THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, December 15: Oxford Public School, Daltonganj, on Monday held a Red Day for its little kids, ranging from pre-school to class 2.
School press note read it was celebrated with gaiety and fervour. Principal R Prasad and his junior section team of teachers and staff saw the Red Day celebration pass with lots of fun and festivities.
Red Day celebration in schools is not a very heard of thing, at least the government schools appear to be alien to this concept.
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The new principal R Prasad, is credited for this. Chairman of the school Dr Shashibhushan Mehta, a two-term BJP MLA, in a conversation with the Jharkhand Story Network correspondent, had very recently said, “We have put in a new principal in R Prasad. We believe he will be having a proactive stance on the overall growth and academic advances of the school student.”
There was a time in Palamu district when Red had meant terror. People hated the Red flag. It was seen as a tool of left-wing extremism. The extremists used to install a Red flag on any prosperous farmer’s acreage, and this Red Flag used to mean the acreage belonged to the extremists!
Now, things have changed in the same Palamu where children are having Red Day.
Red Day celebration is a kind of awareness of the surroundings where things are dressed up red, and kids are shown and told about red items.
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Red can be a matter of joy and not always a sign of danger, which one finds with the Indian railways, which put up signs in Red colour with a skull behind just to warn people not to cross the railway lines unmindfully, especially when the booms are down at the railway crossing or the long whistling of the engine is audible.
Red Day celebration is a kind of embracing the colours of life.
