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TEAM JOUR

ADVISORY TEAM

Coordinator : Gaurav Sahu

Assistant Coordinator :Gaurav Sachan

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Srirupa Chatterjee

Dr. S.Harinipriya

EDITORIAL TEAM

Chief editor: Faizy Ahsan

Co-editor: Akshay Harikumar

CONTENT TEAM

Writer : Rishi Ayyer

Journalist : Deepak

Gupta, Koganti Nishant

Designer : Dushyant

Pratap Singh ,

Ajay Monga

FEEDBACK TEAM

Ranveer Singh

Naveen Khandelwal

PUBLISHING TEAM

Ankit Saraswat

Zubin Sortee

Faculty Advisor Dr. Bhavana Shivu

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Faizy Ahsan (left to right )

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MEMOIRS

Volume 2, Issue 2

JOUR’10 attempts to bring before you the academic and extra-

curricular activities that kept us by this year in a fun-filled,

entertaining new avatar.

We have introduced lots of new columns including “Achievers”

and “My Say”. Rishi and Ranu provide giggles galore. Due to

the overwhelming number of activities in IITJ, our previous is-

sue missed some of the moments. Therefore, we decided to

include them here. Like Nimble’10, still fresh in everyone’s

mind, gets a look in, while the photo editing workshops held

last semester have also been put to good use.

We thank Prof. P. K. Kalra, Dr. Bhawna Shivu, Dr. Harinipriya,

Dr. Shrirupa and our batch mates for their active involvement

in bringing out JOUR’10.

As always, we welcome your views, comments, suggestions

and especially your criticism!! .

The Editor

Team Jour

Editor’s note...

Jour specials:

Happy Go Lucky…………...9

My Say………………………..13

Benefits of Short

Height……….……………......17

Memoirs………………...…….22

Jour Reports:

Future Prospective of

IITJ……………………………..……………...1

Poll……………………………………………..2

Industrial Visit to Kansara Roller-

Bearing Mills..............................................6

Achievers………………………………….....7

Industrial Visit To “RAJASTHAN

UDYOG”………………………………………12

Glimpse……………………………………….15

Nimble’10..…………………………………...16

Spandan………………………………………19

Contributions:

A Journey Delayed by 15

hours………………………………….….3

Food Allergies in Children….……..4

Who Am I………………………….…….5

Good-Bye….……………………………11

Why……………………………………….21

CONTENTS

WHY??

Dukh Mein sumiran sab karre

Sukh Mein Karre na koi,

Jab Dukh ussi ke naam se aaye,

Toh bhala kisko sumiray koi.

Lying there was a man,

with a red river spilling through his throat,

things for who did not go as he had planned

His throat was vaguely visible,

As it was covered in a gray-beard.

I thought he might have done something wrong,

and thus somebody ended his song,

Oh! but I was wrong, I was in an illusion,

The real reason was absurd, it was his religion!!!!!!!!!

Things have become lame,

People not only pray but kill in His name.

Look at the images of Gujarat uproar

And I promise you, you won't be able to sleep anymore.

Hitler is better than those fools,

His intention were at least to do good for his country,

But these bastards are not only destroying this beautiful nation,

but also tainting the future generation.

When I was a child, I was asked to pray God,

I thus prayed him.....,God! please stop what's happening on your earth

He then looked me and simply yawned!

And it was from then that my faith in Him was lost.

Looking at this world and how all things are flawed,

even this atheist is thus forced to tell....Oh My God!!!!

Pray, my friends, and tie yourselves in a knot

and thus be Blessed by your God.....

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Chetan Bhati

IIT Rajasthan, being a new institu-

tion, has a great opportunity of em-

ploying newer and modern thoughts in

its every aspect. Whether it is the in-

terdisciplinary curriculum of academ-

ics or state-of-art laboratories or sensi-

tivity for environmental issues, it is

taking a different approach as com-

pared to most educational and re-

search institutions in the country. In

the same spirit, it has rather uncon-

ventional areas of research where

work will be done in near future.

Here is the brief introduction about

these.

In the first place Center of Excellence

(CoE) for energy and information

and communication technology

has been set up. The Primary empha-

sis in these two fields is to provide effi-

cient technical solution taking into ac-

count various social and economic fac-

tors across the country so that technol-

ogy can be used to its fullest potential.

Center of excellence for information

and communication technology has

underlined development of low cost de-

vices as its main motto. It is crucial

point looking at the large population of

India with small income. It will propa-

gate information revolution to the

much bigger lower middle class of In-

dia, giving them an opportunity to im-

prove their life.

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Future Prospective of IIT Rajasthan

CoE will be looking for low cost net-

working solutions, access devices, e-

healthcare projects like distant patient

checkup, embedded systems and

biomimetic.

