Why? Because the General quiz was being conducted by a certain Siddharth Basu. But that did not matter, I was over the moon at being invited. But for better or worse, it has stuck, and I suppose it does not really sound that bad now. Personally I thought the name is a ghastly one and I have no idea who coined it. Somewhere down the line, people seem to have come to the conclusion that I was responsible for naming the aforementioned quiz the ‘MELA’, short for Music(or Movies) Entertainment Literature and Arts, thereby starting the tradition of referring to every entertainment quiz by that name. And the brighter idea of inviting me to conduct the Entertainment quiz. One of them happened to go to IIM Indore a few years later, and it was him – Suryakrishna Tamada Tatineni, ‘Suki’ for short, who had the bright idea of organizing an inter-IIT-IIM event. They won nearly every quiz, and were kind enough to take us quiz-masters out for dinner as well with their hard-earned prize money. A bunch of students from REC Surathkal were in attendance, and proceeded to make a killing at the events. Well anyway, what happened was that we had organized a quiz festival (called Trivium) in our college a few years ago, and I did the music and movie quiz. Except the ones that had not read Harry Potter by then, the little losers. NINE YEARS, holy moley! I was 23, about to turn 24, and the only quizzes I had conducted so far were in my own college, and in a local Warangal school, where the kids really enjoyed the impromptu Harry Potter round. My association with this festival goes back to the very first time it was organized – brace yourselves, young ‘uns, it was way back in 2003. It is held at a random IIT or an IIM, the choice of institute being decided by the sudden death of two randomly selected quizzers from every institute on a deserted island, or so I hear. It’s technically supposed to be organized on an annual basis, but that does not happen. For those who came in late, Nihilanth is an inter-IIT-IIM quiz festival that is held every once in a while.
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