Parth Shastri IIT Gandhinagar

Brainwaves to box office: IIT-Gandhinagar gets ticket to viewers’ minds

Published on October 5, 2022 AHMEDABAD: If the face of Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships, the minds of cinemagoers have floated legions of studies. But filmmakers have received such muddled insights that metaphors can be justifiably mixed: audiences' brains remain filmmakers' Achilles heel. However, this is where IIT-Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) makes a heroic entry … Continue reading Brainwaves to box office: IIT-Gandhinagar gets ticket to viewers’ minds

Parth Shastri IIT Gandhinagar

World class: Alumni funding nearly doubles at IIT-Gandhinagar in 3 years

Published on April 17, 2023 AHMEDABAD: Premier institutes in the city have been harnessing the power of their alumni to empower themselves to reach their full potential and boost the employability of their current students. At IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn), funding by alumni in three years - from 2019-20 to 2022-23 - nearly doubled from Rs … Continue reading World class: Alumni funding nearly doubles at IIT-Gandhinagar in 3 years

Parth Shastri IIM Ahmedabad

Southern Sunrise: IIM-Ahmedabad course to decode tsunami of South movies

Published on October 10, 2022 AHMEDABAD: The first instalment of Ponniyin Selvan (PS) released last week has already become the fifth highest grossing Indian movie of 2022 with a collection of Rs 346 crore, according to IMDb. In fact, out of top five highest grossing films of the year, blockbuster Brahmastra is the only exception … Continue reading Southern Sunrise: IIM-Ahmedabad course to decode tsunami of South movies

Parth Shastri IIM Ahmedabad

At 42%, ratio of non-engineers in IIM-A’s PGP batch at record high

Published on June 29, 2023 AHMEDABAD: The 2022-24 batch of the postgraduate programme in management — the flagship programme at IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A) — had 133 students who were not from engineering backgrounds. They have graduated from disciplines such as arts, commerce, science, management and so on. They had made up 33% of the batch. … Continue reading At 42%, ratio of non-engineers in IIM-A’s PGP batch at record high

Parth Shastri IIPH Gandhinagar

Malnourishment in Gujarat: Urban districts fared worse than tribal

Published on June 26, 2023 AHMEDABAD: The National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) results, which were out in 2022, had indicated that the state had 39.7% underweight children under five years of age, the second highest, whereas in stunting (less height compared to age) and wasting (less weight compared to age), the state ranked fourth and … Continue reading Malnourishment in Gujarat: Urban districts fared worse than tribal

Parth Shastri Environment, IIT Gandhinagar

‘Seawater brings wave of risks to Gujarat’

Published on August 1, 2022 Ahmedabad: A study carried out on the coast of Gujarat indicated that various heavy metals, salinity, nitrate, and carbonate/carbon trioxide can be found in both seawater and groundwater. The ecological risk index (ERI) was found to be higher for the study area compared to the areas focused on in Kerala … Continue reading ‘Seawater brings wave of risks to Gujarat’

Parth Shastri Health, PDPU

From soil and water into veggies: Heavy metals lace green produce

Published on August 5, 2022 Ahmedabad: The healthy serving of green, leafy vegetables like spinach and cabbage considered central for good health might be laced with harmful heavy metals from the soil in which it's grown and the water it's fed. A doctoral study 'Heavy Metals in Soil, Agricultural Product and in Groundwater from Industrially … Continue reading From soil and water into veggies: Heavy metals lace green produce

Parth Shastri NID

Students make cotton tango with tangalia

Published on August 5, 2022 Ahmedabad: Tangalia, the famed textile handicraft from Surendranagar, is undergoing a change with many traditional artisans using acrylic or other synthetic yarn for the fabric which is conventionally made from wool. Two students of textile design at National Institute of Design (NID) worked with the artisans recently and proposed cotton … Continue reading Students make cotton tango with tangalia