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RANCHI: Open Mic events have helped Ranchi's young artistes to showcase their talents before an audience and get real time reviews.Ajay Raj, a Class XII student participated in several open mic events in other cities, including Kolkata and Delhi, before he decided to start a comedy open mic series in the city. Mohit co-ordinates with Your Quote, a writing application, which holds an open mic event in Ranchi every Tuesday. I am a part of Ranchi Komedians, which has five core members and we organise open mic events at least twice a month in the city. I have already conducted eight open mic programmes in Jamshedpur and I travelled to Ranchi to coordinate this event," said Verma.But crowd control and filtering of content remains a challenge, said Raj. Though we prefer stand-up comedy performances, we also allow poets and singers a chance to have an audience," Raj said.For Mohit Verma, a student from Dhanbad, organizing open mic events started with a quest to find a place to perform his poetry..