Reflections 1

A Drishtikon Initiative

Interview

Dr Dhanya Pramod

Events & happenings

SCIT

Contributions

Poems

Quizzes

Book Review

Reverberating Your Thoughts

COVER STORY

BE

YOUR

OWN

BOSS

As Director -SCIT I am glad to write the first welcome note for “Reflections“.

Although at its heart SCIT is about academic and intellectual pursuits, the residential

campus takes all management students of SCIT to immerse in extracurricular activities

that happen outside the classroom. The stage plays and skits by Eklavya, discussions at

Drishtikon, lectures by corporate experts arranged by GL committees, events to

encourage entrepreneurship by ITELF, activities for the society by SSR, the gala event of

SCIT - Graffiti and many more cannot be ignored while defining life at SCIT.

When I take a stroll at the faculty lounge, I many a time see faculty members busy

working on journal papers, researching conference presentations, redrafting papers for

sharing it at Prowess and Quest and sometimes glued on to their desk top looking for

secondary data and statistics. SCIT is about the creation of new knowledge and the

interpretation and transfer of existing knowledge. The faculty members do it very well.

Although many of these are captured in the website, there is no single place where all this

information is available and this was pointed out by some SCITians, and hence

“Reflections” took its birth. “Reflections” is a magazine of SCIT completely managed by

SCITians. “Reflections” intends to update SCIT fraternity and its stake holders with the

latest happenings in SCIT. This monthly magazine would cover the events and news

across SCIT from the different clubs of SCIT along with the latest event and sporting

activities.

I wish “Reflections” a very long journey and sincerely hope that the readers would enjoy

reading it as much as the student team enjoyed writing, designing and producing it.

Dr R Raman

Director- SCIT

WELCOME NOTE

INSID

E Faculty Corner

1 Candid Interview Dr Dhanya Pramod

Cover Story

2 Be Your Own Boss Evonix Technologies

Events & Happenings

3 SSR Induction Session

13 Eklavya Induction Session

15 SnC Freshers, Independence Cup etc

18 Guest Lectures Banking Upon IT

19 Guest Lectures Ristsumeikan Internship

20 iTELF Induction

21 batch 2012-14 Rajesh Khanna Night

23 SCIT Foundation Day

25 SSD Ritsumeikan University , Japan

26 SIC ONAM

27 Prayatna Induction

30 Drishtikon Language of Finance

Students’ Space 32 Book Review,experiences , Poetries , &

Laurels etc

CONT ENTS

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FACULTY CORNER RENDEZVOUS

Abhay Patodi & Abhishek Dutta Interviewed Dr. Dhanya Pramod (Our Beloved Dhanya

Ma’am)

Abhay: Ma’am can you tell us about your experience at SCIT. How did you start and how you went on to become the Deputy Director?

Abhishek: What is one special thing you like about SCIT?

Ma’am: I was doing my PhD at Symbiosis during 2006-09.During that time, I

had interacted with the previous Director of SCIT, Shaila Kagal Ma’am. She

used to be there during my intermediate PhD presentations. So, I used to get

lots of inputs from her. When I thought of changing my job, first option of

SCIT came to me because of my interaction with Kagal Ma’am. With the kind

of motivation she had given, I thought SCIT would provide me a good

environment to work. My interview was taken by Anil Vaidya Sir, who was

the then Director of SCIT. By the time I joined, Anil Sir had left….Rajni Gupte

Ma’am was the officiating Director for a couple of months. After that,

Raman Sir joined; Pradnya Ma’am was the acting Deputy Director at that

time. She was doing her PhD then, and hence she had a lot of administrative

work to take care off. She wanted to get relieved of some of the

administrative work. As a result, she requested Sir to relieve her from the

post and hand over the responsibilities to some other person. In the

meanwhile, Pradnya Ma’am was on leave for a month and I was the acting

Deputy Director for that period. Finally after 4-5 months of joining SCIT, I

became the deputy director

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Abhishek: How do you maintain a balance between your personal and professional life?

Abhay: If not a professor, what would you like to have been?

Abhay: Any message you would like to give to the students of SCIT.

Ma’am: The main thing I would say is the culture. Also, I would say that the

students are very well behaved. Somehow, I find that discipline is one thing

that we need not impose on the students out here. Also, half of the students

come from professional background, so what I find is students out here have

better maturity level than those in similar institutions. It is easy to handle

them as their understanding level is high.

Ma’am: (laughs)… It’s a very good question. Definitely, I would have been

a researcher

Ma’am: Hmm….well the first thing that I should tell is that my parents were

also working. My mother used to come during weekends. I was brought up

by father and grandmother till I was 11 years. From the childhood only, I

developed the feeling that I should become independent when I grow up. I

also had to adjust a bit. What I feel is, whatever I missed during my

childhood, is what my children shouldn’t miss now. I’ve never been too

harsh to them, but at the same time ensuring that they maintain discipline. I

devote adequate time to them. So, I hardly take work home. Even there is

some extra work some extra work; I make sure that I finish it off here itself.

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Ma’am: Well, I would like to advise them on what to focus on, during their

career. Now, people are more focussed areas, where they can easily find

in a job, more than their interest area. They actually grab the areas where

opportunities are available. That is not the right attitude. It may happen

that a few years, students might not feel great while working in that area.

Abhay & Abhishek : Thank You Ma’am for your time , it was a privilege for us

Ma’am : you’re welcome (smiles).

In the recently held PhD Entrance Examination (PET) of SIU, our faculty

member, Prof Anuradha Goswami has cleared the entrance and also got

through into the course by clearing the succeeding presentation and viva voce.

