DERNIER CRI

BIPIN TRIPATHI KUMAON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (An Autonomous institute of Govt. of Uttarakhand)
VOLUME-5 , AUG 2012

PREFACE
Inside this issue:
EVENT REPORT
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Time is the continuing sequence of events occurring in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future .Time keeps changing, and its blistering pace can be observed nowadays in our own college as well . However, with the time passing , almost all the individuals LINKEDIN to our college , are haunted by a perennially insolvable dilemma.its actually a crucial case of identity crisis!!!
THE QUESTION- Who are we??(actually finally, essentiallyits better if I say nothing!!)

REMEMBERANCE

PLACEMENT RECORDS NOVEL REVIEW

4-5

Kecians[Hell yeah!! :) ]VCTKecians..[?].BTKITians[ :P ?????] Without being too nostalgic ( though there is a lot in a name), Ill leave the answers to everyone around me!! (Come onatleast I careunlike the rest few people who dont even give a damn!!! You may call them Kittens.and they dont mind. :P) Anyways,no matter how black the Dark side iswe must still carry the torch of our hope for the best..But I still wonder what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? Irrespective of the perspective to which one may concur, the survival mechanism is more or less the same and it still instills the nave souls with the real courage to sustain with his own creative bonhomie behavior. Hence every issue of long awaited DERNIER CRI has its own way out). However some paradox may appear with the pristine and antiquated versions, still both can be considered as an esteemed outcomes of the THINK OUT OF THE BOX minds. As we dive more into the dreams, last year set a milestone in itself with students entangled in the web world in their own hostel rooms : thanks to the LAN connections which finally came! Au Contraire to what we have heard from our seniors about the college, nowadays there is a lot of self help materials circulating in the college.purple leap conducting classes.the spiritual and yogic classes followed by a booster art of living programme Another difference is that earlier a lot many colours where seen in collegenow purple and pink dominates with some shades dominate The college has coped up to display an all girls band performance :) As a norm (NOW) the nine to five hours saw the hustles of hostlers to the classes in their full bloomwondering its cause and effect relation in every iota of an idle second!! Yes there are still uncertain times and the darkness loomed even deeper last time; but are we uncertain? May be shaken but definitely not stirred. Like Rafiki said in the Lion King, Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it. And always remember, whenever learning gets over, a master rises !!

INFLATION

THE NOBEL WOMEN ALUMNUS INTERVIEW

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EVENT REPORT
Everything that passes becomes a history but every history cannot find the pages for itself. The session 2011-12 is lucky to find the pages for itself. We want that each year of BTKIT must find the pages for itself; in fact each day of BTKIT must find page for itself!! So with lots of hope for an unprecedented future we present the pages of history decorated with the golden words... Some flashbacks.

UGC ARRIVAL A team of University Grants Commission visited BTKIT. After interacting with the student and a strict inspection for two days, our college has became an autonomous college.

BRANCH ACCREDITATION The Computer science department left no stone unturned on the arrival of National Board of Accreditation. The reward granted was the accreditation of the branch by A grade.

SAVI ORIENTATION- The Savi fraternity welcomed the 2011-2015 batch students. The sessions was quite interactive with students sitting in different rooms in LTC due to large strength. The SAVI classes were at flow with many enthusiastic SAVIANs being regular till the cts tensions crushed their zeal.

YES+: By the initiative of 1st students, yes+ was able to reach our remote college on 30th March. Though the participants were only 80, it was a wonderful experience full of fun and frolic with lots of teachings.5 days which taught our mind and heart are our slavesand 10 groups of students were boosted to prepare 3 dishes in 15 minutes and a skit in 5 minutes!!

A WET ADIEU-Our most venerated activity of KIT, saw some wet eyes as some of our seniors, were bided farewell from SAVI on 6th of May.

THE LAST ADIEU- The seniors where in best of their moods while the juniors left no stone unturned to make them smile giving each of them bunches of memories on 4th June. Amidst all this it took no time for the mph to be converted into DJ floor.

@NOBLE CAUSE- Some students were still in college for the blood donation camp and participated actively in the NSS camp on 5th June. Contributing more to the nation our college will have students in NSS too apart from NCC.

