The workshop will go on from April 26 to June 6 (thrice a week), with the venue being the Poona Women's Council Hall. Inviting participation from anybody over the age of five, those enrolled will be divided into different age groups.

With Dilip D'Silva, who has worked with the likes of Shiamak Davar and Sharon Prabhakar, at the helm, the workshop will teach them how to dance. It will also include various aspects like inculcating a sense of rhythm, flexibility and muscle strengthening, jazz basics and modern dance choreography and conclude with a dance performance by the participants. Time to put on those dancing shoes.

All hot air?
A voice in our ear told us that we were to be among the blessed. Like a breath of fresh air, Channel Oxygen has been launched in Mumbai and our very own city. It is said that if (and this is a very big if), your cable operator offers you Channel Oxygen, or CO as the savvy would call it, you will soon be able to call a number that is flashed on your screen and request a song sequence. And they'll play it for you. Now that's what we call interactive! But like we said, there may be a slight problem. All the cable TV networks we called to find out more simply said, ``Huh?''

Citizens on song
Yeh public, kya bolti tu? Sounds familiar? The popular Hindi film song from the film Ghulam resurfaced in its revised avatar this Saturday. Except that there was no Rani Mukherjee or Aamir Khan in the picture this time. Instead, members of the People's Action committee, a citizens' group, were out to woo the public to join them in their Reinstate Bhatia campaign.

Tapes of the songs were played before the candle march began. The lyrics of the song, appropriately called Pune Power, were set to the tunes of Aati kya Khandala and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. They were specially penned for the occasion by Agyath Mitra and sung by Anjan Ghosh.

In the revised version, it was not lovelorn souls who whisper Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (KKHH) into each other's ears. In an obvious reference to Bhatia's drive against corrupt talathis, the song ascribed the KKHH feeling as what one scared talathi said to another when he heard Bhatia's name! Says Jyotsna Shahane, who thought of the idea, ``I thought a song expressing what the people have been saying about the Bhatia affair would be interesting. It expresses all that the citizens feel about transparency in governance, the right to information and the helplessness they feel when they have no say in the matter. We are rising against that.'' A different kind of music for a different cause, kya?