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Cover Story Evonix Technologies

They say big companies start with humble beginnings. A lot of big companies like

Apple, Amazon and HP were all started in a garage. These companies were not backed

up by huge investments but by the sheer determination of its founders. Well, the ‘Head

Quarters’ of Evonix is the Proof of Concept (POC) Lab at SCIT, is far from being like

a garage in terms of comfort and ambience. In fact, the lab could easily qualify for one

of the most conducive spaces. It may look like a good start for a start-up then, but that

doesn’t make this entrepreneurial journey any less comforting. Evonix Technologies is

a company started by the entrepreneur trio of Mubaid Syed, Niladri Shekhar Roy and

Chandra Vardhan, students of MBA 2011-13 batch of SCIT.

BE YOUR OWN BOSS

COVER STORY SIDDHARTH IYER ANURAG VERMA PRATIK VIMAL

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In a short span of 4-5 months, Evonix Technologies has made huge progress as a

company, by providing consulting services & IT Solutions to about 8-10 big clients

and launching ColorSplash.in as an online customized T-shirt e-commerce business.

The Slow Beginning

The start was not as smooth as expected.

The first and the basic problem was the

capital money. No business can start

without any investment and the founders

had ZERO capital to start with.

ColorSplash needed investment. The

revenues from Evonix Technologies were

used to invest in ColorpSplash. Evonix

Technologies was formed in October 2011 with constant

motivation and support from DR. R. Raman, Director - SCIT. Before that both the

founders Mubaid and Niladri used to take up projects as freelancers.

When they met and worked together in the 1st year of MBA, they realized a common

passion and formed bonding among themselves. This resulted in converting their part

time hobby of web development into full-fledged business. After the huge success of

Why this Kolaveri di Video, shot for SCIT promotion the two came to know that there

is one more brain itching guy like them – Chandra Vardhan. Thus the team was formed

but with assignments and classes to attend, the growth of the company was very slow

and there was no road map to go ahead.

Packing the T-Shirts on their own 1

Evonix Technologies was formed in October 2011 with constant motivation and

support from DR. R. Raman, Director - SCIT. Before that both the founders

Mubaid and Niladri used to take up projects as freelancers

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The Eureka Moment

Every business is backed up by an idea. Even though you have a great idea but its

actual worth is known only when you start implementing it. “Designing is my passion,

so along with the IT solutions we should do something which has great market

opportunity and gives a chance to build my passion. Being involved in a lot of

activities of college, we observed that there were several clubs and events of colleges

and each wanted to establish their own identity. Each of these would come up with

their own customized T-Shirt to represent themselves.

Students contacted local vendors, quality differed every time and there was total

chaos” says Mubaid. “What others saw as a problem, we saw it as a business

opportunity which has a great scope for evolving as a online t-shirt selling brand” adds

Niladri. So the three zeroed in on the idea and named it “ColorSplash.in”

ColorSplash Logo

From L to R : Chandra Vardhan , Mubaid Syed , Niladri Roy

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The First Bold Step- Choosing the Path Less Travelled

Like everyone else, the trio also started preparing for Internship interviews for

companies coming to college and they had offers from reputed companies. But still the

zeal of doing something on their own tickled their brains. After a lot of brain-storming

and interacting with seniors, alumni etc they decided to utilize the internship period for

starting their venture. “It is better to try and fail rather than wonder for the rest of my

life what it would have been if I had tried it? And we did not want that and hence opted

out of the Internship process” quotes Mubaid.When the same thing was conveyed by

the Director, he was indeed very happy and extended all the support needed to

encourage these young entrepreneurs.

Arrival of the Sleepless Nights

Although they have learned the importance of a proper business plan and financial

planning, the trio had everything except the proper business plan. Instead of spending

time on making business models, delivery models and financial planning, they just

jumped right into the waters.

Looking at the creative and impressive work they had done earlier for college and as

freelancers, Dr. R. Raman shared few contacts. It was not difficult to convert them into

deals. The projects at Evonix Technologies range from Website Development, Mobile

Application Development, Creative Designs and Online Marketing. Mubaid and

Niladri were good in programming and designing so they started working on the

projects while Chandra started handling all the operations and communication area.

The 1st Major Breakthrough

The 1st big client was Thomson Press, an ‘India Today’ Group of company (One of the

top 5 largest printing press in Asia). They wanted an MIS Application for their Delhi

setup and Evonix Tech. agreed to provide Consulting Services to them. So, Team

Evonix went to Delhi and stayed there for 15 days to help Thomson Press in

Architectural Design, Database Development of entire application and provided

technical training to staff along with development support to their team. “It was a great

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experience as we got to train the employees who had an average experience of 12 years

in Industry” says Chandra.

The ‘Color Splash’ Journey

ColorSplash.in which started as a passion was a difficult business than Evonix. Unlike

Evonix Tech., ColorSplash required capital money and knowledge of textile industry.

“We didn’t even have money to open a Current Account for our business and had to

borrow money from a friend”, says Niladri. They started by hosting a few T-shirts

designs on the website. “We were not really sure about the orders so decided to just

create the website. After a few weeks of the website being created the orders started

coming in” adds Niladri.

The next hurdle for the trio was to set up a reliable supply chain in place. They had to

find a suitable T-shirt manufacturer who could offer them T-shirts at best prices. For

this they did intensive research, figured out the major textile hubs in India and even

went ahead to visit many places. Then Evonix Technologies collaborated with DTDC

courier services for taking care of shipping and tracking of t-shirts, meanwhile Mubaid

and Niladri integrated the payment gateway on the ColorSplash website. The website

was fully functional and ready to take orders.

