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VOLUME 2 ISSUE 10 08 AUGUST 2016

Vijay Rupani : New Gujarat CM

GST Bill The Indian Parliament finally passes it’s landmark bill of Goods and Service Taxes.Once implemented the tax could replace the various layers of national, state and local taxes with an single in-tegrated value added tax to replace the multiple indirect taxes of the country.The Indian Government targets to roll out the GST tax by April 1 ,2017.

Rio Olympics: Any chances for India? Gaurav DeyWith more than a hundred par-ticipating in Rio Olympics this year, this is the strongest Indi-an contingent in Olympics ever. From athletics to archery, bad-minton, boxing, judo, gymnas-tics, hockey, rowing, shooting, swimming, tennis and table ten-nis, weightlifting and wrestling, we have participants for almost all the major sports competition taking place at Rio. Y News team takes a sneak peak at the realistic chance India has as far as win-

ning of medals is considered. 22 years old Dipa Karmakar is the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. Dipa has won the bronze at the 2015 Asian Gymnas-tics Championship and reached the final of the World Artistic Gymnas-tics Championships in 2016. Sports enthusiasts of the city are eagerly waiting for this event. Deepak Sanyal, a member of Bhawanipore Club said, “I hope Dipa Karmakar and the other athletes who are from Bengal performs well.” However, in Dipa’s own words, “My first target is to reach the final round.”Saina Nehwal, ranked world number 5, earned her 2016 Olympics qual-ification on the basis of this ranking. She reached the quarter finals in 2008 Beijing Games and won the bronze medal in 2012 London Games. Saina is 26 years old and playing her third Olympics. From 2012 to 2016

her performance has improved and has become a more attacking and versatile player. She won the bronze medal in 2016 Asian Championship and silver medal in 2015 World Championship. She bagged the presti-gious No 1 ranking in women’s badminton in April, 2015.The Indian women’s archery team comprising of Deepika Kumari, Bom-bayla Devi and Laxmirani Manjhi will participate in the individual as well as the team event. The archers have earned three individual berths based on their performance at the World Championships in Copenha-gen last year. In April 2016, Deepika won the Archery World Cup in Sanghai equaling the earlier score set by London Olympics gold medalist Ki Bo Bae of Korea. She ranks fifth in the world and has three individual World Cup silvers won in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Yogeshwar Yadav, winner of bronze medal of 2012 London Olympics, it seems has realistic chances of winning a medal in Rio. Though he had won in men’s 60 kg freestyle, he has now moved up to 65 kg after the in-ternational governing body FILA re-jigged the weight class in 2013. He has won the bronze medal in 2006 Asian Games held at Doha and won the gold medal in 2010 Commonwealth Games. Jitu Rai makes his debut in Olympics this year. He has won the gold medal at Incheon Asian Games held in the year 2014 and also won a gold medal at the commonwealth Games held in the year 2010. He won the silver medal at the 51st World Shooting Championship held in 2015. Shankarlal Chakraborty, assistant coach of Mohun Bagan, is hopeful. He says, “India is improving every year. This time there is more than 100 participants and I am hopeful that we will get more medals than the pre-vious Olympics. Saina Nehwal, Sania Mirza, Yogeshwar Dutt, Abhinav Bindra all have chances of winning gold or silver.”

Gujarat’s BJP chief Vijay Rupani hasbeen sworned in as the new chief minister of the state.His appointment comes as a surprise as

speculations were rife that Nitin Patel would be the new CM.Nitin Patel has become the deputy CM.

Dengue hits Bengal Number of deaths due to Dengu rose to ten in West Bengal.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is-sued special instructions to curb the spread of the disease by re-moving stagnant water thereby preventing the mosquito larvae from breeding.

West Bengal to be renamed Banga :

West Bengal may soon be renamed to B a n g a . T h e big reason for the proposed name change is to jump the queue in getting an opportunity to speak in meetings where West Bengal usually comes at the end of a list of 29 states.

Harry Potter and Crusaded Child

Harry Potter’s eighth series viz.Harry Potter and Crusaded Child hit Asian market on August1.Aspiring readers rushed to their nearby bookstores to collect their copy resulting in a record sale of more than 680,000 publica-tions only in Britain. The script of the two part play recounts the adult life of Harry Potter and his family.

