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NIHILANTH8TH EDITION

Mood Indigo

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigoIntroductIon

IIT Bombay is not only among the elitest engineer-ing colleges in India, but also plays host to one of the best college level cultural scenes in India. IIT Bombay is committed to all-round personality development, and apart from just academic councils, the Students’ Activites Center (SAC) and club councils have massive participa-tion. IIT Bombay, owing to it’s rich intellectual pool and active participation, has produced some fine engineers.

IIT Bombay, since 1958

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigoIntroductIon

Asia’s largest college cultural festival. And no, this isn’t obnoxious narcis-sism. We basically prove it year after year. For instance, we invite you this year to experience it first hand! Take some time out from your life and ex-perience us. With the craziest, biggest and all the other superlatives-signi-fying-awesomeness-stuff happening here, you are sure to have the best four non-sexual days of your life! About a couple hundred international per-formers, a plethrora of Indian artists, the most colourful competitions and the whackiest street zones, Mood I is simply an experience you would not want to miss. Hard to believe? Here goes the popular line, “pehle istemaal karein, fir vish-was karein!”

Mood Indigo

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigoSchedule

DAY 1Sci-Tech Quiz - Elims and Finals during the daytimeLone Wolf - Elims during the daytime and Finals at night

DAY 2Melas - Elims and Finals in IRCC at nightEnt Quiz - Elims at 9:45AM and Finals at 10:45PM

Gen Quiz - Elims and Semifinal rounds

DAY 3Biz Quiz - Elims during the daytime and Finals at nightSports Quiz - Elims during the daytime and Finals at nightGen Quiz - Finals

DAY 4India Quiz - Elims and FinalsIIT Bombay Special Quizt

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigoScI-tech QuIz

Gadget freaks, tech savvy geeks, and money whose smartphone reeks! Ho, listen listen! This one’s for you! This is an engineer’s ball game, can everyone else live up to it? Or will this be a race only among the T’s and not the M’s?! Wait and watch, gadg-ets, science, technology and every single advance-ment in scientific history will be out there making the battlefield a scary place.

Will you, Matrix-Bots conquer it or will you fall prey to the Agents out in the field? Time to reach a conclusion!

MnA (a firm that conducts quizzes) was founded by quizmasters Vijay Anand Menon and Arnav Sinha, who were batch mates at IIM Calcutta. Arnav holds an MTech and a BTech degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi. He is also an International Grade Adjudicator for Parliamentary De-bating, having chaired debates in India and Pakistan.

Arnav SinhaQuizmaster

IIT Bombay

&Mood Indigolone Wolf

Cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste of death but once.

Get beaten, battered, go limp. But sur-vive the onslaught. Are you the valiant hero who will not taste death on this day?If yes, glory awaits you. Here.

Suraj Menon is a Pune-based quizzer who has won several quizzes, including the Na-tional Life Sciences quiz “BioQuizitive 2010”. He has conducted several college quizzes at events such as Mood Indigo (2011) and Ni-hilanth (2012) and open & corporate quizzes in various cities. Suraj worked as a research scientist and is now pursuing his MBA in XLRI Jamshedpur.

Suraj MenonQuizmaster

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigoIndIa QuIz

Largest Thorium-based power genera-tion program in the world.

Largest oil-refinery in the world.

Houses the largest slum in Asia.

If you’ve guessed it by now, this one’s for you. Match your knowledge of the tricolour and it’s nation with the best in the nation.

An alumnus of IIM-Bangalore, Thejaswi Udupa works as a Product Manager at Yahoo!. He has been a semi-finalist on BBC’s Mastermind, and has won mainstream quizzes like BT Acumen, Tata Crucible. As a quizmaster, he has done quizzes for the Ministry of Science (Karnataka Govt), col-leges like IIT-KGP, IIT-M, BITS, NLS, IIM-K, IIM-L, IIM-B apart from numerous open, college and corporate quiz-zes on behalf of the KQA. He has also been part of thequestion setting committee for Mahaquizzer, the national solo quiz competition.

Thejaswi UdupaQuizmaster

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigoSportS QuIz

“I may not be the best in England, but I’m definitely in the top one” - Mourinho

Do what managers do, match wits, choose the right strategy, and prove that you’re the Special One.

