IITian Vibes

IIT Roorkee Campus: 356 Acres, Bhawans, History and Photos

The sourced guide to IIT Roorkee's campus: 356 acres (not 365), the full list of Bhawans, its Saharanpur and Greater Noida campuses, and history going back to 1847.

IIT JAM 2027: Exam Date, Seats, Fees and IIT M.Sc Life

Everything about IIT JAM 2027 from the official brochure: what the exam is for, dates, papers and pattern, fees, the full seat matrix across 23 IITs, JAM 2026 cut-offs and closing ranks, and what an IIT M.Sc leads to.

IIT Delhi Campus: 325 Acres, Hostels, Hauz Khas and Photos

The sourced guide to IIT Delhi's 325-acre Hauz Khas campus: all 17 hostels, why hostel space covers only half the students, how to get there, and what students say.

Pawan Kumar Chandana: IIT Kharagpur to Skyroot's Orbit

He calls himself a bad student until Class 8. He cleared JEE on his first attempt, took an ISRO job paying ₹35,000–40,000 a month out of IIT Kharagpur, and in 2018 co-founded Skyroot Aerospace. On 18 July 2026 its Vikram-1 became India's first private rocket to reach orbit, and on 30 September TIME named him to the TIME100 Next list.

THE World University Rankings 2027: Only 5 IITs Made It

THE ranked 143 Indian universities this week and only five are IITs; the seven oldest are still boycotting and NIRF 2026 is a month late. Plus: an IIT Kharagpur rocket founder on TIME100 Next, IIT Bombay's director questioned, two IITians cleared to run HDFC Bank and Kotak, and all 23 IITs checked.

IIT Madras BS Degree 2026-27: Fees, Qualifier, Levels

The sourced guide to the IIT Madras BS degree: four programmes, exit levels from Foundation to BS, the qualifier and JEE routes, fees by level, fee waivers up to 75%, exam cities and the next intake.

IIT Bombay Campus: Area, Hostels, Photos and How to Visit

The sourced guide to IIT Bombay's Powai campus: the real area (200 hectares, not 550 acres), 21 residence halls, how to get there, whether you can visit, and the leopards and crocodiles.

IIT CSE Average Package 2026: Official Data for All 23 IITs

The CSE placement numbers the IITs have actually published, with season and source for each: Guwahati's ₹51 lakh 2025-26 median, Madras's ₹53.2 lakh 2024-25 average, and why Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur and Kharagpur have no official CSE figure.

Surojit Chatterjee: IIT Kharagpur to Coinbase to Ema

Surojit Chatterjee arrived at IIT Kharagpur having only seen computers at railway reservation counters, and learned to type at night. Twenty-five years later he had built mobile ads at Google, run product at Flipkart through demonetisation and been Coinbase's product chief when it went public. On 23 September 2026 his AI company, Ema, raised $77 million. One of its showcase customers is Wipro.

22 Companies Broke 150 IIT Offers. The IITs Shut the Door.

Twenty-two companies made job offers to the IIT Class of 2026 and did not honour them. The IITs, acting together, will not work with them for two placement seasons. Oracle, per campus sources, is one. The committee won't name the rest, won't call it a blacklist, and the last ban lasted a season. Plus: IIT Bombay's probe in week two, IIT Madras's ₹450 crore fund, and all 23 IITs checked.

A Professor Is in the FIR. IIT Students Won in Norway and Taiwan.

A second-year student died at IIT Bombay hours after being found with a phone in a mid-sem; by Saturday the invigilating professor was named in an FIR under the SC/ST Act and the Crime Branch had the case. The same week, IIT Madras won an autonomous-ship competition in Norway, four IIT Hyderabad first-years took an award home from Taiwan, and a Dhanbad scholar received his team's chip from the Prime Minister. Plus: IIT Delhi's inquiry slips to 30 September, IIT Kanpur will grant medical degrees before an MBBS, JAM 2027 quietly moved its deadline, NIRF is 16 days late, and all 23 IITs checked one by one.

