IMI-New Delhi Celebrates Hindi Diwas

IMI-New Delhi Celebrates Hindi Diwas, Enthralls MBA Students
Anoobhuti 2006: Dil ki baat, Dil ki Jubaani

The next poet to enthrall the audience with his lines was Sri Arvind Pathik who belongs to the genre of poets like Ramprasad Bismil. He is proficient in Vir Ras as well as Hasya.

Before he had taken the centre stage, no one could have second-guessed the high level of adrenaline that would be generated by his sheer presence. As he summed up in his own unique style -

"Sirf neta hi nahin, kuch aur bhi makkar hain,
Jo kalaam ko bechte hain, who bhi toh gaddar hain."

Up next was the turn of IMI's very own Sri Arvind Chaturvedi. It came as a great surprise for most of the students to see their Professor of Statistics to display such excellent oratory skills. In one of his poems, his sarcasm was directed at the kind of Hindi that television channels are dishing out these days... one excerpt -

"... fame mera national kar dijiye,
Shahrukh Khan, Big B sabhi se popular kar dijiye,
Dil to mera more maange,
Par mein thoda sa hesitant hoon,
Main aapke servant ke servant ka servant hoon..."

The others to follow were Sri Ashok Sharma and Smt. Madhu Chaturvedi, who kept the audience spellbound. As the event went deeper into the night, the students came into their own and were very vocal in acknowledging their appreciation for the performers.

It was past 9.30 pm when Sri Suresh 'Nirav' took the stage to wind-up the program with some of his own creations, which were a realization of complexities of the dynamics of power, politics, people and culture. Some of the excerpts were -

"Ek din hamare darwaze pe di kisine dastak,
Maine poocha - Kaun?
Banda bola - Chahiye paanch rupaiya chanda,
Chaurahe pe netaji ki laash padi hai.
Maine kaha - Paanch ki jagah pandrah lijiye,
Magar ek ki jagah teen anteshti kijiye."

With this, the events of the evening came to an end with a thanking speech from Dr. Rajat Kathuria. But the purpose of the programme "Anoobhuti" was achieved - "Dil ki baat, Dil ki Juhbani" - and the effects were felt all through the campus.

Concluded.

Contributed by -
Shivanku Misra (Campus Associate),
President-INTERFACE (Media Cell, IMI),
International Management Institute,
New Delhi.

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