IIT Kharagpur to hold 60th Spring Festival in January

The 60th Spring Fest, an annual social and cultural fest of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, will be held between January 25 to January 27, 2018.

With a footfall of more than 40,000 people, Spring Fest is one of the largest of its kind in Asia to be organised entirely by the students. Participants from almost 200 major colleges of India will throng to Kharagpur to this 3-day celebration of fun and frolic.

This year, the Spring Fest has scheduled Hitch Hike, the Nationwide Prelims for five of its flagship events Nukkad, SF Idol, Shake a Leg, Two for a Tango and Shuffle in October in nine cities across India, namely Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Patna and Bhopal.

These events aim to provide a battlefield for the best of the best and also to have the participants experience the time of their lives. Their last year’s social initiative – Umang: Stand Up to Stigma aimed to tackle Mental Health issues head on and promote mental well-being for all.

Star-nights have always been an integral part of the Spring Fest. Artists such as Shaan, Vishal-Shekhar, Farhan Akhtar, Amit Trivedi, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Salim-Sulaiman, KK, The Raghu Dixit Project, Agnee, Indian Ocean, Swarathma, Parikrama, Euphoria, Pentagram, and many more have performed at at Spring Fest in the past years. International bands like Dead by April, Monuments, Tesseract have rocked the audience at Spring Fest.