Our Idea Behind Newsletter
The Rangkarmi Chronicles is our way of opening our club’s doors a little wider. A place where the club speaks not just through its productions, but through its people. We hope to bring you something real with every edition. Actual people. Actual moments. The ones who show up, who stumble, who figure it out. We have so much to tell you. And we have been waiting a long time to say it. No filters. No performance. Just people, and the truth of what it feels like to be part of something like this.
Welcome. We are so glad you are here. Pull up a chair. This is going to be a good conversation.
~Rangkarmi
The Lead-In
"While randomly scrolling through instagram one day, a notification popped up in my inbox: Call for Actors. Rangkarmi was calling for actors for the orientation production. No auditions, no prepared skits, just show up. Honestly, it felt like hitting the jackpot.
As thrilled as I was about the chance to be on stage, I couldn't stay calm. And this was before I'd even filled out the form or decided whether I wanted to be part of something I wasn't sure I'd be good at. Yet somehow, I already felt like I was on the cast list.
I walked into the room in a state of bewilderment, no clue what was coming. Heart pounding, cold sweat. Nervousness ran through every inch of my body. It sounds like an exaggeration now, but that's genuinely what it felt like.
At the same time, I saw the various departments of the working committee working rigorously and tirelessly to put up a great show from booking rooms weeks before the final day, to writing promotional WhatsApp messages and creating social media posts.
I was almost in denial and surprise when I saw and heard the chaos around me. On one end, there was a group of performers preparing and rehearsing for the final day. In another corner, someone was struggling to learn their script while a friend from the same performance group sat beside them, consoling and motivating them.
The Lead-In
I was amazed to see how every single person was putting their whole heart into it and giving their fullest capacities to make the orientation a success. Upon figuring out the mood and environment of the room, I was relieved to realize that nobody there had it figured out I wasn't
But what if something goes wrong ?
Something will go wrong. It always does. But the room doesn't empty out when it does. People move towards the problem, not away from it. That's the part nobody tells you about before you join. The mess is part of the membership.
You don't earn your place in Rangkarmi by getting everything right. You earn it by being in the room when things go sideways and staying anyway. By showing up. By helping where you can. By choosing not to leave when things become difficult.
And I think that's what makes Rangkarmi special.
Not just the performances, not just the final show, but the people who stay anyway.
The Script Room
Most people walking into orientation are not thinking about committees, departments, or who happens to be in charge of what. They are thinking about whether they will fit in here and whether they will find their people, they do not usually see the number of conversations, ideas, and people working quietly in the background to make that experience happen.
As Aarth Patel says, “No first day ever goes exactly as planned. But sometimes, it’s the chaos, the uncertainty, and the unexpected moments that make a place feel like home.”
So who exactly are the people behind all of this?
Each department in Rangkarmi runs through a Point of Contact, someone responsible for keeping the work moving, the team aligned and the communication flowing. Here is what that actually looks like right now.
Ask the POCs how things are going right now and you will get different words. Rushal says inspired, Het says purposeful, Vansh and Saanvi say excited, and somewhere between Aayushi, Arindam, Khushi and Anjali the answer is organised chaos that keeps producing things worth putting out.
However underneath the different words the feeling is the same. Late nights and drafts that refuse to cooperate. Random conversations in meetings that turn into whole concepts. People stepping up without being asked, quietly filling gaps when multiple things need to happen at once, holding each other up when the scale of it gets overwhelming. Nobody waits around to be told what to do next. Different departments, different work, the same room energy: people who actually want to be here.
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The Production log
The stage remembers. Every performance leaves behind something more than applause, a record of the stories told, the people who carried them, and the into them. uld know what the
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| Ronit | Ronit's journey began as an audience member. Watching Parindey, Manchala, and Misfits for the first time, he saw his own experiences reflected on stage and knew he wanted to create that feeling for someone else. What the stage gave him was a deeper understanding of storytelling, not just as performance, but as healing.
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Behind The Curtains
Behind every performance, every poster, every reel and every applause-filled ending lies an invisible architecture of effort that made it all possible. Through conversations with key members who helped bring last year's Orientation to life, what emerged was not merely a story about theatre. It was a story about devotion measured in discarded drafts, abandoned vacations, sleepless nights and the stubborn belief that something meaningful could be built together.
