The atmosphere in the SAC – where Aman Kumar, the Oasis 2017 coordinator for Nirmaan had agreed to meet  the English Press – thrummed with infectious energy.  As music blared in the background, students bustled about painting, dancing, fiddling with their musical instruments, and reveling in excitement. ‘The best part of being coordinator is you get to meet new people, and gain a lot of experience.’ said Aman.

Oasis is seen as a chance for clubs like Nirmaan to publicize their work as well as raise funds for their upcoming projects. ‘In order to make most of this opportunity, we started our brainstorming sessions in the end of last semester itself’, said the coordinator. ‘But the actual fieldwork has not started yet.’

The aim of the club is to come up with ideas for interactive crowd-pulling events, make decorations for their stalls and design posters to advertise Nirmaan and its ventures. A team of ten members, consisting of a mixture of first and second years has been chosen to work for Oasis this year, and meetings have been occurring once every ten days to pitch ideas for the events that are to take place.

Deriving inspiration from the largely successful “momo eating contest” from Oasis 2016, Nirmaan plans to host another food challenge this year. Apart from this, a photo booth with posters of anime characters, quotes and other such decorations has also been planned, in order to double up as a medium to display the work of Nirmaan over the years.

Publicity of events has proved to be difficult for the club, given the numerous other events taking place. ‘We’re planning to tackle that by making several posters, as well as a video of our events. We are in talks with the Filmmaking Club and DVM about the same.’ said Shubam Jain, a senior club member. ‘The planning phase has been too good, and we’re expecting a good response this year.’