strange disease (exams fever)

STRANGE DISEASE –Read About it before it catches you!!!

Oh my God!!!! What’s happening to me? I am trembling!!! I am feeling thirsty – I need water… no… no… I need coffee. I don’t know; I am severely restless. I think I have a headache. I feel I am going to sleep.

ZZZZZZZZZZ……..ZZZZZZZZ……….ZZZZZZZZZZ…….

No…No… I can’t sleep, I need to prepare and fight a

D—I—S—E—A—S—E ‘EXAM FEVER’

It has no season, month, festival occasion or disease-causing micro-organisms. It is an all-year disease. It can be caught anywhere, through anyone or anyhow.

Yes!!!! Exams- A term that scares away everyone no matter what-age group, gender, nationality or profession you belong to.

You run away from EXAMINATIONS.

YES! Exam Fever is soon going to contaminate IILM UG-Batch, so beware and prevent yourself before it catches you; as no- cure/ treatment/ therapy/ medicine is available in the market place.

So, prepare yourself well before, you are caught- A good news, there is no preventive measure- still research is on- you can contribute your part- just research and read a lot about your concerned interests and subjects.

Anyone, who would crack the nut before, will get a ‘certificate of merit’ and bag full of blessings and congratulations from all- parents, teachers, peers, classmates and neighbors et.al. So prepare yourself well and just keep learning and researching.

This is Mayuri Bansal wishing you all- the-best and a message of get-well-soon to all of those who are already caught in the web/ network of Exam Fever.

Well people, just remember to earn a degree to heaven- you need to earn good blessings- so keep up with your research and also help others to back well-being, health and wealth from this incurable-EXAM FEVER.

Any charity/ donation is most welcomed, contact any student from IILM-UG-Batch.

Remember donations only acceptable in amount of books and knowledge.

A very strange research ( conducted collectively on millions of universities, schools, teachers, parents, students, employees, employers, their friends and relatives) suggests that results for EXAM FEVER- should always come out positive- as it reduces the degree and chances of failure and hence, makes a student/examinee less prone and victimized of the so ‘very dangerous disease- Exam Fever’.

This is Mayuri Bansal

VICTIM

Wishing you all- happiness, prosperity and good results.

Hope you all achieve what you want in life!!!

Goodbye!! Take Care!!!

See you back soon!!!

Management through movies

Bollywood is not just all about masala movies and dancing around trees but there have been movies that are inspirational, which mirror changes in our society.

I would highlight movies like SWADES, CHAK DE INDIA, RANG DE BASANTI, RANN, 3 IDIOTS, WAKE UP SID, ROCKET SINGH, NAYAK and most recently MY NAME IS KHAN.

From these flicks we are inspired in terms of rural development, terrorism, corporate culture, media, politics and student life. Learning through films is actually very helpful because they reflect the society and you tend to understand the societal dynamics through movies. However, we should avoid getting inspired by movies like DEV D., DIL DOSTI ETC. which have a negative impact on the human mind.

To elaborate, I would like to discuss our favorite movie WAKE UP SID that stars none another than RANBIR KAPOOR. This movie depicts how a young teenage boy moves from his unsettled goals to his focus in life. With the help of friends and his new found love he realizes his passion for photography and pursues that as his goal and not do something he would regret in life. The main reason for his motivation was the separation he has suffered for a couple of months from his parents who provided him with everything throughout his life.

If one watches a movie with some theoretical concept then that's a better way to retain knowledge. Since management is experimental learning the film brings that element into it.

The new method has ensured greater sense of involvement among students and for a change animated discussions have replaced yawns.

I am sure that we all feel that having films on our course menu would bring that extra edge to the whole thing and will definitely be fun.

Personally to share an experience, my group for management accounting coursework presentation had prepared a 10 minute movie to depict our work instead of a power point presentation. This movie was a great learning experience and was enjoyed and appreciated by one and all.

So it is up to you to decide whether people follow movies or are movies based on people’s life.

