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NMKRV COLLEGE FOR WOMEN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTION, NAAC ACCREDITED ‘A’, UGC RECOGNIZED COLLEGE WITH POTENTIAL FOR EXCELLENCEJAYANAGAR, BANGALORE – 560 011

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1 Minding On Mind!

2 A Pat on the Back...

3 It’s Travel Time....!

4 Flying high…!!

5 An Accomplishment!

6 The “Zealous” Factor of the college…

7 Commerce Calling . . .!!!

8 Revisiting the Roots…!!

9 Take Care Please…

10 Book Review

11 Film Review

12 Departmental Activities

13 Gallery

EDITORDr.Vani.M.N, HoD,

Journalism/Communication

ASSOCIATE EDITORMr.Manoj B A,

Lecturer, PG Department of Communication

ASSISTANT EDITORSmt. Sharada T,

Lecturer, Department of Journalism

STUDENT EDITOR Ms. Ananya K S*

STUDENT REPORTERSYashaswini B M* Umaina Hafeez*

Zoya Tanweer* Anusha Hegde**Teju Belwadi** Sri Raksha***

Umme Hany*** Nidhi C Upadhye***

PHOTO CREDITSYashaswini B M

Aishwarya Gangadhar**

VARTHA VAHINI THANKSsDr. Snehalata G Nadiger, Principal

Dr. Malhar Qaiser, HoD, UrduFor their unstinted support.

*Students of final Year Journalism ** Students of Second Year Journalism*** Students of First Year Journalism

Editorial Board

Content

Many milestones have been crossed by the institution

founded by the great philanthropists Sri Meda Kasturiranga Setty and Smt. Nagarathnamma Meda Kasturiranga Setty. The visionary that he was, Sri M C Sivananda Sarma, the founding Secretary of Rashtreeya Sikshana Samithi Trust, has laid a foundation for education that has left an indeli-ble impression in society. Late Dr. C N Mangala, the first principal of the College, a visionary and a legend has indeed made a remarkable contribu-

tion to value based education that has carried forward this institution towards a Golden Jubilee in a couple of years.

The College recently received a grant of Rs. 110 lakhs by Department of Science and Technology as a part of the "Fund for Improvement of S&T infrastructure in universities & higher educational institutions (FIST) grants. In fact, after accepting auton-omy and recognized as a College with Potential for Excellence, the in-

frastructure of the College has devel-oped in leaps and bounds watching the potential of its faculty members, students and other stakeholders of education. The magnanimous man-agement has taken a keen interest in every step of the development of the College. For an institution to grow, the building bricks are the main pa-rameters of Coordination, Coopera-tion and Cohesion of understanding. These are the driving forces that has brought the College to nearly 50 years of meaningful existence.

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“The misconceptions regard-ing the mental health and the

stigmas that exist in our society are the greatest enemies to the develop-ment of a healthy world” said Dr. C R Chandrashekar, former professor of Psychiatry at NIMHANS, at the Multi-disciplinary seminar, ‘Mind To No Mind’, organized by the RV Institute of Sanskrit Studies in col-laboration with various departments of the college, on 20th Septem-ber,2016 at Shashwathi Auditorium.

The seminar began with the invo-cation song by the Ninada students,

specially chosen to suit the occasion. Dr. C R Chandrashekar, Sri H N Suresh, Director, Bharateeya Vidya Bhavan, Sri B R Vishwanath Setty, Trustee, RSS Trust and the principal inaugurated the seminar with the tra-ditional lighting of the lamp.

A lecture by Dr. M G Narasimhan, Professor, NIAS on the topic ‘Lan-guage and Mind, from Chomsky’s point of view’ was followed by a note from Dr. C G Lakshmipathi, professor of Sociology, Home Sci-ence College , who spoke on the ‘values and contextualization of

mind’. Dr. A Ramaswamy Iyengar, thinker, highlighted the ‘No Mind State’ in the post-lunch session.

In the valedictory address, Dr. Thimmappa Hegde, Neuro Surgeon, connected mind to no mind. Stu-dents and faculty members from Vi-jaya College, B.M.S, M.E.S , V.E.T, National College, Maharani’s Col-lege and Government college-Vi-jayanagar also participated in the seminar. Dr. S Ranganath, Director, RVISS, highlighted the relevance of the seminar and proposed a vote of thanks.

TEJU BELWADI, II YEAR BA

MINDING ON MIND!

Dr. S Ranganath, Dr. C R Chandrashekhar, Sri H N Suresh, Sri B R Vishwanath Setty and Dr. Snehalata G Nadiger at the inauguration of the seminar.

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“Academics and knowledge is something that enables you to

be a better catalyst for change. With no determination and hard work, we can not even know ourselves better” said, Sri L A Ravi Subrahmanya, member, Legislative Assembly, Basavanagudi Constituency, in his key note address on the occasion of the Merit-Prize dis-tribution of the year 2015-2016. Sri M K Dattaraj, Trustee, RSS Trust and Sri Syed Shahammer, Registrar, R V Insti-tutions were present at the event.

The invocation song was followed by the welcome address by Dr. Sne-halata G Nadiger, Principal. The guests of honour addressed the gathering and appreciated the efforts of the the students. “This merit prize is not given as a monetary benefit, rather we give this as a means of encouraging students to achieve academic success in more and more number” said Sri M K Dat-taraj, Trustee, RSS Trust, in his presi-dential remarks.

