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SOMEONE ELSE WROTE THIS Understanding and Tackling Plagiarism

Chinmay Talegaonkar Nikhil Kumar Siddharth Brahmbhatt

In academia, the expression of ideas is considered intellectual property as long as they are recorded digitally or in books/journals. When a person presents someone else’s work as his/her own new idea, s/he commits plagiarism. Instead of the original source, s/he unjustifiably claims credit for the work. To put it bluntly, plagiarism is an act of fraud because it is intended to deceive the readers. Sometimes, students misinterpret it as ‘copying’ or ‘borrowing’ someone else’s ideas.

However, these are euphemisms for a much more serious offence.

In this article, we look into what constitutes plagiarism, why it should be avoided in the first place, and how to do so.

What constitutes plagiarism?

Works that have been published in the past are used constantly in ongoing research. They are analysed, criticised, praised with supporting arguments or used as supporting arguments in ongoing works. However, these ideas have to be properly credited to their authors. Otherwise, it is plagiarism.

Some common ways in which students commit plagiarism, intentionally or unintentionally, are -

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Fail to quote the source when copying a quotation from a source Inadequately paraphrase, i.e. change a few words but retain

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the sentence structure without giving credit to the source Fail to make clear distinction between someone else’s idea and your own Copy majority of some old paper with few minor inputs, with or without giving credit Inaccurately present a text such that it is taken out of context

How to avoid plagiarism Special care must be taken while using other’s ideas.

The rule of thumb that you must adhere to is citing sources properly. Whenever an idea is not your own, you should always credit the source whether you

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have quoted it or paraphrased it.

‘Cite as you write’ because you might forget to do so later and inadvertently pass off some ideas which are not your own as yours.

When a sentence or quotation is used verbatim in your work, the text should be quoted and the source cited right there.

When your idea draws heavily from an old text, it is easy to lose track of your own idea and those of your sources. It is better if you keep your own writing and your sources’ separate.

You must make clear what you have borrowed and what is genuinely your own work by citing the source each time an old text is used.

Avoid submissions that can be broadly sourced to an old idea and have only few additional inputs of your own.

Do not incorporate in your writing, ideas of others that you do not properly understand.

Confer with your instructor about your confusions and then represent those ideas accurately.

After submission, if you find that another source presents the same ideas as yours, do not dismiss it. It will be noticed by someone. Talk to your guide.

There are certain widely known facts and ideas which are considered common knowledge. Unique facts and ideas that have been formed

When you are assigned any academic work, you are expected to figure out what you think about something and not copy someone else’s thoughts.

as a result of an individual’s work aren’t. So, they have to be cited.

However, it is sometimes difficult to recognise what or what not to cite in academic writing. For example, that the molecular mass of water is 18 grams is common knowledge.

However, the different ways in which this can be calculated is not commonly known. It is generally safe to cite sources when you are not sure if something is commonly known.

Why should you care When you are assigned any academic work, you are expected to figure out what you think about something and not copy someone else’s thoughts. You are expected to analyse old ideas and develop

IIT Bombay provides students the facility to use turnitin account to assess the similarity index in their reports. your own. You contribute to an academic discussion only when you acknowledge what is truly your own work and what is not. When you provide a citation, you guide the readers of your work to old works that you have built on.

How to check for plagiarism There are many softwares that can be used to assess the similarity index of a report (in % terms).

It is upon the discretion of the instructor to assess whether or not something is plagiarised and to what extent. A commonly used tool is TurnitinOriginalityCheck.

Turnitin compares the contents of a submission against an archive of internet sources, publications, journals and student papers and

Acknowledging others’ work when we use them maintains the vibrancy of this community and incentivises our colleagues to reciprocate our faith in intellectual property rights. provides a similarity report which is a summary of matching or similar areas of text found. The Similarity Index generated is a pointer of how original is the submission. This is then used by the instructor to determine whether the submission is acceptable.

