The Integrated Academy of Mnagement and Technology, Ghaziabad, recently concluded its sixth colourful annual festival - Spectrum '01', observed as Founder's day. Spectrum'01' was marked by management and IT games, quizzes, grafity and cartooning, indoor and outdoors sports and various cultural programmes which revealed the multifarious    facets of the students of the institute.

  Guru Tegh Bahadur Polytechnic Institute organised a festival on April 17. Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa was the chief guest while MP Vijay Kr Malhotra and Justice Jaspal Singh were the guests of honour. The students presented a cultural programme, comprising shabad, giddha, mimcry, bhangra, play and many other music and dance events. On the occasion the institute's Automobile Engg Dept and Multimedia and Internet Lab were formally inaugurated by Dhindsa and Justice Singh respectively.

  The IMT, Ghaziabad organised a consulting symposium, 'Compass 2001' on March 22 and 23 at FICCI convention hall. The event involved intense and diverse interactions between business organisations, consultancies and student managers. It tried to raise relevant issues in six sessions.

  The mechanical and production engineering department of Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) organised its annual nationwide technical meet, MACH, from March 26-28. The meet showcased the technical knowhow of the students through events like Epoch, Atelier, Envisage and Facet. There were interactions between industry and students through a number of workshops and talk sessions too. Thirty eight entries from 26 colleges across the country participated in the three day meet.

  ARSD college hosted its annual cultural festival 'Tide 2001' on March 22 and 23. Principal B L Arora inaugurated the fest. Events on the day one included solo dance, group dance, antakshari followed by jam session. The highlight of the day was the dramatic society's presentation, 'Bees saal baad'. Artists Mica and Vipin Taneja performed to a packed crowd on a concluding day.

  The students of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication recently held the journalism festival, Expose 2001. Inaugurating the festival Kuldeep Nayyar stressed the need for objectivity in news reporting. A discussion was organised on - 'The role of media in the era of globalisation' and 'Media and disaster management'. Contests in headline writting, interview, poster making  and debate were held.

  The School of Information Technology at GGSIP University celebrated its annual national IT meet, 'InfoXpression 2001' between March 1 and 3. Inaugurated by Delhi finance minister Mahinder Singh Saathi, the meet included a plethora of technical and cultural events. N Vijayaditya, director general, National Informatics Centre was the guest of honour. Rattan K Dutta, chairman of IT task force, IGNOU and K Subramanian, deputy director general, National Informatics Centre delivered guest lectures on contemporary subjects of ecommerce and its future. Delhi education minister Narendra Nath graced the valedictory function. Events included Info-Verve (technical paper presentation), Apex (Software projects), Twilight Zone (Overnight Programming), Kruti (Website designing), Amber-Ella (day programming), Blitzkrieg (extempore), Clipart (paper collage), Q-Whiz (quiz), Maze (crossword) besides the usual dumb charades, cartooning, IT talk, antakshari, creative writing and  others.

  The recently concluded three day festival of GGSIP university, 'Anugoonj 2001' elicited a favourable response. Kathak maestro Birju Maharaj and noted painter Jatin Das were guests of honour on the inaugural day. Arrayed with a superb madley of the contests for budding artists, cultural connoiseurs and literary geniuses, the fest was a roaring success.  

  Vivekananda Mahila collegehosted its annual intercollege cultural festival, 'Pallavi' recently. Inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. The events included fete, jam session, solo and group dances, dandia, quiz, antakshari and various competitions, like fancy dress, rangoli etc. 

  Fun, 'masti' and 'hungama' were the buzz-words at Management Development Institute (MDI) between January 19 and 21 as the Gurgaon based top ranking B-school hosted its first ever national level inter-college festival-'Zephyr-The Breeze'. Zehpyr started off with a talk by Shiv Khera, the renowned motivational speaker and management guru. The talk was follwed by a Indipop night where musical group Joshilay entertained the the audience. The highlight of the seccond evening of the festival was the fashion parade, 'Infusion'. The best team award went to ABS, Noida and the runners up was the team from MAMC. To cap it all there was a pyrotechnics and rock shows by 'Parikrama'.        

  The Zoology society of Miranda House hosted its two-day fest 'Torrent 2000' recently. The fest showcased a plethora of events. The highlight of the first day was a debate on 'Internet is making us anti social' which was won by a student from Hansraj college. Informals comprised of Antakshari and a fun packed show 'Awesome Twosome' which got everyone's grey cells ticking, the host college bagged the title. Events on the concluding day comprised of a group discussion on the topic 'Young Managers', a lecture on skin allergies by a practising dermatologist from AIIMS and a bioscience quiz titled 'Cash your intelligence' on the lines of KBC. On the spot events entailed model making, crossword and pot decoration. The fest ended with a game show 'Guess the right price' on the lines of popular game show 'Tol Mol Ke Bol'. 

