reflections 1
TRANSCRIPT
A Drishtikon Initiative
Interview
Dr Dhanya Pramod
Events & happenings
SCIT
Contributions
Poems
Quizzes
Book Review
Reverberating Your Thoughts
COVER STORY
BE
YOUR
OWN
BOSS
As Director -SCIT I am glad to write the first welcome note for “Reflections“.
Although at its heart SCIT is about academic and intellectual pursuits, the residential
campus takes all management students of SCIT to immerse in extracurricular activities
that happen outside the classroom. The stage plays and skits by Eklavya, discussions at
Drishtikon, lectures by corporate experts arranged by GL committees, events to
encourage entrepreneurship by ITELF, activities for the society by SSR, the gala event of
SCIT - Graffiti and many more cannot be ignored while defining life at SCIT.
When I take a stroll at the faculty lounge, I many a time see faculty members busy
working on journal papers, researching conference presentations, redrafting papers for
sharing it at Prowess and Quest and sometimes glued on to their desk top looking for
secondary data and statistics. SCIT is about the creation of new knowledge and the
interpretation and transfer of existing knowledge. The faculty members do it very well.
Although many of these are captured in the website, there is no single place where all this
information is available and this was pointed out by some SCITians, and hence
“Reflections” took its birth. “Reflections” is a magazine of SCIT completely managed by
SCITians. “Reflections” intends to update SCIT fraternity and its stake holders with the
latest happenings in SCIT. This monthly magazine would cover the events and news
across SCIT from the different clubs of SCIT along with the latest event and sporting
activities.
I wish “Reflections” a very long journey and sincerely hope that the readers would enjoy
reading it as much as the student team enjoyed writing, designing and producing it.
Dr R Raman
Director- SCIT
WELCOME NOTE
INSID
E Faculty Corner
1 Candid Interview Dr Dhanya Pramod
Cover Story
2 Be Your Own Boss Evonix Technologies
Events & Happenings
3 SSR Induction Session
13 Eklavya Induction Session
15 SnC Freshers, Independence Cup etc
18 Guest Lectures Banking Upon IT
19 Guest Lectures Ristsumeikan Internship
20 iTELF Induction
21 batch 2012-14 Rajesh Khanna Night
23 SCIT Foundation Day
25 SSD Ritsumeikan University , Japan
26 SIC ONAM
27 Prayatna Induction
30 Drishtikon Language of Finance
Students’ Space 32 Book Review,experiences , Poetries , &
Laurels etc
CONT ENTS
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FACULTY CORNER RENDEZVOUS
Abhay Patodi & Abhishek Dutta Interviewed Dr. Dhanya Pramod (Our Beloved Dhanya
Ma’am)
Abhay: Ma’am can you tell us about your experience at SCIT. How did you start and how you went on to become the Deputy Director?
Abhishek: What is one special thing you like about SCIT?
Ma’am: I was doing my PhD at Symbiosis during 2006-09.During that time, I
had interacted with the previous Director of SCIT, Shaila Kagal Ma’am. She
used to be there during my intermediate PhD presentations. So, I used to get
lots of inputs from her. When I thought of changing my job, first option of
SCIT came to me because of my interaction with Kagal Ma’am. With the kind
of motivation she had given, I thought SCIT would provide me a good
environment to work. My interview was taken by Anil Vaidya Sir, who was
the then Director of SCIT. By the time I joined, Anil Sir had left….Rajni Gupte
Ma’am was the officiating Director for a couple of months. After that,
Raman Sir joined; Pradnya Ma’am was the acting Deputy Director at that
time. She was doing her PhD then, and hence she had a lot of administrative
work to take care off. She wanted to get relieved of some of the
administrative work. As a result, she requested Sir to relieve her from the
post and hand over the responsibilities to some other person. In the
meanwhile, Pradnya Ma’am was on leave for a month and I was the acting
Deputy Director for that period. Finally after 4-5 months of joining SCIT, I
became the deputy director
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Abhishek: How do you maintain a balance between your personal and professional life?
Abhay: If not a professor, what would you like to have been?
Abhay: Any message you would like to give to the students of SCIT.
Ma’am: The main thing I would say is the culture. Also, I would say that the
students are very well behaved. Somehow, I find that discipline is one thing
that we need not impose on the students out here. Also, half of the students
come from professional background, so what I find is students out here have
better maturity level than those in similar institutions. It is easy to handle
them as their understanding level is high.
Ma’am: (laughs)… It’s a very good question. Definitely, I would have been
a researcher
Ma’am: Hmm….well the first thing that I should tell is that my parents were
also working. My mother used to come during weekends. I was brought up
by father and grandmother till I was 11 years. From the childhood only, I
developed the feeling that I should become independent when I grow up. I
also had to adjust a bit. What I feel is, whatever I missed during my
childhood, is what my children shouldn’t miss now. I’ve never been too
harsh to them, but at the same time ensuring that they maintain discipline. I
devote adequate time to them. So, I hardly take work home. Even there is
some extra work some extra work; I make sure that I finish it off here itself.
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Ma’am: Well, I would like to advise them on what to focus on, during their
career. Now, people are more focussed areas, where they can easily find
in a job, more than their interest area. They actually grab the areas where
opportunities are available. That is not the right attitude. It may happen
that a few years, students might not feel great while working in that area.
Abhay & Abhishek : Thank You Ma’am for your time , it was a privilege for us
Ma’am : you’re welcome (smiles).
In the recently held PhD Entrance Examination (PET) of SIU, our faculty
member, Prof Anuradha Goswami has cleared the entrance and also got
through into the course by clearing the succeeding presentation and viva voce.
