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A P J ABDUL KALAM: A JOURNEY FROM “WHAT IS POSSIBLE?”

TO “IT IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE!”

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From the editors Dear Reader,

We would like to present this monthly, a winning inspiration for life in its full bloom to contribute

for the bright future of the offspring in India. We all know that things are changing on a very fast

pace, what may be the size or kind of it, but, ‘are we imparting quality?’ should be the question of

the day and every day. To become successful in an increasingly competitive world, one needs to be

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planning, a righteous attitude coupled with precise implementation. What it needs are; reliable

information, resourceful thinking, positive mending among better levels of concentration. We will

keep the track of it only to live up to such educational expectations when you stay focused on your

goal. Just to remind the modern youth of the profound words of Swami Vivekananda: ”Take up

one idea, make that one idea your life; think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain,

muscles, nerves, every part of a body, be full of that idea, and just leave every idea alone. This is

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There are people who live the idea that constant learning is the best way to grow. One such person

is A P J Abdul Kalam, the former president of INDIA. Through hard work, perseverance, and armed

with great aptitude to learn, Dr. Kalam has, risen from newspaper boy to the President.

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Voiilence

Essays & Articles

4 Violence against women in India

It’s an Indoor war in India

7 Campus Profile

Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)

9 Personality to emulate

A P J Abdul Kalam: WHAT IS POSSIBLE? TO IT IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE!

17 Insights from CHINA

22 Life line in Business

Career in Civil engineering

27 RUN MILKHA RUN

Bhag milka bhag: A Running Inspiration To Youth

34 SWAMI AND FRIENDS

FOR LIFE TIME INSPIRATION

CONTENTS

REGULAR FEATURES

13 Current Issues & Events

16 Who’s who: Chief Ministers

of different states?

19 Improve your GK

25 Math modus operandi

29 Quiz: inventions and discoveries

32 Lateral thinking

36 Crosswords

40 Inspiration

41 Fun Corner

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INDOOR WAR IN INDIA ESSAY ON IMPORTANT ISSUES

Violence against women in India

…. a war of necessity

Synopsis

1. Indian Society is male –dominated: Even so many years after Independence, women in the Indian society do not enjoy the same rights as men.

2. Forms taken by violence against women: a)Maltreatment of married women on account of inadequate dowry , which forces many of them to commit suicide ; b)physical outrage particularly on women wearing ornaments; c)sexual assault that may later blackmail a woman into prostitution; d) Molestation and rape of women during riots.

3. How to check this violence: a) Social workers can play a significant role. b) There should be some restraint on film industry that demonstrates violence c) Hoardings exploiting the female form should be banned. d) Women should organise themselves and fight for their rights.

India shed the shackles of slavery long ago; still

women in our country continue to be helpless victims

of male supremacy. In almost every field of our social

life, they are treated as inferior beings. We may shout

about constitutional equality between men and

women, but the bitter reality is that we shall have to

go a long way before women will find an equal safe

and honourable place in our society. Ours is

undoubtedly a male dominated society founded on

the subjugation of women. Women too feel it safer

and more comfortable to submit to the system

meekly and accept a subordinate role. A few souls no

doubt, do now and then stand up to fight against this

injustice, but their isolated effort proves to be too in

effective to shatter the strong hold of male

dominance

One of the most hideous aspects of our

society is the dowry system. It is a

complex phenomenon and there are

several dimensions to it. This system

reduces a young girl to a saleable

commodity and lowers her dignity. In

case she brings an inadequate dowry, it

exposes her to the risk of maltreatment

after marriage. The pity is that it is not

just the illiterate and uncultured brutes

that beat their wives for bringing an

inadequate dowry and demand

expensive and unaffordable gifts from

their in-laws.


There is no death of doctors, engineers, or civil

servants who, even after selling themselves to the

highest bidder in the matrimonial market, maltreat

their wives. Thousands of girls immolate

themselves at the altar of this evil every year, some

of them before marriage because of their parents

cannot afford a fat dowry and some after marriage

because the dowry is insufficient to quench the

avaricious of the in-laws. It is said that in spite of

the various anti dowry measures, our government

has not been able to control this malady.

No less an evil is the physical outrage on

women. We persist in our wretched belief that

women are weak, helpless creatures, who need

constant watching by their fathers, brothers,

husbands and sons at different stages of their life. It

reads today like a fairy tale that in the reign of

certain king, a woman laden with ornaments could

move freely without any fear. How often does one

hear of ladies living in busy localities murdered

even in broad, daylight all because they had some

yellow metal on them? The race of chain snatchers

is increasing. In temples, at fairs and festivals, in

crowd public places, and in the buses, these lynx –

eyed brutes abound and carry on their depredation

even where policemen are on duty.

Greed is not the only motivating force behind the

crimes against women. Sex hunger is another.

Young girls are decoyed on promises of decent job

or marriage. And once a girl has fallen, she is

blackmailed into a life of vice. This is the story of

most of the women in the red-light areas of various

cities. The tragedy is that it is often the close

relatives of woman – an uncle, an aunt, a family

family friend, whom the woman looks

upon as her guardian and protector-that

led her into the flesh trade.

The molestation and rape of women

during riots is a very sad commentary on

human civilization. Whenever riots break

out in any part of the world, women are

raped as means of asserting the victory of

one community over another. Rajput

women used to immolate themselves lest

they should fall in the hands of Muslim

invaders. Innumerable women fell a prey

to the brutal instincts of the male species

during the communal riots in pre

independence India. In many families

daughters were killed as soon as they

were born because their honour was

always in danger. The two social evils of

the purdah and early marriage, which

primarily account for backwardness of

Indian women, were a direct result of the

parent’s keenness to ensure the safety

and honour of their daughters.


“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put

their hands on anybody else again.”

If we want to get a feel of the rottenness of our

social milieu, we have only to know the

experiences of working women. From the

starting bus stop to the place of their work,

they are exposed to the vulture eyes of males

of all ages and all classes. If the way lies

through a deserted place, there is always the

danger of facing a potential molester. The

journey from home to the office is nothing

short of nightmare. It is very disheartening to

see even the educated youth indulging in eve-

teasing and harassing of women. Even at the

work place, women are under constant threat

of sexual harassment. They keep on putting up

with indecent gestures and cheap comments of

their male colleagues either for fear of creating

a scene or of annoying a superior and finding

their avenues of promotion choked.

In India there has been an alarming

increase in the incidence of violence against

women. If this trend has to be checked, our

social workers particularly the NGO’S

espousing the cause of women will have to

shoulder most of the responsibility. Our

movies and prime time serials often

glamorize sex and violence and vitiate the

impressionable minds of immature youth. If

the producers of such movies and serials do

not exercise self restraint, the government

should step in and check the rot through

legislative measures. Public display of big

hoardings exploiting the female form should

also be discouraged. But the biggest

responsibility to wage this battle lies with

the women themselves. They must get

organized. They have borne the tyranny of

man far too long. The time has come for a

crusade, and it is women themselves who

must take the lead in starting it.

Meanings:

Assault - attack; shackles – chains; hideous –

horrible; indignant – angry immolate – to

sacrifice; quench – to satisfy; avariciousness

– greed; malady – disease; lynx-eyed – sharp

sighted; depredation – plundering; decoy –

to deceive; milieu – environment; nightmare

– a horrible dream; crusade – serious

struggle.