Under this motive IIT Rajasthan has

undertaken MHRD on project. It is go-

ing to test multimedia enabled tablets/

laptops costing as much as $35. The

project is expected to start in January

2011. One Lac such devices will be

supplied for various tests.

CoE in energy aims to become a world

class R&D facility in the field of non-

conventional renewable energy re-

sources. Being located in Jodhpur so-

lar energy is one of the obvious and

most promising areas which can be ex-

ploited extensively. Therefore, IITJ

has marked 200 acres of land where a

solar energy farm will be established

in near future. In addition to a virtual

lab for testing devices, electric vehicles

powered by solar energy and material

development for solar cells are also

planned under this CoE.

(A report by Ajay Monga)

POLLS- THE VOICE OF IIT J

Here is a poll conducted among the 3rd year students regarding the elective courses given to them. This poll was conducted without any bias and we hope that it will re-

flect the general opinion of our pioneer batch.

COURSE NAME CREDITS (out of 5)

Introduction to Management 4.1

Neuroscience 3.0

Advanced Graph Theory 3.2

Biomedical Engineering 2.6

Renewable Energy 2.6

Machine Learning 3.1

SPANDAN @ 2K10 by Gaurav Sahu

This year the cult council of IIT J really outsmarted the odds through their coordinated efforts as

they successfully pulled together a spectacular show of cultural programs touching every genre.

Ranging from ―bollywood tambola‖ to ―fashion show‖, ―antakshari‖ to ―dumb charades‖, ―poker‖ to

―proxy‖, the fest ensured the involvement of all and sundry, thus making the endeavour a super hit.

But the efforts behind this success are worth mentioning and applauding. With

a budget hovering around the 10,000 mark, our event coordinators made it sure that every penny was

put into count. The decoration, the prizes , the paraphernalia etc were in fact, managed so well and

with such frugality that the low-budget factor never even came to the scene.

With participation from every single individual, the battle for acquiring the top

three spots was fought hard by every block. But it was ―alligators‖ who outsmarted others and

emerged as winners, followed by ―sparks‖ and ―freaks unleashed‖.

After three days of fun and entertainment, the fest has given the technocrats a

breeze of fresh air and a bouquet full of sweet smelling flowers that will be smelled and relished by us

for years to come. Here are some snapshots-

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Digi Rumble

type: competition

coordinators: Himanshu and Tejaswi

judge: prof. Rajiv Srivastava

This event was on the design of a casino slot machine

using electronic ICs.

Though brought up to us as a very simple problem state-

ment by Himanshu, it turned out to be a herculean task

to complete the circuit. This was evident from the fact

that only 8 of the 12 selected teams showed up with only

4 of the groups having working circuits.

Looking on the brighter side, many of the participants

learnt a lot from this event. I believe, Himanshu was suc-

cessful in at least spurting some interest in .

Interesting things happened during the judging proce-

dure. Snacks was brought for the judges, half way

through the event, some of our friends (I'd rather not

quote them) were more inclined at having the snacks

rather than winning the game. At the end almost all the

snacks was eaten up with nothing left for the judges.

On the whole , I would say, the event was successful. It

gave an introduction to students in Electronics. But as a

participant, I strongly advice the co-ordinators to get bet-

ter equipments the next time.

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Winners of Robotics Event


unctuality, the virtue admired by

all of us is almost absent in In-

dian Railways. It was the day when

I was to leave Varanasi for Dhanbad.

The train was to arrive at 9:00p.m.It

was initially delayed by 10 hrs. This

meant that there was going to be no

trace of train no. 3308 till 7 am.

At least!

I returned home only to be back at the

station at 6 am on the next day. There

I learnt that there was a further de-

lay of 2 hrs.

Winter nights usually extend upto 7

a.m. Inspired by Harsh Mander ,I took

this opportunity to observe the dark

underbelly of city residing on plat-

forms.

Most beggars were sleeping at that

time. Some were awake, ready to start

a new day.

I overheard a conversation among a

group of 3 beggars.

Beggar 1: Hurry up you two bozos.

Mahanagri Express is about to arrive

in 10 minutes.

Beggar 2(shocked):What? Let’s move to

platform 4 soon. It carries a lot of

passengers and foreign tourists too.

Beggar3:OK.Then we will head for

Rajdhani on platform 1,it also pours

in a lot of tourists.

Beggar1:Good! Each one of us will make

about 300-400 today.

They moved swiftly to platform 4.

My mind echoed their words. My God!

Begging provides one Rs.300 a day.

P

Journey Delayed by 15 hrs

Damn it. Is this what Harsh Mander

called ‘the dark underbelly? No work

altogether! Just go to people ,cry and

pocket the money! They don’t even seem

to care about their future genera-

tions. They drag them also into it.

