As part of Golden Jubilee celebrations an Alumni Convention was organized by the alumni association of IIT Kanpur from 2^nd to 4^th January 2010. Nearly 200 graduates of this esteemed institution from across the globe took part in this event.
On the evening of 2^nd January, 2010 a cultural programme titled 'Fastest Feet in Rhythm was organized for the esteemed alumni.the program featured Pt. Chitresh Das, a Kathak maestro and Jason Samuel Smith, a genius tap dancer and an Emmy award winner. The show started with two artists performing separate solos of Kathak and Tap dance. Soon there was a jugalbandi of Kathak and tap dance. The whole audience was mesmerized with Pt. Chitresh’s demonstration on the sound of the railway engine with the bells on his feet. The excitement reached new heights when the two stars came together with the musicians in a great finale that had audience spell bound! The musicians - Abhijit Banerjee, Jayanta Banerjee, Umesh, Bumpy, Jiver and Paddy - who challenged each dancer to match different riffs and the two were engaged in a dance battle to match each other.