I participated in the Hindi Utsav at Glendale international and I wish to
narrate the event and my reflections on it.
The Hindi Utsav was a very beautiful example of how people still believe in
their cultural heritage and in the preservation of it too. This Utsav was very
well planned with very apt competitions and presentations. I took part in the
elocution competition. While researching and writing my speech I got
to know about a lot of statistics and facts about our nation that may be known
very less and was not shocked by the consequences. Despite the fact of winning I
was very enlightened due to the judges as they were very knowledgeable and
passionate about their national language which arose my conscience and the
judges inspired me and I’m sure would inspire a lot of others. Being from well
off families with great professions they went against the will of the society
and studied Hindi with masters and doctorate degrees leading them to a career
of writing and teaching which is a way of lending people their share of
knowledge. I also thought about all the hardships they had to go through and I
was thinking about how I would be flat out after just a day!
During this competition I also had the opportunity of watching the other
competitions such as the NUKKAD competitions or the street play competitions
which had very humorous and at the same time thought provoking acts which was
very enjoyable. Interactions with many other participants of various schools
was also very interesting as half the time someone walked up on stage, I would
just start looking at their uniforms and guessing which school they were from
as the school names were not told, so as to take my mind of the competition!
I encourage visiting such competitions as you learn a lot about various
scenarios of the world and about uniforms!
- Sreya Sreedhar, IX G,
CIE.
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