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8 things to remember before a Delhi University fest

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February and March are pre-booked in all DU students’ calendars. The excitement of going to star nights, eating great food and having a ball with your closest friends are just some of the reasons why most Delhi University kids flock to the best fests. However, to make sure you have a foolproof fest season, we bring you some important things to remember before the spell of fun starts –

  • Reach the venue well before time: Make sure that you and your friends reach the venue at least half hour before the scheduled time. Even though, the show is most likely to start late, it is always better to secure a decent spot in the crowd. People will start pouring into the venue in huge numbers and the entry to the venue will be closed pretty early because of the huge crowd, so make sure you get a spot in advance to enjoy the show without worries.
  • Check the entry procedure: It is very important to check the college entry procedure online for the particular fest before going. Some colleges are stricter with the entry as compared to others, so make sure you know how to get in. Colleges like Hindu and SRCC have a strict entry procedure because bags are thoroughly checked and passes are required, but carry your college id to all the fests, regardless.
  • Keep cash: Make sure you have enough cash in this time of demonetisation. DU fests usually have stalls set up in the campus and payment would mostly be taken in cash by the small vendors.
  • Take permission: DU fests usually end late so make sure that you have your parents’/hostel warden’s/landlord’s permission beforehand to come back home late so that you don’t miss out on any fun!
  • Carry water: When inside the heavily packed campuses of Delhi University, wading through the crowd for water can be an issue. Carry a small water bottle inside your bag to avoid missing fun things while you’re in that moment of thirst.
  • Dress comfortably: As much as I would like sporting heels for the fest season, I know that it is going to be super uncomfortable. Main events of the fests are usually held in the sports ground, and wearing heels on a grass field is probably a bad idea. Make sure you’re comfortable, warm and snug in your clothing because fests do require you to walk around/stand a lot, in the open.
  • Beware of pickpockets: Crowded areas increase the dangers of getting mugged, so take care of your belongings, because a bad incident can ruin your whole day. Keep checking your wallet and phone from time to time and be alert of the people around you.
  • Preserve the memories: The fest season will be the best time of your college life and preserving the memories for your future, adult self will be worth it. You can buy small trinkets from the various stalls as souvenirs, save the passes and keep it between heavy books or find a photo booth and get a group picture printed of the gang.

Lastly, and most importantly, have fun!

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Anagha Rakta
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Moksha, NSIT ends on a high with Shaan and Abish Mathew

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Day 3 of Moksha kicked off with Dhwani, the umbrella of music-based events, which was judged by Mohit Dobhal, a Hindustani vocalist, and Ms. Roli, a proficient classical singer.

In Tarang, the Indian classical group competition, the first position was shared by Dhwani, the music society of Lady Shri Ram College For Women and Tarkaas, the music society of Institute of Home Economics. The second position was also a tie, between Gargi College’s music society Samranjini and Miranda House’s, Geentanjali. This was followed by the instrumental duo event, Symphony. Nalin Vinayak and Aditya who played a romanticizing combination of guitar and keyboards were awarded the first position and the second place was shared by the teams of Rishi and Saurabh, and of Anirudh and Mitesh.

Street Dance was another exciting event that took place on Day 3. It was judged by Digant Kar, a dancer and choreographer, along with Benjamin Jacob, a Senior Member at the Academy of Danceworx, Delhi. The team from Trinity Institute of Professional Studies was declared the winner.

Oorja, the western dance competition, was another highlight of Day 3, and saw Misba, the western dance society of Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, winning the first position. Afroza, Indraprastha College for Women, and V-Defyn from IIT Delhi ranked second and third respectively.

Abish Mathew’s performance as a part of the Humour Fest drew crowds as he made the appreciative audience crack up with references to engineering in his jokes amongst other things.

Moksha ended on a high with Shaan’s performance as he crooned his biggest hits and crowd-pleasers like ‘Chaar Kadam’, ‘Bhool Jaa’ and ‘Partner’.

