Prof. Souvik Bhattacharyya, our former Dean of Students’ Affairs, was recently appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Jadavpur University. TSA caught up with him before he left campus to assume his new duties. Experience as DoSA Firstly, I’d like to point out that I’m not leaving IIT Kharagpur forever. I shall remain a Professor of IIT Kharagpur and shall...

A multitude of contentious issues relating to the IITs and the Indian educational system in general have been in the limelight very recently. To clear the air, The Scholars’ Avenue decided to interview Mr. Ravi Kumar Tadepalli, a mechanical engineering graduate from IIT Madras. After completing his B.Tech in 1985, he worked in L&T Switchgear for a...

As the academic session comes to a close, TSA brings you the final update on the placement season. This year once again saw lucrative offers bagged by students of the CS Department. We caught up with Professor S.K. Srivastava, to get a deeper insight into the placement process. TSA: How would you rate the placements this season as compared to last season? SKS:...

Prof. Padma Rajagopalan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech. She currently serves as director of the ICTAS Center for Systems Biology of Engineered Tissues. TSA : An introduction to the field you work in. Where it stands today and what impact it could have on society. PR : I work in the field of tissue...

Crisp, curious and creative. This man has the mettle to disappear and then reappear. He does it every time he sets out to play a role that is not Naseeruddin Shah. We have been all witnesses to his versatility and brilliance at some point in time or the other. He’s won the hearts of fans of all ages with his moving performances in movies like ‘Masoom’,...

For the entire interview with out-going General Secretaries Social and Cultural, Shashank Singhal and Shreyas Mahajan, read further: TSA : How has your tenure been, so far? Shashank – This year we tried to improve our relations with the judges. The judges in GC are really not interested in judging the events. This has been giving the students a bad...