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December 2015 Merry Christmas HappyLearn Holidays From Yesterday Live For Today Hope ForTomorrow Happy New Year The Ruiaite Monthly E Bulletin Editorial Namaskar Ruiaite!! “Peace is not external but internal. It is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.” Devdutt Pattanaik, Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata A year of happenings and novel learnings culminates. An immense opportu- nity of seeking answers to the unknown awaits us. What has passed cannot be turned around; what comes ahead is a beautiful surprise. Yet, we have in hand a priceless treasure - the present moment. As we welcome a year of vigour and enthusiasm, here we present the Ruiaite Bulletin’s December Edi- tion for 2015. Our eorts to give our dear readers the best of all has brought us to take up issues of immense social, cultural and scientic importance through our columns. Be it the water cuts or the knack of buying a desktop PC; be it the ideal life of Bhapkar Guruji or the inspiring life lessons of our very own Samir Sir; the students of the Ruiaite team have not left any leaf unturned to ensure an enriching read. Not to forget, we have also traced the travel of our Bolly- wood Stars through Hollywood !! Just as the Constitution Of India provides for transfusion of scientic temper and spirit of enquiry amongst the citizens, our columns have in this issue, addressed environmentalism through varied aspects. CareerWise reects on the professional prospects of Environmental Studies while Tech-Tricked enlightens us about the Bionic Leafs; as also, Op-Ed takes us on a tour of the Wildlife through ‘The Hunt’. In the wake of the Chennai Floods, these insights on our environment ought to come handy - we’d better make peace with it before it gets too late. Some of our members have become experts in particular areas and they bring to us their reection of the world in words of dierent kinds - Saakshi Gupta makes us ponder with her Tiny Tales in Open Forum; while Aniruddha Inamdar feeds us with a round about information of the most important of occurrences in Buzz Around. Our heart goes out to the stranded Chennaites. We stand in solidarity with the Parisians. Somewhere it feels, that peace is truly within; as a reection of our past and as our hope for a better future. Let us seek in this New Year the wisdom of being in peace - in every sphere of life. The Ruiate Team Wishes All a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year !! Team Ruiaite Reports RUIA JUNIOR COLLEGE SCIENCE EXHIBITION The Science Association of Ramnivas Ruia Junior ects with utmost exuberance. The submissions of the Essay Compe- College conducted a two-day Intercollegiate Science Exhibition tition, held earlier this year by the Science Association, were kept in PUT ON A RED CROSS on the 3rd and 4th of December, 2015. Just as in each of its previous a table, fondly called 'The Scientists Corner'. Participation of students editions, this year too there was an overwhelming response from came not only through projects, but also through their art-works. The participating students and chief guests HIV AIDS AWARENESS WEEK were were presented with Bookmarks, hand World AIDS Day is celebrated ed in the debate. The participants made by students of the Junior College by millions of people across the came with well researched ideas and (Science). The students were given a wide globe on December 1, every year gave an outstanding performance range of topics to choose from and they all since 1988. Its main aim is to raise with their exquisite public speaking came well-prepared, answered questions awareness of the AIDS pandemic skills . Although participation from eloquently, reecting in depth knowledge caused by the spread of HIV infec- other colleges remainedlimited, it about the topics. tion and mourning those who have was pleasant to witness several The exhibition opened up realms of new died of the disease. The NSS unit of Ruiaites turning up as an audience knowledge students, participants, teachers our college is alive towards this to be a part of the celebration. On and visitors alike, making the event a platform cause and dedicated a week- 1st 3rd, 4th and 5th, various events like for the interaction between scientic wisdom December to 5th December- for the quiz, poetry competition, poster and scientic aspiration. celebration of HIV AIDS. making competition and lm They hosted an array of inter-college screenings were organized exclu- Science exhibition Topics - and intra-college events to make the sively for Ruia students. 