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NEWS IN BRIEF VOLUME 2 ISSUE 13 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 AAP Minister sacked 7 mega cities by 2030 Aam Aadmi Party suspended its youngest minister Sandeep Kumar from the primary membership of the party after his name surfaced in a sex scandal. In the CD,Sandeep Kumar was seen with a woman in a compro- mising position. Taking note of the CD, Arvind Kejriwal removed him from the government. Sandeep Ku- mar, however, refutes all the charges against him as a conspiracy taking advantage of being a dalit. By 2030, India will have 7 mega cities as revealed in the 2016 World Cities Report issued by the UN’s Department of Economic and So- cial Affairs. At present India has five mega cities with over 10 mil- lion population. The report also mentioned that Delhi will remain the second most populated city in the world till 2030. Besides Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai; Hyderabad and Ahmed- abad will be the mega cities. Singur Verdict: SC orders to return land to farmers Saptarshi Chowdhury 11 years ago the picture of Tapasi Ma- lik’s charred remains became the symbol of state oppression against the agitators of Singur. The agitators were farmers and their families, whose land was forcibly ac- quired for the Tata Nano factory. The battle that started way back in 2006 finally came to an end on September 1 with the Supreme Court verdict terming the land acquisition process carried out by the Left Front gov- ernment for Tata Motors as unlawful. Singur remains a classic example of In- dia’s lack of a comprehensive land bill pri- or to the passing of the Land Acquisition Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act, 2013 under UPA-II. The land movement also showcased the problems of displacement that often comes with industrialisation and development in a growing economy. The problem also persists because of poor compensation and almost no rehabilitation programmes coupled with trust issues be- tween farmers and governments. Along with Singur the Anti POSCO move- ment in Odisha is also synonymous with land agitations in India. What made the Government vulnerable was their depen- dence on the archaic Land Acquisition Bill of 1894. In most of the cases the consent clause was nixed by the ruling parties to favour investment leading to violent upris- ings by the land losers. What made matters worse was that out of 1000 acres in Singur, 400 acres of land was forcibly captured by the state government. The left front government relied more on the information provided to them by their own district committee members rather than talking to the villagers on an official level. Information sent from the ground by the party cadres were intentionally given wrong for benefit of only politically asso- ciated people, thereby leading to disastrous decisions on the issue of compensation. In the violent uprising that ensued the state government along with the police un- leashed a sort of terror on the protesting villagers. The villagers were beaten up, abused and even killed. A year into the ag- itation, farmers who lost their land started committing suicides. Then Trinamool par- ty Chief Mamata Banerjee was on a hunger strike for 26 days to protest the forcible land acquisition becoming an icon for the poors and the people of Bengal. In the recent Supreme Court hearing by a bench of justices V. Gopala Gowda and Arun Mishra they pointed out that land ac- quired under guise of ‘public purpose’ was only acquired for Tata Motors thereby vi- olating section 5A of the 1894 Act. They also added that the government acted upon the flawed report of the land acquisition collector. What transpired soon after the land move- ment back in 2006 was the downfall of the Left Front Government in West Bengal. The irony being that the party that was known for its pro poor stance was being pulled down from power by the people of Bengal for their inhumane attitude towards the poor villagers. Incidents like the shoot- ing of villagers in Netai, the police excess- es committed in Nandigram and the deaths in Singur made the population restless for a change. The change came in the form of Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress. After coming to power in 2011, the very first de- cision of her cabinet was to pass the Sin- gur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill in the West Bengal assembly. With victory finally coming after the judgement of the SC, Chief Minister Mamata Baner- jee said,” Now I can die in peace.” State Education Minister Partha Chatterjee has expressed his desire to include the Singur land movement to include in academic syl- labus. The return of land within a span of 12 weeks will come as a blessing to the