Cultural
Sanskrit Renaissance Society
Weekly recitation, Paninian grammar circles, Vedic chant practice.
Campus · District · Student Commons
The reason students remember college.
Three hundred and forty clubs. A weekly open mic where first-timers go up and live. Daily coffee matched with strangers who become friends. Twelve always-on virtual cafés you can drop into between classes. And the 2 AM arguments in the dorm circle that decide what you actually believe.
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Clubs directory
Browse three hundred-plus clubs by category. Joining is one click — the convenor messages you with the next meeting and a welcome note before the day ends.
Tech
Quantum Computing Club
Qiskit jams, paper readings, monthly hardware visit.
Arts
Bharatanatyam Circle
Adavus practice, abhinaya labs, end-of-term arangetram.
Academic
AI Safety Reading Group
Alignment papers, interpretability deep-dives, debate format.
Service
Climate Action Cell
Campus carbon audit, district plantation drives, policy advocacy.
Academic
Mathematics Olympiad Society
IMO-style problem sets, weekly mock contests.
Academic
Astronomy & Astrophysics Society
Star-party nights, telescope time at the rooftop dome.
Arts
Hindustani Classical Circle
Raga study, taanpura tuning, guest ustaad sessions.
Arts
Carnatic Vocal Ensemble
Kriti practice, varnam labs, kutcheri prep.
Sport
Football United
Inter-house league, fitness sessions, coaching for new joiners.
Sport
Chess Circle
Rapid + classical ladders, endgame study group.
Sport
Badminton Club
Doubles ladders, inter-college tournament prep.
Arts
Literary Society
Short-story workshop, poetry circle, magazine production.
Academic
Debating Union
Parliamentary format, weekly motions, inter-varsity circuit.
Arts
Theatre Collective
Script-writing, devised work, term-end production.
Cultural
Film Society
World cinema screenings, post-film discussions, short-film jams.
Arts
Photography Club
Dawn walks, darkroom evenings, monthly exhibitions.
Wellbeing
Mental Health Allies
Peer-listener training, awareness drives, support circles.
Wellbeing
Yoga & Asana Society
Hatha morning sessions, Iyengar workshops, breath labs.
Wellbeing
Vipassana Meditation Circle
Silent half-hour sittings, monthly weekend retreat.
Tech
Robotics Lab
ROS2 builds, manipulator arm projects, competition team.
Tech
Distributed Systems & Web3 Research
Consensus algorithm papers, ZK study group.
Tech
Biotech Makers
CRISPR primer labs, microfluidics tinkering, iGEM team.
Service
Tribal & Endangered Languages Project
Field recordings, oral-history archive, digitisation drive.
Service
Rural Schools Teaching Brigade
Weekend teaching trips to district government schools.
Affinity
First-Generation Students Network
Mentorship, career prep, parent communication workshops.
Affinity
Women in STEM Forum
Lab tours, mentorship pairing, research showcase.
Affinity
Queer Alliance
Safe-space socials, allyship training, policy advisory.
Affinity
Disability Justice Collective
Accessibility audits, advocacy, peer-support meetings.
Tech
Startup Circle
Founder talks, problem hackathons, demo nights.
Cultural
Sanskrit Debating Sabha
Shastrartha format, classical logic, weekly disputations.
Cultural
Folk Dance Ensemble
Bhangra, Garba, Lavani, North-East folk forms rotation.
Daily coffee matching
Opt in tonight, and by 9 AM tomorrow you'll be in a small chat with three random classmates — one from your year, two from elsewhere on campus. There's a quiet café reserved. Showing up is the only rule. 0 students opted in this week.
How matching works
At midnight a small program runs. It pairs students who opted in for the same slot — one from your year, two from outside. It tries to overlap on one interest only, so the rest of the conversation is discovery.
The café reserves a table under your group's matched name (a Sanskrit constellation — Kṛttikā, Rohiṇī, Mṛgaśīrṣa). You get a one-line message at 6 AM with the name, the table number and the three names you're meeting.
If two of three show up, the meeting counts. If only one shows up, the system tries again next week with a different group.
Open mic & film nights
The next two weeks on the Commons calendar. Open mic is every Tuesday and Saturday at the Banyan Court Stage; film nights rotate across two auditoriums. RSVP is optional but it reserves you a seat.
