The start of yet, another cycle

On September 24th, the newestbatch of Chaitanya Bharathi In-stitute of Technology had theirOrientation Day. As students, allof us have experienced this andremember it as the starting of a 4year journey. The very next day,classes commenced for all of2012’s freshers and by now, theyhave slowly been adjusting tothe routine college life of everyCBITian. Thus the cycle has yetagain been set into motion. Scaryhow time flies! Most of us re-member the first few days of col-lege down to the finest details. Itis indeed a truly nervous and ex-citing experience. Four years inCBIT are enough to bring out thebest (and sometimes worst) ofevery student. They go through ahuge transformation from their

schooling days and enter a big-ger, more grown-up world.These four years are all we haveto explore ourselves and our in-terests, make friends that stickwith us for life, learn from theexperienced faculty membersabout our respective course ofstudy, and experience everythingCBIT and college life has tooffer, before stepping out intothe real world of jobs, higherstudies, marriages, bigger re-sponsibilities, and the next chap-ter of our lives. As seniors, wemay feel a sense of time runningout and the thought of “so muchto do, not enough time.” How-ever, to the new juniors, it’s thestart of one memorable journey.Directed to the freshers batch of2012, here are a few words froma fellow senior:

Dear Freshers,A very warm welcome to CBIT. Simply put, you are undergoing a major transforma-

tion at this point. From hectic schedules, endless tests, never ending discussions with al-most every random person about what to do and what to choose, you are finally here. Take adeep breath and congratulate yourself—you are in one of the best places, literally and phys-ically, that you could probably be at. It doesn’t matter whether you are a convener, a B-Cator an NRI. As you will see in the coming future all these differences will disappear.

Those first days, it’s a whole new world of new people and new things. If you have beenin a corporate college for the past two years then for you CBIT will be like a breath of freshair. If you are thinking the bus journey is very long and time consuming, think again itsone of the best places to make new friends, and my sources say (trust me they are very reli-able) all the major gossips and also all the GYAN you get which varies from assignmentsto placement talk happens in those buses.

Sometimes you may find yourselves lost in endless assignments, record submis-sions, internals (this one’s going to be crazy, you get the true feel of college life when inter-nals come banging on your doors). But with friends on your side and ever ready teachersthere to guide you, all of this will become easy.

CBIT has a place for every individual and at the same time it brings withinyou a spirit of team work. All of you might have some expectations, some dreams to be ful-filled, and some goals to be achieved. Keep all those aspirations alive; never give up nomatter what, because this is where you will have the opportunities to realize your dreams.Don’t regret anything that happens. Cherish the good memories, and learn/grow from thebad experiences to come out a stronger person in the end. And as the name of one of ourvery famous fests goes, Carpe Diem-Seize the day.

With Regards,A Senior

W_l]om_ Fr_sh_rs!

Happy Anniversary Communicando!BY THANMAY KRISHNA

BIG TITLE – FIVE YEARSAND COUNTING

Communicando turns five this year andthis will definitely be a special year for

the whole college. This newsletter is acelebratory edition to mark the fifth an-niversary of the club. For five yearsnow, the club has organized various lit-erary events, quizzes, seminars, andworkshops. The club has organizedLITERATI, the biggest literary fest inour state and CBIT MUN, one of thebiggest international conferences in thecountry. The club has delivered manyscintillating events for the college. Nowthe club has decided to expand its reachand grow bigger. Here are some of thethings that the club will undertake thisyear.

NEWSLETTER – This newsletter thatyou are reading right now is a com-pletely student made newspaper under

the guidance of Dr. A. Sandhya Reddyand A. Vijayalakshmi. This is a celebra-tory edition to honor the fifth year of theclub. All the articles have been written,edited and designed by our fellow col-lege mates. Our college has a lot ofyoung authors hidden in waiting. As yougo through the various sections of thispaper, I am sure you would agree withus.

LITERATI 3.O – The third edition ofLITERATI – The annual literary festwill be conducted next semester. Literati2.O was widely acknowledged to be avery well organized event with the rightmix of fun and knowledge. Well, wepromise that the third edition will bring anew level of awesomeness altogether.

With a whole new range of formal andinformal events, Literati 3.O will be thepremier fest of C.B.I.T.

GD,PI,PD sessions – In C.B.I.T, all ofus are very talented. It’s only how weexpress ourselves that is different. So inorder to reach a common platform, theclub will be conducting Group Discus-sion, Personal Interview and PersonalityDevelopment Sessions for all the thirdyear students in their second semester.These sessions shall be conducted by thefourth year students who recently sat fortheir placements. A complete course-work is being prepared by the club inconjunction with premier institutes out-side the college. This initiative will go along way in securing student’s future as

this will help them in securing jobs, theirfuture studies etc.

Collaborations – From this year, youcan expect many seminars, workshopswith various eminent personalities. Alsoto increase the reading habit in the col-lege, we plan to expand the English li-brary and organize book readingsessions with authors.

These are some of the things that theclub proposes to do apart from the usualevents. So you guys are in for a wholenew range of activities this year. Partici-pate actively in the club activities to gainexperience and exposure. See you at thenext communicando event.

Photo credits: bhavishya chandra kamineni

by srEEKar rEddy

Welcome to The EditorialFocus. TEF will focus on one par-ticular topic and give you a briefsummary on it so that you– thereader—will have a fair idea aboutit by the time you finish reading thisarticle.

This TEF focuses on adilemma that has students every-where scratching their head: “Whatafter engineering?” This universalquestion has boggled the minds ofstudents all over India, especiallythe confusion of whether to pursuehigher studies or not (and if so, howto approach). That is where wecome in. Our aim is to help you an-swer that question, or at least pointyou in the right direction.

So let’s start with the ba-sics. The three most general optionsafter engineering are: getting acampus placement and settling intoa job, doing an MBA (usually aftera few years of job experience), ordoing an MS. When it comes to pur-suing higher studies, it’s necessaryfor students to make yet another de-cision, whether to do their higherstudies abroad or in India itself.

Although both are feasi-ble options, when it comes to com-pleting Post Graduate School, manystudents often lean towards doingcourses abroad. Notably, the USAhas been a popular destination forover a decade, if not more. Once this decision to study abroadhas been made, many students areunacquainted with the “how” part,some until the last minute.

Therefore, we have gath-ered some important informationfor you to guide you along thisprocess of obtaining a PG fromUSA. Please go through the follow-ing, and we guarantee you’ll defi-nitely benefit.

Essential steps to take in thisprocess:-Narrow down what exactly youwant to do. This includes pickingthe course you want to pursue andmaking a list of which colleges toapply (making sure that is has the

specific course you want). The bestway to do all this is start research-ing, and start soon! Talk to peopleand begin to utilize all the tools wehave that students before us didn’thave, such as the Internet. -Application process. After nar-rowing down to the list of collegesyou want to apply for, look into theapplication process specific toevery college’s requirements andsee what all you need to get done.The earlier you start this, the better!You can find this info easily on thecollege website. Nevertheless, hereare some things which you’ll findare generic to any college thesedays: an entrance test, letter of rec-ommendations, statements of pur-pose (essays).-Tests: All masters programs re-quire you to take the GRE, or an-other standardized test built to seehow prepared you are for graduatestudies. Start preparing and maybedecide to take coaching for it. Youmay give your GRE exam in desig-nated centers in the city and yourscore in the exam will play a hugepart in getting into a top university.Therefore, it is imperative for aspir-ing students to have a fixed targetfor their GRE score and work to-wards it. Based on the schools youwill apply to, focus on the range ofscore of needed for admission intothem. For the best schools in the na-tion, a good GRE score to aim foris >333. Naturally, the score rangewill decrease if you aim for a littleless.-Essays: Each college will requireyou to write an essay of some formor the other, defining your academicand personal goals. Start thinkingand draft up your essays. Writingyour personal essay is the one of themost difficult part of the process, sostarting early will definitely put youat an advantage. In writing these ap-plication essays, you will be re-quired to think through yourreasons for pursuing a graduate ed-ucation and what qualifies you todo so, in advance. -Letter of Recommendations:Start building good relationshipswith the faculty for this part. Youare much more likely to get a posi-tive recommendation if your profes-sors know you and your interest inhigher studies. Despite the commonbelief, you will discover how recep-tive they can be. Remember thatthey might’ve been in your shoes atsome point and will be more thanhappy to advise or assist you in anyway they can.

The following table shows the top universities in the USA for postgraduate studies, based on courses in engineering in general:

The Editorial Focus

THE EDITORIALBOARD,

COMMUNICANDO

PrinCiPal of Cbit:dr. b. ChEnnaKEsavarao

ConvEnor:

dr. a. sandhya rEddyassoCiatE ProfEssor,dEPartmEnt of maths and

humanitiEs

staff Coordinator:

a. vijaya laKshmiassistant ProfEssor,dEPartmEnt of maths and

humanitiEs

Editor- in-ChiEf:Kirtana bavanaKa

Editorials Editor:srEEKar rEddy

nEws Editor: urvi rao

sPorts Editor:abrar ahmEd

EntErtainmEnt Editor:bhavana yalla

layout hEad:Pranav Kondala

dEsign tEam:vEnnEla KulKarni

CommuniCando writErs:thanmay Krishna ravi teja gamini riyaz sundranisagar jaiswal shashank bhargavvennela Kulkarnisharat Chandersumalika addagarlashashank Kosurisruthi Korlakunta

othEr writErs:nitya muralidharanruchika singhbhavishya Kamineninikhil gopal Krishnasuraj Periramcharan devalalaKavya ramarajulakshita reddyaditya ramanavinash badeti Pranav attavarsarang tammewar

The universities mentioned abovedo not have a “ cut off “ GRE scorefor admission as such. The reasonbehind this is that admission intothese universities is judged by acombination of factors including:test scores, personal essays,GPA/percentage, and extracurricu-lar activities.

If the applicant is deemedsatisfactory on these counts(or acombination of these counts) thenadmission is granted. Therefore itwould be foolhardy to give ourreaders a fixed minimum score foreach of these universities to guar-antee admission. However, thereshould be a general idea regardingscores so read further for a betterpicture.

A score of above 330-335and a strong resume would in allprobability assure you of a seat inalmost all the universities present inthis list. A score of about 320-325and a good resume may assure youa seat in universities ranked 26 andbelow on the list. Generally univer-sities look for GPAs of around 3.5– 4.0 + Again this is a numberwhich cannot be put as a concretecut-off.

To reiterate – this is just ageneral consensus. There have beeninstances where students withlower GRE scores have secured ad-mission in the mentioned universi-ties but to clear your confusion, yesthe above mentioned parametershold true.

Now, many forget todream once they get into the grindof the 4 year course, the possibili-ties for students of CBIT are limit-less even after graduation. Thecombination of an Engineering de-gree from CBIT and a Masters de-gree from reputed foreignuniversity is an unbeatable one; ifthis is achieved, then the sky is thelimit.

