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VOLUME 1 | ISSUE 3 | OCTOBER 2013

gone gandhi pg20

desi videsi pg13

In praise of evil pg27 Unique Commonness pg17 Wrong Turn pg9

Remembering the Gone’s We all know Mr. Gandhi, do we? We study a lot about this great person in our classes but it is all waste. We don’t follow his great ideas instead we criticize him. I don’t know whether this person is great or not but I believe in him and his principles. In this issue we are trying to put forward that the values and principles of Gandhi is lost somewhere in the race of people’s daily life. The people are forgetting the efforts and works of Gandhi who gave his life to Independence of India. And a small view about down fall of Indian Rupee. The main concept is that the value of Gandhi himself is depleting plus the currency in which Gandhi ji is printed its value also is depleting in international markets. Well we have not put forwarded the solutions rather we have just tried to bring the problems. Nevertheless we will found solutions one day and we will enact and may bring the change in ourselves and our surrounding which is required to make things right. With our Bapu, this month on the very same day one more great leader has born. Yeah! I’m saying about Lal Bhadur Shastri. He is not highlighted as the other great leaders but I would say his greatness is not needed to be highlighted. Infact in many places I have read that he is the only political leader who haven’t spread corruption. His simple lifestyle and his simplicity has marked himself as a great leader in the political history of India. So this issue is dedicated to the gone heros of our nation as a remembrance to their great works.

Thank God we have once political leaders as Lal Bhadur Shahstri and freedom fighter as Mahatama Gandhi. May be they are forgotten but I believe this forgotten heroes will return back and will turn stones of corruption

Lukesh Suryavanshi Eddy (Editor-in-Chief) lks_eic@madpages.in @lks06gaven /lukesh06

Contents first bencher pg8 Wrong Turn pg9 shades of youth pg11 desi videsi pg13 Euphoria of imagination pg14 LIFE pg15 Path of Light pg16 Unique Commonness pg17 PHOTO grapher pg19 gone gandhi pg20 Wierd Volcanoes pg23 Employability Skills pg24 In praise of evil pg27 backpacking pg30 Crorepati Quest pg31 gadgets pg33 takes of tails pg36

FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Lukesh Suryavasnhi CEO OF MAD pages Sachin Patel CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Nikhil Tiwari WRITER B.D. Bhargava Agnivesh Mishra Sana Ahmed Ashok Rajhoria Ani Abhishek Sharma Saurabh Verma Abhijeet Sarthi Rahul R Nair PHOTOGRAPHER Jagpreet Singh Batra PRODUCTIVITY TEAM Garima Singh Priyanka Bisht

by ashok rajhoria

he only difference between First benchers and Back benchers – Hard working and hardly working. It is just a joke don't get serious. The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom. -APJ Abdul Kalam Take this one seriously. In our school time/ college time/ coaching time or in any type of class, we really do not prefer to sit on the first bench. AGREE? You must be agree, as a student we all know the threatening fear of sitting at the first bench of class room. It is like the INFANTRY BATTALION OF ARMY, “leading from the front” and of course getting all the scoldings of teachers first. Here I want to share some of my examples of my school time. Starting from the sixth standard, it was the first day after summer vacation, it was last period, it was very hot and humid climate, no electricity in class. And torture by tie on my neck so I removed my tie, infact everyone had removed it. Suddenly our

sports teacher came as it was free period and whole class was shouting. So she saw only me in the whole class, as I was leading from the front got a slap for not wearing the tie and then she simply goes. And the back benchers enjoyed the free of cost student-teacher action scene. Lets move further a little, it was class 10th and it was chemistry period, our new teacher Mr J.K. Keswani' the big inbuilt Ahuja speaker'. He asks the class to open the chemistry books, believe me 70% of us do not brought the books. Meri toh fir lanka lag gai, kyuki.... samajh gaye na. Toh usne pura gussa (fire bullets, anti tank mines, hand grenade, bofors etc sab mujh pe hi fire kar diya with his 1000 decible sound) mujh par nikal diya. Keswani sir ne Rutherford babaji ka sara Prasad mujhe hi de diya. The backbenchers were like Indian Air force, jab aadhi golibari ho gai, fir thoda bahut unhone jhel liya and Girls were like Indian Navy, far away from the battle ground. First benchers have to face first all kind of classroom activity like, copy checking, assignment submission and the best of all time answering the unanswerable questions of the teachers. So I think everyone must have faced the fear of sitting at first bench and have different nostalgic memories about it.

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arents scold us, sometime they beat us also. I don’t think that anyone hasn’t got above pleasures in their life. Many complaint about their parents that they scold and beat them well ethically it may be wrong but fundamentally it is right because these actions are just to keep us moving on the right track. This avoid us to take the wrong turn of our life. I don’t know what are your experiences regarding this but I can tell you an incidence from my childhood that has built a character in me. When I’m in class 5th or 6th (not exactly remembering), my father has bought a TSeries CD-player and in the offer we got a set of movie cd and in that set I’ve got the movie ‘Kaante’. Believe me I’ve seen that picture more than 10 time in that age and its song cigarette ke dhuwe ka challa banake collar ko thoda sa upar chadha ke inspired me a lot. It was Sunday’s morning I took my bicycle and bought a cigarette and bring it home. In afternoon my father said me to check the water tank which is in our terrace, I grabbed a match-box and cigarette is in my pocket. I rushed toward terrace checked the tank and

sat behind it then I burned the match-stick and burned the cigarette like an incense stick. Now the theme song cigarette ke dhuwe... has started in my mind and I took the cigarette in my fingers and started to copying the sequence in the movie. Well I’m beginner so I smoked in wrong way and I started coughing. All whole these incidence has taken more than 15 minutes and that make my father to check where I’ve gone. My father came to terrace and I haven’t noticed it but my father noticed the smoke around me. My father walked feather foots without making any noise and he caught me red handed smoking cigarette. Now just think from a father’s point of view that one day he has caught his son who is studying in class 5th smoking a cigarette. What will be his reaction and what will be his action? If you are wise enough then you have predicted it. After all this, the last thing I remember is that my father took my favorite bat and has played one day international match with me. And I’m all-out in first ball only. I don’t feel that above statement needs to be explained.

