Abhyuday Social Festival, IIT Bombay

Abhyuday Annual Festival of IIT Bombay 2017

Abhyuday is the Social Body of IIT-Bombay with vision to provide platform to youth for discovering social issues and address them to find solution. We carry out social events throughout the year and organize a 2-day social festival in 3rd week of January (tentatively 21-22nd January,2017 this year).

Previous editions of the festival saw a participation of 5000 students from more than 150+ colleges and 50+ NGOs around the country. Numerous personalities including Aamir Khan, Padmabhushan D.R.Mehta, Joe Madiath, Anshu Gupta, Shailesh Gandhi, Sonam Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor  and the entire Satyamev Jayate team graced the festival with their presence.

Lecture Series - The most distinguished segment of Abhyuday has the sole motive to give students an opportunity to interact with their role models. Abhyuday's Lecture series brings to you the finest people in the field of social impact. People discover inspiring tales, touching upon the humane aspect of everyday things and about the journey that sparked this change in them and the ideas that are now shaping this nation.

1) Lecture on ‘Accessible technology and It’s Marketing’ by Shilpi Kapoor

Shilpi Kapoor is founder of Barrier Break. The vision for conducting these lecture is Creating an inclusive society, a society where equal opportunity is provided, ease of access to employment, education, social life, and encouraging independent living for all.

2) Lecture by an IAS officer

IIT Bombay now has a huge community preparing for civil services examination. The lecture will guide youth preparing for UPSC civil service exam. Also, aspirants will come to know about the various phases of bureaucracy.

3) Lecture by a Paralympic medal winner

It will be a motivational speech that will encourage the physically impaired folks to move on in their life and achieve various peaks of success. It will also address people in general that every creature has different abilities. You should not generalise the definition of excellence.

UNSUNG HEROES -

Series of talks by people who have put efforts in various fields to improve various social issues, speakers shared their life experiences, what motivated them to work for society.