Skandagiri Night Trek

Recently a group of Yuva people had been one of the beautiful places near Bangalore Called “Skandagiri”. It is 70 Km Away from Bangalore and we were around 18 people. It was a night trek. We started our journey around 10.30 Pm from Bangalore. We had one car and 6 bikes and it was too cold. In spite that riding bike on airport road was such great experience. In between we took halt for tea. It was full moon night (Poornima), as usual we missed the road but we enjoyed each and every movement of warm weather and reach at Skandagiri around 2 A.M. and started trekking from the base at 2.30 A.M. With lots of hitches and stiffness of the rock we all people reached on top at around 5 P.M. We had some food and enjoyed the camp fire and then we were waiting for the moment that we came for - 'The Sun Rise'. Every one stood upright to experience such a great moment. Lots of people were there along with us. Finally that moment which we were waiting for was there and suddenly fog transferred to cloud in front of our eyes and we were on the top I mean above the cloud. After that Sun entered in such great cloudy environment. It was such great experience and a memorable 0ne. We got the chance to see the beauty of nature. Finally we started our returning journey. In the entire trek everyone was enthusiastic and reached at base around 10 P.M. and returned to home safely with such great memory. We should say thanks to Abhijeet Murty,Aditi and Gourav who arranged such great night trek. I would like to suggest everyone to see Skandgiri once in life.

Some snaps here and for more snaps on Picassa click here.
- Gary (Girish Mahajan)

Avagunthan - Yuva's play at Rangadakshini 2010

Yuva presented 'Avagunthan' a one-act play for Rangadakshini 2010, organised by Maharashtra Mandal Bangalore. A new enthusiastic team supported by the experienced Yuva did very well. Won the Best Set award and lots of accolades. Here is a simple slide-show of the journey, hope you like it.

Yuva's successful debut at Sudarshan - Pune

Yes!! Yuva proved themselves, again.

Yuva participated in Sudarshan Rangmanch Dhirganka Spardha which was held in Pune on 25th to 27th Dec 2009. Yuva participated in the competition with Dhirgankika 'Abhas'. The play was written by Pramod Khadilkar and directed by Sujay Ghorpadkar from Yuva .In Bangalore Yuva has participated in different events of Maharashtra Mandal and showed their talent but this time Yuva decided to show our ability in another city like Pune and Yuva ownered with different hats like 'Uttejanarth'(consolation prize) in Best actor and Best Play category. Yuva had got an invitation to participate in the competition after Rangadakshini 2009 performance "Samantar".

Sudarshan Rangmanch Dhirganka Spardha is one of the prestigious competition in Pune. It was my pleasure that I got the chance to involve in a such great event. It was great fun too... I mean starting from reading the script to the actual performance on stage. Every one put their effort to make it happen.

Abhas was based on the people who couldn't complete their dreams and how god give the filling of accomplishment of their dreams through drama.Finally give the hope for life.

To make the event successful Yuva flew with feathers like

Direction: Sujay
Onstage: Pramod,Mayuresh,Nilaj,Shashi,Aboli,
Lights: Ravi, Nikhil Manohar.
Music: Onkar,Sarang
Backstage: Mangesh,Gaurav,Sarus,Gary
Coordinator: Anagha
Other Yuva, both from Bangalore and the ones relocated to Pune like Nikhil, Sagar etc. helped on D-day

Some pictures posted below here. More are available, click the ones below to view the full online album.

- By Girish Mahajan (Gary)

Some more snap-shots of Yuva at Jallosh09

Some snap-shots of Yuva at Jallosh. Happy to see Garry's onstage theatrical debut at this event. Shashi, Mayuresh, Darshan and Anand were their usual best on stage. Pramod and me did our bit putting up the show on stage. It's great to work with you all.... It's great to be a Yuva!