Kumartuli : Gen Next not keen to carry the legacy forwardIndranil Roy

Kumartuli the 400 year old artisan village located near Sovabazar, North Kolkata is a home to around 250 idol makers ,decorators and their families.Kumors or the idol makers is the lifeblood of Ben-gal’s heritage and the biggest attraction during the festival of Durga Puja .It is believed that this unique potters' colony came into existence in the early 17th century with Feudal Lord Laxmikanta Roy Mazum-der as its first patron of Kolkata’s potter town and initiator of the worship of clay idols of Goddess Durga. Later over the next four years the British East India Company allotted separate districts to the Company's workmen and Kumartuli was marked out as a dis-tinct potters' colony.The Kumartuli gradually took to making images of other gods and goddesses, worshipped in large numbers in the mansions all around and later at community pujas in the city and beyond. Soon, potters from Nadia, Howrah and Hooghly started settling down in the area, seeking patronage and business from rich landlords. As Durga puja started emerging as the region's biggest fes-tival, Kumartuli grew in importance and almost became synonymous to this biggest festival of Bengal.With passing time the heritage artisan colony is now going through a makeover. The new generation has rejected the age old tradition of idol-making and is branching out to other professions.Artisans wary of their future. Dhananjay Pal who is working in Kumartuli with a history of five generation said, “ My two sons are not much interested in getting involved in this profession. They are now studying in an engineering college and will make a career out of it. May be I am the last person to work in this art form.” The same voice is reflected from Pradip Rudra Pal, Gorachand Pal the other famous artists of Kumar-tuli. Worsening the situation is the high prices of raw material and labour.The price of the idols is not that encouraging says Rakhal Pal.Rudrajit Pal, President Award winner artist addresses anothert prob-

lem “We are facing problems to get revenues. In past days the artist would be valued both economically, socially and creatively. But over the last few years the Puja celebrations have become theme based.With this we are now equally being engaged into theme Pujas where a puja pandel, idol everything is related with a particular theme. The craftsmen are being forced to make the idols as per theme selected by the puja committees and here is where we feel our creativity is being hampered.”Gopal Chandra Pal, who owned a studio in Banamali Sarkar street from british period seems equally concerned over the future of Kumartuli. In repeated conversations with him his fear is spelt out loud and clear . Unless the government can provide incentives, Kumartuli might pass into history.It is high time when government officials need to intervene and take preventive measures to save our cultural heritage of City of Joy and revive this decaying art of our motherland . Kumartuli must change if it has to survive.

VOLUME 2 ISSUE 10 8 AUGUST 2016

Editorial Team: Bristi Mondal, Bhavna Yagnik, Gaurav Dey, Indranil Roy,Komal Jaiswal, Ritoban Dey, Sanhita SahaDesign Team: Arka Deogharia, Amitav Das, Ishita Singha,

Chief Mentor: Dr Buroshiva Dasgupta Mentors: Jhuma Basak, Sharmila Sinha, Debanjan Banerjee, Bhaswar Bhattacharyya, Ankita Ash, Reshmi Naskar,Barnali Ray

CAMPUS NEWSOrientation at NCPT

A three day orientation programme was organized by the Department of Pharmacy on 1st,2nd and 3rd of August ,2016 to welcome its new batch of undergraduate students .The programme included sessions of Dr. Indranil Das , MD, Declibac Technology Pvt. Ltd. His session elaborated the course prospects and career opportunities for the students.

Seminar for the 1st year of B.OptometryB.Optometry students had an induction session with Dr. R. Venkat Ra-man enior optimist of Sankar Netralaya, Kolkata on 4th of August,2016.The session highlighted on the career opportunities in Optometry and Vision Science.

Adieu P.G. Media Batch 2014-16Department of Media Science bids farewell to P.G. Batch 2014-16 on 2nd August. Department faculty members and student assembled to organize to wish the outgoing batch the very best for the carrer ahead.

I can cook contestItalian cooking workshop cum competition organized by Taj Bengal Chef Sonu Kothiawara for kids was organized in the campus in partnership with NSHM Knowledge Campus on June 25th.The workshop comprising of young school participants aimed towards collecting aid for Concern India Foundation as well as encouraging the young minds to enhance their culi-nary skills.The workshop witnessed hands on preparations of Italian dishes like PennePesto and Tiramisu .

