Shaastra
shaastra annual technical festival indian institute technology madras iitm chennai india sanskrit word ‘shaastra’ mean subject studybranch knowledge festival accordingly consists various engineering science technology competition summit lecture video conference exhibition demonstration workshop festival traditionally held four day four night first week january far seen twenty one edition started current avatar year shaastra attracts participation india seek provide collegiate student platform showcase scientific engineering talent shaastra entirely student managed first event world iso certified implementing quality management system one asia largest completely studentrun technomanagerial festival prof r natarajan took director instituted several committee study several way improving iit madras one committee committee new mechanism teacher learning interaction tasked coming way inspiring student committee headed prof ajit kumar kolar came suggestion create technology festival iit madras behest prof u r rao chairman board governor institute several student came together staged pragmaa technical festival student applied took role coordinator various event set college around country targeted amount required run event raised sponsorship agreement first edition shaastra thus planned took place starting march since shaastra continued expand year year established one premiermost technical fest india edition shaastra held january theme parsec planck edition shaastra saw prominent speaker including dr vk saraswat mr suresh prabhu mr robin li arunachalam muruganathan dr c rangarajan last two edition shaastra held completely virtually keeping mind pandemic restriction edition featured several prominent speaker gracing fest including dr shashi tharoor dr raghuram rajan m carolina marin dr john l hennessy