Bhubaneswar: Bollywood  singing sensational Sunidhi Chauhan to enthrall the students and parents in the Xpressions 2018, the annual extravaganza of country’s one of the premier B-school, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar(XIMB). Chauhan will give a live performance on Celeblitz, the Celebrity Night on the concluding day of the three day big-ticket cultural fest of Eastern India, which will get off from November 16. Xpression 2018 will showcase the multi-faceted talents of the students of the region.

Business simulation games, cultural activities, fun-filled games, art exhibition and many more programmes would be part of the Xpressions this year.

With less than a fortnight to go, the excitement is clearly visible in the campus. Participants from B-schools from all over the country have started registering themselves for the mega event. Some of the programmes lined up to gauge the managerial skills of the students are  Case Connect (a National-Level Case Study Competition), Resonance (By X-Sys – The Systems Association) Inquizzitive (a Flagship Quizzing Competition), Maven (a National-Level Case Study Competition, organized by Constrat: the strategy association), MPower (A Marketing based  Business event), Nirnay  (Online Simulation Game), Aarohan(By X-Ops – The Operations Association), Trade Wars (a Trading Simulation Game), Fincaso (By X-Fin – The Finance Association), Vakritva (A SRC and SpeakUp featured event), Vriddhi (A CSR Action Plan Competition), XIMBMUN (UN Simulation Competition by SpeakUp, the Oratory Club), SportsCom (The Fantasy League), Jack of all Trades (The Gaming Committee) and Ad-volarem (X-SEED – The Entrepreneurship Cell of XIMB).

Trade Wars which is an online trading competition has already kicked off witnessing participation from various institutes such as IIM-Amritsar, IIM-Sambalpur, IIM-Rohtak , NMIMS Mumbai, KJ Somaiya to name a few.

Cultural programmes like Decibelz, the War of Bands keeps the crowd enthralled by performing rock music, Goonj, the solo singing competition and Thirkan, the dance competition brings out the best in participants, Aaghaz, the Nukkad Natak or street plays, are part of the Xpressions.  Fashion show Carnival De Vogue, painting competition  Paint@XIMB, face painting competion Pratibimb, classical competition Viraasat, literary event Flight of Fancy and MAXIM MPower (Marketing Research Event), Lensation (X-Lens), Zorb it Out (International Relations Committee) and Final Cut (Illuminatix) have also lined up as part of the event.