LIFE.... ANSWER IT

“Run! Run fast! What if you’re missing something out? What is we miss out what’s here because we are running? Do we have to fight for what we deserve? Or do we wait? For a span of time long enough to break us down. Should we expect or should we accept? Or just make things work on our own? What’s the algorithm?”


   These are the questions which everyone’s hearts keep asking them! Or everyone keep asking their hearts! But only few get the answer. Rest of them are just pessimists, who hate the way life treated them. A teacher, author tries to explain this to us through depicting the way she lived her life. Her story, in her words-

   ‘Before I received “Presidential Medal Of Freedom” award in 1964, I suffered a series of strokes, back in 1961, when the gates of life have almost closed! My will power and desire to live are what saved me. “Desire of life”!! Many think of it as a negative quality, but that is what induces the spirit in us and helps us in fighting the worst enemy of us- Death!

  This fact seems a bit irrelevant, but it is me who introduced the “akita” dog to whole of the America!

  I have a total of 12 books published books and innumerous articles published under my name. When I wrote my first book, at the age of 11, world opposed me, making the charges of plagiarism on me! I was broke completely. How could they blame me! The only source of my writings was my heart. And they say my heart is a cheat! That was the first time I felt the voids in my life. But to fill the voids, I felt that avoiding them was the best way instead of fighting back. I did that and continued with my works which are still considered to be the finest amongst its category! That day I found out that “When the world starts criticizing you, it means that you have the ingredients with you, to reach the top of the world!

  Admired by the Mark Twain, today, I stand as one of the world’s best speaker and author. By the way, my name is Helen Keller. When the world left me alone to rot, considering me nothing more than just blind and deaf, Anne Sullivan worked miracles on me to shape this rock into a beautiful statue! Every person’s life has one such teacher! Some are in the form of humans, some are in the form of experiences and some are in the form of thoughts, which are buried deep down your heart! When you meet them, you’ll get answers to all the above questions!”

“Should I live each moment? Don’t just live! Cherish them, learn from them. Be strong. Keep your head high! Move at your own pace. Everyone’s life, however trouble-studded it may be, is a unique design in itself. Just make sure that you try hard.

  Life is a question mark, than a full stop. You don’t end it; it ends only once. But you answer it! Freely! Independently! And that’s how we grow”

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

#3rd prize#
Genre : Motivational

Who am I ?


Why Am I like So ?


Why I cant be like him/her ?


Why I like this ?


Why I hate this ?


Am I Special ?


or just a Simple being, utter useless.


Whats Good in me ?


Why I cant do this ?


Why I get Scolding ?


Why cant I do what I want ?


Why taunt me ?


Why Struggles ?


Where's paradise, where's Heaven ?


Where's Eternal Relief ?


Where's Money ?


Where's Leisure ?


Where's my Life ?


Why it happens to me only ?


Why so ? Why ? Why and Why ?


Perhaps, these are the questions that revolve around us once or while in a day. Isn't it ?

    Hybridization of thoughts.... More often, this kinda questions may prevail to many. Now, its vulnerability is relative. There may be some who think about these questions more often. The word ' why' seems to be their pick.


    Well, I feel the root cause of birth of these questions is the lack of Satisfaction. We, in general are never satisfied. We want Honey... more honey... more and more Honey,and still, our thirst seldom gets quenched.


    Now, whats the answer ? Its a bit complex, and not straight forward. But it can definitely freeze all those questions, provided your assertion is good enough.


    Remember Arthur Ashe ? He is a legendary Wimbledon Player. He was suffering from a deadly disease. One of his close friend asked him "Why God has selected you only for this deadly disease ? "


    To this Ashe replied, " 50 Million children started playing tennis. 5 Million learnt it, 0.5 million learnt professional tennis, 50000 came to the Circuit, 5000 reached grandslam, 50 to Wimbledon, 4 to the Semis, and 2 to the Finals. And when I was holding the cup, I never asked God ' Why me ? Why not X,Y,Z ? ' and now in this pain, I don't have any rights to ask God 'WHY ME?'.


