So my last article about minimum viability, to be precise the minimum viable Ragam was pretty well recieved of sorts, I got both positive and negative feedbacks about the same. My goal was to create a sense of responsibility and self ownership of matters into today's students / tomorrows' citizens's hands. Ig our colonial pasts have made us scared to take accountability / ownership of things to hand and the same is being enforced by all the traditional structures including family and educational institutions.
Anyways enough with the prologue. Let's jump into the matter. NITC "USED" to publish a magazine every year, and if my sources are correct ( take everything I say with a grain of salt ) The fee component still includes a charge for publishing the magazine. To the current students, have you ever seen the NITC Magazine. I just searched it up and afaik the last one to be ever publish was the 2021-22 one named Audacia under the then Chief Student Editor Uma Nalini Damodaran. So what happened after that ?? why did we stop publishing the magazine ? did we suddenly loose the skill to publish magazines from then ?? did we become suddenly incompetent ? and did anyone care ? and it's been 4 years now and as the 2025-26 academic year has also come to an end what is the status on this years magazine ?? It's painful to watch a death and death of what you love. I've never really had the chance to be part of any kinda magazine ever in my school / college life. I never was really good at writing, drawing or any other arts of any sort but I really love the idea of people bringing together their own unique artistic creations and collectively publishing it. I'm pretty social that way you could say.
So again coming back to the topic the question remains ? In which saviour are we keeping our hopes back on alive to get a magazine published. And if we can't publish one does it die down and we watch it helplessly as they die ?? I find no other act more gruesome than being helpless and watching this unfold. And yea yea cue drum roll... Let's Just have Minimum Viable Magazine ??
I'll be honest I wrote the Minimum Viable Ragam article for myself. To record how I feel about Ragam, and the threats of it's cancellation etc, in case of Magazine there ain't no threat no more. We had ( shots fired ) 4 useless batch of MagComs with nothing to show for ?? did they work throughout the year ? if they didn't why'd they end up joining into MagCom ?? if they did where thy shall find the fruits of thy labour ?? and yea, one of the major feedback I got with Minimum Viable Ragam was, It's easy to sit in a corner infront of your laptop and write about an utopian Ragam, you'd only know the pain and suffering if you do end up working towards conducting a Ragam. All fair.. I'm a big fan of Linus Torvalds and his quote,
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” — Linus Torvalds, August 2000
So similar to that, maybe it's time to
"Blog is Cheap. Show me Magazine ?"
So I hereby am inviting all artistic entries, But wait... now that I'm thinkin' How will this work ? Don't we need an editor ??? who's the Chief Student editor rn ?? Guess what, As they've killed the SAC and replaced it with it's evil twin SGB, they have ( I might be wrong again I'm just lazy to go check again but if I were to trust my memory ) got rid of the Chief Student Editor Post from the SAC. So yea... the MVM ie the Minimum Viable Magazine doesn't have an Editor. It's the Peoples' Magazine, and It is to be added to my other side project the Wiki for NITC. Oh I Love this project... wait no no no.. things I've loved deeply have found intricate ways to Fuck me over : ), I am proud of my wiki ??? hope that feelin' doesn't make "Force" wiki to lie to me constantly and sprint away from me. ( I'm getting sidetracked a lott here ).
So here's what you gotta do, We're gonna crowd source Articles, Poems, Sketches, Paintings, anything and everything that you can possibly think of, and put it onto the wiki how and why we're doing this. So spread the word and Follow up on NITC WIKI. And in this Minimum Viable Magazine, the People's one there won't be hierarchical structures telling
