"THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE RULES THE WORLD.........OH REALLY???

The world was set apart by "a nose" last week....yes,my friend you
heard that right,"A NOSE"
......It was yet another shocking incident of a Taliban brutality in
Afghanistan that set the world shivering or more accurately fuming
with rage.....
"The nose" of a beautiful Afghan girl,still in her early twenties,cut
out from her face by some erstwhile Taliban dictats....
At the same time,on the other side of the same planet,Mrs Hillary
Clinton,US secretary of state was announcing the new fiscal
policy,which her government is going to adopt to cut down on out
sourcing...
Two scenes,two stories,different reactions....but the fact that
connects them is that both are stories of feeling the feminine gender.
From time immemorial women has been often referred to as the "weaker
sex".Physically they are said to be incompetent,and a complex biology
sets them apart from the male species.They were not allowed to do what
men could,and were forced to live in a permanent bondage.Time
changed,so did tradition,and with the ouset of the modern era of the
twenty first century,concepts such as feminine emancipation and women
liberation came to the force...
For the first time women started to show their worth.....They took
control of everyth0ing which they could not do earlier....They took
control over business institutions religious sex and world
economies...And what they did was at par with men if not better..Men
got a run for their money and they understood that they understood
that they can no more suppress women with their might,will and so
called religious taboos...They had to fight it out with "the weaker
sex" and many a times and oft "the weaker sex" got the better of
men....World got to see amazing female stalwarts like Queen
Elizabeth,Indira Gandhi,Benazir Bhutto,Condolezza Rice,Chandrika
Kumaratunga and so on....
But the modern world also saw the coining of the new economic
term..."The Third World"...A Third World does not mean an economy with
a plummeting GDP.But it also means an economy with religion
descrepencies,unstable equites ,unstable governments,economic
disparties in short under development..
No matter how much the concept of globalisation pushes its way through
obstacles toward success and glory but it is yet to see the light of
the dawn in major parts of these economies.A major drawback of these
phenomenon was the advent of perils like
poverty,unemployements,illeteracy and governance based on religious
dictats.
Take the examples of modern day India...It is said that indian economy
is booming.We have the best innovative minds around and the worlds
powerful economies are shelling out lumps of currency to hire those
brains.We are an economy which is said to be least affected by the
recession and we are giving the US a neck to neck competetion in the
Jobs market.But it is often said"All that glitters is not gold"...and
definately India is not an exception.So at one hand when we have
independent femenine prodigies successfully handling governance and
economic powerhouses at the same time in the underdeveloped parts of
the nation we have women selling off their babies for a few currency
notes...
Probably this topic has been discussed a lot before and as time will
go on the battle for supremacy between men and women will go on.I am
no one to judge who is better...
But still to finish it off..I will like to say that surely women have
to larger heart and after all this years of oppression they have come
back strongly and still have a place for us in their hearts.
so thats why,God selected a women womb to bear a child and take a
generation foreward.Surely ""The Hand that rocks the craddle Rockz the
World!!!

SOUMALYA BAGCHI

EEE-2ND YEAR

MEET BIG READ

Q: hello? Anyone out there?

A: No need to scream. I can’t hear you anyway. Sound doesn’t travel in Space.

Q: Then how can I conduct this interview?

A: Well, use your imagination! If you could talk to me, what would you ask?

Q: Well, what’s up?

A: I’m up. Way up … in the universe. I don’t think we’ve formally met. I am red giant. But you can call me red. All the other stars do.

Q: How many other stars are you talking about?

A: In which galaxy?

Q: Pick one.

A: Okay, I’ll pick the one earth is in-the Milky Way. There are about 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Of, course there are billions more stars in millions of other galaxies out there.

Q: And, are they like you? Red and big?

A: Nope. Every star is different. White dwarfs, stars like suns, and re giants like yours truly, are really quite different. We stars get change as we get older.

Q: you mean, you get wrinkles and gray hair and stuff?

A: Um, not quite. If I could take you on a star studded tour, you’d understand where I’m coming from

Q: Okay, let’s go.

A: We can’t. The sun is 93 million miles away. Even If you travelled at jet speed it will take 17 years for you to reach.

Q: Whoa! If stars are so away, why can I count hundreds of them in the sky at night?

A: Because they give off energy and light and they shine during night time.

Q: and how do you shine?

A: now, we’re getting to the core of the matter: the star’s core, hydrogen gas is converted to helium gas. That’s what keeps the stars shining.

Q: so what will happen to our sun?

A: well, you know someday it will become a red giant like me.

Q: wow, so how old are you?

A: about 10 million years old, I know I know

I look so young.

Q: are there any undiscovered planets in our universe?

A: you are almost as bright I am! There are of course many planets in this universe.

Q: how can I find them out?

A: come back and chat with me in another billion few years-if you can recognize me! It just may take that long to discover everything out here.

Aman saini

EEE “G"

IMPACT OF RECESSION IN INDIA

RECESSIONS ARE the result of reduction in the demand of products in
the global market. Recession can also be associated with falling
prices known as deflation due to lack of demand of products. Again, it
could be the result of inflation or a combination of increasing prices
and stagnant economic growth in the west.

