The Loyolite 2007

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Our School
Song
Cheer Loyola’s sons Virtue shielding us
Cheer till day is done Knowledge for our weapon
Till the game is won Onward ,on , Loyola’s sons.
For our School. Let us march asinging
As her banners soar Send the echoes ringing
Let the echoes roar Giving our best till the game is won.
Round the golden shore
Oh, thou God of all
Of India’s rule.
Hear us when we call
Virtue shielding us Help us one and all
Knowledge for our weapon By Thy grace,
Onward ,on , Loyola’s sons. When life’s game is done
Let us march asinging And the victory won
Send the echoes ringing May we wear the crown
Giving our best till the game is won. Of joy and grace.
Loyola’s sons, acclaim Virtue shielding us
Brave Loyola’s fame Knowledge for our weapon
Proud to bear the name Onward ,on , Loyola’s sons.
O’er the field Let us march asinging
Always brave and true Send the echoes ringing
Pledge each day anew Giving our best till the game is won.
Aye to dare and do
Ne’er to yield.
The Loyolite 2007
Loyola School
Thiruvananthapuram
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor
Ms Deepa Pillai
English
Ms Brinda Nair
Mr Prathap Chandran
Ms Mary Mathew
Ms Nandini Unnikrishnan
Ms Maitri Rath
Hindi
Ms Anita
Ms Sathi A
Malayalam
Mr Ramesan
Ms Renu R C
Student Editors
Joshua George
Nikhil P Joseph
Gurudas S
Avinesh V
Sriram P
Kevin Sabu Peter
Mishel Johns
Tushar Nair
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The Editorial Board is happy to welcome you to The Loyolite 2007. We hope you
will like it.
‘Growth’ was the theme of all that happened on campus this academic year. We
grew in numbers - new students and teachers joined us. Our first batch of CBSE
students took the public exam this summer. We added on some more physical
resources as well—enhanced facilities in the computer labs, a language lab and
the new auditorium cum stadium complex. There were success stories of our
students in academics, sports and cultural events. Our magazine too has grown in
size, colour and depth mirroring the inner growth of our children. We have surely
moved on.
On our part at the editorial desk, we have tried to provide you an inside look at all
aspects of this growth. We bring you campus news and experiences of our students
by recording the major events and achievements. We also bring you stories of our
alumni spread throughout the world. We have tried to ensure better quality and a
variety of writing that will hold the interest of our readers. There is nothing quite
like the thrill of first seeing your writing in print and so in our Creative Writing
section we provide space for children to share their inner worlds. This we hope
will help launch them on a lifelong adventure in writing.
Behind the scenes of any magazine, there is so much going on than a reader sees,
that it’s possible to overlook the hard work that goes in. My colleagues at the
editorial board laboured hard to give you a magazine that you can be proud of. I
thank all of them for their support, especially Mr Prathap Chandran for helping
out in the final stages.
In recent years, it has been our practise to get students actively involved in the
publishing process and this year too the student editorial team rallied round me
from the beginning to the end. While Joshua and Kevin dabbled with photography
providing some of the pictures, Nitin and Gejo drew interesting sketches for the
write-ups. Avinesh , Gurudas, Sriram and Tushar very cheerfully submitted to the
rigours of the job by soliciting submissions, chasing students to keep deadlines,
editing, typing and proof-reading. It was a pleasure to work with Mishel and
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Contents
Editorial Head Shot! Football Fever in Loyola
Principal’s Report Fr Varghese Anikuzhy Arjun M & Vipin Mathew 45
The Jesuit Management Model Fr Edassery Tantalising Trivia Tushar, Sriram, Nitin S J 47
Species of Loyolites Sriram P 48
SCHOOL EVENTS
At the Helm 10 ALL LIT UP
Winning Accolades 11 Photo Album 49
Activities of the NCC Karthik Nandakumar 14
The Return of the Lens Kishor Nair 16 CREATIVE WRITING
The Road to Service Vivek S & Narendran A 17 Dear Dad Students of I A 72
Youth Festival 2006 Kevin Sabu Peter 18 Mom Students of 1 B 73
Sight Sound Fury- School Day 19 What I Want To Be Students of 1 C 74
Sports Day Joms Zachariah& Navin P L 20 East or West Home is the Best Students of 4 A 74
