Incident is the annual

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of the

National Institute of Technology Karnataka National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), also known as NITK Surathkal, formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC), is a public technical university at Surathkal, Mangalore. It was founded in 1960 as KREC while to ...

(NITK) in Surathkal, Karnataka, India. The fest is a four-day-long event held in March in the even semester of the NITK Calendar. The fest brings together students from different colleges all over India, attracting an estimated annual footfall of about 30000 people, and boasts a number of competitive events, workshops, competitions and performances as well as pro-shows by widely known and popular artists including the likes of

Sunidhi Chauhan Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Born in Delhi, she began performing in local gatherings at the age of 5 and made her career debut at the age of 13, with the film ''Shastra'' (1996). During the ye ...

Salim–Sulaiman Salim–Sulaiman is an Indian score composer duo consisting of siblings Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant. The duo compose music predominantly for Hindi films. Life and early career Salim–Sulaiman's ancestral town is Mundra, Kutch, Gujar ...

Amaal Malik Amaal Mallik (born 16 June 1990) is an Indian music director, composer, singer, music producer, arranger, background scorer, performer and lyricist. He is the elder son of Daboo Malik and Jyothi Malik, and grandson of Sardar Malik. He debuted ...

Benny Dayal Benny Dayal (born 13 May 1984) is an Indian playback singer. He is a prominent singer in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi and more languages films. He has sung more than 3500 songs in 19+ Indian languages. ...

, the duo of

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and

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among many others.

History

The fest was started by the students of the college, the then

Karnataka Regional Engineering College National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), also known as NITK Surathkal, formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC), is a public technical university at Surathkal, Mangalore. It was founded in 1960 as KREC while to ...

led by Umar Teekay during the 1980s, with a budget of Rs. 10000, and has been continued and amplified every year since. By 1985, Incident events were split between the Student Activity Center and the Silver Jubilee Auditorium. By the beginning of the 1990s, the fest had gained ample popularity among Mangaloreans. In 1992, one of the then biggest industries of Mangalore – PVS Beedies Pvt. Ltd. sponsored Incident when it created history by holding Fashion show contests for the first time. Incident in the 2000s was Gen Ys' fest where popular and new cultural norms were rising every day. However, the biggest revolution happened during Incident 2005 with the introduction of “Pronites” that took the celebration to a whole new level with

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playing their groovy tunes to the cheers of the huge throng of students. Incident 2006 marked the first “Beach events” that were held in the college's very own private beach. Incident 2009-2015 was Incident's golden years where the fest went countrywide. Participation from colleges around Karnataka and around the rest of the country was at a new high. Appearances by the biggest celebrities of Bollywood like KK, Sunidhi Chauhan and Vishal–Shekhar were just one night of the extravagant five-day fest held in the blistering heat of Mangalore summer. Musicians and bands of exquisite caliber and the concepts of world fest made Incident the largest fest of South India.

Events

Incident hosts an exciting plethora of multi-faceted events and workshops over the course of 4 days.

Haute Couture

Having been the flagship Fashion event of Incident for many years, Haute Couture has risen up the ranks to become one of the biggest events of its kind in India. Boasting judges in the ranks of popular models like Urvi Shetty and participants from a large number of colleges, a showcase of glamour and glitz, Haute Couture proves to be a night to remember.

Musical Events

Amateur and Semi-Professional bands are provided an opportunity to showcase their immense talent in the various competitive musical events. The most popular events Incident was a stage to include the Bandish, the Eastern rock competition, and Pulse, its western counterpart. These events have seen the rise of many famous bands in the Indian Rock scene such as Dark Lights, The Down Troddence, Phlegmatic, Mount N' Do, Tatvam, Pure Veg, BRIXITI, Churmuri chai to name a few. Other events include solo singing, acoustic and instrumental events in classical eastern and western genres.

Dance

Dance events are at the heart of the day-events at Incident. The widely popular, fiercely competitive dance events at Incident include Step Up solo dance, Step Up duet, street dance,

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and Promenade (western group dance). Students from various colleges throng the events, battling it out to win coveted titles.

Beach events

Boasting a very own private beach, NITK hosts a hoard of exciting events including beach volleyball, beach football and Sandemonium events. The 2012 edition also included

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zorbing Zorbing (also known as globe-riding, sphereing, orbing) is the recreation or sport of rolling downhill inside an orb, typically made of transparent plastic. Zorbing is generally performed on a gentle slope but can also be done on a level surfa ...

rappelling Abseiling ( ; ), also known as rappelling ( ; ), is the controlled descent of a steep slope, such as a rock face, by moving down a rope. When abseiling the person descending controls their own movement down the rope, in contrast to low ...

and

parasailing Parasailing, also known as parascending, paraskiing or parakiting, is a recreational kiting activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle while attached to a specially designed canopy wing that resembles a parachute, known as a parasail ...

. Over the years, beach events have only gotten better with a line up all new and exciting events like the Kite Festival, Beach Informalz and light music events to get serenaded by.

Sports Events

Slam Dunk is the widely popular college level basketball competition that hosts over a 100 colleges from all over the country battling it out in an event that spans all days of Incident, to bask in the glory of being crowned Slam Dunk champions. SpinShock is the thrilling inter-collegiate throwball competition blending a mix of spin, precision and grace and boasting teams from a number of colleges.

