By Manzar Bilal, TwoCircles.net,
Kishanganj: You might have held your breath for some time if you had seen the performance of little students at a cultural program organized by INSAN SCHOOL on 28th Nov. to observe its 44th anniversary at its campus in Shiksha Nagar, Kishanganj district of Bihar.
It was first day of the 3-day ceremony which was fully dedicated to the students to show their skills and inner abilities in different ways. The ceremony was kicked off at 8am Sunday with students presented the school’s tarana, naat, geets which followed by speech competition on Jawhar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.
In the evening students presented at least 25 cultural items which included dance, comedy, qawwali and drama reflecting the different issues of the society. A large number of people from the city were present there to eulogize the performance of the students specially that of little students which did not leave anyone of the audience without impressed as they all stood up and clapped for the little performers.
“All the programs are designed and presented by students. We let them free to think and come up with several creative arts programs every year. This way provides students to identify their hidden qualities. What we do is only provide materials they need for their programs” said Mazahirul Hassan, deputy director of INSAN SCHOOL, who is also coordinator of the functions organized at the school.
A group of girl students performing qawwali at the function
An exhibition of models made by students was also the part of the ceremony. Several groups of the students made various items to show the different things from across the world.
“We chose to make the model of Victoria Memorial located in Kolkata because it was built after Queen Victoria who is ideal and role model for women who generally considered weak” replied a group of girl students who were busy in making model of Victoria Memorial.
A view of audiance
This group was not alone. But there were many. A group was making model to reflect society and culture of Assam while another was busy in making a model showing how floods are bringing disasters every year in northern India.
“Through this model we want to show as to why people of this area are living miserable lives despite their hard works” said Nasir Ahmad from the group that made the mode on flood.
A group of girl students with their model Victoria Memorial
The INSAN SCHOOL is a group which runs several residential, educational institutions. It was founded by Padma awardee Dr. Syed Hasan in 1966 with just 36 students and two teachers in Kishanganj district of Bihar. At the time when the school was established, education was not an important issue for the people of the area, which led them to poverty and several other problems. The school played vital role in creating the educational awareness as it was the first such school. Today its alumni are serving the humanity not only in the country but across the world.
“My goal has been to create educational awareness among the people so that they could better standard of their lives. When I compare the time of embellishment of my school with present time, I think I achieved my goal because at that time there was no good school and today there are so many good schools available in all areas of the district” told Dr. Syed Hasan.
A model made by boys to show flood situation in norteast