A Call for Creative Stuff for 'e-patra'

Hello Friends, Recently we are working on the next issue of 'e-patra' (Jan.Feb.2009) so we are glad to invite new creative writers who can write on Communication, Research, Literature, Language, Current Affairs, Trivia or even articles and papers are also welcome. So pen down your ideas and send it to us electronically....let us join hands for a good cause.   Thank you.   -NIKHIL JOSHI

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Happy New Year

Hello friends..
readers of this blog, readers of 'e-patra' and GCET LANGUAGE CLUB members and well wishers,

I wish a very happy new year to all of you.
As in this November GLC and 'e-patra' both have completed one year...i can say that GLC has really stepped into a happy new year...bcoz we are receiving many emails appreciating GLC & 'e-patra' not only from Gujarat but also from all over Bharat.
And recently i have received an appreciation letter for 'e-patra' from Honerable Dr. C. L. Patel sir-the chairman of Charutar Vidyamandal, vvnagar. And it has really encouraged and motivated me to do the things further in a nice way for GLC & 'e-patra'

so friends...keep visiting our blog...keep reading 'e-patra' and keep sending your valuable views on that.
also visit our webpage:
http://www.gcet.ac.in/GLC/lclub-gcetweb/gcet.htm

thanks for encouragement from all of you...

--NIKHIL JOSHI

We organized a seminar

on Sept.12, 2008/Friday we organized a seminar on Technical & Non Technical Communication for the first year students of Chemeical, Mechanical, Computer and Electrical Engineering students of GCET at GCET AUDITORIUM at 6:00 p.m.

We got 225 registrations for this seminar.
Myself and another faculty Heena Patel presented 5 presentations on various topics.

-NIKHIL JOSHI

Glad to announce...

Hello friends...

we are glad to announce that in the next month on Oct.17 GCET LANGUAGE CLUB completes one year of success and with the next issue of Next issue of e-ptra is INDIA SPECIAL issue on the 1year completion of e-patra, so you are invited to send some creative stuff on this for e-patra.

-NIKHIL JOSHI

Feedback from educationalists from various institutes of Gujarat:

1- FATIMA SUGARWALA from kansagra college, Rajkot:

I am fatima sugarwala from kansagra college, Rajkot, I am interested in the set up of the language club. I am also a Sueta member and would like to do something similar at my college. the one difficulty I forsee is that our college has gujarati medium, only one department of english, yet I feel i want to do something even at a small scale. I shall welcom suggestions. fatima

-Fatima has left a new comment on your post " Why ‘India’? Why not ‘Bharat’? --Nikhil Joshi W...":

congrats Nikhilesh!! I appreciate your deep concern, I do feel the same.

2- Basidhar Kadiya

Dear Nikhil,
Thank you for your kind invitation to join your club.I also appreciate your enthusiasm.
BEST WISHES------

3-Dear Nikhilji,
pleased to know about you and that you have joined the sueta group.
Myself Ravisinh Zala, Senior Asoociate Prof. in Department of English & CLS, SAURASHTRA UNIVERSITY, Rajkot. 'am also the President of SUETA.
I would like to join to join your club as a member.
with regards,
rbzala
Senior Asoociate Prof.
Department of English & CLS,
SAURASHTRA UNIVERSITY,
Rajkot.

4-hello i am sheetal rawat,,lecturer at B.ed college at gujarat vidyapith,,,i would like to join your club.

5-Hello Sir,
I am sending you my membership form with this mail. so please accept it.
Tejal. (Faculty at IT dept.-GCET)

6- Shri Nikhilbhai,
Hello..as a member of SUETA group,i got your e mail regarding e-patra..
you are really doing a good job..i want to join it..so pls send me further details..
Thanking you..
Ranna Vyas

7-Hello, Nikhil Joshi,
You are doing wonderful work. It will inspire many to start e-Zines. The design, lay-out along with content is excellent.

