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Atithi Devo Bhava

'ATITHI DEVO BHAVA' campaign was initiatedin 2005 to improve the relation betweenhost and the visiting foreigners. Tourism

Ministry's efforts to make people aware aboutthe safety and security of tourists, hygiene,sanitation and vandalisation of historicalmonuments. This campaign has come on theheels of reports on harassment of tourists in thecountry. There have been numerous instancesof thefts, scams, sexual assaults, drugging andother crimes against international tourists.Through this campaign effort was made tosensitize people against harassment of tourists,particularly women tourists. Tourism Ministryhopes to bring about an attitudinal shift amongthe masses towards tourists. Atithi Devo Bhavaaims at creating awareness about the effects oftourism and sensitizing people aboutpreservation of our rich heritage & culture,cleanliness and warm hospitality. The phraseAtithi Devo Bhava has come into a new avatar,thanks to Amir Khan and his series of tourismadvertisements. Awareness has been createdwithin our country about forgotten courtesiesthat were symbolic of this ancient land of ours.The initiative to encourage tourism through suchcampaign in the country was a relatively newtrend in the Indian sub continent, but widelypracticed in the West.

All over the world we Indians are known for ourhospitality. We were taught the golden verseAtithi Devo Bhava in our childhood itself. Theprimary aim of the campaign has always been

to encourage tourism in the country, which inturn would be a catalyst for Indias economicdevelopment. The Atithi Devo Bhava campaignshave always aimed at bringing out social illswhich affect the tourism business either directlyor indirectly. The national level initiative wasdesignated to address the pertinent issues atboth micro and macro levels and work towardsacceptable solutions to address them. The firstcampaign was released in 2004 about themisbehaviour of taxi drivers and the vandalismof monuments by the Indian residentsthemselves. The second year ad was based onmisleading tourist guides and in the third year,it was about garbage accumulation. Thecampaign, in its fourth year in 2008, focused onthe garbage issue, apart from graffiti. Thecampaign targets the general public as a whole,while focusing mainly on the stakeholders of thetourism industry. The main components of thecampaign are training and orientation to taxidrivers, guides, immigration officers, touristpolice and other personnel directly interactingwith the tourists, while simultaneously creatingbrand equity for the trained persons.The question in my mind as an author is, willGovernment be able to attain its objective? Havewe observed any change in situation? Do wewish to change the scenario for good?

Dr G Bhatnagar

Trust

Whom to trustEven iron rots by rust

At whom to burstAnd break the crust

Where resides half truthbehind the veil of mask

adorning the brutewhat is right? Whom should I ask?

Believe what we are either told or seeOr believe what are we made to listen

Or believe what are we enforced to seeBy chance , a very minute difference In a glance

Can not be embracedLosing the shimmer and grace

Of ones image we have

From long known to us by a bardNever ever trust

Even iron rots by rust

With whom to rambleWhy to squabble

It were you,who was wrongDeclared loudly ,a gong

By your senses be calm and quiescentTold me,crescent

Let go such thingsAbridge the path to truth

Trust lies there

Aarushi Jamwal

Beauty or brains. Whats more important?

K O on a Grecian Urn declaresthat beauty is truth and truth, beauty.Yet in the words of M.K. Gandhi truth isGod. So God is beauty. How can God beinferior to anything even brain?

We have so many examples to prove thatbeauty always has been more significant thanbrain. The battle of Troy wasfought over Helen, who isconsidered to be the mostbeautiful woman in history.

Phil Katz the creator of thefirst zip program, aftergetting rich drank himself todeath within 2 years. Why?He spent his life tellinghimself that being smartmattered more but once heachieved the tag of being smart, herealised how empty a victory it was becausehe was ugly.

For those who say that beauty fades with agebut I am sorry I beg to differ in so many ways.When you become older, you cant remembermost of the stuff. So intelligence fades as well.A beautiful woman can even tame a beast.Young beautiful girls have more careeropportunities and money than intelligent girls.

To even look like you have brains you need tohave beauty. Everyone has brains, but noteveryone has beauty. A lot of successful and Ishouldnt forget to mention smart andintelligent men marry beauty queens.

According to a survey 84% of the womenwould prefer to be beautiful than have brains.

