Pathways Noida has always
believed in taking the learning beyond the classroom and true to tradition Form
4 had an extremely interactive session with two eminent authors/illustrators on
the 27th November 2014. The two authors who visited were Ms. Vanita Pai and Ms.
Ritu Khoda.
The session began with a story
“Bindu”. They showed canvases painted to depict the settings of the story and
one of them narrated it. The students
were seen glued to this interesting way of storytelling and loved the painted
pictures. The story spoke about a young boy and his fascination with a dot
‘Bindu’ and his wild imagination of it. The young boy grew up to be the great
artist Raza winning many accolades worldwide.
The two illustrators then had a
discussion with students provoking them to express their views on what was the
significance of the ‘bindu’ that Mr. Raza had drawn as a child. This was
further explored by the students who drew and coloured their perspectives of
the bindu. It was a delight to watch the hesitation to draw of students quickly
turn into enthusiasm and creativity. The work done was later shared with their
peers and some of the thoughts were very interesting. Perspectives like a time
machine, a spiral wheel picking and mixing all the colors of the world, showing
Pathways Logo, peace for everyone and many more were shared by the students as
their thoughts on bindu.
This activity not just brought
out the creativity, hidden artist in every student but also added wings to
their thoughts.
