Mangalore: City Schools Celebrate Children’s Day with Enthusiasm

Pics: Dayanand Kukkaje
Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (RS/CN)
 
Mangalore, Nov 14: Children from various schools of the city celebrated Children’s Day on Saturday November 14 with special events to mark the birthday of India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru.
 
Children from various schools came together at Corporation Bank circle near Pandeshwar and garlanded the statue of Pt Nehru. Several schools in the city organized programmes and competitions as part of the celebrations.         

 
An exhibition of paintings by seven students of St Aloysius High School concluded at Prasad Art Gallery on Saturday. 
 
The students who trained under John Chandran, drawing teacher of St Aloysius High School, displayed portraits, landscapes, and nature in water colour and charcoal.
 
Rahul Shetty, Prajwal J S, and Jeevan Acharya of class X and Karthik Suvarna, Nikhil Raj, Sandeepa, and Jonita  D’Souza of class IX were the artists.
 
Chandran said that all these students were artists of the future and they have already won several prizes in various competitions at the state-level.

The exhibition was inaugurated by Fr Melvin Pinto at St Aloysius High School Hall earlier this week. After a three-day exhibition there it had moved to Prasad Art Gallery.