We hope that the editorialfocus has helped you out. Becausethis is our first time we request youto give the editorial team your re-view about the article. Plsease di-rect all compliments to me and allcriticism to anyone else you canfind.

The time has come for meto take your leave , I hope that youenjoyed reading this as much as Ienjoyed writing it . So till we meetagain dream big !

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology- Cambridge, MA 2 Stanford University - Stanford, CA 3 University of California - Berkeley,CA 4 Carnegie Mellon University- Pittsburg, PA5 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign- Urbana, IL6 Georgia Institute of Technology- Atlanta, GA7 California Institute of Technology- Pasadena, CA8 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor- Ann Arbor, MI9 Cornell University- Ithaca, New York10 University of Texas- Cockrell- Austin, TX11 Purdue University-West Lafayette 12 Texas A&M University, College Station 13 University of Southern California 14 University of California, San Diego 15 Columbia University16 University of California, Los Angeles 17 University of Wisconsin, Madison 18 University of Maryland,College Park 19 Harvard Univerisity20 Northwestern University21 Princeton University22 University of California, Santa Barbara23 University of Pennsylvania 24 Virginia Tech25 Pennsylvania State University,University Park26 Johns Hopkins University 27 University of Washington 28 Duke University 29 University of Minnesota,Twin Cities 30 Ohio State University 31 North Carolina State University 32 Rice University33 University of California, Davis34 Yale University 35 University of Colorado

by Kirtana bavanaKaEditor-in-ChiEf

Transcendent means“breaking all barriers” or going be-yond the limits. Every story has twoparts: one that is seen and the un-known, the mystery part. Transcen-dent is a newspaper which believes ingoing beyond the known into the un-known, so that every story and everyfact is complete in itself. Several at-tempts over the years have been madeto launch a newspaper in CBIT. Theenthusiasm and the zeal are at peaksin the beginning and then it fadesaway slowly. This time it was differ-

ent. A consistent and like mindedgroup ensured that the dream of a col-lege newspaper turned into reality.

There have probably beena few special instances in your lifewhere something would have stirredyou, and for those of you who have away with words you would havepenned down your thoughts. Some ofyou might like to state your opinionon the things going around, or justshare an experience about a movieyou have seen, a book you have read,or a restaurant you have visited. Allthose of you who have been bitten bythe writing bug here’s your chance.Share your views and thoughts, with

a wider audience. Transcendent is away for CBITians to create an envi-ronment in addition to academics thatwill allow the creative juices of stu-dents to flow.

The idealogy behind thisnewspaper is not just to speak up andmake your voice be heard but also tocreate unity among the student bodyof CBIT. In this world today, doingyour own thing and getting outdoesn’t cut it anymore. There must beinteraction with others. That desire tobe involved and be aware of not justmatters concering you but thingsgoing on all around you is becomingmore and more important to do well

and succeed. And that is the ultimategoal of this newspaper: to give achance for students to develop writ-ing skills, share their passions, learnnew things, and become more aware.

To conclude, I would liketo quote that TRANSCENDANT isgoing to be one of CBIT’s strongestvoices. A news paper where truth,creativity, freedom of speech, educa-tion, knowledge, and entertainmentwill be the supporting pillars. So come join us as we take a journeythrough not only the conventionalpathways, but more importantly theroads not taken.

PPAAGGEE 22Letter from the Editor

Commun I Can Do

Communication - the humanconnection - is the key to per-sonal and career success.

-Paul. J. Meyer

Established on October 4,2007, Communicando is theliterary club of our college.The club was establishedwith the basic objective ofproviding the students acompetitive platform to honetheir literary as well as com-municational skills. The clubis very active in organizingactivities and guest lecturesfor the benefit of the stu-dents. The activities of theclub are organized by the stu-dent coordinators who are se-lected through a rigorousrecruitment process. Theclub functions under theguidance of Dr. A. SandhyaReddy and A. Vijayalakshmi.In their words, this club is“Of the students, by the stu-dents and for the students”.

Since its inception,the club has come a long wayand the very newspaper youare reading is a testimonial tothis. Many students havegrown, developed them-selves and passed out as finerindividuals with the help ofCommunicando.

When the clubstarted off in 2007, it startedfunctioning with five stu-dents as coordinators of theclub. They got together andorganized a few literaryevents in the college. Nowthe club has 50 coordinators,spread across various teamsworking in tandem on vari-ous projects.The host of events organized

ranged from workshops toserious events. The host ofevents organized rangedfrom workshops to seriousevents like:

1. Grand Stand – Debate2. Virtual Market3. Elocution Competition4.Simulate to Negotiate: Convergent Thinking5.Pictionary – Weavingstones from pictures6. Portrait ale – Story Telling7. JAM sessions8.AD Star – AdvertisingStrategies9. Lectures by eminent per-sonalities10. Group Discussions11. Literary and G.K Quizzes12.Reviews – Books andFilms13. Word Star – VocabularyQuiz14. Alter Ego15. Mock Press Conference16. Young Orator – Extem-pore17. Breaking News Newspa-per Making18.Fish Bowls etc.

Apart from theseevents which are organizedduring the academic year, theclub also has two few flag-ship events which care con-ducted annually. They areLITERATI and ModelUnited Nations (MUN).

Literati is the annualliterary fest of our college.Two editions have been or-ganized till date – 2010 and2012. This fest includes var-ious literary events and isopen to all colleges acrossthe state. The first editionsaw a footfall of over 400students from various parts

of the state making it a grandsuccess. The second editionsaw a footfall of over 600participants from across thestate making it the biggestliterary event in the state ofAndhra Pradesh. The thirdedition of literati will be con-ducted this February.

Model United Na-tions (MUN) is a studentconference wherein studentsplay the role of internationaldiplomats and deliberateupon various international is-sues. The club has conductedtwo editions of CBIT MUNtill date – 2011 and 2012.The first conference saw aparticipation of over 200 del-egates spanning 6 countriesacross 3 continents, makingit the biggest internationalconference in India for theyear 2011. The second edi-tion broke all barriers pullingin 250 people from over 12countries across 5 continents.Both the conferences wereheld at Mahindra SatyamLearning World, Gachibowli.

This year the clubturns five years old and manynew ideas are comingthrough. A new batch of co-ordinators was recruited re-cently and the future of theclub looks promising. Thisyear will be another mile-stone in an already illustrioushistory of the club. As engi-neering students, all of usneed good communicationskills because:

“The way we communicatewith others and with ourselvesultimately determines thequality of our lives”

– Anthony Robbins

COMMUNICANDO

FRESHERS!Let us all heartily welcome our freshers,who are indeed the talented treasurers!

During their inter, they might have been extremely stressed,but the lively atmosphere now will make them feel blessed.Our freshers step in with many aims and have an aspiration,so why not we, as seniors, be their right source of inspiration?These young buds are not just the colourful sparklers,but are the college's future and situational tacklers.Ragging is just to be treated as a tool for interaction,but not as a dangerous activity involving over-action.

It is essential for the juniors and seniors to have good relations,so as to compete well and work towards many more new creations.

Let us hope that our juniors earn a very good name,and indeed with that, CBIT keeps improving it's great fame!

A poem by Nikhil, ECE 2/4

BY THANMAY KRISHNA

LITERATI is the annual liter-ary fest of CBIT. It is the flag-ship event of Communicando– The literary club of CBIT.It is a daylong fest loadedwith various formal and in-formal events. There havetwo editions of Literati tilldate–2010 and 2012. .

The first ever editionof Literati was organized inSeptember 2010. It was con-ducted the day before Car-pediem in our collegepremises. Many formalevents like Grand Stand, Mr.and Miss Literati etc. and awide range of informal eventswere conducted. This festwas completely designed,formulated and put into ac-tion by the coordinators ofthe club communicando.

Literati 1.O saw afootfall of over 400 peoplecoming in from various partsof the state. Literati 1.O set abenchmark of sorts for thestate as many colleges fol-lowed suit and opened theirown literary clubs and organ-ized their own literary fests.With Literati 1.O, Communi-cando firmly established it-self in the state. Manyorganizations approached the

club for tie ups. Various sem-inars, talks were conducted inthe college. .Exactly one year later in Sep-tember 2011, CBITMUN, an-other flagship event of theclub was conducted andLiterati was pushed to thesecond semester. .

Literati 2.O was con-ducted in February 2012.This edition of Literati wasbigger and better in statureand size. Formal events likeBreaking News, Da’Bang –The Quiz Show were con-ducted apart from GrandStand and the flagship event– Mr. and Miss Literati.The informal events were astupendous hit amongst thestudent community. .If Literati 1.O set a milestone,the second edition broke itcomprehensively. The secondedition saw a footfall of over650 students thereby makingthe biggest literary fest everto be conducted in the state.

And this year, you allshall stand witness to thethird edition of the celebra-tion of literature. This Febru-ary make sure you are there atCBIT. Because you definitelywouldn’t want to missLiterati 3.O. .

LITERATI A CELEBRATION OF THE LITERATURE FANATICS

Some pictures from Literati 1.0 and Literati 2.0:

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Through thick and thin the onething that will hold us in goodstead is our character.

However, an idealistic view onthe subject would be a foolish onebecause at the end of the day thebasic human quality that each andeveryone possesses is want.Every person at some stage or theother will look for personal gainout of any situation and quitehonestly one cannot blame thatperson because it holds true evenfor the one pointing the finger.

In almost all situations in life weare surrounded by this environ-ment and therefore whether welike it or not we are invariablytrained to behave in the sameway. Every reader of this articlewill realize it holds true for him/her as well. No one hates credit.

This rant of course wasto get one thing out of the way –There is no point in preaching topeople about ideal character be-cause no such thing exists there-fore the only alternative is toregulate our want.

“What lies behind us, what liesahead of us is nothing compared

to what lies within us.” How farwould you bend your morals toensure that a particular situationworks out favorably for you?That’s where the question “whatlies within us “comes into the pic-ture, again to reiterate that it’s nota question of whether we willbend ourselves to get somethingor not, it’s only a question of howmuch.

Every situation in life will havethree options:1. Take the easy path, and lookout for yourself. 2. Take the tougher path, andlook out for your friends/ family.3. Run away.

An idealist would certainly lookat the second option and say,“That is something a person withgreat character would do.” Butlet’s look at option 2 in a differentlight. There is always an ulteriormotive behind choosing anypath/option and similarly.

In this case, the person in ques-tion would definitely be lookingfor one thing: respect. He wouldEXPECT the people he stood upfor to have a great deal of respectfor him after getting out of the sit-

uation. Now, what happens whenthis doesn’t occur? Will this greatleader who looked out for hisfamily and friends still be thesame? Will there be no uncom-fortable feeling from within forthis person? Will there not be theslightest hint of resentment?There certainly will be at somelevel or the other. Therefore ourfriend with the great moral char-acter will certainly want to burstout and show his feelings and letpeople know of all that he hasdone for them, causing the rest tostart questioning his character.Our great friend who chose totread on a tougher path will bebranded as one with no morals,and his choice will be forgotten.Oh, what would people do then?Look out for just themselves orrun away? What would peoplelook for from “within”?