IIT Bombay provides students the facility to use turnitin account to assess the similarity index in their reports. To create and activate your turnitin account, write an email to journals@iitb.ac.in requesting the same. The mail should contain your First Name, Last name, Roll Number and gpo email ID. Within a day or two, the library creates and activates your account and replies with your turnitin user ID (gpo email ID) and password. Then you can simply login and access the tool.

We, as students, are a part of a global academic community which thrives on originality of ideas and the subsequent discussions that follow. Acknowledging others’ work when we use them maintains the vibrancy of this community and incentivises our colleagues to reciprocate our faith in intellectual property rights.

3 One could mistake the institute for a jungle, having met many of its inhabitant junglees. In this article we only refer to the ones that aren’t permitted to enter the lecture halls - the monkeys who steal undergarments from hostel clotheslines, cats that prowl under the tables in dining halls or the many strays that spend their afternoons sleeping while students trudge back to class. Being midway between urban Mumbai and the neighbouring National Park, it isn’t surprising that we live in close proximity to a number of animals both semi-domesticated and wild.

Interactions between residents on campus and animals aren’t always cordial. Packs of dogs are known to terrorize passing vehicles on the road and even students walking back alone at late night. Cows are even more irreverent as they charge about the campus. A recent incident involved a senior professor being knocked out of the way by a hungry cow going to lunch at a canteen bin. Both cows and dogs take water breaks by the coolers in hostels.

The incidents both comical and serious, happen almost everyday.

With the number of incoming students increasing, the conflicts are bound to multiply. How can the Institute keep offenders in check?

(Imagine main building issuing a raging bull a DAC. They’ve been proven ineffective against meeker varieties of our kind).

So what should be done in a situation of immediate threat?

The major situations students face include dog aggression, cow invasion and monkey attacks. In these cases the best idea is call up campus security. Even though QRT has an extension for emergencies related to snakes, there isn’t one for animal related emergencies. In case of injuries caused by animals

4 like scratches or bites, immediately consult a doctor towards taking tetanus and anti rabies shots if required.

However, packs of dogs barking, strays in the hostel and cow issues are the kind of problems that can only be handled in the long-term.

Various approaches to this include better hostel infrastructure, policies related to animals at the hostel and institute level and involvement of people working with animal welfare groups.

Professor Prita Pant, an active member of Animal Rescue group, says “On the cases where dogs and cows enter hostels and create problems for students, There have to be infrastructural changes, like putting up a barricade or mounting dustbins at a height to prevent such incidents.“ All hostels are grappling with this issue in hand and have set up various rules to counter the same. Hostel 10, tried an idea involving dog maids, ladies who are employed to shoo dogs away from inside the hostel.

Often hostels consider removing or relocating resident strays, however according to Animal Birth Control Rules, 2001, relocation of stray dogs that have been neutered is forbidden.

Animal abuse There are cases of animal abuse in the institute which are not taken seriously. Dogs and cows get injured by speeding vehicles and no action is taken to hold the culprits responsible. Although there are rules to prevent cruelty against animals, at present the institute lacks the necessary execution of these laws.

An idea was floated for every hostel to have a dedicated post to handle animal welfare and conflicts, which

could ensure more awareness amongst students.

Consistent Hostel level policy towards animals needs to be framed which can deal with animal related conflicts and also ensure that animals are not illtreated.

At the institute level, there are efforts towards controlling the dog population and minimising conflicts with humans. An Animal Rescue Group has around 70 members comprising of students, staff, professors and professional animal rescuers, who actively tend to animals on campus in their own capacity.

The ARG deals with : • Rescuing and treating injured stray animals • Feeding dogs across campus • Organising, neutering and vaccination drives for dogs Another group, called the Animal Welfare group deals with exhorting for animal related policies to be executed with the administration.

Funds allotted to this organisation were exhausted prematurely during the last year. In many cases, expenses are met by members personally.

