NITN | @notintownlive | 04 Dec 2018, 06:00 am
Kolkata, Dec 4 (NITN): School children of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Odisha, Sikkim, Tripura and West Bengal had recently presented plays on Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, to mark his 150th birth anniversary celebrations.
Eminent theatre personalities Rudraprasad Sengupta, Samir Biswas and Asish Chattopadhyay were the judges at a zonal-level inter-school competition at which eight 15-20 minute plays on the life of Gandhi were presented.
The schools which presented the eight plays were Guwahati Refinery High School from Assam, Ramlakhan Singh Yadav Sarvodaya Ucch Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Punaichak from Bihar, Delhi Public School, Ranchi from Jharkhand, N. Tonchou Higher Secondary School from Manipur, Government Nodal High School, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar from Odisha, PNG Senior Secondary School, East Sikkim from Sikkim, Dukhomoy Higher Secondary School, Tripura from Tripura, and Garhjoypur Saptarshi, Garhjoypur, Purulia from West Bengal.
N. Tonchou Higher Secondary School from Manipur – the winners of this zonal-level competition – along with the winners of similar competitions organised by the six other Zonal Cultural Centres, will be invited to perform at the national level during the Kala Utsav to be held in New Delhi in December 2018.
On this occasion, an exhibition of paintings on Mahatma Gandhi – the entries of schoolchildren who had taken part in a recent painting workshop in Bihar – was also presented.
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