IIT-Bombay's Annual Techfest Kicks off; 'Ummeed-e-Milaap' for Pak Students

Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay’s (IIT-B) annual “Techfest” kicks off on Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. The 15th edition of the fest will cover over 150 events spread across three days. The fest will include competitions, lecture series, exhibitions, workshops and others initiatives.

More than 140 international exhibits will be displayed from 16 different countries during the Techfest. Also on the platter are lecture series by eminent personalities like Nobel Laureate and Padma Bhushan Venkataraman Ramakrishnan and MP3 inventor Karlheinz Brandenburg, among others.

A major attraction will also be the Japan Media Art Festival, an annual contest for media art works, which include arts, entertainment, animation and Japanese comics.

The core team of Techfest-IIT Bombay has organized a new initiative called Ummeed-e-Milaap to unite the students of India and Pakistan, brushing aside all their differences and voice their opinion for a peaceful tomorrow.

A part of this initiative is the Indo-Pak Diary Campaign. A diary will be circulated among 30 colleges of Mumbai and 20 colleges in Pakistan, in which students will pen down their comments, the best of 20 comments from each college will be posted in the diary. The diary will be unveiled to the public in India on Jan. 6 and in Pakistan on Jan. 18.