One could make a decent living with

300 rupees in a city like Varanasi.

Where do they spend the whole money?

An announcement broke my thought proc-

ess. The train was further delayed by

3 hrs. It meant a total delay of 15

hrs.3308 would arrive only at 12 noon.

I yawned and curse Indian Railways.

Again.

Suddenly, I was worried about my lug-

gage. I had forgotten about it during

the whole process. Thank-fully, it was

safe near the bench some yards away.

Nobody had touched it.

A child beggar came to me, begging for

a rupee. I chided him and moved on.

* * *

Abhash Kumar Singh

Who to blame ??????

mone and other additives in milk in the US etc.

We completely switched to organic foods and

fresh dairy products. I started making my own

butter and ghee from the cream of cow‘s milk. I

ran my house hold the way my Grand-Mom ran

it in the 70‘s when I was a small child.

In addition, my child underwent a year of Yoga

therapy and ayurveda therapy with a lot of food

restrictions and is perfectly healthy now. Inter-

estingly, since his older brother was very fond of

running and participated in Hyderabad 10 K

runs, my younger one too showed interest and

completed a 10 k run when he was 8.

I am convinced that no traces of Asthma now

remain and his lungs are not compromised at

all. I also believe that it is more than the air we

breathe, the food we eat that is responsible for

asthma and allergies, so beware of what you and

your family eats.

* * *

In 1995 after completing my Ph.D., I moved to

the US from India to continue post-doctoral re-

search. I moved with a perfectly healthy infant

and gave birth to another baby in 1998 in Santa

Cruz California.

My second child was

perfectly healthy un-

til I nursed him for

about a year. There-

after he started to be

consistently sick and

his diet consisted of

cow‘s milk available

in gallons in the US

grocery stores. At the

age of two and a half

doctors declared my

child with chronic asthma and prescribed inhaled

medications both broncho-dialators and steroids.

His symptoms were consistent cough, fortu-

nately he never got breathless. By the time my

child was three and a half he had compromised

growth and no energy to play with children of his

age.

I then decided to move back to India. I then

started monitoring my child closely and noted

down all the things he ate and drank and started

eliminating food items that increased his cough. I

figured out that my child was highly allergic to

coke and pepsi, he got severely breathless upon

ingesting these items (which according to swami

Ramdev are poisons and toilet cleaners). He was

also very allergic to colored candy and drinks. In

milk we figured out that he was allergic to pas-

teurized milk available in India and also Buffalo

milk. He was perfectly fine with cow‘s milk that

our milkman delivered everyday fresh without

pasteurization and we boil it every-day before

drinking.

We slowly eliminated all food items from our

diet, including colors, preservatives, pesticides,

oxytocin in Buffalo‘s milk in India , growth hor-

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FOOD ALLERGIES IN CHILDREN

Dr. Bhavana Shivu

“20% of children

growing up in the

richest country on

earth United State

of America suffer

from Allergies and

Asthma.“


Here is a brief report on Nimble‘10 by Koganti Nishanth.

Chat with sci-tech. secy

Ankit Goyal, the newly elected sci-tech secy was on

cloud 9 after the recent success of Nimble-10. The JOUR

team had a rendezvous with him and dug out some inter-

esting tit-bits

Q:Nimble was a great success. What was your inspira-

tion behind this fest?

A:The need for such a fest was the inspiration behind it.

Recently when Techkriti ‗10 took place, many of our col-

lege student wanted to participate, but were simply

scared of the competition .This fest created the right tune

of competition which brought out the new talent amongst

us.

Q:How did the name ‗Nimble‘ come about?

A:The name Nimble means the ‗mobility‘ and the

‗curiosity to learn‘ which is the very aim of this fest. An

alternate name to this fest was ―sci-tech Kridansh‖. This

was very popular in sci-tech council this is how we called

it until in it‘s primitive stage. The name Nimble was se-

lected after a lot of screening.

Q:What do you have to say about the student participa-

tion in Nimble?

A:Awesome!!!Just awesome! The participation was way

more that we expected. I would like to talk about the

sports quiz, this event had nearly half of IIT Rajasthan

participating and at some point it became very difficult

to co-ordinate the event. The fest proves the interest of

the student body towards the sci-tech activities.

Q:according to you which event is most awaited by you?

A:[he answers after a long pause] I would say rendezvous

with stars ****this event was such that it would show

very boring things in a interesting way. Sadly it got can-

celled due to the clouds. The scientific journalism work-

shop was also a great event. M.K. jolly had actually left

me thinking about journalism as a career option.

Q:How is your experience as a sci-tech secy so far?

A:firstly I would like to thanks all my friend who have

lent their cycles to me. My job would have been impossi-

ble without them. The council selected by Brian is simply

awesome, they made my job fun. In the past few days I

have learnt a lot of new things like booking a

tent ,funding matter.

