Puranava 2025 at Pune
By the immense grace of our Satgurunathar HH Sri Sri Maharanyam Muralidhara Swamiji, the second edition of Pune Puranava was held on Aug 2nd 2025 in the auditorium of S B Patil Public school in Ravet, Pune. The quiz masters being Dr Janani Vasudevan and Kum. Harshini Manikandan.
A total of 115 teams from 22 schools took part.
The following schools made to the finals
1.Podar International school, Wakad
2.Podar International school, Chinchwad
3.Podar International school, Pimpri
4.DIC English Medium school
5.SNBP International school, Rahatani CBSE
6.Bud’s International school
The finals was very interesting to watch as these 6 teams were quite lively on the stage. The Pune round and the last round Dumb Charades made the impact, and it was interesting to watch the competition between the teams. The quiz master equally involved the audience by directing questions to them frequently. There were some incentive gifts and cash prizes for the audience as well.
The competition ended with the winners being SNBP International school, Rahatani CBSE, who were the winners last year also. Podar Int school, Chinchwad were the first runners-up(who were the 2nd runners-up last year) and the second runners-up being Bud’s Int school. Trophies, shields & cash prizes were awarded to the winners & runner ups. All students were given participation certificates.
Our chief guest for the day was Sri R T Lad, who retired as the Asst Commissioner of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidhyalaya Samiti in 2023, and still working for the Tribal students of Ekalavya Model Residential schools in Maharashtra and Kerala, is a recipient of the Best Principal award. Sri Lad addressed the students and gave away Trophies and the prizes.
School managements & teachers gave excellent feedback and have conveyed to hold such events more frequently.
