The universe shapes human existence through cosmic phenomena like Earth's 29.5 km/s orbital velocity, 23.5° axial tilt creating seasons and life-sustaining water cycles, and the sun's thermonuclear fusion producing the energy that sustains all life. Humans are literally 'star children'—every atom in our bodies (iron in blood, calcium in bones) was forged in stellar cores, making astronomy a profound discipline that connects us to the cosmos and instills humility about our place in the universe.
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>> A very warm and auspicious morning to one and all present here. We extend a warm welcome to respected dignitaries on and off the das, our distinguished guests, esteemed faculty members, beloved parents and a very special welcome to our bright young energetic stars, our dear students of school of life science and biotechnology, school of smart agriculture, school of basic and applied sciences, school of health and medical sciences. I ship Mjunar from school of business >> and myself Dr. Dr. Shanitra Goss from School of Life Science and Biotechnology feel absolutely privileged to welcome you all to day one of AU Ignite 2026 the grand diksharam orientation program of Adamus University.
Today marks the dawn of an incredible chapter as our new batch of students embark their new journey of higher education seeking insight, discovery and profound personal transformation in continuation with the expedition of our university for new insight, discovery and transformation.
To set a profound and sacred tone for this journey, we begin our grand proceedings with our traditional roots.
The program will begin on an auspicious note with a soulful rendering of our national song wand mataram to be performed by the students and faculty members of the team musicorium as a note to commemorate the glorious 150 years of the composition of vand mataram and its legacy. This will be followed by our national anthem.
May we request the entire gathering to rise for the national invocation.
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Lighting of the lamp is a traditional ceremony to invoke the blessing of almighty at any auspicious occasion. So to set the platform ready for that event we will take a couple of minutes and after that we will proceed.
This is to invoke the blessings of the Almighty.
and mark the grand commencement of today's proceedings. I invite our respected dignitaries to come upon the stage for lighting of the lamp ceremony, a timeless tradition symbolizing the dissipation of darkness and the triumph of pure learning and enlightenment. I would request honorable chancellor sir, pro- vice chancellor sir and madam, senior vice president ma'am, senior vice president sir, register sir, group CEO sir, dean academics, deans, associate deans, directors and our honored guests to please come upon the stage.
Today we are honored to have with us Dr. Dr. Di Prushad Dwari as our respected guest. We request professor Dari to come up on the stage with rest of the dignitaries.
Honorable vice chancellor is on the way.
He got trapped in some traffic jam. He will be joining our program shortly.
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May I request honorable chancellor sir, senior vice president, madame, group CEO sir and our esteemed guests Dr. Di prohari sir to kindly take their seats on the dis. I request all the other dignitaries to please take your seats on the auditorium to officially initiate our academic discourse. It is our distinct privilege to invite the visionary academic administrator who drives the operational excellence across the institution. We warmly welcome professor Dr. Ankita Chakravortihachara, senior vice president admissions and academic operations to deliver the welcome address. Please mad.
Thank you so much and saw as always you have been doing a wonderful job.
A very happy morning and a successful morning to honorable chancellor sa honorable vice chancellor who is on his way to join us esteemed dignitaries and most importantly our today's great guest the students and the parents we welcome you to this big family Adamus family guru goind kopai Achara duo.
Good morning and a heartfelt welcome once again to this Adamus University family.
The shloka from the titriad carries a profound truth that sits at the heart of everything you'll experience here. It doesn't mean teachers are to be woripped as gods. Rather, it acknowledged that knowledge itself is sacred and the relationship between teacher and a student is a bridge to wisdom. In stepping into university, you are entering a space where learning is honored as a spiritual endeavor.
The curiosity you bring, the questions you ask, and my dear students, you must ask questions. The mentors you encounter, the struggles you overcome.
All of this is sacred work. You are not just acquiring credentials. You are awakening to your own potential. And the awakening begins now. As I look at your faces today, I see something remarkable.
Not just bright, eager students, but architects of your own future. You have taken a significant step. You have left behind the familiar structures of school and you are stepping into a space of unprecedented possibility. And I want you to know you are not alone in this transition. We are here to walk this journey with you.
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So thanks to you all. We welcome you that not because you chose Adamus because you are the lucky one whom Adamus has chosen.
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Over the next four years, you won't just earn a degree. You'll discover who you are. You'll find your voice. You'll learn to think critically, to challenge assumptions, to ask better questions, not just to accept answers. That's the true purpose of university the Adamus University. Now I know some of you might feel overwhelmed. The campus is larger.
The expectations are higher. There are more freedom but also more responsibility.
That's exactly how it should be orcally.
So you all when you come here do not feel in overwhelmed because Adamus University is known for its inclusivity.
You all will find a huge big family and I can commit today in coming long weekends you would not feel like going home rather you will call up your parents. Our parents.
That's what Adamus does. It gives you a home. These years are your training ground for adulthood, for leadership, for impact. At Aldmus University, we believe in something we call learning beyond curriculum.
Yes, your courses matter. Your grades matter, but what truly shapes you is what happens outside the classroom. The clubs you join, the friendships you make, the mentors you learn from, the failures you overcome, the ideas you dare to pursue. We have an ecosystem here designed for this. industry partnerships, research opportunities, innovation labs, cultural platforms, sports facilities, and faculty who genuinely care about your growth. Let me be direct about something else. The university was built on a philosophy that education is not a commodity but a transformation.
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The very reason why we see a mini India or a stronger mini eastern India under the same roof today is because of the 40 years of legacy that Adamus University carries on its shoulders is a story about a teacher. A teacher who years back thought how the education would be shaped up. How education must be made designed in India so that India becomes stronger.
The story is about professor Samit Ree, our founder chancellor who established Admus with a singular vision to create not just qualified graduates but thoughtful ethical leaders who can contribute meaningfully to society.
Whether you are in engineering, commerce, arts or any other discipline, you're part of that legacy that carries weight and that carries responsibility.
You will encounter challenges. Some of you will struggle with courses. Some will face homesickness. Some will question your choices. That's not failure. That's growth.
What matters is how you respond. Come to us. Reach out to your mentors, your peers, your counselors. This university invests in you, not just academically, but holistically. Here's what we ask you in return. When we give you so much, we do ask something in return.
And that's be curious. Ask questions.
Don't settle for ro learning. Engage with ideas that make you uncomfortable.
Be respectful. Be a culture of inclusion. Your diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and beliefs are your strength, not a division. Be accountable. Take responsibility of your choices and your impact on others.
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Be ambitious. Dream bigger than you thought possible. Your potential is far greater than you imagine right now. And finally, be kind to yourself. Growth is not linear. You'll have wins and setbacks. You'll feel confident one day and uncertain the next. That's not weakness. That's the process of becoming. Be grateful to your parents.
Your parents have dreamt for you. They have aspired for you. They have taken decisions for you. They have gone with your decisions. So always go back, touch feet of your parents, take the blessing and be thankful to the almighty that they gave you the best of the parents in this world. In the coming days, you'll register for courses, explore clubs, meet your professors, and find your spaces. Do not forget to complete your registrations. Please soak it all in.
Build your community. Make mistakes.
Laugh. Study hard. Challenge yourself.
Take risks. Four years from now, when you walk across that stage to receive your degree, it won't be just your academic achievement you celebrate. It will be the person you have become, the relationships you have built, the ideas you have pursued, the obstacles you have overcome. So, welcome to Admis University. Welcome to a community of scholars, dreamers, and doers. Welcome to the next chapter of your life. We are thrilled to have you here. Let's do the great things together. Thank you so much.
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>> Thank you, ma'am, for your deeply inspiring words. Your words have wonderfully set a precise baseline for our collective vision and highlighted the incredible responsibilities that lie ahead of our incoming students.
Ladies and gentlemen, we now arrive at a moment of absolute honor. Every great institution is anchored by a foundational pioneer whose vision shapes generations.
Please join me in extending a resounding respectful welcome to the visionary architect and revert founder of Adamus University our honorable chancellor professor Dr. Shomit Ray may I request professor Dr. Unkita Chakravoti Vhachara ma'am to felicitate honorable chancellor sir May I now request our honorable chancellor sir to address our students and illuminate their path forward.
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Good morning respected Dr. Dr. Shuranjun Dash, Vice Chancellor at Adamos University, distinguished faculty, staff, honored parents, esteemed guest, and above all the newest members of the Adamus University family.
It gives me immense pleasures to welcome each one of you to AU Ignite 2026.
Today is not merely the beginning of another academic session. It is the beginning of countless individual journeys.
Journeys of discovery, ambition, friendship and transformations.
As I look across this gathering, I do not simply see students who have enrolled for a degree. I see future scientists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, teachers, engineers, artists, innovators, leaders who will shape the future of our nations and the world.
You belongs to a remarkable generation.
A generation that has grown up in an era where technology evolves almost every day. Where artificial intelligence is transforming industries, where climate change challenges humanity and where innovation is redefining every profession.
In such a world, one truth has become increasingly clear. The future will not belongs merely to those who possesses only the information.
It will belongs to those who possesses wisdom. The wisdom to think independently, to act ethically, to collaborate with others and to continue learning throughout life. That is the true purpose of a university. A university is not a simply a place where degree are awarded. It is a place where intellect meets character, where ambition is guided by values, where freedom is balanced by responsibility and where young minds discover not only what they can achieve but also who they can become. Gurude Robinat Tagod beautifully expressed the essence of the education where he wrote where the mind is without fear and the head is held high when knowledge is free. These timeless words remind us that education is meant to liberate the mind. A university must nurture fearless thinkers, individuals who are curious enough to ask questions, encourage enough to challenge assumptions and humble enough to keep learning throughout their lives. At Adamos University, this philosophy defines who we are. We believe that education should prepare students not merely for the employment but for leaderships not merely for the successful careers but for meaningful lives. Our classroom, laboratories, innovation centers, libraries, sports facilities, cultural platforms and research ecosystems are all designated with our objective to help every student realize his or her fullest potential.
As we continuous to strengthen our the collaborations with industry, expand global partnerships, encourage research, innovation and embrace emerging technologies. Our commitment remain unchanged to provide an education that is relevant, future ready and rooted in strong human values.
I encourage each one of you to make the most of every opportunity this university offers. Attend your classes with sincerity.
Participate in research. Join clubs and societies.
Play sports. Volunteer for the social causes and take part in cultural activities.
build friendships across disciplines.
Some of your greatest lessons will come outside the classroom. Some of your the strongest friendships will last a lifetime.
