Pune Citygritty

Events that are to take place in 1998, like the World Cup football, the Commonwealth Games and useful information like schemes of sports promotion, funds for pensions to meritorious sportsmen are also part of the book. The 296-page book, which costs Rs 200, also tries to address questions like the state of Indian games through critical features. “The aim of the book is to help all sports lovers with useful information,” says Jogdeo.

Here’s to ethnicity
Tribal motifs like white Warli stick figures on eye-catching blue ceramic plates and bowls and geometric designs on ceramic pots are some of the unusual designs at Devyani’s Creations, an exhibition-cum-sale of ceramic pottery and oil paintings on display at the Rabindra Kala Kunj, above the Nehru Memorial Hall.

The three-day exhibition, which started on May 31, is Aruna Pinge’s first solo one. A senior scientific officer at the State Public Health Laboratory, Pinge started working with cold ceramics in her spare time a year ago. “I want to concentrate on tribal art for tableware like cup and saucer sets, dry fruit bowls and plates,” she says. The exhibition includes fine landscape and still-life oil paintings of her daughter Devyani, after whom the creations are named. The exhibition, which is open from 10 am to 8.30 pm, is worth a dekko.

Sleeping beauty
There is sleep and then there is catching up with sleep and then there is something actress Seema Kapoor does. In Pune for a shoot for an ad film, the controversial telestar, who put up in a hotel in Deccan whilst in the city, had obviously decided that this is where she wanted to catch some 40,000 winks. So you could call her up early morning, mid-morning, early afternoon, late afternoon, evening, night and even close to midnight and the star with a capital S was always, but always sleeping, with stern `Do not disturb’ instructions given to the hotel authorities that they meekly passed on to the callers. We had heard the Pune climate does wonders for relaxing Mumbaites’ mind, but to this extent?

Outa-site!
Now there is really no escape from the world of Osho. Osho Times International, the glossy dedicated to Osho’s vision, has launched itself on the worldwide web. It now offers an online edition as part of the osho.org website, plus a special preview section where browsers can look at articles that will appear shortly in the latest print edition. However, on the down side, the magazine itself has become a quarterly from a monthly.

“This move was critical in terms of freeing the staff; and it also gave us time to create the new web edition of Osho Times International,” clarifies Swami Chaitanya Keerti, editor of the magazine, adding, “Our presence on the web will alert more people around the world to the quality and availability of the publication, and we expect our international circulation to rise accordingly.”

The online version of the magazine offers articles, cooking recipes, tarot readings, editorial comments and “zen sticks” directed at various social and political targets. In the forthcoming July issue, one such target seems to be actor Richard Gere, who is the butt of the Commune’s criticism, according to the preview section. So, net surfers with a desire to key into Osho’s stream of thought, check out the site.