The groups working on campus currently work under difficult constraints of money, time and volunteers.

Prof. Krishnan, member of ARG, highlighted a need for student volunteers who• Know laws related to animals and can help where needed • Understand animal behavior and ways to handle them • Are ready to act as mediators in cases of conflicts At present, very few students volunteers are active. Many hostels have no volunteers at all.

However, Prof. Krishnan, noting that IITB is very animal friendly and has opened up greatly towards animal needs over the last decade, adds, “Earlier everyone used to lament but no one really did anything. Now there are many people active, a lot of students come forward which is very heartening.”

Explaining more on ARG, Prof Krishnan adds, “Because of Whatsapp, people share responsibility over an injured animal which helps it not being heavy on one person. It also helps in acting quickly. There must be around 100 active volunteers, which is still less compared to the campus population, so we can have more interested people joining in. “ Many a times, we come across an injured animal and we do not know what needs to be done. Following are some numbers, which can come in handy in such situations. Till help arrives, it is recommended to keep an eye on the animal and give it water and note its behaviour.

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Prof. Jay 7045358337 Prof. Sumant Rao 9820303321 Cats, birds and snakes: Prof Krishnan 9930564242 We live in an interesting mix of greenery and wildlife and we should move towards living in harmony with the diversity of life seen in the campus, by trying our best to be considerate of animals and figuring out ways to solve issues keeping in mind their comfort as well.

As Prof. Prita puts it,“There are some common issues, which have to discussed and solved and the solution should not be to just throw away animals but to have empathy and solve in a constructive manner.

We should also think about the animals and co-exist with them.”

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(UN)SAIF

ANALYSING CHANGES IN POLICY Deep Tavker, Omkar Masurkar Recently an email was received on student notices in relation to “Sophisticated Analytical Instruments Facility, or “SAIF” facilities being chargeable for internal users thereon. We reached out to Prof. Anindya Datta (Head, SAIF) to understand the reasons behind this and provide better clarity. Following are the excerpts of the conversation.

SAIF, IIT Bombay houses a variety of major analytical instruments which are operated and maintained by a group of Scientists and Engineers. It operates with an “open access policy” so that all can benefit from the services of SAIF. Along with internal users, the facility is also available to external users who can register their samples via the online portal on the SAIF website.

During the Financial Year 2016-17, the facility analysed over 40 thousand samples with a user base of over 3500 users.

An MoU was signed between IIT Bombay and DST in 1979 which stated that the Institute will provide space, building and manpower whereas DST will provide funds for running expenditure and buying equipments. Every year a meeting is held with the representatives of DST and that is where the budget is decided.

Overview of instrument usage, the data normalized over a timeframe of 8 hours a day for all working days

Until now, SAIF was not charging internal users for using the facility. Earlier this year a draft of a fresh MoU was received from DST which said that internal users must be charged from now onwards.

According to the SAIF Annual Report, the internal revenue that can be generated is more than twice that of external revenue which is one of the reasons why DST has been insisting on charging the internal users since quite some time.

In the last meeting, the DST representatives had mentioned that DST wants to put more funds into buying equipments rather than operational costs, and hence insisted that SAIF generate more revenue to take care of the maintenance costs. The revised policy sets the charges for academic purposes to one-fifth (1/5th) that of industry charges and above that, internal academic users will have to pay only one-tenth (1/10th) that of Industry charges.

However, those who are heavily dependent on SAIF facilities might have to go an extra mile in order to arrange the required funds to continue using these facilities.

Following is the department wise total internal charges for the period 01-Apr-2016 to 31st-March-2016

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A HOSTEL ENVIRONMENT

EXPLORING UPCOMING HOSTELS IN THE INSTITUTE Karan Nikam, Siddhanth Reddy

With the construction of Hostel 18 having begun, we take a look at the status and the future of accommodation inside the campus.

