Teachers’Happy DayOn the occasion of Teach-

ers’ Day 2019, theteaching faculty of Bha-

vans Vivekananda College helda celebratory function on thejoyful event.

Air Commodore J.L.N.Sastry, Vice Chairman, BVCSainikpuri Kendra, Principal,Prof. Y. Ashok and Ms.B.Ni-raimathi, Vice Principal were thedignitaries on the occasion. Toshowcase the diversity of theteaching faculty of BVC, teach-ers who belonged to differentstates came together in their tra-ditional attire.

Air commodore Sastryaddressed the teachers by ex-pressing his views on the impor-tance and role of a teacher in anindividual’s life. Prof.Y.Ashokalso shared his experiences asa lecturer and as the Principal ofBhavans Vivekananda DegreeCollege and appreciated the ef-

forts of all the facultymembers in making

Bhavansa suc-

cessful learning institution. Theteachers shared their experi-ences in the field of educationwhere Vice-Principal Ms.B.Ni-raimathi shared her experiencefrom the day she started joinedcollege.

Ms. Vinaya Chaturvedishared a beautiful poem relatedto teaching and nurturing. Ms.

Kalpana sang a beau-tiful song to congrat-ulate the collegefaculty on comple-

tion of 25 years.On behalf of thec o l l e g e ,Prof .Y.Ashokpresented atoken of grat-itude to AirCommodoreJ.L.N Sastry

for being therethroughout its

journey. Principal Y. Ashok andVice-Principal, Ms. B Neraimathiwere also facilitated for their ef-fective administrative efforts.Ms.Madhumita Bhattacharjeeand Dr.K. Sreelatha were giftedwith a symbol of recognition forcompleting their 25 years ofteaching in the college.

Ms.Parveen Khan,Ms.Anju, Ms.P.V Ajitha andMr.G.Mahesh Kumar were alsopresented with a momento forsuccesfully completing 15yearsof teaching in the college. Thedignitaries congratulated theteachers for publishing theirbooks in their respective fields.As the celebration came to anend, all the teachers were pre-sented with a gift as an appreci-ation for their efforts.

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“The pain you feel todaywill be the strength youfeel tomorrow” was the

very feeling that was experi-enced by our herculeansportspersons of Osamania Uni-versity. The college organisedthe Osmania University Intercol-legiate Sports Tournament on6th and 7th September, 2019.

The events were SoftBall - men and women, Volley-ball - men, and Lawn Tennis-women. The opening ceremony

was graced by our Vice Chair-man Air Commodore J.L.N.Sastry and Principal Prof. Y.Ashok. The entire event was ad-ministered by our Physical Di-rector Dr. G. Kondal Reddy.Various colleges affiliated to Os-mania University; Loyola, Little

flower, St. Francis, Nizam,Badruka, Andhra Mahila col-lege, and many more took partin the tournament. A total num-ber of of 450 students had par-ticipated in four different events.

Loyola secured 1stplace in Volleyball with 2-0. Bha-vans procured 1st position inSoft Ball with a score of 13-6and 1st position in Lawn Tennis- women.

Teachers’Happy Day

Being a teacher is the

highest privilege;

having one isthe greatest

blessing.’

‘Gandhiji’s freedom struggle cul-minated in India’s Independ-ence on 15th August, 1947.Mahatma Gandhi strived to leadthe country to not just politicalindependence, but to a betterIndia and a society free of caste,religious, economic and evengender prejudices. The occa-sion of 150th birth anniversarycelebrations of Gandhi gave anopportunity to remind the hu-

manity of the efficacy of hismessages. In view of Gandhi's150th birth-anniversary, the col-lege organized many activitiesand roleplays based onGandhi's life journey. The pro-gramme was attended by thestudents, teachers and staffmembers of the institution.

Read Ahead!Celebrating 150 years of Gandhi

Violence against women is themost widespread, persistentand devastating human rightsviolation in the world. It remainslargely unreported due to theimpunity, silence, stigma andshame surrounding it. To raiseawareness of the same, theworld observes the InternationalDay for the Elimination of Vio-lence Against Women. Thecolor Orange stands againstthe gender based violence and

thus the college celebrated Or-ange Week in order to raiseawareness about the violenceand atrocities faced by womenin the society. Various eventslike Mime, Flashmob, Groupsong, Speech and Ribbon salewere conducted by the stu-dents.

Are you aware of the impor-tance of playing outdoorgames? It does not matterwhether you play them alone orwith a group. The importance ofplaying outdoor games is mas-sive, making it a necessary partof your life. Outdoor gamesteach us different types of skillswhich help us throughout our lifeand tell us how to handle differ-ent types of situations. It en-hances our decision making

skills and helps us build confi-dence.

Abhyas Club organizedmany exciting activities for stu-dents to engage in. The ‘AbhyasTalentina’ was a series of eventswhich tested the students’ tal-ents ranging in a multitude ofactivities.

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STRENGTHENING THE TEACHINGFirst aid Response

On 21st September 2019, thecollege has organised a sessionon 'First Aid Response' for thestudents of NSS, NCC andBharat Scouts and Guides. Thesession was delivered by Mr.Sanjay Mucharla, an alumnusof college. He explained stu-dents about different emer-gency situations and how to

deal with those situations. Stu-dents took active participation inthe first aid coaching. He alsoexplained about G1 app andhow to use the app at the timeof emergency. He demon-strated his skills on’ necessaryto provide emergency first aid.’The event was quite insightful.

How to Start a 'Startup' ?Chirag Kapoor |18th Sep, 2019The Bhavans ED cell conducteda seminar for third year stu-dents on the topic - ‘How to starta Start-up’ under the Entrepre-neur Development Program (EDP) at 2:30 pm in room no.208 (seminar hall) on 18th Sep-tember 2019. Mr. Thirmal Rao,faculty, Commerce coordinatedthe event. Mr. Abhishek Reddy,CEO, Capital Wizards, was thespeaker for the day. CapitalWizards helps start ups raisecapital for business and entre-preneurship via Venture Capitalangels and High Network indi-viduals (HNI).The students learnt a lot aboutstart ups and the process thatoccurs in the background. Theywere exposed to the reality be-

hind the (as quoted by thespeaker) ‘Wikipedia garbage’.The students were educatedabout the real work that needsto be put in business and entre-preneurship.Some points thatwere touched upon were:1. Pre requisites for entrepre

neurship2. Mindset required for busi

ness3. Why should I go into busi-

ness?4. Does business excite you?5. Finding the right team for

business6. Validation of idea7. Market researchThe seminar was very interac-tive and students respondedwith questions and answers asthey could relate with thespeaker. The speaker kept thestudents engaged with fittingexamples from their daily lives.As the third year student gearup for their interviews and cam-pus placements this was a re-ally helpful session for all ofthem as they were not only ed-ucated but were also empow-ered to move ahead with theirideas.

On 4th December 2019,the VOICE club of theCommerce Depart-

ment, conducted the event‘Micro Presentation’ for the first-year students of B.com andM.com in the Library block,room no: N22.The topic of theevent was 'My Favorite YouTu-ber', which made the event fur-ther engrossing for thestudents. It was a team event oftwo members each in which 19teams had registered.The lec-turers in-charge were MrAditya, Mr Khalim and Mr Gu-ruprasad. The students pre-sented their PowerPointpresentations which covered

the story and area of contentcreation of their favouriteYouTuber, sources of their rev-enue and SWOT (Strength,Weakness, Opportunities andThreats) analysis for which thetime limit was 3 minutes.Thejudges for the day wereMs.Swati and Mr ShivaThrishul. The students werejudged on their interpersonalskills, analytical skills and theirability to communicate in a con-cise manner. The students ac-tively participated in the eventby giving their presentations ina concise and creative manner.

