Amar Jain is our Student of the Month for November 2009. Amar is a student of the Diploma in Cyber Law course conducted by
What makes this emotion special is the fact that Amar is completely blind.
Movies: Comedies or romantic movies like Munna Bhai MBBS, Jab We Met.
Arpita Saha is our Student of the Month for October 2009. Arpita is a student of the Diploma in Cyber Crime Prosecution and Defence course conducted by Asian School of Cyber Laws.
Arpita is currently pursuing her 5 year Integrated B.Sc. LL.B. (Honors in IPR) from National Law University, Jodhpur. She is interested in Intellectual Property Laws, cyber laws and criminal laws, specially in the international domain. She has participated and presented papers in numerous national and international conferences and is also an active member of the Journal and Editorial Committee of her University. Some of her articles have featured in the Top-10 list of articles at Social Science Research Network (SSRN) for a number of weeks.
She is also a regular blogger, and very interested in arts and crafts. Even as a child, she won accolades in painting, sketching, oil painting, glass painting, clay modelling, tattoo making, hand painting, rangoli designing and other such arts. She enthusiastically pursues this artistic bent of mind even to this day. She has participated in and won various competitions at her University and outside. Arpita is an avid reader and enjoys a range spanning comic strips to self help books. She loves music, can “hum a little” 
and also takes an interest in dramatics and other performing arts.
She has actively taken a part in “Plant a Tree”, “Donate Blood” and other such campaigns, and loves travelling all over the country, even to little known places, to pursue another one of her hobbies, i.e. photography.
Some of her favourites include:
Colour: Black and Red.
Food: Fruits and Salads, Chinese, and anything made by my mom (miss home-made food a lot!).
Drink: Coffee, Lemonade, Fresh fruit juices.
Actors: Hrithik Roshan, Gerard Butler, Brad Pitt.
Smell: Rose, Lavender.
Movies: Kaminey, P.S. I Love You, When Harry Met Sally, Jab We Met, You’ve Got Mail, Notting Hill, 18 Year Old Virgin and other romantic movies.
TV Shows: Boston Legal series.
Music: Sonu Nigam, Westlife, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shakira, Enrique, Michael Learns to Rock, James Blunt.
Books: Harry Potter series, P.S. I Love You, Lord of the Rings, Simple Things Make Love, Of Course I Love You, Sumthing Of A Mocktale, To Whom It May Concern, John Grisham Novels, Sidney Sheldon Novels, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Chetan Bhagat Novels, Those Small Lil Things.
Neelabh Rai is our Student of the Month for September 2009. Neelabh is currently studying the ASCL Certified Cyber Crime Investigator course and has already completed the Diploma in Cyber Law course conducted by Asian School of Cyber Laws.
Basically a B.tech (Information Technology), Neelabh then completed his Certified Information Security Expert course and then got training in Network Security and Ethical Hacking from Department of IT, Govt. of India.
Socially, Neelabh is working to help depressed people and especially handles those cases where there are signs of a suicidal tendency. He is also a regular blood donor at various hospitals. For this he was awarded as a “Repeated” Regular Voluntary Blood Donor by the Rotary Blood Bank. He also motivates youngsters to donate blood.
On 26 Aug, 2009, he was selected as an Ambassador for “MISSION: SAFER INDIA” being run by Dr. Kiran Bedi (Retd. IPS) for Noida region.
Neelabh is also actively involved in helping save accident victims and has personally saved 26 lives.
He is an active netizen and published information about “Techniques for Identifying Terrorists” on his website on the day of Delhi September blasts in 2008.
Some of his favourites include:
Colour: Red & Blue
Food: Baghara Baigan (A vegetarian dish of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh)
Drink: Mango-shake & Coffee
Actors: Nana Patekar and Naseeruddin Shah
Smell: Anything which releases tension, Khas.
Movies: Enemy Mine, Jaagriti, A Wednesday, Encounter – The killing, Do Aankhen Baarah Haath, Shourya, Black & White, Dost (B/w movie), Shaolin Soccer, Music from the Heart, & Krantiveer.
TV Shows: No interest at all. I prefer listening to Ghazals.