REMEMBERANCE
MEMORIES NEVER DIE
From the age of aao babu cinema dekhene chale to the era of multiplexes.many things have changed but the crazy fans still love to swim in the sea of emotions with the stars.be it the rise of a new star or the demise of a legend. Zindagi kaise h pehele haye kabhi yeh hasaaye ..kabhi yeh rulyaye I could define my tenure @kec in this one line . But hey wait ..read the line again It reminds us of a legendary superstar walking on beach ..bare feet enjoying his last days of life. RAJESH KHANNA urf kaka was the first actor to be tagged as a superstar , a star with charismatic personalityThe best lover onscreen wid the tunes of mere sapno ki rani kab aayegi tu..A man whose dialogue I Hate Tears pushpa...have been applied by many guys on their crying girlfriends:PBut it still works for them even after 50 yrs ..its the influence of ANAND every Bengali became aye babu moshay J..and Zindagi ek safar hai suhana is still sung while bike ridesJfinally has now left us now with tears zindagi ke safar mein bichad jate h jo mukam wo phir nai aate Yahoo.com came later but yaahoooo Chahe koi mujhe junglee kahe ..kehta h toh ji kehta rahe came much before....Credit goes SHAMMI KAPOOR who made all of us jumpy monkeys He made every girl stop with this.. Badan par sitare lapete hue... His teachings extend to the guys still singing yeh chand sa roshan chehra zulfo ka rang sunehraand the gals adoring themselves as Kashmir ke kali . Mard ko dard nahi hotaa popular phrase executed by guys..Remember How are the toughest man DARA SINGH would have said these lines A man whom I remember as hanuman uncle from childhood daysA man who brought WWF to our homes And made every girl a victim of their brothers so called practice punches :P Fullo ka taro ka sabka kehna h ek hazaro mere behna h" Song every brother sings when they have to ask for some favours from their not so loving ever fighting sisters:PHe encouraged a lot many guys with new ways by singing koi hume pal bhar ke lia pyaar kar le .He was the first man who has it all.Acting, Direction and Production He always said .When you are at an impressionable age you make idols. But when you grow out of the phase, you develop your own persona. I don't want to be known as India's Gregory Peck, I am DEV ANAND Has now left us still dancing with the tunes dum ma ro dum mit jaye gumbolo subah shamm hare krishna hare ram.. We as a kid grew up seeing pictures of our parents in styles of these legends And we still love those pictures They acted not for money but because of their passion. It was their eyes which spokeThey not made films they created pieces of mastery in their own wayHats off to them Legends never Die they live in the hearts of their ever loving fans.

NEERJA JOSHI MCA (2009-2012)

PLACEMENT RECORD
The 2008-12 batch did get a good start with early arrival of Infosys pool but later on the placement got bleak. But still Kecians(presently known ketians) came up with some good offers in their hands. Following is the list of placed students:

INFOSYS
Abhijeet Gautam (CSE) Dhawal Airi (CSE) Neha Gunwant (CSE) Sakshi Gupta (CSE) Vivek Pant (CSE) Namit Joshi (EC) Neeraj Pant (EC) Neha Joshi (EC) Rashmi Tiwari (EC) Umar Kamaal (EC) Ramesh Bisht (ME) Akhil Tiwari (BCE) Chandra Molly (BCE) Nikita Shah (BCE) Tanya Kukreti (BCE)

MONOCEPT
Ashish Bhandari (CSE) Deepanshu Jaiswal (CSE) Danish Ansari (CSE) Nanda Ballabh Bhatt (CSE) Pankaj Bisht (CSE) Shobhna Gahlaut (CSE)

BAJAJ
Mayank Kargeti (ME) Rohit Mehra (ME) Subodh Bisht (ME)

YAMAHA MOTORS
Abhishek Chauhan (CSE) Kritika Joshi (CSE) Priya Tiwari (CSE)

MISCELLANEOUS
Bhawna Upadhaya (ME) in Cummins Deepak Giri (MCA) in Agile Jagdish Singh Gaira (CSE) in Samsung Mansi Kathaiyat (BCE)in Abbott pharmaceuticals Neerja Joshi (MCA)in Syscom corporation ltd Neeraj Srivastava( CSE) in Vmoksha