All 23 IITs Have a Director. A Quarter of India's Institutes Don't.

A Hindustan Times count found 37 of India's 155 national institutes running on interim heads — and zero of them are IITs. Plus: JAM 2027 opened (a day earlier than most outlets reported), IIT Kharagpur's ₹90,000-a-month fellowships, a ₹200 crore quantum round with IIT Madras as investor, the IIT Mandi poster inquiry, and every one of the 23 IITs checked one by one.

Deadline Desk: Live Opportunity Board for Students in India

Run by IITians, open to every student in India. Fellowships, off-campus internships, government intakes, MBA exams and prize competitions, with every apply link read on the organisation's own page, sorted by closing date, with live countdowns and one-tap add-to-calendar.

Anil Chakravarthy: From IIT BHU to Adobe CEO

On 6 August 2015, Informatica's ticker died, Anil Chakravarthy became acting CEO the same day, and a former Adobe CEO was installed as his chairman. Eleven years later the Varanasi-trained engineer takes Adobe's own chair — picked over the favourite, mid-AI-crisis, with the stock falling 7% on the news. The unhurried, fully-documented route from IT-BHU CSE '89 to the corner office.

IIT-BHU Sent Adobe a CEO. The Supreme Court Sent IITs a Deadline.

An IIT-BHU electrical engineer was named Adobe's next CEO. GATE 2027 finally opened with a new Robotics paper. The Supreme Court set 31 October for the student-suicide task force's final report, IIT Delhi's protest paused for an external panel, and IIT Kanpur spent the week defending an ISKCON MoU — plus every one of the 23 IITs checked, one by one.

Chetan Bhagat: IIT Delhi Mechanical, 1995, and 15 Drafts

He lived in room NB 24 of Kumaon Hostel, graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1995, and wrote Five Point Someone fifteen times over three years before work. Indian publishers rejected it for two years — partly because he sent a marketing plan with the manuscript. The full story, including what he was actually paid for 3 Idiots, and why the "IIT Delhi hated the book" story has no source behind it.

Thomso 2026 IIT Roorkee: Passes, Schedule, Pronite Update

Thomso'26 is two days away. Passes are on sale at ₹4,499 with campus accommodation or ₹4,000 without, the three-day schedule is published with venues, and the Pronite line-up is still unannounced. Here is everything confirmed on the official site as of 7 October 2026.

IIT Delhi Protested. IIT Bombay Locked the Balconies.

IIT Delhi suspended classes over a student's death. IIT Bombay locked three hostels' terraces and started fitting grills. IIT Indore ran a national workshop on student mental health. Three answers to one question, and only one of them is a policy — plus a second GATE 2027 delay, 68.75 acres for IIT Mandi, and every one of the 23 IITs checked.

Sachin & Binny Bansal: IIT Delhi 2005 to a $16 Bn Exit

Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are not brothers, not cousins, not related in any way. They met in the summer of 2005 in an IIT Delhi hardware lab, because both had to redo final-year project work. Two years later they started a bookstore in a Koramangala flat. Eleven years after that, Walmart paid approximately $16 billion for approximately 77 percent of it. This is what the record actually says, including the batch-year contradiction almost every account gets muddled.

India's Oldest IIT Turned 75. Its Youngest Got an Astronaut.

IIT Kharagpur marked 75 years since Hijli, IIT Tirupati handed 457 degrees with Shubhanshu Shukla on stage, and IIT Palakkad opened a DGCA-approved drone school that Kerala's press never covered.

Romesh Wadhwani: Rejected by IIT Bombay, Then He Bought It a Lab

A medical officer at IIT Bombay told him he could not walk the corridors. Fifty-seven years later, 52 students started a degree at a school with his name on it. What Romesh Wadhwani actually funded, what the $9.3 billion really meant, and what the money has not been shown to do.

