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Enactus of Aryabhatta College celebrates its first ever Enactus Day 2016

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“If each one of us can make a difference, together, we can make a change.”
 
With this motto in mind Enactus, Aryabhatta College, an organisation formed just two months ago, celebrated its first ever Enactus Day on 24th October, 2016. The one-day event took place within the college campus and involved students from all over the University of Delhi.
 
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The main motive behind the Enactus Day was to conduct a fundraiser, for Enactus Aryabhatta’s initial project, i.e. ‘Project Shakti’. The project focuses on uplifting the standards of the backward and ignored sections of the society with the help of entrepreneurial actions by the students associated, with the main agenda of making rescued sex workers and Kabadiwalas financially independent.
 
The newly recruited team of Enactus Aryabhatta having a strength of 60 committed members was enthusiastically involved in the preparations for the event for almost over a month.
 
Enactus Day was a one of its kind event. It comprised of several stalls with ‘Best Out of Waste’ products on sale. These decorative and utility products were handmade by the team members themselves. Registers made out of one sided used sheets along with handmade items like photo frames, used denim jeans’ bags, earrings, herbal rangoli colours and painted glass bottles were up for sale. “We actually kept boxes all over the college in order to collect one-sided used sheets from the students, weeks before the event. A great response enabled us to make around hundred registers from the collected sheets, each having a trendy cover page.” said Shubham Verma, the General Secretary of Enactus Aryabhatta.
 
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“The products were a success. They made a large part of the revenue, as the people who purchased them had a sense of pride in their minds, contributing their bit towards a social cause. Even the faculty members including the Principal of the college came to the stalls and appreciated the products while purchasing them.” added Mayank Mittal, the Vice President of this team.
 
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The event also had some very successful game stalls which actually attracted a huge crowd and were an instant hit. These included games like the ‘Brick Bucket Challenge’, ‘Sorted’, ‘Cover the Spot’ and the ‘Golden Cup’. However, the main highlight of the event was the ‘The Scavenger Hunt’, which was a dual round mystery object race that involved the participants to be given clues, using which they had to find various objects ranging from car tyres to a candle within stipulated time duration. Dhruv Gupta, the organiser of the scavenger hunt said, “The participants were really enjoying themselves while they were searching for the objects though they were very competitive in doing so. We received a great response and an amazing feedback.”
 
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The event was also complimented by a special ‘Nukkad Natak’ by the Dramatics Society of Aryabhatta College, which was specially prepared for the Enactus Day. Themed upon Project Shakti, the play discussed the tormented story of young girls being forced into prostitution and leading a non-dignified and disrespectful lifestyle without any recognition from the society. Aman Grover, a first year BBE student added, “It was truly an excellent performance, as it made me refurbish my notions about these sex workers and the situations they face every day. I feel proud that being a member of Enactus, I am contributing towards this part of our society.”
 
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As the event progressed, products like decorative items were all sold out. The recycled registers were a hit as well since the entire college contributed for it, literally. The teachers in charge were also praising the efforts and the hard work of the entire team.
 
Tushar Sharma, President, concluded by conveying his thoughts, “I was very excited to see such a huge amount of crowd coming for our event. The event was successful since we have raised a sufficient amount of fund for our initial motive i.e. Project Shakti. We will now be focusing entirely on the project and will make sure that together we make a significant change towards the people of these communities.”
 
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Image Credits: Team Enactus Aryabhatta
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‘Third Year Bucket List’ for an introvert

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An introvert is a shy or reticent person, who is predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and is not bothered or hassled by external things. If this defines the person you innately are, or have been in the past two years of your college, then it’s time you tweaked things around a little.

Although being an introvert is perfectly acceptable, when you’re in the final year of college, a certain poignant realisation will come to you: there are so many opportunities that college life had to offer, but you missed out on most of them because you chose to stay your aloof self.

Yes, a welter of regret and remorse will then engulf your until now unperturbed existence. Suddenly, you’ll start doubting yourself and your choices: “Maybe I should have gone for the unofficial freshers’ party,” or “Maybe one night out from the hostel wouldn’t have hurt my credibility as much!” Before you think you’ve killed all your reasons for existence (drama queen!), do calm yourself by remembering that you still have half a semester, and then yet another one, to redeem yourself.

Here’s your official Bucket List. Get started!