SUNAKSHI AGGARWAL - UG 2

voice of youth

Hey all!!,

iilm gave us another great opportunity to excavate our knowledge and put our opinions in front of esteemed panel , which included:

è Ms Richa

è Ms Leena

è Ms kakolli

In this event we did it all, from article discussion to papper presentation to case study.

Yes , I know as undergrads we all found the idea very boring and dull but the event was a great success. We had people talking about social networking , srk v/s shiv sena , csr , green marketing etc etc..

Let me give u all a brief as to what the participants topic was and what were their opinions

Team 1 : shirin and me (sara)

We took an article from forb magazine titled ‘social networking and recruitment’ and presented our views on why company should use social networking and what ‘can’ be the disadvantages of the same. We concluded by saying that “ it was on the company to decide that they would open the Pandora box or not cause social networking is here to stay and its on the organization to decide as to how would they use it best at their advantage”.

Team 2 : Eshaan Mathur

His topic was cloud , personally speaking if anybody wants to know anything about any sort of gadget please visit eshaan’s personal blog .. he is the right person to be with , cause his knowledge about technology is simply unquestionable. He did an auspicious power point presentation and inlighten everybody with the ‘cloud technology’.

Team 3 : Devina and suniya

Their topic was impact of environment change on two most powerful emergent economies i.e. india and china. They were just to good and mesmerized everybody with their analysis on the topic , they talked it all from per capita income to summits to contributing their on suggestions.

Team 4 : Ankita and Chandni

Their topic was change in oil prices impacting the economy all over the globe. This topic was to heavy and a lot o acquisitions was raised but hats of two both of them as they handeld each question very nicely. Trust me I never imagined that by using yen instead of dollars economy could be balanced.

Team 5 : Sunakshi , Srishti and Mayuree

Their topic was green marketing and csr. All three of them gave numerous examples and analyzed the case brilliantly. They concluded by giving various suggestion that company can use as green marketing tool or element and can likewise attain a competitive advantage over other organization and players present in market.

Team 6 : Akhil and Chirag

Their topic was ‘srk v/s shiv sena’. This was a debatable topic and covered aspect as youth’s voice , starting of new and cleam politics and humanity. They talked it all from various issues raised to dirty politics to religion discrimination etc etc.. It was very interesting to listen undergraduate students ( my friends) to talk about politics and raise issues while having a strong opinion .

Team 7 : Akshay

His topic was green earth . he started with a beautiful picture explanation and went on to discussing few things that we as a student could do to help the earth which is dying every second.

The event was a great success cause each one who participated gave their own views and recommendation to their topic.

Well to conclude , I would like to applaud and thank all the particpants of the event, the effort and particpation was no doubt remarkable by all of you,

The competition was very close however the final results were as follows:

Mr Knowledgable: Eshaan Mathur

Best Speaker: Sara Bower

Best Team 1st Prize : Ankita Walia & Chandni Raju

Best Team 2nd Prize: Sristi Pandey, Sunakshi & Mayuri

All of you were very good and I must take this opportunity to compliment Akshay Menon for his presentation skills & Suniya Devina team you were simply great.

Ankur & Varun thanks for being the masters of ceremony.

-- Sara Bower , ug 3

©αR€ΞR D@Y ШORKsHOP- A BUILDING BLOCK TOWARDS OUR PROFESSION

Looks like I ‘m getting older; talking about a BIG WORD ‘career- building’, yup! it’s just as strange to me as it is for you to know.

But, our college is structuring us to get ready for entering into a BIG- BAD corporate world.

Our college conducted a career workshop for it’s under graduation batch (UG1-UG2-UG3), and making us know how to initiate with our line of interest and into harsh and highly-competitive world around us.

