Tuesday was World Peace Day (21 September). The campus housing the twin St Xavier’s colleges at Digha saw several strange faces. The reason?

An inter-department Face painting competition jointly by St. Xavier’s College and St. Xavier’s College of Management and Technology. The competition was based on the college annual theme “Healthy Youth, Wealthy Nation”. Colourful faces which were beyond recognition were a delight for the students and teachers alike. One could hear peals of laughter even though the message that the student teams tried to give was ‘serious’ in nature.

A total of 21  teams comprising the painters and painted essayed forth to colour and create. In the first position were BBA 3^rd semester students Vaishnavi, Raima, Kritika and BA 2^nd year students Alisha, Justin and Tripti; runners up  were BCP 5^th semester students Sonika, Puja and Afsar and  BMC 3^rd semester students Ayushi, Amita, Mayank and BA 2^nd year students Anuj, Ankita and Arti tied for third spot.     

21 groups from all the departments participated in the competition and showed their creativity using the face as their canvas. Each group had three participants. They used fabric, poster, water and organic colors to paint the faces. The students showed the current issues of health like habit of eating junk food, smoking apart from yoga postures in their face paintings.

“Painting is an entertaining activity and a great way to convey messages without words and is very appealing to the youth,” said Controller of Examination Rev Dr Raymond Cherubim S.J.

The judges for the event were XTTI Rector Rev Joseph Thadavanal  S.J, CoE Rev Dr Raymond Cherubim S.J and Mathematics coordinator Rev  Rajkumar  SJ.

Mrityunjay David anchored the programme while Niharika gave a vote of thanks. The competition was organised by the Social Awareness Committee of the college.

-based on a press release

  Jesuit education, letters, st xavier’s college