To salute the national language, which binds together a diverse country like India, September 14 is celebrated as Hindi Diwas. And like every year, this year too, the students of Birla High School (Girls’ Section) celebrated the day with a lot of enthusiasm. The highlight of the day was a drama competition involving the students from the four school houses — Mauryas, Kushans, Pallavas and Chalukyas. The Mauryas put up a play depicting the atrocities perpetrated by our policy makers. The Kushans portrayed the widespread corruption in the system while the Pallavas exposed the dual nature of politicians. The Chalukyas depicted the generation gap existing in our society. The Kushans emerged as the winners.

Urja Oja, Class XIIC2, Birla High School (Girls), Calcutta

CALCUTTA

Warm welcome

The computer science department of St Xaviers College, Calcutta, celebrated their freshers’ day in style on September 12. Everyone had turned out in formal attire. Head of the department, A. Nath, made the students feel at home with his warm words. This was followed by a dance and a group song put up by the second year students. Some interesting games like eating pastries without touching the plates as well as couple dancing and musical chairs were organised. Mr and Miss Fresher were also crowned. The day ended with a photo session in the college field.

Debajyoti Chowdhury, computer science department, St Xaviers College

A media workshop on sports journalism was held on September 12, 2007, in the memory of Mukul Dutta, a legendary sports journalist, at the Calcutta Sports Journalists’ Club. Ashoke Dasgupta, editor of Aajkal, gave an introductory speech on Mukul Datta and opened the floor for an interactive session.

Sports journalists who have made their name in the field did a fantastic job of satisfying the audience’s queries.

Singer Rupam graced the occasion and delighted everyone with his rendition of Bho-kata. On the whole, it was an enriching experience and a day to remember.

Ananya Dey, Journalism and Mass communication, Calcutta University

Play time

The Patton School One Act Play Competition 07 was held at Gyan Manch recently. Presented by theatre-cum-dance troupe Padatik, the event featured nine city schools. The one-act plays were scripted, designed and directed by the students themselves. While the Best Play award was bagged by the Assembly of God Church School, the runners-up award as well as the Best Direction award went to Modern High School for Girls. Alipriya Biswas of St Augustine’s Day School won the Best Actor award while Benit Biswas of Assembly of God Church School was runners-up.

Earlier, the students had attended a workshop where renowned theatre experts like Shantanu Bose and Ekavli Khanna trained them. The plays were staged before a packed audience. The guests included mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, chairman of Patton Group H.P. Budhia, eminent film director Gautam Ghosh and state chief information commissioner Arun Bhattacharya. The plays were adjudged by theatre personalities like Zarin Chowdhury and Rohit Pombra. Other participants included Calcutta International School, Ashoke Hall Girls Higher Secondary School, La Martiniere for Boys and Apeejay School.

V. Kumara Swamy

Cause for celebration

Samagam 2007, an inter-collegiate fest organised by Loreto College, was celebrated from September 13 to 15. Several colleges participated in events like debates, elocution, street plays, quiz, dramatics, music and dance as well as carrom, basketball and throwball matches.

The overall winner was Loreto College but as they were the hosts, the trophy was passed on to the first runners up, St Xaviers College. The crowd also enjoyed numbers like Summer of 69, Bailamos and more played by Blue Mist on the final day of the fest.

Shalini Jaiswal, second year, communicative English, Loreto College

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