About Us

A Brief History of T5E

In 2002, The Fourth Estate or TFE came into being to bring together the institute’s literary talents on a common platform to write about institute events and activities. This institute magazine covered essays, opinion pieces, news and fiction. Published and circulated in the form of hard copies, the magazine made for a really fun read and was mandated as an institute body under SAC and funded by the Dean of Students.

In 2009, TFE, as it was popularly known, evolved into its online avatar, The Fifth Estate, under three founding editors: Saranya Kapur, Amrita Nair and Aditya (‘Das’) Kothari. For a brief while, both TFE and T5E coexisted and were managed by the same team. However, TFE was discontinued soon and it is the online avatar that remained. Today, T5E has expanded to become the official institute news body and takes on serious reporting under its mandate as well as a host of feature pieces and more, as you shall see below.

Who Are We?

T5E, or The Fifth Estate, is IIT Madras’s official campus news and media body. Established relatively recently in 2009, T5E is responsible for reporting on campus events and activities and also bringing out content on a wide range of issues relevant to the IIT Madras community, be it students (prospective or current), parents, faculty or staff. In the last few years, T5E has expanded drastically in terms of outreach and content, and made a name for itself in the institute. One of its main distinguishing features is that it remains neutral and unbiased both in its coverage and internal functioning, having prided itself on working in a transparent and accountable manner.

What Do We Do?

As mentioned above, T5E covers institute wide news of every kind including various activities and events on campus – but our content is not confined to reporting. We also regularly bring out different series, features (like Humans of Insti), interviews, op-eds, opinion pieces, and on occasion guest features. Of late, T5E has also begun to focus on not just textual but also visual content and at the moment we are working on several new photography and videography ventures to be released in the coming year.

How Do We Do It?

T5E operates purely online through a WordPress site where content is regularly published. On average we release 2-3 articles a week. We also run our own Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts. All aspects of T5E: from writing, editing, design, photography, videography, web operations, financing and publicity- are taken care of within the main team itself. Thus, we are an extremely self-sufficient body. But the real answer to ‘How do we do it?’ lies in our:

Team Members

The T5E team is headed by an Executive Editor, who takes up ultimate responsibility for the body as a whole. The Executive Editor works with the Editorial Board consisting this year of six editors; the Research Team consisting of two heads, and the Design and Social Media Heads. The real strength of the team however is derived from its Correspondents and Analysts. This year T5E has 28 correspondents and analysts who work in tandem with the Heads/Editors and Executive Editor to come up with ideas, take initiative and develop this into solid and effective content.

Without further ado, we introduce our team for this year:

2023-24

Executive Editor

Devika Deevasan

Editors

Garima Sane	Ankita H Murthy	Ashita Anil
Meenakshi Anoop	Pooja Shankar	Aditi Rathore

Press and Media Correspondents

Amirtha Varshini V C	Nachiketh Grandhi	Soniya Kute
Suruthi L	Samyukta Mahesh	J. Sree Divya
Eva Maria Johnson	Anbarasi P	Sohalika Shrivastava
Arnav Kashyap	Anna Biju Thomas	Parth Arora
N V S K Mani Datta Seemakurti	Prateeka Donapati	Swathy Suresh
Aravind M	Priyamvada M

Design and Social Media

Research

Arun Palaniappan	Medhaa Priya	Anushka Amrut Golwalkar
Hariprasad G	Papu Payeng	Jaeyesh Balaji
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You can also view previous years’ T5E teams below:

2022-23

Executive Editor

Vibhhu Sharma

Sahil Halarnkar

Editors

Devika Deevasan	Sajusha Ashok	Neha Cherian
Nalli Sai Soumya	Ridha Shemil

Correspondents

Garima Sane	Vijaya Sasibind Badde	Prathyusha Deepak
Suruthi L	Pooja Shankar	Meenakshi Rajeev
Kaushik Ravibaskar	Shreya Gupta	Meenakshi Anoop
Lakshmi Yazhini	Sarvani Cheruvu	Kavya Swaminathan
Rahul Sankarankutty	Anushka Amrut Golwalkar	Aditi Devnath
Raghav Mallampalli	Prahalad A Vathsan	Meghna Narayanan
Anoushka Rabha

Design and Social Media

Research

Sri Vathsa	N K S Mayukh	Aditya
P Keerthana Sri	Arun Palaniappan	T.Suraj Manickam

WebOps

Sagar Sugunan

Nishan P

Podcast

Pranav Condur

Kinshuk Bhardwaj

Behura Kunal Kirteeman

2021-22

Executive Editor

Shreethigha Ganeshan

Editors

Neha Susan Cherian	Rohini Dikshit	Calvin
Neha Anand	Jai Santoshi

Correspondents

Sadhana N J	Meghna Narayanan	Lakshya Singh
Pranoy K P	Devika Deevasan	Yatin Satish
Akash Haridas	Aenakshee Roy	Siddharth Shrma
Anish Kumar	Angalakuditi Sandilya	Nalli Sai Soumya
Ridha Shemil	Vibhhu Sharma	Sahil Halarnkar

