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Gandhi Jayanti

A long river of satyagrahis had set out on
the Dandi March from the Sabarmati On the 2 nd of October, the world celebrated the 151 st
Ashram on 12th March 1930, all clad in birth anniversaries of perhaps one of the greatest patriots
pristine white khadi. And, as always,
Gandhiji was at the forefront, leading and to have ever lived.
emboldening his followers with every step. Gandhiji’s ideals bear immense significance even today. The current stress on
Thousands had thronged to listen to him Make in India echoes Gandhiji’s idea of Swadeshi, which he popularized by
wherever he stopped, internalizing his idea spinning khadi and advocating the development of indigenous industries. His
of Satyagraha (insistence on/holding on to efforts to bring all Indians together under the umbrella of the Indian National
truth) and pledging to agitate for freedom Congress by promoting secularism and condemning casteism are stirring as
in a nonviolent yet resolute fashion. The well. Living in a world brimming with material pleasures, we would also do well
emphasis on Ahimsa (nonviolence) over to learn from Gandhiji’s austerity, which he maintained despite belonging to an
brute force to fight the oppressors truly affluent family, and from his concept of dignity of labour—‘You must teach the
made Satyagraha a unique concept. people to labour with their hands and realize the dignity of work’.

T he Lakshmipat Singhania Academy Model United Nations Club

The LSA Model United Nations club is a platform to learn how to debate, to learn about world
politics and how to be a diplomat. This club has created skillful and unbeatable debaters in the
past and will continue to do so in the future. The most extraordinary thing about this team is that
there are no teachers involved! The peer-to-peer learning has proven to be extremely successful
in teaching the students, as they feel a sense of comfort and ease when being taught by their
seniors, who pass on their personal experiences to their successors.
The Kolkata MUN circuit has extremely skilled participants who
always take the trophy home. We are proud to say that our
students, who have been trained in this very club, are also
amongst these winners. Through weekly sessions, the students are
taught the rules of diplomacy, the art of persuading people, and
the skill of debating better than everybody else. Even during the
pandemic, online sessions have continued. The club has weekly
workshops, followed by simulations, so that the students can learn
what to do and simultaneously apply it. The student review has
been extremely positive, as can be seen by the number of awards
that the members of this club win in every competition they go to.
This club has created nothing but champions in the past 6 years.

-Varenya Mehrotra, X-B