• Farewell 2020
Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics hosted a virtual farewell on Zoom for its final-year B.Sc. and M.Sc. students on Friday, 8th May 2020. The event was compered by Rohan Phatale from F.Y.B.Sc and Khushi Rastogi from S.Y.B.Sc. There were vast variety of performances like musical and dance numbers, flashback videos, e-cards, songs and poems. The highlight of the event was the awards show - where students were felicitated in interesting categories after being nominated by their peers and then selected as winners, as a result of an online voting poll. Though all were in different cities of India, for the duration of the farewell all were together and shared the nostalgia.
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• Fury 2020
Fury 2020 was the ninth intercollegiate sports fest organized by SAMSOE on the 15th and 16th of February 2020 It attracted more than 1500+ participants from more than 75 colleges. There were 10 events namely Box Cricket, Football, Basketball, Badminton, Survival of the fittest, Table Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Chess, Carom and FIFA. Best Contingent leader was Ms. Muskaan Kukreja from SAMSOE. Best Contingent team winners were NMIMS School of Commerce and best Contingent team runners up were HR College of Commerce. Prizes worth ₹ 1, 00,000 were awarded to the winners.
• National level competition at National Law School of India University
Palki Aggarwal and Amrita Ghosh from S.Y. B. Sc. Economics were shortlisted as finalists among 40 teams across the country for a national level competition on Urban Imagination for Indian College Students at The Institute of Public Policy National Law School of India University. It was held from 15-17 February 2020 in the NLSIU campus, Bengaluru.
• Commonwealth Futures Program
Muskaan Sofet from T.Y. B.Sc. Economics attended The Second Commonwealth Futures workshop, it was conducted at O P Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonipat, from 8-12 February 2020, and was organized by JGU in collaboration with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and the British Council. The workshop provided a forum for student leaders from across the Commonwealth to explore ideas relating to Gandhian principles of peace, gender and caste etc. The speaker sessions included dignitaries Dr. Faye Taylor & Ms. Amy Longland, Commonwealth CVE Unit, Mr. Abel Caine, Programme Specialist - Youth, UNESCO-MGIEP, Dr. Rajesh Tandon, UNESCO-Chair on Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, The South African High Commissioner, Ms. Jan Thompson, Acting British High Commissioner to India and Rwandan First Secretary.
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• Mr. Abhijay Thacker
Mr. Abhijay Thacker, alumni of SAMSOE, currently a second year MBA student at IIM Ahmedabad addressed the third year students on issues pertaining to a) Careers in Finance, b) Importance of electives, c) The placement process, and preparing for competitive exams on 8th February 2020.
• Lecture by Prof. Oliver Hart at IIT Bombay
Students and faculty of SAMSOE attended a lecture on 14th January 2020 by Prof. Oliver Hart, Co-recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics and Co-recipient of Nobel Prize in Economics at IIT Bombay. The topic was A New Approach to Contracts.
• UNSW Global Business Practicum
Abhishek Vempati, Aditya Banka, Anubhav Rathore, Parnika Kumat, Shubhagata Agarwal, Vaibhav Jain, Raunaq Jain, Vedant Modi, Manvika Tuteja have been nominated for an interactive session for the Global Business Practicum a course for undergraduate students run by UNSW Business School on 10th January 2020.
• Ironman Triathlon 70.3 Middle East championship
Aditya Choudhary of F.Y.B. Sc. Economics
successfully completed the Ironman Triathlon 70.3 Middle East championship in
Bahrain on 7th December 2019. He is the youngest athlete in the
world to complete Ironman 70.3.
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• Students of SAMSOE attended lecture S. Raghunathan, Head of the National Centre for Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai on 27th July 2019 organized by School of Mathematical Science. The topic was ‘Mathematics – Art that would rather be science.