Merit Prizes and certificates of appre-ciation were distributed to the students of the current batch as well as the pre-vious batch, later by the invitees and guests of honor. Kum. Anusha Hegde, Student, II year B A spoke on behalf of the student community and thanked the management and donors for all the en-couragement and support extended.

The program came to an end with a vote of thanks, proposed by Dr. S.N. Srimathi, Vice-Principal.

UMAINA HAFEEZ, III YEAR B A

A PAT ON THE BACK…

Dr. Snehalata G nadiger, Sri M K Dattaraj, Sri L A Ravi Subrahmanya and Sri Syed Shahammer at the merit prize distribution.

Distribution of Merit Prizes by Sri L A Ravi Sumbrahmanya and Sri M K Dattaraj.

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“Travel alone can make you live multiple lives in one lifetime.

The journey is something that we all do, inwardly and otherwise; to make an outward journey, all you need is passion”, said Ms. Kaveri, propri-etor, 5 Oceans 1 World, who was the chief guest at ‘Paryataka-2016’, the world tourism day celebrations, or-ganized by the Department of Com-merce in association with its Travel and Tourism Wing, held on 26th and 27th of September 2016 in Shash-

wathi auditorium.

The event began with an invocation, followed by the welcome address by the the principal and the introduc-tion of guests by Prof. Radhika. Ms. Kaveri addressed the gathering and shared her experiences in the field with the young lot. Prof. Vedavathi N, faculty member, Department of Commerce, presided over the func-tion and delivered her brief presiden-tial remarks. An interaction session

was held in which the students were encouraged to discuss the problems in the field and find answers. A dance performance by the student, Soumya Singh was followed by the prize dis-tribution ceremony for the events, Logo Punch, Travel writer, Collage and Photography that were held as a part of this session where the students from various other colleges across the city participated. The event came to an end with a vote of thanks by Rak-sha, a student of Commerce.

It was that time of the year again! The intercollegiate cultural fest,

NEEHARIKA-2016 was back and booming and the college campus looked dipped in excitement and en-thusiasm on 28th September 2016.

The stage was filled with eminent personalities from the field of cinema and public recognition gracing the oc-casion. It was a proud moment for all the staff and students to have former students of the college, Smt. Sudha Belawadi and Smt. Archana Udupa as the invitees. Ms. Maya Chandra, trustee, RSS Trust and Dr. Snehalatha G Nadiger, principal joined them on the stage.

Sri Dhananjay, a budding artist and hero in the Kannada Film Industry

graced the occasion as the chief guest and marked his presence by his crowd pulling performance and the screen-ing of his upcoming movie, ‘Bad-maash’ trailer. “standing among stu-dents is always a pleasure and brings back the memories of my college life. It feels good to be young again” said the actor, emphasizing on the impor-

tance of cultural activities in mould-ing values. Students of the in-house choir, team Ninada presented the guest with a fusion of songs. The in-ter-collegiate cultural fest was a suc-cess with students from more than 15 colleges across Bangalore taking part in various competitions arranged and winning cash prizes and certificates.

ZOYA TANWEER, III YEAR B.A

SRIRAKSHA, I YEAR B.A

IT’S TRAVEL TIME....!

FLYING HIGH…!!

Sri Dhananjay, Sri S M Balakrishna, Smt Archana Udupa, Smt Sudha Belwadi, Ms. Maya Chandra and the Principal at the inaguration of the Neeharika Fest.

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“It’s when the female half of the society becomes educated that

the society will prosper and flour-ish”, said Prof. Anuradha Lohia, Vice-chancellor, Presidency Univer-sity, Kolkata, the Chief Guest in the Convocation ceremony 2015-2016, in Mangala Mantapa. “ Passion mat-

ters and not the profession”, said Sri A C Chandrashekar Raju, Chairman, Governing Body, in his address.

Dr. M K Panduranga Setty, President, RSS Trust, declared the convocation open, right after the welcome address by the Principl, Dr. Snehalatha G Na-

diger. Prof. Jayashree Chetan, faculty, Department of English, administered the oath to the students. The rank cer-tificates and medals were handed out to the students. Dr. M K Panduranga Setty declared the convocation closed and a vote of thanks was given by Dr. S.N. Srimathi, Vice Principal.

YASHASWINI B M, III YEAR B A

AN ACCOMPLISHMENT!

Dignitaries on the dias at the Convocation ceremony.

The oath taking ceremony.

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“Take part in all the activities, have a great time and go back

with fond memories”, said Sri Man-junath Badiger, Renowned Kanna-da theatre artist, at the two-day In-ter-collegiate media fest organized by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication on 4th and 5th October, 2016.

Following the invocation dance, a nrityanjali invoking the blessings of Lord Shiva, by Ms. Anagha Gowri Sridhara of III Year BA by Dr. Sne-halatha G Nadiger, Principal wel-comed the gathering. Sri Raghav Surya, actor and former journalist joined Sri Manjunath Badiger on the dias and Dr.M.P. Shyam, trustee, RSS Trust presided over the func-tion. Prof. Manoj, faculty member, Department of Journalism, intro-duced the concept, purpose and oth-er facets of Zealous and introduced the dignitaries on stage.

Sri Sridhar, actor, addressed the gathering and spoke on the funda-mental ideas on origins and objec-tives of communication as a tool. He emphasized on how present day me-dia and the entertainment industry exerts a bad influence on youngsters by projecting the ‘Hero’ in the visu-als as an ‘anti-social ’element. Sri Raghav Surya shared his vast expe-rience in the field of Journalism and interacted with the students on their take of the present-day media. Dr. M

P Shyam delivered his presidential remarks and encouraged the students to discover their passion and achieve them.

