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A Year of Bringing the Indian Culture one step closer to the XL
Campus
SPICMACAY, XLRI Chapter waved in a vibrant year beginning with Saarang, the official ice-breaker for the junior batch of
2017 -2019. The event started with the Indian Culture quiz, which not only kept the quizzing circle in the campus awed,
but also served the committee’s noble cause of promoting Indian Arts and Culture in a fun and interesting way to the
youth. The rounds that followed reinstated that the tunes of Pandit Ravishankar’s Yaman Kalyan and the beats of Zakir
Hussain struck a chord in even the hardest fans of Eminem and Pink Floyd. The night was packed with interesting trivia,
role-plays, laughter and respect for Indian Arts and Culture.
With Saarang being a great success, applications flooded in from the newcomers to join the revered committee,
established pan India since 1977. Auditions, selections and discussions later, the Junior SPICMACAY squad was announced
and they were set to pull off the very first cultural night of the year. The night, fondly called ‘ XL’s Got Talent’ , was one of
its kind open mic night which provided stage to all talents including music, dance, drama, shayari, stand-up comedy and
more. The night also saw an exhibition of passionate works of eyes behind the lens.
Next up in our calendar was the most awaited Dandiya Night, an annual event conducted by SpicMacay to celebrate
the Gujarati tradition of Navratri and the glorious folk dance form Dandiya. The October night was lit up with students
dressed up in beautiful cholis and sherwanis, dancing blissfully to the garba beats and grooving around with Dandiya
sticks clanking against one-another’s, till midnight. Theplaxi, the official Gujarati community in the campus served
delicious
theplas, dhoklas and shrikhand
to add to the festivities.
In November, SPICMACAY kick
started the national-level B-school
fest, Ensemble-Valhalla by hosting
a Bharatnayam performace by the
renowned avant garde Bharatnatyam
artist, Padma Bhushan Smt. Saroja
Vaidyanathan and her troupe. A
soul-binding performance, depicting
scenes from the epics of Ramayana
and Mahabharata, was put up by the
SPICMACAY
very versatile, multi-national troupe
including the artists Ankita Kaushik,
Angella Gaur, Yana Koushykava,
Debasmita Thakur and Mridula Nambiar.
The evening’s cultural night stage was
adorned by a graceful classical dance
performed by our SPICMACAY member
Ms. Malavika Mulay.
December saw the Alumni Homecoming,
in which SPICMACAY organized
performances for the alum and the
entire XL family. Ms. Pragya Sharma
from SPICMACAY crooned a magical
rendition of an old Hindi melody, which
earned many accolades from various
reputed artists including the sufi artist
Ms. Radhika Sood. A gripping bangra
dance was performed by Sanchit Agarwal,
Deepika Rawal and Joban Preet on the
stage set by SPICMACAY.
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