The 58th convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) will probably be the most memorable one, as the graduating batch, the chief guest and the guest of honour gathered for a first-of-its-kind virtual ceremony on Sunday.

As the prevailing global health crisis prevented the students and the professors from meeting in person for the annual grand ceremony, the institute hosted the convocation in an electronic avatar. Using an app with an unique ID and password, close to 2,200 students from the graduating batch joined the ceremony in their digital avatars and received their degrees from the digital avatars of the guest of honour and the chief guest.