'We came first in Talentia, News Bulletin, Mock Skit, Dumb Charades and Painting'

21 Sept 2000 | PG Days 😍

#memoriesfromdiaries 💕

[21 years ago…]

Arcadia is a popular Literary Fest organized by the renowned Lady Doak College, Madurai.

from my personal diary entry, 21 September 2000

We’d already had our preliminary rounds to decide on which of us would be representing our College at LDC!

'Talentia...' in progress...

After having gotten ready quite early into the morn, we boarded a bus under the leadership of our Staff member Prof. Johnson.

Then, we had our breakfast at a good hotel, and we reached the College by 9 am.

Our boys did exceptionally well in many events!

Talentia...

We came first in Talentia, News Bulletin, Mock Skit, Dumb Charades and in Painting.

In Poetry and in Painting (again), we bagged the third place.

Mime time - after the show...

American College emerged champs, and we were runner-ups!

Fatima College came third!

Dumb Charades...

Our boys gave a stellar performance in the News Bulletin, which got us the first place!

In the News Bulletin, while one of us was busy reading out the news, a few of our boys were simultaneously enacting the news sequence.

News Bulletin...

Be it the interview with Salman Rushdie, or the Sahitya Akademi award [the second-highest literary honor in India] for Raja Rao, our boys did it with aplomb!

News Bulletin... Jayaraman as Raja Rao...

The cream of the News Bulletin however, was the famous Lie-Detector robot performance which had the audience in splits.

Since we were an all-boys team, Wesley opted to don the role of ‘Mother’ to Sakthivel, for the performance, which won him accolades by the number!