STUDENT PAPER OF THE SCHOOL OF MEDIA & LIBERAL ARTS GREATER NOiDA | November 3, 2017 | Vol 1, issue 5 | PAGES 12 THE TIMESOF BENNETT Shimla’s Christ Once a dumping Assamese artisans A start-up for Church ground, now a park seek recognition recreation spaces A big attraction Prashant Vihar Craftsmen want to feel Bennett Hatchery for tourists residents create more included nurtures a new idea PAGE 4 a green lung PAGE 5 PAGE 9 PAGE 12 Five sisters united by one game Students enjoyed making TARU MEDHA basketball player coming AND TANVI MISHRA to an end, Akanksha de- ToB, found it educative cided to take up a job as a Being girls and taking sports officer at the univer- part in outdoor sports sity. “I have always want- in a conservative neigh- ed to work around kids bourhood is difficult. Yet and work on their devel- despite these odds, the opment,” said Akanksha. five Singh sisters of Vara- She took up the chal- nasi scaled the heights of lenge of setting up infra- their respective sports. structure at a new in- The five sisters, Pri- stitution and also roped yanka, Divya, Prashanti, in her sister Pratima to Akanksha and Pratima work with her. “ I wanted have created an identity the challenges of start- for themselves in basket- ing from scratch and take ball, with four of them up the wide scope to do wearing the Indian jersey Pratima Singh(left) and Akanksha Singh(right) in a animated discussui- something new,” she says. at international tourna- on during a gym session in Bennett University. Photo by Tanvi Mishra Being athletes, both the ments while one (Pri- sisters make sure to keep yanka) played at the ing of the sports infra- and eventually became and myself were players, themselves fit all the time. national level. The five structure on the campus. good players.” Akanksha “ says Pratima, proudly. They make spend some sisters have a sixth sibling, How did the Singh has played for India for 14 “Basketball has been a time in the university gym Mass communcation students review the newspaper as part of their their brother, Vikrant, sisters become such ex- years while Pratima has life changer. Coming from everyday, after they finish training. Photo by Writava Banerjee who excels in football. pert basketball players? played for 12 years and a place where there were work and also try and mo- Two of them, Akank- Akanksha said, “There was also received an award many restrictions on the tivate staff and faculty to SOFI TYAGI guys from Mass Commu- such a short time,” said sha and Pratima Singh, a college near our home of recognition from the way girls should behave join their fitness sessions. nication did a really awe- Neeharika Awasthi. are now sports officers at in Varanasi, where our President of India for this. and dress up and still mak- “Fitness has always been There was a lot of excite- some job. I can’t believe There were some small Bennett University and oldest sister, Priyanka, There was a time when ing it big in the field of a driving force in my life. I ment among the students they did it,” said Ankita issues with the new tech- are in-charge of organis- would go and play basket- all four of the sisters were sports has taught me a lot think that most of my en- of Mass Communication in Panda, a LLB student. nology. Overall, students ing all the sporting events ball. Influenced by her, in Team India at the same in life,” says Akanksha, as ergy and motivation comes Bennett University when The students were di- learned the ropes quick- of the University as well the rest of us also started time. “Divya was the coach she talks about her career. from the fact that I keep they heard that they’ll vided into three batches ly, with the enthusiastic as oversee the build- going to practise with her and Prashanti, Akanksha With her career as a myself fit, “ says Akansha. soon be bringing out their and while one batch han- ones helping out the re- own newspaper, the Times dled the page making and luctant pagemakers. In of Bennett. The name was sub-editing, the other two the end everyone agreed suggested by two students were assigned to write re- that completing the paper Triya Gulati and Harshit ports. Batch 1 were the was worth it and it was Mansukhani. “It was an page makers for edition 1 an amazing experience. amazing experience that and 4. Batch 2 got editions Students were amazed cannot be described in 2 and 5 while batch 3 made at how well they man- words,” said Triya Gulati. the page of edition 3 and aged to work it all