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Cover Story Evonix Technologies
They say big companies start with humble beginnings. A lot of big companies like
Apple, Amazon and HP were all started in a garage. These companies were not backed
up by huge investments but by the sheer determination of its founders. Well, the ‘Head
Quarters’ of Evonix is the Proof of Concept (POC) Lab at SCIT, is far from being like
a garage in terms of comfort and ambience. In fact, the lab could easily qualify for one
of the most conducive spaces. It may look like a good start for a start-up then, but that
doesn’t make this entrepreneurial journey any less comforting. Evonix Technologies is
a company started by the entrepreneur trio of Mubaid Syed, Niladri Shekhar Roy and
Chandra Vardhan, students of MBA 2011-13 batch of SCIT.
BE YOUR OWN BOSS
COVER STORY SIDDHARTH IYER ANURAG VERMA PRATIK VIMAL
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Cover Story Evonix Technologies
In a short span of 4-5 months, Evonix Technologies has made huge progress as a
company, by providing consulting services & IT Solutions to about 8-10 big clients
and launching ColorSplash.in as an online customized T-shirt e-commerce business.
The Slow Beginning
The start was not as smooth as expected.
The first and the basic problem was the
capital money. No business can start
without any investment and the founders
had ZERO capital to start with.
ColorSplash needed investment. The
revenues from Evonix Technologies were
used to invest in ColorpSplash. Evonix
Technologies was formed in October 2011 with constant
motivation and support from DR. R. Raman, Director - SCIT. Before that both the
founders Mubaid and Niladri used to take up projects as freelancers.
When they met and worked together in the 1st year of MBA, they realized a common
passion and formed bonding among themselves. This resulted in converting their part
time hobby of web development into full-fledged business. After the huge success of
Why this Kolaveri di Video, shot for SCIT promotion the two came to know that there
is one more brain itching guy like them – Chandra Vardhan. Thus the team was formed
but with assignments and classes to attend, the growth of the company was very slow
and there was no road map to go ahead.
Packing the T-Shirts on their own 1
Evonix Technologies was formed in October 2011 with constant motivation and
support from DR. R. Raman, Director - SCIT. Before that both the founders
Mubaid and Niladri used to take up projects as freelancers
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The Eureka Moment
Every business is backed up by an idea. Even though you have a great idea but its
actual worth is known only when you start implementing it. “Designing is my passion,
so along with the IT solutions we should do something which has great market
opportunity and gives a chance to build my passion. Being involved in a lot of
activities of college, we observed that there were several clubs and events of colleges
and each wanted to establish their own identity. Each of these would come up with
their own customized T-Shirt to represent themselves.
Students contacted local vendors, quality differed every time and there was total
chaos” says Mubaid. “What others saw as a problem, we saw it as a business
opportunity which has a great scope for evolving as a online t-shirt selling brand” adds
Niladri. So the three zeroed in on the idea and named it “ColorSplash.in”
ColorSplash Logo
From L to R : Chandra Vardhan , Mubaid Syed , Niladri Roy
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The First Bold Step- Choosing the Path Less Travelled
Like everyone else, the trio also started preparing for Internship interviews for
companies coming to college and they had offers from reputed companies. But still the
zeal of doing something on their own tickled their brains. After a lot of brain-storming
and interacting with seniors, alumni etc they decided to utilize the internship period for
starting their venture. “It is better to try and fail rather than wonder for the rest of my
life what it would have been if I had tried it? And we did not want that and hence opted
out of the Internship process” quotes Mubaid.When the same thing was conveyed by
the Director, he was indeed very happy and extended all the support needed to
encourage these young entrepreneurs.
Arrival of the Sleepless Nights
Although they have learned the importance of a proper business plan and financial
planning, the trio had everything except the proper business plan. Instead of spending
time on making business models, delivery models and financial planning, they just
jumped right into the waters.
Looking at the creative and impressive work they had done earlier for college and as
freelancers, Dr. R. Raman shared few contacts. It was not difficult to convert them into
deals. The projects at Evonix Technologies range from Website Development, Mobile
Application Development, Creative Designs and Online Marketing. Mubaid and
Niladri were good in programming and designing so they started working on the
projects while Chandra started handling all the operations and communication area.
The 1st Major Breakthrough
The 1st big client was Thomson Press, an ‘India Today’ Group of company (One of the
top 5 largest printing press in Asia). They wanted an MIS Application for their Delhi
setup and Evonix Tech. agreed to provide Consulting Services to them. So, Team
Evonix went to Delhi and stayed there for 15 days to help Thomson Press in
Architectural Design, Database Development of entire application and provided
technical training to staff along with development support to their team. “It was a great
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experience as we got to train the employees who had an average experience of 12 years
in Industry” says Chandra.
The ‘Color Splash’ Journey
ColorSplash.in which started as a passion was a difficult business than Evonix. Unlike
Evonix Tech., ColorSplash required capital money and knowledge of textile industry.
“We didn’t even have money to open a Current Account for our business and had to
borrow money from a friend”, says Niladri. They started by hosting a few T-shirts
designs on the website. “We were not really sure about the orders so decided to just
create the website. After a few weeks of the website being created the orders started
coming in” adds Niladri.
The next hurdle for the trio was to set up a reliable supply chain in place. They had to
find a suitable T-shirt manufacturer who could offer them T-shirts at best prices. For
this they did intensive research, figured out the major textile hubs in India and even
went ahead to visit many places. Then Evonix Technologies collaborated with DTDC
courier services for taking care of shipping and tracking of t-shirts, meanwhile Mubaid
and Niladri integrated the payment gateway on the ColorSplash website. The website
was fully functional and ready to take orders.
