From the Editor’s Desk
I’ve spent the last three hours reading articles on how to beat procrastination (there are so many of them, you’d think people would have better things to do), immersing myself in a misguided sense of feel-good optimism, and then ending up crawling through SMBC yet again. I guess I could do much worse than giving this editorial a shot. Time to draw on my personal Well of Deep, Meaningful Thoughts’tm resources. Oasis/APOGEE/midsems/next sem. Even if said BITSian puts five of the ten hours to good use, we’re collectively wasting around 18,000 hours a day just waiting for BOSM/midsems to approach.
THE TEAM
Dipto; IG, Angad, Manickam, Mohit, Pranita, Spriha, Siddhant, Tanya, Vishala, Shuja;
I’m the last person who’d propagate the idea of giving up one’s peaceful existence solely on the basis of what you’ve just read. I’m just making an observation. Observations are fun. They add sub- Ajay Ramya, Debolina, Kruti, Neel, Nithya, The amount of man hours wasted in this college on a daily basis is stu- stance to an editorial. And by heavens this one needs so much more Passey, Prateek, pendous. Assume that an average BITSian goes to four hours’ worth of of it. classes a day, sleeps for eight hours, and spends two hours on food, saniRitvik, Sahil D, There is something about BOSM. There is rain (well, there has tation and such. This leaves him with TEN hours to be productive, carry Sahil K, Shalaka, been), the quality of play is sub-standard at times, and classes go on out path breaking research, complete an online course, read an excellent Shashank, Shruti, concurrently. And yet, the sheer enthusiasm with which everyone book, and do wonders for his club/department. Steffie, Viraj; involved approaches the fest is fantastic. For someone who has the What we have instead are people harping about having nothing interest- fitness level of a cramped sloth, I’m in complete awe of all the sports Ananth, Anish, ing to do, playing anagrams on Gotham for five hours in a row, checking teams, and the amount of hard work they put in for this fest-win or Madhusudan, Pratik, their social networking/mail accounts with a frequency of 48 seconds, lose. Rahul, Rusheen, Youtube video hopping despite the mind-numbingly slow internet speed, Soumya, Srishti, There is this one relay which I can compete in without ending up going on trips to ANC/Sky because they supposedly have nothing better with an excess of lactic acid deposits, and I gladly pass over the Tanay, Tanmayee, Vjay; to do, and so, so many other ways just waiting for something to happen. (regrettably metaphorical) baton to Ajay to take you through all Danish, Deeksha, How I see it, BITSians lie dormant, waiting for the next milestone to things BOSM over the next week. I hope he’s been working out. Gayatri, Lasya, draw close. Things are always set to change dramatically post BOSM/ Shubham.
Music Nite
Those notes and hoarse throats
Nearly everybody reading this can write a review of the Music Nite; it was in swarms and hordes that the audience poured into the auditorium that Saturday night, but for those rare species who missed it, this will sum it up. Mostly, this will elaborate on the songs, the stage dynamics, the performers, and the violent, frenzied, mad, chaotic crowd which more than made up for the slight dip in musical quality.
Junoon ‘13
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imagination, our possibilities become limitless.”
These words of Jamie Paolinetti, a professional cyclist inspired volunteers of the National Service Scheme (NSS) and the CoSSAca, BITS Pilani to organize Junoon – a two day sporting event meant for the specially abled. Aimed at providing a sense of equality and a stage for competition to the large population of specially-abled There were twenty-five songs in all. Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani was the highlight al- people living in our country, Junoon 2013 was bigger and better than its previous bum; Kabira, Ghagra, Dilliwaali Girlfriend,Badmateez Dil and Balam Pichkari edition. (phew) were covered really well. While Kabira was soothing and Badmateez Dil was catchy, Ghagra, Dilliwaali Girlfriend and Balam Pichkari gave the crowd epileptic With a participation of over 150 specially abled individuals, from six NGOs, across 3 fits. Then, there was Sanwaar Loon from Lootera, sung by Aditi, which was well- categories namely physically challenged, hearing impaired and mentally challenged, accompanied on flute. Musically majestic, Shankar sang Yeh Tune Kya Kiya, which BITS Pilani transformed into a sporting Mecca. An increase in the number of comhad the crowd crooning along. The infectious rhythm of Auntyji received enormous petitive events organized meant a natural increase in participation. Mixed team positive