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Fest life at IIT Madras is not limited to just one big event—it feels like a whole season. Saarang is the main cultural fest and Shaastra is the main technical fest, and they usually fall around early January. For IITM BS students, Paradox is the biggest offline fest because it brings everyone to campus and gives that real “college vibe” through tech + cultural events and lots of face-to-face bonding. Margazhi (often as “Paradox in Margazhi”) adds more cultural and community-style events, so the experience doesn’t end with only Saarang and Shaastra. The Central Library is a major support system, with both physical collections and digital access to e-journals and online resources, which really helps during assignments and projects. For BS students, most learning happens online through lectures, and campus visits are mainly for invigilated exams and events. Sports and extracurriculars are active too, and student-run clubs, teams, and fest committees play a big role in building social life and connections.

Fest life at IIT Madras is not just one event----it has a full season. Saarang is the main cultural fest and Shaastra is the main technical fest, and both usually happen around early January. For BS students, Paradox is the biggest offline fest because it brings students to campus and feels like the real “college vibe” moment with tech + cultural events and lots of face-to-face networking. Along with this, Margazhi (often run as “Paradox in Margazhi”) adds more cultural and community-style events, so the experience doesn’t feel limited to only Saarang and Shaastra. The Central Library is a strong point: it supports learning with both printed and digital resources, and it provides access to e-journals and online databases for the institute community. For research-heavy subjects, access to subscribed e-journals and bibliographic/full-text resources makes a real difference when working on assignments or projects. For the BS side, most “classroom learning” happens digitally through lectures, and in-person presence is mainly for invigilated exams and campus events. Campus life has a strong sports culture and many extracurricular options, mainly driven by student-run teams and institute facilities. During fest seasons and inter-hostel activities, sports and cultural participation becomes very visible across campus. A lot of social life runs through student communities---clubs, teams, and fest committees---so students who join these groups usually feel more connected. Saarang and Shaastra themselves are fully student-managed and bring thousands of students together, which creates a strong “community vibe” even for newcomers

Shaastra, the technical fest and Saarang, the Cultural fest of IIt Madras are usually held in the month of January. Our central library is filled with books and journals. Most of the classrooms are air-conditioned with projector and blackboard available. All types of sports and extracurricular activities are present in our campus, from which people are selected in Inter IIT.

Ofcourse we have both technical and annual fest at our campus. Very interesting name is given to our technical fest as it is called Shaastra and our cultural fest is Saarang. Both are astonishing and besides that we have an infrastructure that is no match. Forget about how big it is but we have almost all the facilities inside that we don't have to go outside of the college for any basic needs.

Life is like nil cause it's online exam, but we all are connected through Gchat and various WhatsApp groups( unofficial groups). There are various WhatsApp groups, obviously they are unofficial we all met in the Centre and there are many ups in many cities. We go there and meet. Accessibility of books and general says like IIT Madras provides all the books in the curriculum for free that PDFs are available for free to us.

the campus life is active with events such as saarang (cultural) and shaastra (technical) in december. the library has comprehensive resources ,adn classes have updated technology . sports, clubs and student groups like NSS ensure wholesome developmenth

The annually conducted tech event is shaastra, cultural event - saarang , entrepreneurial event - Esummit. Held between Jan - feb (all) Finest library a college could have , too many books People could every face in any course they face in IIT madras. Smartboard , profs use slide . All classes are not ACed Profs still use black boards too. All the events mentioned above are student run, saarang is largest student run festival.

There are around 15 technical clubs here. There is a separate unit called E-Cell which promotes entrepreneurship culture in the institute and connects the students with startups. There are world class sports facilities here and an annual Inter IIT meet for sports and technology. The classrooms can accommodate more than 100 students. The library has 5 floors and has almost every educational book and journal.

I haven't attended any fest yet but i know fest are very amazing I have seen videos and also my friends shared me their experience. This year I will be excited to join the fest and I'm waiting from now onwards I'll also be working as a volunteer in fest this year

I love the iitm fest , wow they are amazing i love it soo much. Best part this fest are organised by students for students, fest includes dj night, movie night, prom night , then sports events and many more