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Moksha ‘09 at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) – FAIL

Today we went to NSIT, Dwarka for their annual cultural fest, Moksha, which we, as DCEites have been hearing a lot about since the day we stepped into college. There has been this hype created around Moksha, about it being one of the most heavily sponsored and well organized fests all over Delhi. All this went away the minute we stepped into NSIT.

Its not that I’ve not been to NSIT before, I was there for the counseling of IIIT Delhi, and I was also there for their tech-fest, Innovision. The campus is though big (not bigger than DCE) but the only place where you get to see activity is around the educational area which is quite limited. Anyway, I arrived at NSIT at around 5:30 p.m, and got to meet quite a few people who had migrated to NSIT (from DCE) after the first semester.

We got to know that most of the so called small fun events were already over, and the big events for the evening were left – Mudra – a choreography event, Rouge – fashion parade, and Avalanche – the rock show. My main reason for going to NSIT was to meet old friends, and watch Arcane Deception perform at Avalanche. We were told that the venue for both Mudra and Rouge were the grounds behind the main academic area at NSIT. We moved over there and grabbed some seats. A few minutes later we were informed that all the seats were for only faculty members and NSIT alumni, and we were asked to move out.

Sorry for the shaky picture, that’s the best I could do .

Well ok, this was acceptable, we weren’t in a mood to sit anyway, so we got out of the barricades. The first team to perform in Mudra was IIT Delhi. They tried to depict the Mahabharata, and yes, they were good. There was a surprisingly good level of coordination in the performance, which was really unusual coming from a bunch of people whom you would expect to be total nerds immersed in stuides. The only thing that I thought was stupid on their end was using parts from the OST’s of The Dark Knight, Requiem for a Dream, and also the Saw theme. Next was NSIT, who were doing Pygmalion. In comparison to IIT Delhi’s performance, they stood nowhere. It was really crappy performance, and the anchor there was crying out loud boasting about how their team had defeated every other team out there at some other event. Next came UCMS, which was also a decent performance, but not as gripping as IIT’s performance. They were followed by HMR, which had a group of incredibly dumb and untalented girls. It seemed as if somebody had let a flock of ducks loose on the stage. You cannot imagine the pain caused to my eyes by watching that performance. Thankfully, in the middle of the performance, it started raining heavily, and so we left the venue to look for shelter. HMR completed their performance, and then the rest of the event, along with Rouge, the fashion parade was canceled. Great.

We spent a little time roaming around, when I got to know that Avalanche was going on in the auditorium (seriously guys, I never understood the logic behind having a rock performance in an area with chairs and where there is no possibility of moshing or having a mosh pit. Its as if people want to take the whole fun out of the event, and they intentionally make sure that people don’t get to enjoy the performances). We checked out the schedule with the organizers, and we got to know that Arcane Deception had the 6th slot. It was already 9:30, and each band would take around 20 minutes for their performance. We couldn’t wait for their performance, as we had to return by the Delhi Metro, which gets closed early. Another great event missed because of lack of appreciation of time by the organizers of Moksha ‘09.

What I need to mention here is that you can easily consider me as an unbiased third party when I say that DCE’s Engifest was way way better in terms of the participation, coordination and organization as compared to Moksha. I could see that the organizers had their asses on fire because they had really no idea what to do when it started raining. They just stood and watched everything go down. The first day at Moksha, was a really big FAIL. People who are thinking about going tomorrow, think again.

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