Time for havans
A team from John Ruskin College in Croyden, London visited Hansraj Public School recently. The team comprised experts in the field of economics, history and politics from London. As part of their welcome programme the young Hansarians chanted shalokas and performed a havan on their own.

The team was also taken to the multi-media theatre. Stuart Rodger, Stephanie Scott and other members of the team were pleasantly surprised to see that stdies were going on at such an advanced scale. The visiting team felt that this interaction with Hansarians would help them to enrich the learning experience of their students at John Ruskin College, London. Mark Biggs commented that even in London, education was not imparted in multimedia theatres and said that people in London still thought of India as a land of snake charmers and elephants.

A tryst with Swamiji
``One cannot achieve anything in life without first cultivating and then exercising the habit of sacrifice'', advised Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati (Chamba) while addressing the students and staff of DAV Public School, Sector 8-C, Chandigarh. While stressing the scientific importance of peforming Havan, Swamiji explained that all that is burnt while performing hawan breaks up into the smaller particles which rise up to purify the environment.