The hunt is on

attention all you youngsters eyeing a career in modelling and per-haps, films. the yearly drill for the grasim mr india has been kicked off. akshara advertising, which has been managing the pageant since it began nine years ago, is at the helm this year too. anshuman swamy, director of akshara tells us that the contest had attracted 10,000 entries last year but this year, thanks to the facil-ity of sending an entry through the net, the number is likely to swell to over 25000.what should interest our readers is that the entries from the pune region are increasing at a remarkable rate. needless to say that the trigger was rakesh bapat's achievement two years ago when he made it to the first runner-up position in the contest. and so this year swamy is thinking of holding a regional round in pune. the eligibility norms have been relaxed to make them more realistic for the indian demography. now those between 18 and 30 years of age and five feet ten or more can qualify for an entry. the closing date for entries is september 26... in case you are interested.