During the workshop, good-great individuals from top-notch companies came as presenters, sharing their well-versed knowledge and decades experience and skill, moreover also made us understand how to make a baby- step towards commercializing ourselves as employees, presenters for the day were:

Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Head Exports, PEPSICO

Mr. Vikas Kapoor, Manager-Accounts, BHARTI AIRTEL;

Both shared their intellectual thinking and highly-significant experience and expertise in their respective areas of profession.

It was complete and comprehensive platform for sharing knowledge and experience. It brought in an understanding and a considerate prospective over how to equivalent what we have as employees and what the corporate world employers desires from their potential human resources.

It was highly knowledgeable for us- as students as it helped us gain an insight over both the industries- Food-Beverages and Telecom industry.

An incredibly interactive discussion and Question-Answer round involving both the faculty and students took place, furnishing with highly instructive information, which helped us acquire a worthy approach and information over the operations and activities of industry and companies in their respective sectors, and also made us aware about the ideology and methodology of carrying out business activities and functions in this extremely-aggressive world of rivalry.

It was an absolute time-precious session offering both elevated utility and efficacy for our future both as-employees and employers.

It was immensely pleasurable to have highly reputed and well-versed personalities for addressing us as undergraduates to the commercial globe.

It was an interactive session among the speakers, students and our faculty.

We thank you faculty and management for arranging for such a wonderful and conversant interactive session, which would be an exceedingly functional and constructive for our line of business and profession.

-- Mayuree Bansal , ug 2

Corporate Seminar on “Life at Cyber World”

The Symposium "Life in Cyber World" has been organized at India International Centre (IIC) on Friday, 13th November, 2009 at 5:30 pm. CSI (Computer Society of India) co-hosted this event in conjunction with The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). This event took place at the India International Centre (IIC) Annex, Conference Hall no: 3, Lodhi road, New Delhi and was supplemented by a social programme that gave students the opportunity to meet and discuss issues outside of the formal seminar setting.

The aim of taking students for this Corporate Seminar was to give them the opportunity to understand the Cyber technologies and to interact with the top IT Industry and Ministry people. The group consisted of 7 Ecommerce and IMS undergraduate students from IILM Lodhi Road and Gurgaon campus attended this seminar.

The seminar was targeted at those involved in the planning, implementation, and management of digital resources, and attendees comprised a range of professions including programme managers, technological architects, archivists, consultants and other information professionals.

The seminar commenced with brief words of welcome and introductions by Dr. MN Hoda, Chairman CSI, Delhi Chapter. He touched shortly upon the Cyber Security concepts related to technologies breaches and measures. After this the seminar launched into the evening session presentations on “Life in Cyber World”.

The topics covered during the session are:

§ Social Networking in Internet Age by Mr. Manish Malik, Product Head-Mobile Internet & 3G Services, Spice Digital

§ Email Security by Mr. Muktesh Chander, IPS, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Delhi Police

§ Securing Indian Cyberspace by Mr. B.J Srinath, Director - Cert-In, MC & IT Govt. of India

Speakers presented practical experiences and theory to provide seminar participants with cutting edge knowledge of cyber security issues within the often overlooked context of business models, costing and business plans.

This was followed by 10 minutes Questions and Answers Session, wherein, students were given an opportunity to put their questions on Internet Security breaches and measures to the speakers. The presentations and discussions during the seminar helped the attendees in getting a better focus and provided them a first introduction into Cyber Security related issues and measures.

In concluding the seminar, Dr. Hoda offered some summary points regarding several of the presentations and provided some insight into what seminar participants may have learned and could take away with them. Thanks were given to all those involved, from speakers to attendees to seminar organizers, all of whose input was invaluable to the success of the seminar and to raising the vital importance of introducing Cyber Security. This was followed by Dinner at IIC, Annex. It was a very enlightening experience for the students as they got exposure to the various aspects of Cyber Security.

