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The sports meet was announced quite a long back but the enthusiasm built up only gradually. The thing is that at this place if you (a fachcha I mean ) wants to take part in any extra curriculur event, you got to be mentally prepared to manage your time to the absolute second and be ready to put in the extra effort so as not to sacrifice on studies, which you really can't afford to.

Eleven sports were scheduled in all, that carried points and the rest few were just fun games like Frisbee (the IIM-A sport) and Tsepak (the IIM-B sport). The selections for all sports had started long back and even though the fachchas found it tough to manage, the response was pretty encouraging. I won't say the practice was up to the mark in most of the sports, but considering the severe time constraints we all work under, I think we did a decent job in getting as much practice as we could barring a couple of sports.

The meet was scheduled over three days and was the first in the Sangharsh Series which I hope both the institutes carry on for years to come. Kudos to both the sports committees for getting this event off the ground.

The IIM-B team arrived on friday night/saturday morning and lo and behold!!! What do we see... They have prepared special T-Shirts for the event that read: "Let's teach those nerds how to play ball." Holy cow... if they thought that we were some pushovers who don't know anything else other than academics, they were sadly and badly mistaken! That very instant our resolve to beat them was strengthened and we were all pumped up to prove them wrong.

Man, what audacity... in a way it was good for us because it got us going in full tempo. The tournament kick-started with Cricket. I have to accept that their team and preparation was very professional and even though we made a decent total, they chased it quite comfortably. Full marks to them... The overall score line (IIMA-IIMB) read 0-1.

We knew they were on a high after the victory and the second event planned for that day was Badminton. We knew we have to win this one to get level and we couldn't afford to let them get away with two wins on the very first day. We heard they had a national level player but our resolve was made of steel.

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* Contributed by -
Vinamra Srivastava (Campus Associate),
PGP - 1,
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.