The evening has almost turned into night, darkening the campus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi. Besides a handful of students scattered around, majority of the crowd seems to have shifted to the NRCVEE Hall, to listen to Science of Spirituality.

Avlokita and Dhaw-alika are two young filmmakers who don’t prefer to use their surnames. The two, just out of college post their Mass Communica-tion are now in Mumbai in search of their dream jobs.

If you were to take the side of a telecom company, how would you like to bid for the 2G-spectrum auction? Hint: strategy and managerial operations. “While this may seem jargon, it was fun to answer the question through a simulation game,” says Rohit Roy, a student of NITIE Mumbai visiting the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, for its fest called Imperium.

Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries — slave to prejudice … slave to religious fanaticism … slave to barbarity and inhumanity.
Saadat Hasan Manto

It was a boisterous late afternoon at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, with racing cars ready to zoom on the track. The cars were special — miniature, driverless and made of cola cans. “The Red Bull Racing Can Contest is a college racing series.

A student of electronics and communication engineering and someone proud of being an introvert, Shivani Suhag’s character has given her alter ego, Vidya Sharma a dash of boldness.

The past few days have been more than fun for Ewan Frost-Penni-ngton. A chemistry student from the University of Edinburgh, UK, his just ended Indian sojourn has resulted in him becoming a desi wearing khadi and bargaining at Dilli Haat.

The Xavier’s Aptitude Test (XAT) conducted by the XLRI, Jamshedpur, has announced some changes in its pattern from next year. For XAT 2013, the duration of the test has been extended to three hours and a section on general awareness has been added. In 2013, 106 B-schools will accept the XAT score nationally.

It’s nine in the evening and Amita Rana is still busy at the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus putting together the closing act of her upcoming play. It seems like a stretched date with Henrik Ibsen, she says, underlining the hours and research gone into knowing the Norwegian poet and playwright.

The second year M.Tech. students of IIT Bombay, Bhushan N. Kharbikar and Nitin Pawar, together with Ph.D. student Ajay Vijay Suryavanshi, have developed universal eyeglasses using a tunable-focus lens system and an intelligence module which will quantify refractive errors without human intervention. Put simply, the lenses will work for a myopic granddaughter and a presbyopic grandmother at home!