But you can’t expect sales without any marketing. The young entrepreneurs applied
many marketing fundas they had learned in their academics. After thorough market
research and competitor analysis, they decided that the only way to topple competitors
like inkfruit.com and bewkoof.com is to employ the ‘best-price’ strategy, and with the
supply chain optimization they could reduce costs and price the creatively designed t-
shirts very competitively. The problem of almost no human resources in the company
was tackled by hiring interns from different colleges for 2-3 months period; this not
only reduced costs for Evonix, but actually turned out to be a great learning experience
for the interns. Amazing how the three who were seeking internships a few months
back actually ended up giving internships to other students from IITs, NITs, and BITS
Pilani and even from a University of France for marketing and sales purpose.
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Cover Story Evonix Technologies
Looking at the dedication and concept of his friends, Chintan Sanghvi of 2011-13
batch finished his internship in other company quickly and joined the trio to help them.
After his entry it became easier for the trio to manage the work.
They went to graduation and post-graduation colleges, sent out e-mailers and also
utilized the power of Social Media for creating awareness and ‘buzz’ about
ColorSplash. One such social media marketing campaign, the ‘Batman T-Shirt design’
contest, gained immense attention and generated huge traction for the website. The
contest was intentionally launched around the dates of release of the mega Batman
flick ‘TDKR’. It attracted entries from more than 10 countries and 70+ different
designs, and with close to 4000 likes on their Facebook page, ColorSplash was quickly
becoming a brand in itself.
The dream of 3 young men was slowly turning into reality; a sustaining business
model, with the likes of IIIT-H, Tender Leaves, NIT Rourkela and British Telecom as
their esteemed clientele. Not only this, ColorSplash t-shirts are now featured on
SnapDeal.com, Junglee.com (Amazon) and eBay.in and lots of other major players are
also in talks. But ColorSplash is not the only sustaining business under the widening
umbrella of Evonix Technologies. They have done many projects that consist of
Website Designing and Deployment, providing E-Commerce Solutions and developing
Mobile Applications. They have also done SEO and Online Marketing for many
reputed organizations like ThomsonPress, HitsYouLike.com, YogaGuru.com and our
very own SCIT. On being asked “How do you manage so many things with MBA
academics? “. Mubaid says, “Well, coding has always been a passion for me, and the
amazing feeling of getting to be my own boss, and tasting success by realizing a long-
time dream of having my own company keeps me motivated.”
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The Road Ahead
The terrific trio have ambitious future plans for Evonix Technologies. With many
creative ideas and innovative strategies, they plan to establish the brand ColorSplash as
a major t-shirt provider among the college student fraternity and e-commerce market.
They have growth plans on the other business lines of Evonix as well, such as, Website
Design and Deployment, IT consulting and Mobile Applications Development. “Well,
the entire batch is going in one direction and we three are pursuing the other;
sometimes it’s exciting and sometimes it’s scary, but we are determined and committed
to fulfil our dream” says Chandra. The Entrepreneurs of SCIT have now become a
source of inspiration for many of their batch-mates. The Entrepreneurs of SCIT have
now become a source of inspiration for many of their batch-mates. They have truly
inculcated the spirit of Entrepreneurship and have become a living example for the
famous quote of SCIT’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership Forum – “Take the journey
of life by choice and not by chance”.
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Events & Happenings SSR
B
Based on their motto, the students of
SCIT’s MBA-ITBM 2009-2011 batch
started Student Social Responsibility club (SSR) in
2009.
Every new batch that enters this prestigious institution
has carried on this onus with great concern and
objectivity to promote it, not only within the institute’s
boundaries but even to the outside world. Already SCIT SSR since its inception two
years back has been associated with a lot of NGO’s and corporate houses in its
initiatives.
This year the “Enlightening Baton” was passed on to 2011-13 batch who have already
chalked out plans as to how they will try to assist the society in a much more
sustainable way rather than just spreading the word of awareness, because, everyone
believes that “Actions speak louder than Words”. And what could have been a better
way to start the journey, other than carrying out a well-crafted “Induction Program” on
Aug 13th, 2012 for the newly inducted batch of 2012-2014, thus leaving an indelible
imprint on their minds regarding this great initiative’s noble cause.
To make the event more interactive, participants were asked to
prepare paper bags from the waste material available around, sketch
and enact a play on any social issues, chalk out a plan of events that
would be conducted on a day trip to any orphanage
Induction Session
LOKESH JAIN
NAVYA
NEERAJ RAI
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The event was presided over by
honourable SCIT Director, Dr. R.
Raman, who in a pertinent way adorably
blended the genesis of the club along
with the mission, vision and motivation
behind the initiative. He also adroitly
explained how socially and
professionally beneficial it can prove to
everyone associated and the society on a whole. His words that described SSR were “ I
didn’t see any one working as hard as these members of SSR to make this program as
strong and socially bound, but not for the benefits of oneself, instead for the benefit of
the society”. The event was also addressed by Prof. SVK Bharathi and Prof. Sadhana
Ghalsasi who have always been supportive of the club and have always willingly
participated in many of the activities held by SSR.
PHOTOS : AYAN HORE
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EKLAVYA
Eklavya – The most happening group of SCIT is one of
the student driven clubs in SCIT. Inspired from the
Dedication and single minded devotion of “Eklavya” -
the master of archery from the Epic Mahabharata,
students of SCIT initiated ‘Team Eklavya -The
Mavericks of Theatre’ in making people aware of the
various issues like corporate, social, political,
environmental; in the form of street plays, mimes, road
shows, experimental theatre and also processions.
