Back to the Future: Personalised Advertising – ‘Ad’ Hominem?
Design: Hardhik Pinjala “We don’t choose the things we believe in; they choose us.” This powerful quote is from the movie Minority Report, released in…
Vaccines 101
What is a Vaccine? Vaccine, a name coined by Edward Jenner after he successfully came up with the first-ever vaccine for smallpox, is anything that…
Women in STEM: Interview with Nandita Damaraju
Edited by: Sankalpa Venkatraghavan Part 2: We view the scene through the lens of Nandita Damaraju, an alumnus of IIT Madras. Nandita Damaraju graduated in…
Women in STEM: Interview with Prof. Preeti Aghalayam
Editor: Sankalpa Venkatraghavan Part 1: We view the scene through the lens of Dr Preeti Aghalayam, a professor and alumnus of IIT Madras. I sat…
AI-powered IoT: to worry or not to worry?
The Internet of Things has been a buzzword for almost a decade now and we’ve come a long way. From “Yay! IoT is going to…
Interview with Raftar: The Formula Bharat Win
Each one of us has watched on in awe of their sheer passion as this team tested their brainchild around the Gajendra Circle into the…
The Persistence of Vision
Social campaigns became a part of Shaastra in 2012 as a way of giving back to society. However, a separate team to serve the purpose…
The Envi-saga
A peek into the yearlong journey of the one-of-a-kind student-run techno-entertainment show in India October 31st 2019, 1:00 AM (63 Days to Shaastra) Any…
The Detectives’ Dossier
Detect Technologies is an IoT-based start-up which creates intelligent asset monitoring and inspection solutions. Detect Technologies stands at the intersection of patented hardware and intelligent…
It’s A Small World After All
We do not think of subatomic particles as easily detectable, and when it comes to sheer elusiveness amongst them, the neutrino beats them all hands…