Tuesday, 29 October 2013

An appeal to my friends..!!




In a very unfortunate and senseless event in Student’s Senate , the festival coordinators of Antaragni have been impeached. Following which the Core team has given their letter of resignation. Being a part of the team, I know what kind of effort and dedication, my festival coordinators have put in to organise an Antaragni of this level. They started back in March, when everyone was busy preparing for exams, they spent hours to give structure, fix dates, theme and all. In hot summers when each one of us was on an internship and foreign tours, they stayed back in the 40 degreeC  to plan the festival. Hours of phone calling, numbers of meetings in Delhi and NCR to associate with Embassies and arrange sponsorship for the festival. Inspite of the importance of the summer internship in an IITK’s student’s career, they decided to think for the festival, to work whole heartedly for the festival. When Semester started, again everyone started preparing for placements. But I know they preferred meetings with sponsors over pre-placement talks, they preferred the completion of various deadlines over the numerous quizzes and assignments just to ensure a smooth festival. When everyone was busy with mid-sems, they were busy finalising the artists for professional shows. When everyone was enjoying the festival…they were running here and there, sleepless and tired to ensure a smooth conduction and maintain the decorum.When the President was standing in the front line along with the media persons in Sonu Nigam's concert and enjoying the songs,one of the festival coordinators was on the IIT gate to ensure no security mishap occurs.

I am really sad to say that all their hard work has been out rightly ignored by a bunch of people. They only see their ego. Out of around 40 members present inside the senate room, 20 wouldn’t have even come out of their rooms during Antaragni. It’s a clear misuse of power. I really fear that if such things prevail, any of the festivals could be conducted.

Earlier in one of our festivals, an incident took place named- "Papa CJ"... in which our respected faculty members were humiliated... But the profs were sensible enough to understand the hard work put in by the team and no such serious results were imposed....What happened in Antaragni... some people were just not allowed to enter hospitality desk, they did their every bit to impeach the festival coordinators.

Yesterday I saw a clear resemblance between the executives we elected and the politicians whom we keep on abusing. I feel shame to confess that I supported some of them during their election campaigning.


Anyways, for today I demand your support for my team leaders….

If you have enjoyed the Antaragni…
If you sang Maa Reva with the Indian Ocean..
If you went crazy with Faizal Khan..
If you danced to the beats to Sonu Nigam…

Support them!!!

9 comments:

  1. Shashank Can you please specify the reason for impeachment ?? if its unjust or merely due to ego clashes between certain individuals then the whole IITK community is with the ANTARAGNI core team.
    Damn man It was the most enjoyed Antaragni i had in this Institute.

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  2. chill mere bhai....pure IITK ke log tere saath hai

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  4. Can You please elaborate more, as from this it is not quite clear what is the matter for this very act... We are with you if it is just a clash of ego of some people.....

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  5. Well said.. these guys are no better than politicians about whom we are cribbing day and night..
    I am with you all..

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  6. Can you please tell me what were the reasons behind impeachment ?
    Details on -
    why should the president be allowed in the hospitality desk ?
    Why wasn't he allowed ?
    What went on then ?
    Is it the only reason , coz frankly it is disgusting if it turns out to be the sole reason ?

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  7. This is true that if compared to the Antaragni last year,this one did not come up to that level.
    But this one too was enjoyable and we enjoyed the DJ Night,sonu's show,indian ocean....just the informals weren't that nice....and hats off to the security.It was really visitor friendly :)

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