Profile of a college

Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information

and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)

One of the India’s best technological university

located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, Dhirubhai

Ambani Institute of Information and

Communication Technology (DA-IICT) was set up

in 2001.This University is named after the

Gujarati entrepreneur and Reliance group

founder Dhirubhai Ambani. It is run by the

Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation and is promoted

by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.

Vision

The founding aim of the institute was to deliver a

unique Vision -To help build a knowledge-led

society founded on intellectual competitiveness

for global leadership

Programmes

DA-IICT began admitting students in August 2001,

with an intake of 240 undergraduate students for

its Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) program in

Information and Communication Technology

(ICT). ICT aimed at teaching graduates of

engineering the methods and techniques of

information and communication technology. This

programme hones the skills of all the

participants in helping them thrive in an era of

cut -throat competition and also meet the

demands of ever – changing world of Information

and communication technology.

Since then, it has expanded to include

postgraduate courses such as Master of

Technology (M. Tech) in ICT, Master of

Science (M.Sc) in Information Technology,

Master of Science (ICT in Agriculture and

Rural Development), Master in Design (M.

Des), a five year dual degree programme,

along with a Doctorate programme.

Facilities

DA-IICT believes that its students are the

cream of the student community and they

deserve the best. The infrastructure

support it provides to the students is a just

expression of this belief the institute has

state –of –the-art computing facilities .All

hostel rooms, classrooms, and offices are

equipped with the internet connectivity.


DA-IICT has very good lab structure with more

than 800 computers are installed in the laborites.

This includes Multimedia lab, Grid lab, Network

lab, RF lab, VLSI lab, English language lab.

DA-IICT boasts of very good infrastructure for

sports and other leisure activity. The institute

believes that an individual is sum total of personal

as well as academic achievements.

Admissions

Thousands of students apply every year. Due to

limited seats, selection is done on the basis of

the All India Engineering Entrance Examination

(AIEEE) rank. A few seats are reserved for Non-

Resident Indians (NRIs) and Foreign Nationals

(FNs) who are admitted through a separate

channel called ‘Direct Admission of Foreign and

NRI Students (DAFS)’.

In an ever-changing world, there are a few

constancies. And one of them is change. Today,

DA-IICT is all geared to meet the challenges of a

dynamic tomorrow which offers unending

prospects for growth and advancement

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3 .3 13. 3 23.2

4 .2 14.3 24.4

5 .1 15.3 25.1

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10 .2 20.3

GK ANSWERS

Quiz ANSWERS

1. Charles Babbage

2. Alexander Graham Bell

3. Insulin

4. Raman Effect

5. The Wright Brothers, Orville, Wilbur

6. Marie Skłodowska-Curie

7. Evangelista Torricelli

8. Penicillin

9. John Logie Baird

10. Edwin Herbert Land


Personality to Emulate

A P J Abdul Kalam A JOURNEY FROM “WHAT IS POSSIBLE?” TO “IT IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE!”

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, who we used

to call as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, was the 11th

President of India serving 2002 to 2007. Due to his

working style he is popularly known as the People’s

President. Before his term as president he

distinguished himself as engineering visionary and

was awarded India’s highest civilian honor Bharat

Ratna in 1997 for his work with DRDO and for his

role as a scientific advisor to the Indian

Government. He loves children and spends a lot of

time with them. He is popularly known as a Missile

Man of India.

Abdul kalam

Former President of INDIA

Abdul Kalam was born on 15th October,

1931 in Tikundi of Dhanushkodi in the

district of Rameswharam. His father was

Jainaluddin and mother Ashiamma.

His father Jainaluddin was a humble boat

owner, which he used to rented out to

local fishermen. He was a devout Muslim

and a close friend of the Rameshwaram

temple priest. And this has made Kalam

to grow up in a multi-religious, tolerant

society with a progressive outlook. His

father often quoted from Quoted to

make the young Kalam see the world

without fear. From childhood Kalam

loved the sea and spent most of the time

at beach watching the waves.

Kalam’s day would start at 4 am and end

at 11 pm. As his father was not educated

he wanted Kalam to study. Kalam would

get up at 4 am and have bath and then go

to mathematics class, the mathematics

teacher used to teach only 5 students in

the whole session and bathing before the

class was the condition he laid to the

students. After the class, Kalam along

with his cousin Samsuddin went around

disturbing newspaper.


Kalam had primary education in Rameshwaram

Elementary School. At the age of 15 he joined the

Schwartz High School n Ramandapuram. The

teachers of Schwartz High School were very gentle

and encouraged him to do very special. Kalam one

of the favorite student of Mr. Solomon, who often

used tell students not to get disappointed at

failures and said they must learn a lesson from a

mistakes and failure. Kalam after completing his

high school education at the Schwartz High School

and got admission in St. Joseph’s College,

Tiruchirapalli and graduated in science in 1950 at

the age of 19 years.

After graduating from St. SJoseph’s College, Kalam

joined the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT).

But all was not so easy to get admission at MIT. He

had to have around Rs.1000 rupees for the

admission fee into the college and his father was

not in a position to pay that much huge amount.

This made Kalam feel hopeless and unable to think

which way to turn for help. His sister Zohara came

to the rescue she mortgaged her bangles and her

necklaces and gave the money to Kalam. Zohara

had total confidence in his success and said one day

her brother would be a great man and that she was

proved right. Kalam was thankful to his sister for

her timely assistance and promised to pay off the

debt and get all the bangles and necklaces back

with his own earnings one day.

Kalam received the most appropriate practical

education at the MTS; this was the place where

Kalam could fulfill his long cherished dream to fly

an aircraft. He was thrilled when he found himself

standing among the planes for the first time ever.

He always felt a strange attraction while

watching those aircraft. As he liked aircraft

so much he opted for aeronautical

engineering as his major subject to study at

the MIT.

He came under the influence of three

professors Sponder, Kava Pandalai ,

Narasingha Rao and who are also

responsible for shaping Kalams. These

teachers influenced a sense of self-

confidence in Kalam that later helped

tremendously in his life.

From MIT he went to Hindustan

Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at Bangalore as a

Trainee. Kalam received very important

practical training here. His first training

involve overhaul the engines of the aircraft;

it was quite educational and practical

knowledge of every part of the engine-cum-

drum operations was very important.

Received training to check a crankshaft for

twist was also very educational.

In 1958, at the age of 27 he joined the

Directorate of Technical Development and

Production (DTD&P) as a senior Scientific

Assistant with a basic salary of Rs.250/- per

month.

While in DTD&P he was entrusted to design

a supersonic target aircraft model. He

worked and sent it to Aircraft and

Armament Testing Unit (A&ATU) at Kanpur.

Later, he was informed that design of DART

target has been accepted. Kalam spent 3

years in DTD&P;


Years in DTD&P; during this period Aeronautical

Development Establishment (ADE) was established in

Bangalore where Kalam was asked to take up the new

assignment to face the real challenges of life.

At Aeronautical Development Establishment a prime

task was assigned to design and develop an hovercraft.

Team led by Kalam the group of young scientists here

terribly lacking in the practical knowledge of how to

make this aircraft. The procedure of making confused

Kalam’s brain for long time but after great deal of

effort finally the young scientist’s team succeeded in

building India’s hovercraft that took Defense Minister

Krishna Menon and Kalam at the Controls.