The Head of the Department of Journalism, Dr. M. N. Vani thanked everyone associated with the pro-gram and talked about the way Staff and Students oversaw decora-tion and management, and justified the thought, “Self-Help is the Best

Help”. The inaugural program end-ed with a vote of thanks proposed by Prof. Sharada.T.

Students from 16 colleges across Bangalore participated in various competitions such as photography, report writing, caption writing, fash-ion show etc and the winners were awarded with certificates and cash prizes at the valedictory program held on the eve of 5th October, 2016.

ANUSHA HEGDE, II BA “E”SEC

THE “ZEALOUS” FACTOR OF THE COLLEGE…

Dr. M.P. Shyam, Sri Sridhar, Sri Manjunath Badiger, Dr. S.N. Srimathi, Dr. Snehalata G Nadiger and Dr. M.N. Vani at the inaugural programme.

Prize distribution to the winners by Sri Kishore at the validictory program.

A dazzling dance performance at the fest.

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‘India is re-emerging in terms of business and emerging as a

superpower. Plenty of opportuni-ties have been created for the youth now’ said, Amb. N Parthasarathi, IFS (Retd.), Former Ambassador of India to South Korea, in a national con-ference held o 6th October, 2016 at Mangala Mantapa organized by the Department of Commerce.

Dr. Snehalata G Nadiger, principal

welcomed the gathering and Dr. S V Sridhara Murthy, faculty member, Department of Commerce, intro-duced the concept of the conference.

Dr. Abdul Aziz, Chair Professor, NLSUI, Bangalore and Renowned Economist, in his keynote address spoke on evolution of Indian Econo-my in the context of LPG. He stressed on the strength of Indian economy and Make in India.

Dr. M K Panduranga Setty, Pres-ident, RSS Trust, presided over. Dr. C Vasanthavalli, faculty mem-ber, compered the programme while Ms. Minu Subramanya pro-posed a vote of thanks. For the vale-dictory session, Dr. B. Venkatacha-lam, MD, M/s Hexagon Capital Markets Ltd., was the Chief Guest. A number of papers were presented by scholars from different colleges of Bangalore.

ANANYA K S, III BA

COMMERCE CALLING . . .!!!

Digniteries at the inagural programme.

Volunteers and staff at the National Commerce CONFERENCE.

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“Those years of life that were associated with this college

was a journey indeed, a journey to-wards achieving great heights and a journey within” said Ms. Ramya Va-sishta, renowned actress and singer, as she spoke of the intimate bond that she shared with the college and faculty on the annual alumni meet.

With the old meeting the new, the college seemed to become anew again at ‘Sammilana-2017’, orga-nized by the alumni association of the college, on 7th January, 2017 at the Mangala Mantapa. Former students of the college, Smt. Vani B, Smt. Archana Suresh and Ms. Ramya vasishta who have now achieved great heights in their own forte graced the occasion as the guests of honour and represent-ed the most successful lot of the alumni.

The formal event began with an invocation song by Kum. Shravya, a student of Ninada, followed by the screening of a documentarie made

by Maya Productions on Sri Siva-nanda Shrama, Founder, RSS Trust and a college profile of NMKRV College For Women. The welcome address was by the Principal and the students of final year introduced of the guests. Ms. Maya Chandra, Alumnus of the college and trustee, RSS Trust, addressed the gathering and shared a few cherished memo-ries of her days at college.

“We should appreciate each other as well as accommodate each other in order to grow and flourish” said Smt. Vani B, KAS, former student and Chief Vigilance Officer, Dept

of Health and family Welfare Ser-vices, Government of Karnataka, in her address to the gathering. Smt. Archana Suresh spoke of all the good days spent at college and how it laid a firm foundation for all the success that followed. Next came the introduction of all the former students who had gathered at the occasion and brought back loads of memories, followed by a melodies treat of the song ‘Ilidu Baa’ by Ms. Ramya Vasishta. The formal event came to an end with a vote of thanks by Ms. Pooja T S of final year B.A. and marked the beginning of the cultural programme.

UMME HANY, I YEAR B.A

REVISITING THE ROOTS…!!

Inaguration of the Alumni Meet by the guests.

Invitees at the Alumni Meet.

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“The Bone Marrow consists of stem cells which give rise to

all our blood cells, the transplanta-tion of which will aid the curing of cancer and other chronic diseases”, said Dr. Srinivasa Gowda, former professor of Pathology at BMC and former Principal of KIMS, in his speech on the importance of Bone Marrow donation and the need for it at the Bone Marrow Registry en-rollment camp, an initiative of the Bangalore Medical College Devel-opment Trust, in association with Infosys foundation, was organized by the efforts of NSS, Youth Red Cross Wing and The Arogya Ken-dra of the college on 05th January, 2016 at Shashwathi Auditorium.

The event began with an invoca-tion by a student of the college, fol-lowed by the welcome address and introduction of guests by the Prin-cipal. Students in multiple batches were presented with orientation about the initiative and later guid-ed to a registry camp conducted on campus.

“Out of 1,25,000 people needing Bone Marrow transplantation in India, only around 600 people are able to gain access to it annually, said a statistical report, to which the lack of registries in India and other South-East Asian countries is the cause”, explained Dr. Shameem

Ahmed and Dr. Nirmala Gupta, alumnae of BMC who graced the occasion along with Dr. Sriniva-sa Gowda and took an active part in one on one interaction with the students, creating awareness among them about the cause and inspiring young minds to participate in the camp in huge numbers.

