Creative Writing Workshop ( 26^th August , 2016)

The passion for writing and reading opens one’s mind and reaches the height of greater dimensions. In order to encourage and inculcate writing and reading habits, creative writing workshop was conducted in Ugyen Accademy. Student representatives from neighbouring schools( Punakha CS, Khuruthang MSS and Darshiding HSS) also attended the programme.

U.A was blessed to have Ms.Paro Anand. She is the author of 25 books for children and young adults including plays, short stories, novellas and novels. She is published in several anthologies and has written extensively on children’s literature. She is a World Record Holder, for helping over 3000 children make the World’s Longest Newspaper (850 metres long) in 11 Indian states in 13 languages.

At U.A it was led by one of the Bhutanese writers Pema Gyaltshen and guest Paro Anand. It was a feather on cap for we not only got to enjoy the talks and reading skills but also got the exposure to a world that was enclosed but we had not entered.

What motivated students was her word, “When I write, I get immersed into the world and colour the moods.  I’m the only person who likes traffic jam because that’s when I’m writing.” Students said that the workshop was very helpful as they learned how to play around with the words, they expressed their emotions through writing and it was conveyed.

The program concluded at 6:30 P.M and as a token of gratitude for having imparted such diverse knowledge, one of the students presented Paro Anand her sketch. The school would like to offer our heartfelt gratitude to our guest Paro Anand and Pema Gyaltshen for giving us their presence. We would also like to thank school administration team for taking the initiative and more so we thank our proprietor for having invited Paro Anand and Pema Gyaltshen to our school.