families who have lost their lands. Cauvery water released Abiding by the Supreme Court directive, Karnataka has started releasing water from Cavery to Tamil Nadu. 15,000 cus- secx of water per day for ten days will be released by Karnataka. Farmers in several parts of the state have started protesting against this measure and in many plac- es there have been blockades. Schools and colleges have also been shut down. Saint Teresa Now, Mother Always Paramita Das On September 4, 2016, the 21st Century wit- nessed an imperi- al moment being inscribed in the scriptures of time, with the venerable ceremony of Can- onization of Moth- er Teresa, at the Vatican City. Hun- dreds of faithful and the sceptics alike, gath- ered at St. Peter’s Square to be a part of this reverential cele- bration which unified men and women from different parts of the world, debarring every discrimination ever created by man to uphold that one true power of Love Compassion, and Humanity. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was born on 26th August, 1910 in Skopje, the modern republic of Macedonia. She left home, at the age of 18 to Ireland and set sail for India on Decem- ber 1,1928. Only after arriving in Calcutta, she realised the pain and suffering, of the poor and the discriminated section of the society. Her heart wept bitterly and silently on seeing upon the reluctance and hatred that humans be- stow upon other fellow humans on the basis of caste, creed, poverty, disease, malignance, repulsion, hostility and reli- gion. Consumed with the true surreal visions of the world- ly suffering, while travelling from Calcutta to Darjeeling, she received a ‘Call within a Call’. Ever since, determined to put an end to the miseries of the unloved,Mother Teresa dedicated her entire life to the selfless service of “the poor- est of the poor”. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1979 and the Bharat Ratna Award in 1980,respec- tively, for her relentless service to humanity. Unfortunate- ly, her sad demise on September 5, 1997, struck the whole world with a profound note of lament. On October 19, 2003, Mother Teresa was declared as the “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta” by Pope John Paul II, argu- ably the shortest Beautification process ever. Followed, were the two miraculous testimonies from the intercession of Mother Teresa, of the recovery of Monica Besra, suffer- ing from multiple cysts and the healing of a Brazilian man with multiple tumours in brain, paved her way to Saint- hood. On September 4, 2016, Mother Teresa was declared as Saint Teresa of Calcutta by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square, at St. Peter’s Basilica, in the Vatican City of Rome. Saint Teresa was an epitome of mercy, who believed, to serve God is to serve mankind. She was the sole redeemer of the viscious contemporary times. The mass that gathered infront of St. Basilica’s Church on Sunday morning, did not share a com- mon religion, yet unified with one communal thread of religion called Love. In these times of deca- dence, even if one of us understands the true power of compassion and mercy and act upon it, soon the world will be a better place and human suffering would eventually come to an end. Serena creates history Serena Williams creates history with her 308th Grand Slam victory. Other tennis legends like Martina Navratilova has 306 victories and Roger Federar has won 307. Now she intends to become the first play- er to win 23 grand slam singles title in the Open Era. She has four Olym- pics gold medals. Beginning her journey at the age of 16 .She is now ranked number one in the WTA’s Women Ranking.
Transcript of VOLUME 2 ISSUE 13 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 Saint Teresa ......VOLUME 2 ISSUE 13 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 Editorial...
NEWSIN
BRIEF
VOLUME 2 ISSUE 13 10 SEPTEMBER 2016
AAP Minister sacked
7 mega cities by 2030
Aam Aadmi Party suspended its youngest minister Sandeep Kumar from the primary membership of the party after his name surfaced in a sex scandal. In the CD,Sandeep Kumar was seen with a woman in a compro-mising position. Taking note of the CD, Arvind Kejriwal removed him from the government. Sandeep Ku-mar, however, refutes all the charges against him as a conspiracy taking advantage of being a dalit.
By 2030, India will have 7 mega cities as revealed in the 2016 World Cities Report issued by the UN’s Department of Economic and So-cial Affairs. At present India has five mega cities with over 10 mil-lion population. The report also mentioned that Delhi will remain the second most populated city in the world till 2030. Besides Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai; Hyderabad and Ahmed-abad will be the mega cities.
