* Astronomy

For the past 24 years, once a month, 300 pairs of eyes in the far-flung town of Vangani turn star-struck. It happens on Saturdays around new moon nights. As the sun sets, registration queues line up at counters set up in the grounds of a private bungalow. Mats are spread on the ground, and families settle down. Soon, two telescopes are set up, and amidst a sea of murmuring people lying on their backs to gaze at the sky, Khagol Mandal, one of Mumbai's oldest amateur astronomers' clubs, begins its programme.

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