Media Release
Doha, Sep 28: Indian Cultural Centre (ICC) is organizing different events to commemorate the occasion of the 150th birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 'Father of the Nation' of India which falls on October 2. Paying respect to Mahatma Gandhi, the international community also observes the same day as the 'International Day of Non-Violence'.
In order to spread the message of non violence and, the life and lessons of Mahatma Gandhi, a quiz competition was recently held at ICC Ashoka Hall. The quiz was attended by very enthusiastic community members of adults and children alike who participated. There were two rounds written and oral.
The teams selected to final round were:
1. Yasmi Nazaruddeen and Asif Safeer
2. Vimal Prasad and Nandini Prasad
3. Pravalika Manepalli and Kalyan Ronak
4. Manjusha Sreejith and Anugrah Krishna
The first prize was won by Vimal Prasad and Nandini Prasad, while the runners up were Pravalika Manepalli and Kalyan Ronak and Yasmi Nazaruddeen and Asif Safeer.
All the teams were presented participation certificates. The audience also enthusiastically participated in the quiz, winning attractive prizes in the audience rounds. These prizes were sponsored by Jumbo Electronics.
The competitions were very informative, enriching and entertaining, well appreciated by the participants and audience alike.
On October 2, a public function will be conducted at ICC Ashoka Hall where the Ambassador of India to Qatar P Kumaran will be the chief guest and various cultural programmes will also be staged. The winners will be awarded during the occasion.
ICC president, Milan Arun welcomed the audience and the quiz was conducted by the ICC head of Finance Girish Jain, ICC general secretary, Juttas Paul proposed the vote of thanks and the event was led by ICC managing committee members A P Manikandan, Vishal Mehta, Jaffar Khan, K S Prasad, Nayna Wagh and Anjan Kumar Ganguli supported by Deepak Shetty advisor ICC MC.
The event was attended by community leaders Hassan Chougule, chairman, ICC advisory council, K M Varghese, IBPC president, Kala Gopal IBPC vice president Habibul Nabi, ISC general secretary.