MICRO PRESENTATION

A guest lecture was conductedfor the students of BA on 27thSeptember 2019 .The topic forthis special lecture was "Per-sonality Development" whichwas delivered by Ms. Aliza Vi-rani, psychologist, mentor, Su-chitra Academy. She spokeabout the individual’s mindset,exchange of thoughts, ideas,feelings and emotions. She also

spoke about how communica-tion plays an important role indaily life and also spoke ontransactional analysis, Aspectsof ego states and types of trans-actions. The guest lecture re-ceived a good response fromthe students. The students hada good interactive session withthe mentor.

PERSONALITY DEVELOMENT

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Physics and Electronics students visits ARCIAnisha Mishra |02nd Oct, 2019

Agroup of 35 students ofB.Sc. Physics and Elec-tronics accompanied by

two faculty members Mrs. M.Prasanna and Mrs. V.R. Man-jula visited various labs of ARCI,Hyderabad on 20/12/2019.They were taken around to var-ious labs such as CMCT, CNMand CLPM by a group of scien-tists where they explained themthe current research in fieldssuch as Nano materials, use ofdifferent Lasers used for spe-cific purpose such as welding

and drilling and materialscharachterization. Students gotthe opportunity to see the work-ing of scientific Instrumentssuch as X-Ray diffractometers,TEM, SEM Lasers etc. They

were shown the Super Capaci-tors, Li ion batteries, Anti bacte-rial garments and high strengthceramics applications made invarious Centers of ARCI.

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Citizenship Amendment ActThe Citizenship Amendment Billwas passed in the Parliamenton 11th December 2019. Itgrants citizenship to Hindu,Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Parsi andChristian migrants fromAfghanistan, Bangladesh andPakistan who entered India be-fore 31st December 2014. Theact has extended to widespreadcriticism, on the ground of ‘Dis-crimination on the basis of Reli-gion’. The amendment excludesMuslim community and the crit-icism concerns that the billwould be used along with theNational Registration of Citizens(NRC) to marginalize Muslims. NRC is an official record of legal

Indian citizens which includesdemographic information aboutthe individuals. To qualify intothis list, individuals have to pro-duce ancestry documentswithin the cut-off date decidedby the Government to provetheir citizenship. NRC is limitedto Assam wherein, CAB is na-tionwide. Apparently, the act wil-fully ignores Rohingyas fromMyanmar, Tamils from SriLanka, Ahmadiyyas from Pak-istan, Uighurs from China etc.The law exempts ArunachalPradesh, Mizoram and Naga-land, and also the tribal area ofAssam, Meghalaya, Mizoramand Tripura.

Varsha .C | 21st Sep, 2019Saniya Anwar | 23rd Nov, 2019

N.Anusha |27th Sep, 2019

Sanjana Menon | 19th Dec, 2019

The Department of Bio-chemistry, BhavansVivekananda Degree col-

lege, conducted a two dayworkshop on 22nd and 23rdNovember 2019. The topic was"Hands on training on Bioana-lytical techniques and Bioinfor-matics". The workshop wasorganized for the under gradu-ate lecturers. It was scheduledfor two days. Day one startedwith the inaugural ceremony,where chief guest, Air Com-modore J.L.N Sastry, and otherdignitaries were present. Thecoordinators for the same were

Dr. K.Anuradha, DBT Star Col-lege Scheme and Dr. A.SaiPadma, Head, Dept. of Bio-chemistry. This outreach pro-gram for Degree collegelecturers was organized underDBT star college scheme by theDept. of Biotechnology, Govern-ment of India to support col-leges and universities (offeringundergraduate education) toimprove science teachingacross the country. Large num-ber of faculty from private andgovernment degree collegeshave attended from the pro-gram. The participants were

provided with hands-on trainingduring the workshop on the fol-lowing experiments: ●Separation of proteins by SDSPAGE●Separation of proteins by Gel- filtration chromatography ●Restriction digestion andagarose gel electrophoresis ●Bioinformatics ●ELISA – Enzyme Linked Im-munosorbent AssayThe day two included the exper-iments as well and ended withthe valedictory and received agood feedback from the partici-pants.

Aguest Lecture was con-ducted for the studentsof M.Sc.(Computer Sci-

ence) I and II year. In view of in-troducing the value addedcourse to P.G. students, theDepartment of Computer Sci-ence organized the guest lec-ture on “RED HAT LINUXADMINISTRATION” which wasdelivered by Mr. Rajesh Digu-marti, GLS and development in-structor, RedHat, Hyderabad.He explained the following con-cepts to inculcate the aware-ness of Open Source Software:

Introduction and historyof Open Source.

Advantages of OpenSource Software.

Red Hat Linux trainingmodules.

Linux certification -

depth and level of preparationrequired.

Linux projects, usersand forum support to beginners.

After the guest lecture, therewas a quiz conducted by Ms.Amrita Technologies on generalconcepts and technical aspects.The department planned to in-troduce a workshop on Red HatLinux Administration for 30Hours for P.G. students.

B a b a i B u l l e t Make India Litter Free

On 30th of September2019 EVS faculty hasorganized a session on

"Plogging", the new fitnesstrend,for the students. The ses-sion was addressed by Mr.Ripu Daman Bevli. He ex-plained the students about thePloggers of India movementand Relay-Run to make Indialitter free and on various con-cepts which are health, exer-

cise, cleanliness, swaachbharat, gender bias and prohi-bition of plastic in our sur-roundings. He also discussedabout how fitness is importantin our daily life. He is amarathoner, entrepreneur,traveller and blogger. HePlogged at the recently con-cluded Tata Mumbai Marathonwhich is 48k run.

Tickle Your Brain

The Department of MassCommunication con-ducted a panel discussion

for the students of BA. The pro-duction team of the short film –BABAI BULLET were invited forthe discussion.The movie wasscreened for the audiencewhich paved way to discuss

topics such as movie budgeting,production, cinematographyand screenplay. It was a greatopportunity for all the studentsto clear their doubts about howa short film can also be madeon low budget or no budget atall where the director of theshort film gave few suggestions

on how it is made. It was a veryhelpful interaction session sofar as short films , web seriesare trending currently. Knowingabout how they are made andwhat goes within to make itwork is the main trick to reachpeople and show our art. Oneamong the production team,Bob Christo said “if your contentis strong on the paper, eventu-ally your film will do great onscreen”. It was an insightful dis-cussion for all the students inlistening to their stories and ex-periencesThe director of the short film-Harshavardhan, Co-Director-Mrutyunjay , Actors- Nikesh,Neha, Bob Christo.

With the beginning of anew academic year,Quiz Club organised

it's first Intra College event on11th and 13th September'19,where students participated in a

team of two for the Quiz Com-petition.The Preliminary round was heldon 11th September and the finalround on 13th September'19.78 teams participated in the

competition and 15 teamswere shortlisted for the finalround.The first stage of the finalround was titled 'Stakes' andthe last stage of the final roundwas named 'Choices' wherethe participants picked theirquestion out of 4 questionsthat were provided.Satyansh Tomar & RaghavKapile from BA 2nd year se-cured 1st place, RamakrishnaB.R and Anirudh from BSc 3rdyear secured 2nd place andAshwath Naraya,n with team,from B.com Regulars, 2nd year,secured 3rd position.

CII Young IndiaWorkshop

The Career Guidance andPlacement Cell [CGPC]conducted a career guid-

ance lecture on 24th September2019 in association with CIIYoung India on the occasion ofMahatma Gandhi's 150th birthanniversary in Biochemistryblock, room no.71 at 12:30p.m.The speakers were Mr.Kalyan,

CII and Ms.Pooja, A. Mahesh-wari, an educator, speaker,trainer at CII, YI. The event wasattended by UG students of var-ious streams from the college.Ms. Maheshwari spoke aboutthe leadership qualities of Ma-hatma Gandhi. The programended with a vote of thanksgiven by the organisers.

