YELL IT OUT

Debate Competition-24th October,2007

2007-10-25T11:46:00.001-07:00

2007-11-28T12:57:00.000-08:00

Blog Wars: Billy Cat's Post

2008-10-17T21:42:00.001-07:00

UN-BELONG. HEAD-STRONG.

We all look for saviours:
In God, in art, in imagination, in need,
In a world shaky with insecurity and threat,
In violence and silence,
In the comforts of our soul,
In pretty pictures we make for ourselves,
To place on a mantel, a wreath of flowers around it,
Rosary and holy water in place,
Facing east.

Come together,
in the name of the pure,
systematically stereotyped, under the norm of another.
Unsighted but surrendered to belief,
for protection, for camaraderie,
for someone to stand up for you when you fall.
Drugged in hope,
That runs in blood.
Generation after generation.

Challenge the labeling.
Unassuming but dangerous,
Racing at the pulse during dialogue,
But silently pinning name
under forefathers,
in religious conviction.

Defy.
Awakened by its flaws,
by its wrongs,
by the millions still asleep.
Blinded and cozy,
under the warmth of its sanctuary,
feeding it as it grows way beyond its control.

The snores of so many
resonate in the violence.
Unresolved.
But bound to the faith they are recognized with.
Misused,
by the ones who lead them to divinity.

Faith,
In what?
Carriers and bowlfuls
will not bring me what is inside.
And spirituality will die
with every conversion, every imposition,
with every one destroyed.

Few will light a candle to their names,
and resume whispering in hymns of silence.
Amen.

[ http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=7W7axjovSy0 ]

Blog Wars: Vineeth's (Bibinho) Post.

2008-10-16T10:33:00.000-07:00

There are hundreds of thousands of people out there who are either agnostics, atheists or religious fundamentalists. A fundamentalist 'knows' that God exists and whatever is said in the holy book of his religion is the truth for him. Similarly, an atheist knows that God does not exist and to believe that he does is a dangerous delusion. Then there are the agnostics, in doubt about the existence of God or more precisely, what sort of God. Yet leaving all of them aside we get to the billions of people who merely have a profound belief in God.

For an atheist with his scientific reasoning, prooving how incredulous the existence of a supernatural God is, perhaps easy. Even a child can see the huge holes in the reasons offered by the major religious texts of the world to show the existence of God. Yet there still remains a large number of 'believers' who want to believe in a power out there just to hold on to a faith that their lives is not just about the material world but is also a part of some grand cosmic design that has some pre-ordained meaning to it.

These people have no doubts in believing that God exists just as much as their children or their parents or their friends. To them questioning the existence of God is a matter of survival. If there was no God then at the end there would be no point in their lives. So they just 'have to believe'! They just 'have to have faith'!

All the religions of the world just exploit this basic instinct of humans for their own materialistic needs. This world is just all about power and glory and whatever weapon is to be used to achieve this, man will use it. This has been prooved over the years and will continue to be the same. Just a look at how religions have 'evolved' over the years is enough to show you this. The old testament which proclaimed that a child who swears at his parent should be killed has over the years turned out to be unacceptable even though it was supposedly Jesus himself who said that only the strict adherance to the text of the testament can lead you to heaven. But with passing times came the New testament and with it 'gentle' Jesus. What is this 'new' 'sacred' book if not an attempt by a religious thinker to tinker with his religious believes in a way as to keep it acceptable to the changing world?

This is pretty much the same with almost all religions. If sati, casteism, child marriage and other social evils were propogated with the help of Hinduism, similar practices can be found in Islam, Judaism and almost every other religion. Over the passage of time all this has been conveniently 'modified' to ensure the safety of the religion.

But all this has been done only because there still remain people who 'need' their faith just as much as they need bread. As i have already said, it is a matter of survival. A religion or faith in a God provides people with some direction in life. Faith in reaching heaven or in karma etc. keeps the 'common' man going. To blame religion for all the problems of the world is unrealistic. Religions exist just for man. Man created religion and religions created god. At the end of the day the root cause for all evil is man himself.