Now comes the “second best” op-tion – compromise (Note: Thisoption comes into the pictureunder the assumption that the per-son in question has at least a hintof a conscience.) Unlike the idealman with the “great moral char-acter”—Yes, I like repeatedlysaying this with a sarcastictone—people who choose to

compromise actually exist.

Such people do want to come outas winners but have a naggingthought at the back of their mindto ensure that they don’t do some-thing that is completely wrong.Such a person will choose totread the tough path but he willensure that the people that he isprotecting will know he is stand-ing up for them. He may notstand on rooftops and screamabout his great choice but he willcertainly, subtly yet strongly letpeople know about it. So is thisman bad? Is “what lies within”this person bad? That is for youto decide.

In today’s world in whatever sit-uation we find ourselves in, ifwe are able to maintain the bal-ance and gain whatever we wantwithout completely compromis-ing our morals, then it should betreated as a job well done. Anyman who has a single thought tospare about the rest can be con-sidered a good man and such aperson should do fine in mostsituations in life.

A person who looks out solely forhimself will be eventually con-

sumed by his own selfishness andthe men with the “great moralcharacter[s]” will probably landup at an asylum sooner ratherthan later. It’s not that great orgood people don’t exist but justthat it’s about time we realize thatthe definition of good haschanged.

So whatever the situation, what-ever lies ahead, or whatever hasbeen left behind by a person witha hint of morality, that person willtriumph. However to expect anideal man with “great moral char-acter “(Oh, yes) is foolhardy.

To those of you who are stillreading through this college stu-dent’s philosophical rant, thankyou for your time and to all themembers of the fairer sex thewriter is apologetic for using onlythe word man repeatedly—it‘sjust that it was easier to type. Tillwe meet again take some time outto wonder about what truly lieswithin YOU.

This editorial was writen bySreekar Reddy.; he is a third yearMechanical Engineering.

Food for thought: What lies within

Ragging – A problem? A dis-ease? An endemic? For The stu-dents of CBIT ragging is onething – non existent.Speaking as a common student ofour college, here are my experi-ences regarding this issue:

October 4th 2010. I was a timidfirst year walking into college forthe first time. Ragging was amajor concern for me. Havingread about harrowing experiencesfor some students in other col-leges I was indeed, afraid. How-ever this fear was immediatelyshot down by the presentation theAnti-Ragging committee madeon the day of the freshmen orien-tation, and a slight sense of assur-ance enveloped me. Neverthelesscertain fears still persisted andwalking around in the campusseemed like a challenge. A fewdays passed and I decided to ven-ture into the ground during lunchbreak, hesitant of what I’ll comeacross. Soon I found that therewas no need to be so cautious.Apart from a few curious stares,nothing even remotely close towhat all I expected happened.From that moment on, I realizedthat I was a fool to be afraid.

Second year, and all of us wereexcited as we were seniors now!We waited for our juniors to enterthe campus and when they did wecould see the slight sense of fearon their faces. The same fear thatwe had on our faces just one yearbefore. Based on our own expe-riences, we wanted to reassurethem that there is nothing to beafraid, but the tight guard limitingcontact between the juniors andsenior didn’t allow us to do so.

Eventually, they came out of theirshell. Once we were able to in-teract with one another, strangelynone of us felt the urge to causethem any distress. And soonenough, the fear on their facesdisappeared.

Now, I am in third year and I seethe same sentiment among thepresent second years. Seeing theprocess repeat for yet anotheryear, I came to realize onething—Ragging is a vicious cycleand the fundamental principle isthat if you are not subject to it youwill not feel like doing it.

My friends and I weren’t raggedand hence we never felt like rag-ging our juniors. If this wasn’tthe case and our batch was sub-ject to ragging then the situationmay have been different. Eventhen, it wouldn’t have been anissue. The system that has beenput to place in CBIT has ensuredthat no junior shall be ragged andno senior will feel the urge to rag.The latter is perhaps the greatestachievement because warningsand punishments aside, it is therealization that comes fromwithin that makes the difference.CBIT has ensured that this feel-ing is instilled in every one of us.

It can safely be said that Chai-tanya Bharathi Institute of Tech-nology is a ragging free campusand hopefully other institutes allover the country will do the sameand erase this endemic for good.

--Anonymous

RAGGINGVIEWS OF @ 3RD YE@R STUDENT. BY RUCHIKA SINGH

Coming together is abeginning; keeping together isprogress, and working to-gether is success.

We at CBIT, hostedthe 2nd edition of CBIT-MUN’12 , keeping up to theset benchmark of the Premiereedition ,which was the firstever MUN conference in thecity. This year it had the high-est number of internationalparticipants in the subconti-nent from Indonesia, Kenya,Bangladesh,Canada, Lebanon,UAE, Afghanistan and Nepal, across four continents repre-sented & talked about macroissues concerning the wholeworld.

MUN, in brief, is anacademic simulation of theUnited Nations that aims toeducate participants about cur-rent events, to investigate in-

ternational issues, debate , de-liberate and seek solutionfrom young minds visioned asexponents of change for a“Better Tomorrow”.

Though CBIT is anengineering college, the pur-pose behind patronizing wasto give its students a platformto master communication &negotiation skills. This wasmade possible with “MahindraSatyam Learning World”, thevenue. It provided a completeboardroom and semicircularsetting , thus further rising thevanity.

It believes that ourtechnical savvy minds withblend of exposure to humaneissues will bring in responsi-bility as a citizen, hence theevent “CBIT MUN” 12.

This phenomenalevent lasted for four days. Theopening day reflected thetheme- “Cultural Exchange”,

where delegates depicted richand varied cultural heritage oftheir respective countriesthrough traditional dance andmusic. The next three days re-flected the key theme; debates,discussions, conflict resolu-tion, showcased through sevenparallel councils from UnitedNations General Assembly,Development Program to Se-curity council etc. and judgedby experienced MUNner’s ofthe world.

SRD: This year’s newidea, the “Social Responsibil-ity Department” is a body pi-oneered by CBIT , initiated bySreekar Reddy, SecretaryGeneral of CBITMUN’12.Endorsing the belief of own-ing to one’s responsibility andmake a positive impact by giv-ing back to the world , onestep at a time.

CBITMUN 2012

BY AVINASH BADETI

September the 2nd. MUN ends, andeveryone is really low. All our hardwork for the past few months haspaid off through these four days ofultimate fun and joy. Now the timehas come for us to bid goodbyes toall the amazing people we have metin this phenomenon called the CBIT-MUN. How time flies. It makes mewonder whether it was all a dream.Amidst these joyous days, makingfriends amongst the colleagues anddelegates from different places wasan amazing feeling that cannot be ex-plained in words. Our secretary gen-eral gives a goodbye speech. On

hearing this, it brings about a senseof emptiness from within. Sitting onthe stage is our Organizing Commit-tee watching everyone, hugging andsigning autographs. We were at thebrim of a breakdown. When we sawthe faces of our Charge D’Affaires,we couldn’t hold in our tears anylonger. Then random thoughts beganto spiral in our heads. Thoughts likewe made this happen, we worked formonths, and suddenly there won’t beany meeting to attend, videos to beshot, pictures to pose for, and nomore talking to people we wouldn’tnormally talk to. It just hit us like abolt of lightning. With that, Sreekar

Reddy, our secretary general, de-clares the conference closed. Afterthis the emotions started to flow andeveryone cried. However, it wasthrough these tears, at that exact mo-ment, when all of us felt like our ob-jective had been served. On the 3rd of September, we allstarted to have a kind of feeling. Thefeeling one gets when they lose theirbaby. Some might even call it theMUN hangover.

But the hope never dies with CBIT-MUN. As we take the baton from thepresent team and as 2013 beckons,our family stands united.

CBITMUN12 -The Experience

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BY SRUTHI KORLAKUNTA

The world had oncefaced the ravages of war, and yetagain, amidst the thunderingshowers of ammunition and roarsof giant packages of destructiondropped from the sky into the un-knowing land, peasants and coun-try men are pillaged and destroyed,not knowing in the least what the‘enemy’ wants.

Dragon seed , PearlBuck’s novel published soon aftershe had won the Nobel prize for lit-erature, is a moving novel about aplace, close to the city of Nan king,in china during the second sino-japanese war fought during thesecond World War. It brings to lifethe family of a Chinese farmer andhis family during the war time. Thedescriptions and the innocent ac-count of war as seen from the eyesof a Chinese man, during times inwhich literacy was tom-fooleryand mass communication andMedia were magic, remain withthe reader more as an experiencethan just a good read.

Lao Tan, the protagonist,and his family live in a village, withChina in the best of it’s times,where the summers shone, rainsplenty, harvest rich and the wholefamily under one roof. Suddenlythere come the ‘flying ships’ thatdrop huge pieces of metal into theland, initially mistaken for ‘ dig-ging ponds’ where required. Thenmonth by month, the ‘enemy’, the‘short men with crooked legs’burnt down the town, foul theirwomen, kill their young and im-pose laws of harvest. Opium reignsand men are yellow with sickness.

Corpses pile up sky high and whenrains came and canals carried theseaway, stench spread till heavensand with them, diseases that killedthe young.

Thus a large part of hisfamily is lost, women and childrento violence one after other, and themen, who wouldn’t kill beasts ear-lier take to cold murder at the sightof the enemy. The remaining fam-ily is separated, each son choosinghis own path, by means unthink-able for generations till then. Thefamily splits and the older genera-tion comes to accept changethough unwillingly.

One may also observethe kind of treatment women re-ceived in Old China during thosetimes where ‘ till then, no one waskilled but a girl child too manynow and then’ or ‘“in the end, sheis only a woman“, Shows howtrivialised women were in the so-ciety. Also Ling Tan’s character ismoulded to be a very reasonableman that changes with times, andthinks with rationale. One maytake delight in the way charactersare carefully sketched. His wifeLing Sao, sons Lao Er, Lao Ta, LaoSan and Daughters Panasio, anddaughters in law Orchid and Jade,are beautifully described, each dif-ferent from the other and each witha philosophy of his or her own toget through the difficult times .

Bottom line : This mightbe one of the best books you readthis season. If it has not happenedyet – Go ahead and discover it.

One for the Read: DRAGON SEED

BY URVI RAO

September 13, 2012: In a politi-cally-sensitive move, the gov-ernment announced a hike inheavily-subsidised diesel priceby Rs.5 a litre to check fiscaldeficit. They also put a limit onthe availability of cooking gascylinders per family to six peryear. The hikes come into effectmidnight Thursday.

The Cabinet Commit-tee on Political Affairs (CCPA),chaired by Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh, took the decision,which has been decried by acombative opposition and evenallies as "anti-people".

