a picture with four injured fingers and one wearing a helmet with the tagline your safety is in your own hands or one with the line sign of a punekar near a puneri pagdi and sign of life besides a helmet these are just a couple of posters that can be spotted near the swargate area if you are passing by designed by the commercial art students of abhinav kala mahavidyalay these posters have become an integral part of the helmet awareness drive by the traffic police department of the city explaining the reason behind coming up with these posters these students firm believers in wearing a helmet while driving say that the ideas stemmed from their observations the chowk near our college often referred to as abhinav chowk is an accidentprone spot many students have witnessed some unfortunate incidents happening here and it has just reinforced the importance of using a helmet in our minds the same reflects in the posters we have made says krupa shevade a final year student from the college dhananjay sastakar hod applied arts at the college shares that the posters were shortlisted from 200 entries made by students on the topic some with references to popculture while others highlighting the serious repercussions that may arise from not wearing a helmet 35 of these posters have been used by the traffic police he says the traffic police too believe that the artworks are more effective in putting across a point because the local students understand the pulse and requirement of such a campaign in the city we spoke to a few students about the idea behind some of the posters and heres what we learnt brave warriors used head gear why not yousweekar garags poster mainly draws inspiration from popular culture and is aimed at influencing the younger generations perspective war dramas are a big hit among us youngsters and the soldiers can be seen sporting protective headgear my poster uses that to bring attention to the fact that wearing a helmet is necessary to stay safe he says stressing on the importance of wearing helmets for pillion riders too sweekar adds accidents can happen anytime and can harm anyone so its important for both people on a bike to wear helmetshelmet the sign of life a forwarded message circulating online after the helmet awareness drive was implemented became the inspiration behind tanmay bhakres poster featuring a puneri pagdi and a helmet the message was supposed to be a joke and spoke about how puneites might give up their 14 nap but wont wear a helmet shares tanmay adding its ironic that despite the pagdi being a sign of honour the importance of a safety head gear is disregarded today tanmay finds it amusing that puneites are against a rule which is a mandate under the section 129 of the maharashtra vehicle act hair loss or obstruction of peripheral vision are some of the most hilarious reasons i have heard people giving just to