And some of your biggest failures may eventually become your the greatest teachers. Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid only of refusing to learn.
Curiosity has always driven human progress. Every invention, every scientific breakthrough, every social reforms began because someone dared to ask why. And perhaps even more importantly, why not?
Never lose their curiosity and read beyond your the syllabus. Seek different perspectives. Listen respectfully to those who disagree with you. The ability to think critically and learn continuously will be your the greatest strength in a rapidly changing world.
The national education policy has envisioned universities that promote multidisciplinary learning, innovation, flexibility and holistic development.
This is not merely an educational reform. It is a vision for a stronger India. Our country today stands at an extraordinary moment in history. India is among the world youngest nations. Our scientists are reaching new frontiers in space. Our entrepreneurs are building globally respected entrepreneurs. Our research, innovation and creators are making meaningful contribution across the world. The opportunity before you the generation are unprecedented. But the future of our the nations will ultimately depend not only on the economic growth or technological advance advancement. It will depend upon the character and competence and the compassions of the young people like you. Each one of you now carries that responsibility.
Whenever your journey eventually leads to the industry, research, public service, healthc care, law, entrepreneurship, academic or the creative arts. Remember the success is never measured solely by personal achievement.
True success lies in the positive impact you create in the lives of others.
Leadership is not about the authority.
Leadership is about the service. To our parents, I offer my sincere gratitude.
Behind every student seated here is a family that has made sacrifices, nurtured dreams and placed immense trust in this institute.
Thank you for the entrusting you the children to Adamas University. We accept that the trust with humility and with a deep sense of responsibility.
Our endeavor is not only to educate them professionally but also to help them become responsible citizens and compassionate human beings. To my colleagues, our faculty and the staff, another academic year reminds us of the privilege we enjoy. Few professions offer the opportunity to shape the future every single day. Every lectures delivered, every experiment supervised, every conservations with the students has the potential to influence a life for years to come. Dear students, as a chancellor, I have had the privilege of interacting with the thousands of graduates over the year. Most do not remember every examination they wrote or every assignment they submitted. But they always remember a teacher who believed in them, a friend who stood beside them, a challenge that changed them, or a single opportunity that transformed the course of their lives.
Perhaps your own transformative journey begins today. Allow me to conclude with an ancient prayer that has inspired generation. Thomas Gatri Gamaya lead me from the darkness to the light. in a university that light is not merely the light of knowledge. It is the light of understanding, the light of integrity, the light of compassion, the light of wisdom. As we begin the new chapter, strives not merely to become successful professionals but enlightened human beings. The world does not simply need graduate. It needs people of character. It needs innovators with empathy. It needs leaders with humility.
And it needs citizens who recognize that the greatest measure of the success is a positive difference they make in the lives of others. I have every confidence that the Adamas University batch of 2026 will rise to that challenges. On behalf of the Inter Adam University family, I welcome you once again. May your years here be filled with learning, discovery, friendship, and purpose. May you leave this campus not only with a degree in your hands but with a larger visions in your mind and a stronger commitment in your hearts to serve society. Welcome to Adam City. Welcome to AU Ignite 2026.
Your journey begins today. Thank you and my very best wishes to each one of you.
A heartfelt thank you sir for your powerful words of wisdom, standard setting and robust encouragement. Your profound vision continues to be our ultimate northstar.
Moving forward, it is now my absolute privilege and pleasure to invite a distinguished globally acclaimed academician, visionary leader and eminent researcher whose exemplary leadership continues to steer Adamus University towards innovation, academic excellence, global benchmarking and profound commitment to social responsibility.
May I request professor Dr. Ankita Chakravarti madam to f felicitate our honorable vice chancellor sir.
Please join me in welcoming our honorable vice chancellor sir professor Shuron Jundash for his address. Sir sir please our honorable chancellor professor Dr. Shom my very good friend Dr. Dwari a distinguished member in the world of Indian astronomy I'm saying after a long time thank you very much for being with us today Mr. Thomas Dr. Tomita Chakrabati, my esteemed colleagues and of course my very dear students.
Could I on my own behalf and on behalf of the entire Adamas community sincerely and welcome our new group of students who would be joining Adam University today.
As you enter this university, I'm sure you have felt that you are one of the few fortunate members of the Indian youth community because at a time when India is still grappling with a gross enrollment ratio of about 30%.
That is 30% of the Indian youth between 17 and 26 who are eligible to join Indian high academics.
You are one of the few of them and you are not only one of the few of them but you are fortunate in entering an academ an an institution of academic excellence an institution which had won national and international accolades within his 14 years of existence 13 years of existence Adamus University has become West Bengal's first state private university to be accorded the coveted A grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.
Not only that, according to the recent IRF ranking, another ranking framework, our university has become the number one university within the state and I think 14th or 15th at the national level.
So you are entering a new world of learning. A world of learning which you will cherish. A world of learning which will nourish you to become perfect individuals. Perfect individuals to join the new competitive world of globalized knowledge of technological knowledge. A knowledge which will make you be to be competitive in the coming period.
My dear students, as my honorable chancellor has noted, you are not only today entering a new institution.
You are entering a new way of a new period of your life. A life which will be marked by challenges. A life where you have to negotiate certain unchartered paths. But a life which I'm sure will be fulfilling and academically rewarding.
Today we are living in a world of knowledge which is shaped by technology.
The luxuries of yesterday have become necessities of today. The knowledge which is relevant today might become irrelevant tomorrow. So knowledge is a acquiring knowledge is a continuing process and disseminating of the knowledge is also a continuous continuing process. In this university we will be exposed to you to you to new frontiers of knowledge. and and which will enable you to become not only a national citizen of the first order but also a global citizen of the first order.
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Perfection of When you have entered Adam University, you must have been impressed with excellent infrastructure is an infrastructure not only a brick and mortar, you will also be exposed to the infrastructure of the best human minds 2% scientists rank. Our university is one of the few universities which has at least four scientists who belong to that 2% of the world category scientists. Our university has a number of scholars who have not only attained degrees in India but also degrees abroad.
professor he a member of two academic science fellows he was earlier the director of both institute he was earlier the director of Indian institute of chemical bio biotechnology we have just been able to rope in it among our faculty another doc another important scientist of the region Dr. Dr. Motri Vhortachara who was a distinguished professor of Kolkata University and served with distinction as a director of the JBNTS. We have also been able to induct as a faculty member another distinguished political scientist professor Shivaji Boschurai who had Shivaji Putin Bashu who had served with distinction as a vice chancellor of Bidashakod University. We have been able to tap in a large number of resources which was human resources we have which have not been possible for other universities. Therefore my dear students will not only be not only be exposed to world-class in infrastructure, smart classrooms, smart laboratories, excellent playgrounds but also the best minds of the country.
We are happy that our university has been able to participate in an effective manner the internationalization of the Indian high education system which is one of the cardinal features of the new education policy 2020. We have been able to establish our academic connections with a large number of high education institutions. As a result of which semester that credit will be transferred to your mark sheet here. So therefore you will not only be ending by acquiring a degree of Adam University but you will also be adding credits to your mark sheets with with teaching learning process or in universities around the world.
Therefore, I would request you to think not only as a student of Aramas University. I request you to think as a responsible citizen of India so that the knowledge that you acquire in in the classrooms and the laboratories that knowledge is effectively utilized in the economic parameters of the country so that the inventions become innovations.
At the same time, the knowledge that we acquire in the in in the classrooms and laboratories can be effectively used as components to create a better world to live in.
Chinese philosopher Confucious Confucious once said to one of his disciples, if you walk with two people, you can imitate one person who stands with distinction who symbolize the best qualities of life. So try to imitate that person. The other person with whom you are walking might symbolize some of the worst features of the society.
Don't think of him. Dis completely disassociate with that person and try to rectify the errors that you have seen in the other person so that those errors do not become pandemic in the society.
You will be exposed to a new area of friendship. You will have friends AC not only across the country from across the country but you will also be having friends from outside the country but try to be discerning in developing friendships because the friendship that you will develop in this university will remain friends forever. So this be discerning, be interrogative, be challenging and be questioning. Only then you will be ideal citizens.
Spirit. So that you do not think of me.
We do not think of ourselves but we think of the entire community. It is not me but you which matters and that is the spirit which drives the Adamas University forward. That is the spirit which enables us to continuously cross important milestones to acquire new heights of excellence.
act human leadership act human responsive sympathetic leadership I'll tell my students you are very very fortunate to have someone as a chancellor who is sympathetic who is responsive to your needs will always be by your side to lead you from darkness to light for faculty members community.
So you are respons you are extremely fortunate in having such an honorable chancellor and you should always try to take advantage of that.
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We are committed in Adam University to ensure that you not only become good scientists, you not only become good social scientists, you not only become good literature, we not only become good athletes, we not only become good debtors, we not only become good musicians, But we would ensure that you become true inclusive good citizen. And only when you become a good citizen, a creative citizen, a questioning citizen, you not only serve the good of your country, you not only serve the good of your society, but you serve the cause of the entire humanity. And that is the true mark of a studentship. And we in Adam University feel committed to do everything so that you can emerge as a worldclass citizen.
Thank you very much indeed and I wish you all the best.
Thank you so much sir for your brilliant and thoughtprovoking address. Your focus on building holistic interdisciplinary intellectual frameworks truly challenges our students to reach their highest potential.
Dear students, Dsharam is an occasion where we bring the best of minds to interact with you. We are deeply privileged to welcome our first distinguished guest speaker of the day.
A phenomenal scientist and educator who has popularized astronomy and space sciences across the nation. Dr. DBI Prashad Diwari is a distinguished astrophysicist, science educator and renowned science communicator whose career spans over three decades of excellence in research, academic leadership and public outreach.
Dr. Dr. Dwari is renowned for his contribution in astronomy and science outreach and he has served prestigious positions at TIFFR, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology UK, Institute of Astronomy, Space Arts Science, Kolkata and MPLA Institute of Fundamental Research.
May I request honorable chancellor sir and honorable vice chancellor sir to felicitate Dr. Di Prashad Dari.
Please welcome Dr. Di Prashad Diwari, former director of the iconic Bila Planetatorium, Kolkata for his astonishing talk. Meanwhile, I will request rest of our dignitaries to join the audience and enjoy his lecture. Over to you, sir.
