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research in IITM has always been,from the time scholars enter to the time they graduate,to put it mildly, monotonous.The unvarnished fact of the era is thatscholars never(majority don’t) enjoy andnever take pride in the enormity of things they do.Is that because they fearwhat everyone calls CHANGE. We,indeed,strived real hard to get into the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology,an ex-perience in itself.We are presently living in a world that has gone through a hell of a lot of ups and downs, seen all the emotions,enjoyed all the inventions and discoveries,which didn’t happen over years,but occurred over moments that constituted those years.In short,what really mattered the most most were those moments that brought the change.

The only connect between past,present and future is the dissimilarity,the variation,which may be momentous or trivial.The past is past.So coming to the present, I keep wondering what we really fear for.Perhaps what we fear is if someone moves the ground beneath our feet while we jump in joy or the fear of things remaining the same.Although we know it’s downright blatant,change is inevita-ble,a reality in the broken world.It’s greatly important to celebrate the change. Everyone’s on a jour-ney toward an objective, but research is a boundless destination where rides are quite bumpy,cheery at times,but delusive many a time. Regardless of the fact, it is imperative to celebrate.Agreed,but celebrate what?Of coursethe evolution,the growth, the momentary accomplishments.So, it is vital to wave to our progress,the experience involved that will, sure-re, give us the reassuring motiva-tion,keep us boots on, and on the track that leads tothe objective. Perhaps, what the institute wit-nessed the past month was just that and which kind of gave me a sigh of relief,a welcome initiative by our Research Affairs Secretary, Mrs.Ishitha Kumar, something that’s rst of its kind,laid to celebrate the research on the go in the institute,the Research Scholars’ Day.Before giving the lowdown on the events,let’s allhear it for our RAS...bravo lass!

On the eve of Research Scholars’ Day, an hourlong Drupal workshop was conducted by Karthik, the brain behind the Research Website of IIT-M, to help the scholars get a hang of blogs and site develop-ment and the multiple variety of customisation that goes along with it.To people who are not aware of what Drupal is, it is an open source platform powering millions of websites and blogs.It contains a bevy of options for the users to build a site of their imagination.It’s being used and espoused by varied environs of people around the world.The event saw an unexpected gure of scholars turning up for and eagerly awaiting to get a hands-on experience of something that the world functions with.with. To say the event went spotless would be more than just an exaggeration, as it saw a brief period

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of quandary with the wi going kaput,as a result of which one or two at the max in a row had to contribute for the entire row, with others guiding them,as op-posed to the start. Dispensing the unexpected jam,rest of the event went through unhindered and scholars got edied on the cutting-edge platform

Post that there was held a session on ‘International Opportunities for Research Scholars’, addressed by Prof.Nagarajan. Playing full justice to the theme of the event,that presentation contained generic templates with regard to the MOU’s with international institutions, both, institute level as well as department level, internships available, various alternatives in terms of exchange programmes available for the scholars, Senateapprovals and some approachable guidelines on the same.

TThe overall choices were jammed down to two levels; the rst level had a curso-ry view about the faculty collaborations, the joint workshop and teaching for the same;and about the semesterexchange available for the scholars,the por-tions of expenses borne by home and host institutions and the likes.The second level displayed yet again a sketch of joint guidance programme available,which includes both M.S. and Ph.D.;and also a point or two about joint dual degree programs. Post that followed the most important phase of the session, the DDean calling attention to the preparation required for all the previously men-tioned stuff. He laid emphasis on communication skills,attending conferences, both at institute level as well as national level and at least one international conference. Seeking out faculties who have collaborated with research groups abroad as well as publishing in international journals and the value a post doc-torate abroad would add to the resume,were a few things he stressed upon, too.

A quick vista about the international institutions spanning across the globe,viz., US,Germany, Singapore, Japan, Korea,etc. that IIT-M has collaborated with and would be in the future were put on view.The key features like scholarships, su-pervision for doctoral programmes, etc. were also talked about.The nal few minutes saw the dean highlighting the people whom to be approached, how to use faculties as the channels to smooth the progress, the facilities available in the international ofce present in the institute, asking the scholars to get fa-miliarimiliarized with the available opportunities by talking to personnel-in-charge for the same and select judiciously the one that really suits and interests the scholars from the available lot.