For survival, man will do anything. It is afterall survival of the cunningest, boldest, strongest and the fittest.

Blog Wars: Lead Post. The root cause, Religion.

2008-10-13T23:55:00.000-07:00

At the outset, let me make it clear that this is to hurt religious sentiments, for, that’s the problem, religion. Not one religion, but the entire concept of religion. I doubt if God, if he really does exist, really wanted his favourite disciples and messengers to write books about how to lead life, only to be conveniently misinterpreted by his ‘followers’ a thousand years later and fight over which line means what, and more so, spread terror, forcefully convert and burn places of worship in the name of god. Krishna churns out the Bhaghvat Geeta in the middle of a war, Manu writes stupid one-sided laws because he thinks he knows life like the back of his hand, Allah comes to Mohhamed and whispers the secrets of leading a perfect life in his ears and he writes it down for us, and the Bible is written for some random reason before Jesus was born and it is suddenly accepted as the way to lead life after Jesus becomes a star. Then kings of Europe and Popes conveniently change it to suit their needs.

As much as we can blame our forefathers for getting sucked into this vacuum called religion, and our present citizens for spreading the religion and spreading violence and terror in the name of god, you have to blame that common man, who first asks his fellow citizen what his religion is, that common man, who bases every problem and the solution on religion, the common man who endorses religion in a public manner. And the biggest culprit of all is that common man, who silently feels happy when his religion wins. He might not go out and fight for his religion or spread it, but he feels happy when someone else does it.

Take the Saffron Terror for example. People I know sit at home and watch on television how those cruel goons are burning churches and killing people, and say “Oh my god! What are they doing?” But deep within them, they like it. They like the fact that their religion is showing power, and the other religion, is just waiting to avenge this. They are sitting and plotting for the next bomb blast. For what? Religion. And the worst part in all of this, the politician who is making money with every blast and riot and conversion, knows the inner sentiments of people. He knows they like it, he wants them to like him, he needs their vote, he does it. Again and again. Karnataka is up next. We can see the Modi effect coming, the number of SIMI activists are increasing and growing stronger, and conversions are slowly rising.

So who do we blame? Blame yourself. Blame you parents. Because you and your family never understood one fact, every religion has creeps. Every saint, sadhu, mullah and godman is a faker. And that goes to EVERY religion. Blame yourself if you take the side of one religion. There are good people in every religion, and there are bad people in every religion too. And the bad ones are more. Stop living in a utopian world.

Communal cleansing is bad. Killing the kaffir and a million innocents in a blast is bad. Conversion is bad, not only forceful conversion, but conversion itself. Keep the “law allows it” argument to yourself. Twenty years in India I have understood the worth and the correctness of law, that too for religion! We don’t even have a uniform civil code.

I take permission from Rags to narrate her incident. She went to cover the recent church attacks in Udupi for The Manipal Journal. She met an acquaintance there who is known for his rightist inclination. He said, “Oh, nothing much, these are just small incidences.” Two minutes later, while she is standing outside the hospital and having a first-hand interaction with the three or four mildly injured people, she gets a message from a Christian sympathiser, “15 people badly injures, 1.5 lacs worth of property demolished.”

Both of them were wrong, both of them are a part of the problems our country faces. They take sides, they are adding up to the problem. They are divinding the country, they are suppressing and spreading hatred.

They say Saffroner led riots are ‘reactions’. Yeah right it is! What kind of an impulsive reaction is an orchestrated attack on thousands of people? They say Islamists terrorist have gone to the level for bombing because they have been pushed to it. Oh, give me a break. They enjoy the laws they want, they are pretty much well off economically and if they have the power to spread terror to this level, they have the power to eradicate all problems without bombing. They say conversion is not wrong, hell it is! Why do you need to convert if you really believe in god and just helping someone out! It is the same old colonial funda, convert as many people for political gains.

