Hyderabad|India|December'2008: The Listen to your heart’, an opera that bridges the hearts of the elders and the children to be staged by Team Abhyasa here at Sri Sathya Sai Nigamagamam on Sunday, 28th December, 2008 at 5.30pm. School Opera is something which is very rare in our schools. This will be an Indianised School Opera done solely by children informed Principal of Abhyasa Residential Public School Vinayak Kalletla. The special attraction will be the 10 students of the school who attended Global Young Leaders conference in USA and who have been invited to attend the Swearing-in Ceremony of the US President-elect Barak Obama, will also present and participate in the Opera. This is being performed as part of the Annual Cultual Festival of the School which will be graced by about 1500 people. Mr Mani Shankar Iyer, the Telugu and Hindi Film Director among several others will grace the occasion.

‘Listen to your heart’ is the title of the one and half hour opera which has been conceived and written by the Principal Vinayak Kalletla. ‘Team Abhyasa’ with all its eagerness and participative spirit, composed, recorded, practised and gathered every essential element to make it possible in just One Week. The whole school worked with proper harmony and co-ordination to bring the opera into reality!.

The opera, takes off from the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai and portrays the agony of an average prototype citizen of India, who is seeking solutions from all the maladies afflicting us ! The songs and the dances and drama elevates the viewers from the level of ‘doing’ to ‘being’,by reviving traditional family and educational values. The opera tells us to make a voluntary choice to ‘Be’ in thought, word and action as the panacea for all societal maladies and brings to form the supreme role of mother in transforming Human life and Society.

On the occasion Gold Medals will be presented to 10th and 12th class toppers both subject wise and overall performance wise. Mamidoju Chaitanya budding scientist and a girl from Adilabad who visited NASA recently and who is collection signatures of eminent personalities of A.P on a banner which she plans to present to Barak Obama at his searing in ceremony belongs to Abhyasa school. She will be present on the occasion to receive a Gold Medal as she is a topper in 12th class. The School Alumni Association will be launched and a dedicated website will be unveiled. Newly redesigned school website will also be unveiled on the occasion.

Abhyasa built on global mission of ‘Human Transformation’ initiated by Bhagavan Sri Satya Sai Baba, gives equal importance to academics and co-curricular activities. This 12 years old school is established in a 25 acre campus on the foundation of time-tested values of Indian culture. With a strong hold of efficient administration and ever-accessible teachers, Abhyasa has risen to be the ‘Best ICSE school of Hyderabad’ in Just 10 years as per the survey conducted by an India’s national publication. The students life here resolves on all round personality development by developing core-human competencies of Confidence, Creativity and Character.

The Abhyasa is known for organizing first of its kind of Youth Assembly as part of its Motto ‘Celebrating Service’ to sensitise youth to values such as social service and social entrepreneurship on the lines of "The Youth Assembly at the United Nations" held at the United Nation once in 2 years. The idea of this Youth Assembly came into existence when Abhyasa student M.R.S.K. Chaitanya won the UN Award for social service in 2006. This year also 10 students of the school attended Global Young Leaders conference at Washington DC and New York in which students from 100 countries participated and have been invited to attend the Swearing-in Ceremony of the US President-elect Barak Obama .

Reachout's News Bureau
 December' 2008