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Editorial – How safe is the campus?

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 is the notion that someday I might look at a...

Editorial : The Year Ahead

It’s a new year for all of us, with final years looking around wondering whether they will actually miss this place when they leave a year from now, and first years wondering if they’ll find something to miss at all in these rustic surroundings. Everyone has come back after their summers to find changed halls, even longer lines in the mess (if that...

Editorial : On The Edge

It’s been a good couple of issues for The Scholars’ Avenue with our new focus on issues concerning the nation at large being well received. Encouraging people to think outside the boundaries of our campus walls is our objective and every mail we receive only encourages us more. It never is too late to know more about what’s happening in the...

Editorial: Illumination – A Victim of Protest?

At the time of writing this article, the spectacle that was Illumination has been expunged from the average KGPian’s calendar. Considering the scale, tempo and fervor that accompanied the competition in its glory years, the fading out of this competition seems almost anti climactic. As is probably justified with an event of this magnitude being...

Editorial : It Is Time

For the first time in 57 years, students on campus celebrated Independence Day just over a fortnight past the usual date. This celebration, on the night of September 2, marked the end of what was undoubtedly the darkest periods of existence on campus in its history. While celebrating this ‘independence’ from coercion, we reflect on the past and...

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