    The words of Ashe says it all. I bet, the very question of 'why me..' never arises in the state of Ecstasy. Say, you are rich,you wont yell out, why I am so, and why not those who are begging in the footpaths. Say, you are in supreme bliss, you wont reveal out why not others. Say, you are a King and you won a battle, its idiotic to even think of Why I won ? It never Happens.. It only happens when the rain of exhilaration ceases to fall on us.


    The more you think, the more you may end up being Distressed. Each and everyone is special in one or the other department. One doesn't need to think whether there is anything special in him/her.Searching, for something in yourself, is never a bad business. "Why I cant do this?" should be transformed into the form, after some Intermediate steps ( which are more or less, abstract.) " I can do this."


    Don't think much,at least regarding this prospect. That's the bottom-line here. Infinite crazy thoughts can come in Mind. Took a toll on the questions that encircles you. Build those which you find productive. Flush the rest, out of your mind, out of your world...


Transformations:-

Why Am I like So ??? That's me ! So What ?


Why I cant be like him/her ? I want to be 'me' only.


Why I like this ? My Choice ! No Ifs and Buts..


Why I hate this ? Again, my choice !


Am I Special ? Yes, I am.


Whats Good in me ? Heaps of Goodness ! Just need some doors to let them out.


Why I cant do this ? I can. Give me a Chance


Why I get Scolding ? Scolding makes me Strong, and brings Improvement.


Why cant I do what I want ? I can do whatever I want, which is under my Control.


Why taunt me ? I don't care !


Why Struggles ? That's the part of Life.

Where's paradise, where's Heaven ? Its Here only.. Damn Relative !


Where's Eternal Relief ? Its Hard to achieve !


Where's Money ? Depends strictly on your Work. Unnecessary thought..


Where's Leisure ? Its there ! Not 24*7 one is preoccupied with Work.


Where's my Life ? You are living it.. What more ?


Why it happens to me only ? Let it happen. If it is good,very well lest will transform it into Good.

Do Think ! But there are many other things to think at!

- D. Santosh Kumar
(First Year Electrical )

DECLINE OF LIFE

#2nd prize#


The old are in a second childhood.


-ARISTOPHANES, The Clouds



I saw these pictures and discovered the meaning of the above stated quote. I remember my mom once told me that the old people need to be looked after as an infant. Little did i know how true she was!


    When a baby opens his eyes he doesn't know who he is, what creatures are moving around him, why are they staring and laughing at him and why are they trying to entice him with toys and other colorful things. It is a new world for him. His brain is not yet developed to answer these questions. He doesn't have control over his body. He can't eat. He can't walk or sit. He just sleeps, wakes up and makes others awake. He grows up each day and starts recognizing people. He learns how to laugh and cry (i think, kids don't need to learn the skill of crying....they cry as they're born! :)).He grows up each day. His life begins. His childhood ends. He is now a real grown-up. His life goes on...

     Years pass. He is now old. He faces ignorance of the creatures whom he'd taught the lessons of life. But he has many other creatures who look after him. The world suddenly seems to be new to him. His brain is unable to answer his questions. He can't walk or sit anymore. He just sleeps, wakes up and makes others awake. He can't eat. He does not grow up anymore. He has lost control over his body. Again, he finds himself surrounded with many creatures. He can recognize only few. He doesn't know why are they staring and crying, why are they sad, why are they holding his hand, why are so many transparent pipes attached to his body and finally to these big transparent bottles. His life declines and finally again he doesn't know where he is, but is happy now. :(

     I really respect old people. my mom was right that old need to be cared as a child. Like a mother loves her baby, like a sibling loves her sibling, an old should be loved. These are the people who become happy if you share a smile, a joke, a hug or may be a chocolate :) Love them and remember an old is no less than an infant :) have a nice day!!

I WILL GO ON

#FIRST PRIZE#

 I WILL GO ON
Let the blocks I walk on
Stumble and tumble and break down
Let the pool of quenching thirst
Go shallow and dry up before a burst
I know I'll go on…..

