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Hard Work Pays

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Go green: Amidst nature
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A comprehensive report on all their activities conducted helped them win this accreditation.

It’s another feather in the cap for the prestigious Coorg Public School (COPS) in Gonicoppa in Kodagu as it has won the International School Award (ISA) instituted by the British Council for its all round achievement this year.

Various activities

The school had organised a plethora of activities with a range of subject areas and collaborative work with partner schools overseas. Annual results have remained outstanding since its inception.

Visitors from the U.S.A, UK, and Thailand had come to the school and several interesting interactive sessions with resource persons from India and abroad were held. Return visits by the COPS students to those countries have made them bolder and instilled tremendous amount of confidence in them, Senior Principal of the COPS, M.D. Nanjunda says

Field trips and nature camps were organised and they had helped students gain experience. Exchanging information on the minute details of even plants in the gardens showed the keenness of the learners. Fashion show, quiz, skits, debates and awareness campaigns were also a part of those activities.

Reporting work

A dossier compiled by the students involving 11 projects such as Fruit World, Famous Monuments, Freedom Fighters, Costumes, Flowers, Snakes, Birds, Dances of the world, Celebrations of National Festivals, Organic Farming across the world and Coffee, reflected the concept of international education that formed the base on which COPS made the grade.

The British Council had adjudged the dossier as the most comprehensive and well structured documentation of the elaborate work. COPS now had the privilege of using the British Council logo on school literature, website and promotional materials.

Aiming globally

Moreover, it will enable it to create an international environment for students to further strengthen their contacts with schools abroad. This prestigious award will be presented to the school in October. Prof. Nanjunda says the efforts of the staff and students had fetched the award and it was a great accomplishment in pursuit of excellence. “The objective of the school is to empower students with global education,” Prof. Nanjunda adds.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / Life & Style > Kids / by Jeevan Chinappa / Jun 15th, 2010

A Land far far away :” Storm Festival” in Coorg

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The locus where fantasies are woven from everyday lives. There is a land far far away, where happiness is not only prerequisite but also the only mode of survival. The place where the Storm Festival is brewing. Just a sneeze away from Bangalore and you are amidst the lush green natural settings. About 250 kilometres from Bangalore lies a hamlet, near the town of Madikeri, Coorg. This is the place where Storm Festival is shaping up to give you the ultimate music experience. Coorg is a geography rich in flora and fauna, as well as a brave and long culture, among a breed of warriors. This is where Liquid Space decided to stage the first Storm Festival, India’s first camp-out music festival.

Spread across 28 acres of luxuriant greenery and thick bamboo groves lies the Storm fields, a peninsular region surrounded by river Cauvery on all 3 facets. The entrance of the ground leads you to a vast opening which leads you to the camping area. You can have the ultimate music experience for 48 hours, where you will be treated to the music of various DJ’s and multiple bands. After which you can chill out at the deck overlooking the river, wherein you can have unplugged jamming sessions, to enrich the music experience or retire to your tents in the camping area.

Life is and will always be incomplete without music. Music is change and change is vital. Begin your getaway with Storm festival and taste the sweet joy of free rein; a freedom engineered by music, nature and warm fellowship. It is a sonnet to Dance, Music and Nature, making it the cleanest and greenest festival this side of the universe. The dance floor being at the height of 5000 ft above sea level is going to be the most beautiful one you have ever seen.

We would be coming up soon with more details on the venue about the festival. Browse www.stormfestivalindia.com  for more surprises and gifts.

source: http://www.blogs.siliconindia.com / by Hari Mohan / Friday Jun 17th, 2011

 

Kodagu Witnessing Rich Literature

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”Kodagu district is known across the country for peace and harmony. There is no discrimination on basis of language here in Kodagu,” said Litterateur and critic K P Balasubramanya.
Delivering the presidential address at the 8th Kannada Sahithya Sammelan at Murnadu on Thursday on the topic ‘Literature over the decade in Kodagu district,’ he said that though people from different castes and communities have been living in Kodagu, it has not had any adverse impact on the communal harmony here. 

“Kodavas are peace lovers and they are soft spoken,” he said opining that communal disturbances have always occurred in various parts of the country due to political instigation. “Since people of Kodagu are untouched by religious differences, Kodagu has been witnessing superior literature,” he said.

He pointed that over the last 10 years good analytical piece of writings and poems have been produced. “Scope of literature is vast and never ending. One can never complete reading and analysing literature,” he said.

Virajpet First Grade College Assistant Principal Dr Korana Saraswathi said that research is nothing but search for knowledge or thirst for knowing more. “Research should be based on truth and should take place within scientific frame work,” she said.

“Research can be done with various objectives but the main aim of any research is to find the truth and expand intellectual horizon,” she said adding that sincerity is the most important aspect in research.

Tribal literature

Dr J Somanna from Vijayalakshmi Pre University College said that tribals are those set of vagabonds who have developed their own culture and literature out of their distinct way of living.

“The tribals have been living a life of exile literally, saving themselves from the invasion of modern culture. Living in isolation from the outside world, these tribals have their own language, culture, rituals, belief system, way of worshipping, attire, literature, cope up mechanisms etc. They with such a way of living look unusual and peculiar to the urban population,” Somanna said adding that 60 years of independence had not changed anything for the tribals of the country.

“Sincere efforts to convince the tribals to adopt the natural, inevitable changes happening in the society has not taken place so far. The result is that majority of tribals still live like animals. There is a need to understand the tribal lifestyle, respect their culture and then bring in necessary measures to bring them into the mainstream,” he said.

source: http://www.deccanherald.com / DHNS / Madikeri / Apr 01st, 2011