July 19, 2009

When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
—Macbeth, Act I, Scene I
Luckily, it did not rain when the children of the team at the World Unity Education Department(WUED), students from 12(?) branches of the City Montessori School(CMS) and their escorts converged at CMS Rajajipuram Campus I(Peace Building) for the second World Unity Sunday Seminar on July 19, 2009. The day began at 9.45 am with a dose of French songs followed by essential instructions by Mr Raza Hasnain Naqvi, Senior Sub-editor and Chief Coordinator, Sunday Seminar, WUED. Mrs. Sangeeta Negi, Assistant Coordinator, Sunday Seminar, recorded the attendance of the participants.

This was followed by a presentation on the reasons behind the necessity of a world government in the modern world by Mr Anirudh Singh, Head, WUED. Mr Singh elaborated on the need of a world government to tackle all the problems plaguing humanity in the contemporary society. At the end of the day, there are certain problems that individual nations cannot solve on their own. Problems like terrorism, peak oil, population explosion and extinction of species cannot be solved by individual nations, or even the United Nations. The need of the hour is to bring all the countries of the world to common terms. The need of a common concern of all the countries or a common denominator emerges as the need of the hour. Students were given the homework to find out the common denominator that can unite the world.

Following this, students were asked to come up on the stage and present the questions they had. Kiran Maurya, class VII-C from CMS Mahanagar Campus (1st building) pointed out that in the presentation, they were told that world law, world peace and world unity follow from each other consecutively, but if there is no world peace and unity, there would be no law and order in the world. The purpose of the drill was to prepare the students for the 10th International Conference of Chief Justices of the World planned between December 11 and 18 later this year.

Leaders of groups who were unable to present their view of solutions to the problems in the contemporary world in the first session of Sunday Seminar on July 12 were given a chance to express themselves in today’s session. Following this, students were given a minute to ensure that their surroundings were neat and clean. This turned out to be a competition where everyone made a beeline to the dustbin to dispose off with whatever waste they could find around themselves.

On July 12, students were asked to bring with themselves their used books/comics/toys/games or anything that they would like to give away to their friends. The articles lined up on the stage included books, magazines, CDs, pens, audio-cassettes and even a discman. Everyone pounced on the objects, but the most sought after object turned out to be the discman brought to the venue by Ashutosh Pathak, Class IX-B, CMS 304 Rajendra Nagar Campus. There was a tough competition among the boys and girls for this. It was decided that the best singer of the song, tadap tadap ke is dil se, from the movie Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam could take the prize. The stage was lined up with quite a few singers eager to please Ashutosh. The latter chose to give it to Mayank Rajani, class IX-C, CMS Mahanagar III Campus.

Mr Naqvi elaborated on the principles of waste management. He emphasized on reuse of articles, recycling of used articles, and the reduction of wastage in all walks of life. Thus one could emerge as a responsible citizen of the world.

The paucity of time did not allow any further activities. The clock already pointed to 12.35 pm. The next rendezvous is to be CMS Gomti Nagar Campus on July 26. Let us hope it does not rain on that day too.
(Reports filed by Mr Faisal Zafar Ansari, Creative Writer, WUED)