1. Take a road trip
Even before Bollywood popularised the idea of road trips (Dil Chahta Hai and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara), taking a trip with your college friends was already a very collegiate thing to do. A road trip is symbolic of one’s new found freedom after leaving school and joining college. If you haven’t taken one in the last two years, now is the time to take one. Third Year road trips are even more grand, made better with the bitter sweet nostalgia and the sense of an era ending.

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2. Go clubbing!
You don’t have to drink. You don’t have to hook up with a stranger. All you have to do is put on some nice clothes and a fun attitude and head out to a club to dance and enjoy the ambience of a lounge! Also, to watch other people get drunk and act funny. And of course, get your sozzled friends safely back home.

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3. Buy designer wear
Delhi University is known for its fashionable crowd. Here, you’ll find students dressed in both branded couture and street fashion. As an introvert, you’ve probably spent college life picking up thrifty clothes. But for once, stop being stingy, give yourself a little moment of indulgence and buy something branded. It doesn’t have to be a formal dress or a suit and tie. It could be something as simple as a t-shirt. But buy it from a brand at the mall, not Sarojini Nagar. And then wear it with panache. You’ll get a serious high!

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4. Try out campus food
You’ve always been plucky about food- hygiene, quality, and price. But for once, let the prude in you take a back seat. Be adventurous; let go. Indulge in the fatty, calorie-dense, rich, yet price-wise cheap food that the many thriving restaurants and street hawkers in campus have to offer. You won’t fall sick or put on weight with a day or two of mindless feasting. So when there is nothing to lose, but much to gain, why not give it a shot?

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5. Bunk a lecture
The fact that you’ve never purposefully bunked a lecture, is, a shame. One lecture foregone won’t dent your immaculate attendance. So what are you waiting for? Like Nike says, ‘Just Do It!’

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Kriti Sharma
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More than a piece of Plastic: Your ID Card

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Today morning, as I was walking past my college gate, a rusty structure with some green shades- the security guard threw an odd look towards me. Both of us knew what he was thinking and what his look asked for. I took out my purse and showed him something to which he responded with a deep smile and waved his hands signaling me to go ahead. The thing that I showed him was a card with a deep blue head border with the logo of Delhi University, made up of hard plastic. Identity card, as it is popularly known has turned into something very basic to every student across the country. It is regarded as something not so important in a student life, but the trivial role it plays in everyone’s life is something worth discussing about. Some students hang it around their necks as if a piece of valor. Then there are those like me, who store it in a purse like a currency note. There are some who go forward to pin the cards in their belts as well.

The same day, our teacher reminded us about a test that was going to take place the next week. One of my friends then realised that he had to borrow some books from the library and had to regret as he hadn’t brought his Identity card with him. In the college campus, I-cards play a very important role from letting students within the college campus to accessing books in the college library. Even the college Wi-Fi form mentions, ‘Attach a photocopy of your college I-Card with the form.’ They have the power to win you freebies if you possess them during an election day. Every DU student realizes their power while getting entry into a popular college fest.

Outside the college campus, they come to your aid while claiming great student discounts after a wholesome meal at various restaurants. Be it a bulk photocopy or an entry in one of the parties with student discounts, your I-Cards are always there to your rescue.

For all the years anyone spends in a college or in a university, his/her I-Card remains an integral part of his/her life. After passing out from college, the same I-card that was was once used to enter into the college campus turns into a souvenir. It turns into a piece of memory that all of us would be carrying. The memory of all the fun that we did with our classmates, the fun of bunking a class and the fun of enjoying a new recipe every weekend at different restaurants and then claiming a student discount with our I-cards.

Next time you look at that little piece of hard plastic, remember it’s small contributions to make your student life better.

Srivedant Kar
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Vayam Performs ‘Syaahi’ at Akshara Theatre

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In the last ten years, the Vayam Performing Arts Society has been steadily growing and expanding its scope, gaining for itself both recognition and experience. What began as an idea in the canteen of Delhi University’s Shivaji College in 2006 has now over 500 productions and 180 awards and special performances to its name. And Vayam’s name, a Sanskrit word that translates to “we”, carries within itself the ideas that society hopes to embody – togetherness, social empowerment and integrity.

Expanding its scope further, Vayam organized a ten-day- long confluence of varied art forms and artists in March this year titled “Malang – The Performing Arts Festival”. Taking the initiative of promotion of artists and art forms forward, the society recently staged their much appreciated theatrical production ‘Syaahi’ at Akshara Theater in Delhi.

