The schools should allow the creativity to blossom among children and not crush it under routine academic performance, critic Prasada Varma said.
Speaking at the release of ‘Pandu Vennala’ a compilation of works by students of Sanskriti Global School, which they wrote after a recent interactive workshop with a group of writers, Mr Varma said the students are able to point out what they are missing in their lives through their writings. It is unfortunate that today’s academic pressures are putting an end to creativity.
Complimenting the writings by the children and the efforts of the school for an initiative to make them give expression to their creativity, Regional Member of Central Sahitya Akademi Yendluri Sudhakar said the expression by the children was amazing and he felt he might not be able to express himself with such felicity.
Good literature is a mark of civilisation and every effort to promote literature must be appreciated and supported, he added. Releasing the book, social activist and writer Kondapalli Koteswaramma praised the children for their writings. It augured well that such an initiative was taken up in the region that was home to some of the finest Telugu literature, she said.
A big world outside the caucus
The interaction with the writers followed by a field trip to tribal habitations that would be affected by the proposed bauxite mining was an eye opener as it showed a totally different universe, one of the students Jaswant said. “We realised that there was a big world outside the four walls that we live in,” he added. Other students Divakar and Srinikita also spoke.
The students of Sanskriti Global School at Bonangi in Parawada mandal participated in a workshop organised by Democratic Women Writers Forum and Mahila Chetana after which they interacted with tribals and the students penned their experiences which was brought out as a compilation. The compilation – Pandu Vennela – was released at the Public Library on Thursday, where a large number of writers participated.
