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At IIT-Bombay, the straight demand equal rights

A war has broken out on the institute’s leafy Powai campus, with a group of straight people asserting that IIT is no longer the egalitarian world it was all these years. For instance, controls have taken on a whole new meaning after the launch of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning) support [...]

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My Aglasem Interview

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My Aglasem Interview

I was working in the Knowledge Park, when I just noticed the commotion brewing and students pouring in the room. I asked my friends accompanying me and came to know that all this is due to interviews by Aglasem. I too got excited on hearing this and thought of giving it a shot. I filled [...]

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Aglasem Interviews at DTU

The news was out in the morning- Aglasem was conducting their interviews for recruitment. The venue- The Knowledge Park- was a plush room with some 20 black easy chairs. As I entered the room with my friends I saw Anwesha ma’am and 2 other seniors interviewing 2 candidates. We were asked to pick up the [...]

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From High School-Seniors to Fachchas

I was walking towards the canteen in college and a guy came up to me and said, “excuse me, the seniors are calling you for an intro…”, I sighed and walked resignedly towards them remembering this time last year when I was the one asking newcomers in school for an intro. Every student in the [...]

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A Dream Unfulfilled

Friends, let me begin with a small question for all of you. If you have a friend whose parents are doctors, then what is the first suitable profession that comes to your mind for your friend? The answer I found on most of the occasions was doctor. Unfortunately this did not happen in my case. [...]

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Attending Classes Is My Passion

I so love keeping a misleading title for my posts This one is actually about my three day class attending experience sweetheart. But now that you have come here, better read it through and comment down there For all those who are not in my college, FYI, we have semester system that means we get [...]

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Ragging revisited at a leading college

You must have heard those horror stories about ragging from friends, family and acquaintances. But, most of you believe them to be either ridiculously exaggerated or outright inaccurate. In what will come as a major shock, a first year student at ‘Some Damn Institute of Technology’ has been subjected to a grave case of ragging, [...]

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Anna joke maadi :D

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Anna joke maadi   :D

Room 413 of the 16th block MIT hostels was at pin drop silence. no one spelled a word. nothing – it was exam time. This room was my study room after 11pm as it’s the most quite, clean, easy access to coffee and of course my 10 pointer book buddy. A few nights before the [...]

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Are you ‘JEE’philic??

To prepare for a 2nd  attempt to give  IIT-JEE again, while you are in your college…or not….??? When  I start thinking about this question, I don’t get an answer….I am not able to conclude to  a final decision…I never end up thinking about it….as so many thoughts, both for and against the question, come at [...]

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In Tejas’ pants

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In Tejas’ pants

It’s not strange for a college boy to open his eyes at 7:00, when the assignment is to be submitted at 9:00. I banged almost every door of the wing, to get A4 sized sheets, even climbed stairs to Govinda’s room at second floor. But these mean fellows don’t care! Good for them, if I [...]

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