Pet Projects

Students talk about their side hustles   It never crossed Shefali Srivastava’s mind that her love for gardening and the creative use of leftover diyas one Diwali would turn into a successful and relaxing side hustle amid academic stress. It was only when her friends began asking to buy her creations that Shefali realised that […]

Bridging Borders

CONNECT spent a day with Amita Sneh who coordinates international relations   Amita enters her cabin with a hurried stride, carrying her big tote bag. Sanjeev, the contractor, was already waiting to have a conversation. He is in charge of renovating the new space for the Office of International Relations (OIR) at the Raman building. […]

Finding the Geet

When Geeta Ananth walked into the IISc campus in 1995, after a lifetime of moving around the country thanks to her father’s transferable job in the Railways, she didn’t expect to set down deep roots in Bangalore. She had accompanied her husband Ananth Ramaswamy (now Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering), who was starting […]