Catercap is Born
The Weekends Still remember the night outs with Anshuman and Anurag in my apartment in Bangalore. Slowly losing ourselves to the almighty “Glen”, somewhere between the intersection of two English defined days, one of us murmured again “Yaar apni company…
Professors to Live in Hostels with Students in IIT
In a step to address the never ending controversial issue of mounting stress, falling academics, misuse of internet and suicides in IIT, the administration has taken the step which was inevitable; Professors will live in the Hostels with students. While…
An Incident From Chemistry Lab In IIT Roorkee
A lot of enthusiasm propelled us to crack arguably the toughest engineering exam in the country. The enthusiasm was mellowed down by boring lectures often leaving us yawning. The routine of morning classes, afternoon tutorials and lab sessions did the…
Curls In The Sky At IIT Kanpur
It was the time of Antaragni in IIT Kanpur. The campus was unusually noisy and full of beauties when I happened to see one incident which seems to come straight from facebook funny videos. Two girls were walking down the…
Some Memories of My Life at IIT Bombay (1975-81)
Preface A week before I turned sixteen in July 1975, I landed up at Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Bombay. Prior to that my history was brief – born in 1959 in Delhi; moved in 1967 to Jadugoda – a…
At IIT Kanpur: The 61 days which no adjective can describe!
Some late night in March, I was chatting with a friend. Suddenly a text from a classmate buzzed, which read “Tera IAS fellowship mein selection ho gaya. Congrats.” Exciting enough to vanish my residual sleep, if any! I replied in…