Singur Verdict: SC orders to return land to farmers Saptarshi Chowdhury
11 years ago the picture of Tapasi Ma-lik’s charred remains became the symbol of state oppression against the agitators of Singur. The agitators were farmers and their families, whose land was forcibly ac-quired for the Tata Nano factory. The battle that started way back in 2006 finally came to an end on September 1 with the Supreme Court verdict terming the land acquisition process carried out by the Left Front gov-ernment for Tata Motors as unlawful.Singur remains a classic example of In-dia’s lack of a comprehensive land bill pri-or to the passing of the Land Acquisition Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act, 2013 under UPA-II. The land movement also showcased the problems of displacement that often comes with industrialisation and development in a growing economy. The problem also persists because of poor compensation and almost no rehabilitation programmes coupled with trust issues be-tween farmers and governments.Along with Singur the Anti POSCO move-ment in Odisha is also synonymous with land agitations in India. What made the Government vulnerable was their depen-dence on the archaic Land Acquisition Bill of 1894. In most of the cases the consent clause was nixed by the ruling parties to favour investment leading to violent upris-ings by the land losers. What made matters worse was that out of 1000 acres in Singur, 400 acres of land was forcibly captured by the state government. The left front government relied more on
the information provided to them by their own district committee members rather than talking to the villagers on an official level. Information sent from the ground by the party cadres were intentionally given wrong for benefit of only politically asso-ciated people, thereby leading to disastrous decisions on the issue of compensation. In the violent uprising that ensued the state government along with the police un-leashed a sort of terror on the protesting villagers. The villagers were beaten up, abused and even killed. A year into the ag-itation, farmers who lost their land started committing suicides. Then Trinamool par-ty Chief Mamata Banerjee was on a hunger strike for 26 days to protest the forcible land acquisition becoming an icon for the poors and the people of Bengal.In the recent Supreme Court hearing by
a bench of justices V. Gopala Gowda and Arun Mishra they pointed out that land ac-quired under guise of ‘public purpose’ was only acquired for Tata Motors thereby vi-olating section 5A of the 1894 Act. They also added that the government acted upon the flawed report of the land acquisition collector.What transpired soon after the land move-ment back in 2006 was the downfall of the Left Front Government in West Bengal. The irony being that the party that was known for its pro poor stance was being pulled down from power by the people of Bengal for their inhumane attitude towards the poor villagers. Incidents like the shoot-ing of villagers in Netai, the police excess-es committed in Nandigram and the deaths in Singur made the population restless for a change.The change came in the form of Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress. After coming to power in 2011, the very first de-cision of her cabinet was to pass the Sin-gur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill in the West Bengal assembly. With victory finally coming after the judgement of the SC, Chief Minister Mamata Baner-jee said,” Now I can die in peace.” State Education Minister Partha Chatterjee has expressed his desire to include the Singur land movement to include in academic syl-labus. The return of land within a span of 12 weeks will come as a blessing to the families who have lost their lands.
Cauvery water released
Abiding by the Supreme Court directive, Karnataka has started releasing water from Cavery to Tamil Nadu. 15,000 cus-secx of water per day for ten days will be released by Karnataka. Farmers in several parts of the state have started protesting against this measure and in many plac-es there have been blockades. Schools and colleges have also been shut down.
Saint Teresa Now, Mother AlwaysParamita Das
On September 4, 2016, the 21st Century wit-
nessed an imperi-al moment being inscribed in the scriptures of time, with the venerable ceremony of Can-onization of Moth-
er Teresa, at the Vatican City. Hun-
dreds of faithful and the sceptics alike, gath-
ered at St. Peter’s Square to be a part of this reverential cele-
bration which unified men and women from different parts of the world, debarring every discrimination ever created by man to uphold that one true power of Love Compassion, and Humanity.Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was born on 26th August, 1910 in Skopje, the modern republic of Macedonia. She left home, at the age of 18 to Ireland and set sail for India on Decem-ber 1,1928. Only after arriving in Calcutta, she realised the pain and suffering, of the poor and the discriminated section of the society. Her heart wept bitterly and silently on seeing upon the reluctance and hatred that humans be-stow upon other fellow humans on the basis of caste, creed, poverty, disease, malignance, repulsion, hostility and reli-gion. Consumed with the true surreal visions of the world-ly suffering, while travelling from Calcutta to Darjeeling, she received a ‘Call within a Call’. Ever since, determined to put an end to the miseries of the unloved,Mother Teresa dedicated her entire life to the selfless service of “the poor-est of the poor”. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1979 and the Bharat Ratna Award in 1980,respec-
tively, for her relentless service to humanity. Unfortunate-ly, her sad demise on September 5, 1997, struck the whole world with a profound note of lament.On October 19, 2003, Mother Teresa was declared as the “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta” by Pope John Paul II, argu-ably the shortest Beautification process ever. Followed, were the two miraculous testimonies from the intercession of Mother Teresa, of the recovery of Monica Besra, suffer-ing from multiple cysts and the healing of a Brazilian man with multiple tumours in brain, paved her way to Saint-hood. On September 4, 2016, Mother Teresa was declared as Saint Teresa of Calcutta by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square, at St. Peter’s Basilica, in the Vatican City of Rome.Saint Teresa was an epitome of mercy, who believed, to serve God is to serve mankind. She was the sole redeemer of the viscious contemporary times. The mass that gathered infront of St. Basilica’s Church on Sunday morning, did not share a com-mon religion, yet unified with one communal thread of religion called Love. In these times of deca-dence, even if one of us understands the true power of compassion and mercy and act upon it, soon the world will be a better place and human suffering would eventually come to an end.
