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Bengaluru: The Podar International School in Kanakapura, recently organized its annual art exhibition to showcase the students' creativity through country-specific themes. The event evolved pivotal by giving a fillip to a variety of cultures by way of art, dance, and interactive activities.  The exhibition was designed around eight countries: Brazil, China, India, Russia, Greece, Japan, Spain, and Mexico were the countries chosen for the exhibition. Each country was represented by different grade levels. Interestingly, all the participating classes prepared an impressive display of sorts, including cultural elements like wearing traditional attire, dance performances, art activities, and cuisine presentations. Flag, Football and Carnival masks: In the Brazil-specific show, the participating kids of Grade 1 displayed the country's flag, and football in sports and the making of carnival masks as part of the art activity. Costumes, chopstick challenge: The traditional Chinese co...

Japan does not have any welfare programmes like Free LPG, Free Electricity, etc. Their motto: Work for it or do without it. These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all must be made applicable in India too. 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it! 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation. Good citizens should stop this mania. Can you think of a reason for not sharing this? Neither could I.

Location-Government Primary School of Sindgi town in the then Vijapur/Bijapur and present-day Vijayapura district in the early Seventies of the previous century. The school neither had windows nor doors and it was a rainy season. The shepherd felt the venue to be a boon to his herd of sheep and made them enter the school building while the school-going children were amused to find the next day morning the new gatecrashers. But such a plight was nothing new to the schoolboys who also included the internationally acclaimed artist GR Iranna, now settled in New Delhi. A passion since childhood days: Recalling his hilarious upbringing culminating in an amazing career in the field of fine arts, Iranna Rukumpur reminisces-“My father wasn’t educated in materialistic terms but was very intelligent and pragmatic when it came to farming. He was very keen that I should become educated and did what all possible within his reach to accomplish his dreams”. Beginning with leftover chalk pieces: GR Ir...