Aarohi
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Aarohi is the annual youth festival (Culfest
Culfest
A culfest or cultfest is an annual event organized by colleges in India.-General format:Most college culfests last from two to five days...

) of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur
Nagpur
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, India
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.
It is organised every year during winter in February. Students from undergraduate institutes in the city take part in many of the events organised.

Aarohi attracts more than 4000 participants in elimination rounds of various contests. The festival is sponsored by many big firms and businessmen in the city which are the main source of funds for the event. The event runs for 3 days, while the elimination rounds for various contests begin 10–15 days in advance. Events include a Personality Contest, Singing, Quiz, Debate, Band Contest etc. This festival has more than 10000 viewers every year.. Out of the above, the Band Contest-Purple Haze is the flagship event of Aarohi attracting highest number of viewers and participants from all over the city.
Aarohi 09 saw Shor Bazaar and Indigo Children (formerly The Superfuzz) performing in front of a capacity crowd of 4000.
Aarohi 11 saw Faridkot
Also Amit Kumar and Sumit Kumar performed at cult Nite- the curtain raiser to aarohi.

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