It was a riot of fun and laughter at Baldwin Women's Methodist College recently. A couple of weeks after the fresh batch of degree students were admitted to the college, their seniors threw them an extravagant freshers' party.
With dancing, singing and an energy-packed competition, the event was a grand success on every front.
The seniors had added an element of masala to the event by dictating a dress code that the juniors had to follow. In fact, the college auditorium sported a large sign which read, 'Juniors, juniors, we can't find you — the dress code will help us recognise you'. The fun, however, was in the particulars of the dress code. The freshers had to wear belts over anarkalis, yellow dupattas, tie their hair in buns on one side with flowers, wear mismatched shoes and paint their nails in different colours.
They took to the challenge sportively and put in a lot of effort to look as bizarre as possible.
The freshers were then pitted against each other in a competition to determine the queen of the new batch. Each was called on to the stage and asked to briefly introduce herself, after which they were asked a single question. These questions ranged from whacky — such as asking them what they'd so if they were invisible — to deeply philosophical, such as the ever-baffling question of the chicken and the egg. The freshers showed a lot of spunk in the way they answered, bravely dealing with the heckles and cat-calls from the audience.
Any time someone appeared without flowers on her hair or had some other element missing of the dress code, the seniors shrieked out their omission.
The question-and-answer round was interspersed with some entertaining fillers. The second-year BA students put up an energy-packed dance to Pyar Ki Pungi and a Bollywood mix of Celine Dion's 'My Heart Will Go On'. Poornima, a final-year student, sang a song and the final-year BBM students danced to a medley of hits like 'I Hate You Like I Love You' and Thag Le.
After this round, the shortlisted students were put through a few more tasks — such as answering questions put to them by the judges and ultimately, Kanishma Reddy, a BBM student, emerged as the queen. Nandini Sai, also a BBM student and Ayesha, a BCom student, emerged as the runners up.
With dancing, singing and an energy-packed competition, the event was a grand success on every front.
The seniors had added an element of masala to the event by dictating a dress code that the juniors had to follow. In fact, the college auditorium sported a large sign which read, 'Juniors, juniors, we can't find you — the dress code will help us recognise you'. The fun, however, was in the particulars of the dress code. The freshers had to wear belts over anarkalis, yellow dupattas, tie their hair in buns on one side with flowers, wear mismatched shoes and paint their nails in different colours.
They took to the challenge sportively and put in a lot of effort to look as bizarre as possible.
The freshers were then pitted against each other in a competition to determine the queen of the new batch. Each was called on to the stage and asked to briefly introduce herself, after which they were asked a single question. These questions ranged from whacky — such as asking them what they'd so if they were invisible — to deeply philosophical, such as the ever-baffling question of the chicken and the egg. The freshers showed a lot of spunk in the way they answered, bravely dealing with the heckles and cat-calls from the audience.
Any time someone appeared without flowers on her hair or had some other element missing of the dress code, the seniors shrieked out their omission.
The question-and-answer round was interspersed with some entertaining fillers. The second-year BA students put up an energy-packed dance to Pyar Ki Pungi and a Bollywood mix of Celine Dion's 'My Heart Will Go On'. Poornima, a final-year student, sang a song and the final-year BBM students danced to a medley of hits like 'I Hate You Like I Love You' and Thag Le.
After this round, the shortlisted students were put through a few more tasks — such as answering questions put to them by the judges and ultimately, Kanishma Reddy, a BBM student, emerged as the queen. Nandini Sai, also a BBM student and Ayesha, a BCom student, emerged as the runners up.