Posts Tagged ‘BITS’
Treat me proper
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So the other day, I was walking the roads of BITS Pilani, late at night, with Neeraj, and our conversation came to revolve around how college life in India(atleast at BITS) is only a slight improvement over high school. My personal opinion is that once a person enters college, the society has got to start [...]
Institutional Social Responsibility
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Now here’s something that I have been talking about for a long time. All through Rotaract’s existence, I kept talking about how, we as students of a premiere institution, are indebted to the society and need to give back. Someone once said that Engineers build the world. Well, building it also includes human aspects and [...]
Rotaract APOGEE events
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http://rotaractbits.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/apogee-events/
The mystery of the prohibited area
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I know I had made a resolution to blog about my experiences at Thirphali Choti in my last post, but something really curious has happened since then and I just need to post this. Last night, bored of our very existence, Trikha and I went on a walk around campus. We were behind C’not exploring [...]
Stop Genocide
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Darfur is in the western part of Sudan. The region has been in the grip of devastating conflict since 2003. The conflict is between the Sudanese Militia and the terrorist group Janjaweed on one side and Sudan Liberation movement on the other. In the midst of all this fighting, the defenseless farmers of the region [...]
Satte pe satta
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The past weekend was the Silver Jubilee Reunion of the BITS Pilani batch of ‘77. This has to be one of the most memorable weekends of my life. Meeting alumni is like meeting yourself 25 years on and you realize that deep inside you are always going to be the class gussing, ‘Vaat ra’ screaming, [...]
Psychedelia-feast of the senses
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Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, [...]
Finally pure rock from a talent show
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I have always wondered why winners of shows like the Idol series, sa re ga ma pa(phew!!) and all the other rot on television nowadays are such superficial singers. Ya sure, they might have a vocal range of 6 octaves(that’s the standard soprano range by the way- mariah carey’s voice spans 8 octaves!!), but you [...]
Visuals that make you believe
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/iti-ami/
The things that rock: BITS and Google
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The (now) tame world of web search is in for a major turnover. As I have been telling my frien Amey all through last semester, there are new technologies and new search engines around the horizon. There’s wiki search that’s coming up. Do check this out. Also, from an Indian, Amit Patel comes Hot Trends, [...]