Know your Prof #1 — Prof. Somnath Bharadwaj

As a part of a new series of articles — ‘Know your Prof’, The Scholars’ Avenue caught up with Prof. Somnath Bharadwaj of the Physics department. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and joined here as a professor in 1998 after completing a phD at IISC…

​​​Gymkhana makes attempts to improve students’ English

Wikipedia defines Public Speaking as the process or act of performing a presentation (a speech) focused around an individual directly speaking to a live audience in a structured, deliberate manner in order to inform, influence, or…

IIT Kharagpur’s first participation in iGEM

​iGEM — international Genetically Engineered Machine is an international organization for the advancement of synthetic biology research around the globe. It organizes an annual competition where top educational institutions in the relevant fields develop…

Gaming ka Tempo high hai

With Diwali just in the past, and the inconvenient prospect of the end semester examinations sending chills down students’ spines there is hardly any time left for people to sit down and relax. November is a tough time for KGPians. Amidst all this madness of slogging for tests…

Hot Spots of KGP

Winter is coming. I realized this not because of the awful rhinopharyngitis that has made me love my bed more than I’d want to, this close to end sems, but because of the thinning lovey-dovey population on the streets of Kgp. While the maggu population, armed with caffeine, is busy filling pages…

Ftcash Launches in Kharagpur

What is ftcash ?

The ftcash mobile payments app, which has recently been launched in the IIT Kharagpur campus, is an e-commerce platform that enables transactions between micro-merchants and customers. The platform was co-founded by Sanjeev Chandak…

The new world

It was a different world: where there were infinite possibilities of getting rides to wherever you wanted to go, a world where Uber and Ola kept fighting for the crown of the organized taxi world, a world where taxi drivers virtually owned cars for use throughout the day, the roads were filled with cars…