BILLION BEATS My Joy Knew No Bounds When I Got Green SPECIAL REPORT Signal for the Expedition from the Navy

TM VOL 2 | ISSUE NO. 8 | JANUARY 18, 2017 NEW YEAR SPECIAL EDITION SINCE 2007 | NOT FOR SALE MEET THE WOMEN WHO By Lt Cdr Vartika Joshi Indian Navy’s all-women sailing crew. CONn AugusQt 2013, tUhe ERED THE SEA Indian Navy was looking for volun - ItIeers, including women officers for the iconic Cape to Rio Yacht Race. I was raring to grab hold of an opportunity to sail, after all that’s the reason I had joined the Navy without having the slightest idea that it was yet to induct women offi - cers in ocean sailing plat - forms. BILLION BEATS My joy knew no bounds when I got green SPECIAL REPORT signal for the expedition from the Navy. I applied to be part of this expedi - tion without a second thought. Today I consider myself fortunate to have been able to sail my first- ever long ocean passage from Brazil to Cape Town onboard the Navy’s Sailing Vessel Mhadei. The vessel had two solo circumnavigations (first under - taken by Capt Dilip Donde (Retd) and second non- stop circumnavigation by Cdr Abhilash Tomy). volunteering for the mission. She is nicknamed as and amazes us with her creativity. This particular expedition had a huge impact on me Puko on the boat. Lt Cdr Vartika Joshi: She finished her gradua - since my entire childhood was spent in the hills. Lt Shougrakpam Vijaya Devi: An excellent tion in Aerospace Engineering and thereafter joined Staying so close to the sea looked like a distant singer, Shou is a native of Manipur. She loves the Navy as a Naval Architect. A nature lover, she dream to me all this while. stitching and has time and again displayed her likes travelling and strumming on the guitar. She Something prompted me to volunteer again to exemplary skills while sailing. She is an education may form a music band with the rest of the team sail. A few months later (Dec 2014) I got to know officer in the Indian Navy. soon and together they can rock on a rocking boat! that INSV Mhadei was celebrating the completion Lt Swathi Patarapalli: From the city of destiny, Nickname: VJ of her 1,00,000 nautical miles by sailing the vessel Visakhapatnam, she is an Air Traffic Controller and We all had volunteered for this project based on around the Indian peninsula. has been an avid yachtswoman since her childhood. our individual experiences onboard the Mhadei I registered my name for it with the Navy and She likes painting and has an eye for interior and a common drive for adventure. But as we start - sailed with a team of four skippered and mentored designing. Nickname: Swatcat ed improvising upon our sea legs, we realized that by Capt Dilip Donde. By this time I was not quite offshore sailing was not only limited to sailing from Lt Aishwarya aware of what the Navy had been planning. Getting place A to place B. To be able to achieve what we Boddapati: an opportunity to sail again on the Mhadei reas - Nicknamed as ‘Aish’, had set out for, each one of us has to inculcate mul - sured my interest in offshore sailing. Eventually she comes from tiple skills ranging from repairing onboard equip - when I was asked if I wanted to be part of the Hyderabad and is a ment, communication, weather prediction, naviga - planned ‘all-women circumnavigation’ Naval architect. She tion to cleanship, cooking and overall upkeep of the being referred to as Sagar Parikrama III, I has an innate ability to boat and most importantly, the ability to work and immediately stepped in. The Navy, around cheer and lighten the live together for a long duration in a 17-metre boat. the same time, also identified five other young atmosphere when would Our initial training encompassed learning about and dynamic women officers who had a need it the most. She is also basic boat handling and sail theory at Indian Naval common interest in sailing and also an excellent writer. Watermanship Training Centre, Mumbai, followed by had been part of the above expe - extensive theoretical study on navigation, seaman - Lt Cdr Pratibha ditions in its var - ship, communication, meterology at various schools Jamwal (Jammy): An at Naval Base, Kochi. They say 'no education is com - Air Traffic plete without experience’. It was soon time to start Controller in the ious applying all the knowledge gathered from a plethora Navy, she is also a legs. This is of sources. Our first mission was to sail the boat inde - graduate in how six of us pendently around the Indian peninsula during the Electronics. She belonging to different parts of the country International Fleet Review held in January 2016. and various cadres of the Navy were does beautiful appointed to form