What campus event/activity do you look forward to most? (Compiled by Amrapali Datta, Shreya Vashista, Kritika Gaur, Souptika Das, Manauv Vyas Hemakumar)
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Connect Asks
What’s your secret to making friends on campus? (Compiled by Ashmita Gupta, Kavi Bharathi R, Sandeep Menon)
Connecting…
Socialising in the digital age Imagine sitting at Sarvam, basking in the bliss of a good hair day. The weather is pleasant, the sun is timid and a cool breeze is playing its part – the quintessential hyper-marketed Bengaluru weather. Around you, everyone chats happily. There is a reassuring calm within the chaos. A […]
Doors Wide Open
A brief history of IISc hostels To the south-west of the IISc Main Building, a stone’s throw away stands a rather squat piece of architecture. The ground floor construction is of grey-brown rock, cut and piled in rectangles of various sizes. The first floor is painted with what must have been a shade of […]
CONNECT ASKS…
What are some of your best memories of your teachers?
Keeping Up with Veeranna
CONNECT spent a day with a Deputy Registrar who wears many hats For Veeranna Kammar, “seeing is believing”– a mantra he learned from his first job as a journalist. Veeranna’s first job, as a sub-editor in the Kannada daily Prajavani in 1998, came before he even completed his post-graduation degree. In 2015, he joined […]
Red Rover
IISc’s UG students are designing a prototype that could help scientists explore Mars, as part of an international competition In the Old Physics Building, tensions are running high. Tucked away in a corner of the first floor, the workspace is crammed with batteries, pipes and boxes. Amidst the disorganised and dusty shelves, a group […]
Staying in STEM
A training programme seeks to inculcate scientific curiosity in women students from far-flung areas I was running late. I hurried to the seminar hall in the Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics (DBG). The orientation session, which was scheduled for 10 am, had already started when I reached, so I sneaked in silently, hoping […]
How do Students at IISc Manage their Money?
A look at what people across departments and programmes are currently doing, and what they can do, to handle their finances Although India has a literacy rate of around 74%, it may surprise many that only 27% of the Indian population is considered financially literate. In fact, post graduates at 31% only do marginally […]
What Happens When You Give a Child a Notebook
NoteBook Drive, a volunteer effort, has been running strong for nearly 20 years In an otherwise silent campus, a typical Sunday sees a bustling crowd near the dining halls of IISc, with students unwinding after the week’s hectic work schedule. But what caught my eyes during one such weekend of my first year was […]