GATE 2027 Needs a Verified DigiLocker: What It Actually Pulls

GATE 2027 registration opens 27 August 2026 and IIT Madras has put a verified DigiLocker account in front of the form for every Indian national. It pulls seven identity fields, and not one of them is your degree. The thing that can actually block you is a name mismatch, and that runs on UIDAI's clock.

The Week the Other 18 IITs Ran the News Cycle

IIT Dhanbad signed a rare-earths MoU with Andhra Pradesh, IIT Bhubaneswar landed in Nano Letters and IIT Indore filed a patent, while Bombay, Delhi and Madras managed one press release each.

Krishna Bharat: The IIT Madras Man Who Built Google News

The man who created Google News graduated from IIT Madras in 1991, built the first prototype six weeks after 9/11, founded Google's India R&D lab, then called his own creation "shameful and irresponsible" in 2017. He quietly rejoined Google in 2019 and is still there.

Rendezvous 2026 IIT Delhi: Jubin Nautiyal and Full Line-Up

Rendezvous 2026 ran 28 September to 1 October at IIT Delhi, closing with Jubin Nautiyal at the OAT. The full four-night pronite line-up, how entry and accommodation worked, what the organisers did and did not publish, and when to expect Rendezvous 2027.

IIT Recruitment 2026: Every Open Vacancy, Updated Weekly

338 live IIT listings as of 27 September 2026, filtered on closing date: 273 project posts, 41 non-teaching adverts and 24 faculty calls, with all 23 IITs hiring. IIT (ISM) Dhanbad's 60-post faculty drive and three permanent staff drives at Tirupati, BHU and Goa all close this week. The pay spread: ₹1,59,100 against ₹15,000 a month.

Param Pragya Switched On, Two Hostel Messes Switched Off

IIT Weekly Roundup for 3–9 August 2026. The Prime Minister inaugurated the Param Pragya AI supercomputer at IIT Delhi's Sonipat campus on Saturday. Four days earlier, Maharashtra's FDA ordered two IIT Bombay hostel messes to stop serving. IIT Ropar graduated 761, six IIT Madras professors won ₹25-lakh-a-year grants, and IIT Guwahati built a water-toxicant detector for ₹3,500. All 23 IITs covered.

Antaragni 2026 IIT Kanpur: Dates, Pronite, Passes

Antaragni is IIT Kanpur's four-day October cultural fest — one of Asia's largest, 1.6 lakh footfall in the 2025 Diamond Jubilee. The 61st edition dates aren't officially announced yet, but here's what to expect: mid-late October window, four themed pronite nights, Synchronicity + Ritambhara + Kavi Sammelan + India Inspired, and the official IIT Kanpur app is mandatory for entry. Full past-edition data + how to prep.

Vinod Khosla: IIT Delhi '76, Sun Microsystems, and OpenAI

The first IIT graduate to co-found a decacorn (Sun Microsystems, 1982), the first VC firm partner to write OpenAI a cheque ($50M for 5% in Jan 2019), and #1 on the 2026 Midas List for the 19th time. Net worth $13.4B, KV raising a fresh $5.5B. But his India engagement is more speech than cheque.

IIT Placements 2025-26: Only 11 of 23 IITs Have Reported

As of 2 Aug 2026, only one of India's 23 IITs (Bhubaneswar) has published a full-cycle 2025-26 report. Eleven have Phase 1 data. Twelve are silent. The honest scoreboard: Optiver ₹2.5 Cr at Hyderabad, Da Vinci ₹2.44 Cr at KGP, 500+ offers at Bhubaneswar (yesterday), 12 IITs disclosing nothing at all.

The IIT Week: NPCIL, 500 Placements, and Grief on Three Campuses

IIT Weekly Roundup for July 26 – August 2, 2026. IIT Bombay signed three MoUs in 48 hours (NPCIL nuclear, NPCIL AI, NSDL/BharatGen cybersecurity). IIT Bhubaneswar broke its own placement record with 500+ offers. IIT Madras shipped a cooling breakthrough plus a Tamil Nadu MSME AI partnership plus the first BIMSTEC hackathon. And three IIT campuses grieved.