But you can’t expect sales without any marketing. The young entrepreneurs applied

many marketing fundas they had learned in their academics. After thorough market

research and competitor analysis, they decided that the only way to topple competitors

like inkfruit.com and bewkoof.com is to employ the ‘best-price’ strategy, and with the

supply chain optimization they could reduce costs and price the creatively designed t-

shirts very competitively. The problem of almost no human resources in the company

was tackled by hiring interns from different colleges for 2-3 months period; this not

only reduced costs for Evonix, but actually turned out to be a great learning experience

for the interns. Amazing how the three who were seeking internships a few months

back actually ended up giving internships to other students from IITs, NITs, and BITS

Pilani and even from a University of France for marketing and sales purpose.

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Looking at the dedication and concept of his friends, Chintan Sanghvi of 2011-13

batch finished his internship in other company quickly and joined the trio to help them.

After his entry it became easier for the trio to manage the work.

They went to graduation and post-graduation colleges, sent out e-mailers and also

utilized the power of Social Media for creating awareness and ‘buzz’ about

ColorSplash. One such social media marketing campaign, the ‘Batman T-Shirt design’

contest, gained immense attention and generated huge traction for the website. The

contest was intentionally launched around the dates of release of the mega Batman

flick ‘TDKR’. It attracted entries from more than 10 countries and 70+ different

designs, and with close to 4000 likes on their Facebook page, ColorSplash was quickly

becoming a brand in itself.

The dream of 3 young men was slowly turning into reality; a sustaining business

model, with the likes of IIIT-H, Tender Leaves, NIT Rourkela and British Telecom as

their esteemed clientele. Not only this, ColorSplash t-shirts are now featured on

SnapDeal.com, Junglee.com (Amazon) and eBay.in and lots of other major players are

also in talks. But ColorSplash is not the only sustaining business under the widening

umbrella of Evonix Technologies. They have done many projects that consist of

Website Designing and Deployment, providing E-Commerce Solutions and developing

Mobile Applications. They have also done SEO and Online Marketing for many

reputed organizations like ThomsonPress, HitsYouLike.com, YogaGuru.com and our

very own SCIT. On being asked “How do you manage so many things with MBA

academics? “. Mubaid says, “Well, coding has always been a passion for me, and the

amazing feeling of getting to be my own boss, and tasting success by realizing a long-

time dream of having my own company keeps me motivated.”

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The Road Ahead

The terrific trio have ambitious future plans for Evonix Technologies. With many

creative ideas and innovative strategies, they plan to establish the brand ColorSplash as

a major t-shirt provider among the college student fraternity and e-commerce market.

They have growth plans on the other business lines of Evonix as well, such as, Website

Design and Deployment, IT consulting and Mobile Applications Development. “Well,

the entire batch is going in one direction and we three are pursuing the other;

sometimes it’s exciting and sometimes it’s scary, but we are determined and committed

to fulfil our dream” says Chandra. The Entrepreneurs of SCIT have now become a

source of inspiration for many of their batch-mates. The Entrepreneurs of SCIT have

now become a source of inspiration for many of their batch-mates. They have truly

inculcated the spirit of Entrepreneurship and have become a living example for the

famous quote of SCIT’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership Forum – “Take the journey

of life by choice and not by chance”.

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Events & Happenings SSR

B

Based on their motto, the students of

SCIT’s MBA-ITBM 2009-2011 batch

started Student Social Responsibility club (SSR) in

2009.

Every new batch that enters this prestigious institution

has carried on this onus with great concern and

objectivity to promote it, not only within the institute’s

boundaries but even to the outside world. Already SCIT SSR since its inception two

years back has been associated with a lot of NGO’s and corporate houses in its

initiatives.

This year the “Enlightening Baton” was passed on to 2011-13 batch who have already

chalked out plans as to how they will try to assist the society in a much more

sustainable way rather than just spreading the word of awareness, because, everyone

believes that “Actions speak louder than Words”. And what could have been a better

way to start the journey, other than carrying out a well-crafted “Induction Program” on

Aug 13th, 2012 for the newly inducted batch of 2012-2014, thus leaving an indelible

imprint on their minds regarding this great initiative’s noble cause.

To make the event more interactive, participants were asked to

prepare paper bags from the waste material available around, sketch

and enact a play on any social issues, chalk out a plan of events that

would be conducted on a day trip to any orphanage

Induction Session

LOKESH JAIN

NAVYA

NEERAJ RAI

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Events & Happenings SSR

The event was presided over by

honourable SCIT Director, Dr. R.

Raman, who in a pertinent way adorably

blended the genesis of the club along

with the mission, vision and motivation

behind the initiative. He also adroitly

explained how socially and

professionally beneficial it can prove to

everyone associated and the society on a whole. His words that described SSR were “ I

didn’t see any one working as hard as these members of SSR to make this program as

strong and socially bound, but not for the benefits of oneself, instead for the benefit of

the society”. The event was also addressed by Prof. SVK Bharathi and Prof. Sadhana

Ghalsasi who have always been supportive of the club and have always willingly

participated in many of the activities held by SSR.

PHOTOS : AYAN HORE

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Events and Happenings

EKLAVYA

Eklavya – The most happening group of SCIT is one of

the student driven clubs in SCIT. Inspired from the

Dedication and single minded devotion of “Eklavya” -

the master of archery from the Epic Mahabharata,

students of SCIT initiated ‘Team Eklavya -The

Mavericks of Theatre’ in making people aware of the

various issues like corporate, social, political,

environmental; in the form of street plays, mimes, road

shows, experimental theatre and also processions.

Eklavya also organizes peace processions to bring

awareness about topics like child labour, female

foeticide, patriotism, business ethics etc.

