Tushya of IIT Delhi cracks clues like a pro, wins JNU Open Crossword Contest
JNU's Isha and
Mihir claim 2nd, 3rd spots
Tushya of IIT Delhi on Friday lifted the winner's trophy of the 2nd JNU Open Crossword Contest. While Isha of JNU was declared the first runner-up, Mihir of JNU clinched the 2nd runner-up spot. All participants received certificates.
The contest was held at the Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium on the
university campus. As many as 55 participants, mainly from the host institute
and IIT Delhi, threw in their hats to crack the clues, going first through a
written preliminary round and then an onstage final of six top contestants.
Before the preliminary, a workshop was conducted by Vinayak Ekbote, Vice
President of the Crossword Federation of India, on the intricacies of solving
cryptic crosswords. An expert cruciverbalist, Ekbote has mentored school students
in the national capital to attain expertise in the mind game.
The event was attended among others, by Andrew Lynn, Shandar Ahmed,
Ramesh Agrawal, Himanshu Shekhar, all senior JNU faculty, Pramod Khmar and
Pradeep Jha, Faculty from DU, Amrit Lugun, former Indian Ambassador to Greece,
Vivek Kumar Singh, Chairman, RERA Bihar and noted consultants Bipul Kiran and
Ajay Kumar.
The contest was one in a series that Extra-C, a civil society initiative
into promoting knowledge-based co-curricular activities in India and beyond,
has been organising across top educational institutions. In the past few
months, it has organised crossword contests in Miranda House, Ramjas College,
Jamia Hamdard, Delhi School of Economics among others. It has under its stable
a number of national and international contests both in online and offline
formats.