Overall,it was quite benecial and gave the scholars an insight into the oppor-tunities available, which was thus far, kind of blurry and muddled up, probably due to lack of such sessions in the past.

As a tting nale to the eve, there was held a session on ‘Job Opportunities in Germany’ coordinated by representatives of the ‘Make-it-in Germany’ portal. The portal shows professionals from other countries the way to Germany – and what makes it worthwhile to live and work here. For the rst time, the portal bundles together all the key information about making a career and living in Germany. It tells you which sectors are in search of qualied professionals and what the terms and conditions are of being able to take up employment in Ger-mamany. It draws a portrait of contemporary Germany and provides practical advice on successful integration. International qualied professionals who have already embarked on a successful career in Germany too recount their own personal experiences.

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Despite the fact that trends on the German labour market looking good and the number of em-ployed, at over 41 million, yet, some sectors and re-gions are already lacking qualied professionals. If nothing is done, by 2025, demographic changes will see a shortfall of more than 6 million workers. As the dearth of professionals would pose a serious challenge, federal Government has come up with a policy issue to secure professionals from outside Germany.The Government has made the immigration rules easier as well as taken initiatives to get professional qualications obtained abroad recognised to encourage more number of people from abroad to come to Germany. Accompanying thethe government’s concept is a Qualied Profes-sionals Initiative launched by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the Federal Minis-try of Labour and Social Affairs and the Federal Employment Agency. This initiative is aimed at providing information and raising awareness among the general public, businesses and qualied professionals of the causes and impact of this shortage of skilled workers. The portal is part of this Qualied Professionals Initiative.

The portal basically has 3 sections: the Making it page, which presents a silhouette of the contem-porary Germany, the quick check options that access one’s options of working in Germany, Hous-ing, Schooling, Leisure, Job listings that would provide a overall view of job vacancies,German local that lets one nd point of contact of German organisations in his/her country;the next section is Working that gives overall outlook of prospects in

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Germany,a sort of a guide to working in Germany that gives details about the occupation in demand, industry proles and small business com-munity and the nal section is about living in Ger-many that talks about Housing, Schooling, Leisure and other expenses, etc.

TThe following day, the representatives put up a stall, which helped scholars have a more personal interaction and get their doubts claried on the same. Overall,it facilitated scholars to know about various prerogatives in terms of job opportunities post their masters and doctoral programmes.

BeingBeing the rst of its kind in the history if IITM, the D-day started off quite well and as expected, of course, customarily, half hour late, nevertheless eye-pleasingly, with the habitual invocation fol-lowed by the emcee giving a brief account of the drive behind such a momentous gateway. The Chief Guest, Prof. Indranil Manna, Director, IITKan-pur; Guest of Honour, Dr.Prasad, Science Editor,The Hindu; along with Prof. BhaskarRamamurthi, Di-rector,IITM; and Prof. Sarit Kumar Das, Dean(AR) were welcomed and the occasion was marked by lighting the traditional lamp followed by a brief in-augural address by both director and dean.The yearbook that contains information about the scholars graduating in June of the current year and ReMag that holds detailed articles on the research work penned by the scholars themselves were re-leased, with the rst copy of each presented to the Chief Guest and Guest of Honour by our Director and Dean(AR) respectively. All these led to the

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to the most awaited part of the session, the address by Prof.Manna and Dr.Prasad.

PProf.Manna, started off a tad bit philosophical with his rst slide reading, “Life is a long walk of many miles and milestones and that we’re all in pursuit of....Excellence”, which in a way gave a hint to the au-dience in the arena the kind of path he had chosen to take them along for the next hour or so,not to mention the occasional quips that subtly unveiled his sense of humour.An instance to quote would be,at the very beginning of the address he quipped,initially he used to solve his problem,but after being conferred the responsible post of Director of IITKanpur,he presently solves others’ prob-lems.Even after having come a long way in his career and despite the fact that everything had changed,he still keeps solving problems,but what differs the past from the present is the intent,that sprayed philosophy and subtle humour in equal proportions.One more instance that caught every-one’s attention was, when he targeted every scientist and the wackiness besieging them. The reason he claimed for such an off the wall predicament was none but themselves.He further added that, sci-entistsgo after everything that’s abnormal, for they nd normal to be boring and are never content-ed with it,traipsing around mentally and delving into for something better as soon as nding some-thing new.

