Mood Indigo 2006
Had been to Mood Indigo 2006. I was always in awe of this social fest, one of the best in India. I have been attending this event regularly since 4 years.
Even after 2 years of passing out of IIT Bombay, I had quite a few friends here ... Roshan, Sobhan, Hemant, Aniruddha, Biswarup, Appu, Manshri, ..... mostly research scholars :). Sobhan was awarded a highly coveted PHd award. Here are the deatils.
Sobhan Babu (Research Scholar, CSE Department) has been selected for the $2,500 IBM Outstanding Ph.D. award for 2006, given by IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi. His thesis is on "Degree Conditions for Subgraphs". Congratulations, Sobhan.
Met Sobhan at his room Hostel-1 Room No. 234. This room has an interesting lineage of its occupants. Bharat Adsul, who did his BTech, MTech and PhD from IIT Bombay was staying in that room for almost an eternity. He was a student at IIT Bombay for about 10 years. Bharat had also received this highly acclaimed 'outstanding PhD award'. After he finished his PhD, that room was occupied by Mr. Virag Shah, who stayed there for close to about 5 months. After Virag (that's me) moved to Hostel 12 for the luxuries of this material world, sage-like Sobhan Babu got that divine room. So, in a way, because I made way for Sobhan to move to this holy room, he was able to achieve this success. Hence, I have a significant contribution to Sobhan's award. After submitting the thesis, Sobhan is planning to take a 4 month tour of India, where he will be going from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. He is not bothered about his placement or what he wants to do after his PhD. Even Bharat is joining as Associate Professor at IIT Bombay, Mathematics Department for a very nominal salary that would be less than any of the Software Engineers working for Multinational companies. Hats off to this young minds, who are really instrumental in shaping India's future.
Now, let us move on to the fun part. I attended the Fusion and Sufi Night. Fusion night was boring for the initial part were they were trying to mix various instruments like table, guitar, sitar, etc. But when the performers started playing Hindi film song music with their traditional instruments, the crowd was in complete awe of their artistical genius. Especially, playing the string instruments using only one hand and creating high quality music was an awesome display of their acumen.
After this, we had the Kailash Kher with his group 'Kailasa' on stage. Kailash Kher started with a few of his famous songs like, 'Mangal Mangal', 'Diwani', etc. But the crew was too much bothered about the sound quality and lights and other chores. Soon they lost the hold on crowd and we left the show in between. Then Sobhan treated me with braed butter and bournvita at the H1 canteen. After that I rejoined Tejal and Roshan for the Shadow show. The shadow show at the convocation hall was amazing. After that someone played piano for the audience and soon crowd started to leave the hall, because the combination of slow piano music with tabla in the background was not very appealing, nor it was entertaining.
When I reached Hostel 12, Hemant was there at the gate. Not to welcome me ... we met by chance. Then we went to the H12 canteen and I had a plain dosa with a non-jain chatni. Then, Hemant took me to his cozy room and we had a great time ... just kidding. Hemant was quite excited about the whole MBA thing. He had a lot of things to talk about since I could relate to the campus life at IIT Bombay. Everything about hostel, sleeping during lectures, placements, problems due to 10pm deadline of visiting girls in Hostel, etc. I also briefly relived my campus life during that conversation.
Then Roshan came back and we both went to his room. Hemant had antakshari finals the other day, so we all slept at 3am. In the morning, I went to Convo Hall to cheer Hemant. The whole event was ridiculously techy and lengthy, but that is what one can expect out of IITB geeks. Hemant tried very hard to overcome the opponents, but managed to get the second place. The event took more than 1hr 30 minutes. I was late to reach home and got good scolding from mother :).
To conclude, I had a great time at Mood Indigo 2006. One advice to all the people, if you are in Mumbai during 25-29 Dec, then make sure to attend Mood Indigo. If you have a partner, then make sure you get them along with you. I guarantee you a quality time or else your money back ....
Even after 2 years of passing out of IIT Bombay, I had quite a few friends here ... Roshan, Sobhan, Hemant, Aniruddha, Biswarup, Appu, Manshri, ..... mostly research scholars :). Sobhan was awarded a highly coveted PHd award. Here are the deatils.