Anything that is beautiful attractsus. Beautiful people are alwayswelcomed everywhere, findspouses faster and are liked byeveryone. Today good lookingpeople are actually moresuccessful than people with

brain. Our models and actorsearn more than engineers,

doctors and lawyers.

People who say that brain or to put itintelligence is more important, say it just sothat they dont come across as shallow. For mebeauty does appear to override intelligencebut before you decide ask yourself What isbeauty if the brain is empty?

Tenzin Kunsel

Introspect

I sit and introspectAll my deeds are not worth

All these thoughts lingering in my headNo inference no conclusion

All day long I introspectDays are passing by what all do I hold on to

I don t utter ,I just mutterI try to stand tall in all my thick n thin

I wake n make ,try not to shakeand then I break

All my wrong deeds lead me to insomniaand all night long I just dont sleep

I keep thinking and blinkingAnd all I do is just apologize to myself

for all my deeds right or wrongAll I need is peace n bliss.

Heena Chandel

The Cult of Apple

T A has transformed itselfalmost into a religion in the UnitedStates and other parts of the world.Apple clients worship the company and do notbuy anything from their competitors. Its clientsrepresent a loyalty hard to find in other sectorsof the market and they are willing to paywhatever is necessary to obtain the latestgadget. A few weeks ago, Apple became theworld's most valuable company in the world.It has more than 500 million customers whichis more than thepopulation of many countries.Apple has its symbol like otherreligious sects, which is simplyan apple. The Apple symbolis equivalent to a cross or themuslim crescent or the Hinduswastik .

In addition, Apple had its ownguru in the form of leader andfounder Steve Jobs. In the yearswhen he was away from thecompany, Apple lost its importance. The beliefwas fading. Since his return more than adecade ago, Apple has altered the way theworld listens to music, talks on the telephone,browses the web and with the iPad, the waysome read books, newspapers and magazines.It is easier for a tourist or even a citizen of NewYork to point out an Apple store than a church.Built with huge glass windows, iconic glassstaircases are always located in strategic pointsin the city. The oldest, considered the AppleCathedral on Fifth Avenue. It is huge, open,filled with light and incredibly empty. By empty

I dont mean lacking visitors, as people arealways playing around with the gadgets andcomputers on display. What I mean by emptyis that it was empty of anything that resemblesa store, i.e. shelves, products, boxes. Insteadthere are dozens of staff in blue t-shirts waitingto interact with customers and some tableswith Apples products waiting to be playedwith. But this is not the reason for which Apple

has so many followers, it is becausethey identify themselves with theproduct. They can relate to it.

The products are so simple touse that even kids can usethem with so much ease. Apple

is Complexity Simplified.UsingApple products is a lifestyle. These

people will use nothing otherthan Apple, it would beshameful. It would be the

same as if Harley Davidsonbikers were caught riding

something other than a Harley.Apple doesn't have customers but fans whoidentify themselves with the product. Thesefans come in shapes and sizes, but what unitesthem is their insistence that their differencefrom the mainstream-sleek but quirky,business like but iconoclastic. "Whoever said religion was dying never sawthe queues that snake around Apple storeswhen a new product arrives."Amen.