the rst thought of atomism took a blurry shape.He talked briey about the classical age of Indian mathematics and astronomy,about Aryabhatta and the likes,the concept of zero,the golden rule of three,the cosmic evolution, the Vedas, space science, nuclear science, in short,he talked about our country’s long and rich heritage in science and technology that as a thought started very early more than two thousand-three thousand to four thousand years ago.He indirectly was trying to point how important it is for every one of us to know the Indian civilisation that has a long recorded history of scienticscientic culture, that dates back to more than 4500 years. It is imperative because, the past always has the power to inuence the present and future and that is what is currently happening, it demar-cates our strides from others as we evolve ourselves individually as well as collectively and progress towards our dream of developing into strong, independent and all-embracing nation. He just con-cluded his address saying, everyone’s a freshie someday. It’s up to the individual to make a bold be-ginning, set the origin undoubtedly, and take a condent and uninching plunge into the sea of re-search and sensitize himself/herself to take everything that comes in the way with patience and poise and thus, enjoy the experience.

Next up was the address by Dr.Prasad. From the word go, Prasad was straight-on and straight-out.His address reminded me of a thought by Late Henry Grunwald, a diplomat and a journalist with a little tweak,“Journalist can never be silent. That is his greatest virtue and greatest fault. He/She must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air. He stood embodiment of this quote all through the address. He initially tar-geted the impression the world has on IITs’, pointing out the content present in Wikipedia about IIT,which reads like this,“In addition to B. Tech and M. Tech programs IITs also award other graduate degdegrees such as M.Sc. in Engineering, Maths, Physics and Chemistry, M. B. A., Ph. D. and more” and claimed research-based degrees awarded by IITs’are simply being seen as add-on modules.To put it

He even compared Scientists to the legendary Fido-dido,the gangling, corny,licensed charac-ter that began its life as an illustration in an un-heard of fashion, as a sketch on a cocktail nap-kinmight be to stress on the point,scientists are what they are,and what they are is abso-lutely okay.On contrast,he funnily questioned,who made them this way,God? Without any second thought and further delay in let-ting others interrupt, he remarked, then Gods must be crazy that brought the house down.He just had a time-machine in the form of presentation,with which he took the audi-ence back in time,to the early 600 B.C where

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more mildly,IITs’ are merely being looked as an undergradu-ate institution.He placed on the table the lack of media centre in IIT as one of the main reasons for the lack of rever-ence the research works deserve as opposed to the case with Institutes present in US,where media centres play a central role, garnering the world’s attention every now and then. He forthrightly admitted it’s a failure from both ends – media as well as Institute. He also added for whatever reason IIT has been shielding itself from marketing its efforts,it’s high time the institutestarted learning some marketing skills from their counterparts. He also nitpicked the misleading percentage increase in number of journals getting published in high impact publications. He stressed upon the signicance of ling patents in every country,if not for capitalising and earning bucks, butat least for others to not duplicate stuffs and market our own creation at unaffordable prices, which has been the case thus far.He also highlighted his perspective of reasons on the number of Nobel laureates from India being less,which were,Environment not being quite conducive to research, people seldom taking sabbaticals for research purpose as opposed to their foreign counterparts and lack of exchange pro-ggrammes.He edied the scholars and the professors present in the arena about the Green open access and Gold open access options available that ensures quick availability of journal papers.He empha-sised the need for every scholar to learnstatistics; the need to develop communication and writing skills,which he felt are getting inferior by the day based on the articles he read and incidents he came across; the need to follow KISS principle and thus articulate things the way it reaches to all.A eeting comment about the need for ethics was underscored while recalling the plagiarism accusations the in-stitute drew a couple of months ago.

In totality, all one could say is he acted as a perfect journalist.There were quite a few things he men-tioned that were unwarranted and embarrassing too,nevertheless,he pointed out some seriousthings that we’ll have to work on with immediate effect.Of course,there were rough avours all through the address,but that’s how bitter truth is; something that cannot be hidden, something that is stranger than ction, yet, that’s the path to greatness.

