148 Vasantasena, this way I/' offering his hand to lead her off stage. At this point. Little Lover stumbled past her, missing her completely, and exited stage right; Vasantasena at the same time was led off by her mother and Little Cuckoo, exiting stage left. Certainly, the performance was not a professional one, nor even a polished amateur one. Still, no one dropped any lines, At especially hilarious points, everyone on stage broke up in laughter along with the audience; certain laughs were not anticipated, thus putting the pacing off in a few spots. However, these shortcoming aside, the play ~ in fact, the entire evening — did what it was intended to do: allow students to participate actively in "something Indian" during their first extended exposure to Indian civilization. What was lacking in artistic refinement was made up many times over by sheer enthusiasm and total involvement on the part of the students. The most telling effect of this brush with things Indian was that of the group of twenty, ten among them took part in other plays and went on to take additional courses in Indian Studies. None of them were Indian Studies majors, but rather pre-meds, mathematicians, engineers, education students and psychology majors. In this sense, then, the whole affair was a success.