The alumnae of the BMC ad-dressed the students and spoke in great detail about the necessity, procedure and the pros and cons of Bone Marrow Donation, putting across the goals of the organization,

“To create a nationwide BMR and connecting them with international registries and making treatment ac-cessible to general population”, to the enthusiastic youth.

The camp was a success with hundreds of students from the col-lege registering for this initiative by donating blood samples and were certified. Once the blood samples clear the testing and the person be-comes an eligible donor, she is is-sued a card, making them an inter-nationally registered official Bone Marrow Donor.

NIDHI C UPADHYE, II SEM BA

“YOU COULD BE THE ONE TO SAVE A LIFE….!”

Inaguration of the event by the guests.

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“I wouldn’t say that sports alone will take you to great heights

but sports definitely has the poten-tial to introduce you to the world” said Ms. Bharathi B L, an interna-tional athlete who was the guest of honor at the 44th Annual Athletic Meet held on 13th January, 2016. The Principal welcomed the invi-tees. The sports meet was declared open by the chief guest. In his ad-dress, Syed Shahameer, Registrar, RSS Trust, emphasized the impor-tance of physical activity and men-tal health. He appreciated the en-thusiasm and energy levels of the students.

The inauguration function and the hoisting of the flag was followed by a class-wise march past led by the NCC troupe, the troops followed various themes such as Demoneti-zation, Eve-Teasing, Protection of Monuments and so on and brought more meaning to the march past. Sri S M Balakrishna, trustee, RSS trust, delivered his presidential remarks. The oath taking by the troop lead-

ers was followed by a song perfor-mance by the Ninada students and a dance performance by I year stu-dents of B.com and BBA streams.

The later part of the day witnessed the participation of students in vari-ous sports competitions and also the prize distribution. At the end of the day’s event, Prof. Pauline Edwin proposed a vote of thanks.

YASHASWINI B M, III BA

HERE WE MEET ONCE AGAIN!

College sports team with the principal and the guests.

Baton bearers with the guests of honour.

Prize winners in the march past competition.

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"Across the country in the past decade, people have experi-

enced various changes in diseases, the number of non-communicable diseases and lifestyle diseases are increasing in a rapid rate" said Sri. S Shashiranjan Das, CEO, Shrus-thi Foundation, who was the guest of honour at the Annual medi-cal-health camp, organized by the Arogya Kendra in association with Lions club of Bangalore, Mind Tree and Shrusti Foundation ,held on 18th January, 2016, at Shashwathi Auditorium.

An invocation song by Kum. Nivedita and Kum. Meenakshi was followed by the welcome address by the principal. "Today we are not only telling you that health is important, but through you, we are educating a bigger mass of the so-ciety", said Dr. Col. Anantha Bhat-tacharya, Member, Lions Club of Bangalore, Mind Tree, who was a special invitee at the event and who also introduced the history of medi-cal health camps to the audience.

"There is dearth of people under administrative services, we should encourage more and more youth participation in it" said, Dr.Ram Raj Urs, Chairman, Lions club of Bangalore, Mind Tree, in his Key note address as the chief invitee at the event.

The inaugural event was followed by the medical health check-up for

all the first year students. Doctors and practitioners who examined the students through out the day, shared their experiences and certificates of appreciation was distributed to the

volunteers and faculty, towards the end of the day and the program end-ed with a vote of thanks, proposed by Prof . T Meenakumari, faculty member, Department of Zoology.

ANANYA K S, III BA

TAKE CARE PLEASE…

Dr. Col. Anantha Bhattacharya, Dr.Ram Raj Urs, Sri. S Shashiranjan Das with Prof T Meenakumari gracing the occasion.

Health check-up by doctors.

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There have been many attempts on describing the psychological

workings in Ashvatthama’s mind in different situations in the times of Mahabharata, but here is a book which delves deep into the character and intriguing personality of Ashvat-thama, but only during the present times. The thirst of many mytholo-gy-lovers to know where might the immortalized figures be at present in this world and how are they travers-ing through their seemingly endless lives receives a partly – fulfilling quench in Krishna Udayashankar’s new book-“Immortal”.

Ashvatthama has been heavily criticized as inhuman, vile and evil, but he remains the most elusive and mysterious character for all In-dians today. This element defines the author’s portrayal of Professor Bharadvaj, the name with which Ashvatthama is travelling the length and breadth of this world in the book at present. At the verge of taking up a new identity, he is called by, on basis of his previous profes-sion’s obligations in the form of Maya Jervois, a historian who of-fers Ashvatthama a quest to search the Vajra, a weapon he had been searching for since its beginning and she herself is alluring, beautiful and the very kind of woman who could match Ashvatthama’s needs intellectually. He is attracted by the adventure’s prospects as Maya has

one of the pieces of the Vajra with her. Along with his trusted aide Manohar, Ashva and Maya embark on an incredible journey which takes them to the under-sea laby-rinths of the Somnath temple, then the Siddhashrama in Nilgiris and ends in the deserts in Pakistan hiding the hall of Arunachaleshwara, where the last piece remains hidden. The journey is not easy as Asva risks the discovery of his true identity which he painstakingly hides from every-one, fights off the evil forces hot on their pursuit while searching for the pieces and faces ultimate forms of betrayal. Ashva’s perspective with which the entire novel is written offers his views on the never-van-ishing stigma on his character in the minds of all Indians, repent and review of all his mistakes through a resigned tone, cautious yet power-fully drawn by the very feeling of love in the spiritual sense toward Maya, which makes him realize his purpose of life, her the fixed centre

of his tumultuous existence.

