Daksh 2010

Daksh 2010 was a huge success. The turn-out was huge and there was quality participation. Though initially there was some confusion regarding Mr. Swapan Dasgupta’s lecture, things went on smoothly. The Robot dance, Laser show and Astronomy show attracted huge crowds. The food stalls proved to be a relief to the hostellers, especially the girls. Apart from this, there were also some activities done as part of the Daksh Initiatives programme. EcoBrigade volunteers with green ribbons encouraged and advised people to throw waste materials into dustbins. Also Plasma Compendium was focussed upon. Mozilla had a stall put up and overwhelmed with the response, has agreed to be one of the sponsors of Daksh 2011 :) Daksh 2010 also saw our beloved seniors coming back to college and having fun 
With Daksh 2010 turning out to be such a mega event, it’s going to be challenging for us juniors to make sure we keep increasing the standards and making Daksh 2011 a much greater success.

Plasma Compendium

This again is another DAKSH Initiative. We hear lot of cases of deaths occurring due to blood loss after major surgeries or accidents. To prevent this, Team DAKSH has started Plasma Compendium, based on an idea given by an eminent personality at SASTRA. It is a database comprising of people who are willing to donate their blood. All you have to do for registering yourself is click on the following url:
http://www.sastra.edu/plasma

Student workshops @ DAKSH

This year's DAKSH has got loads of new ideas incorporated . One example - the student workshops . Videography, Origami, Rubix Cube and Basic Electrical and Electronics workshops are being offered. Completely handled by students, these workshops, whose registrations have begun today have already seen more than 300 registrations.

DAKSH '08

"We are back!!!" Thats what the notice for DAKSH '08 says! It is indeed back and the number of queries and ideas that have flowed in since last night (when the notice was pasted) shows the excitement that SASTRA people have over this fest. Amazing! I heard the website is gonna be put up soon enough ... Hey, the notice also speaks about some freaky 'presentation' !!! Whats that all about ?? I guess its just a mechanism to make things better (all ideas judged in the same way, maximum chances of getting creativity out of the students is perhaps through competition even at the idea phase) ... Lets hope it all goes really well !!! Good luck ...

The buzz in the grapevine ...

My resources have said, "Dude ... I heard we have carpe diem dis time in aug .. then KS is for 3 days .. And DAKSH for 2 ... KS has dance and music inc ... plus it preceeds DAKSH ..."
The other things that I was able to hear were that the political corridors have become active for the leadership of KS!!!
Speaking of politics, the various associations have become electric these days ... Cuz now is the time when the Chairpersons and his/her group of executives are being decided. SCANIT has chosen the democratic way of elections. ACE still has a lot of talks going on inside closed doors. The associations of Vidut Vihar are supposed to take a decison today in the evening.