Club Activities
• Book Club
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S.N. |
Theme |
Venue |
Date |
Description |
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1 |
Introduction |
307 | Sept.12, 2019 | Club introduction |
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2 |
Ice-breakers (1) |
305 | Sept.19, 2019 | General Discussion |
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3 |
Ice-breakers (2) |
306 |
Sept.21, 2019 |
Introduction of new members |
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4 |
The Handmaid's Tale |
307 |
Oct.6, 2019 |
Analysis of 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood |
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5 |
Book Chats (1): Fem Lit |
306 |
Oct.12, 2019 |
A more general discussion of Feminist Literature including authors like Sylvia Plath, Jane Austen, Maya Aneglou and other works like Memoirs of a Geisha |
|
6 |
Book Chats (2): Horror |
305 |
Oct.23, 2019 |
Murder mysteries, horror stories; authors: H. P. Lovecraft, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe |
|
7 |
Book Chats (3): Short Stories |
307 |
Dec.5, 2019 |
Short reads by Arundhati Roy, H. G. Wells, Satyajit Ray |
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8 |
Book Chats (4): Christmas |
307 |
Jan.10, 2020 |
Christmas stories like Let it Snow (Young Adult), Gift of the Magi, other Christmas romcoms |
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9 |
Book Chats (5): Philosophy |
307 |
Jan.25, 2020 |
A short session for philosophical fiction: The Stranger by Camus, Thus Spoke Zaruthasthra by Nietzsche, No Exit by Sartre |
|
10 |
Book Chats (6): Favourites |
307 |
Feb.25, 2020 |
Chat about favourite authors: Murakami, Hosseini, Kafka, Amitav Gosh and Jeffrey Archer |
• Literary Club
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S.N. |
Topic |
References |
Location |
Date and time |
Mode |
Presenter/Chair |
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1 |
The Geography of Upward Mobility |
Lecture: First two lectures of the course "Using Big Data to Solve Social and Economic Problems” delivered by Raj Chetty
Paper: Chetty et al (2014), "Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States”
|
Room no. 301 |
7th September 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm |
Presentation |
Meet Mehta |
|
2 |
Psychological Lives of the Poor |
Lecture: "Psychological lives of the poor” delivered by Sendhil Mullainathan
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Room no. 307 |
21st September 2019, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm |
Discussion |
Meet Mehta |
|
3 |
Discrimination and Stereotypes: Race and Gender |
Paper: Bertrand and Mullainathan (2004), "Are Emily And Greg More Employable Than Lakisha And Jamal? A Field Experiment On Labor Market Discrimination”
Paper: Alice Wu (2017), "Gender Stereotyping in Academia: Evidence from Economics Job Market Rumors Forum”
Podcast Episode: "Women at work” episode from the Seen and the Unseen Podcast
|
Room no. 307 |
4th October 2019, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm |
Presentation |
Meet Mehta |
|
4 |
RCTs and Development Economics: Work of 2019 Economics Nobel Laureates |
Lecture: Nobel Lectures delivered by Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
Blog post: "What Randomization Can and Cannot Do: The 2019 Nobel Prize” from A Fine Theorem, a blog maintained by Kevin Bryan
|
Room no. 304 |
14th December 2019, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm |
Presentation |
Meet Mehta |
|
5 |
Migration |
Book chapter: Chapter titled "From the Mouth of the Shark” from the book "Good Economics for Hard Times” by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
|
Room no. 304 |
11th January 2020, 2:05 pm to 3:05 pm |
Presentation |
Meet Mehta |
|
6 |
Communities and Markets |
Book chapter: Introductory chapter from the book "The Third Pillar” by Raghuram Rajan
Lecture: "How markets and the state leave the community behind” delivered by Raghuram Rajan
|
Room no. 307 |
22nd February 2020, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm |
Presentation |
Kritika Sahu
|
|
7 |
Determinants of Rate of Innovation |
Lectures: "Lost Einsteins” lecture delivered in 2 parts by Raj Chetty
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Room no. 307 |
14th March 2020, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm |
Presentation |
Arshee Verma and Yash Jain
|
|
8 |
Determinants of Rate of Innovation (Contd.)
