Billabong school holds Grandparents Tea Party
Bhopal: Billabong High International School recently witnessed “Grandparents Tea Party”, a celebration by Senior KG students. This occasion was organised specially to allow grandparents to have an experience of their grandchild’s school. The merry theme of ‘Circus’, ensured there was no dearth of fun and frolic as grandparents were at their adventurous best arrived in funny and wild attires donning motley clothes, clown wigs, red noses and moustaches, befitting the occasion. Along with Sujata lakhani, Principal, Billabong High International School; a gigantic clown cut-out welcomed the guests at the entrance after which they were led to the classrooms where fun activities such as colouring the clown’s face, magic painting on bookmarks and song and dance was awaiting . ‘Pin the Nose on the Clown’, ‘Beanbag Toss’ and ‘Ring the Elephant’ were games that set the party in motion. Towards the end, some grandparents could not but help sharing their childhood memories and days in school which were quite different from what their progenies are fortunate to experience.
National awards for literatureS distributed
Bhopal: Akhil Bhartiya Bhasha Sahitya Sammelan and Suman Chaturvedi Memorial Trust, on Monday, presented national awards for literature in a dignified ceremony at the central office 43, Green Avenue, Chuna Bhatti, Bhopal. Director, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrhalaya, Mr. Arun Kumar Shrivastava has been awarded with “Shresth Sadhna Samman” under “Mahakavi Anand Mishr Smriti Rashtriya Puraskar 2014” for his Poetry collection “Kalua Ki Angulia”. Mr. Arun Kumar Shrivastava is a poet, story writer and satirist. Akhil Bhartiya Bhasha Sahitya Sammelan in collebation with ‘Suman Chaturvedi Memorial Trust’ presented the national award. Eminent writers and poets Satish Chaturvedi, Moolaram Joshi, Yatindranath Rahi, Ram Gopal Rahi "Nishchal" and Kamala Saxena presented Shrivastava with quince, Shawl, memento, commendation certificate and cash prize.
10 artists SElECTED for best fine art works
Bhopal: Ustad Alauddin Khan Sangeet Evam Kala Akademi Bhopal has selected 10 artists for best fine art works. Every artist will be felicitated with `21,000, shawl and coconut each. Kala Akademi Bhopal’s Director Ganesh Bhalchandra Bagdare informed that entries were invited from artists for 10 awards. The national-level jury has selected Rajni Dhanewar (Shigne) (Dev Krishna Jatashankar Joshi Puraskar), Upasna Sarang Tyagi (Mukund Sakharam Bhand Puraskar), Dilshad (Syed Haidar Raza Puraskar), Himanshu Joshi (Datta Damodar Devlalikar Puraskar), Sunita Prajapati (Jagdish Swaminathan Puraskar), Udai Chand Goswami (Vishnu Chinchalkar Puraskar), Archana Singh (Narayan Shridhar Bendre Puraskar), Sanjay Prajapati (Raghunath Krishna Rao Phadke Puraskar), Papil Manna (Ram Manohar Sinha Puraskar) and Mahesh Pal Gobra (laxmi Singh Rajput Puraskar). The awards will be given away at Madhya Pradesh Arts Exhibition during Khajuraho Dance Festival on February 20.