Date:01/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/01/stories/2008120150790200.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam

Children’s creativity comes to the fore

Nivedita Ganguly

The Hindu-Young World painting contest evokes huge response

Photo: K.R. Deepak

Riot of colour: Some of the participants at The Hindu-Young World Painting Competition at Swarnabharati Indoor Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday. (Right) Prize winners with the judges Ravi Shankar Patnaik and Srinivas of Department of Fine Arts, Andhra University. —

Photo: K.R. Deepak

VISAKHAPATNAM: Blood-filled world with gun strikes, panic-stricken faces and the disquieting scene of terrorism came alive on the canvas of a student. Another canvas depicted the same world in soothing white with splashes of green and people of different religions holding hands together. Patriotic spirit oozed out of the freshly painted images at The Hindu-Young World Painting Competition 2008 held at Swarna Bharati Indoor Stadium on Sunday morning.

Around four hundred children from as many as 61 schools, including seven from outside the city, participated in the mega event. There were as many as 517 entries in the junior section (class IV to VII) and 268 in the senior category (class VIII to X) out of which 200 each were selected for Sunday’s final competition. The national sponsor of the event was BooProo and local snacks sponsor was FoodEx.

Prof. Ravi Shankar Patnaik and Srinivas of Andhra University were the judges for the competition. Finally, it was the uniqueness of the concept, composition of subjects and colour combinations that won the hearts of the two judges. “The quality of paintings was so good that we had a tough time selecting the prize winners,” said Prof. Ravisankar Patnaik. Congratulating all the participants for their brilliant efforts, the judges said that the spirit of participation was more important than winning the contest.

For the seniors the theme was ‘Republic Day Parade’ and ‘National Unity Against Terrorism’ while for the juniors it was ‘Winter morning in the city’ and ‘Weekend with your family’. In the senior and junior categories, the first prize winners were given a cash prize of Rs.1,200 by The Hindu.

The second prize winners received cash award of Rs.1,000 and the third prize winners got Rs.700 besides gift hampers from Lotte BooProo liquid filled bubble gums. The winners of seven consolation prizes in each category received cash prize of Rs.200 each .

In the senior category the first prize was bagged by K.D.D. Rashmi (Etasi Timpany School), the second prize went to Ch. Pola Raju (A.V.N. College) and the third prize to J.B. Akshay Babu (S.F.S. School).

In the senior category, the seven consolation prizes were given to D. Shakeena, M.Anusha, Sandhya Sree, Neeraj Soundarrajan, D. Vijayasri, M. Haritha and D. Prakruthi Varma.

In the junior category the first three prizes went to Shrijita Chakraborty (Delhi Public School, Ukkunagaram), D. Sai Vaibhav (Sri Prakash, Asilmetta) and G. Prathyusha (De Paul School, Ukkunagaram). The consolation prizes were bagged by K. Rahul Ranjan, U. Bhavya, Preethi, S.Veera Raju, P.V. Sanjana, Sumeet Nayak and A. Vasudev.