# HG changeset patch
# User anoop
# Date 1279112237 -19800
# Node ID 7007ec492eac1a74b52ce4138e1a160d0af01d4e
# Parent 736b2945037f4c47eb0c14ec37f53013007fa7f0
added more information about venue.
diff -r 736b2945037f -r 7007ec492eac sdi/views.py
--- a/sdi/views.py Wed Jul 14 15:28:43 2010 +0530
+++ b/sdi/views.py Wed Jul 14 18:27:17 2010 +0530
@@ -162,3 +162,12 @@
def accomodation(request):
return render_to_response("accomodation.html")
+
+def about_venue(request):
+ return render_to_response("about_venue.html")
+
+def about_mumbai(request):
+ return render_to_response("about_mumbai.html")
+
+def reaching_iitb(request):
+ return render_to_response("reaching_iitb.html")
diff -r 736b2945037f -r 7007ec492eac templates/about_mumbai.html
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/templates/about_mumbai.html Wed Jul 14 18:27:17 2010 +0530
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{% extends 'base.html' %}
+{% block title %}
+The City : Mumbai
+{% endblock %}
+{% block content %}
+About Venue
+
+The Venue : IIT Bombay | The City : Mumbai | How to reach IIT Bombay?
+
+The City : Mumbai
+Mumbai previously called Bombay , etymologically derived from Mumba or Maha-Amba—the name of the Koli goddess Mumbadevi after which the city was derived . The previous name Bombay comes from Portuguese Bom meaning good and English bay .The transformation of the city from a fishermen's colony to a trading centre came when it came under the British Empire as a dowry gift from the Portuguese Catherine of Braganza to Charles the second.
+Mumbai's culture is a blend of traditional festivals, food, music, and theatres. The city offers a cosmopolitan and diverse lifestyle with a variety of food, entertainment and night life, available in a form and abundance comparable to that in other world capitals. Mumbai's history as a major trading centre has led to a diverse range of cultures, religions and cuisines coexisting in the city. This unique blend of cultures is due to the migration of people from all over India since the British period.
+Mumbai is known to be one of the most liberal and cosmopolitan cities of India, with the city embracing many concepts which would be taboo in other cities.
+Mumbai is birth place of Indian Cinema and home to Bollywood . The city has legendary film studios some of the best in South Asia. The Film City in Goregaon is the most popular. Other legendary studios like Raj Kapoor's R.K. Studios, Filmistan, Shashadhar Mukherjee's Filmalaya and V Shantaram's Rajkamal Studio have been privy to many critically acclaimed and commercially successful movies.
+Mumbai also hosts various plays and cultural performances, and some of the more prominent theatres are Prithvi Theatre at Juhu, Dinanath Natyagruha at Vile Parle, Shanmukhananda Hall at Matunga, Prabhodankar Thackeray Theatre at Borivali, Rang Sharda at Bandra and the various theatres at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Nariman Point.
+
+{% endblock %}
diff -r 736b2945037f -r 7007ec492eac templates/about_venue.html
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/templates/about_venue.html Wed Jul 14 18:27:17 2010 +0530
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{% extends 'base.html' %}
+{% block title %}
+About Venue
+{% endblock %}
+{% block content %}
+About Venue
+
+The Venue : IIT Bombay | The City : Mumbai | How to reach IIT Bombay?
+
+
+
The Venue : IIT Bombay
+
IIT Bombay or IITB, is an autonomous university located in Powai, in north central Mumbai. It is the second-oldest campus of the Indian Institutes of Technology system and the largest National Institute in the state of Maharashtra. IIT Bombay ranked as Asia's 3rd best institute in science and technology , the world's 36th best institute in technology and the world's 30th best for engineering and IT.
+
The IIT Bombay campus is located at Powai, a suburb in north western Mumbai, between the Vihar and Powai lakes. The campus offers a magnificent view of the powai lake. Due to its proximity to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, the campus is extremely clean, green and mostly untouched by the pollution of the rest of the city.
+
The campus is divided into clusters of buildings. The academic area chiefly comprises the Main Building, various Departmental annexures and auditoria. All department annexures are connected by a corridor named Infinite Corridor. Beyond the Convocation Hall lie the hostels.
+
There are number of places inside and outside the campus offering a wide variety of food items, from North Indian 'Channa Masala' to South Indian 'Dosa'.
+
The campus is well connected internally by buses, making it easy to move inside the campus from one place to another. The bus tickets will be avilabe at security outposts at different locations in the campus.
+
The institute has two swimming pools; football, hockey and cricket grounds; and tennis, basketball, squash and volleyball courts. It also has a Students' Activity Center (SAC) for various cultural and other extracurricular activities. In addition to these facilities the campus also houses two high schools, one of which is a Kendriya Vidyalaya and the other is called IIT Campus School.
+
Note:
+While entering the campus, take a pass for Laptop/Camera if you have one.
+
+