The Vidya Mandir auditorium reverberated with applause on Thursday for Model Puja winner Suruchi Sangha as they received their award and Rs 50,000 prize money from the judges of CESC The Telegraph True Spirit Puja, powered by Patanjali — Olaf Iversen (far right), the German consul-general, Bruce Bucknell (third from right), the British deputy high commissioner, and his wife Henrietta. “We have been a part of this movement since the first year and have won Four Star, Five Star and Model Puja awards earlier but it just makes us more eager to keep winning. It is the message of the True Spirit Puja contest that makes us hold this competition in the highest regard,” said Pintu Biswas, the organising committee secretary of Suruchi Sangha, which had Bhutan — its art, culture and tradition — as the theme. On Sashthi morning, Craig Hall, the U.S. consul-general, Friso Maecker, director, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, and actress Nusrat Jahan had visited the pandal as True Spirit Puja judges. Picture by B. Halder