Despite the success of the hovercraft the project did

not get more recognition. Kalam was sad and

disappointed at seeing such a cold reaction from the

authorities. Then one day Prof. MGK Menon, Director

of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) met

Kalam and asked his permission to fly the Hovercraft

for which Kalam readily accepted the offer. Later, he

invited Kalam to attend an interview by famous

personalities like Dr. Vikram Sarabha, Prof. M.G.K

Menon, and Mr. Saraf.

After appointment at TIRF he began to work to his full

capacity and sometime later the TIFR decided to send

Kalam to America to receive six month special training

on sound rocket launching techniques at National

Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Started

working at NASA at the Langely Research Center (LRC)

in Hampton Virginia, this was basically a R&D center

for aerospace technology. Later sometime Kalam was

sent to the Goddard Space Flight Center (CGFC) at

Greenbelt, Maryland.

After having failed in the SLV-3 launch,

Kalam and his team were unhappy for

a quite a long time, but did not lose

their confidence and began to work on

the project with greater zeal. After

examining and correcting previous

flaws the SLV-3 lifted off in July 18,

1980 .Rohini satellite was put into orbit

and this was a great success in Indian

History.

Success followed Dr Kalam. Prithvi,

Agni, Akash, Trishul and Nag missiles

were huge successes. He was awarded

the Padma Bhushan and Bharat Ratna,

and then he became the President of

India; one of the few presidents who

have touched the hearts of so many

poor children in the country. Because

he also came from a poor background,

he knew the power of education in

changing one’s future.


The story in Numbers

Rank Name Net worth ($bil)

Age Source Citizenship

1 Carlos Slim Helu&

family 73 73 Telecom Mexico

2 Bill Gates 67 57 Microsoft U.S

3 Amancio Ortega 57 77 Zara Spain

4 Warren Buffett 53.5 83 Berkshire Hathaway U.S

5 Larry Ellison 43 69 Oracle U.S

6 Charles Koch 34 77 diversified U.S

7 David Koch 34 73 diversified U.S

8 Li Ka-shing 31 85 diversified Hong Kong

9 Liliane Bettencourt &

family 30 91 L'Oreal France

10 Bernard Arnault&

family 29 64 LVMH France

Carlos Slim Helu Larry Ellison

Top 10 Billionaires

Source: www.frobes.com March 2013

http://www.forbes.com/profile/carlos-slim-helu/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/carlos-slim-helu/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/amancio-ortega/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/warren-buffett/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-koch/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/david-koch/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/li-ka-shing/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/liliane-bettencourt/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/liliane-bettencourt/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/bernard-arnault/

http://www.forbes.com/profile/bernard-arnault/


CURRENT EVENTS

The Government of India on 16 November

2013 decided to confer, the Bharat Ratna, the

highest civilian award on eminent scientist

Prof CNR Rao and cricket player Sachin

Tendulkar.

Sachin Tendulkar is the first sports person to

win the Bharat Ratna Award.

The Bharat Ratna award so far, given only to

eminent personalities from the field of dance,

music, art, literature and the social sector. In

the year 2011, the Government of India

modified the eligibility criteria for Bharat

Ratna Award - to enable eminent Sports-

persons to receive the Nation’s highest

civilian award.

Prof. CNR Rao and Sachin Tendulkar

Selected for Bharat Ratna Award

The 18th International Children Film Festival of

India (ICFFI) was inaugurated on 14 November

2013 at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish

Tewari was inaugurated the week-long (14 to 20

Nov 2013) event popularly known as Golden

Elephant.

The film festival was thrown open with the

screening of Hindi Animation Film "Gopi

Gawaiyya Bhaga Bajaiyya" Over 200 films from

48 countries scheduled to be screened at 11

theatres in the twin cities of Hyderabad and

Secunderabad. About one lakh 50 thousand

children are expected to take part in the biennial

event. The film festival is jointly organized by the

Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry,

Children’s Film Society of India and the Andhra

Pradesh state government.


Shiraz Naval Minwalla, Professor of Physics

in TIFR, Mumbai selected for the 2014 New

Horizons in Physics Prize on 5 November

2013. He was awarded "for his pioneering

contributions to the study of string theory

and quantum field theory; and in particular

his work on the connection between the

equations of fluid dynamics and Albert

Einstein’s equations of general relativity".

The New Horizons for Physics Prize awarded

to promising junior researchers by

Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation. The

award carries prize money of 100000 US

Dollars

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 7

November 2013 performed the first orbit raising

manoeuvre of the Mars Orbiter spacecraft. The

spacecraft was fired for 416 seconds by the

command from the Spacecraft Control Centre

(SCC) at ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command

Network (ISTRAC) at Peenya, Bangalore from the

440 Newton Liquid Engine of the spacecraft.

With this engine firing, the spacecraft`s apogee

(the farthest point to Earth) was raised to 28825

km, while its perigee (nearest point to Earth)

was at 252 km. Earlier, Mars Orbiter Spacecraft

was launched on 5 November 2013.

A series of five orbit raising operations during

the Mars mission will be performed, of which

the second and third raising operations would

be performed on 8 November 2013 to apogee

40000 and 71650. The fourth and fifth raising to

apogee of one lakh km and 1.92 lakh km will be

performed on November 11 and 16 November

2013. After the operations will be completed,

the mission is expected to take on the crucial

event of the trans-mars injection on 1 December

2013.

The Mangalayaan, the Mars orbiter of 1350

kilogram was successfully injected by ISRO’s

PSLV-C25 into the orbit around Earth in 44

minutes after launch from the Satish Dhawan

Space Centre at Sriharikota on 7 November

2013.

The International Designator or the NSSDC ID of

India's Mars mission is 2013-060A

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

on 7 November 2013 performed the first

orbit raising man oeuvre of the Mars

Orbiter spacecraft. The spacecraft was fired

for 416 seconds by the command from the

Spacecraft Control Centre (SCC) at ISRO

Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network

(ISTRAC) at Peenya, Bangalore from the 440

Newton Liquid Engine of the spacecraft.

With this engine firing, the spacecraft`s

apogee (the farthest point to Earth) was

raised to 28825 km, while its perigee

(nearest point to Earth) was at 252 km.

Earlier, Mars Orbiter Spacecraft was

launched on 5 November 2013.

- See more at:

http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-

affairs/isro-successfully-raised-mars-

ISRO successfully raised Mars Orbiter

Spacecraft's Orbit

Shiraz Naval Minwalla won New Horizons

in Physics Prize 2014


2 Minute Read Up India successfully test-fired the advanced version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Pokhran, Rajasthan.

Abdulla Yameen has been sworn in as the sixth President of Maldives after defeating the former President Nasheed in the election.

Waheeda Rehman will receive the inaugural Centenary Award for the Indian Film Personality of 2013. The award is instituted by Government of India.

Union Law Ministry told to the GoM about the necessity of amendment of Article 371 (D) of the Constitution of India for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

NASA has released a natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.

World Diabetes Day was observed on 14 November 2013 across the world to raise awareness of diabetes.

Usha Ananthasubramanian as the chairperson and managing director of public sector Bharatiya Mahila Bank.

Gabriela Isler from Venezuela won Miss Universe 2013 contest on 9 November 2013 held at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia

The Industrial Production of India has grown by 2 percent in September 2013 mainly on account of better performance by power and mining sector.

