All about IITK Faculty Institute Students Humanities at IITK – A Reasoned Necessity Following from our previous survey piece, we interview and indulge in conversation with faculty members from the HSS department at IIT Kanpur to understand their motivations and the purview of the curriculum at our flagship engineering institute. IIT Kanpur was among the few institutes that heralded the crossover between sciences and humanities in India. Prof. […] Written by Vox Populi December 13, 2022December 14, 2022
All about IITK Institute Surveys The Tryst with HSS Courses Tracing students’ opinions on the humanities curriculum at IIT Kanpur, and exploring the necessity for technology programs to have social science coursework. Several engineering students at IIT Kanpur often wonder – “why study Humanities courses?” especially when the alarm for early morning class jolts them out of sleep of which every minute feels oh so […] Written by Vox Populi December 10, 2022December 11, 2022
Institute Students An Uneasy Conversation In the past ten years, the stigma associated with mental health concerns has decreased significantly in our society. People are becoming more at ease discussing it, looking for assistance, finding solutions, and battling stigmatisation on a global scale throughout time. Naturally, the situation on our campus has improved as well. In terms of de-stigmatising mental […] Written by Vox Populi October 10, 2022October 10, 2022
All about IITK Campus Corners Institute Flex-E Centre: Intersecting Engineering, Research, and Entrepreneurship Early on, at the start of the millennia, Mr Satish Kaura, an alumnus of our institute, was running a business that manufactured most of the cathode ray tubes for displays in the country. However, he had the foresight to realise that the industry would need to be nimble and change and evolve in the coming […] Written by Vox Populi September 24, 2022June 1, 2023
Administration Institute Reports and Investigations Fired Workers Announce Indefinite Dharna Over four weeks after being fired and given the reassurance of re-employment in other departments, 18 water-supply workers of the Institute remain unemployed. They are now staging an indefinite dharna in front of the IWD (Institute Works Department) until their demand to be re-employed with minimum wages is met. What happened? As Vox had […] Written by Vox Populi August 30, 2022August 30, 2022
Institute Vox Explains 5G Network Developed at IIT Kanpur A team of engineers and research scholars led by Prof. Rohit Budhiraja from the Electrical Engineering department of the Institute has contributed to the design of the first indigenous 5G network. The complete hardware and software of this 5G network was built from scratch, and that too completely inhouse. India’s first 5G call was recently […] Written by Vox Populi August 24, 2022August 24, 2022
Institute Reports and Investigations Infra Review #1: Water Quality at IITK Where does our campus get water from? Is the drinking water we get drinkable? What are the globally accepted standards of potable water? How should it taste? To seek answers to these questions, our team took readings from water samples around the campus, questioned the respective authorities, and looked into the flipside of the obvious […] Written by Vox Populi July 2, 2022July 2, 2022
Institute Construction Review 2.0 At least more than once, you must have thought “what’s that shiny new building” or “what’s being constructed here”. Naturally, after an exhilarating 2 years of being away from campus and then a semester here, we see that there are a lot of new buildings and ongoing construction. The people who’ve been on the campus […] Written by Vox Populi May 14, 2022May 14, 2022
All about IITK Institute Students The Yoga Hall Hospitality As the third wave of the pandemic began picking pace across India, students had just returned from their homes to start their new year on campus. The warm reunion did come with the tiny virus grabbing a handful of residents and sending them into a week of isolation at the Yoga Hall. Here’s an account […] Written by Vox Populi January 22, 2022January 22, 2022
Editorials and Opinion Pieces Gymkhana Institute Students In Search for a Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Message on Campus Re-Opening Vedaant Sikka, President, Students’ Gymkhana, writes about the issue of campus re-opening and reaches out to the general body members to provide a clear sense of what has transpired so far and what the plan is going forward. Disclaimer:- The views presented below are the author’s own and are not in any manner representative of […] Written by Vox Populi July 5, 2021July 5, 2021