Krishna Udayashankar makes us reconsider our life while sketching Ashva’s course to find meaning in his own. The background is clever-ly and explicitly described in order to bring out the imagery in it and define the changing emotions and complexity of the situation and the protagonist. The natal touch she has with Bengaluru makes itself evident in the final pages of the book as she makes Maya travel through the city’s most popular lanes.

This book is racy, bewitching and one that will take you into its world and possess you until you are com-pletely consumed in its power of fantasy, fiction, romance, historical background provided, grave losses and adventure creeping out after ev-ery turn of the page.

ANUSHA HEGDE, II BA

RESTRUCTURING OF A MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURE…

TITLE OF THE BOOK : IMMORTALAUTHOR : KRISHNA UDAYASHANKARNO. OF PAGES : 408PUBLISHED BY : HACHETTE INDIAMONTH AND YEAR OF PUBLICATION : SEPTEMBER 2016 PRICE : ₹ 270.00

Book Review

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Dear Zindagi, a Bollywood Drama was witten, directed and co-pro-

duced by Gauri Shinde of "English Vinglish" fame. Released under the banner of RedChillies Entertainment (Gauri Khan), Dharma Productions (Karan Johar) and Hope Productions (Gauri Shinde), it is one rare Bolly-wood film that didn't invest a ma-jor chunk of it's time and money in pompous promotional work. Instead of the conventional Trailer-release format, small descriptive video snip-pets were released to give an insight into the theme of the film. The simple and beautifully scripted venture of 22 crores got a pleasant response from the critics and audience alike, making a large impact on the box office with an earning of 138.9 crores in total.

The movie chooses to address com-mon, yet complicated topics like the suppressed childhood memories and it's impact on the child-parent rela-tionship, the effect of external inter-ference in the circle of a family (by relatives or society), passionate career choices, happy-hippie urban life and the questionable love-lives according to societal norms.

Kaira is a camerawoman (one of her kind) who is good at what she does. Doing what she passionate about, 3 best-friends and a relationship with her childhood sweetheart Sid (a rich businessman), Kaira has everything near to a perfect life. Raghuvendar (a handsome young producer) expresses his feelings for her, but by the time

she feels a connection with Raghu, jeopardizes her relation with Sid, to reciprocate her feelings for him, he is engaged. At the same time, housing is-sues will compel her to go and stay at Goa, with her parents; an idea she ab-solutely dreads. After many sleepless days and nights full of internal strug-gle, she overhears Dr. Jahangir Khan alias Jug (a Goan psychologist) at a conference. After a having come to terms with the fact that the deteriora-tion in her mental health is immensely affecting her professional and person-al lives alike, she decides to see Jug.

The story carries on to show the journey of Kaira, to rediscovering a new improved version of herself. The movie ends with a premier of Kaira's shortfilm in Goa, with all her near and dear ones from family and work fra-ternity, being present including Sid, Raghuvendra and Rumi (her crush-turned-friend, a musician) conveying that she has made a peace with her past and is making the best of her present.

As Kaira, Alia Bhatt has done a very convincing portrayal of a young, ambitious girl struggling to make her stand in an unconventional field of work, caught up between the hurri-cane of career, love, disappointments and abandonment issues. Shahrukh Khan, as the divorced, middle-aged Psychologist from Goa who helps trig-ger the acceptance and self-realization button in Kaira, looks too comfortable in the shoes of Jug. Natural acting by all characters and the simple-sweet musical touch makes it all look easily convincing.

As a film, Dear Zindagi was not first the film to address the mental health problems, especially Depres-sion. But it took the responsibility of questioning the common beliefs and perceptions we, as a society, have formed about these issues to an ex-tent of making them almost a taboo to openly speak about or discuss. Par-ticularly addressing Depression, the film shows the complexities of the condition which might not be so evi-dent even to people who interact with a subject on an everyday basis, but in a very simple way where most of us can easily make genuine connection. The important message that, it is ok to not feel ok all the time and it is very much ok to express, discuss and seek help if necessary, is delivered efficiently. It sweetly inspires us not to let our past backmail our present, to ruin our beautiful Future and that is one lesson, worth keeping close to our hearts.

NIDHI C UPADHYE, I YEAR BA ‘E’ SEC

A LIFE THAT IS TO BE LOVED!

FILM REVIEW: DEAR ZINDAGIDIRECTOR: GAURI SHINDECAST: ALIA BHATT, SHAHRUKH KHAN

Film Review

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SANSKRIT Dr.S.Ranganath, faculty member, presented a paper on

“Impact of Upanishds on the West- International seminar on India & Europe” in a National Seminar, organized by Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan on 19th October, 2016 at New Delhi. He also presented a paper on “Relevance of Pura-nas” at a National seminar on Puranas held at Adichuchan-agiri Sanskrit College, Adichuchanagiri on 4th January, 2017. He was nominated as member Jury for the selection of Central Sahitya Academy Awards for the year 2016 & attended the selection meeting at Sahitya Academy Delhi on 19th December, 2016. He was also conferred Vagyoga Samman at Vagyoga Chetana Peetam in Kashi on 20th De-cember, 2016.

His English translation of Shridhara Swamy’s Dutta Stava Raja, Shiva Shantha Stotra Tilakam and 365 Pravachanas was published from Shridhara Sewa Maha Mandala,Var-adapura on 13th December, 2016. He wrote foreword and reviews to ‘Samskrutavu, Samskritiyu’ published by Ad-hyatma Prakasha Karyalaya and ‘Ramakanth Shukla – A living legend’ by Devavani Parishad in December 2016.

