the 25th edition of saarang an annual cultural festival organised by iit madras is scheduled to be held between january 8 and 12 2020 every year saarang hosts more than 100 events and a footfall of 70000 from over 500 colleges the theme this year is madras memoirs and the event is all set to evoke the memories of its decades worth of history and tap into the rich heritage and culture of its mother citythe festival kicks off with a classical night on january 8th the asia book record holder rajhesh vaidhya a pioneer in his field of south indian music with his use of electric and amplified strings will be at the open air theatre of saarang prof m s sivakumar dean students iit madras said this is a festival of joy and culture and is one of the largest cultural festivals in south india to be completely organised by students we expect over 70000 footfall for over 100 events there are over 850 students involved in this effort there are many regular features with one being a theme around which the event revolves this years theme is madras memoirs socially relevant campaigns were also undertaken all the five days will end with pleasant performances by artistes in the eventin the past years the organisers have successfully taken up causes such as cancer awareness child welfare and water conservation through eunoia sukriti and boondh respectively which garnered tremendous support and attentionaddressing the press conference prof nandita das gupta faculty advisor saarang 2020 iit madras said an event of this scale cannot be successful without the active participation of the students a lot of different teams have put in hard work to organise saarang 2020this year they have taken up the responsibility of continuing their mission of making education more accessible from the previous year taking leap learning and education accessibility project to further heights of impact the goal of leap is to make and provide tools and resources of education to the underprivileged and create an impact through paper recycling campaigns manufacturing and distribution of ecofriendly notebooks to government school children career counselling opportunities book donations among other thingsspeaking on the occasion abhinav kankane cultural affairs secretary literary iit madras said we always have a lot of college students from across india coming for the event from the renowned a r rahman to benny dayal many big names have performed in mardi gras as saarang use to be known earlier we have the biggest intercollegiate students festival and we have international judges for choreo events we have artistes coming from 67 differnt countries for dance events band performances and graffitishashwath bacha cultural affairs secretary arts iit madras said this year we have special events for school students to compete in four events we learn a lot by conducting events of such scalethe night of january 9th will witness the largest intercollegiate semiprofessional dance competition in south india the choreo night succeeding this saarangs edm night promises to