NOVEL REVIEW
MOON AND THE SIX PENCE
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The Moon and Sixpence by William Somerset Maugham is a novel loosely based on the life of painter, Paul Gauguin. This is one of the most interesting books I have ever read because of the eccentric set of people the story revolves around. The protagonist, Charles Strickland, abandons his job as a stockbroker, his family of four, and his entire life in England unannounced to pursue painting in France, despite having shown no interest in painting in his entire life. In this transitional move to France he becomes indifferent to people and their emotions. Strickland is absolutely brutal to himself, to anyone who tries to help him, and especially anyone who loves him. All that matters to him is creating art, to the point that he nearly kills himself by spending the little money he has on supplies, rather than food. Questioned about the motives behind his desertion, and subsequent refusal to return home, Strickland simply replies: I want to paintI cant help myself. When a man falls into the water it doesnt matter how he swims, well or badly: hes got to get out or else hell drown, Some could consider him cruel, while others find his honesty refreshing, but, either way, he shows no affection to those who enter his life or those who leave it. The book follows Strickland and his work from France to Tahiti, where the story ends. Stricklands unwillingness to compromise for his pursuit of art is unbelievable. The quotes like every person in this world wears a mask which no one judges except him, and in due course of time it becomes his identity leaves reader with philosophical note. Despite denying himself the title Maugham has exactly that which greatest writers alone can give, namely an extraordinary insight into the human psyche and an aesthetic sensibility to transliterate it with great intelligibility. The character descriptions were the best part of the novel . Maugham did a wonderful job making his characters come to life and play with the reader's emotions. Strickland could easily be viewed as the villain in this novel because of his attitude, but is to be respected for his ingenuity .Maugham challenges audiences to decide for themselves what they believe is "right" or "wrong" in the story, and, because of this, readers must take an active role in the novel. The point Maugham makes throughout the book is that true happiness depends upon ourselves , and for Strickland that means fulfilling the disturbing vision in his soul whatever the cost. The Moon in Sixpence, overall, was well worth the read. It leaves the reader with questions of what is morality and has the capability to change ones perspective completely. A must read for voracious readers and believe me you will find it one of the best novels ever.

PRATEEK BAURAI ECE (2010-2014)

INFLATIONA HUMP IN INDIAN LIVING.

Had anyone ever speculated that the time would come when the sweet potato will also turn bitter...Hey!! Its not because of the taste but the price inflation which had knitted its web all over. Inflation rates being continued in double digits till now has turned in to a big problem for Indians. As per the Central Statistics office, all- India general Consumer Price Index stood at 10.02% for June 2012 and the Wholesale Price Index had marginally risen by 7.25%. The steep price rise is inevitable. Who is the real sufferer?? Straight forward the answer is the poor folk. Middle-class also suffers but adjusts, compromising on their demands. The reason sometimes evolved up with declining resources but is it sometimes the government even responsible??? It is the hottest tidbid always with no effective conclusion. Government is tricky in playing its part. As recently seen 7.54 increase in petrol price raged the people to burst out in anger and a gradual decrease of 2.46 had ended all in gaiety. All over the government is successful in their motive. It had even snatched the pie from small hands. Food prices continues to exert pressure. Vegetable price rose an annual 27.60%, while milk products by 12.75% and oil/fats shot up by 16.5% this year. This leads to food adulteration case hike and poor health level. Inflation is really a big hump responsible for low recruitment in todays world and government is trying to bring FDI. They are playing pranks with the people and the real object is to fill up their own pockets. The overall less market sales badly affects around 13 million shopkeepers and FDI will definitely fill their lives with tears. Bringing to our notice the recent protest by the pilots due to non payment of salaries eventually results in the price rise of other flights. As the government is the whole- soul power body (instead of democracy L) in India they are always successful in finding an alternate way. And now adding up to all these Mr. Pranav Mukherjee holds the office of highest power in India. While acting as finance minister, inflation took great heights, now being the president of India what can we expect?? Former finance minister Mr. P Chidambaram worsens the conditions due to stock markets and in the time of Mr. Pranav Mukherjee its like picking up the pockets of common man. The list is endless. Will there be an end of this??? Or the people of India could end up singing the song Mehngai Dayan Khaye Jaat hai ... The Indian- American growing relationship can be a silver lining. This bilateral beneficial relation had always proved itself. There was approx 136% growth in Indian exports to U.S. in 2004-09 period. Moreover there is the maximum number of entrepreneurs of India setting up in U.S. then any other country in some past years. Let the establishment of the INDIAN DESK proves as the shining star to the Indian economy. We can play our part and hope that India will soon be out of this mess and be on the worlds height one day. The increase in the rising hands for Team Annas steps are an inspiring ray of hope. As the government is the whole- soul power body (instead of democracy ) in India they are always successful in finding an alternate way. This time we hope for a twisted turn. So its not wrong to dream of getting snacks at lesser prices@dwarahat soon!

