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Gnaritas is one of the inter-collegiate youth festivals hosted by the students of Mithibai College. It began in January 2012, when students came up with the idea to have their own Economic festival. The festival includes events contesting in Busineconomics, Current Affairs and Fun categories. The festival is organised by Students of B.A. and B.Com. streams of Mithibai, with the organising team consisting of 50 members along with the support of 100 volunteers.

Theme
Gnaritas has new themes every year, focusing on various segments of the Economy. In its inception year (Jan 2012) it’s theme was the “Evolution of Economics.” September 2012 saw a darker theme relating to the elusive “Economic Underworld” and for 2013 it is going along the lines of “Green Economy”, which talks about balancing economic growth with preserving the ecology.

Inception – Gnaritas I
In 2012, the contingent of students from Mithibai participating in Ruia College’s economic festival, Elixir, were inspired and sought out to form their own economics festival with an emphasis towards business economics. The Contingent leader, Rajesh Mohan came up with the idea of the then unnamed festival and under the supervision of Lecturer Manish Gogari permissions were pursued for the Festival. After the demarcation of departments, Rajesh, the newly appointed Chairperson, allotted a day to shortlist the name. The name chosen was the Latin word for Knowledge – Gnaritas.

The theme chosen for the first year, “Evolution of Economics” was a way to help people understand the origin of Economics.

Gnaritas-II “The Economic Underworld”
The intricate dynamism and working of ‘The Economic Underworld’ had been chosen as the theme for Gnaritas-II 2012. This theme-a rather covert and manipulative aspect of the global economic, political and social scenario, formed the crux of Gnaritas and its events. It was intended to make aware the political and societal norms and mechanisms such as corruption and terrorism, so as to trace a trend of atrocious economic tools as the foundation. Year two saw the introduction of a completely new department: Research, Writing and Photography. This department was aimed towards easing out the main pressure of researching out facts and materials for Events, Marketing and Public Relations departments. Alongside researching, it took up the task of online promotions via social networking sites and maintaining a blog.

Gnaritas 2013 “Green Economy”
Starting June 2013, a group of students from the Core of Gnaritas-II came together and started working for Gnaritas’ third year. Realising that the economy has been rampant in its progress since time immemorial and has partially been responsible for degrading a major chunk of the environment, they started to look for any economic outlook that did take ecology into consideration. Coming up with the idea to promote Green Economy, it was chosen as the theme. Gnaritas-2013 also saw the introduction of a new department in its administrative committee: the Graphics department. Graphics was created to help in advertising virtually so as to have a minimum paper usage. The team of graphics was responsible to have symbolising the Logo for Gnaritas and capturing the theme of Green Economy in pictures.

Mascot
Ever since its inception, Gnaritas has been symbolised by a soaring hawk.