There is a dire need for construction of new hostels

At present the institute is not prepared to house all the students enrolled in the campus. There is a shortage for about 2500 students who need to be accommodated.

This number is high mostly due to the increased student intake.

Each of Hostel 1 to Hostel 9 can accommodate only upto 280-300 students. There is thus a critical need to meet the requirements of increased student intake with the construction of multistoreyed hostels. The shortfall of infrastructure which has been increasing until now, can be only stabilised by constructing more hostels.

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going on currently with an expected budget of 80 crores which could go up to 82 crores.The construction of Hostel 18, behind Hostel 9 and Tansa House, began in March and according to the Prof. Viswanadham, the Dean IPS it could take 18 to 24 months for its completion. Hostel 17 has been planned to be built between Hostels 7 and 14. A wing of Hostel 7 would have to be cleared for its construction.There are also plans to build additional rooms in Hostel 12,13 and 14 in the empty space in the ground floor area.

The occupants of Hostel 18 are going to be both male and female, like Hostels 15 & 16. International students are also going to be staying in these hostels.

Whats’s new about the new hostels The new hostels will be having slightly larger rooms and they are to be comfortable for double occupancy. Hostel 18 is g+9(ground floor+9) with 1100 rooms.The hostels would have physically-

disabled friendly toilets. There would be loss of trees but some trees have been transplanted. The new hostels would have a rainwater collecting facility and a biogas plant.

Upgradation of Hostels and Hostel for married scholars The upgradation of Hostel 1 has been completed and that of Hostel 4 has been approved, with construction beginning once funds are allocated. Plans are also ready for a hostel for married couples, with the Dean IPS stating that there is a good chance that the government will allocate infrastructure funds once things materialise. The wait list for accommodation of married students is high, and the process to receive funds for the construction is currently ongoing.

Conclusion

The current status of accommodation is not good enough but with the construction of Hostel 18, there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel.

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Insight in Hindsight

copies were sent out, deadlines met, and so on, due to his experience with putting together an organisation which would be financially viable and attractive. As the Chief Editor, Ullal would be the literary head and handle the content and research for the articles- effectively, the journalism side.

A LOOK BACK AT TWENTY YEARS OF JOURNALISM Pranjali Gupta As the campus student media body, Insight’s existence is rarely pondered over or questioned for most of us, it’s just been there for as long as we can remember.

However, like any self-respecting insti establishment, Insight too was once just an idea in the minds of a few enthu seniors, built from the ground up by the enviable skill of mobilizing freshies and sophies through the power of senti. As Insight steps out of its 20th year, let’s go back and see how it all started out.

The Beginning - 1998-99 Starting out Looking back at IIT Bombay’s history, the late 90s were quite an exciting time. 1998, in particular, marked a number of beginnings.“‘98 was also the year IIT Bombay broke from the pack, and the IIT hierarchy started flipping - leading students started coming here. It was quite an exciting time for all of us on campus.

“Things were changing, and a lot of our crazier ideas actually started looking possible”, recalls Amit Sinha, Founding Executive Editor, Insight, 1998-99. Sinha had also been PR Manager in the founding Techfest team, headed by Vivek Singhal, the then GSAA, and Mayank Goyal.

Following its success, they felt the need of a public forum where issues could be discussed and ideas

presented. It was this need that led the trio, along with Chaitanya Ullal (Founding Chief Editor, Insight, 1998-99) and the then GS Cult, Mokshay Madiman, to come up with the notion of a student run media body - a notion that finally manifested as Insight.

They decided to model Insight after a newspaper as opposed to a magazine, aiming for an uncensored unbiased publication, independent from the institute. And it was felt that wide-scale participation of freshies was a must. As it happened, Hostels 2 and 3 were the “freshie hostels” back then, and with Sinha being the General Secretary of Hostel 2, it was a natural progression for it become an unofficial HQ of sorts.

The freshmen became the onground team, running around for distribution and ad sales.