Ashish Mittal (2010- 2014 batch)

THE NOBEL WOMEN

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 was awarded to three women is highly significant. The act recognizes extraordinary individuals effecting great changes around them. It simultaneously makes another point for peace & development its vital women have equal share. And this is evident by the inspiring journey of this year awardees Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman were accoladed for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for womens rights to full participation in peace-building work. Sirleaf is Africas first democratically elected female president who took over war-torn Liberia in 2006. In a nation ravaged by violence & poverty Sirleaf turned the tide in Liberia achieving peace & absolution for enormous national debts. Gbowee is a Liberian activist who mobilised women in 2002 to oppose brutal civil battles. She united christian & muslim women against militias who were using rape to terrorise & humiliate opponents. Karman is a Yemini activist demanding democracy well before the arab spring blossomed. Since 2007, she opposed the Yemen repressive regime ,calling for freedom & human rights through non-violent methods. Its great news for the Nobel itself. The peace prize has long been the preserve of statesmens, patriarchal figures. This time the committee observed the truth of giving equal oppurtunities to women as one empowered women empowers many people . Empowered women means empowered society. The nobel Committee has done well to recognise this.

Graffiti
No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway !!

ALUMNUS INTERVIEW
1. What was the procedure for selection in SAP Labs? How many rounds & the selection criteria? The selection procedure keeps varying. But broadly it has a written paper and few rounds of interviews. There was a written paper (objective only) with following sections: English Reasoning Technical

As there is no predefined format for paper so there is no point in explaining the kind of questions were asked. All questions were not so easy, so I can say that I got lucky.. After that there were three rounds of interview. Technical Interview Managerial Interview HR Interview

I was asked some basic stuff in the technical round based on database design, simple queries, basic concepts of OOPS and some basic data structure related things like linked lists. As main development in SAP is based on ABAP generally knowledge of any specific language is not checked unless the team you are being interviewed for works specifically on java or C++ or even python. Apart from that few puzzles were also asked. Simple puzzles which one usually comes across in newspapers. Some what-if scenario questions were asked with simple "do good" answers. So that round was pretty easy as all answers were obvious. Managers try to check your behavioural aspects in such rounds, so it's always better to come up with answers which closely match to your personality traits, or to the traits you have written down on the piece of paper called as resume. The key, I suppose, is to be confident on what you answer and if required you should be able to justify it. And it's always good to switch sides if there are "too many" good counter-arguments from the manager because there is nothing wrong with accepting that you may have erred in your judgement. In HR interview the HR manager goes through your rsum and asks some usual stuff like about your family, your hobbies, what you want to achieve in life, how you are suitable for the job. It's not expected that you know A to Z about SAP, which no one knows anyway, but one should be clear about what SAP does and where it stands. P.S. SAP is not spelled as sap but as ess-aay-pee. Few people can be very particular about it :)

2. What were the companies requirements & what do you think it was looking in candidates? The requirement from a fresher are the usual ones like good academic background (aka 70% in B.Tech.) preferably from Computers or related branches. From last year SAP Labs has started campus recruitment

from the "top colleges" but still there is always some or the other openings suitable for freshers in SAP Labs.

3.What were your strategies like books, papers etc. for interviews? To tell the truth I had taken only two books to Bangalore, once i decided to go there to search for a job, one was Computer Networks and the other was System Programming. But i never opened any of them. They must still be lying somewhere gathering dust. So i didn't followed any strategy. But i believe the only strategy to be followed is to stick to the basics, make the fundamentals strong and be little honest with yourself. Although this is the 'ideal' strategy it can be little tricky to follow. Whatever you do just don't just eat the books digest them also.

4. Please share your experience at the company hitherto. My experience at SAP Labs has been a very good one. There are a lot of opportunities to learn and explore new things. There is always something new going on in the office campus. As a technology company people think that most of the activities will be purely technical. But that is not the case in SAP Labs, the activities going in the campus encompass the whole spectrum. Whatever be your hobby or interest there will be some activity you'll

find interesting, unless your favourite thing is doing nothing!

5. Can a fresh recruit expect growth opportunities & how friendly & encouraging is the work atmosphere? I guess anyone with good potential can expect growth opportunities wherever they maybe in their experience-level. Talking about my team, the work atmosphere is very good. People here are very good, encouraging and always helpful. There is no binding working hours, but as a matter of professional ethics one shouldn't always be out-of-office. And as a whole the work atmosphere through-out SAP is good. People are not forced to do work but they are motivated to do so!