Justice R. Banumathi, Judge of the Madras High Court was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court.

India declared itself free from Notifiable Avian Influenza (H5N1) and has notified the same to the World Organisation for Animal Health.

The World Science Day for Peace and Development was observed on 10 November 2013 across the world to raise awareness on the role of science.

Sebastian Vettel won the United States Grand Prix. Romain Grosjean of Lotus was second and Red Bull's Mark Webber took the third place.

India moved to the second position in the latest ICC test ranking. South Africa is at top position and England is at third position.

India won the two matches test series against West Indies by 2-0 at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. India won the match by an innings and 126 runs.

Mohammed Siddikur of Bangladesh won the 50th edition of Indian Open golf tournament on 10 November 2013 at the Delhi Golf Club (DGC), New Delhi


WHO’S WHO

S.NO State Chief Minister

1 Andhra Pradesh Shri Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy

2 Arunachal Pradesh Shri Nabam Tuki

3 Assam Shri Tarun Gogoi

4 Bihar Shri Nitish Kumar

5 Chhattisgarh Dr. Raman Singh

6 Delhi (NCT) Smt. Sheila Dikshit

7 Goa Shri Manohar Parrikar

8 Gujarat Shri Narendra Modi

9 Haryana Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda

10 Himachal Pradesh Shri Virbhadra Singh

11 Jammu and Kashmir Shri Omar Abdullah

12 Jharkhand Shri Hemant Soren

13 Karnataka Shri Siddaramaiah

14 Kerala Mr Oommen Chandy

15 Madhya Pradesh Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan

16 Maharashtra Shri Prithviraj Chavan

17 Manipur Shri Okram Ibobi Singh

18 Meghalaya Dr. Mukul Sangma

19 Mizoram Shri Lal Thanhawla

20 Nagaland Shri. Neiphiu Rio

21 Odisha Shri Naveen Patnaik

22 Puducherry (UT) Shri N. Rangasamy

23 Punjab Shri Parkash Singh Badal

24 Rajasthan Shri Ashok Gehlot

25 Sikkim Shri Pawan Kumar Chamling

26 Tamil Nadu Selvi J. Jayalalithaa

27 Tripura Shri Manik Sarkar

28 Uttar Pradesh Shri Akhilesh Yadav

29 Uttarakhand Shri Vijay Bahuguna

30 West Bengal Km. Mamata Banerjee

Chief Ministers of INDIAN States


Insights from CHINA – Super Power

4. The number one hobby in China is stamp

collecting

5. Eighty percent, of the world's toys, are made in

China, which has quickly built factories to keep up

with demand

6. The abacus is an ancient counting machine. it is

used in schools, to learn math. Many shopkeepers

still use it for calculations. It can make very complex

calculations.

7. Chinese students have to learn around 5,000

Chinese characters at a minimum by the time they

leave school. College graduates learn as many as

10,000. But, overall, around 40,000 characters exist!

8. The most important holiday in China is the

Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year. Chinese

traditionally believe that every person turns one year

older on the New Year and, thus, that day is

considered to be everyone’s birthday

Full Name: The People’s Republic of

China

National emblem: Tiananmen Gate

tower under five stars, encircled by

ears of grain and with a gear wheel

below.

National anthem: "Zhōnghuá Míngúo

gúogē" is the national anthem of the

Republic of China (ROC). It discusses

how the vision and hopes of a new

nation and its people can and should

be achieved and maintained using the

Three Principles of the People. The

Three Principles of the People, also

translated as Three People's Principles,

or collectively San-min Doctrine, is a

political philosophy developed by Sun

Yat-sen as part of a philosophy to make

China a free, prosperous, and powerful

nation.

China, officially the People's Republic of

China, is the world's most populous country,

with a population of over 1.3 billion.

Facts about china

1. The literacy rate in China is 95.9%.

2. The high speed train in Shanghai goes 268

miles per hour (431 kilometres per hour),

making it the fastest train in the world.

3. The Chinese invented paper, the compass,

gunpowder, and printing.


.

9. The crossbow was invented and first used by

the Chinese. They were also the first in the world

to use chemical and gas weapons, 2,000 years

before gas was used in Europe during WWI.

10. The Chinese were using the decimal system as

early as the fourteenth century B.C., nearly 2,300

years before the first known use of the system in

European mathematics. The Chinese were also the

first to use a place for zero.

11. World’s second largest economy: 5.7 trillion

USD (2010)

12. Development: fastest in world history at 10%+

for the last 30 years

13. Industry: World’s largest producer of:

concrete, steel, fertilizer, clothing and toys.

14. Most international borders (14): Russia,

Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,

Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan,

Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and North Korea

15. Beijing Capital International Airport is the

second busiest airport in the world and busiest in

Asia.

16. Some of the world’s largest ports: Shanghai

(greatest cargo tonnage since 2005), Hong Kong,

Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Qingdao, and

Tianjin

17. The third most visited country in the world for

tourism, despite its separation from most high-

disposable-income countries.

18. China banned Google, face book, YouTube, etc.

Animal: The giant panda is considered a

Chinese national treasure. Just over 1,000

survive in the wild, most of them to be

found in Sichuan Province.

Flower: China does not have an "official"

national flower, but the tree peony can be

regarded as a national favourite. The tree

peony (mudan) received the most votes in

an unofficial survey conducted in 1994 in

every district in China asking people to

select a national flower.

Economy: China is ranked as the world's

second largest economy, and is the largest

exporter and second largest importer of

goods in the world. China imports oil,

mineral fuels, optical and medical

equipment, metal ores and plastics, while it

exports apparel, textiles, iron, steel, and

electrical and other machinery.

National Day: Chinese celebrate October 1

as National Day in honor of the founding of

the People's Republic of China on October

1, 1949.

Bird: More bird species live in China than

any other place in the world. Shaanxi

Province's red ibis is also a national

treasure. Only some 1,500 of this highly

endangered bird species exist.

Tree: The oldest tree in the world is China's

gingko, which first appeared during the

Jurassic Age some 160 million years ago.


Improve your GK

1. From the picture below identify the youth icon and a famous writer.

(1) Salman Rushdie

(2) ChetanBhagat

(3) Amit Varma

(4) AnuragAnand

2. Which planet rotates from east to west?

(1) Mercury (2) Venus

(3) Uranus (4) Neptune

3. How many rings are there on the Olympic

flag?

(1) Three (2) Four

(3) Five (4) Six

4. Which of the following organizations

headquarters is located in New York?

