Shaastra, IIT Madras

About Shaastra, IIT Madras

Shaastra is the annual technical festival of IIT Madras. Since its inception in 2000, Shaastra has been at the core of the technical experience at IIT Madras. It also holds the honor of being the first completely student-run festival in India that was ISO certified. Shaastra conducts numerous events, lectures, competitions, and workshops. It also has Shaastra nights consisting of EDM, Envisage (completely student-run techno-entertainment show), etc. National-level competitions such as Tech and Innovation Fair for boosting innovation in the country are also organized. Shaastra has its own 4-day summit in which the participants attend lectures from experts and discourse and find solutions to some important problems in society. Apart from this, Shaastra strives to reach a wide range of audiences through its own outreach program. We conduct Spark and Sampark for school and college students respectively.