mumbai raintreenotes from the campus the bimonthly magazine of the indian institute of technologybombay has won the association of commonwealth universities pr marketing and communications award 2010launched in april 2009 the magazine has been a common link for the iit community both present and past from a note on the fauna in the lawns to a story on barbers who cut hair of the likes of exinfosys head nandan nilekani raintreegoes beyond complex computer programs and mathematical problems that are discussed in the classrooms while the institute brings out a host of technical and research magazines raintree captures the vibrant life on the 550acre campus said damayanti bhattacharya ceo of iitb alumni association bhattacharya had written the first draft of the concept note for raintreeraintree has carved a niche for itself old boys too dont miss to pick up a copy jaya joshi the institutes pro who went to collect the award in australia said the best moment was when the international audience that reviewed raintree regarded it as a practice that should be adopted by other universities as well the aim was to create a publication that would reflect the evolving stature of the institutemohit sharma a civil engineering student said raintree promotes dialogue on campus it makes you reflect and look beyond the absolute immediate iitb is a contrived societypeople come here from all over and spend a short life cycle this place has its peculiarities and raintree chronicles that mishmasheighty one publications from 43 universities across 15 countries competed for the award alumni across the world rooted for the magazine we all started writing anecdotes of our life on campus for raintree and realized that we had a lot to tell it was then that we decided to come out with a book said bakul desai an alumni and contributor desai is referring to the recently released work madhouse true stories of the inmates of hostel 4