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LIPTON XANADU 2003 Call it mixing business with pleasure. For the students at IIM Bangalore, it was that time of the year when India's biggest pool of managerial talent unveiled its whacky side. Known as UNMAAD until last year, the IIMB cultural fest had been rechristened LIPTON XANADU 2003 - X3 for short. Held from 17th through 19th January, the event was reputed to be the largest of its kind, with formal invitations going out to more than 150 colleges across the country. A large number of corporates had also been invited. The main sponsors of the fest were Lipton Ice Tea, with Wrangler, Pepsi and Parle chipping in. X3 oozed attitude and promised to take off from where UNMAAD left. The highlights of the fest were the inaugural night on the 17th, aptly named Xhibit XXX (a fashion show, choreography and personality contest), Vortex (the world music nite on the 18th featuring Shankar Mahadevan, Taufiq Qureshi and Louis Banks) and Ministry of Sound (a rock music nite featuring Pentagram and Moksha) on the 19th. Posters publicizing the fest had been splashed across the city's busy points with the troika of green, purple and red (a tribute to the '60s and psychedelia) capturing the spirit of X3 whose punch line read Xperience Xtreme Xcstasy. The fest also promised to live up to the expectations of quizzers, debaters, theatre enthusiasts, rock fans and partygoers alike. From three nights of non-stop parties to all-day long events interspersed with fusion and rock shows on two nights, X3 had it all. As Ajay Bhuyan, cultural secretary at IIMB put it, "The name of the fest was inspired by the poem Kubla Khan by Coleridge. We intend to showcase it as a place where everyone, regardless of their age can chill out and have some fun. You're never too old to party." So for girls and boys of all ages, and even professionals from all areas of business, X3 at IIM Bangalore was the place to be, starting Friday the 17th, right through the weekend. Contributed by: - |
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