Feb 5, 2013

The frustration that a KGPian feels on seeing the words “Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Event” displayed on one’s screen is a common trend on campus, especially when it pops up on the most unlikeliest sites. Vague category tags such as “Disease Vector” or “Low Web Reputation” compound this feeling of helplessness and...

Nov 27, 2012

Smartphones, tablets and the fancy operating systems that they run have captured the public's imagination like never before. The cut-throat competition in this space has ensured that prices remain within reach of the average KGPian, and we wondered if this has led to large scale adoption of these tech gadgets on campus.

Sep 17, 2012

Amidst the football frenzy surrounding Euro Cup 2012, a group of students from IIT Kharagpur were busy gearing up a team of robots for the same purpose but an altogether different competition. The team known as Kharagpur Robosoccer Students’ Group that started 3 years ago in 2009 with theRobocup India Challenge soon became a major attraction for techies...

  The origins of the Autonomous Ground Vehicle project at IIT Kharagpur lie in the aspirations of two students, Srinivas Reddy and Nalin Gupta, to build an autonomous bot back in 2010 after they saw a video of the Great Robot Race, a part of the DARPA challenge. After an initial foray into the field of robotics through participation in the Kshitij Robotix...

Raise your hands if you’re getting weary of rage comics or the constant memes on Facebook. Well, you only have yourself to blame for it because you’ve been subtly training Facebook’s algorithms to believe that you’re an avid consumer of such content all along. You may find yourself primarily reading leftist liberalist articles on Google...

INR 12,50,000. This hefty sum, on an *average*, is what it takes for a student to get through graduate college in the US. Despite the existence of world class universities, state of the art infrastructure and teaching facilities, the pedantic appetites of a majority of students who cannot afford expensive college tuition goes unsatiated.  While this is the case...