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Tech- EnvisionVICE- CHANCELLOR'S MESSAGEPage 4The key to success in life is hard work and discipline. The best known people on earth tasted the fruit ofsuccesses because they were determined about their goal in life. You may face many hurdles in life, especiallyin today's highly competitive era, but one should always learn from his/her mistakes anddo not repeat them.Always put in your best effort, do not worry about the gain or rewardsas they will automatically chase you once you follow the path of diligence and honesty.Start setting goals and improve your technical skills, try to gain practical knowledge inyour field as that is what matters when you enter the industry.It gives me immense pleasure to mention that our university is celebrating itsGolden Jubilee Year during 2009-10. It has flourished successfully over the years andCollege Of Technology has always been its pride. This institution has shown burgeoningdevelopments in the recent years.I would like to congratulate the College Editorial Board for coming out with yet another brilliant issueof TECHNICHE. The college magazine vividly depicts the musings of the exquisite minds of the studentcommunity creating a democratic platform that is essential for an effective teaching-learning process.With best wishes.Dr. B.S. Bisht(Vice- Chancellor, G.B.P.U.A.T.)It's a privilege to note that yet another issue of TECHNICHE is being brought out. The CollegeEditorial Board needs to be earnestly congratulated for the effort thathas resulted into the taking of shape of this glorious publication. Themagazine has now become an essential part of COT's life and eachissue is always eagerly awaited. And so, it is natural that expectationsbecome a part of anticipations but thankfully, TECHNICHE hasnever failed us. However, though the quality of literary talentmanifesting itself in the magazine is amazing, the technical contentseems to be a trifle too little. Surely, being an engineering college, thisshould not have been the case. Anyhow, the magazine and those whohave contributed towards it in even the least possible manner deserveour heartfelt praise. I hope that this time too, the magazine proves to bean enjoyable read.I wish you all success.DEAN'S MESSAGEDr. M.P. Singh(Dean, College of Technology)TECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Mentor's ColumnPage 5MENTOR’S COLUMNThe bust is over and boom is near. If bust had problems, theboom brings a lot of opportunities and a lot more threats. India'stotal retail market is estimated at Rs. 9,300 billion of whichorganized retail stands only at Rs.300 billion. Retailing giantslike Subhiksha round up business. A paradox? Yes. In order tokeep pace with the accelerated pace of growth, we haveprobably sacrificed the quality of manpower, the mostimportant resource of any society. The society as a whole hasgone into a powerless mode as reflected by the unmindfulviolence reported in the media on a daily basis. There are only,but a few individuals willing to exercise their vested authorityfirmly and fairly.Today, as we look around us, we find that we are afraid of thetruth, afraid of fortune and afraid of each other. There are noperfect or great people around. We aspire to have men and women who would renovate our life and our socialstate, but we see that most natures are insolvent, incapable of satisfying their own wants, have an ambition outof all proportions to their inherent force and continually beg and so, lean day and night . We shun that battle offate where strengths get borne.If we fail in our first enterprise, we lose all steam.Aman is a word in person. Therefore he must be ashamed ofany compassion when he acts alone throwing idolatry and customs away, we stop pitying him, and thus only ateacher restores the life of a man to splendor.It is easy in this world to live after the world's opinion, to live in solitude, to live on your own, but a man is onewho is able to keep together the sweetness of solitude with its independence.“Let a man know his true worth, and keep things under his feet.”It may be suicidal to be in a hurry to achieve everything.“kuS iaFk%] “kuS dUFkk] “kuS ioZr y³~xue~A“kuS foRra] “kuS /keZa] iHprkfu “kuS “kuSAAJ.N. VohraAssociate ProfessorProduction Engineering DepartmentCollege Of TechnologyTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

TechawayAnalyze...Scrutinize..StrategizeMilam Saxena, Agricultural Engg,batch- 2004, is an alumunus of theCollege of Technology, Pantnagar. He iscurrently pursuing the Agri-BusinessManagement course (PGP-ABM) atIIMA. You can reach him at 8milam@iimahd.ernet.inI don't want to don a preaching hat; just givesome thoughts for you to ponder upon. PresentlyPantnagar is going through turbulent times. Such is thetime to stop, reflect and decide on the path one needs totake. You need to see where you are, where you want tobe in a few years time, and, finally, how you would getthere, (management people call this ‘strategy’). I wouldlike to share some of my views that I believe would behelpful at this stage of your career path.Figure 1: At crossroads (CRC, Pantnagar)I will start with the “ Where do you want to be?”part first. Ambition is the biggest driver. Where do yousee yourself five years from now? Heading a projectteam in an IT firm or working for an investment bank? Iwould like to push you to think how big can you thinkyourself to be. I, for one, took this decision right in myfirst year when I took up Agricultural Engineering (oversome other streams; a difficult choice for me, I admit). Iwanted to be the best at what I did and reach the pinnacleof the agri-business space.Then comes the “ Where you are” part. We allcarry a “baggage”!! We started with a clean slate someth th5-7 years back, but now after 10 , 12 , AIEEE/JEE, youcan see the kind of diverging paths you have taken ascompared to your peers. And this will continue withyour academic performance in college, paperspublished, extracurricular's and many others. Whateverlevel you compete at, you must know how to leverage, oryou will have to bear this “baggage.” One needs tounderstand clearly where he stands. For example, at thebeginning of my second year in college, I found myselflacking in my communication/writing skills andextracurricular activities - something I knew that wasrequired for my all round development.institute,“How do I get there?”an MBA from a reputedMasters from abroad, publishing internationalpapers, improving one's communication….it can beanything! A clear diagnosis of where you are and whereyou want to be would support you in working morerelevantly towards your goal. In college, I found theEngineering Society to be the platform where I couldimprove on the fronts where I lacked. Presenting a businessplan or a paper in college was the ultimate thing that Ithought could be done and I worked on it. Looking back, Ifeel that academics should have been my first priority (Ihad a CGPA of 7.5, which I believe is not too competitive).Now,I learn of instances where students are going tointernational conferences for presenting their papers. Thisis very encouraging. Another area which I feel can reallyhelp you to be ready for the corporate life would be bytaking your summer training very seriously and interningwith corporate firms.Page 6In fact, in such times, we need to be the changehoweversmall, that may be. Many of us did not give duefocus on academics. It was actually supposed to be cooland one-night-fights were the norm. Things would nothave changed much from then. We must understand thatsuch an attitude gravitates towards greater control whichmany of us then find repressive. Here, in the first year,weprepare for each lecture beforehand (frankly I could notimagine my self to be in such a state). A 1 hr 15 minssession translates to at least 2 hours of individual study.With 3 classes each day we need to give a minimum of 7-8hrs for class preparation. Apart from this we have surprisequizzes, group assignments and other activities runningsimultaneously. Working hard for all this doesn't onlyensure that the learning is good but also that the professorshave extreme confidence in whatever we do. AcademicsTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Innotechare first but apart from that, one is free to do anythingwith absolute freedom.We do not need to waste a lot of time over theconstraints we face from the external environment. Ivividly remember that when Dr. Kalam had come toinaugurate the Electronics & Communication Engg.Department. He had offered to teach in the university. Iam not aware ifWthis offer was taken any further. InConfusing 3 letters: GRE Vs CATith the advent of third year, the beginning ofsecond half of engineering, arises an imbroglio ofwhat to do and what not to do- to make the objective ofour life more specific. Even without the inevitablefear of placements, being in third year is itselfsufficient to move the earth beneath a student's feet,forcing them to think of their career. They witnesstheir seniors, some placed in reputed firms, somegrabbing calls from the best B-Schools and the resttoiling hard for off campus jobs. With all suchexamples lying in his ambience,a student is prone toget confused regarding what to do and what not to do.The only prominent options that lie in front ofstudents speaking in the broad sense are a job andhigher studies.Witnessing the current era of recession it'smerely living in a fool's paradise waiting forcompanies and mugging up the course books, justdreaming of your dream recruiter. Coming to theoption of higher studies the options which are left arealthough less in number, being two, but still capable toconfound any person. Business and Technology bothstand poles apart, literally. Where one makes you theMasters of corporate world the other leads you to thecore of science and technology both demandingundivided and uncompromised preparation forthemselves. But there lies a catch, not in these binaryoptions but in the thought process under execution inthe brains of the students thinking of these options.My words are revolving around the two majorfaves of students: GRE and CAT. These 3 letter wordsseeming very beautiful become the aim of the cluelessstudents unaware of their meanings. Myconsideration flies in the face of the convention whichpeople have been following for years owing to the factthat the preparation for both CAT