Eklavya also organizes peace processions to bring
awareness about topics like child labour, female
foeticide, patriotism, business ethics etc.
It was started in 2008 by ‘Aman Kumar’, ‘Rishikant
Gautam’ , ‘Avinash Iyer’ and ‘Manas Jayaram’ with an
intention of providing a platform to express themselves
LOKESH JAIN , VARUN MANKODI , ABHAY PATODI
Achievements by Eklavya
FIRST Prize in MIME - IIT
Mumbai 'Mood Indigo'
Competition
FIRST Prize in Street Play -
SIMC Annual Fest 'Fest-O-
Comm'
FIRST Prize in Zonal Round -
Channel [V] Fest, GOA - Street
Play
FIRST Prize in Stage Play -
FLAME College
SECOND Prize in Street Play -
FLAME College Annual Fest
Performed in FINAL 8 teams
for Street Play - IIM
Ahmadabad 'Chaos'
Competition
Performed in FINAL 10 teams
for Street Play - IIT Mumbai
'Mood Indigo' Competition
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EKLAVYA
and raise social issues they truly believe in. Since its inception, Eklavya has
become one of the most interesting and eager-to-join club for every coming
batch of SCIT MBA-ITBM. Eklavya endorses the fact that creativity cannot
be the bastion of a few individuals. More the number of people, more
suggestions, better plays. Hence the tag line- Open Source Nautanki...!!!!
Eklavya 4.0 – team of management students from 2011-13 batch showcased
their tremendous acting skills via magical MIME performance at SCIT
Foundation day followed by stupendous street play at the time of the
introduction of Eklavya 5.0. The talent of the group was there to be seen and
justifies the laurels that they have won over the last year.
Spurred by the performance of the senior batch, the 2012-14 batch were
eager to prove their metal. The response for the Eklavya 5.0 was
overwhelming. Each participant had to go through various rounds of
screening. There were 2-3 levels of screening activities where participants
were asked to perform on randomly given topics. The way some of the
participants performed was really appreciating. After two days of auditions,
the final list Eklavya 5.0 was announced.
Congratulations to all the selected members, main coordinators of Eklavya
4.0 Deeksha and Niladri and the entire Eklavya 4.0 for putting up such a
wonderful act.
Like Robert Frost said…“Woods are lovely, dark and deep; but I have promises to keep and
miles to go before I sleep”, Eklavya believes that the ultimate objective is the age old
showman’s mantra
“THE SHOW MUST GO ON...!”
The Brainstorming, the art, the feverish passion continues... Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost!!!
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SnC
ABHISHEK GUPTA TANUSHREE ABHAY PATODI
Informal Get-Together
@ Courtyard Marriott
It’s that time of the year again, when the campus vibrates
with positive energy, the new junior batch filled with
excitement and anticipation takes on the journey of MBA.
As the tradition goes, senior batch welcomes the juniors by
throwing a Informal Get-together and this time they did it in style.
SnC
Where the fun never stops
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SnC
CRICKET
INDEPENDENCE CUP
@ SIC Campus
The Informal Get-together was held on 18th Aug 2012, at Courtyard Marriott. What
added to the ardour and excitement was the condition for junior boys to ask senior girls
and junior girls to ask senior boys for company in the party. The evening began with a
cake cutting ceremony for juniors, then began the DJ which drew everyone to the
dance floor, followed by a sumptuous dinner and delicious deserts.
The most happening sports cup of SCIT ‘The
Independence Cup’ was held from 9th to 12th August
2012. Played in the flood-lit SIC ground the seniors v/s
juniors sporting event is a fight for supremacy in sports, the juniors gets a chance to
showcase their talents and have the seniors fight for their legacy.
Four junior and four senior teams were formed in
cricket and one senior and three junior teams were
formed in football. Cricket was played on knock out
basis whereas football was played on round robin basis.
After the division wise matches, Jnrs Div. D team and Snrs Div A team played an
absolute hum-dinger of a final which the seniors won, batting first. The Seniors Div. A
struggled to a meagre total of 42 in 10 overs. Juniors started off to a rollicking start
with openers Sourav Roy and Abhishek Maid setting up the chase by an opening stand
of 28. But an inspired spell of bowling by Urmil Khamar turned the match on its head,
in the end Jnrs needed 6 runs of 2 overs but another bit of brilliance by Sandipan Pal
who bowled a wicket-maiden penultimate over saved the day for seniors.
The titles of Mr Fresher went to Sourav Roy Chaudhary and Ms
Fresher to Prerna Bet
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SnC
ICEBREAKER EVENT
FOOTBALL
The Football Tournament held at SIC was on a round
robin basis with three teams from 2012-14 batch and
one team from 2011-13 batch. Team C (captained by
Subarna) dominated the whole tournament scoring a total of 18 goals in 4 matches.
Sourav Roy Choyudary emerged as the player of the tournament finishing with a tally
of 9 goals to his credit.
A novel and innovative initiative by the Senior SnC
committee turned out to be a totally fun filled evening
at the SIC ground. Held on 7th August 2012, The
Icebreaker was planned to break the ice between seniors
and juniors and developed a bonding. Despite intermittent rain, juniors came out in
numbers to the SIC ground to take part in the various activities contrived specifically
to increase interaction between juniors and seniors.
After the informal introductions and activities, seniors and juniors tripped the light
fantastic together at the popular foot tapping Hindi and Punjabi numbers played by the
DJ. The results of the Icebreaker evening were clearly evident on Facebook, where
many friend requests were sent and received.
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GUEST LECTURE
I
“IT in Banking” was the buzz
word as a very enthusiastic session
commenced in the SIU auditorium
on 12th August, 2012.