IIT Summer Internships 2027: MITACS & DAAD Shut, Deadline Map

MITACS Globalink and DAAD WISE both suspended for Indian students in 2026. Charpak, Viterbi, CMU RISS deadlines already passed. Here's the honest 2027 deadline map + what IITians can still apply to right now.

Nandan Nilekani: IIT Bombay, Infosys, Aadhaar, Exam Reform

Two-act builder — helped Murthy build Infosys through NASDAQ '99, then walked out for Aadhaar and cabinet-rank public service. Now heads Delhi's 2026 exam-reform task force.

IIT Madras Heat Pipe Cools Electronics 30% Better

IIT Madras Mechanical Engineering announced a novel antiparallel flat-plate pulsating heat pipe on 27 July 2026 that cuts electronics thermal resistance three ways: 16% from an O-ring seal, 20% from switching copper to aluminium, and another 16% from a superhydrophilic surface. DRDO-funded, peer-reviewed, and arriving as AI GPU racks push past 100 kW.

AIPC Rewires 2026-27 IIT Placements Before Day 1

The All IITs Placement Committee has quietly rewritten the rules for the 2026-27 placement season across all 23 IITs. Two changes matter most, both aimed at problems that broke into public view in the last twelve months.

Gurtej Sandhu: The IIT Delhi Alum Who Out-Patented Edison

An M.Tech from IIT Delhi walked into a Boise, Idaho DRAM fab in 1990 and quietly out-invented Thomas Edison. This is the story of Gurtej Singh Sandhu, the Micron Fellow who redesigned how the world stores information.

The Ceiling Fan Just Fell — Inside IIT Madras Hostel Reality

A viral r/iitmadras thread this week showed a ceiling fan lying next to a sleeping student in Mandakini. The gap between the IIT brand and how students actually live is not new. It is documented, week after week, on Reddit.

SINE IIT Bombay Closes ₹250 Cr Y-Point Deep-Tech VC Fund

SINE, the IIT Bombay incubator that helped launch Gupshup, ideaForge and Atomberg, achieved first close of its ₹250 crore Y-Point Venture Capital Fund on 25 July 2026 and unveiled a new brand identity the same day. It is the first VC fund in India housed inside an academic incubator.

GATE 2027 Adds Robotics Paper in First Overhaul in 5 Years

IIT Madras dropped the GATE 2027 schedule on 20 July 2026 with a brand-new Robotics & Automation paper, big CS revisions, and the first syllabus refresh since 2022. Here is what changed, when to register, and why it matters.

IIT Week: Pradhan Out, ePlane Flies, GATE 2027 Drops

Pradhan resigns as Education Minister over NEET-UG, Pralhad Joshi takes additional charge, IIT Madras spinout ePlane unveils India's first full-scale eVTOL, GATE 2027 syllabus overhaul lands with a new Robotics paper, and Groww's INV.ENT cohort launches at IIT Bombay. A working file on the week the ministry rotated.

ePlane: Inside the IIT Madras Flying-Ambulance Lab

How Prof. Satya Chakravarthy turned a Chennai combustion lab into the country's first eVTOL company, and put a two-tonne prototype on the tarmac in the same week Apollo Hospitals signed on to fly patients in it.

Pradhan Resigns, Pralhad Joshi Takes the Education Ministry

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on 25 July 2026 amid NEET-UG paper-leak protests. Pralhad Joshi — the BJP MP from Dharwad, already carrying three portfolios — took additional charge on 26 July. He has no prior stint in a technical-education portfolio.