and GRE is same.The preparation of both these exams is almost similarup to a great extent both requiring an in-depthknowledge of vocabulary and quant. Owing to thisfact some people assert that if one is preparing for oneexam he should give a try to the other and vice-versa.Although it sounds a genuine and expert advice but ifgiven a thought in deep the foolishness of it can bePage 7contrast, last year, a course called- Globalising ResurgentIndia through Innovative Transformation (GRIT) wasstarted with Dr. Kalam as one of the faculty. This coursewas initiated by one of the students from second year.What I am basically trying to convey through this articleis an opportunistic way of looking at life and all that itthrows at you. As they say, when life gives you lemons,make lemonade or ask for tequila and salt instead.easily concluded. These individual exams will lead youto targets that have a figure 36 relation between them andyou might just end up in an arena that is completelydifferent from the one for which you prepared.Preparing for one and appearing for other issimilar to standing on a straight road. Although the pathon the road is one but finally it is leading to twocompletely opposite directions- which can never meetand have no relation. It is none better than deceivingyour capability and your own worth. It's one's ownpersonal interest which makes a person competing for aparticular examination. I wonder how someoneinterested in business and appearing for CAT canmanage to fit into MS where business in no word butonly research. It's possible that there may be somestudents who have the capacity to crack both. Althoughin the eyes of the world that student may be the ideal forothers but in true sense he is none better than a puppetwhose goal is contingent on the preparation when itshould be the other way round. Or in other words, he isnone better that a baseless vessel which is free to roll inany direction.Instead of casting a covetous eye on dual targetsit's worthwhile to slog your guts out and follow acategorical path with full degree of certitude towards adefinite goal. It doesn't matter which exam you crackedwith flying colors but what matters is that in the long runwhich will make you feel smug about youraccomplishments. It's not about trying to step into eachand every field to garb as much part of all as you can butwhat matters is to step into one field and be itsconqueror. Then only one can proudly enjoy the essenceof his work. In a nutshell, 'Focus' is the word whichspeaks in context of what is said. The only way tosucceed and add feathers to your cap is to focus on whatyou want to pursue and concentrate all your energytowards achieving your goal keeping in mind that it's notpossible to be the master of all trades. It's worthwhile toshine brightly as a complete diamond than to sparkle likea broken piece.Ankit GuptaFinal Year, Production EngineeringTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Face-offPage 8Higher education in times of recession is anopportunity rather than a compromise.“Prosperity doth best discover vice butAdversity is the blessing of the new.”Yes, recession is a crisis but it is also an approach in the long run,especially if we are a technical startup aiming at a big sitting.Irrespective of the current recession, higher studies will always help usto land in a better position. Graduation will just give us the basics of allsubjects but in-depth analysis with expertise cannot be obtained. Apost graduation and further research will allow us to specializein a subject. The slump in the career prospects in the backdrop of theglobal recession can be used to the advantage of individuals byopting for higher studies. Times of recession act as propellingfactors for employers to seek opportunities to upgrade their skills inorder to add more value to the organization. This in fact is anopportunity to lay the foundation for career prospects viaadditional qualification. This period can be utilized effectivelyfor learning and enhancing knowledge, base and skills. Let ususe this as the biggest opportunity that has landed at our feet,and embark upon the challenge to develop new skills andideas that will beat back recession to where it came from.Afterall 'constraint is the mother of innovation.’Kopal GuptaII year, Production EngineeringWhen students enter college after overwhelmingpreparation and diligence, the only thing leftbetween them and a lucrative job is a degree. Atthat time, who thinks about higher studies? Butbecause of recession, we are compelled to do so.Just imagine going through the same turmoil ofstudying laboriously for 10-12 hours every day,constantly nagged by the ever increasing pressure.Haunted by the nightmare of not being able to qualify,all one wants is to grab a job at the first opportunity.Think about those who belong to the lower middle classor poor families. They had burnt the midnight oil tomake through one competition. They have a family ofretiring parents, and growing siblings, who waitexpectantly for a job and a steady source of income.Instead of earning, they would have to spend a heftyamount on higher studies. And not necessarily do all makethrough GATE, GRE or CAT as only the fittest survive. Buta good job is the necessity of all, either fit or not. Besides,higher studies may be the dream of some but not all. In theend, we are left with only two options, either stay unemployedor opt for higher studies.Vaishali SharmaII YearElectronics and Communication EngineeringIn the present milieu, students aim only at fiscalsecurity and for them, it is the only parameter thatdefines success and a safe future. A large number ofgraduates have an urge to pursue higher education butthe malignant desire to get placed in a significant firmand get the 'feel’ of the corporate world soonovercomes it and the former fades away. In times ofrecession, when students are considering all theavenues open to them, higher education has startedto look quite lucrative. Obviously, the scenariothat exists today may not be there tomorrow. So ifstudents go on for higher studies, they reap twinbenefits of gaining more understanding of theirfield of work and buying some more time beforestepping into the 'Big World.' Higher educationgets better salaries and more perks but studentsstill don't prefer to go for it. Once they take upjobs, it is difficult to let go of the temptation,although it is far better to take up a job laterthan regretting taking up one that doesn'toffer much satisfaction. Therefore highereducation is actually an opportunity athand that students must avail to theiradvantage.Shruti RawatIII Year, Electrical EngineeringThe R-word has created havoc in the life of the new graduates asthe placements of the various engineering schools have a hit an alltime low and going for higher education might be the new trend forthe upcoming graduates. Recession has forced a lot of companiesto cut down their graduate recruitment and now the question arises- Ifnot higher education, then what? A top class MNC is what anundergraduate student has been aspiring for during the four years of hisgraduation and if this dream is suddenly blown off, higher educationseems to be a compromise with his/her career. Not every student isprepared for higher education as it demands greater application of bothmind and money. Today in a world where there is cut throat competition,getting through with higher studies might not be that easy. Also, somefamilies might not be able to afford the ever increasing expenditure ofhigher education, when they were expecting a helping hand from theirchild after his/her graduation which didn't turn to be the case, leavingthe students in a mood of deepening pessimism over their future. So termingit as an opportunity might not be correct.Today we meet many individuals who have completed their degree and havebeen asked to wait by their recruiters but who knows when that wait willend. So, the next immediate door that seems to be open is higher education andthe burden of expectations will surely force them into that. If one cannot catchthe bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.Although higher education mightpromise you a more secure and dominant future but the truth that meets the eye isThat its an immediate compromise with your dreams and your presentcondition.Ankit GodiyalIII Year, Mechanical EngineeringTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

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InnotechPage 12"Iwas, I remember, I waited, and..." shesighed...”and what ...oblivion?”...I said... she turnedand smiled "no... "I am" "...her words left mequestioned and I added "sorry I couldn't get you"..."it feels as if its an eternal, comfortable halt of time, aninseparable part of my being and trust me I am okaywith it".I walked out of the room without a word, with mymind stepping into my subconscious world of reason,all the grieves were washed in the flood of her pain. Iflashed back to the hours of my "hectic" Sundaymorning. Woke up with a pile of books overhead andrushed for the breakfast leaving my messy cubbyholeas it was. On the way I measured as usual the pros andcons of life, where I was ditched , where I wentwrong, what the future undertakings would be blahblah... and that was the time, the cell made a buzz, itwas an old friend calling up for a coffee together. I toogot nostalgic. "Fine CCD at 4 sharp!" I said. " No, youcome to my hospital dear, we'll walk to the place”, heinterrupted. "Fine", I concluded and the calldisconnected. At 4:03 I walked up the stairs of themedical giant of the city. “Ignoring the inevitabletruths of life, I geared to his chamber but ... I pausedand took a slender tilt ...and... It was a general ward...and a charming divine face. A heavenly smile thatdrove my steps into the ward. She passed a sweetsmile to the nurse but the busy bee took no notice ofthat ...it seemed rude ...anyways I flicked through herfiles and shivers rolled down my spine... age- 28,disease- a long biological term I couldn't pronounce."Hello!" she said. "I suppose the nurse has left but Istill can feel someone's presence, may I know youwho's that please?” I drew near- she was blind, threesteps back and I cleared my choked throat " I am sorryI was just" ..."Its fine, people rarely peek into thesegrave wards", she added."I am getting late my friend must be waiting". I wasalmost about to say this but my lips virtuallyparalyzed. There was an obvious inquisitivenessbubbling in me, but her soft words dismantled the gutsI had built to uncover her truth. I stood erect and thetime ran like water under a bridge. As few minutespassed, "Are you still here, do you want something?"her voice broke the silence.My curiosity ruled my honesty and truth and Iresponded, "Actually I was just on a survey for aninterview may I have one from you?""Surely you can" she added. So I went through yourfile. For how long you have been admitted here?" Theintonation was not continuous and my shiver ruled it.Four years or so she replied.Soon, her affirmation revealed her past. All I couldextract from her words was- her disease was not as simpleas blindness, she had a slow failure of senses, or bettersay of the nervous system when any of the nerve of herbiological circuit could fail anytime and 6 failures shehad already gone through. One being optical of course,and the other major ones were the senses of smell andtouch. This further took me out of my so called senses.But you always have a cell phone to get back to this worldof people."Hello! Where are you ? I am waiting for last 10minutes!"