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Taking Art and Teamwork to a level beyond compare: Art@Heart

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Following Militvaa , one of the best initiatives I have ever been part of, a year back, I had a chance to participate in an other initiative working for the same cause,  Art@ Heart . Art@Heart is another brainchild of Kaustav uncle and Lily aunty who head the InkLink Charitable Trust. After we made the whooping profit of rupees One lakh Five thousand to help the children from Kannagi Nagar, InkLink hit upon an amazing idea. Instead of using the full profit, they took a fourth of it and invested the money into buying art supplies and materials. The materials were then given to us and the children from Kannagi Nagar to create works of art. These artworks would then be sold in an exhibition, thus giving us more money. The purpose of Art@Heart was to not only make more profits, but for us to learn a new skill as well as to collaborate and make friends with the children from Kannagi Nagar. Every Sunday at 9:00 a.m, my classmates and I would meet at school. The children from the other

Bharatham - The Complete Movie

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In this blog, I am going to be writing on my most favourite Malayalam movie, Bharatham . Released in 1991, this musical drama is directed by Sibi Malayil. The plot is about two brothers, Raman(Nedumudi Venu) and Gopi(Mohanlal) who are classical singers. As Raman was senior to Gopi by many years, he taught Gopi to sing from when Gopi was a child; and both were excellent singers with Gopi accompanying Raman on his highly successful concerts. They were also part of a happy family with a deep musical heritage. But then Raman started becoming an alcoholic. He began singing in concerts in an inebriated state until in one such concert, he lost his voice completely. Seeing the crowd's displeasure and the humiliation afflicted on them, Gopi, who had been under his brother's shadow till now, came to the fore and sung breathtakingly in the concert, leading the newspapers to write smashing reviews about his style of singing. Meanwhile, Raman, who misunderstood Gopi's intentions