The cafeteria or canteen is not just an eating corner for college students. For them it is a place where discussions happen and plans are made. “I always spent one or two hours with my friends eating rajma chawal and chhole bhature and sipping chai at the canteen discussing the college magazine and festivals and yes, I’ve also made many new friends by playing the guitar in the cafeteria,” says Abhimanyu Pandey, an ex-student of Ramjas College.

I wanted to make a career in the tourism industry and thanks to the certificate course in travel and tourism offered by Delhi University (DU), I gained some knowledge about it,” says Ankit Garg, a student of value-added courses in Ger-manic and Romance Studies, DU. Not just him, but DU is helping many students value-add to their profiles with a string of add-on courses.

With the new session just starting and the date of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) election being declared as September 14, a political wind has started blowing across the university. One can see posters and hoardings of unions on the walls and spot their members in T-shirts and caps, all over the campus.

To set the mood for the Independence Day celebrations, a artists are paying a tribute to the country’s democracy with “Sare Jahan Se Accha”, a classical dance extravengaza. “As I was growing I realised there was no artistic tribute to the Independence Day.

Come August 9 and the city will get a chance to soak in the soulful “Raas Rang World Flute Festival” at the serene Lotus Temple. The three-year-old fesival is being organised by the Krishna Prerna Foundation and the ministry of culture.

Perseverance pays and a perfect example of this is the automated unmanned vehicle made by the students of Delhi Tech-nical University (DTU). The team recently bagged third position while representing India at the Student Unman-ned Automated System (SUAS) international competition in Maryland, USA last month.

The 12th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival will spread its “green carpet” at the Siri Fort Auditorium and the Kila Complex in the capital from July 27 to August 5. The current edition of the festival has many environmental movies lined up. And the festival’s mascot is a turtle.

Any kind of publicity is a good publicity. Seconding this saying is Sherlyn Chopra’s recent photo shoot for Playboy magazine that has made her a newsmaker globally. Even Lady Gaga for the promotion of her perfume, Fame, has shot an ad where she is reclining naked with a number of miniature men climbing all over her body, covering some of her vital virtues.

Art and beauty are synonymous with each other — when you think of art, the idea of beauty flashes through your mind instantly. Recently, Jawahar Vyapar Bhawan unveiled a treasure of art with a carnival of colours and crafts celebrating the advancement of saawan with the theme ‘Sarang’, meaning peacock.

The 14-member team from the Delhi Technical University (DTU) will be going to Silverstone, UK with their eyes full of dreams and hearts full of hope.