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Welcome to Precis The Precis Team is glad to announce that we are presently working towards creating a monthly E- newsletter, the first of its kind, by the students of CIS (College for Integrated Studies, University of Hyderabad). We have taken up this initiative to provide a platform for our fellow UoH members to showcase their talents, both artistic and critical. We want to create a network across campus and provide a space where people with similar interests can bond. This newsletter will consist of everything; poems, stories, articles, artwork, photography, diary entries, movie reviews, columns, experiences etc. of all languages. We want everyone to step forward and exhibit their passions and skills, even anonymously if they wish to. Through this newsletter we hope to achieve everything mentioned above. This is an exciting step for the students of CIS and we will work towards ensuring this is a success. We look forward to your love and support. Team Precis

At CIS we have always believed that there is no single fixed definition of success. Grades in the transcript may have their own significance in life but they do not make or break any of us. Talent hidden inside us also manifests our personality and determines the meaning of success and satisfaction for each one of us. I am sure the newsletter would provide a platform to everyone to showcase their creativity and to air their thoughts for everyone to hear. In these unusual times of lockdown, when physical contact is not there between us, the newsletter would bring us together and allow us to be connected, even if it is through thoughts. I once again congratulate the whole team behind it and wish them all success. Thanks, Stay Safe, Sanjay Subodh Message from the Director

Online Semester: A Boon or Bane by Tejesh P (19MCME29) 02 Book Review: The God of Small Things by Devi A (19IPMP16) 03 03 Pawsome Anecdotes Episode 3 - Doggo It’s a pattern; not a process' 04 with you by Aditi Kakkad (19ICMC04) The Quantum Mechanics in Economics by Ch Sravan (16IAME04) 05 ꭈ‿ి by Umashankar Veeravalli (17IAMP10) 05 Musing by Aleena Haleel (19IAME03) 06 Soul, body, mind by Aparna Devi (19IHML10) 06 The Black Tin Trunk by G.Shrithika (19IEAG12) 07 The lone man in the city by Ganesh Puthur (18SHMA01) 07 Radioactive by Oindrila Ghosal (19LAPM05) Artwork by Bhagya Suresh (19IAMS06) 08 Photography by Harshita Verma (19IHMH07) 08 The Penultimate Paradise by Bhavana Payarda 09 (17IHML04) 09 Artwork by Kavyasree P (19IPMP24) 10 10 Wall Art by Rahul Kumar Singh (18IAMP04) 10 Artwork by Reshma Hari (19ICMC06) Artwork by Singam Manusha (19ILMB08)

News 02 03 04 04 01 UoH to offer PG diploma in AI and ML University of Hyderabad has exchanged an MoU with AAIC Technologies (commonly known as Applied AI Course) to offer online PG Diploma courses in Artificial Intelligence and Machine through the Centre for Distance and Virtual Learning (CDVL). The objective of the course is to enhance the industry-ready ability amongst graduates as well as working professionals in the form of a one year – two semester long – course. The first announcement of admission will be in Nov’ 2020, and eligibility into the course is any graduate with mathematics in Class XII or equivalent. Prof. C. Raghavendra Rao and Prof. Rajeev Wankar from SCIS, UoH and cofounder of AAIC Technologies, Srinivas Reddy will be the coordinators of this course. 02 Union Minister unveils UoH professor’s book 04 Union Education Minister Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal Two UoH Chemistry launched a book titled ‘Health Psychology: Theory, faculty to receive Indian Practice and Research’ authored by Meena Hariharan, Chemical Society Awards professor of Centre for Health Psychology at University of Hyderabad, who took up the responsibility of introducing Prof. Anunay Samanta and a course in health psychology at UoH. It was at a time Prof. KD Sen, faculty at the when health psychology was not very popular in the School of Chemistry, have country. The book integrated Ayurveda, Gita, Psychology been chosen for the Indian and Medical Sciences. Chemical Society (ICS) Acharya J.C. Ghosh 03 Memorial award and the Prof. Suresh C. Ameta UoH professor elected Fellow of Indian National Award respectively for the Science Academy (INSA) year 2019 in recognition of their contributions to Prof M Jayananda, faculty in the Centre for Earth, Ocean Chemistry. They will & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hyderabad (UoH), receive these awards and has been elected Fellow of Indian National Science deliver lectures at the 57th Academy (INSA) for his outstanding contributions on ICS convention (date to be early earth dynamics, internal architecture and origin of finalized). protocontinents and shift from anoxic to oxygenated environments.

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Books are immortal, they never ever get outdated! The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is an awesome book that still opens our eyes towards this unfair world. Being the writer’s debut novel, which even won the Booker Prize defines its significance. This novel portrays the three-generation story through the childhood of Rahel and Estha, who are twins! Twins are those blessed siblings who know each other before their lives begin - “Twins were meant lot to be borrowed and returned, like library books.” When circumstances separated them for twenty-five years, will anything between them change? Maybe the two beings still fit together. The story begins in Ayemenem, Kottayam which was their mother’s Tharavad (ancestral home). Ammu, who happened to be a divorcee, loved her offsprings more than any other in the world. Love towards own blood is a very common thing, but it’s very difficult to look after them when everyone else is filled with hatred. A girl no longer belongs to her parents’ family after getting married. A divorcee is not respected and not even sheltered in her own house.The God of Small Things not only portrays the social situation but also paints the cultural and communal diversity in the “God’s own country”. Nothing is perfect in this world of complications. In the first generation, Ammu’s parents never lived a beautiful life but the major difference is that even though their life was hard they never got rid of each other, but the later generations always failed to keep their relations. Obviously, life is not a race to finish the mark but this unfair world never understands the fact. There is a popular notion that divine love is that feeling which shows the different colours of life, but that kind of love is not written for all. Love is never accepted by the society, especially when it comes to a divorcee; and when it comes to caste differences it becomes the most barbaric thing. These same things happened in Ammu’s life. The person she loved, “The God of small things, The God of Goosebumps and sudden smiles” - who cherished Rahel and Estha’s life with happiness - became the long lost one! This caste ridden world, which never accepts love, killed him. If he fought, he couldn’t win anyway. Our nation, which is supposed be the intellectual, secular one, has still not achieved what it actually stands for. Even today, after the seventy-four years of independence, freedom is still an untouchable thing for many. This is why this amazing book is still relevant and a must read for all. Pawsome Anecdotes Episode 3 Doggo It’s a pattern; not a process! -Aditi Kakkad (19ICM04) Titu As mentioned earlier Titu was very keen at observing all of us. So, it’s kinda been an unacknowledged doggy tradition of our home of doggies sitting around the dining table when we humans have a meal. The purpose of the latter being sneaking treats from human plates by encashing the doggy cuteness. So, every day, Titu used to sit and watch us having our meals. He seemed to have been observant of this pattern of humans coming and sitting in front of empty plates for a while, then food being served on their plates. It so happened once that Titu was hungry and his food wasn’t served to him which made him take his eating bowl and sit on the dining table chair assuming all hungry people who sit with empty dishes here are served food. Kiddo felt the pattern of food being eaten in our house is the process of procuring food when hungry. 3

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The Penultimate Reality Bhavana Payarda 17IHML04 Kavyasree P 19IPMP24 9

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