A New Year , a New beginning, a New Hope!
2022 began its rally with a longing for a better year at the brim of crossing over the pandemic era. Well! Lets wear our masks and don the safety rules. Seems like we are still swimming in the third wave and framed to the online digital platforms momentarily.
Lets trod through the events of BGR held in the first month of this year!
-Director, BGR Campus
" Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle" - Paulo Coelho
In Commemoration of 175 years of CMI service to education and the establishment of the first CMI educational institution in 1846 by Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara, CHRIST BGR campus celebrated the Founder's Day on 3 January 2022 with a Theatre presentation titled 'A Glorious Legacy', A Fireflies Theatre Production of CHRIST BGR, staged at the Main Auditorium of the campus.
This theatre presentation which narrated the story of Saint Chavara, used dance, music and movement under the direction of Mr Rajesh PI, the founder of The Actor's Collective. The program was participated by the Director of Bannerghatta campus Dr Fr Biju KC, Dean of the campus Dr Jyothi Kumar, teaching and non-teaching faculty and all the first-year students
On 11 January 2022, the session began with a story, by the resource speaker Prof. Pradeep K.V who explained the journey of Infosys in wealth creation over the years. Corporate actions like bonus issues, stock split, dividend policy, rights issue and buyback of shares have strong impact on the stock prices of a company. Each firm follows its dividend policy based on the yield, Price Earning Ratio, and growth rate while sharing profits to its shareholders.
A comparative analysis was done on high dividend firms and low dividend payment firms to understand the variations in dividend payments. The life cycle of a company consists of its launch, growth, shakeout, maturity, and decline stages. A shareholder prior to investment plans needs to consider the financial position of the company in each of these stages. The dividend policy of any firm depends largely on the life cycle of the company. The presentation also explained the key terms like dividend declaration date, ex-date, record date, and dividend payout date. Normally a company pays dividends on its profits while in certain situations a company can also declare special dividends to its shareholders.
The speaker also briefed on the secrets of wealth creation through examples. It is dependent on the quality of a business or the efficiency of its management, robust growth of the firm, competitive advantage, and value creation in the long run. The lecture was very informative and helped to clarify the understanding of stock prices and their impact.
At the end of the Session, participants raised a few questions, which were answered by the speaker. Dr Rajani Ramdas who welcomed the speaker during the beginning of the session also expressed words of appreciation and gratitude as a concluding note.
The experience sharing by resource person Ms Sangeetha Roy Chaudri was held on 18 January 2022. Alumni of St. Xavier's Calcutta & Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and she has more than a decade of management experience in Business Development/Sales and Marketing across different sectors including financial services, events, training, and technology. She is a regular speaker at various forums addressing areas of succession & estate planning, diversity & inclusion, women’s empowerment etc. She authored a book on motivational anthologies named “Celebrate Your Wings” which has received Best Selling Status on Amazon
In this session, she covered the topics on how to take best out of worst and to be kind to yourself. She suggested to change the world by being crazy enough. It is good to be the best version of yourself. She concluded by insisting that success is not luck.
On 7 January 2022, Mr Rajesh PI was invited as the resource person to lead the one-day interactive session for all the admin staff of CHRIST Bannerghatta campus. This session focussed on team-building, communication and self-awareness of the participants. Mr Rajesh engaged the participants in a plethora of activities such as Four-degree proximity, River of Life, Creative Caricature, Tableau and so on. The activities were funfilled yet contributed to a deeper contemplation of various values which could potentially build our personalities.
This skill development session was held on 25 January 2022. The first speaker Samyutha Krishna Kumar is an alumnus belonging to the English (Honours) Class of 2021. She’s currently pursuing M.Sc. Counselling Psychology from St. Joseph's College. Her dissertation topic was On the Other Side of Records: BTS and A.R.M.Y, Stalwarts of Social Action. Through her PPT she shared her dissertation experience and emphasised how procrastination could be positively used to help your dissertation. The PPT presentation ended at 2:25 pm after ensuring that the students had no confusion regarding the main topic.
Students were given a 5-minute window to ask if they had any doubts or to speak up if they had something to contribute. Students were allowed to unmute as well as type in the chatbox.
After a brief discussion and exchange of opinions, Shivangana Chaturvedi, the second guest speaker who is currently pursuing a Master's in Public Policy from Mount Carmel College and completed her English (Honours) from Christ University in 2020, presented her dissertation topic 'Transgression as a Spectacle'. Shivangana also shared her dissertation experiences and explained how her personal interests have shaped her research questions and final dissertation. She spoke upon the need to work on dissertation topics by navigating through personal interests and hobbies. The presentations were stopped at 2:50 pm. A couple of students shared their queries and opinions in the chatbox which were discussed before concluding the session.