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LSR’s ‘Projekt’ declared the best photography society at Plickture

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Pixels, the photography society of Hans Raj College organized their annual photography fest titled ‘Plickture’ on 2nd-4th March along with Confluence, the annual cultural fest of the college. The fest featured competitions that were conducted online as well as those held on-the-spot. By having a separate event for photography societies to participate as a team, it also brought team work into the foray of activities.

Here is a look at who won what during the fest:

Online Events

As part of the pre-event promotions, an online photography competition was organized where the participants had to send in pictures clicked by them on the themes, “Life as you see it” and “What if?”

Results were as follows:

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Winning Entry for ‘Life as you see it’

Theme: Life as you see it
1st Prize – Subhradeep Saha, Zakir Hussain College
Caption – A summer bath

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Winning entry for ‘What If?’

Theme: What If?
1st Prize – Arushi Aggarwal, Miranda House
Caption – What if past could come to life

Winners were awarded a manfrotto jacket and a tripod.

Photo Exhibition

For the campus festival the society had organized the photo exhibition which was more of the main attractions for the Day 1 of college annual festival. 100 photos clicked by the members of the societies were displayed with appropriate captions. The visitors had an option to comment on any photo (using sticky notes) or write their reviews in AMBIGRAM Pixels – Remark Book. The look up flex at the exhibition was also appreciated by the visitors. Prithvi Kakkar, the president of Pixels said, “Teachers and students in their feedback mentioned that ‘aaj tak Hans Raj mein aisa kabhi nahi hua’, I need not say anything else.”

On-the-spot

For the campus rounds an on-the-spot competition was organized separate for DSLR and mobile users. The participants had to click the photographs inside the Hans Raj campus using a camera or mobile phone and submit it with appropriate captions.

Theme: Irony (DSLR users)

First prize for ‘Irony’

1st Prize – Taranveer Singh, Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce
Caption – Isn’t it just ironical when you can’t capture irony in a competition themed Irony

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Second prize winning entry for ‘Irony’

2nd Prize – Arushi Aggarwal, Miranda House
Caption – A Glance.

Theme: Campus Cheer (Mobile Users)

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First Prize for ‘Campus Cheer’

1st Prize – Swarna Garg, Shivaji College
Caption – Express it out now because ‘kal rahein ya na rahein hum’

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Second prize for ‘Campus Cheer’

2nd Prize – Rahul Vaid, Hansraj College
Caption – Who Said Only Birds Can Fly

Winners for the first spot for both the themes were awarded Rs. 1500 each and the first runner-ups were given Rs. 1000 each.

Battle of Societies

The main highlight event of Plickture was Battle of Societies, for which eight photography societies from various colleges participated. Battle of Societies was divided into five events one of which was an online event. Other 4 events were CAP-IT where participants had to caption 5 photos clicked by members of Pixels; PHOT-ON – an on the spot competition where one member from the team had to click the photographs within the campus on the theme “artsy philosophy”; QUIZ THE CAM – the photography quiz and PHOTO MORPHING – making a photo collage.

The results for the individual events were as follows:
Online Event – Lady Shri Ram College for Women and Kirori Mal College
Phot-on – Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce
Quiz the cam – Lady Shri Ram College for Women
Cap-it – Lady Shri Ram College for Women
Photo Morphing – Lady Shri Ram College for Women

Hence, after compiling the results, Lady Shri Ram College’s film and photography society Projekt was declared the Best Photography Society. They were awarded a trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 10,000. Commenting on their victory, Koyna, one of the coordinators of Projekt says, “Battle of socities was a very unique event because till now we have only had individual competitions. There has never been any event where you have a society as a whole competing against other socities. It’s indeed overwhelming to be able to stand ground at such a event. Hopefully, this will make Projekt and the photography team more visible within the college as well.”

Mr. Pradeep Kumar, a wildlife photographer and an ex-professor at Hans Raj College judged all the events.

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SGTB Khalsa College wins the Inter-College Lawn Tennis Tournament

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Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College hosted an Inter-College Lawn Tennis Tournament with the finals being played on the 4th of March. Hansraj College and the hosts fought it out for the ultimate prize. The match followed a Best- Of –Three format with two single’s matches and a double’s match. Each match was a three-set match.

In the first single’s match, Kunal Anand from Khalsa college beat Dhruv Goel from Hansraj two sets to nil with a score of 6-1 and 6-3. In the next single’s match, Saurabh Singh from Hansraj beat his opponent, Rohit Bisht in straight sets with a score of 6-1 and 6-3.

With the game tied at 1-1, it was all to play for in the final match, which was a double’s match. Kunal Anand and Deepak Vishwakarma from Khalsa College beat Dhruv Goel and Saurabh Singh from Hansraj in a thrilling match to take home the final prize.

