Author Archives: Editor

A jugalbandi or jugalbandhi is a performance in Indian classical music, especially the Hindustani classical music that features a duet of two solo musicians. The word jugalbandi means, literally, “Entwined twins.”

Indian pop music, often known as Indian-Pop, Hindi Pop, Indipop or Indi-pop, refers to pop music in India. It is based on an amalgamation of folk music andclassical music with modern beats from different parts of the world.

UMANG’14 hosted the event called Stand-up comedy, which took place at the 6th floor auditorium. There were five participants in total. The judge of the event was Mr Zahir Hussain. In this event, the performers had to use their wit and sense of humour to entertain the judge as well as the audience. It was …

No fest is complete without its moments captured in pictures. Umang too had one such event where the photographers had to roam about the entire campus capturing the various moods as the mood says-Moods of  Umang.

The Street Play was held in the lawn in front of the Common Room.  It was judged by Abhishek Bannerjee and Janardhan Ghosh. A total of five team had participated and each team consisted of eight to ten members.  The topic allotted to them was Rape and accordingly the teams carried out their performances.

One needs to be quite the detective in order to participate in the event Verteez; Umang’14’s Verteez shall pose quite the challenge to Sherlock himself. Hints revolving on a particular object or person will be given to the ten two-member teams participating.

An event to flaunt your knowledge on English grammar is certainly JAM. The rules for JAM were the classic rules which include interruption due to stammering, grammatical errors, abbreviation or use of slangs and Americanism. It surely is an event or in simple, a game that baffles everyone.

Antakshari is a spoken parlour game played in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal. Each contestant sings the first verse of a song that begins with the Hindustani consonant on which the previous contestant’s song ends. The first event on the second day of Umang’14 was Antakshari which was held at the main stage.

Umang’14’s Visual Extempore is definitely not a regular extempore. If extempore demands thinking on your feet, visual extempore seeks thrice the effort and ability.

‘Kolkata quiz’ also called ‘Undivided Bengal’ was another event conducted by Mr. Kaushik Banerjee. The host was Nikunj Kothari and the event was held at Room no. 27.

Umang 2014 hosted the event ‘Bollywood and Cricket quiz’ which was judged by Mr. Kaushik Banerjee. The event hosted by Nikunj Kothari was held in Room no. 27. It started at around 10:30 am and continued for the next half an hour.

If there is an event in Umang’14 that asks for teamwork and individual skill, it is ‘Theme it’! Your opportunity is tempting as you prospectively participate to write and your counterpart takes up sketching (vice versa).