Steel & Metallurgy’ Magazine Completes 20 Glorious Years!

‘Steel & Metallurgy’ Magazine Completes 20 Glorious Years!

Celebrates the occasion with one-day conference on survival and growth strategies for steel industry

Steel & Metallurgy magazine, one of the leading steel journals in India, has reached a milestone of 20 years of successful journey with the Indian steel industry. To mark the occasion, Steel & Metallurgy organises a conference on 26^th November 2018 at The Lalit Great Eastern Hotel, Kolkata.

The one-day conference titled “Integrated & Secondary Steel Sector- Growth & Survival Strategies” seeks to discuss the challenges faced by both integrated and secondary steel producers in India and to find out solutions for the future growth. Raw materials and Technology being the theme of the conference will be given special focus among other topics.

India’s finished steel consumption is expected to reach 230 million tonnes by 2030-31 from 90 million tonnes currently, ably supported by growth in domestic demand. The industry is witnessing a wave of consolidation which presents an opportunity for the entry of foreign players into the sector with increasing investment into the sector. The National Steel Policy 2017 also encourages the sector to reach global benchmarks. India also has abundance of iron ore reserves and easy availability of low cost manpower. However, Indian steel industry has always struggled with quality of raw materials and adoption of energy efficient technologies, among other challenges. 

The conference will be highly attended by Industry experts, policymakers, steel producers, technology suppliers etc. The conference will feature thought provoking panel discussion followed by interactive technical sessions and technical paper presentation.

‘Steel & Metallurgy magazine started its journey in November 1998 and has gained immense popularity in the steel fraternity ever since for its widely read monthly editions as well as for organizing many successful conferences for the steel sector. 

“India used to produce around 24 million tonnes of steel when we started our journey and today India is the third largest steel producer in the world with production nearing 100 million tonnes. It’s been an exciting journey all along as we have grown with the Indian steel industry, covering the major events, success stories, crisis, and turnaround of the industry. This milestone proves our consistency and dedication towards the industry”, said Nirmalya Mukherjee, Editor & Publisher of ‘Steel & Metallurgy’ Magazine.

Hi-Tech Animation launches MOOPLE TV for kids

Hi-Tech Animation launches

MOOPLE TV for kids

A world of newly-created Bengali animated cartoon characters like Neel, Pari, Rex, Packi, Stegy, Tops and Tero under the title “Dhinchak Dino”, opened up for the kids with the launch of MOOPLE TV Channel. Actor Dev and KoelMullick inaugurated the channel today in the presence of children marking Children’s Day celebrations also. The Channel on YouTube would provide infotainment and also teach basic education to the kids.

MOOPLE TV is the umbrella brand of Hi-Tech Animation – a Kolkata-based animation firm. The Channel would flag off with a series of animated cartoons in Bengali to be followed by similar series in Hindi and other Indian regional languages. The channel would have original and unique content with brand new animation, lyrics and music.

Hi-Tech Animation has plans to invest Rs 8 crores initially in MOOPLE TV for content creation in Bengali and other regional languages. The plan is to come up with a Bengali Satellite Cartoon Channel within two years. Hi-Tech Animation, with over 15 centres and 300+ employees across West Bengal, is an animation and multi-media education and training hub which caters to clients like Sony, Nick, ABP Ananda, Zee News, Zee Bangla and Siti Group of channels among others.

“Hi-Tech Animation has gathered deep experience creating content for some of the top companies in the field of animation for children. We work for kids who are the moodiest people in the world and also our super heroes. With this in mind, we have tried to make the content according to their various moods, hence the name MOOPLE. Creating a wide variety of content with different moods has been our biggest challenge and pleasure,” said Mr Subrata Roy, Founder and Managing Director of Hi-Tech Animation.

“We thought of starting in YouTube because it is a free channel and would be easily accessible to the children over mobile phones and other handheld gadgets. Also, we thought of starting with Bengali animated cartoons because besides Bangladesh and India, there is a huge Bengali diaspora across the world. We plan to come up with a Satellite Cartoon Channel within two years. Over the period of time we'll come   up with   merchandising and licensing of our different cartoon characters,” said

Mr Subrata Roy. 

Mr Prashant Chopra, Mr Saurav Duggar and Mr Anurag Chirimar - the other Directors of MOOPLE TV  have  also  taken this venture  as   a  big challenge.Hi-Tech Animation churns out more than 1000 animation professionals every year through its education wing.

Prabha Khaitan Foundation

On 30th November 2018 the Department of Humanities, University of Turin, Italy, will host the 10th death anniversary International Symposium in memory of Late Dr. Prabha Khaitan titled “Translating existentialism in South Asia,” under the auspices of the Prabha Khaitan Foundation, Kolkata, and the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Women and Gender -CIRSDe, Turin.

The conference will disseminate the results of a three-year long research led by Prof. Alessandra Consolaro, Associate Professor of Hindi Language and Literature at the University of Turin. Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and by the Department of Humanities, the focus would be on the autobiography and the contact between Existentialist and Indian philosophy.

Hailing from the Marwari community in Kolkata, Late Dr Prabha Khaitan (1^st Nov 1942 - 20^th Sept 2008) was renowned as a writer, litterateur, entrepreneur and feminist. Her writings reveal not only her private life and working experiences, but also her thought, that combines Indian and European philosophy. The conference shall focus on the philosophical aspect of Prabha Khaitan’s literary production.

Prabha Khaitan was the Hindi translator of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, published in 1991 with the title Stri Upeksita. She introduced Jean Paul Sartre’s Existentialism to the Hindi readers (Sartre ka Astitvavad, 1984; Sartre: Sabdom ka Masiha, 1985) and published an essay on Albert Camus (Albeyar Kamu: Vah Pahla Admi, 1993).

Mr. Sundeep Bhutoria, Managing Trustee, Prabha Khaitan Foundation, Kolkata, will deliver the keynote speech for the international symposium. Both European and South Asian scholars and translators, researching on different aspects of Existentialist thought and gender issues, will participate in the event: the program includes presentations by Monika Browarczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland), Andrea Drocco (University of Venice, Italy), Mara Matta (La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy), Pakistani poet and feminist Kishwar Naheed (Urdu translator of The Second Sex, 1982), and Jayandra Soni (General Secretary of IAAS——International Association of Sanskrit Studies, Vienna).

“Her ideas and thoughts were ahead of her times. She was the founding president of Prabha Khaitan Foundation and was actively involved in women’s affairs. She was the first female president of Calcutta Chamber of Commerce,” said Mr Sundeep Bhutoria from Kolkata.

Prabha Khaitanwas awarded by the President of India and had also won the "talented woman" award and Top Personality award for her contribution to the literature of the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan scholar Rahul Sankrityayan. Her autobiography is titled Anya se Ananya (A life apart).