“My parents knew about my sexuality way before I could open up to them because of the fact that I made it so obvious. I never tried to hide it. My facebook was full of rainbows, so they didn’t really have to ask me anything. But yes, there was always a slight opposition from their…
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Parvaah, A KJSCE Initiative.
Parvaah is the social initiative of K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering which started under Symphony in 2015 with the aim of creating awareness and bringing about a change. It is inspired by the philosophy that it is the duty of every individual to contribute towards the society. It was started with a motive to…
Somaiya Diaries – Chapter 7(Nakshatra Bagwe)
“I’m Nakshatra Bagwe, an actor, a filmmaker and I happen to be India’s first gay brand ambassador. I have been an equal rights activist for a long time now and I have been a part of various homosexuality awareness projects from the time I came out. My passion lies in filmmaking and acting in feature…
Somaiya Diaries – Chapter 6 (Harrish Iyer)
Somaiya Diaries will now wear a new look through our Social Initiative, Parvaah with the same intention to spread untold stories to the masses.
How to fangirl over Kenny Sebastian, the right way
Kenny Sebastian is coming to Symphony 2017! For the sole purpose of benefiting our humour-loving Somaiyaites, we present to you the ultimate Kenny Sebastian-Fangirl Starter Pack, so that you are well equipped to handle his quips. 😛 Kenny is only comic in the world to have the highest number of fangirls in the whole wide…
Somaiya Diaries – Chapter 5 (Square Off)
How did you start your journey after graduation? Actually, it never started after graduation, it was in the second year of our engineering, the entire journey started there. We were in the EESA council initially as the technical volunteers. We got into that just to dodge lectures and have our fun. We used to…
Somaiya Diaries – Chapter 4 (Akshay Snackbar)
“Working in a startup has taught me a lot of things, things which include handling life when your job becomes unstable in a year. We struggle for a cause and we live for a reason, I guess in my case, both my reason and my cause at the start were the same, SnackBar. A lot…
Somaiya Diaries – Chapter 3 (Bhavesh Xerox Uncle)
“ It’s not always how it looks like. The hard-work, the sweat and the efforts are always shadowed by what glitters on the cover of the book. I think most of the lot here believes the fact that being a Xerox Copy guy in an engineering college or for that matter any college is the…
Kranti Aane Wali Hai
It’s December. It’s that time of the year when a mysterious fog envelopes the college. No, you can’t see it, but you definitely feel it in the air. Officially, the vacation for most of the college has begun. The entire college looks haunted and lifeless; the corridors are deserted and the silence is deafening. And…
Somaiya Diaries – Chapter 2 (Anna of the Canteen)
“ I am still not sure where I stand in the lives of you students. Most of you treat me as their friend, a companion to talk to, a daily Hi-Bye person or someone who you come up to whenever you are hungry. Well, the last one makes more sense and that makes me feel…
Somaiya Diaries – Chapter 1
“ It’s been 20 years. Travelling 180 km each day from Nasik to work here at KJSCE and then getting back home is now embedded in my life. The Journey of reaching college daily after changing three trains is now a routine. I am a mother of two kids. Both of them are independent and…
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