Extracurricular activitiesSaarang, the annual cultural festival, is held in winter. The technical festival of the institute is known as Shaastra. The Open Air Theatre hosts the weekly movie, a Saturday night tradition, besides other activities. It seats over 7,000 and usually plays to packed capacity. The annual inter-hostel sports event is known as the Schroeter.
There are several hobby clubs that include the speaking club, the astro club, and dramatics. Music and robotics are more recent and popular clubs.
Two student bodies, the Vivekananda Study Circle (VSC) and Reflectionsfocus on spiritual discussions.
The campus has evolved a distinct and colourful slang that almost acts as a dialect, attracting a published Master's thesis at a German University. An eclectic mix of English, Hindi, Telugu and Tamil, aspects of the campus slang have been adopted by some other Chennai colleges.
Unlike its sister institutions, IIT Madras lacks a single uniting Indian language among its students: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi all flourish. Consequently, all student participatory activities like debating, dramatics, short-film making, and others are held in English. This is even reflected in the slang that use more of English than Hindi, as might be customary in IITM's northern counterparts.
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