The Part we were waiting for in the "Avishkaar - Photography Exhibition", The Special Hour, for the Special Kids.The scene still in front of my eyes, we were waiting for them, they, being the V.V.I.Ps of our Exhibition, had to be Fashionably Late. As soon as the bus of Prabodhini Trust arrived, we all went running to the entrance to welcome our guests. Each and every Student coming out of the bus, had his own paradigm, had a different look from the other, and the most amazing point, Every Kid had a smile different than the other, say peculiar, say special, but in their own way.We noticed the Kids moving out of the bus in pairs, yes pairs, holding hands, as if symbolising capability to take up responsibility and flaunt with their compatibilities !Then we guided the Kids to the exhibition, where they with due discipline formed a queue, waiting for their turns to view the next Photograph. We many a times going so much into the technicalities, just forget to merely enjoy the Photographs, without going much deep into the specifications I mean, but these Kids I tell you, were so excited and were so receptive about everything coming in front of them that it was then that I realised the actual beauty of a few photographs. A few images were unnecessarily found funny by them, which in turn made us laugh too, their laughing, happiness, being so infectious. They sincerely answered and responded to every questions, like, what's the color of sky in this picture, how many boats are there, at times they even laughed at the brilliance of the photo captured, at times displayed their sympathy towards the character/scene in the photograph, a few photo

,were just ignored by them, being too complicated for their brains to compile and make up into a story. Images having Gods in them were treated with a complete Awe and they went like "Oh Ganpati Bappa" ! These Children, had a total different perspective, towards everything, but there were times when I just couldn't differentiate between them and we grown ups, I mean, they being so small, showed an utter sense of Understanding and Caring, there was this one girl, who fell down in the queue as she just neglected a stone, the other girl, her partner asked her almost hundred of times whether she was fine, trust me I was waking beside them, and she after few minutes pased, she went like "did you get hurt ? Are you fine now ? Walk taking care this time ! " I was just surprised to notice that these people are so so bothered about the events talking place around them, about someone getting hurt, taking it as their own problem ! Really, it was this moment and the one I mentioned above, that how they entered in pairs, that entering in pairs wasn't as a fashion parade, but they actually did take up each other's responsibilities. After that, when the the Club members distributed biscuits to them, to my astonishment, what they did was, ate biscuits till the felicitation ended, and later came up to us, asking for where the dustbin was kept, trust me, I'm fed up telling friends and family not to throw papers, wrappers just anywhere, These Kids just made me so so proud, So Disciplined that their conscious didn't allow them to throw wrappers anywhere but the dustbin, From then, those have become my favourite set of people. I mean what I haven't been able to do in years, this Trust, Prabodhini Trust, has made it possible in such a short amount of time, I mean they've groomed these kids so well, that these kids, no more remain an agony, or an embarrassment, others will only feel proud of them, and nothing else ! Salute to the Staff of Prabodhini.

                                  

                                     

The teachers of Prabodhini were so thankful to us that we called their kids to witness the exhibition, and they said they'd really love to vist all our future exhibitions. The Special Kids gifted us with very special gifts, handmade File, handmade Roses, which were the most beautiful ones I've ever seen ! While these Kids were leaving, I don't know why, but almost everyone got emotional, I thought it was just me who thought time passed so fast, but when I looked around, everyone was caught up in the same.

                     

               

the hall is felt so empty after they left, the photograps being where they were, it was us, who had a new paradigm, a new smile. SAgain, holding hands, we walked them to their bus, where we got a lot of handshakes, bye byes and not to mention but many flying kisses as well.this was our Special hour, with the V.V.I.Ps, the "Special Kids" !

Written by -

Sukanya Wable ,

Blog writer, 21st The Club Of  Photpgraphers

Special thanks to Sangita Patil ma'am , Prabhodhini trust.

