Bubble Blue celebrated its seventh annual function at Nazrul Tirtha in New Town with the children performing to the themes of freedom of thought and unity in diversity.

The integrated day-care centre and Montessori house has branches in both Salt Lake and New Town.  
There were dances to classical music and Bollywood tracks. “I told the kids the story in advance to bring out their emotions and make them feel what they were dancing to,” said dance teacher Sumita Saha.
The teachers and students also lent their voices to four Bengali songs and Doris Day’s evergreen hit Que sera sera.

“Every child has a dream about what he/she wants to be and we should give them the freedom to do what they want to in life. This would reduce the stress on them about the future. The song is dedicated to them as Que sera sera means ‘whatever will be will be’,” said Nabonita Bose Mukherjee, the head of the institute who also hosted the event.

A ramp walk had been organised in which the kids walked with their mothers. Mihika Gupta, a student, held up the national flag while striding down the stage to the song Indiawaale from Happy New Year. Several dance items were performed to songs like Jai Ho and the Karadi rhyme Just Like You, in which students dressed as natives of different states and introduced themselves as such. But in the end they all came together to give the message that they belonged to the same country. 

The non-teaching staff of Bubble Blue also performed a bihu dance to the song Bhalo koira bajao dotara.
Students also demonstrated some karate moves, breaking tiles with kicks and chops. Even though a few students didn’t manage to break them successfully, the audience applauded every attempt. And no one got hurt. 
There was a prize distribution ceremony woven into the event where students were awarded for regularity, discipline, sense of responsibility etc. 

Children were given food packets before the event came to an end but even then some of them refused to leave. “They had so much fun that they want to stay on,” smiled the mother of a three-year-old.