Team Speaks: Volleyball
By Sharika Mahadevan and Neema Davis As everyone is gearing up for the long-awaited Inter-IIT sports meet at Kanpur, we had the opportunity to interview…
Team Speaks: Weightlifting
For most of us, weightlifting is a Pandora’s box. We call them the incredible hulks of the institute and admire their poised muscle power but knowing anything beyond that is a rarity. In order to break this monotony, we decided to get to know these macho men better and more importantly what exactly goes into the making of these skilled professionals. Dive in to know more about this glorious and off-beat sport.
Team Speaks: Football
The football team that goes by the name “The Wolves” has had to overcome numerous injury worries this year and with the tight placement schedule for a majority of the team members, practices haven’t been as regular as the captain would’ve liked. However, with the discovery of a set piece taking gem, the team has a new scoring outlet and the team looks more confident than ever to win it for all the veterans who’ve given it their everything all throughout their institute life.
Shaswat Mohanty presents an all-round analysis of “The Wolves” in the third article of the Inter-IIT series.
Placements: Updates
We have reached out to the Academic Affairs Secretary, Shiva Saketh, to clarify things, and have received updates from the same.
Team Speaks: Tennis
Abhishek Kelkar caught up with the Institute Tennis team for the 51st Inter-IIT Sports Meet and he puts together some interesting insights from his interview with the team. Read along to know more. This is the second in the Inter-IIT series.
Team Speaks: Basketball
The 51st Inter IIT Sports Meet to be held at Kanpur is just a few days away. Teams at IIT Madras are sweating it out day and night in order to make training drills and tactics part of their muscle and memory. T5E in this series of article brings some of the inside news from all the institute teams. In this first article of the series, Aneesh Salelkar presents snippets from his interview with the Men’s and women’s basketball team
Are we ready?
The unanticipated December 2015 floods in Chennai put not only the city’s but also the Institute’s disaster management and mitigation measures to test. After the recent warnings of an approaching cyclone, we decided to talk to the authorities in order to gauge the preparedness of the institute to tackle such worst circumstances if they arise. In the following article, we compile the comments by the chairman of CCW, Professor K Sethupathi and Retd. Col. Jayakumar (Joint Registrar, students) along with a few insights from the placement team.
IIT for Villages – Vantage point of an IViLian
From a group of BTech students who visited Natham as part of one of their electives to Ivil’s journey as one of the most dynamic, vibrant and socially committed student-run organisations in the campus, Meena Chockalingam traces the journey of this organisation over the years and her experience as a volunteer in it.
Humans of Insti: Prof. Balaganesan
We’ve all attended (freshies still are), often grumbling, the rather annoying Workshop Training Session “offered” by our institute. But how much do we really know about the man responsible for the winter hullabaloo? Or anything else really, about what the Senior Technical Officer in IIT Madras (yes, that position exists) has to deal with managing a workshop as impressive and humungous as ours?
Department Stereotypes
In this article, we decided to compile a non-exhaustive list of few of the most well known, albeit infamous stereotypes that the students from various departments face on a regular basis.