We would request all the guests to please settle down.

We shall begin the event in a

few minutes.

Yash Prabhu:

A very good morning to one and all present here. A hearty welcome to respected
dignitaries, members of management, our beloved principal, teaching faculty, dear
parents and my fellow Vivaites.

I, Yash Prabhu, and I, Shalmali Takle, are delighted to present you the 4th
convocation ceremony of VSOA.

The energy in this auditorium is reflecting throughout, there are mixed emotions
everywhere as the students who are graduating are closing one chapter of their life and
beginning another.

Shalmali Takle:

Before we begin with the ceremony, I would request everyone to kindly standup for the
national anthem.

National Anthem

I would request everyone to kindly take your seats so we can move further with the
most awaited moment of your life – The Graduation Ceremony of batch 2013-18.

(10 sec buffer time for the audience to settle)

“Yun hi nahin milti raahi ko manzil,

Ek junoon sa dil mein jagaana hota hai,
Pooncha chidiya se kaise bana aashiyaan,
Boli, bharni padti hai udaan baar-baar
Tinka tinka uthana hota hai”

Your journey in these five years was similar to this phrase. It was not a one-way flight,
it took everyone multiple tries, several ups and downs and intense hard-work to reach
where they are today. As Chakor sir always says,

“Part to whole, whole to part”

I’m sure the true meaning of this line is realized by the batch sitting here today after
coming to this point. There is another point which is always stressed upon in this
institution right from the first year, first day itself. Professionalism is valued and
imbibed at VSOA as it is a perfect blend of the traditional as well contemporary ways
and means required for the development of a student’s overall growth and development.
This ensures that every year the society at large is benefitted with the well-equipped
professionals who can significantly contribute to the value creation process.

Yash Prabhu:
Rightly said by my co-host, professionalism is very important in our field and I’m sure
all the students present here will now agree to it.

So finally coming to the highlight of the ceremony, today is the day when you are going
to receive an appreciation for all the efforts, sleepless nights and not to forget the
painstaking amount of redos done by you guys in these academic years.
Today is the day when you will truly be the professionals that you were
where you people will be termed as educated professionals, your certification will be
your degree. So, enough of net practice, now its time to show your game.

On that note,

Let us give our utmost felicitation to our respected dignitaries.

We are honored to have with us today to grace the occasion as a chief guest prof. y.d.
pitkar
I would request CHAKOR SIR to felicitate PITKAR SIR
Thank you sir!
we also have today with, Prof GAURISH CHANDAVARKAR, the Guest of Honor.
I would request CHAKOR SIR to felicitate the gaurish sir.
Thank you chakor sir.

ARCHI:
There are special moments and occasions in the life of every community that brings
people together, vsoa truly believes the value of a relationship……be it students-
teacher relation or parent-teacher relation…..as you can see our family growing larger
every single day

I would compliment our beloved management , for being the foundationand and an
integral part of this esteemed organization, we are truly blessed, honoured and
privileged to share their company. We would like to recognize the presence of our
estimed management members,
Mis. Aparna Thakur
Mr. Sanjeev patil
Mr. k. p. n. Kutty sir
Mr. Padhya sir

Thank you all for always being with us, we are truly gratetful and honored by your
presence.

ARCHI:

Moving on, Now its time to invite on stage the man who always needs to be hinted from
below when he is on the dias, the one who appreciates and punishes with the exchange
of 5stars, he is the one who has unexpected trajectories of mood at unexpected
occasions, he is a substitute parent that we all got and I know his life lessons and abacus
of life has been a life long gift to all. Its an honor to have a personality like you as our
mentor. He is a firm believer of professional etiquettes.
The man who needs no introduction in our family , id like to invite with a round of
aplouse prof chakor Mehta on the diace and share a few words.

SHALMALI TAKLE:

Thank you sir!

, "If you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only
yourself. So no more winning. Instead, try to love others and serve others, and
hopefully find those who love and serve you in return."
VSOA has proved that architecture is beyond designing structures. Architecture
touches all parts of the society. Without interacting with all the parts of the
society, we can never design.Your journey in VSOA would be incomplete without
the mention of our cultural and social activities. These events have brought us all
closer as a viva family. We present you an initiative you were a part of. Some
special moments to be proud of. We present you Kshann.

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. “
Architects play a vital role in balancing the environment and as an architect it our
responsibility to give back to the nature what we take from it. To accomplish it,
VSOA had established an eco-justice concerns committee ‘EJCC’. Taking it a step
further, EJCC has been organizing tree plantation campaigns. This year VSOA
students planted around 100 saplings near our college campus.
Also, last year VSOA had arranged an annual day and a social week where in the
social week consisted of very various interesting workshops and lecture series.