Jeevraj Singh Chadha

They are the children of street fiveFor every penny they fight

Fight with their fellow matesWho all are less than eight

Barefoot they trot in street fiveAnd sleep on ground during night

Torn rags they have to wearAnd live in slums which needs repair

The condition of their slums is unhealthyand a bit clumsy

It is marked by roofs falling downOn another side of hill is the posh town

In the scorching heat they go outTo fill their empty bowls

So that they don't have to see theirfather's frown

Since noon they haven't ateYet funny faces they make

People order them, harass them to goaway

For them it is the right waySo in the heaps of garbage they search

moneybut could not find a single penny

Their legs were trembling with fearBeatings,thrashings they have to bear

No one is for them to careTo raise their voice they don't even dare

Their agony is very deepHuman needs a heart to peep

And transform their parent's beliefsSo that their sorrows sweep

They are the children of street fiveThey all are my nation's pride

Children of Street Five

Saumya Sharma

A never ending tragedy

T? We all know is something sadand unwanted. As soon as we hear theword tragedy, it invokes a feeling ofsadness within us. It is loss of human lives,property, economy, ecosystem, etc. in amassive scale. But these disasters are occurringfrom ages and are perfectly natural. It is actuallythe shaping of our earth. A very well-knownenvironmentalist Rachael Carson once said thatwhen Mother Earth cannot tolerate the sins ofhuman beings any more, she sweeps the landby means of disasters. We cannot do anythingabout it. We cannot take control over tsunamis,earthquakes, landslides, etc. We have to face it.But there are certain tragedies which are notbeing paid proper attention to. It is notdisfiguring our earth but is defacing our society a single reason enough for it to be called thebiggest tragedy being faced by us. What is it?Something related to all reading this? Yes, it isstudent suicide a never ending needlesstoll!

Suicide is the most common cause of death inyoung adults. Every 40 seconds a life is lostthrough suicide Worldwide (as per WHO data).In india, 45% of the total suicides arecommitted by students. There is no current andconcrete data available on this issue. Students

live in a time of extreme stress in this moderntime full of insecurity, fear, failures, guiltconsciousness and pressure to perform incompetitive environment with highexpectations from parents and families.Students try to find a medium of escape inalienation and in a state of paranoia. In extremestate of stress they commit suicide to escapefailures and humiliations in life. Dr Catherine LeGals-Camus, WHO Assistant-Director General,said: "World-wide, more people die fromsuicide than from all homicides and warscombined. There is an urgent need for co-ordinated and intensified global action toprevent this needless toll. For every suicidedeath there are scores of family and friendswhose lives are devastated emotionally, sociallyand economically.Depression among the youth has increasedfrom 2% to 12% in the last five years which isvery alarming. Globally 3 out of every 5 visitsto the doctor are for stress related problems.66% CEO's in India are stressed out and 11%find it too much to handle says ASSOCHAM- asurvey.72% of students in India are unaware ofhow to deal with stress and it's ill-effects. 27.6%of IT professionals in India are addicted tonarcotic drugs says a NIMHANS study. In 2006,

5,857 students or 16 a day committedsuicide across India due to exam stress. Andthese are just the official figures, imagine whatthe exact figures would be! There must besomething wrong in a country where studentsare not dying because of diseases but becauseof suicides and the number is very disturbingand demands immediate attention and concretesolutions in terms of the way we perceive andpractice learning and education in India.Statistics show that India has the highest suiciderate in the world. Mumbai, Indias financialcapital, ranks number one in student suicides.So why does a student commit suicide? Whatmakes a student perform such acts? There canbe many reasons. Some of it includesdepression, feeling of helplessness,hopelessness, worthlessness, inappropriatelyhigh levels of stress and sometimes it is alcoholand drugs. Aasra is an NGO which deals withsuicide prevention. It fights to prevent suicide.Distressed teenagers account for 70 per cent ofthe phone calls to a helpline run by this NGO,says founder Johnson Thomas. So we canconclude that a student commits suicide mainlybecause of stress. From where does this stresscome? Is it the educational institutes? Oureducation system? Our societies? Or our veryown families? I would blame them all. Everyonefeels low, defeated, scared and purposeless fromtime to time. Those who can get past thesemoments make it in life. An endearing, almostcute trait of Indians is that we never lose hope.Parents keep on demanding good scoresneglecting the capacity of their child. Accordingto me, each and every child in this world is giftedwith some specific skill which can be utilized inhis field of interest. But there are very fewparents who understand this. Their first and onlydesire is to see their children as doctors orengineers. Why is it that a student in India lead

a life full of tension and stress? Why cant hefollow his own dreams? Why do our parentspressurize us to score high? Why thiscompetition? Why arent we allowed to lead ajoyous life? Why is it always books? Thesequestions are rolled down everywhere but neveranswered.Are parents alone to be blamed for this? The

answer is no.Our verypres t ig iouse d u c a t i o nsystem shouldalso beblamed. Howmuch has theprofessionalw o r l dchanged in

the last 30 years? How much has our curriculumchanged? Who sets our curriculum? Is it revisedfrom time to time keeping in mind the needs ofindustry and the services sector? I dont thinkso. Do we have enough schools and colleges toeducate the youth? The total population of USAis 314 million and that of India is 1.25 billion. Yetthe total number of universities in India isaround 600 and that in the US is more than1800! Isnt the student is to university ratioalarming? Our government invests in gold,petroleum, commonwealth games, etc. butcannot invest in a basic need education.When a student dies, everyone tells that hecouldnt handle the pressure. Everyone indirectlyblames the individual. But no one questionsthose who created that pressure! 70% of thesuicide notes point out educational institutesthe reason for their suicide. Yet the student isblamed!