RABIES:Rabies prevention starts

with you! With this mottothe members of the Sci-

ence Club (Department of MicroBiology and Department ofChemistry) conducted a GuestLecture on Rabies awarenesson account of World RabiesDay - 28thSeptember for all thestudents in Seminar Hall Room-208 on 27 September’2019 at10:00 am. The speakers for thelecture were Mr. Ajay Nayar –CEO of Vins Biotech and MrSampath kumar, Director of IPM(Integrated Program in Man-agement). Dr. K AnuradhaHead, Microbiology Departmentand Dr. Madhumitha Bhatachar-jee, Head, Department ofChemistry, felicitated the speak-ers.The students of MSc Microbiol-ogy performed a skit to spreadawareness on Rabies. They ex-plained how the diseasespreads.They also enacted the

symptoms of the disease(rest-lessness, hydrophobia, coma).The chief guests appreciatedthe students for their perform-ance.On 28th September, 2019 arally was organized to createawareness on the spread of Ra-bies. September 28 is WorldRabies Day, a Global HealthObservance started in 2007 toraise awareness about rabies.The theme for World RabiesDay, 2019 was “Rabies: Vacci-

nate to Eliminate.” The rally wasorganized with the help of col-lege NCC, NSS and BharatScouts and Guides Units.Around 300 students from vari-ous departments participated inthe rally starting from college toNeredmet and Vayupuri. Thestudents raised slogans to cre-ate awareness and held plac-ards which conveyedinformation about Rabies pre-vention.

Vaccinate to El iminate

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“RED HAT LINUX ADMINISTRATION”

Bhavans Bytes News Service |5th Dec, 2019

Raveena | 27th & 28th Sep, 2019

Tanu Chauhan | 24th Sep, 2019

Kanaka Durga Yeldutti | 13th Sep, 2019

Bhavana Paspuleti | 9th Sep, 2019Arun Kumar | 30th Sep, 2019

War of WordsJoycee Selvaraj | 17th Sep, 2019

The SOCH Club of BApartment conducted a de-bate competition on 17th

September, 2019 at 2:30pm.Students from various depart-ments took part in the competi-tion. The judges for thecompetition were Mr.NitinBharadwaj and Mrs.ManaliBose.It was a pair event and the topicwas ‘Make in India: Will thismake India a manufacturing

hub?’ The competition con-sisted of 2 rounds. The firstround was a discussion roundwhere each group was given atopic and they had to present onit. The second round was the‘debate’ round. The studentswere divided into 2 groups –one group supported the causeand the other opposed it. Manystudents participated and putforward their views very effec-tively.

Excelling in Excel and ICTE Mahathi | 21st Sep, 2019

The Department of ComputerScience had organised an Out-reach Program for High SchoolTeachers on the topic “AdvanceExcel and ICT Tools” by DBTStar scheme. All over India onlyfew colleges got selected whereBhavans is one among them.

Government funded1.2 crore rupees. Several highschool teachers attended thisprogram. Air Cmdre J L N Sas-try, vice chairman, BVC, Ms. Ni-raimathi, vice principal, BVC,and Ms. K V B Saraswati, Head,Department of Computer Sci-ence, were the chief guests for

this program. The chief guestsdelivered the introductoryspeech of the program. InBjarne Stroustrup lab. Ms Jay-alakshmi, Ms Padma Priya, MrRama Krishna, Mr Mallikarjun,Ms Anita, Ms Vagdevi explainedand showed the basics of Exceland Advanced Excel to thoseteachers. They explained Excelscreen, theory, shortcuts andmade teachers to do it practi-cally. They also explained in-sert, fill, format, data type, findand replace, calculations, IFstatements, conditional format-ting, charts and graphs etc., and

also explained thoroughly aboutICT (Information and Communi-cation technology) tools. Theteachers who attended this pro-gram learned it very interest-ingly and some teachersbecame experts in it. Teachersgave good feedback about theprogram. Finally they presentedthe certificates to the teacherswho attended this program.This one day workshop wasvery useful to the teachers whoattended this program.

Cauvery CallingKiran | 06 Sep, 2019

The NSS, NCC and BharatScouts & Guides units organ-ised “Cauvery Calling” rally on6th September to spreadawareness on water conversa-tion. The rally was taken out toalert people on water scarcityand to urge them not to wastewater. A large number of stu-dent volunteers participated inthe rally and raised slogans on

the importance of saving andstoring water. It was a pleasantsight of students standing on ei-ther side of the road with plac-ards, chanting slogans like‘Rally For Rivers' and ‘SaveWater & Save Human Lives’.The Rally routed from Nered-met cross road to AS RaoNagar. JCI Hyderabad Samskriti

Ankita Rathour| 04 Sep, 2019

Telangana’s biggest PublicSpeaking Platform, "Ju-nior Chamber Interna-

tional (JCI) HyderabadSamskriti” conducted its prelim-inary round here at BhavansVivekananda Degree Collegeon 4th September 2019.

JCI started its PublicSpeaking Competition in 2012with only 8-10 colleges partici-pating. Now it offers its platformto 40 leading Colleges in the

twin cities.The Judges for the

competition were Dr.Vijayvard-han and Ms.Chandrakala. Thestudents were given 4 topicsouts of which they could chooseany 1 topic to speak for 2 min-utes. The winner of the compe-tition was awarded with RS.10,000 as a cash prize, runner upwith RS.5000, included with sixspecial category prizes. 6 out of42 participants were selected

from Bhavans for the nextround.

Ms.Madhuri, Teachingfaculty, Department of Lan-guages, was the Lecturer in-charge for the competition.Prof.Y. Ashok, Principal, BVC,for graced the event. Mr.Karthik,JCI president, Mr. Vijayvardhanand Ms. Chandrakala ad-dressed the Students.

A New BeginningAnkita Rathour| 16 Sep, 2019

The college organized anorientation program forthe first year post gradu-

ate students including MBA,M.com and MSC. Air Com-modore (Retd.) JLN Sastry,Vice Chairman, Prof. Y Ashok,Principal, K Vasudev Rao, Con-troller of Examinations, andHeads of various departmentswere present in the event. Theevent began with lightning oflamp by the dignitaries and fol-lowed by the Bhavan's Prayer.Prof.Y Ashok addressed thestudents about the structure ofthe college curriculum. The Vice

Chairman also addressed thestudents and motivated themwith his kind words. The con-troller of examination, K Va-sudev Rao briefed about theexamination structure andrules. Alumni students also at-tended the event and sharedtheir experiences with the fresh-ers. The 2nd year studentsmade them familiar with theclubs of various departments.The orientation program cameto an end with some ice-break-ing session.

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Indian Accounting Standards

The Department of Com-merce, Bhavan’sVivekananda college or-

ganized a four-day workshop on“Indian Accounting Standards(Ind AS)” commencing from13th -16th November, 2019 inassociation with The Institute ofCost Accountants of India. Theworkshop was inaugurated byVice-Chairman Air Cmde.(Retd.) J. L. N. Sastry as thePatron, CMA. Lavanya, Chair-person, ICAI Hyderabad Chap-ter as the Guest of Honour,Prof. (Retd.) K. V. Achalapathias the chief guest, PrincipalProf. Y. Ashok - WorkshopChairman and Dr. K. SreelathaReddy -Workshop Convener.Prof. Y. Ashok gave the wel-come address at the inauguralceremony. He appreciated theDepartment of Commerce fortaking the initiative in organisingworkshops for various emergingissues. He also addressed thestudents stressing upon the im-

portance of upgrading theirknowledge in line with thechanging global complianceframeworks. Dr. SreelathaReddy, Head, Department ofthe Commerce, spoke about thechanging compliance scenarioand the increased role of skilledprofessionals because of theimpact of IFRS and GAAP oncompanies across the world.The Coordinator, Dr. D. San-jeeva Rao spoke about the pro-gram schedule and theobjectives of the workshop.CMA Lavanya, the chairperson

for ICAI Hyderabad Chapter ex-plained about the challengesand scope of Cost Accountantsas a profession and how IFRShas the potential to streamlinethe world’s compliance underone uniform code.

The keynote address wasgiven by the chief guest, Prof.K. V. Achalapathi who dis-cussed the practical applicationand relevance of Ind AS forglobal stakeholders and the roleof M.Com students in spear-heading this change.

