Inter-School Drama Competition on With the Blessings of Their Holinesses an Inter-School Drama Competition on ADI SANKARA was held in Chennai on 8th August 2010 (SUNDAY) at Sankaralayam, Mayor Ramanathan Road, Chetpet, Chennai. The winners of the competition will receive the prizes at a function to be held at Sri Sankara Matam, Kanchipuram in the benign presence of Their Holinesses on 22nd August 2010 at 1.00 pm. REPORT: All great souls have propagated more-or-less the same message of righteous living and love towards fellow human beings, which will eventually bring in peace and prosperity to the society at large. Mathruchaya Foundation, Chennai as a first step towards creating awareness on lives and teachings of Great Spiritual teachers amongst youngsters, with the blessings from the Acharyas of Kamakoti Peetam, conducted a drama competition on the life and works of Adi Sankara who has done yeomen service to humanity in uplifting the spiritual and moral fibre of people and brought about national integration in his own unique manner. The competition was held at Sankaralayam, Chetpet on 8th August and 15 schools comprising of 171 students participated.
Students vividly portrayed Sankara’s early life, his renunciation, meeting his guru, his main disciples , his travel across the length and breadth of the country and captured the essence of some of his works with imagination. Sankara Nursey & Primary school won the 1st prize ,with the second cash prize of going to Sankara Matric High schoolUrappakkam and 3rd prize shared between Sankara Vidyalaya Higher secondary school, Pammal and Kola Saraswati Vaishnav Senior secondary school, Kilpauk. In addition 2 special prizes were given to Bala Vidya Mandir , Gandhi ngr and Sushil Hari International school and special prizes to 11 outstanding individual performances. |
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