Dr.Dilip Barad
Bhavnagar University.

Welcome note

Dear new comers, (1st year students at GCET)

Hereby GCET LANGUAGE CLUB welcomes you all.

we wish you all the best for your bright future.

all are most welcome to join hands with us for the activities of GLC.

visit the webpage of GLC on GCET website as well as on GCET intranet.

you can become a member of GLC.

-NIKHIL JOSHI

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Keep visiting and keep sending your feedback to us....
write your comments on the posts.....
thank you.

GCET LANGUAGE CLUB in I-MAZE a national level event at GCET

Dear friends, GLC is going to organize 2 events in I-MAZE 08-a National level event at GCET during April 11-12-13, 2008. 1-Survival of d smartest (Treasure Hunt) 2-Orator's arena (Extempore)

For more details visit:http://www.imaze08.com/

and for these events:

for Treasure Hunt: http://www.imaze08.com/man7.aspx

for Extempore: http://www.imaze08.com/man8.aspx

LANTERN

GCET LANGUAGE CLUB
Organizes
L A N T E R N
-a language workshop-
for 1st level CH-IT-ME students
March 31st onwards...
-NIKHIL JOSHI

DRAMA WORKSHOP

GCET
LANGUAGE CLUB
Organizes

DRAMA WORKSHOP
On April-7,8,9-2008
Time: 05:30p.m. to 07:00p.m.
Venue: Language Lab
For registration contact Mr.Nikhil Joshi
at A-302 or language Lab
before April 6,2008.
# e-mail: nikhiljoshi@gcet.ac.in / languageclub@gcet.ac.in
# Webpage: http://10.0.0.81/My%20Webs/lclub-gcetweb/gcet.htm
# Blog: www.gcet-languageclub.blogspot.com
(Webpage also available on INTRANET)
‘e-patra’-online magazine of GCET Language Club available on INTRANET & GCET Website.


Coordinator
NIKHIL JOSHI

MOVIE-CLUB

GCET
LANGUAGE CLUB

Movie-Club
Organizes

Screening of a Movie
Date: April 4, 2008/Fri.
Time: 06:30 p.m.
Venue: Second Floor Lab./IT-CP Dept.-GCET

(All the members of GCET LANGUAGE CLUB are welcome.)

# e-mail: nikhiljoshi@gcet.ac.in / languageclub@gcet.ac.in
# Webpage: http://10.0.0.81/My%20Webs/lclub-gcetweb/gcet.htm
# Blog: www.gcet-languageclub.blogspot.com
(Webpage also available on INTRANET)
‘e-patra’-online magazine of GCET Language Club available on INTRANET & GCET Website.

Coordinator
NIKHIL JOSHI

MUSIC-WORKSHOP

GCET
LANGUAGE CLUB
Organizes
MUSIC-WORKSHOP
On April-1,2,3-2008
Time: 05:30 p.m. to 07:00 p.m.
Venue: Language Lab.

Interested students may contact Mr. Nikhil Joshi
at A-302 or Language Lab.
Registration opens on March 26, 2008 and Closes on March 31, 2008

Workshop includes basic training in Semi classical & Light vocal singing and compositions.

# e-mail: nikhiljoshi@gcet.ac.in / languageclub@gcet.ac.in
# Webpage: http://10.0.0.81/My%20Webs/lclub-gcetweb/gcet.htm
# Blog: www.gcet-languageclub.blogspot.com
(Webpage also available on INTRANET)
‘e-patra’-online magazine of GCET Language Club available on INTRANET & GCET Website.


Coordinator
NIKHIL JOSHI

GLC organized

# LANTERN-a language workshop for 1st level EC-MC-CP-EE students.
#KAUSHALYA-a competition event of Group Discussion & Debate on Feb.25, 2008. 99 students participated from 3 Engineering institutes: GCET, ADIT, BVM.
# A seminar session by Sky Work Studios' team for 4th level IT students on Feb.27, 2008.

