How Well Do You Know Your Alma Mater?
Dear Readers, We had started this Quiz series in the first volume of Kattangal Chimes, dt. October 2025.https://kattangalchimes.in/how-well-do-you-know-your-alma-mater/ There were no clear winners for the last edition of the quiz. So you can continue sending your answers to submissionsnitcaa@gmail.com. Now here are the questions for this volume. In which year was REC Calicut affiliated to […]
Day 1 at NITC : The Launchpad of Life
The Launchpad of Life: Why Day One in College is the Only Time to Forge an Entrepreneurial Mindset Aseem Panoli (2016) The moment a student steps onto the revered campus of an institution like NIT Calicut, they enter an ecosystem brimming with potential. This transition is not merely an academic shift; it is an unparalleled […]
Arunachal – The Land of Dawnlit Mountains
Wg Cdr M Mohandas (1984)
Industry 5.0: A Start-Up Roadmap Part (II)
Part I of this article was published in Volume 1 of Kattangal Chimes, dt. October 2025. Read it here: https://kattangalchimes.in/ind-5-0-a-start-up-roadmap-kallol-roy/ Kallol Roy (1984) Reaching out to our gen-next once again—for those in College or those who would have completed a few years back—consider deep-tech start-ups in core-engineering—those which will offer solutions for both industrial […]
Practice of Relativity
(This is a sequel to the short story ‘Relative Frequency’ written by Chandra Shekhar (1985), published in Volume 1 (October 2025) of Kattangal Chimes. If you haven’t read it already, please follow the link https://kattangalchimes.in/relative-frequency ) Rema Premnath (1985) Jim was gone for almost a month now. He was keeping me posted almost daily about […]
The Grand Reunion
Nanu T (1975) Our 1975 batch celebrated its Golden Jubilee from 14th to 17th November 2025. I wrote the following lines to capture the spirit of our reunion—its memories, nostalgia, enduring friendships, and heartfelt sentiments—and shared them during the evening program on the 15th.”………………………….Yes,The Grand Reunion(A Journey Back to Where It All Began)With humble hearts, […]
Augmented Reality Sandbox
Sunil Kumar R (1985)
A Flashback….
Achyuth Kumar (1979) As one goes back memory lane, we remember with gratitude the contributions made by our college staff (teaching and non-teaching) in enhancing our knowledge and in many cases, moulding our future. But there have been quite a few others, who have, albeit indirectly, contributed a lot to our well-being and making our […]
UFO
Jayaraman C (1985) It was my first flight to the place that had filled my childhood fantasies with stories of love, wisdom, and passion. The Arabian Nights still haunts me. My friends had cautioned me: “If you are seated near any woman, especially in purdah, please change your seat.” They gave me many such warnings: […]
Cycling : Moving Meditation
Nixon Xavier (1990) If life ever gave me a chance to go back to REC Calicut — to those red-tiled hostels, the smell of rain on Kattangal roads, and the wide open fields where we once learned who we were — I know exactly what I would do first. I would start a cycling club. Back […]