Luckily all my bones are in the right place, no joints are cracked but my father has shown me the pain which is metaphorical to pain of cancer patients. You may be laughing on my condition, today I also laugh remembering that incident. Anyways I would not say that it is a happy incidence but now we enjoy remembering it as my father has taken action in right time and stopped me from taking the wrong turn. From that incident two thing changed in my life. First, from that particular point of time I left playing cricket in fact I started hating to watch cricket also. And secondly, the most important I haven’t dared after that incidence to even hold a cigarette. And I would thank my father for beating me else like my other few friends I may also be smoking vividly but his scoldings and beatings has always stopped me from doing wrong things. So now what you think about the scoldings and beatings of parents? It is a necessary part of character building of a child. I wouldn’t say that you should be like mandir ka ghanti, jo bhi aaye baja ke jaaye but if you have done wrong things then the action of your parents can’t be questionable. And to my dear smokers, first of all I congratulate you all to be an active member of ‘reduce population from earth’. I hope you are confused, smokers will smoke and then they will be suffering from some lung disease and worst as cancer and they will ultimately die due to that so aren’t they contributing to reduce the population from earth. That was a joke, if you are a smoker then I wouldn’t be going to say stop smoking because I know you will be going to follow your own will but take my advice start saving Rs.10 whenever you smoke I mean save Rs.10 per cigarette, it would help you a lot for your treatment while you are struggling and fighting with various diseases and the highlighted one ‘cancer’. And if you don’t want to be part of this scheme then please think about the people who care about you, stop smoking and start living.

Smoking kills around 9 lakhs people every year in India

‘Smoking in India’ is prohibited in public since 2 October 2008 under prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules, 2008

Bidi-smoking women shorten their lives by about eight years on average

According to survey by Government of India, 1 in every 5 male deaths and 1 in every 20 female deaths are caused by Tobacco smoking.

India has the largest number of Oral Cancer in the world

shades of youth

agnivesh mishra

nger the most deteriorating, destroying and dangerous word in the box of emotions. It’s said that in anger one can even shake the firmest mountain. On this Aristotle has very well said “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.” The absence of conscience is anger, we can’t judge anything in anger, the only thing we do is to waste our power for wasteful things. If you see by a view, the word anger is very similar to the word ‘angara’ in Hindi meaning burning stones. And coincidently both have the likewise expression. Anger is most probably negatively used, but if used with conscience positively, it can be the most effective weapon one can have. As someone has said “Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” The name engraved in history because of anger is ADOLF HITLER. The veteran of World War I. Being an anti-Semitism (hatred of Jewish) his hatred became his anger and the result of the anger, he is among the people’s who can’t be forgotten. In a way i.e. from his pint of view he used his anger positively for what he suffered, that’s another view that, using his anger positively made the results for others worse and worse. That gives us a lesson that anything done with anger gives a bad result by one way or other. Though it would have the max. Efficiency it will be negative at last. If anger is that so bad then how is it a quality of youth? For that answer will be-any how it represented a well known personality in the history that makes it a quality.

Saving Fuel: Indian Railway by sana ahmed

ndian Railways, the chuck chuck gaadi is not going to produce any chuck chuck gases (like CO2, HC, CO, NOx) very soon. Moving one step ahead to the development, the Indian railways has decided to install a new fuel saving device in the diesel locomotive. The APU (Auxiliary Power Unit).Without being inactive Indian railways has installed it in 12 existing diesel locomotives to modernize it. APU is complete unit having a small engine and a few components of compressor and alternator. It will help during the problem of staying. The staying of trains in the way because of limited tracks and giving preference to other trains consumes 25lt of fuel to charge batteries which is a useless waste of diesel. To overcome this problem the railways has assembled APU which uses only 3lt of the storage. After applying it our chuck chuck gadi's will save 12 lakh per locomotive per year and hence more than 60 crore as whole annually. Photos from internet

smoke-free Smoking Cities

inally we got some place that can be said as a smoke-free place in the present polluted atmosphere. Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala two district of Punjab has declared as smoke free districts of the

state.

School of Punjab health, PGIMER has a story line of a compliance survey according to cigarettes and other Tobacco Product Act (COTPA) 2003.Hoshiyarpur has 96.4% and Kapurthala has place 91.3% of public, but there are strict prohibition on smoking publically. There are proper arrangement for the smoking area in public places with appropriate no smoking signs. This sincere and hard work has helped the non-smokers from poisonous breathing. According to PGIMER it has also been observed that a few states like Firozpur, Fazilka, Jalandhar districts will be declared smoke-free due to the same preparation there. *mail your views at change@madpages.in and we will add it in our website and if it attracts our editorial team then we will add it in our next issue

Is your city a smoking city or smoke free city? Do you want to make your city a smoke free city?* ed

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Tata Global Beverages Limited formerly know as Tata Tea Limited is an Indian multinational non-alcoholic beverages company. It is the world’s second largest manufacturer and distributor of tea and a major producer of cofee. In 1964, J.R.D. Tata founded Tata Tea and Harish Ramananda Bhat is now its CEO & MD. Tata tea is a subsidiary company of the Tata Group. 3,166 employees work under them and they have revenue of US$ 1.16 billion in the year 2011-12. Tata Tea manufactures 70 million kilograms of tea in India, controls 54 tea estates. Tata Global Beverages produces 30 million kilogram of black tea annually. Instant tea is used for iced tea mixes and in the preparation of ready-todrink beverages. Tata tea owns five brands in India: Tata Tea, Tetley, Kanan Devan, Chakra Gold and Gemini. Tata tea is far better known in India then anywhere else and it is a powerful brand here, it is pushed on the Indian market with a large population. Apart from tea Tata Tea also manufactures products like coffee, dairy products, water, pepper and other plantation crops. Tata tea have raised social initiatives like ‘Jaago Re!’ (’Wake Up!’) with Janaagraha on a voter registration drive, the company moved the campaign on to opposing corruption. The Jaago Re! website encourages discussion on this and other social issues.

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Brooke Bond is a tea brand of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) which is a subsidy of Unilever. And Unilever has about 52% shareholding in HUL. Mr. Nitin Paranjpe is CEO and Managing Director of HUL. The company has over 16,000 employees and has an annual turnover of around Rs. 25,206 crores (2012-13). Brooke Bond’s presence in India dates back to 1900. By 1903, the company launched Red Label tea in country. From more then 75 years they are in India. Apart from the tea brand HUL has over 35 brands spanning 20 distinct categories. In 1988, they launched Lipton taaza tea. The Unilever Foundation is partnering with five leading global organizations like Oxfam, UNICEF, etc for reducing their environmental footprints and increasing their positive social impact. Their social concern is about improving health and well-being of one billion people and in turn, create a sustainable future.

by ani abhishek sharma

Euphoria of Imagination With mind full of thoughts tangled, When solutions exist but are entangled, The distant denouement with hesitation, All this calls for the euphoria of imagination. From dawn to dusk, When life appears wasted as husk, The knife of time cleaving factions, All this calls for the euphoria of imagination. Bleak does the future appear, When the darkness fail to disappear, The songs of the sparrow in dearth of elation, All this calls for the euphoria of imagination. Flail for air, and gasp for breath, Don't run or succumb if gulped by such a wrath, The vista maybe distant, but exist as nature's creation, All this calls for the euphoria of imagination. Dream of being liberated, Liberated from the bondages, freed from the cuffs,

