Part 3: Being a girl in IIT KGP

“Dude, you got into IIT! You know, there are no girls there? At all!” The IIT’s are so ridiculously notorious for their deplorable sex ratio that Uncyclopedia mentions that the ratio here is better depicted in terms of parts-per-million. Jokes aside though, the scenario…

The Indian Foreign Service As A Career Option

India is being seen abroad as an emerging power with great economic potential despite many daunting challenges. Countries and institutions all over the world want to engage with India. Our Missions abroad and the Ministry of External Affairs play a…

KGP Sutra — A Study of Sexual Behavior and Perceptions

A comprehensive survey on sexual behaviour and perceptions in KGP.

Dear Readers,

It’s here. As we had promised. We talk about what you think about relationships, what you think about…

An IITian’s Take on the Problems in IITs

A multitude of contentious issues relating to the IITs and the Indian educational system in general have been in the limelight very recently. To clear the air, The Scholars’ Avenue decided to interview Mr. Ravi Kumar Tadepalli, a mechanical engineering…

Placement services across IITs

When you are out looking at avenues for improvement, it is often fruitful to take a step back and notice what your peers have got right. With this in mind, we at The Scholars’ Avenue decided to compare and contrast the placement procedure at some of the sister IITs with that…

Part 4: Survey Results — Sexual Perceptions

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Chart 1: Profile of respondents

The Rise & Rise of Alternative Cinema

‘Yeh Wasseypur hai, yahan kabutar bhi ek pankh se udta hai aur doosri se apni izzat bachata hai.’

Gritty, dark, mafia-esque, obscene, sensationalist and masterpiece — these are some of the words that best describe Anurag Kashyap’s modern…

Unprecedented Day 1 of Placements at IIT Kharagpur, 2012

6 am, December 1, IIT Kharagpur- As a rule the campus would be comfortably sleeping on a chilly winter morning. But this was no ordinary morning. It was, after all, the fabled Day 1 of placements at IIT Kharagpur. There was an…

Flipping the ɯooɹssɐlƆ

He enters the class and murmurs a greeting. Picking up a piece of chalk, he continues from where he left off yesterday. He knows his material cold. He’s been teaching the same stuff to batch after batch of students, an industrial robot processing parts on an assembly line. After an exam…