Holi was made more special this time in Hariyana Vidya Mandir school as the TV channel, Sangeet Bangla, decided to shoot their special episode of Holi there. There was a dance performance to the songs sung by students. This festival of colours was truly colourful for us.

Shreyashi Dasgupta, Class-XII, Hariyana Vidya Mandir School, Salt Lake

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Rocking engineers

The fest of Asansol Engineering College proved to be a grand occasion. Held on February 21, 2007, it had interesting programmes like Infoquest where students presented their exhibits in different fields like Darpan (hardware and software presentation), Tathya (paper presentation), Vaastu (design contest), Snipper (windows troubleshooting contest) and Robosoccer. The fest also saw engineering students take to the dance floor swaying to the latest Bollywood hits.

Indranil Gorai, BTech (first year ECE), Asansol Engineering College

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Remembering Raman

To commemorate the discovery of Raman Effect by the legendary physicist C.V. Raman, the renewable energy club (REC) of the Heritage Institute of Technology organised a seminar on February 28 which also happened to be the National Science Day. REC was established in various government and non-government engineering colleges to create awareness about new and renewable sources of energy. The event started off with Swami Vedajuananda, co-ordinator, chanting Upanishad shlokas, believed to stir vibes from the winds. This was followed by the lighting of the lamps and an inaugural address by the guest-in-chief Prof. S.K.Sanyal, vice-chancellor, Jadavpur University.

Apart from that, final year students gave interesting insights into the fuel cell that would make cars run on water. T.K. Hazra, additional director WEBREDA, and the guest of honour lauded the presentations and laid emphasis on the exigency of employing bio-friendly and recyclable resources in our daily applications.

Tasneem Sayeed, second year, Heritage Institute of Technology

CALCUTTA
Reform time

On February 10, 2007, National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta in collaboration with the School of Social Sciences, New Delhi organised a colloquium on police reforms, chaired by Justice Chittotosh Mookherjee, former chief justice, Calcutta and Bombay. It was attended by bigwigs like Kiran Bedi, IPS, director general, bureau of police research and development and A.P. Mukherjee, IPS former director, CBI, among others. The colloquium discussed the historic judgement delivered by the Supreme Court in Prakash Singh & others vs-U.O.I & others on September 26, 2006. In that case, the apex court had instructed the central and the state governments to comply with the recommendations and implement the police reforms. Kiran Bedi gave an inspiring speech and emphasised the importance of police reforms. If you want to know more about the judgement, then log on to bprd.gov.com.

Sudipta Mukherjee, fourth year, South Calcutta Law College

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