This affair was planned in a very
interesting manner, with the two guests enacting an on-stage
question- answer session among themselves.
Mr. Gerela played the role of the CEO while Mr. Eppaturi took up the role of the IT
consultant, debating and explaining the critical issues faced by organisations like
banks, exchanges and SMEs.
Throughout this discourse, the stress was on the 3S i.e. Stability, Scalability and
Security in addition to the technological upgrades and 24X7 availability, necessary in
the banking domain.
Lots of comparative analysis was put forward by
these esteemed speakers in their own style, making
the session both entertaining and informative at the
same time. It was clearly one among the many
enthralling sessions that we had at SCIT.
SPEAKERS
Mr Rajiv Gerela, VP, Deutsche Bank
Mr. Ravi Eppaturi, Chairman, Mumbai Chapter, Computer Society of India.
NIDHI JOSHI DEEPALI SARDANA ADHIRAJ DARE
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GUEST LECTURE
NIDHI JOSHI DEEPALI SARDANA ADHIRAJ DARE
A guest lecture on the topic “Internship Opportunities at
Ritsumeikan University” was held at the SIU auditorium on 22nd
of August 2012. Prof. Takada, Vice Dean of International Affairs at College of
Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
The discourse started with Prof. Tadaka briefing the audience with
Ritsumeikan University, and its well organized infrastructure. He
went on to inform the students, with the different courses being
offered by the university and the current researches being
conducted there.
The highlight of the session was a video on the research work
done in the university in which researchers were shown exploring
various new-age technological platforms, including
application development for devices such as the iPad and
the iPhone. The students from SCIT who had an
opportunity to complete their internship at the Ritsumeikan
University, shared their wonderful experience with the
audience as well. Through this session, the students at
SCIT, especially the juniors, got a fair understanding of the
research being conducted there and the life at the campus of
Ritsumeikan.
It is to be noted that the Ritsumeikan University offers internship to students from
SCIT every year. And judging by the enthusiasm of the students this year too, the
internship being offered by Ritsumeikan will have many looking forward to it with
high hopes.
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iTELF
iTELF-The Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Leadership Forum-
endorses the mission to inculcate the entrepreneurial spirit among SCIT students and
educate them about entrepreneurship as a career opportunity. ITELF, along with
National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), supports and nurtures the entrepreneurial
spirit. The team started this year’s proceedings with the introduction of the committee
to the juniors with an awesome video. Innovations have always been the trademark of
iTELF, as was seen the last year too. The team has got a resounding response from the
junior batch, as 45 candidatures nominated themselves for 8 core team positions and 10
volunteer positions.
The entrepreneurship cell is also all set to present the yearly flagship entrepreneurial
event – SproutIT for the academic year 2012-13 on 8th of September 2012. Being the
first event of this academic year, it has been a busy start of the year for iTELF team.
But with hopes held high, iTELF, under the mentorship of Prof. Apoorva Kulkarni, is
all geared up towards making the event a success.
The theme of the event this year is “En-route- A journey by Choice not by Chance”.
Panel discussion being the main event, it is expected to enrich the audiences with
valuable insights from Industry experts and SMEs. Other notable events under the
SproutIT umbrella are Ek Din ka CEO, Future Eye, KnockDown, Megamind, Paisa
Vasool, on your feet and the TurnCoat Debate.
ABHAY PATODI PRATIK BEEDKAR ADHIRAJ DARE
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RAJESH KHANNA
NIGHT
27
27th July 2012: It was a regular day at SCIT. Assignments, classes, lectures, gym, cricket, football, music and everything else were happening as usual. 18th July, Wednesday – middle of the week late in the afternoon when Bollywood’s first Superstar, Rajesh Khanna passed away. For those, who knew the charisma of this actor
Mayur Pawar SCIT 2012-14
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RAJESH KHANNA
NIGHT were terribly shocked and grieved. That’s when a bunch of us decided that this magnum opus star needs a special tribute! The gathering was held at the open air auditorium just outside the dining hall. Prior to
this, a lot of arrangement was made – starting with the selection of the best songs of
Kaka, as he was called affectionately, to creating a Facebook event and inviting
everyone. Among the ones who were to perform, it was a motley crew of singers, a
percussionist, a guitarist and a few enthusiasts who had the songs on the tip of their
tongues.
Finally the evening began! Though it was the month of July, the rain gods showed
mercy and the weather was fantastic. We kicked off the event with peppy songs like
Zindagi ek safar hain suhaana, Jai Jai Shivshankar, Gulaabi aankhen and the
evergreen Mere sapno ki rani had the crowd going crazy on their feet. Even folks who
were unaware of the magic of Rajesh Khanna were jubilant and dancing in the open
air! The percussionist with his fingers rollicking on the tabla was in perfect sync with
the zany guitarist. Slowly we drifted the mood towards more romantic songs – songs
like O mere dil ke chain, Hume tumse pyaar kitna elevated the mood of the crowd to a
higher level. Since it was an open air event, folks from other colleges such as SIIB and
SCMHRD also started pooling in. The area around the dining hall and the sitting area
around was jam packed by the time, SCITians started off with some poignant and heart
wrenching songs. Kuch toh log kahenge and Zindagi ke safar mein made the crowd sit
back and ponder over things of the mind.
The event was nearing its end.. And the song had to be Zindagi kaisi hain paheli from Anand, one of the finest movies ever made in Indian cinema. This got the whole crowd swinging in unison, everyone remembering what a great actor they are going to miss!
Some folks became so emotional that they started crying. But then, Kaka hates tears!
