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he day, 3 April 1984 is special to every Indian in a truly stellar sense. For it is the day, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma flew aboard the Soviet Soyoz-T11 into space, becoming the first In-dian to do so. Hailing from Patiala, Punjab, Rakesh Sharma spent his child-hood in Hyderabad, where his cousin was a pilot in the Indian Air Force. “My childhood dream was to become a pilot of the Indian Air Force. I was all of five years old when my cousin made me sit in the cockpit of a Vampire Jet. I was hooked from then on”, says Rakesh Sharma with conviction.However after the tragic death of his cousin, just three months into service, there was quite some opposition from his family. His mother who saw him enamored with the vampire jets hoped that he would grow out of it but it stayed with him and he couldn’t think of anything else other than becoming a fighter pilot.

Passion and the hunger to succeed in one’s career can only be articulated if the curiosity and innovation of the mind are fueled with the application of knowledge in one’s field of interest or else everything is just drudgery. A believer in chasing dreams, Rakesh Sharma says, “The pre-requisite for success is that one has to be passionate about what one is doing! If you’ve been strait jacketed into a career that doesn’t fire your imagination, then, depending on your personal-ity you may perhaps reach just about an above the average level. But, you won’t enjoy the time you are spending in that career and you are unlikely to excel.” He adds, “The path to realizing one’s dream is filled with a lot of ups and downs and so, perseverance is an important quality to have! No matter what you do, always give it your best shot!” The road to success is an eventful journey, Wg. Cmdr. Rakesh Sharma provides us students a few road makers, he stresses on the need for one to be systematic and the importance of having goals, “A dream is visionary and goals are a means to get there. An innovator has to know the nuances of the subject, not only the letter but what’s behind it and how it applies to real life. Com-ing on top in examinations is not enough”, emphasizes Rakesh Sharma on the need for application of knowledge. He adds, “Academics is one thing but life is all about appli-cation. Where does the student get the experience to apply his knowledge? Who is teaching him to apply his knowledge? Is he being allowed to experiment? Is there a technical flight of fan-tasy, which is encouraged? We are risk averse as a culture; failure is frowned upon. But the path to innovation is filled with strings of failures before success is achieved. Anything of value has to be worked upon over a period of time for success to come our way.” On the need for obsession he says, “You will need obsession, as passion alone will merely propel you along the path but, to over come ups and downs on the way, one has to be obsessed. But then, obsession is also a double-edged sword. It may also prevent you from seeing the truth. One has to be observant, ana-lytical and open- minded to see things for what they really are!”

Up in the cosmos, one as a visual field day about which he says, “The beauty laid out by the earth is indescribable! One only wished, one had more time to admire the beauty. Watching a sunrise, a sunset from space are beautiful sights. India looks beautiful from space. We’ve got everything, a long coastline, we can see the ocean on three sides, we’ve got hills which are green, plateaus which are brown, the desert appears golden, while the Himalayas which are snow capped look purple from space, as light doesn’t get into the crevices. Ours is truly a beautiful country!” says the fiercely proud Indian in him. On man made structures he adds, “From space, any linear feature with a colour contrast is visible to the naked eye. One can see an airliner flying over an ocean, as the ex-haust condenses to leave behind a trail, against the blue of the ocean. A railway line on a desert can be seen! But the thing about space flight is that it is crammed with work.”

When the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi asked how In-dia looked from space. What followed was history, he beamed back the famous words “Main binaa jhijhak ke keh sakta hoon.., Sare Jahan Se Achcha” (a reference to an iconic poem used in India’s freedom struggle, usually referred to as ‘Saare jahaan se achha Hindustan hamara,’ our land of Hindustan, is the Best in the Universe’) On perhaps his most famous moment he says, “When we were students, Saare Jahan Se Achcha was the de facto num-ber two national anthem, we used to sing it all the time! As I grew up, I became a fiercely proud Indian, as I still am. The lyrics resonated with me, and its secular credentials appealed to me. It was top of recall! And here was the Prime Minister asking me how India looked from space.” He jokingly adds,” I was emboldened to reply in the way I did because only the audio feed was coming in; you don’t see the Prime Minister every day!” He was conferred with the honor of Hero of Soviet Union upon his return from space. The Government of India con-ferred its highest gallantry award (during peace time), the Ashoka Chakra on him and the other two Soviet members of his mission. Having said all this, I walk back from my interview in-spired and proud having met a great man, a hero only baffled by his humility, and down to earth persona for he put his space flight as “Just another day at the office!”

-Interviewed by S. Praveen Kumar Srinivas, 4th year E.C.E.

(Wg. Cmdr. Rakesh Sharma now retired from the IAF lives in Coonoor, Nilgirs, where he fell in love with minty highland air on his first visit in the 1960s.)

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Camp Galaata The personality development cours-es is one of the highlights of our campus.Right after the examinations , various camps commenced.Apart from having fun,the stu-dents would have surely learnt something large,something for life.Here is a sneak peek into what those camps were all about...