However, this is not to say that religion should be done away with. All this while, I was talking about religion in practice. Religion in principle, though to me looks useless, can be followed. But keep it to yourself. You can pray to god at home, you need not go to Tirupati, Mecca or The Vatican. And yeah, let us not even talk about giving grants to temple, Haj and Churches from MY TAX MONEY, when I hate these concepts.

And yes, secularism, whatever it means, is a big joke. Congressmen should go take a hack. You can’t have equality in religion when ALL the decisions are based on religion and you give useless reservations in education and employment based on religion and caste. Ok, do it, but don’t call it to be a way to do any kind of justice. Lets learn a bit, a bit, from the secularism in France.

The bottom line is this, if you want “peace and equality”, take that concept called religion and tuck it under your coat. Keep it yourself. Today, you are the problem. You support your religion publicly; you think your people are right. No, every religion has creeps. Every religion has to be blamed. If Ram made a mistake, so did Ahmed and Antony and vice versa. Like they say, “Taali ek haath se nahi bajti”. Sabko pakdo, sabko maaro. Aur aisa maaro ki woh vaapas na aaye. (Catch hold of every one of them and hit them. Hit them so hard that they won’t get back.) And yeah, Ahimsa can wait till it is actually possible.

Are you in?

2008-03-23T10:53:00.000-07:00

Manipal bloggers' meet

18/04/2008 at 14:00

2007-Resounding Success

2008-01-09T23:17:00.000-08:00

The year 2007 was a historic year for YELL club. In fact i would go a step further and say it was the turning point for the club. The club which was found in September 2006 had a rough run in the initial semester. But then again there were various factors for that. Firstly it was a group of 9 people to be precise who started the club. The idea was very new and students in the college weren't sure whether it would work out or not. We organized two discussion forums in the beginning (which now goes by the name of 'Shout Out') which got a descent response. By the end of 2006 we realized that we will have to market this club in a better manner in order to reach out to the students. We were firm about one thing from the beginning that the core of the club would be "expression" and for the club"quality matters more then quantity" . The club would act as a forum for all students to come and express themselves. Obviously music and dance wouldn't fit in this category as we already had a cultural committee in place to organize that. We started the year 2007 on a different note. In Feb we organized a 'public speaking' workshop which was conducted by Dr. George Mclemore, Rtd prof University of Texas Pan America. The workshop was for MIC students and had a free entry. The aim of the workshop was to make students to come forward and drop their inhibitions to become better expressers through public speaking. And to our surprise we had a turn out of 30 students. Whats important to note here is that we were asked to take only 25 students but due to the huge demand for participation we had to close the intake of the students at 30. The workshop was instrumental in making the students aware about the club and its objectives. The workshop was followed by a inter MIC debate competition which was held in the month of March. The debate competition saw 8 of the best debaters coming forward and voicing their opinions in an hour long fierce debate which saw a huge response from the audience. We went a step ahead in the month of April by organizing the University level photography certified workshop. This workshop was again conducted by Dr. George Mclemore who is also a known photographer and has just finished writing a book on photography. 30 participants from 10 different colleges of Manipal University participated in this workshop which was conducted on two days over a period of one week. This workshop was a resounding success which bolstered the image of the club. YELL was now not only known in MIC but also in different colleges of Manipal University thanks to this workshop. In fact there were a few people who wanted to join the club at that time but we weren't ready to take members yet. The semester saw the club organizing three major events which saw a encouraging response and the club got the much needed publicity. But this was not the end. The academic year ended on a all time high when the club was issued the ISO 9001 certificate. We couldn't have asked for a better ending to the academic year. As we headed in the new academic year by now the club was stable enough and clear about its objectives it was time to start enrolling members. We enrolled members from the existing batches which were the 2nd BAJC, 3rd BAJC and MS 2nd year. We decided not to register members from the fresh batches that included 1st BAJC and 1st MS. But instead we organized an exclusive 2 day literary event by the name of "Expload" for the freshers. The 2 day event included debate,dumb charades, creative writing and extempore. This event was organized to give the freshers a platform to come forward and exhibit their talent. The event got a good response and day 2 ended with the prize distribution. Expload gave the freshers an idea and feel about the club. Once the event got over we started registering the freshers in the club. September 5th was the last date and to our surprise 55 students joined the club. It was heartening to see that in it's very first year the club was able to register so many members. We had to select 4 news members for the core committee from the new batches to expand it to 10 members. After a 3 hour long rigourous interview session we finally selected 4 new freshers out of the 26 candidates The subtle message was that people started believing in the club and its activities. The other events organized were "Shout out" and Bibliomania which was the brain child of the UG 1st years. They organized the event which saw the book lovers of MIC come together. The mother of all events was organized in October- The first ever Intra MIC literary Events... "The YELL WEEK". The event was organized for 5 days that included 8 literary events... The objective of the event was to infuse enthusiasm among students for literary activities and also at the same time build a good literary team for the college. YELL was delegated the responsibility to build a good literary team for the college....so we decided to raise the bar and made the events a bit tough...this way we would expose the participants to the tough competition that awaits them in inter college events. Its a gradual process and if we keep organizing events like this on a regular basis and keep raising the bar then we will surely start winning events in tough inter college events. This is a long term strategy which will surely prove fruitful in the years to come. The YELL week saw 56 participant from all the the 5 batches. The best part was that people who are shy in classes not only participated but also won events. This underlines one fact that everyone has talent, it just needs to be nurtured.

