christ University is unique in its own sense, whether it be in aca-demics, extra curricular activi-ties , and the eco friendly campus. I have come to an idea that each student is nurtured to the best and therefore each Christite will have a successful career ahead.”
Mr.Lawrence Liang at the Media Conclave
DARPAN TIMES
Question-“”What you doing for Darpan?”
Navneetham –“For Darpan I am doing solo classical dance as well as a group dance for Aagaman team.”
Question-“How long you practis-ing for it? When do you do so?”
Navnnetham-“Its about three weeks we started our practice,every working day we practice from 6 a.m – 8.30 a.m and also from 4.30p.m-7p.m.During Sundays practice starts at 9 a.m and it ex-tends till 4p.m and sometimes even after that.”
Question-When is DARPAN?
Navneetham-“The inaugration of DARPAN was on July 12th.I am lucky enough that I did a per-formance with college team on that day.It was really a colourful ceremony .The competitions are conducted everyday one after an-other.My solo classical dance per-formance is on Saturday and the group dances are on 29th of this month.”
Question -“So are you trained in any particular dance form? How long have you been learning?”
Navneetham-“Yes I have been learning Indian classi-cal dances like Bharatnatyam, Mohiniyattam,Kuchipudi and Keralanadanam for more than fif-teen years..”
Thanking you so much Navneetham. All the best for your performance,hoping to watch you perform soon.
- Atriya Ghosh
‘Let nature be your teacher’, said William Wordsworth; and with just a glance at the campus of Christ University, it is obvious that it too follows the same principle.
The first year students of MS in Communications were taken for a walk down the winding hidden lanes of this beautiful campus, by their course co-ordinator Fr. Biju. The silent unnoticed road leading up to the Basketball court paved way to a series of pathways sur-rounded by a variety of colourful flowers and shrubs. These roads led up to the Dharmaram Church which on reaching, Fr. Biju ex-plained the significance of.
The church is structured in such a way that, it is in the shape of a globe signifying the culmination of all religions as One. The church has unique murals on the walls such as an Indianised version of Lord Jesus Christ. Fr. Biju also spoke about how the church had been aesthetically designed and arranged. The walk continued for another kilometre or so and the students stopped every once in a while to admire the variety in flowers, the tree houses, the old residential
buildings, etc. Then, they were tak-en to the place where breeding of chickens, emus and other animals take place. The walk was indeed a joyful experience and a break from academics. Kung Fu Panda 2 may have gotten some of us searching for some Inner peace but that is what this Walk yielded in for many of the students. It was truly a Walk to Remember.
- Gayathri Gopalakrishnan
A Walk to Remember
Being a part of a university like ours opens ones horizons to a whole lot of aspects. There is some-thing for everyone. Sports, art, dance, theatre or nothing- there is always something that you would be a part of or want to attend or organise, etc. The Centre for Social Action (CSA) is one such platform that gives you a chance to do eve-rything, and makes it for a reason.
Statistics have shown- in a boom-ing country like India, with a pop-ulation of over 1 billion people 70 million are persons with disabili-ties (estimated figures). Out of this, only 2% see through school and a meagre 1% gainfully employed.
So what is this really about? Is it just an initiative where you sign a petition and move on? Or, is it something where you volunteer for 2 weeks and feel good about yourself? This is much more than that. This may result in the differ-ence we are actually looking for.
Dont wait for a reason to include!
This year, among the other activi-ties, CSA is proud to be a part of an initiative that most of us would rarely think of, or would conveni-ently ignore. This is the initia-tive of inclusion of the differently abled. Never-the-less (www.never-theless.in) is an initiative taken up by the Fourth Wave Foundation (www.fourthwavefoundation.org) in association with Government of Karnataka, Christ University, NASSCOM, Office of the State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities Karnataka and the Bangalore University NSS.
“Never-the-less” is an active initia-tive that will result in the inclusion of disabled or differently abled persons in our society. By making the government an active part of this campaign, it will also ensure that decisions are taken and words are put into practice as well.
The students of Christ University will be involved in creating aware-ness and student representatives of CSA from each department will do so by screening a short film on the campaign and presentations. Apart from this, there was a con-ference held on July 22, 2011 in the Main Auditorium. The aim of this conference is “to generate increased understanding of inclu-sive communities addressing edu-cation, work places, public places and transportation”. This confer-ence included speakers from the government, corporates, civil so-ciety, and educational institutions. This also gave the much-needed impetus to the organisers where they got to share various success stories and helped form the foun-dation to the campaign by setting a 5-year agenda to bring about vari-ous changes in the system, helping our society become more inclusive to a very large number of people of our country.