Aravind Srinivas: AIR 980, Missed IIT Madras CSE → Perplexity

Aravind Srinivas — Perplexity CEO, IIT Madras Electrical Engineering (2012-2017 dual degree) — took a $21B AI company from AIR ~980 in JEE Advanced to a $750M Microsoft Azure GPU deal in early 2026. Full profile: Chennai origins, IIT Madras years under Prof. Balaraman Ravindran (9 papers at ICLR/AAAI/NeurIPS as an undergrad), Berkeley PhD under Pieter Abbeel, internships at OpenAI/DeepMind/Google Brain, founding Perplexity in August 2022, going after Google out loud, and the Bezos + NVIDIA + Cristiano Ronaldo cap table.

IIT Roorkee Placements 2025-26: 436 Day 1 Offers

IIT Roorkee opened the 2025-26 placement season on 2 December 2025 with 436 offers on Day 1 (428 domestic + 8 international), naming NVIDIA, Qualcomm, D.E. Shaw, Google, Amazon and Texas Instruments among 14 Day 1 recruiters. The recovery matters because 2023-24's 79.66% placement rate (down from 98.54% in 2021-22) was flagged by a Parliamentary Standing Committee, and 2024-25 total offers dropped 21% while recruiter count dropped 37% year-on-year. Full 2025-26 salary numbers land after Phase 2 (May 2026).

IIT Hyderabad CSE Average Package: ₹40L for AI, CSE, M&C

IIT Hyderabad's AI, CSE and Mathematics & Computing branches together averaged around ₹40 lakh in Phase 1 of 2025-26, and CSE placed 83.05% of registered students; no CSE-only average is published. The full season averaged ₹24.06 LPA across all programmes (OCS brochure), with a ₹20 lakh median per the placement office, and the top offer was Edward Nathan Varghese's ₹2.5 crore Optiver PPO. How it compares with CSE at Guwahati and Madras.

IIT BHU CSE Average Package: Not Published; B.Tech ₹23.49L

IIT BHU publishes no CSE-only average or median. The closest official figures: a ₹23.49 LPA average for all B.Tech students in 2024-25 (92.33% B.Tech placement rate, ₹2.20 crore top offer from Databricks), and a ₹29.33 LPA institute-wide average in the 2025-26 opening week, with a ₹1.67 crore top offer from NK Securities Research, 1,005 offers by 5 December 2025 and 17 students at ₹1 crore+ on Day 1. How that compares with CSE at Guwahati and Madras.

IIT Madras Placements 2026: CSE Average Package ₹53.2 LPA

IIT Madras's official CPC report puts the B.Tech CSE average package at ₹53.2 LPA and the median at ₹46 LPA for 2024-25, up from a ₹37.5 LPA median in 2023-24. The institute publishes no overall average; its NIRF 2026 filing gives a ₹17.78 LPA median across all B.Tech graduates. Branch-wise medians, the ₹4.3 crore Jane Street ceiling, and why 2025-26 data isn't out yet.

IIT Week: JoSAA Round 5, a Nature Paper, an ISO 45001 First

IIT news for the week of 13-19 July 2026 across all 23 IITs: JoSAA Round 5 closed the 2026 IIT cycle, Sudha Murty received IIT Dharwad's first honorary doctorate, IIT Bhubaneswar co-authored a Nature Nanotechnology spintronic breakthrough, IIT Madras became first CFTI with ISO 45001, plus IIT Dhanbad nuclear symposium, IIT Palakkad convocation, IIT Gandhinagar SAMARTH ₹190 Cr semiconductor hub, and full round-block covering every IIT.

The $100k playbook: how Indians land US remote in 2026

JEE Advanced 2026: What Actually Worked, What Was Noise

The Week the Top-6 IIT CSE Froze — and Japan Joined BharatGen

JoSAA Rounds 3 & 4 freeze top-6 IIT CSE. Japan × India × BharatGen sign trilateral LLM MoU. IIT Delhi-Abu Dhabi opens UAE bootcamp. Renault picks IIT Kanpur wind tunnel. Vaishnaw floats AI Data Trust at IIT Hyderabad. Plus: new Careers Watch section tracking IIT-founded companies raising this week.