NIMBLE „10

Q:finally,your message to the student body?

A:enjoy the last few days of the IIT kanpur campus to the

fullest .IIT jodhpur requires all your support in building

a new IIT.as for the sci-tech in the next council .it is my

aim to have inter-college fest .this is only possible with

your encouragement. I would end by thanking you all to

make Nimble a great success.

Scientific Journalism Workshop

type : workshop

Speaker : M.K. Jolly [ex- president ,IITK]

This 3 hr long workshop was an introductory session on

the basics of journalism. The speaker, M.K. Jolly, is a

very talented person who has a keen interest in journal-

ism. The workshop comprised of 4 section where various

modes of journalism were taken up. One particular ses-

sion was the parliamentary debate. The whole crowd was

divided in two houses and we had to debate on a National

issue. This had turned out to be a very interesting ses-

sion, things started going haywire soon after starting.

The debate got so heated up that eventually speaker had

to step in to stop us. Another interesting session was

where each of the two groups had to prepare on adver-

tisement on a vegetable. A very funny act by

Dibyadeepta Mishra (ex-cult secy) had left us all laugh-

ing our heads off.

On the whole, the workshop was hit. It left many of us

seriously considering scientific Journalism as a profes-

sion.

Volume 2, Issue 2

Hi… I might be just 152 cm tall, but I‗m still taller than Napoleon Bonaparte. I live with

the assumption that except for my height, all other essential things are quite big in me.

"Hamari taareef jara lambi hai". You may not believe this at first sight.

The first time I realized that I am really short was when I was 11. I was kicked out of

home to Navodaya. At that time I was only 117cm tall. All seniors used to tease me. But

girls used to kiss me, and I was the only boy who ever visited the girls‗ hostel. Now I real-

ize how sweet those days were…

At break fast I was allowed to take 3-4 glasses of milk. At the age of 16 I grew to 152cm

and that's how tall I am today. But I‗m still hopeful of growing further.

On 11th Feb , 2006 I shaved for the first time and that day I realized that "ab moochen hi badhengi height nahi". Then life took a turn. I

was selected for the Regional Math Olympiad. Although

I was not able to solve even a single question and just sat there eating samosas in

that 4 hrs exam, I think from that day I was the focus of attention among my class-

mate girls and I made my first virtual girlfriend. That was an awesome feeling!

Body maintenance is directly proportional to body surface

area!!!

During my coaching days in Kota most of the people recognized me by my short

height (abnormal insect). And that favored me a lot. Almost all were my friends.

Sometimes, classes were over crowded. But it did not matter to me-I always got a

seat, on the laps of others. And the same thing hap-

pens during journey by bus or train (Howdah-

Jodhpur) in general compartment without any

ticket. May be due to my small surface area Al-

though I have immense stamina and can stand

calmly for several hours I always enjoy my small seat.

Then the little champ entered the unknown world of IIT. Except few things al-most

my life almost remains the same as before. Here too I am allowed 3-4 bananas during

lunch by Yogendra Bhaiya. Lack of girls and tortures by a few Mug-gas (supernatural

insects) are my biggest worries here.

My centre of gravity is close to earth so I can easily balance my body, which greatly

helps me in sports. During inter-IIT 2009 boys were worried

about their girlfriends but while I was running I could easily

hear the noise from a group of girls saying ―OOH, WHAT A

CUTE LITTLE RUNNER!‖

I am very fond of stealing things in front of people‗s eyes… I don‗t like to buy daily use items.

So please don‗t search for me at SHOP C. I never leave any eatables in others almirrah. For

any discomfort caused, I am really sorry (especially to RAHUL JAIN, PRIYA,, RAJ and

KSHITIZ). This is my talent. All due to my small body...

A message:

Short people have more benefit than taller ones .Taller ones are more prone to

injuries. Most of you would have the notion that girls usually go after taller ones… but that's not

correct… Since 9th I have made 4-5 girl friends... while KEJRI ,CHEPAR,SURAJ and MORENA

are still waiting...

(TO BE CONTINUED….IT’S JUST A START)

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Benefits of short height

Ranu (Ranveer Singh)

I wished to be free,

my wings were clipped,

before I even had the chance,

to fly, I had slipped.

I wished to live ,

but I was thrown away,

even when I survived,

I was killed every day.

I wished to be loved ,

but they gave me hate,

cold glares and beatings,

IS this my fate??

who am I,

lost without identity,

I became instrument of election,

reduced to charity.

I am that baby girl,

killed by the father,

for want of a boy,

Does anybody bother??

I am that couple,

killed for worthless honor,

one full of love,

dealt with cold demeanor.

I am that father,

thrown out by the son,

Running post to pillar,

Where's the pension???.