The plot of ‘Syaahi’ is an amalgamation of three stories – ‘Gidhade’, ‘Kutte’ and ‘Sakharam Binder’ by the renowned Indian playwright, Vijay Tendulkar. It is not exactly an adaptation of any of the stories. Rather, the characters and instances of the stories have been used to carve out a script which appears to be an excellent confluence of a few extracts of these plays. The three plays are cushioned with a fictional story that runs as the plot line.

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‘Syaahi’ is a fiction drawn on the canvas of factual instances. It tells the story of a budding writer whose writings are criticised, demeaned, denounced, and declared inappropriate. The writer digs up his life and brings out the darkest events to the pages. The book marks a huge success in his career and the writer emerges to be a potential source of income to the publisher. The publisher, in order to earn more profit, suggests that he pens down his own life. As the play progresses, we see him getting caught in his own writings; struggling between realism and surrealism. The writer intertwines his life and his writings to such an extent that ultimately he ends up destroying his own writings.

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The actors of the play do a brilliant job of infusing authenticity and credibility into the story. Each scene of the play is intertwined beautifully to link various instances across the parallel lives of characters of the play. The entire cast including Aakash Bhardwaj, Rahul Yadav, Mansi Gupta, Akshay Tyagi, Nitesh Sharma, Ujwal Arora, Shubham Aggarwal, Sankhya Joshi and Lakshay Arora have worked for almost a year to build and develop their characters. The precision and execution of the screenplay is superlative. The smart use of concordant music and lights complements the scenes and makes the entire experience of watching the play all the more interesting and worthy.

Both the shows of the play were packed with enthusiastic spectators to an extent that there was no space to stand in the auditorium as people were sitting on stairs to watch the performance. The hall resonated with long and loud round of applause after both shows. The shades of humor, thrill, obsession and fear make this play enthralling, captivating and entertaining for the viewers. The audience moved out of the auditorium overwhelmed with the quality of theatre that they witnessed. There were words of praise and appreciation all around on the conclusion of the event as the audience and organisers were delighted with the proceedings of the event.

The highlight of the event was the promotion of social causes. The second show of the play was attended by almost 20 members of an NGO called ‘Yes! We Can’ which supports the cause of making daily life easier, accessible and enjoyable for persons with disability. It was a first opportunity for the differently abled persons present at the venue to witness a live performance of a stage play. The joy and satisfaction of attending the event was visible on their faces. Apart from this, a donation drive also formed an integral part of the event as useful material like clothes, bed sheet, books, utensils etc. were collected for the needy and handed over to ‘Kartavya – The Social Service Society of Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi’.

With its well established campus wing in Shivaji College, University of Delhi and professional wing based in Delhi and Mumbai, Vayam is making eminent progress to fulfill its aim to become a driver of social change by means of art. The society is also currently recruiting interested budding artists, script writers, directors, technicians and volunteers to expand its scale of activities.

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IPCW’s Political Science Dept. hosts a National Conference on its Golden Jubilee

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Indraprastha College for Women, known for its distinguished presence as a women’s educational institution, marked the Golden Jubilee of its Department of Political Science and organised a National Conference on 15th-16th September, 2016, for the same.

The two-day long Conference, themed around Women, State and Power: Reflections on Democracy witnessed several eminent Speakers. The Chief Guest, Ms. Lalitha Kumaramangalam, Chairperson of National Commission for Women, New Delhi, along with the Guest of Honour, Ms. Indu Agnihotri, Director and Professor at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, directed the course of the conference in their opening address. Ms. Kumaramangalam, through her speech, encouraged the young audience to think before accepting the deeply ingrained practices of the patriarchal society. Ms Agnihotri further explained the  significance of keeping the movement for women’s rights alive in all phases despite the challenges the society poses. 

The Principal, Dr. Saraf, welcomed one of the founder members of the department, Dr. Sushil Bharadwaj, as a special guest for the Conference. The first session witnessed Prof. Mary. E. John as the Chair, and Dr. Jagmati Sangwan and Prof. Ujjwal Kumar Singh as speakers. The theme for the first session, State and the Institutions of Democratisation, was discussed with special reference to honour killings and electoral politics. 

The first Speaker, Jagwati Sangwan, the National General Secretary of All India Democratic Women’s Association, is a name synonymous with Women’s Rights in the State of Haryana. She shared her knowledge and experiences on honour killings’ victims and the State’s response. Professor Ujjwal Kumar Singh, the former Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, spoke about the State, Democracy and Legitimacy in India and presented some eye opening realities to the audience. With startling facts, he left the audience wondering about the nature and the current status of the State.