In retrospect the last semester was the most happening semester for YELL club. We have taken not a single penny from the college and university but still have ensured that we give away quality mementos and certificates to encourage more participation. But the key of the last semester i would say was the cohesiveness which with the whole club worked..the team work displayed in all the major and small events was the key behind the club's success. There are a few freshers who have shown a lot of enthusiasm and i believe they are the future of this club

But i believe this is just the beginning and it is time for us to raise the bar even higher.We are now firm within the college and now its time to prove ourselves outside. In November YELL also tied up with 'India First' a Bangalore based youth NGO. The vision both the organizations share is to help each other grow across India and build a umbrella of all the youth based clubs and organization to come together and emanate mass social campaigns across the nation. The coming semester is going to be even more challenging as we gear ourselves up to organize the first ever Student Media Convention by the name of 'Manipal Student Media Convention'. The idea is to bring media students, students interested in media and experts from the industry for a direct interaction. The Convention would serve as a interface between the experts and the fiture of media. The theme for the convention would be "New Media". The biggest challenge is to get sponsors. I am sure the way we have worked in the last semester we will surely be able to execute this event on a large scale and make it a grand spectacle. I would like to end by stating that this is just the beginning. We still have a long long way to go and have to set newer goals for the club. If we work cohesively and with the same enthusiasm then sky is the limit. Looking forward to the next semester with a hope that we will pull out some more pleasant surprises. Till then keep YELLING......

Sameer Ahmad Hashmi

Jam Round II- 22nd November,2007

2007-11-28T12:25:00.000-08:00

The IInd round of Jam was conducted on 22nd November, 2007. After the YELL WEEK got over this was the first activity organized by YELL club. The main idea to hold round II was to involve more ppl in Jam. The results were pretty evident with 4 new faces participating in Jam who didn't participate in The YELL WEEK Jam. The six participants were- Vineeth, Amie,Vikarn,Naim,Ragamallika and Kaushik. Ram was the moderator for the event while Ajinkya and Sonali were the scorers. After 4 crazy rounds to everyone's surprise Naim piped Kaushik by a whisker to win the evnt. It was heartning to see new ppl getting interested in the event. YELL plans to hold more of such activities in the coming semester on regular basis to encourage more participation from MICians in literary events.

The YELL WEEK has arrived

2007-10-22T12:09:00.000-07:00

MIC's first ever literary fest is all set to begin tomorrow. The five day fest will include 8 events and around 50 participants from all classes of MIC are expected to take part in these events. Some events would also be a selection procedure for the college literary team for Utsav. The YELL WEEK is been organized with the objective of encouraging more participation among students for literary events which would help in building a good literary team. All your suggettions and opinions are welcome. keep checking this space for all thats happening during YELL WEEK. Come be a part of it and make yr presence felt.....

