Citygritty 8212; Pune

Playing to the gallery
One must say, it8217;s the students who take centre-stage these days! On September 6, the students of ILS Law College, put up a show encasing three plays, one by their own college and two by a theatre group called Theatre8217;s Pune. The one-act play put up by Law College, Purusharth, had fetched them the first prize at the Purushottam Karandak on September 5, which was based on the interaction between a major and a captain of the army, when they capture a spy 8212; closely resembling the Kargil situation. The other two plays were Chandrapurchya Janglaat and Asaach Ek Divas. The students sold donation passes and garnered Rs 6,500 which they donated to the Kargil Disabled Soldiers8217; Relief Fund on September 16, signed duly by Principal of the ILS Law College, Vyjayanti Joshi and the Secretary of the Indian Law Society, S P Sathe. No mean effort by Siddharth Shinde, Ganesh Hingmire, Yogesh Pawar, Kanchan Pusulkar, Sonali Malshe, Javed Mulani, Richa Ingle, Kaluram Bhujbal, Seema Patil, Pallavi Kale, Prakrati andSwapnil Deshpande.

Enlightened lot
A dancing tribute enlightenment 8212; that is what this programme at Gautama the Buddha auditorium at Osho Commune held on the evening of September 7 was called. Why? Because the programme was specially staged for the newly enlightened devotees of Osho.8217; Three dancers, Sonal Thakkar, Anju Sirikar and Bhavana Jain, who have trained at the Aradhana Institute of Dance performed a dance drama on a Sufi called maujood and a recital of pure classical dance.

Universal question
Why is the universe curved ? While in school, this question must have bothered many of us. On September 18, the scientists at IUCAA Pune University aimed at solving this query, for standard IX and X from various Pune schools. THE one-hour lecture, conducted by Naresh Dadihich scientist at IUCAA, started with the relatively simple Newton8217;s First Law, amidst pin drop silence, the lecture progressed to the higher concepts of special relativity, Black Hole and eventually The Big Bang Theory. The questions asked at the end of the session were the result of serious curiosity and in-depth understanding by the students. quot;Are Black Holes entrances to other galaxies?quot; inquired a student. 8220;Can darkness travel? 8221;was a question followed by a burst of laughter in the hall. The organisers also plan to hold a workshop for teachers to help in making the education of science more interesting and demonstrative. For the scientifically inclined, the next lecture of the same series is coming up on the October 9 at IUCAAChandrashekar Auditorium.