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VOLUME 2 ISSUE 7 28 MAY 2016

Mamata begins her second inningsChabahar Pact

Bread now Safe to eat

Indian Climber die on Mt.Everest

Four climbers from Kolkata sum-mited Mt.Everest on May 21 morn-ing but cheer was dampened byreports that three other climbers go-ing missing in what’s known as ‘the Death Zone 8000M and above.Everester Rajib Bhattacharya was killed on descent from Mt.Dhaula-giri.Indian climbers like SubhasPaul,Gautam Ghosh and Paresh Nath are still reported missing.

India,Iran and Afghanistan signed a tripartite agreement to turn Chaba-har port into a transit hub totransport goods to Afghanistan and Central Asia using a sea-land route bypassing Pakistan.PM NarendraModi has announced $500 million line of credit to develop Chabahar into a regional trading hub.

A day after Centre for Science and Environment(CSE) reported of can-cer causing substances potassiumbromate in Indian Bread,the Food Safety Standards Association of In-dia (FSSAI) has declared Indianbread safe for consumption.Potassi-um Bromate has been banned from being used as an additive totreat flour meant for baking.

Modi Government turns 2Modi Government turns two on May 26th.On the eve of completion of two years tenure,PM NarendraModi organized mega shows at Del-hi’s India Gate ,public rallies at UP, Shillong, Odisha and Rajasthanand five hours mega television talk shows at DD ‘Ek Nayi Subah’.Ben-eficiaries of Governments flagshipprogramme Jan Dhan Yojna and Swach Bharat Abhiyan would be participants of the various eventsorganized country wide.

Focus on youth, sick tea gardens and job creationThe sweltering sun on Friday afternoon did not deter thousands of supporters of Mamata Banerjee to witness her swearing in ceremony as the Chief Minister of the state for the second time in a row. It was as expected a grand affair with political leaders from regional as well as national parties adding glit-ter to the ceremony. Union Finanace Minister Arun Jaitely; three Chief Ministers Nitish Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal and Akhilesh Yadav were present. Other prominent leaders like Lalu Prasad Yadav, Farooq Abdullah and Kanimozhi were present. Foreign dignitaries present at the event were Bangladesh’s Industry minister and King of Bhutan. Tollywood also came out in large numbers to show their sup-port for Didi.Absence of Abhishek Banerjee, Mamata’s nephew was also conspicuous. Congress Vice-President posted on facebook his well wishes to Chief Minis-ter and her cabinet. Though the TMC got a thump-ing majority winning 211 seats out of a total of 294, the total absence of Congress and Left alliance did not go unnoticed. Even the Chief Minister decided not to comment.With mandate clearly in her favour in spite of many allegations of corruption against her party, Mamata

knows she has a herculean task ahead. Her first in-nings promised of industrialisation, a dream which is yet to take shape. There are more questions about the development that has taken place than answers. So, in her second innings as the Chief Minister, at the outset she has made it very clear that ‘In the days ahead, our focus will also be on our young generation, creation of more employment opportu-nities and on overall development of quality of life for all.’One of the major areas of focus, as declared by the CM, is the sick tea gardens in North Bengal. The issues range from labour, irregular payments and production. To deal with these issues, she an-nounced the formation of a directorate for tea gar-dens in North Bengal. “We have decided to create a directorate for the tea gardens in north Bengal to take care of the gardens. Sometimes there is a com-munication gap as the central government looks after it,” she saidThe new cabinet includes few new faces. Among the old guards of the party there have been no notable changes in portfolios, signalling that Mamata Ba-nerjee has kept her trust on the old timers. Amit Mi-tra, Partha Chatterjee, Subrata Mukherjee, Bratya

Basu, Purnendu Bose, Jyotipriya Mullick will con-tinue as ministers for the second term, though there has been a change in the portfolio. While Mamata’s cabinet is more or less packed with MLA’s from south Kolkata there are two MLA’s from North, Sadhan Pande and Shashi Panja. Incidentally this time there are no ministers from Malda district.Eight former ministers have also been dropped this time despite almost all of them winning in their respective constituencies. The most noteworthy among them are Rachpal Singh and Rabindranath Bhattacharjee.Finance Minister Arun Jaitley held a press meet shortly after the event where he made it clear that BJP is now Mamata’s main opposition in Bengal stressing mainly on the fact that Left is in a down-ward slide in the state. Although Ahmed Patel from congress was present, the opposition parties boycotted the swearing in ceremony as a protest against the post poll violence that has been happening since the declarations of the results. CPM, Congress and BJP party offices are being regularly targeted and ransacked. Cadres of opposition parties are being hunted down and beaten up by the ruling party supporters.