Serena creates history
Serena Williams creates history with her 308th Grand Slam victory. Other tennis legends like Martina Navratilova has 306 victories and Roger Federar has won 307. Now she intends to become the first play-er to win 23 grand slam singles title in the Open Era. She has four Olym-pics gold medals. Beginning her journey at the age of 16 .She is now ranked number one in the WTA’s Women Ranking.
VOLUME 2 ISSUE 13 10 SEPTEMBER 2016
Editorial Team: Aakruti Shah , Aaheli Ghose ,Ishani Bhattacharya, Medhasree Chakraborty , Indrani Banerjee, Saptarshi Chowdhury, Paramita Das , Aaheli Ghose , Utpinjar Dey , Manasi Agarwal, Ipshita Pal, Ritoban Dey. Design Team: Banhishikha Ghorai
Chief Mentor: Dr Buroshiva Dasgupta Mentors: Jhuma Basak, Sharmila Sinha, Debanjan Banerjee, Bhaswar Bhattacharyya, Ankita Ash, Reshmi Naskar, Barnali Ray, Anwar Ali, Sourav Basu
CAMPUS NEWSNoted Theatre personality, Mr. Cyrus Dastur,Founder , ‘Shamiana’,A-sia’s biggest short film and theatre club was here in campus on August 31 for an interactive session with media undergraduate and post gradu-ate students.The session discussed the new methods of short film mak-ing in ‘101 hours’ in collaboration with ‘Yes Foundation’ under the ‘Yes I Am The Change’ banner.
Business Seminar A seminar was organized by NSHM Business School(NBS) in collab-oration with Calcutta Management Association(CMA) for the first year students of MBA on August 29. In the first phase of the seminar, Mr. Ramen Barua, Director of CMA, introduced the basics of ‘Financial Markets’ in India to the students. In the second phase of the seminar, Mr. Diptendu Moulik, who had come as a representative of ‘Multi Commodity Exchange’(MCX) spoke about the basics of ‘Commodity Markets’ and ‘Online Trading Platform’ for commodities in India.
In today’s era of rock, pop, heavy metal, EDM (Electronic Dance Music), reggae, the very roots of Indian classical music, which is the base for all other genres is somewhat getting extinct. How-ever when you pass by the 91.2 Y FM NSHM Community Radio studio you will see a spree of mu-sicians and singers enthusiastical-ly recording shows based on Hin-dustani and Carnatic music for the community. Y FM believes in the notion “old is gold.”Hindustani classical music in-cludes styles like Khayal, Thum-
ri and Dhrupad whereas Car-natic classical music includes Kriti and Pallavi. These styles fur-ther have their respective Gha-ranas depending on the place of origins and their
creation by eminent Ustads and Pandits from Chandigarh, Gwali-or, Ahmedabad, Banaras and Ker-ala Gharanas. ‘Jalsa Ghar’ is a new show at 91.2 Y FM NSHM Community Radio, which was talked about in the pre-vious issue is in its making. Peo-ple from all ages and backgrounds come to record shows and con-tribute to the banking of the show. One can listen to pure Indian classical as well as semi classical genres including Ghazal, Rajas-thani folk from Marwar. Various
unconventional folk instruments like the Swarmandal, Sarinda are used to deliver the authentic feel of the music that comes directly from our original root. ‘Ragas and Raginis’ including Khambaj, Bi-lashkhani Todi, Maand, Shivran-jini, Pahari, Malaiya Muthal, a South Indian Raga, and many more are put across. “Community radio has no in-volvement of money so it is pel-lucid in its endeavour”, said a young singer-musician, Abhijeet Sengupta. Through his off track Indian classical music he promis-es to make a place in the hearts of young comrades. He sang many of his brilliant scores for Y FM, puts the rhythm and the melody section of a song in a modernistic way yet holding on to its authenticity. With a few shows already on air there is much more interesting broadcast coming up to soothe your ears. So stay tuned…
Manasi Agarwal
Ritoban Dey, BMAG,3rd Sem.