Dr. B. Vishwanath Bhat, HoD, delivered a lecture on ‘Ni-tya Jeevanadalli Subhashitagalu’ at Ragi Gudda Temple on 13th&14th October and on ‘ Navavidha Bhakthi – Archa-na Bhakthi’ at SLV temple, Bramhavara, Udupi district on 23rd November, 2016. He participated in the veda recital programme on 18th December, 2016 at Gowda Saraswatha Samaj, Basavanagudi.

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A keen observation over the history of the College, gives us so many de-lightful insights that makes us under-stand that nothing is easy and for every feather in the cap of this edifice, a lot of work has been done by the stakehold-ers of the College.

The contemporary scenario of educa-tion has brought in a number of inno-vative changes. These changes are no-ticeable in every nook and corner of the institution. In fact, it’s observed even in Vartha Vahini, which is being published from the past 46 years with the unstint-ed support of the management, student editors, reporters and the faculty mem-bers of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. Indeed, it’s no mean achievement for the member of the Department of JMC and the Col-lege to relentlessly bring out a college newsbulletin every Republic Day and Independence Day which appears more like a Magazine on newsstands. Happy Republic Day and Happy Vartha Vahini reading !!!

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ENGLISHProf. Avaneeja Rajesh, HoD, attended the meeting of Board of Examiners in Indian Academy College, Bangalore and scrutinized the Optional English and General English ques-tion papers.

Prof. Radha Jayasimha, faculty member, presented a pa-per titled, “In the mind’s eye Shakespeare; A comedy of Er-rors” in a two day-national conference on Reading, Teach-ing and Performing Shakespeare in Contemporary Times’, held on 26th & 27th September, 2016, at Sonapur College, Assam. She also presented a paper titled ‘Theatre of the ob-served’ in a two day International Conference organized by Higher Education and Research Society, Mumbai on 28th& 29th December, 2016, held at DhyanSagar Institute of Man-agement and Research, Pune. She was also invited to speak about ‘Kannada: Alivu-Ulivu’ on the occasion of Kannada Rajyotsava Celebrations at Techno Tools Cyient, Bangalore on 26th November, 2016.

Dr. Parimala Nijagal, faculty member, presented a paper titled ‘ Language Laboratories and Their Significance in ELT’, at the 4th annual International Conference, organized by ELT@I Tirupati Chapter in association with Sri Rama Engineering College, Tirupati on 26th & 27th August, 2016.

HINDIMs. Kavitha B P presented a paper titled, ‘Bhoomanda-likaran aur Sthree Vimarsh’ on 15th September, 2016 and ‘Hindi Sahitya main Samajik Chunoutiyan, vivechana evam vimarsh’ on 23rd & 24th September, 2016 at an In-ternational Conference held at Seshadripuram College and Baldwin Methodist Women’s College respectively. She was one of the faculty coordinators for the Neeharika Fest, held on 28th September, 2016, in the College.

JOURNALISMThe Department conducted a two day Intercollegiate Media festival ‘Zealous – 2016’ on 4th and 5th October 2016 at Mangala Mantapa. Nearly 15 colleges participated and won prizes in various events.

Dr. M N Vani, Prof. Manoj B A and Ms. Sharada T pre-sented a paper on ‘Objectivity and credibility of Primetime English News Channels’ in the Indian National Science

Congress held at University of Mysore, Mysore during 19th – 23rd December 2016. Dr. M N Vani was also a resource person in the same seminar. Prof. Manoj B A is appoint-ed as the Member of BoE, Department of Journalism, Jain University, Jayanagar and scrutinized the question papers of BA Journalism of both odd and even semester examina-tions, for the year 2016-17.

Ms. Teju Belawadi of II BA and Ms. Shreya Shillin of I BA participated in a live debate on the topic ‘Women safe-ty’ on 6th January, 2016 in News 9.

SOCIOLOGYGuest lectures on ‘Sociology of Education’ by Dr. Latha and ‘The Emergence of Sociology’ by Dr. Nagendra M.P. were held on 21st September, 2016 and 27th September, 2016 respectively.

PSYCHOLOGYProf. K S Nagendra, HoD and Prof. K Veena, Ms. Roo-pashree B R and Ms.Akhila V, faculty members, visited Thatguppe Marlu, M ulkodlu, Kanakpura, Yelachen-ahalli and adjascent villages of Kanakapura in connection with the data collection for a paper on ‘Digital India’, the theme for a conference at Surana Post Graduate Centre, held on 21st & 22nd August 2016. Smt. K Veena along with the students of Psychology attended a National Conference on ‘Youth and Dysphoria’ held on 17th January, 2017 at Jyothi Nivas College, Bangalore.

Prof. K.S. Nagendra has been chosen for the Internation-al Great Achievers Award for contributions to the field of Psychology, to be awarded at the International Achievers Summit at Bangkok to be held on 10th February, 2017.

BOTANYA four day field visit was organized to Kodachadri Hills from 25th to 28th Aug, 2016 forPlant collection and Documen-tation. Final year B.Sc. – Chemistry, Botany, Zoology stu-dents went on a trek for about 24 kms collecting the plants, documenting it and learnt the techniques of preparing her-baria. As a part of the ‘Afforestation Programme’, students of B.Sc. and members of the Eco Club visited the Varthur village and planted 100 saplings on 25th September, 2016.

