Nothing To Lose
Prasad Setty is the Vice President of the People Analytics & Compensation in Google. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School where he graduated…
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 Future of Internet: A Lecture by Vint Cerf
The Internet, a global system of interconnected computer networks that has transformed the lives of billions of people across the world, turned 30 this month. On this occasion ACM India, IEEE Computer Society, Computer Society of India and IITM Alumni Association had jointly organised a talk by the co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol, Vint Cerf.
Let’s Talk About Rape
In the aftermath of the particularly gruesome rape in the national capital in December, Delhi’s streets spilt over as more and more of its inhabitants joined the numerous vigils and protests that followed it. the anger and pain were real. The fear in our girls was real. The shame the nation felt as we heard about her death was real. Healing, and through it, a solution begins with talking about it. With this in mind, Mitr, on 2nd February, held a discussion on sexual violence. A reassuring number of men turned up for the talk, during the course of which we had six speakers.
That’s What She Said
The first step in solving any problem is acknowledging its existence. To that effect, T5E attempts to document the various aspects of our campus culture that bother female students, by engaging some of them in a group discussion.
सिकुड़ता गणतंत्र
…जब देश के महामहिम एक विदेशी अतिथि के सामने अपने देश के वैभव-सम्पन्नता का दिखावा कर रहे होंगे तब विदर्भ का एक किसान आत्म-हत्या करने के लिए अपने गले में रस्सी डाल रहा होगा…
क्रांति : कल और आज
…उठ खड़े हुए शूरवीर
तितर बितर थे उनके धीर…
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…