November 15

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have
Immortal longings in me; now no more
—William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2
Sunday Seminar wants to be immortalized before they end on November 29, their essence has to be preserved till they are revived in 2010. A hundred and two students from 15 campuses of the City Montessori School (CMS) did their best to make the 11th session of Sunday Seminar organized at CMS Gomti Nagar auditorium by the World Unity Education Department(WUED) on November 15 a memorable one. Russian songs echoed around the auditorium while Mrs Sangeeta Negi, Assistant Coordinator, Sunday Seminar recorded the attendance of the attendees.

The session began in earnest at 9.20 am when Mr Raza Hasnain Naqvi, Chief Coordinator, Sunday Seminar, extended a warm welcome to everyone over the mike. He offered the reports of earlier sessions to the students; there was a mad rush among the students for the reports. The session began moving on its wheels as the attendees prepared themselves for the most important part of Sunday Seminar, children’s appeal before the judges attending the 11th International Conference of Chief Justices of the World (ICCJW) next month. It is important for the participating children to speak eloquently before the judges. The judges would be here from all over the world to give an ear to children from CMS. Students would be expected to make the most of the opportunity.

The appeal has to be delivered with proper body language to communicate the proper message to the judges. The head of the appellant should not be static during the appeal. The mike should be held close to the mouth of the appellant, the speaker should be slow in delivering the appeal to ensure that the message is delivered clearly.

The audience got a pleasant dose of what would follow during the conference when students from CMS Mahanagar Campus-I,II and III lined up on the stage to practice what they had prepared. Yashwardhan, Class XI-C, CMS Mahanagar Campus-II set the ball rolling. The students were reminded that there should not be a lot of content in their appeals, the important points should be delivered in an eloquent manner to leave an impact on the delegates of ICCJW. Some of the presentations were merely statement of facts with the appeal missing in them.


Students from CMS Station Road and CMS Aliganj Campus-I & II lined up on the stage to deliver their appeals. Prankur Shukla, class VII-A, CMS Aliganj Campus-II was the first from the group that gave appeals on subjects ranging from illiteracy to hunger.

The refreshment break followed this. Ayush Kumar Yadav, class IX-A, CMS Mahanagar Campus-III took charge of the camera to click photographs of the remaining duration of the Sunday Seminar after this. Students from CMS Indranagar Campus, CMS RDSO Campus, and CMS Chowk Campus were given a chance to present their appeals. Jyoti Prakash, class VIII-B, CMS RDSO Campus took the lead when his contemporaries spelt out their appeals on deforestation, poaching, global warming, etc. they were reminded that the appeal that they would be presenting would be on behalf of the world’s two billion children and generations-yet-to-be-born. Children all over the world face almost the same problems of exploitation, hunger and poverty. Solutions to these problems merit a similar solution.

Problems such as illiteracy, population explosion, need for enforceable international law, threat of nuclear weapons being used formed the focus when the group of students from CMS Anand nagar Campus and CMS Rajajipuram Campus presented their appeals. The first in the group was Pranjali Das, class VI-A,CMS Anand Nagar Campus. The group of students from CMS Kanpur Road Campus and CMS Rajendra Nagar Campus-I was led by Abhay Singh Yadav, class VIII-C, CMS Kanpur Road Campus. Among other things, students elaborated on problems like pollution and amassing of nuclear weapons. The last group was from CMS Ashrafabad Campus which was initiated by Mohammad Umair, class ?, CMS Ashrafabad Campus. Students gave elaborate appeals on problems like deforestation and global warming.

A few students were selected from these groups on the basis of their performance. They were asked to line up on the stage for essential instructions regarding the appeal. Students would now meet the staff of the WUED when they assemble at CMS Kanpur Road Campus for the next Sunday Seminar on November 22.