Hello Voices Team, I am writing this e-mail in response to the editorial titled "Verified Fact or Fiction" in Voices, in the issue of March 2012, asking the readers for feed back on what they would like to read in Voices. The first time I came across an article from Voices (IISc stu- dents' newsletter) was about seven years ago. I was a 3rd year B.Tech student and was selected for the Summer Research Fellowship by Indian Academy of Sciences and I was to spend my summer holidays in the Institute. Before I started on my maiden journey to Bangalore, I went and met a teacher of ours in the college ( who gave me the recommendation letter for the summer fellowship application). He told me that IISc is a lovely place to work and stay, wished me good luck and then gave me photocopies of two articles to read; one was about "Places to eat-out in Bangalore" and the other was "Why women do not have pockets?". Both the articles were written by him and were published in the IISc students' newsletter, when he was a student at IISc. That was my first encounter with Voices, in a place about 200km away from Bangalore. I spent two exhilarating months in IISc in the summer of 2005. I went back to my college and came back 6 months later to work on my B.Tech final semester project. Soon I graduated from college and then came back again to IISc to pursue a PhD. Ever since I joined the institute, I never missed an oppor- tunity to grab a copy of Voices whenever it was published and placed in strategic locations like the erstwhile tea kiosk, coffee board, juice shop, in the mess or anywhere I could lay my hands on it. I used to keenly go through the articles and after I finished reading the articles I would take the copy to my room and keep it safely in a file. In the span of these six to seven years, I have noticed several changes in Voices, some small and some big! The editorial moved from the first page to the inner pages,Voices went online and started to work in collabo- ration with the Students' Council. Despite many changes, somethings continued to exist. Voices gives each one of us a platform to express our view point and opinion about any hap- penings on campus. Voices enables us with the right to free- dom of expression, a powerful tool which needs to be exer- cised with responsibility to spread appreciation of good things, give feed back and raise an alarm about anything that seems to be going in the wrong direction in the campus. Voices gives us power to raise constructive criticism and gives us the power to raise questions and let the members of the campus know about the questions raised. The articles in Voices let us empathize with each others' difficulties, joys and sorrows. When I think and try to recollect about the articles from Voices that made an impact on me, several of them come to my mind. There were serious articles on minor issues and humor- ous and satirical articles on major problems presented in a lighter tone and probably driving home the problem in a much better manner. There was an article on the luxury of having a mess facility in IISc (as opposed to foreign universities where you are responsible for your meals), there was an article on "the advantages of having water shortage in the hostels" (a satire!), there were "adventures of Bhoondoo- a hypothetical research student", flirtations in Tea Board (with the dogs an- ticipating food!), several cartoons depicting life in IISc, deport- ment of people in mess, the parking woes, the shitting crows (I had once heard that IISc could be conveniently expanded to Indian Institute of Shitting crows and then someone immedi- ately asked the question, "How do we know that they are all crows up there?") and the hostel rooms and so on. Many of these articles, though written in a lighter tone, never failed to present the gravity of the situation, besides giving a laugh to my heart's content. Many a time, I secretly and fervently hoped that the article should have been read by someone with administrative powers on campus and have caused a similar effect of giving them a good laugh and at the same time pois- ing them into action to quickly sort out the problem referred to in the article. After digressing so much, when I try to come back and answer the editor's question on what I would like to read in Voices, my answer seems to be very vague to me! It also brings to my mind the question, what is expected from a students' news letter in a research institution? There is a world of possibilities! I would love to read the aspirations and predicaments, joys and sorrows, success stories and failures, poetry and prose and anything earnestly shared by campus community. I would like to know the different perspectives of the same event that happened on campus. I would like to see how a set tradition can be questioned in the true spirit of inquiry. I would like to see Voices play the role of a fertile garden where the imagina- tion and artistic skills of the students bloom into literary pieces of bright and beautiful colours. However, finally one thing seems to be very clear to me. We are going to read in Voices what we write for Voices, which will in turn reflect very clearly on what we are made of. The onus is on us! With regards, K.Aswani Kumar (MBU) May 2012 Disclaimer: The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by authors in this newsletter do not necessarily reflect opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of Voices or official policies of Voices. However, this does not apply to the editorial content in this newsletter. Feedback: Verified Fact or Fiction?
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Hello Voices Team,
I am writing this e-mail in response to the editorial titled
"Verified Fact or Fiction" in Voices, in the issue of March 2012,
asking the readers for feed back on what they would like to
read in Voices.
The first time I came across an article from Voices (IISc stu-
dents' newsletter) was about seven years ago. I was a 3rd year
B.Tech student and was selected for the Summer Research
Fellowship by Indian Academy of Sciences and I was to spend
my summer holidays in the Institute. Before I started on my
maiden journey to Bangalore, I went and met a teacher of ours
in the college ( who gave me the recommendation letter for
the summer fellowship application). He told me that IISc is a
lovely place to work and stay, wished me good luck and then
gave me photocopies of two articles to read; one was about
"Places to eat-out in Bangalore" and the other was "Why
women do not have pockets?". Both the articles were written
by him and were published in the IISc students' newsletter,
when he was a student at IISc. That was my first encounter
with Voices, in a place about 200km away from Bangalore.
