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winners for the caricature category as well.   The  response  was  overwhelming  and  amazing  to
                                                    see so many enthusiastic chefs display their inno-
     Go-Chef
                                                    vative  culinary  skills.  The  audience  turn-out  was
     In  commemoration  of  World  Food  Day  2017,  the  humongous  and  people  were  jostling  to  taste  the
     “Health & Wellness” committee piloted a cooking  food items.
     competition  on  the  theme  “Cook  without  Fire”.   The theme was to cook without Fire in an hour. A
     It's  a  concept  for  amateurs,  home  cooks,  foodies   total of 10 teams participated and 47 dishes were
     and lovers of food who want to bring their talent to   served to the judges and audience.

                                                    Anita  and  Shekar were the judges who took time
                                                    to engross  with the teams, tasting everything and
                                                    applauding  the  chefs’  great  efforts.  The  audience
                                                    also played a part in judging the “Popular Dish” by
                                                    tasting  the  food  and  casting  their  choice  through
                                                    ballot votes, there were around 120 votes casted.
                                                    “It  was  amazing  to  see  so  many  enthusiastic
                                                    chefs!  Some  of  them  were  so  good  with  their
                                                    cooking and presentation that one felt that they
                                                    were in wrong jobs here!” - Bikram, Director Pric-
                                                    ing Operations said.
                                                    The  Final  winners  were  “Fat  Chef”  as  Judges
                                                    Choice and “Serenity” as Audience Choice.
                                                    Ocular - The Photography Club

                                                    On  4th  October,  2017,  The  guest  of  honor  Mr.
                                                    Ashish    Parmar,  Photographer  extraordinaire,
                                                    and Mr. Bikram Mandal, the leader of Collaborate
                                                    pillar, together  launched the  ‘Ocular’  Photography
                                                    Club  of  GO  India  and  announced  the  core  team
                                                    members of the club - Mithun Srikanta, Vimal Nair,
                                                    Narayan  Murali, Roopa Kesaraju, Bibin  Mohanan,
                                                    Rahul Mukherjee and Debarun Dutta
                                                    Our  guest  of  honor,  Mr.  Ashish  is  a  self  taught
                                                    Bangalore based photographer. He began his jour-
                                                    ney  into  the  world  of  photography,  23  years  ago.
                                                    Since  then,  he  has  specialized  in  different  fields
     the  stage  and  compete  by  cooking  “Healthy  owing to  which, he  is now known as India’s most
     Food”.                                         diverse  photographer.  He  has  many  accolades  to
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