I am that child,

overworked knuckles white,

the overburdened hands,

which really want to write.

I am the woman,

crying for justice,

RAPE, DOWRY, INFANTICIDE,

wanting only peace ...

I am that brother ,

pitted against for religion,

aren't we all Indians,

mother Earth's son.

Who Am I

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I am that Mahatma,

who fought for peace,

these fight, these riots,

did I die for this.

I am that country,

which bled to be free,

I still tear my heart out,

this is not what i was to be.

I am still that bird,

which wanted to fly,

as I lay dying,

WILL ANYBODY TRY????

DDMishra

(Dibya Deepta Mishra, 3rd year)

By D. Vijay Kumar

The students of IIT Rajasthan, who were in Jodhpur for the summer internship during the months

of June-July 2010, had an interesting I.V. to Kansara Roller bearing mills .

Kansara Mills, is about half an hour from GPRA Residential Campus, IIT Rajasthan. Students left

for the Mills mid-morning after breakfast under the supervision of Prof. B. Ravindra and Prof. Amit

Neogi by buses. On reaching there, the Head of the mills gave the students a brief introduction of the

company, and its history as an international standard bearing manufacturer. He also laid down brief

ground rules on behavior inside the mills. The students were then broken into 3 groups and taken to

different parts of the Mills.

The first part was where the long steel rods, imported from France, were stored in huge godowns.

Then these long rods were cut into smaller pieces. Each piece was then taken and cut into still

smaller pieces in the cutting machines. They were then heated and rounded. Each piece was then

melted in a furnace, and cooled back in great containers of oil. Then they are polished on the side and

top, thoroughly in such a way that the difference is felt even to human touch.

Then the students were shown the machines which checked the purity and tensile strengths of the

raw material. These machines were highly advanced and highly maintained. The third part of the

Mills were where they increased the accuracy of the radii etc. At the end of the machine lines were

the machines which checked the defects in manufacturing. Even in a batch of 1,00,000 pieces, they

could detect only a few defective pieces. The quality of the production was quite high.

The students were then given refreshments and they attended a seminar on PaniPuriSoft, a daugh-

ter company of Kansara, which was involved in software development for the OLPC program. They

also developed software platforms for Apple iPods and iPhones and Android platforms.

After the seminar, the students left back to GPRA for lunch with a great experience of actual ma-

chine functioning.

(A report by The Arktik Writer)

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Industrial Visit to Kansara Roller-Bearing Mills

(Summer, 2010) ity‘10. They are also on the Institute‘s website

designing team.

Jour: What kind of event was it and why you?

Ankit: In web development we had to improve

the given site while in web designing input

was given and we were required to build

the site. Ours was a mixture creativity,

professional and we had a lot of experi-

ence in web designing.

J: Your competition‘s web site was a copy cat

of IIT J‘s site . Your comments?

A: I agree. But this site is also designed by us.

So, we used our work only.

J: What was your experience?

A: Their event was very weakly organized . In

the future, our fest won‘t have those errors,

at least.

MICROCONTROLLER

PROGRAMMING

Tejaswi, Arjun Pandian and Prashant Garg were

second in this event of Vivacity‗10. Under this

event they had to light LEDS . After that they

had to light them in a particular pattern. Inter-

estingly, they all did this programming with

nothing but their prior knowledge of C.

BOTS

Three idiots- Sandeep, Ravinder and Faizy

(then 2nd year)got first prize in autonomous flag

picking event of Vivacity‗10 in february.

Let‗s see how..

This semester is embarked by a lot of

achievements in IIT J, be it a techfest,

cultfest etc. Here we bring a brief report

on that.

Inter-IIT Sports Meet

Electrifying performances of our sports persons

were one of the integral part of Inter IIT ‗09.

Wheteher it be volleyball or athletics event we

rocked everywhere. We were among top positions

in new IITs. Bronze medals won by Priya Ran-

jani Das in long jump(2008), 400m event (2009)

and by Swathi Manda in Discus Throw(2009)

were the pinnacle of our performance.

BRAND PUBLICIA

Shivansh bagged the first prize in this event of

Vivacity‗10 , at LNMIIT Jaipur. The event was

about advertising strategy and unique selling

proposition.

CRICKET TEAM ROCKS!!!

IIT J‗s cricket team has improved by leaps and

bounds. The team had been receiving a lot of

stick recently, but they responded in spectacular

fashion, winning three consecutive matches -

against Hall 9, IIT K staff Team and Hall 4 in

semester 2 of 2009-10.

WEBSTERS !!!

IIT J has got three web freaks- Ankit Saraswat,

Vaibhav and Ankur Khandelwal (now 3rd

year). They won the first prize in web develop-

ment and third prize in web designing at Vivac-

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ACHIEVERS

GLIMPSE

This semester has been great in all terms. Lot of participation was witnessed and a big Krakatoa of tal-

ents erupted. Here is an attempt to recap those moments.

