Children's Day: Giving colour to their dreams

Give a child a crayon and step back to witness his/her creativity flow. As many as 2,700 children in the city were bringing their imaginations alive on canvas at an event held on Children’s Day — ‘Taare Zaamen Par’. Specially-abled and underprivileged children, in the 5-12 age group, had come together for a painting competition organised by the Round Table India and Ladies Circle India.

Talking about the whole initiative, Vivek Maheshwari, Area Chairman, Round Table India, says, “We have been conducting this painting competition for specially-abled and underprivileged children for about seven years now. We had started with 500 children in the initial years and steadily increased the number. And this year, we have a bigger number here at the Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy Stadium drawing their hearts out.”

Taher Ali Baig, Area Convenor, says, “We are doing our bit to give them happiness in small ways. All the children will be getting a participation certificate, a goodies bag with stationery and chocolates and apart from that, the winners will receive gifts.” Hearing about the gifts, Ruhana, a six-year-old girl, who was busy painting a picture of the ‘Angry Birds’ cartoon, says, “It’s really fun to draw whatever I want to with my classmates.” When asked why she is drawing the ‘Angry Birds’ cartoon, she says, “I saw the image on the crayon box for the first time and I liked the way its eyes are – so big.” Talking about beautiful, eye-catching drawings, some of the specially-abled children too had drawn amazing landscapes, straight out of some fairytale. Particularly Akash, who drew impeccable snowy mountains. “Akash is deaf and mute, but that doesn’t stop him from being imaginative. Look how amazing he is at painting — he is in the run for the winner’s spot for sure,” says Taher.