Fun and Excitement Continues on Day 3 at St. Anslem’s Pink City’s Yuva Mahotsav

These days the fever of Yuva Mahotsav is on full swing at St. Anslem’s Pink City School. The entire school with four of its houses seems to burn with the zeal to win over other houses. At the ongoing inter-house competition, the entire ground of the school turns brightly colored with students wearing the colour of their respective houses.

The school aims for an overall development of its students, an aim that comes out clear on each day of the Mahotsav. As the first day of the event was a quiz competition, today displayed the students’ theatre and singing skills. The plays performed by students all had some inspirational or social message behind them.

One of the plays was all about women empowerment. It was an amalgamation of different stories, each highlighting the poor condition of women in the society. It showcased that even after touching heights of success professionally, the women suffer for many social evils, like, dowry, domestic violence, gender differentiation, female foeticide, etc.

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In another such story, it talked about the disparity between male and female child. In showed how the boy, being the ‘Chirag’ of the home was fed with almond milk while the girl was termed as ‘Bojh’ and married off at an early age. The story ended with the ‘Bojh’ taking law as her career, leading a highly successful professional life as the city judge and the ‘Chirag’ landing-up in the jail.

In yet another play, the problems of illiterate peasants were highlighted, it was shown how the illiterate peasants were caught in the vicious circle of borrowing money due to lack of knowledge. The play ended with highlighting the importance of unity and education.

Refreshing everyone’s mind and acting as fillers in between the plays were the melodious songs by the students representing different houses. The singers not only sung but also played guitar and keyboard, while many other singers got school guitarist and keyboard players playing for them in the background. And as soon as these singers were done with their singers, the audience full of students demanded for more of it, hoots for more were heard from every side of the ground.

Father Bishop Oswald Joseph Lewis, the chief guest of the day, was then invited to speak a few words of encouragement for students. He started with congratulating the participants, be it a winner or not. He specially mentioned the comperers of the day, suggesting that what impressed him the most about them was the way they had studied theatre and dramatics, giving the history of stage.

Finally, the third day of the Yuva Mahotsav came to an end with teaching its students various values that are needed to be a good human being. And in the end, the results were declared, and we saw the winners rushing towards the stage to grab their much deserved prize from the hands of Principal Father Edward. The exuberance and excitement with which they reached stage was incomparable and seeing it live is something that ScooTalks team thoroughly enjoyed.

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