The second session, chaired by Dr. Babli Moitra Saraf ,themed at Politics of Culture and Identity, hosted Prof. Mary John, Professor and Senior Fellow at CWDS, Delhi, and Prof. Madhu Kishwar from the CSDS as speakers. Prof. John talked about the participation of women in electoral politics, and framed a trajectory of the ups and downs the movement has gone through. Prof. Kishwar, on the other hand, elaborated on the multilevel nature of identities.

The Conference opened on the second day with three eminent speakers having expertise on topics that concern women inadvertently. Chaired by Dr. Anupama Roy, the panelists, Dr. Madhulika Banerjee, Prof. Nandini Sundar and Ms. Aparna Moitra discussed about gender perspective in development and ecology. The first Speaker, Dr. Banerjee, talked about gender, knowledge and medicine – its recipe and formulation- and the role of the state in the same. The second speaker, Prof. Nandini, then enlightened the audience about the problems faced by women due to changes in their environment, encompassing every definition of change – from climatic to social change. The third speaker, interestingly, presented to the audience the case of Henvalvani Community Radio, Uttarakhand, and reflected upon hill women’s perceptions and articulations about climatic change.

The concluding sessions of the conference took a completely different turn, when real life fighters shared their stories of struggle and violence. Under the theme, State and Structures of Violence, founder of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, Ms. Parveena Ahanger and acid attack survivor, Ms. Laxmi shared their survival stories. This being the most emotionally charged sessions of the conference evoked many opinions, questions and condolences, from the audience’s side.

Image credits: Nilakshi Basumatary and Asmita Jagwani
Image credits: Nilakshi Basumatary and Asmita Jagwani

The celebration ended with the College Principal’s words of wisdom, along with cultural performances such as a dance recital on Draupadi by Gargi Goswami, and a play titled Mooch Neech Ka Papda, by the college’s dramatics society, Abhivyakti. The play, showcasing gendered stereotypes, was received by a huge round of applause by the audience. With this, the 2-days long National Conference commemorating 50 years of the Political Science department closed with countless ideas and questions to ponder upon.

Featured Image Credits: Nilakshi Basumatary and Asmita Jagwani, Dept. of Political Science, IPCW

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DUSU Election Campaigning: Is it too annoying for college students?

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  • Pamphlets, pamphlets on the wall; who is the most anti-environment of all?
    • If you have never walked over a carpet of pamphlets in your college life, worry not! DUSU election candidates will make your dream come true. They’ll exclusively get their faces and names printed on pamphlets for you to tread upon them! But on a serious note, this is the worst way of campaigning. Each year these candidates waste huge amount of paper and money over these pamphlets. We have been reading about saving trees and ‘3 R’s’ since childhood. Do we want such candidates who are anti-environment? By wasting resources these candidates only show off their money power not, leadership abilities!
    1. You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape – the white walkers!
    DUSU season is the only time in Delhi University where instead of your college guard and the usual rickshaw-wallas, you meet the white walkers – frantically forcing you to accept their cards and chanting the names of their candidates as soon as you step into your college or out of the metro station! The other kind of white walkers are found in groups. They’re usually going around the college shouting slogans and once they find a group of kids, they stop to tell them about their candidates, agenda and mention the flaws of the rival party contestant. They often interrupt the lectures, hence irritating professors. This is not exactly a bad way of campaigning but, please don’t make us listen to your manifesto and resentful ranting towards the current union or opposition 5 times a day. We like to be informed but, making us late for lectures and interrupting our conversations doesn’t really make us happy!
    1. From the bus pass to latest movie tickets – they’ve got you covered!
    So, this is one of the most unethical way of campaigning. Under the garb of helping students, the campaigners try to buy the student votes. Yes, there are some who genuinely help students with the form filling, anti-ragging, offer ‘if you’ve any problem come to us’ kind of thing. But that’s not the only kind of help they do. They lure the students by offering Lakme lip-colour, latest movie tickets, free amusement park trips, food vouchers – basically money! To nip this corrupt way of campaigning is to ‘refuse’ any such help. The candidates and the party are not the only ones corrupt when they offer such stuff, you also become corrupt the moment you accept it!
    1. The vicious circle of blame game and violent fights!
    Every year the rival parties indulge in this blame and negative publicity. We don’t want to listen to the failures of your opposition party neither want to be a part of your character-shaming/shredding activity. Each time the ruling student union won or lost a battle, we were at the receiving end of the consequences. Also if you failed to deliver your promises, don’t go around blaming people. The last thing we want to hear is your ‘sorry excuse’. We want solutions, we want to see the actual work. Let your actions speak for yourself – and by actions we don’t want you to beat each other or break stuff, we want leaders not goons who just have money-muscle power and zero intellect! Informing us is not wrong but, spreading hostility and hooliganism around the campus doesn’t exactly show off your leadership qualities. Nidhi Panchal [email protected]]]>