It was started in 2008 by ‘Aman Kumar’, ‘Rishikant

Gautam’ , ‘Avinash Iyer’ and ‘Manas Jayaram’ with an

intention of providing a platform to express themselves

LOKESH JAIN , VARUN MANKODI , ABHAY PATODI

Achievements by Eklavya

FIRST Prize in MIME - IIT

Mumbai 'Mood Indigo'

Competition

FIRST Prize in Street Play -

SIMC Annual Fest 'Fest-O-

Comm'

FIRST Prize in Zonal Round -

Channel [V] Fest, GOA - Street

Play

FIRST Prize in Stage Play -

FLAME College

SECOND Prize in Street Play -

FLAME College Annual Fest

Performed in FINAL 8 teams

for Street Play - IIM

Ahmadabad 'Chaos'

Competition

Performed in FINAL 10 teams

for Street Play - IIT Mumbai

'Mood Indigo' Competition

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EKLAVYA

and raise social issues they truly believe in. Since its inception, Eklavya has

become one of the most interesting and eager-to-join club for every coming

batch of SCIT MBA-ITBM. Eklavya endorses the fact that creativity cannot

be the bastion of a few individuals. More the number of people, more

suggestions, better plays. Hence the tag line- Open Source Nautanki...!!!!

Eklavya 4.0 – team of management students from 2011-13 batch showcased

their tremendous acting skills via magical MIME performance at SCIT

Foundation day followed by stupendous street play at the time of the

introduction of Eklavya 5.0. The talent of the group was there to be seen and

justifies the laurels that they have won over the last year.

Spurred by the performance of the senior batch, the 2012-14 batch were

eager to prove their metal. The response for the Eklavya 5.0 was

overwhelming. Each participant had to go through various rounds of

screening. There were 2-3 levels of screening activities where participants

were asked to perform on randomly given topics. The way some of the

participants performed was really appreciating. After two days of auditions,

the final list Eklavya 5.0 was announced.

Congratulations to all the selected members, main coordinators of Eklavya

4.0 Deeksha and Niladri and the entire Eklavya 4.0 for putting up such a

wonderful act.

Like Robert Frost said…“Woods are lovely, dark and deep; but I have promises to keep and

miles to go before I sleep”, Eklavya believes that the ultimate objective is the age old

showman’s mantra

“THE SHOW MUST GO ON...!”

The Brainstorming, the art, the feverish passion continues... Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost!!!

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SnC

ABHISHEK GUPTA TANUSHREE ABHAY PATODI

Informal Get-Together

@ Courtyard Marriott

It’s that time of the year again, when the campus vibrates

with positive energy, the new junior batch filled with

excitement and anticipation takes on the journey of MBA.

As the tradition goes, senior batch welcomes the juniors by

throwing a Informal Get-together and this time they did it in style.

SnC

Where the fun never stops

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SnC

CRICKET

INDEPENDENCE CUP

@ SIC Campus

The Informal Get-together was held on 18th Aug 2012, at Courtyard Marriott. What

added to the ardour and excitement was the condition for junior boys to ask senior girls

and junior girls to ask senior boys for company in the party. The evening began with a

cake cutting ceremony for juniors, then began the DJ which drew everyone to the

dance floor, followed by a sumptuous dinner and delicious deserts.

The most happening sports cup of SCIT ‘The

Independence Cup’ was held from 9th to 12th August

2012. Played in the flood-lit SIC ground the seniors v/s

juniors sporting event is a fight for supremacy in sports, the juniors gets a chance to

showcase their talents and have the seniors fight for their legacy.

Four junior and four senior teams were formed in

cricket and one senior and three junior teams were

formed in football. Cricket was played on knock out

basis whereas football was played on round robin basis.

After the division wise matches, Jnrs Div. D team and Snrs Div A team played an

absolute hum-dinger of a final which the seniors won, batting first. The Seniors Div. A

struggled to a meagre total of 42 in 10 overs. Juniors started off to a rollicking start

with openers Sourav Roy and Abhishek Maid setting up the chase by an opening stand

of 28. But an inspired spell of bowling by Urmil Khamar turned the match on its head,

in the end Jnrs needed 6 runs of 2 overs but another bit of brilliance by Sandipan Pal

who bowled a wicket-maiden penultimate over saved the day for seniors.

The titles of Mr Fresher went to Sourav Roy Chaudhary and Ms

Fresher to Prerna Bet

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SnC

ICEBREAKER EVENT

FOOTBALL

The Football Tournament held at SIC was on a round

robin basis with three teams from 2012-14 batch and

one team from 2011-13 batch. Team C (captained by

Subarna) dominated the whole tournament scoring a total of 18 goals in 4 matches.

Sourav Roy Choyudary emerged as the player of the tournament finishing with a tally

of 9 goals to his credit.

A novel and innovative initiative by the Senior SnC

committee turned out to be a totally fun filled evening

at the SIC ground. Held on 7th August 2012, The

Icebreaker was planned to break the ice between seniors

and juniors and developed a bonding. Despite intermittent rain, juniors came out in

numbers to the SIC ground to take part in the various activities contrived specifically

to increase interaction between juniors and seniors.

After the informal introductions and activities, seniors and juniors tripped the light

fantastic together at the popular foot tapping Hindi and Punjabi numbers played by the

DJ. The results of the Icebreaker evening were clearly evident on Facebook, where

many friend requests were sent and received.

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GUEST LECTURE

I

“IT in Banking” was the buzz

word as a very enthusiastic session

commenced in the SIU auditorium

on 12th August, 2012.

This affair was planned in a very

interesting manner, with the two guests enacting an on-stage

question- answer session among themselves.

