ICFAI Business School celebrated their annual fest BRIO’23 last month with various management, sports and cultural events. Many city colleges took part in exciting and innovative events. After two years of conducting the fest digitally, the students were happy to be part of the fest physically this year. Students chose the fest’s theme of this year — Tomorrowland: The Elixir of Life — to give out the message to live in the present and enjoy life to the fullest and make every moment special as the two years of Covid taught us how life can be uncertain sometimes.
The two-day fest featured a host of events. The events on the first day took place at ICFAI Business School, which included management and sports events such as Suited and Booted, Kill-Switch, table tennis and carrom. The cultural events happened on the second day at Swabhumi, Urban Zone. Students showcased their talents and innovative ideas by giving brilliant performances in the singing, dancing and fashion show competitions. The fest ended with the prize distribution, followed by a DJ night to celebrate Brio’s success.
Surendranath College won the fashion show called Nirvana with their theme Vishnupuran, portraying the different Gods and Goddesses of Hindu mythology. “We dedicatedly worked for the fashion show and won it. We want to thank the audience and judges for giving us so much love,” said team members Rounak Ranjan Maji, Somnath Chakraborty, Swagatam Roy, Soumik Dutta, Uma Tarafdar, Dona Ghosh, Asmita Biswas, Ananya Bairagi, Soniya Nilap and Qunya Bose.
A special prize was given to the IBS fashion team for putting up a great show on their theme Tomorrowland: Elixir of Life, within a limited time. “We are feeling great to put up this show. We had very little time to prepare for this. We had a last-minute change, too. After so much pain and struggle, we are so happy to make it happen today successfully. We want to thank our judges, faculty members and our friends for supporting us,” said team members Ankita Saha, Sreyash Sinha, Purvi Aagarwal, Gitash Ganguly, Ritika Das, Akash Das and Vikas Kumar.
Rashi Prasad from IIHM, winner of the management event KillSwitch, a fun-filled event where each participant had to pick a debatable topic to speak on and the buzzer was pressed in between speeches to switch to another topic. “This was quite unbelievable! We had to speak and switch to different topics, which was really tough for me as I am participating in such an event for the first time. I did not think I would win. I’m super elated,” said Rashi.
BRIO’23 ended on a fun note with a DJ night. Students let their hair down and danced to Bollywood beats
BRIO’23 singing competition was named Mausam Ka Jadoo. Priyangshu Dutta, a second-year student of The Bhawanipur Education Society College, won the competition. He sang both the Bengali and Hindi versions of Mon majhire and Sun le zara by Arijit Singh. “I had not expected to win. I am very happy as I sang a song by my inspiration Arijit Singh. I really admire him,” said Priyangshu.
Hritojyoti Roy from The Bhawanipur Education Society College was the male winner in table tennis. “I’m very happy to be the male winner of table tennis at BRIO’23. Can’t wait to take this cup back to my college,” said Hritjyoti. Female winner Satadeesha Dey from St. Xavier’s University, said, “I’m feeling blessed! Winning the cup for an extra-curricular activity is very special for me as everyone nowadays is more focused on academics. It was great to be a part of BRIO’23.”
Naman Jaiswal, a second-year student of The Bhawanipur Education Society College, was the winner of the carrom game. “I’m thankful to IBS Business School for this opportunity. Like every other sport, even carrom needs a lot of hard work. I feel very proud to win the carrom championship cup for my college.
EIILM Business School, winners of the dance competition, performed on Pride: LGBTQ. They performed on songs like Kalank and Bahu manaratha. “We had very little time to plan this performance. We want to thank our choreographer and mentor for giving us such a great theme to perform on. We feel so confident about performing this act in front of the audience and the fact that they actually loved it. We are so glad that we got a standing ovation,” said the team of first-year students.
Aryan Ramakrishnan, Taher Malkani and Ankit Panigrahi from St.Xavier’s University were winners of Suited and Booted, a flagship event of IBS Kolkata, where the participating teams were required to come up with a business plan which could be a revelation in our day-to-day lives solving real issues. “We are very privileged to be the winners of Suited and Booted, a management event of BRIO’23. We hope this gives a push to our careers,” said the trio.
“It’s a great event. We are back after three years with BRIO. We had a mini-marathon only a month ago and our students barely had time to prepare, but they worked so hard to make this a huge success. They recently had their mid-terms and will be having their final terms, despite that they made it possible within their busy schedule. This shows how good they can manage things and do teamwork which will help them in their future lives. I’m really proud of them,” said Durga Rani Sinha, director of corporate relations and placement coordinator of IFCAI Business School Kolkata.
“It’s a great feeling to host the signature event of IBS, BRIO, every year. This time 23 reputed colleges have participated to showcase their talents. Organising fests like this is a way to encourage students to develop ideas and take it further. The cultural events enable the students to develop their body language and thought process, which is very important apart from academics. Companies look for holistic personalities, hence we teach them to be that,” said Ajay Pathak, senior director of IFCAI Business School, Calcutta.