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I will never forget the first week of classes in July 2015. The moment I walked into the lecture halls and tutorial classrooms and opened my mouth, students were stunned! Many of them said that they had never before met someone who looked lik...
The Robin Hood Army is a volunteer based organisation that works to get surplus food from restaurants to the less fortunate sections of society in the cities across India, and 11 other countries.
Quizzing is a sport, and being a sport it obviously helps in flexing the concerned muscles. We are an open group, which means anyone (with or without a team) can show up to our quizzes and psarticipate.
We are IIT Roorkee’s official body in the pursuit of debating in English language. As such, it is us who train students and represent the college in national and international level debating tournaments around the world. We follow specific form...
“Swedish vodka and the best meat you could ever have - hmm, well, if only I wasn’t a non-drinking vegetarian.”
“Four students from IIT Roorkee made the institute proud by grabbing the top spot at the presti...
Mr. Rajiv Sikri retired as Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs after an illustrious career spanning 36 years with the Indian Foreign Service. Read on as Mr. Sikri talks about the growing role of policy think tanks, the nationalist wav...
“A Director walks into a bar …”
In this interview, Mr. Prasoon Gupta shares his experience with Sattviko, the story behind the Idea Cafe at IITR and his aim to nurture and promote campus entrepreneurship at IITR.
Shazia Ilmi has been the spokesperson and media strategist of the India Against Corruption Movement, and later, the Aam Admi Party. Currently she sides with the BJP after relinquishing her membership of AAP in 2014.
The administration and the students might not share the same standpoint if it came down to tagging certain campus issues as problems. Chances of seeing eye to eye in the choice of solutions to issues that both parties even agreed on tagging as ...
Dr. Balu, a physician by qualification and a humanist by instincts has been an activist for more than three decades. His constructs of social movement to uplift the rural and tribal of our nation goes parallel with his academic accolades.
The world is abuzz with the news about the expulsion of 73 students who have just now completed their first year at IITR. Protests are growing by the day with students and political parties throwing their hats in the ring.
WONA brings you the coverage of the opportunities at your disposal, in an interview with Mrs. Purnima Govind, the Executive Assistant at the office of Dean of Alumni Affairs.
Amitabh Kumar “Amit” Singhal is senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc., a Google Fellow, and the head of Google’s core ranking team. Born in Jhansi, a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Amit received a Bachelor of En...
Mr Partha Sen, an IIT Roorkee alumnus, completed his Majors in Computer Science and Minors in Mathematics from IITR in the year 1990. Right after college he worked with TATA Consultancy Services before joining the Bank of America. He entered th...
It’s been two months in the Autumn Semester and IITR has already seen a lot of interesting changes on the campus: A new Bhawan allotment policy (that made election candidates cry), the newly elected Students’ Affairs Council and an innovative r...
