Choto Chokay Boro Pujo

Monday, October 3, 2011: Yesterday was Gandhi Jayanti. Around 8:30 am I went to Elgin Road where a ceremony for the children was flagged off. Education For All Trust in partnership with The Telegraph – TTIS organised a first time ever puja awards Choto Chokay Boro Pujo that was judged by the students – the future of our society.

A group of 30 students from different schools (mostly from Class IX to XII), including five students from the underprivileged section of the society, supported by our Trust gathered at Elgin Road for necessary briefing on Sunday 2nd October, 2011, on the day of sashthi for the flag off. They started from the venue for judging 16 selected pandals in Kolkata.

They were accompanied by a panel of celebrity judges actor Arindam Sil and Actress Rachita Chauhan.

I met this group again in the evening at the Taj Bengal where they had dinner hosted by Hotel Taj Bengal (picture).

My friends Arindam Sil and Rachita Chauhan were kind enough to agree to my request to spend the whole day with the children as the judges for this competition. The children were very happy, as we all were.

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