YRC organized week-long camps at Illalur, Kadapakkam and Poondi in the month of June with the objective of creating an awareness among the people of those villages about issues related to health, hygiene and nutrition. The student volunteers also took up activities like organizing tree plantation and career guidance for the higher secondary stu-dents. The camp succeeded in not just serv-ing the three villages but also inculcating in them a sense of discipline and responsibility towards their nation.

The NSO camp was organized in our campus from the 20th of june to the 29th .On the first day, students were divided into their particular sport. Some of the highlights of the camp included activities like yoga and aero-bics. Rugby was introduced in the camp for the first time .For the ultimate fitness test and the level of violence rugby imposes on the players ,the girls did an amazing job of cop-ing up with the rigorous coaching exercises. The students were also given a certification course on first aid by the St.John’s ambu-lance associa tion.Apart from their respective sports, swimming coaching was also given to the interested candidates .The campfire night had an amazing display of talents ranging from singing to football juggling .Although the camp had tested the fitness abilities of the students to the maximum ,still took back hap-py memories of the camp

National Service Scheme NSS organized camps to villages around the city with the objective of enlight-ening the people of the village about how im-portant education is, and to help the people of the village to do away with a few problems. These camps were conducted near places around the city like Tambaram, Red Hills, Porur, etc. As NSS volunteers, the students of our college organized medical camps, eye camps, veterinary camps etc. Almost all the units had organized a massive tree plantation campaign. Helping the students of the gov-ernment school, and setting up planetariums in those schools were other activities.

National Cadet Corps Exhausting physical work and strident punishments are the most we would think off, about an NCC camp. But,the Navy cadets had quite an adventurous time handling naval equip-ments at the naval bases in Gujarat, Vizag and Mumbai.The army men had their ‘organ-izing’ skills tested at camps in the outskirts of Kancheepuram. The wind once blew their tents off , introducing to them, the world of harsh realities. The cadets relished cultural programmes at night and slept in shifts , guard-ing their place. As the camp phased out, they all became experts at dealing with critical situ-ations.

For all the budding engineers, the K13! Team has provided a platform via the TNEA 2012 Student Konnect programme. The programme aims to provide answers to the students stepping into the college. Apart from a stall put up in the campus, there is also the Student Konnect page on Face book wherein students coming for the counseling can post their queries.

The CTF (CEG Tech Forum) which organizes Kurukshetra had put in lot of effort for putting up the stall and guiding the stu-dents who came from various parts of the state. And let us, the students of CEG hope that this programme evolves into a grand success.

This new booth bloomed behind the Institute of Remote Sensing (IRS) on 13th of this month. It was inaugurated by Mr.Kaliraj,

Dean ACT in the presence of our registrar and other officials .Mr.C.Balu who owns this booth, was an alumnus (1976, ‘ECE’) of our college and he felt immensely proud to be a part of our AU family again. Light snacks, hot drinks, and a few milk sweets are available now and a lot more are to be made available soon.

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The Endowment lecture, held on 13th July, is raised as a toast to the greatness of the man, who built an institution that paved

way for the creation of many centres of excellence and initiated the Institute-Industry collaboration. In honor of Dr. V.C.Kulandaisamy, former Vice-Chancellor of Anna University and a technologist, Dr. Sivathanu Pillai, Chief controller, DRDO & Managing director, BrahMos Aerospace, presented the lecture on the topic ‘The Na-tion’s Greatness- Empowering with Technology’.

He spoke of the great minds like Aryabhatta and Bhaska-racharya who contributed to India’s prosperity and reminded us about the hurdles in the path of development. Implementing the concept of the Brahmastra and the Sudharshan Chakra, BrahMos created Cruise Missiles that helped us turn into a self-sufficient na-tion technologically. Dr. Pillai was keen on motivating the young Engineers to contribute their potential to the nation so as to nurture it into a developed country within the next 10 years.

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He concluded his speech by quoting Maharishi Patanchali’s words which said, “Let your thoughts take over you when you are inspired by some purpose and watch yourself break the bounds to discover yourself”.Inspiring the young lot with his sheer brilliant lec-ture, one can definitely infer from Mr. Pillai that Indian minds not only work with great intricacy but also a high level of modesty!

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When most of us had a regu-lar summer vacation, some CEGians had an extremely

different and useful vacation. More than 15 students had been selected for internships in India and abroad. This page comprises articles on their internship experiences. And what is all the buzz about the CEGian holding an OSCAR? You’ll find it at the end of this page.

An internship

abroad “TARGET WITHIN REACH”

Purushoth Mahendran, a final year CEGian of IT department has completed an internship in Leibniz Univer-sität Hannover, Germany. As believed by Purushoth, anyone can try for an internship abroad. It is not restricted to the ones who have got a CGPA of 9 and above. When questioned about how he started the whole process, he said he wrote to a few profes-sors of the universities in Germany. He did a lot of groundwork before he actually wrote to them. According to most of our friends here, Germany is meant for students from mechanical and related courses. But the one who has been in Germany for two months said that it was apocryphal. It is also a training ground for students of any engineering course with innovative ideas, dedication and self motivation, he said.

