September ’05 Issue: Webbies @ Kgp

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words web and IIT Kharagpur? The uninspiring insti website? The gymkhana website with several sections “under construction” for two years?The hall websites that never seem to be online?

September ’05 Issue: Q & A Avenue

I happened to visit ISM Dhanbad only a few days back to attend a symposium organized by the Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologists (SGAT), Bhuvaneswar. One of the most memorable things at the place, apart from a podium finish for two teams from IIT Kharagpur…

September ’05 issue: Sports Avenue

The KGP shuttlers took part in a competition hosted at SAI complex, Salt Lake and managed to reach the semi-finals losing to Calcutta University there.

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September ’05 Issue: Events Round Up

TIETS

Ultimately, its your own call.

That was the all- encompassing message that was delivered by Mr. Delip Andra, B. Tech, IIT Kgp and Cofounder of Euclid (a $38mn company in Silicon Valley) in the lecture on…

September ’05 Issue: Robotix Workshops

The month of August once again saw the Robotix Society dish out a series of Sunday-evening workshops for novices to the technical realm.

The idea, mooted last year, had proved to be a huge boost, with in-house participation from IIT…

September ’05 issue: TRIcky LOGYc

So what do you do when a company comes to your institute to recruit students off-campus, treats them to a lavish dinner at LS, gives a tech talk, wants to take them to the Park Hotel in Kolkata in a.c buses for interviews and offers them a package of 8.08 lacs p.a.??

September ’05 issue: Fast Forward

The institute is in the final stages of several plans that may gloss up the campus quite a bit. Several improvements in infrastructure that we had been hearing for sometime, and some we hadn’t, are now materialising beyond just the drawing board phase.

September ’05 Issue: Careerz ‘05

CAREERZ ‘05

… A stepping stone to success

Come September 30th and IIT Kharagpur will be witnessing its first ever fest exclusively for career counseling, Careerz’05. An initiative of the students of this fine institution…

September ’05 Issue: The day that was

Foundation Day, like always, was witness to a variety of cultural events ranging from cool music to verbose debates!

Foundation Day debate saw competitors slugging it out in a fervent discussion on whether or not the modern era is devoid…

September ’05 Issue: Soc ’n’ Cult Avenue

The unexpectedly low turnout for most Open IIT Soc ’n’ Cult events is only an indicator of the fact that they are losing their charm. Could be that the management was poor or the poor judging standards, or maybe, the fact that even the Open IIT certificates…

September ’05 Issue: Gym Cards

An issue close to most of the Kgp health freaks. The gymkhana’s sudden decision to only allow students with gym cards to use the gym and that too in only their specified slots ( one in the morning and two in the evening) has only lead to confusion and discomfort for the…

September ’05 issue: Editors’ Avenue

THE FOUNDATION DAY FIASCO

As the institute celebrated its 55th foundation day and relived the memories of the day when this mecca of technical education took birth, it was painful (to say the least) to see only a handful of students and…

September ’05 Issue

“Plato aspired for philosophers to become kings and it is a tribute to India that she should make a philosopher her President.”

- Bertrand Russell

On the occasion of Teachers’ Day, Scholars’ Avenue salutes the institute’s faculty for their redoubtable role in shaping our past, present and future.

September ’05 issue: To sir, with love

George Bernard Shaw once said “ To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.” The depth of the statement lies in its’ frankness. The greatest thinkers and humanitarians of different eras have been united in their belief in a teacher being the epitome…

September ’05 Issue: Ad Avenue