Campus restaurants asked to relocate; security, hygiene and traffic cited as problems “It was during a mess strike in the mid-eighties that Mr. Russi Modi, the then chairman of the Board of Governors requested Veggies and Sahara to set up shop in the campus,” says Bharath the owner of Veggies Restaurant. He then adds on that he has spent the prime years of...

The New Brigade The S.K. Joshi Committee shortlist 7 institutes to be converted into IITs back in the days of the NDA government, keeping in line with the then Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s promise of more IITs. The colleges were: Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh College of Engineering, Vishakhapatnam Institute of...

Age No Bar Mankind’s flirtations with alcohol and other intoxicants are almost as old as mankind. This is probably true across civilizations, cultures and ages. The ill effects of overuse are known, chronicled and researched, but the affair continues. Draconian measures imposed by leaders of society have had a temporary curbing effect, but given rise to...

Twenty Years Later… The Scholars’ Avenue Creative Writing Competition We had given the opening lines of O. Henry’s Twenty Years Later and invited readers to complete the story in their own way. Among the very few entries we received, the best one was from Sayan Deb Kundu (Patel Hall). He can collect his prize from our representatives in his...

KGP junta goes to poll With the Gymkhana Elections getting underway yesterday, we have reached the most important phase in the annual calendar wherein the halls go for electing their respective leaders. This phase is most important, even more so than the gymkhana elections because the hall elections symbolise the elections in the Lower House where every region...