Creating News...

2007-11-04T21:43:00.001-08:00

First of all ,YELL would like to thank The Manipal Journal for covering our event from the bottom of its heart...

A students initiative, TMJ has presented a great example by not only starting a trend among students to read the e-paper but also teaching others how to maintain consistency...this group of dedicated students actuaaly come out with their issue on time and with some great news...great initiative...great dedication...

click below to chek out YELL's story on The Manipal Journal dated 29th October, 2007
http://www.themanipaljournal.110mb.com/News3.htm

Prize Distribution- YELL WEEK

2007-10-28T11:39:00.000-07:00

The five day extravaganza literary fest of MIC came to an end on Saturday. Followed by Pot Pourri was the prize distribution which saw a huge audiance. Till day 5 no results were announced and hence all the participants were keen to find out the winners. The list of the winners will be displayed at the bottom. The Chief guest for the prize distribution was our hon'ble Director, Dr.Buroshiva Dasgupta. Vardesh sir was the special guest for the prize distribution. One could see the tension and excitement among the audiance as the results of each event were read out. After the prize distribution Dr. Dasgupta appreciated the talent of MIC and asked them to take the forward step-that is to win prizes in inter-collegiate events. He also praised YELL club for putting up a great event which saw good participation.
Another special person for the event was the faculty co-ordinator of Yell club- Prof. Subramaniam. Rightly described by Elvin (Events & Publicty Head) the M.C for the prize distribution cermony that Prof. Subramaniam was the invincible force behind Yell club
and due to his unconditional support that the club has progressed so far. Prof. Subramaniam appreciated the full team of Yell for pulling of such a great event.
Followed by his address the organizing team of Yell week were given certificates by Prof. Subramaniam. It is thanks to these people that Yell week became a reality. The prize distribution came to an end with the vote of thanks delievered by Sameer (president of the club). the whole core committee and some key memebers of Yell club were given a big around of applause for their spectacular efforts which were put in to make Yell week a reality.

List of Winners-

Event 1- Mock Press
1) Nithya.B
2) Ragamalika.K
3) Sherin.E

Event 2- Debate
Winning Team- 1) Nithya.B, Shireen.E & Prathima

Event 3- Creative Writing
1) Meera.B
2) Yamini.V
3) Anna.S

Event 4- Block& Tackle
1) Ranjini.A
2) Ragamalika.B
3) Vineeth

Event 5- Spellathon
1) Shwetha.A
2) Parsana
3) Kaushik.C

Event 6- Jam
1) Nithya.B
2) Nikitha.S
3) Kaushik.C

Event 7- Pot Pourri
1) Team- Anisha, Shireen & Anna
2) Team- Pavithra, Ajinkya & Ami
3) Team- Ryan, Ranjini & Anjana

Event 8- Photography- Framed
1) Pratiksha.L
2) Ashwini.N
3) Shaz.M

YELLER of the YELL WEEK,2007
Ragamalika.K

Day 5-YELL WEEK

2007-10-28T11:15:00.000-07:00

Event- Pot Pourri

The last event of the YELL WEEK- pot pourri was an all out fun event. The event began with six teams participating in the prelims. The prelim round was the movie round.
Four teams proceeded to the finals. The first was the pictionary round in which one member was suppose to draw on the white board and the respective team was suppose to guess the word. The second round was the personality round in which each team was allowed to ask 20 questions to one of the teammates and
member and guess the personality. The last round was divided into two stages. Stage one was the movie round in which one member was suppose to enact the movie to the 2nd member while the 3rd person would sit the otherway. After the allotted time the second person is suppose to enact the same movie to the third person and he/she was suppose to guess the movie. The final stage was the ;Event' round. Here again one member was allowed to enatc with the other teammate and the 3rd participant is suppose to guess the event. The event included certain keyword which the team was suppose to get right.
On the whole the event was fun, though the level was a bit tough in order to raise the bar.The four teams that made it to the finals were-
Team A- Anisha, Anna & Shireen
Team B- Ajinkya, Pavithra & Amie
Team C- Ryan, Ranjini & Anjana
Team D- Ashwini,Prasana & Karmaniya

The audiance enjoyed the whole event and kept everyone engrossed. The event was perfect to end the YELL WEEk on a high note.