Shanaz Fatima | 13th Nov, 2019INDIA’S DAUGHTER

India has been characterisedas one of the "countries withthe lowest per capita rates of

rape and sexual assault".Indiabarely fares better in other stud-ies that rank its treatment ofwomen. It was placed 131st of152 countries in the George-town Institute’s global ranking ofwomen’s inclusion and well-being.

Taking the current burningissue of our country as thetopic, the SOCH Club of Facultyof Arts organised a poster pres-

entation on tuesday i.e.10 De-cember 2019 which was opento all UG programmes of thecollege. The participants had tomake a poster on the topic‘India’s daughter- ones own per-ception of it in today’s context’.Competitors had to prepare andalso present their idea behindthe making of the poster to thejudges -Ms.Snigda andMs.Prachi.

Out of the 45 entries, twoposters were selected as thewinners.

Sindhu Meduri | 10th Dec, 2019

USA EDUCATION

The Career Guidance andPlacement Cell of the col-lege in association with

the United States- Indian Edu-cation Foundation (USIEF) helda workshop and an interactivesession for the students aspir-ing for higher education in theStates on 3rd December 2019.The core theme for which was‘Your 5 steps to study in the US’

The facilitator of the work-shop, Mr. SuheilImtiaz carried

out structured discussions andallowed all participants to putforth their queries. He advisedthe students to have prior plan-ning and authorized research.The basic 5 steps that wasbrought in light were, Research-ing the options, financing thestudies, Completing applica-tions with required tests, apply-ing for student visa andpreparing for departure.

Shanaz Fatima | 3rd Dec, 2019Journey of Print Media

Aguest lecture was deliv-ered by Mr. D. Nagarjunaon the topic "Journey of

Print Media". Mr. Nagarjuna is asenior adviser to the Govern-ment Institute of Printing andTechnology and a visiting fac-ulty in few colleges in Hyder-abad. He worked as key roles inthe industry of Printing and Pub-

lishing. His expertise in Editingand Writing for media is incom-mensurable. He has alsoworked as a senior copywriter inthe Parliament of India.He talked about the journey

of news travelling from itssource to the readers and alsogave a detailed account of dailychallenges of journalists to the

students of Arts. He explainedthe three main stages to the de-velopment of a news story-firstis the job of reporters, secondare the editors, and third is theprinting process. He said, ‘Themain challenges of a journalistinclude: getting rejected, thepressure of deadlines and prior-itizing their schedules.

Harsh Matai | 19th Sep, 2019

FujiFilm WorkshopAdweety Mishra | 11th Dec, 2019

Aworkshop on photographywas conducted by the De-partment of Mass Com-

munication. Mr Abhishek, BA,technical trainer and Mr RupeshBussa, sales manager of Fuji-film were the resource persons.The topic was ‘Photography -mirrorless camera’ the eventwas open for students of all de-partments it started at 12:40pmand ended at 2:00 p.m. Mr Ab-hishek explained about evolu-

tion of camera with the help ofpresentation. He spoke aboutthe exposure triangle and howto balance ISO, shutter speedand aperture of a camera inorder to to get a picture that onedesire. He also briefed aboutfeatures of a photo. He pre-sented a video on 'fujifilm as in-novator', where studentsexplored the insides of fujifilmfactory.

“Stem Cell Technology and applications”Bhavans Bytes News Service | 27th Aug, 2019

The Department of Genet-ics & Biotechnology or-ganized a guest lecture

for UG students on 27th August2019 at 11.00 am in room. 208,MBA block (1st Floor). The lec-ture was delivered by Dr. G.Ravi Kumar, Professor, Depart-ment of Biochemistry, School ofLife Sciences, University of Hy-derabad.

Dr G. Ravi Kumar holds aPh.D in Molecular biology andbiotechnology from New Delhi.He has an extensive researchand teaching experience fromHarvard Medical School (USA)

and NH (USA), Moffitt Cancerand Research center (USA) andRWTH Aachen (Germany).

His research is focusedon understanding the develop-mental differences in miRNAmediated post transcriptionalregulation between neonatesand adults.

Dr.Ravi Gutti spokeabout discovering novel targetsand developing specific therapyin MicroRNA therapeutics. Heclearly described that out of 88miRNA involved in stem cell de-velopment and differentiation,10miRNA were upregulated in

neonates Vs adults .After carry-ing out a series of experiments,he concluded that Let-7b is theonly miRNA down regulated(10 fold) in neonatal comparedto adult MK’s and it inhibits wntsignaling pathway in MK’sthereby reducing mitochondrialbiogenesis and during thisprocess Megakaryocyte specificvesicles could be identified .Heconcluded that expression ofmiRNA was found in Megakary-ocytes which are involved in cellcycle regulation.

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Dheere Dheere SeRehan Sheikh | 4th Dec,2019

The Abhyas club organisedan event called "Dheere

Dheere Se" on 4th December,2019 in the college footballground. The event commenced

at 3:30pm and it ended at5:30pm. This event was a slowbike riding competition wherethe last person standing wins. Atotal of 95 students participated

in this event. The event was agreat success with good partici-pation from the students wherethey enjoyed and put their bikebalancing skills at test.

Rishita Madas| 3rd Dec, 2019

“Tug of War”, an informal eventwas conducted on 3rd Dec,2019, coordinated by the stu-dents. It was held at VivekBharati, from 3:30 to 5:00 pmThere was a huge participationfrom various departments.About 40 teams came up withhigh spirit and enthusiasm. Theteam which was led by PraveenKumar won the competition.

It was a game with the theme“Bubble Blast”,where onebaloon was tied to each par-ticipants leg. A team con-sisted of five members andwere supposed to blast thebaloon of the other teammembers, at the same timesave their baloon. 36 teamsparticipated with great enthu-siasm..

Amitha Gatti | 3rd Dec, 2019

Ring-O-ManiaShruti Petwal | 4th Dec, 2019

Ring-O-Mania’ was conductedon 4th December, 2019. The

venue for this game was theground in front of Vivek Bhartistage. There were 38 groups thatparticipated and each group con-sisted of 5 members. In thisgame, one leg of each memberwas tied to another member form-ing a chain of 5 members. Fivecircles were formed on theground and the groups had tocross the circles without touchingthe outline or stepping outside thecircle, within 3 minutes. If anyparticipant failed to finish thegame in one attempt, they gottwo more chances to finish it.Only one group won the gameand were awarded with a me-mento.

NilamiDivyashri Iyer| 3rd Dec, 2019

The “Nilami" (Auction) wasconducted in the seminar

hall of MBA Block on 3rd De-cember, 2019. A total of 17teams participated in theevent with 2 members ineach team. The objectivegiven to the teams were tobid for cities based on re-sources and current value ofthe city. Each team weregiven a total amount of Rs. 50lakh. Through this event, stu-dents learned more about thefluctuations in the stock mar-kets and financial aspects ofprofit and loss. At the end ofthe event, Aditya and Martinfrom BCom (Comp.), 2ndyear were declaared as win-ners. Dinisha and Aparnafrom BCom (Gen.), 1st yearwere the runners up.

TalaashNabamita D. | 5thdec, 2019Talaash (Treasure Hunt) wasorganized on 5th Decem-ber,2019 . There were around45 teams in round 1, out ofwhich 10 teams were se-lected. The game had the ruleof following the hints given inchits to the participants. Theparticipants were supposed todecode the hints. The wholeevent was conducted by thestudent volunteers from thecollege itself. Puneet Suranaand team from the First year,MBA department were de-clared as winners.

AD-SelfieK Manish Teja |3rd Dec,2019

“Ad-Selfie” is one of theevents in the fest. It is a semi-formal event with the teamsize of 3 people. The event isabout marketing. Each teamwas asked to take a chitwhich had a name of a partic-ular product. They were given20 minutes in which they hadto shoot a short promotionalvideo of 15-30 seconds onthe product within the collegepremises. A selfie should betaken with the group mem-bers and should be sentalong with the video throughsocial media to the event or-ganizers.

