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IIT Madras, our mentor instute.
The Chief Minister, who had aended a
wedding in Tirupa that noon, landed at
the venue at about1630hrs. The event
began with the dis-
nguished chief
guests performing
bhoomi puja at the
site of our
permanent campus.
Models of some of
the buildings that
were to come up at
our new campus were
exhibited. The
speeches that
followed were indeed thought-provoking.
While the Chief Minister pointed out on
how he was involved in the think-tank
that gave way to IIT Hyderabad and
stressed on the importance of brand
Hyderabad, Smt. Purandeswari re-marked on the importance of serv-
ing the motherland and talked about how
brain gain, the converse phenomenon of
brain drain (that saw a lot of talent mi-
grate to the west), would benet our
country. Prof. Desai, our director, talked
at length about the expansion plans of
This was big for us. Huge. We were all
trying so hard to see that all went well in
the biggest landmark event ll date for
IIT Hyderabad
The Ground
Breaking
Ceremony.
The ceremony was
held on the
propious
occasion of
Dusshera on
Thursday, the 6th
of October, 2011.
The honorary Chief
Minister of AP Shri
N. Kiran Kumar
Reddy, Deputy CM of AP Shri Damodar
Rajanarasimha, Minister of State for
HRD Smt. D. Purandeswari and the
Chairman of IIT Hyderabad's Board of
Governors Shri Ajai Chowdry (HCL
Founder-Chairman) graced the occasion
with their charismac presence.
The event also saw the presence of
Japanese delegates, who constute the
backbone of the instutes collaboraon
with Japan. Among the others who
made it to the ceremony were Prof. R.D.
Koilpillai and Prof. C. Pandurangan from
The Honble CM and other distinguished
guests watch as the Director lights the lamp
to signal the start of the Bhoomi Puja.
GROUND BREAKING CEREMONYI N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
INDEPENDENCE
DAY
2
ADVAYA 3
MENTOR
PROGRAM
5
BASKETBALL
LEAGUE
6
E-SUMMIT 8
ARTICLE
WRITING
COMPETITION
9
CARTOON
CORNER
10
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P A G E 2
Enthusiasm ran
through the veins
of all, as this day
meant a feeling of
pride and
patriotism
INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS
IIT Hyderabad. Shri Ajai Chowdry
talked about the points that made IIT
Hyderabad stand out, in so less a me
as three years.
Aer the speeches, the CM took o in
his helicopter. Subsequently, a high
tea was arranged for the invitees. The
students came back to the hostel
premises at about 1900hrs. They
ended the day dancing to the groovy
tunes of the DJ, who was waing at
the hostel for their arrival.
The event received good media cover-
age, with about ten minutes of the
CMs speech telecasted live in promi-
nent news channels. All the eorts
that had gone into making the cere-
mony successful had paid o. The
new campus is slated to be ready for
occupancy by July of 2013.
Heres hoping that all happenings at
IIT Hyderabad are as thriving and
wishing that the permanent campus
will be very soon ready.
- T Aditya Srinivas
Literary Secretary
the shirt, which would impart a sense
of patriosm to the mind.
The series of events included a few
introductory speeches. Patrioc songswere sung, the Naonal Anthem
being the most important. Short plays
were also enacted. Later followed the
demonstraon of mini-projects, which
was the outcome of 15 days of eort
by the students. Display of projects
aracted a lot of aenon. The robot
race was also a well-sought event.
Indeed, it would denitely not be an
overstatement if wed say that the
rst celebraon of this year in IITH
came-o in a grand way. Jai Hind!
- Vaibhav Kshirsagar (1st year)
The most ancipated day aer the
start of college was 15th
August, the
Independence Day. Enthusiasm ran
through the veins of all, as this day
meant a feeling of pride and
patriosm, and the students also
awaited certain events. Independence
Day was celebrated with lots of
enjoyment and the display of mini-
projects added to the grace of the
occasion.
On the morning of 15th
August, the
instute looked completely geared-up
for the occasion with the tricolor ready
to be hoisted. Wonderful
arrangements were made for all the
guests and students. Every student
who had come to the instute was
given a tricolor that could be pinned to
R E V E R B
Saluting the tri-colour
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FEST OUTLOOK - ADVAYA
P A G E 3V O L U M E 5 , I S S U E 1
Sounds fresh, doesnt
it? We are talking
about Indian Instute
of Technology
Hyderabads
intra-instute rst
tech-fest Advaya. It
strives to bring out
the best of talents in
the tech-savvy youth
of the premier instute. The punch-line goes like this The unique
and absolute truth without duality. It is with these pillaring valuesthat the rst Advaya team started working towards pulling o the
fest.
