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Delving Deeper into the World of Literature

Delving Deeper into the World of Literature

Jul 7, 2020 | ,

“There is much more to literature than what initially meets the eye.” If we think about the meanings, reading is the sensory process where we engage with the content through tasks like looking at a text, listening to things, etc. On the other hand, interpretation involves analysis. Reading in the interpretative sense is a reading to form arguments (argumentative reading). Literary interpretation is more of a subjectivist idea of analysis wherein a text can have many meanings. We can say that in this domain, truth is not a matter of discovery; rather, it can be said to be more of an invention! Talking about...

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IITGN Speaks: The Lockdown Experiences of Waste Collection and Management Workers

IITGN Speaks: The Lockdown Experiences of Waste Collection and Management Workers

Jul 5, 2020 |

“If we need to really solve the problem, we need to collaborate, create collectives, and take solutions at scale.” – Ravi Venkatesan, UNICEF Special Representative for Young People and Innovation, business executive, venture capitalist, ex-chairman of Microsoft India, and the boards of Bank of Baroda and Infosys Dineshbhai, Baldevbhai, Dashrathbhai, Lalabhai, and Maheshbhai have been a part of the IIT Gandhinagar family for the last one and a half, three, three, four, and six years respectively. While Dineshbhai lives in Sanand and Baldevbhai and Dashrathbhai in the Sabarmati area (Ahmedabad district), Lalabhai resides in Palaj and Maheshbhai in Borij...

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SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Poop!

SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Poop!

Jul 3, 2020 |

“There’s a way to do it better – find it.” — Thomas Alva Edison, renowned inventor, and businessman Did you know that poop and wastewater can form the basis of some COVID-19 surveillance techniques to monitor the levels of the novel coronavirus circulating in a city? Yes, you heard it right, people! Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar recently became a part of a critical international collaboration on a breakthrough COVID-19 study, which included some of the world’s leading scientists. The objective was to utilize wastewater to indicate the novel coronavirus disease spread in communities of different countries across the globe. Dr....

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India: The Land of Diverse Languages and Scripts

India: The Land of Diverse Languages and Scripts

Jun 29, 2020 | ,

An analysis of the different languages and scripts of a nation can provide a detailed understanding of its past, present, and future. Did you know that India one of the most linguistically diverse nations (fourth largest) of the world? Our country has four major language families. The biggest one is Indo-European. Next, follow the Dravidian languages, which are spoken mostly in the Southern parts of India. The Austro-Asiatic (Munda) is the third family and the fourth one is the Tibeto-Burman. Moreover, there are several languages that do not fit into any of these families! Unlike many other places in the world, the people of India write these languages in...

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IITGN Speaks: The Lockdown Experience of a Horticulture Supervisor

IITGN Speaks: The Lockdown Experience of a Horticulture Supervisor

Jun 28, 2020 |

“This virus has come like a storm in all of our lives and disrupted what we call normal. Times like these make you grasp for the silver linings and that’s what we must cling to.” – Rohit Gurunath Sharma, Indian international cricketer Jayanti Bhai Thakor has been a part of the IIT Gandhinagar family for the last nine years. A native of Palanpur city of Banaskantha district in Gujarat, he is a resident of the Palaj village near the Institute campus currently. He is a horticulture supervisor at IITGN and guides the laborers working under him from 8 AM...

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