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ZOOLOGYA guest lecture was organized on 1st September 2016 on ‘Cancer Awareness’ by Dr. Ravindra, Baptist Hospital, Ban-galore for B.Sc (Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Chemis-try Zoology Biotechnology) students.

BIOTECHNOLOGYStudents of I, II and III Bsc., participated in Intercollegiate competitions in Jain University (INSPIRO) on 10th August 2016. Chaitra R (III B.Sc.,), Sindhu P, Vinutha (I B.Sc.,) received 2nd prize in collage making and Afiya Khan, Iffath Saleem, Maryam Fathima of II B.Sc., was given consola-tion prize in collage making. Divyashree A, Divya D K, Supriya A S, Gnana Prasuna and Anusha S Students of II B.Sc., won first prize in ‘Best out of Waste’ competition in Jeevotsava Fest conducted by Christ College on 23rd Au-gust 2016.

Students of II and III year B.Sc., Afiya Khan and Ash-wini.S. presented a paper on ‘Isolation of Rhizobium from root nodules of Mimosa pudica and checking for cross in-fectivity among different legumes’, Sahana S and Tejaswini S presented a paper on ‘ Saccharification of coconut shell powder using Trichoderma viridae MTCC1763 for fer-mentable sugars by Solid state fermentation and production of bioethanol’ and Iffat Saleem and Divyashree A presented a paper on ‘Effect of chemical muatagens on production of Withaferin A and Withanoside IV in Withania somnifera’ in a National conference on “Science and Technology for National development” organized by Indian Science Con-gress and Jain University from 5th to 7th October 2016. In the same conference, Akshatha.M.D, faculty member, pre-sented a paper on ‘Micropropagation studies on Colocasia esculenta’.

COMMERCESpecial lectures under “ Knowledge Sharing Series” for B.Com., students during July – August 2016. Papers on contemporary topics were delivered by eminent resource persons; “Inculcating Ethical values in Gen Y” was done by Dr. P Kamatchi, “Companies’ Act, 2013” by Sri Soman Nambiar, “Opportunities and challenges in Stock Market Trading” by Sri Sudeen Kumar, “Introduction to Stock Market” by Sri Prabhakar, “Entrepreneur in you” by Sri Shivananda Koteshwar, “Goods and Services Tax Act”

The Department of Science and Technology has sanctioned Rs.110 lakh to NMKRV College for Women, Bengaluru under the ‘Fund for Improve-ment of S&T infrastructure in universities & high-er educational institutions (FIST)’. This support in Level – 0 category for Aided Colleges by the DST is based on the recommendation of the FIST Advisory Board to strengthen teaching and research facilities in all Science Departments of the College for the next five years.

The Vignana Vedike, Science Forum of the College organized an Open Day programme for the science students of NMKRV PU College for Women on 12th January, 2017 at Shashwathi Auditorium. A video programme was organized to showcase the facil-ities in all the Science Departments of the college followed by visits to all the science labs. Nearly150 students attended the programme.

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by Sri Sanjay Dhariwal and “International Business and Banking” by Dr. Sheeba Thomas.

Dr. S V Sridhara Murthy, faculty member, presented a pa-per on ‘ Micro Finance in India’ at 39th All India Account-ing Conference and International seminar on Accounting and Research in Bangalore university on 16th and17th Dec 2016. He was instrumental in organizing a National Con-ference as part of Commerce Day celebrations on the theme “ Emerging India : Contemporary Issues in Business” on 6th October, 2016.

Ms. Geetha, Ms. Minu Subramhanya, Ms. Divya Shree and Ms. Shilpa A, faculty members attended a seminar on “Emerging issues in accounting” at Global Academy of Technology on 8th Dec 2016. Ms. Shilpa A and Ms. Geetha, faculty members, presented a paper on “A study on adop-tion and implementation of IFRS in Indian companies” at 39th All India Accounting Congerence and International seminar on Accounting and Research in Bangalore univer-sity on 16th and17th Dec 2016 and also presented and published a paper on “Managing human resources for the success of the organisation” National seminar in National Degree college.

Ms. Minu Subramhanya, faculty member, presented a paper on “Inflated NPAs, Saddles Indian Economy.” In-ternational Conference, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunathesh-wara Institute of Management on 18th-20th Aug, 2016. Ms. Divya Shree and Ms. Shilpa A, faculty members, at-tended a conference on Corporate Governance and Internal Financial Controls at Jyothi Nivas College on 7th Sep 2016.

Ms. Shobha V, faculty member, presented and published a paper on “A Study on Convergence of Indian GAAP with IFRS (IND AS) – Opportunities and Challenges” at Inter-national Conference on ‘Accounting, Banking and Finance’ in Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities on 5th and 6th October 2016 at Kristu Jayanti College.

Ms. Geetha, faculty member, attended a workshop on “ Research design and Statistical analysis using SPSS at Dayananda Sagar College on 28th and 29th November 2016.

Ms.Pushkala, faculty member, presented and published a paper on Liquidity and Off-Balance sheet items: A Com-parative Study on Public and Private Sector Banks in In-

dia’-- 18th – 20th August, 2016 Shri Dharmasthala Man-junatheshwara Institute for Management Development, Mysore and also presented On ‘An empirical Study on OBS items in Indian Commercial Banks’ on 28th – 30th Novem-ber, 2016 at Heber International Conference on Applied Actuarial Science, Maths, Management and Computer sci-ence – Bishop Heber College, Trichy , Tamilnadu. She also attended a National Seminar on ‘Role of GST in increas-ing competitiveness’ on 5th November, 2016 at Presiden-cy University, (Department of Management and School of Law), Bangalore.

