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Student Life

Student Politics: Waste of Academic Time & Potential???

altCampus Politics, as an issue, is not a new one. The phenomenon has been around for years. The idea of injecting college campus with political air is manifold. Not only is politics an end result of ideas, thoughts, & actions, the proper understanding of the dynamics of politics are essential for the survival of democracy. Off late, however, campus politics has taken a rather sinister turn in many universities across India” A tree-lined entrance, an imposing building, vibrant classrooms, & a quaint canteen with open air benches in one corner of the campus-this is the utopian college milieu we all dream of. College is essentially being used as a platform to nurture and enhance one’s inherent skills & reach one’s goals in the spirit of youth. Here is an opinion piece from Varun Sood, MBA Batch 2011, ICFAI, Hyderabad questioning the very basics of student politics... read on

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Lighter Note...

Side effects of being an Engineer!!!!

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“So what is your son doing nowadays ?”  “Well, he is doing ENGINEERING” “Oh My God! He is doing Engineering!!!”. That’s it!  As soon as your ‘proud’ parent declares you as an Engineer, you are gone baby! The person asking the question, will gaze you like he has just seen the 8th Wonder of the world. People have a big and I mean a really big  misconception that every Engineer is an Einstein and thereby he can ‘repair everything!.  People think that we engineers can solve any damn problem in this world, but one thing that this world is unaware of, that laying down with this beauty called ‘Engineering’has a lot of side-effects. I was on cloud 9 the day I got admitted in DTU (one of India’s most prestigious college), I started knitting dreams

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Glitterati

TWITTER- The new home of bollywood

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Few years’ ago, who would have thought that a Bollywood superstar would answer to your questions personally… or for that matter, who would have ever imagined that we would be able to  wish our favorite stars on their birthdays.Well… TWITTERMANIA has made it possible now… Ask any damn query or question to your favorite star… and you get the answer in minutes! And mind you, this is no publicity gimmick this is a clear case of addiction. Stars like Abhishek Bachchan and Farah Ali Khan have admitted that they have become Twitter addicts. Almost all major bollywood stars including SRK, Hrithik Roshan, Karan Johar, Deepika Padukone are regular on twitter now…

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Career Focus

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Fourteen disabled students were among the 199,448 children who secured above 90 percent in the Class 12 CBSE exams. According to an official release on Friday, a total of 1,304 students with disability - 249 blind, 41 deaf, 672 physically handicapped, 46 spastic children and 296 with dyslexia - applied for the Class 12 exams this year and 1,273 appeared finally.

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Beyond Books

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The University of Delhi (DU) is the leading university in India, according to a new survey that has ranked the country’s top 20 universities. The extensive survey, commissioned by Zee News and DNA, was conducted by Ipsos, the world’s third-ranked research agency. According to the findings, DU topped the list, followed by University of Bombay and Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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Tech opinions

The I-Pad Killer from India

Developed by Indian company Notion Ink and the brain child of Rohan Shravan, an engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur , the Adam runs on NVIDIA’s Tegra T20 chipset and Android. It supports 1080p Full HD video playback, has integrated WiFi, Bluetooth and UMTS/HSDPA, A-GPS, a digital compass, accelerometer and proximity, ambient light and water sensors.

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