Yearly Archives: 2013

Book Review: “The Purple Line” by Priyamvada N. Purushotham

Book Title: “The Purple Line” Author: Priyamvada N. Purushotham Publisher: Harper Collins, India, 2012, Pages: 216 Genre: Fiction Buy from flipkart here. The title of the book, “The Purple Line,” refers to purple lines on a pregnancy testing strip. A single straight purple line indicates a negative result, meaning you’re not pregnant; while two purple lines indicate a positive result, meaning ...

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Thinking Beyond IITs and NITs

There is a common feeling among engineering students who get into Jamia’s Faculty of Engineering that he has been wronged by society because given his caliber, he should have been in a more reputed engineering college than Jamia. During my initial days at college, every other student in my class told me about their academic brilliance in coaching institutes and ...

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Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Inaugurates a New High-Tech Lab

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Jan. 2, 2012] Jamia Millia Islamia has made another major stride in the area of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience. Mr. Najeeb Jung, Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia, inaugurated a unique facility on the synthesis of ‘Single Wall Carbon Nanotube’ at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at Jamia. This facility is exclusively dedicated for ...

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