MELA Quiz – 14/June/2026

 

Date: Sunday, 14th June 2026
Time: 5pm
Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao
Flavour: Media, Entertainment, Literature and the Arts
QM: Annie Sen Gupta 

Panjim Monthly -07/June/2026- results

 QMs: Sanjay Parab and Lynn Baretto Miranda

1st: Team 3: 230 points

Vinayak Singbal, Anirudd Kakodkar, Dr Terrence, Shujoy Dutta, Adish Talwadkar, Ajay Poonia, Raunak Nevgi, Harsh Kahndeparkar, Rashmi Khandeparkar

2nd : Team 1 and Team 6 : 195 points

Team1: Krishnamurthi J, Ashwini Joglekar, Ruchira Porob, Saud, Dhanaraj Naik

Team 6: Sanjay Parab, Lynn Barreto Miranda, Srijit Kumar, Devika Shetty, Kunal Naik, Dr Chandrashekhar Rao, Utsav Bannerjee, Parind Phadte

4th Place:Team 4: 175 points

Nitish Wagle, Simran Dhond, Sunil Sardessai, Vilas Pavithran, Mervyn, Nigel Dias, Bhaskar

5th Place: Team 2: 150 points

Swati Parab, Anjali Dar Sengupta, Ira Almeida, Naintara Jain, Soham Gaunekar, Samir Volvoicar, Nikhilesh Rana

6th Place: Team 5: 140 points

Annie Sengupta, Kaivalya Karkare, Amey Parsekar, Ajit, Aastha Dua

SEQC Boat trip : 6th June 2026

 

What do you see with the faraway look in your eyes? Is it the river, flowing indolent, along a coast thick with mangroves, while the sky darkens with anticipation? Does the bird (a kite? a vulture?) that just took flight among the prawn farms, lift your spirits? Do you see that this is the place where hope is born? And then what happens?

Then there are snatches of conversations here about cake and tea, and laughter tinkling between friends and acquaintances. Two young girls who are the best of friends, wander about with innocent abandon. “Is that pao” , one of them asks, watching a buoy float past.

We lounge , and we drink how many glasses of urrak? Who knows, who even counts on an evening like this. We sing old antakshari staples while eating fresh cooked Durado and prawns. We arrive on the shore where the Sal meets the Arabian Sea. We hear whispers of promises between lovers. We feed the dogs who have assembled out of habit, and we perform Kalari on the shore.

We cut cakes to celebrate the SEQC anniversary, and sing Konkani cantars. We play dumb charades. How extraordinary our lives seem in this moment. All is well and we are safe in our familiar picnic rituals; amongst friends and family we have known for eons. Can it really be only 18 years?

And then, we talk, we listen, we stay silent and we try to find. While all this is happening, the Sal just is. She is in no hurry. Time stops in her, while our lives have moved on a tiny bit. 

Day of Quizzing – 31/May/2026 – scores

QMs: Ajay Poonia, Magali Vaz, Siddhant Parab, Doc Shekhar (proctored by Ira Prem), Abhijeet Virginkar, Lynn Barretto Miranda

The final scores for the day were the sum totals of the scores for individual quizzes.

1st: Team 2 (Srijit Kumar, Bonny Furtado, Devika Shetty, Kunal Naik, Magali Vaz, Saud Sayed, Shujoy Dutta, Shwetambari Parab, Terrence D'Costa) – 665 points

2nd: Team 3 (Nikhil Shirsat, Annie Sen Gupta, Bhaskar, Siddhant Parab, Amey Parsekar, Chantal D'Costa, Harsh Khandeparkar) – 635 points

3rd: Team 4 (Sanjay Parab, Abhijeet Virginkar, Soham Gaunekar, Anirudh Kakodkar, Ajay Poonia, Parind Phadte, Lynn Barretto Miranda, +1) – 625 points

4th: Team 1 (Kaivalya Karkare, Anjali Sen Gupta, Vilas Pavithran, Ira Prem, Ira Almeida, Assis Sequeira, Shiv Nadkarni) – 590 points

SEQC Panjim June Quiz

Date: Sunday, 7th June 2026

Time: 5.00 pm

Venue: Goa Business School, Taleigao

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QM: Sanjay Parab and Lynn Barreto Miranda

Participation: Open to all