The address was immediately followed by poster presentation that saw scholars presenting their re-search work to the audience which prolonged till the end of the day.It saw several other scholars,pro-fessors and other visitors eagerly listening to the presentations, asking them queries, overall it was quite a vision to watch scholars in a profound interaction with all sects of visitors.In the meantime,the proceedings were interrupted for lunch.

An hour later,started the noon session, something which every scholar were most eagerly awaiting,the Panel Discussion on Career Goals, Plans and Advancement.With experts from diverse realms of PSU,Pri-vate Sector, Academia and Entrepreneurship gracing the occasion to share with the scholars the ex-pectations in each eld and the career objective in the respective professions, the whole discussion

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bordered along the lines to put sense to the conundrum of survival versus gratifying advancement. The whole focus of the workshop of what is important for the scholar: fullness or mouth-watering paycheques,when the former denes the career,the latter suits the individual seeking for survival.But with the contemporary settings,the panellists shared to the audiences their own experience and per-spectives of how to go about closing the gap between requirement and potential.The panel discus-sion was moderated by Dr.Mahesh Panchagnula,Faculty in the Dept. of AppliedMechanics.The distin-guished panel members were, Dr.G.V.N.AppaRao – IT advisor and Technology consultant; Mr.SudhakarPottukuchi – Head, Eaton India Engineering Centre; Prof. Shankar Narasimhan – Department of Chemical Engineering,IIT-Madras; Dr.BalaBharadvaj – Director, Boeing Research & Technology, India; Mr.KishorePadmanabhan – Vice-President & Member, TCS Corporate Tech. Board; Dr.Rama Mohan Rao – Deputy Director,Structural Engineering Research Center; Mr.A. S.Basu – Managing Director, Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd., and Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala – Department of Electrical Engi-neering,IIT-Madras.The session saw panellists talking to the audience for the rst one and half hours or so post which, the audience interacted with the panellist of their choice over tea. Overall, after a good view at the ambience and moods of the audience that prevailed till curtains rang down, one could most condently conclude almost everyone got beneted from the session.

The last and the nal event of Research Scholars’ Day was quite a laid-back one, a special session of Re-echo themed under ‘IITM of Yesteryears and Today” that had, Prof. Hema A Murthy and Prof. Balaji Chakravarthy, from the Department of Computer Science and Department of Mechanical Engineer-ing respectively.As Beacon said, “Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read”. I’d just like to tweak that a bit, and add my portion to that, alumni to listen to, which is no exaggeration. It indeed was quite a healthy and thought-provoking informal interaction between scholars and the invited dignitaries.

The session started off just like any other event, with the dignitaries reminiscing their good old stu-dent days,but a while later slowly the tones swapped and event transformed into something that was unassuming, with the exchanges bordering on every topic that could possibly be raised within the scheduled time. The event kick started with a question about the ranking system and why IITs’ are struggling to catch up with the international institutions, besides being valued and revered by anyone and everyone, to which the dignitaries retorted, ”Besides educational amenities, several other factors are also being taken into account”. The discussion slowly branched onto why IITs’ are justjust seen as an undergraduate school, when more than half the percentage of students pursuing ed-ucation here are research scholars which had a immediate reply from one of the dignitaries, ”It all roots to the mouth-watering packages given at the time of placements, unwarranted for media spec-ulation and last but not the least, the dearth of pride and competitive spirit amongst the scholars.” The importance of the scholars to get into private sectors was highlighted by both the dignitaries. A

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chunk of time was spent by the guests on how important it is for scholars to do a focused literature survey and how abnor-mally difcult it was during their times as scholars, to search for as well as to publish journals and other paraphernalia that goes with the journal-related stuffs. The magnitude of experimental related research was brought to light and thickly underscored, with a special emphasis made on the importance of understanding the physics behind experiments and manufacturing of the test rigs being worked upon.

