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Counseling time is always stressful and we hope to help the process by giving the candidates an understanding of what exactly being in a particular department is like, a glimpse of life at IIT Madras, tips from a few seniors and much more.
In this article, Prof. Sriramkumar looks back upon LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves and lucidly outlines the theory, construction of the experimental setup and the implications of the observations made early this year.
In what is a heartening news for the IIT Madras community, our institute has been ranked as the best engineering institute in the country.
A charged atmosphere led to the most awaited soapbox of the elections season. People trickled in throughout the Sports Secretary’s soapbox, filling the central section of SAC Middle Earth. The candidates were at their podiums before the applause for Sethu (Sports Sec candidate) died down. It was soon replaced by even louder applause and cheering for both the candidates, applause that refused to die down until repetitive warnings were given by the SAC Speaker. The candidates then explained in detail about their manifestos, first Sreeharsha, and then Purab Jain. This was followed by a Q&A session. The article is accordingly split into two sections – Manifesto Brief and Question and Answer Session.
In yet another article on the election soapboxes, we present summaries of the soapboxes of the following three unopposed candidates: Kishore KS, Sethu Madhavan and Gokulesh TG contesting for the posts of HAS, Sports Secretary and Cultural Affairs Secretary (Arts) respectively. The audience for each of these soapboxes was small, as expected. Nevertheless, please read through the article to know more about your candidates.
In the this article, we present summaries of the soapboxes of the following three unanimous candidates: Saketh Shiva, Poojan Patel and Animesh Bagora contesting for the posts of AAS, IAR Secretary and CoCAS respectively. Probably because these post were being contested unanimously, the turnout was quite low. The soapboxes for unanimous candidates seemed dull in comparison with the those for the contested posts.
Ahead of the institute elections, candidates standing for institute posts summarize their vision and highlight the issues they want to address when elected. Students’ General…
Ahead of the manifesto deadline for the student elections, T5E brings you a wishlist from the current institute secretaries about the initiatives that they’d like to see from their successors.
LitSoc Creative Writing (Solo) for the academic year 2015-16 was held in the July-Dec semester. In the second part of this two-article series, T5E presents all the top five winning entries under the Poetry category.
LitSoc Creative Writing (Solo) for the academic year 2015-16 was held in the July-Dec semester. In this first part of a two-article series, T5E presents all the top five winning entries under the Prose category.