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Gargi College held its Students’ Union elections for the upcoming academic year on Tuesday, 7th April. Applications were invited for various posts in the month of March, but many posts remained unopposed, due to which the elections which were to be held in the previous week were postponed. The Big Fight, which is a platform where the shortlisted candidates read their agendas to justify their candidature, was conducted on Monday, 6th April.

The candidates were busy campaigning and discussing their agendas with the students for a week. The campaigning officially started from 30th March with the announcement of names of shortlisted candidates. On the voting day, the polling booths were open at 9:30am and were shut at 1:30pm.

The results were declared on the same day at 3:30pm. Juhi Chadha, the newly elected College President, said, “It’s not my victory alone, it’s the students who have won as they are the real decision makers. The whole election process led to the interactions with students from almost all courses, building new relationships and getting insight into various student problems which I’ll try my best to find solutions to, with the help of my union.”

The newly elected Students’ Union has the following students as position holders:

President: Juhi Chadha
General Secretary: Shreya Singh
Cultural Secretary: Arushi Pandey
Vice President (Arts):Onam Bhatia
Vice President (Commerce): Shraddha Nuwal
Vice President (Science): Tammineni Ramya
Public Relations Officer: Vatsala Bhutani
Treasurer: Vinita Negi
Sports President:Tanushri Khandelwal
Sports Captain (Arts): Komal
Sports Captain (Commerce): Stuti Uppal
Sports Captain (Science): Sneh Kunwar
Proctor (Arts): Aayushi Mongia
Proctor (Commerce): Sugandha Agarwal
Proctor (Science):Jayatee Kanwar

Congratulations to the newly elected Students’ Union from DU Beat!

Image credits: Shaily Sharma

st June to 12th June 2015 in collaboration with Lady Shri Ram College for Women and Think Education. Students will be taught by King’s College’s academicians – Dr. Roberto Roccu and Dr. Diana Bozhilova. King’s College offers its Summer School courses in Mumbai as well. The Delhi Summer School 2015 will be conducted over two sessions. Session one will host a course in International Political Economy whereas an International Relations course will be conducted in the second session. These courses are open for students across the country who’ll need to register online and submit their application through a 7-step application process. The course fee for each of the courses is Rs.25000. Optional accommodation facility is available for outstation students. The last date for submission of applications is 30th April. Candidates will be shortlisted on a first come first served basis. Sahil Grover, a student who opted International Political Economy last year shares his experience. “My experience was nothing short of brilliant. I got to learn how politics and economics reinforce each other. The interactive teaching style which encouraged us to question the conventional wisdom went a long way in getting the nuances of such a complex and interlinked field of study,” he said. For further information, visit www.kcl.ac.uk/kingscomestoyou   Image credits: Manav Kohli  ]]>

Reverie 2015, the annual cultural festival of Gargi College commenced on Wednesday, 11th February. With a host of cultural activities and performances by Kenneth Sebastian, Anushka Manchanda and Kanan Gill, the fest had something for everyone! Take a look at all that happened in Reverie 2015 here!

 

Day 1: Inauguration, Stage play and Choreo 

Reverie 2015, the annual cultural festival of Gargi College commenced on Wednesday, 11th February.  The inaugural ceremony started at 10 am with Dr. Shashi Tyagi, Principal of Gargi College lighting the lamp. Dr. Tyagi gave the welcome address and spoke of the theme of this year’s fest; Labyrinth of Life.

Later that day, Upstage-the Dramatics Society of Gargi College organised Nivacanna. The event started with Dyal Singh College’s ‘Haath ka aaya shunya’ directed by Akash Hingorani. The last performance by SRCC won them the first prize with Vishnu Sinha from the same college adjudged as the best actor. The award for the best direction went to Ramjas College who were also the runners up. The third prize was bagged by Dyal Singh College.

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the choreography competition was conducted by Sparx, the choreography society of Gargi College. Spectrum by Sparx, Gargi College and Live us alone by the Choreography Society of LSR shared the first position while Swadesh Anuraag by Adagio, Kamala Nehru College was the runners up.