Upcoming Activities

GCET LANGUAGE CLUB
Coming Up Activities… (in sem-2/AY 2007-08)
#Lingua Franca: G.D., Debate, Mock Interviews
#Karma Sutra: Lantern-language workshop for 1st level MC-CP-EE
#Movie Club & Exhibition: Screening of a movie & Exhibition
#Xpression: A drama workshop
#Yuva-the musical: A music workshop
#Shabda Setu: Poetry recitation
A very special event for final year IT/CP students and faculties:
GCET Language Club invites a CANADA based company ‘SKY WORK STUDIOS’, which has done visual effects for Hollywood movies. So we are going to arrange 1 session for students and 1 for staff about how they work for Visual Effects.
E-mail: languageclub@gcet.ac.in
Visit our webpage: http://www.gcet.ac.in/lclub/gcet.htm
Visit our Blog: www.gcet-languageclub.blogspot.com
:Chief Coordinator:
NIKHIL JOSHI

Activities Done

ACTIVITIES DONE IN LANGUAGE CLUB DURING
AY-2007-08 / SEM 1


1. A GUEST TALK:
A guest talk for faculties was held on the topic “EFFICCACY IN TEACHING” by Mrs. Varsha Thakar, a faculty in Way Made Education College on 14th September, 2007.

2. LANTERN:
A language workshop called “LANTERN” for 2nd year EE students was held on 18th September and 3rd October, 2007 by Mr. Nikhil Joshi.

3. SAPIENCE:
Mr. Nikhil Joshi held a special lecture on ‘Emotional Intelligence’ on 28th September 2007 for 3rd year CP students.

4. A GUEST LECTURE:
A guest lecture was held on ‘IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ENGINEERING’ by Ms. Falguni Bhartiya, a faculty in English Department in Nalini Arts College, on 29th September 2007.

5. MANTHAN:
A guest lecture for 07IT students of GCET was held on 3rd October, 2007 by Mr. Suresh Parikh, Honorary Director of MANAV VIKAS KENDRA.

6. HARISOPHONE DEMONSTRATION:
A demonstration of HARISOPHONE, a musical instrument was carried out by its inventor Dr. Harish Gershom on 9th October, 2007 for 07IT students of GCET.


7. ALLIANCE COMPETITION:
GCET LANGUAGE CLUB held Alliance Competition on 17th October 2007 as an inauguration function of GCET LANGUAGE CLUB, which was open for all the branches of all the three colleges, GCET, BVM & ADIT for the students of all the four years.

8. SCREENING OF A MOVIE:
GCET LANGUAGE CLUB organized a Movie Session on 25th October, 2007 Thursday. It has been arranged only for the Language Club Members of all the three colleges.

9. A TOUR TO SCIENCE CITY:
GCET LANGUAGE CLUB organized an educational tour to SCIENCE CITY, Ahmedabad for 07IT batch students of GCET on 26th October, 2007 Friday.

10. VIDEO SESSION OF “THE SECRET”:
GCET LANGUAGE CLUB arranged a Video Session of “THE SECRET OF INNER STRENGHTS” by MR. VINAY SHUKLA on 30th October, 2007 Tuesday for all Language Club members of all the three colleges.

11. HARISOPHONE DEMONSTRATION FOR FACULTIES:
A Harisophone Demonstration by Dr. Harish Gershom was conducted specially for GCET faculties on 19th October, 2007.


