Manfest started as IIM Lucknow's management festival, bringing together leadership competitions, paper presentations, debates and industry-student interactions.
ABOUT US
Where business, culture and sport meet.
Manfest-Varchasva is IIM Lucknow's official annual business, cultural and sports festival.
WHO WE ARE
One festival. Three worlds.
Manfest-Varchasva is the official annual Business, Cultural and Sports Festival of IIM Lucknow. The three-day event brings together Manfest, the Business Conclave, and Varchasva, the Cultural and Sports Festival.
The festival has welcomed more than 30,000 participants in a single edition and has hosted leaders from public life, business and academia alongside some of India's most recognised performers.
Across the three days, the campus comes alive with sports, speaker sessions, management competitions, cultural showcases, pro-shows and community initiatives such as the Lucknow City Run.
301+Colleges
₹25L+Prize Money
70+Events
30,000+Participants
70+Partners
HOW IT ALL STARTED
From Manfest to Manfest-Varchasva.
Manfest received ISO 9001:2000 certification for event management in 2007. By 2009, it had grown into one of Asia's largest B-school festivals by prize money and participation.
Varchasva began as IIM Lucknow's cultural and sports festival, spanning dance, fashion, theatre, music, literature and sport.
Manfest and Varchasva merged to create Manfest-Varchasva, combining the intensity of business competition with culture, sport and entertainment in one campus-wide festival.
Successive student teams continue to build on that legacy, growing the scale, energy and reach of Manfest-Varchasva with every edition.
THE TEAM
Meet the Manfest-Varchasva Core Team
CORE TEAM DIRECTORY
Senior Coordinators
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