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At Hilaricas, students let their hair down, but also showed how creative they can get
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Photos: K. Ananthan
Getting Creative At Hilaricas
In a spacious classroom, boys and girls sit in chairs, seriously drawing designs using mehndi cones on their partner’s outstretched palm. A few squiggles here, some lines there, a couple of curves, and lo! the palm has been t
ransformed into the wedding dreams of a girl. The event: ‘Woven Dreams’ at Hilaricas, the annual inter-collegiate event of Hindusthan College of Arts and Science. And, since it was Valentine’s Day, the theme centered around love — of all kinds.
Sethuraja of MDT Hindu College, Tirunelveli, who does mehndi as a hobby, came up with a design celebrating a mother’s love for a child. “Everyone forgets their parents after marriage. Even on Valentine’s Day, no one looks at celebrating this pure love,” he explains. Ask him if he will stay the same after marriage, and he scoots blushing furiously. His friend Vinod Kumar happily holds out his hand for a photograph. This is his first attempt at mehndi. “I enjoyed it, but for the fact that they made me shave my hands,” he smiles.
In another corner, Beena Benedicta and Bhoomika from Nirmala College for Women are happily admiring their handiwork — a bridal procession, including musical instruments, a palanquin and a bashful bride!
From the heart
The next room is home to the ‘Wealth from Waste’ contest. And, creativity was at its peak here. J Siva Balaji and C Sasikumar from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya worked with a heart. They came up with a smart-looking poor man’s overcoat made of lorry tubes, cooker gaskets and the like. “It costs next to nothing to make, and will last forever. It is much better than the plastic covers that the poor normally use during the rains,” he explains.
Elsewhere, Lakshmi from Palaniandavar College, Palani, daughter of a crafts teacher and a tailor, explains how she visualised flowers in scrap material, and gave them shape. Her creations were simple, easy-to-make and cost nothing. Sagar from CMS Science and Arts College came up with an abstract creation using fallen twigs. He covered some portions with different coloured paper (representing various classes of society), tied bells removed from dupatta tassels on the ends of the twigs, and put in a couple of images of gods cut from greeting cards. “This is to show that life deals each of us different cards, but the way to salvation is god,” he explains.
Good effort
One creation took ages to make, but looked well worth the effort - a plastic pipe turned artefact by Priya N Samtani and Vinitha Ramachandran of PSGR Krishnammal College for Women. Dressed in smart aprons, the duo worked at a furious pace, covering the pipe with a layer of Plaster of Paris, before spraying it with colour, and embellishing it with little somethings. A glass tray on top completed the picture. They also came up with a photo frame decorated with broken glass bits they picked off the road.
Besides off-stage events such as these, the college also organised a dance show, fashion show and other on-stage events. Actor Jeeva made an appearance in the morning, and gave away gifts to physically challenged children.
SUBHA J RAO
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