Mr. Gerela played the role of the CEO while Mr. Eppaturi took up the role of the IT

consultant, debating and explaining the critical issues faced by organisations like

banks, exchanges and SMEs.

Throughout this discourse, the stress was on the 3S i.e. Stability, Scalability and

Security in addition to the technological upgrades and 24X7 availability, necessary in

the banking domain.

Lots of comparative analysis was put forward by

these esteemed speakers in their own style, making

the session both entertaining and informative at the

same time. It was clearly one among the many

enthralling sessions that we had at SCIT.

SPEAKERS

Mr Rajiv Gerela, VP, Deutsche Bank

Mr. Ravi Eppaturi, Chairman, Mumbai Chapter, Computer Society of India.

NIDHI JOSHI DEEPALI SARDANA ADHIRAJ DARE

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GUEST LECTURE

NIDHI JOSHI DEEPALI SARDANA ADHIRAJ DARE

A guest lecture on the topic “Internship Opportunities at

Ritsumeikan University” was held at the SIU auditorium on 22nd

of August 2012. Prof. Takada, Vice Dean of International Affairs at College of

Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

The discourse started with Prof. Tadaka briefing the audience with

Ritsumeikan University, and its well organized infrastructure. He

went on to inform the students, with the different courses being

offered by the university and the current researches being

conducted there.

The highlight of the session was a video on the research work

done in the university in which researchers were shown exploring

various new-age technological platforms, including

application development for devices such as the iPad and

the iPhone. The students from SCIT who had an

opportunity to complete their internship at the Ritsumeikan

University, shared their wonderful experience with the

audience as well. Through this session, the students at

SCIT, especially the juniors, got a fair understanding of the

research being conducted there and the life at the campus of

Ritsumeikan.

It is to be noted that the Ritsumeikan University offers internship to students from

SCIT every year. And judging by the enthusiasm of the students this year too, the

internship being offered by Ritsumeikan will have many looking forward to it with

high hopes.

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iTELF

iTELF-The Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Leadership Forum-

endorses the mission to inculcate the entrepreneurial spirit among SCIT students and

educate them about entrepreneurship as a career opportunity. ITELF, along with

National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), supports and nurtures the entrepreneurial

spirit. The team started this year’s proceedings with the introduction of the committee

to the juniors with an awesome video. Innovations have always been the trademark of

iTELF, as was seen the last year too. The team has got a resounding response from the

junior batch, as 45 candidatures nominated themselves for 8 core team positions and 10

volunteer positions.

The entrepreneurship cell is also all set to present the yearly flagship entrepreneurial

event – SproutIT for the academic year 2012-13 on 8th of September 2012. Being the

first event of this academic year, it has been a busy start of the year for iTELF team.

But with hopes held high, iTELF, under the mentorship of Prof. Apoorva Kulkarni, is

all geared up towards making the event a success.

The theme of the event this year is “En-route- A journey by Choice not by Chance”.

Panel discussion being the main event, it is expected to enrich the audiences with

valuable insights from Industry experts and SMEs. Other notable events under the

SproutIT umbrella are Ek Din ka CEO, Future Eye, KnockDown, Megamind, Paisa

Vasool, on your feet and the TurnCoat Debate.

ABHAY PATODI PRATIK BEEDKAR ADHIRAJ DARE

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RAJESH KHANNA

NIGHT

27

27th July 2012: It was a regular day at SCIT. Assignments, classes, lectures, gym, cricket, football, music and everything else were happening as usual. 18th July, Wednesday – middle of the week late in the afternoon when Bollywood’s first Superstar, Rajesh Khanna passed away. For those, who knew the charisma of this actor

Mayur Pawar SCIT 2012-14

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RAJESH KHANNA

NIGHT were terribly shocked and grieved. That’s when a bunch of us decided that this magnum opus star needs a special tribute! The gathering was held at the open air auditorium just outside the dining hall. Prior to

this, a lot of arrangement was made – starting with the selection of the best songs of

Kaka, as he was called affectionately, to creating a Facebook event and inviting

everyone. Among the ones who were to perform, it was a motley crew of singers, a

percussionist, a guitarist and a few enthusiasts who had the songs on the tip of their

tongues.

Finally the evening began! Though it was the month of July, the rain gods showed

mercy and the weather was fantastic. We kicked off the event with peppy songs like

Zindagi ek safar hain suhaana, Jai Jai Shivshankar, Gulaabi aankhen and the

evergreen Mere sapno ki rani had the crowd going crazy on their feet. Even folks who

were unaware of the magic of Rajesh Khanna were jubilant and dancing in the open

air! The percussionist with his fingers rollicking on the tabla was in perfect sync with

the zany guitarist. Slowly we drifted the mood towards more romantic songs – songs

like O mere dil ke chain, Hume tumse pyaar kitna elevated the mood of the crowd to a

higher level. Since it was an open air event, folks from other colleges such as SIIB and

SCMHRD also started pooling in. The area around the dining hall and the sitting area

around was jam packed by the time, SCITians started off with some poignant and heart

wrenching songs. Kuch toh log kahenge and Zindagi ke safar mein made the crowd sit

back and ponder over things of the mind.

The event was nearing its end.. And the song had to be Zindagi kaisi hain paheli from Anand, one of the finest movies ever made in Indian cinema. This got the whole crowd swinging in unison, everyone remembering what a great actor they are going to miss!

Some folks became so emotional that they started crying. But then, Kaka hates tears!

Babumoshai, hum toh rangmanch ki kathputliyan hain jiski dor uss upar

wale ke haathon main hai. Kab, kaun, kaise uthega ye koi nahin janta..

