Student Life
Referred to as 'Hel(L)' by the students, life on campus is encompassed by academics, extracurriculars and entertainment. All the cultural programmes, competitions and management events are organised by student committees.
All students are given separate single rooms in hostels with internet connectivity and common TV room. The institute also provides separate accommodation for married students. Every student gets an institute email id through which most of the official communications are carried out. Synapse, a student committee, develops and maintains IT applications for the institute community including an intranet portal called "Blondie".
Manfest is IIM Lucknow's annual management festival held in January. The three day event hosts many management contests, leadership summits and other inter college quizzes and competitions. INDEX is an annual fair conducted by students at the Colvin Taluqdars' college grounds, attended by the general public of the city. Game stalls are set up at the fair to carry out disguised market research. Samvit, the annual leadership summit of IIM Lucknow witnesses some of the financial leaders and economists of the country with whom students get an opportunity to interact.
Many entrepreneurial opportunities exist in the institute for the students. "Just Tea" and "Gossip and Bite" are two restaurants in the campus which were started as student ventures and are sold to the next batch every year. The Entrepreneurship Cell conducts a competition called "Bizness", where all participants are given a seed capital of 2000 to run any business in the campus for two days and earn profits. The student committee "Credence Capital" runs a mutual fund, in which other students of the batch can invest. The Mess (Annapoorna) is entirely run and managed by students, with the infrastructure provided by the institute.
Varchasva, a three-day long event held towards the end of September every year is the annual Cultural and Sports festival of IIM Lucknow. A classical cultural night "Aarohan" is organized by the IIM Lucknow chapter of SPIC MACAY in the month of August. It showcases live shows of classical arts including carnatic, hindustanic, folk, instrumental and various classical Indian dances. The institute's dance club "Random Walk" organises dance workshops regularly and performs stage shows during major festivals. The dramatics club "Abhivyakti" performs stage plays and street plays in Hindi and English. The Intracollege sports event called as Sikander is held throughout the year in a league format. The institute sports team participates in most of the popular college sports meets including the Inter-IIM Meet (Sangharsh) held during January every year.
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