Purushoth and seven other students from CEG flew to Europe and spent two enlightening and fun filled months in different parts of the life. The next ques-tion arises, funding? This is where your CGPA plays its role. The universities abroad have scholarships for students based on their CGPA. Once you are in the university it is purely your work that would im-press your professors. Purushoth did his internship on Artificial Intelligence, a very modern approach. The two months he spent there was mixed with

work and fun. Every weekend he would go to visit neighboring countries like Switzerland, France, Neth-erlands, Belgium, Italy, and Austria with his friends from CEG. They had fun shopping and cooking to-gether. Lunch was in the university cafeteria. They cooked their own dinner which according to him was the most fun-filled experience in the whole trip. He recalls travelling by tram and working all night. The quote “Aim high and be patient” is what has kept him driving through tough times.

Leibniz Universität Hannover, GermanySadhana Rajan

III yr, CSE

As soon as my exams got over on the 15th of May, I left for Bangalore the very same night and reached there early next day (feeling like a mad scientist). I took an auto at 4:30 AM to the Raman Research Institute, where I met three guys. I had an inner feeling that they were nerds from some IIT. Having this in mind, I initiated a conversa-tion with them in heavy North Indian English, but to my utter surprise they were juniors from CEG (who later became my very close friends)!! As I stepped into my hostel, I could not take my eyes off the magnificent view of the city from my balcony on the 11th floor. In the following week I allowed myself the luxury of roaming around the 400 acre campus aimlessly, discovering in the process many restaurants, canteens and cafes. As a part of my internship, I gained access

to lightning fast internet (vis-à-vis Anna WiFi) and with that my key to all the latest movies, games and TV series. This is when I realized what RESEARCH really was!! Then suddenly one day, my guide, who until that moment seemed very friendly, asked me to give a presentation of my work there (in other words NOTHING). So I had to make cock and bull stories about the cryptography techniques used in quantum computers by rephrasing Wiki articles, at the same time watching random movies and trying to portray a larger than life picture of myself on Facebook. On a serious note, one thing that I enjoyed throughout my internship was the opportunity to meet so many fellow interns from various colleges and regions of India and getting to interact with them. Thanks to the Indian Academy of Sciences and IISc, Bangalore for providing me with my first hostel experience.

SIX WEEKS AT IISc BANGALORE

Most people who graduate from an Engineering College either pursue Higher Education or get themselves employed in an outsourcing company. Few choose alternate paths in life, choosing to tolerate and solve the prob-lems that they face. Fewer still, “rise” like the Batman.

Mr. Praveen Ilangovan did just that. The story of our local Indian boy begins in the quiet town of Kanchipuram. Praveen studied at Infant Jesus Matriculation School and soon, through hard work, he entered into College of Engineering Guindy in 2004. He graduated with a first-class degree in Printing technology in 2008. This was followed by a Master’s in Computer Animation at Bournemouth University and culminated to working at the renowned TATA Elxsi at Mumbai as an FX programmer. From this point on, a snowball effect took place and Praveen never looked back.

Among his notable works are Prince(2010), Arjun(2010), Gulliver’s Trav-els(2010) and even, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (as a a program-mer in Stereo conversion department). He joined “Double Negative” (A UK based Enterprise) and has provided FX to movies like John Carter (2012) and most recently, the critically acclaimed The Dark Knight Rises (2012). It does feel good to know that someone who grew in a similar environ like us can achieve something this humungous. Adding another feather to his cap is the fact that Double Negative won both Oscar and BAFTA awards for his work in Inception. As he stands here holding the accolades close to him, his heart must have whispered, “WELL DONE!” So do we.

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Olympic spiritTHE

GUINDY TIMESJuly - aug 2012

“Citius, Altius, Fortius”, the motto of the Olympic Games is all about pushing the limits of human performance – the best of the best com-peting to prove who moves faster, jumps higher and is stronger. Blood, sweat and toil is what each Olympic athlete puts in. Representing one’s country in the Olympics is a moment of pride. Nathanael Koilpillai of 3rd year-ECE writes about three atheletes -the undisputed world champions for whom success comes after overcoming many hurdles in life. Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia) is the current world record holder in women’s pole vault, and is the only woman in history to have crossed the 5m mark. From the age of 5 till 15, she trained to realize her dream of be-ing a gymnast, but at 5’9”, she was told to give it up because she “was too tall to be competitive”. Undaunted, she switched to pole vault. At the Syd-ney Olympics (2000), Yelena failed to make it past the qualifying round. Not being one to settle for defeat, she continued training and perfecting her technique. In spite of stiff competition, she clinched the Gold in 2004. She moved from strength to strength, and by the time she claimed the Gold in 2008, her margin of victory exceeded 41 cm! Her success is attributed to her early gymnastics training. Her setback in gymnastics turned out to be her asset in pole vault. “I wanted the world to know that my country, Ethiopia, has always won with determination and heroism”, said Abebe Bikila, the first African to win an Olympic gold medal. Hailing from a small village in the hills of Ethiopia, Abebe spent his childhood as a shepherd. His prodigious talent as a runner was recognised and he was selected for the 1960 Olympics. Unable to get the right size shoes in Rome, Abebe ran the marathon barefoot, a feat unheard of at the Olympics. To the amazement of the world, Abebe won the Gold! Six weeks before the 1964 Olympics, he was forced to undergo surgery for Appendicitis. Nobody expected him to run; not only did he win, but he set a new world record, becoming the first man ever to successfully defend his marathon title in the Olympics. The last time the Olympics were held in London in 1948, an athlete from “namma” Tamil Nadu represented India. Eric Prabhakar of Salem was the national sprinting champion in the 100m and 200m events. Eric also represented Madras Christian College as the opening bowler in cricket and hockey captain. He completed his Masters in Economics with the third rank in the University! He qualified in the IAS in 1948, but chose to pursue higher studies at Oxford University as a prestigious Rhodes scholar. The same year, Eric was one of the seven athletes to represent independent India at the London Olympics. Eric made it to the quarterfinals in the 100m event with a time of 10.6s, just 0.3 seconds behind the eventual winner. Eric had given it his best effort and made India proud. From gymnastics to pole vault, from bare feet to gold medal, from Salem to London, the Olympic spirit is captured in the words of Eric Prab-hakar: “Once you have tasted victory, you know what it is to excel in what you are doing, and you will want to succeed in whatever you do.”

