Cinema Retreat: Movie Reviews By Prof. Aysha Iqbal
A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964) It was the Swinging Sixties. The Fab Four , as the Beatles were popularly called, had a string…
Immerse(#5): Learning How we Learn
What if somebody told you that learning a particular skill will only need a certain number of days or hours of practice until you became decently competent at it? What if you knew exactly which exercises to practice in order to learn a skill in the minimum possible time? These are the questions being posed and simultaneously answered by this project.
Curfew and Dress Codes Back from Aug 2017
“In light of safety concerns arising in the past few weeks, the institute administration has announced a new set of comprehensive rules for students starting the new academic year 2017-18. All students are required to return to the hostel premises by 6 pm. Dress codes will also be made compulsory for all students throughout campus, except inside the hostels.”
Curfew and Dress Codes Back from Aug 2017
“In light of safety concerns arising in the past few weeks, the institute administration has announced a new set of comprehensive rules for students starting the new academic year 2017-18. All students are required to return to the hostel premises by 6 pm. Dress codes will also be made compulsory for all students throughout campus, except inside the hostels.”
Institute Soapbox (Day 4): Sports Secretary
By Ruchir and Sanket The Institute Sports Secretary Soapbox was held on the final day of the Institute Soapboxes. The candidates contesting this year for…
Institute Soapboxes(Day 1): International and Alumni Relations Secretary
By Anshuman and Ruchir The International and Alumni Relations Secretary Soapbox was the third soapbox on Day 1 of the Institute Soapboxes, held on 8…
Institute Soapboxes (Day 1): Co-Curricular Affairs Secretary and Academic Affairs Secretary
“With the election season underway in full swing, Wednesday marked the return of the annual soapboxes, albeit with a slight variation in the format. In this new format, candidates facing a contest would battle it out against one another while unanimous candidates would be engaged in a discussion with the anchor. Questions from the Executive Council Members and the GSB would follow.”
Cinema Retreat: Reviews By Prof. Aysha Iqbal
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Jeff: “Is this the Lisa Freemont who never wears the same dress twice?” Lisa: “Only because it’s expected of her.”…
Immerse (#1): Playing with Twitter
“Do you see a lot of physics words here? That’s because there is a lot of physics involved, and the study of social physics brings together the two exciting fields of social media study and statistical mechanics. However, as with all theories and models involving human decision-making, this too is a slave to the sometimes arbitrary sensibility of people’s everyday decisions. A human may choose to drink Pepsi today and not Coca-Cola; there is no way this seemingly random and whimsical choice can be modeled by logical rules.”
Gender and Sexuality: An”other” Perspective
“The other transition from male to female is not happy either. One who is assigned male at birth but who wants to be a female faces a harsh life in the institute. Their male friends frown upon their behaviour of having “fallen” to the level of a female from a male. Be it their dressing, way of speech, and gait, the transgender students have to face teasings from other students everyday. “