Respected honorable chancellor, honorable vice chancellor, pro- vice chancellor, distinguished guests and esteemed faculty members and my dear students. A very good morning to you all all of you. Basically as you as you just heard I'm still a student of astronomy but in the last 40 45 years studying the subject I realized that it's a neverending like any any subject it's a never- ending subject. So it will take basically to introduce the subject to all of you maybe one and a half two two and a half hours but I don't have that time. So I decided that it'll be in two parts. First from my point of view as an outsider to the university but as an well-wisher as well I should welcome you and then try to give a very short presentation as you now realize that today is a memorable day not only for the new students but also for their families who have supported them through years of hard work and sacrifice. I extend a warm welcome to each one of you as you become a part of our of this particular university family.
The word university comes from the idea of universe of knowledge. A university is not merely a place where degrees are awarded. It is a place where minds are shaped, ideas are born and leaders of tomorrows are nurtured. Today you begin a journey that will transform not only your career but also your personality, your thinking and your purpose in life.
We are very fortunate as professor Dash was saying to be pursuing higher education at a remarkable time in India's history. Our country is witnessing rapid progress in technology, infrastructure, digital innovation, healthcare, manufacturing, entrepreneurship and scientific research. India has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies and is increasingly contributing to global innovation.
The vision of Vikshit Vharat 2047 is not a just a government initiative. It is a national aspiration.
The responsibility of transforming this vision into reality rests on the shoulders of today's youth on each one of you. Whether you have chosen engineering, management, basic science, law, your discipline has a unique role in shaping the future. Although your disciplines may be different, your destination will be the same. to serve society through knowledge, innovation, integrity and compassion affecting the quality of life, balance profit with social responsibilities, discover new knowledge and ensure that development is inclusive and equitable.
So I will not go on but just mention a couple of things to you. Remember that your education should not be confirmed to the classroom or lecture theaters.
participate in research, innovation, internship, hackathons, mood course, entrepreneurship, cultural activities, sports and community engagement. Every experience adds a new dimension to your personality. And as you know, the national education policy 2020 encourages multidisciplinary learning, critical thinking, innovation, and holistic development. And let me be very frank, Adamus University encourages each one of these traits when they go for this teaching learning process. Take advantage of these opportunities.
Explore beyond your chosen discipline and life at the university will not be easy. There will be moments of success, moment of disappointment. Sometimes you may not achieve the grades you expect.
Sometimes projects may fail. Sometimes you may face rejection. Never consider failure as the end of your journey.
Dr. Abiji Abdul Kalam quote, "Dream is not that which you see while sleeping.
It is something that does not let you sleep. Dreams become reality only through discipline, perseverance and hard work. Always remember that every challenge is preparing you for a greater opportunity. Another important lesson at least for me is integrity. Knowledge without character is dangerous.
Success without responsibility is is disastrous.
That you should understand. So as future engineers, managers, scientists, lawyers, society will place enormous trust in you. Let honesty guide your decisions. Humility shape your relationships and empathy define you.
So our ancient Indian wisdom vidya darati vinam knowledge gives humility.
Humility leads to worthiness, success and happiness. But never stop be being curious. Ask questions, experiment, read beyond your syllabus. Listen to different viewpoints. Respect diversity.
Learn from your teachers. Learn from your friends. Most importantly, learn from your own experience.
India does not merely need more graduates. I was going through an article the uh students in STEAM. You know what is STEM? STEM education as a percentage of total graduates undergraduates. Do you know India is at the fifth place now after China, Russia and two other countries. India is in the fifth place.
But that should go up for India to become more developed. Right. So as Swami Bandanandi inspired the youth of our nation by saying arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached. Let these words inspire you throughout your university journey. I wish every one of you fulfilling academic life, meaningful friendships, memorable experiences and a bright future. Welcome once again to Adamus University family. May your journey here be filled with learning, discovery, purpose and success. Okay, these are the few words I wanted to mention from my end.
Now I will try to present a presentation which is my subject area but why I am choosing to talk about this subject to you. You are from very diverse background and you'll be going in different backgrounds also different vocations but let me tell you as I mentioned in the last 40 45 years what I have learned is that a single subject is not merely confined within couple of chapters or inside a book. Any subject has resonances in everything around us in our environment in our ecosystem.
So environment plays a tremendously important role in shaping a person's life guiding him through the proper pathway towards his and collective success.
And the biggest environment around us is the universe.
Environment is not just the tree or the plant or the lake or the ocean. The vast cosmos is our biggest environment. So that's why I thought that I will talk to you a little bit about what I call the cosmic horizon.
Thousands of years back when our ancestors used to look into the sky, they used to wonder what is sky, where is sky, what are those lighted dots we call stars. Is there any connection between them? With these set of question and queries, the subject of astronomy was born. So astronomy can be considered as one of the oldest subject going by the television channels and newspapers you also get an idea. It is also the most happening subject. Just to give you an idea 191 till 2000 in 100 years only three and half Nobel prizes were awarded in astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology and what is known as general theory of relativity.
But 2000 to 2025, believe me, six Nobel prizes, 17 Nobel laureates were awarded this prize for the same subject. That tells you what a tremendous importance is being given in these subjects throughout the world. And amazingly, India is not behind.
Thousands of years back our ancestors used to look into the sky, tried to wanted to know the meaning behind those lighted dots. couldn't find an answer.
What they did? They chose different parts of the sky, identified closely spaced stars, joined those stars through straight line, created imaginary figures. In this way, the whole sky was divided into 88 regions which we today called constellations of Taramandal.
But we know beyond the human eye capability, we cannot go deeper into the sky. And it was almost 417 years back when Galileo Galileo first time used the telescope he realized there is much much much more things to see than what we can even envisage through our naked eye and that with the tremendous success and technological advancements of the last 400 years has created gigantic instrument.
This is this particular telescope started working last year July in 25 where a rubin telescope do you know the cost of it $1.3 billion not million billion dollars that is the level of engagement of the policy maker industry people and the scientist as well imagine this it's called VT in a place called La Paranal in Chile Today 2 lakh 50,000 square kilometers not even a blade of grass grows throughout the year so arid so dry four 8 m class telescope is observing the sky throughout the year and believe me it's sural when I have been here couple of times when you go there you just feel a sural effect you forget about your everyday existence everyday connection and start thinking your own connection with the cosmos was but the largest telescope I should say because in eastern India not here but some places I find there are narratives which are believed by people nothing is happening in India right you have to go abroad you have to go elsewhere do you know the largest telescope yet to be built one of the five founding partners is India and Indian government has already declared in Lok Sabha the Indian contribution for building this 30 m telescope TMT will be 1,800 cr rupees for one instrument. How many of you know in 2018 again India declared seven mega science project the total planned or unplanned budget is 21,000 cr rupees and out of seven mega science project six are in astronomic astrophysics this is India don't mix up with what you read in the newspapers or television channels or certain narratives that nothing is happening in India believe me My friend, India is one of the most happening countries right what actually interested me in astronomy not my childhood days later on when I realized that so there are so many things so simple things in astronomy which you don't realize and it actually elevates our perception which ultimately brings back our consciousness.
So for example, if somebody in your household asked you what is the average velocity of earth around the sun, you will say, "Oh, this is a simple question. Why do you want to know?" Just curiosity. How many of you know 29.5 kilometer per second? Imagine a car in 1 second moving from say here to airport or somewhere. You'll say no, it's not possible. But you're forgetting you, me, 842 cr people, millions of life existing on the surface of the earth. At this very moment, we're moving at a velocity of 29.5 km. Amazing.
Which actually hit me during my very early days. See, we all think we are powerful. And as days are growing by, the younger generation thinks that they're self-contained powerhouses either muscle or intelligence or money and in some places sadly like West Bengal if you don't have anything don't bother political patronage forget about it. What I realize that we exist that you are sitting here now that I am standing here 72 times the blood passing through my heart it is happening it is because of series of accidents that has happened in the history of the earth.
Our res, our existence, evolution, origin is a result of series of chance happening. And this I call cosmic consciousness. It is nothing spiritual in that sense. No, no, no, no philosophical things or religious things attached to it. At least to me that I'm a part of it. Right? For example, I'll give you some example.
Change of seasons. You all know earth is tilted by 23 and a half° going around the sun change season changes but it was because of the change of seasons ocean currents form. It is because of the ocean currents air currents form and it is because of the air currents clouds are born somewhere and gathered somewhere else and gave us rain and fresh water. Life would not have been possible because just after earth was born it would have been a barren desert.
So you and me exist now because of this accidental tilt. Tides you all know why tides occur. It's not for the moon only.
Tides occur for the moon and the sun.
But why tides are important? Because in your class five and six you have learned life first happened on oceans. The how did it come onto the land? Every day high tides used to wash ashore multisolar organisms. Water used to go down. They used to get stranded and killed over millions of years. They got the adaptation of staying alive and from there different organisms, plants, animals, monkeys, shimpes and we have arrived. So I'm standing here because tides are there which is by accident. We don't appreciate that fact. We appreciate what is how the share market is trading, how my mutual fund and all are going up and up and up and up and how I'm secured. But what is that security? We don't know. That is cosmic consciousness. Right? For example, in total solar eclipse, sun was discovered as a new aftar. They found out milky white radiation coming out from the surface of the sun which cannot be seen on other times. When the scientists asked themselves the question, they were amazed with the answer. They were found out from the surface of the sun every second on an average 11 lakh tons 1.1 million tons of charged particles are coming out. These charged particle as they move through the magnetic field of the sun they produce this white radiation. The average velocity of these charged particles are 450 kilometer/ second. With that speed they have enough momentum enough energy if they heat any atom or molecule instantaneously evaporation. Poof. That means if I stop my lecture go out and stand on the sun the charged particle coming and falling onto my body within fraction of a second my whole body should disintegrate. Not me, you, this building, everybody. But we are alive. I'll come to that moon. Lot of lot of people think about the moon in a different way. But do you know how moon was formed? Moon was formed because of the collision of a huge ball of rock with the earth 452 kear back or 4.52 giga years back. I'm not going into the details not have time. So let us start our journey. In our class 9 we have learned light has a velocity 3 lakh kilometer/ second. The distance from sun to moon earth to moon is 3 lakh 84,000 kilometers. So it takes 1.2 seconds for the light to come from the moon to reach our eyes. That means the moon tonight you will see now is not the moon at that point of time. It is the moon which is 1.2 minute a second back and sun 15 cr kilometer 8.3 light minutes away. So whenever we look into the sky we are doing a time travel we are looking into the past that it that enters that sense of romanticism when you actually observe the night sky.
