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Students of Maharishi Vidya Mandir Public School participate in their annual sports day at Chandmari in Guwahati on Tuesday. Picture by Eastern Projections

IIM Shillong — the youngest of the lot — has done itself proud by winning two flagship events, Ashwamedha and Kalpavriksha at Ahvan ’09 — IIM Indore’s annual business summit.
Over 500 participants from the top 30 business schools participated in the event held from November 19 to 21.
While Ashutosh Dikshit from IIM Shillong won the solo Ashwamedha event, the Kalpavriksha, a team event, was won by a team of Prof. Swapan Kumar Majumdar, Neeraj Sharma and Hari Krishnan.
The top three in the Ashwamedha event comprised Dikshit, Raghav Sehgal (IIM Ahmedabad alumnus) and Vivek Menon from IIM Indore.
The spotlight round followed in which there was a personality/stress interview conducted by the eminent jury of Prof. Chandrashekhar from IIM Indore, Prof. Vijay Menon (HR consultant and pioneer of the concept of Ashwamedha) and Arvind Sharma, chairman and CEO of Leo Burnett.
One of the highlights of this round was Dikshit’s response to the question on whether IIM Shillong would live up to the standards set by brand IIM, to which Ashutosh replied: “Completeness and Nothingness are two sides of the same coin. In the same vein, standards are defined by perceptions that people have. As far as IIM Shillong is concerned, we have been first in a lot of initiatives — being the first centrally-funded institute to have implemented Enterprise Resource Planning; taking sustainability from concept to execution and the first B-school in the country to host inter-corporate golf tournament”.
Dikshit won the Ashwamedha crystal trophy and prize money of Rs 150,000.

Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi delivers the lecture at Tezpur University

Eminent Sanskrit scholar, theatre personality and professor emeritus of Banaras Hindu University Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi delivered the first Srimanta Sankardeva Lecture at Tezpur University on November 25.
Speaking on the important characteristics of ankiya bhaona, Tripathi said various elements like purvaranga, sutradhara, entry and exit songs (dhruva) and many other such features were a continuum of Sanskrit theatre.
Tripathi, however, said ankiya bhaona is not a repetitive exercise of the earlier tradition. It is an expression of the creative genius of the great saint and composer Srimanta Sankardev.
Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri, the vice-chancellor of Tezpur University, underlined the need for extensive research on diverse facets of Srimanta Sankaradev’s contributions and ways to relate its relevance to the present day crisis in society.
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The National Education Foundation Law College, affiliated to Gauhati University, has set up a legal aid clinic on its premises, the first in the Northeast to do so.
Chief Justice J. Chelameswar of Gauhati High Court, who inaugurated it on November 26, congratulated the college for taking up such an initiative.