Engifest is the annual cultural festival of

Delhi Technological University Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) is a state university in Rohini, Delhi, India. It was established in 1941 as Delhi Polytechnic. In 1952, it started giving degrees after being affiliated with th ...

(formerly Delhi College of Engineering). Usually held in the month of February, it is a three-day-long event. It was started in 1974 by students of DTU.

Introduction

Engifest is one of the largest college cultural festivals of the country. It is a student-run non-profit organization which caters primarily to youth. Engifest includes a variety of events such as car and bike show, drag racing, cultural performances, live wire-star night, rock shows, plays on social problems, dances, and others. Engifest has been studded by artists like

Sunidhi Chauhan Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born Nidhi Chauhan, 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Known for her Bold vocal range, she has recorded songs for films in several Indian languages and List of awards and nominations received by Sunidhi ...

Vishal–Shekhar Vishal–Shekhar are an Indian music composition, production, singing, and songwriting duo consisting of Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani from Mumbai. Known predominantly for their work as music composers in Hindi cinema, Vishal–Shekhar h ...

Mohit Chauhan Mohit Chauhan (born 11 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer, known for his work in Hindi films. He was a part of the Silk Route (band), Silk Route band. Chauhan has received two Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer and three Zee Ci ...

Amit Trivedi Amit Trivedi (born 8 April 1979) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, musician who works primarily for Indian cinema. After working as a theatre and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as ...

Papon (singer) Angaraag Mahanta (born 24 November 1975), known by his stagename Papon, is an Indian people, Indian playback singer and composer from Assam. Papon has also sung in many languages apart from Assamese language, Assamese like Hindi, Bengali language ...

Raftaar Dilin Nair (born 16 November 1988), better known by his stage name Raftaar, is an Indian rapper, lyricist, music producer, composer, dancer, actor and TV personality associated with Hindi, Punjabi and Haryanvi music. He is among the first rap ...

, Nucleya,

Bassjackers Bassjackers is a Dutch electronic music production and DJ duo consisting of Marlon Flohr & Ralph van Hilst. Marlon is the more outspoken member of the duo whereas Ralph takes care of "behind-the-scenes" production.Quintino (DJ) Quinten van den Berg (; born ), known professionally as Quintino, is a Dutch DJ and record producer. Notable releases include a remix of "Rap das Armas," "Selecta," "Go Hard," and "Fatality." In 2019 he was named #25 of the Top 100 DJs list p ...

, DJ NYK, Boogie Frantick,

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, VJ Bani, Aditi Arya, Salman Yusuff Khan,

Kumar Vishwas Kumar Vishwas (born Vishwas Kumar Sharma; 10 February 1970) is an Indian Hindi poet, a lecturer and former politician. He was one of the founding members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and a former member of its National Executive. Life and car ...

, Piyush Mishra, Karan Kundra,

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Sidhu Moose Wala Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu (11 June 199329 May 2022), known professionally as Sidhu Moose Wala, was an Indian singer and rapper. He worked predominantly in Punjabi Music, Punjabi-language music and Punjabi cinema, cinema. Moose Wala is considered t ...

History

Engifest was first started by students of the

(DTU), formerly known as Delhi College of Engineering, in 1974. By 2014, the fest had a diverse range of events and performances artists and celebrities such as

and

. In 2015, the festival improved upon its range with performances from

, Manj Musik, and more. Engifest 2016 saw Piyush Mishra. Engifest 2018 saw Stand-up comedian Abijit Ganguly, musician

, Punjabi singer Guri, and DJ MAG #35

Bassjackers Bassjackers is a Dutch electronic music production and DJ duo consisting of Marlon Flohr & Ralph van Hilst. Marlon is the more outspoken member of the duo whereas Ralph takes care of "behind-the-scenes" production.EDM night performed live. Engifest 2019 saw DJ MAG #25, Quintino performing live. Engifest 2020 saw 1.5 lakh+ students with Sidhu Moosewala (who performed for the first time in any college festival), Papon, and Divine.

Festival Sponsors and Past Affiliates

The print media partner of Engifest is

Hindustan Times ''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English language, English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media Limited, an entity controlled by the Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia, the daughter o ...

whereas its digital media partners include

All India Radio All India Radio (AIR), also known as Akashvani (), is India's state-owned public broadcasting, public radio broadcaster. Founded in 1936, it operates under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broa ...

9x Jalwa 9x Jalwa is an Indian classic Hindi music television channel, broadcast in India. The channel is owned by 9X Media. 9x Jalwa is India's Classic Channel, and Plays 1990s to 2010s Music in India. It was launched in 2012. 9x Jalwa is part of 9X Me ...

including others.

References

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