September 2015
History of KGP
This article seeks to investigate (in a deliberately non-scholarly way), mostly through the open resources on the Internet, local legends, (somewhat embellished) stories, and the occasional first-person accounts of the quite remarkable history of the town of Khargapur and its surrounding areas.
In Conversation with Mahesh Dattani
Three reporters of The Scholars’ Avenue were in the campus during the summer vacations of 2015 to take part in one course called Mapping Creativity. One of the lecturers for this course was Mr. Mahesh Dattani, a renowned director, actor and playwright. He is the first English playwright in India to be the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award. The reporters sat down with him on a very rainy evening and tried to pick at his brain to understand creativity, theatre, drama and how it all adds up in the real world as he sees it.
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Take the Leap with Cogxio
Cogxio, which began as dateiitians.com, is a dating app for the smartphone savvy Gen X. The Android app was launched by two Kgpians, Layak Singh and Kinshuk Bairagi, in June 2015. It provides a new way to meet people online.
The TSA Podcast : Sikhar Patranabis
For the first episode of TSA podcast series, we caught up with Sikhar Patranabis. He is the proud winner of The President of India Gold Medal (2014-2015), for having the highest CGPA among the graduating students. Despite having a PPO from Microsoft, and a monstrous CGPA that could have easily secured him admission into the most sought after colleges, he chose to stay back in Kharagpur and pursue his PhD. We spoke with him about this choice of his, the research environment in India, and more.
BHAAT AVENUE
Eat. Drink. Intern. Repeat. This post is issued in Public Health Interest. Click on the image for a higher resolution image. The Scholars' Avenue wishes all internship aspirants the very best for summers 2016. Take it easy fellas!
HULT PRIZE
Preliminary rounds for the prestigious Hult Prize 2015, masterminded by Bill Clinton himself, will be held at IIT Kharagpur on November 1. It has been chosen as the venue along with IIT Delhi, Bits (Pilani and Dubai campus), IIM Ahmedabad and 7 other campuses in India, where separate quarter finals will be held.
Ask Me Anything : Atal Ashutosh Agarwal
The Scholars’ Avenue, in a unique initiative, organised an ‘Ask me Anything’ on reddit in association with Atal Ashutosh Agarwal, Vice-President of the Technology Students’ Gymkhana on 8th of September 2015. The initiative was aimed at gathering student’s opinion about life and work in Kharagpur and fostering discussion to solve the problems faced by the campus community. The AMA proved to be a success with more than a 100 people participating in the discussion and many others reading on. Atal enthusiastically took on the deluge of questions that the students had for him about various topics including campus infrastructure, academic pressures, placements and extra-curricular activities.
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