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Blood Isn’t Always Thicker Than Water 5 min read

• Opinion

Blood Isn’t Always Thicker Than Water

Harshwardhan Prasad 4 years ago

Almost everyone uses “blood is thicker than water” to justify choosing family bonds over the bonds we have made. However, the actual quote is – ... Read More

Maths @ IIIT 10 min read

• Campus
• Opinion

Maths @ IIIT

Abhinav Menon 4 years ago 2

Maths is widely acknowledged to be of central importance in research in any field, but at first glance, the expected variety in maths courses is... Read More

Parliament Perception 4 min read

• Opinion
• Campus

Parliament Perception

Shivansh Subramanian 4 years ago

Introduction For the most part, IIIT-H is a fairly student-friendly college. About 250-300 people per batch make the faculty-student ratio suitable, enabling communication between them.... Read More

Plagiariser’s Dilemma: Why Should YOU Care? 6 min read

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• Opinion

Plagiariser’s Dilemma: Why Should YOU Care?

Mayank Goel 4 years ago

18th Century England had a legal system that was stretched thin and could barely keep up with the list of offences it had. A way... Read More

What If Online Was The Norm 14 min read

• Creativity Wall

What If Online Was The Norm

Abhinav Menon 4 years ago

He was chilling with his parents and brother in the living room. But something was different – something felt weird. The walls were still blue,... Read More

Hotel California 9 min read

• Opinion
• Reviews

Hotel California

Abhinav Gupta 4 years ago

Eagles – Hotel California “Welcome to the Hotel California, such a lovely place” We’ve all heard these words at least once in our lifetime. Arguably... Read More

CND: Origin 8 min read

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CND: Origin

Pahulpreet Singh 4 years ago

Introduction It has been over ten years since the emergence of the Computational Natural Sciences Dual Degree program, commonly referred to as the CND program.... Read More

Editorial – May 2021 5 min read

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Editorial – May 2021

Tejasvi Chebrolu 4 years ago

Welcome to the May 2021 issue of Ping!, the third one to come out during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first pandemic release was during a... Read More

“Research Internship”: Questions about IIIT’s Brand 5 min read

• Campus
• Opinion

“Research Internship”: Questions about IIIT’s Brand

Zubair Abid 4 years ago

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

Not For Long 2 min read

• Contest
• Creativity Wall

Not For Long

Abhinav Menon 4 years ago

No more the thrilling stories of old   Nor entertaining, happy news   Nor the lively debates on screen   Nor jibes of so many hues   No, only... Read More