11th Annual Convocation Ceremony

IILM-Undergraduate Business School celebrates the success of its partnership with the University of Bradford at its 11th Annual Convocation Ceremony

The eleventh annual convocation ceremony of IILM-Undergraduate Business School - a leading management institute based in New Delhi, India was held on November 3, 2009. IILM’s undergraduate programme began in 1996 in partnership with the University of Bradford, UK – a trendsetting joint venture that took advantage of the opening up of the Indian economy to economic reforms since 1991. More than 850 students have so far been awarded bachelor degrees in business administration, all of whom have been placed comfortably in a booming economy that is considered one of the future growth engines of the world economy. This year, 87 students received their degrees.

Prof Arthur Francis, Dean, School of Management, University of Bradford, who attended all the previous convocations, delivered the Graduation Address after the outgoing batch received their degrees. Mrs. Malvika Rai, Chairperson IILM presented the Dr. Kulwant Rai Gold and Silver medals to the toppers

According to Prof Francis, the growth of IILM and the UBS programme mirrors the deep-going transformations in India’s economy. “My first visit was eight years after India’s economic liberalization in 1991. We now know that this set India decisively on its current pathway of fast economic growth… But year after year I have seen for myself … the modernisation of the capital city – the opening of the Delhi Metro, road-building with many expressways and overpasses, the development of Gurgaon, the growth of IILM itself.”

India’s growth rate of 7-8 per cent a year meant that over 11 years its gross domestic product has more than doubled. Prof Francis argued that “this economic growth has come about through the application, at the level of the economy, of economic theory taught in universities and business schools, and at the level of the firm by the application of the ideas you have taught on your degree programme at IILM.”

In the context of the global financial crisis, Prof Francis forcefully urged the outgoing graduates to keep in mind 3 Ms: might, mind and morals. Which approach is right? Might, mind, or morality? Of course, the answer has to be all of them. “You are entering the world of the mighty and your political skills will be forever invaluable to you. We rely on you to exercise those political skills with the highest levels of morality. And do continue to use your minds at the highest possible level, to make sure you take the right technical decisions to avoid further financial and other crises, to ensure a sustainable future for us all, and to maintain a level of economic growth that continues to add to the world’s health, wealth and wisdom”, he concluded.

The IILM UBS and Bradford University School of Management collaboration has a mandate of providing the best management education coupled with value-based training and research. IILM UBS develops business leaders of tomorrow by integrating academics with exposure to real–life business situations.

“Cutting Edge in Business world”

Date: 24th October 09 (Saturday)
Venue: IILM Gurgaon (Room no 301)
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm

Guest Speakers

1. Dr. Sneha Saxena

2. Monika Mor

3. Amit Choudry

4. Munisha bhasin

Presentations on the following
Art of Negotiation and Leadership
Games Of Strategy
Business Skills

The event started at 12:15 and our hosts for the day was Nishaant Sondhi and Srishti Bhasin of UG 3. Our own Monika more from PG faculty gave a mesmerizing start talking about difficulties faced and confusion of undergrads and post-grads, followed by a wonderful presentation given by Dr.Sneha Saxena about art of negotiation , power and conflicts. The presentation was for 15-20 min and the amount of knowledge and experience she shared was undoubtedly commendable. As an undergraduate I dint connect myself to the term ‘negotiation’ but after Dr sneha actually explained, the art of negotiation I understood how important is for us to know as the enterprenuer of tomorrow that in a conflict one has to be nutral in order to think for the benefit of the organization.

Then it was Mr. Amit choudry who highlighted the concept of leadership and connected, it with his experience of climbing mount Everest, this was an eye opener because what we knew about leadership was limited to 4 categories i.e. referent, autocratic, participative and legitimated … but MR. Amit highlighted the importance of team and why is it important to have a supportive and adaptive team rather than a intelligent team… Well this lesson was actually very important because as students we want to form our team with intelligent students forgetting the fact that this would for sure lead to many leaders in one group and be a cause for conflict.

Lastly it was Mr. Munish Bhasin , who talked about being adaptive and 360 degree vision , which was very impressing because we as undergrads are in the process of learning, for us knowing the bookish knowledge is very important, but Mr. Munish highlighted the fact that till you are an all rounder and till you adapt the path of re-learning , you cannot be a successful entrepreneur… it was a pleasure hearing him and specially wonderful knowing his experiences..