|
Lectures: "Lost Einsteins” lecture delivered in 2 parts by Raj Chetty
|
Zoom Meeting |
7th June 2020, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Presentation |
Arshee Verma and Yash Jain |
|
9 |
Consequentialist and Categorical Moral Thinking
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"The Moral Side of Murder” first lecture of the series "Justice” delivered by Michael Sandel |
Zoom Meeting
|
14th June 2020, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
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Discussion |
Arshee Verma
|
|
10 |
Wealth Inequality and Taxation |
Lecture: 2017 Stone Lecture delivered by Gabriel Zucman
|
Zoom Meeting |
21st June 2020, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Presentation |
Bhavna Mundhra and Esha Bora
|
|
11 |
The Meritocracy Trap
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Lecture: A lecture delivered by Daniel Markovits
|
Zoom Meeting |
28st June 2020, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Presentation
|
Lakshita Joshi and Yash Jain |
|
12 |
Using Private Sector Data to Estimate Economic Impacts of COVID-19 across Income Groups |
Lecture: "Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Real Time Evidence from Private Sector Data” a lecture delivered by Raj Chetty
Paper: Chetty et al (2020), "How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data”
|
Zoom Meeting |
5th July 2020, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Presentation |
Meet Mehta |
"Bad writing precedes good writing. This is an infallible rule, so don’t waste time trying to avoid bad writing. Anything committed to paper can be changed. The idea is to start and then go from there.” - Janet Hulstrand
The curriculum in SAMSOE is rigorous and challenging. Amidst our students’ academic commitments, they have also been able to explore avenues which are not part of the course. ‘Scroll of Thoughts’ (SoT) is a virtual scroll which provides a platform to all the potential writers of SAMSOE to pen down their ideas and share them with their college-mates. The magazine includes mesmerizing poems, enlightening articles, insightful thoughts and captivating entertainment in form of stories, puzzles, brain teasers, book and movie reviews etc. The SoT team is young and energetic, comprising of members who have experience in framing, articulating and editing write-ups to members who have just started their journey in the field of Economics with fresh ideas.
You can now stay tuned to the writing club through the blog site and Instagram handle of SoT:
https://scrollofthoughtsnmims.wordpress.com/
https://instagram.com/scrollofthoughts?igshid=17e37k1pwyp0k
The team also welcomes any pieces the students and alumni would like to contribute for its Economics and Non-Economics sections. You may contact the team or also send feedback and suggestions, at sot.samsoe@gmail.com.
• SAMVEDANA – Social and Community Service Club
SAMVEDANA – Social and Community Service Club of SAMSOE conducted Juhu beach cleaning activity on 29th September 2019. This was the part of 'Swachhata Hi Sewa Campaign" launched by Govt. of India.
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• Performing Arts Club (Junoon)
Junoon, the Performing Arts Club of Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics, organized Christmas Celebrations on 20th December 2019 with a mini Christmas tree set up by the team near the administrative office. All the students had been asked to dress up in the Christmas shades of green, red, and white. A Secret Santa gift exchange was executed class wise by the CRs. There was a surprise "flash mob” during the tea break, which sang Christmas Carols. As a last surprise, Vikramjeet Babbar a TY student dressed up as Santa toured every class, distributing chocolates to the students and spreading Christmas cheer! This event was well received by the students and faculty, and put everyone in a good holiday mood just before the vacations.
Junoon - The Performing Arts Society of SAMSOE organized Navratri Night,2019 on 12th October 2019 at Santokba Hall.
Junoon - The Performing Arts Society club of SAMSOE organized "Antakshari ’19 on 20th September 2019. Total of 20 teams participated in the event.
The team that won the first prize comprised of member Udbhav Sharma (SYA), Diya Patel (SYA), Gautam (SYA), Sarthak (SYB), Taarika (SYA).
The team comprising of members Yashovarman Dixit (TYB), Priyanshu (TYB), Parth (TYB), Arnab (TYA) got 2nd prize.
Winners were awarded a cash prize of ₹ 1,000/ and ₹ 600/- respectively.
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Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics, NNMIMS celebrated its Ethnic Day 2019 on 4th September 2019. "Junoon”, the Performing Arts Club organized this year's Traditional day with the festive Ganesh Chaturthi as the theme.
This year, the ethnic day was without a doubt taken a notch higher. The participation was overwhelming. From students to teachers, everyone was in colourful attires. There were class-level competitions for best dressed male and best dressed female. The competition in every class was indeed a close call!
The classrooms were decorated and forms were rolled out through which students could capture this moment in a polaroid. The polaroid turnout was over a hundred and fifty! Also, the school has organized Teacher's day where the students gave every teacher a personalized bag filled with messages from their students.
Once again, the Performing Arts Club showed what it stands by, Passion. The passion of bringing everyone together in college and helping create experiences for people that will last a lifetime.
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• Debating and MUN
The Debating Society of SAMSOE organized an Intra-College Debate on 10th August 2019. Total 25 teams participated in the event.
Following were the winners
Best Speaker: Ishita Bhatia got cash prize of Rs. 1,000/-
Runners up: Kewal Sheth got cash prize of Rs. 500/-
Best Team: Vasu Sahi & Vinayak Sahi got cash prize of Rs. 1500/-
• Sports Club
On 8th January, 2020 the Sports Club organised the Intra College Table Tennis tournament for Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics. It was conducted in the Sports lounge of NMIMS building. The event received an overwhelming response of 48 participants. There was enthralling competition amongst the participants.
