13th September, mid semester exams were just round the corner and like every exam you could sense the stress levels…
Nine New Associate Deans
IIT Kanpur has decided to create new administrative roles (in some cases, it is just renaming of roles), and nine…
Only two in top 100
So one more year of disappointment. Out of top 100 JEE rankers, only two have joined IIT Kanpur. For someone…
Convocation: Is there a need for a new format?
We had our convocation on 18th June, 2014. This time we tried a new format. For the last few years,…
Branch Change: Finally we are back to being very liberal
Recently, the Senate approved the branch changes for the 2013 batch students. In a batch of 820, the number of…
The Semester That Was: Anonymity, Social Media and the Web, Part-I
The frailty of genius is it always wants to push boundaries; moral, social, ethical, personal. A young student sitting in…
Should New Programs at IIT Kanpur be Available to Existing Students
In the last few months, IIT Kanpur has made its academic programs more flexible. For example, it has discontinued admission…
IITK and its beginnings
The act was deemed professional suicide, yet professor Purushottam Kashinath Kelkar accepted the post to become the first director of…