Techfest 2026 IIT Bombay: Dec 16–18, Registration, Prizes

The 30th edition of Asia's largest science and tech fest runs 16–18 December 2026. Live competition deadlines and prize pools, October zonal rounds, accommodation, the CES 2027 pathway, and what's still unannounced.

Bhavish Aggarwal: IIT Bombay to Ola, and the ₹57,000 Cr Fall

IIT Bombay 2008 CSE. Left Microsoft 2010. Built Ola. Ola Electric IPO Aug 2024 → briefly worth ₹21,000 crore → ~₹57,000 crore of shareholder value destroyed by July 2026. Krutrim's chip programme scrapped, Kruti AI pulled from stores. Three CEO roles, one founder, one honest read.

Mood Indigo 2026 IIT Bombay: Dec 21–24 Dates, Accommodation

Mood Indigo 2026, IIT Bombay's 56th edition, runs 21 to 24 December: four days, one more than 2025, and clear of Techfest (16 to 18 December). Registration is free and open, early-bird accommodation is ₹3,499 for a 20 to 25 December stay, and the Pronite line-up is unannounced.

Sridhar Vembu: IIT Madras to Zoho, Bootstrapped from Tenkasi

IIT Madras EE '89, JEE AIR 27, Princeton PhD, Padma Shri 2021. Vembu turned down the only VC term sheet Zoho ever saw, moved to a village in 2019, and this week is in Japan importing small-town SMBs to rural Tamil Nadu. Sourced profile with FY25 numbers and r/developersIndia critique.

IIT Kharagpur Placements 2025-26: 1,501 Offers, ₹2.44 Cr Top

IIT Kharagpur's 2025-26 Phase 1 delivered 1,501 offers, 457 PPOs, and a ₹2.44 crore top. Underneath: quant/AI premium widening, international offers stayed thin, IIT Bombay lapped KGP 78 to 25 last year. Sourced breakdown with NIRF median, r/iitkgp voice, and the honest Director quote.

Kharagpur's Platinum Class, Bombay Goes Nuclear, Delhi Flies

Seven of the 23 IITs made real news this week — Kharagpur's Platinum Jubilee convocation, Bombay's Nuclear Engineering programme, Delhi's Aerostat demo, IITM Pravartak's five-year mark, plus JoSAA Round 2 and four alumni-founder raises. What actually shipped between 29 June and 5 July.

JoSAA 2026 IIT Cutoffs: Opening & Closing Ranks by Branch

Round 5 published July 16 2026 — the final IIT allotment. Top-tier CSE closing ranks moved 0–7 ranks vs Round 4: IIT Bombay 67, Delhi 128, Madras 151, Kanpur 283, Kharagpur 509. Fee acceptance deadline July 20. Full Round 1 → Round 5 progression + all-23-IIT 2025 reference + no-IIT-spot-round advisory inside.

Deepinder Goyal: IIT Delhi Rank, Zomato → Eternal (2026)

The honest profile. Goyal took Zomato from a Bain canteen menu PDF to India's first ₹1 lakh crore consumer-tech IPO, then stepped down as Eternal CEO in February 2026. With sourced timeline, the IIT Delhi DAA record, and the r/indianstartups read on his last 6 months.

Sundar Pichai IIT Rank & Branch: Metallurgy, Kharagpur 1993

The honest profile. Sundar Pichai broke the IIT founder myth by becoming the highest-leverage operator in tech. Sourced timeline, KGPian voice, and the uncomfortable critique.

Which IIT is Best in 2026? QS World 2027 + NIRF 2025 Combined

QS says IIT Delhi. NIRF says IIT Madras. They use different methodologies and answer different questions. Cross-source breakdown of the Delhi-Bombay-Madras debate, with the honest "use which ranking when" guide.

IIT Rankings in QS World 2027: All 12 Indian IITs Ranked

QS World University Rankings 2027 (released 18 June 2026): IIT Delhi reclaims India #1 at world rank 118; 12 IITs in India's top 20; IIT Hyderabad jumps 76 places. Full per-IIT table + year-on-year change.