After this we had 3 of our alumni i.e. bharat wig , abhishek valecha and akriti Sharma to talk about how have they moved on after iilm , what are they doing at present , what are their future plans and what was iilm to them.. this was a great podium where all the 3 alumni’s thanked the faculty and advised the fresher’s to enjoy their 3 years stay in iilm.

As a student I take this opportunity and thank our college iilm and specially our teacher priyanka maam, who took an initiative and called such an experienced speakers to share their experience with all of us.

I thank all our alumni for coming and making this seminar a success. I would also like to thank the coordinators like Eshaan Mathur , Chandni Raju , Srishti Bhasin and Nishaant Sondhi from UG 3 without whom the event would have been a fail, thank you all for joining us for this seminar the alumni cell have more plans for you all in future..

Thank you

Sara Bower , UG 3

Love has hope, hate is hopeless

Love has its kinds,it has no boundaries and no restrictions.It is what you call "A free bird",because you can't hold it,and if you hold it,you can't feel its pureness.It is pious to feel and blissful to have.Something you can shower upon and one thing you can drench in on.Love is always been new to learn and old to experience.On the contrary,hatred is the tainted pain that streches one's perception to leave its values and pertain to others.It is never yours,rather it works for others.You play the cynosure and the world goes around it,leaving you entangled and complex,indirecting ways to come out of it.These events bring one to the concluding part of it,saying " love has hope,but hatred is hopeless".


Love has Hope in one kind!It is the virtual entity that buys you amount of respect,care,unity,purity,charmness and beautiness.It is priceless but values the whole world,extent the boundaries and comprise the relationships.Love can incept at any stage but takes the lifetime of it to vent.It is endless,it is real,and has the power to change one'existence into another without the inch of indifferences.One can never see but feel what is love,hear its existence but can never touch its purity.
Hatred is Hopeless! It is ingenuinity towards feeling the natural environment.It can never be pious but can sell one's identity,existence and most importantly love.One can't touch but feel its appearance in the way of jealously,hostility,enmity and animosities.It has the boundaries to hold rescindness towards others,so it definitely has an end.Hatred is never given but is taken in absolute discouraging ways.It is rightly propounded to be hopeless,as it absconds oneself with its own.

Love has hope in another kind! It has the alchemy to attract even the opposites.To get together and experience the same world with two different eyes.TO share together the same environment with two different mind,and live together the same moment with two different hearts.It is always right in the most wrong ways,and always have the edge to cover the losses.It always resides in one heart and without much ado reveals its truthfulness to the one heart that it loves.It lives forever even after the one dies in the world.It is never said but is expressed without words,and then is never forced but is felt afterwards.
Hatred is hopeless in another kind,it pulls accross even the compatibles and creates complexities.It is always build and created without reason and has the aptitude to annihilate the purities.It asks for favour in return and injurn the elements associated.It is better never to give it a birth or it may kill the innerself without even a knowledge of it.

Love has hope in one another kind! It gives you the chance to feel sensitivity and the emotions.It revolutionizes the world around it and gives the unconditional offer to exchange these impressionable qualities.It never challenges but always won,it is never asked for but is always given.It is absolute natural and never artificial.Hatred is hopeless,it has the reason to fail and is left behind.Chance to betrayal,and chance to loose has been the characteristic features,that has always made it unfavourable to acceptance.

Love is deeply reconciliated and carries the hope to spread its fragrance of it.In a world of total and In balanced existence,Love creates the hope to bring together the split ends with much respect and care,and born a new seed of happiness and peace.It is new and fresh the every time it is felt,and old and experienced the every time it is learned.On the opposite part,hatred has lost hope for designing a relation that uses purity and piousness to learn.It never has any step for reconciliation rather it is deniality that it offers.
- Rajat Singhal (UG 3) , this article was chosen the best article for 2008-2009

Existing (understanding life)

We all the time think…

trying to understand the link.