Free as the dancing peacock, free as the swinging tree in puff, Rejoiced and rejuvenated would you emerge, With the sheen of a vibrant rainbow, With the golden glow, And untangle the thoughts as the Nile flows. Motivated and bloomy would you become, Having the better of hostility, no repercussions, Emerge as the emperor, the warrior who's the conqueror, No hurdle would daunt then the adventurer, Who has the strength of a nomadic wanderer, With self belief and motivation, All this calls for the euphoria of imagination!

iving n ilthy nvironment by abhijeet sarthi

he first sensible thing you will learn in your life is that “Man is a social animal” and at that time this statement will be like alien thing to you, neither you can understand it nor you can connect with it. But after passing time you will get to know its real face or meaning that “Man is a social animal” can be understood by “Man is an animal bounded by society” or “Society ruling man's life”. Some people are creative, some people are talented and some people are career oriented but at last it doesn't matter because you have to cross the hypothetical barrier of society. In our society name of child is decided after deciding the career of the child. Almost all the child roams at their teenage time thinking what they want to do in future and the only thing they knew about their future is that Mathematics is for engineers, Biology is for doctors and commerce is for accountant. And when you don't choose any of this famous

subject than you will have to fight with this society for your OWN FUTURE and that will be the turning point of your life. You will start understanding that life is not a rose and butter path but it is a path full of needle. In our society being creative is a curse; but the sad part is that you will always get criticized by those people who don't even know the meaning of creativity and talent. Society will only give you that options which will make you rich, it doesn't care about your sentiments. You will also sacrifice your dreams thinking about that money but after some year when you have plenty of money and time than you will feel that guilt in your heart of not being that person what you always wanted to be and at that time you will get no one to blame for your misery. And even after sacrificing your dreams when you don't get succeeded then again only the people of society will come and criticize you for not being hard working but they never

understood that you failed because you never ever want to do it. Our society has now passed the phase of gender discrimination; it's now in the phase of career discrimination. In small towns, choosing entertainment field as career means you are weak in studies, and career in sports field means you don't have both talent and intelligence, that is false. Some people thinks only study is important in the world but they don't understand that you can't even read your study books without getting them published. They never think about the fact that they can't even survive without the people who are not in study related fields. Another myth in our society is that intelligent means the marks you gained in the exam, that's nothing, more than a fake statement. If this mentality was correct than every topper of final board exam would have cleared IIT-JEE. And the girl who has filed a case against examination board in high court because she cracked IIT-JEE but got failed in board exam shouldn't have cracked it. But our society has always run in that principle and criticized every person who has more capability than a top ranker person now they will say cracked it luck-by-chance because it was a multiple choice test. And again the sad part is that those people criticize you for your intelligence who doesn't even know the spelling of it. Fighting with the society doesn't means you don't have to work for the society; you're every acts affects the society in some ways and you always has to work for better future of society but without compromising with your dreams. You just have to fight with those people of society who haven't achieved anything in their own life but criticize you for choosing wrong career or being under achiever. Just always remember you makes this society, this society doesn't makes you. Psychology of some people can't be changed, either you just have to work under their rules or you have to fight for your own life, the choice is always yours.

Path of Light by agnivesh mishra Lost in some corner I was broken by a crew, Seeing all dreams of end, that was my sleep I threw, Was ditched by the time, was bitten by luck, The quote I was left with was “life, it sucks”. And then other day I saw my rising sun, I got my reasons of happiness, my reasons for fun. The sky was like made for me clear blue, I was out of the dark corner, was freed from sadness flu. Days turned out with smile and laughter, Pearl and diamonds I got got them thereafter. All the dark prefix was now gone forever, I decided not to cry, now and never. Pair of swans brought the sun for me to shine, They found someone lost in me, what they found was the soul of mine. And now I am walking with the lost me in me, fully grown. Kicked the obstacle in my smile, kicked off the reasons one’s made me to frown. Now I have got it, got the life’s true sight, Now I am awake, walking rather flying on the path of light.

by ani abhishek sharma

he next time you go out, look around. You'll see many people. People like you. Human beings, I feel are the same everywhere. The basic constitution is the same. What makes each member of the human race distinct are the situations they're subjected to. There's a story behind every person, every bonding. Let's now focus on one of these many life changing stories.

2010 It's fiesta in our country. It's August 15th, our 64th Independence day, and I'm already tired of the 'are we really free?' speeches. I'm not saying I don't love my country or anything, but I really feel bored of the patriotic speeches. They're so damn similar. No one ever failed to miss out on the rapes and gang rapes. This is when I started to think about the condition of the fairer race in our country. And that's when a sobbing girl called me up. Sneha, 18, is a medical student and my good friend. As lively and happening she was, she proved to be an epitome of the statement “happiest faces hide the darkest secrets.” I don't know why, nor does she, why she told me all this then. Maybe it was an emotional reaction upon seeing her “Bhaiya” after years. And that wasn't a very possible reaction, I must say.

2003 Indian marriages are a tedious affair; we all know that, thanks to our movies. It was no different in this case. It was Sneha's cousin uncle's marriage. Of course the preparations were going on heavy and hefty and Sneha's family had been in Chennai for a month now. Our little innocent Sneha was all excited and exhilarated about her Chacha getting married. Every little girl dreams of getting married, and she was no exception. She did her best to help everyone there. And then the day of marriage came. The muhurat for the pheras was 3.30 AM, and Sneha was sent home early with her bhaiya. Her parents felt assured of her safety as her “bhaiya” was with her. Sneha too slept peacefully. Some people can fall to any level to achieve gratification. It was around 3.30 AM in the morning, a sacred bond was being made someplace. It was also the same time when Sneha got up hurried, but she was so astonished and shocked, she could barely move. A pair of hands were feeling her up. Those filthy hands touched her, pressed her, and due to the naïve innocence that she bore, she didn't know what was happening. All she knew was that it wasn't right, but she was all too scared to oppose. She didn't even know what it all meant. All she did was to cry all night,

she cried herself to sleep. The next day, Sneha was too shocked to even say a word. She told her mother about the incident. We Indians are emotional fools. We really are. We value our relations, traditions and relatives more than what our eyes can see or ears can hear. Her mother couldn't process all her young daughter had to say. She misunderstood what she was being told and consoled her daughter. The question I raise here is: Is physical gratification greater than our moral and ethics? For some people it seems it is. And it's a sinful shame that such people coexist with us in a country where the girl is worshiped as Kali, Lakshmi, Saraswati and Durga.

