Voxatire The Cheshire Cat Meows Again: PHESTIVAL PHETISH Cheshire Cat was a humour publication in IIT Kanpur, launched in 1976 by a bunch of comic journalism enthusiasts, led by Mahadevan Ramesh. Some of the people who have been associated with the Cheshire Cat in the past include – Deepak Khanna, Mahadevan Ramesh, K. S. Balaji, David Thomas, P. R. Reddy, M. Vedhanayagam, K. Surinder […] September 30, 2015May 15, 2021
Reports and Investigations Vox-Tech: A hot topic, literally Vox Populi, here, starts a new portion. We like to call it Vox-Tech. Basically, it is a place where you, being a student/teacher/whatever in our institute, can tell us something interesting about a particular field of science (Some people call it PopSci) and if we find it interesting enough, we will tell the world about […] September 29, 2015May 15, 2021
Institute Through the Window of Opportunity School “Bhaiya Opportunity School kahan par hai?” Even after spending more than 2 years on campus, we had to ask this question in our quest for information pertaining to the school. You can blame us for being ill-informed but the fault is not entirely ours. The school is indeed discreetly located as are the ambitions of […] September 25, 2015May 15, 2021
Voxatire The Cheshire Cat meows again: Going Foreign The nineteen twenties saw the Americans flocking to Germany for higher studies. After World War II, the trend was reversed. Now it was the Germans who went to America. Today Indians throng to America for their higher studies. It is quite possible that at the turn of the century, Americans will be applying to Indian […] September 23, 2015May 15, 2021
Gymkhana Vivekananda Samiti dissolved? Vivekananda Samiti(VS) is one of the oldest clubs under the Students’ Gymkhana functioning for over 40 years, thus spreading the message of Swami Vivekananda among the campus residents. In 2010, VS, which used to be a part of Cultural Council, was shifted to Presidential Council. In the 2nd special meeting of the Students’ Senate held […] September 9, 2015May 15, 2021
Internship Experiences My Internship Experience : MITACS It was the last day at Toronto. With two suitcase trolleys, one travel bag and a backpack, 40 Kg of luggage was being juggled on and off my shoulders. I was pulling it through the underground subway to take my flight back from Toronto to Delhi when a middle aged lady, passing by near the […] September 7, 2015May 15, 2021
Administration Gymkhana Students Hall day skit leads to suspensions In response to a complaint filed with the Women’s Cell, six students of Hall-2 have been found guilty[1] by the institute authorities. The complaint was filed by two girl students citing ‘verbal, sexual, emotional abuse and public defamation’ in the skit performed during Hall day of Hall-2. The skit staged, as per reports, was vulgar […] September 5, 2015May 15, 2021
Beyond IITK In Conversation with Rahul Yadav (Part 1) The Entrepreneurship Summit, IIT Kanpur organised by the E-Cell witnesses distinguished founders, businessmen, VCs and journalists each year. This year new records were set when Rahul Yadav, founder and ex-CEO of the hottest Indian start-up, Housing.com, addressed the enthusiastic junta at this annual event. Devin and I got the opportunity to squeeze out a short […] September 3, 2015May 15, 2021
Internship Experiences My Internship Experience: Transocean In the series of the big shot companies coming for the internship season, the fifth name to strike the IAS portal was Transocean. It came for intern selection around the end of August. Here is a brief on the unforgettable experience I had. Transocean is an offshore drilling contractor, actually one of the largest in […] September 3, 2015May 15, 2021
Voxatire The Cheshire Cat meows again: Facing the board Cheshire Cat brings to you exclusive tips on how to face the Interview Board IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN when tailors and dry-cleaners do a roaring business……when the centre spread of ‘Competition Master’ is stolen from the reading room… when people sit biting their nails waiting for the mail…… where cricket matches flourish on the lawns, […] September 2, 2015May 15, 2021