IIT Gandhinagar hosts annual cultural festival ‘Blithchron’ in hybrid mode
India Today
At IIT Gandhinagar, students from all over the country participated in several exciting online and offline events.
The excitement and tempo at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) was all high as the students of the Institute were all set to host Blithchron'22 in hybrid mode. The online event took place on March 19 and the on-campus events took place on March 20, 2022.
Blithchron is the annual cultural festival of the Institute and was back to create new memories on the IITGN campus. Being a completely student-run festival, Blithchron is an amalgamation of the creativity and energy of a team of around 130 students from the entire community.
Every year, Blithchron introduces a variety of competitions and provides a stage for talented artists from all over the country. This edition of Blithchron is one of the first college festivals to take place in offline mode in Gujarat after the pandemic.
Blithchron’22 hosted a variety of online and offline events in a hybrid mode. Reverb - a one of its kind EDM/Remix making competition; Skirmish - a tournament that tests your Valorant and BGMI (a video game) mastery; Antaragnee - an on-campus Nukkad Natak competition; and Quizzitch- a fandom quiz, are a few of the events conducted in the fest.
Apart from them, there were many more competitions that motivated new dancers, poets, singers, photographers etc. to do their best and earn rewards. Students from all over India also visited IITGN campus, stayed there for a couple of days, and participated in the events.
The two-day hybrid fest was planned to end with a blast in the form of an EDM and DJ night opened by the extremely talented Vice and Virtue followed by the main act by the DJ and producer TEJAS, which was open for all.
Around 1500+ participants had registered for Blithchron’22 from IITs, NITs, and many private institutions all over India and many visited the IITGN campus on D-Day.
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