Amit Mitra: Finance, Commerce and Industries

Partha Chatterjee: School educa-tion, higher education

Subrata Mukherjee: Panchayat, Public Health Engineering

Aroop Biswas: Sports and Youth Services

Subhendu Adhikary: Transport

Sovan Chatterjee: Fire and Emer-gency Services

Shashi Panja: Child Develop-ment, Women Development

Indranil Sen: Information and Cultural Affairs (MoS)

Laxmi Ratan Shukla: Sports (MoS)

Bratya Basu: Information Technology

Saptarshi Chowdhury

Ritaban Dey

VOLUME 2 ISSUE 7 28 MAY 2016

REDEFINING FASHION

Editorial Team: Aakruti Shah, Saptarshi Chowdhury, Palak Shah, Ritaban DeyDesign Team: Aditi Bandopadhyay Photograhy Team: Deep Kumar Shaw, Sagnik Banik, Sulagna Chakraborty

Chief Mentor: Dr Buroshiva Dasgupta Mentors: Jhuma Basak, Sharmila Sinha, Debanjan Banerjee, Saurav Basu, Bhaswar Bhattacharyya, Ankita Ash, Reshmi Naskar,Barnali Ray

CAMPUS NEWS Samavesh 2016 Adieu BMS 13-16Social Media Journalist Club

The stage was set, the lights shining bright, props were in place and models walked the ramp in high heels and poised. That’s how the evening of 27th May could be described when the graduating students of NIMD Fashion De-partment flaunted their designs and conquered the hearts and minds of all audiences present.Voyage 2016, Annual Pre -Graduation Fashion Show organized by NSHM Institute of Media and Communication witnessed 14 budding de-signers displayed their creations as they strug-gled to establish their institute as a new fashion destination at Kolkata . Three years of extreme hard work and strenu-ous training of the students paid off as the grand show unfolded the imagination and creativity

put together with ele-gance.Each and every student created a his-tory that night. They defined their fash-ion statements and

set the trends of

fashion in future. Who knows, India might get another Sabyasachi Mukherjee or Ritu Kumar? What we are sure of, is, that Voyage 2016 sure-ly proved to be one of the biggest platform to launch these young talent. It not only helped them to shine bright but opened a window for the real professional world.The highlight of the evening were the themes that these young fashion enthusiast showcased. We had Rishika Saha(Reflections) who want-ed to show the world about the different visual perceptions by creating beautiful silhouettes to represent reflections of more beautiful ideas.Then we had Zoya John (The Minimalist) who wished to tell a monochromatic story based on an idea ‘less is more’. Moving on to Manali

Guha Roy (Sky High), her creations surrounded the theme of Kites, which

were bright, beautiful and high spir-ited. Sudeshna Chakraborty (Shut-ter Devotion) wanted to inspire everyone, like she is, from the

vintage shutter windows of France. She provided a very edgy look that make one’s life colourful.” Technological evolution will fuse mankind and technology

into one”, said another Fash-ion designer Swati Singh (Technology), whose work revolved around the mod-ernization of technology and its impact on humans. Ev-

eryone loves and enjoys Royalty. Right? Who doesn’t? But Suni-ta with her theme on

Royal Spring, took us on a journey of the royal-ty in colours found in na-ture. Student Subhasree Majumder( Lampshade

on fire)- innovated by fusing lamp-shades with fashion. She told us how such beautiful things can lighten the darkest shades of our lives. Love in Paris was the theme of Reya Mandal.She expressed her love for the city and also glorifiesd the beauty and passion of Paris through her elegant outfits. Paris’! Ah Paris’! J’etaime Par-is’.Uttara Paul promised us to take us in galaxies far far away as her theme(Around The Wars). She showed us the elegant yet stylish side of the wars. The wars can also be stylish, cant they? Once upon a time, our design-er Priyanka Mitra had thought of a beautiful idea through which she recreated the magic by spinning a beautiful story of a princess in a frozen land. Her theme-