Literature

The literature program includes several quizzes as well as word games, spelling bees, and short story contests, held in English,

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

and

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. Quiz events include a General quiz, Asia Quiz, MELAS quiz, India quiz, Lone Wolf (individual quiz event), Biz quiz, sports quiz, and entertainment quiz. The general quiz is hosted by a guest quiz master every year and has been sponsored by Myra school of business and Nexus consulting. A variety of Kannada and Hindi events are also organized including

Antakshari Antakshari, also known as Antyakshari (अंताक्षरी ) is a spoken parlor game played in India. Each contestant sings the first verse of a song (often Classical Hindustani or Bollywood songs) that begins with the consonant of Hin ...

, debates, and Dumb Charades.

Potpourri

Hosting creative and fun events including Frames and Expose (exhibition of photographs from contests by the Photography Club), a Hogathon, Speech Triathlon (Declamation, Commentary and Policy) and an Escape Room among several others.

I-Care

I-Care is the social initiative wing of Incident. The Beach-Schooling initiative is aimed at teaching children belonging to the fishing community households and instilling in them an interest in the wonderful world of education. Volunteers also teach extra-curricular activities like origami and dance. 14 Solar lamps to Beach- schooling children and 5 solar lamps to children from NITK Kannada Medium School were distributed on Children's Day. Team Incident, in association with the Centre for System Design. NITK Surathkal, have come up with a

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initiative to recycle plastic wastes from the beach using injection moulding to create small, useful products like keychains, clips etc.

Workshops

A variety of workshops are held during Incident such as juggling, B-boying, Bhangra, martial arts, theatre, balloon modelling, HDR photography and

portrait A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...

ure in 2012. Previous editions included workshops on

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Salsa Salsa most often refers to: * Salsa (Mexican cuisine), a variety of sauces used as condiments * Salsa music, a popular style of Latin American music * Salsa (dance), a Latin dance associated with Salsa music Salsa or SALSA may also refer to: A ...

, jive, chocolate making,

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and

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. New inclusions have been added to the list like

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-making, dance workshop by Hip-Hop International and

mixed martial arts Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, inc ...

. The 2012 event included a vintage auto expo for the first time, including more than thirty vintage cars, motorcycles and mopeds. as well as a Marathon run.

Gaming

For all the gaming enthusiasts, Incident also hosts gaming events including

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, NFS,

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and

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Biz Events

Hosted by the School of Management, NITK Surathkal, Business events take centre-stage with Biz Quiz, Mock Stock and Mock Press.

InciTalks

A forum for exchanging knowledge and fresh ideas, Inci Talks is a platform for students to listen to and gain immense perspectives on diverse fields from eminent delegates and distinguished personalities from across the country. InciTalks has proudly hosted prominent and notable personalities among the ranks of Dr. Ullas Karanth,

Ricky Kej Ricky Kej (born 5 August 1981 - Dhaka, Bangladesh) is a multi-Grammy Award-winning Indian music composer and environmentalist. He has performed at venues in over 30 countries including at the United Nations headquarters in New York and Geneva. ...

, Balaji Vishwanathan,

Yogendra Singh Yogendra Singh (November 2, 1932 – May 10, 2020) was an Indian sociologist. He was one of the founders of the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, where he ...

Prachi Tehlan Prachi Tehlan (born 2 October 1993) is an Indian former netball and basketball player, and an actress. Prachi is the former captain of the India national netball team which represented India in the 2010 Commonwealth Games and in other major Asia ...

, Dr. Jayaprakash Narayana, Commander Kailash Girwalkat, Aparajita Amar, Vungarala V Subrahmanyam,

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, Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla, Yogesh Ghaturle among several others.

Proshows

Incident Proshows feature various national and international artists spanning various genres of music including rock, heavy metal, pop, electronic and Sufi music. The festival's Pro-Nite event has featured top Indian artists including

in 2005,

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in 2006,

Raghu Dixit Raghupati Dwarakanath Dixit (born 11 November 1974) is an Indian singer-composer, producer, and film score composer who is the frontman for the Raghu Dixit Project, a multilingual folk music band. Dixit's music is an amalgamation of Indian et ...

and

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in 2007, KK in 2008 and again in 2010,

Nikhil Chinapa Nikhil Chinapa is an Indian DJ, host and festival curator, often credited with popularizing EDM among the youth in India. He is also known as the Father of Indian Dance Music for his various contributions towards revolutionising the outlook of ...

and

Kunal Ganjawala Kunal Ganjawala (born 14 April 1972) is an Indian playback singer whose songs are mostly featured in Hindi and Kannada films. He has also sung in Marathi, Bengali and other official languages of India. Kunal began his career by singing jingl ...

in 2009,

Motherjane Motherjane is an Indian rock band from Kochi, India, formed in 1996. The band consists of John Thomas (drums and percussion), Clyde Rozario (bass guitar), Niranj Suresh (vocals) and Anubhav Langthasa (guitars). They have released a total of thr ...

in 2010,

in 2011,

in March 2013,

, in March 2014. 2015 Proshow boasted Vishal-Shekar, 2017 witnessed the

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and the RedBull Tourbus.

, Itaca band,

Zaeden Sahil Sharma (born 2 July 1995), better known by his stage name Zaeden, is a singer and record producer. Early life and career beginnings Zaeden was born in Gurugram, India to Latika and Ashish Sharma. He also has a sister named Sanjana Sharma. ...

and

Ritviz Vishal 'Ritviz' Srivastava (born 24 July 1996) is an Indian singer-songwriter, electronic musician and record producer from Pune,Maharashtra, India. He is known for his song "Udd Gaye" featured on A.I.B.'s official YouTube channel after becomi ...

set the stages on fire in 2018, while Amaal Malik stole the limelight in 2019.

References

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