Don’t let the IIT faculty strikes fool you. For the academically inclined, IIXs are still the best. T. A. Abinandanan is a Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He writes extensively on a wide range of topics concerning higher education in India, particularly the IITs, IIMs, IISc and [...]
Sunday, November 1, 2009
The stalwart of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Professor T K Basu retired recently leaving behind a rich legacy from his time here at Kgp, first as a student and then as a professor. Professor Basu also taught at IIT Bombay and later served as the head of the Center of Educational Technology which [...]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu, founding director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology and an authority on the process of innovation and technology management, visited our campus recently. In this exclusive interview, he shares his insights on entrepreneurship in India and abroad, why enterpreneurship should be taught in companies and a lot more. , TSA: [...]
Thursday, October 8, 2009
India being a population that is greater than one billion, considerable time and energy is spent in researching and developing methods of effective population control. While many methods of contraception have been cultivated for women, the only safe and effective ones for men are condoms and vasectomy. Condoms have proven to be largely ineffectual in [...]
Saturday, September 19, 2009
(For pictures, quotes and a more comprehensive insight, download a pdf of our issue here) As our faculty moans about the seemingly insulting pay scales, who really stands to lose? Is it our teachers, who can always leave for greener pastures? Or the MHRD coffers? Or much worse, a system called IIT? He is a B.Tech in Computer Science from [...]
Saturday, September 19, 2009
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 [...]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
It’s dark. I look left, I look right. I don’t know if I should go down the lane to get those notes. It seems improbable that something might happen, I am probably over-reacting. I have walked along that street so many times – but the Law of Averages – that makes things scary. What is scarier though [...]
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