Balloon Blast

PehelikarRohini | 5th Dec, 2019

This event was organized on5th Dec, 2019 in room number

305 -306, MBA block. Judges forthe event were: Mrs Madhuri (De-partment of English). The numberof students participated was 24,divided into a group of three mem-bers each.Pahelikaar consisted of threetasks: Task 1) Puzzle Solving Task 2) Story Depiction Task 3) Story Telling Each task had to be completedwithin 30 minutes.

Bhavana P. | 4th Dec, 2019

B-plan is one of the com-petitions in Abhyas Tal-entina, where students

could showcase and pitch theirunique ideas and new ventures.They looked very motivated andvery enthusiastic. There were 3teams, each team included 2m e m b e r s .After the teams were done pre-senting, Mr. Nitin Bharadwajhad shared few insightful tipsabout starting or planning abusiness. He said, “for settingup a new business, you need tokeep monetary engagement,also look into your financial sta-bility. Planning is easy but exe-cuting is the toughest battlesyou would ever face.”

The college organized aseries of literary and cul-tural events in remem-

brance of Gandhi.The eventsincluded poster presentation,elocution competition, publictalk, skit, essay writing compe-tition and a play. The theme ofthe celebration is ‘The Revivalof the Gandhian Values- Truthand Non- Violence and the Re-iteration of His Legacy.’The first event in the series wasthe poster presentation compe-tition which was organized on

Saturday, 20th July, 2019 at theScience Quadrangle. The onehour event was a remarkable vi-sual display of posters pre-sented by 23 enthusiasticteams comprising of 2 stu-dents each. The posters illus-trated Gandhiji’s education,principles, experiences, the dis-crimination he suffered and var-ious other vital aspects of hislife.

The next event was elocu-tion competition conducted onThursday, 8th August, 2019 on

the topic ‘Mahatma Gandhi –The Legend of Peace’, in which20 students participated andshared their views in English,Hindi and Telugu. The elo-quence and thoughts of the stu-dents were commendable.

The last among the se-ries of events conducted wasthe play written and directed byMs. Sapna Singh of II yearB.Sc. (M.E.Cs) on 1st October,2019. The journey of Gandhiwas accurately scripted, avidlydirected and passionately per-formed. Students of U. G. I, II &III years participated in the playwith 12 scenes.

The one hour fifteen-minute play was staged at theScience Quadrangle at 4:00p.m. Vice Chairman Air Com-modore (Retd.) J.L.N. Sastry,Principal Prof. Y. Ashok andVice Principal Ms. B. Niraimathiwere the dignitaries who gracedthe occasion.

The evolution of an ordi-nary boy into Mahatma and theevents which led to this leg-endary transformation wereclearly depicted with convictionby the students. The birth ofGandhi, influential instances ofhis childhood which mouldedhis personality, thought provok-ing occurrences which led him

to tread the path of non-vio-lence, eventual independencefrom the tyranny of the Britishrule, India-Pakistan Partitionand his sad demise was vividlypresented by the students.

150th Birth Anniversary of GandhiVarsha chiluvoju| 1st Oct, 2019

INTERNATIONAL ORANGE DAYBhavans byte news service | 30 nov,2019

In order to support women intheir journey, International Or-ange day was celebrated allover the world. It is earmarkedas Orange Day because thecolor orange symbolizes emo-tional strength. Celebrations ofOrange day in BhavansVivekananda Degree Collegecommenced on 25th November2019

WORDS AGAINST ATROCI-TIES

On the first day, a speechwas delivered at Vivek Bharti bySiddharth Mutalik- expressinghis grief against various atroci-ties that women face. MIME ACT

On the second day, aspeech and mime act was per-formed at Bhavans Sri RamaKrishna Vidyalaya VOICE FOR WOMEN

The third day of the or-ange week was celebrated atBhavans Aurobindo Junior Col-lege.The program commencedwith a speech by ChiragKapoor, BA2, which was fol-lowed by a Mime Act presentedby UG students which depictedthe violence faced by women.

FLASH MOBOn day 4, a dance routine

was performed by Sandeep andhis team at Vivek Bharti. Onthe penultimate day i.e on 29thNov 2019, the students per-formed a group song and laterthe day continued with a flashmob. Also there was sale of or-ange colored ribbons and theproceedings were used for a

charitable cause.WOMEN’S MARCH

The celebrations came toan end on 30th Nov 2019, witha skit which was presented by ateam of 15 students.The themeof the skit was “Forms of vio-lence against women”.The cel-ebrations have been shapedinto a grand success by a massrally which started from theSwami Vivekananda statue toNeredmet X road.Over 600 stu-dents from various units viz.NCC,NSS and Scouts & Guidesand students from all thestreams actively participated inthe rally.The streets were rever-berated with the slogans “BetiPadaao Beti Bachaao” and“Break The Silence When YouWitness Violence”.

Envisioning the VisionHashmitha Yatala | 08 Aug,2019

AGuest lecture was organ-ized by the Department of

Genetics & Biotechnology on8th August, 2019 by Dr JoveetaJoseph, Research ScientistGrade III, LV Prasad Eye Insti-tute, Banjara Hills, on the topic“Ocular infections – Researchto prevent blindness”.

She was trained as a Med-ical Microbiologist. After joiningLVPEI, she was involved in di-agnostic and research activitiesin the field of ocular infections.Her main area of work is to un-derstand the Immune responseand characterization of Micro-biome by Next Generation Se-quencing(NGS) in culturenegative Endophthalmitis. Shewas awarded DST-SERB grantsubsequently. She was also in-volved in another grant

”Corneal infection by Pythiuminsidiosum: Investigation intoimmune response in animalmodel, evaluation of antibacter-ial antibiotics in animal model”.

She has been awarded theDr C S Bhaskaran Gold Medalat the Indian Association ofMedical Microbiologists in 2015and the Young Scientist Awardby the Telangana Academy ofSciences in 2016. Young Scien-tist award at VI National Confer-ence of Society of IndianHuman and Animal and AnimalMycologists in 2016, Hyd.

She is a member, Associa-tion for Research in Vision andOphthalmology(ARVO) and In-dian eye Research Group. LifeMember: Indian Association ofMedical Microbiologists. LifeMember: International Society

of Infectious Diseases. She isalso the Assistant Editor, IndianJournal of Ophthalmology.

She had authored threebook chapters and nearlytwenty research publications inmany National and InternationalJournals.

Dr Joveeta highlighted onthe infections related to eyesspecifically Endophthalmitiis.She also gave an insight intothe various fellowships & schol-arships, career opportunities of-fered by the various Institutesand organizations.

She also motivated thestudents to pursue research.The lecture was lucid and wellappreciated by students. All thestudents of life Sciences ac-tively participated in the lecture.

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The Languages Departmentof Bhavan’s Vivekananda De-gree College celebrated ‘Lan-guages Week’ from 9th Dec –13th Dec, 2019. The first eventwas the literature based quizconducted on 9th December, inSanskrit, Hindi, Telugu, Englishand French. The idea was conceived and

executed by a team of BBA stu-dents. 57 students participatedas a team of 3. ‘Rhyme Time’was conducted in English, Tel-ugu and Hindi on 10th Decem-ber. Students were asked tochoose a minimum of 3 wordsfrom the 8 given to write poetryin their preferred language.‘Spellathon’ was conducted in 3

rounds on 11th December.Round 1 was based on vocab-ulary, Round 2 was ‘Spell Bee’and Round 3 was ‘Pictionary’.‘Word Building’ and ‘Idioms andPhrases’ were also conductedon 12th December.

The last event of the serieswas ‘Making a story out ofnewspaper cuttings’, which wasconducted on 13th December.

English, Hindi and Tel-ugu were the language optionsgiven. The celebrationswrapped up after the prize dis-tribution ceremony organizedon 14th December.

The Vice Chairman, AirCmdre. (Retd.) JLN Sastry, wasthe guest for the event alongwith Sri. Rangi Satyanarayana.