Aditya Gadre is an alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur and cur-rently works at Ernst and Young. He has won several quiz-zes during his college days (which was not too long ago) including IIT-B’s Mood Indigo’s Sports and General Quiz-zes (back to back for 2 years), IIT-KGP’s Mary Bucknell Trophy and IIM-C’s Carpe Diem. He co-sets one of the big-gest sports quizzes in India - The BC Cup, the fourth edi-tion of which will be held on June 2012. As a quizmaster, he has conducted several quizzes for the BCQC Pune, the Bombay Quiz Club, Ensemble at XLRI, and IIT-B’s Mood Indigo Sports quiz in 2011.

Aditya GadreQuizmaster

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigoentertaInment QuIz

Entertainment guaranteed. Quite lit-erally. Has everything you’d need for a total kick-ass two hours. Music, Art, Literature, Cinema. Everything.

“One does not simply miss the Ent Quiz.”-Boromir, son of Gondor.

Suraj Menon is a Pune-based quizzer who has won several quizzes, including the Na-tional Life Sciences quiz “BioQuizitive 2010”. He has conducted several college quizzes at events such as Mood Indigo (2011) and Ni-hilanth (2012) and open & corporate quizzes in various cities. Suraj worked as a research scientist and is now pursuing his MBA in XLRI Jamshedpur.

Suraj MenonQuizmaster

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigoBIz QuIz

This is not your goddamn business. Go mind your own business.

Two lines no one at Nilanth 2012 is go-ing to say to you. Whomsoever’s busi-ness it is, it’s time to pull your socks up and monitor it. Lots is at stake, but most important of it all: Your Dignity.

MnA (a firm that conducts quizzes) was founded by quizmasters Vijay Anand Menon and Arnav Sinha, who were batch mates at IIM Calcutta. Vi-jay also holds an MCA degree from University of Hyderabad and a BSc in Computer Science from Osmania University. He was among the 25 people chosen from all over Eastern India for the Lead India initiative in 2007. He was recently selected among the 22 young leaders in India by The Eco-nomic Times and has won the Brand Equity Quiz in Hyderabad.

Vijay AnandQuizmaster

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigomelaS

Does Sebastian Vettel winning the F1 Championship and Iron Maiden performing at Bangalore give you the same excitement?

Then this is the quiz for you!

MELAS an eclectic mix of Music, Entertainment, literature, Arts and Sports is the quiz everyone will truly enjoy.

Aniket has been quizzing since his school days and was a National Semi-finalist on the ESPN School Quiz. He has conducted quizzes for various colleges and companies in Pune and Ahmedabad, including the Sports Quiz at Chaos - IIM Ahmedabad’s cult fest and the General Quiz “Chakra-vyuh” at College of Engineering, Pune. He also jointly con-ducts the annual BC Cup - one of India’s biggest Open Sports Quizzes. Aniket has represented IIM Ahmedabad at Nihilanth in 2011 and 2012, winning a total of three quiz-zes, and was a part of the team that won the overall cham-pionship at Nihilanth 2012.

Aniket KhasgiwaleQuizmaster

IIT Bombay

&Mood Indigothe IIt BomBay SpecIal QuIz

The IIT Bombay Special Quiz will be presented to you by the IIT Bombay Quizzing Club, and it will cover a very interesting genre and format!

Look out for the genre and format release!

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigocontactS

Omkar Nene: 09730475983Aviral Bhatnagar: 09881495275

Harshveer Jain: 09619829069

IIT Bombay

&Mood IndigohoW to reach mumBaI

AirwaysMumbai has its own domestic and international airport, known as Chatrapati Shivaji international airport. Al-most all airlines provide services to Mumbai. Mumbai is well connected to all major cities in India and also con-nected to many cities abroad including Singapore, New York, Bangok, Hong Kong and to many gulf cities.RailwaysMumbai is the headquarters of Indian railway system. Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Station is the major one which connects all most parts of Indian cities to Mumbai. Other railway stations in Mumbai are Dadar and Kurla, and Churchgate.RoadwaysMumbai has an excellent road transportation system. State owned buses connect Mumbai to all neighboring points. Many Deluxe and Super Deluxe buses are available to travel in and out of the city. Bus fare is about Rs 3 to 4 per kilometer.