Solar system is an amazing place you all know but sun is more amazing just to give you an idea sun is a ball of gas you all know. Say imagine a football pump in lot of colored gas cut open the football will the gas inside remain like a ball it will diffuse out then how come sun being a ball of gas is not diffusing out according to the scientist 460 cr back a huge cloud of gas and dust was floating in space made up of 91% hydrogen 8% helium 1% rest other elements the average temperature was - 240° centigrade at minus 240° centigrade out of the four fundamental forces of nature Only one type of force comes into play and that is the force of self-gravity towards the center. As the gas goes towards the center the central density builds up, pressure builds up, temperature rises. Starting from - 240° centiggrade the temperature rose to 1.5 crent.
At that temperature four hydrogen nuclei as if they fuse together produce a helium nucleus. This thermonuclear fusion reaction our scientists have been able to perform it in the labs but they cannot control it till 5 years back. So they used to explode as a hydrogen bomb.
But inside the sun in a very regulated manner when four hydrogen becomes a helium huge amount of energy is produced. It is being produced now that energy tries to come out. It produces a back pressure called radiation pressure.
And this radiation pressure when it exactly balances matches cancels the inward force of gravity sun being a ball of gas remains there hanging for millions of years. So you realize what I'm trying to say. You and me at present at this moment are alive because 15 cr kilometers away in a ball of gas two opposite forces are exactly cancelling each other. a little this way that way.
My friend either sun will become big or it will become small and within 8.3 minutes everything goes on earth but we think we are so powerful we are not that humility vidya vam knowledge also gives that bay humility also right amazing sun from outside the one picture on the right you see it's called the photosphere And the over the photosphere in a very colored colorful gas called chromosphere. But one of the beauties of the sun is called solar corona. Corona is a Latin word means crown.
Last year one of my friend took this the great American solar eclipse. Amazing right? It shows the magnetic field of the sun. The charged particle coming out of the solar surface.
Sun becomes active. This particular picture, let me tell you, you can go to Google and chat JP and find out whether I'm telling you correct. Taken in 2012 by NASA Solar Dynamical Observatory. Do you know the total effective cost of one photograph?
$1.1 billion not million billion 110 crore dollars.
Why? Because scientists in the last 30 years have realized sun is intimately interacting with each one of us individually every second of our existence including night.
Do you know how many particles at this moment is passing through you me on an average or even if it is 12:00 in the night then also two followed by nine zeros so many particles every second and they are called neutrinos right and we think we are the king and queen of ourselves amazing so sun is not a small simple objects tremendous amount of explosions are happening thousands of tons of gas are getting thrown out reaching a height of 25 to 30,000 kilometers making beautiful arch and loops falling back onto the surface.
Sorry. Sometimes they get thrown out with such a force they get detached from the sun's surface and flow past the whole solar system. Actual photograph taken in 2016. Do you know the gases coming up and falling? What is the size of this cavity?
Three earth tint will go side by side inside that. That is the most powerful person, individual, whatever entity around us. And we think all these 10-ft posters, the standies and posters, those people, they're the most powerful. No.
Right? And these charged particle as they come, they can hit you and me and instantly kill us. Why we're alive? By accident.
By accident, Earth behaves like a bar magnet. around the earth like a peels of an orange. There is an invisible magnetic shield. The charged particle they come and slam onto the magnetic shield cannot enter flow past the earth and we think you are the king and queen of ourselves. But the north and south magnetic polar region the charged particle do enter interact with the atmospheric molecules and make them glow and what we get to see according to me one of the most beautiful pictures right Aurora.
So instead of saying who's and you realize how sun every second is interacting with earth right solar system according to the scientists 460 cr back when from the disk of gas and dust the sun was getting born at the center in the outer periphery where the temperature is less gas and dust condensed coagulated coal and gave birth to spherical hot objects for millions of years they got dissipated the heat and at least the first four Mercury Venus Earth, Mars became solid, rocky, terrestrial. Whereas Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune is made up of gas. This is class 6, seven stuff geography, right? Your son or whoever will write yes Saturn is a ball of gas gets one out of one becomes happy, right? And you also know that a tell me if you believe Saturn is a ball of gas. As you are going down the road, you come to a sha temple and see an image of shi right pit typical color with bush where from they're getting this image it's a ball of gas.
So what I want to say which was told long time back that every Indian citizen should have a scientific temper.
We have failed to achieve that even today.
Scientific temper is very tough. You cannot believe Saturn is a ball of gas and then go to a shi temple and look wow wonderful looking god right.
I'm not joking. I'm not hitting any particular religion. What I'm saying the belief system sometimes becomes so irrational.
But we give credibility to the belief system more than the reality.
You young mind you should not revolt.
There is nothing to revolt. You should analyze and analytically through discussion through discourses start making a science believing society which is very tough. Using my mobile does not mean I'm a scientific temper person. Right?
all eight planets in the eight planets in their actual photographs but Mars is becoming important last 40 years Mars this Mars that why because they have found this geomorphological structure lot of people ask me sir why do you have to say I'll tell you the truth today which is not given openly in any internet any paper because of some stigma Martian soil or subs soil may have frozen water that can build virus, bacteria, parasites.
How many of you know in every year on an average few hundred kilograms of rock come scattered from Mars and land onto Earth? Most of the time you don't know because 74% of the surface is water.
If Martian soil or subs soil is a bacteria virus parasite now my friend sitting on a rock if it lands onto earth believe me within 6 months to three years the whole life will go because in corona virus in one and a half years officially 4.8 8 cr people died but the scientists knew how the corona virus looks or behaves here nobody has seen those bacteria virus parasite.
So for you to be healthy for your future generation to go on continuing with life we should know whether there is life on Mars not spending money by scientist right and in this case I have to mention one thing 15th August 2012 the then prime minister declared in the Lok Sawa India is ready for a mission to Mars almost every country started laughing China Zinwa press agency bring out with the lead news Indian scientists are going to prove themselves as clowns and jokers But we know the story.
In 2014, 24th September 8:02 a.m., India became the first country in the world on its very first attempt successfully entered Mongol John Mars orbiter mission around Mongol. No country starting from 1959 has been able to do that. And the total budget 484 cr rupees.
Lot of people skeptics they challenged me after this happened. Sir you are talking about India 19% population cannot get two square meals a day BPL.
What's it necessary to spend 484 cr rupees? Do you know according to India CG report last year Diwali and Kalipujour the amount of fireworks that was exploded was 6,200 crores that's not a wastage but 484 cr is a wastage mindset you have to change that right and 2012 curiosity landed NASA object satellite show seen geological structures liquid water has to flow because pebbles and dried up river beds.
So when 24th September 2014 mom successfully entered Martian orbit it was an achievement for India in the last coming 10 years tremend you can read yourself even tremendous amount of projects each better than other right but 14th July 2023 Chandra Jan when it went on everybody was happy because again history was made on 23rd August when India achieves the milestone of being the first country to successfully land on the south pole of the moon.
Astros, Adita, Gaganjan, each one a one after another a success. And I don't think nobody knows about it last year.
$1.5 billion worth of satellite, one single satellite has been sent onto space. Do you know the name NISAR? What does Nissar mean?
NASA ISRO synthetic aperture radar where majority of the money has been given by NASA. Do you know why? And I'm telling you NASA director's Christmas lecture. According to NASA, in the last 66 years, among all the spacecraft that has been sent up into space successfully, they have been put onto their correct orbit 72% times. And my friend in the last 44 years of ISRO effectively among all the spacecraft that has been sent up by ISRO successfully they have been put onto their correct orbit 91% times. That is NASA's declaration.
This is India right? I understand you take GRE you give LTS you do this and that ultimately to earn money in dollars or pounds or euro or whatever that's a different story but if you say today oh knowledge also now I will not believe that right so Isro I think my next speaker he's from ISRO so he'll be speaking about the successes so I'm not going to that and I have just now five to seven minutes.
Wow.
If I take you out of the solar system, these are actual pictures. You will say I don't see see these things. You know why? I human eye has a deficiency called perception of vision. Within oneth of a second, whatever amount of light enters through our pupil, falls on the retina, the optic nerve takes them to the back of our head. Our eyes cannot integrate light like a chip of your mobile phone.
Otherwise you would have seen every dot in the sky is a star and there are huge gas clouds and this is important. Astrophysics is the elitist subject. Why? If I ask you for your ID card all the letters that are written there stop just the photograph. I have to tell you what is your temperature, what is your height, what is your weight, how long you were born. Just the photograph.
Possible not possible right? Don't forget for a star it is just the signal of light and from that scientists talk about temperature, chemical composition, velocity, physical, chemical processes.
So you also take the spectrum of the star and do you know almost 100 years back who was the first person who said that if you look at the light of the star you can find out everything about it. He's known as the father of stellar astrophysics. Come on Gorbito Bangali please anybody make nacha five times he was nominated for Nobel prize but since he was very anti-British it was not given to him this is our legacy you should follow that our legacy I'm not saying follow Magnacha you can be yourself only you cannot be magnacha but follow the legacy So stars come at different mass range, different surface temperature.
But if I talk about the life and death of stars, it will take a 2-hour lecture and I have 2 minutes, right?
Stars are born from interstellar clouds of gas and dust. You want to see real pictures?
1,000 solar system will form out of this single gas cloud. But a PhD student verifying 2.5 million pixels of this single photograph will tell you see upstairs you see the green blue oxygen 5 oxygen 6 middle blue neutral hydrogen corner white titanium below yellow sulfur much below black iron a little side green zinc or molive denim a picture tells a You have to be extremely resourceful to do meaningful astrophysics. But that is the goal of most of the students. Stars die differently depending on their initial masses. Stars whose initial mass is 1 to eight times the mass of sun.
They end up through lot of processes which I'm not going but end up in these things called planetary nebula. for the last 30 years. These are the topic of my research and our team has found out when the star gives out shed shells the shock wave produces molecules. Nobody believed it but we are lucky that out of these 72 predicted molecules 65 have been discovered in the atmosphere of these objects.
So astrochemistry stars which are little bigger one after another they burn the material inside and it ends into iron. Iron cannot fuse together iron nucleons. So the star becomes rigid. All the material layers try to fall at the center gets a kick from the iron blast the star. The temperature reaches trillion trillion degrees centigrade. And believe me my friend when I say the supernova explosion is important. Why? The blood that is flowing through your body iron red blood corpus limoglobin. If you ask yourself where from that iron atom has got into your body through food. How in food? Oh from the plant or from the goat which has eaten the plant. The plant has got it from the soil. The soil has got it from the mines. How in the mines?
