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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to IIT Madras. Part-2

An attempt at continuing from where I stopped in the earlier post. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to IIT-Madras. Part-1 Demographics The entrenched population was estimated at over 10,000 in 2003 while the total population is now estimated at over 14,000. Culturally, the institute is evenly divided between Telugus and the others which includes a visible population [...]

Success or sex?

On November 20th, 2005, a guy I know travelled in an auto in Chennai from somewhere near Adyar to Nungambakkam. Remember all the horror stories you might have heard about the Chennai auto drivers? This is not one of them. The auto driver was pretty good at English and he talked. He was not too [...]