To be a part of this campaign, you can meet your CSA representative or visit the CSA office (Christ University, Block 1)
- Antara Bhattacharya
BASKETS OF PRIDEWith the ‘Chri Spo Fest 2011’ around the corner, there is a lot of focus on the basketball team. Christ basketball team was the top team in Karnataka till last year. However nothing can be predict-ed for this year. Four main play-ers have passed out of college and hence will not be a part of the team. Also the team could not get proper replacements since only two new players joined the main team this year. The present team is compara-tively weaker than the last year’s team. Mr. Ravindranatha B.K., the Director of Sports however feels that the present team can perform well. Further he said, “This is not
the right time to assess the pre-sent team. We can comment after the team has played a few tourna-ments. However, proper training is being provided to the players.”
The present team will be partici-pating in the SSN Trophy tourna-ment in Chennai, which is sched-uled a week before the ‘Chri Spo Fest 2011’.Good luck to the basketball team for all the tournaments!
- Sanesh Mathew
The felling of the trees on the sides of the Sankey Tank Bund Road has led to many commoners joining the battle against the loss of green peace. One among them is Brikesh Singh.
Brikesh Singh, a 31 year old resi-dent of Richmond Road, is a ten year veteran of environmental ac-tivism. He has records in climbing tall buildings across the globe to help the common men understand the consequences of the state’s de-velopmental activities. Singh was arrested by the UK police for scal-ing the Parliament in London. He also climbed a 260 feet chimney of a power plant in West Bengal to protest against the acquisition of forests for coal mining. Along with fellow Green Peace activist Shiva, Singh aims to gather more support to stop the government from the felling of more trees at the Sankey Tank road. Singh uses his skill to climb buildings and trees to spread the awareness to save the greenery. However if the felling of trees in Bangalore continues, then there will be no future for the garden city. Heroes, like Brikesh Singh, are doing their best to save the green and are a source of inspira-tion for commoners like us to join the battle and save the remaining greenery.
- Sanesh Mathew
PEOPLE FOCUS :Brikesh Singh
Brikesh Singh at the “No Trees, No Fu-ture” Campaign
Namma Bengaluru as it is so popularly called has always been known as the Garden City, and not without reason, Cubbon Park and Lal Bagh have always been an at-traction.
However, we should also not ne-glect the scenes which in its own right want Bangalore to be stripped of its glorious name. The Garden City. Bangalore, being the capital of the state and being
the IT capital of the country or the Silicon Valley of our nation, attracting people, both tourists and corporates around the world, should focus on keeping the city spick and span and
creating a mind blowing first im-pression. Alas, that is not the case.Lets focus on Hosur Road. The same road which has prestigious educational institutions, hospi-tals, and entertainment centers.The road has many bus stops, an-other amazing thing about the city, its bus service. But, the bus stop I am talking about is the one next to Ghousia college. Being a Christite, and as a bus traveller, that is the stop I get down as every day. I pass a temple, and then Ghousia, before reaching my college. The small commute shocks every day. There are large amounts of dirt strewn
around, spit marks on the foot path, cigarette remains, papers, plastic covers, leftover food, water bottles and so many other things act as showpieces to enhance the “beauty” of the street. It is plainly repulsive. Athithi Devo Bhava is the tag line of the department of Indian tourism, it talks about how guests are considered like Gods visiting and must be treated well. And that should include maintain-ing cleaner streets and therefore, a cleaner city!
And not just tourists, our city must be clean for us. We walk those streets every day. We inhabit these areas. We call this city home. So, let us not be silent on this one and actually go out
there and do something which for the city we love!
- Anketha Jagadesh Raman
The Garden City!
Waste Management refers to the collection, processing, recycling, transport, and monitoring of waste products. Another application of the waste management is to recov-er the various resources from it. It involves the management of solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes.
There are two kinds of wastes Solid Waste and Liquid Wastes..Wastes if not managed wisely affects our health,our socio economic conditions,affects our coastal and marine environment,and most im-portantly affects our climate..
According to NAS GHG’s are ac-cumulating in Earth’s atmosphere as result of human activities, caus-ing global mean surface air tem-perature to rise..Rising global
temperatures are expected to raise sea levels and change precipita-tion and other local climatic con-ditions..this could affect human health,animals and many other types of ecosystems.
The purpose of this unit is to make students aware of the amount of trash they generate, the problems that result, and possible solutions. Students should investigate house-hold trash, biodegradability, pack-aging, and recyclying.
REDUCE WASTE.Reduce office paper waste by im-plementing a formal policy to du-plex all draft reports and by making training manuals and personnel information available electroni-cally. Switch to reusable transport containers. Redesign packaging to eliminate excess material while maintaining strength.
REUSE.Reuse corrugated moving boxes internally. Use durable towels, ta-blecloths, napkins, dishes, cups, and glasses. Use incoming pack-aging materials for outgoing ship-ments
WHAT SHOULD BE DONE..Donate or exchange old books,old clothes,old computers,excess building materials and so on....Education campaign on waste management that includes an ex-tensive internal web site, quarterly newsletters, daily bulletins, pro-
<<<<<TOWARDS THE GREEN MILE>>>>>
motional signs and helpful refer-ence labels within the campus of an institution.