“LATER” was all that I said and simply disconnected thecall. "You can leave dear, I don't know why people haveto lie when the truth is so easy?" Her words stuck mehard...“Its not that only journalists have right to explorepeople.... and people like me who are a research objectfor the biggest brains of country are made to beexplored".I was dumbstruck, but her words cleared the mist ofdiscomfort we had. Finally, I summed up enough courageto solve the riddle for which I had sacrificed mychildhood mate's precious call "How did this happened, Imean the first time you ....?""It was a conference on green engines in Germany and Iwas to present papers challenging the ruling greenengine. You remember 1.4Ltsi of the giant VW??"I replied with a nod ....a pause ...and then"hmmm.”"It was then..... 5 min before the conference I couldn't feelmy hold on the papers.”"That was my midas touch!" ...she sighed"Outcome of 5 years of shear hard work. So I neglectedthe fatal symptom. Soon I felt as if I wasn't wearing anyclothes. A few steps and I couldn't feel the reaction of theground...and...”"And what?????"“The rest is all history ...history I care for as much as Icared for the history in my secondary textbooks."I could see an abstract grief in her crystal black eyes forhaving missed that presentation."So touch was the first sense targeted," I tried to engageher more on her physical discomfort as I found it beingless painful to her.“No, it was the sense of not feeling those papers in myhand. One hole in a can is enough to spill the milk. Onceits made, rest all make no big difference.""You mean your senses hold less of importance to you .Now that's not realistic. Sorry to say!"TECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Innotech“Of course not, but some things in your life, thoughmaterialistic, hold great importance.And in these fouryears I have turned more meaningful leaves of lifethan I did in the years of my bachelors degree!""And trust me losing the sense of touch is a livingenlightment.Although the loss of sight brought a littlediscomfort but it takes me to my own world ofexistence, my dimension less space. A space withoutphotons, without the mind boggling facts of thetheory of relativity. A world where I don't have to lieon the fake foundations or axioms to explain myfindings..."She continued with more meaningful outlook and Ilistened and listened and listened...Suddenly she paused "I feel its has been a long time,you should leave”"but I wanna listen more from you..." I firmly stated."Thanks a lot for sharing time, I have never spoken asmuch in the last four years ever as I did today, but youshould return to your world of worlds”“Its hard to believe that, how can a person sum up hislife in just a smile remembering each big smallevent"...Anudge from a ward boy brought me back tothis "world of worlds" as she has said.Page 13I had a day with reason and the next morning was all thesame... except... oh! "my wallet"...I remembered I hadleft it there near the table.I rushed to the hospital and soon stepped into the ward."May I have my wallet please, I suppose I left it here?"She smiled in air with an indication that I waschallenging her failed senses by asking this. I picked mywallet up from the table. "Hope we meet again."She had an unchained pull that wished to say something,but I thought silence was more comfortable.On my way down the stairs my ears raised to aconversation "What about ward no. 33?""I supposed with 6 senses gone she would die of mentalstrain , but after losing her voice last night, she's stillstruggling with the wrath of nature... miraculous!" Withso many strokes in just 24 hours I had virtually lost mysenses...That proposal was not her midas touch!... it was her fightfor existence inspite of that lost sense of touch which wasemerging each moment as a midas touch for her!!Anumeha GururaniII Year, Mechanical EngineeringTSPARE THOUGHTS!!hud! He fell… the impact of his crash muffled bythe complexity of the winding staircase of line. Thevery same staircase that had eluded him ever since heheard of it. He was falling three steps at a time, crash,crash, crash, each fall harder than the previous one. Hewas falling into nothingness, there was no control.Only until it seemed like he would fall forever, it wasover. The agony, the pain, it was all over. Relief sweptover him as he plunged into the multitudes of darkabyss, falling forever till an end which would nevercome until he closed his eyes…Silence… silence which speaks volumes… itruled over those corridors, the endless labyrinth whichwas inescapable, encapsulating all that in it with itstreacherous hopelessness and unfathomable darkness.Audaciously, a door opened but the silence was stillunperturbed. Somewhere light seeped into thosecorridors drenched in hopelessness. Every ray of lightintensified many a times over by the darkness aroundit marking its alien presence in a place which had notseen light for as long as one can remember. Time wasreborn.Silently, a silhouetted figure emerged fromthelight shutting it out for good as it plunged into thedarkness, gliding like a bat. He knew his way, he knewit very well. For this time he was prepared, he wouldnot fail, he could not fail, and there was no choice. Hewas moving faster by the second, turning now andthen until there was no way he could back track thisroute. There was no going back to the light now, he hadcome too far. Finally, he could see it, the stair case whichhad eluded him ever since he had heard of it. It glistenedand shone, dazzling him with its beauty. He was movingtowards it in a frenzy, his heart pounding against hischest, until there was no control.Thud! He fell…who are you!Yogesh KumarIIYear, Civil EngineeringYashovardhan BhattII Year, Computer EngineeringJust azombie. Why areyou running?TECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

TechtonicITHE CLIMATE MIGRANTSn the current scenario everyone is talking aboutglobal warming and its impact. Awareness about globalwarming and climate changes has increased all over theworld. But still, there are some facts which we cannotneglect.As the oceans warm and the glaciers melt, oneof the definitive impacts of the climate change will bethe rise in sea levels. Scientists expect the sea level riseto the extent of one to several meters by the end of thiscentury. But unfortunately these are just an assumingdates because there is no such equipment which we canmeasure rise in sea level exactly. Sea level rise results inan increase in the frequency and intensity of cyclonesand hurricanes, storm surges, coastal inundation anddamage to coastal ecosystem, all of which will makelife along low-lying coasts and small islands difficult orimpossible. When these areas are just a few metersabove sea level, even less than a meter ofsea level rise will make themuninhabitable and results in forcedmigration. Tens to hundreds of millions ofpeople will have to move out of theirhomes permanently, thus becomingclimate migrants or exiles.In Bangladesh alone, where abouta third of population lives in the coastalregion which is less than 10m above sealevel, upto 80 million people are likely tobe forced to migrate inland or to othercountries. Similar numbers can beexpected along India's coast, since manycoastal cities will be severely affected. Sea level risewill possibly lead to internal displacement in largecountries like China and India and also result in asignificant number of stateless people from the similarlow-lying countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnamand some atoll nations including the Pacific, Caribbeanand Indian Ocean islands.The displacement is not expected to happen allat once, but will probably be spread out over a period oftime as various areas become unlivable. There are somedeveloped countries which are protecting theircoastline regionsthrough making dikes, dams and otherbarriers, and investing a huge amount on this work butwhat will happen in case of the poor countries? And inthat regionsof the world where dikes and dams cannotbe used effectively because of silt formation andshifting dunes? Thus, traditional adaptation strategieswill not work for this one class of vulnerable people.Small island and coastline countries whose green housegas emissions have to be minimal to low, will be theones most severely affected by sea level rise.Even as people living on some small islandsnationsare already starting to migrate, the internationalWe are generating a newclass of migrants due toclimate changes forwhich just they are notresponsible but alsow h o l e w o r l d i sresponsible.Page 14community is still arguing over who is responsible forglobal warming and how to address it. The InternationalRefugee Convention of 1952 only recognizes asrefugees those who are persecuted for reasons of race,religion, and nationality membership of a particularsocial group or political opinion. It was not designed forthose who are left homeless by environmental or climatechange. Thus climate migrants do not have agreed- uponprinciples that guarantee them rights. Besides, sinceclimate migrants will be unable to return home, a newlegal framework is required to address their uniquesituation. This calls for a new international agreement, aprotocol