12. LAUNCHING CEREMONY OF ‘e-patra’:
GCET LANGUAGE CLUB has launched e-PATRA, an online magazine. A launching ceremony of e-PATRA was held on 30th October 2007 /Tuesday on official website of GCET and GCET intranet as well.
Blog: www.gcetlanguageclub.blogspot.com

13. LAUNCHING A BLOG FOR CLUB:
GCET LANGUAGE CLUB has launched a blog:
www.gcet-languageclub.blogspot.com

'Should be' factor

‘Should be’- sounds good but not it is

--Shraddha Joshi

From morning till evening many people rush into buses and trains to grab variety of opportunities and to reach various destinations. One -the most powerful factor behind rushing people is the job market or job-demands. And to get a single job people have to struggle a lot from study-stage to job-stage. They have to acquire many skills and various degrees to get a good job. In case of lakhs of people even after getting good qualification they are longing for a good job they deserve. For them ‘Q’ of qualification leads them to a queue of candidates in job market.

Now let us move towards another side. That’s the area of politics. Our politicians have made this big ‘Q’ of qualification almost at zero level hence they need not wait in a queue. The most tragic fact is that politics is the only field where no qualification is required. Even an illiterate person can be a leader of the nation. How poor the government is! It spends crores of rupees to promote literacy in the nation but the leaders-the pillars of the government themselves don’t know much about literacy. Worse thing is that many of our politicians are having a long list of criminal record and yet they are managing government. Here applies ‘should be’ factor. Actually after independence during these sixty years in the constitution of Bharat, not a single worth considering change has been made. Now it’s the time to make certain changes in it. First and foremost change required is to make a rule of certain qualification even in the field of politics. A politician standing in any level of election should be at least graduate otherwise he should not be allowed for any sort of election. He should not be having a single criminal record on his name. at the same time voters also should be having at least high school-education otherwise he should not be eligible for voting. Perhaps it would sound exaggerating but now it is very much required to build up healthy environment of the nation.

In current scenario what happens, an illiterate politician dressed in white ‘khaadi’ orders highly qualified ‘adhikaris’ and they have to dance on the tune of such politicians. This ‘khaadi’ has become the only qualification required and it should be removed forever. In case of reservation quota on the basis of caste and creed, it was suggested after the independence to keep it for few years to uplift downtrodden ones and then it was to be removed. But nobody did it. As a result today it causes lot of injustice to open category people in education and in job field as well. One more thing required to change is there should not be special provision in law and rights for anyone on the name of caste and religion. The law should be equal for one and all.

But unfortunately all these ‘should be’ factors are prevailing in our nation as it is. We have already had many bad experiences of the system due to these reasons and our coming generations have to taste much more bitter outcomes of these things. Don’t know how and why people tolerate all these things so silently. Now it’s the high time that there must be a strong wave among the people of the nation to raise voice against this. But still we don’t know what has been written on our forehead and how long yet to wait…!?!? All these ‘should be’ factors sound good enough but unfortunately not a single thing of these factors is as it should be.


--Shraddha Joshi

(Send your comments, suggestions and opinions on: shraddhavidyarthi@yahoo.co.in)

Why ‘India’? Why not ‘Bharat’?

--Nikhil Joshi

We citizens of a great nation live our life breath by breath breathing oxygen, eating variety of food, having sound sleep, running on roads with our day-to-day busy schedules and talking about many many many things, which perhaps we don’t have much concern with. Then what concerns….? What matters in your life…? Is it enough for you that you are being addressed respectfully as Mr./Ms./Mrs.XYZ? Suppose you are Mr.X and somebody is calling you again and again as Mr.Y, would you mind it or not? Of course you would. Am I right? Though the name given to you is not a question of your choice, you were not asked to choose one in your infant age but it belongs to you or you belong to it not only till the end of your breathing but also after that when you are no more than a fixed photograph in a frame hanging on a wall along with your name written on it. So now do you think, do you feel this ‘name’ matters a lot in your life? I know your answer to this question is surely ‘yes’.