Olympic SpiritCatching the

Every Olympics face controversies and scandals, Ijaz Ahmed of 3rd year from Manufacturing talks about how they have become the albatross around Olympics’ neck. The Olympics- from its inception as a religious festival in ancient Greece to the huge celebration in the twenty-first century seen on television by billions of people, it has been quite rare for Games to be immaculate without controversy. One such acrimony is the Black Power Salute of African American Athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. Tommie Smith won the 200 meter race in a then world-record time of 19.83 seconds, with Aus-tralia’s Peter Norman second and John Carlos in third place. After the race was completed, when the three went to collect their medals at the podium, the two U.S. athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty. Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride, Carlos had his tracksuit top unzipped to show solidarity with all blue collar work-ers in the U.S. and wore a necklace of beads which he described “were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed and that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred. It was for those thrown off the side of the boats in the mid-dle passage.” All three athletes wore Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) badge. It was indeed an outburst of the discrimination of African Americans in U.S. Besides this, the expulsion of South Africa from Games from 1964 to 1992 because of apartheid exhibits that Games is not all about sports. In 1936 Berlin Olympics, which was regarded as the Hitler’s Olympics as he took it as a chance to show-off the post first world war Germany and showcase his Aryan ideals and prowess, was noted for the infamous snub by Hitler to American athlete Jesse Owens. Owens won four gold medals in the Games but Hitler refused to shake his hand or hand him his medals. Berlins Olympics witnessed many other controversies too, like Spain boycotting the Olympics and French and Canadian Olympians giving what appeared to be a Nazi Salute at the opening ceremony. The Israel and Palestine rivalry led to a nightmare in the history of Olympics “The Munich Massacre”. During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, A Pales-tinian group Black September held hostage members of the Israeli Olympic team on 5th September. The Palestinians demanded the release of 234 prisoners held in Israeli jails. In the process the kidnappers had killed eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German police officer. It’s quite unfortunate that even before the 2012 London Olympics has com-menced, controversies revolving around Dow Chemical Company, Games’ official sponsor, hit the 2012 London Games with many calling for the withdrawal of the said company as its sponsor. Critics argued that the top Olympic sponsor should not be involved in the project because of its links to a company accused in the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India. Olympic controversy continues to remain an integral part of the Games, both shaping the Games and reminding spectators and commentators that it is naive to assume the Games could ever be apolitical. It is an exciting spectacle where idealism clashes with practical manifestations of politics, racism, nationalism, and economics.

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comes the Games “Flame”

India first participated in Olympics in 1900 in Paris. The country was represented by Norman Pritchard, an Anglo Indian who was holidaying in Paris during that time. He bagged two silver med-als in 200m dash and 200m hurdles.

In 1928,Amsterdam, Indian Hockey team par-ticipated in their first Olympic hockey event and won the gold medal under the captaincy of Jaipal Singh.

For the next 6 successive Olympics spanning 28 years from 1928-1956, Indians retained their gold medal for the hockey event.

1928-1956 was the golden era of Indian Hockey in Olympics during which India played 24 matches and won all 24, scored 178 goals (at an average of 7.43 goals per match) and conceded only 7 goals.

India again won two more gold medals in Olympic hockey in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

In athletics, six Indians have made us proud ; Norman Pritchard in 1900 (two silvers in sprint

and hurdles), Henry Rebello in 1948 London (Tri-ple Jump), Milkha Singh 1960 Rome ( fourth place in 400 metres), Gurbachan Singh Randhawa 1964 Tokyo (fifth place in 100 m hurdles), Sriram singh 1976 Montreal ( seventh in 800m) and P.T Usha in 1984 Los Angeles ( fourth in 400m hurdles) who un-fortunately lost her bronze by 1/100th of a second and the 4 member squad of the 400m. women’s re-lay P.T.Usha, M.D.Valsamma, Vandana Rao, Shiny Abraham reached seventh place, the same year.

Vijender Singh is the first Indian to win a medal at the world meet. He won a bronze in 2009.

