The Habitat Young Visionary Award has come to Saarang now.

One of the most prestigious youth awards in the country, HYVA entails writing and arguing out your vision about the nation. If you are the next visionary a fully paid summer school to Cambridge awaits you.

Topic: The Change I want to See; The Change I want to Make

Deadline for essay entry: December 15, 2009


Are you the next visionary?


The list of semifinalists for HYVA 2010 can be found here.

The semifinals for the south-zone will be on 20th January in IIT Madras.



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Get the Saarang 2010 schedule, event descriptions, venues etc. right at your finger-tips!

Download the Saarang App (Free). It contains event descriptions for all events, their venues, as well as the timings and a map of IIT Madras showing the venues. Now there is no need to scramble to the Hospi-Desk just to get a copy of the schedule!

View a Demo of the Application! (requires Flash)

Try it out on the online emulator! (requires Java plugin)

 

Installation Procedure

* Download the Saarang2010.jar file to your computer.
* Transfer the Saarang2010.jar file to your JAVA enabled phone/PDA using data cable or bluetooth.
* Open the file in your device and allow it to get installed.

 

Minimum Device Requirments

* Java Enabled Device with MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.1 (Is your phone Java enabled? Most phones which have either a Camera,Bluetooth, GPRS etc. are Java enabled.)
* 550 KB of free space.


Note

* Please make the Settings of your application manager such that it allows all software to be installed. (On Nokia S60 phones, make Software installation as All and Online certificate check as Off).
* Some Samsung and Chinese phones require both Saarang2010.jar and Saarang2010.jad file. If this is the case, please download Saarang2010.jad file and transfer that also to your phone.
* You may also use PC Suite to install the application on to your phone directly from your computer.
* For low graphics and low memory phones download the lightweight version of the app which has lesser graphic content here. This requires about 200 KB of free space. The installation process is same as described above. Samsung users will also need this.
* For phones supporting MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.0 only, download this version of the app. This requires about 500 KB of free space. The installation process is same as described above. Samsung users will also need this. For the lighter version of this app, which requires about 150 KB of free space, download this and this.
* Download the Saarang App for Coords from here. If you need the JAD file, download it from here.
* For support contact mobile[at]saarang.org

Saarang Nokia Theme

Saarang theme for Nokia phones based on the S40 (series 40) platform is available for download here.