AA question was raised by one of the scholars regarding the stipulatedlimit of 2-3 years set for M.S. scholars and 4-5 years for Ph.D.s, which saw a response in the form a question from one of the guests, ”why do you think an individual can’t complete in the given time when all it requires is just time-man-agement and focused reading?” It certainly stumped the scholars and an air of silence creeped in for a while. Also the guests repeatedly stressed on how important it is to introspect oneself before taking up research as a career. They also added that if something’s not one’s cup of tea, then it is eminently better tto drop that right at once and search for one’s forte. A sense of witticism skulked in when the topic of technology came up, how it has tip-toed and took precedence over outdoor activities in students’ life. The guests also put the accent on taking time-out and spending it for at least one extracurricular activ-ity. They also took a sense of pride while conding the virtues of present day scholars. The guests also played up the signicance of going to library and reading a fresh journal and drew attention to the fact, how fruitful it would be to have discussions with fellow scholars, attend various conferences and seminars, both inside and outside departments, and the art of multitasking. Overall, the session was awe-inspiring and was worth every second spent.

When all’s said and done, the Research Scholars day was completely an unforgettable occasion made even better by uninterrupted experience. Thumbs up and three cheers for the team that made it all possible.

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IIt is a fact that we as a race have fallen today into poverty and oblivion and even after much progress done in the last 60 years of independence the image that we have of the ancient glory of India seems to us like a dream and many of us cannot even imagine that this country which today appears like a mass of chaos, a mass of poverty and ignorance, was one day so dazzlingly great. We wonder about whothose men were and where they have gone,those men and women whose characters we nd re-ected in the magnum opus of Ramayana and Mahabharata. In the life of heroes like Rama, Krishna or Bhisma and even in life of villians like Ravana or Duryodhana.The all renouncing, all sufferingSita and thethe ery Droupadi. Men whose great ideas we nd expressed in the subtle philosophy of the Vedas and Upanishads. We may never be able to decipher it out of the hoary womb of history. It is not important whether Rama or Krishna ever walked on this earth in esh and bones? The important thing is that, there were once men in this country who had great characters and who admired and worshiped great characters. If India has to regain her greatness she has to come back to terms with her spiritual legacy and again produce men of character. “TatTvamAsi”, “Human is essentially Divine”[7], proclaim the Upa-nishads, the bedrock of Indian thought. According to Swami Vivekananda, “The ideal of all education, all training, should be man-making. But instead of that, we are always trying to polish up the outside. What use is polishing up the outside when there is no inside? The end and aim of all training is to make the man grow.”[8] We need that education in our country that ushes out our animal propensities and helps the human within us to grow towards the Divine.

-Hitopadesha

Animals have four basic characteristics food, sleep, fear and reproduction. Man also possesses these be-cause these are the basic needs in economy of nature for protecting, sustaining and regenerating life. But man is distinguished from animals by dharma. And the concept of dharma is very subtle and dees a denition but it is something that we hold deep within us as the essential divine impulse, the ame of the truth or Agni of Rik-veda. This dharma manifests by mixture of the triple modes of nature (Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas) as swabhava and swadharma[9]. The rst swabhavapredominantly manifests as the ffeeling for others and loving service to fellow human beings[10]. This is the character that has been highly adored by Swami Vivekananda and he has given this as the gospel of God-Realization in this age. He said, “He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva; and if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste, or creed, or race, or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples.”[11]

The second swabhava again unique to human beings is that of beauty and Harmony; the power of ad-miration of beauty and aesthetics. And this is the dharma that should be the ideal of the business, the ideal of people who hold the power of wealth, because money is essentially a divine power whose aim is to create beauty and harmony through the possessors of this swabhava[12].

The third uniqueness of human beings is conscious will power, the swabhava of strength, fearlessness and vitality. This is marked bytremendous activity. Without the protection of this, no other dharma can manifest fully or achieve its heights. This is the guna which Swami Vivekananda wanted the youth of India to possess when he said, “Strength is life weakness is death.”[13] This is this characteristics reect-ed in the Upanishads “nayamatamabalahinenalabhyo,”[14]i.e. the highest truth cannot be grasped by weaklings.

And nally, the characteristics of wisdom, intuition and discerning intellect. For millennia this country has always kept this ideal at its helm, protected it and nourished it. This is the guna that can pierce into the realms of the innite. This is the ultimate tool for the union with the Divine. This is the one that

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the course content to meet the international standards.