(1) World Trade Organisation

(2) United Nations Organisation

(3) World Bank

(4) International Court of Justice

5. Who wrote the book “Indira’s India”?

(1) Nihal Singh

(2) L.K.Adavani

(3) Khushwant Singh

(4) Ved Mehta

6. Hitler party which came into power in

1933 is known as

(1) Labour Party

(2) Nazi Party

(3) Ku-Klux-Klan

(4) Democratic Party

7. ‘Figo’ a car brand launched in India by

(1) Ford (2) Volkswagen

(3) BMW (4) GM


8. KiranBedi is

(1) First woman IAS officer

(2) First woman IPS officer

(3) First woman advocate

(4) First woman judge

9. Which is the land of Rising Sun?

(1) India (2) Japan

(3) China (4) Russia

10. Chemical name of common salt is

(1) Potassium Chloride

(2) Sodium Chloride

(3) Calcium Carbonate

(4) Sodium Carbonate

11. The 2014 football world cup is scheduled

to be held in

(1) India (2) Japan

(3) Brazil (4) Australia

12. The first English Newspaper in India was

started by (Bengal Gazette)

(1) DadabhaiNoroji

(2) JA Hickey

(3) Lord William Bentinck

(4) Rabindranath Tagore

14.The LokSabha is also known as

13. The book ‘Letters from a Father to

Daughter’ was written by

(1) Rajaji

(2) Mahatma Gandhi

(3) Jawaharlal Nehru

(4) Radhakrishnan

14. On the surface of the moon the weight of

a man

(1) Remain same

(2) Increases

(3) Decreases

(4) May or may not increase

15. Mount Everest is located in

(1) India (2) Tibet

(3) Nepal (4) China

16. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (pictured below)

is the founder of a famous social networking

site

(1) Twitter (2) Linked in

(3) Google (4) Facebook


17. Who was known as Iron man of India?

(1) GovindBallabh Pant


(3) Subhas Chandra Bose

(4) SardarVallabhbhai Patel

18. The currency of Bangladesh is

(1) Rupee (2) Taka

(3) Dollar (4) Riyal

19. Who declared that his ultimate aim was tt

to wipe ‘every tear from every eye'?

(1) Rajendra Prasad

(2) Sardar Patel


(4) Mahatma Gandhi

20. The minimum age required to become a

member of RajyaSabha is

(1) 21 years (2) 25 years

(3) 30 years (4) 35 years

21. The number of major languages,

recognized in the Indian Union as official

language, are

(1) 15 (2) 22

(3) 12 (4) 9

22. From the picture below identify the

RBI governor

(1) BimalJalan (2) Y. V. Reddy

(3) D. Subbarao (4) RaghuramRajan

23. High performance. Delivered is the

punch line of

(1) Infosys (2) Accenture

(3) Amazon (4) Cognizant

24. The First ATM in India was introduced

by which of the following banks?

(1) ICICI Bank (2) HDFC Bank

(3) SBI (4) HSBC Bank

25. The highest civilian award of India

'Bharat Ratna' has been awarded to only

two foreigners so far. One of them is Nelson

Mandela. The other is

(1) Abdul Ghaffar khan

(2) Mikhail Gorbachev

(3) Marshal Tito

(4) Abdul Wali Khan


LIFE LINE OF BUSINESS

A Career in Civil Engineering

A Career in Civil Engineering is both challenging

and rewarding. Help build the next skyscraper, bridge or

highway and create structures that stand the test of

time. Learn more about how to become a civil engineer

here:

Civil engineering education begins long before college,

with the classes that the potential civil engineer takes in

high school. Yet, it may start even earlier that , with the

structures which the future civil engineer makes out of

Lego Blocks; seeing how high a tower they can build and

how long a bridge they can create. While many children

like building with blocks, there’s something different

about how the child who is destined to be a civil

engineer builds.

Civil engineering, like all engineering disciplines, is a

science. Therefore, the student who wants to study to be

a civil engineer needs to study maths and the sciences,

long before entering college. Algebra, trigonometry,

chemistry and physics all play a part in the daily work of

the civil engineer. Taking these classes in high-school and

doing well in them, prepares the student for their studies

in college.

Another very important area of study, although classes

aren’t offered for it, is problem solving. Like all types of

engineering, civil engineering is about solving problems.

The engineer is presented with a problem and expected

to find a solution for it. Whether that problem is

spanning a river, stopping coastal erosion, providing

water for farmers in arid climates or preventing a

building from falling in an earthquake, everything a civil

engineer does is problem solving.

So, how does one learn to solve

problems, since there are no classes

offered in it? Simple; one learns to

solve problems by solving them. It

doesn’t matter if those problems are

mathematical, mechanical or software,

problems are problems. The skills used

to solve one type of problem easy

translate to solving additional types of

problems.

Puzzles are a great tool for learning

how to solve problems, especially 3D

puzzles. The challenge of seeing what

is, and figuring out how to make it into

something else is all about problem

solving. Take the Rubik’s Cube as an

example. To solve it, one must see

where everything is, then see where

you want it to be. The mind imagines a

route from one to the other, and the

hands move the parts of the cube to

bring about that solution.


The best problem solvers are those that learn

how to think outside the box. When an

“impossible problem” is presented, it takes a

new approach to solve it. What makes that

problem impossible is that nobody has found

the right way to think of it yet. But there is

always someone who can approach that

problem from a different viewpoint and solve

it. A student who wants to become an

outstanding civil engineer needs to learn how

to think outside of the box.

Another important skill for civil engineers to

learn is how to draw. The solution to every

problem must be drawn in order to share that

solution with others. This isn’t artistic drawing,

but rather technical drawing; drafting, whether

done with a pencil and ruler of on a computer

with a CAD (computer aided drafting) program.

Formal Civil Engineering Training

A number of universities offer formal civil

engineering degrees. These can range from an

Associate’s degree to a Master’s degree,

although the most common is a Bachelor of

Science in Civil Engineering. What’s the

difference between these degrees?

• Associate’s degree in Civil Engineering

Technology – This two year program prepares

those who wish to work in Civil Engineering,

but not with the responsibility of being a

project leader. Individuals with an associate’s

degree work as assistants to Civil Engineers,

doing research, testing (such as soils testing)

and turning rough drawings into finished

products.

• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering –

This four to five year program is the

standard civil engineering degree. Students

who gain their bachelor of science have

been trained in both general civil

engineering subjects and a specialty in one

of the various civil engineering disciplines.

• Master’s of Science in Civil Engineering –

For those who wish to continue their

engineering studies, a master’s of science

degree is available from some institutions.

Engineers with a master’s degree often

work as professors in universities or in the

development of new technologies.

As part of civil engineering studies, students

are required to study the higher forms of

mathematics. While civil engineering is

about solving problems, those solutions

need mathematical proofs. Determining the

right amount of material to use in a

particular application requires both an

understanding of materials science and the

computational ability to calculate the

stresses on that material.

Civil engineering students take a wide

variety of courses, mostly in math and the

sciences. While a student will be working

towards a specialty in a particular civil

engineering field, they will also need a

generalized engineering education. Many of

the concepts used in civil engineering

overlap from one specialty to another; just

as many projects require the collaboration

of various specialties.


There were three big fishes living in a lake who were very close friends. All three of them were very different from one another. The first one believed in fate. He thought things cannot be changed and what had to happen will happen no matter what. The second one was intelligent. He thought he knew how to solve a problem if he had one, with his intelligence. The third one was the wise one. It thought long and hard before acting.

So one day, the wise fish was happily playing around in the water, when it over heard a fishermen talking to another. "Look at that one, what a big fish... This lake is full of big fishes like this one. Let us come tomorrow and catch them."

It hurriedly swam to its friends to tell the news. "Let us get out of this lake before those fishermen come back. A canal I know can take us to another lake," the wise one said.

The intelligent fish said, “I know what to do if the fishermen come and catch me."

The fish which believed in fate said, "Whatever to happen will happen, I was born in this lake and I am not going to leave it."

The wise fish didn't want to risk its life, so he took the canal and went to another lake.

The wise fish didn't want to risk its life, so he took the canal and went to another lake.

