TCS students at The Junior Kolkata Literary Meet
TCS students had an exciting time yesterday and today at The Junior Kolkata Literary Meet(JKLM) at the Victoria Memorial grounds. Here is a report with inputs from Roudra Chatterjee and Sparshi DasGupta of Class 8 and photographs by Debroop Ghosh and Debangshu Ghosh of Class 9.
The meet is co-curated with young readers for young readers, to appeal equally to both the reluctant reader and avid ones, through workshops, storytelling sessions, book readings, launches and meet-the-author programmes.
The session on 24th January began with Arefa Tehsin’s interesting anecdotes about animals in our backyard-the mongoose, the sparrow, the centipede, the snail, the lice and of course “the super survivors-the cockroaches.
Next to follow was Bijal Vachharajani session based on her book ‘So you want to know about the environment”. Two short films “Sanctuary Asia” and “Nature in Focus” beautifully drove home the message that Mother Earth needs nurturing for the survival of humans.
Rupa Gulab brought in a lot of laughter with the reading session from her book Daddy Come Lately. The students had a wonderful time during the interactive session that followed. Our students took part in an impromptu but hilarious session of rap on stage.
The highlight of the day was, of course, the session with the iconic wordsmith Ruskin Bond. The all-time favorite storyteller took the students through the books he read as a child, his stories, his childhood, and his schooldays. The Question Hour saw an interesting array of questions being asked by our students and some very candid answers from the master storyteller.
Urbi RoyChoudhury of Class 7 had written an article on “If I were a writer” for the Jottings@JKLM contest. Her article was selected for the contest and it was one of the few to be displayed on the Jottings@JKLM board at the Meet.
On the 25th morning, first off was Natasha Sharma with Bonkers who enthralled the young crowd about Bonkers the dog who certainly drove people around him bonkers.
Devdutt Pattanaik with his new perspective of old epics made The Ramayana and The Mahabharata seem so relevant even in today’s world. His books The Girl Who Chose, The Boys Who Fought and Pashu made the epics seem so interesting
Raja Sen’s book launch-The Best Baker in the World was done by our own Akash Sriram of Class 6. It was indeed a proud moment when the author gifted his very first copy to the smiling Akash.
The Collaboratory: Writing as Pair-the fruit of a four-month-old workshop with students and authors were presented as wonderful pieces of prose and poetry on the theme of Independence.
The two-day event saw our students participate with enthusiasm and enjoy an event that has made its mark in the city’s literary calendar.
Grandparents hold a special place in the heart of a child. Their love and bedtime stories are an integral part of a child’s growing years. As a mark of respect and affection for their grandparents,the children of Nursery,L.K.G and U.K.G celebrated Grandparents Day on 31st Oct,2017. The programme started with an address by our Principal Mrs. Sunita Chowdhary. A welcome song was sung followed by several songs and a dance by the tiny tots. Some of the children came up and spoke few lines about their grandparents. After them some of the grandparents also came up with short speeches which touched our hearts.
