R Day celebrated at Nanhi Dunya

Dehradun, 27 Jan: Republic Day is celebrated throughout India, but at Nanhi Dunya, here, the belief is in universal concept, “Jai Jagat” instead of “Jai Hind”, which also says “Saara jahan humaara, hum hain saare jahan ke” - “we belong to the whole world and the whole world belong to us”. Nanhi Dunya is conceived as a global village, where children are taught to treat the whole world as one. 
A day earlier, all the students cleaned and decorated the school. And the next day, celebrations began with a gathering of students, teachers and volunteers in the morning, all in high spirit. The teachers and volunteers were dressed in purple sarees . Flag hoisting took place, which was followed by the national anthem (as a token of respect to the nation). The school raised many patriotic and humanitarian slogans like “Ek humara naara hai, saara jahan humara hai”, “Jai Jagat”, “Mahatma Gandhi amar rahe”, etc.
The next event included patriotic and enlightening songs sung by the choir as well as the students, followed by “Vande Matram” sung beautifully by Kiran Goyal (Chief Promoter of Nanhi Dunya). To acknowledge the significance of the day, two of the students, namely Soumya and Kailash, delivered a speech with a lot of confidence and then students and the staff participated in the march past.