Recession in the West, specially the United States, is a very bad news
for our country. Our companies in India have most outsourcing deals
from the US. Even our exports to US have increased over the years.
Exports for January have declined by 22 per cent. There is a decline
in the employment market due to the recession in the West. There has
been a significant drop in the new hiring which is a cause of great
concern for us. Some companies have laid off their employees and there
have been cut in promotions, compensation and perks of the employees.
Companies in the private sector and government sector are hesitant to
take up new projects. And they are working on existing projects only.
Projections indicate that up to one crore persons could lose their
jobs in the correct fiscal ending March. The one crore figure has been
compiled by Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO), which
says that it has carried out an intensive survey. The textile, garment
and handicraft industry are worse effected. Together, they are going
to lose four million jobs by April 2009, according to the FIEO survey.
There has also been a decline in the tourist inflow lately. The real
estate has also a problem of tight liquidity situations, where the
developers are finding it hard to raise finances.

IT industries, financial sectors, real estate owners, car industry,
investment banking and other industries as well are confronting heavy
loss due to the fall down of global economy. Federation of Indian
chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) found that faced with the
global recession, inventories industries like garment, gems, textiles,
chemicals and jewellery had cut production by 10 per cent to 50 per
cent.

How to tackle the global slump?

“Our economy is shrinking, unemployment rolls are growing, businesses
and families can’t get credit and small businesses can’t secure the
loans they need to create jobs and get their products to market,”
Obama said.

“With the stakes this high, we cannot afford to get trapped in the
same old partisan

RINSHA MOHAMMED

I YEAR

HOLOGRAPHY

Toss a pebble in a pond -see the ripples? Now drop two pebbles close together. Look at what happens when the two sets of waves combine -you get a new wave! When a crest and a trough meet, they cancel out and the water goes flat. When two crests meet, they produce one, bigger crest. When two troughs collide, they make a single, deeper trough. Believe it or not, you've just found a key to understanding how a hologram works. But what do waves in a pond have to do with those amazing three- dimensional pictures? How do waves make a hologram look like the real thing?

It all starts with light. Without it, you can't see. And much like the ripples in a pond, light travels in waves. When you look at, say, an apple, what you really see are the waves of light reflected from it. Your two eyes each see a slightly different view of the apple. These different views tell you about the apple's depth -its form and where it sits in relation to other objects. Your brain processes this information so that you see the apple, and the rest of the world, in 3-D. You can look around objects, too -if the apple is blocking the view of an orange behind it, you can just move your head to one side. The apple seems to "move" out of the way so you can see the orange or even the back of the apple. If that seems a bit obvious, just try looking behind something in a regular photograph! You can't, because the photograph can't reproduce the infinitely complicated waves of light reflected by objects; the lens of a camera can only focus those waves into a flat, 2-D image. But a hologram can capture a 3-D image so lifelike that you can look around the image of the apple to an orange in the background -and it's all thanks to the special kind of light waves produced by a laser.

"Normal" white light from the sun or a lightbulb is a combination of every colour of light in the spectrum -a mush of different waves that's useless for holograms. But a laser shines light in a thin, intense beam that's just one colour. That means laser light waves are uniform and in step. When two laser beams intersect, like two sets of ripples meeting in a pond, they produce a single new wave pattern: the hologram. Here's how it happens: Light coming from a laser is split into two beams, called the object beam and the reference beam. Spread by lenses and bounced off a mirror, the object beam hits the apple. Light waves reflect from the apple towards a photographic film. The reference beam heads straight to the film without hitting the apple. The two sets of waves meet and create a new wave pattern that hits the film and exposes it. On the film all you can see is a mass of dark and light swirls -it doesn't look like an apple at all! But shine the laser reference beam through the film once more and the pattern of swirls bends the light to re- create the original reflection waves from the apple -exactly.

Not all holograms work this way -some use plastics instead of photographic film, others are visible in normal light. But all holograms are created with lasers -and new waves.

All Thought Up and No Place to Go

Holograms were invented in 1947 by Hungarian scientist Dennis Gabor, but they were ignored for years. Why? Like many great ideas, Gabor's theory about light waves was ahead of its time. The lasers needed to produce clean waves -and thus clean 3-D images -weren't invented until 1960. Gabor coined the name for his photographic technique from holos and gramma, Greek for "the whole message. " But for more than a decade, Gabor had only half the words. Gabor's contribution to science was recognized at last in 1971 with a Nobel Prize. He's got a chance for a last laugh, too. A perfect holographic portrait of the late scientist looking up from his desk with a smile could go on fooling viewers into saying hello forever. Actor Laurence Olivier has also achieved that kind of immortality -a hologram of the 80 year-old can be seen these days on the stage in London, in a musical called Time.