VanshamShahhasthistosay aboutfeelingliketheleast qualifiedpersonintheroom whentheyfirstjoinedbut foundtheirhome-“Theatre helpedmeopenupfroman introvertedshyschoolboyto anextremelysocialextrovert collegefreshman.Whatmade mestayisthewilltobewith thepeopleIbondedwith,and thewilltodoTheatrefor myselftoexpressmyhidden feelingsandfears.”
Former Office Bearer Samridhi shared, entire summer vacations are often surrendered in pursuit of a performance that may last no more than thirty minutes. Behind a single production, a single script, a single idea - lie endless Google Meets, discarded ideas and long conversations wrestling with a deceptively difficult question: how do you create something that is entertaining without sacrificing meaning? What eventually reaches the stage is only the visible tip of an iceberg whose foundation remains unseen.
That foundation is built through endless conversations and countless revisions. Het Shah described writing as a process where the first draft is rarely the final one, rather it is the point where the real work begins. Ideas are challenged and stories rewritten repeatedly until they finally become something worthy of an audience. A joke that earns a laugh, a scene that lands perfectly, a character that feels effortless, each carries weeks of thought, rehearsal and refinement behind it.
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Behind The Curtains
Perhaps that is what defines Rangkarmi most profoundly. Not the performances themselves, but the willingness to care so deeply despite uncertainty. Behind the laughter, the applause and the spotlight are people carrying exhaustion, criticism, frustration and doubt, only to return the next day and do it all over again
stage. I'm incredibly proud of her journey and know that Rangkarmi is in safe handswithher.”
Hitashi - “When I began with my journey, I felt extremely overwhelmed as to if I could ever be as great as Yash was, but I think as the time passed I’ve gotten the hookofitandIfeelamazing.IfeelamazingthatIhaveabigcommunitythatIcan feelsosafewithandmoreimportantly,Ilovethemwithallmyheart.”
Until the Next Act...
Here is what nobody says out loud when they are trying to get you to join something: you already belong here. Not because of your experience. Not because you have done this before. But because you read this far. Because something in these pages made you stop and you recognized a feeling.
Thank you for staying until the end. Not everyone does, and the fact that you did means something. We wrote this newsletter because we wanted you to feel something before you decided anything. And here is the truth: every single person in these pages was once exactly where you are right now. Nervous. Unsure. Quietly wondering if they were the kind of person a place like this was even meant for. They were. You are.
What you are stepping into is this: a room full of people who will remember your first day longer than you will. Who will be more nervous for you before your first performance than you are. Who will argue about creative decisions at midnight and then sit together in silence after it is over and feel something that is very hard to put into words.
That feeling is why we do this. And we want you to feel it too. This is our first edition. There will be more. Every one after this will carry a piece of everyone who responded to this one, and that includes you if you let it. You are not just reading the start of a newsletter. You are reading the start of something we intend to build for a very long time.
Show up scared. Everyone else did. This is where the dossier ends. But this is where your story starts. The rest of this story is yours to write and ours to listen to.
~Rangkarmi
CREDITS CREDITS CREDITS
Concept & Ideation- Sai Anjali Nukala, Khushi Bedi
Newsletter Introduction- Sai Anjali Nukala, Khu
Lead-In Section- Khushi Bedi
Script Room- Eti Brihaspati Patel
Production Log- Vidhi Shah
Behind the Curtains- Kimaya Rana
Green Room Quotes- Minnat Bhuwalka
Until The Next Act- Sai Anjali Nukala
The First Look- Aayushi Parmar, Keshvi Desai, V Parekh and Khushi bedi
Newsletter Reveal Introduction- Sai Anjali Nukal Goswami
Countdown Story- Sai Anjali Nukala
Final Newsletter Post- Vedant Parekh, Keshvi Desai, Arindam Banerjee, Aayushi Parmar and Khushi bedi
Design & Visual Aesthetics- Arindam Banerjee, Aayushi Parmar, Sai Anjali Nukala, Khushi Bedi, Tanmay Shah
Cover page for guftagu- Monika goswami, Arindam Banerjee and Aayushi Parmar
This newsletter would not have been possible without the unwavering support of the entire Rangkarmi Family
