Cultural and Non Academic Activities
Cultural activities like dramatics, Speaking, Literary Arts, Music and Fine Arts also mark an important feature in the life of a student of IIT Bombay. Speaking and Literary Arts have always been very popular in the student community with students actively participating in quizzing, writing and debating activities. IIT-Bombay has won the prestigious National Law School Parliamentary Debating Tournament.
The annual cultural festival Mood Indigo is held in the month of December and is supposedly the largest of its kind in Asia.The most attractive feature of this 4-day event are the competitions, exhibitions, games and musical concerts.
The annual Science & Technology festival of IIT Bombay, Techfest is held in the month of January every year and is the largest of its kind in Asia. It comprises various events like competitions, exhibits and talks from guest speakers from around the world. Techfest 2009 was also the first event of its kind in India to conduct its events in other countries.
Apart from cultural and technological activities, the campus is also involved in business activities with bodies like The Entrepreneurship Cell, which support the growth of start ups across the globe.
These college festivals are organised, financially managed and conducted entirely by the students of this Institute. All these festivals and organizations are sponsored by private enterprise.
Apart from these festivals, various other engineering streams based festivals are also being organized to motivate students towards Science and Technology. These include Radiance (Mechanical Engineering), Zephyr (Aerospace Engineering), Azeotropy (Chemical Engineering), Padarth(Metallurgy and Material Science Engineering), Aagomani and recently, Aakaar (Civil Engineering).
The institute also has of its an LGBT alliance club called "Saathi".
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