Malhar Results

Nice show at malhar by IITB. It was wonderful to win the Lit Trophy and stand overall 4th.
Thanks to all the enthusiastic participants, council mates and ofcourse the hardworking ACL’s for making it a success.

Malhar Winners from IITB:

Gen Quiz – 1st
Rahul Gaur, Siddharth Shanbhag

Niche Quiz – 2nd
Rahul Gaur, Ashwin (Krishnan + Raghavan)

Science Event – 2nd & 3rd
Eeshan Malhotra, Mukul Gupta
Arpan Saha, Pavan Govindraju

JAM – 1st & 2nd
Pranay Bhatia
Eeshan Malhotra

Pentathlon – 3rd
Jim, Pratibha, Surbhi, Mayank, Archana (all sophies.. nice show guys..keep it up)

Illuminalti(UV):3rd
InSync

Cast a shadow: 1st
Tanash, Poorna and Prasoon

Once Upon A Mime: 1st
Ayush Misra and Shashwat Gandhi

Hats Off: 3rd
Akvil Sakhare and Vikas Sharma

Mahindra Auto Quotient, 6th Sep

Mahindra Auto Qoutient is a quiz on the auto industry and other mechanical-related stuff. Its a national level quiz and is being conducted in 16 cities. The Mumbai elims are going to be held in insti on the 6th of September. The winners of the city round move on the to the zonal finals followed by the national finals.

The first prize for the winners of AQ is a ticket to the Geneva Motor Show, annually held in Switzerland. The first runners-up will get to feel the heat of some serious off-roading. They will experience the exhilarating Dune Bashing in Dubai. The second and third runners-up will be sent to a thrilling Mahindra Great Escape, India’s favourite 4X4 rally.

Details are as follows:

Teams of 2
Venue: LT
Time: 6 PM
Date: 6th September, Monday

For more details and practice questions, visit www.mahindraaq.com

Gandhi Jayanti Essay Competition

Literati, the literary arts club of IIT Bombay is conducting an essay competition this semester, with cash prizes sponsored by Mr. Mahavir Jain, a distinguished alumnus of IIT Bombay. The competition is open to all college students(UG and PG). The poster containing details of the competition is attached with this mail.
The topic is ‘Gandhiji and contemporary society’.
The prizes are:
1st prize – Rs. 5000 cash
3 consolation prizes worth Rs. 1000 each.

The word limit is 500-1000 words.
The essay will be judged by a panel comprising of professors of the HSS department of IIT Bombay and Mr. Mahavir Jain. The winner will also get the chance to make an oral presentation of his essay (optional) on the 2nd of October programme that takes place in the convocation hall.

Entries may be sent to iitblitzkrieg@gmail.com

To join the Google group of the Literary Arts Club, visit http://groups.google.com/group/iitblitzkrieg
or send an email to iitblitzkrieg@gmail.com

Salsa Dance Classes commencing from 28th

Did you know Salsa dancing is the easiest, sexiest dance you will ever learn—even if you’re rhythmically challenged and suffer from the two-left-feet syndrome? It’s true!

We will be starting with Salsa Dance Classes  from this Saturday i.e. 28th Aug.

These classes will be conducted by Ekta Sheth and Viraj Shah. They have been teaching Salsa since the past 2 and a half years and Viraj is one of the Instructors of Rahul Saxxena Academy. There will be 8 classes held on every Saturday and Sunday, having time duration of 1.5 hours each.

Registration Details:

Date: 25th and 26th August (Wed and Thu)

Venue: Coffee Shack

Time: 5-6pm

Fees: Rs.1250 (per person)

You need to have a partner for these classes. Please make sure you come with your partner for registration.

Salsa Classes

Hello,

We will be starting with Salsa Dance Classes (do not confuse with Salsa workshop that is on 27th) from this Saturday i.e. 28th Aug. These classes will be conducted by Ekta Sheth and Viraj Shah. They have been teaching Salsa since the past 2 and a half years and Viraj is one of the Instructors of Rahul Saxxena Academy. There will be 8 classes held on every Saturday and Sunday, having time duration of 1.5 hours each.

Registration Details:

Date: 25th and 26th August (Wed and Thu)

Venue: Coffee Shack

Time: 5-6pm

Fees: Rs.1250 (per person)

You need to have a partner for these classes. Please make sure you come with your partner for registration.