The team quickly realised that they would need their own funds, which they decided to raise via ad sales. Insight collected most of its money via sponsored ads from local shops like campus bookshops and restaurants, and even companies coming for placement. In fact, they even managed an ad deal with Amazon courtesy Rakesh Mathur, who had just sold Junglee to Amazon.

However, putting together an actual master copy proved to be an unexpected challenge. Layout and design softwares like PS and Coral were too expensive for the near non-existent budget - so the team decided to use what they had, which was Microsoft Word. And sitting in Sinha’s room - Room 151, Hostel 2 - Sinha, Ullal, Aditya Rustgi and the rest of the first core team put the first copy of Insight together by hand. The articles were written in Word to the column size of the newspaper, and printed. Headlines were written and cut separately.

As with all things in insti, the setting up of Insight involved countless meetings and brainstorming sessions. An editorial team of sorts was consolidated under Ullal, consisting of a team of reporters as well as people in charge of finance, distribution, and so on. Ullal and Sinha decided on a division of labour based on their strengths and diverse backgrounds: as the Executive Editor, Sinha would handle the on ground work made sure the paper was published,

• Issue 1.4 with the distinct CamelCase

8 The layout was then done on a blank white A2 sheet of paper, which each column being painstakingly cut and pasted.

Then came the task of distribution.

Ullal and Sinha decided to price the paper at Rs 2 a copy, with the first issue free, sponsored by ad spaces, feeling that this would ensure that no one else had editorial control and they had no financial obligation.

Wanting to make an impact, and being uncertain about the reception and potential backlash, the team kept their initiative a secret, and the first issue was launched in stealth in the November of 1998, with the date and other details being heavily guarded. Distributed by freshies outside every hostel and faculty residence in the near dead of the night and early morning, the first issue caused quite a stir, with the header “InsIghT” - one Prof. S.P. Arun had come up with, with the “IIT” highlighted - emblazoned boldly across the top, followed by “the iitb fortnightly” and “A YPoint Press Club Publication”.

Looking back at that first year, both the founding editors were in solid agreement on a single point - “We didn’t know if we’d survive beyond our first year”. “The first publication had been a complete leap of faith - we weren’t sure how it would be received,” remembers Ullal. The overall positive reception coupled with the enthusiasm for following issues was met with both excitement and trepidation by the team, as they were in uncharted territory - the last student run publication IIT Bombay had had, a student magazine called Pragati, had been shut down in 1980 following its coverage of the student protest that had taken place at the time, making theirs the first attempt at a large scale completely student run publication since then. The support

from the then DoSA, Prof. Dipan Ghosh (Dean of Student Affairs, 1995-98), as well as his successor, Prof. R.K. Shevgaonkar (Dean of Student Affairs, 1998-2000) played large part in Insight’s success and continued existence.

That first year brought with it many challenges, triumphs and learning experiences. With just 2 weeks between issues, they had to work out an editorial calendar, decide topics, handle layouts and fresh content with near zero journalistic experience, establish deadlines - keeping in mind that they would rarely, if ever, be met and so on. With freshmen handling distribution and ad sales, and various section heads whom Sinha and Ullal had personally recruited, a team structure was in place, which carried on and evolved in the following years.

Passing Insight to the next generation, Sinha and Ullal recruited Tathagata Mitra and Srikant Nandagiri (both previous members of the Techfest-2 team) to be the next Chief and Executive Editors respectively, and the four of them together recruited the next core team.

Early Years - 1999-2003 Settling In The next few years saw their fair (and expected) amount of changes as Insight settled into its role as the official student media body on campus. “After the first 2, maybe

3 sems, we managed institute funding, and a major reason was Prof. Shevgaonkar, who was DoSA then. He was a huge support.” recalls Gadia, who stayed a part of the core team till his graduation. He remembers moving to layouts when the ad sales were no longer needed, “We [the layouts team] used to pull 3 nightouts like, every 15 days, to try and publish on time. It was completely new to us in the beginning, but we picked it up along the way.”