under the United Nations FrameworkConvention on Climate Change. The new agreementwould need to do four things. It will have toacknowledge historical obligations towards climateexiles that live in countries with very low cumulatinggreen house gas emissions. Secondly, itshould agree on a separate climate exilestatus, giving such people specific rightssuch as the right to migrate to a particular orpreviously agreed upon country of theirchoice. Thirdly it should enable them tomigrate in advance to actual sea level rise aspart of a new mechanism for compensationand rehabilitation. Fourthly, it shouldprepare climate exiles through skillbuildingand training so that they are liableto contribute to and build a new life.The above article may only beconsidered as a discussion about the globalwarming but it may be our future. So why we should notstart thinking about it right now. We are generating a newclass of migrants due to climate changes for which theyare not the only ones responsible but also the wholeworld. It is the right time to take a step towards thisproblem.What now?GATEDevendra BhandariIII Year, Production Engineeringyou tellCATPlacementlets study yaarYogesh KumarIIYear, Civil Engg.TECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Tech-no-logicHMIT MEETS COT (Do You Believe This?)ere comes the fresh dose of freaking optimism.We're scared. Believe it or not, but this happened.One fine evening, cruising through the coolsurroundings into the multifaceted internet checkingmails and looking for alternates for some stuff(sorry forinconvenience if any, I meant the CCF), one fine'journalist' of the College Editorial Board had a weirdencounter online. This gentleman from the EditorialBoard goes by the name ed_brd_journo (which standsfor Editorial Board Journalist) on Yahoo Messenger.Here's an excerpt of what happened (language alteredfrom chat lingo to normal English)...debugger_31: Hoooo!ed_brd_journo:Do I know you?debugger_31: Nopes, you aren't amongst the luckyfew...ed_brd_journo: Well, no qualms.debugger_31: So, what's this ed_brd_... whateva...ed_brd_journo: Oh, get this...And ed_brd_reptr sent the link to download oldissues of Techniche.Debugger_31 (after a long pause): Well,this is?ed_brd_journo (pretty proudly): Oh,that's our College magazine. I'm fromthe Editorial Board.debugger_31: Allright, you're fromIndia.ed_brd_journo: Did you google me?Debugger_31: Naah, I just hacked into your computeras I was SO interested in you.ed_brd_journo: Really??debugger_31: What's wrong? Of course I googledyou...ed_brd_journo: Oh, allright. So what's up with yourname?Along pause followed.ed_brd_journo: Hey, I just asked you something...Another long pause...ed_brd_journo: Hey, you didn't tell me, what's up withyour name? Is it literal?debugger_31: Not really if you don't count the firefoxplugins I wrote. They were more of debugging. Thesedays, however, I'm into physical debugging.ed_brd_journo:And what's that supposed to mean?debugger_31: What the heck?ed_brd_journo: What happened?debugger_31: This is too cluttered and I keep gettingdisturbed. And my processor is being over clocked. It'snot getting sufficient cooling. It'll burn away!ed_brd_journo (clearly clueless): Oh, that's... BAD...debugger_31: It is...Come on gtalk.debugger.31@gmail.ed_brd_journo: OK.Page 15Now, let's pause a moment. See, bringing out the collegemagazine isn't a joke. So, obviously ed_brd_journo wasa busy man. But, he was hoping against all odds that thischat might give him something about the magazine, sohe didn't mind logging into gtalk (and as you see, hewasn't wrong!).After a moment, the talk resumed.cooldude.cot:Hey, missed you.Debugger.31: I bet you did.cooldude.cot: So, tell me something about yourself.Debugger.31: I'm a proud American at MIT and ready toshut down my PC any time now.cooldude.cot: Hold on, I need to ask a few questions.Debugger.31: Make it quick.Cooldude.cot didn't want to miss this opportunity ofinterviewing a student from supposedly the bestengineering institute of the world. And he neatlyarranged the questions in his mind as always. He wasaccustomed to such 'stunts' now. This job had longthrown away his 'loner' tag for good. Andconsidering the mean Mr. Debugger wanted tobe, cooldude.cot clearly wasn't happy.cooldude.cot:Your real name?Debugger.31: Let's call myself Eric. Andyours?cooldude.cot: Let's call me Robert?...Debugger.31: All right Robert, you arejournalist of sorts. I love fame. So naturally,what's your next question?cooldude.cot:Your hobbies?Debugger.31: Coding, listening to Nirvana andMetallica, playing ticktackboe, watching The Matrixand Star Wars, making new operating systems for myipod and God help, overclocking my processor. Onemore minute and it'll explode!!cooldude.cot: No, it won't. You sound interesting. Here,check out our college website.Debugger.31(after a convincing time): That's good.cooldude.cot: One reform you'd like to bring to theworld...Debugger.31:All geeks should be given free highspeedwireless internet and an internationally fundedorganization for the people who make alternate OS foriphones. Come on, proprietarism is dud.cooldude.cot: What would you do if you were made thePresident of the US?Debugger.31: I'd turn it down. Who lives without aBlackberry at home? My thoughts echo in the eternity ofthe universe and in those parallel to it through thespacetime continuum. No geeks ever become thePresident of the US.cooldude.cot: No doubt they know it...Debugger.31: My processor will evaporate in anotherTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Techtonicminute. Ice is boiling now.cooldude.cot:You use ice to cool your processor?Debugger.31: Next question, please...cooldude.cot: So, at MIT, how's life?Debugger.31: Oh, it stinks. Lectures are the things leastrelated to practical knowledge. The profs don'tunderstand us. Kid talks... I wonder if your condition isworse.cooldude.cot: Actually it isn't. We have the best and themost considerate faculty.Now this was the first chance to cast an impression andMr. cooldude.cot couldn't afford to lose it. Abouttwenty converstions that followed next are beingskipped for the sake of peace and space. But what camenext is inevitable.Debugger.31: How do I get into your college? Pleasetell me...cooldude.cot: Through an exam calledAIEEE.Debugger.31: Pack goes my stuff. Me leaving for India.Now. Bye.Debugger.31: PS: You were right obviously, myprocessor didn't go. I should have trusted you in thefirst place. Donot rag me please, sir.cooldude.cot: I dare not. Hey, listen!But Mr. Debugger had signed out. After some morecasual surfing cooldude.cot left too.Later, on being insisted by him, I tried to googledebugger.31, but never found him. He couldn't be foundat the ipod, blackberry, ticktacktoe or overclockingcommunities. Not even on Twitter. No, he hasn't joinedthe College this year.GREEN COLLAR JOBSWorld Environment News:China Study Urges Greenhouse Gas Peak in 2030BEIJING - China should set firm targets to limitgreenhouse gas emissions so they peakaround 2030, a study by some of thenation's top climate change policyadvisers has proposed.Plunge in India Water Levels Threatens Farms:StudyNEW DELHI - Groundwater levels in northern Indiahave fallen about 20 percent more than expected,threatening to spark a major food andwater crisis, according to a study basedon U.S. space agency.At last the distress of awful climaticchanges has struck the technology giantsof the world and they have started pondering overmethods to curb the impending natural disaster…Some time back, President Barack Obama urged theeconomically battered U.S.A(at times of recession) toresist hard times and pledged to ease the pain of risingunemployment by investing $2.4 billion on creatinggreen jobs…Intel has invested $10 million in five companies thatdevelop technologies to reduce electricity bills andgreenhouse gas emissions in homes and data centers,the company said ...Nanotechnology for Green Building- a single nanotechAs reported to General HendrixEdboard Journalist- Catch Your StandpointPage 16innovation is saving one company $2.6 million inenergy costs and reducing their CO2 emissions by 35million pounds per year…This has raised a new-fangled career opportunity that isfuturistic and diverse, that also discharges an ethicalresponsibility of abiding by the laws of nature, ratherthan working monotonously in a 9-5 shift for mere a sumof money that eventually look petites at the time ourplanet is struck by a catastrophe. Moreover it will bringme more shame if I am becoming a part of anyorganization which is leading to deteriorate the conditionfurthermore… I have made my choice -a GREENCOLLAR JOB.WHAT IS AGREEN COLLAR JOB….?There is no finite definition of the term green job but ithas following objectives…. Jobs that preserve, restore, or improve theenvironment. Jobs that help save energy, advance new energyefficient technologies, and foster a more sustainableregional and national energy system. Career opportunity capable of supporting afamily's income, with the potential for advancement.WHYAGREEN COLLAR JOB…? Creating new jobs or retraining the unemployedin a time of economic downturn. Reducing our dependence on foreign oil, andstrengthening national security. Promoting the use of domestic renewableenergy resources.TECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Techtonic Reducing the tax burdens of inefficient publicbuildings and public housing. Mitigating climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Recycling consumed products into a newcommodity.PROSPECTS OFGREEN JOBS IN INDIA…Undoubtedly, Green Collar Jobs have an advance reignin developed countries as USA, Australia and manyEuropean countries. But developing countries likeChina, India etc are also looking frontwards tobecoming 'green economies'… The ClimateProject India, foundedb y a U S - b a s e dg r a s s r o o t s l e v e le n v i r o n m e n t a lo r g a n i z a t i o n ,organized a first-of-itskind 'Green Jobs Fair'at the India Habitat Centre, Delhi, fromSeptember 24-26, 2009. The fair put in the picture moreabout the careers in the green economy and informedgovernment officials of the growing potential of thesector and the urgent need to provide education thatsupports it. Certain industries are already adapting to greentechnology. For instance, the construction sector whichis focusing on green buildings and other cost effectiveand sustainable alternatives. There are some initiativesthat have come up out of necessity like water harvestingand setting up of solar energy panels to deal with waterand electricity crisis. In the rural sector, organic farmingand biogas are picking up quickly. However, the emergence of demand alonecannot make the green job revolution successful, as wePoets, thinkers, friends,They all think of today.But I,Follow what was taught to me by yesterday.Pass every morn,Pass every night,Failures stagnate,Joys pass by.As seconds of my lifeGrow in every cell I grow-Every moment moulds me.But I shan't forget the genesis,When I was just a dough.So the juice of climbing high,YESTERDAYdo not have trained workforce with the right skillsbecause we lack the necessary infrastructure and oureducation does not provide for enough courses insubjects like sustainable development. We need to learnfrom the IT revolution in which private institutes trainedpeople. Tourism is one of the largest contributors to theglobal economy and ecotourism has been offeringseveral entry level job opportunities.This is a list of reports and research related to the greenjobs sector. Green Jobs:T o w a r d sSustainable Workin a Low-CarbonWorld. Producedby WorldwatchInstitute for theUnited NationsEnvironment Programme, September 2008. 