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Uddyam 2016: Annual Commerce Department Fest of Shaheed Bhagat Singh College

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The Commerce Association of Shaheed Bhagat Singh College concluded its annual departmental festival Uddayam on 24th February 2016. The two day fest was attended by more than 1200 students from colleges all across Delhi University and from other universities in NCR as well. The term ‘Uddayam’ literally means entrepreneurship and all events hosted were completely synchronised with this theme. Pizza Hut was the food partner of the event.

The event started with the inauguration ceremony. The esteemed chief guest for the function was Mr. Amit Bahl, Partner at Price Waterhouse Coopers. The other senior faculty members included the Principal of the college, Dr. P.K. Khurana, teacher-in-charge of the Commerce Department, Dr. R.C. Jain and Convenor of the Commerce Association, Ms. Ruchi Gupta. The ceremony started with the lighting of the lamp for the auspicious beginning of the festival. This was followed by a sumptuous music performance by Piyush, a third year student at the college. The college’s Principal, Dr. P.K. Khurana warmly welcomed the chief guest with a bouquet of flowers.  The Principal then gave the welcome address and enlightened everyone with his words of wisdom. This was followed by a short speech by Dr. R.C. Jain.

The chief guest then shared a wonderful experience from his childhood and the days of his higher studies with the gathering. He gave an important teaching to all the students never to give up their goal in life slip as many times as they may. The President of the Commerce Association of the College, Himani Mishra also apprised the audience about the Association, the events it has conducted in the past and also about Uddayam. The ceremony concluded with Ms. Ruchi Gupta, Convenor of the Commerce Association giving a vote of thanks and presenting mementos to the Chief Guest, Principal and the teacher in charge.

Following the inaugural ceremony, the much awaited competitions started. An array of events was hosted this year which included some fun events to keep the atmosphere jovial and festive. Adwitiya: Hunar aur Jazbe ka sangam was the star event at this edition of Uddayam. This event had been specially designed for the physically challenged students. The event received a highly positive response from everyone present. This event gave the students a platform to showcase their talents and all the participants enthusiastically gave commendable performances.  Colossal Clash: The Best Manager Competition was one of the longest and toughest events this year. Only selected participants who had cleared the online preliminary round were selected for the main event.

The participants were made to go through group discussions and personal interview rounds on the first day. After elimination only 6 candidates were called the next day. They were made to pitch their Business Plans. Finally two winners were declared after the rigorous grilling. Other events on Day 1 included the much awaited Stockastic: The Mock Stock Competition. Here it is the fight of the Bulls and Bears and a test of who the real Warren Buffet is. Torrent and Trials was the T.V. show quiz where the participants were judged on the basis of their knowledge of shows like Game of Thrones, Friends and the interesting Harry Potter series.

The major fun event and one of the most successful events of Uddayam was the Bollywood Tambola. This was the traditional tambola being played in Bollywood style. Pirates Ahoy was the treasure hunt game where participants were given coded messages, riddles and other encrypted data which they had to decrypt to unveil the real treasure. The dart game was a major attraction for those who just wanted to enjoy the festivity.

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Uddayam

The second day was as interesting as the first. Beginning with some musical performances, the day gradually gathered pace. Contrakeenos was the commerce quiz testing the participants’ knowledge of the world of business. Several rounds of intensive questions got the best of the participants. Turbulence: The Turncoat Debating Competition was also a huge success. The final round was a press conference simulation wherein participants were required to address situations and reply to interjections from other participants.

One of the major attractions of the day was WeakLinks Season 3 which was quizzing only but in an all new avatar. Two rounds of mind-boggling quiz on general awareness and logical reasoning ended on an exciting note with the winner being a finalist for the last two seasons. Exaggerato was the caricature competition where participants had to make drawings on given themes and characters to win. Counter Strike was the fun event where participants competed on the computers by playing the game ‘Counter Strike’.  Marketing Superhero – The Ad Mad Competition was organized for the second time at Uddayam witnessing quality participation from all across Delhi University.

The things that we work hard for may not last a long time but it is the working which gives the longest satisfaction. Over two months of preparation served its purpose. The two days left us more prepared than ever to make our events better. Better than before.

