Music from around the world comes to sing its tune at MAHE

The group song competition held last Thursday, the 13th of March saw the end of the month long, in-house cultural competitions taking place at the MAHE Dubai auditorium. The competition began with a performance by MAHE’s official band – Novocaine. A very hard act to follow, judging by the audience's reaction. The group song competition saw five groups of five members each who were judged on the basis of melody, harmony and presentation. Music is truly global and can definitely speak to people and this was clearly visible through the choice and selection of songs from gospel to fusion and from a qawwali to a remix. The competition was judged by Mr. Vishwesh Akre from the IT department, Ms. Seema Upadhyay from the Biotechnology department and Ms. Seena Biju from the Management department.

The 2nd place winners presented the very powerful “Pray for me Brother” by A.R. Rahman which is the UN anthem. The group also had a persuasive presentation that backed their song, creating feelings of charity among the audience. Members of the group included: Anandha, Deepa, Sabrina, Nancy and Asma.

Ms. Seema Updhyay presenting the 2nd place prize to Anandha, Nancy, Sabrina, Asma and Deepa. (Photo by Dasney Pereira)

However the judges preferred the qawwali bollywood song “Pardah hai Pardah” from the movie Amar, Akbar and Anthony performed by the group: Jasim, Mufaz, Naeem, Rahul and Imran and adjudged it worthy of the first prize.

Jasim, Naeem, Mufaz, Rahul and Imran - winners of the 1st prize of the group song competition. The group performed the qawwali number “Pardah hai Pardah” from the movie Amar, Akbar Anthony. (Photo by Dasney Pereira)

Yes, the media is all about sensationalism today!

Thrilled champions of the debate flaunt their trophies.

Left to Right: Miss Supriya, Miss Ayesha, Miss Pooja and Miss Disha. ~ Photograph by Fatima Husain

“Wild ones attack seaside – 97 arrested,” began the first speaker Supriya Dominica of Team A, a third year student of Media and Communications during the heated debate held at MAHE auditorium on Thursday, 6th March 2008.

Two teams of four students each were all geared up to air their views on the topic: Is media today all about sensationalism? Participants of Team A: Miss Supriya (3^rd year Media and Communications), Miss Disha (1^st year Media and Communications), Miss Pooja P. (2^nd year Media and Communications) and Miss Ayesha (2^nd year Media and Communications) battled out their opponents of Team B to substantiate that the media indeed is all about sensationalism today.

Speakers were allotted four minutes each to present their understanding for the topic with an addition to a rebuttal of two minutes at the end for the teams to refute anyone’s argument put forward during the debate.

The forum moderated by Ms. Shubha, a faculty of Media and Communications, was assessed by a panel of four judges: Dr. Srikrishna Pandey (HOD of IT department), Dr. Sudhakar (Professor of Management) and Mr. Ashok Iyer (HOD of ID department).

The best speaker award was prized to Miss Pooja P. from Team A and Mr. Ritesh Jeswani (1^st year Media and Communications) from Team B.

“The debate was very challenging. We did attempt to put our points across but it is very obvious that media is all about sensationalism. What is true cannot be changed, isn’t it?”, said Ritesh from the defeated team but all jubilant for being awarded as one of the best speakers of the debate.

Thursday Excitement at MAHE

The following in-house events will be happening in the MAHE auditorium on the next four Thursdays:

• 21st February - Quiz Competition
• 28th February - Solo Dance (Eastern and Western)
• 6th March - Debate
• 13th March - Group Singing (Eastern and Western)

Time: 14:00pm - 16:00pm
Venue: Auditorium

• Elimination rounds for Quiz will be held on Monday 18th February in the auditorium between 12:15pm - 12:45pm (Bring a pen with you please!)
• Those interested in Solo Dance should contact Sindhuja, 3rd year Media Dept. on 050-5782395 by Thursday, 14th February.
• Those interested in Group Singing should contact Aishwarya, 3rd year Media Dept. on 050-2423424 by Thursday, 21st February.
• Announcements for Debate will be made soon.