Language - Part & Parcel of LifeSindhu Meduri & Raaghav Kapile | 14th DEC,2019

SecularismDictionary conveys the meaningof Secularism as “The principleof separation of the state fromreligious institutions”. It also de-fines it as “Indifference to, or re-jection or exclusion of, religionand religious considerations”.But the entire principle stands inthe socio- political structure withrespect to religion. Religion isan inheritance which has ele-ments based on Faith and Be-lief as none of us witnessed theevents which claim the absolutebelief. The rites and rituals arearbitrary processes which claimthe eventual implications andare not only piously annexed tothe respective religious institu-tion but even are enthroned asthe core content of the Belief. Aset of doctrines which wereframed to facilitate a social ex-istence became an effectivetool in the hands of manipula-tive society. Secularism couldn’tstand its individual objective butfinally yielded to the manipula-tive majesty of political minds.

It’s a pity that in the country ofuncountable enlightened soulslike Sri Aurobindo, SwamiVivekananda we failed to enrichand strengthen the principle ofsecularism. The human speciesis subjected to multiple layers ofsocio- political intentions conve-niently termed as religion,caste, creed or race. Where liesSecularism? Which layer it dis-criminates from the other? Eventhe most skilled cosmetic sur-geon will give up.

Manali Bose,Department of Languages

UnladylikeFeminism, by definition, saysthe advocacy of women’s rightson the grounds of equality of allgenders.Being Feminist in Indiais burdensome because theyget to hear more brickbats thana person who is not afeminist.There’s a notion thatfeminists are women, but anyperson who stands for equalrights of all genders is a feministirrespective of their gender. Theambition behind the word isequality. I belong to a countrywhere women are worshiped asgoddesses, the same countrywhere they’ll be branded withlabels for choosing to do whatthey want. From Sita to Nirb-haya only women were held ac-countable to answer thequestions of society for some-thing that they didn’t ask for.Welive in a patriarchal dominatedsociety where hypocrisy is inour blood, where men are privi-leged from the birth and womenstart suffering from mother’s

womb itself. Stereotypes onwomen are infinite. Why? Be-cause it is easy being judge-mental? Or it is easy judgingwomen? From the childhoodgirls are restricted from freedomand are asked to follow the‘Copybook’ of social norms ofsociety.Patriarchal society de-velops a sense of superiority inmen from a young age whichmakes them believe that theyhave an authority on the oppo-site gender.over a decade thecrime rate against women hasboomed from 11% to 44% andWith every passing year it is in-creasing with next level of bru-tality. 65% of men think womenshould tolerate violence in orderto keep the family together.fromeducation to pay gap the dis-crimination women face in thesociety is real. How can webring change in this world whenonly half of its population is wel-comed to participate in the af-fairs of state socially, politically

or economically? No! We can-not.Let us grow a spine to ac-cept each other as humansrather than discriminating onthe basis of gender becausepatriarchy is NOT OKAY.

Kanaka Durga Yeldutti, BA 3, Editor, Bhavans Bytes, Vol 2,

Issue 2

ACTIVE SATURDAYSSindhu Meduri | 7th Sep 2019The FusionTech club of Com-puter Science department cameup with the idea of ‘Active-Sat-urdays’ to engage the studentsin physical, mental and socialactivities in order to rejuvenatetheir spirits. To deviate from theroutine, the club came togetherwith exciting events for the stu-dents to engage in. This initia-tive first took place on 7thSeptember 2019, as an interac-tive symposium on ‘BIG DATA’was organised where,Mr.P.Rama Kumar was theguest speaker. The succeedingevent was held on 30th Novem-ber as a part of which Cricket,Volley Ball and Football gameswere played by the students.The 1st and 2nd years teamedup to compete against the 3rdyear students. Later that day, agroup discussion was coordi-nated by the students on ‘Re-cent condition of women ofIndia’ in which the students en-

thusiastically participated andput forth their views. Theseevents were extended to the fol-lowing week-end as well. ‘Are security cameras invadingour privacy or tracking crime?’was the subject matter for de-bate held on 7th Decemberunder the guidance of Ms.Divya Rekha mam. In additionto this a JAM session was heldwhere the candidates wereasked to speak on advancedtechnologies like Virtual reality,augmented reality , 5G andmany more. Divya Rekha mam

quoted, ‘The purpose of thesesessions is to impart worldlyknowledge among students.’The following weekend variousfun activities were organised forthe students which included afun charades-inspired game –Pictionary,which was open to allyears. Later the students wereengaged in riddles and theywere asked to crack the riddleto find the answer within. Theevents concluded with the se-lection of new heads for theclub.

Editorial Board

Sindhu MeduriSub Editor“Experience is one thing you can’t get from nothing.“

Raaghav KapileSub Editor

“The exposure from these kind of extra curricularactivites is very mandatory for personal growth.“

Hashmita Yatala Sub Editor“Learning and exploring leads to an experience.“

Raveena Valley Sub Editor

“Work- based learning was a great way for me tounderstand the work.”

Kanaka Durga YelduttiEditor

“None of us is as smart as all of us.“

Mr. Shiva Thrishul, Lecturer, Dept Of Mass CommunicationFaculty Coordinator, Bhavans Bytes‘When the students are provided with required tools,they will definitely produce their best’. BhavansBytes is a collective output of the entire students andstaff of Faculty of Arts.

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Go - Goa - GoneDivyashri | 23rd Nov, 2019

The students of faculty of ArtsofBhavans Vivekanda DegreeCollege had the opportunity toexplore and be a part of the cel-ebration of the 50th Interna-tional Film Festival, Goa. Thetour was of four days and threenights. Students first visitedNorth Goa. Accommodation,food and travel was well organ-ized by the college. Total of 42students of BA Department

were a part of the trip.19th No-vember, the first day of the tourwas spent visiting the Aguadafort built by the Portugueserulers for providing fresh watersupply to the ships passing byin the Arabian Sea. The eveningwas spent at Baga Beach relax-ing and trying new water ridessuch as Banana drift and Para-sailing.

Students were excited

for the second day of the trip aseverybody received their dele-gate identity card. The otherhalf of the day was spent visit-ing St. Francis Xavier’s Church,Old Goa. The church is a part ofthe Churches and Convents ofGoa UNESCO World HeritageSite which holds the mortal re-mains of St. Francis Xavier. Itwas a learning experience forthe students.

Finally it was time to sitback and enjoy the InternationalFilm Festival that all the stu-dents were eagerly waiting for.On 21stand 22ndof Novemberstudents visited the Kala Acad-emy and Inox Purvorium wherethey had the privilege to meethonorable celebrities such asAmitabh Bachchan, Rajnikanth,famous producers and directorssuch as Shobu Yarlagadda, EvaCools and many more. The restof the time was spent viewingvarious screenings of moviessuch as ‘I am Woman’, ‘BhuvanShome’, ‘Deerskin’, ‘The Fa-

ther’, ‘Thankless Job’, ‘Cleo’and many more award winningmovies. Evening was plannedfor a movie screening of aKonkani movie by the Miramarbeach.

Students enjoyedwatching movies in various lan-guages,witnessing different cul-tures through the movies andlearning about variety of

movies. The journey turned outto be a great learning experi-ence which was filled with fun,joy and enthusiasm under theguidance of Mr. Shiva Thrishul,Dept of Mass Communicationand Ms. Prachinath, Dept ofLanguages.