Day 2: Indian Classical Solo Dance, Street Play and a performance by Kanan Gill and Kenneth Sebastian

Day 2 of Reverie commenced with Mudra, the Indian Classical Solo Dance Competition organised by Nazaakat, the Indian Dance Society. The event witnessed the main stage being taken over by exceptional classical dancers whose meticulous moves and vibrant expressions won the audience over.

Aabhaas, the Street Play competition organized by Kshitij, the Street Play society saw enthusiastic participation by numerous colleges of Delhi University. Covering numerous themes, every street play highlighted a different situation influencing the society at large.

 


The surprise element of Reverie 2015, the stand-up comedy performances Kanan Gill and Kenneth Sebastian, saw the crowd of Gargi College going into frenzy just to witness the event. Taking over the stage first, Kanan Gill was welcomed with an uproar of applause.

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Furthermore, Kanan welcomed Kenneth Sebastian on stage who’s well-known amongst the younger generation for his stand-up comedy and musical performances. The performance lasted for about an hour and a half and ended on a note of massive appreciation and exuberance on behalf of the students and staff of Gargi College.

Day 3: Western Group Songs and Anushka Manchanda’s performance

The Western Music Society of Gargi College, Euphony conducted a Western Group Song competition on 13th February.

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Lady Shri Ram College bagged the first position, followed by St. Stephen’s College. The third prize was shared by Kirori Mal and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies. As the sun reached closer to the horizon, a huge crowd could be seen flocking towards the Main Stage where the star attraction of Reverie 2015, Anushka Manchanda, was scheduled to perform. Punctually, Anushka Manchanda took over the stage as the last streaks of sunlight faded. Beginning with evergreen tunes of Hamma Hamma, she moved on to her all time favourites which included the title song of Dil Chahta hai and the hit 90’s song Ole Ole.

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The thumping drum beats of one of the most favourite songs of all Indians, ‘Ishq Tera Tadpaave’ with the added touch of fireworks in the sky proved to be the perfect culmination to the three day event. Reverie 2015 ended on a note of contentment as the collective efforts of all the members involved all through these days paid off well!


Written by- Arushi Pathak, Brij Mohan Pahwa, Shaily Sharma, Sudisha Mishra

Picture Credits: Chirag Sharma, Mugdha, Bharat Mohindru, Shaily Sharma

 

Upstage-The Dramatics Society of Gargi College organised ‘Nivacanna’ during their ongoing college fest, Reverie. The judges for the event were Mohua Choudhary, Delhi-based Green Room theatre artist, Mr. Anjan Kanjilal, Director in contemporary Indian theatre.

The event started at 11:30 in the morning with Dyal Singh College’s ‘Haath ka aaya shunya’ directed by Akash Hingorani being the first performance. Dyal Singh’s performance was followed by Ramjas College’s ‘The Open Couple’; their production was directed by Isha Tiwari and Dhruv Sirohi.

The third production in line was ‘Smell of Lemons’ directed by Mayanka Muherjee presented by the Dramatics Society of Lady Shri Ram College for Women.  The last performance by SRCC won them the first prize with Vishnu Sinha from the same college adjudged as the best actor. The award for the best direction went to Ramjas College who were also the runners up. The third prize was bagged by Dyal Singh College.

Mr. Kanjilal, one of the judges of the event said, “The event was pretty well organised with college societies coming out with another round of new scripts. There were some technical errors though but those were compensated by the enthralling screenplays.”

Cursive-iti the choreography competition was conducted by Sparx, the choreography society of Gargi College. The event commenced at 7pm in the college auditorium which was jam-packed with the audience.

The judges for the competition were Ragini Bhajanka- Choreographer at Dance Works, Meghna Bhardwaj, Choreographer at Dance Works and Dr. Meghna Bhardwaj, Teacher Convenor of Sparx. The event saw a participation of seven teams including Adagio- Kamala Nehru College, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Sparx- Gargi College, Nritya- Sri Venkateswara College, Sensation- Kirori Mal College, Terpsichoreon- Hansraj College and Srijya- Hindu College.