10 must read articles for green job hunters.Once a 'green revolution' took out the world from animmense food disaster and led to many successfulagricultural experiments that in turn led to significantdevelopments.History has again repeated itself and this time not justhuman race but whole ecosystem is being affected and itcan't be restored at nick of time. A new 'green jobrevolution' is the requisite of time. Though this jobchoice is audacious but is also a righteous way to earnyour living …Divya DobalIII Year, Production EngineeringToday triples its sweet,For I have come up facing low,The past has given me better treat.Today shall nourish,Leave me isolated,Waiting for another day…Yet the past is mine.A friend, a companion,Who inspires me, encourages me,During the voids of life,To do better than the best.And that's why I continue to strive…Page 17Karan Anil DharII Year, Mechanical EngineeringTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

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Book ReviewPage 19The much awaited DanBrown bestseller is here.The book houses tons ofsecrets as is obvious by theauthor as well as theopening of the book. 'Thesecret is how to die.' goesthe first line of the prologuewhich of course follows the'FACT' claiming that all thesecret societies, practices,artworks, etc. mentioned inthe text are real.Robert Langdon, the Harward professor of Symbologysets out on another quest chasing ancient symbols,secret cults, societies, crypts as DanBrown bestows us with a scientificf i c t i o n c o n t a i n i n g u n w o r l d l ytechnologies (goggles that see in the past,or breathable liquids, just to name a few),that do but exist (inadvertent reminiscentof 'Angels and Demons')blendedprecisely with ancient secrets that yetagain exist but are not or less known of.The book reels around 'The Masons', anancient brotherhood (deja vu?) that haskept a secret to enlightenment andgaining the ultimate understanding ofeverything -science or philosophy. It also speaks ofcertain scientific 'breakthroughs that would alter theentire paradigms of thinking' of human race beingperformed in an obscure field called 'noetic science'.The implications of the research can cause someserious changes which are believed to be for the worseby some. And this is what persuades the villain,powerful as always, to deter the beautiful researcherMs. Katherine Solomon from bringing her research tolight. Peter Solomon, the highest degree secret keeperof 'The Masons', brother of Katherine and a dear friendof Robert Langdon is captive of the villain andLangdon, who wants to save him has to go through anordeal as he has to override the CIA's attempts ofpreserving 'the national security'.Inflated immaculately with mysteries and wild u- turns,the book narrates one of the most impeccable practicaldescription of how good the art of storytelling gets.Reader would efficiently connect the mind power andenergy levels concepts of man acquiring the power he- DAN BROWNlong lost and that of unification to the higher being orGod illustrated in noetic science in the 'The LostSymbol' to the book 'Celestine Prophecy' by JamesRedfield or its sequel or the evergreen geek movie(action movie for the non-geeks) 'The Matrix' (andBhagwad Gita, the ultimate door to unearthing theunearthly mysteries), though far, far away from eachother, connect speaking of a prophecy that man wouldeventually be enlightened to the 'greater truth that leadsto wisdom' and consciousness of the higher self, but onlywhen the 'time is right'.Dan Brown, after having studied Christianity (and thatmeans some really serious research work, rememberThe Da Vinci Code), has explored many other religiouspractices, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Kabbalismbeliefs being referred to quite frequentlythroughout 'The Lost Symbol'.Grandparents' faith in the Vedas andUpanishads, the holy Koran, the holyBible etc. is bound to be instilled reenforcedin the young generationreading this book.However, on the negative side, DanBrown seems to be lost in the pastsearching for answers of the present andthe implications they might have in thefuture which may sound a bitmonotonous and deterrent to some andmany a times during the course of the book you begin tothink that Robert Langdon is just lucky to be RobertLangdon who either helps himself digging out skeletonsfrom the past or gets help from an ingenious generoussource, which diminishes the credibility he deserves.But speaking of a fiction involving this magnitude ofresearch and access to such clandestine stuff, the wayDan Brown does it, there seems to be no better way out.All in all, 'The Lost Symbol' eminently qualifies as a fastpaced, nerve- wrecking, breath stopping piece of fiction.The usual Dan Brown unputdownable and an obviousbestseller.A must read for a programmer, computer geek, a historyenthusiast, a paraphysics (or should I say noeticsciences) enthusiast, a Dan Brown fan or a casual readeror anyone looking forward to enhancing genuineknowledge. Dan Brown at his usual awesomeness...SankalpII Year, Computer EngineeringTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

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Techtonichave done was washed away by the tears of the millionsupon millions of dedicated fans who wept for him. Theentertainer who won 13 Grammys, 22 American MusicAwards, spawned 17 number one singles and sold 750million records worldwide, 'The Most SuccessfulEntertainer of All Time' (Guinness World Record)- thiswas Michael Jackson besides other things…The results of an exclusive survey conductedby TECHNICHE are as follows:What will you remember Michael Jackson for?1. The Moonwalk and distinctive dancing routines.Anotice is put up on the board regarding a 'Paperpresentation' and there goes up a geyser of franticenergy and consternation. Presenting a papersuccessfully is unintelligibly confused with having aflawless communication skills & complicated topics.A ppt really is a representation of any technical topic(lets keep to the technical aspect here)in an interestingformat so that the main points can be driven home well.A ppt requires a thorough research on your topic.Moreover your topic should be relevant to the presenttrends in technology and research. Means you shouldchoose that topic in which you can do some of yourown original work. Because during your presentation,judges generally ask that about what your contributionto the field has been. Green energy is a hot topic todayfor electrical engineers and much work is to be done onlike topics in the years to come.A very wrong practice of writing the abstractbefore the paper itself has taken monstrous proportionshere in Pantnagar. The abstract in the most basic form(for your section also), is the summary of your paper,your work, not an introduction to what you aim to do.For hard copy, normally you should follow IEEEformat. One key point is that images should not beinserted in between the text. Keep them to the upper orlower part. And if more than two images present in onepage keep them in one column, in a two column format.Keep the language simple but technically sound. Wemean, in a presentation a good start and better end isimperative. As for presentation a catchy style butformal combined with a good explanation can workwonders.Usually a time limit on the length of ppt is alsospecified. It gives an impression of immaculatepunctuality and also forces you to keep it brief andcrisp. Listen to the questions carefully and answer themcalmly with confidence.Now, the advantages: primarily it makes yourresume better, you get some technical topics to discussin your company interview and it will help you to keepin touch with the latest advances, motivate you towardsresearch and give you exposure like having knowledgeof other technologies in those conferences and willhelp you to get summer projects in IITs.2. Singing style, high pitched voice.3. That even your grandparents had heard of his name.4. His eccentric lifestyle.5. That he was 'dangerous' for young boys and othercontroversies.10%4%13%14%GIRLS59%12345Page 22Here are some of tentative dates of paperconferences and presentation in various prestigiousinstitutes.Event nameDateIIT-D Tryst FebruaryIIT-K Eureka(tech kriti) DecemberIIT-R Ideaz ppt 20-22 MarchIIT-B Tech fest JanuaryIT-BHU Prastuti Magnum-opus FebruaryBITS-PILANI Apogee 20-29 MarchIIT-Allahabad Effervescence October-NovemberThese were some of our personal experienceswhich we gained gradually while participating in theabove mentioned places which enabled us to win 2ndprize in ppt competitions in IIT-Roorkee and IT-BHU.2%17%22%Prantika Srivastava & Rohit Kumar SinghFinal Year, Electrical Engineeringfdl iFk tkÅ¡ \re dh fdruh xgjh Nk;k]volknksa ls cksf>y dk;k]vareZu esa O;Fkk lesVs]eSa fdldks gejkt+ cukÅ¡lksp jgh gw¡ eSa fdl iFk tkÅ¡\eSaus tx dks viuk ekuk]lq£ esa] nq%£ esa lkFkh tkuk]fdarq vkt eSa fuiV vdsyh]ns£ Lo;a fQj&fQj iNrkÅ¡!lksp jgh gw¡ eSa fdl iFk tkÅ¡\nqfu;k dk dksykgy tkjh]esjs eu esa gypy Hkkjh]viuh O;Fkk fdlh ls dg nw¡];k fQj ls uo&l`f"V jpkÅ¡]Lksp jgh gw¡ fdl iFk tkÅ¡AA55%liuk ijekjÁFke o"kZ] fo|qr vfHk;kaf=dhTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-104%BOYS