DAY 5_ SCHEDULE

2007-10-26T21:22:00.000-07:00

Event- Pot Pourri
The grand finale of YELL WEEK has arrived. The last day will be hosting the 'Pot pourri'. Teams will battle it out to win and become the best expressers. A plethora of teams are expected to take part in the final event of the YELL WEEK. This event will have a prelim from which 4 teams will be selected for the finals. The finals will have 3 entertaining rounds making the battle even more tougher.

Venue- MIC Lobby
Time- 5-15 pm

Prize Distribution
Followed by Pot Pourri would be the prize distribution of YELL WEEK. The results of all the 8 events would be given away. And with this we would come to an end of one week of extravaganza which MIC witnessed.Please be there to find out who the winners are and who wins the pivotal award- 'The YELLER OF THE WEEK'.

Venue- MIC Lobby
Time- 6-45 pm

Day 4- YELL WEEK

2007-10-26T21:05:00.000-07:00

Event 1- Spellathon
Organizers-Ragamalika, Adithi & Sonali
Day 4 of YELL WEEK can be easily described as the craziest so far. The evening kicked off with the spellathon. The first round was the prelim in which 13 people participated from which 6 advanced to next round. This was followed by 4 more rounds. After each round a participant was eliminated. Kaushik, Shwetha Arun and Prasana made it to the last round round. It was a very close event and on day 5 we will find out who becomes the master of spellings.

Event2- Jam
Organizers- Ram, Rohan, Ajinkya, Kerban, Elvin & Sameer

Arguably the craziest of all events. The event began with two HAMs (Half a minute). A total of 10 partcipants took part in this. The number was brought down to 6 for the main JAM. And from here began a series of crazy rounds. The 2nd round was the most funny one in which every participant after objecting to the speaker had to sing a funny poem for one of audience of the opposite gender. That poem ended with the line "I want a big wet kiss'. The lst round was even better because in this round if a participant objected then the person next to him would get a chance to tell the right reason which made the round even more confusing and funny. The 6 finalists were Ranjini, Nikitha,Vineet,Amie,Kaushik and Nithya. This event went down the wire and it was very close competition when it came down to teh results. The audience was engrossed through out making it a popular event.Saturday evening find out who wins the JAM.

Day 4- Schedule

2007-10-25T12:42:00.000-07:00

Day 4 of YELL WEEK will be hosting two events in the evening. Spell-a-thon will be the first event of day 4. All the masters of the English language who hold a tight grip over the language will battle it out to become the champion of spellings.
Venue- MIC Lobby
Time- 5-15 pm

The second event for the evening will be JAM (Just a minute). This will be begin immediatly after the Spellathon gets over. The quickest of thinkers and speakers will clash head to head to win the 'Best Jamer' title of MIC.
Venue- MIC Lobby
Time- 6-30 pm

Day 4 is also the last date for submission of photographs for the photography competition. The deadline is 2 pm. All the participants are requested to mail their photographs to yellitout@gmail.com by 2 pm. For further queries please contact the following yell members-
MS 2nd year- Sameer & Vandana
MS 1st year- Elvin, Rohan, Rahul & Meha
BAJC 3rd year- Arha
BAJC 2nd year- Ruchika & Ridhima
BAJC 1st year- Ajinkya, Kerban & Sonali

Day 4 looks exciting, looking forward to a great response.
cheers

Day 3- Creative Writing

2007-10-25T12:36:00.000-07:00

All the creative writers and thinkers of MIC assembelled under the same roof to express their thoughts and penned their ideas for the creative writing competition. Arguably the most popular event of YELL WEEK so far, the creative writing competition saw more than 30 writers taking part and expressing their thoughts on a photograph that was displayed during the event. Whoever wins the event but one thing is for sure that MIC possesses some passionate and enthusiastic writers.

