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Alumni Talk | MBA Panel
Read more: Alumni Talk | MBA PanelThe management session of the Alum Talks featured four panelists from the inaugural batch of the MA Program. Ten years after their graduation, these alumni speak about their careers in management, emphasizing that their journeys were above all serendipitous; taking them down career paths that they did not foresee.
5–8 minutes
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Alumni Talk | Smita Mujumdar
Read more: Alumni Talk | Smita MujumdarMid-October, as the country was registering an average of fifty thousand cases each day, and students were wading through assignment deadlines that were the more imminent threat, the Alumni Relations Team invited Smita Mujumder as a speaker for Alum Talks, to discuss ‘Mental Health’ in our department and, general lives.
3–5 minutes
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Manifesto Review | Department Secretary
Read more: Manifesto Review | Department SecretaryArul starts his manifesto by rightly acknowledging the successes of the previous Secretary in organizing Department events. He stated that he planned to continue the previously devised strategy of forming temporary subcommittees with volunteers working under a member of the secretary’s council.
2–3 minutes
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Manifesto Review | Alumni Relations Team Heads
Read more: Manifesto Review | Alumni Relations Team HeadsAnagha Suresh Babu and Janani Balaji, the two co-heads of the newly formed Alumni Relations Team, are quite happy and satisfied with the way the team worked, despite it being freshly established and forced to face the hurdles created by the pandemic.
2–4 minutes
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Manifesto Review | Intern Head
Read more: Manifesto Review | Intern HeadThe Head of the DoHSS Intern Team for the year 2020-21, Akshaya P, aimed to create a thriving internship culture in the department and increase the accessibility of internships by promoting inclusivity. The Intern Head has also been able to carry out one other initiative outside of what was mentioned in her application!
3–4 minutes
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Manifesto Review | Branch Councillor
Read more: Manifesto Review | Branch CouncillorMy conversation with Varsha was very heartening and she said excitedly ‘the council has been great this year’. While her manifesto was designed for a tenure that would be situated in the institute, her work has adapted very quickly to the online medium.
5–7 minutes
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Boost is the Secret of My Energy
Read more: Boost is the Secret of My EnergyThe mango tree listens and sways to every little joy and droops to every little hurt. It now knows of a heaven far away; of the place where the nights are livelier than the day, of the people who has kept her good, of the days she had breathed freedom, of a hostel room she…
4–6 minutes
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Idlis in the Time of Corona
Read more: Idlis in the Time of CoronaIT can never take our freedoms… to eat idlis and punukulu anytime we wish to, anywhere we damn well want to. Just wear a mask, pick wide open spaces, try being the first one there, interact with masked individuals for short periods, maintain that distance, sanitize before and after, and bam, you’ll have the best…
4–5 minutes
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Ripe Vinyl #14 | Qongqothwane – Miriam Makeba
Read more: Ripe Vinyl #14 | Qongqothwane – Miriam MakebaMakeba herself had suffered intensely because of racism and apartheid in her early life, and her activism against apartheid even got her banned from entering South Africa for over 30 years. It’s not surprising to see why Makeba takes this song’s preface as an opportunity to symbolically undermine the hegemony of colonial rule in a…
3–4 minutes
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Ten Minutes to Class
Read more: Ten Minutes to ClassUsual Monday morning / A boring 8 AM class / Ten minutes for travel…
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