La Fest -Photo Report 22 I Love My School Students of 2 A&B 75
Staff Enhancement Programme Dream Catcher Students of 3 A,B&C 76
Achin Dev, Sarath S &Vinu Krishnan 24 To Be Pele Cyriac T Kunnumpuram 77
Beyond Space Derrish D Sam & Prolok S 25 If there is No Death Jaivardhan A Menon 77
Final Score Rahul R Akshay Nair 26 Three Crazy Men Abraham Raju 77
On the Top 27 The Day I was Most Scared Ashish V Hegde 78
Rainy Day Aanand M S Gangadher 78
SPECIAL ARTICLES If I were a Bird Jacob Abraham 78
Old Boys Marching Ahead 28 Genie in a Bottle Students of 2B & C 79
IAS Exam, 3 Loyolites in Top 10 Ashok R C 29 A Smile…. Students of 5 A 79
Home thoughts From Abroad Vineeth K 30 Holiday in Maldives Govind K Nair 80
Krishna Chandran B 30 My Evenings Rahul Suresh 81
Uday Rane 33 You should Smile Anupam Narayanan 81
Mahesh Surendran 34 Autobiography of a Tooth Brush Gautham K 81
Suresh Kumar Aravind 35 Friendship Students of 5C 81
Tojo Eapen 35 My Ambition Renjith Babu 81
Back to the Future Life in a Place without TV, Radio, or Computer
| Gejo G, Syamnath JG& Narayanan K 36 Kurian Kuriakose 82

7 Abdu Mama Rajat Roy & Rohit B 38 I Sit Beside Dane Sabu Jacob 82
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The Snake in the Grass Tushar Nair 44 The Lonely Path Mikhail James 85
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Do You Want to Become the Best?Arun Sudarshan 97
For the Aspiring Quizzers… Archit Mohan 98 ½Öþ+É ºÉ¤Éä®úÉ - Gokul S 123
Immortal Love Sidharth V Anand 99 ½þ¨ÉÉ®úÒ ¨ÉÉÄ Vinay George Abraham123
Soaps Sriram P 100 ½þ¨ÉÉ®úÉ nùä¶É Joe Xavier123
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The Modern World George Joseph Kodickal 103 |ÉEÞòÊiÉ ®úÉhÉÒ Vishnu Suresh124
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Principal’s Report
Principal’s Report
Honourable chief guest, Prof. N. Bharath Bhushan I A S, Fr. C P
R. Madhava Menon, distin- Varkey, Fr. Joy James, Dr. Babu
guished personalities on the dais and Ramachandran, Mrs. Meena Nair,
among the audience. Fr. Rector, PTA Mrs. Gomathiammal, Dr.
representatives, parents, well-wishers, Narayanamoorthy & Dr. Anilkumar of
friends, members of the LOBA, my V.S.S.C, Dr. Jyothidev Kesavdev, Mr.
dear colleagues and students. Thirtha Pratim, Prof. B Anil, Dr. Jo-
I am very pleased to welcome the seph V A of South Indian Bank, Sri.
chief guest, a legal luminary of na- N. S. Madhavan, Dr. Sreekumar
tional fame and each and every one Chatopadyaya of the Centre for Earth
of you to this evening’s function Studies were some of the erudite
where you will see a display of origi- people who enlivened our students
nal and genuine talents without any with their presence and words during
borrowed talents to train our students. the academic year.
The school climate is one of encour- The Aeronautical Society of India,
agement where innate talents are nur- Thiruvananthapuram branch con-
tured. Self discovery and confidence ducted its premier ROSE 2006 in our
building are done by parent represen- school. Sri. Ramakrishna, Dr.
tatives and the alumni. I am indeed Manoranjan Rao and Sri. N.
very happy to say that the frequent Narayanamoorthy made their presen-
visits of senior Loyolites contribute tations in the seminar.
to the shaping up of the present Mrs. Radha Nair left Loyola after
Loyolites with human qualities. In a long tenure of service.
grooming the Loyolites in human The work on the indoor stadium is
qualities and eternal values we face progressing well. The C.B.S.E section
certain hurdles that are built by home of our school has completed one more
and neighbourhood. These hurdles are floor to house five laboratories. The
erected with the good intention of P.T.A. has agreed to put up a language
competition and struggle for exist- lab there.
ence. When the minds of children are Loyola school competing with
set and strengthened in the same atti- fourteen schools from different parts
tude of selfishness and individualism of the country won the first National
they are bound to become agents and Aerospace Olympiad. The team mem-
masters of the same qualities at home bers were Kishor Govind Nayar,
and in the society, later. In the present Ashique Siyad, Hari Sanker V,
education scenario we aim at human Avinesh Vasudevan, Mishel Johns &
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Former director of VSSC, Mr. the National ICSE quiz competition.