Music: Ghazals of Jagjit Singh, Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, and Nayyara Noor and Indian Classical Music.
Books: You Can Win (Shiv Khera), The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Robin Sharma), The Greatness Guide – 2 (Robin Sharma), Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results (Dr. Norman Vincent Peale), Freedom is Not Free (Shiv Khera), Living With Honour (Shiv Khera).
Rakesh Kumar Singh is our Student of the Month for August 2009.
Rakesh is a student of the Diploma in Cyber Law course conducted by Asian School of Cyber Laws.
Rakesh, who has been part of the Judiciary for the last 11 years is also interested in teaching. He teaches in two districts about the Internet. He has even written a guide on the Internet which is provided as part of the curriculum in many institutes.
He teaches students in his area and wishes to assist the Government of India in the field of cyber crimes.
Some of his favourites include:
Color: Sky blue
Food: Chicken
Drink: Coffee
Actors: Amir Khan, Manoj Bajpei and Priyanka Chopra
Smell: Lavender
Movies: Sarfarosh, Shool, Gangajal
TV Shows: Laughter Challenge, Music Shows
Books: Maila Aanchal by Fanishwar Nath Renu, Godaan by Premchand
Vishal Makkar is our Student of the Month for July 2009. Vishal is a student of the Diploma in Cyber Law course conducted by Asian School of Cyber Laws.
Even as a child, Vishal was special. He was awarded the “District Child Scientist Award” by the Haryana Vigyan Manch. Later, Vishal also won ‘Rashtrapati Award’ (President Scout Award) by ‘The Bharat Scouts & Guides, National Headquarters, New Delhi’ (signed by the then President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam).
Vishal, who is now an Associate Engineer with 3i Infotech, started his career by securing 3rd position in Sprint (C++ programming event) at Sankalan 2008, the Annual Technical Festival organized by Delhi University Computer Science Society.
Some of his favorites are:
Color: Black
Food: Anything spicy and hygienic
Drink: Slice, Lemon Tea
Actors: None in particular; actually I like the characters played by actors more
Smell: ‘Petrichor’ (The pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell)
Movies: A Wednesday, Anand, Bawarchi, Chak De! India, DDLJ, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Namaste London, Onkara, Rang De Basanti, Taare Zameen Par, The Legend of Bhagat Singh… And many more!
TV Shows: Jaayka India Ka (NDTV India), various shows on NDTV, CNBC, Discovery, NatGeo and Fox History & Entertainment
Books: Five Point Someone, The Google Story, Tech Magazines (CHIP, PCWorld, Digit etc.)
Balpreet Singh is our Student of the Month for June 2009. Balpreet is a student of the Post Graduate Program in Cyber Law and the Diploma in Cyber Forensics courses conducted by Asian School of Cyber Laws.
This entrepreneur, who now runs his own immigration agency, is a CNA, MCP, MCSA, MCT and MCDST! He has, in the past, trained personnel of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Police Academy on a regular basis.
He has conducted a detailed study of the Information Technology Act 2000 in co-ordination with the Punjab Police officials.
For his academic contributions to various institutes, he has won several awards and has received much appreciation.
Some of his favourites include:
Color: Black, Blue
Food: Punjabi & Thai food
Drink: Lassi, Red Wine
Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Sylvester Stallone, Nicolas Cage, Salma Hayek, Katrina Kaif
Smell: Aqua Pour Homme by Bulgari for Men, CKIN2U by Calvin Klein for Men
Movies: Agneepath, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, X-Men, Matrix, Fifth Element, Final Destination
TV Shows: Kumars at No. 42, Over Haulin’, Monster House, FBI Files, CSI, Wings, (Doremon, Kitresku, Shin Chan – Cartoon)
Books: The 7 Habits of highly effective People by Stephen R. Covey, The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson and You Can Win by Shiv Khera
Amrita Gupta is our Student of the Month for May 2009. Amrita is a student of Diploma in Cyber Law conducted by Asian School of Cyber Laws.
This lawyer with a difference is a B. Tech with a specialization in Industrial Microbiology.
Amrita has won an award as a Grassroot Innovator from the National Innovation Foundation, Ahmedabad for inventing a “Village Fridge” that runs without electricity.
