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Prerana Wall Magazine Nov 2019

Prerana Nov 2019

 “Savi Nenapina Pusthaka”

Gifting books in fond memory

-Sowmya II PU Com

Ashwitha I Arts gifting a book

We celebrate our birthdays in our college -with our teachers and friends. For us, it's a happy occasion celebrated in a special way. On that day, we gift books to our college library. Thereby we gift the joy of reading to ourselves.
Earlier we distributed sweets to our friends on our birthdays and we felt pride to distribute it to our lecturers also. But, it's our teachers who suggested us to gift books instead of sweets. Joy of reading books remains forever.  So, from this year, it's ‘a Birthday with Books'. A birthday without sweets, yet ‘very sweet'.

Some books gifted by students

On the day of our birthdays, we hand over the books to our principal in the morning assembly. Our friends and teachers cheer us, ‘Happy Birth Day to You'. A beautiful Letter of Greeting is presented to us wishing happy birthday and also thanking us for enriching our library. After that we read a passage from that book after telling its name and author's name.

Letter of Greeting

A week before our birthdays we tell our teachers our wish to gift books. They arrange the books for gifting. A book costing minimum Rs 50 is given. Some students have given 2-3 books also. The senior students of our college, who got inspired by this program have also gifted books on their birthdays. Our lecturers also have celebrated their birthdays by giving books. Our Economics lecturer has given the annual subscription of the monthly magazine, ‘Spardha Spoorthi’.

    We have a small library set up by our lecturers initially by bringing  books from their homes. Though  Sitharam Jindal Foundation Bangalore has donated books worth Rs 23000 last year, the number of books is not enough to satisfy our reading hunger. This programme has helped to grow our library. This has also helped us to make friends with books. Moreover it is a meaningful celebration of the occasion. Impressed by this, we have decided to celebrate every special occasion – may be naming ceremony, wedding or house warming by gifting books in its fond memory. We have told our neighbours and friends also that they can celebrate the special occasions with us by gifting books to our college.

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A different day, and it's a different way..

Manjusha II Com

We listen to speeches and also give prepared speeches, we write pages and we also read several books, everywhere and Every year -about pollution. Pollution, pollution, pollution!!!
This has created Noise Pollution!
But what do we do?! Certainly we add to pollution. While celebrating festivals also we are harming our mother nature- knowingly or unknowingly.
Ganesha Chathurthi. A festival of nature God. On that day also we do a lot of harm to our nature. Our puranas say Mother Parvathi, who symbolises nature, created Ganapa using dirt from her body. But how do we prepare Ganesha idols for Puja? It's definitely not good for the mother earth. We prepare large sized idols of Plaster of Paris, using chemical-based colours. Even in a small village like Vandse there are 3-4 public pendals doing Sarvajanika Ganesha Utsava and there are idols prepared in houses. Thus immersion of all these idols definitely pollute our water bodies.
So, what is the alternative? Eco-friendly idols and celebration.
But how?
Can we do something? When we thought about preparing idols, the Clay Model Competition came to our mind. Many of my friends have participated in it in highschool and have prepared different models and the most repeated model is Ganesha. Moreover, Ganesha is a simple God, easily moulded using simple art. And for us, message is more important than beauty.
So, we started out. We brought fertile red soil from the nearby forest. Pounding and mixing it, prepared the clay. Then shaped the idols using our imagination.

In the beginning, it was not a good artwork. But later it came out better than we thought. We insert ex seeds in them. We also decorated them with leaves, flowers and nuts. We even made Ganesha's favorite dish, Modaka and laddu. And can we leave Ganesha's vehicle, Mooshika the rat?  Using the clay, we made the rat also.
35 students of the college prepared 10 idols in about 2 hours. Then we exhibited the decorated idols. Our lecturers and other students appreciated our work and our sincere concern for saving nature.
We dug the pits and ‘planted' these Ganeshas. So these plant-a-Ganeshas grow into plants later so that it is a daily worship of the son of nature. The puranas say, Mother Parvathi symbolises nature.

A simple thought and a simple work has given us the satisfaction that we have done something different to help mother earth.

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Drawing by Prasanna I Arts

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Drawn by Nethravathi I PU Arts

Drawn by Sinchana I Com

Drawn by Punithraj II Com