Umang Results!

It was a very successful weekend for IIT Bombay. Along with the great performance at Malhar, IIT Bombay steamrolled the lit events at Umang as well. We also show commendable performances in dramatics and dance, especially the streetplay.

UMANG WINNERS:

MUN
Rajat Chakravarty

JAM
1. Ishan Shrivastava
2. Rajat Chakravarty
3. Mukund Madhav

LA All-rounder
1. Mukund Madhav

2009 Quiz
1. Mayur Srinivasan and Surinderjeet Singh

Sitcoms Quiz
1. Mukund Madhav and Gouri Nawathe

Box-em-in (A trivia game of sorts)
1. Rushabh Shah and Ritika Goyal
2. Sankalp Kelshikar and Priyank Parikh

Word Games
1. Mukund Madhav and Ritika Goyal
2. Rushabh Shah and Sankalp Kelshikar

SPICMACAY concert Report

After a brief orientation by the SPICMACAY junta followed by the lamp-lighting ceremony, it was time for the music gods to shine.  Pt. VishwaMohan Bhatt and Pt. Vijay Ghate mesmerized the audience with their soothing classical music. The pieces were intertwined with insights from Pt. Bhatt about various raagas, the elements (ras) that go into each composition and anecdotes about his musical journey. Contrary to general belief that classical music is slow, the musicians aptly showcased how fast and enjoyable it can be. The concert began with a rendition of the Raag Vishwaranjini (composed by Pt. Bhatt himself). Other highlights included the amazing jugalbandi piece & the Grammy award winning composition “Meeting by the River”. The concert ended with a rendition of Vande Mataram and Jana Gana Mana. LT was packed and the audience’s enthusiasm rubbed on the artists as they extended the concert by half an hour. The audience also had an opportunity to take autographs and pictures with the artists at the end.

English Creative Writing GC Report

English Creative Writing GC

The Literary Arts Club successfully pulled off the first GC of the year, English creative writing,

on Wednesday, the 18th of August. The competition was held at MB 2 from 6.30 to 10.30 p.m.

This year saw around 110 participants, writing both poetry and prose. Jose De Abreu has again

kindly consented to judge the entries, for which we are very grateful. The results should be out

sometime next month.

The funda of the GC this time was very interesting- circular or cyclic story writing without

employing flash-forwards or flashbacks. The topics this time were:

Double Entendre

1. The visitor

2. A half-remembered dream

3. The prophecy

4. The first ______

5. Checkmate

6. The affair

This GC was worth 7.5 points. The breakup of GC points is:

1st 7.5 points

2nd 6 points

3rd 4.875 points

4th 3.75 points

5th 3 points

There was a very good turnout, with infinite entries. Hope the enthusiasm continues for events

to come!

SPICMACAY concert – Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

We are pleased to inform that a concert of Pt. Vishwamohan Bhatt and Pt.
Vijay Ghate is going to held on the 21st of August under the banner of
SPICMACAY. Details of the performance are as follows:

Date: 21st August, Saturday
Time: 6 PM
Venue: P.C.Saxena Auditorium (Lecture Theatre)

Biography of Pt. Vishwamohan Bhatt
Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is an Indian slide guitar player. Pt. Bhatt is the
creator of the Mohan Veena. He performs Hindustani classical music and won
a Grammy Award in 1994.

The program will start with a short orientation about SPICMACAY followed
by the concert. Gates for the concert will open at sharp 6 PM.

Rang Orientation – 13th August – Mask Making

Awesome Orientation.
About 70 people turned up. And apart from these, since it ws publicized in all hostels and publicized only as a mask making session and not a freshie orientation, a few sophies and PG’s also turned up.
We started off with a brief introduction by Tejashree about the club and its activities. After that everybody where given a set of coloured sheets and colours to make masks from. It was a great experience for everybody. Replacing thumb painting which have been done in the club orientation for the last few years with Mask Making turned out to be great as people thoroughly enjoyed the experience of not just painting but a little craft work too.
Event Pics can be found out at http://picasaweb.google.com/RangConvener/
Best Masks made at the event were:

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Teji, richa, joy and chandrika wer there to guide all of us and sophies and thirdies did a commendable job of organising the whole event.

Special Thanks to Teji for judging the Masks.