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By Admin On 2 Jun, 2013 At 07:59 PM | Categorized As The Manipal Experience | With 0 Comments
Oral Cancer Awareness Week

On Friday, the thirty-first of May, 2013, also known to some of us as the World No Tobacco Day, at 4:30 PM, my friends and I, with the collaboration of our college, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal and Oral Cancer Awareness Drive, Oral Cancer Organization, organized a walk with the intention of raising awareness [...]

By Admin On 14 Feb, 2013 At 03:45 PM | Categorized As Arranged Love, Contests, Featured | With 0 Comments
Arranged Love Contest

We ran the Arranged Love – ManipalBlog.com contest between January 25th 2013 and February 5th 2013, and received 7 entries via email and one via twitter. The following were the responses in chronological order – http://manipalblog.com/2013/01/25/how-do-you-know-when-someone-is-your-mrmrs-right-abiram-shanbhog/ http://manipalblog.com/2013/01/25/dear-diary-how-do-i-know-when-someone-is-my-mr-right-ananya-singh/ http://manipalblog.com/2013/02/03/lovesuch-a-beautiful-magical-word-nikita-mascarenhas/ http://manipalblog.com/2013/02/03/you-are-my-mr-perfect-dumbo-by-ankita-singh/ http://manipalblog.com/2013/02/05/love-is-a-magic-without-any-logic-ojaswini-srivastava/ https://twitter.com/ShantanuChandra/status/298724941703028736 http://manipalblog.com/2013/02/06/true-love-by-harshith-mallya/ http://manipalblog.com/2013/02/06/follow-your-heart-shreyas-k/ The winners were selected by the author of the novel Arranged Love, [...]

By Admin On 24 Jan, 2013 At 08:44 AM | Categorized As Arranged Love, Contests | With 2 Comments
Arranged Love Contest

We at ManipalBlog are pleased to announce a writing contest in association with novelist Parul Mittal, whose latest book “Arranged Love” hit the shelf’s late last year. You can read a detailed review of the novel at the link above. Theme of the Contest: How do you know when someone is your Mr/Ms Right? Entries [...]

By Admin On 27 Aug, 2012 At 09:21 PM | Categorized As Contests, Illuminati 2012 | With 0 Comments
Illuminati-2012-Promod

Recently we had conducted an online competition ‘Illuminati 2012‘ for writers and poets, where we received various entries from all over the country. A total of ten participants won prizes in this competition, five of which are awarded prizes in the ‘Public Choice‘ category and the other five in the ‘Judges Choice’ category. The winners [...]

By Admin On 22 Aug, 2012 At 09:24 PM | Categorized As Art and Literature | With 1 Comment
Aakhri Alvida

A motion picture is the most efficient medium when it comes to leaving a message with an impact. This music-video by students of Manipal Institute of Technology,  is trying to motivate people not to drive when they are drunk.  Call it irresponsibility, insanity, illiteracy or whatever; drunken-driving is a phenomenal disease that the mass (youth [...]

By Admin On 15 Aug, 2012 At 11:34 PM | Categorized As Contests, Illuminati 2012 | With 1 Comment
Illuminati 2012 Promo

We ran the012 annual ManipalBlog short story and poetry contest between May and June 2012, and received over 180 entries in the poetry and and short story sections. Many of those had to be rejected because of not following some of the rules of the competition. A final list of 67 Poems and 15 Short [...]

By Admin On 8 Aug, 2012 At 09:25 PM | Categorized As Miscellaneous | With 2 Comments
KMS

Recently we posted a ‘Manipal Tip’ on our Facebook page which was about the ‘K-Mariset’ server. Those who don’t know about it, K-Mariset Server was every students dream. A huge collection of movies, TV shows and music all accessible through a simple click. And believe it or not, the time taken to download a movie would never [...]

By Admin On 25 Jul, 2012 At 07:35 PM | Categorized As Uncategorized | With 0 Comments
Aditya Sinha 2

As part of our weekly photo contest for our Wordless Wednesdays feature, we presented our Facebook followers with the theme – “Friends”.  We received over 50  photographs out of which only 15 wonderful photographs adhered to the rules of the contest. We put together a collage of the photos we received! There was however one [...]

By Admin On 23 Jul, 2012 At 08:15 PM | Categorized As Contests, Illuminati 2012 | With 0 Comments
Illuminati 2012 Promo

012. 012. No enquiries will be entertained regarding this as we will be updating the same from time to time on our Facebook page and Twitter feed. The details regarding how the contest will be judged can be found at this link – 012 – How the Contest will be Judged / Voted.   The [...]

By Admin On 18 Jul, 2012 At 08:38 PM | Categorized As Uncategorized | With 0 Comments
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart” - Kahlil Gibran
ManipalBlog Photo of the Week by Rohit Lakhmani

As part of our weekly photo contest for our Wordless Wednesdays feature, we presented our Facebook followers with the theme – “Reflections”.  We had an overflowing response over the course of the week. We received over 70 photographs out of which only 24 stunning photographs adhered to the rules of the contest. This week we [...]