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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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New Developments in IITK: Introduction of Fresh Academic Programs

None of us had expected 2020 to pan out the way it did. While the institute was busy ensuring that our academics must not suffer and that students should safely return to campus, it was alongside working to keep up with our education system’s changing patterns. Our institute realises that modern-day problems require solutions which […]
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