The fesval spanned over the rst weekend of November and saw
encouraging parcipaon from the student community. The
inauguraon ceremony was preceded over by Dr. FA Khan, Dean
(Academics) and Dr. Vinod Janaradhanan, Faculty Advisor of
Sci-Tech Council, both of whom enlightened the students about the
increasing role that technology was playing in peoples lives.
Events were organized by the seven technical clubs at IITH, fromacross the spectrum of engineering disciplines. While budding
electrical engineers pondered over baing circuits, computer
geeks tried their hands at Pro-quest and Gotroot, a hacking event.
The automobile club Torque, coming o a successfully organized
lecture by Dilip Chhabria as recently as last week, hosted the Auto
Quiz and a couple of design contests. The Robocs Club organized
Robo-basketball event, which saw robots trying to hoop in ping
pong balls into a net. For the not-so-interested-in-technical
stu- people, there was this Informals stage, where fun events ran
parallelly.
The closing ceremony was held at 1800hrs on Sunday, the 6th
of
November 2011. Prizes were distributed to the winners of
compeons held over the weekend as a part of the fest by Dr. KC
Sahu. The Science and Technology Secretary signed o the fesval,
hoping that Advaya will be back bigger and beer the next me
around. - T Aditya Srinivas
Man's ever-
increasing quest
for knowledge has
been the reason
for the exponential
development
over the ages.
Inauguration Ceremony
Robo-basketball
Hacking Event
Presentation Ceremony
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the game.
Musical chairs was conducted exclusively forgirls. They all moved around the chairs with the
hope of winning the game, but Rojimol edged
out all others and won the compeon. The
runner up was Kavitha.
Uriyadi too was organised in which boys
parcipated in large numbers. They needed to
break the pot within minimum duraon of me.
People were throwing water on the contestants
but it didnt hamper their spirits. Navanshu
Ahuja of 1st
year won the compeon.
Tug of War was also conducted. In this event, allparcipants struggled a lot to pull the opposi-
on and showcase their power. Chatas ( a team
of 4th
years) led by Vamshi Krishna emerged as
the winners of the game.
People were enjoying that day to the fullest. It
was a day completely free from the daily rou-
ne and monotonous lectures. Hats o to
the organisers. Celebraon of fesvals like
Onam that are backed by loy ideals, is indeed
needed for inslling a sense of security,
faith and meaning to life. All the students had a
memorable day that they would cherish for a
long me.
- Mayank Rathi ( 1st year )
Onam was celebrated in a grand and colourful
manner by students of IITH. Various
compeons were organised as a part of the
celebraons. Onam is perhaps the only day
when each single student is at his tradional
best. A day when they make impact on others
with their stunning looks in Malayali dresses.
Girls wore white sari and boys wore mundu
and shirt. The tradional are looked really
awesome on most of the people.
The day started with students working hard to
prepare Pookalam, which graced the court-
yard of Lile Place. It took almost 3 hours as
they were trying to make their Pookalam the
best.
Spoon Race was held for girls. No explanaons
needed as everyone is very familiar with this.
The girls really showed great enthusiasm in
the game. Kusuma and Anitha turned out to
be the winner and runner up respecvely, of
IIT HYDERABAD BATHES IN ONAM SPLENDOUR
Celebration of
festivals likeOnam that are
backed by lofty
ideals, is indeed
needed for
instilling a sense
of security, faith
and meaning tolife.
Students having fun in events like Urivadi organized on Onam
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MENTOR PROGRAM - 2011
P A G E 5V O L U M E 5 , I S S U E 1
A rising sun on 28th
August marked the
beginning of a new stage of life for 136
students who entered IIT Hyderabad aer along tough bale. These 4 years that they will
be spending will be the most inuenal years
of their life. To support these students and
guide them, a unique mentor program was
started.
The mentor program was started as a part of
the counseling cell to help the students adapt
to the culture of IIT Hyderabad quickly. The
mentors were our seniors who themselves had
volunteered to be a part of this program. Each
team comprised of 2 mentors who were
assigned certain freshmen. The total of 136
students were split into 11 mentor groups.
This was certainly a successful eort in
obtaining unity from diversity.
The mentor acvity started from the very
next day and the rst task was to ensure that
every fresher was a lively part of IIT H.