1- Magic of magnetism week a success and invited 40 Apart from spreading the message 2- Desalination and water treatment colleges to participate in it. The across the youth, NSS aimed to 3- Soil less agriculture inter-college events, debate and encourage the participants and 4- Sensors and detectors street play took place on 2nd volunteers of the event to research 5- Mobile applications for social use December and had some interesting well on various aspects of Sex Edu- 6- Math magic in science topics like, sex education, objecti- cation towards AIDS awareness; so cation of women in media, should that, the message remains etched in their minds for the rest of their life. the students of dierent Colleges and Schools across the city. Winners - sex education be provided to school This year there were about 27 exhibits; out of which 10 were by Ruia students or not?- among others. K.C. The volunteers worked very hard to 1st- Vasant Vihar high school and junior college Junior College students. The event was Coordinated by Mrs. Supriya College, Ambedkar College, SIES pull it o successfully and were Kaushik Mudailar Karadkar, along with the Department of Physics and the Science College and Vikas College participat- happy with the response. Pratik Singh Association Committee. The exhibition was inaugurated by Dr. Kiran -Lavanya Sarkar Mangaonkar (Principal, Khalsa college) on 3rd of December, which 2nd- Ruia college was followed by viewing of the exhibits by the chief guest himself Shubham Dawda and the judges. Aditya Gawli In the words of Mrs. Supriya Karhadkar, "We intend to provide the students with a rare opportunity to interact with the scientists." And 3rd- Sathaye College so, keeping in tune with this purpose, scientist Dr.Vaibhav Prabhu- Prathamesh Pol desai (TIFR), was invited as the guest of honour on the second day of the exhibition. His insightful talk on 'WORLD OF LOW ENERGY ELEC- TRON FROM ASTROCHEMISTRY TO CANCER THERAPY', proved to be a huge hit among the aspiring, young science enthusiasts. Dr. Prabhudesai is a Ruia Alumnus ('97 batch) and also, the recipient of the INSA award for "Best Thesis" (2007). The participants showed immense interest and presented their proj- Reports Mumbai celebrates 100 years of General Relativity (A talk by Prof. Spenta Wadia) Ramnarain Ruia College on 30th event of great scientic importance. He briefed video on Einstein. Finally came, the much ples such that, it could be easily grasped by November 2015 marked the 100th year of the audience about Einstein and his keen inter- awaited talk by Prof Spenta Wadia who is the students even from the non-science back- Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity by ests in multiple disciplines. He also highlighted Founding Director of Centre for Theoretical ground. He proceeded to speak on the various arranging a programme, being the only college the old and unknown relationship of Einstein Sciences and also, a member of Tata Institute of tests of GR(General Relativity), the Theory of to celebrate the event. The host for the show with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore Fundamental Research. He spoke on early Black Holes and how they function; as also the welcomed Prof. Pednekar to address the audi- and India’s rst prime minister Pandit Jawa- scientists like Newton, James Maxwell, Galileo future of GR and Quantum Mechanics. The ence with a welcome speech, who next invited harlal Nehru. Mr. Kulkarni, also shed light on and their theories; like, law of universal gravita- programme culminated with a round of inter- Mr. Sudhendra Kulkarni, chairman of ORF( Einstein's eorts to eliminate untouchability tion, unied electricity and magnetism, the esting questions from the audience and satisfy- Observer Research Foundation) to address the from India. He concluded by calling upon the discovery of a new law of gravity, respectively. ing answers by the chief guests of the august gathering. He expressed his delight to students to erect a memorial of Einstein and Also, he explained the Theory of General Rela- programme. have chosen Ruia College for celebrating this showed the audience a 10 min excerpt from a tivity with the help of comprehensible exam- -Rashi Kale ENRICHING MINDS Memorable Camp Ruia has always been known to conduct the powers that be, a talk-show focusing on The NSS unit of Ramnarain Ruia College Street plays were performed by the volun- and encourage various programs of social the concerns of the youth was long in organized a 7 day camp for its volunteers. teers in nearby villages. Their aim was to and cultural signicance. Mixing the two to calling. The camp was from 22nd November to create health awareness, explain the impor- put forward the reality of today's youth this The panel, meanwhile, that was brought 29th November at Shantivan Ashram Shala, tance of cleanliness and how we must elim- time around, the college hosted Enriching together on stage were some prominent Vakdi village near Panvel. Around 100 inate superstitions from our lives. NSS Minds, now in its second year and evidently names - The Principal, Dr.