Time for Morning Assembly

Morning Assembly is quite an interesting way to start the day. All the students gather to hear remarks from the Principal on upcoming activities and to celebrate accomplishments. All this takes place in front of the Goddess of Learning: Saraswati and concludes with a prayer and the class groups marching out. Here is a birds eye view of the proceedings.

Today's Indian History fact I did not know, was about Sabhas Chandra Bose who had different ideas from Gandhi on how to get independence. He supported violence and formed an army to fight the British, he went to help from Russia, then Germany, and Japan. After Germany and Japan were defeated in WWII his troops lacked supplies and many leaders surrendered, Bose did not and supposedly fled on Japan plane and died in mysterious circumstances. 

We also visited a school for street children in Kolkata. Most of the kids were not there because the school had not been getting it's mid-day meals, leading many of the children to go out begging. The students there still rose and said "good morning sir" and were doing their best to learn as I tried to distract them by making faces.

We finished up with a student panel on the impacts of Western Globalization on culture, the environment, women. They discussed the good and the bad impacts, but agreed the current impact from the US has increased over that of Britain. The students discussed the need of choosing what to take and what to keep.They did feel that India's philosophy and sense of family combined with unity out of diversity are some of the major things India could contribute to the West. However it seems, boy bands are universal.