It was fun and frolic amidst foot thumping music all day at IMA Hall on 24th September, 2011. The event was the Youth Festival jointly organised by Rotary Club Of Nagpur and Shreesurya Goods & Kapee. A lot of hard work, time, effort and team work goes into organising this mammoth event. It was a perfect platform for the college students to showcase their talents in various events like debate, quiz, solo classical dance, solo singing, mimicry, youth idol, antakshari and group dance.

More than 450 students from over 75 colleges, participated in the mega event vying with each other for the event titles and walked away with a galore of cash prizes.

The prizes in the respective categories were given at the hands of Sameer Joshi and Pallavi Joshi of Shreesurya Group, Rotary Club Of Nagpur President Tauby Bhagwagar, Director New Generations Sonia Khurana and Chairpersons Nilufer Rana and Rakhi Bhatia.

The young participants displayed their unmatched skills in debate. The topic was “Social Networking Sites – a bane or boon”. The participants vehemently supported their views in the keenly contested debate. We had a record number of entries for Solo Singing this year, with the best of best competing with each other. Quiz time was brain testing and a learning experience for one and all. It was  pleasure to see Indian culture alive in the form of solo classical dance. After going through an aptitude test, grooming sessions by well known personalities like Mr.Vilas Kale and Mr. Prakash Shesh and various other rounds, the finalists of the Youth Idol countered questions from the judges. The Youth Festival culminated with a crescendo in the form of group dances.

The winning teams event wise are:

• Debate
• 1st Prize: Rucha Wankhede & Gauri Joshi of Govt. Dental college
• 2nd Prize: Roshan Singh & Samrai Bhandari of Priyadarshini College of Engg.
• Solo Classical Dance
• 1st prize: Anvita Nandghare from Hislop college
• 2nd prize: Ankita Chakarwarty and 3rd prize: Chirag Majumdar from Hislop College.
• Quiz
• 1st prize: Shardul Khade and Shubhra Joshi of NKPSIMS
• 2nd prize: Gul Shankumar. M.Wankar and Latesh Wakodkar of KITS-Ramtek.
• Mimicry
• 1st prize: Mayur Pethe from Santaji Mahavidyalaya
• 2nd prize: Virendra Borikar of Gurunanak Inst. of Engg.
• Solo Singing
• 1st prize: Aseer Sheikh of SFS College
• 2nd prize: Avantika Padhye of Centre Point College
• 3rd prize: Prannoy Ghosh – CBSIMR.
• Antakshari
• 1st prize: Neha Apte and Komal Dubey of SRKNEC
• 2nd prize: Sana Fatema and Prajakta Mankar.
• Group Dance
• 1st prize: St. Ursula Girls H.S. & Junior college
• 2nd prize: Anand Narayan Inst. of Management
• 3rd prize: Sadabai Raisoni Women’s College – BSc.
• Youth Idol
• Male: Samrai Bhandari of Priyadarshini College of Engg.
• Female: Apurva Anand of IGGMC

This year the Youth Festival reached its Zenith, thanks to the hard work, time, effort and team work of all the coordinators: Manju Shahani, Parag Paranjpe, Shabbir Shakir, Madhavi Naidu, Shriya Mukadam, Shalini Naidu, Raj Shah, Mamta Kanga, Anita Chitaley, Sanjay Mansukhani, Monal Malji, Sanjay Sethi, Khushnoor Chugh, Namita Sharma, Sandeep Dhodapkar, Sonal Singhvi, Anushka Kale, Prateek Salve, Jumana Shakir, Reema Sial, Sachin Palewar. A special thank to President Tauby, Secretary Dinesh Naidu, Director Sonia Khurana, Renu Thapar and Monica Bhagwagar who were our pillars of strength.

Nilufer Rana/ Rakhi Bhatia

Check out some glimpses of the events in our Photo Gallery.