Now let me come to the point. If you are that much conscious in case of name then why don’t you spend a little time to think about the name of our nation? Yes, what’s it….? India….? Is that your answer? Please just get ready to pay much more attention and not to digest the term-‘India’. We believe that we believe in our culture very much. If it is so, how could you tolerate if somebody changes the name of your mother! Years and years back Britishers ruled on our nation; rather they ruled on us, on our psychological self, on our inner being? Never say-I’m an Indian or I’m from India. Say it loudly-I ‘m a Bhartiya or I’m from Bharat. Yes ‘Bharat’ was the actual name of our nation. Centuries back it was ‘Bharat’and ‘Bharat’ was considered as the gem of the world.

Let me ask you few more questions. What do you call ‘America and Americans’ in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, German, Spanish, French or any other language of the world? What do you call ‘Africa and Africans’, ‘Russia and Russians’, ‘Shri Lanka and Shri Lankans’? There are endless examples like these. Does it stir your mind, your heart, your being? ‘Bharat’ is the only name of a nation, which turns out as ‘India’ in English. Are we that much poor that we even cannot maintain glory of name of our mother, our motherland? The biggest poverty is that our government itself is called as ‘Government of India’!!!

Bharat was and is the jewel of the world. We have progressed a lot but in this blind race of progress perhaps we have even forgotten that somebody has changed the name of our mother. Instead of fighting to this situation, we have adopted that new name knowingly or unknowingly. Now it’s the responsibility of ours to carry the can on our shoulders and to give a fight on this issue. Let’s make it ‘Bharat’ again. Do support each other holding hands in hands tight together to become real Bhartiya.

There are few more things, which we must start considering in the same way. How do you pronounce the name ‘Michael’? yes you did it the way they do it. We don’t say ‘Mi-cha-el’. If you don’t say it like this then how can you tolerate others speaking about your Lord Ram as ‘Rama’, Ganesh as ‘Ganesha’, Shiv as ‘Shiva’ Ramayan as ‘Ramayana’, Mahabharat as ‘Mahabharata’…..!?!?!? Don’t speak like this and don’t let others speak. Just forget about rules of language if it attacks on our names. Get up and get ready to be aware and to create awareness among others before our ‘Mahabharat’ turns out to be called as ‘Metroindia’.

Being a Bhartiya, this must be your first and foremost concern of your life. Beware of such blind follow up which spoils the logo of your identity, your name itself. Go global, think globally but without leaving your local being.

--NIKHIL JOSHI

(Chief editor, ‘E-Patra’-an online magazine of GCET Language Club)

you can join us..

Dear readers,

We have started 'e-patra'-an online magazine of GCET-LANGUAGE CLUB.
Have a look...read it...and send your feedback to us on languageclub@gcet.ac.in
You can also contribute your ideas, articles and creative works for 'e-patra'.
Gradually we are going to upload many things on this blog. So keep visiting.

Visit our webpage: http://www.gcet.ac.in/lclub/gcet.htm

Read our online magazine 'e-patra':

http://www.gcet.ac.in/lclub/e-patra_dec.pdf (Dec.2007)

http://www.gcet.ac.in/lclub/e-patraa_nov.pdf (Nov.2007)

very soon....coming Jan.2008 isssue.

Send your feedback on languageclub@gcet.ac.in

-NIKHIL JOSHI
(Chief Coordinator, GCET-LANGUAGE CLUB)

GCET-LANGUAGE CLUB WELCOMES YOU

GCET –Language Department’s
GCET LANGUAGE CLUB
Objectives:

1
To arrange co-curricular activities like group discussion, debate, elocution etc. and through that to develop communication skills of students.
2
To organize variety of competition and through that to make our students ready to cultivate strengths for challenges.
3
To organize extra curricular activities like poetry recitation, theatre activity, music-performances etc.
4
To organize workshops, seminars, training programs etc. and through that to enhance the abilities of the students.
5
To arrange study tours or visits and to invite experts and performers for guest sessions and through that to expand the horizons of many fields for the students.

(Visit GCET Language Club on GCET Website & Intranet)

--NIKHIL JOSHI
Chief Coordinator,
GCET Language Club.