Some people rued the fact that Prithvi did not have an international group except for Sunday's acoustic jam by a French group Artie's. However, local groups such as Motley, Ekjute, Ansh, Yatri are no less talented and they premiered with plays ranging between deeply engaging, experimental, interesting and enjoyable. However, that brings me to my eternal dilemma of standing ovation. While some plays deserve it, often plays are good but not necessarily exceptional. One feels compelled to stand up to salute the efforts of the actors and musicians and technicians but doesn't that take away from those who have truly been class apart? For example Chuhal, a play written, directed [and also the lead actor] by Manav Kaul, started well. Towards the end it seemed to have lost direction and the message, at best, was jumbled. Yet, we all stood up, perhaps giving a wrong signal that the play had indeed worked. Should we be more stingy in our appreciation? To stand or not, that is the question in the auditorium.