Day 3: Block and Tackle

2007-10-25T06:51:00.000-07:00

Block and Tackle

Judges: Neeta ma’am and Ravi Sir
Organisers: Sonali and Ridhima

Ahoy there!!! Talk crap and here you go… You will be on the way to victory… Or so you think!!! Did I just contradict myself?? Oh yes I did!!! When you speak you are supposed to say things that won’t contradict your previous statements. But Block and Tackle is an event where you are supposed to contradict yourself and that also in style.

Eight participants were battling it out with their witty humour and fast transititions .The event started with Ami talking about promises that were never kept, while Aashica talked about the famous topic of “She Loves me, She Loves me Not” with ‘Personal examples from YELL”!!! Nilanjan talked about boring conversations and so the story went… The topics might sound absurd but they were actually “designed” to test the participants humour, presence of mind and confidence. The audience was quite lively as usual.

The first round was one without anyone asking the participants to block or tackle. But the second round started with Ryan asking the participants to block and to tackle. This was the fun part of the competition. After hearing Ryan do the “Block and Tackle” thing, Ami said that she could not do this anymore!!! The people sitting as the audience were quite amused and were loving it!!!!

The event as a whole was a great one. Humour, presence of mind and intelligence were the winners at the end. The participants gave a new meaning to “cracking jokes seriously”. And after the event, people were seen laughing at the wierd things that were said by the participants.

Day 3- Schedule

2007-10-24T10:33:00.000-07:00

Day 3 of YELL WEEK will be hosting two events. The evening will kick off with creative writing competition at exactly 5-15 pm. All the creative minds will pen down their provocking thoughts through their distuinguished styles and interpretations. All participants are requested to be there on time as they won't be allotted any extra time.
Venue- LH 5
Time- 5-15 pm

The second event of the day would be block and tackle. This event will showcase a blend of knowledge, logic, thoughts and humor. The event would start exactly at 6 pm in the lobby. Looking forward to a great response on day 3.
Venue- MIC lobby
Time- 6pm

Day 2- YELL WEEK

2007-10-24T10:13:00.000-07:00

24.10.2007

Debate

Judges: Mrs. Kinnari, Dr. Kushal Kumar and Karthik Iyer

The judges were class apart themselves. Mrs. Kinnari was a faculty at MIC for over five years. She was known among her students as some one who used to teach through debates. Dr. Kushal Kumar is known for his knowledge on varied topics. And, Mr Karthik is a University level debater who represents TAPMI at various high level competitions.

So here it is- The debate competition at the Yell Week. Many people were waiting for this event because this event happens to be one of the most fought for events. Many try to get into the team, but only the best are selected. But again, the people who get selected are just a little fierce in expressing their opinions, be it for the good or bad.

The issue for this year’s debate was “Is the bi party system better than the multi party system”. Looking at the arguments coming from the participants, it’s quite hard to think that they are college going students. In fact, out of the six participants, just one person (Sherin) happened to be from First Year MSCOM. The rest participants were from First Year and Second Year BAJC. It’s quite tough to comprehend the fact that college going students can be so politically aware. The kind of examples that were being used, were just too brilliant. Legally speaking, none save one, was eligible to even drive!!! But man, did they know how to drive the nation towards better governance and functioning!!!

When the debate started, the participants looked quite confident while speaking. But anyone can speak when not being questioned. But the real test is when they are questioned back for the arguments that they made. This happened during the rebuttal round. Judges bombarded the participants with some real tough questions. But it turned out that the participants were just too confident about their sides. They were quite clear in their heads about their stand on the topic.

The team of Sherine, Prathma and Nithya stood for the bi party system. And the team of Sonali, Ajinkya and Ragamallika constituted the team that stood against the two party systems.