The fishermen came back the next morning and cast their net. The rest of the two friends were caught in it along with many other fishes.

The intelligent fish thought of a way to escape, it acted as if it were dead. The fishermen threw him along with other dead fish back into the lake. But the other fish which believed in fate was still jumping in the net and the fishermen struck him dead.

Story moral: Intelligence wins over might.

Panchatantra story The Three Fishes

1. The surgeon is his mother.

2. The last person took the basket with the last egg still inside.

3. Wrongly

4. If the numbers are in Roman numerals, Take I from XIX, you are left with XX

5. Answer: I + IX = X Right Wrong I + IX = X

6. Here “You” means “U” ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS T U VWXYZ

7. They are sitting in the opposite direction and not facing each other

8. The blind beggar was his sister.

9. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow

10. John

Lateral Thinking Answers


Math modus operandi

Finding Squares

of Numbers This article contains two shortcuts for finding

squares of numbers. If practiced regularly,

they may help you reduce calculation time by a

considerable amount.

25 and 75

This method can be used to determine the

square of any number that lies between 25

and 75 using the following steps:

1. Find out the difference between the number

and 25.


and 50.

3. Multiply the number obtained in step 1 by

100 and add it to the square of the number

obtained in step 2.

An example that uses this tip will make things

clearer.

Tip 1: Finds out the square of any number

between 25 and 75

This method can be used to determine the square

of any number that lies between 25 and 75 using

the following steps:


and 25.


and 50.

3. Multiply the number obtained in step 1 by 100

and add it to the square of the number obtained in

step 2.

An example that uses this tip will make things

clearer.

Let us consider the number 57

Step 1: Difference between 57 and 25 is 32.


Step 3: Square of 57 is (32 x 100) + (7 x 7) = 3249

An important point to be noted is that you have to know

the squares of numbers up to 25 to make this tip usable.

Such situations may arise like in the case below

Consider the number 28.



Step 3: Square of 28 is (3 x 100) + (22 x 22) = 300 + 484 = 784

To test if this tip is effective, take any

other number and try finding out its

square first by using this tip and then

by multiplication.

Tip 2: Finds out the square of any

number

This set of steps will help you find the

square of any given number with no

limitations on the range. Obvious to

say, it is slightly more complicated than

the tip mentioned earlier


These are the steps that should be followed:

1. Let the number be A.

2. Find the nearest multiple of 10 to the number and

call it B.

3. Let C = A – B

4. Let D = A + C (C may have a negative sign and

hence, this may be a subtraction)

5. The square of the number is (B x D) + (C x C)

All these steps may sound Greek without an

example.

Step 1: Consider the number 43.

Step 2: Nearest multiple of 10 is 40.

Step 3: C = 43 – 40 = 3

Step 4: D = 43 + 3 = 46

Step 5: Square of 43 is (40 x 46) + (3 x 3) = 1840 +

9 = 1849

A quick look at this tip will tell you that the

calculation will become more complex if the

number is larger but this method is still more apt

for finding squares of numbers less than four

digits.

Finding the square of three digits will become easy

if you are good at doing two digit multiplications.

Let us find the square of a three digit

number using this method.

Step 1: Let the number be 248.

Step 2: Nearest multiple of 10 is 250.

Step 3: C = 248 – 250 = -2

Step 4: D = 248 + (-2) = 246

Step 5: Square of 248 is (250 x 246) +

(-2 x -2) = 61500 + 4 = 61504

Compared to the first tip, this tip will

require much more practice before it

may be used effectively.

Important note:

Using tips and shortcuts for

calculating squares and cubes of large

numbers can be a tricky affair. It

involves learning the tip, practicing it

and using it over and over again until

it starts being effective. One should

always consider if it is easier (or

faster) to do the calculation in the

normal fashion. Just because a tip

looks intelligent doesn’t mean it will

give you the desired outcome.

Finding Squares of Numbers

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RUN Milkha RUN

A Running Inspiration for Youth

Sports is much sought after field for

young school goers in India now, we suddenly

see a change in parents’ attitude on their

children that they are being encouraged to

choose whatever field they feel like taking up.

“Bhaag Milka Baag” is such an impeccable film

that added value and inspiration to that kind of

a growing trend. It came as ‘right film at the

right time’, in a country where single sport is

valued more than any other, this kind of films

create avenues for fresh thinking and change in

people’s approach to sports and development.

The magic is that both sports and cinema are two different fields though linked by the same purpose that is voyeurism (viewership). It is like one entertainment meets with another in a grand fashion as it turned out to be a huge hit when people watched it and said “film ho tho aisi”

Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Bhaag

Milkha Bhaag is based on an interpretation of

the life of Milkha Singh, an Indian athlete who

was a world champion runner and also an

Olympian. This film is full of story that has links

even with Pakisthan during partition travails.

The technicalities of the film like the camera

work (by Binod Pradhan) editing with story

moving back and forth from 1947 India and

Pakisthan partition to Milka’s the then running

success story.

Farhan Akhtar ably portrays the character of Milkha Singh by actually following Milkha Singh’s winning principles and attitude. The film shows how an actor can so convincingly step into the shoes of a legend on screen by literally ‘stretching’ himself and strenuously ‘working out’ for the role…2500 ab crunches a day to play Milkha! Small wonder, Milkha Singh complimented him, “Every nuance, every mannerism is right. You have become Milkha Singh!” Congratulations, Farhan Akhtar!

A life story: of Commitment, Dedication and Hard work. Milka Singh does anything for just a glass of

milk as he was shown drinking his sister’s

share of milk also. Then comes the issue of

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag


partition where Milka’s entire family gets slain and Milka’s father shouts for saving his son by saying “Bhaag Milka Bhaag” (Run Milka Run) that memory in Milka’s future life haunts even in the field. Milka joins army and becomes athlete to represent India in many countries. In the backdrop, The then Prime minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru agrees to engage Milka in a competition to be held in Pakisthan on request. Owing to his haunting partition memories, Milka declines the proposal but at last makes up his mind to and run but only to win! Thus from this dramatized on screen portrayal, we learn the principle of being commited in life, dedicated to a cause and also working hard to achieve his goals. Milka Runs and Runs and Runs…

Milkha Singh runs to attain different goals at different phases of his life. At first, young Milkha runs in the blazing sun on the hot sands from school just to reach home early. Then, he runs for his life, at the time of his father, to escape from the horse-rider-attackers during India’s partition. He runs after he beats up his brother-in-law. He runs to dodge getting caught stealing coal from the train. He runs in the Army Cross Country Race as he wants the privilege of earning a mug full of Milk, 2 eggs & pardon from exercise! He runs for India's Blazer & for his self-respect. He runs for the Medals and for making India proud... hence making running his single faith and ability - as his life.

Success needs Inspiration, Support, and Expert

Training & Guidance

It happens in Mr. Singh’s life that he doesn’t let

anybody to disturb him from achieving his goal,

neither his girl friend, nor fellow competitors.

