Now let us hold the hands together

By
Musthafa and Jamsheel

One more students’ union election has over in our campus without much noise and disturbances. The new students, union body elected with high margin majority. As the last year’s election voters elected all the candidates from the same panel. Out of 4343 total voters 2738 votes were polled, it comes around 63 percentage.
Election held as per the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations 2006, which meant for regulating the students’ politics and controlling students’ union elections in colleges and universities. When we analyzing this years’ election, we can find that the political awareness of the students are really pathetic. It is very dispiriting to know that students from a top ranked university are politically unconscious. Our knowledge should go beyond the back covers of the books and walls of the lab. It gives a wrong message to a society that our future citizens are depoliticized.
Another important factor is the lack of women students’ representation in the panel lists. Out of 14 candidates for General posts, we had only one women candidate. Every party have their own women cadres for campaigning and protest demonstrations, but knowingly or unknowingly we couldn’t find much women representation in their panel list except one women student for the post of cultural secretary. The time exceeded to ask does it sound enough to say that our politics is not male dominated.
The whole mess which happened in the last years’ election might teach some lessons to the student leaders and to the authority. These years’ election seems very peaceful and couldn’t hear any unwanted noise from any corner of the campus. New political formation and changing equations of campus politics might helped to conduct such a peaceful election. Let us congratulate newly elected union members, students’ union election committee, who conducted the election peacefully and transparently and also the students they vote for marking their commitment to the students’ community as a whole.
Now let us forget the political differences, let us hold hands together for our own progress.

Karachi Biscuits: The Taste of Hyderabad

By
Noufal Koduvally and Jameela Aboobacker

Hyderabad is famous for its delicious flavors varying from a wide range of hot and sweet dishes. This makes the city a lovable place for many of the food lovers of the famous brands of Hyderabad. The one famous for sweets is the Karachi Bakery. This Bakery is famous for the unique Karachi biscuits – fruit biscuits, Badam and Almond biscuits. Many of the city’s visitors often get to this bakery for buying the special biscuits, when they return to their families, back home.
The Karachi bakery has six decades experience in this area and still going strong, they have emerged as an icon of Hyderabad baking with a reputation that is unmatched to the core. It focuses on innovation, developing new products while improving their existing products to evolving consumer needs.
Karachi bakery is situated at the Mozzamjahi Market, Nampalli. Now a new branch has been opened at Banjara Hills. The bakery is always seen crowded. When we get inside the shop, by excitement, we see a good number of people rushing to the counter at one end. This is where we get the unique biscuits. Verities of delicious biscuits are arranged in packets of 500gm, ready to deliver. Out of the different flavors, fruit biscuits are the most demanded by the customers. Cashew flavor came second to it. If anybody enquires, which one to take, to any of the city

Residents, they will definitely suggest these two. The other verities available are Badam, Almond and Chocolate. All verities cost at a range of 120-200 rupees. So the customers are satisfied with the taste and cost. Usually one tries different verities at a time.
The taste of this biscuits usually makes the customers return for their favorite flavors. And those who once experience it will spread the word among their friends and family. Usually one customer suggests his friend to get to this bakery. The mouth publicity makes the brand name more famous than any advertisements.
The Karachi bakery also features, many type of usual bakery item, in its own flavor. A good number of cake items are available there. Those who love to have dry fruits can also have them. Apart from this, the counters are filled with top branded sweets and biscuits.
Another counter inside the bakery where people usually crowd is the one of the pickles. These pickles are also famous as the biscuits. Good verities of pickles are available at low cost. Fruits biscuits and pickles are the main items in the customers’ baskets while them waiting at the counter for payment. Once you go there, these items will attract you again there. That is the magic of the taste of Karachi bakes. In addition, Karachi Bakery maintains good working relationships with suppliers and customers fortified by appropriate employee care towards a common goal of mutual proficiency.

Beware of thieves on campus

By

Jamsheel

University of Hyderabad Campus: India’s top ranked university, University of Hyderabad’s students is facing the everlasting threats from thieves. These thefts are making headache for both students and authority. Bicycles and mobile phones are the favorite things for the thieves. It seems that bandits are so social, so that from the valuable things like laptops and iPods to cheaper things like T-shirts and daily utensils are there in their stolen account.
“In this ongoing academic year three cases were formally reported from hostels, and one laptop recovered in raids by hostel officials,” says The Chief Warden, Prof. R S Sarraju, when asked about the matter. Thefts issues come under the University’ Security Section, not only from the students’ belongings but from hostel equipments also are missing regularly. As of this university is spending a lot of money to reconstruct the things, he added.
The only solution is nothing more than the self vigilance on own things. The security is still insufficient and there is no security person in some hostel even now, he maintained.
There are lots of thefts are happening in the campus is a reality, but the security section is not responsible for the missing of personal belongings of students and staff as security persons are only responsible for university’s properties, says G Victor Kumar, the Security Officer of UoH .
Missing of Bicycles is mainly because of the carelessness of the students. There are no sufficient security persons and no proper mechanism to prevent thefts in the campus. All reported thefts cases are dealing by Chandha Nagar Police station directly, we have no role in it, he revealed.
Some students argue that the bandits are outsiders but others opine that inside thieves are more threat than outsiders. I lost my Bicycle when I parked it on near the university main gate, it was happened in front of the security persons, said Asfar, IInd year M A History student.
Nine mobile phones have stolen from Men’s Hostel H only within one year, no one get back their phones so far, said Mohammed Shafi, General Secretary of Men’s Hostel H. I lost my mobile phone from my room itself when I went to my friend’s room to take my book, within a fracture of minutes I lost it, said Preema Paul, IInd year M-tech student.
Both my T-shirt and jeans pant stolen by someone when it kept in the outside of the room for washing, said Aneesh, 1st year M A History.
The lack of proper mechanism in the campus to prevent theft issues is one of the main helping factors for the thieves. Students are now carrying their laptops every time with them as afraid of bandits. And now it is also becoming a daily practice to putting ‘lost notice’ in hostels and public places in the campus. The number of thefts in the campus is increasing while recoveries are rare.