JU Enlivened By Arts Culture

As winter began to fade out, it was time for the fifty years young Jadavpur University to heat up to the annual cultural extravaganza of the Arts faculty. The open-air theatre at the heart of the sprawling sylvan campus on Raja Subodh Chandra Mullick Road was witness to the pulsating rhythms of Sanskriti 2006 on week two of month two. Cultural competitions among students saw the ‘Jadavs’ vie for top spots in quiz, debate, extempore, to name a few of the events that set up the tone for the joyous jingle of a fest.

As Jagannath Bose and Urmimala Bose set in the cultural aura by recitations of classics and Rupankar soared up the mercury with his pulsating musicals. Bangla Band Fossils with their usual frenzied gyrations with whatever instruments they had at their disposal and wacky modulations of voices to sing out their experiments with language, was a big and instant hit, with fun reigning supreme in the entire arena, as crowds just kept gushing in from inside and out of the campus.