UPA's second-largestconstituent, Trinamool Con-gress, demanded a rollback,with party chief Mamata Baner-jee saying she would have beenvery happy if she could have

withdrawn support from theregime rather than be party tosuch "anti-people" policy.

The steep hike in dieselprices is expected to affect awide gamut of transportationranging from locomotives toheavy duty trucks. The govern-ment cited financial compul-sions to justify the controversialprice hike, which could fuel in-flation and burden the commonman who is already reeling fromspiralling prices of basic com-modities.

The government how-ever said diesel and cookingfuel prices have not been re-vised since June 2011. Citingrising global crude oil pricesand devaluation of rupee, Petro-leum Minister S. Jaipal Reddyhad said on Wednesday that ahike in diesel, LPG andkerosene prices was "unavoid-

able" despite the "painful anddifficult" nature of such an in-crease.State-owned oil firms are losingaround Rs.550 crore per day onthe sale of regulated diesel andcooking fuels and around Rs.16crore per day on petrol.

Oil Marketing Compa-nies (OMCS) have been sellingdiesel at a loss of Rs.19.26 perlitre, kerosene at a loss ofRs.34.34 per litre and domestic

LPG for a loss of Rs.347 per14.2 kg cylinder.

The Congress defendedthe government's decision tohike the price of diesel.Partygeneral secretary DigvijayaSingh said that the party was"solidly" behind Prime MinisterManmohan Singh and his gov-ernment on this decision. "...sometimes, a good governmentmay have to take unpleasant de-cisions too," he said.

The diesel hikes affect everyonefrom auto drivers to fancy carowners to even our own CBITstudents. We asked a few stu-dents to tell us their opinion re-garding this issue and here iswhat they said:

Due the hike in prices, wehave started carpooling to col-lege, even if it means to adjustwith the different timings eachof us being in differentbranches have.– Pranav Kondala, ECE ¾

People should understandthe production costs for dieselprices is higher than for petroland the price for diesel ishighly subsidized. The hike isjustified.– Nagarjun Redla, ECE 2/4

Diesel Price Hiked by Rs.5 and LPG cap of 6 cylinders

BY KAVYA RAMARAJU

The National SocialScheme club of CBIT is al-ways striving to make thesociety a better place to livein. The NSS unit has takenup several activities underthe guidance of its officerMr. B. Sreedhar Rao.

One such initiativewas the "Mega Blood Dona-tion Drive" which was con-ducted on 17-09-2012 in ourown CBIT campus, in col-laboration with "AkhilBharatiya Terapanth YuvakParishad". The students andstaff of CBIT have activelyparticipated in the event and

have helped in collectingabout 125 samples of blood.

Another such activ-ity taken up was the "Plan-tation Drive" on21-09-2012. The volunteersand members of NSS haveplanted about 50 trees in thecampus.

In addition, NSStakes up activities like theissue of voter id cards, firstaid training and mock firefighting drills as well.

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BY NITYA MURALIDHARAN

Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology is at the top in the list of best colleges in thecity. One of the main things that makes our college great is the balance of academicswith extracurricular activities. It used to be such that extracurriculars meant only sports,but now we a multitude of clubs available for students to take part in, and the list is onlygrowing. For those of you interested to explore areas other than just your academic fieldof study and are ready to put in your heart and soul into a club that interests you, wehave compiled for you a list of clubs that CBIT has to offer:

CBIT CLUBS: Get Involved!

•Communicando- The literary club ofCBIT•CBCC-Chaitanya Bharathi CulturalClub•Street Cause•SAE- Society of Automobile Engi-neers

•ASME- American Society for Me-chanical Engineers (specific to ME/PEbranches)•NSS•Chaitanya Smruthi•IEEE Student Chapter (specific toEEE/ECE branches)

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UPCOMING EVENTS1. Technolites 2k12 Where? Vardhaman College ofEngineering, Hyderabad, AndhraPradeshWhen? 13th-14th October 2012What? An Annual “MagnumOpus” event held to ignite theTorch in the direction of innova-tion. TECHNOLITES is where allaction is and if you have what ittakes to aspire glory then the rightplace to be is apparently here. Itconsists of events like paper pre-sentations and posterpresentations, workshops on au-tomobiles, robots, androids, shortfilm making, and spot events. Thecultural event named Mr. and Ms.Technolites is also being held Dr.Jaya Prakash Narayan (Presidentof LOKSATTA PARTY & MLAkukatpally) is going to be as thechief guest for our INAUGURALFUNCTION.Contact:Vinod-9573411138Sainath-9700847717Ganesh-8686683846 Sainath-9700847717Website: http://www.techno-lites12.com/Facebook Page: www.face-book.com/technolites2012

2. DSP Processors WorkshopWhere? CBIT, Gandipet When? 16th - 18th October, 2012.What? A three day Workshop onDSP Processors & Applications.The field of digital signal process-ing has a major impact in manykey areas of technology. Manynew digital products in communi-cation and information sciences(eg: Cell phones, Digital AudioSystems) are emerging in minia-ture size. The digital systems haveto process real world signals inreal time. But the real world sig-nals are of infinite length and theprocessing should be completedin real time. For such applica-tions, the speed of the processoris very critical. Hence the need forspecial purpose Digital SignalProcessors. The course is aimed atgiving training on Texas and Ana-log Devices DSP processors.Contact: Email: kakarlasubbarao@yahoo.comPhone: 9440115130,9908898845Website: http://cbit.ac.in

3. Tecstasy 2K12Where? CBIT, GandipetWhen? 17-18th October 2012

What? Our very own IT depart-ment’s fest. Last date to register for non-spotevents: 12th October 2012Contact:SaiKumar Reddy | 9505624807Website: http://www.cbit-tec-stasy.in/

4. FOSS4G-India 2012Where? IIIT HyderbadGachibowli, HyderbadWhen? 25-27 October 2012What? The first in a seriesof National Conferences on freeand open source software forGeoInformatics (FOSS4G) thatare planned to be held everyyear with a mission to foster thedevelopment and promote thewidespread use of Open SourceGeospatial Technologies includ-ing support for software develop-ment and publicly availableGeo-data. The proposed theme ofthe conference is “Open SourceGeospatial Resources to Spear-head Development and Growth”.This conference is expected to be-come a platform for India and itsneighbors to bring together thedevelopers and users of FOSS4Gtools - academicians, researchers,technologists, companies and en-trepreneurs to share, discuss andcollaborate towards faster adop-tion and use of the geospatialtools across the country.Contact:Website: http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindiaEmail: foss4g-india@osgeo.in-Phone: 040 66531332

5. ATMOS 2012 Where? BITS Pilani, HyderabadCampus, Andhra PradeshWhen? 26th-27th October 2012What? ATMOS is the TechnicalFest of BITS Pilani, HyderabadCampus. Started in 2012, it aimsto promote technical knowledgeand attract talent from variousparts of India. Events includecompetitions, guest-lectures,workshops on Android app devel-opment, hacking and bot buildingby Wikipedia to name a few.Contact: K.Lalith-Publicity Co-ordinator(lalith.kotamarthy@gmail.com)(9505093537)Website: http://bits-atmos.org/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/bits.atmos

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BY NITYA MURALIDHARAN

SAE convention 2012 pro-vided a platform for stu-dents from all over SouthIndia to showcase theirtechnical abilities and com-pete with the best of thebest. It gave the opportunityfor the students of CBIT toprove their mettle as goodhosts and some of themturned to be good competi-tors as well. There is ayearning for practical appli-cation of subject knowledgein almost every student. Theinnate talent was unleashedat this technical extrava-ganza, where a variety ofskills were on display.

SAE is the societyfor automotive engineers.The SAE convention 2012was particularly for thesouthern section. Studentsfrom Tamil Nadu, Kerala,Andhra Pradesh and Kar-nataka came all the way toGandipet, Hyderabad totake part in the variousevents organized by the stu-dents of CBIT.

The preparation forthe convention startedmonths before. Students putin loads of efforts. Gettingsponsors, finalizing theevents, obtaining permis-sions, answering endlesscalls by the participants re-quired good coordinationand troubleshooting tech-niques, not to mention per-fect planning and timelyexecution. The efforts put inby the students didn’t go un-noticed, as they won the“THE BEST COLLE-GIATE CLUB AWARD”for the year 2012.

THE HIGHLIGHTSAUTO EXPO: Flashy carsand the good old vintagesturned out to be the eyecatchers at SAE . From thehighly coveted Rolls RoycePhantom to the elegantVolks wagon Beatle, amélange of vehicles includ-ing some designed by stu-dents were the stalwarts atSAE

POLARIS ATV: An all ter-rain vehicle provided byPOLARIS and a bumpytrack created by the students, put them together andViola an adventure ride atCBIT

In addition, eventslike “Mind and Mettle”,“Aqua Bot” and “RoboMaze” saw the studentsguide their robots throughobstacles, water and mazesto reach their goal. Preci-sion at its best could be wit-nessed at these events.

The predeterminedevents like Technical Pa-pers, aero modeling, busi-ness plan, Computer aidedanalysis, computer aided

manufacture and Auto quizoffered a platform where thetough completion broughtthe best of the best in thefore front. The spot eventslike poster presentation, en-sured that the participantswere engaged all the time.

After the hecticschedule of the first day acultural evening was organ-ized in the evening, wherenot only the students butalso the lecturers were seenrelaxing and having fun in-teracting with one another.

All in all, the eventwas a success. Credits to thestudents, faculty and SAEsouthern section. KudosSAE CBIT!

BY LAKSHITA REDDY

Hailing from Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh Mr. Robert Vadra is anIndian businessman. He married toPriyanka Gandhi, daughter of SoniaGandhi, and became a member of theNehru Gandhi family. Despite being apart of a family having a great historyin politics, Mr.Vadra tends to stayaway, insisting that he is a business-man and his major and only focus isArtex, a company which specializes injewellery.

There have been manyspeculations and controversies regard-ing how Vadra acquired his earningsas he gained his billions literallyovernight. This small time exporter ofjewellery made his entry into real es-tate with the country’s largest propertyfirm ,DLF Ltd. and also several otherbusiness ventures. Vadra ia also thesole owner of the Sky Light hospitalityPvt. Ltd.

In the last four years Roberthas gone on a property buying bingeand has purchased atleast 31 properties

mostly in and around New Delhiwhich, even at the time of the pur-chase, were worth several hundredcrores of rupees.

There have been allegationsthat Robert Vadra had amassed anenormous deal of wealth in a veryshort span of time. But the source ofhis income is not publically known.There have been several questions asto why Robert Vadra is exempted frombeing frisked at airports which is aprivilege to only VIP’s like the primeminister and president of India enjoy.

Congress is overlooking thefact which is already stated earlier thatthe charges against Vadra were base-less and false. If the allegations are

baseless and defamatory in nature,then why don’t they file a deformationsuit against those making the allega-tions?

Nevertheless, the times de-mand of us now more than ever beforeto reflect on what Gandhiji wouldhave thought about all this. It is verywell known that if any person, atleastthose in public life, were ever in doubtabout a policy they should think howwill it impact on the poorest of thepoor.