out, From writing reports to will do the same for edi- even though it’s been only editing them and design- tion 6. a few months since the ing the pages, learning new Parents were quite hap- semester started. “The things and overcoming py with the efforts their teamwork and cooperation the problems, it has been children have put in the among my batchmates an awesome experience. paper. “My parents were was amazing,” said Triya. “Even though it got irritat- very happy to see it,” said Students agreed that it ing sometimes, as we had Reeti Agarwal. “My par- was very tiring and frustrat- to work again and again on ents were so proud of me ing job, but the end prod- editing the reports, it was for learning so much in uct was worth all the pain. amazing when we finally completed it. Getting our final pages approved was a tough job as it took me days to get it finalized,” said Neeharika Awasthi. Nikhil Nair further said, “It took more than a day to make the pages and fi- nalize them. And since our getting out of college is re- stricted, it is very difficult for us to get stories. But we managed to overcome these problems and bring out the newspaper.” Even students from oth- er departments couldn’t Students discuss the various articles in the help but admire it. “The third edition of ToB. Photo by Writava Banerjee Participants at the start line of the 6 km Bennetthon run held at Bennett University. Photo by Deep Das Barman Zero maintenance at ‘Zero Transgenders yearn for respect Bindra, Gopi to open Mile’ spoils its elegance & equality in society but in vain sports facility at BU MANSI JAIN ucation after school, “I was WRITAVA BANERJEE construction. The arriv- WRITAVA BANERJEE Kshitij Bhoge, who has even told that people like al of these two renowned spent most of his school Kashish, 26, is a trans- me don’t work,” Kashish The much-awaited sports players has only added By the side of a very busy years in Nagpur, feels it gender and live in Delhi. says. facility in Bennett Univer- to the excitement in the square, almost incon- shows the lack of develop- But Kashish does not feel After years of struggle sity is ready and will soon campus. Ishan Gaul, a spicuous with buildings ment in India. “Zero Mile a sense of belonging. As a and hardships faced by be inaugurated by none BTech student said, “I’ve growing around it taking is a place from where In- transgender, the constant Kashish and his family, other than Abhinav Bindra seen Abhinav Bindra only the shine away from its dia radiates. But when the mocking about gender Kashish managed to get and Pullela Gopichand. on TV when he won the glory, lies a monument centre itself is not up to the and sexuality and almost admission in a relative’s Bindra will arrive on Olympic gold. I didn’t that’s not very impressive mark, how can we expect everything else, is irritat- institute and was able to November 27. He is In- have any interest in shoot- by its structure but by India to jump from being a ing. But Kashish tries to pursue further studies. dia’s only individual ing earlier but I’ve been its significance. It’s the ‘Developing’ to being a ‘De- not let that dampen the “Society makes us believe Olympic Gold medallist following the game a bit spot that’s the geographic veloped’ Nation?” he asks. spirits. “We feel normal, that something is wrong and has got a gold medal since then. I am excited to centre of India or what is Aishwarya Menon, who it’s the way we are, but it’s with our bodies. We are in Asian Air Gun Cham- see him.” known as the ‘Zero Mile’. passes the monument just the people who make born this way, not turned pionship, 2015 and has Akanksha Singh, the Years of neglect, van- everyday on her way to us feel that we are not nor- Kashish poses for a this way. That’s the way been bestowed with Arju- Sports Officer at Bennett dalism and half-hearted college, feels that citizens mal.” photograph. Photo by it is, we cannot do any- na, Khel Ratna and Padma University, who has cap- attempts to renovate it are to blame too. She said, Kashish discovered his Mansi Jain thing about it. All the so- Bhushan Awards. tained the national wom- have reduced it to a sorry “It is because people just sexuality when he was 13. ciety does is make us feel Gopichand will inaugu- ens’ basketball team in figure out what was wrong state. The Zero Mile is a don’t care about any sec- “I still remember, at the less human, by making us rate the badmiton facility many international cham- with me,” Kashish said.