<p>Students of BMS College of Engineering took a break from their regular routine and indulged in a week-long cultural extravaganza recently. Called ‘cultural week’, this was the perfect platform to showcase their talents and saw an amazing response from the students. A total of 26 events were organised under eight major categories. <br /><br /></p>.<p>With dance and music-related events, ‘mad ads’, creative writing, photography, skit and ‘JAM’, the fest had a wide variety and students were spoilt for choice.<br /><br />For those with an artistic touch, there was clay modelling, body art and many other fine-art related events. “Many students took part in the literary events organised by the Kannada Sangha like mookhabhinaya and charcha spardhe. We also had a quiz — while some questions in it were based on our curriculum, others tested our general knowledge. It was like a mini-version of our college fest Utsav,” says Niroop, a final-year student. For those students who are hard at work preparing for Utsav — like the organisers, volunteers and coordinators — this week came as a breath of fresh air. “Everyone deserves an opportunity to display his or her skills and the best place to do that is at a cultural fest. The BMS ‘cultural week’ was just another excuse to showcase and bring unnoticed talent under the spotlight,” says Prathap, one of the coordinators of the event.<br /><br />The fest was such a success that the duration of some of the events had to be extended to accommodate the entries.<br /><br />“Certain events like solo music received so many entries that we had to extend the event to the next day. This gave everyone a chance to explore their talents. <br /><br />There can be two possible reasons for such a massive turnout — firstly, the students could take part in as many events as they wished to and secondly, registration was free. All the events were scheduled in such a way that students did not have to miss classes and our teachers appreciated this too,” explains Niroop.<br /><br />To make the occasion a bit more interesting, the students wore a specific colour on each day. And when the week came to an end, the students returned to their classes feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.<br /></p>
<p>Students of BMS College of Engineering took a break from their regular routine and indulged in a week-long cultural extravaganza recently. Called ‘cultural week’, this was the perfect platform to showcase their talents and saw an amazing response from the students. A total of 26 events were organised under eight major categories. <br /><br /></p>.<p>With dance and music-related events, ‘mad ads’, creative writing, photography, skit and ‘JAM’, the fest had a wide variety and students were spoilt for choice.<br /><br />For those with an artistic touch, there was clay modelling, body art and many other fine-art related events. “Many students took part in the literary events organised by the Kannada Sangha like mookhabhinaya and charcha spardhe. We also had a quiz — while some questions in it were based on our curriculum, others tested our general knowledge. It was like a mini-version of our college fest Utsav,” says Niroop, a final-year student. For those students who are hard at work preparing for Utsav — like the organisers, volunteers and coordinators — this week came as a breath of fresh air. “Everyone deserves an opportunity to display his or her skills and the best place to do that is at a cultural fest. The BMS ‘cultural week’ was just another excuse to showcase and bring unnoticed talent under the spotlight,” says Prathap, one of the coordinators of the event.<br /><br />The fest was such a success that the duration of some of the events had to be extended to accommodate the entries.<br /><br />“Certain events like solo music received so many entries that we had to extend the event to the next day. This gave everyone a chance to explore their talents. <br /><br />There can be two possible reasons for such a massive turnout — firstly, the students could take part in as many events as they wished to and secondly, registration was free. All the events were scheduled in such a way that students did not have to miss classes and our teachers appreciated this too,” explains Niroop.<br /><br />To make the occasion a bit more interesting, the students wore a specific colour on each day. And when the week came to an end, the students returned to their classes feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.<br /></p>