‘Spectrum’ by Sparx, Gargi College and ‘Live us alone’ by the Choreography Society of LSR shared the first position while Swadesh Anuraag by Adagio, Kamala Nehru College was the runners up. “Sticking to what they want to do and dance standards going up year by year, teams have worked hard and their hard work is very much visible from their performances.” said Ragini Bhajanka, one of the judges.

Picture Credits: Bharat Mohindru

Reverie 2015, the annual cultural festival of Gargi College commenced on Wednesday, 11th February.  The inaugural ceremony started at 10 am with Dr. Shashi Tyagi, Principal of Gargi College lighting the lamp. Dr. Tyagi gave the welcome address and spoke of the theme of this year’s fest; Labyrinth of Life. Following which Jayapriya Nair, the Cultural Secretary told the meaning of Reverie and introduced the plethora of events totaling a count of 30 for all the three days of the fest.

The dancers associated with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) performed various traditional folk dance performances on Ganesh Vandana and other folk songs including the famous Bollywood song Bhoomro. They presented various folk dance forms including Garhwali, Kashimiri folk dance- Rouf, Hafiza and Himanchali folk dance and their different interpretations.

The inaugural ceremony came to an end with the Garhwali folk dance performance by their team.

Various competitions including English Turncoat, Dramatics, Indian Music, India Quiz and Hindi Creative Writing started after the inaugural ceremony. English Turncoat conducted by Q.E.D. – the English Debating Society saw a participation of 12 students.

The judges for the event were Dr. Meenakshi Sood, an alumna of Gargi College and Dr. Chhaya Sahney, Assosciate Professor, Gargi College. The first position was bagged by Sumedha Uppal from Maharaja Agrasen College. Akshan Rawat and Soumya Verma held the second and third position respectively.

Paper Cutting competition was held by Hues, the Fine Arts Society. The winners for this event are Parisha Gupta for the first position, Shreoshi Das and Harshita for the second and third positions respectively.

Winner’s Tally:

English turncoat debate:

1st position- Sumedha Uppal,Maharaja Agrasen College

2nd position-Akshan Rawat, Maharaja Agrasen College,

3rd position- Soumya Verma, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College

 

Paper cutting competition:

1st position-Parisha Gupta, Gargi College

2nd position- Shreoshi Das, Gargi College

3rd position- Harshita, Gargi College

 

India Quiz competition:

1st position- Mukund Marodia & Soumya Sagar

2nd position- Prithvi Raj & Mohak Chibber

3rd position- Bishal Kumar & Kartik Puri

 

 

The Commerce Department of Gargi College organised its annual departmental fest, Cascade 2015 on Friday, 30th January. Event commenced at 10am with the lamp lighting ceremony. Dr. Shashi Tyagi, Principal of Gargi College delivered the welcome speech, following which the student members of Commerce Union felicitated the guests.

Dr. Meenakshi Lekhi, Member of Parliament presided over as the Chief Guest and delivered the keynote address for the seminar based on this year’s theme – Digital India: Empowering Banking and Business. In the college auditorium, she spoke about the digital literacy in India and its importance. Dr. Lekhi also mentioned about the nine pillars of a Digital India and said, “I’ll speak of women safety because I’m in an all women’s college. Women safety in today’s world is also impossible without Internet and digitisation.”

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Dr. Meenakshi Lekhi – Chief Guest, Cascade 2015

The Guest of Honour for Cascade was Ms Rachna Dixit, General Manager for Financial Inclusion, Reserve Bank of India. Ms. Dixit launched the issue of Comascent, the bi-annual magazine of the Commerce Department and gave an overview of the gambit of activities that RBI does.

Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Operations and Sales Director, CISCO was also one of the eminent speakers. He talked about the future of Business in a Digital India and explained how convergence of Mobile, Social, Cloud and Data is driving the digitization world.