IIT Bombay Highest Package 2026: ₹1.48 Cr, Placement Report

IIT Bombay's highest package in 2025-26 was about ₹1.48 crore (Da Vinci, Day 1), as media-reported by Hindustan Times; the latest official figure is ₹3.67 crore from 2022-23. The 2024-25 report gives a ₹20 LPA median, ₹26.45 LPA average and a 69.7% placement rate.

IIT Delhi Packages 2026: ₹20 LPA Median, 1,275 Offers

IIT Delhi publishes median packages only, through NIRF: ₹20 LPA for B.Tech and ₹30 LPA for the 5-year dual degree (2024-25 graduates). For 2025-26, OCS released 1,275 offers, 1,140+ placed and 300+ PPOs by December 2025, and by policy no highest package.

IIT Kanpur Placements 2026: Phase 1 Numbers & NIRF Median

IIT Kanpur 2025–26 Phase 1: 1,202 offers, 1,079 accepted, 15 international from 250+ companies. Day 1 record of 672 offers (+16% YoY). What the SPO actually published vs the unofficial numbers circulating online.

IIT Crore Club 2026: Who Actually Got ₹1 Crore+ Offers

The highest IIT package on record is ₹4.3 crore (IIT Madras, Jane Street) — but that's one student. The honest, per-IIT crore-club for 2024-25, why almost every crore offer is international quant/CS, and the ~20x gap to the typical median.

IIT Rankings 2026: NIRF, QS & What Changed

The latest IIT rankings — NIRF 2025 and QS World 2026 — in one sourced table, plus why the 'best IIT' changes by list and what's new in 2025–26 (Abu Dhabi, Zanzibar, NIRF negative marking).

How to Prepare for IIT Placements: Year-by-Year Roadmap

The honest year-by-year roadmap to IIT placements — when the process actually runs, why the 3rd-year internship is the real lever, the CGPA filters that gate you, what companies test, and how much DSA is really enough.

IIT Founders: 10 Unicorn CEOs — IIT, Batch, What They Built

73 of India's first 100 unicorns had an IIT-alumnus founder — from Flipkart and Zomato to Razorpay and Sun Microsystems. The full sourced list, which IIT leads, and why the pedigree edge is shrinking.

IIT Academics 2026: CGPA, Branch Change & How to Survive

The IIT-specific academic reality JEE doesn't prepare you for — how the 10-point CGPA and relative grading really work, branch-change cutoffs (and why several IITs scrapped it), the 75% attendance gate, and how students actually cope.

IIT Hostel 2026-27: Is It Compulsory? AC Rooms, Mess Fees

What IIT hostel life actually costs and looks like in 2026 — per-IIT room types and fees, income-based fee waivers, the anti-ragging reality and helpline, and a fresher checklist built from real student advice.

IIT Research 2026: Quantum, Biotech, Space, Semiconductors

The IITs run a real deep-tech engine — a 3D-printed rocket engine, an indigenous space chip, Indic-language AI, Army drones. Who builds what, which IITs anchor India's quantum/AI/semiconductor missions, and where the research still trails.

IIT Fests 2026-27: Mood Indigo, Techfest, Thomso Dates

Every major IIT fest for the 2026-27 season in calendar order, with confirmed dates only where the fest has published them, and last edition's dates (linked) everywhere else.

IIT Highest Package 2026: Bombay, Madras, Delhi Compared

Highest and median packages for every major IIT, each labelled with its season and whether it is official or media-reported: Hyderabad ₹2.62 crore and Kharagpur ₹2.44 crore lead 2025-26, IIT Bombay's top offer was about ₹1.48 crore, and NIRF 2026 B.Tech medians run ₹17.78 to ₹21.70 lakh.

Our Story: How a Failed Course at IIT Jodhpur Became IITianVibes

The real, unpolished story of IITianVibes — how two co-founders stuck on campus after failing a course turned a broken Google-Form merch system into a brand serving IITs across India, and why we run it for the vibes.