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Quintessence, the annual cultural fest of Lady Irwin College witnessed a lot of mismanagement with forged VIP passes and a stampede.

Lady Irwin College hosted their annual cultural fest, Quintessence on 9th and 10th February 2019. Ayushmann Khurrana, the star performer of the cultural festival moved the crowd to his words and flairs on 10th February 2019. The over-excitement of the crowd resulted in a stampede taking place outside the venue gates, with too many people gathering outside and trying to force their way through. Though the organisers ultimately managed to curb the situation by allowing everyone standing outside to come in, even those without the passes.

Nikita Tiwari, the President of Student’s Council of Lady Irwin College said, “There was immense police pressure since the college is near Connaught Place. The crowd gathered outside ended up blocking the roads. The situation became such that the gates were about to be broken. Some students  jumped over the walls and entered the grounds. There were kids, our sponsors, and faculty members in the crowd. Taking all these things into consideration, including a call from the DCP, we decided to open the gates and let people in.”

She reinstated that this took place outside the college and the event proceeded without any hassle. However, the students who were hurt during the stampede have a different tale altogether., Pranjal Bhandari, a victim of the stampede from Jesus and Mary College informed DU Beat about the same. She said, “The officials opened the college gates and let people without the passes enter the college, resulting in the stampede at the entry gates. Some people got hurt really bad. I was badly hurt, and my feet were bleeding. Despite asking for medical assistance from the core team, I didn’t get any. I was crushed by people with feet full of blood, and footwear broken, I was literally crying for help. All that the authorities said ‘yaha se aage chalo, clear the area’. When I reached out to the union members, they excused themselves by stating bheed main lagti hi hai humain bhi lagi hai.”

Another issue that she brought to light was the issue of fake passes. Bhandari said, “Two of my friends had VIP passes. They were still denied entry near the stage. Not only this, they were not even informed by the volunteers regarding a special area for the pass holders. All we got was rude and immature responses. It was a whole deal of mismanagement and we became a victim of it.”

VIP Passes  Image Credits: Pranjal Bhandari
VIP Passes issued for the fest.
Image Credits: Pranjal Bhandari

The union accepts that there was mismanagement in the crowd handling department. They did not foresee the issue of crowd mismanagement and the printing of fake VIP passes. The union also agreed that they provided passes to Ayushmann’s manager for his fanclub and close friends. They claim that they called these people up and tried to get them to the special designated area. According to Tiwari, the passes were only sent to the core team, faculty members and sponsors.They themselves helped these people get in, yet the chaos of people led to some being caught up and become a victim of it.

The union says that everyone with the passes was treated fairly. However, Yuvraj and June, who claim that they got passes from Ayushmann’s manager said,“We had the VIP passes, but were not allowed to stand near the stage. We were not even informed about the special seating for the pass holders and had to stand all the way back. Later, we saw many people standing right in front the stage who didn’t have the VIP passes. One of them informed us the same .Seeing this, I decided to contact the President of the Student’s Union, but I was informed that she had left the college (just after the concert ended). I called her on Monday morning, she hung up on me. I called her again, but she kept on rejecting my calls.”

However, the union stands by the claim that they tried to help as many as they could with both passes and medical help, but those who were in the middle of the crowd could not be helped. Hence, some people might have been left. The president also said, “Students of other colleges have something bad to say, only because they are jealous of us doing so well. They can’t stand someone’s success.”

Quintessence  is just another example that the University of Delhi is still a long way off from organising a fest without any issues. There are always helpless victims that get caught up in the mess that is caused, the student unions claim they did all they could, and others believe that they didn’t do enough. It ends up in a blame game where some just go with wounds and bad memories.

 

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It was early morning sunshine that marked the beginning of the day at Lady Irwin College. The front lawn was filled with stalls and the stage was setting up for the day. Soon the lawn was filled with girls dressed in traditional apparel for the inauguration ceremony. Dr. Anupa Siddhu, the director of the college gave her enlightening speech. There were different events going on within the campus on the first day for which the participants arrived at the registration desks.
The events namely “TATVA” organised by ‘Nrityanjali’ the dance society, “SOLILOQUY” arranged by The debating society, ‘ALOHMORA’ the stage play society and  ‘Mukhauta’ the dramatics society events took place. Under the amphitheatre,  “VIRTUOSITY” the art competition started with various fun contests.
There were games going on in the back lawn which were fun and light for all the people to participate. The night was another anticipated moment and, when it started with arrival of DJ Suketu, the venue was packed with people. Finally the day ended with his performance to remember and cherish in one’s mind.
The second day of Quintessence’18 was welcomed with full zeal and enthusiasm after the first day had ended and began in a full swing.
The events that took place were, ‘Yatharth’, organised by the Street Play Society ‘Akaar’,  ‘Lexicon’, the Literary Society event, the Eco Club of the college organised a competition ‘Naturaleza’, ‘Virtuosity’, the Fine Arts Society events took place along with ‘Alohmora’, an event organised by the Dramatics Society ‘Mukhauta’. Temperatures were rising and the sun was at it’s full peak!
Suddenly the stage was lit up with the event ‘Razzle Dazzle’, an event organised by the Fashion Society ‘Prophecy’. Another event, ‘Arohanam’, organised by Dhwani, the Music Society also took place. The sun had started to set and the night was rising with the much awaited Star night. The audience was growing impatient. And then the ruler of all the hearts finally arrived on the stage, Darshan Raval! With his amazing performances he won everyone’s hearts and made everyone in the front lawn dance to his beats and sing along with his melodious voice. The crowd enjoyed a lot along with him.
Quintessencecomes once in a year and the Irwinite girls make sure to make it a memorable one. The hardwork of the girls had finally paid off as the event was a great success!

