History of KGP

KGP Before IIT

This article seeks to investigate (in a deliberately non-scholarly way), mostly through the open resources on the Internet, local legends, (somewhat embellished) stories, and the occasional first-person accounts of the quite remarkable history of the town of…

Interview with Mahesh Dattani

They say life is a mixture of serendipities if looked at in the right way. One such event occurred with three reporters of The Scholars’ Avenue during the summer vacations of 2015 when they were in the campus to take part in one course called Mapping Creativity. One of the…

AMA with Atal Ashutosh Agarwal

The Scholars’ Avenue, in a unique initiative, organised an ‘Ask me Anything’ on reddit in association with Atal Ashutosh Agarwal, Vice-President of the Technology Students’ Gymkhana on 8th of September 2015. The initiative was aimed at gathering student’s opinion about life…

Offbeat Comedians: Armando Iannucci

Armando Iannucci may be balding, the colour grey seeping into his hairline, but his comedy is as close to evergreen as anything can get. In fact, a lot of his one-liners exploit such humanly flaws.

IIT Kharagpur to host Hult Prize quarter-finals

Preliminary rounds for the prestigious Hult Prize 2015, masterminded by Bill Clinton himself, will be held at IIT Kharagpur on November 1. It has been chosen as the venue along with IIT Delhi, BITS (Pilani and Dubai campus), IIM Ahmedabad and 7…