Trapasso-A Fashion Show

TRAPASSO

----Walk the Walk

 

Trapasso (or transition), as the name says, was a platform for all aspiring models. It was open to all students from various colleges and was organized for the first time in Engifest 2011. It was held in two stages and it was completely managed by the students of D.T.U. and the Elite Model Management, India. Trapasso saw the participation of more than 12 colleges from D.U., I.P. and D.T.U.

As the Event promised to capture the imagination of one and all, and looking at the performance of the participants, the judges and the noise of the crowd. I think TRAPASSO has done its job and set standards for the next year.

I myself wanted to get into modeling but was never able to clear the preliminary round so I thought today to have a vicarious experience and so I posed some questions to the judges, to the organizers and the participants.

All the participants were quite excited to be a part of Trapasso and for most of them the definition of Glamour was just ‘Fun, lights, excitement and power’ and everyone wants to have a career in it. But when I posed a question i.e. ‘if Elite Academy offers you a modeling contract right away for 2yrs and says for this you have to leave your studies for this, what will be your stand’ and interestingly 6 out of 9 opted to continue their studies and out of three who opted for leaving the studies 2 were girls and the single boy who agreed was still somehow reluctant saying, he has to have the final call from his parents.

I posed a question regarding the arrangements and the conduct of Elite Modeling and everyone answered positively saying they are happy with it but one girl who complained about the eve-teasing which happened to her before the event.

            Talking more about the participants Nitika, a participant also told us about her passion for modeling that whenever in canteen she used to ask her friends to comment on her walk and she also watches most of the time the Modeling shows on Television. Asking Shruti about her feeling, one of the participants from D.C.E. who couldn’t make it to the final level, she couldn’t hide her disappointment and said ‘She doesn’t know about others but she should have been in the 3^rd Round’. One more interesting insight was the turn up of Engineers for this modeling Contest and I think that Aamir in 3’idiot’s part-2 would definitely comment on it ‘After engineering why modeling’.

            When I posed the question of the turn up of Engineers in Modeling to Judges they told me that ‘they are also bit surprised by the trend whereby more and more engineers are turning up for Modeling contests and Television Shows’ .As a fact two of the Trapasso Judges itself were doing their Engineering, Kirti from JIIT and Nikhil from Amity and truly when I looked them for the 1^st time they were from no angle looking like Engineers. (Please don’t take me wrong)

            Pertaining to the question of ‘Social taboos and the parents perception of Modeling’ Rachna Dayal, Head HR of Elite Modeling told me that ‘they try to carry the parents simultaneously with the future of the students and parents in most of the cases are well informed of every decision their student are taking, they also try to remove the taboos by keeping some ethics and moral in Elite Modeling and a past record of 10 years.

Organizers were really happy with the way the event was turnout and talking to Shivank a 2^nd yr student of D.C.E. who was handling the laptop and sound told me that it was great fun both ‘Organizing and watching the Event.’

At last, I just have to say it was a great event …and Hats off to whole TRAPASSO Organizing Team, judges and the Participants.

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Have Fun ..and do comment ..

Guest lecture on Change Management

Guest lecture on Change Management

9^th October, 2009 this is the day when the students of Delhi School of Management organized a guest lecture on Change Management by Surender Kumar. It was really a great experience to interact with such an eminent personality of industry; he has held various positions in industry retired from the Member of Board, Ordinace Factory Services. He is also an alumni of DCE of 1973 batch.

It was really a interactive session which kept all the students engrossed in the lecture .It was started by our Honourable Vice Chancellor P.V.Sharma, who enlighten us by telling that India lays a great emphasis on elephants and today is moving with the same enthusiasm and will to change the world and we should all incorporate our self in this change.

Then Prof S.k.Garg, Head of M.B.A. dep’t, highlighted the point that the only thing that is constant in this life is change only; and change should always occur for a good cause. He told that ‘If the change is managed and properly directed it always lead in a better direction otherwise its just like a boat in a middle of a river without no handles to control it’s direction. In this regard he cited the example of the ongoing change in environment.

Then the Speaker of the day, Surender Kumar, started the presentation by sharing his experiences and telling about the basics of change, he asked us to put ourselves in the position of Managers and see why the change failed in various situations provided by him to us. It really helped us to learn the fact that’ stakeholders should always first appreciate the change’. Change should be clearly defined from top to bottom (to each individual in an organization) and in today’s scenario it’s also important to include society in your efforts.

Then we discussed two Case Studies one of Ordinance Cable Factory(OCFC) and second of Indian Railways Turnaround, both were explaining how change should occur and how the change managers can facilitate a smooth transition .One important point which the case highlighted was ‘Incentives for change need not always be monetary. Managers must be passionate’.

We, the students of DSM believe that it has really helped us to understand the intricacies of Change Management.

We look forward for more of such interactions with such imminent personality so that we can learn from their experiences and able to bring a controlled and positive change which we want to see in this world.