This talented youngster has also published several poems in the Northern India Patrika. She has learnt Chinese, likes pot painting and making soft toys and has a certificate in Interior Decoration.
She was the first to carve the portrait and figure of minimum of 4 persons on single ordinary writing chalk since the age of 3.
As if this was not enough she decided to make her contribution to the world by also being an active member of the World Wide Fund, Greenpeace And PETA.
Her hobbies include Dancing, classical music (tabla), playing badminton, painting, acting in theater, designing, writing poem and stories for children in Hindi and English and making different varieties of dishes, fashion designing and interior decoration, to invent something that can be useful in daily life and industry too.
Some of her favourites include:
Color: Blue
Food: Anything in veg
Drink: Milk
Actors: Sharukh Khan & John Abhram
Movies: Fashion, Anand & Chak De.
TV Shows: All in Animal Planet & Discovery Channel
Books: All types related to Science, Patents, and Management
Pallab Das is a student of Diploma in Intellectual Property Law with ASCL Law School.
But academics apart, Pallab has a very interesting line up of interests and achievements.
He has been awarded the President’s Award in the National Scouts Meet. Pallab takes an active interest in several creative pursuits and has seen success in many of them. He is an amateur actor who has won an award for it too.
He writes poetry. And he can dance the salsa. Girls watch out! 
He has also won a slogan competition organised by a kid’s TV channel.
On the humane side, Pallab has raised his voice for the rights of the poor in the Odisha slum and he plants trees on every environment day.
Drashya Kuruwa is the ASCL student of the month for March 2009.
Drashya is currently pursuing the Diploma in Cyber Forensics and Diploma in Cyber Crime Prosecution and Defense courses with Asian School of Cyber Laws.
An avid photographer, Drashya recently won the first prize at Synapshot conducted by the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Infomation and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar. His prize winning photograph is:
Drashya says “I believe in an ancient Greek aphorism “Know yourself” which refers to the ideal of understanding human behavior, morals, and thought, because ultimately to understand oneself is to understand other humans as well“.
Drashya is 21 years old and has done his schooling from St. Xavier’s Loyola Hall, Ahmedabad. He has completed BCA from L.J College of Computer Applications, Ahmedabad and is a Certified Ethical Hacker. He was recently interviewed on IGNOU Radio regarding an animation movie “LJ 2020″ made by him and his 9 member team.
Photographs clicked by him are regularly published in leading newspapers and displayed in exhibitions.
Some of his favorites:
Color: Black
Smell: The fragrance of Sandalwood, which is usually found in the temples.
Movies: The Matrix Trilogy, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, 300 , The Dark Knight, Oceans Trilogy, Constantine, Matchstick Men, The Shooter, Hitman, The Italian Job, The 6th Sense, Rang De Basanti, The Legend Of Bhagat Singh, Apharan, Sarkar, Sehar, Risk, The List is Endless …
TV Shows: Special Squad, Siddhant, Mission Fateh, Byomkesh Bakshi, Mohandas B.A.L.L.B, Kenan & Kel, 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd.
Books: Lenin, The Scientific Knowledge In The Vedas, A Search In The Secret India, The Selected Works of Oscar Wilde…
We know you as our students. We’d like to get to know you better. So here’s your chance to nominate yourself as ASCL’s Student of the Month.
What will it take? Well, for one info on what you have been doing of late – your achievements, your awards, even your participation in any event of importance. And what’s amazing is it doesn’t have to be academic, though we’re not ruling that out. Come out with your deeds in sports, in talent competitions, your social good deeds and even good samaritan deeds.
What else? Your pics. Now, don’t send in any boring passport size photos (we aren’t giving any Visas). Send us your cool pics. While that does imply non-boring, it doesn’t imply obscene. So go on! Take out those heavy duty digicams and send in your snaps.
One more small thing. Your steps to stardom have to go through ASCL. So you’ve got to be a registered student of Asian School of Cyber Laws or ASCL Law School. And if you were and are now alumni of ASCL (have completed a course with ASCL or ALS), you can nominate yourself as Alumnus of the Month!
Soooo? What you waiting for? Email us at info@asianlaws.org and watch yourself go from student to Student Star!