Babumoshai, hum toh rangmanch ki kathputliyan hain jiski dor uss upar
wale ke haathon main hai. Kab, kaun, kaise uthega ye koi nahin janta..
Lines from the film –‘ANAND’
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SCIT FOUNDATION DAY
NEERAJ KUMAR RAI
Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT) made its educational stage
debut on the auspicious day of 3rd August 1999, with the notion to become a “Premier
IT Business School Nurturing Genuine IT Talent”. Every year, we celebrate this day
with lots of zeal & ardour, thereby, reinstating our faith in the institute’s foundation
inspiration. This year was no different, with loads of social & cultural performances,
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SCIT FOUNDATION DAY
OPENING SPEECH
SKIT
DANCE PRESENTATIONS
SONG PERFORMANCES
meticulously planned and well organized by the college management, staff and
students.
The institute’s esteemed director, Dr. R. Raman, presided over the function. Let’s have
a brief look at the assortment of commotions conducted during the function –
Director Sir initiated event’s proceedings in quite
innovative manner. Rather than delivering a
routine oration, he organized a SCIT’s history
based quiz and delivered prizes to those who answered correctly. Its main agenda was
to impart lesser known facts about the college to the gathered student community.
The informative quiz session was followed by
some classic stage performances, both, by the core
MBA course seniors & juniors. Especially, the
MIME act performed by senior Eklavya (SCIT’s Dramatics Committee) members on
“Addiction – The Silent Killer” was an absolutely mesmerizing performance.
The spice of the event was some engrossing
singing done by native budding vocalists, who
completely enthralled the present audience. The
SCIT’s indigenous musical band “Mantra” stole the show with their riveting audio
performance coordinated with some awesome instrumental melodies.
The surprise package of the event was a classical
Kathak dance appearance, given by institute’s
faculty Mrs Rashmi Sondriyal Gairola. After
watching this show, anyone would have easily believed the saying that “Once a
Dancer, Always a Dancer”. It was a scintillating act, coupled with some dazzling
expressions and astounding movements.
All in all, every feat was garnered with heavy praises by the spectators, who
thoroughly enjoyed the evening. After watching such ceremonies, anyone can say that
every experience in SCIT is a “Lifetime Experience”.
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S
Symbiosis International University (SIU) is always known for its collaborations with
various prestigious international universities with a mission of building and
maintaining relationship between different people across the globe, for accomplishing
its adage of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - the whole world is one single family.
Symbiosis Centre for information technology (SCIT), a constituent of SIU is
continuing the legacy by launching one month program in Software Solution Design
for students from Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. Under this program 16
students are participating to enhance their learning in the field of Software Solution
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Design. The program was inaugurated on 21th Aug 2012 and Prof. Hideyuki Takada,
ViceDean, College for Information Science and Engineering, RITS University, was the
chief guest and the inaugural speaker along with Ms. Kshipra Potdar and Mr. Kenichi
Yoshida MD from Cubist Edunet Pvt Ltd. Cubist Edunet along with SCIT is jointly
hosting this program.
The students are given extensive learning on various technicalities of Software
Solution Design. The program is not only focused on grooming students on academic
fronts but also to enable cross cultural exchange by making them feel and enjoy Indian
culture and learning arts like ‘Origami’ from Japanese. They are also involved in
various extra-curricular activities like sports, dance, and out-bound tours. To make
their stay enriching at SCIT, college has started a unique “buddy system” program. The
main purpose of buddy system is to assist them in various day to day activities
including studies, communication and help them to gel seamlessly with Indian culture.
More than 20 students had shown voluntary participation to work as buddies for these
students.
This SSD program is mentored by is Prof. Sadhana Ghalsasi, Assistant Professor –
SCIT. She has always been a motivational force and key person behind the success of
this program. Ensuring that the participants have an enjoyable academic experience
mixed with a lot of fun filled extracurricular activities during this one month, SCIT is
continuing its endeavor towards a premier IT B-school.
The program is not only focused on grooming students on academic
fronts but also to enable cross cultural exchange by making them feel
and enjoy Indian culture
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ONAM
Onam @ SIC
Onam is the first cultural event in the academic year conducted jointly by all the three
colleges SCIT, SCMHRD, and SIIB. It is a full day event starting at 7 in the morning
going all the way up to 12 in the night. Onam is celebrated with great joy and
enthusiasm in SCIT.
The flower carpet is arranged to welcome King Mahabali to everyone’s houses in
Kerala. Here in SIC we conduct it as a competition event among the three colleges.
The designs are first drawn on the previous night and early morning the flowers are
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ONAM
prepared for decoration. The competition gets over by 10.00 am and judges
representing from three colleges come and judge the designs.
The highlight of the day is the Onam Sadhya (lunch). A sadhya is
traditional lunch prepared mainly from coconut and vegetables.
The elaborate meal consists of 11 to 13 strictly vegetarian dishes
and is served on banana leaves. There is a fixed order of serving
the meal and a set place to serve the various dishes on the leaf. A
lot of preparation and hard work goes in making of the
scrumptious Onasadya.
All the malayalis from three campuses jointly serve the Students,
faculty and staff of the three colleges. From 12.30 to 3 in the
afternoon the proceedings of lunch goes on. Every year we have
special guests coming to enjoy this feast. This year we had 16
Japanese students who are doing their short term courses in the
campus. Also a special guest for the lunch was Dr Vidya
Yeravdekar who blessed us with her esteemed presence.
Main Co-ordinators from SCIT:
George Mathew , Reshmi Menon
Volunteers:
Aparna Nandakumar, Evin Abraham, Vasudha Jagannathan, Rohit Krishnan and Suraj Sugunan
A Special Thanks to:-
Sandeep, Rohit, Gopikrishnan, Sara, Prerna, Stuti, Rose, Richa, Sabita, Sayali, Roshni and Prerit.