Interacon ensured that each student gets to
know the others as well. Regular mentor
meengs were called, to make sure that we
adjusted to the hostels, mess and IIT in gen-eral. Mentors were the strong pillars in our
life who guided, supported and protect-
ed us. They were the ones whom we could
have faith in, whom we could look up to. As
we have adjusted to our life here, the pro-
grams importance faded but we will never
forget those mentors who laid the
foundaon stone of our IIT life.
Thanking all mentors.
- Vaibhav Kshirsagar ( 1st year)
and gain a new experience in the
teaching others. NSS team also con-
ducts other campaigns like cloth donaon, blood
donaon and tree plantaon, which indeed is a
true service to the humankind, environment and
wildlife.
Recently IITH invited school students and showed
them the campus including physics, chemistry,
computer labs and workshop etc., thus also cre-
ang enthusiasm among students to study hard
and become a part of the coveted IIT system. This
indeed is a great service, IIT Hyderabad students
are doing to the naon.
- Vivek Kaname ( 1st year )
IIT Hyderabad encourages students to be a part
of NSS. This helps students to realize their
responsibility to the naon, instead of being
glued to books all the me. Like some other
IITs, IIT Hyderabad is also doing its part in NSS.
Every Saturday NSS candidates visit dierentschools and help students to clarify their
doubts in their studies. This is benecial for
both NSS candidates as well as the school stu-
dents. Students feel free to ask their doubts
to us without any hesitaon because we create
a friendly relaon with the students. Our bene-
t is that we get a chance to do social service
Mentor -Mentee
group under
Anuj and
Kriti.
NSS [National Service Scheme] at IIT HyderabadThe NSS team
They were
the ones
whom we
could have
faith in, whom
we could look
up to.
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IITH Basketball League
P A G E 6V O L U M E 5 , I S S U E 1
On the lines of NBA, basketball league was or-
ganized at IIT Hyderabad showcasing the
talent of the students. Aucons were conduct-
ed in the instute in which a total of 8 man-
agers bid to buy their respecve team players.
Many students gathered there to witness the
aucon. Naveen Chintamaneni (in pic 3rd
from right) shocked all of them by buying Balaji
Kasi for 4.3 lakhs. Sheetal was the highest paid
girl. Aer the aucons, the league started with
a bash on 21st
august and connued for almost
a month. When all the teams played 3 matches
each, re-aucons took place but sll, the
costliest players remained the same. Aer
re-aucons, the real league started with a
spectacular and vibrant atmosphere and all the
teams gave their everything to win every single
match they played. The series of nales was
played between Black Stalwarts (manager:
Sai Prasad) and Silver Hawks (manager:
Namratha Reddy) which ended with the Hawks
bagging the tle of winners. But that was not
the end of the league. Fire Stallions (White)
having kept the maximum money at end,
challenged the Hawks for another set of na-
les and Hawks jused the tles of winners
by edging out the opposion in extra me in a
nail-bing match. The presentaon ceremony
took place just aer the nale at court itself
in which a huge turnout could be seen. Sagar
Tayade was declared the Best Player among
freshmen and the Find of the Tournament
was Navanshu Ahuja, who played beyond the
expectaons and really amazed others with
his performance. Nagamani was the best girlplayer, although not even a single girl scored
in the whole tournament. Gau Vinay bagged
the tle of the Best Manager aer all, he
used to give tooth brush and paste to his
players. The most sensaonal player was
Yatharth (in pic4th from right) and the best
defensive player was Adithyan. One other
award of the most entertaining team was giv-
en to Green Razorbacks (manager: Kunal Ag-
garwal).
The whole credit of this thrilling league goes
to the organizers, Nagaraj Mahajan (with
most 3 pointers), Abishek Ramesh (Least
Fouls) and Pramod (Most Valuable Player).
They truly deserve a big round of applause.
This league will be back again soon with loads
of fun.
-Mayank Rathi ( 1st year)
The Silver Hawks having their proud moment
the real league
started with a
spectacular and
vibrant start and
all the teams
struggled a lot
to win every
single match
they played.
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Amazing Race at IIT Hyderabad
P A G E 7V O L U M E 5 , I S S U E 1
On the second Sunday of August, the Cultural
Council of IIT Hyderabad organized The Amazing
Race to increase the interacon of freshmenwith the seniors. The game was all about solving
riddles and performing a physical task at each
checkpoint. The Cultural Council had worked a
lot to make the game interesng. There were a
total of 9 teams of 3 members each, some of
these teams also contained students from se-
cond year. Keeping physical tasks at each check-
point like making a pyramid of play cards, hing
a single stump with a throw of the ball, throwing
shoe appropriately in the shoe case was a nice
idea.All the parcipants had to think hard tosolve the riddles and the crossword. For three
hours all the parcipants were running around
the hostel to complete tasks. Then the organiz-
ing team picked the winning team who com-
pleted their tasks in the least me. Prizes were
then distributed to winning & the runners-up
teams.
