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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

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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


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


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.


7/11

Amazing Race at IIT Hyderabad


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.


8/11

E-SUMMIT


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
http://www.aksharit.com/http://www.aksharit.com/http://www.myntra.com/http://www.myntra.com/http://www.myntra.com/http://www.aksharit.com/


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The Million-Dollar Question


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

ARTICLE WRITING COMPETITION


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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


11/11

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

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