Mrs. Latika Pandey, Educator
The air throbbed with creative energy and excitement as the literary geniuses from across the world came to life. Collages materialised out of the surfeit of information and learning found a pattern when the students of Class XI of the school decided to hold a three-day-long literary fest to showcase their researches on authors and poets from around the world. The fest housed the soul of literature in five Kiosks and showcased the life and works of very many literary geniuses across the world.
Translations were skimmed, interviews were browsed, the books were read to discover the joy of reading and to formulate learning experience into meaningful research.
The fest resurrected the artistic calibre and joy of indulgence in books and there was a lot to look forward to. Visitors did not expect what they got to watch.
An Ayn Randish objectivism lay admiring The Brother Karamzov. The Room on the Roof echoed with A Geography Lesson. The American Brat nestled close to Harry Potter and As you Like It. Primo Levi, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino made quite a spectacle in the reading corner neighbouring Pearl S. Buck, Harper Lee, John Grisham. Water, Earth dissolved boundaries in Delhi is Not Far and The Namesake.
What really piqued interest was the number of authors and poets brought under umbrella in holidaying genre of life with folk music and reading stoppages and wisdom tree with books scattered under it.
Whether it was a deep reflection of divinely reclusive artistic sensibility of poetry and imagination triggering fiction or politicking humour or tongue in cheek satire/comedy, children from Classes VI to XII stood for long to take a good read in all.