EVENTS:
Pookalam (Floral
Carpet Designing)
Onam Sadhya
(Special traditional
Kerala Lunch)
Cultural Events
(Traditional Dance
forms and songs)
Movie Screening
(Malayalam movie in
auditorium)
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Events & Happenings PRAYATNA
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Prayatna-An Initiative for Social Change, is a registered
non-profit Non-Government Organization run by students
from three colleges: Symbiosis Institute of International
Business (SIIB), Symbiosis Centre for Information
Technology (SCIT) and Symbiosis Centre for
Management and Human Resource Development
(SCMHRD) at the Symbiosis Infotech Campus (SIC), Hinjewadi, Pune.
Its aim is : “To help in the education of children from poor sections of the society; To
give them guidance and inculcate moral values in them and assist them in their overall
personality development."
Continuing the legacy, there was an induction session on August 8 th for 2012-14 batch
students which had the objective of making them aware about Prayatna, sharing the
experiences and inviting them to join this noble cause.
The event started with the Main Co-ordinator from SCIT, Mamta Kumawat asking
questions related to relevance of education to under-privileged kids. Followed by that,
a formal presentation and a soul-stirring video was also shown to the audience. Lastly,
the existing team members of Prayatna shared their experiences, answered some
questions and motivated the upcoming batch to be a part of this NGO. After a couple
of round of interviews later, a dedicated team of 30 volunteers were selected and they
are now a part of Prayatna .
Mamta Kumawat
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From a macro perspective, Finance is merely the practical application of
economics. The Financial System is the means by which an economy
allocates money to its highest valued use.
In this month DKON team with Mr.Avichal Sinha presented a Session on
"Language of Finance”. This session was aimed at covering fundamental
concepts of finance and its terminologies. This is kind of must for every
MBA Grad to be well aware of.
As students we may consider finance management as something distant from
personal life. But having a little closer look, we can realize the fact that it will
give us insights about which industries are growing at what pace, where we
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can expect higher recruitments and growth and which industries recession
would hit first.
Taxes can take 40% of what we would earn. Making the right investments
can cut this tax burden. This is yet another reason to study basic terminology
of finance that can enable us to explore our further knowledge about shares,
equities, debentures etc.
Let’s participate in DKON’s interactive knowledge sharing sessions.
Visit us on http://www.scit.edu/drishtikon/index.html
Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/drishtikon/
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AUG-2012 Students’ Space BOOK REVIEW
I
In the final year of your MBA , you always crave to do best with your current life (as
being an MBA student) because you know tomorrow when you step into the corporate
world ,full of hassles and complication, you will not have that time which you cherish
now. I made a note of this thought in my mind and came out with the things to do list,
and in that list was a task to read top management books in the span of this one year. In
the bookstore I was intrigued by this out of the box title “JUGAAD-INNOVATION”.
The book is written by Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu & Simone Ahuja, all three authors belonging to different fields of expertise.
The book is written by Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu & Simone Ahuja, all three authors
belonging to different fields of expertise. They combined their thoughts about frugal
and flexible approach to innovation for the 21st century in this book. The authors look
into the strategic aspects of innovation and explained their stand with current
corporates like 3M , TATA , GM , SIELCO , PHILIPS , ICICI , TCS , INFOSYS ,
COLGATE , P&G and others.
A very prominent aspect of this book was that the authors where able to identify
different stages of Innovation.
SURAJ SUGUNAN
MBA 2011-13
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It is a very interesting read for an MBA student. Although I tend to differ on some
points with the authors , they had a secluded mindset about the traditional process and
their standardization procedure specially SIX SIGMA, to their view point they often
blamed that SIX SIGMA process don’t promote Innovation and they had exemplary
examples of companies like 3M & Google. But in contrast six sigma focuses on
process optimization with effective results.
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एक मासूम दिल ह ै
SKETCHES BY MUBAID SYED
MANSI PUROHIT
MBA ITBM 2011-13
एक नमी छाई है आखँोंमें
सूरत हस्ती है वहा ँतेरी
महफिले सजाए बैठता है फिल
बाते करती है वहा ँयािे तेरी
वक्त कभी खींचता रहा है
और हम य ुंही चले जा रहे है
बाकी फिल इबाित में वहीं खडा है
जहा ँहुई थी इनायत तेरी
एक मासूम फिल है
और क छ है खामोफिया ँ
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Be it the pay day Wedding day or birthday Each Day is Beautiful Each day has its own aim Play it and be the winner of game Go beyond the Happiness and sadness Life is not just about these two Each day has to teach a lesson too Either we are ignored or wooed Finding out ways to make it special Giving names to days to make the memorable Friendship day, Valentine day Mother’s day, Father’s day Its way to remember the days Because each day is Beautiful As God created them to make our Lives meaningful. So live with the Spirit And learn with zeal Play with action Fight with courage Love with Feelings Each day is beautiful Get its meaning.
Sometimes I wonder! How beautiful a day can be? As I thought it can be only good or bad. Depending on whether we are happy or sad. Now I know It is better to be beautiful than to be good! And what about Bad one. But its true there is none. As no day is is good or bad. Each day is beautiful Sometimes the reason is earnings Sometimes the reason is learnings Beautiful is the day When sun shines for the first time in the morning When it sets in the evening When a girl turns to be mother When a sportsman turns out to be a winner Each day is Beautiful Even when we have fights And expect the other should make a move To make the things go right
HITESH BHASKAR
MBA ITBM 2011-13
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27 Aug 2012. What more one can expect in a single day. A usual hectic day
in SCIT turns out to be a most adorable one. A Session on Japanese art
Origami by Japanese Students and a pleasant meet with “Prayatna” Team
and Prayatna’s Kids.