Vedant Jain

A Dry Leaf

There is a treeI watch when free

All leaves green except oneIts still there I am stun

On him the Greens laughAt times tearing him to half

Oh! you dryWhy dont you fly

Go away so farWhy make ourhome feel shy

Without uttering sin-gle word

Dry one left whirred

Flowing with the gusty windRemembers the days when he was young

How he protected those twigsAnd now this time when he is blind

Now No one there who careLife can not be this unfair

Through the day and nightStruggling with the wind and air so tight

All this comes to his mindTime to stop the flight

Everyone is fake finding a lakeJumped in and end his race

Isha Negi

I am carvedI am crafted

I am worshippedYet I roll under the feet

I am witheredI am collected

I am worn to flauntYet I roll under the feet

I shineI make paths

And block them tooYet I lie under the feet

What should I say?Whom should I blame ?I am the one who turns

black in flame

I can harmI can turn stone to gold

I can sharpen sickleYet I roll under the feet

I am the source of lightThat ignites due to frictional fight

I become a toy for infants andyoungsters

I am a builder since time immemorialYet I roll under the feet

What should I say ?Whom should I blame?

I am the one who turns black in flame.

I am a stoneI have seen the ages gone

Everything has changedEveryone has changed

But I am the part of timeWhose character is never subjective to

changeI am the same

Aarushi Jamwal

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will When the road you are trudging seems all uphillWhen the funds are low, and debts are high; When care is pressing you down a bit,Rest if you must, but dont quit

Life is queer with its twists and turns,As everyone of us sometimes learn;

And many a failure turns about,When we might have won had he stuck it out;

Dont give up though the pace seems slow,You may succeed with another blow

Success is failure turned inside out,The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;

And you never can tell how close you are,It may be near when it seems so far;

So stick to the flight when youre hardest hit,Its when things seem worse, that you

Must ..NOT QUIT

Dr. Ajay Goyal

And the very next moment I was flying.

Y, I want to do it! I cant.Cmon yaar, learn from the girlbehind you. She is not at allscared. I saw her, thinking, why is she notscared to jump off the highest peak of thehill? Is she not scared of the rope breaking?What if she falls down and dies? My HEfriend bid me a bye, ran, jumped off andflew away. It was my turn now. And now allthe focus from HER shifted towards mewith the same questions in a huge number.I had paid for it was the only reason I wasstanding there getting ready for my turn.They made me wear a jacket with n numberof belts and the instructor tied himself tome and said yahan se wahan tak bhagnabus. And I was like what made you think itis a bus? I am going to risk my life and itis just a bus for you? Well, the 76 kg planeran on the runway and within seconds hewas in the air. Yes, I WAS IN THE AIR! Icouldnt believe I was. I was filled withextreme feelings that Oxford is still findingwords for. I dont know what all I had in mymind that very time. I was shouting so loud,feeling like a bird.

. But I didnt look down for once (for I hadalways seen in Tom & Jerry that while flying,the moment they looked down, they fell).Suddenly I realised what I had done, I mightnever get a chance to do it again and eventhat I am not a cartoon.So finally, I was in the air, flying, against thelaws of gravity, shouting, being fearless,thanking god for giving me such anopportunity, thanking that bold girl for silentlymotivating me and was thanking everyone asif I was asked to give a speech in an awardceremony. Those 10 minutes were the best Iever had in my life. Even though mistakenlywhen I landed, it was horses shit on which Istepped out of excitement but it didnt matterfor I was happy, happy as if I had returned afterwinning a battle, the battle against my fear.Always face your fears. They may become alifetime experience. For me, paragliding wasone.

Tushar Arora

T strange about Parasnow.Every year, winters grow colder and Rickyfeels even more uprooted and miserable. Yes,he is intelligent and can notice and feel deeply thealtering behavioural patterns. The game of bat-ball?