Winners for the tournament
1st Position- Richit Bid
2nd Position - Muskaan Kukreja
The winners received certificates, medals and cash prizes.
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On 31st August, 2019 the Sports Club organised the first round of the Intra College Box Cricket tournament for Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics. It was an inter class event followed by the finals on 7th September, 2019. It was conducted in Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School from2.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. The Sports Club instituted ‘The Sportsman of the Year’ award where the students would be awarded points for the participation and winning the sporting events held throughout the year.
Winners for the matches
Team in 1st Position
Anushree Krishna
Sagar Dasani
Anubhav Rathore
Parth Maken
Pranavi Singh
Priyanshu Raj
Yashovarman Dikshit
Team in 2nd Position
Richit bid
Udit Vaishnav
Saksham Ahuja
Nickil Chopraa
Vaibhav Jain
Nivedhitha balachandran
Parnika Kumat
The winning teams received certificates, medals and cash prizes of 2100 rupees and 1400 rupees respectively.
Participation in Inter-Collegiate Festivals
Football team of SAMSOE comprising of Raghav Agrawal, Yashowarman Dixit, Nirvan Gupta, Jaisal Doshi, Saksham Ahuja, Udit Vaishnav, Gautam Narayan, Richit Bid, Suryahans Marwaha participated in the annual football tournament organized by Russel Square International School and secured second position. The winning team received trophy and cash prize of ₹ 15,000/-.
SAMSOE performed extremely well in VAAYU 2019. It won the Second Runners Up trophy and received two departmental trophies for Externals and Informals. The contingent leader was Priyansha Dhoot and assistant contingent leaders were Dhruvin Deora and Diya Patel.
Following are the winners.
Following are the winners.
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Sr. No. |
Participants |
Position |
Event Name |
Event Department |
Event Description |
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1 |
Tanmay Mohanty
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1 |
Vaayu Touchndown
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Gaming & Sports |
Sports Management Event
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2 |
Yashoverman Dikshit Midhushi Digga
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3
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Pixel Perfect
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Fine Arts |
Studio Photography Event
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3 |
Prerak Murdia Adheesh Naik
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2
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Innovations |
Travel Event (includes tasks, quizzes and board games)
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4 |
Ranveer Aujhla Ananya Agarwal
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2
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Oh, Snap!
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Informals |
Marvel Cinematic Universe based event (informals)
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5 |
Siddharth Saddana
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1
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Kick-Off
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Gaming & Sports |
FIFA PlayStation Video Gaming Event
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6 |
Prakhar Agarwal
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2
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Marketing Maniac
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Management event |
Marketing and Advertising event
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7 |
Karnica Dwij Dutt
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1
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The Economist
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Management event |
Economics based event
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8 |
Aditya Bihani Prerak Murdia
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2
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The Economist
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Management event |
Economics based event
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9 |
Abhijeet Didwania Rohan Phatale
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3
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The Economist
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Management event |
Economics based event
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10 |
Taarika Papneja Kashish Suvarna
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3
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Glow Gala
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Performing Arts |
Fashion Show and Dress Making
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11 |
Oomisha Rastogi
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3
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Ridin' Solo
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Performing Arts |
Dance Competition (Solo)
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12 |
Kewal Anushka Pandit
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2
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Masters of Time
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Innovations |
History based Event
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13 |
Vaishakhi Chowta
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Ms Vaayu
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M&M
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Informals |
Mr and Ms Vaayu
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14 |
Priyansha Dhoot
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1
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Vaayu Unplugged
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Externals |
Radio Jockey Event
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15 |
Ketan Jain Vedant Modi
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1
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At Your Own Risk
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Management event |
Insurance Event
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16 |
Nandini Zalani Saransh Garg
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2
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At Your Own Risk
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Management event |
Insurance Event
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17 |
Rohan Phatale Vedansh Agarwal
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1
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Rajneeti
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Innovations |
Political Event
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18 |
Palki Agarwal Amrita Ghosh
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3
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Arthathlon
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Fine Arts |
Fine Arts Competition
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19 |
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3
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Devil Wears Prada
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Performing Arts |
Fashion Show Ramp Walk
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20 |
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2 |
Bittersweet Symphony
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Performing Artss |
Band Competition
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