Art & Education Join in to Say," Ganga Is Beautiful"

New Delhi, India, February 5, 2016 (Newswire.com) - ​Art & Education join in to say,” Ganga is Beautiful”

Art & Education joined in to unveil shOObh theme of the year 2016 गंगा | GANGA. The event started with lamp lighting. Ganga represents the purifying nature of water and its importance in the life of all living creatures. Ganga  is used in spiritual cleansing from birth to death. Throughout the scriptures, ganga has been worshipped and respected for her purifying qualities.

"Let us work to clean the great river that defines us all and restore it to its sacred beauty." Padmashree, Anjolie Ela Menon

Anjolie Ela Menon, Head of Jury, shOObh Arts

 “shOObh aim is to share & spread Beauty of Ganga using different art forms. shOObh theme of the year 2016 is गंगा | GANGA ”, says Bharat Gauba, shOObh Group. shOObh has launched three projects under the theme गंगा | GANGA; shOObh Arts Competition, shOObh Photography Contest & shOObh NATYA. All projects are divided into 3 verticals School, Open School & Special School.

Thousands of schools from 12 countries submitted best of their entries in shOObh-2015. Besides, contest & competitions shOObh also organize workshops, exhibitions, seminars, panel discussions, advocacy meets & more on the subject. The result of shOObh Arts Competition-2015, theme-LiGHT:

CATEGORY-A-NURSERY-UKG-SANAYA PARAKH, N.H. GOEL WORLD SCHOOL, VIDHAN SABHA ROAD, POST NARDAHA, NEAR PURA PROJECT RAIPUR-CHATTISHGARH-FIRST

CATEGORY-B- (1-3 CLASS)-TEJASH B. PATRA, BIRLA VIDYA NIKETAN, PUSHP VIHAR- IV, NEW DELHI- 17-FIRST

CATEGORY-C-(4-7 CLASS)-ADREEJA GUPTA-DEBARATI ROY MEMORIAL INSTITUTION, ASHRAM ROAD, PALLISHREE, P.O. -SODEPUR,  DIST- NORTH 24 PGS PIN-700110, WEST BENGAL​-FIRST

CATEGORY-D-(8-10 CLASS)-VAISHNAV KASTURE-DELHI POLICE PUBLIC SCHOOL, B-4, SAFDARJUNG ENCLAVE, NEW DELHI​-FIRST

CATEGORY-E -(11-12 CLASS)-DEEPAK BHATT-DELHI POLICE PUBLIC SCHOOL, B-4, SAFDARJUNG ENCLAVE, NEW DELHI-FIRST

CATEGORY-F -(Over 18 yrs)-GRACE GUNAWAN-JALAN OBINO 10, MALANG, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA-FIRST CONSOLATION

AISHWARYA JAYASANKAR-INDIAN SCHOOL AL-SEEB, P.O. BOX- 2445, POSTAL CODE III, CPU SEEB, SULTANATE OF OMAN -THIRD in Category-E

In this connection, Shovana Narayan shared beauty of Ganga using Natya mudras. She invited school children to come forward and share beauty of Ganga in different dance forms.    

She also shared details of shOObh Natya, the project is to search real talent & latent qualities in young individuals, who will religiously carry forward the Indian traditions in future.

Anjolie Ela Menon talked about shOObh Arts and stressed on creativity. She also wished to see more of creative works next year and advised participants to not to paint Ganga postersas it is not a poster making contest. She reiterated to paint Beauty of Ganga. shOObh Arts competition-2016, theme गंगा | GANGA is painting competition for school children. There is an open category too. Anjolie also invited all to join and work to clean the great river that defines us all and restore it to its sacred beauty

Ganga embodies faith, spirituality and sustainability. It is our duty to preserve its purity and power of embracing All.” Says Ashok Pandey (Chairman, NPSC & Principal, Ahlcon International School, Delhi)

Guests: Padmashree Anjolie Ela Menon, Padmashree Shovana Narayan, Shruti Chandra Gupta, Ranjeeta Kant, Poona Chandrika Tyagi, Priyender Shukla, Nawal Kishore, Sheela, Chamaria, Alexsander Venus Bakshi, Artist Kunal Kapoor, Singer, Rashmi Agarwal, Odissi Dancer, Jyoti Srivastava, Sandeep Marwah, Ashok Pandey (Principal, Ahlcon International School & Chairman, NPSC)   Prof, Zahid Khan, Advisor-UNESCO-IYL-2015 & Bharat Gauba (shOObh Group)

About shOObh: shOObh Group Welfare Society is a non profit community based organization working in the field of community-service and action, education, health, personal growth and improvement, social welfare and self-help for the disadvantaged. Our programs are designed to educate people on human welfare issues. In all of shOObh Group projects different art forms are used to convey the message. shOObh Group is working on different social issues.