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Insti elections and the aftermath.
The insti elections saw a lot of drama and suspense for the various candidates and their supporters with close finishes in every field except Sports Sec, which was won by Boothu from Ganga with a huge margin. The duo of Chari and Bobbit won the Cul Secs posts in style. Watch out for the next Saarang …do we need to say anymore. Of course working for student friendly projects like Moonlab helped SSS win the AAS post by a decent margin in a tight triangular contest.
Well, junta have
made their choice, some won some lost. Important thing now is to cooperate with
whoever won cause IITian memories are made, not in the classroom but outside
it.
Hostel elections provide the humour.
If there was one
election which provided a lot of entertainment to junta it was the Alak
election. The RG team saw to that, by putting the stupidest of things in the
mouths of the unsuspecting candidates and then putting up the charts all over
the mess had junta rolling in laughter. Vague intentions, ridiculous faux pas
and a host of innocent gaffs made them into RG fodder. However the losers took
in their stride and the winners got
serious as they understood the responsibility
of working for the hostel.
Jhakkan kicks up footer enthu.
The Jhakkan phenomenon has hit the quadrangle. Come weekends and you will find Jhakkan banging down the doors of the football team members and bellowing at them to come out and practice early in the morning. With his boisterous style and Bihari elan Jhakkan promises to make the footer scene hot. Watch out McEnroe, footer's equivalent to this tennis loudmouth has arrived.
March 2 Gujarat…a fundraiser? You're kidding!
Somewhere in March boys and girls from prominent Chennai colleges came together to put up a musical-choreo night to raise money for Gujarat. With most of the tickets being bought by IITians ..many who landed up just to lech, it turned out to be a damp squib. Except for the IITM contingent which rendered beautiful pieces alone, as well as with a WCC team, most of the shows were hopeless and pained junta. Most were found complaining, why make us sit through all this? Might as well have collected money as donation. In fact some of the profs weren't too happy with this ostentation too, feeling that this was just another excuse to socialise. Now, that is not true… so what if the number of local calls to some members of the IITM troupe have increased?
Aurangzeb pulled off with panache.
Stagecoach production Aurangzeb was a great hit with a lot of IITian
junta attending. External ticket sales were bleak but there were a few
Stella babes sitting in the audience.
The play had its hilarious parts. Aurangzeb coming on stage clutching his
collar mike transmitter, giving an impression that he had suddenly developed an
urge to check if certain bodily parts
were still there and the scene in which a slap causes the fake beard to fall off, had the audience awake and
guffawing in the aisles. What really took everyone's breath away were the sets
and backdrops with costumes and music coming a close second. In spite of many
disparities…most going unnoticed, Aurangzeb sent out the signal that IITians
are ready for bigger things. Watch out for the next production. Its coming soon
to a theatre near you.
Hostel nite theme… Pseuds vs Country.
Initially it was decided to have the hostel nite theme as "
Traditional Indian Village". This infuriated the so-called "
Pseud" people in the hostel who couldn't bear to see Alak going
"Country". After a lot of hot debate in which the main reason behind
having hostel nites were elucidated and interpreted, it was finally decided to
have a less " country" theme, as ‘Malgudi nites’. This satisfied the
Indian village supporters, as Malgudi was an Indian village township, as well
as the " Pseuds" as R.K. Narayanan is a very classy Indian-English
author. With unseasonal showers threatening to wash out many hostel nights like
they did to Mandak and Ganga, we might have had to go the Godav way and have it
in the SAC, which though may be a big space, has acoustics bad enough to make
Cacofonix cry.
Holi for Alak Barbarians.
Holi, the one
festival celebrated more vigorously in IITM than any other place this side of
the Tropic of Cancer became a day of naked torsos and police chases. Shirt
tearing and declaring war on other hostels marked the day, with pugnacious
Alakites making it a day to remember. The customary beach dip in true IIT
tradition was threatened by a police blockade against half nude coloured dudes
heading for the beach. Some people who got to the beach by bicycle avoiding the
cops by taking alternate routes were still being chased around. As if like a
manna from heaven comes the Insti bus loaded with IITians marching to the beach. The cops saw the crowd and
gave up. Another Holi ended with a splash!
Raagah… the magic of music.
After Raagaha, if you ask someone walking along the way
which is the hostel with the best
musical talent, invariably the
answer will be Alak. The stupendous performance
by Bapu , BD and Gadha on their instruments and the vocal orchestrations by
Jaat and Negi left everyone enthralled. The unequivocal master of masters was …
you guessed it, the one and only Joel Jacob Koshy, the wizard of the keys. His
Scott Joplin renditions blew the living daylights of all who were there, so
much that he was called for an encore. A lot of effort is being put to have one
final performance by so talented a musician on the Alak hostel nite. Believe us
… that will be something to remember.