MAGIMNUOPUS September, 2008

From the Editors Desk...

Dear Readers,

The September edition is kaleidoscope of achievements, tradi-

tion and values.

On 5th of September despite the examinations, students wanted

to felicitate our respected faculties. But our teachers told us to
prepare for examination and postpone the teacher’s day cele-
bration. Students were disappointed, but this caring gesture
from our faculties has reinforced our belief in traditional Indian
values. We have tried to pay our gratitude by featuring an arti-
cle “The Creation of a Teacher”.

We also salute our new national heroes, Abhinav Bindra, Sushil

Kumar and Vijender Kumar for making the Beijing trip the best
ever Olympics for India.

In student’s activities section we have come up with a story on

National Student Management Game, where an INNU team
has qualified for national semifinals. We hope they will bring
Inside this issue: more glory to IMNU.

The Creation of a Teacher 2 When we were in process of publishing the September edition
PPV teams were skipping meals and burning the midnight oil to
ensure good placements for IMNU. The magIMNUopus salutes
India @ Olympics 3
the spirit and dedication of placement cell of IMNU.

Browser Wars 5
We have prepared this edition during examinations, but tried to
live up to our reader’s expectations. If you have any sugges-
Is It Worth... 6
tions and comments about magazine please let us know. We
will try to publish your suggestions and comments in our
Swapping Roles 7 “Reader’s speak” section.

NSMG 8 Happy reading folks!!

Reader’s Speak 9 ~ Team magIMNUopus

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The Creation of a Teacher

The Good Lord was creating teachers. It was His not be seen, but what must be known. The eyes
sixth day of 'overtime' and He knew that this was in the front are only to look at the child as he/she
a tremendous responsibility, for teachers would 'acts out' in order to reflect, “I understand and I
touch the lives of so many impressionable young still believe in you", without so much as saying a
children. An angel appeared to Him and said, word to the child."
"You are taking a long time to figure this one "Lord…" said the angel, " this is a very
out." large project and I think you should work
"Yes," said the Lord,” but on it tomorrow".
have you read the specs
...but have you read the
"I can't," said the Lord, " for I have come
on this order?"
specs on this order
very close to creating something much
like myself. I have one that comes to work
Teacher: when he/she is sick.....teaches a class of
…must stand above all students, yet be on their children that do not want to learn....has a special
level place in his/her heart for children who are not his/
... must be able to do 180 things not connected her own.....understands the struggles of those
with the subject being taught who have difficulty....never takes the students for
granted..."
… must run on coffee and leftovers
… must communicate vital knowledge to all stu- The angel looked closely at the model the Lord
was creating.
dents daily and be right most of the time
... must have more time for others than for her- "It is too soft-hearted,” said the angel.
self/himself "Yes," said the Lord, “but also tough, you cannot
imagine what this teacher can endure or do, if
... must have a smile that can endure through
necessary".
pay cuts, problematic children, and worried par-
ents "Can this teacher think?" asked the angel.
... must go on teaching when parents question "Not only think," said the Lord, "but reason and
every move and others are not supportive compromise."
... must have 6 pair of hands. The angel came closer to have a better look at
the model and ran his finger over the teacher's
cheek.
"Six pair of hands, “said the angel, "that's impos-
sible" "Well, Lord, " said
the angel, your job
"Well,” said the Lord, “it is not the hands
that are the problem. It is the three pairs
Teachers would touch the lives looks fine but
of eyes that are presenting the most diffi-
of so many impressionable there is a leak. I
culty!" young children told you that you
were putting too
The angel looked incredulous, “Three
much into this
pairs of eyes...on a standard model?"
model. You cannot imagine the stress that will
The Lord nodded His head, “One pair can see a
be placed upon the teacher."
student for what he is and not what others have
The Lord moved in closer and lifted the drop of
labeled him as. Another pair of eyes is in the
moisture from the teacher's cheek. It shone and
back of the teacher's head to see what should

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The Creation of a Teacher….. Contd.

glistened in the light. "My, “said the angel,” The tear thing is a great
"It is not a leak," He said, "It is a tear." idea...You are a genius!!"
"A tear? What is that?" asked the angel, "What is
a tear for?" The Lord looked somber, "I didn't put it
The Lord replied with there."
I have come very close
great thought, "It is for
to creating something
the joy and pride of
much like myself
seeing a child accom- ~ Author Unknown
plish even the smallest
…..said the Lord
task. It is for the loneli-
ness of children who
have a hard time to fit in and it is for compassion
for the feelings of their parents. It comes from the
pain of not being able to reach some children and
the disappointment those children feel in them-
selves. It comes often when a teacher has been
with a class for a year and must say good-bye to
those students and get ready to welcome a new
class."

