All about IITK Beyond IITK Students Into the mind: An athlete’s perspective ‘Why do you run?’ ‘What do you think about when you’re running?’If only I had a coin for every time someone asked me this, I’d be pretty rich by now. Many a times, these seemingly trivial queries got me thinking. Why do I ACTUALLY run? I honestly hadn’t given much thought to it until these […] Written by Vox Populi August 2, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Beyond IITK Institute Students Anonymity, Social Media and the Web : Part-II 13th September, mid semester exams were just round the corner and like every exam you could sense the stress levels of the campus skyrocketing. This is usually the time when the average IITian, starts looking for an escape and “IITK Rage” proved to be a perfect platform to assauge the students’ pent up souls . […] Written by Vox Populi July 29, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Alumni Beyond IITK A Student Revolutionary and an Aspiring Mentor An IITian who has worked for over four decades on issues of poverty, land and water, secure settlements, workplace safety, environmental planning, grassroots leadership training, and pollution control in both rural and urban communities. He has been a mentor to several generations of IITians – prodding them like Socrates to question the mainstream parameters of success to question the “should” and live […] Written by Vox Populi July 28, 2014December 26, 2020
All about IITK Alumni Beyond IITK Rahul Ram: Playing to a Different Note After completing M.Sc. in Chemistry from IIT Kanpur in 1986 and PhD in Environmental Toxicology from Cornell University in 1990, Delhi-based Rahul Ram should have been a top grade scientist or an ace academician or both. But Ram chose to be lead singer and bassist of the band Indian Ocean. It is very unlikely that […] Written by Vox Populi March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Beyond IITK Institute Students 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 his attic somewhere in England with regular gizmos could get through the firewalls of NASA and Pentagon as a hot knife through butter. While, no one on campus has attempted, or more accurately put, succeeded […] Written by Vox Populi March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Alumni Beyond IITK Rajeev Motwani: There wasn’t a startup he didn’t love Rajeev Motwani, wanted to study mathematics and become another Gauss! His father, however, persuaded him to study computer science. Little did he know how closely the two are related? He graduated with B.Tech. in computer science from IITK in 1983 and PhD from Berkeley in 1988. Rajeev was a wise theoretician that had the rare […] Written by Vox Populi March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