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LSR and IIT-D bag top places at Hans Raj’s Choreo and Dance events

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The third and concluding day of Confluence, the annual fest of Hans Raj College was lined up with events like Mock Stock, Street dance, Ad-Mad, Western Dance, Choreography and Battle of Bands While for some events like Western Dance, students thronged the venue, others witnessed comparatively less audience.

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Kirori Mal College’s Choreography Society

Western Dance and Choreography were the highlights of the day. Both the events saw some exceptional performances by students that were highly applauded by the spectators. Choreography started around 10:30 AM and went on for two hours. Around 10 colleges participated in this event. Lady Shri Ram College bagged the first prize and the second prize went to Kamala Nehru College’s Choreography Society – Adagio.

After Choreography, the Western Dance competition began at 1 PM with participation from around fifteen colleges. IIT Delhi boys, who gave a dynamic performance, took away the first prize in the event. The auditorium reverberated with cheers and claps while they danced. The second prize was shared by Guru Gobind Singh College and Sri Venkateswara College’s Verve whose dance performances was quite energetic as well. The third prize went to Jesus and Mary College’s Western Dance Society – Mudra.

Roquefort or Battle of Bands saw Conundrum, an alternative rock band from PGDAV, emerge as winners while the band – L For Vendetta – secured the second position. The Best Vocalist was Shiv Hastwala from Conundrum, the Best Bassist, Keyboarist and Drummer were all from L for Vendetta and the Best Guitarist was from the band Andolan.

Featured image: Hans Raj College’s Choreography Society

Image credit: Iresh Gupta for DU Beat

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Bohemia a.k.a. Rap da Badshah performs at Hans Raj College

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The last day of Hans Raj’s Confluence not only had competitive events lined up, but also a closing act by Bohemia, the international rapper (a.k.a. Rap da Badshah). The performance that was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. finally started at 3.

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Bohemia started by his famous song Sahara which was interrupted by a technical breakdown due to overcrowding of a few youngsters near the technical setup. He also rapped few of his famous songs like Kali Denali and Ek Tera Pyar.

In between the tracks, he also had long interactions with the audience. Talking of San Francisco, his life and the initial struggle with the English language, he went on to Bollywood numbers such as Chandni Chowk to China. 

Due to a sunny afternoon, few people were seen standing out of the performance ground on a shady height for the star to be visible. He mentioned that he has come all over from California just to perform in Hansraj College. His interactions were all in Punjabi, which he said is his mother tongue. On stage while addressing the crowd he said, “I am a Punjabi artist. I don’t like when people call me just a rapper. I am a singer who writes and sings only in Punjabi. I do not need the tag of an international performer”

By Aishwarya Chaurasia and Iresh Gupta

Image Credit: Chirag Sharma

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Battle of the Choirs at Confluence 2014: KNC wins Indian, KMC bags Western

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The second day at Hans Raj’s Confluence was a musical one with both the Indian and Western music choir lined up on the same day. In addition, Eclat – the dramatics society’s fest also came to a close with Jesus and Mary College winning the street play competition. The day also had a couple of informal events such as Paper Dance and Pictionary to engage with the students.

The day witnessed Rachnotsav – the music festival with its Indian Choir Competition – Pehel. Pandit Sarathi Chaterjee presided over as the judge. The competition had various teams battling for the top positions. Sangeetika, the music society of Kamala Nehru College was adjudged the best performance. Team from Daulat Ram College, Alhaiya bagged the second position in Indian Choir.

Western Choir Competition – Choirs had enthralling musical performances when set audience to the applauding mode throughout the performances. Mr. Nilotpal Sinha and Ms. Grace honoured the event as judges. Kirori Mal College’s Musoc was chosen the best team. Sri Venkateswara College’s Crescendo and Lady Shri Ram College for Women’s Western Music Society shared the place for the first runners-up. Cash prizes worth Rs. 8000/- were given out on Day 2 of Rachnotsav.

Other two exciting competitions were going alongside. Sports Quiz and IPL bidding had 20 and 35 participating teams respectively. Prelims for the sports quiz shortlisted top 6 teams which sat for the quiz finals. Bala Subramanium from Hansraj College and Gukul from Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma (ARSD) bagged the first position and won the cash prize of Rs. 3000/-. Second prize for cash amount of Rs. 2000/- was won by Prateek Panda from Department of Mathematics at Delhi University and Borio from Hansraj. IPL bidding, the mock bidding session saw top 8 teams in finals after a quiz round in the prelims. Contestants in groups of 2 were allotted IPL teams and each team had to buy players with maximum ratings with the budget of 80 crore per team. Sahil Ramchandani and Karuna Singh, both from the host college won the bidding competition and took away Rs. 6500/- in cash and kind.

Art related competitions like Poster Making and Rangoli Making were held. Theme “Freedom” was decided for poster making and Rangoli making saw rangoli designs on nation, diversity and religion to name a few. Chahat Bansal and Swati Sharma from Keshav Mahavidyalaya won the rangoli competition for their Bollywood inspired rangoli. The contestants apart from designing it, had to explain their idea in front of the judges.

