Manifesto Review: Hostel Affairs Secretary — T Kranthi Kumar
Curious about how much of those election manifestos actually get executed? Read on to find out about Kranthi Kumar’s tenure, and how many of his promises he kept.
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Manifesto Review: Cultural Affairs Secretary (Lit) — Amruth Kumar Hegde
Curious about how much of those election manifestos actually get executed? Read on to find out about Amruth Kumar Hegde’s tenure, and how many of his promises he kept.
Manifesto Review: Cultural Affairs Secretary (Arts) — Abhiram Reddy
Abhiram Reddy was a sponsorship and PR coordinator in Saarang 2013. He was the Cultural Affairs Secretary (Arts) for this academic year (2013-2014). The work of a CulSec involves constantly monitoring the progress of each Department of Saarang and routing them to the administration. The CulSecs are also responsible for LitSoc activities.
Manifesto Review: Academic Affairs Secretary — Damini Gandham
T5E reviews AAS Damini Gandham’s manifesto and the work she’s done towards fulfilling her election-time promises.
Talking It Out: Townhall Meeting Review
Aroon and Shilpa report on the Townhall Meeting, convened to discuss common concerns that insti students have, as well as open up avenues of communication between students and the admin.
Of Honour Codes and Electoral Reforms: SAC Meeting Review
The SAC meeting on February 16th featured discussions on instituting an Institute Honour Code and implementing certain electoral reforms in the upcoming student-council elections. Bhargavi and Suraj review it.
Changing the face of Industrial Research: An interview with S. K. Brahmachari
Prof. S. K. Brahmachari, the former Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was here on campus for an EML on 28th January. Among his many initiatives as DG-CSIR, was the Open-Source Drug Discovery model, for research and development of drugs targeting diseases which are often overlooked by the giant multinational pharma companies. T5E had a chat with him on this, and more.
Beyond the Gates: Taramani Food Crawl
For all those who want the Chennai street food experience and aren’t too snooty to actually try it, T5E presents a series of food crawls – an area-wise assessment of the top five push carts and mobile stalls and the quintessential ‘potti kadais’. In this, the second edition, Padma explores a bunch of little shops outside Taramani, and tells you where to go and where not to go.
Cinemas of Resistance
On January 29th and 30th, acclaimed documentary-maker Anand Patwardhan was in campus to screen his latest venture — Jai Bhim Comrade — and to deliver a lecture as part of the EML series. Liza Tom covers the sessions, which largely revolved around caste issues in modern India.
Cleaning Up a Mess
Last semester was witness to widespread agitation and dissatisfaction among students regarding mess issues. In this article, T5E takes a look at some of the things that went wrong, why they happened and the improvements we can expect this semester, with inputs from Hostel Affairs Secretary Kranthi Kumar.