Life, seems to takes away so much from us,

Always creating it a fuss.

It’s always in our minds,

Life has never been kind.

Stop… just go to other side,

And build your mind a little wide,

‘WANDER’, what have you given to life?

just before killing yourself with that knife.

I don’t think you will have a reply,

even if you force your mind to supply.

Just observe that pause,

understand the reason that has made it to cause.

You will have to do something about it,

because the reason lies in your wits.

Instead of getting tense,

It’s for you to make the difference.

Make life your friend,

and not your foe

Don’t introspect life,

instead reflect within you.

Because life is like a mirror,

what you reflect to life,

that is what you get back reflected to.

So, life can’t be different,

before you are ready to be different.

Stand up and make the difference in you!!!!!!!

-MAYURI BANSAL

UG 2

(this poem won best poem in a competition held in 2008-2009)

Experience at IILM under graduation year 1

Learning at IILM College was an experience in itself; interacting with such an intellectual teachers, accommodating students and knowing out of the ordinary topics was quite challenging and stimulating.

This spirit of challenge and support from teachers ignited the fire to be acquainted with and excel in the topics and bring laurels to the college.

All through my understanding and know –how, I have been able to collect following information about pattern of study granted at IILM College:

In the 1^st semester, we were introduced to below stated subjects:

OB (Organizational Behavior), which narrated over how human behavior and his/her individuality affects his/her performance as well as an organization overall and made us comprehend about the enhancement of a human being in every way.

SSD (Student Self Development) was also on the same line of action, which focused upon the self- enhancement and appraisal in every pasture of existence of a being and highlighted over the enlightenment of the self, and be a healthier player in life.

QMIM (Quantitative Measures in Mathematics), is a theme that underlines the requirement and application of statistics in careers. And explains how statistics works as tool to heighten your performance in the field of knowledge.

BE (Business Economics), talks and discusses about the interdependence and interlink of the two driving forces: economic and business; and brings to light the scenario and scope.

BL (Business Law) consults over the law system and the necessity of knowing and understanding law varying from an individual to an organization.

IAF (Introduction to Accounting and Finance), observes the scope of ‘blood of business’ i.e. finance and comprehends the essential of the topic.

Unquestionably, the study at IILM College in not exclusive, but the secret lies in the way of demeanor, the overall exposure, the variety of knowledge imparted makes it an distinctive college to study in and gather a glimpse over the real- corporate world and learn globalised learning and living.

The consent of 1^st semester, made us step forward to the door to be on familiar terms with 2^nd semester, which bring in the extensive knowledge about the real world, centering over the following subjects:

MEE (Macro-Economics Environment), hubs over the introduction to the macro scope of economics and its varied essential in the business today and centers around the globalized economy.

FOA (Foundations of Accounting), accounts over the internal and external need and vitality over the accountancy and management of finances in the business world.

POM (Productions of Management), directs in the scope over the effectiveness and efficiency of basic entity i.e. production to the business around. And the scenario of competitiveness regarding the subject matter.

FOM (Foundations of Marketing), scopes over the need of marketing in winning over the market share and deals in with the competition- success in the hard-core globe- business.

OIS (Organizational Information System), informs about the inter-relationship about the IT and business world all over and enwinds the fundamental exposure to the management of the IT and scope in the corporate world.

SOW (Sociology of Work), extents over the history and creation of work and how innovation and revolution incited the alteration in the work pattern today and for tomorrow.

These invite in the end to the 1st year and win over 120 credits, and promotion to 2^nd year at IILM College.

First year at IILM College was full of adventure, exposure and learning. It brought has lot of knowledge and scholarly and refined by attitude and aptitude.

With the great hand assistance and guidance of my teachers bought in direction to my life. The efforts have echoed itself in oodles of achievements and wisdom; which has distinguished me. It has groomed my approach to existence.

