"Tradition is the illusion of permanence" - Woody Allen
The RS ZOOM POSTCARD Call on 'Traditions of the World' was held on 9th September 2020. It was an exhilarating experience amidst a group of 50 students from 14 schools across the world, including Australia, Japan, South Africa, USA, etc.
Throughout the 90 minutes call, various excited students including the three participants of RKKGPS, namely- Kanak Joshi and Shagun Varshney of class XC and Hira Khan of class XA, exchanged interesting information on varied topics. The RKK students enlightenhed the other students on concepts from the Indian tradition like ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’, ‘The Power of Namaste’ and ‘The Holy Cow’.
The entire schedule was well planned with discussions related to the collage sent by the schools and facilitated an experiential learning. The students discussed about the hospitable traditions of the world like offering coffee and halwa tradition from Oman, National Heritage Day from South Africa, Invasion day from Australia and cuisine, folk dances and music from India, to mention a few. After the discussion, we also had a Baraza session where we were divided into smaller groups in breakout rooms by the host school. This was an interesting exercise as we got an opportunity to express our views closely with few others.
Everyone embarked on a joyful journey of enthusiastic participation and meaningful interaction, experiencing different aspects of world traditions. This helped us all to gain a lot of knowledge and it was a pleasure being part of such an incredible conference! Exchanging our culture and traditions at an international level was a marvellous opportunity, for which we are truly grateful!