At the end of the day, both the teams were happy with the discussion and also with the audience. The audience was an excited lot. The debate ended with Sameer, the Club President thanking all the judges and the audience and not forgetting the participants. This debate was a healthy one as one of the judges, Dr. Kushal Kumar said,” Am happy that you took such a topic as now the students know about both kinds of systems.” His words were quite encouraging, both for the participants and the organizers.

Day 2- Schedule

2007-10-23T11:44:00.000-07:00

One of the main events of YELL WEEK - Debate would be held on day 2 of YELL WEEK. Six participants divided into two teams consisting of 3 members each would battle it out head to head by putting across their points through heated arguments to convince the judges and the audience. The topic for the debate is- "Biparty system is better than multiparty system". So come and witness the mother of all arguments on day 2 of YELL WEEK.

Venue- MIC Lobby
Time- 5-15 pm

Day 1- YELL WEEK begins

2007-10-23T11:39:00.000-07:00

Event 1-Mock Press

The YELL week was formally declared open.

Judges-KK, Buroshiva Sir, Sameer

There was a tingle of anticipation in the air; many excited faces could be seen milling around the lobby just before the call for registration was made. Once the event was on, the audience as well as the participants were looking forward to the proceedings. There were two kinds of people: people who had never seen a mock press and some who had seen mock press’. Suffice to say that, what would follow would turn out to be a unique experience for both.

The event was divided into two rounds. The participants would play first the role of an interviewer and then that of an interviewee during the course of the event. The first character, Amitabh Bachchan was played by Meera. And she did manage to scare people. But everything was taken well by the participants as true sportsmanship would demand.

In this round the participants were asked to interview celebrities which seemed to amuse the audience. As the event progressed, it got interesting and eventually became out of the ordinary. Many times witty replies were exchanged. They were laughed off sportively, by the audience and the participants.

Serious issues were dealt in a funny way during the first round. Personalities like Rajnikant, Amartya Sen, Tom Cruise were interviewed by the participants with panache and wit. But the highlight of the event turned out to be the second round. In this second and last round, the participants who were previously the interviewers got to sit on the other side of the tabe by being the interviewee. The judges threw questions at the participants while they volleyed good answers that were just as hard hitting.

The very first of the second ‘interviewee’ round, was a tirade of questions and answers between the most entertaining Laloo Prasad Yadav and the equally enterprising judges. A hearty laugh later, the mood was set for a set of heated and yet extremely engaging ‘conversations’ if they could be called that between the participants and the judges posing as very persistent reporters. The personalities that followed, included Shilpa Shetty, Narendra Modi, M.F. Hussain, and George Bush.

Shilpa Shetty was questioned about her sudden celebrity status and her flop films other than the controversial Gere kiss.
Narendra Modi was questioned about the condition of Gujarat and his new slogan.
M.F. Hussain was asked about the relevance of his paintings to the common man and about the abuse of art in general.
Mahmoud Ahmedejad was questioned about his country being the stage for a third world war and he returned that if it was to be it would be and that if the USA treated his country as dirt beneath their feet, he would retaliate despite his policy of peace.
George Bush was asked about the American public developing a sense of discontent towards his policies especially the wars.
Anil Ambani was questioned about his family dispute and why he doesn’t use a pipeline rather than trucks which congest traffic.
Shoiab Akhtar was told that it is strange that he’s either in a controversy or injured all the time.

The claps and the laughs, that could be heard throughout, were more than enough evidence that the event was not only liked by the participants and the judges but the audience enjoyed it the most! It ended on a thankful note to the volunteers (Meera, Anna, Shankar, Vishnu, Kaushik, Ajinkya), organisers (Priya, Anisha, Ajiknya), the very responsive audience and last but not at all the least, the participants.

Schedule

2007-10-22T12:49:00.000-07:00

Following is schedule for the YELL WEEK-

23rd oct- Mock Press
24th oct- Debate
25th oct- Block N Tackle and Creative writing
26th oct- Jam and Spellathon. Last date for photography competition submission.
27th oct- Pot Pourri and prize distribution