The Commerce Association of Shaheed Bhagat Singh College congratulates the winning participants and all the attendees of Uddayam on their participation and wishes them the best for such more competitions and Uddayam’17.

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DU Annual Fest Season

Ramjas, Hindu top in theatre events at Reverie; Hans Raj, Maitreyi win big on Day 1

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Day 1 Gargi College’s Annual Cultural Festival, Reverie 2016 opened with a plethora of vibrant events like stage theatre, street theatre, western dance and battle of bands.

The entire campus was covered in myriad decorations which managed to catch the eye of each spectator. The footfall was considerably high since late morning hours. After a short inauguration ceremony, the day kick started with the spirit of drama taking over the campus.

The stage play event, Nivacanna was hosted by the stage play society, Upstage. Ramjas College’s ‘Deluxe Hair Cutting Saloon’ was declared as the winner at Nivacana. It was also declared as the Best Production. SRCC and Hans Raj College were declared as second and third top plays respectively.

Reverie on Day 1 simultaneously also hosted Battle of Bands which was won by The Hans Raj Project from HRC and the second position was bagged by High Time from Kirori Mal College.

The street play event, Abhaas was organised by the street play society of the college, Kshitij and  the venue Arts Quad constantly attracted a huge audience with the various street plays Abhaas had to offer. It was won by Hindu College’s Dramatics Society with SRCC coming in second place and Ramanujan College holding the third place. College of Vocational Studies was given the honour of ‘best music’.

The much awaited event, Zenith took place in the evening witnessing a jampacked auditorium. Judged by Sahil Aneja, founder of Brooklyn Dance Academy who said that the competition was too tied and hard to judge. Zeal, the dance society of Maitreyi College emerged as the winners with Tanz, Miranda House coming at second place and Verve, Sri Venkateshwara College occupying the third place.

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Tarushi Varma

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Playtime from HRC and Misba from SGGSCC shine at Mecca; Raghu Dixit’s night closes Day 1

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Day 1 of Mecca’16, the Annual Cultural Fest of Hindu College started with the lamp lighting ceremony. The fest was inaugurated by Hindu College’s Principal Dr. Anju Srivastava and Parliament’s Prime Minister Ashish K Holaria. The inauguration ceremony was followed by a performance by Mizaaj, the band.

Aria, the Western Music Society of Hindu College conducted Battle of Bands and Instrumental Solo Competition. The Battle of Bands kicked off with a performance by Mufills, a collaboration of students from different colleges. The jury of both the competitions consisted of Ritesh Khokhar and Nishant Hagjer who announced Playtime from Hans Raj as the winners of Battle of Bands. The runner up were Mufills.

The Instrumental Solo competition started with KNC’s Anshuman Sharma’s  performance. When Ritesh Khokhar was asked what he thought about the performances, he said, ‘It’s a lovely process. The music is absolutely beautiful.’

Playtime from Hans Raj won the Battle of Bands Competition at Mecca
Playtime from Hans Raj won the Battle of Bands Competition at Mecca

The last major event to take place was Western Dance. The first performance of the event was by Aurobindo College. The judge of the event was Hemant Kumar. The winners of the competition were Misba Dance Grew from Guru Gobind Singh College. The second place was held by Verve, the Western Dance Society of Sri Venkateswara College, and the third place was held by IIT Delhi.

 

Other minor events that took place were Street Soccer, Times Vebate, and Playground Sports’ Quiz.

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The audience then geared up for the closing act of the day which was a star night with The Raghu Dixit Project. The band sang its famous songs in Hindi, Kannada and Tamil. The crowd of about 5000 enjoyed to their numbers like Ambar, Masti Ki Basti and many more.

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Abhinaya Hargovind
Tarushi Varma
Nidhi Panchal
Srivedant Kar

Photographs by Tejaswa, Alex Arthur and Vegh Daswani.

