Sudhir Kumar Pathak is someone most of us have seen on campus. He stands near hostel entrances, walks the corridors at night, or sits quietly while students pass by, usually in a hurry. For a long time, he was just part of the background for us too. It took a conversation to realise how much... Continue Reading →
An analysis of the Institute's Academic Regulationsby Rishit Shah (2023) As students, we follow the rules and guidelines of the university and campus, for both academic and residential purposes. A lot of these are basic rules, to maintain the harmony on campus, and are not under study in this article. Here, the aim is to... Continue Reading →
A thing of beauty is a joy forever -John Keats ‘Tired eye’ (Yes, this is a Last Christmas reference), although an apt synecdoche for the entire being, personally feels undermining to the eye's chores. The busy bee of the senses hardly ever rests given the fact that one's pupils still flutter past the closed and... Continue Reading →
The word alt-right is a euphemism coined by the president of a well-known white supremacist think tank - the National Policy Institute; as a way to paint a happy face on racism. One of the listed goals of the NPI is to remove non-whites from America. The term alt-right was coined so that mainstream white... Continue Reading →
For years, tales of heinous crimes have dominated the front pages. We talk about themover lunch with friends and click on breaking bulletins during a pause from our hecticschedules. But what about these dark narratives captivates us, pulling us into a realm ofhorror and intrigue despite their grim realities? Do we enjoy the thrill of... Continue Reading →
India is treading down a dangerous path. The country is at a crossroads, much like the West was for most of the 20th century. It needs to make critical decisions that will shape life in urban India for the next few decades. India's urban centers are grappling with a rapidly growing population and a corresponding... Continue Reading →
Year after year, one gets to hear of more and more students who decided it better to lay upon their lives rather than take any more of the academic burden upon their shoulders. The most recent example being the Goa campus, where it is the third time a student took the grave decision in just... Continue Reading →
By Vaibhavi Pandey (2023), a leftist who still reads the paper - mostly to check my blood pressure. If The New York Times’s Opinion shop set up at Fervour, it would sweep ELAS’s Devil’s Advocate: not because its arguments are consistently sharp, but because few institutions have turned contrarianism into a house style quite so... Continue Reading →
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