Let the chase end before it starts
Let the tortoise overtake my carts
I know a slave's more complacent
Before my life's arrogance
I know I'll go on……

Let the triumphant victories
Those medals, that glory
Be nothing but mere memory
Making my present full of rivalry
But I know I'll go on……

Many a twist and turn and bounce
Have I crossed to pounce
On the viscous world and back
To get bruises in a stack
Let what may, be whatever
I know still, yet and forever

I WILL GO ON!

SANJANA ORIGALA,
ECE

ONE WORD and a THOUSAND FEELINGS : "COLLEGE"

#2nd Prize#    

   

   College is referred to as an higher education institution. It's the place where students learn everything. It is considered as one of the most important part of a student's life. From studying the whole year we switch to studying the night before, from going out occassionally we switch to sitting back home occassionally, from having a good percentage of attendance we switch to short attendance, from bunking classes quite rarely we switch to having GT's 3 days a week, from being dependant we turn to the responsible world of being independent and managing ourselves, we do all those things that are parents would do just to realize them that we are now college students, and many more changes accompany the fact that a student is in college.

       
   Starting from the very first day in the new environment with new faces all around and specially the feeling of a "college" , it seems all perfect as if you passed junior college(11th and 12th) for this day. Then you have a look at your class and u see people trying to be at their best, your mind starts making first impressions but hold on these are deceptive sometimes. And then you find a familiar face someone from your school or coaching, someone whom you have never talked to although and you are so so relieved. Slowly the friend circle expands and we get to know about each other, the trust starts developing and people take place in our hearts and then it doesn't seems that it's a new place an unfamiliar place. Then you get to know about the activities in college and your seniors encourage you to participate in everything and believe you me even you will try to take part in everything because as they say the first year is the only year  where  you will get time to have fun and take part in events and attend workshops to learn new things. They will tell you about many socities, cultural, technical, social, literary and many more and every event will teach you something new.

          College is a place where you get into everything that you have never tried.First experience of everything gives you the confidence of trying it again and it lets you analyse your mistakes. It provides you with a platform so good that you can overcome every fear of yours, enhance your talent, publicise it and turn things in your favour. From whereever you come, your state, language, board of education does not matter, what matters is how you carry yourself and present youself to people. College brings in your life things that you might experience for the first time from getting away with your fear to the fear of being caught, from staying away from love to falling in love, from having a limited crowd around yourself to being with people with different mentality.It's a place where you not only gain education but everything that would help you for the rest of your life. It is a place where you will find all kinds of people with all sorts of thinking and you will learn adjusting in such an environment.

        This place teaches you everything so enjoy your life to the fullest you won't get another chance to live this time. And do remember to take pictures or jot down every night about what you experienced and learned today, how many people you met because this will be the only thing that will make you memorize these golden moments. "College" contains in itself an institute that not only builds in you an engineer, a doctor or an architect but that develops the real you.


ANKITA BHARGAVA,
MSME.

THE WORLD WE IGNORE

Life on Streets

The world we ignore! Yes, there is a world, so deeply sucked into the Insanity is building in it and craziness is making a deep impact in its residents. It is not somewhere we can’t look upon! This lunatic world is right around us, or may be sometimes we too are habitants of this world! We too have our own lives on streets, but these people have something more to their lives. May be it positive or negative, we still have a choice to bring out the best in them!

As night folds her black wings over the world, the privileged retire to a peaceful and cozy slumber, while the night ghosts plunder those on the streets. They take over the streets as silently as a bat and spread their roots deep into the darkness of the streets. These people are often considered to be trespassers, criminals, thieves and anti-social elements. But in reality they are victims of brutality, slavery, helplessness and fate. They are victims not criminals. These children leading a life on streets suffer exploitation at an early age which makes them tough and resistant but they lose their innocence and indulge in violent activities. They remind me of the flowers, for they give fragrance right from their birth. Difference is that they have the fragrance of struggle instead of pleasant one. These uneducated, illiterate and barely informed children sprout like wild weeds of the society. Most of us are unaware of the dark lives of these homeless people and what made them to choose such  miserable lives .Try to ask yourselves these questions :Do we ever raise our voice against the exploitation of small children? Do we ever think of the plight of the people we so often considers as nuisance for us? Do we ever try to know what distress compelled them to resort such lives? The answer is an inevitable “NO”. This is because our comfortable life, which is the gift of our parents to us, has lured us away from what is “being human”. After all this do we have the right to call ourselves civilized and educated???

