IIT AND KOTA

Today, I wish to share with you an experience of my life which I can bet will change your views about life as it changed mine. It is an incident of our IIT days when one of my roommates fell in love with the most glamorous and dazzling girl of our batch. I was not really against their relationship but the only doubt I had was that they were quite opposite personalities. My friend was an introvert, shy person whereas the girl was very jovial and extrovert. Also may be because of her light-hearted nature I felt that she was not very serious about their relationship. But the fact that mattered was that they seemed to be quite compatible. Then I got placed in the USA and took my family along. My friend got a placement in India. Though for some years we kept in touch but as time passed by, we got more and more buried in our chores and our interaction was reduced to almost nil. After a long span of 9 years I got the opportunity of making a business trip to India. I could not dare to miss...

IIT Madras with the idea of empowering the youth to identify technology gaps in public policies, has introduced a Centre for Technology and Policy (CTaP) at its campus. This move will enable the youth to contribute to critical decisions in the country in areas like food, health, telecom and education. The newly opened center at the institute may also introduce a full programme on public policy in the next three to five years. A separate staff will work for the research center. Two senior fellow researchers have already been hired of which one has taken up the role of senior mentor informed Prof V R Muraleedharan, head of CTaP. The institute is yet to take grants from URD ministry and is funding the center by its own at present. The institute will work on research papers and reports on public policies. Many professors in the institute have already been doing projects in areas like telecom, power and housing which have implications for public policy mentioned Prof Muraleedharan. ...