WHO IS ROBERT VADRA?

SAE CONVENTION 2012

by shashank bhargav

Culture for the rest of the worldmight just be a definition involv-ing different races, religions, andtheir habits. But in India, cultureis what we are, a mere reflectionof one’s deeper self.

We Indians are the epit-ome of culture. We stand tall, onthe pinnacle, among all the coun-tries with our distinguished anddiversified culture.

As a result, in recentyears our own college has takenup the responsibility to maintainand spread the culture of ourIndia. This is when CBCC wasformed. Chaitanya Bharathi Cul-tural Club was founded on 22ndSeptember 2007, under the guid-ance of very dedicated, conse-crate and devoted staff membersof CBIT, not to mention the helpof the management at that time.

Since its inception,CBCC has left no stone unturned,whether its organizing the cul-tural day or celebrating any occa-sion. CBCC with its own diverseenvironment, has organized manysuccessful events till date. It hasgot its own group of dancers andsingers, without which it wouldbe incomplete. Any event whichrequires above two talents to beshowcased has to approachCBCC. Now the club has turnedfive years. And in order to cele-brate their 5th anniversary, theyorganized an event called REN-AISSANCE: Rebirth of ART on22nd of September 2012.

THE EVENT:On the day of the event, until3:30, college went on as usual.But starting at 3:31, the tunes ofDJ’s electronic beats started toshake up the foundations of thecollege. This DJ was none otherthan our own CBIT student,Manideep of CSE1-3/4. Peoplebegan to assemble and the slightdelay in the program only in-creased the enthusiasm of the au-dience. Soon they were informedthat Shekar Kammula was in thecollege premises, and the dreamsof many were just seconds awayfrom reality and so were mine. AsShekhar Kammula entered, thewhole of the crowd went into atemporary lapse where all eyeswere on one guy: Shekar Kam-mula.

The program took offfrom there, with speeches by theprincipal, vice principal, and thenfollowed by the truly amusingspeech of Shekar Kammula

where he said, “Your principal sirused to teach me machine draw-ing, back in the days…There hasbeen a lot of change in the cam-pus as I did not visit the collegein recent times”. He praised thatthe college now looks like somesort of an IT company, meaningtruly professional. He ended hisspeech in a satirical way, bytelling that his next film is withPawan Kalyan! (You could imag-ine the response) As he finishedhis speech and came to sit downnext to the principal, all the peo-ple thought that he was the centerof attraction. But no sooner didthey realize they were wrong.

MANOGNYA TEJASWINI: THE LIVING ART!

She is the niece of our very ownvice principal, Sharma sir. Uponhis request she accepted to per-form here at CBIT. At first all theaudience were skeptical about herperformance, a classical dance,seriously?

However, the moment shecame on to the stage and startedher routine, ther was a jaw drop-ping moment. All the people weresurprised by the way she was ma-nipulating the expressions on herface prior to the song chosen.They were thoroughly awestruck,unable to take their eyes off her.When she went backstage, all ofus thought that the awesome per-formance had ended. But yetagain, we were wrong. She put upa pot their on dais and starteddancing on it with diyas in herhand and one diya on top of her

head. And, she managed to do itwith grace. However, this wasn’tthe end. This talented dancerended up entertaining us with not2 or 3, but 5 performances, unbe-lievable right!? This was thehighlight of the event. Another scintillating event was the per

formance of the two finalists Harini and Rohith of the realityshow Padutha Teeyagaa, whowere invited for a special per-formance of our event. They werereally good with the kind ofsongs they sang. They covered al-most all genres in Telugu. In theend they were asked to sing asong of Pawan Kalyan. Overall,it was pretty cool.

SHOW CASING CBIT’SOWN TALENT:

In addition to the outside talent,CBIT showcased its own singingand dancing skills, this time in adifferent way than usual. Onesong they performed under sentacross the message “SAVEWATER.” Following that was the

boys’ pop dance, consisting ofmany stunts, which shook every-one off. The next song RadhaKaise Naa Jaley truly showcasedthe tongue in cheek comedy be-tween Krishna and Radha. Fol-lowing that was the singingtroupe—well, they need no intro-

duction. They rocked the stagewith the peppy numbers, andmade the audience go crazy inrhythm.In CBIT, it’s not only the studentsbut even the faculty are just asequally talented. There was asinging performance by PhaniChandra Sir of EEE and ShankarReddy Sir as well.To top it all off, they had a cul-tural ramp walk consisting ofonly girls showcasing the vari-ous, beautiful attire of our cul-ture. Sumitra madam of Bio-Techalso walked the ramp, setting iton fire!All together, it was a superb eventstudded with stars and blessedperformers who made the day asawesome as it could have been.

CBCC: Chaitanya Bharathi Cultural Club

by suraj Peri

“A good investment climate iscentral to growth and poverty re-duction. A vibrant private sectorcreate jobs, provides the goodsand the services needed to im-prove the living standards, andcontribute taxes necessary forpublic investment in health, edu-cation, and other services. Buttoo often governments stunt thesize of those contributions by cre-ating unjustified risks, costs, andbarriers to competitions”-Francois Bourguignon, SeniorVice President and Chief Econo-mist, World Bank

It appears that initial eu-

phoria following the Cabinet’sdecision to liberalize foreign in-vestments in retail trading isquickly turning into skepticism.The Cabinet’s decision to permit100% Foreign Direct Investment(“FDI”) in single brand retailtrading (“SBRT”) and 51% FDIin multi brand retail trading(“MBRT”) is already facing crit-icism from various quarters.

Reports have come in ofseveral opposition parties like theTrinamool Congress, BharatiyaJanata Party, the CommunistParty of India, the CommunistParty of India – Marxist, etc.voicing their concerns over thisdecision and threatening to im-

pede its execution in the stateswhere they have majority or non-Congress alliances. It remains tobe seen how in fact they will en-force these impediments. Need-less to state, the resistance to theCabinet’s decision has been se-vere enough to delay the Parlia-ment’s Monsoon Sessionbringing about a deadlock sce-nario.

With the withdrawal ofthe strong 19 member TMC sup-port by Mamta Banerjee to theUPA, we could be seeing severalbumps in the months to come,but in all likelihood the govern-ment would continue till thescheduled polls in 2014.

FDI IN RETAIL TRADE: THE DEBATE CONTINUES

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by sarang tammewar

The 2012/2013 NBA sea-son is officially underway, starting onthe 30th of this month, with the seasonopener between the regaining Cham-pions the Miami Heat and the BostonCeltics. The NBA was founded in1946, and has since been the premierprofessional basketball league in theworld. This season will be the 67th in-stallment of the league which is con-sisting of 30 teams in 2 conferences,the East and the West. The previousseason saw the Miami heat win thechampionship with Miami’s LebronJames winning the MVP award. Canthe heat defend their championship orwill the new squads and life of otherteams prevail? Let’s just enjoy theshow and see what happens.

Major Summer Transactions1. Hornets Trade Trevor Ariza andEmeka Okafor to Wizards for RashardLewis2. NY Knicks Get Marcus Cambyfrom Houston Rockets for Spare Partsand Picks3. Atlanta Hawks Take Devin Harris,and Utah Jazz Take Marvin Williams4. New Orleans Hornets Trade Gus-tavo Ayon to Orlando Magic for RyanAnderson5. Raptors Get Kyle Lowry from theRockets for a Lottery Pick and Gary

Forbes6. LA Lakers Get Steve Nash fromPhoenix Suns for 4 Draft Picks inSign-and-Trade7. Brooklyn Nets Get Joe Johnsonfrom Atlanta Hawks for Slew of Play-ers8. Heat signed Ray Allen to andRashard Lewis9. 4-team trade with La Lakers, Or-lando Magic, Denver Nuggets andPhilly Sixers where: The Lakers re-ceive: Dwight Howard, Chris Duhon,and Earl Clark. The Magic receive:Arron Afflalo, Nicola Vucevic, AlHarrington, Josh McRoberts, MoeHarkless, Chritian Eyenga, a condi-tional Lakers' first-round pick, a con-ditional 2015 second-round pick, thelower of the Nuggets' two 2014 picks,a 2013 second-round pick, and a pro-tected pick from the Philadelphia76ers. The Nuggets receive: AndreIguodala. The Sixers receive: AndrewBynum, Jason Richardson.

Potential Teams to Go All The Way

Western Conference:-Lakers, Lakers, Lakers- San Antonio Spurs- Oklahoma Thunder

Eastern Conference:-Miami Heat-Chicago Bulls-Indiana Pacers

THE NBA SEASON 2012-2013

Photo Credits: sumanth PhotograPhy

BY SHASHANK KOSURI

Being the most compet-itive league in the world, therewill be players from around theglobe coming into the EnglishPremier League to achieve suc-cess. However, not everyone issuccessful, or to be exact, notevery one is EPL material. Of theplayers who came in this season,few have already pronouncedthey are here to achieve greatthings with their performances inthe recent weeks. Some of thosesignings who could turn out to bethe transfer of the season are:

OSCAR DOS SANTOS EMBOABA JÚNIOR:Commonly known as Oscar, heis an exceptional talent fromBrazil. With his play makingability and elegant passing skillshe is being tipped as the “newKaka” of Brazilian football. Oscar who moved to Chelseafrom International will be de-ployed as one of the three playersbehind Chelsea’s main striker,along with Mata and Hazard.This 21 year old wonder kid hasannounced his arrival in Englishfootball producing an outstand-ing goal against Juventus in thechampions league match.”Iwon’t say it’s nice to concede agoal, but it’s still nice to be a partof a great goal. Compliments tohim, “were the words of Gian-luigi Buffon, one of the worldsfinest keepers. Oscar describeshimself as an elegant footballerand has the ability to read thegame. He does not rush and drib-ble with the ball at his feet buttries to do good things with theball. This Brazilian midfielder isone of the few dazzling creativeplayers with a dusting of magicon his boots.

JOE ALLEN:Rejuvenation at Liverpool!!Many scouts are eagerly waitingfor this to happen. Their crisissince long has been the replace-ment of “The Red Beard”, XabiAlonso. Joseph Michael Allenmay be the perfect addition to fillin the shoes which have been toobig for many players.Aquilani’s “non-receptive toEnglish football” and LucasLieva’s wrecked injuries will bea luminous path for the 22yearold Joe Allen to prove himself asan elegant midfielder. It tookmany to drop their jaws to seeLiverpool spending 15 millon onhim. His classy passing and abil-ity to maintain possession arejust the tinge to be fond of him.He is one of the brightest blazesfrom Swansea youth academy’ssparks. He was never seen muchtill the 2010-11 season where hetook the chance of an injuredplayer and pulled off a wide ap-plauding for his tactical passing(and won the match). His defen-sive ability to hold the midfieldwill also be very prolific. He may

be the crucial piece of the domi-noes in Brendan Rodgers’ short-passing revolution at An-field.