I spent two exhilarating months in IISc in the summer of 2005.
I went back to my college and came back 6 months later to
work on my B.Tech final semester project. Soon I graduated
from college and then came back again to IISc to pursue a
PhD. Ever since I joined the institute, I never missed an oppor-
tunity to grab a copy of Voices whenever it was published and
placed in strategic locations like the erstwhile tea kiosk, coffee
board, juice shop, in the mess or anywhere I could lay my
hands on it. I used to keenly go through the articles and after I
finished reading the articles I would take the copy to my room
and keep it safely in a file. In the span of these six to seven
years, I have noticed several changes in Voices, some small
and some big! The editorial moved from the first page to the
inner pages,Voices went online and started to work in collabo-
ration with the Students' Council. Despite many changes,
somethings continued to exist. Voices gives each one of us a
platform to express our view point and opinion about any hap-
penings on campus. Voices enables us with the right to free-
dom of expression, a powerful tool which needs to be exer-
cised with responsibility to spread appreciation of good
things, give feed back and raise an alarm about anything that
seems to be going in the wrong direction in the campus.
Voices gives us power to raise constructive criticism and gives
us the power to raise questions and let the members of the
campus know about the questions raised. The articles in
Voices let us empathize with each others' difficulties, joys and
sorrows.
When I think and try to recollect about the articles from Voices
that made an impact on me, several of them come to my
mind. There were serious articles on minor issues and humor-
ous and satirical articles on major problems presented in a
lighter tone and probably driving home the problem in a much
better manner. There was an article on the luxury of having a
mess facility in IISc (as opposed to foreign universities where
you are responsible for your meals), there was an article on
"the advantages of having water shortage in the hostels" (a
satire!), there were "adventures of Bhoondoo- a hypothetical
research student", flirtations in Tea Board (with the dogs an-
ticipating food!), several cartoons depicting life in IISc, deport-
ment of people in mess, the parking woes, the shitting crows (I
had once heard that IISc could be conveniently expanded to
Indian Institute of Shitting crows and then someone immedi-
ately asked the question, "How do we know that they are all
crows up there?") and the hostel rooms and so on. Many of
these articles, though written in a lighter tone, never failed to
present the gravity of the situation, besides giving a laugh to
my heart's content. Many a time, I secretly and fervently
hoped that the article should have been read by someone with
administrative powers on campus and have caused a similar
effect of giving them a good laugh and at the same time pois-
ing them into action to quickly sort out the problem referred
to in the article.
After digressing so much, when I try to come back and answer
the editor's question on what I would like to read in Voices, my
answer seems to be very vague to me! It also brings to my
mind the question, what is expected from a students' news
letter in a research institution? There is a world of possibilities!
I would love to read the aspirations and predicaments, joys
and sorrows, success stories and failures, poetry and prose and
anything earnestly shared by campus community. I would like
to know the different perspectives of the same event that
happened on campus. I would like to see how a set tradition
can be questioned in the true spirit of inquiry. I would like to
see Voices play the role of a fertile garden where the imagina-
tion and artistic skills of the students bloom into literary pieces
of bright and beautiful colours. However, finally one thing
seems to be very clear to me. We are going to read in Voices
what we write for Voices, which will in turn reflect very clearly
on what we are made of. The onus is on us!
With regards,
K.Aswani Kumar (MBU)
May 2012
Disclaimer: The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by authors in this newsletter do not necessarily reflect opinions,
beliefs and viewpoints of Voices or official policies of Voices. However, this does not apply to the editorial content in this
newsletter.
Feedback: Verified Fact or Fiction?
Page 2 Voices. The IISc Newsletter
The following students have been unanimously elected as
Office Bearers of Students� Council for the year 2012-2013:
1. For the post of Chairman
Pramod Kumar Verma
Dept. of Physics, Ph.D
2. For the post of General Secretary
Patadiya Dharmesh
Dept. of Aersospace, Ph.D
3. For the post of Secretary, Womens� Affairs
Annuradha Rakesh
Dept. of Mgmt. Studies, Ph.D
Indian among Facebook Fellowship Winners of 2012-2013 Rashmi Korlakai Vinayak, an alumnus of the Indian Institute
of Science was announced as one of the winners of the
Facebook Fellowship recently, an event that is Facebook�s
way of supporting the academic community.
The Fellowship received around 300 applications, out of
which only 12 were declared winners. As a member of the
Fellowship, Rashmi received a $30,000 intended to cover
study expenses, as well as tuition for the year 2012-2013.
The Fellows are also welcomed to visit Facebook later this
year to get together with engineers who work on problems
corresponding to each Fellow�s research.
IISc News
IISc aims to cut carbon footprint
In a bid to reduce carbon emissions in Bangalore, researchers
from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), will be collaborating
with scientists from China in a workshop on April 13 and 14 at
IISc.
The �Low Carbon Cities: 2012 Bangalore Workshop� will focus
on devising alternative methodologies in controlling
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and urban planning.