Utpinjar Dey, BMAG 3rd Sem.
Karate ChampionshipAbhishek Ghosh ,BMS 2rd year student won Gold Medal in The 2nd International Karate Championship
at Kolkata on 5th and 6th August 2016.He also won one Gold and one bronze medal in National Kara-te championship at Pondicherrry on August 26th-28th.The Championship was judged by a panel of Judges from the field of Karate like Mr. Elias Jaco-bous from South Africa, Krishna Murthy, Renshi
Jayanta Kumar Karmakar, Shihan J.S. Kalaimani from India to name a few. Abhishek Ghosh,the sole
representative of the state won ‘Gold’ in ‘Kumite’ and ‘Bronze’ in ‘Kata’ by beating states like Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Bihar and
Visit of Cyrus Dastur
Photography UtsabSayan Mukherjee, Anirban Mandal students of BMS and Utpinjar Dey student of BMAG are the viewers choice winners of ‘Photography Utsab 2016’ or-ganized by Halo Heritage.
Out of Shadows‘Rahi Foundation’ , India’s only centre for women survivors of incest and sexual abuse brought up the discussions on ‘Child Sexual Abuse’ and ‘Incest’ with the help of the performance project which was entitled ‘Out Of The Shadows’. It had performers from various colleges like Lo-reto College, Jadavpur University, NIFT, Scottish Church College other than NSHM. Vibhanshu Doshi and Sunny Kumar ,second year students of Bachelor of Media Science were participants in the play.
Gurur Brahmaa, Gurur Vishnu Gurur Devo Maheshwarah Gurur Saakshaata Parabramha Tasmai Sri Guruve Namah!
Every year in India, 5th September is celebrated as Teachers’ Day, a day dedicated to all the teachers to mark the birth anniversary of Dr.Rad-hakrishnan, the erstwhile President of India. One of the most loved Presidents of our country, Dr. APJ Abdul Ka-lam left for his heavenly abode in doing what he loved best: Teach-ing. He breathed his last while delivering a lecture to students at IIM Shillong. In his book “Wings of Fire”, Kalam was of the opinion that to become a good teacher, one must always put his or her students ahead of themselves. NSHM Knowledge Campus also celebrated the day with great zeal and vivacity. It was also a day of delight for the teachers to see the talents of their students performing various shows. Students from the
NIMD department presented songs, classical and western dance, a comedy show. The highlight was the group dance presented by PG2. It was eye catching with colourful costumes. Af-ter the programmes, there was the traditional cake cutting ceremo-ny and a small token of appreciation for the teachers from the stu-dents. After the programme, Dr.Buroshiva Dasgupta, the Director of NIMD said that nowadays the importance of Teachers’ Day and the fun and frolic associated with it has gone through a drastic change. With internet in one’s reach, information is just a click away for the students. Dr. Dasgupta feels that the significance of the day has immensely reduced and has turned out to be just a mode of another celebration for the students. With the digital revolution we can get every information at one click, largely thanks to the new media. But teachers engage in more meaningful discussions with students over variety of issues. New education technologies have the ability to en-ergize students and educators alike, but new found access and capa-bilities mean nothing without an engaged leader who can pull these tools together in a practical and meaningful way. The role of the teacher remains ever important in the high technological learning environment. It’s easy to find information on Google but that is not equal to gaining knowledge.As Aristotle elaborates correctly “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents,for these only gave life,those the art of living well”
Aaheli GhoseTeachers’ Day Celebration @ NIMD
Bit of HumourSa Re Ga Ma Pa made interesting for you
Photograph of the week