The fortnightly structure that the first team had aimed for was another challenge, since they had to come up with 8 pages of content every 2 weeks. “Keeping it regular took quite a lot of effort. Mitra and Nandgiri had, in a sense, been brought in from the outside, as most of the core team and section heads then had been students in their final year. Thus, they had to pick up the working mostly on the job-which was one of the reasons they made sure to choose their successors and the next team earlier, to ensure they would experience the process behind an issue before they took over.

When Saurabh Panjwani and Ashish Goel took over as Chief and Executive Editors in 2001, they decided to aim for 8 editions a year, making Insight a monthly, since this let them have longer print issues and cover their topics with more depth. Thus, by 2002, Insight had shifted to outside printing, with the

• The 2003 issue with the changed Insight logo

9 YPoint Press Club going defunct, and since it was institute funded and no longer had advertisements.

In the next academic year, as a result of student representatives’ demonstration and further negotiation with the administration, the then DoSA decreed that the Insight Chief Editors too should be elected by the general student population as the G.Secs were.

The Insight team and the G.Secs were all heavily opposed to this, despite the sometimes antagonistic relationship they shared. The DoSA and the administration finally relented, agreeing not to insist on a general election for the next Chief Editors. Instead, it was decided that from then on, Insight would have Faculty Advisors, who would represent them in the faculty, oversee the working and have a part in the selection process for the Chief Editors from the following year.

the Chief Editors still having to do a lot of the content related work for the print issues. At the beginning of the 2006-07 tenure, the then Chief and Executive Editors, Krishna Ramkumar and Nishant Patni did away with the editorial board, feeling that the structure had become too flat and stagnant. Instead, they worked with the entire team as the Execution Panel, often coupling senior members with younger enthusiastic members of the team for articles. So while formally there was no division of the team into Ed Boards and the like, informally, the people on board had a clear view of their coverage areas. The next few years saw the print issues stepping up, with coverage pieces for GC events and results, leisure columns,

as well as guest pieces from faculty members on various subjects.

Insight went fully colour in 2009.

Before this, a single page in the issue, usually an MI/PAF review or the leisure page would be in colour, with the rest following its blackand-white newspaper like pattern.

Mohit Sharma, 2009-10’s Chief Editor, recalls how it happened “I remember Aishwarya (Chief Executive Editor, 09-10) came up to me one day in August after class, and he tells me - “I’ve changed the black of our issue to a sexy blue”.

And this was right before he’d sent the order for printing. I had my heart in my mouth, but it turned out to be a great move away from the monotony of black and white.”

That wasn’t all that changed that year. With the internet catching on, the institute was becoming equipped with widespread connectivity, and the hostels were outfitted with functional computer rooms. Thus, Singh and Sancheti decided to focus on the web aspect as well, and started putting up digital copies of print issues on the website. They also changed the logo and the layout of the issues, with the creation of a standard template for a more streamlined and consistent feel to the print issues and experiments with sections of colour in the previously monochrome issues.

Later Years- 2004-2012 Evolving and Changing While the editorial board was an informal concept by then, it wasn’t formalised until 2004. However, as a set structure had not been decided on during this formalisation, this first attempt at having a board wasn’t too successful, resulting in

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10 A major focus of the coming years was the gradual revamp and expansion of the website in particular and web-based content in general, which picked up momentum by 2010. This was consistent with the exponentially growing popularity of the web.

The website as a whole shifted to an independent domain in 2011 from the gymkhana page it had previously resided on. The newly re-done website served as a regular point of contact for the readers, and a platform for the growing scale of web articles and content which by then had become norm.

Despite the board being only in its first year of functioning, the board members’ responsibilities were taken very seriously in 2011-2012, and half of the members were in fact removed from their positions and replaced by newcomers in the second semester of that year!

