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The School celebrates first anniversary
India Blooms News Service
Kolkata, July 29 (IBNS) The School of Chinese Language celebrated its first anniversary with the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Siwei here on July 16. Students joined hands to usher in the 2nd year with much joy and fanfare. The Founder of The School, Madan Saraff, welcomed all the Teachers, Students and Siwei as well as members of the Consulate General to The School.
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This was followed by ‘Xiao Hong Mao’, which was ably presented by the Students of Intensive (Qianghua Kecheng) Classes with great earnestness, enthusiasm and finesse. Xiao Hong Mao is a short play based on the evergreen fable of Little Red Riding Hood.
The entire dialogue was composed in Chinese and executed in authentic fashion with correct phonetics. The acting of each amateur actor was superb and much enjoyed by everyone.
Shilpa Baheti was a very sweet Xiao Hong Mao in her red frock and pigtails. Her mother was played by Sayanti Sengupta. The Big Bad Wolf played by Charisma Saraff was quite menacing and comic at the same time. Pinaki Talukdar played a double role (Bollywood style) as Grandma and the Old Man. Ultimately, the Rajorshi De, the Hunter, managed to kill the Wolf.
The skit was followed by a Chinese calligraphy presentation by Parag Boghani, a Student, who demonstrated great promise and patience in writing out Chinese characters with aplomb.
After the group song in Chinese, Siwei said: “In India, there are quite a lot of schools teaching Chinese language – in the public sector we have some very good government schools such as the School of Languages at JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Cheena Bhavan at Santiniketan; these provide good Chinese language programmes in India. But, as far as private schools are concerned, may I say that this school (The School of Chinese Language) might be the best in India.”
Referring to the desire in Indians to learn Chinese language, he mentioned how the people of China and India, are now reaching out to each other and touching each other’s hearts through the power of language. Siwei, much to the delight (and surprise) of everyone, sang the entire lyrics of Kuch Na Kaho from the blockbuster Hindi movie “1942 A Love Story” demonstrating his ability and sincere affection for India and its culture.
Awards were distributed to the Intensive Class students with Rajorshi De and Charisma Saraff bagging the first prize for their respective performances in Year One in their classes.
The evening ended with some great food, Indian and Chinese, served buffet style and animated conversation.
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