It’s tough being a student, even more so when you’re away from home cooped up in a desolate university, far from your loved ones, and it is festival time. When some 60 hostel students of the University of Pune could not make it home for the Diwali break for some or the other reason – many are from modest backgrounds and cannot not afford the journey to and back to their native places - the varsity head decided to light up their gloomy Sunday.