I was a member of winning team and I enjoyed
the whole game. It was a nice experience to
crack riddles and to complete physical tasks. It
took so much me for us to solve one parcular
riddle which was related to TV room. But nal-
ly, we completed all the tasks in me and
bagged the rst prize. We thank the organizers
for having organized such a fun-lled event.
- Swapnesh Wagh ( 1st year)
on, everyone hurried towards
the cket counter. All of them got
distributed in groups aer geng ckets
and started wandering in the fort.
Everyone wanted to get a fantasc pic in front
of the fort. Soon, the students got hungry aer
walking for 4 hours and so, they moved back
and had lunch at a restaurant on the way. It
was a very enthusiasc and amazing trip for
us. Thanks to all mentors. was the reply most
freshmen gave aer the trip, which was so use-
ful for them as they made new friends and got
to know their classmates.
- Swapnesh Wagh ( 1st year )
Students of IIT Hyderabad went on a tour to the
historic Golconda fort on the third Sunday of
August dated 21st
. The trip was specially
arranged for freshmen by mentor groups of IIT
Hyderabad. All the freshmen were so excited
about the trip, but all of them could not aend
the tour as the basketball league was starng onsame day. The ones who could, enjoyed the
whole day with their classmates and some
seniors. We started our journey early in the
morning and passed me all along the way by
playing Antakshariin the bus. It was a great
opportunity for freshmen to know their class-
mates as they had spent just3 weeks at the IITHyderabad campus. Aer reaching the desna-
The winners of the race.
GOLCONDA TRIP
Students enjoying
themselves at the
Golconda Fort
The game
was all about
solving riddles
and
performing a
physical task
at each
checkpoint.
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E-SUMMIT
P A G E 8V O L U M E 5 , I S S U E 1
E-Summit was held in IIT Hyderabad on Saturday,
15th October. It was organized by
Entrepreneurship Cell (E-
Cell), IIT Hyderabad inassociaon with Canara Bank. It was aended by
not only IIT Hyderabad students, but also by
students from various other colleges. The
speakers were Mr. Rajat Dhariwal founder of
MadRat Games (hp://www.aksharit.com/), Mr.
Ashutosh Lawania founder of Myntra.com
(hp://www.myntra.com) and Ms. Dolly Bhasin
founder of SPH Consultancy & eServices Pvt. Ltd.
The E-Summit went on for about 4 hours, with
each speaker speaking on the topic : "Youth En-
trepreneurship". They also gave a view on their
personal experiences and the dicules they
faced while seng up their respecve enterpris-
es. Towards the end , there was a Q&A session in
which all students acvely parcipated.
The domains they covered were:
- Road ahead for young entrepreneurs,
especially IITians.
- Emphasize on crical issues faced by
entrepreneurs and start-ups at early stages
of their product development, especially
funding opons.
- Mistakes young entrepreneurs generally
make.
- Talk on women entrepreneurship by Miss.
Dolly Bhasin.
"Our aim was to foster the spirit of
entrepreneurship among the youth,
especially the students. We wanted this to
be a medium where they all could interact,
network and exchange ideas and as the me
passes, we'll surely be able to connect with
more students and get them on board with
us" said Aman Bagade, Managing Director, E
-Cell, IIT Hyderabad at the nale of the
event.
Overall, E-Summit was a grand success and I
hope the E-Cell team hosts it every year.
- Sanjay Mani ( 2nd year )
Mr. Rajat Dharival
Our aim was to
foster the spirit
of
entrepreneurship
among the
youth, especially
the students.
Ms. Dolly Bhasin Mr. Ashutosh Lawania
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The Million-Dollar Question
P A G E 9V O L U M E 5 , I S S U E 1
Somemes, a few words can change your life
completely. They can change your thinking
completely. At rst, it may sound like a casual
sentence, but it has a much deeper meaning with
the power to bring you back to reality. A similar
thing happened to me on a ne Sunday aer I
joined IITH. While strolling the streets of the city,
there came a moment when I was alone with a
friend of mine. We started a casual conversaon.