The next speaker for the event was Ms. Rasika Mathur, Director of Communications, Snapdeal. Her presentation was based on “How E-Commerce is enabling Small Businesses and Empowering Entrepreneurship”. The last speaker was Mr. Rajesh Bansal, Asst. Director General, UIDAI. He talked about how Aadhaar is a tool for empowerment and governance reform, the features of Aadhaar, and its status as on date. The seminar came to an end with Shristi Grover, the President of Commerce Union, giving away the vote of thanks.

Several informal inter-college competitions and events namely ICD Marketing Run, Inteli-Exchange Mock Stock, App War and Digi-Psyche Symposium were also organised where prizes worth Rs. 55000 were distributed.

Image Credits- Pragya Gandhi (Gargi College)

The Commerce Department of Gargi College organised its annual departmental fest, Cascade 2015 on Friday, 30th January. Event commenced at 10am with the lamp lighting ceremony. Dr. Shashi Tyagi, Principal of Gargi College delivered the welcome speech, following which the student members of Commerce Union felicitated the guests.

Dr. Meenakshi Lekhi, Member of Parliament presided over as the Chief Guest and delivered the keynote address for the seminar based on this year’s theme – Digital India: Empowering Banking and Business. In the college auditorium, she spoke about the digital literacy in India and its importance. Dr. Lekhi also mentioned about the nine pillars of a Digital India and said, “I’ll speak of women safety because I’m in an all women’s college. Women safety in today’s world is also impossible without Internet and digitisation.”

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The Guest of Honour for Cascade was Ms Rachna Dixit, General Manager for Financial Inclusion, Reserve Bank of India. Ms. Dixit launched the issue of Comascent, the bi-annual magazine of the Commerce Department and gave an overview of the gambit of activities that RBI does.

Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Operations and Sales Director, CISCO was also one of the eminent speakers. He talked about the future of Business in a Digital India and explained how convergence of Mobile, Social, Cloud and Data is driving the digitization world.

The next speaker for the event was Ms. Rasika Mathur, Director of Communications, Snapdeal. Her presentation was based on “How E-Commerce is enabling Small Businesses and Empowering Entrepreneurship”. The last speaker was Mr. Rajesh Bansal, Asst. Director General, UIDAI. He talked about how Aadhaar is a tool for empowerment and governance reform, the features of Aadhaar, and its status as on date. The seminar came to an end with Shristi Grover, the President of Commerce Union, giving away the vote of thanks.

Several informal inter-college competitions and events namely ICD Marketing Run, Inteli-Exchange Mock Stock, App War and Digi-Psyche Symposium were also organised where prizes worth Rs. 55000 were distributed.

Image Credits- Pragya Gandhi (Gargi College)

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Apart from teaching the importance of Maggi at midnight, the value of home cooked food, the love of family members, how to bank on others for class notes or borrow interest free loans, sleeping on a chair, the unending list of funny but fundamental lessons, hostel life sure teaches a great deal more.

I have been staying in a hostel for 8 long years (yes, you read that right), not because I was a naughty kid or lacked in my grades but because I always wanted to study in a boarding school. Thus, I am sharing with you the reasons why I consider hostel life as one of the best chapters of someone’s life.

1. Lifelong connections

I don’t care about the cleanliness of the hostel or whether the Wi-Fi connection works or not, what I care about most is the connections and friends you make inside. You’ll find all sorts of amazing people who won’t let you feel homesick.

2.Free advice

One thing you will find in every hostel you stay in is free advice. There is always a friend who is willing to help you out with the weirdest of questions you have.

3. Opportunities

You are allowed to go about exploring numerous fields that you have never set out before, in a new place among new people. You get to take up numerous open doors that you can’t take being at home.

4. Time management

Whether you excel at any other thing or not, managing time is a sure shot. From the gossip sessions and all other sorts of activities that you are required to do in a hostel, you learn to manage some time to study.

5. Independence and freedom

Independence is something that most of us barely get at home. In a hostel, you are accountable for everything from getting up in the morning, to having meals, to washing clothes and what not. Hostel life gives the flexibility to fly in the open and seek things you couldn’t pursue when at home.