On August 14, 2010, the newest batch of the college was welcomed into the student fraternity. Just two

weeks after they first arrived at the college as doe-eyed 'bachchas', the juniors put up a show of talent

that left most of the audience stunned. Freshers' 2KX definitely left the freshers with indelible memories

and, in many cases, nicknames that will last the entire course of their college life.

At the eve of Krishna Janmashtami, students organized ‗matki phodo‘ which released a gush of excite-

ment. While the auspicious day of Eid-ul-Fitr was tasted with ‗sheer-khurma‘. On Teachers day, first

ever ‗nukkad natak‘ of IITJ was performed in front of the Director and other faculty members, which

apart from being a great entertainment highlighted some significant social causes too.

Coming to social causes, students went a step ahead and a Blood Donation Camp was put up which

turned out to be a huge success & also received considerable appreciation from all staff members ,which

this effort indeed deserved. A total of 137 donors donated which sums to approximately 48 litres of blood.

On Independence Day, hoisting of the national flag was organized. Our beloved Director did the honors

and the program was concluded with the distribution of sweets amongst students.

The Films & Media council was not going to stay back, in IITJ.For the first time ever , open area films &

live cricket was put up which the students enjoyed a lot. Beside,a number of workshops were organized

and ‗panorama‘ was conducted by Dr. Alexandre which was the best event. Sci-Tech also did many lec-

tures.

Coming to sports , fifty of us went for carrying the Common Wealth Games torch which in itself brought

great honor to our institute.

(A report by D.P. & Faizy)

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Jour: What kind of event was it and why you?

Ravinder: We had to make an autonomous bot

which could pick flags while following a line.

Making a line follower was quite easy but engi-

neering its body was a difficult task. Lots of

things were to be considered, like preventing an

unpicked flag from hitting the wheels, etc.

Jour: Which part was difficult Mechanical, Elec-

trical or Programming?

Ravinder:(instantly) Mechanical !!!

This semester, Koganti Nishanth, Murali, Kiran

Kumar and Harsha of third year , breaking all

barriers went to Patiala for Nexus Navigators

which was conducted by IIT Bombay. It was re-

lated to swarm robotics.

Shortly, Kunal Chelani(2nd year), Amit

Patel, Ankit Agrawal, Kshitiz Bartariya and

Faizy Ahsan (all in 3rd year) joined the list. This

time it was Shaastra‘10 (IIT Madras). Competi-

tion was semi-autonomous robotics requiring a

manual and an autonomous bot.

Due to last time mishap both teams were

out of the last round. Nevertheless, performance

of both was superb and brought glory to IITJ by

representing her in techfests of such fame.

DRAMATICS

Almost all odds were against them . Even then

IIT J‘s drama team got second prize in drama

competition of Vivacity‘10. It‘s theme was ―Chori of Thakur’s Chaddi” List of actors and role played by them

Chetan Bhatsange ————— Bobby

Chetan Bhati ——————— Police

Nitin ———————— Judge

Ashwin ——————— Announcer

Jatin Rustagi ———— Crime Master Gogo

Feroz ————————Ghajini

Dibya ——————————Gabbar

Vinay —————————— Kalia

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RUBE GOLDBERG

IIT J‘s team JAVA got first prize in Rube Gold-

berg and Rube Goldberg

Cluster of Techkriti‘10

(IIT Kanpur).

Team Members– Lal

Chand Bisu, Faizy Ah-

san, Ankit Agrawal,

Amit Patel and Kshitiz

Bartariya(then 2nd

year).

Well the story continues. IITJ organized first

ever intra rube Goldberg event this semester.

New heroes were- Manvendra, Mayank, Manish,

Feroz, Hitesh and Vidyasagar (all sophomores) of

team Alligators who grabbed 1st position. Team

Blackjacks and Lucifers were 2nd and 3rd, re-

spectively. Credits for this event goes to Lal

Chand, Tejaswi, Mayank and Kshitiz (3rd year).

Dr. Anupam Gupta, Dr. Ravindra and Dr. Vibhas

Adhikari were the judges.

I G NOBLES

Ankit Saraswat (Saadesaat) got second prize

in this event of Techfest‘10 (IIT Bombay).

In this event you had to design a hypothetical

machine which is impractical to use but if ap-

plied to real life then it would solve the problem

with cent percent efficiency. He designed an

alarm clock which instead of giving irritating

sound, will give a 230 v electric shock and you

can‘t opt for snooze ‗coz if you don't wake up in

first turn then in 2nd turn shock will not stop

and ultimately you will lose your life.

“almost all

materials used for

R G were from

scraps around

lecture hall

complex”


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(Episode : 1)

“Happy, WAKE UP!!”