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3. In the ICSE National Junior 2. Ali Asgar is in two state teams,
quiz, Arjun Shajan & Rahul Krishnan under 17 and under 19.
of VII B turned out to be runners-up. 3. Jithin R is also in the State
4. In the Aqua Regia Quiz at School Cricket team.
Hydrabad Achuth Vasudevan and Aju
Basil James emerged the national Football
champions. 1. In the inter School football
5. Ganesh Sangeeth and Vineeth tournament conducted at Kendriya
Krishnan stood first in the sports quiz Vidyalaya, Pattom, Loyola School
conducted by Christ Nagar School. team walked away with the trophy.
6. Syam. B. S of std X A got sec- Most of the parents are mark-crazy
ond prize in the District Level Talent in the world today. Some of them are
Search Scholarship in Mathematics, seen on the school campus during ter-
conducted by District Schools Mathemat- minal examinations. Some of them
ics Association. give special coaching to their sons just
7. In the Trivandrum Railway Art Club before the examination begins. Yet
Quiz, Archit Mohan and Kiran George others feed their wards and read for
Koshy carried away the trophy. them to learn. Wonderful time man-
8. Archith Mohan and Achuth agement! Two birds at one shot. A few
Vasudevan paired well to lift the tro- years later they may try for permis-
phy of St. John’s School Quiz. sion to write the examination, instead
9. Loyola team, Aravind A Menon of their wards.
& Vishnu M J of XII A, brought home We may acquire many factory
the winners trophy; and Archit Mohan products to make life comfortable.
& Leo Francis of X B, won runners- This may lead to total dependence on
up trophy in the Hindu Young World machines and their produce. Do these
state level quiz. things make human life and relation-
10. In the TCS Quiz Archith ship comfortable, strengthening? Can
Mohan and Seby Jacob had to be sat- wealth and affluence alone become
isfied with a runner-up trophy. the criterion for respectability and ac-
11. In Youth festival in the sub ceptability? Our pattern of behaviour
district level Adonis Thokalath se- is more eloquent than our words.
cured first prizes in both Folk Dance Children read between lines. Once a
and Bharathanatyam. trend is programmed into them, they
12. Arjun Shajan got second behave accordingly to everyone
place in Balarama Scholarship exami- around. If we try to inculcate human
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Management Models
It is easy to follow the beaten track of the predeces explains how a person can achieve self mastery by
sors. But St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the faithfully following the various meditations and
Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, thought otherwise. He exercises. Eventually a person will be able to know
founded a new religious order in the Catholic Church his strengths and weaknesses, values and personality
different from all previous ones. He was truly a traits which will finally lead him towards a successful
trailblazer. He streamlined a revolutionary approach life. As one grows into a mature person, one will feel
to religious life in the Catholic Church deviating from comfortable with
the traditional understanding and practice of hitherto oneself, with nature,
existing religious life. and with God. Every
The characteristics of the Jesuit way of Jesuit recruit has to
proceeding have stood the test of time and have undergo this training at
become a sustainable paradigm for more than 450 least twice during his
years. Even today many religious societies and secular period of formation.
organizations follow the Jesuit management models Self-awareness helps
put forward by St Ignatius of Loyola. This means that one to order one’s life,
the perennial dynamism and universal appeal of the to locate the unhealthy
Jesuit spirituality and administrative strategy are even spots and weaknesses
now relevant. In this increasingly complex and that may derail one.
constantly changing world, the Jesuit management This self searching
approach is widely accepted as an effective and will throw light on
efficacious model for achieving the desired goals. one’s disordered life
The Greek Philosopher Plato had this as the and empower one to
motto of his ‘Academy’ - “Notis se auton” which conquer ones defects St Ignatius had total
means ‘know thyself’. He was convinced beyond and shortcomings.
disregard for the
doubt that self knowledge was very important as far Thus St Ignatius
average and the
as the training of a student was concerned. Another wanted every Jesuit to
Greek philosopher, Socrates, recorded that an become a leader mediocre. He always
unexamined life was not worth living. Self-evaluation having complete
wanted to do a little
and self-knowledge were of prime importance for him mastery over himself
more than what was
especially in the formative years of a child. The and the environment
exponents of Zen meditation, advocate concentration in which he functions. required.
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St Ignatius of Loyola in his “Spiritual Exercises” This calls for a deep sense of commitment to whatever
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