MEDIA CLUB EVENTS 2017
Intra College MUN Conference
The media club of NHCE hosted an intra college MUN conference on the 28th and 29th Aug, 2017 respectively. With more than 90 participants from both NHCE and NHCM at the second edition of this this conference, the discussions were of the highest regard and brought about some important debate to the table.
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations in which students get an opportunity to fill in the shoes of diplomats thereby enabling them to get a detailed insight of how international relations work.
Here, students play the role of delegates from different countries and attempt to solve real world issues keeping in mind their country’s foreign policy and the sittuation of the global community in hand.
At this year’s intra college conference, the agenda was to discuss “The legality of supplying weapons in armed conflicts”. With delegates given different countries, it was their duty to debate on this topic and also find loopholes and solutions to the same. The event had a majority of First years which enables us to understand the enthusiasm amongst them. This event also served as platform to recruit students into the college MUN team which would be sending delegations to different colleges around the city and country. At the end of the event, 6 students were selected to be a part of the team and showed some excellent character.
Oppo Freshface
Oppo Freshface has never in its history visited New Horizon College of Engineering and returned without taking back more than a handful of amazing and brimming with talent personalities. And this time too making no change to the legacy , them, and the students present as audience got to witness talent like never before.
The students from New Horizon college(M) and New Horizon College of Engineering, eagerly awaited Bangalore Oppo Freshface on one Wednesday afternoon amidst serious and tiring Sargam practice sessions like a rain in the hot deserts. With the first performance by Joseph who wowed the audience by an especially different beatboxing with mouth organ blew our minds like never before.
What then followed was a series of extraordinary performances in dance, musics and playing instruments.
Adding to the funny side were Shwetank Singh, a first year BBA student who mimicked a few hindi actors and Sivan Chakravarthy, who tried standup comedy , proving that an engineer can be anything he wishes to be .
After two rounds of looking for the best talents and going through the toughest times, the two judges zeroed in on 6 boys and 6 girls , out of which 3 were chosen to be winners from the college!
Diwas Koushik,- a writer rapper,of First year Bcom and Naini Reddy, of 1st semester engineering, Ece department became the Mr and Ms Freshface oof 2017 on the campus level. Adithan and Nikita Upadhyay became the first runner up, it was Swethank Singh and Aarti who bagged the place of the second runner up.
The official mascot of Sargam 2017, DipsyBlu, the friendly Blue alien stole the limelight throughout the time from the Oppo mascot Olly.
Realising that this is the era of selfies, Oppo, the title sponsors of Bangalore freshface cleverly had a photobooth set up for all the selfie lovers on this extravagant day!
Freshface definitely chose some of the best talents that New Horizon has ever seen, to shine at the semifinals and make each of us proud!
Independence Day 2017
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.” – Soren Kierkegaard
To us, super heroes were not the creatures with colorful capes and extraordinary super powers. Instead, our superheroes wore a camouflaged uniform and held guns in their hands. Each one of them have given up their chance of having an easy and luxurious life style, barred comfort levels only to provide us with a safe good night’s sleep.
And what’s a better day to honour families of such heroes who are the real sons of our mother land?
The members of the Media club, NHCE, thus decided to pay tribute to Lt. Col E.K Niranjan and Major Sandeep unnikrishnan by visiting their families on the occasion of our 70th independence day.
The team of 6 students which consisted of Nishanth Reddy K, Joshua Tom Jacob, Anu John, Somya Singh, Nishant Jha and Bhawik Thanna, along with Mr. Krishna Chandran, a faculty from the MCA department began from the college premises around 9:20am, to reach their first stop.
NSG Commando Lt Col Niranjan who recently lost his life while defusing a grenede at the Pathankot airbase attacks. The team was warmly welcomed by his father who remembered his son with teary eyes on the day India gained independence that he lost his life fighting for. His father EK Shivarajan recalled his son’s last words to him being “dad! I’m on an operation i’ll call you back”. He shared a very emotional time with our team speaking about his son’s love for the olive uniform, his awe worthy achievements and the struggles Lt Col Niranjan went through to become what he was. They were also shown the gallery of photographs and achievements which brought goosebumps to each one of them.
They left the place after a brief interaction with the man who though sad for the loss of his son, would always remain a proud father.
