Bilal Bashir Bhat Follow @bilalbashirbhat
New Delhi, Jan 08 (Only Kashmir): Continuing its efforts to highlight the creativity of innocent minds of India and Pakistan, amid forging cordial relations between the two countries, Aaghaz-e-Dosti is all set to release the 10th addition of Indo-Pak Peace Calendar created jointly by paintings of school students of both countries.
Aaghaz-e-Dosti has invited paintings from students and had received around 500 paintings from students of both countries wherein six paintings from each side are selected to create a joint peace calendar.
Informing about the initiative, Aaghaz-e-Dosti founder Ravi Nitesh said this is going to be the tenth peace calendar and every year we are getting many paintings from students of both sides.
Students whose paintings are selected this year are Aadhyaa Ayodhikaa (DAV Public School, Cuttack), Aarya Prasad Sahu (Gyan Mandir Public School, Delhi), Dhunn (Police DAV Public School, Ludhiana), Gauri Vijay Ghanwat (Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan, Sitara, Maharashtra), Mehakjot Kaur (BCM Arya Model Sr Sec School, Shastri Nagar, Ludhiana) and Zeba Yusuf Patel (Matoshri English Medium School, Pune) from India and Ayesha Iftikhar (Lahore Grammar School I – Shah Jamal Lahore), Haniya Waseem (Ismail Academy, Karachi), Mauhib Ghulam Murtaza (The AMI School, Karachi), Rida Siddique (Jamshed Memorial School, Karachi), Subbuh Shafiq (DMC East Govt Girls Secondary School, Karachi) and Umm-e-Maryam Ameen (Ismail Academy, Karachi) from Pakistan.
This year Aaghaz-e-Dosti including messages of persons who supported and gave messages to Aaghaz-e-Dosti in these ten years but now no more in the physical world. These names include messages of Asma Jahangir, I A Rehman, Dr Mubasshir Hasan, B M Kutty, Awais Sheikh, Dr S N Subbarao, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, Swami Agnivesh, Kamla Bhasin, Rahul Jalali, Sadia Dehlvi and Kuldip Nayar.
While talking about the release of the peace calendar, Punjab coordinator of Aaghaz-e-Dosti Nitin Mittoo said that peace calendar release is expected by the end of January, however if situation doesn’t improve regarding COVID and omicron, then we may organize online calendar launch like previous year. But we really wish to have an offline one too after the situation improves.