Design and Social Media

Research

Beera Adithya	Sagar Panchal	Sri Vathsa
Akash Haridas	Ishank Jain	Sarthak Vora

WebOps

Aryamaan

Podcast

Lakshya J	Anamika G	Niharika Choudhury
Anamika R Nair

2020-21

Executive Editor

Sharayu Shejale

Editors

Amrita Mahesh	Mahima Raut	Anna Maria Dominic
S Vishal	Siddharth D P

Correspondents

Mahima Sharma	Amina Mehboob	Gowri Raj Verma
Rohini Dikshit	Gayathri S	Devika Dinesh
Abhishek Sekar	Vibhhu Sharma	Jyotsna Varkey
Shreethigha Ganesan	Sahil Halarnkar	Calvin
Balakumaran	Neha Susan Cherian	Sreekar Sai Ranganathan
Anvith Pabba	Preetha Devi	Jai Santhoshi S
Lakshmi Priya S L	Hrishil Shinde	Neha Anand

Design and Social Media

Swati Sheenum	Shreethigha Ganesan	Shaurya Rawat
Hardhik Pinjala	Deepak Laxman	Abhiram Pavithran O

Research

Sarvesh Sakhare	Aayush Raj	Sarvani Cheruvu
Arvind Car	Keshav Rao	Rohan Ghanty

WebOps

Aryamaan Saha

Podcast

Sai Guha

Saksham Sharma

Lakshya J

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2019-20

Executive Editor

Niharika Gunturu

[email protected]

Editors

Sharayu Shejale	Aditya B S
Sankalpa Venkatraghavan	Akash Reddy

Correspondents

Abhijit B	Amina Mehboob	Amrita Mahesh
Gayathri Prakash	Gayathri S	Devika Dinesh
Adriza Mishra	Vibhu Krishna	Jyotsna Varkey
Shreethigha Ganeshan	Manoj Sundararajan	Meghna M
Nishant Prabhu	Pratyasha Priyadarshini	Rohan Gopakumar
S Vishal	Sheeba Elizabeth	Siddharth D P
Burhan Sabuwala	Hrishil Shinde	Neha Anand

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2018-19

Executive Editor

Rohitha Naraharisetty

Editors

Anvitha Reddy	Ranjani Srinivasan	Surya Suresh
Niharika Gunturu	Sindhu Sekhar	Arvind Pujari

Correspondents

Amrita Mahesh	Anmol Agarwal	Gayatri C
Gayatri P	Kaushik Vishwanath	Manoj Sundararajan
Raghavendra Ajit	Ramcharan Reddy	Ramcharan Roy
Rasika Joshi	Sabarinath R	Sankalpa V

Sharanya Menon	Sharayu Shejale	Sheeba Elizabeth
Shubhangi Ghosh	Shweta Venkatesh	Siddharth
Sruthi Ranjani	Stanley Gabriel	Taneesha Shekhawat
Tejas S	Upasana Bhattacharjee	Vasanth G

Media

2017-18

Executive Editor

Varun Sridhar

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Editors

S. P Kaushik Viswanath	Saborni Saha	Abhijit Gupta
Divya Vijayakumar	Anvitha Reddy	Rohitha Naraharisetty

Correspondents

Abhishek Kelkar	Gudi Ramcharan Reddy	Utsav Dutta
Shubhangi Ghosh	Meenakshi Kumar	Savio Daimary
Sharanya Menon	Pradyumna	Siddharth Kapre
Nihal K	Akash Kumar	Surya Suresh

Media

2016-17

Executive Editor

Isha Bhallamudi

+91 91764 89636

Editors

Akash Garg	Abhishek Kelkar
Henna Nizar Ahammed	Rohitha Naraharisetty

Design & Media

Avinash Panneerselvam	Divya Vijayakumar	Ruby Saha
Sanchit Gupta	Shiraz Khan	Sumit Sute

WebOps

Abhishek Shandilya

Priyanka Joshi

Saravanan Dayalan

Correspondents

Abhinand Shankar	Akash Kumar	Akhil Sathuluri
Aneesh Salelkar	Anshuman Karthik	Anvitha Reddy
Aroon Narayanan	Aslamah Rahman	G Soorya
Harsh Sheth	Jonathan Alex	Kaushik Viswanath
M Rupesh Kumar	Meena Chockalingam	Neema Davis K
Nihal K	Niharika Gunturu	Parvathi Madhu Nair
Sanket Warad	Sharanya Menon	Sharika Mahadevan
Shaswat Mohanty	Padmapriya Govindarajan	Patanjali
Pradyumna	Pranav Bhargav	Ramya Vijayram
Raghav Simhan	Ruchir	Shivani Guptasarma
Shweta Venkatesh	Sriraghav Srinivasan	Sofia Shehana
Sowmya Ganesh	Surya Suresh	Tangella Bala Sri Raja Gopal
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