Behind The Scenes

Ticketgate 2025- Gaining trust issues our team did not need 

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Okay, so picture this: we’re out on campus, in full-on ticket marketing mode, we have everything going on, we’re pitch perfect, our charm level is 100. We spot someone who seems interested. Jackpot, right? We launch into a TED Talk on why they need to buy a ticket, like, full persuasion Olympics.   Ten. Whole. Minutes. They nod, ask questions, act super intrigued. We're thinking, "Yes, we’ve nailed this sale." And then… the grand reveal. They’d already bought the ticket.

 

The entire time.

 

WIF Marketing: 0. That person: 1.

 

-Gurveen Kaur

Calm before the Forum- That time when Publications spiraled. HARD.

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Publications has always been that team, the ones who stuck to routine like it was a sacred art. We knew exactly when to post what. No surprises. No chaos.

 

But then… Forum prep arrived. And everything went downhill from there. The team that once peacefully planned Instagram posts found itself spiraling into full-blown academic crisis mode. Scripts. Speaker questions. Background research. At one point, it genuinely felt like we were writing dissertations, not doing forum prep. Late-night library sessions became our new aesthetic. We'd be hunched over laptops, furiously typing thoughts and questions. And the best part? We’d wake up the next day, read what we’d written, and go: “What… what even is this question? Was I possessed?”                                                        

 

So yes, from chillest to chaos, Publications had its glow-down. But hey, at least we were chaotic with a purpose.
 

-Amyshka Shenoy

Still Drunk, Still Employed- Careers team not only showing you how to get a job, but also how to keep one

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So I’d just interviewed Smriti Irani, helped set up the ball and everything, and by the time the event kicked off, I was fully in party mode: dancing, vibing, getting very sloshed like everyone else there.

Now here’s the twist, I had work starting at 8AM the next morning. Which meant I had to be up at 6. So, obviously, I did the smart thing… and drank enough to kill a horse. Then spent the rest of the night chugging close to 2 litres of water on the dance floor like I was prepping for a detox retreat.

 

People probably thought I was training for a hydration marathon—leave, refill, repeat. And somehow, after helping pack up post-ball, I did show up to work the next morning. Hungover? Absolutely. But I was there. Barely. But there.

 

-Aarush Bathula

 

Fifty Shades of Dry- The addition to the series we did NOT sign up for

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So for a marketing reel, we had to paint posters, that sounds simple, right? Trust me it was FAR from it.

 

To start off, we channeled our inner Picassos in Fab and got to work. Our masterpieces were well in progress.

Then came the genius part, we carried those still wet posters all the way to Oculus… in the wind. Naturally, two of them decided to give up on life mid-journey and got completely ruined. So we started again, paintbrushes in hand, for round two of painting. And the grand finale: we sat there, dead silent, watching paint dry. For an hour. A whole hour. Art is pain.

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-Aanya Aggarwal

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