The students perform in a flash mob prior to the festival

There will be music, dance, plays, painting and elocution along with a mushaira, poetry slam and nukkad natak. And while students will groove to peppy dance beats, the performance line-up for the three-day festival includes a presentation by staff members of the institute’s canteens. The eighth edition of Quintissence, the annual cultural and literary festival of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, begins tomorrow. And much like the institute, which has been working towards bringing about social justice through academics and fieldwork since its inception, the inter-college festival has woven various social causes into its theme, Art for Resistance.