TechethosSAMANVAY '09Page 23“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time”-with these thoughts in mind, our respected alumni arrived to be a part of 'Samanvay’, the annual alumni meet of the college.Samanvay invariably provides a golden opportunity to the alumni to extract some time out of their busy schedules to descrytheir alma mater grow. This year, it was a privilege to celebrate the silver jubilee of the 1984 batch.The rendezvous began with the inaugural ceremony at the P.C.T. conference hall. The occasion was graced by the presenceof Dr.B.S. Bisht, the Vice Chancellor and other dignitaries like Mr.A.K.Mukherjee and Dr. N.K. Tyagi (memberASRB).The highlight of the meet was a highly enticing interaction session between the alumni and the students.The inquisitive young minds put forward a good lot of queries related to their respective branches, to their aural andsuccessful alumni. Their prudent and mature advice gave us an insight into the pros and cons of the professional life ahead.This way we could really imbibe immense practical knowledge from their worthy experiences.The eventful afternoon also witnessed a meeting of Pantnagar Technical Alumni Association (P.T.A.A.).It commenced bystating the aim of making the alumni association and discussed various efforts required to achieve it. Certain appealing ideaslike making alumni a part of the college administration, managing the alumni forum, methods of generation of funds for thesame etc., came to the surface. Basically, the session provided emphatic reasons to more and more alumni to becomemembers of P.T.A.A.The most awaited part of Samanvay, the cultural night at the Gandhi auditorium, truly rocked the evening. Theexhilarating performances by the students left the audience spell bound. Seeing them, the alumni could not contain their joiede vivre and were compelled to come up to the stage to perform. They were overjoyed, proving it almost a heyday for themand for us all as well.The faded memories of old days made some alumni nostalgic, who every now and then kept comparing thecontemporary with the past. The alumni appreciated the good reputation that Pantnagar enjoys at industrial level. Theyseemed satisfied with the level of education, work-culture and job oriented work running at present. But the expressedprofound concern on the condition of the workshop and the gradually shortening staff. Moreover, the alumni condemned thewicked consequences the democracy is producing lately. On a stimulating front , the alumni supported the concept ofhealthy ragging, as it helps a newcomer to shun his/her inhibitions and come to the fore. Valuable suggestions and feedbackswere given by them to give future Samanvay a break-through success.It feels like our relationship with the alumniis like a chain , to which a new link is added every year through'Samanvay'.TECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

InnotechTAMATEURISH CRAVINGhree years back a novice, an amateur brought a CASIO991MS. Some of his well-wishers advised the ES series,yet even the MS remains a popular display three yearsdown the line, the novice remains a novice and his wellwisherscontinue to wish well. Three years back when hemade the choice there were reasons why he did so, it wasprobably the best possible option, his family may havecome in and played a part too, I am pretty certain thatsome with the wealth of experience guided the decisionto its culmination, the reputation of MS has remainedhigh.The first days with the machine was a revelation,being used to the non scientific version of the machine,he was flummoxed and was unwilling to appreciate thelarger display and a densely populated sitting space forthe keys, but soon he got used to it. Thenovice was gaining confidence, whatawed him a few months back was now abed time story. Just that once in a while,when he got involved with the MS, hisbed time turned a bit elastic. His love for the MS spiralednorthwards, yet there were far too many occasions whendisenchantment would take in, he would often questionloudly, Why's the shift key at the top? Why can't theyhave an independent key to switch the power off? Hecomplained things were too inflexible. There was a lotmore to learn and the wisdom shall soon come his way.The MS remained faithful yet remaineduninvolved, didn't try to infringe into the life of thatunsuspecting novice, who had assumed that spendingnights together had made them inseparable. The novicestarted identifying himself with the MS, the MSwillingly and effortlessly as would be expected from amachine, maintained enough distance to make sure thedreams and aspirations of the poor amateur did notWdissuade the MS. One fine morning, the MS had its visionstatement stated. The display had gone blue that dawn.The learner, as the amateur liked himself being called,came to me that night. He had expected solace, He said “Ican not figure myself without the MS, yet the MS, thoughI am certain it loves me, seems to have me no where in itsscheme of things”. No solace there, the truth had to bespoken and so I did.So an enchantment was broken, the learner, as Ilike to call the amateur was in tatters, he howled and wasswearing, was calling the MS a betrayer. He shouted andbanged his head, he claimed it was the MS that destroyedhis dreams. He went on and on unwilling to stop, thosewho saw him were sympathetic. Those who knew himand the MS had always known it was coming. Acalculator can not be expected to assist youreach your vision. The learner must havehad a reverie rather than a dream, that iswhy he didn't put enough efforts said one.The fault of course lies with our amateurlearner, The MS never promised, it calculated. The MSnever enthused, it calculated. Neither did the MS presentany hope, if any they were all calculated hopes. It was ourfoolish amateur who had created and decorated all this, itwas he and not a lonely he who had glorified, vivified,invigorated the MS in his infatuation.And today he stands along with the MS onceagain, hoping from the MS once again, the MS and thefoolish amateur (in the absence of a better description)still spend nights together. The fool dreams on as the MSshrewdly, yet very efficiently calculates. There's no doubt991MS remains highly reputed.Aditya TiwariFinal YearElectronics and Communication EngineeringIN SEARCH OF MYSELF!!henever used it shows confidence, when usedrepeatedly it shows over-confidence. When used byHitler it showed pride, when by Bhagat Singh itportrayed sacrifice. 'I' the smallest word in the StandardEnglish Oxford Dictionary has often confused me themost. The dictionary defines it as a pronoun used by aspeaker to refer to him and off course as a symbol foriodine. Apart from its simple usage, whenever given athought it has left me ___blank. As blank as a new bornchild, being interrogated about Nativity. This doesn'tmean, the writer is as innocent as the child but they bothshare the same ignorance about the word 'I'.After 21 years of my quest to define it, what 'I'portrays is a castle with bricks of missed opportunitiescemented together by lost hopes. In fact if there be agold for creating mess out of everything, even I shouldPage 24say out of nothing, I would have made a fortune.In this search of 'I', I forgot myself and lost mesomewhere in the middle of nowhere. Being Arjuna I knewhow to use the 'Gandiv' but every arrow was misdirected asthere was no Krishna. I was forced to do a lot of things, infact, I did almost everything expected out of me but all thatled me nowhere. Now when it's too late, I realize it is theninth circle of hell, where sits the Lucifer and there is noescape. Oh God...why am I Jack of all trades and can't evenbe the master of one.I understand, you are not interested in readingabout the crap of my life history but before I write aboutanything else I should say this word 'I' should beconfiscated from the dictionary. At this point you mightsay I am being unreasonable, but how can I refer this 'I' todefine myself when I know it is not me whom I am referringTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Techtonicto. And this isn't just about me who has always dreamt ofdoing honors in English, taking music as a profession, butstuck with Engineering, where I am just another rollingstone that gathers no moss. It is about every one of us whoonce in life has wanted to be someone he is all about. So atleast please redefine this word, for the sake of this losercommunity for which 'I' has been entangled byexpectations, lost hopes, forced decisions and missedopportunities or please help me in answering thesequestions Why? Why you have to be the best when you arenot Mercedes? Why you always have to be on the top whenyou are not Bolt? Why can't you be what you are?My mother, being an avid reader of EuropeanHistory always says, "Try to be like Picasso who hadalways been different in the representation of his art". Butthis brings me to a paradox where I have to be likesomebody to be different. Amir Khan in his film 'TaareIZameen Par' beautifully brings out the fact that every childis special in his/her own way but we often mistake specialtyfor the characteristics to be outstanding and this is where Ilost my 'I'. As a child we all had a lot of dreams but now wedon't. We are forced to choose between limited optionswhich guarantee success. Today we live in the world of yetanother paradox where you are told you are a freeman, youhave a will and your life is what you want it to be but you arealready left with no options to choose. I really want to wakeup from this romantic dream of reality; I want to be borneveryday; let them call me dumb but I want to chase my ownsilly dreams.So here I conclude this article in a dilemma, after aseries of disappointing mock scores, helplessly looking at anew brick being laid on my castle, but with a hope ofresurrection.AnonymousLASER PHOTONIC THRUSTERt's not only the matter of acquisition of speed or to useliquid propellants, solid rocket boosters, RJ-fuels for highspeed and become supersonic. It's all about the whole newrange of thrusters and it's usage beyond the limit of speed.In past few years back it was just an imagination of fewengineers. But now this imagination has been born,growing up very rapidly and reflecting the image of thefuture same as in star wars spacecraft which moves