The Scholars’ Avenue wishes to thank the faculty member who contributed this very excellent article. In deference to his wishes, the article is anonymous. I am a through and through mediocre person except for occasional bouts of intelligence exhibited typically during leap years. Matters could have been far worse but for the fact that God, in the from of...

I had never dreamt I would set foot into IIT Kharagpur’s classrooms one day. Being a student there was out of the question—I had struggled with subjects like physics, chemistry and mathematics in school. As for being a teacher there, what would I teach India’s budding scientists? IIT was another world and it did not intersect mine in any way. Further, as I...

If I was ever asked how bad do you see it getting, I would have said ” It will get bad , real ugly “  . But never even in a nightmare scenario did the current level of wealth destruction ever enter the null hypothesis. Wall Street has gotten smarter over the years in the way it hires its people. They have targeted recruitment programs from a...

Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. Her current focus, however, is primarily in the realms of Web 3.0 and Enterprise 3.0, and related...

The author, Nityanand Jayaraman is a Chennai-based journalist investigating and reporting on corporations and their impact on environment and human rights.He is a spokesman for the Bhopal Group for Information and Action. The 22-year old battle against the Bhopal Gas Tragedy comes home to the IITs On 3 December, 1984 , a run-away reaction caused by a leak of...

Aapki naukri mein na izzat hai, na mazaa hai aur na matlab (Your job has neither respect nor fun nor meaning),” declares the new tall, angry young man. A man whose father would like nothing more than a son who follows in his footsteps as a ticket collector. The young man is Abhishek Bachchan, giving voice to the hopes and dreams of the Average Young...