ECHOES
Echoes was IIIT’s first publication. Back in 2002, barely months after the first batch had graduated, it came out as a four page newsletter, reporting in black and white some events that had happened on campus lately – including, among them, announcements of a “new, two storied library” that we can presume is what we have today, of new faculty, the first mention of a compulsory mess with cancellation fees for cancellations above a prescribed limit – an archival of sorts, one we can look back at today and study the past.
The Echoes of today looks back at that legacy, and tries to work from there. To serve a twofold purpose: the first, to report the news and events of campus to the greater community at large, and the second, to act as an archival of sorts: that those after may also look back and make, at the least, a cursory attempt to understand their present in the context of the times gone by and events that have occurred with them. We now offer 8 colour pages instead of 4, with much more coverage in each – global news, IIIT specific sports coverage, club updates, upcoming events. IIIT has changed a lot since 2002, and this publication attempts to replicate it. We bring in this issue a collaboration with Programming Club, a IIIT specific crossword, sudoku, comics. There are reports of notable occurrences over the past couple of weeks, and yet others before that we have not been able to cover in any newsletter lately. We have introduced sections that would ideally go on every issue hence, with more to be added later.
Above all, this publication attempts to represent the IIIT student community to its fullest, which is why we also earmark space specifically for “Letters to the Editor” – and hope you shall respond in earnest.
ARTICLES
Covering the CAA-NRC Panel Discussion 
Vim Club has its first session ! 
Hyderabad’s Water Shortage 
Interhouse Cricket Matches Underway 
IIIT’s Area 51 Raid 
Megathon 2019 
Qu’ils mangent de la grenouille! (Let Them Eat Frogs!) 
Tale of Two Cheenties 
Peace of mind. 
Boats and Valorant
Flying kisses and lots of love and respect to the Ping! team…
Thank you for bringing back Echoes.
People had attempted to revive Echoes and for a short while this campus thought Echoes was returning as a Ping!-dedicated campus-history segment.
We have our own newspaper!!
It’s just happy tears rolling down me daft cheeks now!!
This shall be called “Year of the Phoenix” because this year, 3 things will be revamped and upheld – the students’ belief in the Parliament, the Ping! magazine, and this newspaper!