By Milana Prakash (Team Creative)
For a
fest that is as massive as K'scope, there’s a lot that needs to work seamlessly.
There are 21 teams, a plethora of sponsors, tons of contingents to tend to and
succinctly speaking; it requires a lot of coordination and hard work. In this
process of striving to juggle all these aspects, sometimes, things do not go as
expected. Crisis hits and the workforce is left with no choice but to act smartly
and act quickly. They say necessity is the mother of invention, and here are
some interesting stories that our coordinators recall from their experiences.
“Use the
best of whatever you have at your disposal!” says Simran Chettiar, a
Coordinator for Team PR. “Last year for After 8, we didn’t have a keyboard
stand and I was running all over the college trying to look for a solution. Finally,
with the help of Team Technicals we placed speakers which weren’t in use, to
ensconce the keyboard on top of it.”
“I gave
my pillow for the drum” states Pearl Coutinho, a Coordinator for Team
Technicals. “For Electrocuted [a band music event], the base of the drum that
we had for the performances kept rebounding. It could survive 5 performances at
the most. At one point, a drummer from a contingent insisted on getting a
pillow to keep it steady. Caught in a state of fix, I went around the college
looking for pillows, but all in vain. Finally, I ran up to my hostel room,
grabbed my own pillow, and handed it over to him. The pillow seemed to have
done wonders and lasted for the entire event. It was a proud moment for me,
though for the next 10 days I didn’t have a good pillow to sleep on; I was glad
that I could handle the pressure and find a constructive solution when no one
else could.”
“We
totally freaked out!” said Shalini Sur from Team Pre-K. “The day after the
fest, when we distribute gifts to the winners, we just couldn’t find our
sponsor’s gifts, which had to be given to our winners! It just went missing
from the den and we had no idea about how we could arrange gifts at the last
minute, when our winners were waiting right outside. In such a moment, the
other event team very kindly helped us with their gifts like a saviors.
Luckily, we managed to find our gifts later from the storage.”
“Pleasing
them was difficult” claims Divya Tejwani, from Team Fine Arts. “While we didn’t
have any major problem, finding gift sponsors and getting them on board was a
bit of a task. We sat day and night making calls, buzzing all art galleries and
customized gift shops of the city. We found rather impressive places but there
were a few differences in opinion, which made it difficult to get them. But we
didn’t give up, we helped each other out by relentlessly going for sponsor
meetings with our juniors and we now have 4 amazing sponsors on board!”
“You
can’t really be sweet all the time” says Nikita Golhar, a. Assistant
Coordinator for Team Security. “There was an event at the Bhabha Hall and
members from a particular college wanted to barge in, breaking away from the
queue. I felt it was terribly unfair on the part of the others who were waiting
patiently in a line. It was very hard for me because I had to tread the thin
line between being polite but firm at the same time, even if they perceived it
as being rude. Ultimately, rules must prevail and the decorum must be held. At
that moment you’re under so much pressure to act quick but diplomatically.”
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