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It’s term end and the Report Card for IITR’s Academic Performance is out! This is based upon the recent survey conducted by Watch Out! to know about the issue areas in the current academic structure of IITR. Read on to know more!
WO! had the opportunity to interview the newly elected Director, Professor K. K. Pant on 8th February 2023.
The Hult Prize competition not only provides a platform for entrepreneurs to showcase their ideas, but it also provides a valuable opportunity for networking and learning.
In a country where people are obsessed with the idea of merit, classism and casteism thrives in India’s “elite” institutions. With more than half of the populace coming from privileged backgrounds, they bestow upon themselves a responsibility t...
The Spring Semester of 2021 brought along many uncertainties in almost every aspect related to the institute.
After some long hours studying (read: pretending to) in the library a week before the end semester exams, we ended up traversing the catacombs of the labyrinth (that is, the corridors of our library), to escape the acute taedium vitae. We stumb...
In most discussions pertaining to systems, processes and cultures, IITR is found to be lacking when compared against its sister IITs. The previous academic year saw us moving one step further in one such domain – our electoral systems. However,...
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear
Our institute, in some moments of acute apophenia of an overly enthusiastic Mechanical Engineering undergrad, can be visualized as a machine with innumerable gears running in mysterious synchronization. It is indeed commendable, for those men i...
William Deresiewicz, essayist and literary critic created quite a stir recently by criticising Ivy League Universities for producing, from what he likes to describe the graduates as, excellent sheep. The article by William Deresiewicz paints a ...
An institute of technology we maybe, but IITR definitely does not use technology. WONA takes a look at the archaic methods that still exist on the campus.
Far out on a pale blue dot in the Western Spiral Arm of the Milky Way (more accurately ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha), amazingly primitive carbon based bipedals have always engaged in competitions to establish physical supremacy over other males in the he...