India @ Olympics

For the first time in 80 years, the Indian Men's
Hockey Team failed to qualify for the summer
Olympics. Yet, the three medals won at Beijing
could help correct years of frustration at India's
poor sporting performances. Abhinav Bindra be-
came India’s first individual Olympic champion
Abhinav Bindra - Gold, Shooting
after claiming the 10m air rifle before freestyle
wrestler Sushil Kumar and middleweight boxer
Vijender Kumar added bronze medals to the tally.
One is the son of a prosperous businessman with
an Olympic-size shooting range in his backyard.
Another grew up in a dusty village, sparring with
his brother for use of a shared family bicycle. A
third spent most of his youth in a musty, mouse-
infested room at a wrestling camp in the capital.
Others such as badminton star Saina Nehwal
and boxers Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar
came tantalizingly close to winning a dream
medal. This was India’s best ever show at the
Olympics.
The medal winners have satisfied a national

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India @ Olympics….. Contd.
Sushil Kumar - Bronze, wrestling
yearning and in the process made a statement
about the significance of sport in an era of esca-
lating political turmoil. Olympic success, the vic-
tories demonstrated, held the promise of uniting
Indians across the country. For the first time in
Indian Olympic history, the media appropriated
these accomplishments in a manner associated
commonly with cricket.
In this atmosphere of relative optimism, a note of
caution is necessary. If a fundamental transfor-
mation of sports in India is not brought about,
Abhinav's gold will remain his, a moment of indi-
vidual brilliance lost amidst countless failures
since independence.
India's sporting sports need an overhaul and
three individual medals can only create a possi-
bility for such a change to come about. Unless
the government, sports administrators, heads of
the IOA and, finally, the corporate houses come
forward to embrace Olympic sport, Beijing 2008
will survive as an aberration. Private efforts such
as the Mittal Champions Trust and Olympic Gold
Quest Foundation must contribute more towards
Indian sport.
Many theories have been proposed to account
for India's failure. Some experts say India has not
much in the way of sports culture and few he-
roes; others blame a "corrupt sporting bureauc-
racy". Things have got so bad that in the past,
Indian sports ministers have suggested a morato-
rium on international competition to train athletes
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who will not be a national embarrassment. In a
recent paper, Anirudh Krishna and Eric Haglund,
two academics at Duke University in the United
States, said that the problem for India is not the
size of the economy or the large population but
the number of people who can "effectively partici-
pate in sports". Not everyone in our country has
equal access to competitive sports. Many are not
effective participants on account of ignorance or
disinterest, disability or deterrence.
It's about time Indian rulers be stripped off their
power and money so that they don't get to use
the scant resources of a largely poor country to
take the lavish trips to Olympic villages; it's time
sports administrations in India be freed of political
coteries and handed over to independent, honest
Vijender Kumar - Bronze, Boxing
and dedicated personalities and groups. Success
in sports and games reflect the character of a
nation's youth; India's youth must come out of its
opium of Bollywood and Wall Street-dictated life-
style and entertainment, and find some moral
fiber for itself. Come the 2010 Commonwealth
Games, Indian athletes can aspire to be more
than also-rans. But if we fail to build on our rare
Olympic success by building infrastructure and
facilities, that might become a distant dream.
~ Team magIMNUopus
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Browser Wars - and what makes it a war
This week, Google launched their browser and
called it Chrome. This marks the official start of
BROWSER WARS III (BW-III). Just to a take a
sneak peak into the previous two wars, BW-I was
the glorious Netscape Vs Internet Explorer (IE).
Netscape had the first mover advantage and had
around 80% market share in 1996.
By 2003, Microsoft, with its muscle
power (read financial muscle) had
totally wiped off Netscape from the
www map. Some ex-Netscape as-
sociates formed another company
and made the most widely known open source
application- Mozilla’s Firefox. It’s customizable
features made it popular with the serious surfers
(web surfers). This was the BW-II era. IE was the
default browser, as it came free and pre-installed
with Windows. Those who rarely used the net, or
used only for dedicated single instances, did not
care about the browser and did not make the
choice of a browser. But majority of those who
made the choice choose Firefox, as is evident
from the red portion.
Browser Wars: The Timeline
Source: Wikipedia
So did BW-II get over?? Well, yes and no. It got
over because there was this select group of web-
users who used it (Firefox), and there was this
group who’ll never use it. There some other play-
ers too (Opera the most known one, Apple’s Sa-
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fari and some others based on Linux…) but their
presence was limited. And just when we thought
that the BW was over, Google launched
“Chrome”. Analysts, critics, techies, Googlers,
professional surfers, bloggers, VJs, DJs, Politi-
cians, Comedians…… everyone has his/her own
opinion on why Google launched
chrome and whether it’ll be a suc-
cess or not. You may search (or
“Google it” should I say) it to update
your TQ (Tech Quotient… wow I
almost invented a word). But what I
can tell you for sure is that this is a sign of excit-
ing times in the BW. Suddenly you have the best
Firefox (Firefox 3.0 with a beta 3.1 coming up),
an IE which has made many heads turn (IE
8beta), Opera (which always had the best of the
features), Apple’s Safari (well it’s an Apple, what
else to say) and a goggle browser (which is a
combination of Safari, Firefox and Google’s new
technology). This, my dear, is BW-III, and it can’t
get better than this. And to add to the wars,
Chrome is as much open source as Firefox is,
and soon we can see the new features in Firefox
too. This will force IE, Safari and Opera to inno-
vate. And I hope that does more good than harm
to users.
Read more about them, before you participate in
the wars:
IE 8
Firefox 3
Chrome
Safari
Opera
Image: Gizmodo.com
~ Maheep Mandloi(Alumni)
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Is it worth…..

