National inter-college fest at M.O.P Vaishnav

September 29, 2012 04:02 pm | Updated June 28, 2016 11:39 pm IST - Chennai:

Grand fete: Participants at the Jhankar Intellegentia Fest at M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women.

Grand fete: Participants at the Jhankar Intellegentia Fest at M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women.

M.O.P Vaishnav College for Women organised a national inter-collegiate event, Jhankar Intellegentia Fest, on September 22 and 23 as part of its bi-decennial celebrations. 40 colleges across Tamil Nadu and two national colleges participated in the event. The event provides and 23 of September. This cultural event that is organized every year is an intercollegiate festival, providing a platform for all the students to exhibit their talents.

The first day saw dance performances by the students, while many took part in events such as photography, product designing, web designing, stand-up comedy, comic strip and street plays.

As a test of their elocution skill, students delivered speeches in M.O.P Box Speaker contest. Blog writing, script writing and cooking competition was also held.

Raghav (actor/dancer) ,Jayalakshmi (dancer), Karthikeyan (singer) were the judges.

Loyola College took away the overall trophy. The winners were felicitated by the principal of the college, Dr. K. Nirmala Prasad.

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The college also organised the sixth edition of the corporate quiz “BUSTLE ‘12” at September 2012 in GRT Grand Business Hotel as part of the celebration. Over 55 organisations participated. Teams from CTS, TCS, Orchid Chemicals, Caterpillar, Infosys, RBS,HCL, India Infoline battled with each other to win cash prizes worth over Rs.70,000.

The quiz was designed and conducted by Mitesh Agarwal.

The first prize was bagged by Jayakanth and Srikanth of TCS, second prize by to Gopal and Swamy from MM and Citibank respectively, and the third prize by Francis and Alagar from HDFC Life and Ujjivam. The college secretary, M.L. Gupta, gave away the prizes.

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