Lines from the film –‘ANAND’

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SCIT FOUNDATION DAY

NEERAJ KUMAR RAI

Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT) made its educational stage

debut on the auspicious day of 3rd August 1999, with the notion to become a “Premier

IT Business School Nurturing Genuine IT Talent”. Every year, we celebrate this day

with lots of zeal & ardour, thereby, reinstating our faith in the institute’s foundation

inspiration. This year was no different, with loads of social & cultural performances,

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SCIT FOUNDATION DAY

OPENING SPEECH

SKIT

DANCE PRESENTATIONS

SONG PERFORMANCES

meticulously planned and well organized by the college management, staff and

students.

The institute’s esteemed director, Dr. R. Raman, presided over the function. Let’s have

a brief look at the assortment of commotions conducted during the function –

Director Sir initiated event’s proceedings in quite

innovative manner. Rather than delivering a

routine oration, he organized a SCIT’s history

based quiz and delivered prizes to those who answered correctly. Its main agenda was

to impart lesser known facts about the college to the gathered student community.

The informative quiz session was followed by

some classic stage performances, both, by the core

MBA course seniors & juniors. Especially, the

MIME act performed by senior Eklavya (SCIT’s Dramatics Committee) members on

“Addiction – The Silent Killer” was an absolutely mesmerizing performance.

The spice of the event was some engrossing

singing done by native budding vocalists, who

completely enthralled the present audience. The

SCIT’s indigenous musical band “Mantra” stole the show with their riveting audio

performance coordinated with some awesome instrumental melodies.

The surprise package of the event was a classical

Kathak dance appearance, given by institute’s

faculty Mrs Rashmi Sondriyal Gairola. After

watching this show, anyone would have easily believed the saying that “Once a

Dancer, Always a Dancer”. It was a scintillating act, coupled with some dazzling

expressions and astounding movements.

All in all, every feat was garnered with heavy praises by the spectators, who

thoroughly enjoyed the evening. After watching such ceremonies, anyone can say that

every experience in SCIT is a “Lifetime Experience”.

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Events & Happenings SSD

S

Symbiosis International University (SIU) is always known for its collaborations with

various prestigious international universities with a mission of building and

maintaining relationship between different people across the globe, for accomplishing

its adage of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - the whole world is one single family.

Symbiosis Centre for information technology (SCIT), a constituent of SIU is

continuing the legacy by launching one month program in Software Solution Design

for students from Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. Under this program 16

students are participating to enhance their learning in the field of Software Solution

PRATIK BEEDKAR

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Design. The program was inaugurated on 21th Aug 2012 and Prof. Hideyuki Takada,

ViceDean, College for Information Science and Engineering, RITS University, was the

chief guest and the inaugural speaker along with Ms. Kshipra Potdar and Mr. Kenichi

Yoshida MD from Cubist Edunet Pvt Ltd. Cubist Edunet along with SCIT is jointly

hosting this program.

The students are given extensive learning on various technicalities of Software

Solution Design. The program is not only focused on grooming students on academic

fronts but also to enable cross cultural exchange by making them feel and enjoy Indian

culture and learning arts like ‘Origami’ from Japanese. They are also involved in

various extra-curricular activities like sports, dance, and out-bound tours. To make

their stay enriching at SCIT, college has started a unique “buddy system” program. The

main purpose of buddy system is to assist them in various day to day activities

including studies, communication and help them to gel seamlessly with Indian culture.

More than 20 students had shown voluntary participation to work as buddies for these

students.

This SSD program is mentored by is Prof. Sadhana Ghalsasi, Assistant Professor –

SCIT. She has always been a motivational force and key person behind the success of

this program. Ensuring that the participants have an enjoyable academic experience

mixed with a lot of fun filled extracurricular activities during this one month, SCIT is

continuing its endeavor towards a premier IT B-school.

The program is not only focused on grooming students on academic

fronts but also to enable cross cultural exchange by making them feel

and enjoy Indian culture

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ONAM

Onam @ SIC

Onam is the first cultural event in the academic year conducted jointly by all the three

colleges SCIT, SCMHRD, and SIIB. It is a full day event starting at 7 in the morning

going all the way up to 12 in the night. Onam is celebrated with great joy and

enthusiasm in SCIT.

The flower carpet is arranged to welcome King Mahabali to everyone’s houses in

Kerala. Here in SIC we conduct it as a competition event among the three colleges.

The designs are first drawn on the previous night and early morning the flowers are

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ONAM

prepared for decoration. The competition gets over by 10.00 am and judges

representing from three colleges come and judge the designs.

The highlight of the day is the Onam Sadhya (lunch). A sadhya is

traditional lunch prepared mainly from coconut and vegetables.

The elaborate meal consists of 11 to 13 strictly vegetarian dishes

and is served on banana leaves. There is a fixed order of serving

the meal and a set place to serve the various dishes on the leaf. A

lot of preparation and hard work goes in making of the

scrumptious Onasadya.

All the malayalis from three campuses jointly serve the Students,

faculty and staff of the three colleges. From 12.30 to 3 in the

afternoon the proceedings of lunch goes on. Every year we have

special guests coming to enjoy this feast. This year we had 16

Japanese students who are doing their short term courses in the

campus. Also a special guest for the lunch was Dr Vidya

Yeravdekar who blessed us with her esteemed presence.

Main Co-ordinators from SCIT:

George Mathew , Reshmi Menon

Volunteers:

Aparna Nandakumar, Evin Abraham, Vasudha Jagannathan, Rohit Krishnan and Suraj Sugunan

A Special Thanks to:-

Sandeep, Rohit, Gopikrishnan, Sara, Prerna, Stuti, Rose, Richa, Sabita, Sayali, Roshni and Prerit.

