Manipal Digest

  Festival of Ideas - Day 1 06/10/22 - By Tarang Mathur The Festival of Ideas as an event is an innovative creation of the Editorial Board of Kasturba Medical College. It is an annual fest conducted to showcase talent across the college through forms of art like photography and writing, with events based around the same. These were based on the firm belief that medicine is incomplete without an understanding and appreciation for the fine arts. The first day of the Festival began with the inauguration of the event, which lasted for about an hour, from 10 to 11 AM. For short, the Festival of Ideas (FoI) had events and a workshop that lasted over 5 hours, starting from 4 PM till 9 PM, based either in or around Interact Halls at KMC. The first event to mark the start of this Fest was Photo Quest, a photography-based treasure hunt. It involved and relied on problem-solving skills required to figure out the locations and clues and on photography to click pictures based on the given p...

  Sanskriti - Day 6 19/9/22 -By Aditya Damaraju The final day of Sanskriti aimed at closing this fest with a bang and was successful in doing so as the events commenced in the prestigious TMA Pai Hall around 4 PM. The air of excitement and cheerfulness was almost contagious as participants geared up to perform in respective events to give us a show to remember. The folk group dance competition was a dazzling display as participants donning colorful cultural attires put a show and never missed a beat. The variety of expressions they portrayed just through their dance in just 5 minutes of allotted time was simply a joy to watch. There was no shortage of talent as each batch of MCOPS had a maximum of 2 groups allowed and there could be 4-10 people in any given act.  Mad Ads was successful in testing the acting prowess of all those who partake in the event as in this unique competition contestants had to act out an entire advertisement sequence only with the voice of the narr...

Sanskriti - Day 5 18/9/22 - By Gautam Prabhu After the incredible quizzes of Day 4 that were mostly restricted to one room, the festive mood returned to the rest of the MCOPS building as another set of events took place on Day 5. You could hear the hooting and the clapping as soon you entered the campus as people cheered on the participants.  Being a Sunday, the events started quite early from around 10 am and lasted till 8 in the evening. Unfortunately, due to some logistical issues, the clay modelling event had to be cancelled. The organizers announced it the day before, to the dismay of the participants, but they were assured they’d get their registration fees back. The day started with the Debate and Eastern Solo Dance competitions concurrently. The Eastern Solo Dance participants were supposed to perform on songs in Hindi or any other Indian language with a time limit of 4 min per performance. Most performers used a medley of various beautiful songs while the audience che...

  Sanskriti Day 4  -17/9/22 -By Tarang Mathur Day 4 of this beautiful week-long cultural fest, that is Sanskriti’ 22, being held at the MCOPS campus had a lot of exciting and exhilarating events spanning through the length of the entire day, from 8 AM through 7 PM.  The same hall/room, was assigned to host all the events happening on that day, that is New Lecture Hall 9. Most of the preliminary rounds of all the events had the same question paper format and since they were all in the form of a quiz, there was only a restricted time given to all the teams of participants to answer all the questions.   The hall was filled to the brim with enthusiastic teams of student participants. There was so much enthusiasm among the students, to participate, that the hall fell short of seats to accommodate all those present. Most of the preliminary selections pf the events, had to have two rounds, to accommodate more participants The first prelim to take place was that of Spot ...

Sanskriti - Day 3 16/9/22 - By Aditya Damaraju Third day of the prestigious Sanskriti fest on 15th September, kicked off at 5:30 PM with a dazzling array of competitions showcasing the bright talents of students of all years from MCOPS. The noise from the speakers made it imminent that the Duet Dance held in Room 228 was already a huge hit among participants , who were both from the same gender and opposite as they donned their various outfits to offer a scintillating display of chemistry, performing across genres. The judges had plenty to choose from as they judged the contestants on the basis of their choreography, expressions and execution among other things. Participants were each given 4 minutes to wow the crowd and win them over with a plethora of songs and dances, from eastern to western. They danced with energy and never missing a beat as the crowd cheered them all with full enthusiasm. Eastern singing solo held in Room 227 was a standout event as audiences packed in huge ...