Let's bring the CLUBS back!!

Here's a shout-out to all our Devagirians out here on the blog.

As part of the whole Creative You franchise I'd paraded around during the elections, we've decided to bring the Clubs back. That's right - the social, the science, the theatre, the skating, the basketball, the dance, the social service, the sketching, the compering, the vocal, the Blah Blah - Every single one of those clubs are on the path to making their entrance back into Devagiri. Till about two years ago, we had all these clubs and seems to us that they did a pretty good job at doing SOMETHING to bring the Creative You out into the open.
I know it's really late into the year, we're almost approaching the end of the second term, and I apologize for the delay folks - but I'm confident this can be pulled off even now. There are a lot of events coming up where each club will get to portray itself, and right now is the time for you to respond to the idea. Want them back? Want to be part of a crazy group of people who are fanatics just like you? :D I'll be waiting for you in the Comments Section folks.

Children of Heaven

The tale of a young boy, Ali, and his little sister, Zahra, portrays the love, concern and devotion of a brother to his sister. The role of Ali was played by Amir Farrokh Hashemian and Zahra was played by Bahare Seddiqi. 

Ali looses his sister's shoes while returning from the shoemakers' shop. He stops at the grocers' when the shoes are accidentally picked up by the garbageman. Ali searches everywhere for them but does not find them. His parents were too poor to afford new shoes, so the two children did not tell their parents that Zahra's shoes were lost. 

Ali had an old pair of sneakers which both the children exchanged and wore to school. It was very difficult to do so as there was only a short interval between the ending of Zahra's school and the beginning of Ali's school, but they managed like this for several days. 

One day, Ali learns of a long-distance running race in which the third prize was a week at a vacation camp and a pair of sneakers. In his frantic attempt to reach the finish, he accidentally comes first. Ali, unaware that his father had bought Zahra and him two new pairs of shoes, was very upset that he was not able to win the sneakers. The last part of the film shows Ali dipping his blistered and aching feet in a pool.

The last shot of the film struck me the most. The blisters on Ali's feet showed that his emotional attachment to his sister overrides his physical pain. Ali, the lead character in the film affected me the most. He taught me a very valuable lesson in life. From him, I realized the value and importance of our relationships and the bonds we have with our family.

The film too revolved around the same theme and sensitized me to the importance of love, care, affection and sacrifice for our familial bonds, duties and roles, be it that of a parent, sibling or child.

The Sixth Sense

Computers have a huge influence in our lives these days. We use computers for a wide variety of purposes. It has brought changes in the way we communicate and undertake day-to-day activities.

Now, in the modern 21st century, we see mind boggling changes in how we interact with these computers and how elegantly simple the whole process of computing has become.

The Sixth Sense is a new graphical and gestural computing interface. Designed by an Indian, Pranav Mistry, it consolidates a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera into a small wearable pendant-like accessory worn around the neck. The projector projects images that have interactive capabilities onto any physical surface and the camera records the gestures you make with your fingers on these surfaces.

The gesture interface is neatly combined into simple computer-vision techniques, where the software takes in the video stream from the camera and intelligently interprets the gestures you make with your fingers. For this, the user wears coloured bands on the tips of his fingers, each having a different colour. The interface assigns the appropriate information to each of these coloured bands, where the way these bands are moved are configured into their proper commands with the images projected by the projector as a backdrop.

Truly, this is science fiction getting closely acquainted with our reality! 

Our iPads and smart phones will have to make way for a new revolution in computing, one that is going to surpass all boundaries of the interactive world!

For more information log onto Pranav Mistry's Website : http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

Or better yet, you could enjoy a demonstration:

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Grandma

By Minha Naushad
VI-A

My grandmother is the one who's always in the kitchen
Tasting the food and checking if it tastes good or not
She is always worried whether the guests will like it
I have never seen such a one who cooks

She always asks me again and again
Does it have enough salt?
Dose it have enough sugar?

She is the best grandma
and the best cook in the world.