Pulse (festival)
Pulse is the largest annual cultural, literary and sports festival of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India held for Medical Undergraduate students in India.[1] It is held every year from September 16–22 . This week long extravaganza is the biggest inter-college festival of the medical fraternity of India with participation of medical and dental colleges all over India and even foreign medical colleges.[2] Apart from the medical colleges, IIT Delhi and many colleges of Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University also participate in various events in Pulse. The number of registered delegates varies from 25,000 to 30,000 every year. Registration is required for participants from outside Delhi. Registered delegates are provided accommodation and transportation at a nominal cost for the seven days. A "Pulse Champion" in the well participated events can be considered an inter-medical champion of national level.
History
The festival with its present name pulse probably started in 1972. Each year, starting from 1999, the highlights of Pulse are being recorded online in Hybrid Hues, the magazine of AIIMS students.
Common Events
The opening ceremony is highlighted by the "P wave" - an opulent musical dance drama performed by students of AIIMS, depicting the theme of the pulse of that year. "P wave" is named after the first wave in an ECG pulse.
The events in pulse can be broadly categorized into:[3]
- Social and Cultural Events including Classical Singing, Western Singing, Classical and Western Dance, Choreography etc.
- Literary Events including Debate, English Password, Just a Minute etc.
- Sports events including Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Basketball, Athletics, Soccer, Swimming, Cricket, Football etc.
- Informals including Hogathan, Make a Proposal, Mr & Ms Pulse, Treasure Hunt etc.
- Mega events like Star Night, Rock Band performances, DJ Night etc.
- Fine arts events like Rangoli making,T-shirt painting,Sketching,Mehandi making,Clay modeling,Best out of waste etc.
Under each of these divisions there are numerous events. Also there are various other carnival activities including those organized by some of the sponsors. Stalls of food items and various other local attractions add to the carnival atmosphere.
At any point of time multiple events go on almost round the clock for one full week with vociferous support from the crowds. Due to the high level of participation, the events are fiercely contested national level inter-medical competitions, apart from some women-team events like basketball where non-medical teams are allowed to participate.
Special attractions
Pulse holds high class due to quality of participation as well as the judges. The best people in their fields available are invited to be the judge for the respective fields. Many of them are national level celebrities. The major attraction for every night is the Music Request Counter(MRC) in the central quadrangle in the hostel. Every evening on all seven days there is one mega event in addition to the regular competitive events.
Behind the scenes
Pulse takes place by the coordinated efforts of the students at AIIMS. Preparations for pulse starts more than 6 months before the event. Teams leaders are elected for different activities like finance, conduction, internal publicity, external publicity, security, general arrangements, transport, central reception, accommodation etc. by the Students' Union executive members. All the finances and funds for this mega-event are handled by the 'President' and 'Finance Secretary' of the Students' Union, who are the signatory authorities of the official account of the Students' Union.
These teams are under a Chief Coordinator and act in concordance with the teams under the Social & Cultural, Literary and Sports Secretaries (members of the Students Union, AIIMS) who host the competitive events.The Chief Coordinator is nominated by the Pulse Coordination Committee which consists of the elected Students' Executive in the month of February every year and the list of the finalised Pulse committee members is then officially submitted to the AIIMS administration. The Pulse Coordination Committee receives materials and instruction from the previous years' teams for the same activities.
References
- ↑ "Know a Fest -PULSE". Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ↑ Times of India coverage 2002
- ↑ "Events of PULSE-2014".