Frozen Queen sprin-kled magic that evening. Ever thought about how the layers of mountains and trees, waves of water, clouds forming the shape of ocean and the architecture of the ter-tiary areas of a temple look like? Well, Anisha (Layers of Imagination) made you look at the layers of nature through her eyes. Once Upon a Dream was represented by Shrimoyee Sen-

gupta as she featured the surrealist world of the famous painter Vladimir Kush. She aimed to re-solve the contradictory conditions of dream and reality and created an absolute reality. Designer Sony Chauhan dived into the oceanic world and gave us an insight of the beautiful coral coloured world that lies deep inside the seas. While we had French, it was time for some Spanish. Pri-yardarshi Ghosh opened the gates to Spain as she revealed the world of Paso Doble, Spanish dance form. Beauty & the Beast showcased the Senoritas.The evening was graced by the Who’s who of the fashion world. We had reputed directors, designers, actors like Sudeshna Roy, Abhijit Guha, Abhigyan Mukherjee, Sanjoy Bardhan, Abhishek Roy, Ishaan Majumder, Pujarini Ghosh,Riddhi Bandyopadhya, Moinak Baner-jee and RJ Smriti Singh to attend the event. The students battled out and were judged by em-inent designers Nil (Designer),Narendra Kaur (Designer head Turtle ltd) and Neel Bhattacha-rya (Actor). Fashion students Rishika Saha and Sauryavani Anahita John were awarded the first and second prize respectively. This was fol-lowed by a tie for the second runner up prize by, Priyanka Mitra and Sony Prasad Cahuhan. Famous fashion choreographer Pinky Kenwor-thy was the choreographer for that night’s grand event.Sponsoring the event were companies like Dominos,Pansari,Bodyline and Stun the Sun. Siti Cable was the channel partner. Fashion, a word that sets the tongues wagging. Women get excited, there is hoopla of discus-sions on dresses, shoes, accessories and every-thing that a woman loves to embrace. While fashion is all about glamour, style and trends, the fashion shows are about glitz, lights, beauti-ful ladies walking down the ramp in elegant out-fits and everything posh. All our childhood, the

women have been idolizing models like Aish-warya Rai, Sushmita Sen, Carol Gracias,

and Deepika Padukone, while they walk down the ramp highlighting the works of the best designers. We capture the

trends and the style in our minds.The biggies of the Indian fashion industry

like Rohit Bal, Manish Malhotra, Agnimitra Paul, Anamika Khanna, etc had started their careers by launching their ideas and creations on a stage which then made them who they are today. They set the culture, the trend and showed us, what ele-gant couture is.The journey of these fellow young design-ers came to an end at NSHM Institute of Media and Design on May 27th but a bigger road lies ahead of them as they take over the world of Fashion.As Coco Chanel once quoted “Everyday is a fashion show and the world is your runway.” Bon Voyage all budding fashion designers batch 2014-16 of NIMD.Sprinkle your little magic, Paint the town colourful, Put on your high heels and never let down your spirit.

Samavesh 2016, an annual programme for the NSHM College of Management and Technology was held on May 13. The event was inaugurated by Prof. Subrata Kumar Dey, Vice-Chancellor,-MAKAUT and graced by the auspicious presence of Mr. D. S. Mehta, Chairman Multicon Group, Mr. Cecil Anthony, Chairman Synergy Group, Prof. Rajib Chanda, Co-founder and Campus Director NSHM, Kolkata, Prof. Krishnendu Sarkar,Direc-tor,NSHM College of Management and Technol-

ogy.Samavesh aims towards celebrating students’ achievements and this year has not been an excep-tion. More than seventy students were given tokens of appreciation for their excellence and achieve-ments.Prof.Subrata Kumar Dey, Vice Chancellor. MAKAUT was felicitated by Mr. Rajib Chanda. The event was succeeded by a career counselling session by renowned Psychologist Dr.Anuttama Banerjee. On the occasion of the commemoration of ten years of NSHM, three alumni members of the batch 2006-2009, were also invited for the Alumni Speak.

NIMD bids adieu to undergraduate students of BMS 2013-16. On May 23, the undergraduate sixth semester students of Media Science were giv-en a farewell by their juniors and faculty members. The celebration included cultural performances and student felicitation as a sign of gratitude for the student over the last three years. The programme concluded with all faculty members and students wishing the outgoing batch all the very best in their future ventures .

A Social Media Journalist club will soon be launched in the campus with student participants from all the portals at NSHM.The participants will have to report news and events held in the campus and upload it on the facebook official page of NSHM. Credits of the students will be provided under each news up-loaded.

Sudipta Saha and Aakruti Shah