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Hansraj’s Vanijya Utsav: 2 days of banks, stocks and more

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The Commerce Department at Hans Raj College organised their Annual Department Fest, Vanijya Utsav 2014 on the 21st and 22nd of February. The participants in ‘Vanijya Land’ (as well termed by the organisers) were seen solving case studies, formulating marketing strategies, dealing in stock, acting like banks, quizzing and taking part in certain games and fun events that were organised.

Prof. JP Sharma, Head of the Commerce Department from Delhi School of Economics inaugurated the event. The event started by launching “De Facto” – The Annual Commerce Magazine by Commerce Society.

Vanijya Utsav was divided into two kinds of events namely – flagship events and filler events.

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Most of the Flagship Events had hosted their online preliminary round before the main event. Although this was not an elimination round, it provided the winners a direct entry to the Campus Finals.

Except for the on-campus events, The Bank Theory an online event comprised of a case study based in ‘Vanijya Land’ was conducted. In the same, in order to earn a coveted bank licence, participants had to propose the best profitable plan in a real life scenario. Prizes worth rupees three thousand and books worth rupees one thousand were given away as prizes.

Flagship Events comprised of Chase The Case (Case Study Competition), Marketing Mayhem, Bullzai (Mock Stock Competition), Bizinga (The Business Quiz) and Be the Bank (Banking Event).

Chase the Case

The case study competition required participants to analyse various case studies provided to them, formulate solutions and present them in front of the judges. Round 1 and Round 2 of the prelims were held on the first day of the event while the finals were held on 22nd February. Sukrit and Vaibhav from Delhi Technological University (DTU) bagged the first position and were awarded Rs. 10,000. Arushi and Nikhil from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (SSCBS) respectively, were adjudged second and won Rs. 5000 as a team.

Marketing Mayhem

Marketing Mayhem gave participants an opportunity to step into the shoes of the marketer and analyze the ever-changing consumer needs and come up with innovative solutions to gain that elusive competitive edge. The event took the participants through a journey ranging from product development to brand resurrection, to winning over the customers with innovative strategies and putting their creativity to a test. Representatives from SSCBS, Mudit and Mayank were declared the winners and Abhinav and Akash from Hansraj were the first runners-up. Rupees ten thousand and five thousand were awarded to both the winning teams respectively.

Bullzai

An event modeled on the stock market that made participants taste the extremities of the equity market. Book building, short selling, high funda derivatives – a game based on luck, skill and strategy stock market saw the maximum participant turnout in the event. Both the top positions were bagged by teams from the host college. Vikas and Gautam were adjudged the winners and Sahil & Ayush took away the second spot.

Be the Bank

Be the Bank, whose finals were also held on the second day of event, broke the mainstream idea of being a customer to the bank. Instead it challenged the participants to step into the shoes of banker and groove their way to survival in economy. Mohit and Shivam from Ramjas were the top scoring bankers in the events whereas Palash and Ishan from the host college secured the second position. Their bank accounts were also credited with Rs. 15000/- in total.

Bizinga – The Business Quiz

Bizinga -The Business Quiz covered not only questions from the business world, but also from other fields, which in some way or another, will have a business connect. Teo Thomas from ICAI bagged the second position and won Rs. 3000/- and Manu Abbi and Om Prakash from Delhi School of Economics were declared as the winners. Cash Prize of Rs. 5000 was awarded to this team.

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Filler Events

The Soccer Strategist, a filler event saw the teams trading amongst themselves by negotiating or trading at the market price at the changing price levels of shares of two football teams, the live match for which was being played by the volunteers right in front of participants. Prizes more than Rs. 1000/- had to be awarded and Anurag and Pranjal from Hansraj College won the competition.

Along with these flagship events, Vanijya Land had various fun and light events going around. Pictionary, Brand Mania (Advertisement related) and Logo Identification grabbed interest of many participants. Prizes were given out in kind for these events in the form of books and chocolates.

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Hans Raj College’s orientation at a glance

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The orientation for first year students who’ve taken admission in Hans Raj College was held on 22 July, 2013. As the tradition goes in this college, the session was started with a havan, to wish prosperity and development to the college and its students for the following year.  This was followed by a hymn sung by the college music society Swaranjali after which there was a welcoming speech by the professors who introduced basic details of the college.

The program proceeded with the ECA students show casing their talent. There were performances of Kathak, Bharatnatyam, along with melodies where music societies showed their magic.

The college principal MR. V.K. Kwatra then gave his address to the gathering. He gave a brief description of the history of the college, its establishment and the experience of being in the college. He talked about how Hansraj College is one of the finest colleges in the country and has produced people like Shahrukh Khan, Navin Jindal, and scores of IAS officers and bureaucrats.

The principal gave the students tips on time management and dedication and wished them luck for the year.

“I found the principal’s speech very motivating. He gave us important tips on how we need to continue to strive for excellence and utilise college life to the fullest.” says Swarnika, a first year English (Hons) student.

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