Gandharva’12 Gandharva an intercollegiate cultural festival provides a platform for participants

to explore and portray their talents.

The theme of Gandharva 2012 i.e., the fifth year was ‘Village- Going Back to

Roots’ to re-live the nostalgic by going back in times and experience the rural

India. The festival featured several competitions for student fraternity, alumni and

teachers and the theme was very well depicted by all the participants through their

performances. The performances of 3-day Gandharva ’12 mahotsav involved over

150 students, teachers and supporting staff. However in its 5th year, Gandharva ’12

surpassed all previous records by a big margin. 106 colleges from Vasai to

Ratnagiri participated in this festival in 35 events. This year for the first time in

thane, one act play competition was conducted on a large scale at Gadkari

Rangayatan with cash prizes worth ` 30000. The competition was judges by

eminent theatre personalities like Mr. Bharat Tandel, Mr. Dnyaneshwar Margas,

Mr. Anil Gawas with Sushant Shelar, Mr. Prasad Jawade and Mr. Chaitanya

Chandratre. Cash prize of Gandharva 2012 and champions rolling trophy to overall

winner of Gandharva ’12 was awarded to Sydenham College and cah prize of `

500 was given to best CL.

The journey of 5 years was not possible without the support of our Principal Dr.

(Mrs.) Shakuntala A. Singh, Vice Principal Prof. Subhash Shinde and Vice-

Principal, Junior college Mrs. Gauri Tirmare and entire team of 150 volunteers,

teachers and supporting staff. Special thanks to all our sponsorers who supported

us and Vice-Principal and Gandharva Chairperson Prof. (Mrs.) Monika Deshpande

for her continuous support and encouragement and special thanks to Gandharva

Head Akshay Hegde for his hard work and leading the Gandharva team.