HONOURING THE WOMEN @ MERAKI

Celebrating women empowerment, International Women Polytechnic hosts its annual fest — Meraki ’19

With ramp walks in style and mesmerising performances by talented students from across north India, International Women Polytechnic (IWP) celebrated 20 years of women empowerment by hosting its annual gala Meraki 2019 — the biggest fashion show on campus with HT City’s Rock on Campus.

Applauding the effort of IWP to change the mindset of the society towards women, eminent personalities with MP Manoj Tiwari as the chief guest were in attendance. Sanjay Juneja, director, London Pride and Shubham

Virmani, director, Mr Barber also graced the occasion.

“Meraki provides unprecedented access to women students of IWP to showcase their skills on a mega platform thereby gaining confidence to carve their own success stories. There was display of talent from all departments with focus on intelligent space planning by the interior designing department. The cultural show, and the fashion show were the highlights of the event,” said Vishal Nijhawan, managing director, International Women Polytechnic.

The audience, which had over

5,000 members, loved the cultural show, which was an amalgamation of dances, skits and mono acts. The fashion show saw models sport a range of ethnic, and Indo-western outfits of khadi with Kashmiri and Punjabi embroideries. Winning the crowd’s hearts, acid attack survivors from Chhanv Foundation walked the ramp.

Emcees Ekta Tiwari and Rohit Datta kept the crowd entertained with their witty one-liners. The event ended with presentation of awards to students.

PHOTOS: HTCS/TARASHA Bollywood Singer Jasleen Royal performed some of her hits at the event Students from Lajpat Nagar centre walked the ramp and shook a leg on stage

(L-R) Arti Rich Sundri, social activist, Actor Pooja Dua, Model Yash Chaddha, Simran Chug, social activist and Sonal Bedi, Image consultant, attended the event

Students from Ghaziabad center walked the ramp with style Anubha Nijhawan, secretary, KLGR Educational Society felicitated designer Ashu Agarwal

(L-R) Bhawna Rao, fashion designer, Ira Singhal. IPS officer, Rita Gangwani, trainer and mentor, Bharti Taneja, director, ALPS Group, Lipika Sud, president, The Guild Designers and Artists and Shazia Ilmi, BJP Spoksperson

Emcee Rohit Datta along with Emcee Ekta Tiwari hosted the event IIGM directors, Ila Valia and Samir Valia attended the event

(L-R) Alox Dixit, founder, Chhanv Foundation, Parul Mahajan, social activist, Vishal Nijhawan, managing director, IWP, Sharad Kohli, chairman, KCC, Neerajj Mittra, artist, Ravineet Kaur, partner, KCC

(L-R) PK Bhardwaj, IPS officer, Sujata Bhardwaj and Subhashini Nijhawan, vice president, KLGR Educational Society light the ceremonial lamp

(L-R) Kunal Nijhawan, treasurer, KLGR Educational Society felicitated directors, Leeza Arora and Ishant Arora along with Monika, marketing head from LA cosmetics

Acid attack survivors from Chhanv Foundation walked the ramp (above); Riya from Gurgaon won the title of Miss IWP (right)

Vishal Nijhawan, managing director, IWP and MP Manoj Tiwari graced the event

Former Miss India, Shonali Nagrani, Vishal Nijhawan, managing director, IWP and Former Miss Asia Pacific, Tina Chhatwal posed for a photograph

Fashion and lifestyle photographer Rahul Dutta and model Nitin Mehra pose for a photograph