a team to attempt an ‘all- glass painting Report continued on Page 2 women circumnavigation’ in August 2017. This write-up will remain incomplete While taking on a challenge, unless I introduce members of the team to readers. it is perhaps more essential to Lt Payal Gupta: An education confront and endure the bigger officer, she belongs to Dehradun, Uttarakhand challenges that are bound to and loves to travel, the Lt Cdr Vartika Joshi follow, than the challenge itself. very reason behind her ‘ JAN 18, 2017 bb- pinned | Is there an inspiring story that needs to be told? Get in 2 touch with us and our team will take up the mission soon! DOODLE DELIGHT AJ TECH TRENDS We have a long way to ‘ Artifical Intelligence By Gulaam Khwaja Moinudeen rtificial intelligence (AI) has cap - AtAured the imagination of everyone for a long time. In recent times, people have started using AI in some form or the other. Either route suggestion by map app or voice controlled mobile phones, there are elements of AI already in the market. Recent research puts it as a $5 billion market by 2020, and there are estimates that 6 billion con - nected "things" will require AI support by 2018. The global industry is looking forward to intelligent manufac - turing systems. But we have a I am proud of my Natcientore of nthe whaite bland isF a navly balue wg heel By Harismitha N M long way to go in terms of pat - which represents the Ashoka Chakra. This tern recognition and decision flag is a must for all nations. Millions INDIA OF MY DREAMS Chakra depicted the "wheel of the law" in the making by the computers on its have died for it. Every free nation has Sarnath Lion Capital made by Mauryan AAits own flag. It is a symbol of a free Emperor Ashoka. own. country. The Chakra intends to show that there is life Scientists say that to mimic an Gandhiji first proposed in movement and death in stagnation. Truth or a flag for the Indian satya, dharma or virtue ought to be the con - action of a cockroach, acres of National Congress in trolling principle of those who work under this supercomputers may be 1921. The flag was flag. required. designed by P In the National Flag of India the top band is of Venkayya. In the centre Saffron colour, indicating the strength and So, we are way behind to make was a traditional spin - courage of the country. The white middle an AI based factory floor. In the ning wheel, symboliz - band indicates peace and truth with Dharma meantime, as the comfort of AI ing Gandhiji's goal of Chakra. The last band is green in colour which grows, we might need to study making Indians self- shows the fertility, growth and auspiciousness reliant by weaving their of the land. the impact, both positive and own clothes. We are taught in school to respect our flag. In negative, it would have on our The National Flag of India was adopted in its India thereafter. In India, the term "tricolour" other countries, people use the flag as clothes society. billion beats present form during the meeting of the refers to the Indian national flag. or other accessories. In India, we are extreme - Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, a The national flag of India is a horizontal tri - ly proud of our flag and do not let it be used few days before India's independence from colour of deep saffron (kesari) at the top, on clothes or other places. billion beats The writer is grand nephew of Guru the British on 15 August, 1947. It served as white in the middle and dark green at the bot - Kalam and a trustee of Dr APJ Abdul the national flag between 15 August 1947 and tom in equal proportion. The ratio of the width The writer is a 5th standard student 26 January 1950 and that of the Republic of of the flag to its length is two to three. In the with Air Force School ASTE, Bangalore. Kalam International Foundation. ‘We developed as a great team in a short time’ Continued from Page 1 us more confident than before. The nuances of the Soon after the completion of our basic courses in sea left us in awe, the waters being such an unpre - Kochi, we were deputed to work on the Mhadei dictable medium. Perhaps why it attracts us too! It and sail her on a regular basis under the mentor - teaches us to value every moment and lead our ship of Capt Dilip Donde. lives one step at a time. We would sail with him regularly, learn from his The team, post-completion of the voyage from experiences and then apply our brains to find solu - Goa to Cape Town, recently returned Goa and is tions to a variety of problems that would keep crop - now involved in the final stages of construction of ping as we continued working.

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