In the London 2012 Olympics Saina Nehwal became the first person from India to win a medal for Bad-minton. Mary Kom, Yogeshwar Dutt, Gagan Narang won bronze medals. Vijay Kumar, Sushil Kumar made the Indians proud by winning the silver medals.

India’s association with the Olympics started when the country was still striving for its independ-ence and since then India has won 8 gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals in Hockey, two silver medals in athletics, bronzes for wrestling ,shooting ,tennis and the count goes on.

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Sriram sundar of 3rd year from manufacturing talks about the economic impacts of hosting the Olympics. There is no doubt that hosting an Olympic festival pro-duces a large measure of civic pride and psychological satis-faction. When a host city is placed before the television eyes of two-thirds of the world’s population, the event becomes a magnified public relations and advertising phenomenon. Host cities spend millions/billions of dollars lobbying to be chosen as a host city for the Olympics, improving infra-structure, and providing security, all of which is funded by its government. When a city is confirmed, hoteliers start putting up new locations in and around the city like mad-scrabble. This is all for an immediate gain: tons of tourists come to see the games, they spend money on hotels, souvenirs, food, parking, transport, etc. and all of that money gets taxed. But they do not come with long term guarantees. If making money were an Olympic event, no city host-ing the games would win a gold medal. Or silver. Or bronze. Many Olympic cities justify the spending and the risk to reputations because they gain new highways, transit systems, affordable housing, sports facilities and other infrastructure improvements. Some cities end up with Olympic venues that have high operating costs and little practical utility after the games. But some venues become cherished recreation cent-ers and major competition sites with heavy use. A comparison of 2 host cities of the past, gives a clear indi-cation of what a city stands to gain or lose. Greece lost billions

of euros on the two-week sports event. By 2008, 21 of the 22 venues built for the 2004 Games were unused and were in various state of disrepair yet Greece taxpayers were paying for some sort of maintenance at the venues and that too was very costly. Barcelona on the other hand is held up to be the prime example of how the Olympic Games can regenerate and re-vive a city. The games enabled Barce-lona to achieve 50 years of infrastruc-ture improvements in just eight years in areas such as the airport and road, sewage systems. There was also a rejun-venation of run-down locations such as the harbor area into modern, commer-cial zones. Barring something like the terrorist attack in Munich in 1972 or the bomb-ing in Atlanta in 1996, host cities always experience some benefits. But with all the risks, the process of bidding for and hosting an Olympics should probably come with this warning: Satisfaction NOT guaranteed.

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Every Olympics face controversies and scandals, Ijaz Ahmed of 3rd year from Manufacturing talks about how they have become the albatross around Olympics’ neck. The Olympics- from its inception as a religious festival in ancient Greece to the huge celebration in the twenty-first century seen on television by billions of people, it has been quite rare for Games to be immaculate without controversy. One such acrimony is the Black Power Salute of African American Athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. Tommie Smith won the 200 meter race in a then world-record time of 19.83 seconds, with Aus-tralia’s Peter Norman second and John Carlos in third place. After the race was completed, when the three went to collect their medals at the podium, the two U.S. athletes received their medals shoeless, but wearing black socks, to represent black poverty. Smith wore a black scarf around his neck to represent black pride, Carlos had his tracksuit top unzipped to show solidarity with all blue collar work-ers in the U.S. and wore a necklace of beads which he described “were for those individuals that were lynched, or killed and that no-one said a prayer for, that were hung and tarred. It was for those thrown off the side of the boats in the mid-dle passage.” All three athletes wore Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) badge. It was indeed an outburst of the discrimination of African Americans in U.S. Besides this, the expulsion of South Africa from Games from 1964 to 1992 because of apartheid exhibits that Games is not all about sports. In 1936 Berlin Olympics, which was regarded as the Hitler’s Olympics as he took it as a chance to show-off the post first world war Germany and showcase his Aryan ideals and prowess, was noted for the infamous snub by Hitler to American athlete Jesse Owens. Owens won four gold medals in the Games but Hitler refused to shake his hand or hand him his medals. Berlins Olympics witnessed many other controversies too, like Spain boycotting the Olympics and French and Canadian Olympians giving what appeared to be a Nazi Salute at the opening ceremony. The Israel and Palestine rivalry led to a nightmare in the history of Olympics “The Munich Massacre”. During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, A Pales-tinian group Black September held hostage members of the Israeli Olympic team on 5th September. The Palestinians demanded the release of 234 prisoners held in Israeli jails. In the process the kidnappers had killed eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German police officer. It’s quite unfortunate that even before the 2012 London Olympics has com-menced, controversies revolving around Dow Chemical Company, Games’ official sponsor, hit the 2012 London Games with many calling for the withdrawal of the said company as its sponsor. Critics argued that the top Olympic sponsor should not be involved in the project because of its links to a company accused in the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India. Olympic controversy continues to remain an integral part of the Games, both shaping the Games and reminding spectators and commentators that it is naive to assume the Games could ever be apolitical. It is an exciting spectacle where idealism clashes with practical manifestations of politics, racism, nationalism, and economics.

he Olympics have symbolized the unity of the world right from the in-ception of the Games in 1896. It has witnessed the unity of the Nazis and the Americans and the Whites and the Blacks. There are certain logos, anthems, mottos, mascots that are used to represent the uniqueness of each edition of the Olympics and Akshay Sridhar of 3rd year from EEE shares his thought on this year’s edition.