  Maitreyi College celebrated its annual cultural fest 'Rhapsody 2000' between December 20 and 22. Events included antakshari, rang manch (one-act play competition), jigyasa (quiz), firing line (English debate), shabdon ke teer (Hindi debate), extempore, street play, art contests including painting, sketching, collage and cartooning, elocution, Sanskrit shlokas recitation, self composed poetry contest, creative writing, Indian and Western music and dance events, fashion show, jam session, choreography and personality contest. An event titled 'Professional Afternoon' gave students the opportunity to interact with model Richa Sharma.   

  Business Economics Society of Ram Lal Anand College (E) organised its annual academic festival Endeavour 2000 at Hetz Auditorium, YMCA. A discussion on the topic 'Can India achieve nine percent growth?' was the first event of the festival. Bibek Debroy, director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies and Arun Kumar, associate professor in School of Economics, JNU, were the eminent speakers. This was followed by a talk on 'Convergence of economics and management in education' was delivered by C S Venkataratnam, dean, International Management Institute (IMI). An inter-college extempore competition and a quiz competition were also conducted.  

  Adwitya, the fine arts society of Miranda House hosted its fest 'Kalamanch' on Decmber 11 and 12. Gauri Mehta, President, Adwitya informed that the festival held only for the second time since the inception of the society, attracted participation from over 100 students on both the days. Events comprised of inter-college photography and digital creativity competitions and on-the-spot fun contests like face painting, poster designing, collage making, sketching, T-shirt painting, pot painting and amature costume and jewellery designing. A pottery display-cum-workshop was also conducted as a part of the fest. The highlight of the fest though was a talk and a slide show by celebrity photographer Raghu Rai on the first day who also judged the competition. While Sangeeta Kumari from the host college bagged the first prize, Neha Agrawal of St. Stephen's and Tarini of KMC stood second and third respectively.    

  Amity Business School, NOIDA recently hosted its annual cultural festival - Afreen 2000. Colleges from in and around Delhi participated in the two-day fair. Events included the usual games and contests like dumb charades, graffiti, arm-wrestling, face painting, admad, treasure hunt, music, dance and choreography competition, antakshari and a mega 'Hallowene' dance party. The fun events were interspersed with management games, corporate quiz and case study analysis. 

  The Economics Society of Hansraj College organised its annual Economics festival, 'Ecorgy - 2000' recently. The festival showcased a plethora of events - quiz, group discussion and the parliamentary form of debate 'Acropolis : The Student Parliament', JAM and street play amongst a host of other activities. The inaugural seminar had a talk by Gurcharan Das on his book 'India Unbound'. The judges of the street play Arvind Gaur, head of Ashmita Theatre Group and Brajesh Sharma, associated with the Janathya Manch gave tips to the budding actors. Another interesting seminar 'Why is India poor?' conducted by Yazad Jal, Centre For Civil Society, busted common myths regarding India's poverty in an interactive session.  

  Indian Institute of Planning and Management celebrated its annual inter-college management festival 'Amaze - 2000' on November 2 and 3. A career fare facilitating interaction between the students and the corporate world was held on the first day. In return a brand festival providing companies an opportunity to present their brands and carry out an on-the-spot market research was hosted on the concluding day. Other event included debate, antakshari, corporate quiz, jam session, face painting etc. The highlight of the event was the personality contest where Rahul and Chhavi of IIPM were crowned Mr and Miss Amaze respectively.  

  The Zoological Society of Kirori Mal College organised its annual festival 'Ecdysis-2000' from November 7 to 9. The events comprised cultural and health awareness pro9grammes including an audio-visual presentation on the topic of 'Biology-the science of 21st century'; an environment and wildlife quiz. The health awareness programme focussed on heart care. A free heart check up camp - open for general public - and an interactive session on Ischemic heart problems was organised. 

  The Economics Association of Dayal Singh college hosted their annual event 'Ecowaves-2K' on October 19 and 20. Professor Sunanda Sen of JNU enlightened the students on 'Globalisation and the developing countries' while delivering the inaugural lecture. The paper presentation contest during the event drew papers on contemporary issues like 'disinvestment : a panacea for all the PSU's ills'; 'e-commerce and the emerging landscape'; 'efficacy of RBI's intervention in the foreign exchange market'; and 'Indo-US relations: prospects and perspectives'. An extempore tested assimilative skills of the contestants. The concluding day witnessed a debate on 'Resource allocations recommended by the Finance Commission'.