"Children are natural learners, and with dedicated teachers, students only need to concentrate in class and revise at home,” stated Nisha Saraf, chief guest at the annual concert of the primary section of Nagpur’s J. N. Tata Parsi Girls High School. She advised the parents to avoid tuitions. Director of Chanda Devi School (CDS), Saraf had earlier founded the Deepayan English High School in Hospet, Bhavan’s Bharatiya Vidya Mandir in Nagpur and Tender Steps in Poona before starting CDS.
J. N. Tata School children perform "We are the world"
A tableau titled "The Indomitable Revolutionary, Madam Bhikaiji Cama” brought the political thinker’s life story to audiences with a bi-lingual commentary by Zainab Khan and Parthavi Sedani. A dance titled "We are the world,” a comedy Gujarati play Lagan no Jhamelo (Complications of marriage) and a Hindi play Kataoti (Deduction) marked the December 4, 2018 events. Solo recitals on the harmonium and synthesizer, a choir that performed in English and Hindi and a garba with colorful costumes followed.
Delzeen Daruwalla played the love interest of the main protagonist Burjorji in the Gujarati play. The twists and turns in the play included Burjorji getting a male friend to dress up as his fiancée to prevent himself getting evicted from a Parsi housing colony. The message of the Hindi play, "Khushiyan baatne se badhti hai (Happiness increases when spread (to others)]” was brought home through a needy family that foregoes a new refrigerator for another that needs it more.
Headmistress Azra Salam told the parents assembled: "Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy so that they will know the value of things, rather than their price.”