My mom's constant tugging at the sheets irri-

tated me out of my slumber. A fitful sleep it had

been! I woke up, only to realize I was not in my

bedroom at home... I was in a hotel room, in

Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 50 hours away from my

home in Chennai, TN.

I was tired, after what seemed like days of

travel, and when was sleep ever enough for me?

:P

I was here, after crossing the toughest academic

barrier i would face in my life ,(or so they

say...), the IIT-JEE. I was here, to join the

IITian world. I had dreamt of this day for so

long... And I was 3 hours away from being in-

ducted to the greatest intellectual league in the

country at the graduate level. It was Orientation

Day at IIT Jodhpur…

Giving me company were my parents, and my

elder brother, Ankur, himself a third year stu-

dent of IIT Bombay. For the past 2 weeks, I had

been harassed to hell by him taunting IIT Jodh-

pur. But currently, it didn't make a difference to

me…

***

“Lucky Bhaiyya...”, little Simi called out.

“Yes?” “Lucky bhaiyya, where does the

blue water end?”

I smiled... My kid sister was pointing to the

Arabian Sea, which stretched out below

her window. I said, "It ends when the water

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Happy Go Lucky

reaches

Africa. Remember the place we

saw the lion on Discovery?” She gazed out in

awe...

I turned to look at my parents. They were deep

in discussion about some serious topic. I

guessed it had something to do with me, the

way their eyes kept drifting towards my seat. I

gave my mom a questioning look and my mom

responded.

“Lucky, are you sure we won't be late? Its al-

ready 9:30!” My mom, always the perfectionist.

She had wanted to go a day earlier, but not a

minute too late! But my dad and me had re-

sisted, and won.

“But mom, the orientation's at noon, and the

campus is just an hour away from the airport.

Don’t worry, we'll be in time...”

My mom gave me a look of surrender, as if to

say, if-you-say-so. I shrugged. Life had always

been this way, right from my childhood in sub-

urban Mumbai.

***

Awesome! That was the only word that ran

through Happy's mind as he stood before

the imposing (for him) gate of IIT-J.

It was always an amazing experience for any

student of any IIT to take those first few

steps into HIS IIT as a student of the same.

This, would be home for the next four

years of his life. He couldn't believe it... Awe-

some!

As they walked along the main road, he could

see students bustling from one building to an-

other. “Busy guys”. There must be a lot of work

out here for the engineering students. But he

was prepared.

The Arktik Writer (Rishi Ayyer)

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My say...

?

AKANKSHA: The first sem was exciting ,but it kind of died out very soon. It still feels

like a school ,and there are lot of things which you feel could have been achieved but

haven‗t, due to lack of space among other reasons.

KIRAN: Life on campus must be rich and colorful. Despite the importance of classes ,I

need not devote my life only to that . Putting the knowledge to daily use must be given

importance. Learning and developing my abilities must be of the highest priority .

RISHI:

The first year was awesome!! And a perfect campus life is one

which is full of imperfections, fun and masti!!

ANK-IIT KARWASRA: There should be less tension, no one should dictate how stu-

dents live their life and we should be self dependent.

(Idea and design by ahk13)

Volume 2, Issue 2

My say...

AMOL: These two semesters have been extremely hectic. I feel that to enjoy college

life to the fullest there must be something exciting to do all year long, and some event

every month.

DADHICH: For me college is awesome. I‗ve been involved in a lot of activities. As for

academics I feel it‗s manageable and everyone‗s complaining only because they are

lazy.

SONAL: Campus life is not very good . I feel like I‗ve come to another

school . Classes ,projects and studies take up all of our time. It's very

boring here. The schedule is very hectic. In an ideal campus, the stu-

dents live and work as one, and there is flexibility in curriculum

AKASH: Well in my opinion the IIT system needs a total over haul. The current sys-

tem stresses out students so much that it is likely to lead to drastic consequences.

Students are really hard-pressed for time and cannot pursue their hobbies.

THE ANONYMOUS QUIBBLER (NAME WITHHELD ON RE-

QUEST):

Ideal campus life would be one where there aren‗t as many

classes, a three-day weekend ,sensible and useful subjects and

events every month.


The auditorium was a large white building, very

well designed and with amazing facilities. The

entrance path was surrounded with trees of vari-

ous hues of green.

Happy wondered at the greenery inside the cam-

pus. IIT J was indeed an oasis amidst a desert.

In a few minutes, he had walked into a com-

pletely new world which welcomed him with

open arms. A world he would learn to love, and

enjoy. They entered the auditorium well in time

for the Orientation.

***

'Oh! We will be late...', Lucky thought nerv-

ously as he sat in the back of the Tata Indigo,

which had come to pick them up at Jodhpur air-

port.