6. Experience and Exposure

When you go out of your home to live in a hostel you really take in a great deal of new things, in particular, making new friends, adjusting to a whole new environment , doing things on your own, taking initiatives and living with freedom. Experience comes with time, from the issues, distress, frustration and heartbreaks.

This life brings out the real you and gives extremely valuable memories for life. Some of them are unquestionably terrible; however most of them are immense and priceless.

In spite of North Campus taking away most of the public eye, the allure of South Campus can’t be ignored. South Delhi is covered with hangout spots for all kinds of people, with colleges like LSR, Gargi, Venky or JMC and places like Hauz Khas Village or Satya Niketan.

Being an outstation student, I had always been hunting for places to hangout for the past two years and now that I have lived in South Delhi for almost three years, I’ve exhausted almost all of the places from my bucket list, and I think I’m in a position to bring out a list of places you should definitely visit at least once before graduating.

Satya Niketan

Never mind the narrow, crowded lanes of Satya Niketan (popularly Satya). Can be called the ‘Knags’ of South Campus, Satya, located opposite Sri Venkateswara College, is one such place where in you will find pocket friendly food joints like Big Yellow Door or simply BYD (My favorite!) and QD’s or stalls selling momos, maggi, Chowringhee rolls and what not. You’ll always find students of Venky, JMC, MNC and ARSD, chilling out in one or the other cafes of Satya.

Hauz Khas Village

No matter how pocket-pinching this place is, it has always been DU students’ treasure. Full of wide ranging cafes; Raasta, Social Offline, Fork You and Amour, to name a few, this place is one of the biggest crowd-pullers (but be sure to check out the price list before placing the order). Hauz Khas fort makes it all the more famous among the college-going crowd.

Central Market, Lajpat Nagar

I couldn’t find any other market in South Delhi that brags of having so many cheap restaurants where you can hang around with your friends. Youngsters prefer the street food vendors selling gol-gappas, aloo chaat, pav bhaji and much more over the restaurants.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Campus

If you’re a big time foodie, then this is the place to be. The dhabas and canteens; 24×7 Food Court, Ganga Dhaba, North Eastern Dhaba, serving Chinese cuisine, Library Canteen, serving South Indian cuisine and Mughlai Junction inside the JNU Campus perk as favored hangout spots for both, the students staying inside the campus as well as for others. The JNU Night Canteen is what people eagerly look forward to! Don’t forget to visit the Parthasarathy Rocks (PSR), a hillock in the campus itself!

South Campus Canteen

South Campus Canteen is a little less of a paradise for students looking for hygienic and affordable food. With minimal prices, the menu ranges from South Indian to Chinese and North Indian food. The quantity is wholesome and plenty for an individual. Even though the entry is restricted in the campus around elections, one can find ways to sneak in and grab a quick bite.

Featured image credit: tushky.com

Shaily Sharma
[email protected]

With inputs from Geetika Varshney

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Campus organized its annual cultural festival, OASIS’14 from 31st October 2014-4th November 2014. With the theme ’90’s show’, Oasis attracted a participation from over 70 colleges with around 5000 students on campus for different competitions.

The quiet campus of BITS Pilani transformed into a carnival for those 96 hours. Apart from the Prof. Shows featuring Benny Dayal, Raghu Dixit, East India Comedy, Mysore Brothers and Sunburn night, here are all the competitive events that took place in the campus.

Oasis Inaugural Ceremony

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The inaugural ceremony took place on Friday, 31st October with Mr. Sriram Raghavan as the Chief Guest. He addressed the audience talking of the evolving culture of cinema. He also acknowledged the efficiency with which the cultural fest was organized, following which he declared OASIS 2014 open.

The Mime Club of BITS, Pilani, then performed two acts and the spoof video – ‘Schlumdog Millionare’, followed by a fashion parade displaying Oasis apparel. The Department of Stage Controls revealed the unholy trinity of 90s games, a PokeBall, Mario and a Tetris console.

The ceremony came to an end with the western, folk and semi- western performances by the Dance Club.

