St. Paul’s Boarding & Day School conducts ‘Bengali elocution contest’

Dishari Chakraborty

Class 9 Sec A

The words of Tagore recited by a student of Class XII echoed in the hall, announced the inauguration of the Bengali Elocution of St. Paul’s Boarding & Day School on 23rd June, 2014. The competition was divided into 4 groups- Class IV - VI, Class VII-VIII, and Class IX-X & Class XI & XII. As the inauguration was declared, the competetents all sat with their back straight. All tried to take a glance of the poem. The judges’ names were announced. The hall burst into a round of applause. The judges walked down to take their seats. The sheets were given to each of them by the coordinating students. There were 32 participants in total. 1 from each of the four houses- Churchill(Green), Gandhi(Red), Kennedy(Blue) & Tagore(Yellow) and 4 students from each class. Gradually, all were called for delivering there poems. The words of the poets like Tagore, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Subodh Sarkar, Nazrul and many others echoed in the hall. Every participants performed a mind blowing performance, which could be well understood by the thunder of applause by the entire hall. When all were done with their performances, it was really a tough time for the audience as well as the participants. The coordinators were seen counting the results. All sat with crossed fingers. All desired of securing the first position in the contest, as these would add to their house points. And finally when they were done, a pin drop silence prevailed in the hall. After the results were all, declared and the certificates were awarded to each of them, again the whole hall burst with the rounds of applause. And then the final house positions were declared. In the first position was secured by-Churchill House, second position- Gandhi House, third position- Tagore House, fourth position- Kennedy House. One of the judges said a fabulous speech declaring the end of the program.