How is it that it no more fascinates Paras-wonders he. Paras no more feels like ridinghis cycle and Ricky misses the backseat ridelike crazy. He does not understand thegravity of the situation and everything is thenannoying for him.

No, it isnt the first time, neither the second.Its been a couple of years now .Ricky hasbeen taught the concept of growing up, buthe finds it hard to believe and practice it.

Like everytime, Ricky is there at Paras home. Paras father will be leaving to receive hisson from bus stand in a while and Ricky hasalready claimed the co-drivers seat andplayes the dash board and is in immenseexcitement.

Paras would be home in an hour. He isvisiting for the Diwali break. Its been fouryears since Paras left home for hisgraduation. He is in the final year of thecollege and is very focussed to prepare forbeing an enterant of an upcoming CivilService Examination. One can make out ofhis face, how life has moulded and taughthim over the time. He is 22, with a handsome

body and a beard on the face. He loveswearing it.While at home, he visits his school friends.There is hardly a day he would spend athome. If he would, he is mostly occupiedwith the preparation. Ricky is 20 now. He hasnever seen a conventional school. Once hedid go to one, but parents could not affordthe trouble. Ricky is a blessed child of god.He has been carrying polio since he was four.

All of the time until Paras school, wentsmooth for Ricky. He would wait for him toreturn and then would be around him all day.They would play together and Paras wouldgive a ride to him on his cycle, every evening.They would be together all day, thanks totheir adjacent homes. Paras meant the worldto Ricky. He has known none but Paras.

The bus halts at the station and Rickys eagereyes stare at the door of the bus. And thenthere is Paras. Jeans, converse and a jacketon. Along with him is his friend, an equallyable boy, charming and youthful.

Ricky knows the boy, he is Vaibhav and hedoes accompany Paras to his homesometimes. Ricky has nothing sour forVaibhav as such but it is something whichrestricts Paras to be himself or may be whathe was. On the way back, Paras greeted Rickyand went back all the way busy with Vaibhav.Ricky tries to converse with him, and failing

Wretched

each time was respond with single syllablemonologues.Next morning, Ricky with his helpless legand shivering arm made to Paras house,discovering him not to be there. Ricky betathey left early in the morning for a trek-taught Paras mother. Without uttering aword, Ricky struggled back home. Inbitterness of the coldness of the dearestfriend, Ricky held himself back the next day.On the night of Diwali, Ricky overjoyed withthe little and massive festivity, made anotherattempt to be with Paras and unfortunatelydiscovering him absent again.

Paras was never the same. Ricky does notunderstand how did distance and timechange Paras. He finds it hard to swallowand believe, despite of the constantteachings of the people. If this is howmaturity is, I never want to attain it.

On the day, Paras was supposed to leave,unlike everytime, Ricky went missing for afarewell. Paras asks his father about Rickyswhereabouts.Its too early and the boymust be asleep. Lets not bother him. Aftergreeting his parents, Paras and Vaibhav satin the car and the wheels rolled on.

Ricky saw the car disappearing from hisroom. He held himself back and he knewnot the reason.

Rishav Jamwal

Does living in poverty ridden atmosphere feelgood? Does pissing under price hikes feelcomfortable? Does lack of facility hamperyour potential? Instead of being capable doyou yield the max? The simple answer isaccept as we always have been or just change.Is thinking unlike others a change? Is beingdifferent a change?The desire to think beyond limits and thesteps to cross the heavenly horizons takingalong the implantation process, not onlythe dream is changed. It not only requiresthe courage of individual but also a neverending stimuli , an unrelenting desire towrite ones own destiny , an inspiration anda positive motivation . All we lack today arethese very characteristics. First, we all are notcourageous, not even enough to accept thevery fact. Secondly, we are by far individuals;rather are prototypes of certain roles spreadall over the country. Being manacled by aroutine life, with the habit of carrying outactivities of life mechanically. What besidescan be done to improve the situation?All of us dream but it seems that these arefar from our part of the world. Somehowwhatever is seen, link is perhaps a practicalendeavor. The distance perhaps can only beideally bridged in theory but it is thecontinuous struggle of individuals and theirunflinching belief that makes all the difference.The change cannot come until the process ofchange starts within the individuals of thesociety; the individuals only? That's animportant question. The answer is until one isbrave enough to change oneself , he/shecannot even dream of bringing change at a

