The annual festival of Indian Institute of Technology-Gandhinagar  (IIT-GN) called 'Blithchron' ended on Sunday. The two-day festival winded up after presenting an array of newly introduced events this year.

While Blithchron is held for the third time, this year the students introduced several new events which included a fashion show called 'Panache', a rock music competition called 'String Theory', and a street play competition called 'Antaragnee'.

A core team member of 'Blithchron-2012' Avinash Tumkur said, "Despite of being newly introduced, the events were very successful. We received a very good response from various institutes from within the state and outside as well and the total footfall of the entire event crossed over 8000."

"The fashion show event received participation from various institutes in the city including NIFT Gandhingar, Xaviers and others. From this year, this event of fashion show will become a regular feature of Blithchron," said Tumkur

Other new events also included 'Bizmark' which made students to compete against each other on their marketing strategies.

The evening of the first day of the festival also hosted a rock concert which drew a huge crowd. The performance was by Chennai-based alternative rock band 'Junkyard Groove'.