Two students of T.Y.B.Com. Mr. Taher Sevaliyawala (4291) and Mr. Siddhant Upadhye (4321) were selected to play for University of Mumbai in the All India Inter University Softball Tournament 2012-13 held at Devi Ahillya University, Indore from 21st to 30th January, 2013.
Mumbai University’s first match was against Hyderabad University and our university won the match with a score of (3-1) on 26th January, 2013, Saturday. With this result, Mumbai University (inclusive of our two main players) moved to the second round against Nanded University on 27th January, 2013, Sunday. In this match we were dominant enough to defeat Nanded University with a score of (14 – 1) and moved to the third round (Pre Quarters) against Mangalore University in which the match was lost with a score of (7 – 9) on 28th January, 2013, Monday.
Capitalizing the excellence of Riya Pillai (F.Y.B.Com.), The College Women Badminton Team won the title of Mumbai University Badminton Championship first time in the history and adjudged the 66 years old (1946) Ever rolling Champions trophy of Mumbai University Badminton(w) Championship, where a total of 146 colleges made their entry in to the fray.
In the team title event after entering in to the pre quarter stage the Doubles team partnered by Riya Pillai and Neha Lenka beat a strong Poddar College (2-1) and in the next stage the team was successful in holding the great name in University Badminton NM College (2-1). And on their way to final Riya supported by Neha over powered the Joshi Bedekar college and won the women team title for Pillai’s. The team was co-ordinated and managed by Mr. Dhiraj Chindrankar.
In the Individual Singles Riya never look back as she beat St. Andrews, Vinisha (21-5) and in the Semifinals Riya beat a well-equipped Anagha of Ruparel (30-10) as the format was amend by the University. In the finals Riya beat Aishwarya of Ruia (30-12) and emerged as a champion for Pillai’s College.
Neha Lenka is a final year graduation student with Pillai College of Arts Commerce &Science is an outstanding sports person who won Gold Medal in University of Mumbai Athletics Championship also won Gold at Mumbai University Badminton (doubles) Championship along with Riya Pillai. She is a star member of college Ball Badminton team which won the University title consecutively for many years.
- Our S.Y. B.M.M. student, Ms. Aishwarya Sridhar is very fortunate to have been awarded the Sanctuary Asia’s Young Naturalist Award in 2011.
- She has written more than 50 poems on natures which have been published in many leading newspapers and wildlife magazines like Sanctuary Asia and Saevus.
- A conservationist at heart, she has conducted nature trails for students to spread the message of conservation.
- She also conducts campaigns at various schools on the need to preserve our environment.
- She was also a part of the NDTV Save Our Tiger Campaign 2010 and 2012 had come live form Mumbai with Bollywood Actress Dia Mirza to recite her poem on Tiger Poaching.
- Some of her wildlife photographs had been showcased in an exhibition at Pune.
- Her photograph of a mother sparrow feeding its chick won the second prize in the World Photography Competition by PAWS. Also her poem on sparrows won the 2nd prize in the World Poem Writing Competition by PAWS.
- Three photographs of her were displayed at the 34th International Codisssa Exhibition. She won a special mention too for one of the picture.
- Recently three pictures taken by her were selected for “Aves”, which is an All India Bird Fest.
Mahatma Education Society would like to congratulate Pillai College of Arts, Commerce and Science (PCACS) student Suryakumar Yadav for winning the MA Chidambaram Trophy for the Best Under-22 cricketer of the year award at the BCCI Awards Ceremony held in Chennai on 10th December, 2011. He scored 721 runs at an average of 80.11 in seven matches, inclusive of two centuries and four half centuries in the calendar year.
Suryakumar Yadav has not looked back since playing a starring role in the finals of the Champions League Twenty 20 Cricket tournament in which his team, the Mumbai Indians defeated the Royal Challengers from Bangalore. He has followed that achievement by scoring a double hundred for Mumbai against Orissa in a Ranji Trophy game and then by scoring a cracking century against Saurashtra. He has been in brilliant form all season and if he continues this scoring trend he will definitely in consideration to play for the Indian Cricket National team pretty soon.
The whole of Mahatma Education Society is behind Surya for him to fulfill his lifelong dream of playing for the national team one day. Good luck Surya!