Hope you all are healthy and safe. We are honoured that you have picked our journal to read. As a student of B.Sc. Honours in Chemistry from Hansraj College, one could expect a rat race competition omnipresent in the institution owing to the brightest minds from all over the country. We embrace the diversity, share ideas, cultures, and also some typical stigmatisation. The acknowledgement of the students on Chemistry being peripheralized to textbooks with little relevance in advances, technology and everyday life is the biggest sceptical thought that prevails. Another factor reflecting the delusionality among the majority of students is cynicism to the subject they have chosen to pursue for graduation. Disturbed to know the belief among the students that only being inclined to academics with no knowledge out of the sphere and latching to the comfort zone is enough while few others who lack the knowledge to access the scientific developments by their own and yet another category of students who give up on being jargonised by the research papers, we at Rasayanatva, The Chemical Society of Hansraj College came up with the thought to equip the students with scientific inventions and advancements from every field of Chemistry, about the researchers conducted or happening and the honourable scientists, in a clear, lucid and simplified way. We believe, this will preserve or foster the enthusiasm within students about the subject which has so much to offer and they might not know. Rasayanatva has enlisted few visions. When in 2020, for the first time, we hosted a National Seminar featuring renowned scientists and providing a platform between them and students to exchange the thoughts on Environmental Sustainability, the idea to begin with a scientific journal strike. Due to non-existence of proper planning and orientation the idea postponed and after few months, we, paired with a very hardworking junior team mustered up the strength to launch our very first journal this year. It has been months that our team has been doing research and gathering the ethical data on the invariant topics centred on Chemistry. This journal is an effort and tool to boost your confidence that might have been belittled, to discover the wealth of wisdom, to enrich the quality of your life, to bring the more of yourself into your work and to discover your calling. Since it is our very first issue of the journal, we would love your suggestions or any improvements you feel mentionable. You could email to us at: rasayanatva.hansraj@gmail.com
Founding members Being a student of chemistry has always fascinated us because unlike other subjects,
where the object of
study can be seen or observed, we enjoy no such powers. We work on molecular and atomic levels
without
seeing them. Their essence can only be felt and enjoyed making it one of the toughest subject to
work
with. Yet it attracts thousands of people towards itself because of its tremendous power to change
the
world. The atomic bomb that changed the course of history, the nuclear power plants which
revolutionized
the electricity supply, the plethora number of medicines which has advanced the medical field and
what
not. Right from cosmetics to the cosmos, everything has a chemistry of its own. The list of
achievements
of chemistry is a never ending one.
It has been almost a year and struggle with this pandemic is still not over. Scientists, researchers
and
scholars are all aiming towards the development of vaccine to curb this pandemic and their only ray
of
hope is an integrated approach in fields of biomedicine using biochemistry and cheminformatics. The
way
these research applications are revolutionizing this field gives everyone a hope that it is for sure
possible to curb this pandemic.
These achievements come from a scientific temperament which develops gradually over years and as a
result of acquiring knowledge related it. The Chemical Journal of Rasayanatva helps the students to
foster in them this scientific rationale in their formative years. This journal is an initiative to
do
so. It is the first time that any college society is launching their own journal so we hope to get
immense love from all our readers. We welcome all constrictive criticism regarding this journal.
Happy reading!
Editors-in-chief
Kirti Kashyap Taijas
Prashansa Mehta
Salut beautiful readers! “Modern Chemistry with its far-reaching generalizations and hypothesis is a fine example of how the human mind can go in exploring the unknown beyond the limits of human senses.” ~ Horace G. Deming Being the students of Chemistry, we can staunchly vouch for the aforesaid quote. The consequences of Chemistry are patently comprehensive! Chemistry isn’t something that is merely confided to a laboratory, it’s something that is within you. From its essential contributions to humanity in food and medicines, clothes and housing, energy and raw materials to its breakthrough publication of the genetic code for SARS- CoV-2, its omnipresence cannot be gainsaid. This website is Rasayanatva’s passion project to satiate your mind with an eclectic range of topics of Chemistry and quench your thirst for scientific literature.
Editors-in-chief