Subjects has fetched in plenty of familiarity with the reality at the aggressive corporate world, and boosted my scope and confidence. Moreover, it has also strengthens my position and prorogued myself into the corporate world.

Hope you had a nice journey exploring over the 1^st year at IILM College!!!

This is Mayuri Bansal, signing off and assuring you to get back with the delightful flight over 2^nd year experience guide through.

-- Mayuri Bansal, UG 2

Zest

This was the in-house competition of iilm.. Wherein both the campuses i.e. Gurgaon and Lodhi road came together to participate and coordinate various events.

Zest went on for 2 days in both the campuses and the amount of enthusiasm and fun was just immeasurable.

The events were as followed:

Schedule for 17th September 2009

Starting time: 2:30pm
Venue : Lodhi road campus

Events
Dance performance
Singing solo (western and Indian)
Theatre performance
Instrumental performance

Schedule for 18th September 2009

Starting time: 2:30pm
Venue : Gurgaon campus

Events
Debate
Quiz
Extempore
Basketball

Winners were as followed:

Dance Competition
Black (gurgaon)

Singing
Shirin Latheef (gurgaon)

Instrumental
Sunny (Lodhi road)

Debate
Sara Bower (gurgaon ug 3)
Shirin Latheef (gurgaon ug 1)

Extempore
Shristi Bhasin (gurgaon ug 3)

Quiz
1st – Ankita Walia (gurgaon ug 3)
Pawan Khatri (gurgaon ug 3)
2nd – Sonakshi Aggrwal (gurgaon ug 2)
Mayuree (gurgaon ug 2)

Basketball
Lodhi road

I would Specially Mention Kalairasan and Rishabh from gurgaon campus who did a mesmerizing performance at the end on 17^th September at lodhi road. ‘Now that’s What I call a Performance and talent’.

I would like to specially mention the name of aventurine (dance team gurgaon) , because it was there first performance and trust me guys.. u rocked and for us you all are undoubtedly the Best. All the very best for future performances.. you performed extremely well!!

Trust me Arushi (gurgaon , ug 1) your song was outstanding and u should try for professional singing. Then Vishwajit (gurgaon, ug 2). Omg ‘Ma’ from ‘Tare zammen par' was very touching and trust me you would have done wonders if you had music along.

Finally Zest came to end and so did the good time but I hope that both the campuses would come together again for the fest and put up great performances.

Keep waiting for more fun and study hard for your Bradford session

Enjoy!!

-- Sara Bower ,

UG 3

Aventurine

Aventurine is a platform for every dancer to portray his or her talent. The name aventurine stands for a stone of confidence and tranquility. This name was chosen as it spreads positive energy which is very important for every individual. I have been a part of ‘black’ for a year and I surely learnt a lot from them in terms of dancing, fun and being a winner. With a new year more dancers started flowing in at IILM. We soon felt the need of forming a new dance group. With the support of our teachers and friends we were able to make this successful. After auditioning several students we shortlisted the ones we saw are good dancers.

Now our group comprises of ten dancers (Ankur, Manan, Hardik, Devraj, Adhiraj, Shristee, Simran, Jasmine, Chandini and Sunakshi). We are well aware of the competition we will be facing and will put our best foot forward. I am very convinced that the immense of hard work and dedication by all of us will not go waste. Our choreographer has very innovative ideas which will add to our very unique performance. The colors that will represent our group are white and green.

After a lot of quarrel, fun and proving ourselves we have formed Aventurine. I hope that we all meet everyone’s expectations and perform to the best of our abilities. I wish best of luck to everybody and hope that you all practice with sincerity and make our college, faculty, friends and me proud. I hope that we all support each other throughout our Aventurine journey and accept victory or loss with pride keeping in mind that we will never back out. I request everyone to encourage the Aventurines and look forward to our first performance on the 17^th of September 2009.

-- Sonakshi , ug 2