It was a great success. We thrive for many such more successful events. We are
sure that your good wishes and support will help the college endeavor much
greater heights.

(Video plays)

KANISHKA KURDA:

I’m sure you all must be feeling nostalgic.

Myself kanishka kurda from final here

Now For an institution to augment it needs to have a strong foundation, pillars that hold
the institute together. A society grows in the presence of greatness, on this note, I would
like to take a moment and thank our management members for their never ending
support, without you all this wouldn’t have been possible, I shall take the freedom to
call you as our parents, as we all our your kisd to whom you pamper as and when
needed.
Today it will be an honor to gather a few words of wisdom from you,
1) aparna Thakur
she is registered with the ministry of corporate affairs ……..
 Thank you maam …
Moving on to our next guest hw is the joint secretary of the trust , an engineer
by qualification he has played a very active role at VIVA trust, he has always
played a role of elder brother and hence he is affectionately also known as dada.
Dadad has always inspired and motivated us al throughout our stint at viva.
Right from day one that is from spe 201.
Now I would request sanjiv patil sir to pls come upon dias and share few words.
Thankyou dada, it is always been as honor to have you with us.

Moving on to our next guests, he is the trust coordinator of our beloved viva
inst. As always been present in an hour of need. On all our issues and matter to
which we kind attention of our management sir has rightly played a role of
coordinator and we are obliged for all his patient hearing.
I would request k.P.N. Kutty sir to please come on the dias and say few words.

Thankyou sir…. Your words always motivates us to do better than the best.
Moving on to our next guests.
s. n. padhyay sir :
he has played a very vital role in the trust and has ascended as a back bone and
a founding member of the management course at viva trust. It is truly inspiring
to have a person with vast knowledge. Be a driving force for this institute he is
an individual who knows most of the cooperate personality to come across.
He has always been a guidance and I am sure will continue to be in the coming
years. Now I would request sir to come upon the dias and share some words.
Thankyou sir for sharing your immense knowledge with us.

SHALMALI TAKLE:

Thank you so much sir, thank you for sharing………we are truly humbled and
honoured by your presence.

Id like to say a few words about the guest of honor

He’s the Director and Principal in Charge of the IES College of Architecture since
2009. He is an architect by qualification with more than a decade of teaching
experience and nearly two decades of a landscape architecture practice in
Mumbai. He is a cycling enthusiast and plays badminton regularly. Prof. Gaurish
truly believes that sports coupled with a spiritual routine help to develop an all
round personality and a positive attitude for meeting all challenges that life may
throw at you. Gaurish Chandawarkar is currently heading the Mumbai Studio of
Design Cell.
Now I would like the guest of honour prof. gaurish chandavarkar to share a
few words.

ISHA SHAH:
Good afternoon everyone!
Thank you sir for your astounding advice and
inspiring presence.
I , isha shah from third year deem it a privilege to
introduce our esteemed Chief Guest for today, Prof.Y.D
Pitkar to this auspicious gathering.
Pitkar sir is a Graduate from sir. J.J school of
architecture and was a professor at the same institute.
Recently,retierd as a principal of sir.jj school of
architecture, he is currently associated with
academy of architecture.
He is a grandfatherly figure for all of us.
After a long stint of active teaching for 28 years he is
a multi faceted personality.
He has been a member of several comittees,has
several books, articles, seminars and workshops
to his credit.
Pitkar sir is a collector and has a collection of antique
and vintage inkpots, fountain pens, and different
stones of varying sizes from few centimeters
to even a foot long.
He is one of the privileged few for having delivered a
lecture at national institute of design on fountain pens.
He can be easily termed as a walking encylcopedia on
fountain pens .i m sure even google may give lesser
info about fountain pens and inkt than professor.
He has even written an article on travelling ink pot
which was published in times of india.
Recently,he had a solo exhibition at rachna sansad
academy of architecture.
Besides his profession ,he is passionate for framing
things and therefore photography.
His astounding photographs were displayed at
jahangir art gallery and India art gallery as "The
heritage collection."
He is evident of the fact that age is just a number
but he inspires us to remain young by heart no
matter the age. His passion for life shows when
he talks about life shows when he talks about his
adventures of sky diving!!
I would like to invite prof. Y.d pitkar sir to join us on
stage and share some words with us !
Its time for awards, so here is the first category-that is
design dessertation.
This awards goes to-name
A huge round of applaud to - so and so....

