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Altamash Memon

AIB, AUR

While personally publicizing AYAM’10 at various other colleges in and around Jaipur, the ‘Director-Student’s Welfare’ of one such college asked me to describe AYAM’10 in few words. I promptly replied by saying-“It is just Amity’s yet another miracle.”

Miracles do happen. Especially at Amity University Rajasthan. The manner in which enthusiastic students, along with their dedicated faculties, turn Amity into an El-Dorado for students coming from all over India, in the form of AYAM’10, is nothing short of a miracle.

Be it the insane quizzing in InCanity, or the witty marketing in BioBazaar, or rather watching Entrepreneurs in the making, or the creative outflow in painting or salad presentation, each event managed to bring out talents hidden in everyone, including some couch potatoes (I personally know one such case, in which the student did nothing else except studying the whole year round, and found fests a pathetic waste of time, until she won the first prize in a creative presentation event!).

Mesmerizing evenings only added more sheen, and brought even more talents out in the open. From the melodious voices heard in Sur Saptak, to the in-sync grooves seen in Beat‘d’ Beats, to the creativity endorsed fashion taken up in Glam ‘n’ Glitz, entertainment never seemed to take a backseat in AYAM evenings, especially with delicious food being served by side in the stalls!

Sending people into euphoria was the news of EUPHORIA coming to perform live for Amity University, Rajasthan at Ravindra Manch. What an evening it was! Fantabulous, Astounding, Immeasurable, Marvellous, Outstanding, Mind-blowing, were just some of the reactions of the students on being asked about the performance. The others were just too awed, and fell short of words to describe their feelings!

The point is that students fell short of energy, cheering and dancing, but EUPHORIA didn’t fall short of energy, performing. The ambience was so electrified and filled with energy, that the crowd couldn’t help, but “LOOSE CONTROL”! Palash Sen and his troop started performing for us roughly around 7 of April 2nd, and once they started, neither could the crowd have enough of them, neither could they of the crowd.

The rest, they say, is history!

As an amitian, I wouldn’t say AYAM’10 was perfect, but trust me, nothing short of it rather. Some events, happening for the first/second time did have some flaws, some shortcomings, but as they say, “Shortcomings are the stepping stones to success!”

Some said the management needed a management, and we would end up agreeing with that. Yes, it did.

Some said the abrupt changes in the schedule, needed a schedule. Probably, it did. But the fact remains, and you’ll also would agree on this with me, that management only becomes better with more hands to manage. I agree constructive criticism is a good way to improve things, but only when there are more people listening to them, than the ones giving them.

Concluding with an optimistic note, AYAM’11 hopes to fulfil the constructive feedbacks from faculties and students, and promises to bounce back with a bang the next year it comes around. And now I am waiting for the Sanchaar’10, which will really be a rocking event….