The 2011-12 period, which had Ayush Baheti and Archit Kejriwal at the helm, saw a number of milestones that had been in progress become a reality. The first of these was the (re)establishment of the Editorial Board as a formal structure. The problems faced by the outgoing team with the existing structure resulted in Baheti and Kejriwal deciding to establish a structured second layer of hierarchy, formally the Editorial Board. As they had no model to base it on, the details of this body, such as the number of members and their seniority, their functions and the criteria for selection, were decided in consultation with the outgoing Editors and the former team. Thus, the first official Editorial Board comprising of 8 members was established.

A major milestone that took place was the official inclusion of Insight in the SGEC in April 2012, owing to the revamp of the SAC constitution, and the agreement of the then Dosa, Prof. Yajnik. The increased focus on web content, design and layout led to the introduction of the Insight Web Nominee and the Design Nominee as official gymkhana posts. This chain of events also resulted in the addition of the Institute Journalism Awards to the Student’s Gymkhana Awards in 2013.

That year also saw the formation of Insight’s video arm, the IIT Bombay Broadcasting Channel, or IIT-BBC. In 2011, the idea for a collaboration between Insight and the Institute Cultural Council for the creation of an official video channel for relevant and quality video content was broached. The then Chief Editors, Ayush Baheti and Archit Kejriwal, collaborated with the Institute Film and Media Secretary, Poorna Chandra, decided on a system for its working: the cultural council would provide the equipment, resources and videoediting skills, with Insight providing the content and the platform.

Like any newly-formed body, most of BBC’s first year was a struggle to figure out its working, and the focus was to get out as much video content as possible. By the second

semester of that year, BBC had its first set of conveners. Over the next 2 years, BBC came to be structured like other institute bodies, and moved away from solely coveragebased content to include high quality interviews, video journalism pieces, satire based content and vox populis.]

Then to Now - 2013-present The following years saw Insight expanding its presence and reach, as well as growing to incorporate specialised additional content for their versatile audience. This included the launch of the Freshman Newsletter for undergraduates and Fresh! for postgraduates, collaboration with various academic department councils resulting in the release of a number of Department Newsletters such as Lift Off (Aerospace) and Dhatuki (Meta). Insight also launched it’s official datablog, Datagiri, in 2015, and the Insight Discussion Forum (IDF) on Facebook in 2016, reflecting the shift in trend from the earlier preferred Google group.

While the past 19 years of its existence have seen Insight change to reflect the shifting times, the spirit it was founded in remains the same to this day, and will no doubt continue to do so as its voice grows louder.

• The launch of the IIT-BBC

EDITORS’ NOTE Hey, Our tenure as Insight Chief Editors has been a whirlwind of emotions. It was our goal to have some impact on your lives through journalism, and it is striving towards that goal that we present to you this print issue. This is later than when we had planned to release it, but we hope you guys appreciate the issue.

We have tried to cover a variety of topics this time around, focussing on the construction of new hostels coming up, the topical issue of animals in the institute, and highlighting the problem of plagiarism. Since we are currently in the 20th tenure of Insight, we also bring to you an account of Insight through the ages - from its inception to where it is now.

Do send us your feedback on this print edition. You can email us at insight@iitb.ac.in, ping us on Facebook, or post on the Insight Discussion Forum.

Regards Chintan & Rishabh Chief Editors

Chief Editors Chintan Savla Rishabh Israni Editorial Board: Abhay Vikram Amruta Rokade Anuj Agarwal Aparajeya Dash

Chinmay Talegaonkar Deep Tavker Karan Nikam Madhur Maheshwari Nikhil Kumar Omkar Masurkar Rohan Jhunjha Shivam Sharma Shrey Gadiya

Siddhanth Reddy Siddharth Brahmbhatt Toshi Parmar Vishvesh VSK Design: Parimal Chahande Sanjeet Sahoo