Kharagpur, Jan. 22 :    Kharagpur, Jan. 22:  It's 12.30 in the afternoon, the winter sun blazing down on the IIT, Kharagpur, campus. That doesn't stop music buffs from crowding the open-air theatre and swinging to the rhythm of rock numbers belted out by an amateur band... The show ends at 3 pm and the janta moves from the Oat to the Netaji auditorium for the quiz finals... From the world of Q&A to the dance floor. The gang changes gear and takes up position for Centrifuge - the group-dance competition. For two hours, the army of 1,500 campus crowd claps and croons with the troupes.... Spring Fest (SF) 2001, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, which ended today. The organisers of the four day fiesta had lined up a perfect blend of fun and funda events to involve more than 800 students representing more ham 40 colleges and universities. So, there were fashion shows for the bold and the beautiful, panel discussions, theatrix workshop and quiz contests for the thinking ones, vocal and choreo competitions for the budding performers, a cyber cafe for the technically inclined, informal village for those who fancy 'weird stuff' and a lot more at the SF 2001 presented by The Telegraph. Added to these, there were professional nights ranging from Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Malhar Ghosh to Indipop band Silk Dooba Dooba Route. Shounak Roy Choudhury, general secretary of IIT Students' Gymkhana, was 'satisfied' with the way 'eastern India's biggest fest' went off this time. 'Despite the academic pressure, a group of 410 IITians, spearheaded by the A (action) and P (publicity) teams worked day and night from August, 2000, to make this happen,' he explained. 'We even had classes till 4.30 pm on the inaugural day, but we still managed to kick off the show by 5.30 that evening,' added Apurva, the other general secretary. 'SF ka tempo high hai', was the anthem on the 18-acre campus which attracted students from all over. 'It's a pilgrimage for bands like ours as a prize here will improve or ratings and give us more shows,' confessed Bhaskar of Dhruva, the band from Darjeeling. The curtains came down on SF 2001 today after the finals of the Wildfire (the Western music competition), which had the crowd rocking till midnight. 'Now, it's time for us to catch up on some much-needed sleep,' smiled Souvik, one of the key organisers, exhaustion elation. The contestants will head back home and IIT will limp back to normal. But the SF hang-over, promise the boys and girls, will remain in the air for some time to come, with the slogan switching to 'KGP ka tempo high hai.'