Tuesday 5 February, 2008

Unmaad - Whattay celebration!!!

Man... I must say, there are better things than the placements and hmmm... ok.. fine...”learning" that happens at Business schools... February 1st to 3rd saw the manifestation of the tenth emotion at Unmaad - the annual cultural festival of IIM Bangalore. It was big.. to say the least.. Total prize money of 7 lakhs to be won .. and the IIMB campus saw colleges from around the country fight it out .. as each one tried to establish its supremacy, we the junta at IIMB, savoured every moment of a well deserved, well organized and thoroughly enjoyable break.

The campus was filled with people, noise, colours.... every lawn had a stage erected and events going on.. where there were no stages there were stalls... from main sponsor LG to the smallest of the guys who sponsored the events, everyone had their share of the campus... and well.. yes. the crowd.. I guess we had a fashion show going on through the 3 days... :P .... Lasses from around the country.. and each tried to look better than the other.. Me and my gang of friends here enjoyed the noise, crowd and the ..well u know!!... he he he..

.. Zero, Motherjane on one day and Strings and Mrigya on the second... These events saw the rock, pop and fusion music lovers of Bangalore flock to the campus to watch their favourite bands perform for them...

Now, all this was in stark contrast to what you would find if you dropped in during the placement season to our campus.. It would be so quiet... you would see people in business suits looking at their managerial best..and the air around would vibe with business jargons... how the markets are... corporate strategies... why a product worked... and what not!!....

But this contrast I guess is what is striking about the life in here... "Work hard.. Party harder" .. seems to be the mantra.. When the curtains came down at Unmaad 2008, i guess the participants would have bee shocked by the party that happened at the hostel side, L^2 (pronounced L square) to be precise... A couple of my friends who had come down to watch the whole thing said "When we think of IIM Bangalore.. we think of intellectual stuff.. the 0.1 percentile of CAT... people who would be analyzing startegies or crunching numbers all the time.. but this is so different...".. he he he... Well... after all we all are twenty somethings who love to live our life king size....

Anyways.. all I can say is that this place teaches you to be versatile... Because so many diverse things happen around the year here, even the biggest muggus will find an event by which they break all shackles of the muggu life and let their hair down... and then .. there is no looking back!.... That is one of the biggest take aways any person can have from this place i guess.. whether you learn something or not (which is contingent upon every individual.. what can the insti do?), you definitely lose your inhibitions... you start loving life.. you start living life!!....

So... after those 3 days of eternal bliss. I am back at my desk.. saturday and sunday I got my mid terms.. time to start mugging... may be we will have an L^2 to relax after the exams ;)

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