Sat
18 Jul
open mic
Open Mic — Poetry & Prose
cultural
Carnatic Kutcheri
cultural
Bharatanatyam Recital
Sun
19 Jul
open mic
Stand-up Night: First-timers welcome
Mon
20 Jul
open mic
Open Mic — Acoustic Music
Tue
21 Jul
cultural
Bharatanatyam Recital
open mic
Open Mic — Poetry & Prose
Wed
22 Jul
tech
Astronomy Star-party
open mic
Stand-up Night: First-timers welcome
film
Documentary Night: Climate
Thu
23 Jul
film
Film Night: Tarkovsky retrospective
Fri
24 Jul
tech
Quantum Hardware Lab Tour
cultural
Bharatanatyam Recital
Sat
25 Jul
film
Documentary Night: Climate
Sun
26 Jul
film
Film Festival Opening
film
Film Night: Tarkovsky retrospective
cultural
Carnatic Kutcheri
Mon
27 Jul
cultural
Hindustani Baithak
tech
Quantum Hardware Lab Tour
Tue
28 Jul
cultural
Sanskrit Recitation Evening
Wed
29 Jul
cultural
Carnatic Kutcheri
Thu
30 Jul
tech
Debate: Motion on AI Personhood
cultural
Hindustani Baithak
open mic
Stand-up Night: First-timers welcome
Fri
31 Jul
open mic
Open Mic — Storytelling
Virtual cafés
Always-on voice rooms. Drop in between lectures, study in the same audio space as a friend across the country, leave when you're done. No video. No chat clutter. Just the soundscape and the company.
Library Hush
Whisper-only audio. Pages turning, occasional sighs. For deep reading.
38 / 60 present63% full
Coffeehouse with Jazz
Soft bebop loop, cup clinks, group chatter under it. The classic café.
72 / 120 present60% full
Late-Night Code
Lo-fi, rain on a window, the click of keys. After-midnight focus.
124 / 200 present62% full
Morning Study
Birdsong, kettle whistle, soft pencil scratching. Sunrise hours only.
41 / 80 present51% full
Sanskrit Recitation
Distant chanting, temple-bell at the half-hour. Vedic study rhythm.
22 / 50 present44% full
Poetry Reading
A reader takes the room every twenty minutes. Listeners may sign up.
34 / 70 present49% full
Dorm circles
Twelve-person small groups that meet once a week for ninety minutes. Same twelve people, same room, every Tuesday. Half the time we read together — Aristotle, the Upanishads, a piece in The Atlantic. The other half is whatever the room wants to argue about.
Sign up for a circle
New circles form at the start of each term and run for ten weeks. You will be placed with eleven students who share a tower or a year-group but not a course. A faculty fellow opens the room with a five-minute reading and then steps back.
What a meeting looks like
Minutes 0 – 5. The faculty fellow reads aloud. Last week: a paragraph from The Republic on the well-ordered city. The week before: Bhagavad Gītā 2.47.
Minutes 5 – 25. Two students who signed up the prior week present a five-minute response each.
Minutes 25 – 75. The room argues. The fellow takes no side. The chairs are arranged in a circle so nobody is at the head.
Minutes 75 – 90. A closing round. Each person says one sentence the room will think about until next week. Tea and biscuits are served.
Attendance is not graded. If you miss two consecutive weeks you are messaged once, kindly. If you miss four, your seat is offered to the waitlist.
Buddy system
A buddy is one person assigned to you for your first term — usually a senior in a similar discipline, a first-generation student, or someone from your home region. They check in once a week, walk you to the registrar the first time, and answer the questions you're too embarrassed to ask in class.
Request a buddy
We match within seventy-two hours. If we cannot find someone who fits your preference within a week, we ask you to choose between waiting longer or accepting a partial match.
What buddies actually do
Week 1. One coffee. They tell you the three things they wish someone had told them in their first week.
Weeks 2 – 4. A weekly fifteen-minute check-in by text. They answer everything from "is this professor strict about deadlines" to "where do I get a chai at 1 AM".
Weeks 5 – 12. Twice-monthly check-ins. They show up at your first presentation and clap. They drag you to a club they think you'd love.
Beyond. Many buddy pairs stay close for years. Some end up co-founding things. Some end up at each other's weddings. Some end up arguing in the dorm circle on opposite sides. All of these are wins.