“Research Internship”: Questions about IIIT’s Brand
Background A company called Conduira and IIIT have partnered up to sell “Research Internships”. [note]https://web.archive.org/web/20210412175002/https://www.iiit.ac.in/ [/note] By all appearances, the “internship” appears to be more... Read More
Zubair Abid
The Case for a mid-sem break in the online semester(s?)
Introduction Anecdotally, the online semester has been hard. For many, it has been more stressful than any other in recent memory. While no hard evidence... Read More
IIIT Monsoon Semester Online
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July 3rd, 2020: In an email sent at around 8 P.M today, the Dean (Academics) confirmed that the Monsoon semester would be an online-only semester,... Read More
Campus Life Online
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Introduction: The possibility of an elongated campus life online How is Life@Microsoft Teams? We currently face the possibility of the next semester being conducted either... Read More
Editorial – March 2020
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The untimely pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the middle of this semester is a one-of-a-kind event in an Institution such as ours, but... Read More
10 Years of Ping!
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Introduction Ping! is over ten years old now. Covering almost half of IIIT’s existence, these ten years have seen multiple articles, stories, and random snippets... Read More
Mail servers migrated to Outlook
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Research students stopped receiving emails sometime on Tuesday (17th September). No new emails, including notices for the mid-sem seating arrangement, were sent to people accessing... Read More
Editorial – July 2019
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Welcome to this issue A flurry of emails halfway through an otherwise uneventful summer vacation kickstarted the first of several hostel woes (washing machines, random... Read More
The Forgotten Century
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The absence of time travel means that we as humans are incapable of experiencing events before our time. Directly, anyway. Our knowledge of the past... Read More
Faculty-Student Inquisition Session
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This article is part of The Newsletter, dated 18.04.2019 Sravani Boinepelli, Zubair Abid The Issues Raised, and the Promises Made On March 7th, a mail... Read More
Have you tried turning the mess off and on again? 
Log Kya Kahenge? 
Can you hear the music?