Sobhan Babu (Research Scholar, CSE Department) has been selected for the $2,500 IBM Outstanding Ph.D. award for 2006, given by IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi. His thesis is on "Degree Conditions for Subgraphs". Congratulations, Sobhan.
Met Sobhan at his room Hostel-1 Room No. 234. This room has an interesting lineage of its occupants. Bharat Adsul, who did his BTech, MTech and PhD from IIT Bombay was staying in that room for almost an eternity. He was a student at IIT Bombay for about 10 years. Bharat had also received this highly acclaimed 'outstanding PhD award'. After he finished his PhD, that room was occupied by Mr. Virag Shah, who stayed there for close to about 5 months. After Virag (that's me) moved to Hostel 12 for the luxuries of this material world, sage-like Sobhan Babu got that divine room. So, in a way, because I made way for Sobhan to move to this holy room, he was able to achieve this success. Hence, I have a significant contribution to Sobhan's award. After submitting the thesis, Sobhan is planning to take a 4 month tour of India, where he will be going from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. He is not bothered about his placement or what he wants to do after his PhD. Even Bharat is joining as Associate Professor at IIT Bombay, Mathematics Department for a very nominal salary that would be less than any of the Software Engineers working for Multinational companies. Hats off to this young minds, who are really instrumental in shaping India's future.
Now, let us move on to the fun part. I attended the Fusion and Sufi Night. Fusion night was boring for the initial part were they were trying to mix various instruments like table, guitar, sitar, etc. But when the performers started playing Hindi film song music with their traditional instruments, the crowd was in complete awe of their artistical genius. Especially, playing the string instruments using only one hand and creating high quality music was an awesome display of their acumen.
After this, we had the Kailash Kher with his group 'Kailasa' on stage. Kailash Kher started with a few of his famous songs like, 'Mangal Mangal', 'Diwani', etc. But the crew was too much bothered about the sound quality and lights and other chores. Soon they lost the hold on crowd and we left the show in between. Then Sobhan treated me with braed butter and bournvita at the H1 canteen. After that I rejoined Tejal and Roshan for the Shadow show. The shadow show at the convocation hall was amazing. After that someone played piano for the audience and soon crowd started to leave the hall, because the combination of slow piano music with tabla in the background was not very appealing, nor it was entertaining.
When I reached Hostel 12, Hemant was there at the gate. Not to welcome me ... we met by chance. Then we went to the H12 canteen and I had a plain dosa with a non-jain chatni. Then, Hemant took me to his cozy room and we had a great time ... just kidding. Hemant was quite excited about the whole MBA thing. He had a lot of things to talk about since I could relate to the campus life at IIT Bombay. Everything about hostel, sleeping during lectures, placements, problems due to 10pm deadline of visiting girls in Hostel, etc. I also briefly relived my campus life during that conversation.
Then Roshan came back and we both went to his room. Hemant had antakshari finals the other day, so we all slept at 3am. In the morning, I went to Convo Hall to cheer Hemant. The whole event was ridiculously techy and lengthy, but that is what one can expect out of IITB geeks. Hemant tried very hard to overcome the opponents, but managed to get the second place. The event took more than 1hr 30 minutes. I was late to reach home and got good scolding from mother :).
To conclude, I had a great time at Mood Indigo 2006. One advice to all the people, if you are in Mumbai during 25-29 Dec, then make sure to attend Mood Indigo. If you have a partner, then make sure you get them along with you. I guarantee you a quality time or else your money back ....
posted by Virag at 2:07 AM
3 Comments:
I had quite a few friends here ... Roshan, Sobhan, Hemant, Aniruddha, Biswarup, Appu, Manshri, ..... mostly research scholars :).
Kya bey sort karna bul gaya tha kya :D
Nahi! The sorting seems correct to me ;)
Didn't know, your blog has been revived since its last dormant state. Glad to have you back blogging.
Guys, Can anyone share the contact details of Bharat Adsul. I am his friend and alumini of IITB. I can be reached at 09632003619. Rgds, Appu
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