Fundamatics

Author: Queenbee

  • From the Beehive

    From the Beehive

    November – December, 2017

    This month, we’re unleashing the ‘fun’ element in Fundamatics. Life at IITB has always been enlivened with oodles of cultural activity and sporting events, with young students making the most of every opportunity. With alumni now scattered across all corners of the globe, an e-zine is a perfect vehicle to re-ignite that spark. So here’s the fun n’ games issue with plenty of activity for you – so shake off the passive reader avatar to reclaim and rediscover your enthu self.

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  • From the Beehive

    From the Beehive

    October – November, 2017

    Like the goddess Durga who stands out majestically during the nine days of Navaratri, this month we focus on women with an identity of their own, who have reshaped and overthrown the patriarchal norm. While the economic empowerment of women across the world is one of the most remarkable revolutions of the past 50 years, yet the question remains if access to power equates to actual power? In this issue, we delve into this question and many more through a fascinating mix of memoirs, articles and essays by our alumnae who reflect their own diverse life journeys. We also explore the changing relationship between women and power in public and private spheres through fascinating stories of alumnae achievements.

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  • From the Beehive

    From the Beehive

    September – October, 2017

    The road of life is full of important choices which lead you to where you are right now. All of us, over the course of our lives, will feel the call to deviate from the more common path. Something inside of us will be called upon to go left, when it seems that everyone else is going right. The pressure to conform, to behave and do as others do can be an overwhelming force indeed. But, this issue is about people from our own campus community who showed courage to deviate from the common path. Without their willingness to explore the road “less traveled by”, our lives may not have been quite so rich at all.

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  • From the Beehive

    From the Beehive

    August – September, 2017

    Our last issue helped you escape to distant lands visited by our writers, this one brings you back to reality with an exploration of current economic and sectoral trends. This month we give you plenty of food for thought on topics such as employment, energy, infrastructure, technology etc. With various experts writing about their domain, you can look forward to understanding the background to some current trends as well as being exposed to a few forecasts for the future. So throw away that crystal ball and get started on Fundamatics instead! (more…)

  • From the Beehive

    From the Beehive

    July – August, 2017

    This month we focus on travels. Our potpourri of travel articles will transport you to far-flung corners of the big, wide world where the peaceful harmony of bountiful nature is punctuated only by the reverent tread of an occasional traveller. In these travel narratives, the landscape comes across as malleable, an almost protean presence that is being constantly shaped and reshaped through the lens of each traveler who passes through it.   And then, we have travels of quite another kind – those that do not end but stretch on interminably in our consciousness even after the physical experience of it is long over. Let’s embark on this journey then! (more…)

  • From the Beehive

    From the Beehive

    June – July, 2017

    As demonetisation and its consequences hit news headlines in India again last week, we thought the time was ripe to bring you an issue focussed on the topic. This issue explores various perspectives on different aspects of the note ban – the background, the implementation process, the long-term impact, the possibility of going cashless etc. We have a variety of articles to suit every mood – knowledgeable thought pieces and informed views for when you’ve got your thinking cap on, to humorous ones in a lighter vein that will have you laughing out loud.

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  • From the Beehive

    From the Beehive

    May – June, 2017

    This month we present a  hobby-themed issue which will be enjoyed by all those who love tinkering in their leisure hours. Meet alumni with unusual interests or rediscover a familiar batch mate in a new light. There are all types of hobbyists – amateurs, experts and those who have taken their hobbies to the next level.

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  • From the Beehive

    From the Beehive

    April – May, 2017

    From our first print edition, to a webzine in issue.com, to our very own e-zine which won an award but no moolah, Fundamatics has constantly morphed to ensure that it does not become the latest casualty of the unsure world that we call the publishing business.

    So this new look should not come as surprise to you, dear readers.

    A lot has happened in the world since we surfaced last. (more…)

  • From the Beehive

    There is certain serendipity in writing an editorial on an education themed issue of Fundamatics on the eve of the 70th anniversary of India’s Independence. All the issues that we sought to escape from with the founding of the Indian state in 1947 are, bafflingly enough, still in place. The nationalities problem, as represented most starkly in Kashmir and Manipur; the native Hindu vs.the alien Muslim problem in other parts; the uncertain fate of our underclasses; all of it persists. So one is forced to ask, how fragile – if not failed a state are we? (more…)

  • From the Beehive

    B2B

    Hallo! I am Gujjubee phellow. Queenbee ben called me and had a bee-to-bee toke with me. She asked me to write the aditorial.

    “Give us an aditorial,” she said.

    “How much you will geeve?” I asked. We are gujju phellows and will not geeve anything if there ij no bijnej. After all, it is B2B, bijnej to bijnej, no?

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