Because according to the most subscribed theory of our universe 1,377 cr back when earth was born out of a very small area pointlike area only two elements were formed hydrogen and helium. Today you come to know each atom of iron in your blood, each atom of calcium in your bones, teeth, sodium, potassium, whatever your body is made up of up. Now, millions of years back, it was only produced inside a star.
So you, me, the cat, the monkey, the dog, everybody, we are literally star children. We're the children of stars.
And how come the children of stars kill each other like what we see? How come they become so deceitful with one another? How come they try to find the shortcut to success?
That's why astronomy it makes your mind much more broader, much more diverse. So my friend gas starts again gas but there's a lot of kitery going on in between every generation produces complex molecules and it has given an answer to this very basic question life in the universe and after almost 40 years scientists have realized life could not have happened on earth the raw material was not there so now they believe the seeds of life not aliens Seeds of life came from outside.
We ourselves are aliens and we think try to find out aliens elsewhere. This subject is called astrobiology. So astrophysics, astrochemistry, astrobiology, astrocomputing, astroatistics, astromatics, one single subject. That's why I thought the first lecture to you people should be in this subject which is so much multiddisciplinary. Okay, I don't have time. I'll not talk about black holes but ultimately I will say that we live in a galaxy called Milky Way Akash Ganga 200,000 stars we are not at the center 28,000 lighty years away from the center and you know this picture was taken by recently by James Webb telescope here each dot is a collection of 10 to 20,000 CR starts a galaxy and the biggest triumph of human being being as very small entity is this 25 to 30 cm of your brain power and ultimately it has mapped the universe here every dot is not a star but a galaxy and this is how our universe looks.
This picture demands explanation from you. Why? Because the joy the simple pure joy you will get out of deciphering this is unimaginable and the recognition your sector 5 job nida job hyderabad job will not give you recognition will not give you happiness why I'm saying this can you show me a 45 year old 50y old very very happy gol like software engineer where are They're all burnt out.
But science, talking to nature, talking about cosmos in a structured way will give you pleasure till the end of your life.
Right?
So it ultimately boils down to 1,377 years ago as if our universe started from a single point called the big bang hypothesis. But the technology I just run through just run through technology inputs and applications amazing astronomical instrumentation you must have heard these names CCD technology segmented mirrors active and adaptive optics optical interferometry very difficult because you have to match the phase of optical light it's extremely difficult and quantum optics and you need mathematics believe me hardcore mathematics right but see this AI for last two years you know you know I'm doing a course in AI do you know when AI was first introduced in India any idea of you young boys and girls 43 years back and people came to know about it when they saw big holdings videoorn washing machine with fuzzy logic That was the beginning of AI.
When they came to know that IRCTC Indian railway system has done their bookings reservation system based on neural networks that is AI.
So AI was always there but this is a hoopla right almost consumerist hoopla AI. So AI, machine learning, deep learning, everything has been used last 30, 35 years and I was a part of it. So I know large data, data analytics, simulation, innovative software, photonics, nanotechnology and electronics all now subscribes to astrophysics.
You will be an engineer. electrical, electronics, mechanical, every anything computational challenges all these big big words that you read now everything started with astronomy including worldwide wave 1988 out of the 200 first associates in the world India had two unfortunately I was one of them it started from CERN to manage the tremendous volume of data coming out in astronomy And today you know www internet everybody knows it. It started with astronomy. So VR and AR virtual and augmented reality first started with astronomy. Now it is even in the entertainment part all sorts of thing.
So astronomy and astrophysics does not need only physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology all these engineering subjects.
I'll give you an example.
42 years back around that time I joined an institute for my PhD only two students were taken very tough entrance test luckily me and a mechanical engineering graduate from IIT Kpur he did his PhD in quantum cosmology and at present the director of Raman research institute it doesn't matter whether he said I have done electrical engineering how Will I go to don't if you have the aptitude and this you can reach anywhere right so my friend good education is not what fills your head with facts but what stimulates your curiosity and atomus university I strongly believe is one of those place you then learn for the rest of your life and this is my this is not mine Plato first said one cannot teach anybody body anything one can only make them think and a very very important person said this Albert Einstein the value of college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think college education what you are having so don't go into a plus b whole square a plus b whole square a plus b whole square going to the coaching center whatever the s says write it down mug up the notes and vomit it in the exam paper get say 8.9 9 9.2 CGPA nothing nothing believe me right so be there man just one minute I will spend I'm talking about my experience I told you 42 years back right 1800 people applied for the admission test admission of the PhD the cutoff criteria at that time 80% in MSE 80% in BSC See 85% in Madhameic and Ucha Madame then only you can apply 1,800 people applied 90 were chosen on the basis of the numbers and recommendations they were called to Pune everything paid for train hotel very good hotel Oshaka executive in Pune first the day of admission test 8:30 to 10:30 written test results come out at 12:30 out of 88 not 90 went 88 8 27 were selected. Go for lunch 2:00 to 5:00 first interview out of 27 nine were chosen. And same day 6:30 in the evening to 10:30 in the night the final interview out of nine two were chosen.
Even today they maintain this.
Don't expect the system is not doing anything for me. What have you done for yourself? Tell me first. Then you blame the system.
How much diligent are you or will be in your coming four years? Then you can demand from the state, the country, the system.
This is what is called excellence.
Pursuit of excellence. Okay. Enough. So astronomy is a subject which gives us the frontier of knowledge and consciousness.
And to end up Wonderful words by Raindra who according to me >> is the best scientific minded person in the last 400 years of Bengali culture right and lot of people tell me oh you don't do research right not there not much gray matter here so you talk to people in every place no I thank my mentors in this one was my research guide professor Jayto Vishna Naldikar passed away two years back and another was not my guide but my friend for 15 years till his death in 2016.
This person has really made me motivated to talk to every branch of people every level and uh this is that person you all know him I don't have to name him right thank you very much thank you sir for that absolutely mesmerizing journey through the stars and signs Your words have truly ignited a deep flame of scientific curiosity and wonder in all of our hearts.
To keep the momentum soaring higher, we have another exceptional space pioneer with us. It is an absolute honor to introduce Dr. Tito Proim Dash, the esteemed director of Spain's uh science program office at the Indian Space Research Organization. I request the technical team to please facilitate.
Sir, we'll be delivering the address in the online mode.
So we are truly honored to welcome Dr. Titra Proim Dash in online mode to uh introduce sir Dr. Titra Pratim Dash is a distinguished space scientist.
>> Yeah.
>> Hello.
>> Hello. planetary researcher and scientific administrator who currently serves as the director space science program at ISRO headquarters. In this role, he oversees and coordinates the scientific programs and activities of the department of space playing a pivotal role in advancing India's space science initiatives.
A visionary scientific leader and administrator, Dr. Dash has made significant contributions to shaping India's space exploration journey from conceptualizing future missions and preparing strategic road maps for space science exploration to policy formulation, mission implementation and the effective utilization of scientific data. His unwavering commitment to scientific excellence and innovation continues to strengthen India's position as a global leader in space research exploration.
Sir, we welcome you to share your insights on India's historic space achievements and the massive technological opportunities waiting for this generation. Welcome you sir. Over to you.
>> Uh thank you very much to all of you assembled here. Uh I could not be present in person but definitely the best wishes are there for you. So uh am I audible? Can anybody confirm whether I'm audible to you?
>> Yes sir. Perfect. You're perfectly ordered, myself.
>> Perfect. Okay. Thank you so much. So, uh I will share my screen with you and in the coming 30 minutes I shall take you to a journey of excitement and share a few thoughts with you.
Before I do so, can anyone confirm whether my slide is visible to you?
>> Yes, sir. It's visible.
>> Sir, it's visible.
>> Visible. Okay. Yeah.
>> So, uh friends, as we assemble here, we understand that many of us have uh been waiting for an important milestones or milestone of our lives. Like when we have come to uh this prestigious university Aramas University and we have an expectation uh for the few years and we are also fortunate that we have come across lot of uh students from different schools and different walks of life different backgrounds. Now this is the time when you have joined together and for the few years you will study together and when you study together there will be friendship built among you among yourselves and this friendship will remain throughout the life and once it uh last throughout your life definitely when you are going to play your role to um you know to serve your country whatever path you pave not necessarily everybody has to pave the path of uh physics chemistry or engineering or biology whatever is it the way you are going to contribute to your country this friendship definitely is going to go a long run because you will synergize your capabilities with lots of inspiration with lots of sympathy uh to make this country better and more mighty now today in this few minutes I am going to share with you my perspective on space science uh as a domain of inspiration and nevertheless you can always translate this excitement to the other domains.
Okay. Now I will share with you how did we start and what did we learn and where we are heading to.
So you see uh my friends the picture which you are able to see at the top.
This is a picture when uh the sun was very active and it blew some of its material the plasma material. Some of this material hit the moon and when it hit the moon um the side which was facing this impact of the solar plasma felt lot of disturbance and lot of atoms and molecules got thrown up from the surface of the moon which became a part of the moon's very thin atmosphere and you know that number of atoms and molecules per unit volume at that side of the moon increased around 10 times. So this is something remarkable and which has been shown by India for the first time.
Many of you are aware of this picture wherein uh you are able to see the iconic picture returned by Chandrean one. You are seeing the signatures of hydroxil radical which is due to the water vapor in the polar regions of the moon. On the left hand side you are able to see a cartoon wherein you are seeing the ions coming from the sun which we say call the solar wind. They're interacting with the surface of the moon's surface and they're telling some uh unique physics that how this solar wind interacts with the surface of the moon which were not known before we reach one. The picture which you are seeing here the close-up picture of the moon it is not really a close-up picture. This picture was taken from an altitude of 100 kilometers from the moon surface and this is presently the sharpest resolution camera ever in the world I repeat ever in the world which has been flown in Chennai 2 by India called the orbital high resolution camera which is providing the moon's image at an unprecedented resolution of around 30 cm just like a food scale and if you see the picture here this picture is depicting how the Mars orbiter mission found different atoms and molecules in the exosphere of the Mars giving some clue how the Mars which once upon a time retained a very thick atmosphere lost its atmosphere over time and what could be the possible mechanisms and the graph which you are seeing here uh in the bottom left corner is also something pretty unique which shows what are the elements present on the moon surface surface in the southern polar region.
The result has come from the Chennyan 3.
Friends, all that I want to say it is a matter of excitement. India has been today the country to have given the world the first of its kinds of knowledge in different domains of space science. You can be proud to be an Indian today and you have got lots of responsibilities ahead and that's how the your university your mentors teachers have got lots of roles to play in your in your lives. This is the excitement which we have created and let us see how did we start um with a small historical recollection.