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    The crisis at Miranda House: 13 Ad hocs terminated, classes remain untaught

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    13 Ad hoc teachers were given termination letters in the middle of the semester in Miranda House on August 29, 2016. The move is being described as an ‘administrative lapse’ by the Principal and has been strongly opposed by the Miranda House Staff Association (MHSA) on the grounds that the teachers were appointed according to the latest ordinances issued by the University and in line with the requirements for the CBCS course framework. DUTA and MHSA held a joint press conference on September 5, 2016 to throw more light on the issue and to convey their strong protest against the sudden, arbitrary retrenchment.

    What happened?

    On August 23, the MHSA was informed of the college’s decision to terminate the contracts of 13 Ad hoc teachers across different departments. The move came after an ‘administrative lapse’ was discovered in exceeding the number of teachers that could be hired beyond a second tranche cap. The college had hired 210 teachers but had a cap of 194, making the terminated Ad hocs ‘surpluses’. The departments were asked to make changes to their previously approved workloads in order to terminate the required number of Ad hocs. The changes would have led to an increase in the workloads of all the professors, against the UGC workload norms, and an increase in the size of tutorials, against the CBCS requirements. Many departments refused to make these changes. The matter was also brought up with the Delhi University Teachers Association because of the grave injustice of the move being suggested. A DUTA team met the Principal, Dr. Pratibha Jolly, on August 26, 2016, and requested her to hold a Governing Body meeting before taking any decision. The matter wasn’t brought up with the University, despite Miranda House being a University-maintained and UGC funded college, neither was a Governing Body meeting called before 13 Ad hoc teachers were handed over termination letters on August 29, 2016 in the Principal’s absence, who left the country one day prior to this and hasn’t been available in college since then. A Delhi University official, on the condition of anonymity, told the Times of India that no one in the University knew about the situation till they read reports about it in the media. The one-line termination letter offered no reason for the termination and came out of the blue for 13 teachers who had already been teaching in Miranda House for over a month, if not more. The affected teachers were neither given any notice prior to the letter, nor any compensation, monetary or otherwise, of any sort. The move has also disturbed the reservation roster of the college, which needs to be according to the specific reservation requirements per category.

    The larger issues at hand:

    While the issue of the lives of 13 teachers being toyed with is already grave enough, it has even more implications if we consider the bigger issues that manifested themselves in Miranda House, and how they are going to end up affecting all colleges sooner or later. There is a discrepancy in the cap that colleges are expected to follow according to a 2004 UGC workload guideline and the requirement of teachers according to 2013 university ordinances and the CBCS requirements. The former allows Miranda House to have just 194 teachers whereas according to the latter, the requirement is of 210 teachers. Having followed the CBCS requirements, Miranda House found itself crossing the second tranche cap and decided to terminate 13 Ad hoc contracts, not having hired 3 of the 16 positions they had to fill. In other colleges, the situation has manifested itself in a different way – the required numbers of teachers aren’t hired in the first place and the employed professors are being overworked beyond the workload guidelines. It needs to be realised that stretching the existing number of teachers thin is not just flouting guidelines but also affecting their quality of work and the education being imparted in some of the top colleges of the country. It also has implications for the credits that students under CBCS are supposed to receive. Under CBCS, an hour of class counts for a credit and there are strict tutorial size requirements as well. With the academic life of the college being disrupted in the middle of the semester, and classes still untaught despite nearly a month and a half of classes, the current situation needs to be understood as a crisis in need of immediate attention.

    What now?

