The three-day-long IPSC literary Fest concluded on Saturday. The festival was a joint collaboration between WBS and WGS, in conjunction with the Hindi and English departments. A total of 22 schools including — Army School, Birla Balika Vidyapeeth, Birla Public School, GD Birla Memorial School, Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls’ School, Mayo College Girls’ School, Mayo College, Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Pine Grove School, RIMC, Rashtriya Military School, Sainik School, Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, The Doon School, The Daly College, The Scindia School, Vidya Devi Jindal School, Welham Boys’ School, Welham Girls’ School, Yadavindra Public School (Patiala), and Yadavindra Public School (Mohali) participated in it.
The fest witnessed the presence of prominent speakers such as Mahmood Farooqi and Preeti Singh, a well-known journalist from Delhi. The events was based on the aim of IPSC, by providing students with opportunities for training in fulfilling responsibilities, becoming leaders, and providing services to the community. Over a span of three days, the Fest witnessed a host of competitive activities ranging from Radio Plays, Spellathon, literary Quiz, and Five Characters, where students have to weave a situation involving all the five literary characters and present it in a time- frame of seven minutes. The budding journalists are looking forward to a workshop on journalistic writing,”Writers Rendezvous”.
The Inauguration ceremony happened in Welham Girls School, with the celebration of forgotten art of storytelling, ‘Dastangoi’ presented by the renowned ‘Dastango’, Mahmood Farooqi, who is credited with the revival of this art that is said to have died with the demise of the last old Dastango Mir Baqar Ali in 1928.
The closing ceremony was organised at Welham Boys School with the events including the Spellathon, with rounds testing kinaesthetic spelling, identifying phonetically spelled words, solving anagrams, spelling words rapidly, and a final speak-spell-speak round for the best eight teams.
“The literary Fest was a real celebration of the written and spoken word,” said Gunmeet Bindra, Principal, Welham Boys’ School.