Prince B started around 1940 or if I say around that time pre-independence there were uh two brilliant sons of mother India one was professor Dr. Homi Jiangir Bhava and Dr. Vikram Saravay Dr. Homi Jahir Bhava you know that today he is regarded as the father of the nuclear program of the country and Dr. Sarah is regarded as the father of the Indian space program and it was in 1940s when Dr. Hamhaba said it is the duty of people like us who stay in our own country and build up outstanding schools and schools of research such as some other countries are fortunate to possess.
It is asked to build. Who else will build? Will somebody else come and build for us? No.
Professor Vikram Sarvi said in the community of nations which we must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of human and society and you have to remember when they were telling all this India was yet to get independence and Dr. Dr. Homi Jangir Bhav founded TI for effort at Institute of Fundamental Research. It was in 1945 and Victim Saravi founded physical research laboratory in 1947. And you can imagine during the independence era lot of problems were there which were eating up a newly born independent country.
Whatever problem you can think of the problem of poverty, the poverty, the problem of health, the problem of malnutrition, the problem of education, whatever problems you could list, every problem was present in a newly independent country like India. And despite that they were thinking we should do this, we should have these kinds of things for India to progress.
Survival is not enough. But meaningful contribution globally earns respect. and friends who will not agree with me when we say strength only respect strength and that's how after after the postindependence our space program started and initially we didn't have access to rockets our rocket program started much later we started with sounding before sounding rockets we started with scientific balloons and you are seeing in this picture Dr. Dr. Homi Jahir Babha and his team members they were launching scientific balloons and in these scientific balloons they were attaching certain instruments for scientific studies of the upper atmosphere and the cosmic rays and these balloons is to go up to an altitude of 30 to 40 kilometers from the main sea level and cosmic studies were the uh domain which we started with our scientific exploration started with And um soon after that in 1950s 1956 to be more precise another son of the soil professor Shishir Kumar Mitra many of you know his name he was the disciple of Archery Jagadish Chandra Bos he established the ionospheric field station under the University of Kolkata at Haringata which is around 50 kilometers northeast of the city of Kolkata and something interesting happens there you know the magnetic equator passes is through the southern tip of India where the space program started in 1960s. I will show that in the next slide. But above that belt above the geomagnetic equator and below the geomagnetic equator symmetrically in the north and south there is some enhancement of electrons electron density uh which we call the equatorial ionization anomaly EIA and those phenomena uh give you a proper understanding of the interesting phenomena which are happening in the tropical region tropical ionosphere like ionosphere of our country India and professor Shishir Mutra started that program. Today also this program is running.
But in 1960 something more interesting happened. The Tumba equatorial rocket rocket launching station Tuls was established and the motivation was to study the ionosphere near the magnetic equator. As I have mentioned uh here the magnetic equator passes through the southern tip of the country and tumba that it is very close to the city of Tiruanapuram and there from we have started the space program we by sending the sounding rockets to study certain phenomena like equatorial electrojet. So in this talk I may not have sufficient time to tell you about all these details. No need also but those who are interested can definitely find out how the ionosphere is very much different near the magnetic equator. What is meant by equatorial electrojet equatorial ionization anomaly etc. And that's how this program started. Now after this historical recollection, if I come back today up to 206, what are the scientific missions we had?
If I ask you a quiz question, what is what was the first scientific satellite which India has sent or what has been the satellite first sent by India? The answer you already know it is Arya. So area factor was launched in 1975 um which was concentrating on X-ray astronomy and also certain space-based observation. Then by 1994 we had missions called SOS wherein we have dedicated the study to the gamar bus study and you can see these one and two they were astronomy missions. In this picture I have done some color coding.
The blue ones are the ones which are for astronomy. The orange colored ones are the missions which are to study the sun or the sun earth connection or the study of the ionosphere. The greens are the ones which are the missions which have been cloned for the study of the planetary bodies of the solar system.
Now you see in 1994 we had a program to study the gamma debus the rocks. Then we had the exea it is again an astronomy experiment which was flown in 1996. Then we had missions some other missions wherein we flew a payload called socks in 2023 which was studying the sun and we had very soon in 2028 the Chennai one mission which is remarkably uh you know celebrated for the discovery of lunar water and some more discoveries. Then we had some experiment flown called Ranian telescope RT2 which studied the high energy solar flares and the diffused cosmic extra background. Then also we had lot of missions like youthad for the ionosphere. Then we had the remarkable Mars orbiter mission which flew in 2013 and which reached Mars in year 2014 and which is regarded for the first detection of supraothermal argon atoms in the exosphere of Mars and also the study of exosphere of the Mars. Then we had a remarkable satellite astroat which is the dedicated x-ray the dedicated astronomy mission of the country studying different celestial bodies and processes in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. And then we had after that Chandrean 2 mission in 2019. You are aware that Chandrean 2 is still operating with eight scientific instruments as an orbiter around the moon.
Then we were having Chandrean 3 which landed on the lunar southern polar region in 2023.
And then we had two great missions. One is the mission to study the sun. The Aditial one um which is studying the sun from the first sun earth lag ranch point where the gravitational field between the sun and earth they cancelled out.
And then we have the latest mission which flew as a science mission in 2024 the exposat X-ray polar emitter frontier which is also an astronomy mission. So the friend this is to tell you what we have done so far and I will tell you what are the things which we have obtained in this course of exciting journey of our scientific exploration from space. So if you see the India's lunar exploration the first two missions Chandrean one and two were orbiter based wherein the Chandrean 3 mission has been a lander rover based exploration in the orbiter based exploration you get the advantage of uh studying the moon as a whole because moon rotates from the west to west and the orbiter is rotating in the north south north polar orbit. So when you combine these two motions you are able to cover the entire moon. On the other hand, when you have a lander rover motion uh kind of a mission like the way we had in January 3, you are able to have direct access to the uh particular region of the moon and then you are able to study uh whatever you wish to study on the surface of the moon or the near surface environment of the moon and these are the scientific experiments which we have carried for the Chenrean one, Chenan 2 and Chandrean 3 and Chandrean one was an international collaboration mission wherein the yellow colored boxes have been the scientific instruments or experiments which we have carried from the other countries but Chandrean 2 and Chandrean 3 have been totally indigenous and let me tell you certain interesting outcomes of these missions Chandrean one is known for the discovery of lunar water and also observation that around 20% of the solar wind photons they deflect back from the moon surface which was contrary to the existing belief that everything called the solar wind gets 100% absorbed by the moon surface. This mission s showed that it is not so around 20% they return from the moon surface as energetic neutral atoms and using this energetic neutral atoms they the scientists mapped some small magnetic patches on the moon which are known as mini magnetospheres although moon does not have a global magnetic field but there are certain patches of the magnetic fields of the moon. It also captures some signatures of the recent volcanic activities on the moon and also the lava tubes on the moon surface in which the astronauts once they go to moon can take refuge before they build up some lunar base for further scientific exploration. This mission has got a pretty big global global impact. It has challenged many long-term beliefs and it has also sparked a global resurgence on lunar exploration. And if you see most of the Asian countries have raced to the moon, Japan, China they also have raced to the moon after this Chandrean one mission.
And now renewed interest has happened.
Today you speak of the RTB mission and also different other countries racing towards the moon. From Chandrean one we went ahead with Chandrean 2. This is one slide which tells let us not go to the complications of this. Let me tell you the crux of this message. The message is Chandrean 2 mission stood on the shoulder of Chandrean one mission wherein the lessons learned from Chandrean 2 have helped to configure the science scientific instruments of Chandrean one somewhere we have increased the range of the operation of the instrument some time we have enhanced the sensitivity of operation sometimes we have adopted different strategy of operation itself and that's how Chandrean one has helped to build on Chandrean And that's how we have got very good scientific outcomes of the Chandrean 2 orbiter out of these eight experiments.
It has done unambiguous detection of the surface butter rice. If you remember in generan one whatever we have seen on the surface they were not detected directly as water molecules they were detected as hydroxil molecules O genrean to confirm that they were H2O.
It also mapped different elements like magnesium, aluminium, silicon at high spatial resolution of around 12 kilometers. Also as I have mentioned previously it has taken unprecedented high resolution pictures of the lunar surface which is interesting in terms of both science and technology around 30 cm spatial resolution. It has also studied the dynamics of argon 40. It is interesting to note that argon 40 which is a product of the radioactive disintegration of potassium 40 which tells you lot of physics about the moon's interior. What has happened?
Argon 40 works as a tracer or proxy to many of the processes which you can infer if you study Agon 40 which has been done for the first time in Chandan 2 mission. We have done it. Then it has revealed several structures like buried craters and those things which you cannot see with a visible camera. You can see those only with the help of radio waves which can go down to the surface with instruments like synthetic aperture radar or these kinds of radio wave instruments and also there has been detection of several solar micro flares.
Although it is a moon mission but there was an instrument which was studying the sun and it gave lot of interesting um revealed lot of interesting physics of the solar flares. Uh which is also interesting to be to understand how the corona of the sun is so much high compared to the photosphere chromospiration and this has also had very good global impact. It provided sharp images and also high resolution elemental maps of the entire moon and also enhanced global understanding of the moon's custal composition. Then came Chandrean 3. Chanzian 3 we have studied from the rover and the lander platform uh the aspects of the ground ground vibrations which might be due to cispensity which might be due to the microbiterite impact on the moon surface also the thermophysical properties of the lunar regalith the near surface environment of plasma like the electrons floating around the moon surface protons floating around sometime they're recombining sometime they're independently existing keeping a plasma sheet on the moon's environment. Also, the rover has roved different places around the landing site and studied different places the elemental composition and also there was a propulsion model in the uh orbital propulsion model at the genre 3 which was observing the earth from the moon's orbit earth as an exoplanet which is also interesting for any future exoplanet mission by India. So friends, this time is not really sufficient to share all the excitement with you and I have a few more things to tell. All that I wanted to tell is we have done so far quite a lot of exploration and much more excitements are awaiting and which you have to do. Now, Chandayan 3 has given major scientific outcomes like it validated the lunar magma ocean hypothesis that moon once upon a time was covered by magma and this hypothesis has been proven by our mission and it also had very good global impact because India has been the country that has landed for the first time ever in the southern polar region of India and India has been provider of first of its kind kinds of scientific results from the Duna south polar region.
Friends, we have flown the Mars orbiter mission with a suit of instruments and mass orbit mission also has been responsible for several first of its kinds of discoveries. One thing is out of the two satellites of Mars Demos and Phobos, our bus orbiter mission has been the mission that has been able to picture the part side of the Demos.