PREVENT WASTE by packag-ing waste reductions and bring-ing changes in the manufacturing process,and USE biodegradable materials.
-Atriya Ghosh
TRANSTALKIES
This week, at TransTalkies, a docu-mentary named Nero’s Guests was screened on 22 July at Seminar Hall. The movie was based upon farmer suicides in India and the Chief Guests for the event were Dr. BN Wiswanath, an ex member of Board of Regents, UAS in Banga-lore and Nirmala Govindrajan, Chief Copy Editor, Times of India, Bangalore. The movie’s duration was one hour followed which was the Chief guests interaction with the audi-ence. There were various issues that were brought to the forefront through this movie and the sole purpose of screening this mov-ie was to bring about awareness amongst people and to initiate a call for action.
The title of the movie is inspired by the story of an ancient roman em-peror named Nero and one of the biggest parties thrown by him that Rome had ever seen. For the guests to enjoy at night he brought sev-eral prisoners and criminals and
burnt them alive for illumination. The movie metaphorically rep-resents the illumination done by Nero with the ruling classes in In-dia who pursued business friendly policies while cruelly neglecting the farmers and the poor.
After the movie screening, the Chief Guests addressed the gath-ering while discussing some of the facts about farmer suicides in India and Dr. BN Wiswanath initiated a discussion so as to find a solution to this problem, how it could be dealt with and what could be the possible solutions that could help India and its government deal with the situation, helping the farmers and their families come out of the pathetic conditions that they are forced to live in. The questions that remain unan-swered are whether these move-ments will bring about any chang-es in the way society views this problem and how can one at an individual level help to curb this problem in India?
- Ritika Singh
Is your life tragic? If yes, You might win an academy award!!
After years of curiousity, I finally decided to crack the code, and made an effort to watch this great ancient Indian Classic in our very own Transtalkies. While I was still trying to recuperate from the post-movie blues after watching the epic, I began to analyse the anatomy of the awards. This did involve mas-sive research, every page related to the academy in wikipedia, and imdb (internet movie database). I started to develop a formula, based on obvious observable patterns.
Before I break down the “formu-la”, a brief summary of the plot of Mother India. Mother India is a melodrama, about the INDIAN NAARI, Radha Devi, played by Nargis Dutt, a poverty-strick-en woman who raises her sons through many trials and tribula-tions. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code, to overcome poverty, her marital problems, and the whole movie is an exhibition of sorrow interspersed with one woman’s sense of morality. Phew.
Now how has this influenced the jury of THE OSCARS? GRIEF.
Now this is an aspect which strikes the right chord with the adjudi-cators.Any feature presentation that showcases grief, pain and Suffering, holds an uncanny edge over any other genre.Death of the protagonist reinforces advantage. These observations are made con-sidering the very history of the awards.
The protagonist although differ-ently abled, possesses unequalled
The Oscar Code
Dr. BN Wisvanath and Nirmala Govin-darajan at Transtalkies
This week @ Transtalkies
Movie: Red Beard
Genre: International
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Presented by Dept of Media Studies
talent at playing ping-pong like Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) or counting cards (Dustin Hoffman in Rainman) has got more chance of winning it than anyone else. Not fiction, FACT.
Also, an actor/actress has an edge if he/she,
(a) Agrees to bare all,
(b) Portrays the problems caused due to same sex attraction,
(c) As a person who is just in a real bad medical condition and in a soon-to-perish state,
(d) Abuser of Drugs.
Kate Winslet in The Reader, Hilary Swank in Boys Dont Cry & Mil-lion Dollar Baby, Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Capote, Sean Penn in Milk, so forth! All of them who went back home with the piece of gold. A movie with a tragic climax, is assured a place in the awards’ history books. Like Gladiator, There will be blood, Titanic.
Movies that made it big at 2011 ACADEMY AWARDS.
Black Swan, a movie about a ballet dancer who wins the lead in “Swan Lake” and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess
Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan. Natalie Portman (Nina Sayers) loses her mind, wins the prize.
The King’s Speech, the story of King George VI (Colin Firth) of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech thera-pist who helped the unsure mon-arch become worthy of it. Speech impaired, yet delivers the King’s Speech, ascends the throne. Colin Firth ascended the stage and de-livered the acceptance speech, and it did run away with a few other bests.
The Fighter, a look at the early years of boxer “Irish” Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his crack-addict brother (Christian Bale), who helps train him before going pro in the mid 1980s. Christian Bale didn’t exactly have to box his way to the stage, it was WRITTEN. Needless to say Slumdog Million-aire and a handful others.Co-inci-dence? Unlikely.
Lets just conclude by saying if you really want to impress the judges don’t hesitate to throw in a bit of misery, probably kill the leads, you know, you get the picture. Peace!