Milkha Singh’s girl friend Biro, inspires him to earn an honest living and ‘become somebody’ in his life. His sister, Isri Kaur, is always a pillar of strength for him; even sells her ear-rings to bail him out. His friend does not ‘disturb’ his training to inform Milkha about Biro’s wedding. Milkha Singh’s coaches, Gurudev Singh and Ranveer Singh play the part like the jewelers who recognize his worth & shape the gem of an athlete! Practice Made Milka Perfect Young children derive inspiration from some beautifully shot scenes where Milka practices in the sand by tying a tyre to hips in the hot sun. he does workouts even when it pours down heavily. In one instance he gets roped into a bad boy gang during his teenage but with self realization comes out of the trauma to realize the good living and its importance. The learning point is that he learns from both good and bad but keeps to practice only the good. This bio pic (a film based on biography) is a master piece because of the technical values; background score is very much suitable, the songs emulate simple emotions very clearly, music is dated back to suit to the 1960s tunes. Dance sequences entertain you in a hilarious manner, there’s even good amount of humour in some shots where Milka drinks two boxes full of ghee and does the exercises. If you have not watched this film try to watch it and let as many children and young as possible to watch the film, it’s worth watching for inspiration to excel in life. Athletics should gain popularity in India on par with any major sport.

A Running Inspiration for Youth


QUIZ

Inventions and Discoveries

He was an English mathematician, philosopher,

inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the

concept of a programmable computer. Considered as

“Father of Computers”, he is credited with inventing

the first mechanical computer that eventually led to

more complex designs, who is he?

During the experiments he carried out with the

telegraph, he came up with the idea of the telephone.

The inventor of one of the most popular devices today

thought that the telephone was intruding, that is why

he did not have one in his workplace. Who is he?

Initially Frederick Banting was dedicated to politics

but later decided to shift to medicine. In 1916 he

completed his MD and during the World War I worked

as a doctor. He was very interested in diabetes and

continuously worked on a cure for it. Banting searched

for cure for diabetes together with Dr. Charles Best. In

1923 the researcher was awarded with the Nobel Prize

for discovering _______?


Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman, an Indian Physicist,

was the first to describe and explain in the review

nature, in 1928, the experimental observation of the

phenomenon in liquids. On 28th February 1928,

through his experiments on the scattering of light, he

discovered the___________. He was the recipient of

the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.

The two American brothers, inventors and aviation

pioneers who were credited for inventing and

building the world’s first successful airplane and

making the first controlled, powered and

sustained, heavier than air human flight on

December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward,

the brothers developed their flying machine into

the first practical fixed wing aircraft. Who are

they?

__________ was a polish physicist and chemist

working mainly in France, who is famous for her

pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the

inventor of radium. She was the first woman to

win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two

fields and the only person to win in multiple

sciences. She was also the first female professor at

university of paris and in 1995 became the first

woman to be entombed on her own merits in

Paris.



The famous Italian physicist and mathematician is the inventor of the barometer (scientific tool used in the field of meteorology to estimate atmospheric pressure), built in 1643. It would be interesting to note that a number of Italian Navy submarines were named after the inventor. Who is he?

During the World War I Fleming worked as an army

medical doctor. He is the inventor of

______________ that prevented a lot of soldiers

from being infected. The discovery of penicillin

managed to significantly boost the evolution of

medicine industry.

He was a Scottish Engineer and inventor of the world’s first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world’s first fully electronic colour television tube. His early successes demonstrating working television broadcasts and his colour and cinema television work earned him a prominent place in televisions invention.

The co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation was the

first who came up with low-cost filters for polarizing

light (useful system of in-camera instant

photography). His most popular invention, Polaroid

instant camera, was officially launched in late 1948

and allowed users to take and develop a picture in

just under 60 seconds. Who is he?



Lateral Thinking …………………..……Unlocking the creativity and innovation in you

These puzzles involve some novel way of thinking

or looking at the problem from an unexpected

viewpoint. The term 'lateral thinking' was coined

by Edward de Bono to denote a problem-solving

style that involves looking at a situation from

unexpected angles. Lateral thinking involves a

combination of skills and traits, a few of which are

creativity, perceptiveness, and the ability to

identify and apply new approaches.

Example: Why do Chinese men eat more rice

than Japanese men?

Solution: There are more Chinese men than

Japanese men.

Check HOW GOOD ARE YOU IN

LATERAL THINKING?

1. A man and his son are in a car crash. The father

is killed and the child is taken to hospital

gravely injured. When he gets there, the

surgeon says, 'I can't operate on this boy - for

he is my son!!!' How can this possibly be?

2. There are six eggs in the basket. Six people

each take one of the eggs. How can it be that

one egg is left in the basket?

3. What word is always spelled wrongly?

4. How can you take 1 from 19 and leave

20?

5. Two mathematicians are sitting

opposite to each other for a cup of

coffee. They looked at the matter written

on the paper which is kept on the table.

One said “It’s Wrong”, another said “Its

Right”. Both are correct. How is it

possible? What is written on the paper?

6. Interviewer -- He ordered a cup of

coffee for the candidate. Coffee arrived

kept before the candidate, then he asked

what is before you? Candidate: Instantly

replied "Tea “He got selected. Why?

7. Two persons are sitting with a table in

between them but they cannot see each

other. Why?

8. A blind beggar had a brother who died.

What relation was the blind beggar to the brother who died? (Brother is not the answer). 9. Name three consecutive days in English without using the words Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday. 10. John's mother has 3 children, one is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?

Answers on page 24


Toppers Inner “VIEW”

2 years enough to crack JEE

Hailing from CBSE board, Arpit has proved

that 2 years are more than enough to crack

IIT JEE. He started preparing for JEE in class

XI. However, he first learnt the skills of

exam preparation in class VIII when he

appeared for NTSE (National Talent Search

Examination).

His key to success: Proper planning and

time management. Also he advises to

future JEE aspirants, “Get your

fundamentals right”. Arpit feels that as

there is a lot going on in class XI and XII,

with the boards, and the numerous

entrance exams, students must learn to

plan accordingly. He however strongly

agrees that extra-curricular activities like

sports, drama, literature or whatever else

interests a person are equally important.

IIT JEE 2012 topper’s key to success

With a score of 385 out of 408 in IIT JEE, Arpit Aggarwal

has managed to achieve what every engineering aspirant

in India dreams of: the top rank in the most prestigious

engineering entrance in India. The IIT JEE 2012 top-rank

holder is a resident of Faridabad, and a student of

Modern Vidya Niketan Senior Secondary School.

Arpit shared his 2 years journey of JEE preparation and his

own secrets of success. Here are a few highlights from the

interview:

Wants to pursue MBA after graduation!

Despite his spectacular performance in JEE, pursuing

hardcore science is not Arpit’s dream. Though there

are no specific goals yet, he wishes to pursue an

MBA after gaining his degree in engineering.

IIT JEE 2012 easy!

If you ask Arpit, the exam was as easy as it could be.

He made only four mistakes in the entire exam. In

fact he had figured out 3 of the 4 mistakes during

the exam itself, however was unable to change his

answers, because this year pen instead of pencil was

used.

Confide in someone to manage stress

Arpit feels that discussing matters with someone

really makes troubles go away. He was close to two

of his friends and two teachers at school, and could

discuss anything with them freely, and that helped

him manage his stress besides Yoga.


SWAMY AND FRIENDS ………………………for Lifetime Inspiration

By R K NARAYAN

In the autumn of 1930, on a sudden spurt of

inspiration, writing of his first novel Swami and

Friends started. It was as if a window had opened,

and through it Narayan saw a little town and its rail

station, the Mempi Forest and the Nallapa’s Grove,

the Albert Mission School, Market Road, the River

Sarayu. Its inhabitants appeared, and Malgudi was

born.