OOk, so I hope I have made it clear that students can handle courses by themselves. The next one is su-pervising projects/scholars. I believe what will be better, even when profs are around, is to have a system of different groups (like focus groups) and have interactions among students. Have the senior scholars discuss recent publications. This will open up new projects and ideas for the new scholars. Being in the group, actively participating in the discussions, and trying to solve the problems together is possible. This indirectly becomes supervising scholars and projects. The senior scholars can work in ggroups and get new project proposals and collaborations as well. Hence I believe this main task can also be accomplished by students.

The third task is admin work. For that, the most efficient way is to employ trained people. When there are personnel devoted entirely for that and there is a system for that, I believe such a system will be better than the current one. Profs juggling admin work when they might not want to do it, will only lead to an inefficient system!

So the point is that alternate systems are possible, which can lead to better solutions. The money saved can be used to increase the stipend of students, now that they are going to do more work!

Revealing the scale of violence against women that goes on in streets, stations, trains, subways, cabs and each and every corner vulnerable to exploitation and harassment.For women in India, with in-numerable prowlers roaming around, it’s extremely challenging to keep themselves alive. Women are getting raped, attacked with acid, sexually abused, groped, taunted, burned and are beleaguered with problems. Out of these, most conspicuous among the ordeals are rape and acid attack. The subject of contention is that among the ordeals– rape and acid attack – which one makes the women in despair. WWith a vague idea, human beings say that it’s acid attack. Acid attack completely disgures the victim when she is exposed to acid making the scars apparent for the world to observe. But the unknown rape victim can still live in the society enveloping the fact that she was raped. In modern society the women are extremely exquisites. No matter about the atrocities they encounter, but don’t leave any remnants. Let it remain within the four walls. However, the mental trauma the victim suffers is of the same magni-tude in both the ordeals. Their minds are obsessed with depression and suicidal thoughts. In case of acidacid attack, the victim endures incessant surgeries that are done to preclude the infection caused bythe acid attack. In many acid attack cases the attackers are nonchalant and are not at all remorseful over thedevilish act of ravaging the life of the damsel, even when they are aware of the adverse conse-quences of their gruesome blatant act. The shocking reality is that the perpetrators are familiar to the family, peoplewhose advances the victim had rejected, and plan the vengeance meticulously.

The current laws and amendments are extremely sluggish and still in their infancy, where the convicts get sufficient time to evade from the criminal act committed. In the aftermath of the brutal rape inci-dent in Delhi, some provisions where revamped and are included in two new sections of the Indian penal code (section 326A) which manifests a minimum of 10 years and maximum of life imprisonment for leaving the victim seriously injured and causing acute permanent or partial damage and disability. Apart from imprisonment, section 326 A also envisages a ne that can go up to Rs. 10 lakh and the amouamount should go to the victim. Acid attack incidents call for extensive, solid and effectivelaws which continuouslymonitor and regulates the sale of acids. Since acids are readily available in markets, they fall into the hands of disgruntled perpetrators who are determined to wreak vengeance. In the case of

The place is popular not just among the students, but even among the prof.’s. While some come, deep in discussion with other prof.’s, some choose the canteen as a place to socialise with their students occasionally. Keep your ears open and you can hear a myriad of topics of conversation ranging

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Enslaved Oh Lord, What else I needIn a world of hunger driven deathI have plateful to get pleasureIn a country of cold driven kind less deathHere I am with a shelter to cherishLook at the street children nudeHeHere a fancy dress awaits meOh lord, what else I needExist the ones who still dream of schoolExist the students with overloaded resourcesEarth carries the orphans, for no body to careEarth carries countless hearts caring for meNumerous people I have, to share success and sorrowFFor the ones with no one, hell to conserve these inOh lord, what else I needGave me the strength, gifted me a heart and mindLet me put things in line my lord, let me

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If you ow like a heavenly brookI will be the bed of pebbles. If you suspend like the last drops of yesterday’s rainI will be the leaves to hold them. IIf you are the waves that kiss the forehead of horizonI will be the glittering grains of twilight. If you are the couplet of a midnight songI will be the drizzle of colorful dreams. If you are a bird that ies to eternityI will be the boundless sI will be the boundless sky. If you are the taste of deathI will be an adorned graveyard, or,If you are the fragrance of immortalityI will be the wings of time. IIf you are the entirety of human raceI will be the last man on earth. If you are the patron of seclusionI will walk away like an obedient slave.

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