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What is Aarewah?
अरे वा वा वा वा वा !!! ही आरोळी सगळे सी ऒ ई पी चे लोक एकमुखाने द्य़ायचो
Aarewah is Marathi slang for "Too Good".
It’s an expression which was used by students at then Govt College Of Engineering Pune Students for expressing their happiness as a community.
May it be Mangala (Cinema Hall near COEP), Gathering, Insynch (Fergusson Annual Social Event), Firodiya, Purshottam, Cricket matches or anything else couple of COEPians will start shouting Aare wah wah wah wah wah and everyone else would join. It was/is hallmark of COEPians in Pune.
There are still arguments about how many Wah's are there in this slogan. I firmly believe there are five but Girish Kurkure will have a final say on this. He was best slogan leader for all time in COEP.
I recall during our college time we would ask him to start the slogan just for the heck of it.
The sole reason this slogan is used to build COEP community is that there never was any divide which we stopped us from joining this saying slogan.
Those from COEP will know we have quite a few divides amongst ourselves. like any other college. City/Hostel, Studious/Taporis, Actives/Passives, Nashik/Dhule/Pune/Mumbai/Karad .... and many more. Usually it would be very hard to get everyone on board on any issue but once we started rhyming Aare wah wah wah wah wah everyone would join.
Mission of aarewah is to reignite and re-live the spirit and hence the name.
Who started this slogan?
We don't know. As the legend goes it’s always been there. It will be activated in some batches and then it will go in hibernation for few batches.
Between periods of 1989 to 1996 this slogan saw best of its days.
Efforts are underway to patent this slogan.
Who started this website?
Kurkure, the slogan leader of our time was also running a yahoo group called aarewah which had all his batch mates and friends. They used to share lot of info through this group. Lot of ideas was being floated. Then Girish pulled Ajit and Shilawat into this group. These two gentlemen then got Hemant, Raju Bhadke, Manoj Nawandar, Kamal Kumar, Vijay Patange and few more this group.
The website came into existence after few at aarewah yahoo group thought they can contribute to COEP community (students and alumni) by giving them a platform to communicate. Ajit took initiative and build the first website. Most of the idea work was done by Ajit, Sandeep, Girish and Hemant in initial days. Other significant contributors were Sonali and Nitin Lad.
Initial days max hits on this website were on posts done by Nitin Lad on Puneri Patya.
What does Aaarewah want to achieve?
Actually, nothing big.
Not much.. hunh !?
And we will figure out rest as aarewah grows.
Why one more COEP website?
When aarewah was started the founders were either very ignorant about COEP web community or it was not very active.
There is no policing done on aarewah. No one is looking over anyone’s shoulder to see what’s being posted.
Aarewah believes in COEPians judgment and allows them to post anything they desire to post, share or discuss.
Aarewah is developing healthy dialogue with COEP foundation and COEP college on basic principle of freedom of expression. Aarewah does not have affiliation with COEP college or any other COEP alumni organization or web community.
Who are beneficiaries?
COEP students and alumni.
How is aarewah doing?
Aarewah has around 1200 members while this page is being updated. Now there are many contributors. The contributors are from Professor at COEP to current students. Range of Alumni from as old as 1964 to students who are still in COEP.
[Professor Mukhopadhyay] has kept his book for download on this website. His email is about Aarewah is [here]
Aarewah is shaping as encyclopedia of information of COEP. There are many issues being discussed and some are being resolved.
COEP director [Mr Sahasrabudhe] when was told about this effort applauded it. He wanted more COEPians to know about it.
These days Anjali Nandedkar has been doing significant amount of work to build aarewah as common communication platform for COEPians. Most popular of her projects is Technocraft which is branded as huge success. Other projects on aarewah include, Websetu.
Who can post?
Anyone who has claimed himself as a COEPian and registered with aarewah. During registration the individual accepts fair usage agreement.
What to do if you find something objectionable?
Send email to one of the contacts. If the objection is found genuine then appropriate action will be taken.
Who pays for aarewah?
There is an only domain fee. Currently only Ajit Srivastava. If push comes to shove team will contribute. All website building work and communications is done by various members of aarewah on voluntary basis.
Aarewah.com Domain Registration Info
Aarewah.org Domain Registration Info
What is the technology used to build this website?
The entire web site is built using an opensource content management system called XOOPS. The web site http://www.xoops.org
The XOOPS system is very flexible and will let you change the entire look and feel of the site with a Theme. The best way to change the L&F of the site is to create a theme. There are many free themes available and you can use one of them as a starting point to develop a new theme.