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Public Outreach Activities No. 114 - April 2018 09 Short talks on the pictures of the universe in different wavelengths, large telescopes around the world, story of mathematics, galaxies, measuring astronomical distances were delivered by Ruchika Seth, Jameer Manur, Sonali Sachdeva, Pranoti Panchbhai and Yash Bhargava respectively, which kept the public rooted in the Chandrasekhar Auditorium during the morning. Parallel events like Science Toys demonstrations by students of Aksharnandan School, coordinated by Sonal Thorve, and demonstrations of National Science Day The celebrations of National Science Day andOpenDay on February 28, 2018 attracted numerous groups of students, came from in and around Pune, and fromother parts of Maharashtra. This really shows the hunger of people to associate better with Science and Scientists. The main campus of the institute was adorned by the scale- models of differentA&Aprojects of public interest like, LIGO- India, Aditya-L1, etc. The number of spectacular posters designed and presented enthusiastically by research scholars of IUCAA, made people aware of the on-going research and new developments in the subject. Apart from these, the Foucault pendulum, the statues of great scientists, demonstrations of Laser Interferometry, IFU and Polarisation, RadioAstronomy, etc. pulled in a large crowd. In the afternoon, during a live interaction, Jayant Narlikar and Somak Raychaudhuri eloquently answered several Astronomy related questions fromthe public. l Telescope making, coordinated by Tushar Purohit had people thronging the Science Park.