Demos is somewhere here around 23,000 kilometers from Mars while our orbit went to around 70,000 kilometers. So we got a good visibility of the rear side of the Demos which has not been possible by any other mission. And also if I have to summarize what other uh scientific discoveries which our Mars barbarator mission uh was credited with they include first ever study of the Mars evening side exosphere when is the local evening in the Mars. Suppose you're standing on Mars and it is evening how will be the exosphere of the Mars in terms of different gas atoms molecules. The mission has also provided good study on the Martian polar ice caps. Mission has also provided glo global studies on the Martian dust storms. You know M Mars is very much known for the dust storms and high resolution imaging of the paret of the demons which I have mentioned and also the global albido maps that is how the light is reflected from the from the Mars and that has got a lot of important scientific features because when you know how much radiation is coming back from the Mars you can understand how much is the energy budget of Mars, how much energy from the sun is intercepted by Mars, how much is retained by Mars and how energy is coming out of that. So this energy intake drives lot of process processes on on Mars.
So that's how these are all interlin science which uh one input of one problem statement fits another problem statement and it works or it grows to understand one planet and this in turn helps understanding different other kinds of planets and India has been the first nation to have reached the Martian orbit on its first attempt. So and it it provided the cost effective exploration uh which the entire globe was really excited to know and then we had sorts of astronomy missions. We had the mission like Astros which has provided lots of discovery classes of missions. Because of the quity of time I may not have sufficient time to go through each and everything.
It is not necessary. Also many of this information are available in the internet. My job is only to share the excitement with you. Then also we had the mission like Aditan carrying a suit of instruments as I have shown here uh to study the sun from the first lag branch point between the sun and the earth where the you are going to get the 24x7 view of the sun without being obstructed by the earth. Okay. So that is the beauty of the first lag branch point and also another beauty of the lag branch point is first lag branch point is you are outside the magnetosphere of the earth and when you are outside the magnetosphere of the earth you are able to stud the charged particles from the sun. If you are within the magnetosphere of the earth the charged particles may not reach you because they are deflected by the magnetic fields of the of the earth.
If you see this is a schematic of the picture of the sun. This is the core of the sun where the nuclear fusion happens and this is the radiative zone and conveictive zone of the sun. The overall radius of the sun is around 7 lakh kilometers. And at the age of the sun, if you take a pill like an apple pill, if you peel out the sun's skin around 2,000 kilometer is the region where you have the photosphere and the chromosphere of the sun and after that you're having a transition region beyond which you have the solar corona. And Aditan was studying this region photosphere, chromosphere and the solar corona from the very closely on the surface of the sun which is also for the first time any country has done so far and Adita has been the first ever mission to have captured the full solar disc in the near array wavelength which is very important wavelength if you have to study how energy is transported from the core of the sun to the surface of the sun and it also had many discoveries. which are first of their kind class and this is globally respected mission and many space agencies are now collaborating coordinating with Aditan to have coordinated observations on on the sun and it has also been able to capture the effects of many geomagnetic storms. uh some effect you were able to see here these are all aditan observations I may not have sufficient time to tell you as for example if you see here this graph this was measuring particles so far they were so good all of a sudden you see the storm has hit when I say storm it is not the issue of atmospheric storm the solar storm and the solar storm has pushed in lots of charged particles along with strong interplanetary magnetic field so these charged particles pushed by the solar The sun are seen by this seen here. All of a sudden you see an enhancement of hydrogen and helium.
Correspondingly you see here in this blue graph all of a sudden you see a disturbance of the magnetic field and you see the X-rays which are coming from the sun as a result of such activity from the sun. So this mission is studying the sun and capturing the measured events which are happening. And thanks to the solar activity, thanks to the fact that we have sent this mission when the sun was active, now we have seen the solar active peak period and when the activity will come down further slowly over the next five to six years, Aditan will be able to capture this whole transition. In the ESPOST mission, we have sent uh two instruments to study the X-ray bright X-ray sources, astronomical sources to study the X-ray intensity variation which we say the timing information how the blinking of the stars in X-ray tell lot of physics.
It also is able to find the spectroscopic signature of the X-rays which are coming from the astronomical sources which will tell lot of elemental processes elemental abundances in the stars and also the polarization of the X-rays which are coming from uh these sources which will tell about lot of magnetic information about the magnetic topology processes in the uh astron aromical source itself and the medium through which the light is passing and if you see the immediate future we are gearing up for the Chan for mission wherein you are we are planning to bring the lunar legolith to the India for analysis on earth we are going to have two launches since we are not having a very big launcher at present we are dividing or sharing the work between two launchers launch one and launch two to do this job then we are having chundan five mission which is also called Lupex, a mission with Japanese space agency JAXA wherein we are going to study some permanently shadowed region in the southern polar region of the moon and also we are gearing for the Venus orbiter mission. If you want to study more, you can scan this QR code to have more information wherein we are going to study the ionosphere of Venus, atmosphere, plasma waves, surface, subsurface, lightning, dust and also the connection between the sun and Venus and these are the major objectives of this uh mission of the Venus mission to study the surface, subsurface, underground of the Venus atmosphere and Venus solar wind interaction and then as you aware we are having a very strong program wherein humans are flying will fly as Indian space program in Ganjan and we are also having an ambitious program to have sent the Bharati Antarika station bus which will be India space station in the lower earth orbit by year 2035 and also humans on the moon Indians on the moon with Indian technology and sending them with Indian technology bringing them back safely all by 2040 the journey has started you have seen India has participated in the international space station and which is a small stepping stone to this big journey. So friend if you are thank you for this opportunity and this slide is very important. I urge all of you the students the teachers who all have assembled here to take note of this slide. In this slide you are having all the space science data of the Indian space program available. You can scan this QR code. can visit visit this site and students can have a valid email id all that you will need to login and start using this data and it is free of cost available as per the policy. Thank you very much for this opportunity and I wish you all the best for an exciting career ahead. Thank you.
Thank you, sir. Hearing directly about ISRO's landmark missions makes us feel incredibly proud. It reminds us that with continuous dedication, even the sky is not the limit for what these young minds can achieve.
We now welcome the corporate engine driving our group's overarching growth and administrative strategy.
I invite our highly esteemed group CEO, Mr. woman Thomas to share his strategic insights and outline the global corporate standards our students must internalize. Welcome sir.
Good afternoon.
I think we've Sorry. Sorry.
Good afternoon. Can you hear me?
You know you welcome to Adamas University. Uh when we are in the university we make a lot of noise. Good afternoon.
Oh, you got to be louder than that. Come on. Good afternoon.
>> Yeah, that's like it. A warm welcome to all of you, my dear students, the faculty members and the entire Atomus family. Today we gather for AU Ignite 2026.
Here we are celebrating more than just an admission.
We celebrate beginnings. A beginning filled with aspirations, opportunities, new friendships and countless possibilities waiting to unfold.
Now each one of you here has made a very important decision by choosing Adamus University as the place where you will learn, where you will grow and shape your future. The Adamus University comes with more than 40 years of legacy in the field of education. being part of the rice atomus group. Today we touch from kindergarten to the university at a national level and with the atomus tech consulting we also have global footprints in the digital and technology space.
You know at school we were taught to dream right in schools we were taught to dream at the university is where we will put that dream to some shape. Our chairman and chancellor professor Dr. Samit Ray also dreamed and he put this institution as part of the dreams becoming reality.
Equally important is the faith your parents and families have placed in you to make the most of this opportunity.
Their dreams, trust, sacrifices and expectations now travel with you.
Together we will work to transform those dreams into reality. For that trust we are deeply, deeply grateful.
Dear students, I need your undivided attention for a few more minutes.
I will speak for a short while only, but I need your undivided attention.
The next few years will be among the most transformative years of your life.
Life, believe me, will never be the same again.
These are the years when you will discover, you will discover your interests.
You will explore your possibilities and build meaningful relationships and create memories that will stay with you forever.
At the Adomas University, we believe education is not confined to classrooms, textbooks, grades, and examinations.
Academic excellence is essential but true education goes beyond knowledge. It is about developing confidence, character, leadership, empathy and an ability to create meaningful impact.
You have entrusted us with your potential.
It is our responsibility to ensure that you will be nurtured and we will nurture the potential that you have like an uncut diamond. You possess immense value within you through learning experiences, challenges and continuous growth. That potential will be refined into excellence.
A real transformation of the uncut diamond. That's Adamus.
The world you are preparing to enter is evolving rapidly.
Success today depends not only on what you know but also on how well you can learn, adapt, collaborate, communicate and lead. That is why your journey at ADMUS will extend far beyond academics.
Through our social internships, interdisciplinary internship and industry internship initiatives. You will gain experiences that develop, leadership, practical exposure, teamwork, empathy, and a deeper understanding of people and society.
And speaking of experiential learning, let me introduce to you one of the most exciting initiatives that our chancellor has brought in. It is the Adomus School of Experiential Learning. Six cities, one horizon. This flagship experiential learning initiative has been designed to take you beyond the boundaries of the campus and expose you to some of India's most vibrant industry innovation entrepreneurship and business ecosystems through immersive learning experiences across Delhi NCR Mumbai Bangalore Pune AB AD and Hyderabad. Students are going to gain exposure to the real workplaces, industry experts, skilluing opportunities and diverse career pathways.
It is not about traveling from one city to another. It's about expanding your learning horizons.
It's about experiencing how ideas become innovations.
It's about understanding the world beyond the classroom and preparing you to thrive in it. Today, as you begin this journey, remember one thing.
You need to remember this one thing.
Believe in yourself.
Do not be afraid of challenges.
Do not be afraid of failures. Do not be afraid of taking that first step. Every expert was once a beginner. Every leader was once a student and every success story began with the courage to start.
Today, AU Ignite is not simply welcoming a new batch of students. It is igniting dreams. It's igniting ambitions. It's igniting possibilities.
A few years from now, when you graduate from this university, I hope you will look back and say, "This is where I discovered my potential.
This is where I found my purpose. This is where I learned. And not just how to succeed, but how to lead. On behalf of the entire Adamus University family, I welcome each one of you with great pride, optimism, and excitement.
Welcome to the Adamus University. Your journey starts today.
Thank you and my very best wishes. God bless you.
Thank you sir for sharing that definitive high impact blueprint for leadership and professional excellence.
Your advice gives our students a very clear goal to aim for to shed light on the structural strengths and rapid operational growth of our campus. I I now invite professor Dr. Parto Proim Laheri Pro Vice Chancellor Administration and Development to deliver his address.
