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The three-day state-level fest had an array of events in the literary, cultural, sports, fine arts and medical categories.

More than 70 colleges from across the State participated in the fest, including a few medical colleges from Mysore, Hassan, Kolar, Hubli-Dharwad and Mandya.

Competitions were open to students of pre-university, degree and diploma courses. The medical fest ‘Panacea 2011’ was meant exclusively for the medical students.

The literary events saw a good participation with a lot of students battling it out for the top slot.

A mad ads team from BMCRI, called ‘Short Circuit’, made a funny presentation on ‘Bubbly Tayatha’ and received an overwhelming response from the audience.

In the fashion show, only six colleges, namely BMCRI, MSR Medical, MSR Dental College, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, St Joseph’s College of Arts and Science and MVIT, battled it out for the first two prizes.

MSR Medical College was judged as the winner. The jury comprised actor Rohan Gowda and models Ankitha and Abrar, who acted in Chand Leva and a Germany-based fashion designer Chandrashekhar. Prem, who acted in Matte Banni Preetsona, was the special guest for the fashion show.

BMCRI was announced as the runners-up of the fashion show but they being the host didn’t accept the prize. Later, it was handed over to MVIT.

 The event titled, ‘Indian Bands’ also saw tough competition. Deepak Doddera of ‘Voice of Bangalore’ was the judge for the event.

There was good participation for ‘Mania’, which was the Western electric event. Students also let their hair down in the street dance competition.

The medical fest that had events like research paper presentation, medical crossword, case discussion and medical quiz proved quite challenging for the students.

For the paper presentation, students who undertook research under KIMS and Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY), presented their research papers.

In ‘Case Discussion’, participants had to analyse and diagnose the disease on the basis of the symptoms given by the judges and had to suggest the proper course of action.
“Being medical students, organising a fest of this scale was very challenging for us.

I got to learn many things from this. From convincing the sponsors and inviting
colleges, everything was taken care of by the students. We had sent invitations to
170 colleges across the State. As prizes, the students received best quality stethoscopes and medical books,” said Sahanashree, a seventh semester MBBS student.

It was not just a fest where students competed for the prize money. It was a platform for exchanging ideas and initiatives.

“In literary events like debate and essay, we had given topics relating to current issues. As participants presented their views on the topic, the audience too learnt about the subject. They also came to know how the young in the country were responding to it,” said Aditya, a coordinator of the literary events.