Mysore :
Come November, and your city starts gearing up to celebrate the vibrant festival of lights — Deepavali. While innumerable cracker stalls start mushrooming, several interesting exhibitions to purchase knick-knacks for the fest also start showing up all around. However, a few of the many fairs that come up are unique. One such is this expo and sale of the diwali diyas and candles made by the differently abled.
Starting tomorrow, city’s Mythri School, a school for specially abled kids run by the Mythri Charitable Trust will host a two-day exhibtion of Deepavali diyas and candles, made by the school’s children. This is the second edition of the expo where the items will be available for appreciation and sale.
Speaking about the fair, School’s Managing Trustee, Pruthvi explains, “we are hosting the Deepavali Diyas and candles sale made by our students for the second consecutive year. We conduct various fairs such as painting, candle and jewellery exhibitions, to ensure that the children of Mythri are self sufficient and also improve their skills in various areas.”
When asked if the sales did good last year, Pruthvi says, “yes, it did, for we use quality products in making the crafts and all items are made by the students under our supervision. However, unlike last year, we have several young volunteers from institutions such as Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE), National Institute of Engineering (NIE) and several other colleges, infusing that enthusiasm in kids and helping us organise this year’s fair in a much better way.”
The exhibition will include an array of crafted diyas, candles and decorative rangolis made on transparent plastic sheets which are prepared by those in the age group of five and forty, who are all eager and are looking forward to the event. “We are all very excited about the fair. We are doing the best of work we can with complete dedication. We can’t wait to see who will buy our creations,” say the artists Rakshita, Tabu and Srinivas.
Apart from the Diwali diyas and candles fair, the school also organises exhibitions of artificial jewellery, pottery and paintings made by the children every year.
The Diwali fair will be held at the school premises in Krishnamurthypuram opposite Ambedkar Park for two days starting Oct. 31 from 10 am to 5 pm.— AN
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