2013 Rajiv Chowk Metro Station, New Delhi So, here we are in the current times, enjoying a holiday in the capital of India. Sneha, again, being a part of our trio, was very much there. That's when I noticed a spark, a spark of change. Crowds are the safest haven for roadside romeos to go about their jobs. That's what unfolded then. A cheap chap tried touching her. But this time, it was a scene I would not forget. Sneha held up his hand, and slapped the guy hard. Our very cool cheap chap, with his sky blue shades was taken aback. All he could do was to stand still in shock for a second and then run as fast as he could. I couldn't believe my eyes. This was the same girl who cried to me over the phone some 2-3 years ago. But there's always more than what meets the eye.

2009 Growing daughters present both pride and peril to the parents. While it's the father's cute little angel who's maturing into a woman, cooking and helping her mother at home, she's also the young lady with the scintillating

teenage sheen, unintentionally drawing attention. Sadly friends, a section of our country's vast population is scum, scum in its most virgin form. Hooligans, commenting and whistling, stalking girls are omnipresent. And each of us knows about the situation, and Sneha's mother was no exception. Like every other parent, she loved her daughter and was worried about her safety each time she stepped out of the house. And this was the time when the roots of a very special everlasting bond originated. We as teenagers have issues, quite many of them. We as teenagers have friends, quite many of them as well. We teenagers also have parents. The luckiest ones amongst us are the ones who somehow manage to amalgamate these three elements. Sneha is a lucky girl. I say so because her mother is her best friend. Her mother and Sneha, they realized that sharing stuff lightens your mind. Our little Sneha who could once barely speak up against the wrong being done to her, has blossomed into a woman who had the guts to deliver a well deserving slap in a crowd of thousand strangers. And it is her mother who deserves much credit for the transformation.

here I am towards the end of an uncommon story of a common person. We see a thousand faces each day, each face masking a thousand different stories. Each raising concern, shedding light on a journey we call life. What matters to us is what we make out of these stories, the things they instill in our hearts and mind. This wasn't any social moving story, demanding a change, calling for a revolution; there are a million different ones for those. I'm not saying those ain't the requirement of the times, or I'm not in favor because I very much am, but my point over here is that as long as you don't stand up for yourself, as long as you don't respect yourself, no one will.

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by lukesh suryavanshi Eddy, MAD pages

andhi, a man wearing khaadi clothes, wearing a spectacles and holding his laathi preached the Indian National Movement with non-violence. Once I’ve visited a school on Gandhi Jayanti and they have organized an essay writing competition on Gandhi. The winner is announced after competition and I requested school authority to give me that essay, well they are nice so they handed that essay to me and I started reading it and it was like: “Every year on 2nd of October we celebrate Gandhi Jayanti and it is declared as national holiday......” The birth date of Gandhi is no more important than a holiday for students, for citizens. The long speeches are delivered in the name of Gandhi. No one is interested to hear it neither the speaker nor the audience. This all are done just for name sake. I don’t think it is the bitter truth that today Gandhi is for name sake. For many times I’ve heard saying people that ‘majburi ka naam Mahatma Gandhi’, seeing the present scenario it can’t be denied. We study about Gandhi in our school history books. We know his achievements, his work for freedom of India, for the betterment of society. His non-coperation movement, Dandi March, Works of South Africa, Swadeshi Aandolan, Betterment of dalits, what he called as harijan. I would not be interested in telling all these things in detail neither are you interested in reading all that nor the purpose of this article is that. Do you think Gandhi still lives? Or it is just become a name which is lost in the pages of history. Now it doesn’t affect who is Gandhi? What is Gandhi? The thing that affect them is that is it holiday or not? From few times Gandhi has become synonyms for the money notes in which our Bapu has been printed. And the drastic thing about it is that not only we have diminished the values of Gandhi, we have even diminished the value of the note in which Gandhi is printed. Is this fault of Gandhi that he thought a better future for his countrymen. Maybe his khaadi isn’t that pure, maybe his hands are also dirty with the dust of politics but

his effort for the nation is more glorious. But in turn we have just forgotten this old man and his values plus we have destructed the value of Indian Rupee in international market. Last year, past evening of Gandhi Jayanti, I’m standing on roadside and in the opposite side there was a liquor shop and there is rush. I asked a man what is happening here and he said: “kal Gandhi Jayanti hai na toh dukaan band rahegi isiliye aaj hi le rhe hai”. Now what can you expect from citizen of this nation. In honor of Gandhi, government has abolished the sale of liquor on Gandhi Jayanti but the people have found another way for that. What a solution oriented nation is our country. In our country there is always a solution for doing wrong thing and there is always an excuse for avoiding the right things. I think Mr. Godse (who shot Gandhi) has won his battle. But it is an illusion. Maybe justice is denied in the court but Gandhi is now also framed in walls of court. People demand for bribe in government offices but they take it below the table because they feel shy to take it front of eyes of Gandhi hanging in wall.

Sometime it seems ridiculous to me anyways Gandhi is gone. I suppose people don’t think Gandhi is a hero, they will be aspiring Salmaan Khan rather than Gandhi. It is not that heroism is lost instead heroism is denied. Gone is the movement, gone is the heat, gone is the values, gone is the feel, gone is the heroism, gone is the wind, gone is the dandi, It is sad but gone is the Gandhi. I would not be saying it is sad because neither you are feeling sad and unfortunately I also not feel sad about it. Maybe you now don’t feel him as a national hero but he is the hero and he is the father of our nation and he haven’t got this title in khairat his works and effort has brought this title. But Gandhi matters to me and I respect him. Gandhi is not he symbol of majburi it is the symbol of patience, non-violence, respect and a many forgotten values. Never so late, Gandhi can be returned and he will return with the revolution to change with the same heat of non-violence. May be Gandhi is gone but also I believe in Gandhi, are you believe in Gandhi?

