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    Zen & The Art of Bicycle Maintenance 

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    Interview with Pt. Rakesh Chaurasia

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    A Ballad: SLC Meeting 03, 23/8/2024

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    Latest Academic Reforms: July 2024

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    SLC Meeting 02: Highlights

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    Intern Season 101

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    Corporate Wants You – Or Do They?

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    Interview with Dr. Anil Kakodkar

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    Avishkar 6.0: Reflections from the Last Tenure

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    Interview with Dr Prakash Baba and Dr.Mandakini Amte

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    Wellness beyond the Physicality: Admin’s response to the mental health crisis

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    From Dissent to Demands: Understanding the Research Scholars’ Protest for Fellowship Hike

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    NIRF 1: At the Top Again 

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    From Setbacks to Triumphs: Team Abhiyaan Places Third Overall in IGVC 2023

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    Unravelling the Dispute: SECC and Team Pragati

  • Aroon Narayanan
  • August 14, 2013
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“India’s Biggest Shame”

A small group gathered at MRC on the afternoon of 11th August to participate in a discussion on India’s serially neglected group – the Dalits – and the ignominy of manual scavenging.

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  • August 13, 2013
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NSS IITM: An Agent Of Change

With the sheer multitude of activities under its umbrella, NSS touches a significant number of lives – the lives of the groups for whose benefit NSS activities are organised, and the lives of the volunteers and team members themselves.

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  • August 12, 2013
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T5E Travelogue: Where 20 Degrees is Hot

Unless you are a mountain goat (or close), climbing stairs can make one breathless and sitting still can tire you out. Yet, walk into a classroom with smiling faces and voices that chime “Thank you, Ma’am!” for returning their chorused “Good morning!” and you can’t help but grab a book, grin back and plunge right into a story.

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  • August 9, 2013
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Let’s Make Cranes: Senbazuru

The Fine Arts Club paid tribute to the memory of Sadako and the legend of the cranes by kick-starting its activities this year with a colourful bang on Hiroshima Day.

  • Bhargavi Suryanarayanan
  • August 8, 2013
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Hear It From An MA: Humanities FAQ

If you’ve ever wondered about the Humanities but never found a suitable person to talk to, here’s a handy FAQ about the Humanities.

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  • August 5, 2013
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  • July 26, 2013

Year In Review 2012-2013

T5E briefly reviews some of the year’s memorable events and activities, as we raise our glass to the year that was.

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The Organs of CФ

There are eight CFI clubs, which work on diverse projects and cater to the varying interests of students at IIT Madras.

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  • July 23, 2013
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On Room Allocation For Freshers and Decision-Making in IITM

I acknowledge that a variety of interpretations, arguments, questions, etc. ranging from the serious to the silly, will exist on this issue. Issues like this could have many solutions and also many approaches to solutions.

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