The second stop was at ISRO layout, at the abode of late Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan who was martyred in action during the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks. Mr. K Unnikrishnan, an ex employee of ISRO and his wife Dhanalakshmi Unnikrishnan welcomed our team with considerable respect for our thought. They shared an insight of their life before and after losing their most loved and only son, which left even the strongest person in the room teary eyed, the stories of how Maj sandeep chose to handle the terrorists himself with minimum injuries to his subordinates and his last words of “Do not come up, I will handle them” before he was shot at the back and later succumbed to death. His mother recalled his he days as a very lovable child who was good at both academics and athletics and that he would have been 40 this year, had it not have been for that unfortunate day that blew away the light in their lives. Though it has been 9 years since, Mr. Unnikrishnan and his wife still cannot remember their son without tears in their eyes and a cracked voice. They definitely believe atleast a small percentage of the population gets inspired by the brave soldier who always said that he wanted the whole nation to remember him when he dies.
Both the families were handed over a small token of our love for giving this nation the greatest gifts anyone could ever give, two bravehearts who would never leave our hearts and whose names would always make our hair rise in pride.
KHUSHI 2017 – International Women’s Day Celebrations
Behind every successful man, is a woman. Behind every successful woman, is herself , her parents and not the society which said she belonged only to the kitchen and the four walls of the bedroom.
‘KHUSHI’ the extravagant celebration which took place on the 8th of March 2017, to mark the achievements of women in all walks of life and to show them that they are much more than just an unpaid maid . The event began in the Auditorium at 12:30pm remembering women like Indira Gandhi, Michelle Obama, Indra Nooyi and many others .
What the audience then saw was the honouring of the strongest pillars of New Horizon College of Engineering, the women Heads of Departments . Starting from Mrs. Malathi Madhusudan, the director of accounts department to the heads of various branches. To mark the positive begining of the event, the lighting of the lamp was done by the principal Dr Manjunatha along with the pilots of the smooth running of the departments of college , without whom, things are unimaginable. There is no celebration without a cake. The cake was cut and happiness was shared among them all, giving a happy picture for the members of the photography club to click.
What then followed was a mesmerising performance by the members of the music club , with the vocals by Sanjay Sreevalsan of 8th semester CS. Solo dance performances given by Parashuram of EC department and Deepak Raj of mechanical department, both students of 8th semester engineering. A group dance performance by the members of the dance club got the audience up from their seats. When Sanjay Sreevalsan was back with a solo malayalam song, he took the crowd to an enchanting world with his song rendering.
The college’s own Mr. Nags ,Ashish Sathpathy literally tickled our spine with his improv performance.
The newest club of New Horizon, the Green Warriors club, which aims at reducing, reusing ,recycling and promoting green attitude to create a greener campus was inaugurated on this day of great importance. The president, Lisha, 6th semester Biotechnology threw light on the objectives and activities of the club. Priya Pai, the president of the Art club and one of the best artists of college amused the audience with her amazing skills when she gave a live inverse painting performance of mother theresa. Also, a women’s day oath was taken by the principal and the male presidents of the clubs.The event in the auditorium came to an end with a performance from the fashion club, depicting women from various walks of life.
DJ Eesha who made it despite her busy schedule was able to make the whole college dance to her tunes. The event in the auditorium and the DJ that followed saw a huge crowd which made it very clear that the event on this day was welcomed by the students with open arms .
The food stalls arranged,Art Work Display and Photobooth by the Art Club were the added attractions to the Successful Event by Extra-Curricular Clubs “KHUSHI 2017”.
AUDITIONS FOR THE DRAMA & THEATRE TEAM
For the first time ever in the history of New Horizon, the thought of a theatre club struck certain like minds . The first event hosted by the media club for the even semester was the auditions for the official college theatre group. Ground work for the event was done with much energy by the executive members of the media club. The event was scheduled on Monday, the 27th of February,2017. The number of participants who turned up for the event was pretty amazing . A total of 50 participants were present in the falconary seminar hall at 2pm, just as the program was expected to begin. The acting and directing audition was judged by Shiladithya Ghosh and Sijo Mathew Varghese of 8th sem,accompanied by Prakhyat Lavu, President of the Media Club and Ashish Sathpathy of 4th semester engineering. The other categories were script and dialogue writing, Art and background designing and background score with musical instruments . The prominent members of the music club judged the participants that played various musical instruments. A total of 14 actors , 2 script writers and 1 director was selected by the end of the auditions event. The team is now gearing up for some amazing events inside and outside college.
