Activities Lined Up

Following activities have been planned for this coming season of holidays:

1. Cleanliness Drive: Come lets make our enviornment neat, clean and healthy this auspicious Diwali. We have organized a CLEANLINESS DAY at class this Sunday, 31st Oct at 3 in the afternoon. Where we contribute our little efforts to keep our lovely classrooms tidy and fresh. We also welcome Rangoli makings, paintings, drawings n sketches.

2.  Class Outing:  Lets begin our holidays with some joy and refreshment. We have planned an outing to Dumas this Monday, 1st November at morning 6 AM.  We all shall meet at class and begin our fun day. And for any creative ideas for the day you can surely contact any of your Sirs. All past Swastikans are specially invited to participate in the event.

Cool Then..!! Hoping to see your other side with these activities. I am sure loads of fun awaits!!

Last but not the Least: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"

Some essential disclaimers:

A common question is being answered to all. Yes you can come with your other friends who want to join us. Its an open event where students other than swastikans are also welcome . The only matter of concern is that they should not create any nuisance.

All participants have to arrange for traveling means on their own. If any one wants Swastik to arrange for their conveyance they can be arranged if we are informed by sunday evening last. 

While driving and during entire event all students are requested to take care of their safety...

Time Management and Its Value

“Time”!! Something indefinable, you can just feel moment passing, life passing, opportunities passing, and ultimate key to success. Value Time and you will be able to manage it, manage time effectively and you will understand its value.

To know value of one year:

Ask a student who has failed in his exam.

To know value of one month:

Ask a mother who has given birth to a pre-mature child.

To know value of one week:

Ask a weekly editor

To know the value of one hour:

Ask a student who is writing his exams

To know value of one minute:

Ask a professional who has missed his flight

To know value of one second:

Ask a person who had just met with an accident

Value time and people will value you. All of us need to manage and value time.  As one third of our lives have passed, let us not do the same with the rest and let’s make something valuable out of ourselves.  A person with managed time enjoys his life to the fullest at all given situations of life. Developing routine and adhering strictly to it will let you enjoy every activity of life.   Thus it’s been rightly said that manage time and then time will manage everything else for you.

Composed by Swastikan

Shreya Kabra!!

Censorship: Now it is Internet

   Blocking sites for secular and political reasons is nothing new and not something unheard of.  We have been getting such news from Middle East countries since long back.  Even Dubai and UAE had once blocked social communities like Orkut and Facebook.  But to hear something of that sort from West the real originator of the network is something surprising.

   With the latest discussion of COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) to be studied seriously it seems if the act gets approval the internet would become antiquated. COICA would challenge the websites indulged in any sort of infringing activity, viz. copyright infringement, cracked copy of softwares, free distribution of licensed materials, objectionable materials, etc.  The authorities primarily would list such websites in blacklists and would ask the global communities like google, paypal, etc to block the domain from first list.  However with COICA, they even reserve the rights to clean of the net with such sites.

So what happens with our YouTube?

   YouTube being widely used website to share free contents as present has many and uncountable objectionable contents adhering to fall in the bait of COICA.  So to prevent such giants from the threat there might be an underline to the act that, the objectionable content should be removed on notice or complain within stipulated time limit. 

So the Big Question

The big question is, in this ever fastening world of internet where infinite chunks of data transfer occurs every nanosecond, does the law with such amendment would yield the desired result.  The books which has been banned or video which has been rated “Remove”, or the software which is “Copyrighted” all would have resulted into thousands to millions to trillions copies. The irony to the matter that restricted things occurs faster and in myriads.

Effects on Indian Pirated Market

If this act is taken very seriously it might affect India’s piracy market and might ease the tensions of the government and ever worrying bollywood industry.  It might translate into restricted resources for software/movies/games download for young budding Engineers and gamers of India.  At the same time the vice versa effect can be the increased use of Compact Discs (CDs) and Digital Discs (DVDs) to share the copyrighted material.  The price of pirated CDs might increase and new softwares, movies, games from west could take some time to reach India (esp. Indian Piracy Market).

 My Opinion

   However if you ask me, personally I oppose this act, not for pirated softwares or movies, but for the common good of the word Internet which is derived from International Network.  Let information flow without restriction.  If the knowledge is controlled by few then there are possibilities that we might perceive what they want us to know and not what we should know! For me its about my right to decide what should I read, see, use.  If they think a book should be banned and not published then why not let me decide that!!

Your Views are solicited!!

The Success Story - Indian Style..!!

Indian Team Celebrates

     The most glorious victory in the history of Indian cricket has been brought to us by the most revering and passionate VVS laxman and Ishant Sharma, the gems of Indian cricket team.

      Can we imagine a situation where a man not in a position to walk on his feet has climbed a mountain, the same situation happened in a cricket match between India and Australia, where India was struggling for a victory over Australia. At the time when big stars of Indian cricket failed to achieve the target and India were 8 down for 124, in spite of all the hurdles like back pain, injuries etc the very very special VVS laxman came and played a wonderful innings that made India win over Australia, along with laxman the tail ender Ishant Sharma though suffering from knee injury came and supported Laxman to bring laurels for our country, it was just because they both were having the burning desire to be the number 1 team of the world. They were having the self confidence, the courage, the dedication and the desire to be the best.

      We all of us have such desire to be the best, but when we see the hurdles in the path of our victory, we turn back just because we loose confidence in ourselves. These players made us learn a lesson that we all can easily beat the best but for that we must have a burning desire and courage to do so, hats off to them.

Contributed by Swastikan,

Rohit Mall

12^th CBSE