Downfall of

he Indian Rupee has depreciated to an all time low with respect to the US Dollar. On 28th August 2013, the Indian rupee had gone down to 68.825 against the Dollar but the situation was somewhat revived by the Reserve Bank of India that decided to open a special window for helping state owned oil companies – Indian Oil Corp Ltd., Bharat Petroleum Corp and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Indian rupee has just got shocks from international market and it is trying to restore itself. Well this article is not a detailed description about why, how or what has depleted the Indian rupee. It is more or less just a personal view about relation between the rupee notes and Gandhi ji . Sorry for my next few words, either our bapu is faulty because he himself can’t save his prestige and not even the money notes in which he is imprinted. And I don’t think anyone can prove above statement so it simply means we have done mistakes which has bring down us to this stage. From the newspaper and channels I’ve summarized a whole bunch of information to few statements which are responsible for downfall of Indian Rupee and they are: Price of crude oil The worth of crude oil has been a major bane for India since it has to bring in the majority of

its requirement from outside the country. Volatility in the equity market The equity markets in India have been volatile for a certain period of time. This has put the FIIs into a dilemma as to whether they should be investing in India or not. In recent times their investments have touched an unprecedented level and so if they pull out then the inflow will go down as well. Basic law of economics As per the rudimentary laws of economics if the demand for USD in India exceeds its supply then its worth will go up and that of the INR will come down in that respect. Withdrawal of investors Recently ArcelorMittal and Posco decided to pull out from their projects in India. Posco did not go ahead with a steel plant worth INR 30,000 crore that was supposed to be built in Karnataka and ArcelorMittal withdrew from setting up a steel plant in Odisha that was supposed to cost around 52,000 crore. There were lot of delays and problems related to acquiring land for the project. In fact in 2012-13 the Indian companies have spent more outside India compared to FIIs in India. Downgrading of Indian stocks Goldman Sachs, one of the leading banks in the world, has rated Indian stocks as being underweight. It has also asked investors to be careful given the concerns surrounding the recovery of the growth of Indian economy.

by sana ahmed

he largest but at the same time it's confusing. Most interesting and different but at the same time its unquestionably lethal. It is the single largest volcano of the earth present beneath the Pacific Ocean, The TAMU MASSIF. This forbidden is 2 km deep and 31,000sq km in area, situated about 1,600 km east of Japan on the Shatsky plateau. TAMU MASSIF can be said as the largest volcano in the solar system as it is immensely wide than the Martian Olympus Moons of mars. The most interesting and confusing thing about Massif is its wide slope, if a person, standing on its wide slope, will be unable to differentiate the peak side and bottom side of volcano. Before Massif Mauna loa of Hawaii was the largest volcano but now it seems to be a small scrap piece of Massif. It has a huge and immense deposition of massive lava formed from about 145 millions year's. This deposition of lava will help in finding some clues about the formation of these volcanoes

Employability Skills Effective Communication: How we communicate makes all the difference by saurabh verma

s discussed in the earlier issue I would be putting light on the 7 most important skills which are required to be employable. These articles come straight out of my training material which is used in educational institutions as well as corporates. Pick up any newspaper or check any website that offers jobs and the most common thing you'll find in every job posting would be “Must have good Communication Skill.” The importance of effective communication has been researched over and over by numerous scientists and organizations across the globe. The finding has been astonishing, “90% of all the errors & losses in professional as well as personal life are incurred due to miscommunication.” The biggest miscommunication of all is “thinking; talking in good English is equal to effective communication.” By the end of this article you shall be able to learn the importance of effective communication as well as the process of communication and how to make it effective. Let us begin with defining communication: “Communication is the process of transmitting feelings, attitudes, facts, beliefs and ideas between living beings.” “Communication is a two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants not only exchange information but also create and share meaning.” In simple terms effective communication is the process of transferring the purpose of communication from one person to another with utmost accuracy of understanding. When we communicate the communication is both verbal and non-verbal, the non-verbal part of communication, which we focus the least on has the maximum

amount of impact over the course of communication as listed below: – Words = 7% – Facial expressions = 55% – Vocal tones = 38% The S-R Model of Communication:

This is the whole process of communication where the source is the person/media which intends to communicate with the receiver and in between is the encoding of the information and the chosen channel of communication could be a phone, email or face to face communication and the decoding is done at the end of receiver who the communication is meant for and the feedback to the source ensures the accuracy and completion of communication process. The communication STAR shows all the elements of communication, and explains the S-R model in no uncertain terms. Communicator

Content

Method

Aim

Receiver

Situation

Communicator Receiver Aim/Intention Content Medium

Who Whom Why What Which/How

Now that we have understood the process of communication thoroughly we can move on to learning how to communicate effectively. The Process of Communicating can be made effective easily by implementing the 7 C's of Communication: ŸClear ŸConcise ŸConcrete ŸCorrect ŸCoherent ŸComplete ŸCourteous

Clear: Clarity is a must in any form of communication. If you don't speak clearly people will never be able to understand you. To speak Clearly: ŸYou must know what you want to say. ŸYou must have words so that you can present your thoughts. ŸYour gesture and posture must synchronize with your verbal language.

Concise: Your communication should be specific to the needs of communication or else the receiver might face an information overflow. To be Concise: ŸSpeak less convey more. ŸIt's very necessary to keep the conversation to the point. ŸIf something can be conveyed in 5 lines nobody has the time or patience to read 10 lines. ŸMost importantly being concise doesn't mean missing important information but expressing the information as specific as possible.

Concrete: Concrete messages give a clear picture to the audience and hold their attention till the completion of the communication. Concrete messages should: ŸPossess all the requisite details. ŸBe focused on to the aim/intention of the communication. Correct: In the age of word editors we have almost forgotten checking spellings or proofreading our written content. We fail to realize there are numerous such as “where” and “were”, “hare” and “hair” which cannot be corrected by word editors. To be correct: ŸPronunciation of the words should be correct. ŸSpellings should be correct and proofread. ŸIt's always better to express yourself in language of command. ŸAs I wrote earlier speaking in good English is not always equal to Effective Communication.

Coherent: Coherency defines the logicality and clarity of the communication, noncoherent communication is not only difficult to understand but is almost impossible to comprehend. To be Coherent: ŸThe information should be in order. ŸAll the points should be precise. ŸAll the points should relate to aim/intention. ŸThe tone and flow of the points should be consistent. Complete: No communication at all is better than an incomplete communication. Incomplete communications cause lack of understanding, frustration and tussles. Complete communication should: ŸHave all the important information such as dates, words, places, names emphasized. ŸIf an action is expected it should be mentioned. ŸMake no assumptions at all.

Courteous: A courteous communication

ensures a level of understanding between the sender and the receiver. Courteous Communication should: ŸBe friendly and honest. ŸHave absolutely no hidden insults or passiveaggressive tones. ŸHave the view point of readers in mind. The last yet the most important skill required to communicate effectively is Listening Skill. Without listening the communication can never be complete. Listening is one of the most important skills you can have. How well you listen has a major impact on your job effectiveness, and on the quality of your relationships with others.

Why we Listen? ŸWe listen to obtain information. ŸWe listen to understand. ŸWe listen to enjoy. ŸWe listen to learn.

The five most important elements of listening to make you a good LISTENER: 1.Pay attention a. Look at the speaker directly. b. Put aside distracting thoughts. c. Avoid being distracted by the environment d. “Listen” to speaker's body language. e. Refrain from side conversations when listening in a group. 2. Show that you are listening. a. Nod occasionally. b. Smile and use other facial expressions. c. Note your posture and make sure it is open and inviting. d. Encourage the speaker to continue with small verbal comments like yes and uh huh.