macro level.Every great task requires a bold initiative. Evena thousand miles journey begins with the firststep. If we dare to have a glance around ourlives we see a lot can be changed for betterfrom within to the outside. The institutions of

the society are developed not only tostrengthen the machinery that governs butalso to improve the standard of living of themasses by facilitating their lives. For instance,the educational institutions can make a lot ofdifference. They prepare thousands of menand women who enter into variousprofessional fields every year. Theseinstitutions must encourage the students toseek knowledge and wisdom instead of blindlyfollowing old and rotten methods of teaching

A dream to change

and clich courses.Every year a million of choices are made. Hardly a fraction of them , who make these choices,

are really aware of what they are doing. Thereal test of a person lies in the circumstancesthat he/she find himself/herself into thosecircumstances. Everything in life can't alwaysgo similitude , otherwise success would havelost its meaning.Perhaps we should learn to dream first. Weshould dare to believe that we can makethem come true. A complete re-evaluationof values is imminent. Individual sensibilitymust be revitalized. The liberty toacknowledge must be guaranteed. Disclosethe unwanted conditional restrictions onones mind and let the bird of thoughts flapher wicked wings to make the change .If thejourney of thousand miles can be completedfrom beginning with a single step; why can'ta worldly desirable change be made just bymaking a small change in thinking.

Pramit Thakur

Hi! I am a girl.

G one of the things that define me, but why is my gender reminded to me day and night.My Grammar teacher tells me of the mysterious boys, Ram and Rahul, who do everything! They read, they walk, they play, they eat and they go to office too. But Priya, Pooja and Sita keep singing, dancing and cooking. Why doesnt Priya play? Or Pooja go to office? Or Rahul cook food? Even after keen calculation, I fail to understand the logic. But is it the logic of all Rams and Rahuls, or all Priyas, Poojas and Sitas, or is it the notion of all Grammar teachers?One thing I forgot to tell you.Hi! I am a girl.I work all night long. I am lazy. I spend my days studying or watching serials and movies. I do cook food. I can even easily identify different utensils which I dont like to clean. I dont like to serve food to guests when they come home. My career ranks way above my family and friends.Hey! Dont doubt me yet. I am certainly a girl.I travel via public bus .Conductor: Hey! You are a girl. Ask that man sitting on the ladies seat to get up. Me: No, thank you. I have enough

courage to stand. My defense goes in vain, as the man, either humiliated or frustrated, gives up the seat himself. I hear people talking of equal rights for women. They talk of women being as brave as men, as smart as men, and thus, as deserving as them. And I wonder, we fight for the rights we desire and refuse to accept the rights we acquire. If there is a right

to sit, why isnt there a right to stand? And if there is such a right, why is

it only for men?The girls and I, who discuss about the equality and empowerment of women, enjoy the new hit song, Baby doll main sone di and Bomb

lagdi mainu. These are just words of appreciation of

womanhood, arent these? Just peppy tunes. We can debate over objectification of women later. I go back home. My mother watch the

serial, in which ladies keep crying. One keeps thinking of ways to keep her

husband happy and the other is perpetually distressed with her mother-in-laws behavior. If modernization means a higher revelation of skin, lesser clothes and provocative songs, why arent men the subject of it? Does it mean women are more modern than men? Or that my gender will always spend its life either

Revered as pious goddessesand yet, abused in everysentence. For I have neverbeen able to grasp theobsession with incest abuseof both men and women.Incest abuse? Yes. What elsewill you call your languagethat is decorated with abusespertaining to mothers andsisters?I dont want any specialrights. I do not want anyreservations. Does aladies seat or a ladiescoach prevent rapes? I wantmy right to stand. Iwant my right to pickup anything heavy that I wantto. I dont want men to abuseme in every sentence. I wantto live the way I want to. Idlike to be the Priya, Pooja orSita who goes to office. I donot want to be constantlyreminded of my gender Ibelong to and be restrained tosocietal ways and governmentrights.