Suddenly he asked me, When will you come to
IITH? I was totally taken aback on this statement
of his and replied that I was already here. He
just looked at me and smiled. His reply to me
changed my life, and it nally brought me here.
He said, Being present at some place doesnt
mean physical presence. You need to pour out
your mind & heart being here. It has been 5-6
hours that we have been roaming today, and
all I hear from you are the stories of your
friends back home, all your past memories.
You are sll in yourcity. There is not a single
sign which could point to your geng
accustomed to this environment. It seems like
you dont want to call this place your home. I
gave it quite a thought. He was right. Aer that
incident, I really got into the spirit of being in
IITH. I am happy and sased now that I can
nally call this place Home.
- Surabhi Ganvir ( 2nd year )
Being present
at some place
doesnt mean
physical
presence. You
need to pour
out your mind
& heart being
here.
indicate that you are the next in queue totake bath. People rush to the mess immedi-
ately aer the bath. In the superbly hygien-
ic mess, typically there will be three curries
available, but no dosas for them due to the
huge public demand."When the whole world
sleeps, we awake". We enjoy nights with mu-
sic, dance, fun, chang, celebrang birth-
days (birthday blasts and drenching each oth-
er with water from head to feet), and there
are also a few species that keep studying.
My life at IITH has been intellectually
smulang having listened to amazing lec-
tures, fun lled memories with amazing
friends and the excing journey is connu-
ing........
- Y. Aditya ( 1st year )
I gave my JEE and relaxed. Like all my peers, Iwas fuelled with the desire to join an IIT. Of
course, I expected a great life at an IIT as goes
the hype. (There is a new term coined for this
called IITphobias). As the admission day drew
closer, my excitement grew without bounds.
Finally, I am at IIT, which I considered as my
dream desnaon for two years. It is all fun
out here. Here, there are amazing people,
peers from all parts of the country, clubs, trips,
interacons, ideas-what not? On my rst day,
the sight of a student wearing an ELAN T-shirt
the opposite way made a mark on my mind. A
whole new world opened up. I never played
any sport other than cricket and was amazed
by the magnitude of sports played here. And of
course, not to forget commentators of the
matches. Fun is everywhere. Ever placed a
handkerchief in a bus seat to occupy it? Here
keep your bucket in front of the bathroom to
My Life In IIT Hyderabad
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A Wealthy Experience
P A G E 1 0V O L U M E 5 , I S S U E 1
IIT The rst impression accompanied with
this word is a sense of being into books,
studious and sincere atude of the students,
but people are unaware of the fun and fuzz at
the IIT's. Aer clearing the JEE exam, though
my priories were of selecng an already
established IIT, with Hyderabad being the
emerging global hub of computer technology
tempted me to take a risk on choosing IIT Hy-
derabad. Finally, here I am in the Chemical
Engineering Dept. at IIT Hyderabad. Then be-
gan the journey of fun and excitement, withmy hopes at the peak, but also with a bit of
uncertainty. Soon, we were interacng with
seniors and vying to explore and get into the
acvies of OUR IIT. Feeling good about being
at the instute, looking at our instute build-
ing and our great infrastructure, we felt as
good seeing our hostels, rooms and parcular-
ly, the cleanliness, which is taken care of regu-
larly, which was quite unexpected...
The past two months ourished with my in-
dulgence in sports, academics and events like
treasure hunt, basketball league and being a
part of the organizaon team of mar-
keng and nance domain of IIT Hydera-
bads Fest ELAN. One thing to be learnt is
that an individual has many chances and op-
portunies to develop his personality in the
various domains here. Though worries about
future, our placements sll sustain, the spirit
of fun and frolic that goes through in bits at
each me, are the things that will be relived
via memories ever aer...
Having seen the prevailing enthusiasm in the
students here, I dont know if it would have
been right choosing one of the other IITs, but
I do know that I didnt DO ANYTHING
WRONG opng for IIT Hyderabad.
- Navanshu Ahuja
the spirit of
fun and frolic
that goes
through in bits
at each time
are things that
will be relived
via Memories
ever after
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Editors: Sanjay Mani,
V. Sai Prasad
Reverb Team:
Quick Quiz1 In what year was the Queen Mother
born?
2 What sort of creature is a gecko?
3 Which US novelist wrote The Wizard
Of Oz?
4 What was Indias target in the rather
infamous Sydney Test?
5 On which river does the town of
Rotherham stand?
ANSWERS:
1 1900 2 A lizard
3 L. Frank Baum 4 333
5 River Don