3. Provide Feedback a. Reflect what has been said. b. Ask questions to clarify points. c. Summarize the speaker's comments periodically. 4. Defer judgment. a. Interrupting is a waste of time. b. It frustrates the speaker and limits full understanding of the message. c. Allow the speaker to finish. d. Don't interrupt with counter arguments. 5. Respond Appropriately. a. Be candid, open and honest on your response. b. Assert your opinions respectfully. c. Treat the other person as he or she would want to be treated. The last part of the article showcases the barriers to effective communication if we could avoid these we would always be having great communications. Barriers to Effective Communication: ŸMisinterpretation. ŸEvaluation of sender. ŸProjection. ŸStereotyping. ŸArrogance and superiority. ŸDefensiveness. ŸInarticulateness. ŸHidden Agendas. ŸStatus. ŸEnvironment. ŸEmotions. ŸDifference in backgrounds. ŸPoor timing. ŸPersonality Conflicts.

Let's have an Effective Communication always!

i hope you don't find it as shockoing as it looks!!!!! by b.d. bhargava

hocking isn't it? And yet isn't it true that the passions are the winds that fill the sails of the vessel of life? They sink it at times but without them it would be impossible to make way. Many things that are dangerous h e re b e l o w a re n e ce ssa ry. Are virtue and evil two different things or have only one meaning and is mere manifestation of one quality separated into widely overlapping compartments by each individual according to his own whims and fancies and circumstances at any particular point of time? Good and bad, healthy and sick, up and down are but examples of pairs of aspects of one underlying phenomenon. They are creations of our own minds, are relative terms and have no separate existence. Is the so-called voice of conscience not in reality the voice of society and environment and breeding and changes with times as

fashion in life style and thinking of society change? This is a permanently changing universe and of what use are conceptions of unchanging permanence? Maybe for Pluto only the permanent was real but the contrary view that change is reality has also its advocates. Is there any human act, however good, which is not open to criticism or is rather not well looked at, in some society or the other, or was not considered so in the good old days or would not be so considered in the days to come? Our values of things undergo change, our standards of measurement and evaluation are never constant and, in fact, should not be so, because every act needs to be looked at in proper perspective, if justice â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not mere court justice â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but real justice is to be meted out. In the days gone by corporal punishment was the order of the day. One was held entirely

responsible for all his/her acts of commission and omission and invariably the torture awarded by way of punishment was also meant to serve as a deterrent for others, and was co-related to the evil act committed. Today it is not so. Today we go into the related background of the act; the blame for the evildoing of an individual is shared by the society at large as well as the country. Today we proceed on the understanding that no man/woman is bad, but that it is the upbringing and the mental condition created by his/her environment that contribute to his/her acts. What was good for our forefathers need not necessarily be good enough for us. Who is mean – the friend who does not offer his last cigarette to his friend or the friend who knowingly accepts it? Who is great – the man who enjoys all his earthenware as if it were silver plate or the man to whom all his silver plates are no more than earthenware? Can you sit in judgement and give a verdict, which will find universal acceptance? Well, if you say yes – my only answer would be don't deceive yourself. Greatness and meanness, hot and cold etc., as everyone well knows, are merely relative qualities. Not only that but like two negatives combining to form a positive, extremeness in virtue also give rise to evils. How our thinking, our values have changed would be apparent when we take a few examples: the custom of 'Sati' so highly prized and so widely practiced by the Rajput womenfolk today is banned by law and is taken to mean suicide. Or take suicide itself, which is still considered a respectable thing in Japan (hara-kiri) and some other countries. Abortion – linked with murder – is legalized in many countries. The conceptions about unmarried mothers have, in recent times, undergone a sea change in many countries. And day is not far off when mercy killing would find universal acceptance for the terminally ill if the patient so desires. The reasonable man adopts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in

trying to adopt the world to his way of thinking. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. I know you wouldn't agree. Let us look at some of the qualities good and bad and you be the judge! The word LOYALTY, according to me, is so black and white, so often misapplied, so double-faced and hard to recognize from one side to the other, that, perhaps, it would be better to leave it altogether out of use? Its presence is assumed, its absence blamed with a partial and unreasonable passion. Rarely the same for him who speaks and him who hears from even the least divergent angle: and the fact is that the word is a collective, whose use with a singular meaning is almost, without exception, a mistake. By its very nature it provides ground for conflict between truth and faithfulness. DECEPTION – Look at our mythology and you will find a number of instances where deception has been used. I will only relate two classic cases. The killing of Bali by Lord Rama hiding behind 7 trees, because in an open combat he had the boon to absorb half the strength of his opponent and thus remain superior by his own strength. The second example I would like to quote is about the distribution of Amrit and Vish( poison) to Devtas and Demons after the Sagar-Manthan. Need I say more? Maybe the ends justify the means?? Look at another set of examples – Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra selling his wife and child to keep a word given in the dream to sage Vishwamitra ignoring the marriage vows taken in real life. Or the banishment of his pregnant wife Sita by Maryada Prushottam Rama, on the word of a dhobi, although Sita had undergone an Agni-pariksha earlier to prove her chastity. LOVE – in love we rarely think of moral qualities and scarcely of intellectual one's, two essential qualities otherwise. Temperament

and manners alone with physical beauty excite love! PRIDE – remember there is a certain noble pride through which merit shines better than modesty, because unless one takes pride in his work and gives his best he is not performing his duty. MODESTY – is the lowest of the virtues and is a confession of some deficiency. Others justly undervalue him who undervalues himself! Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where PRAISE is due. Reputation is one of the prime goal which bolsters the spirit of competitiveness and spurs the desire to excel. Lack of praise, when rightly deserved can lead to frustration. On the other hand, praise showered to please with ulterior motives can lead a person astray. It can make the person proud and boastful. So let us shower praise lavishly but, at the same time, judiciously. PURITY – is like virginity, it has to be violated if life is to survive. INTEGRITY AND KNOWLEDGE –integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. FORGETFULNESS – is it not a virtue when we forget the grievances we have against others? ANGER – isn't it righteous if it has grief on account of what is happening to others and not a grudge on account of what is happening to oneself. GENEROSITY – there is wisdom in generosity as in everything. But a friend to everybody is a friend to nobody: or else in his simplicity, he robs his family to help strangers, and so becomes a brother to a beggar.