EVENTS:

Pookalam (Floral

Carpet Designing)

Onam Sadhya

(Special traditional

Kerala Lunch)

Cultural Events

(Traditional Dance

forms and songs)

Movie Screening

(Malayalam movie in

auditorium)

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Events & Happenings PRAYATNA

P

Prayatna-An Initiative for Social Change, is a registered

non-profit Non-Government Organization run by students

from three colleges: Symbiosis Institute of International

Business (SIIB), Symbiosis Centre for Information

Technology (SCIT) and Symbiosis Centre for

Management and Human Resource Development

(SCMHRD) at the Symbiosis Infotech Campus (SIC), Hinjewadi, Pune.

Its aim is : “To help in the education of children from poor sections of the society; To

give them guidance and inculcate moral values in them and assist them in their overall

personality development."

Continuing the legacy, there was an induction session on August 8 th for 2012-14 batch

students which had the objective of making them aware about Prayatna, sharing the

experiences and inviting them to join this noble cause.

The event started with the Main Co-ordinator from SCIT, Mamta Kumawat asking

questions related to relevance of education to under-privileged kids. Followed by that,

a formal presentation and a soul-stirring video was also shown to the audience. Lastly,

the existing team members of Prayatna shared their experiences, answered some

questions and motivated the upcoming batch to be a part of this NGO. After a couple

of round of interviews later, a dedicated team of 30 volunteers were selected and they

are now a part of Prayatna .

Mamta Kumawat

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Events & happenings

From a macro perspective, Finance is merely the practical application of

economics. The Financial System is the means by which an economy

allocates money to its highest valued use.

In this month DKON team with Mr.Avichal Sinha presented a Session on

"Language of Finance”. This session was aimed at covering fundamental

concepts of finance and its terminologies. This is kind of must for every

MBA Grad to be well aware of.

As students we may consider finance management as something distant from

personal life. But having a little closer look, we can realize the fact that it will

give us insights about which industries are growing at what pace, where we

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can expect higher recruitments and growth and which industries recession

would hit first.

Taxes can take 40% of what we would earn. Making the right investments

can cut this tax burden. This is yet another reason to study basic terminology

of finance that can enable us to explore our further knowledge about shares,

equities, debentures etc.

Let’s participate in DKON’s interactive knowledge sharing sessions.

Visit us on http://www.scit.edu/drishtikon/index.html

Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/drishtikon/

http://www.scit.edu/drishtikon/index.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/drishtikon/

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AUG-2012 Students’ Space BOOK REVIEW

I

In the final year of your MBA , you always crave to do best with your current life (as

being an MBA student) because you know tomorrow when you step into the corporate

world ,full of hassles and complication, you will not have that time which you cherish

now. I made a note of this thought in my mind and came out with the things to do list,

and in that list was a task to read top management books in the span of this one year. In

the bookstore I was intrigued by this out of the box title “JUGAAD-INNOVATION”.

The book is written by Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu & Simone Ahuja, all three authors belonging to different fields of expertise.

The book is written by Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu & Simone Ahuja, all three authors

belonging to different fields of expertise. They combined their thoughts about frugal

and flexible approach to innovation for the 21st century in this book. The authors look

into the strategic aspects of innovation and explained their stand with current

corporates like 3M , TATA , GM , SIELCO , PHILIPS , ICICI , TCS , INFOSYS ,

COLGATE , P&G and others.

A very prominent aspect of this book was that the authors where able to identify

different stages of Innovation.

SURAJ SUGUNAN

MBA 2011-13

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AUG-2012 Students’ Space BOOK REVIEW

It is a very interesting read for an MBA student. Although I tend to differ on some

points with the authors , they had a secluded mindset about the traditional process and

their standardization procedure specially SIX SIGMA, to their view point they often

blamed that SIX SIGMA process don’t promote Innovation and they had exemplary

examples of companies like 3M & Google. But in contrast six sigma focuses on

process optimization with effective results.

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Students’ Space

एक मासूम दिल ह ै

SKETCHES BY MUBAID SYED

MANSI PUROHIT

MBA ITBM 2011-13

एक नमी छाई है आखँोंमें

सूरत हस्ती है वहा ँतेरी

महफिले सजाए बैठता है फिल

बाते करती है वहा ँयािे तेरी

वक्त कभी खींचता रहा है

और हम य ुंही चले जा रहे है

बाकी फिल इबाित में वहीं खडा है

जहा ँहुई थी इनायत तेरी

एक मासूम फिल है

और क छ है खामोफिया ँ

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Students’ Space

Be it the pay day Wedding day or birthday Each Day is Beautiful Each day has its own aim Play it and be the winner of game Go beyond the Happiness and sadness Life is not just about these two Each day has to teach a lesson too Either we are ignored or wooed Finding out ways to make it special Giving names to days to make the memorable Friendship day, Valentine day Mother’s day, Father’s day Its way to remember the days Because each day is Beautiful As God created them to make our Lives meaningful. So live with the Spirit And learn with zeal Play with action Fight with courage Love with Feelings Each day is beautiful Get its meaning.

Sometimes I wonder! How beautiful a day can be? As I thought it can be only good or bad. Depending on whether we are happy or sad. Now I know It is better to be beautiful than to be good! And what about Bad one. But its true there is none. As no day is is good or bad. Each day is beautiful Sometimes the reason is earnings Sometimes the reason is learnings Beautiful is the day When sun shines for the first time in the morning When it sets in the evening When a girl turns to be mother When a sportsman turns out to be a winner Each day is Beautiful Even when we have fights And expect the other should make a move To make the things go right

HITESH BHASKAR

MBA ITBM 2011-13

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AUG-2012 STUDENTS’ SPACE EXPERIENCES

27 Aug 2012. What more one can expect in a single day. A usual hectic day

in SCIT turns out to be a most adorable one. A Session on Japanese art

Origami by Japanese Students and a pleasant meet with “Prayatna” Team

and Prayatna’s Kids.

