Inter-House group folk song ( Indian) competition-classes X to XII

An inter-house group Indian folk song competition was organised by the Music Department on 8th May, 2017 for classes X, XI and XII. The judges of the event were our teachers, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Chaudhary, Ms. Aparajita Chandola and Chinmaya Iyer, School Co-curricular Captain of the last academic session (2016-17).

The audience listened in awe to the beautiful rendition of foot-tapping folk songs like - the Bihu song of Assam Onoku moliya khabike nuari sung by the participants of Surya House, a soulful and mystic Sufi folk song Jugni of Punjab sung by the participants of Chandra House, a popular Marathi song Me dolkara presented by the participants of Indra House and a romantic foot tapping number from Rajasthan, Mhare hivre mein jaagi dokni presented by the participants Varun House. All the houses were ably supported on the instruments by students of their respective houses.

The students who participated were as follows: Varun House: Jai Kapur-XA, Unnat Sadh-XA, Sarthak Agarwal-XA, Saloni Batra-XC, Shivangini Sharma-XIB, Saruby Sharma-XIB, Ananya Rao-XIA, Bedanto Sen-XIID, Arunima Palit-XID, Sahaj Kaur Bedi-XIB (Harmonium), Divij Bhargava-XC (Tabla), Sachin Dayal-XA (Violin), Samarth Saxena-XIA (Flute). Chandra House: Shashwat Shantiwal-XA, Lavanya Tejwani-XA, Dhriti Chatterjee-XA, Ananya Sahdev-XB, Janis Oberoi-XIB, Milanpreet Kaur-XIE (Vocal & Harmonium), Chaitanya Chopra-XD (Flute), Chaitanya Arora-XB (Tambourine) and Sudhanshu Kanwar-XIA (Violin). Surya House: Kiran Narula-XA, Hargun Singh-XB, Dhruv Arora-XB, Shrey Gogia-XC (Vocal & Harmonium), Pratyaksh Epri -XC, Chirag Singh-XIC, Sakshi Chawla-XIE, Raunak Maini-XA (Flute), Anmol Singh Gandhi-XC (Tabla), Sanatan Srivastava-XIIB and Aparajita Chakraborty-XIA (Violin). Indra House: Zeeshan Hashmi-XA, Sarthak Mishra-XC, Sharanya Sai-XIA (Vocal & Harmonium), Khushi Sharma-XIA, Nisha Kumari-XIB, Ammar Arif Radhu-XA (Flute) and Abhimanyu Marwah-XIA (Violin).

A special thanks to Surya House for lending their tabla players to the other teams - Sehaj Singh (XB), Anmol Singh Gandhi (XC) and Sanatan Srivastava (XIIB). The results of the competition were: Varun House - First position Chandra House - Second position Surya and Indra House - Third position ( jointly).

Ms. Shuchismita Chatterjee.