Date:20/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/03/20/stories/2006032002341500.htm

Back Bangalore students in Young Author Contest finals

Our Bureau

Bangalore , March 19

Sadarchita, a class nine student from the National Public School, Rajaji Nagar, will represent Bangalore city in the finals of the Classmate Young Author Contest 2005 (CYAC 2005) to be held in Mumbai on March 25.

Another Bangalore student Srishti Krishnamoorthy, studying in class 11 in Kendriya Vidyalaya, Malleshwaram, was adjudged the second winner.

The national jury panel for CYAC 2005 is chaired by Ruskin Bond and includes Nandita Puri, Neeru Nanda, Alpana Chaudhary and Bakthiar Dadabhoy. The Bangalore leg of the contest saw almost 1,200 participants in the city finals.

Srishti and Sadarchita were among the 30 children shortlisted for the prestigious Classmate Young Author award from across the country.

Sadarchita penned the delicate emotions of a suicide bomber on his way to blow a plane in her story titled Fairway to Nowhere.

Srishti, also played around with human emotions of a 11-year-old child painter whose hands are crushed in an accident. Her story Chalice of Infinity describes how the boy came to terms with life, picks up and regains his passion for painting.