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Young lasses beat the heat by wearing strappy outfits. The young boys — organizing committee members as well as participants — were dressed in suits, sweat dripping off their brows, shirts clinging uncomfortably to their bodies. Everyone was trying to grab a seat under the fans or in front of the air blowers that dotted the huge hall of the Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Parsee Charitable Institution where the valedictory (colloquially referred to as ‘val’ by participants) function of the 37th Holiday Programme for Youth (HPY) was taking place on the warm and humid evening of June 2, 2024.   HPY 2024 participants     ......