ANIKET KELASKAR:

Thank you so much sir, your words were inspirational ,

You are a very young faculty at heart, extremely energetic and go to faculty when
it comes to students. Your passion towards your work is truly commendable.
On this occasion I would take an oppourtinity and bring to your notice
that…today we have 3 generations of teachers and students in the room, following
a hierarchy of we becoming students to our beloved faculty naina mam, khushbu
mam……they were students to chakor sir and chakor sir and gaurish sir were
students to pitkar sir.
It’s a overwhelming to see such a legacy being carryforward.

Today, we have gathered here to celebrate the graduation ceremony,

Before we move further ,im sure today chakor sir has no griviences, looking at your
professional attire. you guys are looking stunning.

This is an event filled with mixed emotions. Every single individual present here today
has awaited for this big day.
Viva school of architecture came into being with a batch of 40 students and two
teachers, and now it has reached an enormous strength of students and fraternity. An
institute which started from scratch, is now proud to announce that the family is still
growing…..with an additional intake of 80students per batch from this year onwards.
Heartiest congratulations to all who have worked hard to achieve this milestone.

SHALMALI TAKLE :

We strive hard to carry forward your legacy , your work is still looked upon by
the juniors, help them achieve a better standards. So,thank you and
Congratulations! Today is your day.
Now ” the question isn’t whos going to let me, its whos going to stop me.”
You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

Finally the wait is over- And now the most significant moment of the ceremony has
come. This is going to be a proud moment for all the parents ,as it’s a collective effort
throughout these 5 years. I request the candidates to join us on the stage as we call out
your names.

We would like to request gaurish chandwarkar to come on the diace and please
do the honours.

(list of students with roll calls)

thank you sir, we request you to please take your seat.

we would like to request aparna/pravina maam to come on the diace and please
do the honors.

Thank you mam

We kindly request you to have a seat.

(ARCHI AND KANISHKA ENTERS)

We would invite chakor sir to please do the honors.

Thank you sir
We would like to request pitkar sir to Come on the diace and please do the honors.

ARCHI:
Pitkar sir we would want you to wait on the stage….
I would request gaurish sir and chakor sir to come on the diace and felicitate the
awardees

This is not the end of the ceremony, hold your breath for now its time to announce
our awardees ,
The category of awards is as follows
Award for best design desertation
Award for ARD
Award for cgpa
Announcing the award for best design desertation …any guesses …..goes to

(Similarly for rest 2 awards)

thank you all! Guest of honor, management, chakor sir, pitker sir.

KANISHKA:
A single trophy cannot sum up your contribution to VSOA. However, as a token of
appreciation, this year a new trophy has been introduced in the list. We have
designated this trophy as ‘Student of the batch 2012- 17’.

Well not like the movie, but the student who deserves this trophy was selected by
a committee of senior faculty members of VSOA on the basis of his/her
involvement in extra-curricular activities, contribution to the college, student
initiative or self-driven efforts for the college and his/her academic record. 4
students of the batch were shortlisted for the same.

ARCHI:
Now we are glad to introduce you to our next surprise which is a fwllow mate
Among yourself a person who is known for capturing all the moment till date who
started up with the photography team, who had give his constant support for
sports events and was a sports secretory… so friends now you all might have
recognized who it is
Yesss its none other than dwanish vaishnav
A big round of applause..

(Archi and aniket enter after dwanish)

ANIKET KELASKAR:

We feel honored and privileged to get an opportunity to propose a vote of thanks

As we conclude the ceremony.
July 15, 2018 will indeed a very memorable event in the history of vsoa as our most
beloved batch graduates today.
On the behalf of viva school of architecture and the entire fraternity we would like to
thank Prof. PITKAR SIR and Prof. GAURISH CHANDAVARKAR for gracing this
convocation ceremony and extending their support in making this event possible.
We also wish to express our sincere gratitude to the president our trust
MR.HITENDRA THAKUR for his encouraging guidance and his provision of a
stimulating environment for such educational development.
It’s his vision and leadership that has brought revolutionary changes in VIVA.

behind every successful event theres a need of a strong team, which make things
possible, I would take a moment and thank the technical team, hospitality team,
photography team, catering team, all my co-anchors and admin staff.
Last but not the least special thanks to agarwal sir, khushbu mam and naina mam for
their immence support and guidance throughout the event.
Truly guys this wouldn’t have been possible without you all.

ARCHI:
Congratulations! To our graduates of batch 2012-13, we are proud of you, you worked
hard, you succeeded and now you should celebrate, this signifies a new begning for
each and every one of you, the closing hours have finally arrived. Tomorrow new
challenges and opportunities awaits, our graduates that will further test their mettle as
improving individuals, as they continue with their journey, may they look back at to
this stage in their life with fondness and pride, enjoy your day with family and friends.
Thankyou and good luck.

I would request all the gradutees to assemble on the 2nd floor for the
graduation photo