Tollywood actress Moubani  Sorcar  was present as the Guest of Honour at the Utsab which witnessed the participation of not only about 450 children aged between 6 years and 14 years, but also their parents and teachers and principals of the 17 schools in and around Amtala, in which they study from Classes I to VIII. 

Talking about her association with Kalyani, she said: “Kalyani has always tried to present a focus effort to change the way in which the society looks at underprivileged children and elderly people… while I consider myself privileged enough to be blessed with good parents, it is very heart wrenching to think about children who have difficulties in facing the world because of their backgrounds. I feel such people are our responsibility, and the foundation has taken up a very big responsibility to bring in these children and entertain them in every possible way.”

 
As in previous years, this year too the Globsyn Business School was the volunteering partner of the Kalyani Ananda Utsab 2016, conceived with the theme ‘Invention & Inventors’. The Utsab had for children sit-and-draw competitions, a fancy dress competition for which Moubani Sorcar herself was the judge, puppet shows and many more exciting events for them as well as their parents and teachers.

All those who run Kalyani felt immensely happy at achieving the objective they had laid down for the Kalyani Ananda Utsab 2016 – to ignite aspirations among 850 underprivileged children, mothers and teachers of semi-urban areas through a platform which allows them to exhibit their talents.  

Ranjana Dasgupta, Managing Trustee, Kalyani, said: “We have been organising this for the last four years. Our thinking behind this whole concept is to give an opportunity to the schoolchildren of semi-urban areas a platform to showcase their talents which they barely get in their localities or schools. The whole year our foundation is taking up such initiatives. The students of Globsyn Business School, our volunteering partner, visit different old-age homes in Kolkata, and they put up different kinds of shows to make them feel happy”. 

Kalyani is a not-for-profit foundation with the credo of “Touching Human Lives,” dedicated to create a more equitable social fabric by taking care of the needy sections of the society. Bikram Dasgupta, its founder, is an IT entrepreneur of international repute, and has named it after his mother Kalyani, the biggest source of inspiration in his life.

(Reporting by Adit Majumder, Image by Subhodeep Sardar/IBNS)