"These discussions will help the researchers in coming up
with new and improved models that will help reduce the
carbon footprint of not only Bangalore, but other cities in the
country as well", says Dr Ramachandra TV (Energy &
Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences,
IISc.). �This research has been going on for one-and-half
years. We will generate models for policy makers based on
that." .
Students' Council has installed a new fully automatic Elgi Vayu
1 BHP air pump in the basement of Hostel 2 {B-mess base-
ment}. It is located at the entrance of the basement, near the
security desk. This pump has been purchased with the proceed-
ings of the old bicycle auction conducted some time back. All
the campus residents are welcome to use this facility to fill air in
their bicycles. Here are a few guidelines for using the pump.
1. This is an automatic compressor. Please do not switch on/off
anything.
2. The machine is set to maintain the pressure between 4 kgf/
cm2 to 6 kgf/cm2 {55 psi to 85 psi}, which is the usual pressure
range for bicycle tyres.
3. The machine will automatically turn on/off to maintain the
required pressure.
4. You will need to use only the air hose to fill air in your bicycle.
5. Please coil the air hose and place it back on the clamp after
use.
6. This pump is intended for bicycles only. The pressure setting
does not work for motor-cycle tyres.
7. In case the machine does not function properly or if you find
any air leakages, please email Amenities Committee, Students'
Afterthought: As suggested by some of our readers, Voices would
like to start a contest where we invite contributions on a particular
theme and trust our judgement in choosing the best of them. The cho-
sen one would then be published in our next issue with a special men-
tion. The theme for this month�s contest is humour and we invite
readers to contribute articles related to the theme. The deadline for the
same is 31st May, 2012. We request you to send in your contributions
and we hope that Mamta Banerjee and analogous regimes are not
watching.
Page 11
U in U Confidence in heart, Makes man smart. It all starts the moment your tort, All the strains & pains, Trains you. Every spell may kill, Never be mum, say sound. Stay away from stray, Be in your way, never on others tray. At your will, do well. At the end, what u would find, Is another u, Wound within u ! R. Sri Muthu Mrinalini (ISU)
May 2012
I picked up
"The brush"
To paint the life
Unlike you,
I thought to coat
Blue-for the tears
Red-for the pains
Black-for the fear
White-for the rains
Glittering days
Gloomy nights
Fading Prays
Ruthless fights
Astounded again
Felt the discomfort
Lost!
In the tapestry of threads!
Floating in the colors
I saw
Sky that roars
Drizzles often!
Soaked!
The ripples of thoughts
Turbulent!
Drifted- I was,
To the shore
The bogus grasses-fake green
Of hallucination!
I yelled!
�Don�t tell me
Roses are Red
White calms the peace
Black is the devil!�
Perplexed- I was,
What I perceive is
that what I see
Red for you, is
Black for me!
The canvas-hence
remained �Untouched�!
The Canvas YOU
Beauty has never been this beautiful Life had never seen some one so graceful. What you are I have doubts, As no human can ever be this����� Had heard the stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel and Snow White, Never believed these stories to be right, But thanks to you, {For retrieving me from those dungeons of ignorance}. Now the doubts I have is few. Had Shakespeare ever seen you, Ophelia, Miranda and Juliet would have been laid waste, The daffodils would never have blossomed, And the Solitary Reaper would still be at rest. Your moon like face run over by the strands of hair, The enchanting smile, like a stream carrying young drops of rain is so rare. You are like the shining sun, The cause of seasons, rainbow, night and other beautiful phenomenon. Lucky for me to have these mesmerizing sights in share Anyone else be like you!! The Gods won�t dare. Whenever you stand among the crowd Though protected, still radiating from your shroud Thunder bolting with every smile of yours Making it life�s greatest paradox. Looking at you makes my heart think of the monsoon winds which are always generous and kind, But thinking about the days of drought, Leaves me in a painful distraught. The day I will be with you, I know would never come But my feelings for you is like a radioactive reaction that can't be un-done. Whenever I close my eyes, I just see your beautiful face Never have I seen some one with such grace, Sometimes I wish I could go and tell you this But dare not I go through that test.
Suraj Kumar Das (MATERIALS)
Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel �Hridayaninadini� (CES)
Page 12 Voices. The IISc Newsletter
Diluted�
I , hereby , dedicate this part of my imagination to the World where everything gets diluted....
Concentrated Ambiance
Pulls You
to get diluted
with the air
that faintly cross
the hills
Ripples the Pond
and
Get mixed up with the soil
The emotions within You
Will get diluted
when those tears
washes your eye-lashes
& topples down on the letter..
Your words
hence
Diluted......
When the massive crowds
cries for You
You , Alone and
The swarm of Heads
Applauding hands
Brave , you stand
Head high
Your Fear
hence
diluted...
When You are resting your body
On the death bed
You smile
the World drops their hearts
You are
Perishable
and
Finally,
Your smile , Diluted
World mourns !!!
and
It's the truth!!!
God has
His own ratio
To dilute
You and the Space
its
Zero is to two ratio
Where
Your Normality seldom matters
Your creed seldom matters
Your possession seldom matters...
After all,
You are meant to be
Diluted..!!!
Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel "Hridayaninadini"
(CES)
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