I live for myself, I breathe for myself

I sing, dance I ate
and one fair day I met someone
the fairest I ever met
I get to like her as I get to know her, I wanted to be with her
now she is not with me and her memories are getting blur
the day came in our life, it was such a situation
she with utmost faith in me, just asked a question
would u die for me ???
and then it happened so, just in a fraction
we started walking together but, changed the direction

and today I am happy, having all the fun

just asking myself, is it worth dying for someone ???
was it worth dying for her ???
she who always shy in telling, but I know what does she mean
she who always ask me to shave, she who wants me to be clean
she who always stops me to drink and smoke
she who always motivates me, never provoke
she who dares to walk with me, even when she is afraid
she who keep all the letters, even after the letters are fade
she who always saves money for me, curbing all her needs
she who always comes to me, despite all my deeds
she who waits long for me and I always get late
and then she forgives me and smile, thinking that’s her fate

Is she worth more than my life, I had never thought

I know how much she loves me, with whom I always fought
I laughed at her, knowing not why she was crying
I let her go, saying to myself, is she worth dying ???

~ Ankit Shrimali (MBAFT, 2nd Year)

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Swapping Roles
Description 1:
Ears pierced, waxed legs found sitting in a sa-
loon enjoying a facial massage and a pedicure,
getting their hair styled for the new look.
Description 2:
N-95 in one hand, car keys in another, enters in
the door of a corporate office wearing striped
shirt & trousers, finishes by 9 at night heading
towards to hit the new pub in the city with friends.
What do you think about these descriptions, to
me they sounded like:
Description 1 = female
Description 2 = male
But, why not try reading them the other way
round, with headings:
Description 1 = new era male
Description 2 = new era female
Don’t you think Adam and Eve have swapped
images or at least have begun to do so?
Just think about that macho image a typical male
had, rough and strong, the only member capable
of supporting his family who usually doesn’t in-
dulges: in accessorizing himself or taking care of
his body or shopping in bulk maintaining pace
with upcoming fashion trends.
But the new version is completely different. This
so called “metro-sexual male” hits the gym every
day, knows every trend of the fashion world,
takes a weekly massage, plays with his hairstyle
and believe it or not, spends minimum half an
hour before getting ready for any occasion. Just
look at his shoes, the locket around his neck, the
belt he wears, he had paid attention to each min-
ute detail of his clothing and is decked to turn
some eyes towards him.
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Where did this change originate? In my opinion
the change began with Eve, the day she broke
out of the 4 walls of her home, started working,
earning and contributing much more to the soci-
ety than she was assumed to be. During this
transformation, sari was replaced by jeans and t-
shirt, heels by sports shoes and bangles by wrist
watches or bands. Necessity developed the love
for gadgets and mobiles, I-pods walked into a
women’s life.
So, are we saying that females should be blamed
for the change? Then, I think men should be
blamed for following the change. But this isn’t a
race, or a fight. Probably, from satyug to kalyug,
the roles were subject to the nature of reversal.
The bigger question is what will be the speed of
this wind of reversal and what will be the angle of
rotation. Is it justifiable to predict that at some
point in future men would abandon their work
throne and sit back at home, relax, attend men
kitty parties, shop and cook whereas women
would run their home financially, go to office,
party late night with friends at club, play golf and
relish their drinks and fag to distress them?
If what I am saying is exaggeration of facts, then
think about changes that have recently been ob-
served. The past predicts, the change is bound to
happen, when the boundaries of resistance are
already disappearing.
~ Priyanka Jain (MBAFT, 2nd Year)
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National Student Management Games

