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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Diwali at IIT Kharagpur - II

Even though I did post once on the same theme a couple of years back.. but i feel that there is no fear at all of repeating myself...
Illumination at IIT is at a different league.... So is Rangoli... And anyone any any anyone who has lived in kgp during a diwali knows what i mean.
The preparations for this event go beyond a month.... Much more than any other single event/thing in KGP (as much as i can think of right now).


This was the Gold winning theme from our hostel.







Just a rough idea of the work... 20-30 people with 20-35 night-outs each. 200 guys with 1-2 nightouts. Money between 50-95 thousand. 20000 to 50000 diyas..... and each of this for about 10 hostels.

If you are bowled by the pics... trust me you dont know how much grander and opulent the real thing is... You have to have to come to kharagpur during a Diwali to see it.

1 comment:

Amar Mainkar said...

Wow!! I AM bowled over! Hell yeah!! This is so great! I don't know if this has been covered by the TV news channels or the papers, but this definitely ranks right up there on the creativity scale! And I thought the fireworks over Marine Drive in Bombay were grand!