SANTIAGO CAZORLA:A Spanish midfielder hailingfrom Malaga, Cazorla was builtup as a professional in Villareal .If you’re a Spanish midfieldstereotype then it’s unsurpris-ingly easy for you to guess hiseagle-eye vision and passing.He was signed by Arsene wengerfor a club record fee to concretethe arsenal team which is veryfrequently sabotaged by the exitdoor at the club. His bond withRobert “bobby” Pires has alwaysdirected him to be a part of arse-nal. He is ambidextrous, and thisjustifies his unimaginable versa-tility in his game. He was em-braced to play at right, left,central and also an attackingmidfielder at Malaga. His fusingwith Arsenal also makes him filla void of injury concerns theteam had last season, since the 27year-old likes to play in any po-sition if a player is injured. Hisballistic 30 yard kicks will becannons directly from the arsenalarmory which have the power toleave the enemies to ponder uponthe rebirth of Liam Brady. Ca-zorla certainly lights up TheEmirates this season and provideplenty of ammunition for fellownew signings Olivier Giroud andLukas Podolski.”Good Old Arse-nal” would be an ear-splittingchant by the gooners this seasonas their contention for the titlemay be pedaled by this iconicsigning.

MIGUEL PEREZ CUESTA : Commonly known as Michu, hewas the lone bright spot in a team(Rayo Vallaceano) which nar-rowly avoided relegation lastseason scoring 15 goals.

It’s surprising that the clubs runby Sheikhs, American businessgiants and Russian oligarchsweren’t interested in signinghim. He was brought by Swanseafor 3.8 million dollars and thissigning could become the biggestbargain in a long time. He bestfits in the role just behind thestriker and is known for his pass-ing, fitness, aerial ability and fin-ishing prowess. His physicality isalso an added incentive. With theloss of Scott Sinclair to Man-chester city and Joe Allen to Liv-erpool, his inclusion to the squadcame at the right moment forSwansea city. In the opening fivematches of the season Michu hasnotched up four goals includingtwo goals on his debut whichhelped Swansea thrash QPR 5-0.With Michu already showing hisattacking potential he could wellbe the signing of this summer!

BY SUMALIKA ADDAGARLA

Mark Splitz, IanThorpe, Michael Phelps withtheir mind boggling achieve-ments at the highest competitivelevel have taken swimming froma summer pastime to a muchmore serious sport. This transfor-mation couldn’t have been anyless serious in the city of Hyder-abad. Over the hot burning sum-mers, many pools have poppedup and many winners haveemerged.

Leading this school offish is Jishnu M Dantu, a studentof second year, ChaitanyaBharathi Institute of Technology.In a society where academics isgiven priority over everythingelse, Jishnu has proved that striv-ing for excellence in other fieldsis just as important. Having takenup swimming in his 4th class, hehas come a long way in this fieldand has already taken part in anumber of national and state level

swim meets. The usual collegeand university competitions arenow a cake walk for him.Jishnu started his coaching underMr. Bushan M Kumar in Banga-lore.

Though in HyderabadJishnu continues to be guided byMr. Bushan. He practices for 3-4hours a day at the B V Guru-murthy Swimming Pool in Se-cunderabad and doesn’t hesitateto put in the extra effort requiredto further improve his perform-ance. His efforts had already paidoff, fetching him gold in the ‘se-niors’ category at the state levelswim meet held earlier this year.

His recent exploits atthe OU Inter College Swim Meethave surely landed CBIT on thestate swimming grid. Jishnu as-serted his dominance at the InterCollege Swim Meet held at OUon September 3rd this year .Hecreated quite a stir by emergingvictorious in all the events that hetook part in. He won 3 goldmedals in the 50m Backstroke,50m Freestyle and 100mFreestyle categories. Hisachievement placed CBIT sec-ond in the men’s team champi-onship.

On being asked abouthis inspiration, Jishnu says,“Swimming greats like IanThorpe and Alexander Popovhave played a huge role in mytaking up swimming profession-ally. Also, my parents have al-

ways encouraged me to continueswimming professionally. Theirgiving me this kind of freedomhas been great.” His college hasalso been very encouraging andaccommodating in his pursuits.

“The college has so farbeen very understanding regard-ing matters of attendance and thathas helped me concentrate on mypractice without any distractions.And I see to it that my studiesdon’t suffer because of my prac-tice,” adds Jishnu. Apart fromswimming, he also has a keen in-terest in robotics and has takenpart in a number of workshops re-garding the same.

On being asked abouthis future plans about continuingswimming professionally, hesays, “I would like to keep swim-ming professionally for as long aspossible. For now, I am focusingon the present and am traininghard for the inter university swimmeet to be held in Kolkata from3 Oct to 7 Oct.”

This CBITian has highhopes for the future and has hissights set on the Commonwealthtrials to be held next year. AsMichael Phelps once said, “Youcan’t put a limit on anything. Themore you dream, the farther youget.” Here’s to hoping that hesucceeds in his endeavor andcontinues to bring brilliance toour college in the future as well!

New Gold Fish @ CBIT EPL - Signingsworth the Money

BY PRANAV ATTAVAR

The UEFA Champions Leagueknown simply as the Champi-ons League, and originallyknown as the European Cham-pion Clubs' Cup or EuropeanCup, is an annual continentalclub football competition or-ganized by the Union of Euro-pean Football Associations(UEFA) since 1955 for the topfootball clubs in Europe.

The tournament con-sists of several stages. In thepresent format, it begins in mid-July with three knockout quali-fying rounds and a play-offround. The 10 surviving teamsjoin 22 seeded teams in thegroup stage, in which there areeight groups of four teams.Each of the eight group winnersand eight runners-up enter thefinal knockout phase, whichculminates with the final matchin May. The winner of theUEFA Champions League qual-ifies for the UEFA Super Cupand the FIFA club World Cup.The price money for thematches won is as follows:•Playoffs: €2,100,000•Group stage: €3,900,000•For each match in group

stage: €550,000•Group match victory:

€800,000•Group match draw: €400,000•Round of 16: €3,000,000•Quarter-finals: €3,300,000•Semi-finals: €4,200,000

•Losingfinalist: €5,600,000•Winning the Final: €9,000,000

The tournament properbegins with a group stage of 32teams, divided into eightgroups. Seeding is used whilstmaking the draw for this stage,while teams from the samecountry may not be drawn intogroups together. Each teammeets the others in its grouphome and away in a round-robin format. The winning teamand the runners-up from eachgroup then progress to the nextround. The third-placed teamenters the UEFA Europealeague.

There are eight groupsstarting from group A to H re-spectively. The teams are di-vided into the groups as above.Each group has a promisingteam and the essence of UEFAlies in the matches betweenthem.>Group A has Paris SG who iscurrently leading the group re-sults with 3 points>Group B has Arsenal leadingthem with 3 points. >Group C has AC Milan as oneof the most promising teamsand of course Malaga is headingthe group with 3 points as ofnow.>Group D has Real Madrid in itwho are undoubtedly the bestteam having won the title max-imum number of times.>Group E has Chelsea, which is

currently not in its best offorms, but will for sure top thetable.>Group F has no such challeng-ing teams and Group G and Hhave Barcelona and the all timefavorite Manchester United

For the group stages,the winning team from onegroup plays against the runners-up from another group, andteams from the same associa-tion may not be drawn againsteach other. From the quarter-fi-nals onwards, the draw is en-tirely random, with associationprotection. The tournament usesthe away goal rule: if the aggre-gate score of the two games istied, then the team who scoredmore goals at their opponent'sstadium advances.

The group stage isplayed through the autumn,whilst the knock-out stage startsafter a winter break. The knock-out ties are played in a two-legged format, with theexception of the final. This istypically held in the final twoweeks of May.

Given the presentsquads and the fixtures, thecompetition looks stiff andmouth watering but it could beany body’s trophy in the end.Manchester United, Arsenal,Barcelona, Real Madrid haveequal chances of winning thetitle.

UEFA Champions Leaguefor DUMMIES

PPAAGGEE 88

BYVENNELAKULKARNI

THE CBIT PHYSICALEDUCATION DEPARTMENT

The department of physicaleducation, CBIT, was estab-lished in 1979 with the beliefthat physical education notonly keeps young peoplephysically fit and mentallysound but that sports as awhole breaks barriers of re-ligion and class to unite peo-ple from diversebackgrounds in achieving acommon glory.

Over the years, CBIT sportshas produced many univer-sity-, national- and even in-ternational- sportspersons. Itis well equipped with severalindoor and outdoor facilitiesfor sports such as cricket,football, volleyball, basket-ball, athletics, badminton,table tennis, caroms, chessetc. It regularly organizes theOsmania university intercol-legiate tournaments and na-tional level inter-engineeringcollege tournaments.

Osmania University Intercollegiate tournament1. Men’s Swimming- 3rd place

•Jishnu Maharshi (2/4 ECE) - 3 individual gold medals in 50m backstroke, 50m freestyle, and 100m freestyle

2. Men’s Chess-2nd place•P.Balaji (4/4 Production)•M.Srinath (4/4 CSE)•Y. Sai Kumar Reddy (3/4 IT)•K. Raja Ravi Kiran Reddy (3/4 Chemical)•Tridev (2/4 Civil)•V. Sudheer Kumar (2/4 ECE)

3. Women’s Badminton-3rd place•Hemalatha (3/4 IT)•Rohini (3/4 Biotech)

4.Women’s Volleyball-4th place•S. Sri Kanya (4/4 ECE)•Vennela Kulkarni (3/4 IT)•Ramya Deepika (3/4 ECE)•S. Anusha (2/2 MBA)•Aditi (2/4 ECE)•K. Priyanka (2/4 EEE)

MGIT Inter- engineering college tournament1. Men’s Cricket- 1st place

•Rahul Reddy (4/4 Mech)•Y. Likit (4/4 Biotech)•D. Sandeep (4/4 CSE)•Shivam Sharma (3/4 Mech)•S. Pranay Kumar (3/3 ECE)•A.S. Yashwanth (3/4 Mech)•Sai Kumar Reddy (3/4 IT)•Pushparaj (3/4 Mech)•Md. Zakir (3/4 Civil)•K. Anurag (3/4 Civil)•Y. Anurag (2/4 Prod)•Rajat (2/4 Prod)•BJL Chandrabose (2/4 Mech)

National Inter Engineering Tournament IIT Kanpur

1. Athletics Long Jump - Gold •Laxmikanth N

2. Athletics 100m, 200m - Gold•Laxmikanth N

3. Athletics Triple Jump - Gold•Laxmikanth N

SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS : 2012-2013

CBIT SPORTS

BYRAVI TEJAGAMINI

The world cup re-turns to West Indies after33 years, the last timebeing in 1979. Celebrationmight just be an understate-ment for this jolly bunch ofboys from West Indies, butthey are likely to cherish itfor the rest of their lives.Speaking about the final, itwas one of many twistswith both teams dominat-ing at different stages of thegame. Especially with theWest Indians pulling off anunbelievable turnaround tocome back and beat theLankans by a huge marginof 32 runs. No sooner didthey gain victory, did theentire team began their cel-ebrations: the gangnamstyle! Earlier, West Indieshad a slow start and theirscore read 38-2 after the

end of 11 overs. But theblitzkrieg from MarlonSamuels, which includedsix massive sixes which en-sured 99 runs in the last 9.Eventually West Indiansfinished at 137-6. When theSri Lankans started batting,their approach looked moreplanned in the first 9 overswhich eventually tore itselfapart as the entire battingline up failed to make animpact good enough to taketheir team to victory as SriLanka crumbled to 101 by19 overs. West Indies werea better team during the dayas they kept cool underpressure by batting bravelyand bowling intelligently topick up wickets quickly towrap up the game.