Swami and Friends (1935) was published with the

help of Graham Green. The novel registers all the

small confusions and dislocations of the child

reaching the end of an idyllic childhood and facing

the grave tasks of adulthood. The setting that one

day swam into Narayan’s view Malgudi, the colonial

district town with its post office and bank and

middle-class suburb and small roadside shops and

low-caste slums and missionary school and

government bungalows is the new world of

urbanizing India that Swami is expected, in the way

Narayan was, to find his place in. But Swami is

essentially anarchic an amoral Krishna of Hindu epics

and it is his great restlessness within this restricted

world and the premonitions of the drabness that

awaits him which make for that unique mix of

“sadness and beauty” that Graham Greene, who

helped publish the book, spoke of.

Swami feels oppressed by authority the severe

Christians at school, his admonitory father but he is

also attracted by its promise of stability and identity,

and his great infatuation is with Rajam, the police

officer’s son, with his bungalow and toy rail engine:

the symbols of the world of colonial progress and

modernity that Swami, too, is being asked to enter.

That exalted world, once the exclusive

preserve of Brahmins, is changing fast: it

is no accident that Swami’s greatest

source of fear in Malgudi is the low-caste,

slum-dwelling ball boy at his father’s

tennis club.

The game of cricket, with its

simultaneously rule-bound and anarchic

nature, offers Swami, as it does millions

of Indians, emotional release from the

strains and pressures of adjusting to his

ever-altering circumstances. But the

captain of the cricket team is Rajam

himself, before whom Swami tries hard to

pose as a modern rational adult, an act in

which even his old affectionate

grandmother becomes a shameful

embarrassment someone to hide from

when Rajam visits his house.


When Swami, giving in to his natural rebelliousness,

runs away from home just before an important

cricket match, he knows not only fear and

uncertainty but also guilt. His feeling that he has

been irresponsible and cowardly, that he has failed

to act like a man, colours the heartbreaking last two

pages where Narayan’s swift clear prose so naturally

a part of his alertness to physical and emotional

actuality, the randomness of events and emotions

describes Rajam’s departure for the bigger world

outside Malgudi.

A nervous Swami has gone to the railway station

with another grown¬up friend, Mani, to see Rajam

off. He has a present Andersen’s Fairy Tales for

Rajam. But Rajam, whose own attitude towards

Swami has alternated between harsh indifference

and brisk curiosity, is already remote. The train starts

to move; Rajam takes the book but says nothing:

childhood has ended for him and he won’t prolong it

any further for Swami:

Swaminathan and Mani stood as if glued where they

were, and watched the train. The small red lamp of

the last van could be seen for a long time; it

diminished in size every minute, and disappeared

around a bend. All the jarring, rattling, clanking,

spurting, and hissing of the moving train softened in

the distance into something that was half a sob and

half a sigh. Swaminathan said: “Mani, I am glad he

has taken the book. Mani, he waved to me. He was

about to say something when the train started. Mani,

he did wave to me and to me alone. Don’t deny it.”

“Yes, yes,” Mani agreed.

Swaminathan broke down and sobbed.

“Swami and Friends” was at once hailed

by critics as a great work of art. The novel

describes the rainbow world of childhood

and early boyhood of boys of the likes of

Swami growing up in the interior of South

India. It seems that Narayan’s personal

experience at school has gone into the

making of the novel. We get a vivid

portrayal of the thoughts, emotions and

activities of school boys. It is as though

everyday reality has taken over Narayan’s

pen and written this universal epic of all

our boyhood days.

The novel is remarkable for the author’s

understanding of child psychology and for

his depiction of the carefree, buoyant

world of school-boys in a most realistic

and convincing manner. It renders people

and their actions as they appear to boys

at school-stage. Swami is one of

Narayan’s immortal creations. Chandran,

Raju, Jagan and others came much after

in his fiction. Some writers have the

tendency to convert their childhood into

shrines and further on they try to mystify

their own boyhood. Narayan has

consciously avoided that because he

never wrote any more tales of boyhood

after “Swami and Friends”.

…………………..for Lifetime Inspiration


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For beginners ‘Practice’

Across

1. People can run faster than they can ___.

3. They put on ___ shoes.

5. Don't turn left. Turn ___..

7. He is a good singer, but I'm the ___

singer in our class.

10. Many people like white sugar, but I

prefer ___ sugar.

11 .What would you like to ___? Coffee,

please.

Down

1. Did you ___ a letter last week?

2. What's your favorite fruit? I ___ apples.

3. A tricycle has ___ wheels.

4. A spider has ___ legs.

5. Let's ___ a song.

7. The American flag is red, white and ___.

8. He ___ "I am tired."

9. What's your job? I ___ at a department store.

1. 3RD GENERATION" 2. 'British Broadcasting

Corporation. 3. Bayerische Motoren Werke 4. Postal Index Number 5. Subscriber Identity Module 6. Intelligence quotient. 7. Entertainment and Sports

Programming Network 8. Bharat Sanchar Nigam

Limited 9. General Packet Radio Service 10. Housing Development

Finance Corporation

Full Forms – High Spirits

Cross word: Answers in Next Monthly


HIGH SPIRITS

Try the Full Forms

1. 3G

2. BBC

3. BMW

4. PIN

5. SIM

6. IQ

7. ESPN

8. BSNL

9. GPRS

10. HDFC

Sudoku: Fill all rows, columns and 3x3 regions with exactly one instance of the numbers 1 to 9.

Joke:Three science students went to a pond.

The physics student said he wanted to calculate the density

of water and jumped into the pond.

Then the student of mathematics said that he wanted to

calculate the depth of the pond and followed the physics

student.

The chemistry student waited for about an hour, and then

finding no trace of the two, he left concluding that both

were soluble in water

1. Sun Rays

2. Centre of the

Flower

3. Shoe

4. Grass

5. Mouth

6. Right Hand

Hocus – Focus

Answers in next monthly Answers on page 36


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Find the INSIGNIA

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Play a logo quiz. Logo quiz are designed to challenge, educate and stimulate

your brain.

Answers on page 26


Find at least 6 differences between the panels — if you can!

Hocus –Focus

Tongue

Twister

s "I can think of six thin things, but I can

think of six thick things too."

"The big bug bit the little beetle, but the little

beetle bit the big bug back."

"If two witches were watching

two watches, which witch

would watch which watch?"

Answers on Page 37


Winning Inspiration

“If you think you are beaten, you are;

If you think you dare not, you don't.

If you'd like to win, but think you can't

It’s almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you've lost,

For out in the world we find

Success being with a fellow's will;

It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you're outclassed, you are:

You've got to think high to rise.

You've got to be sure of yourself before

You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go

To the stronger or faster man,

But soon or late the man who wins

Is the one who thinks he can.”

THE VICTOR

-Walter D. Wintle.


FUN POINT

Watch Out!

For the Idiot In Front of You

On my Way to Work

God Help Me!

Eat Right and Exercise

Die Anyway

I May be slow but

I’m ahead of you

I’m not stupid;

I’m hard of thinking

Clear the Road

I am Sixteen

T.G.I.F

Thank God I Am Female

I haven’t lost my brain it

just couldn’t handle my

ideas so it left

Funny Bumpers


Winning Inspiration

Bharat Ratna: Sachin Tendulkar


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