All’s well that ends well. What if it doesn’t end well? Doesn’t it leave a bitter taste for a long time? Well, that’s how the cultural festival of IIT Madras ended, on a bitter note. Earlier, I had posted a Calvin and Hobbs cartoon on the dean pulling the plug on saarang. Little did we
A month back, I visited the place where I did my twelve years of schooling, a place i stayed for my first sixteen years of my life. Here are some of the pics I took. Western Ghat are one of 18 hot-spots of bio-diversity in the world (UNO recognised). Kudremukh is in the heart of
Bangalore will be renamed Bengaluru in about a year. The usual stuff of “what’s in a name?” is running around the news channels these days. TOI reported that move will help English accept the words ending with a vowel in its dictionary. The local historians claim that this move is for the sentiments of local
This is going to be one of those dairy entries…could get boring. It happens to me every Sunday; I wake up at about 12 mid-day, have my lunch and spend the rest of the afternoon in front of my comp, not meeting anyone and by 6, I am terribly depressed. Not having gone out the
Over last month or so, media has pursued three cases of suicide in Indian institutes of technology (IITB, IITKgp and IITR). What’s bothering me is the fact that media like to pin point the smallest of the faults in IIT system. The three suicides have made it to the headlines on number of occasions. Much
I feel at home in Pune, roads are as bad as in Bangalore – Azim Premji Pune, please don’t go the Bangalore way – Kiran Karnik On NDTV, a recent poll on worst roads in India revealed Bannerughatta Road in Bangalore as “The” worst road in the country. NDTV also aired a show titled “is
Five years from now, you will be the same person except for the books you read, tapes you listen to songs you like etc etc. Going by the trend I should have transformed myself at least 4 times already. Frankly, I don’t feel like I have changed at all. Probably, a person who has sees
Somehow , our dean(students) had come to conclusion that saarang causes students of IIT-M to take up drinking and smoking in order to become co-ordinators of various events and depts. of saarang. He talked about banning saarang for 2 years so as to curb it down. Now, no one knows how how came to that
The thing on television that young kids enjoy the most is ads. Probably because of frequency of changes in them, it has attracted the attention of young and old alike. Despite the hectic schedule almost everyone takes a second or two appreciate a good ad or shout at an annoying one. The range of emoting
Hey, This was the article I submited to the saarang cores for my selection to the saarang’s Production co-ordinators form. I did get throught. Here’s the article… Saarang 2005 ___________ A Legend has it that, ‘five years from now you will be the same person except for the books you read, tapes you listen to,