SAC Meeting Review: Feb 2013
by Bhargavi Suryanarayanan and V.V. Hemanth The SAC meeting that took place on Saturday, Feb 23, saw a lot of relevant issues being discussed and…
The (g)Olden Days
An interview with Mr. Dhanushkodi Mariappan (BT/ME/2001): An inspirational figure, Mr. Mariappan started a company called ‘TechPassion’ after completing his MS from MIT. A brief…
While Doing Fieldwork
Saad, Paroma, Nayantara and I (all undergraduate students in different universities) were in Khunti, Jharkhand in the summer of 2009 doing fieldwork on the functioning of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. Khunti is largely a tribal district, but there are small pockets of areas where there are caste villages. In Birhu, one of those villages in the district where so-called high caste and low caste residents live in separate parts, we had to quickly find someone who would agree to cook dinner for us.
The Road Less Talked About
The author, Akhil Kulkarni (B.Tech/ME/2010), worked with Credit Suisse for about one and a half years before pursuing his MS in mechanical engineering…
The Need For Rationality
In contrast to a previously held Extra Mural Lecture about ‘Vedic Sciences’, on Wednesday (23th January), the EML team organized a lecture on the ‘Need…
Ramesh Srivats Speaks to T5E: Exclusive Interview
“Armchair thinker, excessive drinker, occasional writer, wants to be lighter” is how you would know Ramesh Srivats, an alumnus of IIT Madras, who has more…
The IIT Madras Student Research Magazine
Shaastra 2013 and The Fifth Estate in a joint initiative, are proud to present the first ever edition of the IIT Madras Student Research Magazine.
Alumni Speak: Srikant Mallela and Amrit Acharya, ITC
T5E interviews recent alumni across a wide variety of industries who have spent a year or more at their respective firms. We hope this will…
Alumni Speak: Kashyap R Puranik, Google
T5E interviews recent alumni across a wide variety of industries who have spent a year or more at their respective firms. We hope this will enlighten current students with respect to what companies look for while recruiting undergraduates and help them make more informed career choices.
Adulthood and Responsibility
This article has been written by Croor Singh, an alumnus of IIT Madras (DD/AE/2010) in context of the recent rule restricting the entry of visitors…