Jo Imamoto with many students from RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY (JAPAN)

conducted Origami Session. They come every year as a part of student

exchange program in SCIT. Origami is an art of folding paper into decorative

shapes & figures. They taught us how to make Paper Airplanes, Swans, Warriors

Helmet, etc.

Prayatna is a Non-Profit NGO of SCIT, SIIB & SCMHRD formed by former SIIB

students. Prayatna’s aim is to help in the education of children from poor

sections of the society & to give them guidance and inculcate moral values in

them.

&

HARSHAL PATHRABE

MBA 2012-14

MBA ITBM 2012-14

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Regular sessions are being conducted every day between 7 pm to 9 pm by

volunteers to instil knowledge in little kids.

Innocent children of age 5-10 years also learned Origami. Japanese students

hardly know English but humanity & friendship need no language. It was really

a heart touching moment to see sparkling faces of Amar, Mayuresh, Roshni

and many more kids. Kid named Amar surprised Japanese students by making

Paper Frog.

JAPANESE & SCIT students with so many kids, it was looking like a Carnival. No

one was there for winning or losing anything, it was a self-less, fun-filled

moment that brought out child hidden in everyone.

“Important thing in photography is to have a spirit of learning and

sharing”

When I came to SCIT, I just had a camera “FUJIFILM S1000FD” which is really

good but I was not aware of that. I didn’t even know how to manipulate the

setting as required by the scenario. But after we had our SCIT Photography

Club Meet on 30th Sept. 2012, many things are pretty much clear now. The

Origami is an art of folding paper into decorative shapes &

figures. They taught us how to make Paper Airplanes, Swans,

Warriors Helmet, etc.

NAVEEN TITARE

MBA 2012-14

MBA ITBM 2012-14

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session started with Clarification of the “Megapixel Myth” that people have

while buying a new camera, and the technical difference between Compact

Camera and DSLR, which was taken by Ayan Hore. It was really very

informative & value addition for everyone present.

Next in the session was “Basic Photography Concepts: Aperture, Shutter

Speed, ISO” explained by Devesh Singh & Ayan Hore which was really good,

since before that I just knew these terms but didn’t know what they actually

do in photography and their effects.

The session started with clarification of the “Megapixel Myth” that people

have while buying a new camera, and the technical difference between

Compact Camera and DSLR, which was taken by Ayan Hore.

PHOTOS: AYAN PHOTOGRAPHY

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After that Q&A session

helped us in clarifying our

queries on the new

concepts learnt, followed

by the “Photo Viewing”

session in which we came

to know about the

talented people in 2012-

2014 Batch as well as from

2011-2013 Batch. The

photograph which I really

loved was - “Emotions of

Cats” by “Smruti Borkar”

from 2012-2014 Batch.

Finally, I’d like to thank

Ayan Hore, Devesh Singh

& Akash Boaz for

organizing the session & we are eagerly waiting for the next session to happen.

Till then trying to implement lessons learnt from this session to capture some

good photographs.

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BRAIN TEASERS QUIZ

(HINT – He has superpowers)

Q1.

Identify

the

Celebrity?

This POP star defies age

This Man redefined action ,

bodybuilding

and became a governor

A patriotic freedom fighter,

An excellent tailor,

A veteran actor,

An eminent activist

And the list goes on.

a

c

Q 2.

FIND THE ODD

ONE OUT

ANIRUDHA INGLE

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BRAIN TEASERS QUIZ

Q3. Which product started by MIRC Electronics got its

name from the anagram of the location of the company

which is in a town near Delhi?

Q4. "Where do you want to go today" is the corporate

slogan of which company?

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Students’ Space Achievements

QUIZ

–

2nd QUIZ_INE,

SIIB Leadership Series

NIKHIL MOTLAG (2011-13) SANDEEP G (2012-14)

QUIZ_INE,


3rd MADHURA HIRMUKHE (2011-13)

ANIRUDHA INGLE (2011-13)

Eccentricity,


1st RUCHI NANDITA

SHERRY SHRUTI GARG

(2012-14)

SUMMERS 2012

1st NIKHIL MOTLAG

(2011-13)

SUMMERS PROJECT

PRESENTATION

ONLINE VIDEO

QUIZ

REFLECTIONS

TEAM

ABHAY PATODI

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

ABHISHEK DUTTA

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

ABHISHEK GUPTA

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

AVICHAL SINHA

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

DEVESH MATHUR

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

HAMMAD MALIK

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

ABHIMANYU SINGH

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

TARUN JOSHI

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

ANKITA KULKARNI

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

PRIYAM SHAH

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

MAYUR PAWAR

MBA-ITBM 2012-14

TANUSHREE KARKHANIS

MBA-ITBM 2012-14

ANURAG GOYAL

MBA-ITBM 2012-14

DESIGN & PUBLISHING

TEAM

LOKESH JAIN

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

NAVYA

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

ADHIRAJ DARE

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

ANURAG VERMA

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

PRATIK VIMAL

MBA-ITBM 2012-14

SIDDHARTH IYER

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

CONTENT EDITORS

AKASHDEEP

MBA 2011-13

NIDHI JOSHI

MBA-ITBM 2011-13

CORRESPONDENTS

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G

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PRATIK BEEDKAR

MBA-ITBM 2012-14

DEEPALI SARDANA

MBA-ITBM 2012-14

NEERAJ RAI

MBA-ITBM 2012-14

VARUN MANKODI

MBA-ITBM 2012-14

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