The London Olympics logo was of-ficially unveiled this year’s logo with the five interlocked rings inside the zero. This logo was represented in four different colours: blue, green, magenta and yellow, aiming to ap-peal amongst the youth. When the officials were expecting this to stir waves in the British circle, it has turned out to be the main theme of British humour in the recent past. While monuments like the London Eye, Big Ben and the Buckingham Palace could have been incorporat-ed into the logo, The British created this rather uninspiring logo.

The mind-boggling orbit tower com-prising the five rings, 22m higher than the Statue of Liberty, designed by Turner-prize winning artist An-ish Kapoor has been declared as the landmark of the London Olympics. The orbit tower is first of its kind in Olympics history and it displays awe and artistic brilliance which is a joy to be seen in the Olympic Park. This spiralling tower at the Olympic Park is just a watchtower to view the stun-ning beauty of London City , costing over 130 crores my question is ‘was this actually needed?’

Two mascots were chosen to repre-sent the Games this year with old-fashioned but appealing names, Wenlock and Mandeville. Surpris-ing was the fact that these two alien-like creatures were identified from an open survey conducted by the U.K. Government. With these two aliens falling out of favour for most of the public, these might be sent into the Orbit (Tower) to form an Olympic Sanctuary!

The Olympic torch is one in which the flame is lit up by the sun’s rays and it marks the beginning of the historic Olympics once in four years. This torch started its proces-sion at Olympia, Greece and went around the globe before reaching London. The torch looks majestic and is awaiting to be lit.

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The Paralympics are the games that are con-ducted for athletes with various physical dis-abilities. In 2001, the International Olympics Committee and the International Paralym-pic Committee Signed an agreement, which meant that the host cities would be contract-ed to manage both the Olympic and Paralym-pic Games.

The Olympic rings cover every flag in the world. They picked yellow, green, red, black and blue because at least one of those five colors appears in every flag in the world. (The five rings also allegedly represent the five con-tinents of the world. Wait, didn’t geography teach us seven continents? To appease every-one, they had to clarify saying “Five Inhabited Continents”.

A Black Person first won the Marathon only in 1960. But no white person has ever run 100 metres within 10 seconds. No wonder its hard to find any person from any other race, running the final 100 metre race!

Boxing and wrestling are now the only sports whose competitors must be am-ateur. (Or else we would have people from the WWE and TNA in Olympics).

Australia, the Swiss and the UK are the only nations to go to every Games since 1896.

In the 1900 Olympics in France, the winners got paintings instead of med-als (The french probably thought they were more valuable, at least now they are!).

At the first olympics, in 1896, the first place got the silver medal, second place bronze, third- NOTHING. (Not even the pink participation ribbon?).

China did not win their first olympics medal until 1984. (They say history doesn’t matter. Quite understandable, because they win hundreds and hun-dreds of medals now, probably to make up for all that they lost).

The Discovery Channel reported re-cently, that the father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi reported the Los An-geles Games in 1932.

You may soon be able to fold your mobile handset in half or keep it rolled up in your pocket, as scientists have now invented a battery that can be folded. Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a flexible battery that can be bent and twisted giving the possibility that phones of the future could be flexible and hold more capacity. The batteries that power many devices have not seen improvement in capacity through the years, while continuing to be inflexible and rigid. The technological advancement of thin and light flexible display has encouraged the development of flexible batteries with a high power density and thermal stability. The team, led by Professor Keon Jae Lee has developed what they call the ‘high-performance flexible all-solid-state battery’, which is stable enough to power our phones while still remaining stable. This opens up the possibility that phones and other devices such as tablets or e-book readers could be folded in half or rolled up for easy storage in your pocket.“Although rechargeable lithium-ion batteries have been regarded as a strong candidate for a high-performance flexible energy source, com-pliant electrodes for bendable LIBs are restricted to only a few materi-als, such as organic materials or micro-structured inorganic materials mixed with polymer binders,” the researchers were quoted as saying by the paper. However, until now, the performance of LIBs has not been suffi-cient either, thereby making it difficult to apply flexible consumer elec-tronics including rollable displays.

and electron and the Electromagnetic force, Strong and Weak nuclear forces hold the nucleus and electron in the atom. It was found the elementary particle ‘quarks’ which constitute the proton and neutron, leptons which constitute the electron are massless. While the theory gives a unified description of the disparate forces of na-ture, the underlying mathematics requires all particles to be massless, which is certainly not the universe we live in. In the early 1960s, Peter Higgs, among others, hypothesized the existence of an energy-field and an as-sociated particle — the Higgs field and the Higgs bo-son respectively. The Higgs boson is important in the Standard Model because it implies the existence of a Higgs field, which enables the particles to acquire mass without destroying the unification of forces in a single mathematical framework. Without the Higgs field, el-ementary particles such as quarks and electrons would flit past each other at the speed of light. The elementary particles that make up you, me and the visible universe would consequently have no mass. Without the Higgs field mass could not be constructed and nothing could be. In March 2010, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider was set in a mission to discover the last missing piece in the jigsaw of the Standard Model. The quality of data that it has produced in such a short period is certainly unprecedented. The extraordinary performance of the accelerator and the detectors, and the high quality data extracted through improved analytical techniques was possible entirely due to the pooled-in skill and brains of thousands of scientists from all over the world, in-cluding India. True, this is just the beginning of a long journey when other properties of this new particle will be scrutinized to see what kind of Higgs boson is seen and there is hope for more surprises yet to come. After all, the quest for exploring the universe is never-ending.

