Out and about

The students of Chandigarh Institute of Performing Arts (CIPA) will present a Punjabi comedy play,titled Honeymoon,based on Vivek Chatterjee’s Bengali play,adapted and directed by Shyam Juneja. The story revolves around three characters and promises to be a laugh riot,with many sequences involving the managing director of a company (Shyam Juneja) and newly weds Meenakshi (Alka Arora) and Sameer (Samar Malhotra). “As the boss is against the marriage of any of his employees unless he or she is settled in life,Sameer takes leave from his company on the pretext of attending the death rites of his grandmother,but gets married and reaches a guest house in Nainital. The story takes a humorous turn as the boss also reaches the same guest house,” says Juneja.

Collective Thought

It’s a poetic dialogue designed to bring poets and writers from Assam,Delhi,Gujarat and Maharashtra on one platform. Conceptualised by city-based poet Rajvinder Singh,the event has been organised by Punjab Sahit Akademi,its first major event under the presidentship of celebrated poet Surjit Patar. Today,poetry lovers can lend an ear to Gyanpeeth Award-winner Sitanshu Yashaschandra,a noted Gujarati language poet,along with Gagan Gill,a celebrated Hindi poet. Also part of the line-up is Maushami Kandali,fiction writer,art critic and translator with nine published books to her credit. Manik Munde,a trilingual poet writing in Marathi,Hindi and English is also participating in the event.