About Us

The Scholars’ Avenue is the independent student-run campus newspaper of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Now in its fifth year, copies of The Scholars’ Avenue are now delivered to over 4000 students on campus and soft copies are mailed to all the faculty and 8,000 odd alumni. The team is drawn entirely from among the students of the institute, and its mission is to report and analyze events that affect the campus, and to be the voice of the IIT Kharagpur student community. We are a non-profit organization supported by sponsorships (and donations); independent of the administration of IIT Kharagpur.

Each of our issues is a juxtaposition of the informational, the technical and the creative. We report campus events and happenings, function as a public interface between students and the administration, summarize technical advancements taking shape on campus and not the least, print the funnies. Aiming to make this original content accessible to a readership outside Kharagpur, we will soon be uploading our articles in the following categories (please check back later):

• Editorials : Read our editors’ take on the successive issues that have affected IIT Kharagpur’s campus in the recent past.
• National Issues : Learn how the future leaders and citizens of India perceive the world around them and the events in it.
• Interviews : Interact with luminaries such as Prahlad Kakkar, KK and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.
• Guest Articles : Read what our featured guests think.
• Careers Avenue : Our stab at increasing the horizons of our readers.
• Tech Avenue : On-campus technical advancements in the spotlight.
• Bhaat Avenue : Browse through our biweekly dose of humour.

Our articles, both serious and fun, have been referenced in national media outlets; most recently in The Indian Express, Hindustan Times and The Telegraph. We are open to content collaboration with organizations of similar nature. For any queries, please contact us at editor [at] scholarsavenue [dot] org or alternatively, thescholarsavenue [at] gmail [dot] com. At present, The Scholars’ Avenue is

Executive Editors:

Anup Bishnoi : +91-9932843964

Deepak Cherian : +91-9933942331

Mithun Madhusudan : +91-9332083132

Editors:

Murthy A V N | Bharath Bhat | Dheeraj Golla | Mayank Kedia | Pallavi Jayannavar | Siddharth Prabhu | Siddharth Singh

Assistant Editors:

Abhirajika Agrawal | Amiya Adwitiya | Arvind Sowmyan | Ratan J. Sebastian | Sumeet Mohanty | Tiyasa Mitra | Vijay Cheruvu Kiran

Reporters:

Achyut Bihani | Chirag Tibrewal | Deepesh Kumar | Hridya Ravimohan | Indra Saha | Mahtab Soin | Parth Govil | Rishabh Poddar

Junior Reporters:

Abhijeet T | Ajay Vishwanathan | Koulick Ghosh | Pranav Rao | Pravin Sharma

We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for our seniors, The Golden Oldies, whose vision and hard work brought forth this newspaper and nurtured it through its eventful history.

• Batch of 2001
  Amit Gupta, Puneet Agarwal, Sandeep Rath
  
  

• Batch of 2002
  Chintan Thakkar, Nitin Basant, Swati Sunny Somani, Varun Kishore
  
  

• Batch of 2003
  Aneesh Jain, Aravind R.S,  Riti Mohapatra, Rohit Shankar, Saahil Bhanot, Samya Mandal, Shishir Dash, Umang Jain
  
  

• Batch of 2004
  Aditya Marathe, Anuj Dayal, Arish Inam, Robin Anil, Sheekha Verma, Sreeja Nag, Suvrat Bafna
  
  
• Batch of 2005
  J.S. Deepthi, Pranesh Chaudhary, Srinath Sinha, Vinayak Pathak

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