With cheers and standing ovations from the scientists, the world’s biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle, the Higgs boson popularly known as the “God particle” that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape. Higgs is the crucial missing link in a theory of the known fundamental particles and forces of nature called the Standard Model of particle Physics. As we all know, Atom is made up nucleus (protons and neutrons)

You’ve heard that curiosity killed the cat? Now, Curiosity is, according to Wikipedia, ‘a car-sized Mars rover currently exploring Gale Crater, near the equator of Mars.’ It still could kill a cat, if it hap-pened to land on one on Mars… Curiosity is basically a souped-up science lab, with dozens of instruments, sent as part of NA-SA’s MSL (Mars Science Laboratory) mission. As part of this mission, the Curiosity is meant to study the climate on Mars, to determine whether Mars could have ever supported the existence of life (in-cluding an investigation of the role of water), and to collect data for future, perhaps manned, mis-sions to Mars. NASA launched the Curiosity (aboard an MSL spacecraft), from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 26th November 2011, and completed the gal-axy’s most epic sixer, when the Curiosity landed on Mars, on August 6th, 2012, travelling a whopping 154 million miles. Captain Vijaykanth, eat your heart out. Now, I could rattle off a list of meaningless specs for this 1 ton space Ferrari, or I can compare it to the iPhone….let’s go with the second one. The $2.5 million Curiosity has one-fourth of the processing power, and half the RAM of a $600 iP-hone. In a fight with a 64GB iPhone, the Curiosity gets trounced 32 timesover. But let’s consider two things,

1. The Curiosity is powered by a Plutonium reactor (fis-sion, baby), which would last, at its minimum, for 14 years, while iPhone users are running around at the end of the day, looking for a charger.2. Every single one of the Curiosity’s parts was designed to survive the descent and landing on the Martian sur-face, at about 1.7 times the speed of sound. The iPhone, sadly, cracks after being dropped on any surface at, say, 5m/s. Sorry iPhone users, your phone isn’t get you to space anytime soon. Also, for all those social network addicts out there (yes, I know you’re reading this), the Curiosity sends tweets regarding upcoming technical procedures and mission statistics. If someone asks a question it likes, the Curiosity may answer that too. (No answers for your Aeronautics homework though, I wager) Fun facts aside, for the next few weeks, the Cu-riosity will be on self-test mode, during which, several NASA engineers will be checking out all of the state-of-the art equipment onboard the rover, to ensure the Curiosity is completely functional and intact, before beginning its’ fieldwork of the Martian terrain. To finish off, here’s an epic line from Project Sci-entist John Grotzinger-”This whole enterprise, if you divide by every woman, man and child in this country (USA) comes out to be the cost of a movie (about $7). I speak on behalf of all my colleagues in science, that’s a movie I want to see!”

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ver wonder if your family has a Viking ancestry? Are you sure that you do not belong to a mixed-race? Ever thought about getting back with distant relatives who had branched out of the family tree, centuries ago? Recent de-velopments in DNA testing have made it possible to an-swer the above queries. These DNA tests, which are now commercially available, priced at a little more than Rs. 6000 can raise your eyebrows to extents they have never been to! So, are you curious? If you are, all that you have

to do is pay the fee and wait for the experiment kit; spit into a special test tube and courier it back in a bio-hazard bag. Your results come in four week’s time. The results, although criticised by a few medical prac-titioners as inaccurate, are in fact very interesting. The results commence with known information like the colour of your eyes and your blood group. The next to show up is the risk-factor table, which tabulates 200 different diseases and their corresponding percentage risk of occurrence. Finally the most awe inspiring conclusions appear. The growth rates of your nails (each nail grows with a distinct rate), your earwax type are a few of those spectacular findings. There is anoth-er option that enables you to find your family lineage. You could be a distant relative of Adolf Hitler if you are classified a pure Aryan. Or you could be one of the branches of the world’s longest known family tree, the lineage of Confucius. You could even be a distant cousin of some political leader, a sportsman, an astronaut, a celebrity or maybe all of the above. Have fun exploring your bloodline at the cost of a few thou-sand bucks!!

