Saarang, saarang, saarang!!! This has been the talk of the town for the past week and as everything which begins must end Saarang let down the curtains for the year 2006 with the hype, junta (IIT slang for people…), sponsors and entertainment skyrocketing year by year. After a lot of voices striking my eardrums repeatedly (machan! lots of events and lots of figures…), I decided to spend my weekend...

I just now returned home after attending the odyssey quiz 2006 and I am feeling both happy and also little sad. Apart from the Landmark quiz, this is considered to be one of the big quizzes to be held in Chennai and also in the country. With over 800 teams competing for the top eight spots to book a berth in the finals, these quizzes offer myriad audience prizes making everyone glued on to their seats till the...

Even as a lull lecture on computer architecture was going on in my class, I never heard a word as was my habit but this time it was because I was unable to forget about Priyanka, Esha and others (Oh no!!! not that way…) let me make it clear, they were the center characters of the book One night @ the call center by one of my fauvorite authors Chetan bhagat and I was unable to come out of the book which I...

After much hype and kicking off the lazy geek in me, I made my way to the 29th Chennai book fair conducted by the Book sellers and publishers association of South India in Quaid-a-Milleth women’s college, Oops!!! The college girls were given a holiday and no sort of entertainment from that side but still there are oodles and piles of books providing great distraction for any middling book buff like me. I am...

Butter, Vennai, makhan, burro, beurre, mantequilla etc (all mean the same!!!), these are the words which loiter around my mind when the thought about this YOU-KNOW-WHAT university and its soaking siblings is invoked inside (got those translations from the new ENCARTA 2006, Microsoft simply rocks!!!). This is predominantly because of its unruly policies and also myriad other facets imposed upon the students by...