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Food for thought “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose TIssue 1, HNovember 20E07 GL BAL TIMAN AMIT ES time has come.” Y INITIATIVE Victor Hugo INSIDE “One tree is worth 280 Crores” completed formal education, Say Award-winning Wildlife Filmmakers Mike, before we realized that our mis- sion was calling us. Arjun and Gautam Pandey in conversation with INDIA AND INDIANS Mike Pandey: We comprise Nishtha Bhatnagar 23% of the total world popula- tion. Indians have the ability to hen was the last time TIP THE BALANCE. If every Siblings or Rivals? that the saddened Indian, plants a tree each on the and helpless eyes of World Environment Day, we will Page 8 W an animal or bird in distress, have half a million new trees. struck a chord of empathy and THE BEGINNING Alas! Indians need to re-learn. compassion in you? When was Mike Pandey: I always had a It was only when education was the last time, you took an oath great affinity to nature. I was taken away from us because of to protect this planet as your doing a course in film-making, foreign invasion that we became own abode? When was the last when I saw this whale shark de-sensitized to our environ- time, you felt that extinct ani- being butchered on the shores of ment. It is no co-incidence that mals could have been saved Mumbai. Somehow, my eyes Gods and Goddesses in Indian and the ones threatened, pro- got glued to the eyes of the mythology have an animal as tected? dying creature and I felt as if it their carrier or trees surrounding For most of us, the answers was talking to me, and calling them. It is again no co-incidence would be, ‘I don't recall’ or for help. I was helpless then, but that we worship the Tulsi plant. ‘Never’. But for Mike Pandey, it in my helplessness, I, made a Our ancestors knew that the plant Reaching for the stars: was the sight of life fading promise to it. The promise was - had over 4000 medicinal values. away, in the eyes of a dying to not let that happen to the SMALL BUT SIGNIFICANT Amity Toppers speak whale shark on the coast of other whale sharks in the world. THINGS Page 9 Mumbai, that turned the course Arjun Pandey: For us, all fami- Arjun Pandey: It's a question of of his life forever. This legend, ly holidays were an extension of the desire to make a difference. like all others was not born shoots and vice versa. We used to One person sensitized, can have a overnight. It has taken years of spend hours at a stretch waiting rippling effect on society. Small sensitivity, struggle and even in national reserves or sanctuar- things can make a difference- like potential threats to life that have ies for sightings. Nature and fitting a bottle in your flush tank, made him a paragon of environ- wildlife were a part of our lives helps save 1 litre of water every ment and animal conservation. from our early years. time you flush. If you use the And following closely in his Gautam Pandey: However, we flush 10 times a day, you save 10 footsteps are Arjun Pandey, his did not follow in our father’s litres of water in a day and 70 nephew and Gautam Pandey, ALL SMILES: Gautam Pandey(l) and Arjun Pandey(r) footsteps blindly. We dabbled litres of water in a week. his son. THROUGH THE WINNING LENS: (top right) Mike Pandey with other things like music and �Contd. on page 11 Amity Scores: World’s 1st Tri-fuel car Page 10 of one’s choice, sometimes with a sense of dutiful reciprocity, and at others, as a license. In a survey conducted among Delhi school students, we bring you free- POLL dom, as it means to the youth today, in its 60 years of Born free myriad hues. Independence: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Let Me Be Me: For many, just the Students’ perspective Where knowledge is free ability to live life as they are, Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow good, ugly, A poll conducted in the domestic walls attractive, seven Amity schools yielded Where words come out from the depth of truth some interesting results. Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection In case of a foreign Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the invasion, what will be dreary desert sand of dead habit your mode of protest? Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action- intelligent, Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. or slow, with- -Rabindranath Tagore out any external pres- ANN Correspondent even today. The desperation of a mission sures and guidelines, encompass all Violent Non vioent that seemed insurmountable then, has notions of freedom. “Freedom for me is 48% 52% or those who fought the battle for found a comfortable replacement in the the ability to be who I actually am. Let me freedom, lost sons and daughters form of complacence and comfort be me,” says Kriti Talwar of The Indian to the soil, for the soil, Tagore’s amongst Gen X. The term freedom, School. For these kids, life, as long as it is F � poem would evoke emotions and glory, today harbours in the ability to do things Contd. on page 4 Are you in favour of What were your struggles to reservation? Subra Suresh : From IIT to MIT establish yourself at MIT, despite being a non-native Yes Deepti Batra, ANN within and outside. Ultimately, India? not only in education, but also in there. 10% professional satisfaction and As India undergoes technologi- research. MIT is a meritocracy, and there From a student at IIT Madras, to opportunities to reach the pin- cal and social transformation, Elucidate your struggles and are people of all nationalities and becoming the dean at MIT, Subra nacle of one's field provide a education and research will also endeavours in the process to backgrounds among students and No Suresh is another NRI story that driving force. I have had con- see enormous changes. I am reach this esteemed position, faculty. It is a very rich environ- 90% does India proud. Excerpts from siderable interactions with hopeful that the tradition of from childhood to now. ment that provides a great intel- an interview: Indian students, faculty, admin- scholarship and scientific excel- I have always enjoyed my work lectual challenge. There are istrators and government offi- lence in India will lay the foun- and tried to immerse myself in many distinguished Indian born Please tell us something about cials over the past decade, and I dation for many Indian institu- my activities with passion. IIT faculty members at MIT. Which Bollywood actor your days at IIT Madras. visit India several times a year. tions to becoming world leaders and MIT are institutions where Incidents of your life that you can aptly portray It was a very exciting time both As India develops rapidly and your fellow students and col- think can be a source of inspi- Gandhi? socially and from an education challenging opportunities arise leagues challenge you to your ration for our students. SRK 22% point of view. I have maintained for many engineers and scien- limit, and this helps in bringing Getting an opportunity to do my my friendship with many of my tists, I would think that brain out the best in every one. pre-university course at classmates although it has been drain will progressively become Your strategy to crack IIT Vivekananda College (in Maths, 30 years since my graduation less of an issue. entrance. Physics and Chemistry) was a from IIT. Who all are there in your It is probably much more com- good preparation for IIT. IIT How much do you agree with family? petitive now than when I took was an excellent place to get an the whole concept of brain My wife and two daughters are the exam in the early 1970s. I engineering education and pro- drain from India? In case you in the US. I have many rela- remember primarily starting to vided me the motivation to pur- Amir Khan don't, how would you want to tives in India, with whom I study for it a few weeks before sue education in the US. Moral 48% contribute to your country? keep in touch. the exam. A couple of guides support from my mother was a One can contribute to one's What is your take on the plight for the entrance exams were the strong motivation during my Amitabh Bachchan 30% country enormously, both from of education and research in main instructional material. student days.� 2 Moolah Mantras Career/Education The Global Times Issue 1, November 2007 Quantitative Reasoning, measure a student’s knowledge Critical Reading and Writing. and skill in particular subject The cumulative scores of the areas, as well as his/her ability Probing the three sections provide the final to apply that knowledge. score. Each major section is Students take the Subject Tests divided into three parts. There to demonstrate to colleges, their are 10 sub-sections, including mastery of specific subjects like MIND‘SAT’ an experimental section that English, History, Mathematics, may be in any of the three Science, and Language. The SAT comprises a general test that major sections. The critical tests are independent of any par- reading section, includes differ- ticular textbook or method of assesses reading, quantitative ent sections, such as sentence instruction.

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