Jo Imamoto with many students from RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY (JAPAN)
conducted Origami Session. They come every year as a part of student
exchange program in SCIT. Origami is an art of folding paper into decorative
shapes & figures. They taught us how to make Paper Airplanes, Swans, Warriors
Helmet, etc.
Prayatna is a Non-Profit NGO of SCIT, SIIB & SCMHRD formed by former SIIB
students. Prayatna’s aim is to help in the education of children from poor
sections of the society & to give them guidance and inculcate moral values in
them.
&
HARSHAL PATHRABE
MBA 2012-14
MBA ITBM 2012-14
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Regular sessions are being conducted every day between 7 pm to 9 pm by
volunteers to instil knowledge in little kids.
Innocent children of age 5-10 years also learned Origami. Japanese students
hardly know English but humanity & friendship need no language. It was really
a heart touching moment to see sparkling faces of Amar, Mayuresh, Roshni
and many more kids. Kid named Amar surprised Japanese students by making
Paper Frog.
JAPANESE & SCIT students with so many kids, it was looking like a Carnival. No
one was there for winning or losing anything, it was a self-less, fun-filled
moment that brought out child hidden in everyone.
“Important thing in photography is to have a spirit of learning and
sharing”
When I came to SCIT, I just had a camera “FUJIFILM S1000FD” which is really
good but I was not aware of that. I didn’t even know how to manipulate the
setting as required by the scenario. But after we had our SCIT Photography
Club Meet on 30th Sept. 2012, many things are pretty much clear now. The
Origami is an art of folding paper into decorative shapes &
figures. They taught us how to make Paper Airplanes, Swans,
Warriors Helmet, etc.
NAVEEN TITARE
MBA 2012-14
MBA ITBM 2012-14
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session started with Clarification of the “Megapixel Myth” that people have
while buying a new camera, and the technical difference between Compact
Camera and DSLR, which was taken by Ayan Hore. It was really very
informative & value addition for everyone present.
Next in the session was “Basic Photography Concepts: Aperture, Shutter
Speed, ISO” explained by Devesh Singh & Ayan Hore which was really good,
since before that I just knew these terms but didn’t know what they actually
do in photography and their effects.
The session started with clarification of the “Megapixel Myth” that people
have while buying a new camera, and the technical difference between
Compact Camera and DSLR, which was taken by Ayan Hore.
PHOTOS: AYAN PHOTOGRAPHY
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After that Q&A session
helped us in clarifying our
queries on the new
concepts learnt, followed
by the “Photo Viewing”
session in which we came
to know about the
talented people in 2012-
2014 Batch as well as from
2011-2013 Batch. The
photograph which I really
loved was - “Emotions of
Cats” by “Smruti Borkar”
from 2012-2014 Batch.
Finally, I’d like to thank
Ayan Hore, Devesh Singh
& Akash Boaz for
organizing the session & we are eagerly waiting for the next session to happen.
Till then trying to implement lessons learnt from this session to capture some
good photographs.
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BRAIN TEASERS QUIZ
(HINT – He has superpowers)
Q1.
Identify
the
Celebrity?
This POP star defies age
This Man redefined action ,
bodybuilding
and became a governor
A patriotic freedom fighter,
An excellent tailor,
A veteran actor,
An eminent activist
And the list goes on.
a
c
Q 2.
FIND THE ODD
ONE OUT
ANIRUDHA INGLE
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Q3. Which product started by MIRC Electronics got its
name from the anagram of the location of the company
which is in a town near Delhi?
Q4. "Where do you want to go today" is the corporate
slogan of which company?
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QUIZ
–
2nd QUIZ_INE,
SIIB Leadership Series
NIKHIL MOTLAG (2011-13) SANDEEP G (2012-14)
QUIZ_INE,
SIIB Leadership Series
3rd MADHURA HIRMUKHE (2011-13)
ANIRUDHA INGLE (2011-13)
Eccentricity,
SIIB Leadership Series
1st RUCHI NANDITA
SHERRY SHRUTI GARG
(2012-14)
SUMMERS 2012
1st NIKHIL MOTLAG
(2011-13)
SUMMERS PROJECT
PRESENTATION
ONLINE VIDEO
QUIZ
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TEAM
ABHAY PATODI
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
ABHISHEK DUTTA
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
ABHISHEK GUPTA
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
AVICHAL SINHA
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
DEVESH MATHUR
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
HAMMAD MALIK
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
ABHIMANYU SINGH
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
TARUN JOSHI
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
ANKITA KULKARNI
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
PRIYAM SHAH
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
MAYUR PAWAR
MBA-ITBM 2012-14
TANUSHREE KARKHANIS
MBA-ITBM 2012-14
ANURAG GOYAL
MBA-ITBM 2012-14
DESIGN & PUBLISHING
TEAM
LOKESH JAIN
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
NAVYA
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
ADHIRAJ DARE
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
ANURAG VERMA
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
PRATIK VIMAL
MBA-ITBM 2012-14
SIDDHARTH IYER
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
CONTENT EDITORS
AKASHDEEP
MBA 2011-13
NIDHI JOSHI
MBA-ITBM 2011-13
CORRESPONDENTS
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PRATIK BEEDKAR
MBA-ITBM 2012-14
DEEPALI SARDANA
MBA-ITBM 2012-14
NEERAJ RAI
MBA-ITBM 2012-14
VARUN MANKODI
MBA-ITBM 2012-14