Concentration on ConscienceRaaghav Kapile |15th Dec, 2019

“Meditation is a sort of prayerand prayer is meditation. Thehighest meditation is to think ofnothing. If you can remain onemoment without thought, greatpower will come.” – SwamiVivekanandaBhavans Vivekananda DegreeCollege had arranged a oneday spiritual trip to Ramakr-ishna Math, Himayatnagar forthe students of all the depart-ments. The students were takenin various batches on differentdays to avoid crowd and chaos.The BA and BBA departmentwent on 13th December, 2019.The Students were accompa-nied by Mr. B. Das (faculty BA)and Ms. V. Ashwini (facultyBBA). The reporting time at themath was 9.00 am followed bya breakfast. There were a totalof 3 sessions with a lunch breakat 1.30 pm. The introductory

session was conducted by theDirector of RK Math, SwamiBodhmayanand, on attainmentof peace and self-realization.This was followed by meditationfor about 15 minutes. The stu-dents were then taken on ashort tour of the math accompa-nied by the volunteers. The sec-ond session was conducted byMr. Narendra Gunreddy on thetopic ‘Soft Skills’ where he ex-plained the importance of per-sonality development and gavefew tasks to improve one’s per-sonality. Swami Bodhmayanandconcluded the day by givingsome tips on concentration andmeditation.It was a really helpfuland insightful day for the stu-dents as they gained some ex-perience on concentrationwhich would help them for theirentire life.

Our Rural RootsBhavika Bhattad | 07th Sept, 2019

On 7th September, 2019,the SOCH Club, of ArtsDepartment organised

an outreach programme fortheir students to the interior vil-lage of Shadhnagar in Peer-laguda.

The students were ac-companied by the Arts faculty,Mr. B. Das, Mr. Shiva and Dr.Seema Ghosh, to witness the"Gram Sabha" meet of the vil-lage where the Sarpanch of thevillage, Mr. Mohd. Mobeen, ad-dressed the villagers and en-quired upon their problems andcame up with remedies to rec-tify them.

As a part of it, the stu-dents also conducted an out-reach programme, where thechildren of the local school weretaught how to work with cameraand were awarded on their per-

formance. Also, a small skitabout the importance of “MoneySaving” was also performed bythe students for the villagers.Overall, the trip was a grand

success which helped the stu-dents uncover a new dimensionof the society.

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Commerce Outreach Programme Bhavans Bytes News Service | 3rd Dec, 2019As part of the Commerce De-partment initiative, an outreachprogram was organized to stu-dents of ZPHS girls high schoolMalkajgiri in which girls from 9thand 10th standard participated.The objective of the outreachprogram was to give detailed in-formation about commerce ed-ucation. The programhighlighted the emerging trendsand job opportunities in the fieldof commerce and allied sub-jects. The initiative was takenunder the lecturer in-charge Mr.

Kaleem Ullah and B.Com II andIII year students the college.The session was held with anintroduction to the key elementson how to choose the field ofcommerce education after theirschooling and threw light on sig-nificance of various areas in thefield of commerce such as en-trepreneurship, banking, audit,tax & insurance, human re-sources and so on. The pro-gramme was interactive and thestudents responded with a greatdeal of enthusiasm.

M.Sc final year students visitGrover Zampa Vineyard

Bhavans Bytes News Service | 8th Dec, 2019

Department of Microbiol-ogy organized four dayeducational field trip

from 3rd December to 7th De-cember for M.Sc final year stu-dents to Coorg, Via Bangaloreand Mysore. This field trip/ visitwas planned to educate theM.Sc students with practicalmethods of wine fermentationproduction at one of PremierInstitute in South India. GroverZampa Vineyards located inBengaluru, has well establishedwine production plant estab-lished in 1940. It has brancheslocated at Nashik, Maharashtraand Nandi hills.

On 4th December stu-dents visited the winery, whichowns 450 acres of Grape vine-yard and cultivate special vari-ety of grapes exclusively forwine preparation. After a briefhistory and information about

vines and vineyard cultivation,students first visited automaticgrape crushing unit, then pro-ceeded to understand the in-dustrial processing offilteration , fermentation andwine storage Mr.Vipin Singhhad explained in detail aboutthe sequential steps involved inwine making good reasoning.

Two types of wines i.ewhite and red wines are gener-ally produced and with their

combinations in different pro-portions they make 32 other dif-ferent types of wine and supplyto 25 countries annually. Com-pany has 185 Stainless steelFermenters specially designedto resist heat production duringanaerobic fermentationprocess. Barrel room facility isused to age premium brand ofwine in imported oak barrel.Students had a good time inlearning at the vineyard.

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INTO THE WOODSBhavans Bytes News Service | 7th Sep, 2019

Bharat Scouts and Guidesunit attended hiking pro-gramme held at dulla-

pally forest accompanied bydistrict training commissioner K.Mohan rao sir, ranger unitleader Lakshmi bai ma'am, andcollege unit coordinator Y. Vi-jaya lakshmi ma'am , ChandanBabu sir. "Telangana state for-est academy" CAFE CHIL-DREN AND FORESTEDUCATION

It was started at 9 am. Of-ficer Dr. Dharama chandrakumar explained the benefits ofplants 1st students visitedherbal garden where theylearned about different species

then followed by visit to forestarea and reached to peak pointfrom where the entire 1000acres of forest is visible. Stu-dents returned with a great en-thusiasm. Followed by theaddress by director of forestTirupathiaiah Then followed bystudents views, thoughts andexperience it concluded with thevote of thanks by Chandanbabu sir thanking specially ourcollege principal prof. Y. Ashoksir for giving this opportunity toall the rangers and rovers toknow more about the environ-ment.

BA students attend Women Writers’ FestSanjana Menon | 14th Dec,2019

The students of BA had at-tended Women Writers ;Fest, organised by She

The People TV and FICCI FLO,Hyderabad on 7th December2019. The fest has put limelighton eminent writers, bloggers,authors and editors across thecountry, covering all the genres.

It consisted of severalpanelists discussing on FoodTrends, Health, Gender Nu-ance, Feminist Writing, DigitalEntrepreneurship and Journeyof women writers. The ParkHotel at Somajiguda was thevenue and around 150 peopleattended the program whichwas held from 11am to 6.30pm.

Sona Chatwani, Chair-person, FICCI FLO Hyderabadand Ms. Shaili Chopra,Founder, She The People TV,prefaced the event by welcom-ing all the guests and attendeeswhich was followed by the firstpanel discussion, talking aboutthe rich culture of the city by Ms.Lakshmi Manchu and ElaheHiptoola, in the panel; We arethe City; moderated by Ms.Pinky Reddy. The speakers em-powered and accredited the au-

dience and also acknowledgedwomen initiating to speak outtheir mind. Ms. Sonia Singh,who is an eminent journalist andeditorial director at NDTV, re-cently published her book called;Defining India, Through TheirEyes; wherein she brings outthe perspective of our countryfrom the point of view of variousinfluential personalities whohave contributed to theprogress and growth of India.She discussed the personalitiesembodied in her book and Ms.Shaili Chopra shared her ideasand interpretation on the Na-tion. From Kombucha to Keto, adelicious panel on “Food Trends2020” with panel members Ms.Setha Anand Vaidyam, Ms. TaraDeshpande and Ms. AnupamaDalmia was moderated by Ms.Shivani Mohan.

Dr Mickey Mehta, anIndian holistic health, well-being, wellness, and fitnessguru shared some importanttips around health, physical andmental well being and trans-forming ourselves to becomeour best version. This was fol-lowed by a panel discussion of

women writing women charac-ters in their books, where au-thors shared their writingprocess and what went into cre-ating female characters for theirbooks, including women writersMs. Sophia Loren Benjamin,Ms. Shilpa Suraj, Ms. KadaliSathyanarayana and Ms.Swapnil Pandey.

Popuri Lalita, popularlyknown by her pen name Volga,mesmerised those in atten-dance with her insights into howrelevant the voice of womenwriters was to the discourse,and why we need dalit womenfeminist writers. She spokeabout the women characters inher books with Dr. T Vijaykumar and the controversiesskyrocketed on the book,;Liber-ation of Sita.

The day ended with thepanel of poets on, 'When WordsSing: Women's Journeysthrough Verse'. The speakersdescribed how expression offeelings and ideas are given in-tensity through their distinctivestyle and rhythm of writing.

