S V Srinivasan, assistant general manager (Circulation) of Deccan Herald, welcomed the students and assured that like many other DHiE programmes, this one too will interest them.
He told the students to enjoy themselves as well as study hard.
Ventriloquist G B Rangashayea sat on the stage with a dummy boy. He would ask questions to the dummy and it would reply in a funny way, drawing loud cheering from the students. “It seems two people are talking. I’m seeing this act for the first time and it’s really great,” said Jagadish K, a student of Mother’s Touch School.
Earlier, R Sumanth held the attention of the crowd with a shadow play. Sumanth used his hands behind a silhouette to make interesting animal figures.