Reports and Investigations Students Uncategorized Hall 6 President Elections Cancelled WHAT HAPPENED? The Hall VI HEC (Hall Executive Committee) Elections – scheduled to be conducted on 2nd March 2023 – were cancelled just 30 minutes before the polling was set to begin – on the recommendation of the outgoing HEC! In an email received by the residents of H6, the Warden In-Charge of Hall VI […] Written by Vox Populi March 15, 2023March 15, 2023
All about IITK Students Surveys Hall 13 Woes The Hall Of Residence 13 is the first stay for first-year undergraduate males at IITK since the year 2018. With an entirely new world awaiting students and a hall of residence entirely for the first-year male students being in place, the state of living conditions and the resident experience has been far from pleasant as […] Written by Vox Populi February 21, 2023February 21, 2023
Editorials and Opinion Pieces Students A Non-Residential Campus(?) Following an Office Order by the Director’s Office dated 22 August 2022, a committee was constituted to review the current accommodation status of students and suggest measures to improve the same. What follows is an editorial by Vox Populi in collaboration with the Forum for Critical Thinking on the recommendations made by the committee. When […] Written by Vox Populi January 24, 2023January 25, 2023
All about IITK Faculty Reports and Investigations Students Tracing the PGARC 2020 Disclaimer: The following article’s content is comprised of excerpts quoted from the current Post-graduate Academic Review Committee (PGARC) Report, 2020-21. As per a note mentioned within the report, all recommendations and data used have been for pre-pandemic conditions, and the effect or considerations arising out of the pandemic are beyond the scope of the present […] Written by Vox Populi December 20, 2022December 20, 2022
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
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 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
All about IITK Reports and Investigations Students Inequity Unattended As another online semester reaches its mid-way, the lack of access to the Internet and consistent electricity supply has come across as a major bottleneck for the resource-constrained students. Vox Populi talked to resource-constrained undergraduate students across different batches to learn about the challenges they face during the online semesters and the assistance, if any, […] Written by Vox Populi September 10, 2021September 12, 2021
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
Administration Editorials and Opinion Pieces Students An ‘Unprecedented’ Indifference Disclaimer: The opinions expressed below are the opinions of the Editorial Board of Vox Populi and the writers, and theirs alone. In retrospect, Vox Populi cited a leaked personal e-mail in the article that was intended to be private between a student and the DoSA. It was quoted without providing the entire context. This was […] Written by Vox Populi April 27, 2021September 7, 2021