Advanced Biochemical and MolecularDiagnostic Techniques

Bhavans Bytes News Service | 4th Dec,2019

The Department of Biochem-istry Organised a 5-day

workshop on Clinical, Cytoge-netic, Molecular DiagnosticMethods and Genetic Coun-selling at Institute of Geneticsand Hospital for Genetic Dis-eases, Osmania University, Be-gumpet, Hyderabad from 25thof November to 29th Novem-ber’2019. A total of 30 studentsfrom Bhavan’s VivekanandaCollege have participated. Allthe 30 students were dividedinto two Batche, A & B, and thenwere allotted with the classesappropriately.

On the 1st day it wasabout Clinical Genetics byDr.T.Sunitha and Dr.G.ShilpaReddy. On Day 2 it was aboutEnvironmental Toxicology byDr.G.Deepika and GeneticCounselling by Dr.M.Sujatha.On Day 3 it was about Molecu-lar Techniques byDr.M.L.N.Deepika and Cytoge-netics by Ms.A.Srilekha. TheDay 4 session was on ClinicalBiochemistry. Day 5 was aboutHPLC technique which is a partof Clinical Biochemistry to-gether.

Megalithic BurialKiran Kumar, BA3

The Megalithic burial site islocated at Damaravai vil-lage, which is 15 kilome-

tres from Tadvai forest resorts.The tombs called Dolmens, asingle chamber megalithic, con-sist of two or more structuressupporting a huge horizontalcapstone on the hillock.Deep inside the thick forestnear Dameravai village, Mega-lithic tombs are found which arepopularly known as Dolmens.They are believed to be 5,000years old and provide an evi-dence of existence of early civ-ilization. The existence ofhistorical tombs poses as anopportunity to learn more aboutpre-historic existence.Hundreds of megalithic tombslie ignored here in Tadvai forest.An enthusiast of history, ex-plored hundreds of megalithictombs in the deep forest of Tad-vai Mandal that provides an op-portunity to learn more aboutthe pre-historic man.“The pre-historic man lived hereover 10,000 years ago as therewas rich source of water fromGodavari valley near by the for-est.”There are different types of dol-

mens located here, built onground and built of circular for-mation of stones. The mega-lithic tombs having cists(megalithic coffin made instone) are of 15 feet size inwidth where stones with two tothree feet thickness at the site.Some time ago, a pre-historicburial site unearthed in Kham-mam Degree College whichhad cross symbols carved on it.“The Megalithic burial sitesstand as a testimony to survival

of pre-historic man here. Butthey are seriously underminedboth by the officials and the lo-cals. The archaeological depart-ment has taken up a study ofthe megalithic burial site andare being restored. The site hasbeen developed into a touristspot by Telangana Tourism as itis situated close to Medaramand Bagotha waterfall in Waran-gal. Since the location is deepinside the forests, they are noteasily accessible.

India 2020 vs 2040K Manish Teja, BA2

By 2020, the median individualin India will be 29 years.Thismakes India the youngest coun-try in the world.The populationin the age-group of 15-34 in-creased from 353 million in2001 to 430 million in 2011.Current predictions suggest asteady increase in the youthpopulation to 464 million by2021.By 2020, 64% of India's popula-tion will be in working agegroup. The report finds that aperson in an urban area has a93 percent greater chance of

acquiring training than some-one in a rural area. We arehappy now because India haslarge number of youth, whichwill help in the development ofthe country. Meanwhile we haveto start worrying about 2040,What if people don't get em-ployed ? What if more peopleare jobless ? What if peoplechoose wrong way to earnmoney ?India will become the countrywith more old age people by2040. The employment oppor-tunities provided by the govern-

ment results in development ofthe country. The more the peo-ple get employed the moreIndia will get developed. Thestandard of living of people de-pends upon the employmentopportunities. Everything is in-terlinked, only when people getemployed or they have incometheir standard of living will in-crease. The rise in standard ofliving results in rise in GDPwhich overall results in develop-ment of the country.

PARTICIPATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WINNING

“Winners are not the oneswho never fail, But the oneswho fall and rise again”.

In any walk of life, what mat-ters is not the final picture butthe journey undertaken to get

there. In the same way, in anycompetition ,what matters moreis not the prize but rather partic-ipation .It is not important to winevery game in life, but participa-tion is. Every new competition isa new adventure. Participatingin these competitions gives oneexperience over time.

This experience helpsone come closer to their goal.Of course, winning is good. It’sexciting. But often, the oneswho do not win, but participate,learn more than the ones whowon or never participated. Par-ticipation helps one learn newthings. it helps one know moreabout the game and to study it.

One may not win the first time,but if he/she returns to it thesecond time, he/she will beplaying better with more experi-ence and knowledge.

Often, failure is whatmotivates one to do better. Suc-cess motivates one to repeat it.Success or failure comes onlywith participation due to fear offailure. But participation willsurely give one experience andmotivation, no matter the result.It may help reveal how goodone can be or it may revealone’s shortcomings which canbe worked upon and improved.For example, if “captain cool”MS Dhoni had never partici-pated in a cricket tournament,he would’ve never known hispotential and India probablywould not have won the worldcup. So friends nothing beatsthe experience that comes fromparticipating, not even winning.

Maneesha, BA1

The Big Bloom Theory

“No beauty shines brighterthan that of good heart”,when I hear such words

from others, I really wonderwhether they mean it or not.Most of the people in our soci-ety think a girl should be thin,fair, attractive etc. I really fail tounderstand this stupid theoryand I don’t even want to. Manyof my relatives told my mother ifI don’t reduce my weight , Iwon’t get a handsome andwealthy husband.

In reality they are notconcerned about my health butabout my marriage and futurehusband. Initially, I never tookthose words to my heart, butsoon they weighed me down.

My grandmother inces-santly sits beside me while eat-ing and keep reminds me not toeat too much. My friends usedto make fun of my appearance

while playing. All this decimatedmy self-esteem and self-confi-dence. I thought that I am not ab e a u t y .

As I grew up I under-stood that nobody is perfect inthis world and everybody hastheir own imperfections. Istarted loving, admiring mybody and accepted it the way itis. This made my life easy.

Soon I realized nobodywill appreciate your body, butyou have to. I don’t have tochange my body for some guyor for my relatives but for thebetter me. I know that I'm not agirl the society expects to be. Ipromised myself that I won’t feeldespondent on the criticism I re-ceive from my so called “wellwishers’’. Now I can say “I amsexy and I know it’’.

Bhavan’s Bytes 11Thoughts and Tales

Ishita Lanka, BA1

Positive attitude brings outthe best in people. Posi-tivity is something which

makes a person strong inter-nally. It not only develops a per-son’s personality but alsoresults in the development of‘optimism' in a person. Whenperson is positive he makesother people positive as well, ashe shares a very positive vibe.The 'aura' of being positive issomething very different as apositive person will always seethe things in a good and betterway . A very big example whichproves this is ; if a glass is halffilled with water, a negative per-son will always say that, 'Oh!The water is only half in theglass' but if the same glass isthere with a positive person,he/she will say that, 'ThankGod! The glass atleast is half-

full. Thus the thought of an opti-mistic person will always becontradictory to that of a nega-tive person. Thus, positive peo-ple teach us never to lose hopeand to never give up.There is a small story which canhelp us to understand the im-portance of positivity better.Long time back, in a villagethere was a problem of drought.The villagers were very tensedas their crops were not growing.The farmers were committingsuicides so the village Head orthe ' Sarpanch' decided to havea small ritual organized for cur-ing the problem of drought. Thepooja began. While everyonewere praying there came a littlegirl with an umbrella in herhand. She was standing out-side, the villagers were sur-prised. The Sarpanch out of

curiosity asked her the reasonbehind her act, as there wereno rains and the village was suf-fering from droughts. The girlwith a smile on her face repliedthat “You people are praying sohard that definitely it would rainin no time. So I am just beingprepared”. This shocked andoverwhelmed the Sarpanch andthe villagers. It taught themnever to lose hope and give up. Thus, through this we do under-stand the importance of beingpositive. As a normal personwould only make his life betterbut a positive person wouldchange the life of many. Opti-mistic person will become an in-spiration to others. Therefore,its completely our decisionwhether we want to be inspiredor become an inspiration.

Chandrakala, BA1

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