Please sir Good afternoon respected dignitaries of the DAS, my colleagues of the entire Adamus family, respected parents and obviously my dearest students. So I know that from the morning you have been listening to lectures to which till today you are not habituated.
So you may find it a little boring but please keep it in mind from now nowwards from today onwards please make it as your habit because as everybody says every all the speakers from the Adam side told you that the journey has begun. So your journey has begun. So you are now in a different world a transformative world from from school to the college or university arena. That means in the arena of high higher education. In school you are habituated with classroom type of lecture where chalk and talk and the teachers they used to teach you but here as you enter here it's a separate domain all together where the teaching will be of lecture type here mind that you will be alone you will be alone you you have to listen carefully you have to read carefully and you have to learn of yourself as because you have entered into higher education arena.
So like all speakers, I also welcome you to this Adamus University.
Please consider it as a black canvas for you.
Be 100% sure that it is offering you the limitless potential of creation, interpretation and development.
As the lunch time is approaching, I am cutting short my speech. Why are you here? What do you study here?
So before embracing the challenges, I request you after this session, please take a tour of the campus considering it as your new home. You must know the facilities which are available here for you like center library, computer center, incubation and innovation center, sports facilities, students club and other connected ones.
Please keep it in mind or maintain pride that a graduate when you pass out after your journey for 4 years or 2 years or 3 years or whatever be please keep it in mind that after you please keep the pride that once you go out as a graduate or a post-graduate student you are not a mere operator. or technician. But a person possessing improved skill sets like ability to carry out design independently, problem solving, managing project or the task given to you, planning, costing if required, costing and obviously research.
So as a student please listen to me care, please uh have some patience. So as a student you should have the ability to selfm motivate and determination being organized your courses timetable syllabus and assessment maintain notes and academic materials properly.
Set aside home study at host or at home.
Set aside some time for home study.
Review notes on regular basis. Read books and handouts without any fail.
Try to set your learning assignment assignment.
Don't be shy to ask questions. Don't be shy to ask questions to your teachers or faculty members or the trainers who will be teaching you. Maybe in first few question 50% of the question may may not be of great value but mind it. If you want to ask start asking question that will also ignite others or your cohorts in the classroom to ask question to the faculty members. So benefit is double blessing like that you will start asking question that means to ask question you you have to study the subject as well as to answer the question your faculty member has to be prepared. So next day when he or she comes to your class you would he would be better prepared than the previous day. So as our vice chancellor told in the morning session that teachers or faculty members are the lifeblood for any educational organization. But please keep it in mind as we all know that blood in our body carries oxygen to the different parts of the body and you are that oxygen molecule. So as you need the faculty members or teachers, teachers also need you to take the journey forward.
Always try to meet deadline.
Try to use ICT or technology tools for academic benefits not for fun or pun.
Try to acquire skill beyond your curriculum.
Mind that you are here for your career building. So be serious while building your career keeping it in mind that you are 90% responsible for it. At the end of your study you need to go out as a degree holder not as a degree holder but as a skilled graduate or post-graduate student who is not a mere job seeker. It will also help you to pursue your passion. Passion is basically the difference between the job and the career.
Let me here also remind you about the common skill set that all of you are required to learn. Logical thinking skill, mathematical skill, mechanical skill that means don't depend on others for something to be done for you. Try to solve your problem by yourself.
observational skill, problem solving skill, writing skill, articulation or communication skill. Here I would like to bring before you or inform you that the university has a unique and established center named center for lifelong learning learning CLL which will help you in mastering many of the above skills.
However, please keep it in mind.
Whatever be your subject of study, computational skill including simulation, modeling along along with safe and sound ICT skills are must for all of you.
But please keep it in mind that nowadays the entire landscape it is changing very rapidly.
So the declining shelf life of the skills should be keep it in mind. So keep it keeping it it in in your mind.
Please try to develop your skill set which demands for lifelong learning. At the same time I also advise you not to ignore your nonredit or audit courses which will help you shaping your character with empathy, ethics, social responsibilities.
primary among the campus community. If possible, please take part in cultural activities, drama, debate, literature, etc. through students club. I shall end here just by putting for putting before you. Please fix up your 3 to four year road map, your personal road map while studying here.
Please master time management from tomorrow onwards. Set your first assignment. It may be a very small one.
Low pressure task plus please set it and read motivational stories to get positive energy. You are the future of the university, the country and the global society as at large. We thank you all for choosing Adamas University.
Utilize the facility available here for shaping your future and be the harbinger of name, fame and growth of this august institution. Thank you for a patient hearing. Thank you.
>> Thank you, sir, for outlining our university's robust infrastructure.
Every student enters the university with a dream of thriving corporate or professional career. To help you map out that journey right from day one, I invite Mr. Dr. Obijit Giri, senior vice president, career development center, CDC, skill and consultancy and group outreach to unpack the real world employment trail. Welcome sir.
Thank you so much.
Very good afternoon one and all and uh thank you so much for letting me speak and giving me an opportunity to welcome all of you in the Adamus University because this Adamus University this is the first day of your journey.
It's a transformative journey from from the school to university.
And I'm sure that you all are enjoying this journey. How many of you are hungry by your tummy? Can you please raise your right hand? Hungry by tummy. Right hand please.
Very less. Few hundreds are here. Few thou almost thousands but hungry by tummy is only not more than 50. So I think you are all hungry for knowledge.
Yes or no? Right. Left hand. Hungry for knowledge. No. No, no.
Fantastic. I actually need the students of like this who can take who can talk from by their own heart and say by honesty because this is university. So you should speak from your heart what you believe. If you really believe that you no need of knowledge right now, we need food right now. So we should speak that we need food. We no need knowledge right now. Right? Yes or no?
Yes or no? This is the first step for your corporate journey that you are going to start after fourth year of this educ education system because the corporate world need people who can speak from their heart and mind who can make opinion who can talk what is right what is wrong corporate people no need of the people who can just mug up something and say Newton's third law nobody is interested to know E= to MC².
Nobody is interested to know what is the formula of A + B whole square. People want to know what you believe and what you can deliver. And I think you are all in the right space. You all are in the right shape to do the uh journey and I won't take much time. I understand this is almost 1:30. You all came from morning 5:00 from your home. Your parents are actually looking for your they are actually uh you know so careful about you. I'm so thankful to the parents. They all are you know outside they are looking for you to have food first and then they will take consume food. Thank you so much. You got so nice parents at at least big clap for the parents. Can you please put put your hands for the parents louder? At least they can know. Can you please put your hands together for parents?
At least they can know that you are still energetic. You are still energetic. You are not hungry for your food. Thank you so much. Myself Bobby Giri. I represent Adamos University Career Development Center. I will take you through the journey along with all professor colleagues from the academic to the corporate world. I will meet you in person in your respective school.
We'll discuss in detail that what we do, how we do. I will take a pause now. I will again request you to enjoy this program and hungry for the knowledge, hungry for the skill, build your career and thank you so much. Welcome once again.
Thank you sir for your rapid establishment of vital connection between the academic readiness and corporate success right from the beginning.
Now it's time to add a vibrant splash of color, rhythm, and immense joy to our afternoon. Campus life at Adomus is an elegant blend of academics and creative arts. To showcase this creative spirit, let's welcome the incredibly talented members of our student cultural body from the Janka Club for a brilliant dance performance. Let's put our hand together for them.
Red.
So, Sun.
Oh, party.
might like a dog.
might get Oh, d hey hey. Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey, hey.
Backyard Down party.
Daddy daddy love it.
La.
Your top Students are requested to please settle down. We have a few portions of the program left over. Please settle down.
Students, we need to introduce you to some of the important delegates of our university who will be helping you throughout your journey in this university. First of all, I would like to call Dr. Koshi Banerjee, professor and associate dean, student and cultural affairs. She will be guiding you for your campus life road map and help you to understand the different co-curricular engagement, NSS, NCC and clubs overview.
Next we have Dr. Onita Roy, director IAS division.
She will be responsible for guiding you if you are interested in civil service and any query regarding the IAS recruitment IAS competitions.
Then we have Miss Run Basu, head of international relations and associate dean center of for lifelong learning. Miss Run Basu deals with the international relations and global opportunities.
Next we have Mr. Abdul Rafi who decides the technological road map of our university in this digital fast era.
This technological backbone which defines our efficiency is regulated by him.
Next we have Dr. Shophagi associate professor and associate director incubation and chief coordinator EUA center. If you have any idea about startups innovation incubation, he is the person to contact and communicate with.
Lastly, I will request Professor Rajut Rey D uh our uh acting register and dean of student and cultural affairs to conclude by giving the vote of thanks.
>> Thank you. Uh I'll request the students.
Hello students just stay back for a few minutes.
So I would like to communicate that whatever the lectures that were left could not give all those are there in the handbooks you will find all informations are there related to international relation related to that innovation innovative council and all so that you will find in the booklet and the various cultural clubs the stalls are there outside you roam there see there register yourself in the club and participate in the near future.
I would like to convey heartfelt thanks to our honorable chancellor sir professor Shamitra, vice chancellor sir, professor suranjand dash or vice chancellor esteemed guest professor durai then dean directors faculty members all the students that it has been made possible to introduce you in a systematic IC manner commencing from 9:00 a.m. So it is with the great support and participation from all stakeholder of the university to make the program successful. We are cutting short the program so that you can go out and take up your next activity maybe the biometric and whatever. So we convey the heartfelt thanks to all of you those who helped the program to make successful. Thank you.
So my students those who have the registration number for them you have to do the biometric here in this convention at the back back. If you have completed then you have to go to the department for document verification. Okay. The students having registration number first to complete the biometric that identification over here within the hall at the back followed by they will go to department for file verification.
Students who has not received the registration number they have to go to AU1 means Adam University building number one. There are international lounge you have to go and contact there. The registration process has to be completed. After registration complete then you come to auditorium for biometric attendance for biometric that identification marks.
After completion that then you have to go to department. In the department teachers are there waiting to assist you to guide you and it's there from onwards your classes will be commenced. the program schedule will be communicated or has been already communicated to you all that the the schedule of the classes.
Thank you.
>> Thank you sir. So after completing your lunch complete your biometric registration.
>> Okay ma'am. Thank you sir and ma'am.
So uh after your biometric registration and temporary ID card collection you visit your departments for your physical verification.
That is very important before you start your class. So you visit your department the teachers are waiting for you for the physical verification. Thank you so much.
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