Multilingual Fea(s)t

Oxford School G Konduru celebrated its English Festo on 2nd Ded 2021. I was invited to the school as the chief guest by the president and founder of the School. It was an eventful day. I had the warmest reception and the greatest joy of  seeing sweetest faces of naive children. 

There was an Exhibition of  English work by the students. I visited the desks where children displayed assiduously designed  charts.  When I asked them questions , with ebullient faces they responded to me. They displayed their work and their work displayed their gung ho. Kudos to their alacrity. 

 

After the English exhibition we reached school  auditorium.  It was a long rectangular hall.  About 350 children gathered at the auditorium. The event began at 12.30. The founder and chairman of the school Mr. Nageswararao addressed the gathering. He explained the  importance of  students attitude and parents involvement in education.   Then Mr. Ravi Ramesh a physics lecturer  advised the  children to draw inspiration from Rabindranath Tagore' s poem where the mind is without fear. He gave a Telugu sentence కేసరి కేసరి  కేసరి and asked the the to explain what it actually means. Nobody was able to explain that. He finally resolved it కేసరి కేసరికే సరి which means A Lion is is equal to another Lion. He demonstrated some physics experiment and told children that it was presented by a village lad to a great scientist . The children was impressed. 

Then came my turn but it was 1.30 when I began. The children were hungry. I began speaking in Sanskrit. The children's faces lighted up. Then I spoke and sang in Spanish.. Damas Y Cabearos and danced in all languages in an unprecedented fashion. In Italian , Japanese French and German. With  dialogues and dramatization I entertained the children.