6. Any additions? Pros and Cons for the company? The work culture here is very easy going which, according to some, is very bad for starters as you get a taste for it and later on it becomes to adjust to work culture elsewhere. Some say that at SAP people get spoilt and they can't go anywhere else. Personally i don't agree to that. I believe if you work properly you can adjust to any situation anywhere. But i also believe that working under more stressed conditions we learn more and we learn quick. After all it's all about making your choices! You ask anyone who is not working in SAP Labs, why would you like to go to SAP Labs, one of the more oft answer you will hear is, "Free Food!" That maybe one of the reasons to join SAP Labs but not the only one. 8. Words for juniors & Savians . Wherever you go, whichever company work for, try to learn as much as possible. Because there is always something more to learn. Best Wishes for your future!

GAURAV SHARMA <gauravsharma.2020@gmail.com>

There is some Hope in Hopeless There is some hope in hopeless

When I attended my summer training in an adjoining state I had to give the introduction of my college saying.its in lush green area..with the plush pool of variety of talentsand its near Ranikhetits being on a holiday vacation for four years.and ofcourse the name BTKIT,Dwarahat.a friend fascinated with American accent said DWAARAAHAAT..I said undoubtebly its an international college for the experience its provides!!! We always take pride in what belongs to usit is ours though a bit crooked but with the croons of belonginess. There is the college canteenthe local restaurants which even allow the students to experiment their gluttonous guts.mind it please because this the has a special significance now because its provides happy hours to many abysmal souls..(remember the is used where the writer lures the reader to think it is important) Well now the toughest query that I havewhat is the most statically satisfactory and yet a general method to certify the happiness of all the students?? However every educational organization has its own rules and regulations (with some recognitions and accreditations by the committees viz AICTE, UGC) for its own self esteem and confidence to proclaim that it ensures a bonhomie arena for students..In fact its an unprecedented unpredictable task to cope up with the generation which lures apple to design ipods and ipads..and expels them if an advanced version of the gizmos is not available within four months!! The most difficult task is to preserve an endangered species..the bonker bunkers because now every place is equipped with the cctv cameras or the catchy eyes of the faculties(whose ascending count can be expected to be comparable to the students) So its better to attend the classes in which the best talents come out..activated facebooks..graffitti and lyrics@desks.....photography of everyday new topicsand offcourse the imaginary clouds formed above the heads display what I will do when I get out from here.so 9 t0 5 classes are maintained with a lot much dignity and creativity!!

The avant-garde musicians who excel in all forms are a big nuisance to those who prefer to dwell deep into some Photostat notes or yellowed books. However there is an inspiring applauding crowd which gushes against the winds to applaud the new waves of talents who are well equipped with their gadgets..the guitars. Finally arrives the days of trail when talents are co ordinate with the musical nodes and chords.. And then a dawn comes when the curtain rises to blow a breath of fresh air. However its not a pristine concept to galvanize the hiding talents into a live performance still every stage show has its own story!! Its omnipotent that exams are the times in which all the colors are broadcasted in air (off course exams deals with the broadcasting and modulation methods..i am an eceian)..still the hopes and dreams about the next exam management and strategies always shine more than the present plans!! Ah those ideas are so bright that they have power to fuse the Edisons bulb even before it was born

With horrendous hiding hurdles and ecstatic experiments the hopes bubble up in every college story (every engineer is at first the writer or a narrator of these stories to the juniors).and if it was not so essential to do grab a respectful placement soon there must me many authors of books because its the basic

instinct.after all semester exams do provide us an internship in writing skills or in expressing a simple thought in a variety of complex and confusing ways such that it has an aesthetic appeal and the examiner is persuaded for a higher standard of marks!! The best part is when a teacher is nostalgic about his experiments which have already occurred once upon a time in his college and this is what provides him with an interesting intuition of how his students must be completing the projects..hence comes the constraints involved in not so easy assignments and projectseven God Google fails at the rescue of students!! Cheerfully with the smiling tears bigger hopes start creeping inside and this chapter of life gets over to welcome another chapter of hopelessness in hopes when the corporate culture rings the doorbell.. So end is there to ensure that a new beginning gets a space.so lets wait for next edition of cri.. With DOUBLE dOsE Of Cheers!!! {One CHEERS for this cri..another CHEERS of being KECian}

ANISHA JOSHI ECE (2009-2013 batch)

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