I am a girl. But there is somuch more to me than justmy gender.I am a girl.

Devyani Gupta

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Success StoriesEESHA KHARE

Clear, unimpeded communication is theobsession of the modern age. Our mostbrilliant minds work tirelessly to connectthe citizens of every nation, from everysocial strata. The ease of social media isnow seen as a birthrighteven by thosewho, just a decade ago, were reluctant tomake purchases online. And of course,our tablets and cell phones have becomeintuitive extensions of our bodies. Sincehuman beings have developed thisemotional bond with their technology, itmakes sense that a loss of battery lifeinspires an emotional response.

Eesha Khare (19) of Saratoga,Californiarunner-up at the 2013 IntelInternational Science and EngineeringFair (ISEF)had one such experiencewhen she found herself away from home,with a dead cell phone battery and noway to contact her parents. Unable tofind a power source, she had to trackdown (and subsequently learn how towork) a pay phone, which is not sosimple in this day and age. A loss ofmobile energy created a scary reality forEesha; connectivity is something she hadbeen taking for granted. Then and there,she decided to do something aboutmobile device power.

Meet the Young Inventor who made a revolutionarydevice that can charge a phone in a Minute.

Capacitor Developer

The beaut i ful and wel l-roundeddaughter of an engineer and a biologist,Eesha has been fascinated by science forher entire life. This mobile devicequandary was just the kind of challengeshed been seekingone that wouldallow her to stretch her brain, to fullyutilize the computation power of hertechnology, and to address an issue thatwould serve millions of people just likeher. Im a typical teenager, reliant onmobile technology, she says.

Perhaps typical is a bit modest.

Im a typical teenager, reliant on mobiletechnology.

Eesha is the developer of a supercapacitorenergy storage device, a carbon fiber withdifferent metal oxidesprimarily titaniumdioxide and polyanilinethat usesnanotechnology to maximize the devicessurface area. It charges mobile devices muchfaster than previous technology has allowed,and has the ability to charge for many morecycles. Her innovation could be harnessed tocharge more than cell phones and tablets;down the line, it could potentially energizecars. In the meantime: My goal is to have asupercapacitor charge a mobile device inless than a minute.She took her project"Design and Synthesisof Hydrogenated TiO2-Polyaniline Nanorodsfor Flexible High-PerformanceSupercapacitors"to the 2013 Intel ISEFand out of the 1,600 students competing shecame in second place, winning the IntelFoundation Young Scientist Award and$50,000. The most prominent techcompanies in the world have become veryintrigued by young Eeshanot to mentiontalk show host Conan OBrien, who had heron his show for a very entertaining back and

forth. (Shes a natural on camera, in additionto being intimidatingly smart.)Now a happy freshman at HarvardUniversity, Eesha uses her Intel-powereddevices to maintain constant access with herresearch. Technology makes data evaluationmuch faster, she says, noting that she usesher Intel powered tablet to gauge how herinnovation has contributed to the scienceworld. A naturally curious and well-roundedindividual, Eesha also uses her tablet topursue a spectrum of interests, inducingtraditional Indian dance. Through herpowerful devices she is also able to seek outnew science mentors and labs that can pushher discoveries forward.

So there we have Eesha Kharea typicalteenager in many ways; every now and thenextraordinary. We suppose the same can besaid for every individual who takes fulladvantage of powerful technology and daresto supercharge the natural curiosity that lieswithin.

Are we going to need security guards in Future? Knightscope is preparing to roll out human-size robot patrols.

As the sun set on a warm November afternoon, a quartet of five-foot-tall, 300-pound shiny white robots patrolled in front of Building 1 on Microsofts Silicon Valley campus. Looking like a crew of slick Daleks imbued with the grace of Fred Astaire, they whirred quietly across the concrete in different directions, stopping and turning in place so as to avoid running into trash cans, walls, and other obstacles.The robots managed to appear both cute and intimidating. This friendly-but-not-too-friendly presence is meant to serve them well in jobs like monitoring corporate and college campuses, shopping malls, and schools.Knightscope, a startup based in Mountain View, California, has been busy designing, building, and testing the robot, known as the K5, since 2013. Seven have been built so far, and the company plans to deploy four before the end of the year at an as-yet-unnamed technology company in the area. The robots are designed to detect anomalous behavior, such as someone walking through a building at night, and report back to a remote security center.This takes away the monotonous and sometimes dangerous work, and leaves the strategic work to law enforcement or private security, depending on the application, Knightscope cofounder and vice president of sales and marketing Stacy Stephens said as a K5 glided nearby.

