Importance
Very few of the students of IIT Bombay consider PAF to be the single most important extracurricular activity in this institute. The prizes awarded for the best PAF and the various other aspects of the PAF's are highly coveted by the hostel fraternities.
All said and done, alumni, students and professors who have been actively involved with the festival believe that the PAF is an integral medium of the campus culture of IIT Bombay. No other IIT has managed to sustain and excel at such a form of theater, which in itself is worthy of recognition. The beauty of the concept of the PAF lies in the fact that it reinforces in everybody working for it, the fundamental trait for which IIT's stand for - 'Building from scratch, Hand's on and to perfection !'. For some students, PAF is more about being an IITian than the Technology Degree for which they joined the institute in the first place.
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