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Time of India
28-07-2025
- General
- Time of India
Students donate cloth bags to street vendors
M ysuru: NPS International Myuru donated cloth bags to street vendors and created awareness against the use of plastic covers as part of the 'Beat Plastic Pollution' initiative. The awareness campaign by NPS International School is to promote environmental responsibility and community engagement. Students of the school Science Club donated cloth bags to street vendors. This initiative was aimed at reducing the reliance on single-use plastic bags and supporting vendors in adopting eco-friendly practices. The campaign, spearheaded by the Mysore City Corporation - 'Beat Plastic Pollution', involved students collecting, painting, and donating reusable cloth bags to vendors across the city. Over the past month, students organised collection drives, encouraging families to contribute spare cloth bags. "Our students have shown remarkable enthusiasm and commitment to this cause," said school principal Akhila Dinesh. "By engaging in this initiative, they not only learn about environmental conservation but also understand the importance of supporting our local community," she said. The donated bags were distributed to street vendors in bustling areas such as 80 Feet Road, Vijayanagar 4th Stage. They distributed nearly 200 bags to the vendors and commuters, requesting them to reduce the usage of plastic bags and switch to cloth bags.
Boston Globe
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Boston Comic Arts Foundation challenges ‘junky comics' label with new annual program
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up That's what Peppi and her friends in her school's Art Club do, but they find themselves at odds with the Science Club. The pangs of growing up alongside your peer group are on full display in Advertisement Author Svetlana Chmakova and the cover to her graphic novel "Awkward." Provided 'I joke to my family and friends that I am not a true adult, but essentially a 12-year-old cleverly disguised as one, in the way that I navigate the world (it's hard!! Nothing makes sense!! People don't make sense, still, and I'm forty-five now!!),' wrote Chmakova in an email to the Globe ahead of the event. The award-winning author was born in Russia, moved to Canada at 16, and now keeps a home in Massachusetts. Advertisement Founded six years ago, BCAF engages in 'comics advocacy,' said Zach Clemente, who heads the organization's board of directors. The intent, he said, is to help raise the medium to the level of legitimacy afforded other narrative arts forms such as movies and novels. With resources including the Horn Book, independent children's book publisher 'Boston is already a comics town,' said Clemente, a small press publisher who joined BCAF after several years with the For Boston Reads Comics, BCAF gave away about 100 copies of Chmakova's book and encouraged other children to check it out of their local library. They hope to draw as many as 300 students, parents, and supporters to the Central Library on Saturday. 'As a practice, making comics is very isolating,' Clemente said. 'Conversely, the community tends to be very outgoing.' Gershowitz, who earned her master's degree in children's literature from Simmons University, noted that the graphic novel form has 'really exploded in legitimacy' over the last 20 years or so. Still, she said, it's 'an uphill battle.' Advertisement 'What we're facing now, with book bans and challenges, is people trying to limit children's access to books,' she said. 'That's what people think when they think about graphic novels — that they're just junky comics.' Chmakova finds that to be a frustrating misconception. 'Comics should be in every classroom under the sun,' she wrote in her email. After growing up reading in Russian, she found herself falling behind when she immigrated to Canada, 'because everything was in English. But with comics, the words and images together, I was able to grasp them. I was able to be a reader again through comics.' And she has dedicated her adult life to honoring the art form. 'There are things that are more effectively conveyed with visuals, which is why we take photographs and have art,' she said. 'And there are things that are best conveyed with words, which is why we have language. Combining the two creates a very powerful medium where you could deliver the equivalent of a paragraph's worth of background information in a single image.' BOSTON READS COMICS Featuring Svetlana Chmakova. July 27 at 3 p.m. Boston Public Library, Central Branch, 700 Boylston St. James Sullivan can be reached at .