ROBOT SECURITY GUARDS

In order to do the kind of work a human security guard would normally do, the K5 uses cameras, sen-sors, navigation equipment, and electric motorsall packed into its domeshaped body with a big rechargeable battery and a computer. There are four high-definition cameras (one on each side of the robot), a license-plate rec-ognition camera, four mi-crophones, and a weather sensor (which looks like a DVD-player slot) for mea-

suring barometric pressure, carbon dioxide levels, and temperature. The robots use Wi-Fi or a wireless data network to communicate with each other and with people who can remotely

monitor its cameras, micro-phones, and other sources of data.GPS and a laser ranging instrument help the robots find their way around their patrol area and avoid ob-stacles when on duty. When theyre taken to a new placesuch as the Microsoft campus where they were patrolling earlier this month before Knight-scope cofounder and CEO William Santana Li spoke at a tech eventa human with a wireless controller

shows the robot around to determine the area it will patrol and let it learn about its surroundings. You give it a base map and then it starts building from that, Stephens says.

Knightscope is one of a growing number of com-panies using robots to help with work traditionally done by humans.The trend is accelerating as robots are made ever smarter, more agile, and more adaptable to specific tasks. And while most robots do assembly-line work, Knight-scope is one of a few com-panies betting that they could take on other tasks.Knightscope may not out-right replace many security guards soonover a mil-

lion of them were em-ployed in the U.S. last year, according to an estimate from the U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the estimated hourly wage these guards

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Success StoriesGURBAKSH CHAHAL

AT THE AGE of 16, Gur-baksh dropped outof high school topursue his dream as an en-trepreneur and started hisfirst company, ClickAgents.It was one of the first adnetworks focused aroundperformance based advertis-ing. Eighteen months later,he sold it for $40 million toValueClick.

In January 2004, Gurbakshfounded his second compa-ny, BlueLithium, this timewith an insight into sophisti-cated new ways that data,optimization and analyticscould help Web advertiserswith behavioral targeting.BlueLithium was named oneof the top 100 private com-panies in America for threeyears in a row by AlwaysOn,and in 2006, it joined Google,Skype and Salesforce.comin being named Innovator of

the Year. In 2007, Yahoo ac-quired BlueLithium for $300million in cash.

From inception till April2014, Gurbaksh lead histhird online ad company, Ra-diumOne. RadiumOnelaunched it's ProgrammaticAdvertising Platform thatleverages real-time social in-teraction from across theOpen Web. It's patentedShareGraph technology al-so amplifies seeds and so-cial interaction signals tocontinually expand targetaudiences via 30 billion RTBad impressions they accessevery day.

On April 2010, Chahal wasawarded the Leaders InManagement Award and anHonorary Doctorate degreein Commercial Science fromPace University in 2010 inrecognition for his careerachievements as an entre-preneur. Much of that story

Chahal himself told in hisinternational best-sellingbook, "The Dream."

Gurbaksh's successes as anentrepreneur has also beennoted in The New YorkTimes, Entrepreneur maga-zine, Forbes and Business-Week. He has also beenprofiled on Oprah WinfreyShow, Bonnie Hunt and EX-TRA.

Inspired by the deadlyevents relating to the Wis-consin Sikh temple shoot-ing, Chahal founded theBeProud Foundation with $1million of his own money.The foundation is designedto create awareness cam-paigns to stop future hatecrimes.

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India is a country where on the streets,everyone seems to be in a hurry, but no one is ever on time.

Here people wear helmets to save their pockets, not life.

Being one in a million in India means that there are 1241 Indians just likeyou.

In Bangalore if you throw a stone, you hit a dog, or a software engineer.

If someone asks for a dirty cloth to clean something, you are in India.

In India, its okay to piss in public, but not kiss.

In India two things never leave you, your caste and your high schoolmarks.

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A country whose onions and tomatoes have more value than dollars.

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