Music: Band performances, voacalist performances and instrumentals

Organised by ARBITS, Roctaves Elims took place on Saturday, 1st November while the finals on the 2nd of November. ‘Nice Weather for Ducks’ headlined the event by their performance on 1st November. On the competition front, a total of nine bands including The Chronic Legion from New Delhi, Confuzone from Darjeeling, Cynic Bliss from Jabalpur, Pyramids, Poltergeist, Wire Weed, Stained and WitchKraft  from all over the country contested for the preliminary round, which was judged by Chris Avinash and Shreyas Kendurkar, a BITS alumnus and Guitarist. The judges for the finals were Chris Avinash and Rahul Gopal, a Chennai based Percussionist.

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Among other musical competitions were Tarang, the instrumental event held on the 1st November, Andholika, the vocal competition organized by Music Club, Pitch Perfect, the Capella event and Swaranjali, an instrumental competition with Mysore Brothers as the judges.

Dance: Western, Choreo, Street and Tandav

 Razzmatazz

 Organized by the dance Club, Razzmatazz Finals were held on 2nd of November with seven teams performing. The event consisted of three rounds. The second round was the Props Round and the last round was Footloose.

 Street Dance

 After the Raghu Dixit Project, The Prof Show for the day, Street Dance Finals took place on the 2nd of November at Rotunda. The event was split into two rounds being Choreo and Face-Off with a total of six teams up on stage.

Choreo

 Choreo, a theme based dance competition had its finals on the 3rd of November. The event started off with a professional performance by Soum Singh and Shika Gussain, the Director and Co-Director of Eloquence Dance Academy. Five finalists, Gargi College, Hansraj College, BITS, Pilani, Lady Shri Ram College for Women and Shri Ram College of Commerce were shortlisted out of eight teams.

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Other dance competitions were Desert Duel, a solo dance competition, Tandav, a classical dance competition, Clash of the Lions, debut event, Bhangra and Midnight Prom.

Drama: Nukkad, Stage, Mime and Film Making

 Street play:

Organised by the Department of Theatre (DoT), the Street Play competition was held on the morning of 3rd November with ten teams competing. Each play carried a social message along. The first performance was by Indira Gandhi Technical University for Women followed by students of Pearl Academy.

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Stage Play:

A minor incident surrounded the stage play event as the first team, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce refused to perform due to a mixture of reasons related to the audience behaviour and infrastructural issues. “We backed out because we felt that our art was not respected. Our team won both stage and street last year. We worked for days and nights to make this production, it really very painful for us to leave the stage in that manner. We love BITS Pilani and Oasis, and this was first experience of its kind. We have great respect for the fest and look forward to next year’s edition”, said Team Manchatantra from SGGS. Unfortunately with the midnight slot, stage play witnessed performances by few teams with Sri Ram College of Commerce’s play getting the maximum appreciation.

Mime

Mime, the mimicry competition took place on the 2nd of November with a total of 7 teams competing. The judge for the event was Niranjan Goswamy, Padma Shree awardee. The first team to perform was BKBIET and the competition came to and with the performance of PGDAV College (Eve).

Apt to Act, an on the spot acting competition and Metamorphosis, the film-screening competition organized on the 2nd of November were among the other events in this category.

Fash P: Fashion Show and Miss India Contest

The preliminary event took place on the 2nd of November in SAC Hall and the final event on the 4th November with five teams including NIFT Delhi, Trinity and Amity School of Communications performing. The judges for the event were Rati and Vishal and Neil. The Fashion Parade was followed by a Femina Miss India Beauty Pageant with seven girls competing. The judge for this event was Ms. Gurleen Grewal, Miss Diva International 2013.

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 Miscellaneous

The Oasis Debate, one of the largest debate competitions in the country was organized on the 1st of November. Blab, a jamming event, Kshanika, the Hindi Jamming event and Mock Parliament, the Hindi debate in parliamentary form were some other competitions to look forward to. Banana Man Show, a show by Pierrick St-Pierre, popularly known as Mr. Banana Man, a street performer was one show that attracted more than a fair crowd.

‘With inputs from Oasis English Press’

Update: The previous version of the article has been updated to include a quote from Team Manchatantra, SGGS.]]>