    The MHSA and DUTA are calling for the Governing Body to intervene and hold an emergency meeting to resolve the issue to protect the unfairly terminated teachers. They are asking for all 13 teachers to be reinstated by the college administration. The MHRD also wrote to the college, demanding an explanation for the sudden retrenchment of the teachers and how the college planned to continue regular classes. The college replied that it was going to call a Governing Body meeting soon and is trying to look for a solution. Meanwhile, the 13 Ad hoc teachers remain vulnerable, their classes untaught and the Principal still unavailable. DU Beat met two of the 13 affected teachers during the Press Conference to ask what they were planning to do about the issue at their own level. The teachers, for the time being, have put their trust in the MHSA and DUTA to protest on their behalf and protect their interests. The situation in Miranda House has exposed several issues in the functioning of the University, and the general attitude towards Ad hoc teachers,who are often treated as second-class citizens in their own workplaces and are overworked and undercompensated. DU Beat stands in solidarity with the MHSA, DUTA, and the Ad hoc teachers’ community of Delhi University. Feature image: Daily Mail Shubham Kaushik [email protected]  ]]>

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    Celebrated speakers at TEDxFMS work towards 'Driving Change'

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    The 2nd edition of TEDxFMS was held on 3rd September, 2016 at the Conference Centre of Delhi University. This time, the theme of the independently organized event was ‘Driving Change’. The event saw the participation of a large number of attendees, a majority of which were students of the Faculty of Management Studies and various other colleges of Delhi University. The event featured talks from various stalwarts of industries, NGOs, artists and highly accomplished achievers. The event started with a talk by Pramod Bhasin, the non-executive Vice Chairman of Genpact-the largest Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Company of India. He talked about the birth of an industry which is a story of naivety, foolishness and sheer hope. Talking about the birth of BPO industry in Gurgaon, he asked students to be as informal as they can be in their work life, as informality drives communication. He said “One thing that I have learnt from the Americans is that- don’t fear failure. There is only one life to lead. If the idea blows up, so do we.” This talk was followed by Anuksha Arsh Gulati, the founder of A.A.G- Arise Awake Grow. She talked about the importance of spirituality and highlighted it through various life events. Talking about personal spiritual growth, she said “Spirituality and Science are the two sides of the same coin.” [caption id="attachment_44253" align="aligncenter" width="488"]Anuksha Arsh Gulati Anuksha Arsh Gulati[/caption] The next talk was delivered by Biswapati Sarkar, the creative director of The Viral Fever (TVF). He spoke on how to engineer a career in the entertainment industry. Speaking about the obsession of Indian parents with engineering, he said “In India, if you are good at something, you do it after Engineering.” Talking about the sad state of the Entertainment Industry in India, he said that four young people driving around the India Gate in an open jeep, is a fifty year old idea of what a twenty year old does. After this, the stage was taken over by Khurafati Nitin who spoke on how to adapt to changes during the ups and downs in life through examples from his own life. He explained that struggles are the reasons for our rise in life. He ended his talk saying “Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. So why not waste all your time to have the time of your life?”  [caption id="attachment_44244" align="aligncenter" width="310"]IMG_20160904_150942 Khurafati Nitin[/caption] The event resumed after half an hour with a talk by Shivya Nath, the award winning travel blogger. She spoke about her experiences of leaving her job at 23 and going after her dream of travelling the world. She said “Have a simple life, yet that is inspiring each day.” This was followed by a talk from Marc Saxor, a German analyst, publicist and strategist who spoke on how to have an alternate vision and go forward in implementing it. [caption id="attachment_44252" align="aligncenter" width="285"]Marc Saxer Marc Saxer[/caption] The next talk was given by Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, a contemporary Gond artist who has been awarded with Rajya Hasta Shilpa Puraskar by Govt. of Madhya Pradesh. He did a jugalbandi with Anand, who is his friend, a writer and publisher of several books. Speaking about the importance of tribal arts, Anand said “Adivasis are not only our first people, but also our first artists. The art we make and the land we live in, own us.” Speaking about his art, Venkat said “My journey has been that of a pinwheel, of constant change. I am a Gond, and I paint Gond art. Or else I would’ve been rootless.” [caption id="attachment_44246" align="aligncenter" width="479"]PicsArt_09-04-03.17.16 Venkat Raman Singh Shyam[/caption] The last talk of the evening was given by Jasper Reid, the founder of IMM which builds consumer brands in international markets like the Wendy’s and Jamie Oliver restaurants in India. He spoke of how to better yourself at changes in life. He said, “In addition to focusing on your mental health and your academics, an important area to focus on is your ability to adapt, on your inner Arctic Fox.” [caption id="attachment_44247" align="aligncenter" width="509"]PicsArt_09-04-03.05.26 Jasper Reid[/caption] The event ended with a vote of thanks from Dr. Monica Singhania, Professor at Faculty of Management Studies (FMS). Overall, the event witnessed an audience which happily posted about the event online with #TEDxFMS. Image Credits: Gerush Bahal for DU Beat Srivedant Kar [email protected] Swareena Gurung [email protected]]]>

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