Indian Institute of Students

" T arget: The four metropolitan cities. Objective: To remove cable transmission and to introduce digital transmission. Deadline: October 31st, 2012. Switch to digital transmission or forget TV" All Indians who live in metropolitan cities- Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai- must have had heard this advertisement by the Ministry of Broadcasting, Govt. of India. The deadline of 31st October have passed away long ago and I, myself, have seen people, still using a cable connection. According to the government, using cable TV is illegal from November 1st, 2012. Those who have implemented Set-Top boxes in replacement of Cable Connection are now in doubt whether the government will change the decision and state that it is not mandatory to have one Set-top box to watch television. Even if the government does not cancel the plan- I bet that atleast 40% citizens of a metropolitan city will not be having Set Top boxes in their homes. And, we can't be blaming them. After all, ...

Hello guys! Time for merry making, Christmas is back again! And ho-ho-ho, it is the time for gifts to be distributed among all! Since we can't be personally visiting everyone, we decided this year, we'll be giving out free License keys of softwares! Please note that the companies have agreed to release the license keys, so it is legal. And so, why fear!  IIS India brings a compilation of serial keys to be given to you. We do not know whether these keys will be supported after Christmas, so use them now! Coming @ 1: uRex Videomark: A short description first.... Have you ever shared videos over the Internet or published them on a video sharing site such as YouTube? Did you worried that your videos may be unauthorized using and sharing? When people watching your videos, do you want to let viewers know the video source? You may need to add a watermark text/logo to your videos, for copyright protection and to prevent any other unauthorized use of your videos.  uRex ...

Hello guys! I was a bit busy for some days, so couldn't post. Finally I got the opportunity yesterday, so here is another post. In this post, I will be explaining you why you should be passionate about anything you do- anything means anything, ranging from cleaning your home to studying, etc. A quick example is that I, Dipankan, love to blog. And I'm passionate about it. I do not like to copy-paste like others, as each word comes from my mind. Being passionate is something which is very important. Consider you force a individual to write a piece of article about some kind of topic, which he/she, at that moment of time, does not like to do. Yet, you force him/her. It is not that the respective individual won't write anything, but only that it'll be written in a messy and haphazard way. One can clearly recognize that the person wasn't interested to do so. However, if the opposite happens, how would the scenario be? It'd be completely different from the f...

If you are a teacher, a staff, or a principal of any school, this article is for you. Students take leave for various reasons- fever, holiday picnic, etc. There are some students, who, in the name of these excuses do not attend school, and instead, doze at home. The IIS India team has compiled a list of 'Top 10 reasons Students use for being absent' for you. Don't worry students- there is something called "luck" that determines whether you get caught for using a fake reason! #10 : Let me start with the number 10. The number 10 is a 10 upon 10 if you judge the quality of the excuse, LOL. The reason is-" The last train/bus for reaching school had departed before I reached the station/bus stand " Seems a bit funny, right? Yes, it is. This is "just a bit popular" among students, so this becomes the #10 excuse! #9 : Next comes 9, after 10. The reason number 9 is increasingly becoming popular , as students get more creative and search f...

A couple of days ago when I was travelling in a bus, I happened to overhear a interesting conversation. A group of teenage boys who were contemplating upon a pair of shoes to buy and one of them made a funny observation that made me laugh. But what was rather interesting was the reaction of one of his friends. Instead of actually laughing out, he merely uttered "LOL". It was not the case that I did not know what LOL meant, but it's use and implementation in face to face conversation seemed a bit out of place and was rather awkward. Later in the day, when I was narrating the incident to my elder sister, she did not find anything weird in it as it was quite commonly used. It is an official word now, and it has even found it's place in the Oxford dictionary. When words such as OMG, LOL, and FYI were included in the Oxford dictionary, they sparked off controversies, with the language purists arguing that such words will dilute the English language. Those who compil...

I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely. When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me “garbage can” and telling me I’d be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students. I was threatened and beaten up for the color of my skin and my size. I was skinny and clumsy, and when others would tease me I didn’t run home crying, wondering why. I knew all too well. I was there to be antagonized. In sports I was laughed at. A spaz. I was pretty good at boxing but only because the rage that filled my every waking moment made me wild and unpredictable. I fought with some strange fury. The other boys thought I was crazy. I hated myself all the time. As stupid at it seems now, I wanted to talk like them, dress like them, carry mys...

Are you worried that the Earth ends in 21st December and you got little time to live? The short answer is "No". There is no reason whatsoever to believe that the world will end soon. It is likely to take place about 5 billion years from now when the Sun expands into a Red Giant, towards the end of its own lifetime. “The Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012! That’s when they predicted the world will end. It’s also when the planet Nibiru will crash into the Earth!”  I’m sure that many people have heard these claims. That facts are: (1) The Mayan calendar does NOT end on December 21, 2012. (2) The Mayans did NOT predict the end of the world, on that date or any other. (3) The planet Nibiru will NOT crash into the Earth on that date, because it simply does not exist, it's just made up.  If anyone thinks I’m wrong, then I’m willing to bet them 10,000 Rupees, which they can pay to me on December 22 when it’s obvious that these “predictions” are proven to be false.  ...