“Business simulation games” is fast becoming a gave us the opportunity to get a feel of things.
buzzword not only in B-schools, but also in the And then, the real thing started. We have always
corporate world. It consists of let- analysed situations in cases and
ting the teams play the part of the always faced deadlines, but this
top management of a business. I never knew that was totally different ball game. We
The situations facing the business someone so laidback had never been so excited nor un-
are described and the teams are could actually be so der so much pressure. We were
required to take decisions related aggressive. competing against other teams
to operations, marketing and fi- and just as in an actual market,
nance. There are a lot of strategic their decisions and strategies had
decisions to be taken as well. The simulations a direct impact on our performance. Throughout
are as close as possible to the real world. our journey to the various positions in the rank-
Two teams from IMNU participated in the AIMA ings, we always had to predict what the competi-
NSMG 2008, organised at Sinhgad Institutes in tors might do, weigh aggressive decisions
the heart of the Sahyadri, at Lonavala. against conservative ones and always debate on
th
We left Ahmedabad on 20 , by the Pune Express whether to add that extra digit or not. Everyone
at 4pm. The train journey was one big roller felt the rush of adrenalin and had different ways
coaster ride thanks to the hyperactive group, es- of dealing with the pressure. Some tried humour,
pecially the fun loving seniors who knew not what some tried to calm their nerves (and those of oth-
rest was. Pratish’s knowledge about the delica- ers) and most of us discovered an aggressive-
cies of almost every station on the way was a big ness we didn’t know existed.
help to the ever hungry bunch. We made more Two days of excitement and hard toil ended with
noise than the train could! the seniors qualifying for the Regional Finals on

Itne Balance sheets to maine poore first year mein nahi padhe…..

We reached Lonavala at 0330 hrs only to find the
station deserted. We found one auto and put
Bhushan in it and trekked to Shahani Holiday
Homes. As usual, we haggled and bargained
with the receptionist and after more than an hour,
were reluctantly shown to our rooms.
The bus ride from Shahani Holiday Homes to
Sinhghad Institutes was bumpy and slow. The
roads were wide enough to fit only two bicycles
and the bus driver amazed us all by squeezing
in. Sinhghad Institutes’ campus is on the slope of
a hill, surrounded by hills and with a wonderful
view of Lonavala from everywhere.
The start of the games was the start of the learn-
ing curve for us. It started with a trial round which
the next day and the juniors just failing to make
the mark. But this didn’t stop the juniors from
celebrating the seniors’ victory to the fullest. The
party went late into the night…
The seniors made further progress the next day
by claiming the 3rd position in the regional finals
and qualifying for the National semi-finals to be
held in October at Coimbatore.
It was the first trip for the juniors and the seniors
made sure it was a very memorable one. Hope to
have many more in the days to come.
~ Abhijit, Pratish, Pankaj, Rushi (1st Year)
Bhushan, Raghav, Siddharth, Vinaytosh
(2nd Year)

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Reader’s Speak…..

Hi,

Prof.
I had the opportunity to read the August issue of magIMNUopus and I
Anil Menghrajani
found it very good in all respects. The sections I found very interesting
(Visiting Faculty)
were the launch of SANKALP and starting with the mess workers, and
the Alumni section which mentioned about a new business venture in
uncharted territory by the Alumni.

This is really good work!!! I would hope that I would continue to receive
the future issues of magIMNUopus especially. I hope you are creating a
small “library” of the past issues for anyone to refer to also.

All the very best and hope you will carry forward this spirit to the corpo-
rate world also.

Prof. Mallikarjun
(Faculty)

The look and feel, design and most importantly the content of the
August edition were great. Keep up the good work.

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