TAPMI Celebrates Holi – Photos from the Camera of Sambit Mohanty

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A Picture for the Album of Memories TAPMI Manipal Holi Celebrations

So, it’s you last semester at a B-School in a small hidden corner of the country. You’re brimming with nostalgia of the times you’ve spent with great characters over the past couple of years. How would you want to remember the last few days of your stay together?

These were the thoughts that may have run through the minds of the senior batch in TAPMI, Manipal! And on 8th March 2012, while the colleges of Manipal University were celebrating Holi in the morning, TAPMIites were still sitting in their classes listening to some banal lectures on marketing, finance and such topics or solving various cases and assignments that only a management student can understand!

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Boys and Girls smeared with face paint and colored powder pose for a picture during Holi at TAPMI Manipal

 

30 nostalgic photos of manipal 1997 to 2001
A Picture for the Album of Memories TAPMI Manipal Holi Celebrations
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TAPMI Manipal girls smeared with colors look on as they celebrate Holi

But at about 5 P.M., what started as a trickle of a few enthusiastic students throwing colors on each other, soon became a riot of colors with boys and girls frolicking in the golden sunshine of the setting sun! The presence of a ‘homegrown’ DJ at the helm of affairs added more energy and vigour to the celebrations!

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A TAPMI, Manipal girl student reacts as her face is smeared with color by a colleague during Holi celebrations
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Boys with bare chests strike a pose while the girls look on during the Holi celebrations at TAPMI, Manipal
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A Girl student smeared with colored powder is splashed with colored water during Holi celebrations at TAPMI Manipal
30 nostalgic photos of manipal 1997 to 2001
TAPMI, Manipal girls pose and gesture after covering themselves with colors

It was a good mix of senies and junies, boys and girls , swaying to the music, soaking in the myriad of colours and the temporary respite from ‘academic rigor’.

Happy Holi to all. Cheers

Photos: Sambit Mohanty
Text: Sambit Mohanty (Edited by Vishaal Bhat)

5 Comments

  1. Beautiful clicks!!! I alwys wonder how the camera survives with the holi celebrations on! 😉

    •  1) The advantages of a telephoto lens ( i can click from afar)
       2) Pretty ‘un-inebriated’ classmates who still could make the connect that
           ‘a camera saved today are a million snaps tomorrow.’ :p

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