The air conditioner was in full swing, but he

was still sweating profusely, both, from nerv-

ousness and from the glowering glare he was

getting from his mom, sitting to his right. He

distracted himself by trying to make small talk

with Simi, who was too busy looking out the

window at the scenic city of Jodhpur. He could-

n't admire the beauty of the city now, but he

was sure he would later. His dad was busy chat-

ting with the driver, trying to find the best tour-

ist spots in the city.

The plane had landed an hour late. Thanks to Jet

set airways. And they hadn't even provided

lunch! And so now, hungry as they were, they

had no time to stop for lunch anywhere. In fact,

they were speeding along the roads at way

above 80 kmph, trying to reach the campus in

time. Lucky didn't know, that it would be one of

his many races against time in Jodhpur.

The car screeched to a halt in front of a large

white auditorium. The entire family rushed out

of the car at a frantic pace. Lucky grabbed a

handful of documents and took Simi's hand as

they ran into the building.

As they entered the main hall, the sight left

Lucky awestruck. The room was packed. He felt

goose bumps as he realized that 200 of the

country's top 8000 brains in the age group 17 to

19 were here, with their parents. There was an

amazing buzz in the air.. And his goose bumps

rose higher as another fact struck him.

He belonged here…

(Follow Happy and Lucky's weird

ways, and interesting adventures

in IIT, in the next

episode of Happy Go Lucky!)


T'was night and I was somber,

the darkness had seeped inside me,

slowly eating up my heart & mind,

it was closing victory.

Then I saw you and all was light,

the darkness crept out of my mind,

You, the light of my life,

You, my monotony's greatest blind.

The murky night sky,

filled up with rain,

my heart was yours,

never the same again.

From afar I have adored you,

never had the courage to tell,

even though the sight of you,

makes my heart ring a bell.

Love's really strange,

how hard one strives,

a glimpse of you is enough,

to last me a thousand lives.

still they say, it doesn't exist,

and i say 'please see',

i would gladly give my life,

to rest in your fond MEMORY.

People say, it's an illusion,

but then, I don't desire reality,

if being in love is devilry,

then I have no need of sanctity.

GOOD-BYE

you are in his arms ,

and I am left in the lurch,

yet I see you smile,

do I matter much?

they say, it doesn't exist,

but then what is this,

I adore you more and more,

even though you are his.

Maybe you and I,

were not meant to be,

but you being happy,

is enough for me to be in ecstasy.

I have loved you,

but you don't need to reply,

for my love is eternal,

and now I bid a last goodbye.

DDMishra

INDUSTRIAL VISIT TO “RAJASTHAN UDYOG”

Date:21.08.2010

Rajasthan Udyog is a medium scale industry in Jodhpur which manufactures a large number of castings,

stone cutting machines and diamond tools as per customers’ demands.

This industry was established in 1974 as a project and it grew well over the last four decades.

This industry manufactures castings weighing up to 10,000 kg and the main thing is that they give a lot at-

tention to the quality of castings manufactures by them.

They were having three basic units there for manufacturing their products:

Casting, Fabrication and Sintering.

1.Casting Unit: In the casting unit they manufacture their product using split and single molds of metal,

sand, wooden patterns, core boxes and the metal is poured using overhead cranes into the molds. After the

casting the metal particles which got mixed in the sand are taken out from it and used again but the used

sand is thrown away at a particular place. The reason for not recycling the sand and using it again is that

sand in Jodhpur is abundant. If they recycle the sand to use it again then cost is more.

2.Fabrication Unit: In the fabrication unit the castings are brought and machined,also all the defects are re-

moved from them. The defects are filled using the welding process but it depends on the customer whether

the product is accepted or not.

3.Sintering Unit: In the sintering unit tools for cutting stones and granites are made. For this purpose they

need very hard tools so, they mix diamond with metal in the powder form and make very hard tools for cut-

ting purposes.

They do the quality check in the following three steps-

(i) Before the heating and mixing of metals components are recorded.

(ii) When metal is being taken out of cupola, some amount of melted metal is taken out and processed to

check the proportion of the components.

If they start using induction furnace in place of cupola then this step is not needed because induction fur-

nace directly gives proportion and also they can cast products other than iron which right now they are not

able to do.

(iii) The casting obtained finally is checked so that there are no errors and the customer is satisfied with

them.

Improvement Possibilities:

They should start using more automaticity in their fabrication unit, it may improve their quality and effi-

ciency a lot more.

They should use Induction furnace in place of cupola because cupola does not work for other than iron

castings and it gives less efficiency in comparison to induction furnace.

Also, cupola uses coal as it's the fuel for burning which is also very harmful for the environment and the

people working around.In comparison,induction furnace uses electricity.

(A report by Rahul Jain)

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