Black, White, and Read All Over
by Shruti Badole and Bhargavi Suryanarayanan “In tenth standard I used to wake up at 4:00 a.m. every day, hide a novel within my textbook…
Shark Tale
The Inter-IIT Aquatics Meet 2012 was held in IIT Roorkee from 2nd to 5th October. Notwithstanding the lack of a functioning swimming pool in our campus, the institute aquatics team – ‘The Madras Sharks’ put up an impressive performance – bagging gold in Water Polo and 3rd in Swimming.
Shadows of the mind
The following article has been written by the MITr team on the occasion of 10th October being celebrated as ‘World Mental Health Day’. Mental health…
SportsFest 2012
by Rajaram Suresh The recently concluded IIT Madras Annual SportsFest, 2012 turned out to be a successful one for IITM. Spanning over a week and…
“When will we learn to upload?”
By Jayant Thatte In the light of the approaching BTP (B.Tech Project) and DDP (Dual Degree Project) reviews in various departments, Prof. K. Ramamurthy (Dean,…
A Technologically Empowered Rural India
“Can incubated companies make a difference in rural areas?” The NSS team organized a lecture by Prof. Ashok Juhnjhunwala (Padma Shree, 2002) on the 2nd of October. He discussed some of the successful companies pertaining to fields as diverse as manufacturing, health-care and education.
HSS Department Conference
The second Department Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department was held on 21st September, 2012, on the overarching theme of ‘Negotiating Conflict’. The conference drew from the three streams – Development Studies, Economics and English.
Fastest Finger First
Although no IPs were put up on hostel notice-boards prior to the event, there was a good turnout, which can be attributed in part to its double entendre-filled tagline, ‘Finger your way to glory’.
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Op-pan LitSoc Style!
By Reshmi S Queen of Sheeba 2012 was slightly different from the last few years’. A trend which started last year – adding tasks to…