Mother Teresa once said “Let us not wait for leaders, but do person to person”. Being the youth of the country it is our responsibility to solve this problem. They too, when educated and properly guided will contribute to the growth of our own India. It is our duty to stretch our helping hands and transform these weeds into healthy plants. And this can be done by acknowledging and adopting the idea of  “Each one teach one” because once they are educated they themselves will be able to choose a suitable profession and pull themselves out of utter penury. Let us not wait for governments to pass laws and big NGOs to come to their help instead we should take the first step .Take out some time from our so called very busy schedules .It is good to watch “Satyamev Jayate” but not taking any message from it and practicing it in our daily lives is nothing but waste of those 90 minutes. If each one of us does a little, a lot goes done. Don’t wait for an independence day or Gandhi jayanti to make a resolution to reach out and help and uplift the down trodden. Do it today! Because it is independence the moment you break free the orthodox rules to uplift the society. Let’s discharge our duty towards mankind and reduce the sufferings of each people, be their hope and bring a little ray of hope in their lives so that this dusk of misery and pain may usher in a morning full of sunshine, happiness and hopes in the lives of those in despair.

                                           Heal  the  worl d  to  make  it  a better place ,

                                                   For you  and  me

                                And  for  the  entire  human  race.

Prachi Purswani,
Electrical,
2^nd year.

                          

TOP 5 EVENTS OF IBC (2011-12)

2011-12: For me, it can be called the golden era of IBC, under leadership of Mr Vivek Ohri and Mr Adwitiya Tiwari. To pick the top 5 events of that academic year was like selecting the best amongst Christopher Nolan’s movies. After much brainstorming, I picked up best moments of IBC last year! Rest of the events were awesome too,

5. WASSUP WITH THE YOUTH.

HOSTS: Akash Bohare, Rishika Gaur, Prakrati Mittal

This event was a stunner! It was slightly informative, but highly entertaining. It went so well that it seemed something like a block buster from Salman. Highlight of the event was the group discussion(which turned into a debate): “Which life is better- Hostelers’ or Day schis’”.

4. ITS ALL ABOUT SIGNS.

HOSTS: Prachi, Aayush, Aparna.

Hosted by the third years, that too by the famous faces of MANIT, there were expectations that crowd’s gonna turn up in huge numbers. But in contrast, this was one of the event with least crowd. But it is in the top 5 list because of the quality of the hosting and sub-events. We learned a lot- about Zodiac and about hosting an event from the hosts. Extra ordinary work done by the hosts.

3. AD MANIA.

HOSTS: Hardhik Pokhrel, Shika Porwal.

It was the first event of that academic year. Huge crowd, highly talented hosts and innovation at its best! Sub events were so good that there wasn’t even one boring moment in the entire event. Enacting round was a huge hit. Participants were made into teams and asked to enact a ad on a specific product. It was hilarious and innovative at the same time. For IBC to score big in the year, this opening stand laid a wonderful platform!

2. JOURNALISM.

HOSTS: Aishwarya Sharma, Arpit Goyal, Rachit.

To make such a serious topic entertaining may not be a herculean task, but to retain the soul of the theme while doing so, is certainly difficult! This event was perfectly embroidered with threads of entertainment into the design of information! Coming to the way it was hosted, just splendid! It never looked one way, but response was at its best from the audience too!

   1.    I- campus

   B

   C ourt Martial

HOSTS:  Vivek Ohri, Adwitiya Tiwari.

It was unforgettable. When two icons, that you’ve always admired, stand in front of you as hosts, its natural to be mesmerized by their awesomeness. But that’s just one of the reason for picking this as the best. Main reason is that, if you’ve attended this event, you are just not the same person anymore. 2 hours of that event gave us the guidance, strength and enough hope for two more years of my college life. Every sub-event was spontaneous. It was the best and still is!

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With the inspiration that all of these hosts have provided us, we hope to have events as good as these in this year too!