West Bengal: IIT Kharagpur virtual quiz to help mess worker 'dadas'
The Times of India (June 23, 2020)
KOLKATA: Have you ever seen tabla maestro Zakir Hussain play the role of a quiz master? If you haven't, you must log on to the grand finale of an ongoing quizzing event, on June 27 that will see past and present students of IIT Kharagpur competing against each others' halls of residences.
Zakir Hussain has agreed to be a guest quiz master for the event that is being conducted to raise funds for the contractual and casual workers of IIT Kharagpur, who are going through a difficult phase, caused by the Covid pandemic.
Along with Hussain, the other three celebrity guest quiz masters are, Siddhartha Basu, Harsha Bhogle and Vikas Swarup, who have all been associated with the world of quiz in one way or the other. (Note: Arundhati B and Giri Pickbrain were added as quiz masters after this article was published.) The initiative has been taken by past and present students together to help these workers, who have nothing beyond the IIT ecosystem to take care of them or their families. (Read More)
