1. NATURAL BEAUTY ON GITAM CAMPUS
        BY MR. ANUBHAV BHATT, BBA (CIMA) I YEAR.




2. SKETCHES BY MR. KRISHNA, MBA I YEAR



3. SKETCH BY MR. V. STANLEY EDWARD, MBA I YEAR


4. SKETCH BY MR. K. MUHAMMAD SWALIH, MBA I YEAR




5. SKETCHES BY MS. SUDHA SRI, MBA I YEAR

“The perils of indifference” was a speech given by Elie Wiesel, a NOBEL peace prize winner at the White House Millenium Evening, 1999, commemorating the onset of the new millennium. It was my first day at GITAM and I stumbled upon this speech at the KRC and the thoughts which lingered on I wanted to share.
Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor at the Jewish concentration camps in Nazi Germany, was separated from his mother and sister, and lost his father to malnutrition and exposure in those. Later he founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation and always spoke against the oppression around the world, including the soviet Jews, the ‘disappeared’ in Argentina, refugees in Cambodia, the Kurds, native Indians in Nicaragua and famine victims. He wrote books such as La Nuit, L’ Aube(Dawn), Le Jour(The Accident), and many more drawing from his own life and experience as a victim.  Elie Wiesel passed away this year on July 2nd.
When you ask what is indifference, Siri or Google say it is a lack of interest, concern or sympathy. Is everything understood in that small sentence, or is there more to it? Do we really know how much indifference affects people around us? Elie Wiesel says,” the opposite of Love is Indifference and not Hate”.
Indifference is always tempting, as we would want nothing to do with things with which we are not affected. We always have our own goals and works to do. There could be a bomb killing tens of people, or a flood destroying hundreds of lives or even a community wiped away for ‘developmental’ projects. But no, we want nothing of that. Thinking we could never take the place of the ‘victim’, is betraying our own self. We see suffering in the news, on the roads even, and forget they are people just like us with families like we have.
Wiesel said “Anger and hatred even are a virtue, as they elicit a response. But indifference is always a friend of the oppressor”. He spoke about children, and how it broke hearts to see them suffer on the television, and I could only wonder, has anything changed today? How many children are we seeing, suffering in wars in the Middle East, bodies from upturned boats in Europe, trafficking all over the world, natural calamities, and what do we do about them?
I always thought, what CAN we do about them? Going around fighting all of these is definitely not pragmatic. But that day, I found an answer. If God has given us one voice to speak, technology today has given us numerous voices. When people are hurt, we should let them know we are with them. When we see suffering and we write a beautiful piece, or a symphony, many more will come and stand with us.

 It isn’t true that none of us do anything. People react and BRAVO to them. But if we aren’t reacting, we should. We must be holding hands against the oppression around us. When the whole world, ‘our world’, crumbles around us, don’t we want a hand on our shoulder, and a voice saying ‘’ We are with you”.
Being indifferent in this day and age is much more easy, and fashionable even, to say, “I have got nothing to do with people”. But let’s not forget we are all together as part of humanity. Ignoring the human in us is what makes us inhuman.

P.S. The speech by Elie Wiesel is in  “Speeches that changed the world”, by Simon Sebag Montefiere, and is a wonderful read.

Trading and investing has become the norm for individual investors and traders as an alternative investment apart from gold and land, since late 1990s as brokers offer their services via a wide variety of online trading platforms.Trading is nothing but an activity of buying and selling securities on stock exchanges. Trading in securities can be done on long term basis referred usually as delivery trading and a very short term trading which is usually within a day, referred normally as Intraday-trading. A trading strategyisa plan designed to achieve a profitable return by taking eitherlong or shortpositions in the stock market. The online trading strategy through BSE and NBSE clicked mainly due to its verifiability, quantify-ability, consistency, and objectivity which come with a package of immense research that highlights its effective and efficient use of infrastructure to bring in better returns for the investments made in stock markets for investors.

      Success is a small word with a big meaning.  This word decides how much respect we get from the society. One, who is not successful, is the one who has nobody to talk to. Some people say success means having a lot of money, while some say success means being an influential personality. But I say Success means doing what you love and loving what you do.

      Most of the people have less patience than the others, and that’s the reason they give up so easily. No diamond is found easily by just looking in the mine, we’ve got to find it...work hard on it. Suppose success is on Level 10, most of the people work hard till level 9 and they give up. They give up being so close to their goal. They don’t focus on their actual goal, they forget that where "focus goes, energy flows". For them, success means everything. It’s just that they don’t want to work hard.

      Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Robert Kiyosaki- all these people never sat on their sofa and played Video games thinking "No problem, I'll get a job somewhere easily". They knew their condition, they started their companies, worked hard 24x7, and now they are the most successful people.

Every student laughed at their innovative ideas back then, who’s laughing now?
98% Billionaires are self-made, in fact most of them started from nothing. They made a perfect plan. They worked hard.
They earned money. They invested it.
They earned it all back again and now they're Billionaires.

          No matter if you fail once twice or thrice, but don’t lose hope. Hope is what pushes you towards the sky. If Bill Gates had lost the hope when he left the college, today he would be selling eatables on the roads but NO, he didn’t. He knew there is something within him which is trying to make him perfect. He found it. He heard the inner voice. He worked real hard.
Failure defeats losers, but inspires winners.
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

              Life is too short to spend it not pursuing you dream. Abraham Lincoln once said, "The best way to predict your future is to create it".
You cannot blame it on your parents, you cannot blame it on your friends, because all that has happened to you, is because of you.
If you don’t work hard, if you sleep 12 hours a day expecting some miracle would happen, buddy boy, you're done. Nothing is going to happen until you start it. Your hand is not going to move on its own, until you allow it. Work hard. Get successful.

Communication is very important in our day to day life. We feel happy that we are able to update our friends and peers with every small and big incident in our life. A Facebook or WhatsApp update on the specials cooked in the kitchen to buying the first car - all this has become possible because of the cellular phones and mobile phones. But are we realizing that, slowly we are going to an era of acute obsession towards technology, and digital presence is taking over the physical presence of a person?

I remember my days spending time together with family and friends, discussing any topic at tea time or dinner table. But now we have started ignoring family members and stopped visiting family friends. The current generation spends time with cell phones and tablets and focuses on building digital relations with friends. In the name of socializing we are spending all our time on Whatsapp, Wechat or Facebook .

I remember once I had been to a hotel with my family.  Being a keen observer I was just looking around. I saw one couple sitting at an adjacent table; both of them were sitting with each other, they were chatting on their mobiles, but not with each other! I was surprised to see this change in the lifestyle of people. In the name of spending time we are physically with one person and digitally with another person.

When I was in school in the early eighties, we used to feel happy if someone visited us during the weekend or we visited someone. But now even if someone visits us, we don’t feel happy to spend time with them, instead we feel happy to spend time uploading pictures, sharing updates and chatting on the phone. In the process our personal information is no more personal, it’s known to everyone.

Younger generations are vulnerable to relations made on social media .They make friends and also get into other forms of relationships just depending on the information in the profile which is created by some stranger and which may or may not be true. The website creators have a system of verifying the phone numbers and some verify the email ids, but what about all the other information?

The generation I belong to has seen and experienced both non digital and digital era. But this generation I strongly feel needs to be cautioned about the era they are heading towards, an era which will make us lonely and unsupported. We move more towards communicating using technology, but personal relations are slowly fading away. We are probably getting to an era where attachment towards digital relationships is growing and we are no longer attached to persons who are with us.

All those who are getting addicted to chat and technology have to strike a balance in order to ensure that the Digital presence does not take over the physical presence of a person. The question which often comes to my mind is the addictive potential of IT (Information technology). Is there any solution to such addiction? We all should pause for a while, think, and identify our own levels of IT addiction and seriously consider if we require support to get rid of this deadly addiction??

1. MS. APOORVA PATNAIK, IMBA 4TH YEAR, SECURED ADMISSION FOR ONE YEAR STUDY ABROAD MBA PROGRAM AT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, OMAHA, USA, FROM FALL 2016.
2. MR KOWSHIK CHOUDHARY OF BBM FINAL YEAR WON THE FIRST PRIZE IN PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST, JULY 2016.
3. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING B.COM HONS STUDENTS FOR CLEARING VARIOUS FUNDAMENTALS AND SPECIALISATION PAPERS OF ACCA –

     

1. DR. KV SANDHYA VANI AND MR M. ARUN KUMAR HAVE BEEN DEPUTED TO IIM-AHMEDABAD FOR THE FDP-2016.
2. DR. N. RAM MOHAN PRAKASH PUBLISHED A VOLUME TITLED “BANKING, RISK AND INSURANCE MANAGEMENT”, IN JUNE 2016.
3. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING FACULTY MEMBERS ON THEIR PROMOTION-