Manfest.
Few weeks before had the annual MANagement FESTival of IIM Lucknow, held truly on a grand scale with huge budget and publicity. Includes lots of case contests, mgmt games, talks by eminent personalities, music shows and quizzes.Attended a talk on communication by Muzaffar Ali (Dir Of Umrao Jaan, poet,painter,politician etc) .He showed us a short video he had made called Rumi in Khusro's land. It was aesthetically shot, with sufi music and songs playing in the background. Showed natural beauty of India, along with the grandeur of Mughal India.
There was Derek's Biz quiz, unfortunately missed out on qualifying. Quality of Ques was not great as usual, but full value in entertainment. Quiz was won by IIM Lucknow team , an alumni and a senior.
Another highlight of Manfest, was a superb play performed by the students, under the guidance of National School Of Drama experts. The play was vijay Tendulkar's "Khamosh Adalat Zaari Hain", or in Marathi I guess it is "Shanthata Court Chalu Ahe". Beautifully enacted, bringing forth the social issues of emancipation of women.
I won a crossword contest, though I am not a regular at that, but the Crossword was quite crackable and had a quizzing element in it.
There were great music shows also , performance by Strings,Silk Route and Euphoria. Palash Sen was amzing, what energy and enthusiasm. The camaraderie between the Pakistani band and Euphoria, they did one song together, was nice to see.