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KMC and HRC start day 3 of Tarang 2016 with a win

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Day 3 of LSR Tarang 2016 started off on 7th February with a non competitive event, Nukkad Natak. A total of 8 teams participated. The jury consisted of Pallav Kumar, Director of Manthan, and Sonalini Kumar, Professor of Political Science.

Pitch Please, the Acapella competition opened with Ashoka University’s performance. The judges included the members of ‘Nouveau’ – Sherry Matthews, Ritwik De, and Subatra Kamat, who work together in a music initiative called ‘Nouveau’. The last judge was Apoorva Gandhi. 15 teams participated in the competition, and it was hosted by the Western Music Society. The winners of the competition were Kirori Mal College with Sri Venkateswara College and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies as runners up.

The judges said that every team had their unique style, and performed well. Special mention was given to teams from Amity University, DTU, and Delhi College of Arts and Commerce.

Along with Pitch Please, the fashion show competition Anarchia- Breaking Stereotypes took place. The competition witnessed a participation of 7 teams, with the winner being Hans Raj College. The judges of the competition were Kamla Bhasin, Vikramaditya, an LGTB rights activist and Ms. Ishita from the Department of Sociology, LSR.

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Team from Sri Venkateswara College performs at Pitch Please

There were many other events like TV Show Quiz, Turncoat, and Elocution. The Indian Music Society also hosted a duel competition called Jugal Gaayan.

The college now gears up for the star night featuring the music band Agnee.

 

 

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IP College inaugurates Troika ’16 as a precursor to annual fest Shruti

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Indraprastha College for Women hosted in its first ever edition of Troika, a three-day festivity. It brought a mélange of events, from Panel Discussion to Kavi Sammelan to Stand-up Comedy and Battle of Bands during a period of three days from 28th January to 30th January. Troika has been introduced this year with the echo “Teen din teen rang, Kavi vicharo Aur gayak ke sang.”

Radhika Dua, the college treasurer explains how Troika is a precursor to the annual fest Shruti, “Troika’16 is first of its kind inter-college festival of Indraprastha College. As its name puts forward, it’s a three day event organised by the Students’ union to encourage fellow students to exhibit their talent and gain some food for thought. Additionally, Troika is also an opportunity to foster relations between students of different colleges and interests. The idea behind the event was devoted to creating a platform for students to enjoy, experience and explore. Troika is just a trailer for our annual fest Shruti.”
The festivities were ushered in with a riveting and engaging panel discussion on the topic, “Impact of Dating Applications on Youth”. Attended by a packed audience in the college auditorium, the Panel discussion was moderated by Suanshu Khurana, Music Correspondent/Critic, Indian Express.
The other panelists included Shalini Evelyn Shah, Head of English Editorial, Ratna Sagar, Manish Malik, Director, Manifest Training Solution and Aakanksha Maheshwari Sewani, Head of Knowledge Management, Microsoft, who is also an alumna from the same college.

Photo by Shivani Malik
Photo by Shivani Malik

The panel discussion brought many facets and quirks of modern-day dating. While some remarks made the audience double up with laughter, some serious questions were raised. Followed by a Q&A session, the discussion was engaging with the right amount of scandalous remarks and controversial comments to make the audience fire up questions like bullets.

Wannabe Anonymous after their performance, Photo by Shivani Malik
Wannabe Anonymous after their performance, Photo by Shivani Malik
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Wannabe Anonymous

The first day ended with a stand-up comedy act by Wannabe Anonymous, a first of its kind Stand-Up Comedy community started in Delhi by Siddharth Singh and Prakhar Maheshwari. They made all the right jokes, from  mocking the burning topic of modern dating to cracking meticulous jokes about the idiosyncracies of the college.
The Second day’s highlight was Kavi Sammelan, which saw participation from colleges like Hansraj, Hindu, Kirorimal, CIC, SOL, among others.