Every year, societies from colleges across the campus compete neck to neck and put up spectacular performances during the fest season. This year too, saw certain teams shine a little brighter than the rest. We bring you a series with college societies that put their heart and soul into their respective fields and took home the top prizes at various cultural fests. The best college society in each category was selected by creating a tally of the top 3 positions at competitive events held during 13 cultural fests of this season. Whenever a society won the first prize they were award 3 points, for the second position they received 2 points and for the third position, 1 point was added to their tally. With 12 points in its kitty, Lady Irwin College’s Prophecy emerged as the winner in the Fashion category. Kamala Nehru College’s Glitz with 6 points follows next.

The Winning Society at a glance

Prophecy, Lady Irwin College

Hover on the information icons below to know more about their victories!

Lady Irwin College, with its theme “Contemporary Cleopatra’s Eviction” won the first position at fashion competitions at multiple fests such as Mecca, Ullas and Crossroads this year. Their piece was based on Cleopatra and her life. “Hard work, will power, dedication and team work, of course, is our secret. We want to be the best fashion society in DU and we are always aiming to achieve it”, said Tarini Singh the President of the college’s Fashion Soc. Names of the performing members: Tarini Singh. Models : Somya, Vartika, Ankana, Samiksha, Aishwarya, Smriti, Purnima, Ayushi, Kriti and Shalini. Back stage : Kaveri, Manvi, Jasmine. Note: The thirteen fests included in our analysis for this series include SRCC’s Crossroads, Gargi College’s Reverie, Sri Venkateswara College’s Nexus, LSR’s Tarang, Hans Raj’s Confluence, I.P. College for Women’s Shruti, Daulat Ram College’s Manjari, Hindu College’s Mecca, Jesus and Mary College’s Montage, Miranda House’s Tempest, Kamala Nehru College’s Ullas, Kirori Mal College’s Renaissance, SGTB Khalsa’s Lashkara. Out of the fests listed, only 5 had conducted a Fashion Show Competition.]]>

Lady Irwin College, celebrated its Annual Sports Day on 24th February, 2014. The chief guest for the event was cricketer Virender Sehwag.

In a series of Intra-college competitions, students demonstrated their abilities in different sports and fitness activities. The main events that took place ranged from a march past and 50 metre and 100 metre races for both the students and teachers. In addition to these, a three-legged race, yoga and relay events were also conducted.

The college director Dr. Anupa Sidhu in her eloquent self, shared some words of wisdom. She also said, “In this changing scenario the women have to pick-up the pace of equipping themselves to meet the demands of the present and future generation.”

The legend Virender Sehwag enlightened the students with his valuable words of inspiration. After completion of the athletic events, winners were honoured by the chief guest with medals, trophies and prize money.

Winners Tally

Events Position Name
50m race 1st Samiksha
2nd Rupika Choudhary
3rd Ansa Saju
100m race 1st Samiksha
2nd Ansa Saju
3rd Urvashi
200m race 1st Mitali Yadav
2nd Lovely Gupta
3rd Ringnamleu
Shotput 1st Ansa Saju
2nd Mitali Yadav
3rd Vibhuti
Discuss Throw 1st Mitali Yadav
2nd Rupika Choudhary
3rd Vibhuti
Table Tennis Winner Nisha Joon
Badminton Winner Bhamini Pande
Badminton (Teachers) Winner T.G. Rupa

Winners Tally

Events Position Name
50m race 1st Samiksha
2nd Rupika Choudhary
3rd Ansa Saju
100m race 1st Samiksha
2nd Ansa Saju
3rd Urvashi
200m race 1st Mitali Yadav
2nd Lovely Gupta
3rd Ringnamleu
Shotput 1st Ansa Saju
2nd Mitali Yadav
3rd Vibhuti
Discuss Throw 1st Mitali Yadav
2nd Rupika Choudhary
3rd Vibhuti
Table Tennis Winner Nisha Joon
Badminton Winner Bhamini Pande
Badminton (Teachers) Winner T.G. Rupa
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The annual cultural fest of Delhi University- Antardhwani 2014 concluded on Sunday, 16th February after cultural events, performances and showcase of academic and cultural achievements by different colleges. The much awaited ceremony Valedictory Funnction for giving awards of Good Practices was the final event of the three day fest which took place in the presence of eminent kathak dancer and choreographer Smt. Sharmishta Mukherjee, the Guest of Honour for the event.

In the category of departments, Geology won the first prize worth Rs. 10 lakh, the second prize worth Rs 7 lakh went to Geography and the third to Botany worth 5 lakh. The departments of Bio-Chemistry, Chemistry, Cluster Innovation Centre, Physics and Zoology also won commendation awards of Rs. 1 lakh each.

The Good Practices award in the category of colleges were given to Lady Irwin College as first, Maharaja Agrasen College as second followed by Acharya Narendra Dev Colleges as third. Bharti College, Kamala Nehru College, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Ramanujan College and Sri Venkateswara College won the five commendation awards in this category. The jury made a special note of all the innovative ways adapted by different colleges to implement FYUP and the impact of the projects in empowering the marginalized sections of the society.

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A friendly cricket match also took place between the Vice Chanceloor’s XI and the Principal’s XI eventually won by the Principal’s XI led by Dr. Sunil Sondhi, Principal, Maharaja Agrasen College. The Sound and Light show-“Delhi University: A Legend” was attended by the Guest of Honour who also applauded the talent displayed at Antardhwani. She also congratulated the Vice Chancellor in harmonizing higher education and culture together at DU.

Featured Image Credit: Parandeep Goswami

See entire Antardhvani coverage here.