The Indian Debacle

The Indian t20 squad did verywell to beat the top teams in theWorld Cup but was knocked outon the basis of net run rates. It ishowever arguable that it is unfairto the team that lost only onematch. Many Indian fans wouldbe disappointed but not disheart-ened. India was expected to makeit to the top four with the kind oft20 specialists it boasts of. How-ever, it is cricket, where anythingcan happen. All India can do nowis to look into where they wentwrong.

Jayawardene Quits as CaptainMahela Jayawardene steps downas captain of the Sri Lankantwenty20 side. He howeverwould continue as captain for theother forms of Cricket

Sachin Speaks The little master would like to as-sess his cricketing future after thehome series against England inNovember. He quoted ‘’I am 39and I don't think I have plenty ofcricket left in me. When I feel thatI am not delivering what isneeded, and then I will re-look atthe scheme of things. I am al-ready 39 and no one expects meto go on playing forever.”

Aussie Women Win theTwenty20 World Cup

Australian women retain theirtwenty20 title after beating Eng-land in Colombo. After being seta target of 143, English womenfell short only by 4 runs finishingat 138.

T20 CRICKETGangnam St y l e ! The Car ibbean Way !

BY ABRAR AHMED

“Don't look back. Somethingmight be gaining on you. “- Satchel Paige The words of Satchel Paige don’tseem to be more apt than in thecontext of Formula One. Over theyears since its inception, thissport has left the world asking formore and so has the competitionresponded. It's been over 60 yearssince Formula 1 was introducedto motorsport fans, and it still re-mains just as fresh and competi-tive as it used to be back in thesimpler times. Although technol-ogy has continually been up-graded in this sport--promptingseveral rule changes--a team isnowhere without a top driver, andF1 attracts the best in the game.From Ayrton Senna to Niki Laudato Michael Schumacher to LewisHamilton every one has only setthe bar higher and made the com-petition stiffer.

If 2011 proved to bevery dull and predictable for theF1 fans this season surely prom-ises to make up for the loss of en-tertainment. Though rules havechanged from the previous year,teams have matched to it withtheir great innovations to leavethe rest of the grid behind. The F12012 season, with its series oftwists and turns, promises to beone most closely contested one.Be it Fernando Alonso or Mark

Webber or Sebastian Vettel, noone is going to let the other havea second’s sigh of relief in thisseason. With seven different win-ners in the first seven races, thishas promised to be very exciting.Frequent rule changes and bril-liant innovations have sent thissport soaring to great levels. Dou-ble diffusers in 2009 created bigperformance gaps and leaded to aseason of playing catch-up. Theregulations are so tight that, forthe first time in a long time, per-fection has almost been achieved.And that's why everything is sovery close this year.

With only 5 races left inthe season, the championship iswidely open with FernandoAlonso leading the pack beingclosely followed by SebastianVettel (just 4 points adrift) andKimi Raikkonen. The 2008champion has surely set a goodlead upfront with 8 podium fin-ishes in 14 races. Vettel, the clearcut winner of the previous twoseasons, trails closely behind.With nearly 125 points up forgrabs it can be anybody’s cham-pionship. Though Vettel is pow-ering himself to checkered flagsit takes Alonso just podium fin-ishes to wrap this championshipup in his favor. This seasonpromises to be decided only atBrazil, the last race of the season. Apart from the on track develop-ments there has also been a lot of

activity off of it. From the un-happy pay checks to technologi-cal glitches to penalties to teammind games, this season has beenvery spicy. With Mercedes secur-ing the Lewis Hamilton’s serv-ices, the atmosphere at JapaneseGrand prix is sure to change. Thisswitch from Mc Laren has prima-rily been a repercussion of the fi-nancial crises the sport wentunder. Having his pay slashed,Hamilton stated looking elsewhere. Though Mc Laren revisedtheir pays to match Mercedes’offer, it could not stop Hamiltonfrom leaving the team he joined14 years back.

This development hasrung the curtain down on one ofthe most celebrated careers in thesports history. Michael Schu-macher being on his way to a sec-ond retirement is surelydisheartening the world F1 fans.The seven time world championhas admitted that his return to thecircuit in pursuit of unprece-dented 8th world title has surelygone haywire with just onepodium finish in this season.

Overall, the 2013 sea-son promises to be totally differ-ent than before. As bright as thefuture looks, the reset of thepresent season will be very ex-citing. It promises to be a nailbiting finish.

F1 - Where a SecondLasts TooLong

PPAAGGEE 99

BY RIYAZ SUNDRANIKhaled Hosseini was born inKabul, Afghanistan, but writesgood English with a simple,pure writing style. His firstnovel,The Kite Runner, becamea favorite among reading clubs.That book tells a power story oftwo boys who are close friendsgrowing up in Kabul. The maincharacter is much like Hosseinihimself and the book is aboutthe relationships of male friendsand of fathers and sons. In par-ticular it shows the destructive-ness of the Taliban to males.Moreover, Hosseini recognizesthat the plight of women underthe Taliban is far worse. This sit-uation is explored in his secondnovel, A THOUSAND SPLEN-DID SUNS.First, the bad news, because thisstory is not autobiographical hecould tell any story he wanted. Sohe chose an apparently borrowedframework. At best, his story is aretelling and amplification ofAlice Walker's The Color Purple.It is more broadened and the set-ting is very different, but the sit-

uation and even the plot is moreor less the same. It is the story ofa young woman who is forcedinto a loveless marriage with amuch older man who uses her asa slave and as a target for abuse.The situation goes on for yearsand just when things seem likethey can’t get any worse, the hus-band brings another more attrac-tive woman into the householdThe two rivals conflict and fightfor the number two position in thehousehold until they realize theyhave more in common than theyhave differences. Soon their dis-like for each other turns to a solidfriendship and genuine affectionfor each other, and at the sametime a shared hatred for the offen-sive husband. Because this plot isthe same for both stories, Hos-seini’s lack of originality is theone demerit of his otherwise finebook. Since The Kite Runner wasfor me a new plot, I would ratethat book a little higher. However,this book is still an engrossingand excellent read.In addition to the general plot,this book shows that there areworse things in the woman's lives

than their abusive husband. Weare given a background of thewars in Afghanistan and the twowomen seem to suffer with eachregime change. But when the Taliban take controlthe situation becomes truly har-rowing and nearly unbearable.Women are treated lower than an-imals. Most medical facilities aremale-only. The conditions at therare and distant women's hospi-tals are completely barbarous.The descriptions of the "hospital"are nightmarishly the most haunt-ing images of the book.This book will be an educationfor Americans as well as the restof the world on the concentratedevil that the Taliban brought toAfghanistan. The first book had ascene of the stadiums in whichwomen are stoned to death infront of large audiences. The sec-ond book considers the samestoning of the stadiums to be animportant part of the plot. In thatsense the two books dovetail.Overall, A THOUSAND SPLEN-DID SUNS is more about victim-ization, which perhaps is not souncommon a theme.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

BY SURAJ PERIThe earth turns and the windblows and sometimes somemarvelous scrap of paper isblown against the fence for usto find. And once found, we be-come aware there are places outthere that are both foreign andfamiliar. Funny what the windbrings. And now it brings "TheKite Runner," a beautiful novelby Afghan-American KhaledHosseini that ranks among thebest written and provocativestories of the year so far.Set in Afghanistan during the1970′s, ‘The Kite Runner’ is aninsightful novel that spans threedecades of the life and customsof a people and a country thathave tragically become synony-mous with terrorism. The storyopens on an Afghanistan veryfew of us know or even care toremember; at a time when itsstreets and people were not rav-aged by the mania of religiousextremism and war; when itwas (believe it or not) a countryof prosperity and liberalthought.Growing up in the midst of thisis our narrator Amir with hisodd family made up of his fa-ther Toghfan Aga, a bear-likeman who is among the wealthi-est and most respected publicfigure in Kabul. With them livetheir faithful servants, Ali andhis young son Hassan, whohave served the family formany generations as well asToghfan Aga’s business partnerand closest friend, Rahim Khan.This is the tale of Amir and hisfriendship with Hassan, andhow the tragic events of onefateful day drive these twomotherless boys apart. Guilt-ridden Amir is destined fromthat day forth to carry the im-mense burden of his betrayal,all because he did not have thecourage to stop the things hesaw in happening in a dirty al-

leyway.I became what I am today at theage of twelve, on a frigid over-cast day in the winter of 1975. Iremember the precise moment,crouching behind a crumblingmud wall, peeking into the alleynear the frozen creek… Look-ing back now, I realize I havebeen peeking into that desertedalley for the last twenty-sixyears. On one level, The Kite Runnerby Khaled Hosseini is the storyof two boys in Afghanistan andAfghan immigrants in America.It is a story set in a culture thathas become of increasing inter-est to Americans since the Sep-tember 11, 2001 attacks. On theother, it provides a good wayfor people to learn more aboutAfghan history and culture inthe context of story.Looking at The Kite Runner asa story about culture, however,misses what the book is reallyabout. This is a novel about hu-manity. This is a story aboutfriendship, loyalty, cruelty,longing for acceptance, re-demption and survival. Thecore story could be set in anyculture because it deals with is-sues that are universal.The Kite Runner is one of thebest books I have read in years.This is a page turner with com-plex characters and situationsthat will make you think hardabout friendship, good and evil,betrayal, and redemption. It isintense and contains somegraphic scenes; however, it isnot gratuitous. "The Kite Run-ner" is a song in a new key.Hosseini is an exhilaratinglyoriginal writer with a gift forirony and a gentle, perceptiveheart. His canvas might be aplace and time Americans areonly beginning to understand,but he paints his art on the page,where it is intimate andpoignant.

The Kite Runner

BY SREEKAR REDDY ANDSHARAT CHANDER

The hustle and bustleof the streets of Narsingi greetyou as you enter this restau-rant and the waiter quicklywhisks you away into the A/Csection. Since most are regularcustomers, menus are not re-quired because everyone al-ready knows what they wantto order. The service is prettyprompt and before you knowit, a humungous serving ofbiryani is placed in front ofyou. And if it hadn’t alreadyby now, your mouth starts towater with anticipation.