Ms. Sumitra V Annigeri, faculty member, attended a National level experiential workshop on parametric and non parametric tools for data analysis on 26th and 27th of September 2016 in St Joseph’s College of Commerce. She presented and published a paper on “Measuring custom-er’s satisfaction in banking sector with special reference to Internet Banking in SB1” in international conference con-ducted by SDMIMD. Mysore on 18th – 20th August, 2016.

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONProf. D N Kumar, HoD, along with Prof. Anupama, faculty member, presented a paper on “E-governance and Digital India” at a National Conference on 17th September, 2016.

Prof. D N Kumar, HoD, presented a paper on “ Micro-finance- Sa Dhan” and Prof. Anupama, faculty member, presented a paper titled “ Impact of Digital India on fi-nance market” at a national conference conducted by the Department of Commerce, NMKRV CW on 6th October, 2016. Prof. D N Kumar is also the Coordinator for ‘Excel Classes’ for II sem BBA, from 19th December, 2016.

‘Student Personality Development Program’ started from 20th august, 2016 and a guest lecture by Prof. Mala Sri-dhara, Department of Psychology, was organized under the same program.

Various activities such as Business Quiz conducted by Kum. Vaishnavi and a Product launch program conducted by Kum. Lavanika was organised for the students.

Students of the Department participated in various inter-collegiate sports and quiz competitions and have won ex-citing prizes.

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COMMERCEM.Com students attended off campus drive for KPMG on 5th Jan 2017

MASS COMMUNICATION & JOURNALISM

The students of I Semester participated in a live show on ‘Surgical Strike’ telecasted by ETV News on 7th October 2016.

The students of III Semester produced three videos under the guidance of Sri Vinod Rao N, guest faculty and also published the II volume of ‘Phoenix’, the newsletter of the Department.

IQACIQAC has received a financial grant from National Assess-ment and Accreditation Council for Organizing National Conference in the College. The Two-day National Confer-ence Titled “Transforming Higher Education through Aca-demic and Administration Audit” will be held on 3rd and 4th February 2017.

DISHAA Pre Assessment test Conducted for all final year UG students. B.Com and BBM students attended off campus drives at Vasavi Jnana Peeta college and Jain College from 5th - 7th January 2017 respectively and totally four students were selected. B.Sc. students attended off campus drive on 12th & 13th December 2016 for Infosys Company. Nearly 100 final year students participated in the TCS free training on “Campus to Corporate” for 80hours, which was con-ducted by Ms. Mary Cindrella J and Yeshaswini C G.

A Seminar on Aviation was conducted by Aptech on 30th

December, 2016 for final year students. Career Launcher held a training session on Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) on 9th January 2017 for final year B.Com & BBM students.

The Second year B.Com students Visited Bosco Mane on 1st October 2016.

A training program on Interpersonal Skills and Stress Management through Flow Training was organized on 24th September 2016 for 2nd year BCom students. Also, an awareness session on Neuro Linguistic Programming for 2nd year BCom students was organized. Ms. Kavyashree addressed the students on how to become successful entre-preneur.

NSSA blood donation awareness programme and a donation camp was held on 30th August and 31st August, 2016 re-spectively and 80 units of blood was collected. About 50 volunteers attended a rally on coronial blindness aware-ness creation on 31st August, 2016 at Shalini Grounds, Jayanagar. They also participated in the Swach Bharat Abhiyan at Vijaya College on 2nd October, 2016.

AROGYA KENDRAArogya kendra in association with NSS organized a Blood Donation camp on 1st September, for all students and a Bone Marrow Awareness and Donor Registration Pro-gramme for B.Com students on 5th January 2017. About 250 students registered to this initiative and became donors.

NINADAMs. Ranjani, V Sem B.com was declared ‘Radio Mirchi Campus Star 2016’ at the Campus Star event held on 5th August, 2016 at Mangala Mantapa. The stu-dents of the Ninada team won the 2nd place in group song (patriotic) competition at the Neeharika Fest held on 28th September, 2016. The in-house choir also presented a spe-cial tribute to Lata Mangeshkar on her birth anniversary. It has rendered invocation songs at various programmes of the College.

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SL NO EVENTS DATES1. CATC camp, Doddaballapur 7th September, 20162. CATC camp, Doddaballapur 10th October, 20163. Trekking, Madhugiri hills, Tumkur 30th December, 20164. Sports Day 13th January, 20175. Convocation day 1st October, 2016

SL NO UNIVERSITY EVENT REPRESENTATION1. Bangalore University Ball Badminton Runner Up2. Nobel College of Business Kho-Kho I Place 3. Nobel College of Business Kabbadi I Place 4. Nobel College of Business Volleyball I Place 5. Nobel College of Business Cricket I Place 6. Nobel College of Business Tug of war I Place 7. Nobel College of Business Lagori I Place

SL NO NAME REPRESENTATION1. NANDINI K N I place, State/University level2. NANDINI K N II place, University level3. RAMYA P National Level4. JYOTHI National Level5. AIMAN National Level6. Nobel College of Business Tug of war7. Nobel College of Business Lagori

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Students contingent in the march-past competition.

Health check-up for faculty. Students donating blood at the blood donation event.

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Contestants at the Miss P.G. Competition.

Distribution of the certificates of appreciation.

Dr. Snehalata G Nadiger, Dr. S.N. Srimathi and Dr. M.N. Vani at the inaguration of the P.G. Cultural Fest.

Stalls by students at the Neeharika fest.

Students clearing CA CPT exams.

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