CHARITY – is indeed a noble virtue, grateful to men and approved of by God. But charity must be built on justice. It cannot, nay should not, supercede justice. Charity should not be by robbing Peter to pay Paul – which is what frequently happens, we part with a portion of our ill-gotten gains and call it charity. FRIENDSHIP – friendship is of a royal lineage. It is not of the same kith and breeding as loyalty and self-forgetting devotion and proceeds upon a higher principle than even they. For loyalty may be blind, but real friendship must not be, devotion may sacrifice the principle of right choice which friendship must guard with an excellent and watchful eye. The object of love is to serve and not win? How many of us can claim to be a good friend and to how many? In our material world virtue is more difficult to accept than vice. Vice has a way of saying ” Here I am ; take me and forget the rest ” Virtue has a way of saying ” Here I am; you cannot take me and you cannot forget me.” Virtue seems to defeat itself whereas vice conquers! BOLDNESS – is ever blind, for it sees not danger and inconveniences, whence it is bad in council though good in execution. Lastly I would conclude by saying ” In everything you do consider what comes first and what follows, and so approach it, otherwise you will come to it with a good heart first, because you have not reflected on any of the consequences, and afterwards when difficulties come in sight you will shamefully desist. And remember; the cards in the game of life are given to us all. We do not select them. We may not like the way they have been shuffled and dealt with – but we like the game and so we want to play. According to some these cards are traced to our past “Karma” – be it true or not, we can call as we please, lead what suit we will and we gain or lose according to how we play our cards.

life mey ek baar

backpacking a new travel trend in India by Nilesh Haldankar, mumbai travellers

ackpacking is a new and i n n o v a t i v e w a y o f Tr a v e l . Nowadays, it's more like a new trend in tourism brought in especially by the youth. Backpacking means cost effective independent travel. As the name backpacking, your backpack plays a very important role in it. One needs to carry luggage smartly (Luggage Management) for long distance and long tours. This concept involves lots of new and exciting activities which attract today's youth like use of public transport for internal journeys, low cost lodgings like Hotels, Eco Lodges and Home stays, No fixed schedules as such and the most appealing part of backpacking is, you can get a chance to interact with local people !!! No wonder that every backpacking trip results into experiencing some unknown yet beautiful sight seeing as well as local cuisines.

Backpacking allows you flexibility in your tour planning, adds some surprise element to your tour and this makes it totally different from other types of tours. This activity is typically made for those people who are having a hardcore passion towards travelling, always hungry for exploring new places, having more time to travel and also willing to spend comparatively less money. Backpacking as a Lifestyle and as a business has grown considerably and constantly since year 2000. It has been introduced in India in the year 2005 and have grown considerably well. Most of the foreign tourists choose backpacking style to explore India. Now, it's time for us to start exploring the world through this new arena of tourism... Keep Travelling... Keep Exploring...!!!

Crorepati Quest

television series which has affected the life of people. Something different from the daily dose of heavy saas-bahu drama or any other fiction content, the quiz game show Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) can be added into league of reality shows. This month the seventh season of this game show has been started. The most of televisions in India are turned to Sony channel when KBC is going to telecast. Mr. Bachchan welcoming everyone to his show is hosting fifth time in it’s seventh season. KBC has completed 13 years and Mr. Bachchan is being feel honored. Amitabh Bachchan has all credit to take KBC as a brand on heights of popularity with his celebrity charisma. KBC participants feel honoured to join Amitabh Bachchan in the fastest finger first to the lucky hot seat. Well more or less it is undeniable that Bachchan ji is the face of the famous KBC. Anyone noticed the new tagline of this new season of Kaun Banega Crorepati, that is “Seekhna bandh toh jeetna bandh”. Simple but very-very effective. Sometimes I too think from where the got these ideas to present simple ideas with awesomeness. There small taglines are so motivational for participants as well as its viewers. Taj Mohammed, who hails from Fatehnagar, a small town in Udaipur, Rajasthan, feels it was destiny that took him to the hot seat and won him one crore in prize money, apart from his background in education he's also a teacher. KBC got it’s first 1 Crore winner very sooner than other season. There will be more winners and we hope this

season KBC will have more number of contestants who will win the price money of 7 crore. A very much delighting amount by KBC. Well Mr. Bachchan asks pretty much interesting and knowledgeable questions which justifies their tagline that if you have stopped learning then you cannot answer any of their question and so you are not winning anything. In many news channel I’ve heard that KBC is always been compared with the Bigg Boss seasons but personally I’m not interested in watching few celebrities locked in lavish rooms where they are fighting, enjoying etc. It would be more pleasant for me to see Mr.

Taj Mohammed with Amitabh Bachchan after winning the 1 Crore

Bachchan asking questions to participants plus home viewers. So this Saturday and Sunday are you going to switch on the television, turn to Sony channel and view the dynamic Bachchan asking the questions and people winning huge amount checks. I’ll at least I can see a reality show which is actually real.

quotes on patience Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. Fulton J. Sheen

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle

He that can have patience can have what he will. Benjamin Franklin

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. Rainer Maria Rilke

BATONfrom ENLIGHTEN Yo u t h a n d t h e c o n f u s i o n w i t h relationship’s.The question every youth have After a couple of failed relationship’s, is that” how do I overcome the desire to be in another relationship? I feel guilty when I wish I had a partner, because in the past I have failed.”There are two things that you can do. 1. If you feel that it (relationship) is not for you then move on, move alone like a lion.2. If you feel that you really need it, then try again till you succeed. Keep trying all your life, till you go to the grave. You can try in the heaven, and afterwards as well, if you’re so bent upon it. Be happy now. If it is not worked out, why make yourself more miserable? And if you are

crossing the age bar, focus on something better. Relationship is only for the middle few years. Just see, in your teenage you didn’t have any relationship, and you had no problem. You were happy. And after you are, maybe 70, you will have no relationship. Even if you have a relationship, it will only be to fight. There is no relationship afterward’s, it’ll be more like a companionship. So what is the big deal about it? For life in between, if you feel you want to have it, then have it. If you say that it is not working out, then move on. If you feel very tempted, try once again with another person. If it works, well and good. If not, well and good. Either way it is good.

reviews by rahul r. nair

Blackberry Q5 Smartphone makers believe in trickle-down economics. They build their portfolios top to bottom, looking to get as much bang out of the flagship as they can and, after the hype around it has settled, they bring out the more affordable packages to keep the cash rolling in. The big question - always - is how much of the flagship specs will trickle down the ranks. Having delivered the latest BlackBerry 10 OS in a classic messenger form factor, a midrange package combining touchscreen with the iconic hardware keyboard was next on the Canadians' to-do list. The Q10 came at a price not a lot of people can afford, so the Q5 promises to deliver the same experience without sweeping the fluff out of your pocket. At first glance, the Q5 has all the important check boxes ticked. You get a dual-core Krait chipset, a 3.1" display of the same 720 x 720 pixel resolution and a four-row QWERTY keyboard for that serious texting and emailing. Key features Q u a d - b a n d GSM/GPRS/EDGE, tri/quadband UMTS/HSPA, 100 Mbps LTE 3.1" 16M-color 720p (720 x 720 pixels) IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen Four-row hardware QWERTY

keyboard Dual-core 1.2 GHz Krait, 2GB RAM, Adreno 225 BlackBerry 10.1 OS; Office document editor BlackBerry Hub is a unified inbox of all your communication and social networking accounts BBM with video chat and screen sharing 5 MP auto-focus camera with face detection and Time Shift; LED flash Full HD (1080p) video recording at 30fps; 720p on the frontfacing camera 2MP front facing camera 16GB of storage, microSD card slot; Dropbox and Box.NET integration Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot; WiFi sync Bluetooth 4.0 NFC standard microUSB port, microHDMI 3.5mm audio jack