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e it the nomadic cave paintings or the Mona Lisa or the modern arts of the recent times, painting has fascinated people round the globe. Painting is an expression of human emotions rather than an art to be exhibited in museums. “Paintings are the reflections of human soul” The above statement can be understood from many examples. Our Ancestors in the stone age filled the walls of the caves where they dwelled with many vivid paintings which were nothing but their emotional output. The paintings in short serve to be an emotional mirror, wherein the emotions are etched in the form of paintings, relieving your mind from the painful emotions. A mock model of aeroplane was painted by Leonardo da Vinci, a long time before the Wright Brothers invented a real time aeroplane. Da Vinci, a famous paint-er by himself is famous for many art works, the prominent being The Mona Lisa which still holds many unanswered questions. The Mona Lisa is be-lieved to be a self potrait of Leonardo Da Vinci who potrayed his own emotions in form of a lady. Painting makes a man relieve his emotional stress. The emotions are brought in the form of an art. Be it happiness, gloominess, vengeance and whatever else, paintings are the best medicines for relieving the heart’s burden. Painting serves to be an emo-tional regulator. It serves as a virtual human being in times of loneliness.

Michaelangelo said “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands “. So what makes the brains of men who paint, paint? Why do some people give so much importance to it that some people completely dedicate their life to the ulti-mate perseverance testing art form; painting. Only a few people have the ability to think out of the box. Only a few people have the capacity to trans-fer or communicate what they think to other people ; some people through words, some through sound , some through dance , but a very few through a picture – not photographed but crafted by hand .What drives these unique elusive and mysterious brains ? Some people paint to create, some to feel good, to have a sense of achievement, to express ideas, feelings, emotions, to communicate, to dec-orate ,to find peace . A few insecure brains paint to have a sense of belongingness or ‘worthy existence’ in the eyes of their fellow patrons and in front of the society. A few find painting relaxing and a few say that it helps in increasing concentration power, focus and also to control the mind and its flow of thought. Many enjoy expressing themselves; so paint as it is one form that needs pure creativity and skill rather than eloquence in speech and excellence in the in-terpersonal communication .So a few introverts who have a wavy hand resort to painting. Creativ-ity is a part of being human .Painting is not binary

or definable. It is not something that is quantifia-ble. Basically it is not something like engineering. It is an art form. There is no parameter on which a paintings worth can be measured. So there is noth-ing called a good or a bad painting. It is all based on opinion. So this suits the thinking of lot many people. The uncertainty of success of the painting till the finishing touches are given , painting’s sub-lime nature , the thrill , the excitement combined with the patience, skill, perseverance required at-tract many people . And most important, Love is one thing that inspires many artists. Beauty on pa-per comes from the beauty of the heart and its love. I say, If love inspires artists, Engineers can be the best artists. They of all people know what love is. So, Let us see what you got .Why don’t you pick up a brush today?

AUTHOR : Irving Wallace GENRE : Political thriller The Second Lady is themed around the battle between the United States and the Soviet Union to become the superpower nation in the world. The plot revolves around two bold and beautiful ladies- Billie Bradford, the First Lady of USA and Vera Vazilova, an amateur

Russian actress who is a body double of the presidential wife The First Lady is kidnapped by the Russians and replaced with the look alike Vera where she begins her life time role of Billie. Vera’s aim is to seduce the US president to reveal a secret to tip the balance of power towards the So-viet while Billie tries to escape Moscow with the help of a Soviet Agent. The Second Lady is ably aided by her secretary Nora and Guy Parker (biographer), who play pivotal roles. Nora and Parker soon discover about the impostor, but they face the uphill task of making the President and the world believe this far-fetched tale.Two ladies on either side of the world play a deadly gamble with the help of each other’s lovers in a fight for survival of the self and the world.An action-packed novel with unexpected turns and twists, Irving Wallace has maintained the break-neck tempo throughout. The author has thrown in a fair share of suspense, drama and explicit passion. This book, which came out in 1980 is a testament to the fact that good books never have a sell by date. A page turner of the finest nature, it is surely worth a read.

“If music be the food of love, play on” said Shakespeare. Music has evolved by leaps and bounds over the centuries and even Shakespeare couldn’t have envisaged such a rare and unique form of music created solely by the use of one’s vocals. Beatboxing is one of those extra-ordinary art forms where creating music is possible sans the use of instruments. It is considered one of the ele-ments of hip-hop culture, but it is not inhibited by hip-hop alone. It is the purest form of vocal percussion where music is produced with the help of one’s voice, mouth, nasal passage, lips and tongue. One of the earliest known occurrences of imitated percussion can actually be traced back to India in the form of bol, an ancient art of vocal percussion. To get started, one must master the three basic sounds of beatboxing: the classic kick drum {b}, the hi-hat {t}, and the classic snare drum {p} or {pf}. It is imperative that one develops a good bass drum sound. This is done by pressing your lips to-gether and building up pressure with your tongue

and jaw, pushing your tongue forward from the back of your mouth and closing your opened jaw at the same time. Let your lips part toward the side for just a moment so the air can escape, and it should make for a good bass drum sound. One of the proponents of beatboxing was the king of pop himself, MJ who used to to record himself beatboxing on a dictator tape machine as a demo. Modern beatboxing culture has got a huge impetus in the form of websites such as Hu-manBeatbox.com and BeatBoxbattle TV. Over the years there have been radical advancements in the beatboxing arena with beatboxing con-ventions being held right down to Beatboxing championships where eminent beatboxers from around the world are pitted against each other. Beatboxing is something that can get quite ad-dictive once you get yourselves into the groove and it quite frankly is the music of the future. So, what are you waiting for? Grab a pair of headphones and start drumming to the beat.

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