New Waves

When it comes to looking at the future uses of holography, pictures are anything but the whole picture. Here are just a couple of the more unusual possibilities. Consider this: you're in a windowless room in the middle of an office tower, but you're reading by the light of the noonday sun! How can this be? A new invention that incorporates holograms into widow glazings makes it possible. Holograms can bend light to create complex 3- D images, but they can also simply redirect light rays. The window glaze holograms could focus sunlight coming through a window into a narrow beam, funnel it into an air duct with reflective walls above the ceiling and send it down the hall to your windowless cubbyhole. That could cut lighting costs and conserve energy. The holograms could even guide sunlight into the gloomy gaps between city skyscrapers and since they can bend light of different colors in different directions, they could be used to filter out the hot infrared light rays that stream through your car windows to bake you on summer days.

Or, how about holding an entire library in the palm of your hand? Holography makes it theoretically possible. Words or pictures could be translated into a code of alternating light and dark spots and stored in an unbelievably tiny space. That's because light waves are very, very skinny. You could lay about 1000 lightwaves side by side across the width of the period at the end of this sentence. One calculation holds that by using holograms, the U. S. Library of Congress could be stored in the space of a sugar cube. For now, holographic data storage remains little more than a fascinating idea because the materials needed to do the job haven't been invented yet. But it's clear that holograms, which author Isaac Asimov called "the greatest advance in imaging since the eye" will continue to make waves in the world of science.

ANGIRA SANYAL

I YEAR

FRESHER'S SOCIAL

The 27th of august witnessed the fresher’s social for the eee dept. The programme started of at 2 pm the prayer song by poojitha and dharini. The hid eee delivered the address after that. And then the performances kick started. The anchors for the day were soumalya and plabita.the main performances were dance by kamarpal and arjun, dance by antra, songs by rohit ratnesh with siddharth in the guitar and song by rohit mishra, solo dance by amrit and group dance by nishitha, antra, jeeta and plabita.

The main attraction of the day was interaction by SAP- santosh, alok and prashant, and by mrigank and yugal. At lot of fun sessions were conducted throughout while refreshments were provided. The seniors and the juniors bonded and the freshers became a part of the eee family. At the end, mr and miss circuit were announced and the winners vipul and mayanara received their mementos. The programme ended with the vote of thanks delivered by arjun and a group picture of the entire second year with hod sir. Over all, it was a fun day and every one enjoyed to their fullest.

THE E-QBE INAUGURATION

What started as a mere idea from the students side materialised into reality on the 26^th of august, 2010. The day witnessed the inauguration of the- e-qbe, the student’s forum formed by the eee students of ramapuram campus, Srm University, the first of its kind.

The function held at the dental college auditorium, Srm University, started off on the same day, sharp at one-thirty pm. It began with a prayer song by poojitha and dharini of 2^nd year. That was followed by hod sir’s address. In his address, the hod sir highlighted on the importance of the forum, appreciated the student’s hardwork, and also introduced the chief guest, Mr. Mascurnas, executive engineer, TNEB.

Next the vice principal, srm university came up and enlightened everyone with his words. He emphasized on the importance of such initiatives and assured of total confirmation from his side. Next were second year students siddhrarth and kaustubh, who presented a slide which in details explained about e-qbe, and also acknowleged the people behind it. They also introduced ‘zenith’-the news letter for e-qbe and the next event was the opening of ‘zenith’ by the chief guest, hod eee and the vice principal. Then the editor of ‘ zenith’ –plabita thanked everyone for all the help and support in bringing out the news letter.

After this there was the guest lecture by mr. Mascurnas in which he highlighted on the importance of the branch, on the significance of electrical energy and power supply and the role of electrical engineers. The comparers for the day arjun, antra, saumalya and plabita did a good job. The programme ended with the national anthem after which everyone headed for refreshments. Overall, it was a successful beginning to e-qbe.

TO BE SOMEBODY REMAIN NOBODY

Prominent among the urges, that inspires and drive a person in life is the urge to be somebody. It is quite humane in the quite early stages of life, is the urge to be somebody. It is quite humane, especially in the early stages of life, to want to do something to win laurels and admiration of all around. There is a pitfall though the very process of becoming somebody may subtly reduce to nobody.

American poet, Emily Dickinson says:

“I am nobody!

Who are you?

Are you nobody too?”

Why should anybody be happy about being nobody?

The point of guarding against becoming a self defeating somebody applies to upbringing of the child as well .Doting parents often stunt the natural growth of their children through excessive adulteration. Common acts and utterances are praised beyond an extent. Talent that otherwise might have flowered under proper training is praised to the extent of killing it.

John Stuart mill’s education and training began very early. At the age when many kids can barely speak, he had learnt enough to read the classics. Did this make him exceptional?

NO!!! Because his father (his tutor) always made him believe that there was nothing extraordinary about his achievement. He told him that he was doing only what anybody is capable of doing.

WE UNDERESTIMATE OUR CAPABILITIES AND WASTE OUR LIVES STRIVING FOR TOO LITTLE.

One should constantly watch out and talk to himself/herself morning and evening and brush aside adulation to remain a free NOBODY.

VAISHNAVI

I year