withthe speed of light. Now, the whole ranges of thrusters areready to push present towards future. If you are guessingthen you are probably right, it's LPT (Laser PhotonicThrusters).Photonic Thruster has been imagined byengineers for about 35 years. But an experimentalspacecraft propulsion system using a laser based thrusterwas described at the American Institute of Aeronauticsand Astronautics annual Space Conference. NASAfunded the successful testing of the photonic laserpropulsion system earlier this year. This demonstrationwill be conducted by the Bea Institute and its founder,Young Bea, a former SRJ International BrookhavenNational Lab and theAir force Research Lab scientist.Bea claims to have removed the last stumblingblock in using photonic thrusters for spacecraftpropulsion. The problem with other designs has beenminiscule thrust and difficulty in staying on target with thelasers. Bea claims to have solved these problems byintegrating an optical cavity in to a laser that traps thebeam photons, thereby amplifying their light pressure by3000 times while easing targeting with a centrally locatedlaser in space.Originally photonic laser propulsion designersimagined using a large ground based laser to generateenough intensity and to provide a backstop for pushingagainst, later moving to passive optical cavities locatedPage 25in space. Unfortunately, none of these designs were able todemonstrate enough thrust, in contrast Bea's active opticalcavity was demonstrated to supply millinewtons of powerusing small, cheap lasers that can be operated from thespace. So they don't have to suffer the distortion of cuttingthrough earth's atmosphere rather than using earth as abackstop. The space based laser platforms would sendbeams to push against spacecraft while keeping the centrallaser stationery with a balancing beam in the oppositedirection or with a conventional thruster attached to thelaser platform.For earth's orbit use, Bea claims that satellite inspace would no longer need a power supply for its ownretro rockets. But it could use a centrally located laserplatform to supply occasional synchronized nudges fromits laser beams to keep it in position. For deep spacemissions the feeble thrust from the pressure of light couldbuild up over time since there is no fuel to run out whenusing photonic power. The spacecraft only requiresmirrors to bounce the laser of once the laser is turned on, itcan stay on for as long as necessary to continuallyaccelerate spacecraft towards the theoretical speed oflight.Bea claims that the technique could be scaled up toaccelerate a spacecraft to mars in a week compared withthe 6 months necessary using conventional rockets.This thruster's technology is the future ofaeronautics and space missions. It a bright future andfuture always intersects the present and established a milestone in past.Amit BurmanII yearElectronics and Communication EngineeringTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Book ReviewPage 26Are you prepared for a natural disaster? What about a natural disaster, that wipes out the fundamental way of life of theentire country. A disaster in which we could not even turn on the television or radio and there is no way to seek informationabout situation.One Second After explores a form of attack that hits the soft underbelly of our society- livesin the modern age of electronics. In this sobering scenario, all the electronic 'amenities' arecompletely wipe out by an Electro- Magnetic Pulse (EMP) bomb. The pulse was actually aside effect of a nuclear blast and early tests of nuclear weapons found that electronics itemswere severely affected by these pulses rendering them useless. In this cautionary tale, threenuclear missiles are detonated in the atmosphere and the country is rendered helpless. Everyelectronic item device quits working.This story follows the citizens as they fight for survival in a situation that has turned theclocks back to medieval times. Once the power is out, the community must reform itsthinking to a survival mode. No supplies will ever come in; no one knows what is going onoutside the city limits. The town begins rationing food and medical supplies as the populationdies off from disease and starvation. They then start rebuild and try to survive.Just when the town starts to level out from the deaths, a horde of what used to be “gang- bangers” threaten the town made upof the more violent dregs of society as they cut a swath of destruction even to the extent of cannibalism.The issues told in this book are told through the experiences of one family trying to survive. This creates a personal feel tothe story and the reader is completely swallowed by their extraordinary tale of endurance. They are forced to wonder whatthey would do in such a situation or how they can prepare themselves for a situation like this.Ankit GodiyalIII Year, Mechanical EngineeringBeside a Word Search hasbeen given. Let’s see howmany names of the facultyyou can find in it? Itcontains a total fifteennames which include of ouruniversity, the present VC,D e a n , H e a d o f t h edepartments, some wellknown faculty, etc.Check out your scorebelow:8 & below- Poor8 to10-Average10 to12- Good12 to14- ExcellentAll 15- Outstanding ( Youare truly a faculty favorite.)TECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

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InnotechShe looked around and saw nothing. She had justwoken up in the middle of a dream. Her vision wasblurry with sleep. It was pitch black in the room. Shepropped up on her bed slowly, pulling the coversclosely towards her. Her roommate appeared to be fastasleep on the bed beside the opposite wall. “What's thetime?” she thought, feeling for her cell phone in thedark but it was nowhere near her reach. Her throat feltdry. Ditching the protection of the covers, she got out ina lethargic movement. It was cold but she didn't botherto grab the shawl which lay on the bedside. By now, herpupils were dilated enough to see in the dark. In thefrail moonlight that filtered into her room through thepartially covered windows, she took great care to avoidstumbling on her roommate's slippers before shereached the table on which her water bottle usuallyrested. She reached out for the bottle with such forcethat when it came into her hands, she knew it was toolight to hold any water. She shook the transparentcontainer to see if any water moved inside. It didn't.“What am I supposed to do now?” she shookher head in disappointment. She could go back tosleep, thirsty. She could try and see if her roommate'sbottle had any water, not that she would like drinkingfrom it. She had always used her own bottle. Herattention shifted to the view of the building behind thehostel where she lived. She walked to the window. Thisbuilding was dark too, just like hers seemed to be. Allthe lights were out. The night was so silent. “It mustreally be very late,” something between 3 and 4 a.m. inthe morning, probably. Her nose froze in the cold. Thedank air stung at her face and bare throat. It remindedher that she was thirsty.She walked to her bed, picked up the shawland groped in the dark to find her cell phone. “Where isit?” She felt frustrated. The water dispenser was 3floors down, on the ground floor. She would have toclimb down all the stairs without any light and thenclimb back up. She looked at her bed and thought of itssecure warmth. She didn't really want to go?And then she reprimanded herself. What wasshe afraid of? She turned towards the door withsomewhat a resolve and picked up the bottle.She let down the latch and slowly pulled at thedoor, hoping fervently that it would not creak. But itdid and the noise rattled her as though her ears had notcaught a sound in years. She glanced back nervously tosee how her roommate had reacted. She didn't seem tohave moved. “Thank God,” she said as she turnedaround to step outside and almost screamed.Right there, across the narrow corridor, nearthe door of the room just opposite hers, sat a cat, staringright into her. She had almost jumped out of her skin.Cats terrified her. She would have screamed in daytimeF E A RPage 30if she had seen another in the manner in which she sawthis one. Her eyes remained fixed on it even as thatfearsome creature got up and casually strolled away. Shestood petrified until it fully disappeared from view. It wasgood that she didn't have to go the way the cat had gone.Clutching the bottle tightly in her hands, she shut the doorbehind her as carefully as she could and finally began onher onward journey.It would be a long way to the ground floor, shethought. To top it, there was absolutely no light sparingsome moonlight. “Must be a power-cut,” she concluded.She walked slowly and in a calculated fashion,feeling her way along the corridor. She was familiar withit but she had to be careful- it was very dark. She shiveredwhen she thought of what “tonight” reminded her of.3 years ago, she had come to Lucknow with abunch of schoolmates to participate in an event. Pastmidnight, it was still lively around the venue. Her friendand she were standing away from their group, alone in acorner. “Are you afraid of the dark?” He asked her. Hereyes turned to see where he was looking- a long, desolatepathway. It looked quite scary. “I'm terrified of it,” sheanswered. “Look at that gate,” he pointed to the one atthe end of the very path that she had seen. “Walk across toit and come back only after you've touched it,” he daredher. She hesitated, “But I'm afraid.”“Just give it a try,” he encouraged.“Will you stand right here until I return?” Shewas still reluctant to go.“I will,” he assured her. She trusted him verymuch. So she turned to the pathway to complete the taskshe was set upon.It was November and quite chilly. Her pace waspainfully slow. “I should go back,” she reasoned andlooked back. She had barely walked 10 steps. He wasright there. She felt ashamed of herself and decided tomove on. The gate was very far. She tried to quicken hertrot. It didn't help much. She wanted to continue and didnot, both at the same time. “Why did I embark uponthis?” She thought regretfully, but continued to walk. Shedid not want to disappoint her friend, she thought.