A student paints a tattoo on a girl?s arm during Bitotsav at BIT Mesra. Picture by Prashant Mitra

Ranchi, Feb. 13: For students of Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, it was a date with the historic moments and places captured on camera by members of the Highlander Adventure Club, the institute?s own adventure club, on their many expeditions.

Starting from pictures of the highest motorable road in the world to Gangotri, the pictures certainly awed and surprised one and all.

The event was a part of the ongoing Bitotsav, the cultural festival of the institute, and aimed at inculcating a sense of adventure among the students and also to make them aware about the different expeditions undertaken by the club. While there were pictures of the highest ?Idli-Dosa? point, it also had pictures of club members standing at Khardungla, the highest motorable road of the world, which is 18,380 ft above sea level.

Apart from that there were also pictures of Kibber village, which organisers claim to be highest village in India. There were also pictures of club members? expedition to the Thar Desert and the Rohtang Pass while the students also had the opportunity of watching them in Pokharan.

There was also another event, ?Discovery?, which was like a quiz competition in which participants were asked questions, related to adventure.

Organisers of the exhibition and club members pointed out that in a way, through this exhibition, the new students can also know about the expeditions, which the club has undertaken.

The club, which was formed in 1984, has undertaken 41 expeditions to all parts of the country. ?Although we have not undertaken expeditions to the Northeastern states owing to various disturbances, we have now plans of going to Kerala as that part has been completely untouched till now,? some members said.

On the other hand, the Kavi Sammelan (Poets? Meet) organised during the cultural festival yesterday, may not have gone down too well with some of the students.

If one goes by the poetic creations of a couplet of such ?Kavis? in today?s event, ?Hasna Mana Hai?, one would find that the sammelan yesterday failed to arouse much humour among the students and may not get organised again.

Rajesh Kumar, who took part in the ?Hasna Mana Hai? event today, in his rendition of a humorous poem, described how the Kavi Sammelan failed to arouse the interest among the students and they somehow got bored with the event.

Taking the example of a girl who had reportedly fell unconscious during the event and had to be taken out, Kumar in his poetry pointed out that although most of the students attended the sammelan, the particular girl acting cleverly and making the alibi of unconsciousness managed to get out of the event.

Apart from Rajesh, there were about 13 participants in the event who spoke humorous poems on different topics. Organised by the Bharatiya Sahitya Parishad, a club promoting literature in the institute, the event was aimed at bringing out the hidden oetic talent in the students.

The club also organised ?Samvad?, a debate competition on ?Bharatiya Samita and Yuva Varg? in Hindi.

Apart from this, another event which was the centre of attraction today was the ?Aakriti? competition in which participants were given different themes on which they had to draw and paint.

In the other events which went on in the day were ?Rang De Basanti?, which required participants to make rangolis based on puja themes, tech-crosswords, ?guess it?, ?wrong theory right proof?, circuit breakers among others.