Event Supported by - Shri.Sudhakar Badgujar

21st - The second name of success

It was back then, last may-June we remember, what struggling days those were! Photography was limited only to Professionals and it took great efforts for amateurs to get to them, so it was then that The Idea of our sweet "Little" Club came into Sagar Kolhe's mind. He thought why should such an art be limited to people who already know it, and why shouldn't it be spread to people who Wanted to know it !!So this Group Actually started with just few Members, and I remember our 1st Photo walk to Ramshez comprised of just 10 people ! And the amount unexpectedly increased to 37 in the consecutive Photo walk to Meri, if seen in today's date, we already have members more than 120 or so. Well it's not just matter of figures, it is more of reaching a summit and realising "Gosh ! That was far" moreover, the best part of being in this group is, "There is NO Hierarchy in this group", no one's designated higher than anyone, the Members learn the art through other members who sometime had been there in their spot !Well people reading about us in the newspaper or coming to us at present day must be thinking what an Established Group of Photographers it is, but like an Ice berg only one tenth of total struggle is seen...In our Initial days, when we needed that support, that guidance, there weren't much of people with us, which indeed put us down, but not Forever !Sagar knew his plan of uniting all the Artists in Nasik will work, and members believed in him.Sagar has this strange yet releasable Concept that let it not just be about Photography, and introduced many more, I'd rather say almost all artists in the group. There are Orators, Blog Writers, Dancers, Singers, Directors, Rangoli Artists, Painters and what not Sagar has Created a whole Army of Artists !!

When it came to what this Group can best be named... There were hurricanes in their heads... Sagar & Harshal thought all sorts of names... As in relating to camera parts and what not, finally getting fed up, these guys did some browsing and realised a peculiarity, no group was yet named after any number, sand almost everyone is aged around 21 or so.. And it's an universally Accepted Lucky number, so why not go for it ?!(And coincidentally the date that day was 21st June)So like this it was then after more thinking officially launched on 24th June 2015 Once the group was formed, Sagar thought of taking it to an altogether New Level by introducing An Photography Exhibition.For that since Sagar, didn't even had Person vehicles, travelled Everywhere in Public Transports and conducted almost 48-49 meetings in search of Sponsorship, as money was a great issue, no one amongst the Club members were that rich. Travelling here and there no thought about food in mind no time limits about reaching home, endlessly just one thought in Mind, I have to take my Group on an altogether Different level".A Club member Atharva Patil suggested talking to Mr Sudhakar Badgujar

about sponsorship, they went for the same, He loved the Idea ,  he said he really loved the Idea,  Later one day all of a sudden Mr Badgujar gave Atharva a call and gave us a clean chit,...and deepak badgujar also taking a lot efforts for sponsorship. It was A treat for all of us. After that whatever Sagar decided, he made it happen, lt it be our 1st event Avishkar, our first ever official blog launching or photo walks, It was as if everything was conspired by the Universe to take place like the way it took !! The best part is, We the club members have seen so much of hard time that we've all come up really strong now, let it be the negativity of people in the beginning, or the graphic designer leaving us in the middle of everything, or some internal conflicts between the members, it is Today, Wednesday the 6th all those pains just proved to train us, to make us stronger, to push us, and finally, here are we, Already had a Grand Success in the Recent event by us "Avishkaar", the applaudable response, of all our struggling, sleepless nights, all kind of proved the fact that when you are in want of something, the universe does conspires to make it happen !!! Cheers !!

Written by -

Sukanya Wable

Blog Writer,21st The Club Of Photographerss

SPECIAL KIDS

                      When a baby is born, it's an energy's birth. When we see a new born baby, we don't know whether he can hear us, or see us, or even whether his limbs have senses, we love the baby, care for it, be the time of the day whatever. If the baby grows up and we realise his body isn't functioning as it should, we still do love the baby, any parent would do that, right ?

Think of such differently abled children who don't have the God named parents in their lives, How are they supposed to Survive in this harsh world !! There are many places filled with such children, These children don't want Money, or Sympathy or attention they are longing for love, affection, care and all the basic things a child would need, they just want to be loved as they are and for what they are !

Add captionWe, are so much entangled in the intricacies of our lives that we forget that there's a world beyond ours and there are tiny lives struggling more than we do, So can't we take some time from our busy schedules just to meet such children, to get greeted by them.For us, it would just be a "Charity work or Social Work" but for them, it would be some time Well Spent, an Illusion of what a family feels like.

We do spend for ourselves, and on our children, right ? So why not create a memory for a child who doesn't even have anyone who'd do that for him.

So let's make at least one Differently abled child happy of what he is, by gifting him something, by buying something he makes and eventually gifting yourself with a sense of satisfaction that you're somewhere the reason behind the carefree smile of a tiny tot !

WRITTEN BY -  
SUKANYA WABLE,
BLOG WRITER , 21st THE CLUB OF PHOTOGRAPHERS