Nividia Shield Let's cut straight to the chase: Nvidia Shield is a superb, stateof-the-art handheld product the most powerful Android hardware on the market right now - integrated into a beautifully built controller that ranks alongside the Xbox 360 pad in terms of ergonomics and response, while exceeding it in terms of the quality and feel of the materials. Shield isn't perfect, but for a first attempt at a handheld console from a firm known for graphics technology, it's a stand-out effort.

Shield isn't available in the UK at the moment, but the small matter of an ocean was never going to trouble Digital Foundry, so here we are with an American unit we imported. On first removing the device from the packaging, impressions are a little mixed - on the one hand, there's an immediate sense of the quality in the build and

Audi A4

materials, particularly from the rubberised underside of the unit which fits into your hands with a reassuring level of grip. It's a somewhat solid beast, weighing 579g - over twice the weight of PlayStation Vita - but integrating that sheer mass into what is essentially an Xbox 360 pad design with a clamshell flip-up display pays off: your hands wrap around the contours of the underside perfectly, and while Shield definitely makes its presence felt in your grasp, the weight distribution ensures that there's little danger of any fatigue, even after a couple of hours of sustained play. Processor: Tegra 4 at 1.9GHz Memory: 2GB Display: 5-inch 1280x720 (294 ppi) multi-touch "Retinal" display Dimensions: 158x135x57mm Weight: 579g Audio: Integrated stereo speakers with built-in microphone Storage: 16GB Flash Memory Wireless: 802.11n 2x2 Mimo WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS Connectivity: Mini-HDMI output, Micro-USB 2.0, MicroSDXC storage slot, 3.5mm stereo headphone jack with microphone support Motion Sensors: Three-axis gyro, three-axis accelerometer Battery: 28.8Whr

I've done bad things. I have committed crimes beyond incessant speeding. I have stolen. I have lied. I have cheated. I may have forgotten to put any of it on my rĂŠsumĂŠ. But I haven't transgressed enough to earn a new S8. This is a villainous luxury car, one so wicked that merely hopping behind the wheel should make you a person of interest to Interpol. Yes, for the 2013 model year, Audi has recast the S8 as a sedan mastermind, dumping the old model's 450-hp V-10 like a disloyal henchman. The replacement 4.0-liter V-8 is the twin-turbocharged and features cylinder deactivation that allows it to run as a V-4, just like in the A8. But here it's making 520 horses and 481 pound-feet of torque. That's 100 more horsepower and an additional 75 pound-feet compared with the A8, thanks to more boost (15.9 psi versus 12.3), revised valve timing, and more efficient intake plumbing. This violent V-8 makes Audi's plot to take over the world likely to happen more swiftly. It goes from zero to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds, needs just 8.5 seconds to reach 100, and tricks through the quarter-mile in 11.9 seconds at 118 mph. Never mind that the S8 is a 4620-pound car that comfortably seats five. It drives a class or two smaller, as if it's been hit with a shrink ray. At times you would swear it's an A4, except for the better steering feel and an exhaust note as

heavy as a San Quentin life sentence. Despite the S8's hyper performance, half the appeal is in its ability to induce amnesia in witnesses. The S8 never has been flashy, and this new model retains the A8's subtlety, drawn to resemble nothing more shapely than a cudgel. Even its interior doesn't offer much to distinguish the S8 from the regular A8, save for standard carbon-fiber and aluminum trim. The latter serves as a reminder of the aluminum-intensive space frame that Audi pioneered in 1994 and that the A8 range, with redesigns, continues to use today. All that metal (even the speaker grilles on the $6300 Bang & Olufsen audio system are aluminum) led to this stray thought under heavy braking: "If I ball this thing up, they can hose me out and recycle the rest into Pepsi cans." Fortunately, the brakes bite like four vampires, stopping the car from 70 mph in just 156 feet. The S8 shares its anchor hardware from the longwheelbase A8 W12, with 15.7-inch discs in the front and 14.0-inchers in the rear. A big brake pedal (trimmed in aluminum, of course) imparts an even, progressive feel, with the first quarter of its travel sufficient for stopping without alarming passengers. The rest of its arc forces the six-piston front calipers closed with the sort of seatbeltstraining force that makes your neck hurt.

story behind magazine

n a book I’ve read that: “it is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that things are difficult”. Until it is printed on book it doesn’t make any sense to me but when I applied, it seems it has lot of sense. This month is pretty challenging then previous couple of month. Challenges from personal life, professional life and social life. Well I’ve stated the big words but this true we have faced it. As our most of the crew is college going students so it is obvious to face above challenges and hence that turn into a tough challenge. This month if anything you don’t like then you can blame me and if you have liked anything then it is the total effort of the writer. I would tell you something, I believe you as my friend, that we are facing a trouble with team management so this issue may not as per your expectations but believe me what time, resources, luck and people has given to us this is the best we can produce. This month we have started arranging the concepts and column list but due to irregularities in our management most of the c o l u m n s a r e r e m a i n e d e m p t y. B u t nevertheless we have prepared some new and fresh columns that may interest you and if you give us more chance then we promise we will bring something more which you would like.

As the highlights of this month is Gandhi ji and a more fascinating thing we’ve got that among youth the feeling and respect for Gandhi ji is depleting and so the value of Indian rupee is also depleting. And from here we have traced our cover story that the value of Gandhi is gone and the note in which Gandhi ji is printed its value is also gone. Well Dusherra is also a highlight for this month but we haven’t featured it. Apart from cover story the article ‘In praise of evil’ by B.D.Bhargava is also a good piece of writing. Our new buddy Ani has written a poem and a story which focuses on the girls. Now one more thing for our column life mey ek baar the guys from mumbai travellers agreed to write and from this issue onward these guys will share and tell the awesome destination for youth. And to make our magazine a little informative rather than leisure we have introduced a new column desi videsi, which is about the companies and brand of India and foreign countries available in India. So it is a little information providing column and from next issue we will be adding few more columns and articles which are based on information providing. Well I hope what we have this month you have enjoyed and once again if you haven’t liked any of our article we apologize for it and from next time we will be taking care of it.

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