Tu dhoop hai, chham se bhikhar,
Tu hai nadi o bekhabar ,
Udd chal kahin dil khush jahaan,
Teri to manzil hai wahi ......
This beautiful song appeared more meaningful on our 59th Republic Day ... when kids with overwhelming enthusiasm and vivacity sat down to unleash their imagination and creativity ...
Republic day this year was celebrated with a fervour of patriotism. Kids were taken to witness the flag hoisting at the KJ Somaiya Arts College by the NCC cadets. They were in high spirits after witnessing the March past by the NCC Cadets and marched back after the flag hoisting.
They then munched on some biscuits, and sang aloud a few patriotic songs like Mere Desh ki Dharti to their(and our) heart's content :)
We had a short break .. and at 10:30 am , we began the most awaited event of the day - the PEHEL ART COMPETITION !! .. Pehel art competition was open to all .. including the students of SIMSR...
There were 20 kids who were dressed in their best with their eyes beaming with excitement ... and there were almost equal number of volunteers from SIMSR who did not want to miss the fun ! ...
The competition was organised by Jyoti Gouda, Seema Goswami and Akhila Sekhar.
The Volunteers were Om Kumar Jha, Pranshu Gupta, Soumya Iruvanti, Tanvi Shikha, Avipsha Banerjee, Sangeeta Sengupta, Ashish Maheswari, Rishikesh Kumar, Subhasish Sarkar, Hirak Sarkar, Juhee Prashanth, Richa Khetawat, Ajay Choudhary and Beno Ewald.
To encourage the kids, many of the volunteers sat beside them and tried their hands at art too !!
The kids were given a choice - if they wanted to draw and colour or .. just colour the drawings.. a couple of kids chose to draw and the majority chose to colour .. and the fun began ! ...
Have you ever seen a Blue coloured sun ??? or a pink coloured rocket ?? or multi-coloured stars ??? We have :) !! ... It was the kids' innocence and creativity that reflected upon the paintings... To see them fill colours ... was a great sight indeed... !!
The kids and the members of the team were all given chocolates as a token of appreciation :P .. !! The paintings were then judged by four judges - Subhasish, Hirak, Ashish and Beno and the prizes were declared. The kids received the prizes with wide smiles amidst loud cheers and clapping.
At the end, all of us sang the National Anthem and called an end to the amazing morning !
1 comment:
Went thru all your activities. First of all Congrats to your mentor and guide Radha Iyer and hats off to you all for taking forward your dreams and bringing out your creativity whether it be Pehel or CSR or Blood DOnation drive. Can i be a little bit selfish ? When you leave the campus and get into jobs, don't get so drowned that there's not even a thread link with these activities. In fact now that you're in the industry, you can use your good offices to extend this activity on a larger canvas.
Love and Wishes,
Rekha Rau
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