“He must be still waiting there,” she tried to assureherself. She wanted to look back but did not this time.What if he wasn't there anymore? What would she dothen? Not that she could see him from here. It was dark.She carried on. Her senses felt tired of theoverwork. “You can never be too careful of the dark,” shetold herself. Her eyes were wide open, her ears all tooattentive, and she knew she had goose bumps under hersweater. It felt that her head would burst because of theanxiety. But she walked.She saw the gate. It was closer.Quite near, it would be within reach in another 15 steps orso. She had seen nothing else while she had been walking.It was dark and there had been nothing to see. Yet she feltTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Innotechblank. She had walked all too mechanically. Why?Because she had been afraid. And she was afraid now,she was so afraid. In her head, she could hear arhythmic throbbing. The anxiety tore away at hernerves. She was so near to what she had come for, butthe finality of it had stumped her. She waited for theadrenaline rush, a final leap towards the gate, but itdidn't come. She could go on no more. It was more thanshe could take, she decided.She turned 180°around and left the gate towhere it was. “To hell with it!” And she was running asfast as she could before she even knew it. Away, away,away… It was all she thought of.She made it to safer ground in less time thanshe had thought it would take. But it felt that she hadrun a marathon. She hunched her posture, rested herpalms on her knees and panted like a dog. In themeantime, there had been a deluge of random thoughtsin her head. She struggled to make sense of them butcouldn't. She waited for some logic to seep in andclosed her eyes...When she opened them, she found her group ofschoolmates. They were all looking at her, confounded.“What happened?”, “Why do you look like this?” shecould read the questions in theireyes. But they hardly bothered her. Seeing them,however, reminded her of her friend who was not withthem. This jolted her back to her senses. “Where ishe?” she thought as she looked around. “Why didn't hewait?” She was utterly disappointed. Then she turnedaround and saw the gate which she hadn't dared totouch. She felt both relief and regret.She arrived at the water dispenser. Thememories retreated to the periphery of her mind in thefny ukmEehn ugha] ukdke gh rks gSAyEch gS xe dh “kke] exj “kke gh rks gSAAcgqr jksrs gSa ml vk¡lw dh £kfrj]tks fudyrk gS £q”kh dh bUrsgk¡ ij]ij D;k djs ;s fny ] £q”kh dk blls bUrdke Hkhrks gSAyEch gS xe dh “kke] exj “kke gh rks gSAArM+irh ns£rk gw¡ tc Hkh dksbZ “k;]mBk ysrk gw¡ viuk fny le> dj]nqfu;k le>rh gksxh fd “k; vke gh rks gSAyEch gS xe dh “kke] exj “kke gh rks gSAAoks dkSu gSa ftUgsa rkSck dh fey x;h gS Qqjlr]gesa xqukg djus dks Hkh ftUnxh de gS]lj is gekjs t+:j dqN bYt+ke gh rks gSACLOSE TO MY HEARTPage 31light of the action that awaited her but they did not fadeaway. She held the bottle under the tap and patientlywaited for it to fill up. Then she drank to her contentment,refilled the volume she had emptied from the bottle andturned back to return.Climbing up the stairs, her memories came backto her. She had run away from the gate because she hadbeen afraid, intensely terrified. But she had walked thepath nevertheless. This awareness had filled her with asense of empowerment ever since. Though she had beenutterly scared while walking the way and she had runaway like a coward at the final moment, she felt she coulddraw strength from the experience. Whether or not shehad walked that distance on the assurance that her friendwas watching over, she had realized that she had donesomething which she hadn't dared to accomplish earlier.Of course, the others could laugh at her for giving thisamount of credit to such a minor incident, but not that thismattered to her. Ever since that chilly, November night,she had tried to banish her fears on nights like this to dotasks such as the one on this night. She would always tryto stretch beyond the limits her fear set for her, and herlittle “victories” gave her the courage to stretch further.She had not been able to obliterate her fears completely, ifthat was possible, but she was hopeful. She had alwaysbeen afraid but she was no longer a coward.She reached the door of her room, crept instealthily, so as not to disturb the calm, finished with allthe essentials as quickly as she could and slipped into herbed. She smiled an inward smile and drifted back to sleep,contented.Vidushi RastogiIII Year, Computer Engineering(If it were not for hopes , the heart would break.)yEch gS xe dh “kke] exj “kke gh rks gSAAft+Unxh rq>ls mEehn -,-oQ+k D;k d:]¡tc eq>s NksM+ x;s] nksLr iqjkus esjs]vkf£j VwV gh x;k gkSlyk] D;k djsa bUlku gh rks gSaAyEch gS xe dh “kke] exj “kke gh rks gSAApkgr ugha gS gedks ,d mez -,-njkt+ dh]tUur gSa pUn yEgsa rsjh vk”kukbZ ds]vkSj fQ+j d;ker ds ckn vkjke gh rks gSAyEch gS xe dh “kkeexj…………………………joh”k pansyprqFkZ o"kZ] fo|qr vfHk;kaf=dhTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

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TechethosHerein lies the value,For the moments that we are fortunate to live in;Herein lies the reason,For the feelings that splurge within;Herein lies the 'joy' of 'thankfulness'For the long awaited to begin.Finally, it was an opportunity for the first year batch tointroduce themselves to their 'respected', 'mostrespected' and 'most most respected' seniors, theirhighly regarded faculty and most importantly, theircollege. Hoping to cast the first and a lastingimpression on all of them, plus their peers, the joltingecstasy of their manicured moves and speechcombined with the zeal deserved, if not much, at leastthe hugest round of applause from all.The freshers' nite has always been the most cherishedevening of every 'innocent' fuchcha. What initiallyappeared to be clouded by the dread of the muchfeared r-word (notably, even the seniors dread it now,in fact more than anyone else), the final result turnedout to be the perfect illustration of senior- juniorrelationship -the legacy of College Of Technology.The eve kickstarted formally by the lighting ofinaugural lamps by the dignitaries and their messageto the students, whom they wished best future whichSAARANG '09Page 33was immediately followed by the University Anthem.Then followed the cultural performances includingEnglish and Hindi numbers, a humorous skit withfunnily sarcastic dialogues, group songs etc. thatcaptivated and upheld the spirits throughout. Danceswere especially appreciated owing to the level of energyby the performers. The comperes were splendid with theperfect blend of wit and matter-of- factliness. There waseven a performance by the seniors of Second and ThirdYear that was their way of reliving the warm and cozymemories of being the beloved fresher fraternity once.The ramp sizzled with the hot and the cool. Itencompassed everything from the traditional culture tothe wild West. For the first time, the freshers got to catcha glimpse of the senior junior relationship and the unityof the College and got to know the tip of the iceberg ofwhat all we can achieve as a united entity.The whole stuff turned out pretty nostalgic and enjoyableat the same time. Nostalgic as all remembered their'childhood' in the College and enjoyable for the obviousreasons. Hats off to all those who contributed towardsmaking this first big event for the first year a hugetriumph. Especially, hats off to the first year.Sumant Krisham GuptaI Year, Mechanical EngineeingTECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

SurveyS U R V E Y 2 0 0 9 - 1 0Page 34This year's SURVEY is completely opinion-based,with the participants from Tagore, Patel, S.J., V.S.,Sarojini, Acharya and Mandakini, giving theirchoices on various college related topics. TheSURVEY analysis shown, comprises pie-charts ofthe opinions of boys(on left) and girls(on right).The legend for the colours shown in pie-charts isas follows:option (a)option (c)option (e)option (b)option (d)option (f)Q.1. Which I year class you still missattending?a. Work Programmeb. Technical Writing Labc. Workshopd. Engineering Drawing20%13%29%38%47%7%20%26%Q.2. How many days before deadline you startworking on the assignments?a. Penultimate dayb. 2 days beforec. Finish it on the day it is receivedd. Submission after deadlinee. Never make the assignment17%5%19%15%44%14%7%27%1%51%Q.3. How many times in a year do you visityour advisor?a. Twice at the time of registration onlyb. More than twice to get leave sanctionedc. Oftend. Every week19%9%33%39%1%19%17%63%Q.4. What scares you the most?a. Professorsb. Seniorsc. G.P.A'sd. Probations (AP/CP)e. Advisorsf. Warden9%10%34%12%28%7%2%11%9% 8% 1%69%Q.5. The more important it is, the more illogicalit seems!a. Tutorialsb. Attendancec. Text crammingd. Lab Finals15% 27%22%11%47%21%21%36%TECHNICHE, ISSUE I, 2009-10

Q.6. What do you think builds reputation in thecollege?a. Being a topperb. Being committedc. Being a bureau memberd. Impressive way of communicatione. Delectable dress sensef. Being under AP/CPQ.7. What makes you proud of being atechnology students in Pantnagar University?a. Technical skillsb. Two grand buildings (PCT/NCT)c. “Tashan”d. Tech Fest celebrity nighte. CCFf. being Toxic (Zehareela)Q.8. When you praise your university, whichquality do you try to flaunt?a. 16000 acres of landb. Asia's second largest libraryc. Eco- friendly and serened. Its near NainitalQ.9. The most awaited holiday break duringthe college routine life isa. Semester breakb. Break after hourliesc. Break during hourliesd. Diwali bunkQ.10. What needs maximum improvisation inthe university campus?a. Lecture halls b. University Stadiumc. University hospitals d. Badi markete. Laboratories f. Course curriculumQ.11. Most important electronic utility forstudents:a. Mobilesb. i-podsc. Laptopsd. Photostat machine

OUR OWN EXPLORER...TECHNICHEmade its debut in the college threeand a half years ago. This being its7th issue. The magazine is anattempt to unify the students andto make them aware of what’s goingon within the hallowed walls oftheir alma-mater. It also serves asa mode of communication with thecollege fraternity, conveyingnotions and outlooks among them,reconnoitering college realms.“What makes a college, acollege are not itsgraffiti painted wallsand corridors but itsstudents.” The ‘CollegeEditorial Board’ is theembodiment of theabove thought;standing by, for andfrom the students of the college,conceiving it through its periodicalbulletin TECHNICHE. It strivesto improve and raise the bar forTECHNICHE every time.