The printed version of the newsletter looks awesome. But the hardwork that went into its production is something that Navneeth and I discovered. 

TCS was coming the next day and we had decided that hardcopies of the newsletter would be placed on HR tables along with the newspapers. None of the newsletter team was on hand and only Navneeth and I battled it out. Lucky joined us in the last few hours.

We met at two in the afternoon on a Sunday, ready for the task. Navneeth and I learnt the nitty gritty of the new printer - the eleven items that had to be checked before the print order could be given. I'm glad we wasted just about three to four sheets in trial. We had to take prints on A3 sheets, get the odd pages on the left and the even pages on the right side of the sheets. We made out pages for 10 booklets each, a total of 900 odd pages. They had to be arranged in page order and then taken to the binders. It was seven when we finished the task and then Navneeth went to the binders and got it done. 

It was with great pride that the two of us saw the two booklets - handsome, charming and just the best newsletter anywhere in the world. To our delight, two of the HRs asked to take back the newsletters. Loathe as we were to let go of the two copies, we couldn't but grin in pride. A week later, I watched again with gladness, as the Commissioner of DOTE, requested for the copy and took it along with him. 

Navneeth, I knew, but now reconfirmed my faith that he is going to be one of the best recruits for any company. Painstaking, perfect to the last detail, ready to innovate, dream and visualise and work towards what he visualises - this boy is among the best on the team of students editors. I wonder if there's any one who can take his place in the team.

Once again, as the annual edition is getting ready, I am sure that none of this would've been possible, or possible, but at great expense ( printing outside was estimated at around Rs.50,000/ and we spent just a ream of A3 sheets, spent  ink in the colour printer and a whole Sunday afternoon, but what the heck, all in a day's work!), without the Principal's encouragement.
 

More than anything else, I felt, students are having a good experience collecting information and writing and learning how to bring out a newsletter. There's even a workshop on 'Adobe Photoshop'  to be given by Navneeth.