Diaspora
By RNG
It was with great pleasure and pride that I learnt that an educator of Mauritian origin had been awarded a prestigious award in India. Courtesy WhatsApp, she shared this good news with me.
Nazirah is the daughter of late Jaynool Hamid Bucktowar, jeweller, Route Royale, Rose Hill. Describing herself as a ‘Loreto girl to the core’, after completing her secondary studies at Loreto Curepipe she joined the Loreto College Kolkata in 1967, her admission having been arranged by Mother Provincial. In 1971 she obtained BA Hons (Geography) and B.Ed. She returned to Mauritius to work as Geography teacher at Loreto College Vacoas for a year, after which she flew back to Kolkata as Mrs Nazirah Ganjee.
Jhinuk Mazumdar | | Published 13.12.20, 03:23 AM
A Hindu youth with a rare blood group travelled 450km from Ahmedabad to donate blood for a little Muslim girl. When asked whether he would like to meet her, the man replied: “She could be Hindu or Muslim or Sikh or Isai, I am just a human being.”
Dhiren Pithiya, the youth, came to Calcutta to give away the courage awards at the inaugural edition in 1996.
2020: A 17-year-old, the son of a farmer in a West Midnapore village, has since childhood been loading his father’s broken cycle trolley with potatoes and travelling six miles, selling them and returning home before going to school. Santanu Dutta, who lives in a thatched house, scored 91.4 per cent in Madhyamik and received a scholarship on Saturday.
A list of the awardees at the IIHM presents The Telegraph School Awards for Excellence 2020, 25th Edition, in association with The Bhawanipur Education Society College
The Caring Minds Award for a ‘School that Cares’
Special mention (for handling the pandemic)
Calcutta Rescue: Distributed smartphones among slum children
Adamas World School: Provided a part of its Barasat campus to set up a quarantine centre
Joint winners
Antyodoy Ashram: Home to 78 children, orphans or children of single parents incapable of bringing them up Batighar Pathshala: School for 56 children, mostly from slums and footpaths
Don Bosco School, Liluah: Host of welfare activities like teaching girls over 14 years for free and conducting night schools
Journey saluting young fighters turn 25 Award prelims on screen, spirit intact
Over 5,000 viewers logged in from their phones or computers for an award ceremony that salutes young school-going fighters, which went online for the first time in 25 years.
In previous years, a school auditorium could accommodate only 1,500 odd people.
Thursday was the prelims of the IIHM presents The Telegraph School Awards for Excellence 2020, 25th Edition, in association with The Bhawanipur Education Society College.
More than 200 students were given certificates of merit, certificates of appreciation and certificates of honour.
A trustee of The Telegraph Education Foundation, and the emcee for the programme, Barry O’ Brien, described the 25 years as a “journey of growth”.