The only place thatcomes to a CBITian’s mindwhen it comes to lip smackingfood is the Green Bawarchirestaurant located at Narsingi.This place has become a majorhangout spot for the studentswho seek a break from theirroutine meals. It has especiallybecome an instant hit with the“hostel-ers” who flock toNarsingi at least once a weekto take a break from hostelfood.

It caters perfectly to studentsas they can get quality food fora very minimal price. Themenu is not only long, but alsoshows a variety of good dishesranging from a hyderabadidum biryani to a simple butternaan. The biryani has a differenttaste to it compared to what isserved at other joints ; thespices and masala certainlyreach a whole new level. Itmay be an overwhelmingtouch to the taste buds at firstbut with each spoon the GreenBawarchi biryani definitelygrows on you.

Initially, when weheard so much about thisrestaurant, our expectationswere sky high. Now, we cansafely say that the GreenBawarchi has lived up to ourexpectations.

Shut your eyes untilyou are seated, don’t mind toomuch about your surroundingsand you should be more thanfine. Enjoy!

BY ADITYA RAMAN

After a long hiatus of 2years Sekhar Kammula is backwith his original forte of familyentertainers but as always, itsuffers from dragging narrationand its length. Since it wasSekhar Kammula’s movie, theexpectations were quite highamong the audiences since he isa good writer and has the knackfor dealing with fresh, simplisticand natural happenings beauti-fully. But Life is beautiful lacksfreshness as it makes you re-member his Happy Days allthrough the first half. Thescenes between the gold phaseand B-phase, the cricket matchand some other instances run aparallel between th senior-juniorscenes in Happy Days. Screen-play has gone for a toss and the

pace drops at many times. Edit-ing could have been much betterin the first half and many sillyscenes should have beenchopped off.

Although this is what Ifelt about the first half, it ispassable with “cool” scenes andthe pace in the second half ismore focused on conflicts inlove and life. The narration here

is slow paced thus making itdrag on longer than it needs to.Lengthy second half and weakscreenplay are the negatives ofthe film.

The climax is an assetfor the film which is packedwith the mother sentimentalscenes that came out well.Amala is superbly natural actorand she has dealt them withsuch ease. The montages in the‘Amma..’ song were capturedwell. Life Is Beautiful mighthave done wonders if the sillyepisodes could have beenchopped off.

Watch it if you have time tospare and if your tear ductshaven't been recently used.

Rating:3.5/5

Green BawarchiMovi_: Lif_ is B_[utiful

Life!BY RAMCHARAN DEVALALA

Life is a magical gift.It is tough to understand be-

cause it is swift;A person who cares, never

daresAnd the one who dares, never

caresThe collaboration of these two can make the impossible come

true.People lose confidence here;They live only with fear.

No matter if you are pushed tothe wall

Or made to fallLearn to bounce back like a

ball.If your life is full of crashesLearn to rise like a pheonix

from its ashes.The problem might be like

mighty jawsBut tear them apart with your

claws.Trust me….

It is not about who won or lost,it is all about how you fought.

Open any tech webpage, and you'rebombarded with this word. What is it?What changes has the Big A made?Let’s take it under the glass and have acloser peek:iOS 6 is the latest mobile operating sys-tem from Apple for its lineup of iPads,iPhones and iPod touches. It is a directrival to the Windows 8 and Google'sAndroid Jellybean.Let’s kick off by talking about the newlyadded features:

�Facebook Integration :This is a nifty feature because, lets faceit, the only way we share anything thesedays is through Facebook. This comesas a welcome addition as you can nowpost on facebook with just a tap. Face-book contact sync has also been addedand is quite similar to the one on An-droid.

�Panorama Mode :Mobile photography has become a phe-nomenon and given the high qualityeyes Apple products have, the inclusionof the panorama mode is a thing to behappy about. This mode takes continu-ous shots of your surroundings andcombines them into a single, very wideangle picture. This mode lets you cover240 degrees of view around you andwould be useful in many situations.

�‘Do not disturb’ mode :Let me paint a scene. It’s the weekendafter a week of exams. You’ve beenbusy studying through the nights, andfinally you can catch up on sleep. Youdon’t want to be disturbed. That’s when

this feature comes in handy. It lets youturn off all the notifications from yourphone for a given period. But if a persontries to call you more than once contin-uously, the phone assumes it’s an emer-gency and rings. Nice! That’s quite athoughtful touch.

�Apple maps :Apple has broken its joint venture withGoogle to provide maps and has de-signed its very own app. These newmaps provide features like 3D Fly Overmode, where you can look at a city as ifyou were in a helicopter. They also pro-vide turn by turn voice navigation whenyou're on the move. But there's a ratherbig catch. Apple maps are available foronly a few countries and the flyovermode doesn't have any particular prac-tical use. India is currently unsupportedand so are many other countries acrossthe globe. Although you can get backGoogle maps, Apple shouldn't havemessed up with this.

�Better Siri:Remember Siri? The personal voice as-sistant on your phone that changes the

way we look at speaking to a machine.It has been enhanced and now provideslots of information like scores andrestaurant rating. Several new lan-guages are also recognized by Siri iniOS 6. Unfortunately the accuracy ofSiri with Indian accents is still low andcan get frustrating. So you're better offdoing the task manually.

�Passbook:This is a new app that lets you use yourphone as a credit card. The downside isthat feature is still in its initial stages andit probably will take a few more yearsfor the infrastructure to be fully func-tional. As of now, there's not much youcan do with it.

Overview:iOS has always been the king amongthe mobile OS platforms. With itssmooth fluid interface, great featuresand neat animations, it has been thebenchmark to which other rivals havebeen trying to reach. The app store re-mains to be the finest inventory of appson a mobile platform with amazinggames and neatly designed apps. TheiOS 6 , the latest incarnation only takesit a notch higher. It improves the re-sponse of the whole system by a smallfraction and adds pleasing new addi-tions to it. Though it’s not a cutting-edgerevolution, it does improve on its pred-ecessor. If you're out there in the marketfor a new smartphone, make sure youhave the iPhone on your list. You'll havea good time with the latest iOS.

iOS 6

If you haven't heard of it al-ready, consider yourself cast away fromthis world. The pygmies in the Africancontinent probably know about it too.What has made 50 lakh people run tothe Apple Store and buy one in just 3days? Why are all the techies calling ita sensation? Here's all you need to knowabout the iPhone 5:� Thinner, lighter, stronger: Lets face it, the iPhone 4 and 4S havealways been criticized for being fragile.Their glass screens and glass backswere prone to crack when droppeddown. In the iPhone5 this has been fixedby replacing glass back panel with analuminum one, which I think looks gor-geous. Physically, the iPhone 5 is slim-mer and lighter than its predecessors.It’s among the slimmest smartphonestoday. And last but not least, the screensize has been increased to 4 incheswhich increases usability and makesvideos look better. � The Numbers: The iPhone 5 is a processing power-house. It packs a dual core processor (inother words 2 processors) and 1 GBRAM. Theoretically, it’s twice as fast asthe previous gen iPhone. Tests con-ducted by various websites have shownthat the iPhone 5 is, indeed, the fastestand most responsive smartphone in theworld right now. Apple has done a greatjob this time around as well.� The Screen: The iPhone 1, 3G, 3GS, 4 and the 4S

have always had the same screen size:3.5 inches. To stay updated with thesmartphone era we live in, Apple has in-creased the size to 4 inches. In addition,they have increased the colour satura-tion and resolution of the screen. TheiPhone 5 has one of the best displaysand the games, apps, videos and web-pages looks absolutely crisp and vivid.� Connectivity: The iPhone 5 has 4G LTE which sup-ports speeds of up to 21 mbps from yourcellular connection. The iPhone 5 hasdual band WIFI which supports speedsof up to 100 mbps from your WIFI net-work. Now, that is seriously impressive.

� Camera and Multimedia: The iPhone 5 has an 8 megapixel cam-era on the back and 1.2 megapixel cam-era on the front. The iPhone 4S isalready the best camera phone and the5 only takes it a bit further. It has aslightly better low light capability andhas slightly faster photo taking times.The front camera has been improvedtoo and now supports video calling in

High Definition. To top it all off, videosare now recorded in 1080P HD, and youcan click pictures simultaneously whilecapturing a video.� Other additions: This latest iPhone supports the brandnew operating systems iOS 6. The bat-tery has been slightly improved. Thecall quality has been improved and thetouch screen response is even better.The USB/charging port is now smallerthan the previous models allowing thephone's casing to be slimmer. TheiPhone 5 comes with a new type of ear-phones called "Earpods". Apple claimsit took them 3 years to develop and theysound just great.

Overview: The iPhone 5 is a great device. It takesgreat pictures, it’s twice as fast as theprevious one, it’s entertaining, it hasgreat battery life, it looks good and feelswell made, and it delivers on all frontswhat you'd expect your next smart-phone to be. There are some who arguethat there is nothing revolutionary orcutting edge, but the ultimate point isthis: the iPhone 5 doesn't try to solve aproblem that doesn't exist, rather it aimsto approach perfection of a form. It’smade beautifully, works like a charmand impresses you every single day. It'dbe a great investment for anyone look-ing for a high end smartphone. Youwouldn't regret owning one. After all itis The Best Smartphone of 2012.

iPhone 5

BRAINTEASERSQ1. What is special about thefollowing sequence of numbers?8 5 4 9 1 7 6 10 3 2 0Q2. A rooster lays an egg at thevery top of a slanted roof.Which side is the egg going toroll off on?Q3. What seven-letter word hashundreds of letters in it?Q4. A prisoner is told "If you tella lie we will hang you; if youtell the truth we will shoot you."What can he say to save him-self?Q5. How far can a dog run intothe forest?Q6. Name three consecutivedays without using the wordsWednesday, Friday, or Sunday.

Answers:A1. The numbers are in alphabetical order.(eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, ten,three, two, zero)A2. A rooster doesn’t lay eggs.A3. MailboxA4. You will hang me. If they hang him,then the statement was true and they couldonly hang him for telling a lie. If theyshoot him, then it makes the statement a lieand they were only to shoot him for tellingthe truth. An alternate solution is to say,"You will not shoot me," leading to thesame quandary for the killers.A5. Halfway. After that it will be runningout of the forest.A6. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

•One million, million,million, million, millionth of asecond after the Big Bang theUniverse was the size of a...pea.•It takes 17 muscles to smile whiletaking 43 muscles to frown.•The human brain is composed of75% water.•More germs are transferred whileshaking hands compared to kiss-ing.•If stomachs did not have a liningof mucus, your stomach would di-gest itself.•On average, women say 7,000

words per day while men managejust over 2,000 words.•Wearing headphones for just anhour will increase the bacteria inyour ear by 700 times.•The cigarette lighter was inventedbefore the match.•Like fingerprints, everyone'stongue print is different. •Bill Gates' first business wasTraff-O-Data, a company that cre-ated machines which recorded thenumber of cars passing a givenpoint on a road.

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