The GEMA Education Foundation recently organized a competition that celebrated the art, Poster Making. The aim behind the contest was to promote creativity, originality and encourage the power of visual storytelling amongst the younger audience. Recently one of the younger artists won the appreciation award for the contest and GEMA Education is proud, presenting to you ladies and gentlemen, Sonia Dvivedi, who shyly introduced herself in the interview video, “hi”.
Sonia had made a poster depicting human rights and she was successful in doing so, “I made individuals of various different sizes, shapes and colors, and had them holding hands to depict freedom and equality”, she says, quite impressive huh !, for a young child to think of such intense topics is quite unheard of.
When asked about further details, Sonia mentioned that she mainly used paint medium but tried inculcating markers, crayons and colour pencils as well, Sonia is very into drawing and sketching, “I’m always coloring and painting. She further mentioned that she faced difficulty in deciding the topic of the project as she isn’t a quick thinker in that matter. “My elder sister was one of my pillars and a supporting stone throughout, whether to decide on a topic or bring the materials, she was the one who also had informed me that I won the contest”, the youngling says with an adoring look in her eyes and a grateful smile playing on her face, feeling quite shy to speak about her elder sister in front of her sister.
Surprisingly, this was the first art competition that Sonia ever partook in and lo and behold folks, she won it in the first go. Sonia mentions that this win gave her confidence to participate more and aspires to win more as well.
When asked for advice that she would give to her friends she says, “Just do it, don’t be scared to do whatever you want to”.
The interviewer then wishes to talk to the backbone of the entire project, the so talked about elder sister, Kanupriya. Kanupriya, on being asked how did she feel when she found out that Sonia had won, said that she was surprised that her baby sister won a competition that was on such a large, not to mention international, scale and felt a sense of pride and awe for her sibling. Kanupriya says that it was all Sonia in the project and that she merely helped Sonia psychologically and basically to pen down her thoughts, thus not taking any of the credit that the younger one gave her. The elder one says that she tried to help as much as she possibly could and tried to boost her sister whenever she felt down during the process. She mentions that in today’s world, it is necessary for a child to step out of their comfort zone and try out each and everything so that they can explore their interests and be given a platform to do so as well.
Kanupriya concludes with a message to all parents and elders watching the interview, she requests them to not force their child into something but rather observe the child on a daily basis to realize what they are interested in, the child loses and gains interests pretty quickly and that’s completely normal and there’s no harm in that as well. Failure shouldn’t be looked down upon but rather be encouraged and celebrated as it is a pathway to growth.
We thank Sonia and Kanupriya for giving such valuable life lessons !