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What’s to unfold at ‘Saarang’

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: This year’s edition of ‘Saarang’, the annual cultural festival of IIT-Madras, has an interesting line-up of events with some new additions.

This year, the event will be held between January 23 and 27.

Apart from tweaking old events to add excitement, several new events have been added to this year’s edition. ‘Queen of Sheeba’ is a scavenger hunt designed to create an effect of ‘organised chaos on campus’, as the IIT-ians put it.

Small groups of people set out in search of some whacky items on a list, scouring the huge campus in search of a pin or say, a pen drive.

A variant of the wildly popular ‘treasure hunt’, The Rush will set 10 teams on a hunting spree into the unexplored regions of the campus.

Also, for the first time at ‘Saarang’, a freestyle solo dance event will be held. The event will be held in two stages - a preliminary round followed by the finals. Eminent personalities of Chennai’s theatre circuit are expected to judge the event.

A cookery workshop, which will go on all day and will conclude with a cookery contest, has been planned. Another new attraction is Kalaripayattu, a famous martial art form of Kerala. And for those into films, there is a short film series with Soundarya Rajnikanth. “Saarang 2008 is more than just old wine in a new bottle,” says an excited coordinator.

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