FOOT PRINTS OF HISTORY ON PAGES OF TIME-ICSK SENIOR CELEBRATES HERITAGE DAY

“A people without the knowledge of their past, origin and culture is like a tree with no roots”. Ancient monuments and buildings in the countries make them stand tall on world map. These are an asset to value for. World Heritage Day is observed on 18 April every year to celebrate the diversity of heritage throughout the world. It is a collective effort of the communities in the world to do the needful to hoist awareness about the assortment of cultural legacy and the efforts that are required to protect and conserve ancient monuments and buildings.

The Indian Community School(Senior), Kuwait marked this day in its calendar and the ICSK Senior Quiz Club conducted a Heritage Quiz in the school.  The quiz was organized in two levels – Junior (classes 7, 8 & 9) and Senior (classes 10 & 12). After a written preliminary round, four 2-member teams qualified to take part in the finals from each category. The quiz was conducted in six rounds in wide topics – monuments & structures, culture, literature, history and geography with the theme of World Heritage. The quiz saw the enthusiastic participation of students and was successful in sensitizing themabout World Heritage.The competition was aimed at throwing light on the importance of heritage, history and background of this day of global worth. The students crammed themselves up with a lot of general knowledge for the quiz. Mazes of intuited and interesting questions were asked to the students. The competition not only made students more aware of their environment and surroundings, but also instilled good leadership and teamwork quality.Darshan Paranthan Dinesh and Nanda Krishna from Class 8 were the winners in the Junior Category. Mohammed Mishal and Vivek Prasad from Class 12 secured the first position in the Senior Category.