 

Photo by Shivani Malik
Photo by Shivani Malik
Photo by Shivani Malik
Photo by Shivani Malik

The first prize was bagged by Manju for her poem Mazdoor, while the second prize went to Nidhi Kumar Jha from Kirori Mal College. The judges for the event were Dr. Sanjay Seth and Mr. Pranjal Dhar.
Troika culminated in Battle of the Bands on the third and the last day of the round of festivities. The last day saw performances by Slaves of Rock, The Hindu College Collective, Alanwesha, Ricochet, Hightime, Zhankaar, Chapstick and Rubberband and Playtime. Playtime from Hansraj College bagged the first position, while Hightime from Kirorimal College came second.

Sanchita Makkar, the President of the Students’ Union, says it has been a successful endeavour, “We wanted to increase number of events and level of participation in our college. These three events  in troika were a mix of experience,enjoyment and learning. We wanted to give a different experience to students of all colleges.”

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Bazinga: DU to cap noise pollution during fests.

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Disclaimer: Bazinga is a piece of fiction, not to mention a funny one. Don’t re post it as BREAKING NEWS. We will use the Avifors spell and turn you into a bat.

Many times we measure the fun quotient of a DU college fest by the amount of noise it generates, by the number of surrounding colleges it disturbed and not the quality of music used to cause such commotion. The sources and decibel range of this noise goes from idle student gossip (about 50 decibels) to ‘star nite’ speakers (about 130 decibels)  with streetplay competitions somewhere in the middle, or the higher side depending on how close you are to the dholak.

While it is disturbing for many attendees, research has shown that this form of noise pollution sparks off a diabolical race to the highest decibel among colleges. Each college wants to set itself at the top of the noise pollution/ fun factor chart and this leads to volumes being cranked up to obnoxious levels. This has led the University to take action on all college fests banning the use of more than 2 speakers throughout the fest. What must also be noted is that the speakers can only be ordered from a particular vendor, one which the University controls and regulates. A tender to become a University regulated speaker vendor has been floated.

Students are outraged by this decision and have planned a ‘We will listen to music on our earphones outside the VC’s office!!’- form of protest against it. The earphones for this protest will of course be supplied by the DUTA. In addition to the earphones being red in colour and made in China, they shall also have ‘There is still time to roll back the FYUP… c’mon guys, please?!’ inscribed on them.

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KMC’s Mathematics society has blind dates in its fest

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Tensors the Mathematics Society of Kirori Mal College hosted its annual Mathematics Fest – Supremum on 12-13 February. The fest consisted of fun-filled games, dances, mono acts and much more. Events like Blind Date, Mystery Mind, Treasure Hunt and Kabaad Se Jugaad saw a large number of participation.

On 12th February, the event commenced with a lecture by Prof. R.B. Bappat, ISI New Delhi. This was followed by events like Mathemax Quiz, which witnessed over 75 registrations, Ad- Mad, Face-Painting, Cut N Drape and Treasure Hunt which was the focal event of the first day. “Emotions” was the theme for the Face-Painting competition. The partnership of Rakhi Mukherjee and Divyansh Yashvardhan (KMC) showcased how homosexuality is treated in the world.
In 54-Seconds participants had to showcase their talent within 54 seconds.To eliminate from the 60 odd teams participating in Treasure Hunt, a preliminary round consisting of fifteen G.K. questions was introduced.

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Face painting competition

The day two started off with Matheletics, which required solving questions of mathematical nature in a rapid manner. The common game Pictionary was played parallaly but with a twist, the participant could draw only mathematical figures. The winners of this event were Krati Goyal and Saloni Singla. In Mystery Mind participants solved a case study by looking for evidences in a room. Kabbad Se Jugaad was an event wherein participants had to create a useful product out of waste. Tambola was also played but with a few missing numbers, which had to be found by solving mathematical equations. A pre-Valentine’s Day event, Paper Dance was one of the most anticipated events.

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Kabaad se jugaad

The closing event was Grab N Click in which participants went around the campus looking for the items listed and to get a picture clicked with them as a proof.One of the items on the list was, “Tinguji” which no one was able to find.

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Paper dance

Prof. Khurana (retired) appreciaed the Mathematics Society for their hard work in the closing ceremony. The event came to an end with the students doing an impromptu dance to Bollywood songs.

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