Jamshedpur: Three day Gala Loyola School Platinum Jubilee celebrations gets underway from Dec 16

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, Dec 13: Time flies but memories linger. Loyola High School commenced its journey inside a school bus and today, after 75 years, has expanded into a wide-winged albatross with the inborn zeal to expand further through the next level and next ,,,

All plans for hosting the grand and time-freezing Platinum Jubilee event are in place to ensure a boisterous, joyous and nostalgic trip down memory lane through three days encapsulated in the Loyola spirit of ‘Loyola, Loyola, We will sing Our Proud Refrain.’

An attractive and overflowing bowl of excitement and entertainment has been set on the celebratory long and wide buffet table with exciting specialties like music and ‘masti’ and of course, the big bang of the perennially young former students. 

Three day Platinum adrenaline flow to commence from 5 pm on Dec 16

The volcano of Platinum excitement will commence oozing lava of joy as the three day celebrations is inaugurated at 5 pm on December 16 at the school’s Fasy  Auditorium. The highlight opener will be the musical play, ‘Kabuliwalla Returns’ to be staged by 500 students from Standards II to XI at the Fasy Auditorium. The cast and crew for this mammoth presentation are busy going through the final moves.  There will be five shows of ‘Kabuliwalla Returns’ including three in the morning and  and two in the evening. The presentations of this musical drama will be in several languages including Afghani, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam and English. ‘Kabuliwalla Returns’ has references taken from Sarojini Naidu’s ‘The Bangle Sellers,’ Premchand’s ‘Eidgah’ and Tulsidas’ poem, ‘Ganga.’

‘Kabuliwalla’ was penned by Vishwakavi (World Poet) Rabindranath and drew international attention. It was enacted in several languages across the world as also through two celluloid ventures in Hindi and Bengali. The crux of this immortal literary creation is the relation of a small girl with a man from Kabul. The tear ducts are activated when the small girl is bid adieu by the Kabuliwalla who is to return to his homeland. It is a take on international relations and with the development of the theme into ‘Kabuliwalla Returns,’ incidents, places and events have been added to suit to the advancing time period. The students have tried to project India’s much hailed cultural edifice of unity in diversity.

But the joy and rejoicing of past, present and future generations of Loyoleans will not end there. The focus will shift from Fasy Auditorium to the basketball court where a programme, ‘Antariksh (Space)’ will hold audience captive  from 7 pm. the ‘Antariksh’ presentation will announce the conclusion of the Day-I celebrations on  December 16.

Leadership talk, city tour, sports and music to mark Day II of Platinum Joy

The joy of meeting old buddies, recollecting the past pranks and other memories punched with the heady programmes of the day before must have curtailed nocturnal hours. But that will never be a blind man’s bluff as the kids from then to now would love to remember and recollect their times at Jamshedpur and the ‘now’ era of cityscape. A bus ride through the city commencing 9 am will arouse reflections of many miles of yesterday. While one set of big boys will board the tour bus, the others would reinvent their sporting skills in events like handball and football. These events will be held between 9 am and 11 am.

To add to the three day Platinum Jubilee celebrations, another exciting event, ‘Breakaway Session’ will be organized on Day – 2 at 10 am. The session will take off with Air Vice Marshal Tejbeer Singh who will be the keynote speaker on the subject of Leadership Talk. He will be discussing life, prospects and career in the skies while defending the Motherland.

Classical music guitarist Shantanu Das will present some of his compositions that have enabled him to climb the rungs of popularity. He will be followed by renowned cinematographer Mahesh Aney who shot top bracket films like ‘Swadesh’, ‘We the People’, ‘Tum: A Dangerous Obsession’ and ‘Kisi ka Bhai, Kisika Jaan’ to name just a few including the film, ‘Bubble Gum’ which was shot at Loyola School that will be screened with the ace and award winning DoP himself present to provide additional information on cinematography as a career.

The evening will have additional flavors of entertainment with a reboot of ‘Music Masti’ in the form of Live Music Concert from 5:30 pm in the Fasey Auditorium. Briden and Partho with their musical ensemble will set the pace for the evergreen Loyoleans who will be bound to push away their joint pains and jive and twist as they used to with trend setter Chubby Checker making all of the generation put on their dancing shoes and ‘dance away their blues’ (if any). Far from being tired, the Loyoleans would be rearing to go on to the third day’s Platinum Jubilee session the next day come dawn on Sunday, December 18 and make a splash with their brand of unbridled fun and joy.

The fun fiesta of Loyoleans on Day 3 to pave the way for many more Jubilees

The concluding day of Loyola School’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Sunday, December 18 will commence at 11 am. The spirit of Loyola as handed down through 75 years and ‘seasoned’ to last till eternity will be showcased to perpetuate the characteristic traits of persistent optimism. Wherever and whenever there is joy, laughter and boisterous camaraderie there has to be the stamp of Loyola tradition that starts and continues with discipline and fraternal feelings. The final day’s programme will commence with a Standup Comedy Show to orchestrate uninhibited and boisterous laughter. To add to the book of memories, the internationally famed Violin Brothers will take the Fasey Auditorium audience to an  exciting and romantic rendezvous with their classical composition to prove once again why the duo of Violin Brothers are regarded as trend setters in their genre of music.

The farewell hugs of ‘till we meet again’ will reign the atmosphere in the entire Loyola premises with the promise of, “Loyola-Loyola we will sing our proud refrain/For here the boys are true and their hearts are strong/And merrily we will sing as we march along/Loyola-Loyola…” And so the march will continue and the echoes will continue to resound