Author- Richard BachLanguage - EnglishSubject- The life of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a seagull.Genre-Spiritual, self-help, novellaPublisher-Macmillan Publication Date-1970Media type-Print (paperback)Pages-144 (The Complete Edition)Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach is a unpretentious book that causes you to pause and think. This book is about Jonathan Livingston Seagull, one of the many seagulls from the Breakfast Flock

colony. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a novella about the journey taken by a special seagull ,who wants to be able to fly faster and higher than any other seagull. This journey becomes spiritual when Jonathan is banished from his Flock because he tries to be different, flying high and fast while the Flock sticks to the beaches and the fishing boats. Jonathan believes he is in heaven, as he realizes that he is flying high-er and more easily than ever before. His escorts leave him and he lands on a beach with other gulls. He meets a magnificent gull named Sul-livan. Jonathan works with Sullivan, who gives him lessons in flying and spirituality.The book explores the idea that when someone is seeking a teach-er, the teacher arrives. It seems that every time Jonathan is ready for something new, that thing arrives—whether it is the opportunity to live outside the Flock or the opportunity to work with a spiritual teacher.Eventually, other seagulls from the Flock that cast him out begin to look for him so they can learn from him and from Fletcher. Jonathan and his students show off their skills and, slowly, members of the Flock begin to take notice and take part in the lesson. But Jonathan takes it too far when he encourages Fletcher to fly too fast and too high. Fletcher crash-

es into a cliff, but does not die. The Flock is shocked by what it sees and thinks that Jonathan is the devil who has come to break up the Flock. In response, the Flock tries to kill Jon-athan.After the attack, Jonathan and Fletcher discuss love, and decide that real love is seeing the good in everyone. Once Jonathan realizes he is no longer needed, he disap-pears and lets Fletcher continue his work. It is easy to see the physical and spiritual growth that Jonathan experiences by the end of the novel-la, as he forgives the Flock for ban-ishing him and leaves behind a wise seagull to continue his work .This is a very short and a simple novel-la with an intriguing meaning to it. Portrays how people cannot accept someone who is superior to them or who is moving fast towards success. This book has been beautifully moulded by the reality of life and the truth people hide or do not want to accept.In 1972 and 1973, the book topped the Publishers Weekly list of best-selling novels in the United States. In 2014 the book was reissued as Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition, which added a 17-page fourth part to the story.

BOOK REVIEWBhavna Yagnik

Dr. Rima Mukherjee is a Psy-chiatrist and has an experience of 19 years. She completed MBBS, Diploma in Psycho-logical Medicine and MRCP in London. Y News represen-tative Komal Jaiswal spoke to her about the contemporary lifestyle practices and values of youngsters with reference to the unfortunate and tragic death of Abesh Dasgupta.

What would be your advice to the youth in terms of their life style and values? First of all I think a lot of values are getting eroded. These days you will not find deep meaningful friendship that are taking place. This genera-tion lives largely in virtual world and has technological expertise. For example, they can do a lot of things on their smart phone, they can fix any problem with the internet and a lot more. They are lacking skills to manage real life crisis situations and in this case, perhaps they did not un-derstand what they were supposed to do. They do not understand and value human relation in real world.

They are less socially skilled in to-day’s world.

How much do you think parents play a role in such mishaps? What would be your suggestion to parents in view of dealing with this young generation? It is very easy to blame parenting but in this particular case I think the whole group was young and they were unsupervised. At this age people often take risks or do things in an impulse. I think there should be a little bit more of monitoring in terms of what the youngsters are doing and I am not just mentioning Aabesh- he was the unfortunate one to die. In one word if you have to ask me that what will be the take home message for the parents would be – I would say to monitor them a bit more at this age. They cannot be left unsupervised.

What is your expectation from the existing friends of Aabesh? What values of friendship would you suggest them to focus on? The word ‘friend’ has become a very ambiguous term in today’s world. There is a difference between friend and acquaintance. The rela-tion between two friends is quite different from the relation between acquaintances. In this particular case, Aabesh was hanging around in a group and we can assume that at least there was somebody in the group who has invited him to that party – so what happened to his friend? How you behave with your friend is a a part of your value sys-tem. You hang around with some-

one and that person is important enough to be called your friend. You should be a friend not only in good times but also in bad times because ultimately how we behave with our friend also reflects the kind of per-son we all are going to be in future.

Would you like to share your comments regarding the young friends who had gathered there? I really would not be able to com-ment anything regarding that group of friends because I was not present there. I am a professional I cannot say things on basis of assumptions. It’s not for me to comment except for the fact that they did not attend his funeral. You are partying with a group of friends that means you are close enough to them, you belong to that group and if someone within the group dies and you do not attend his/her funeral then it reflects the kind of friendship it was. This is some-thing that strikes to me very odd.

What would be your critical as-sessment about the role of media in such unfortunate situation? First of all I think that it was a very tragic death and in such phase of tragedy media jumps into interview-ing a whole lot of people. I am not talking about experts but people picked up from different work areas giving their opinions largely on the basis of assumption. Such opinions are usually very judgmental. They very often shift from the real issue. This is something that happens quite often. I saw, many insensitive com-ments were made. This is something I feel media did over and over again.

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Jonathan Livingston SeagullBy- Richard Bach

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