Two Indian teenagers have just returned from London, where they were presented with awards by the duchess of Cornwall at a reception at St James’s Palace. The teens were runners-up in the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2021 — the world’s oldest international school writing competition — for essays reflecting on the pandemic.
Aditi S Nair (15) from Delhi was senior runner-up and Raisa Gulati (14) from Amritsar was junior runner up, beating over 25,000 entries from across the Commonwealth. The senior winner was from Kenya and the junior winner was from Uganda.
It was Nair’s first trip to London. She travelled there with her father. “Britain is different to India but in a nice way,” the 11th-grade pupil from Sanskriti School in Chanakyapuri told TOI.
“It was nice meeting Camilla, though we didn’t get to talk. But I got to speak to others like the speaker of the House of Commons,” said Nair. “It was a really grand palace and we got to see the chair where the monarch sits I could feel the history of the place.”
Nair and Gulati came to Britain for a winners’ week, which included a tour of Parliament, a visit to Westminster Abbey, a writing workshop and a trip to Cambridge University.
On her winning essay ‘Prithvi Mata’ (Mother Earth), Nair said: “I used the earth goddess to symbolise the positive impact the pandemic had on nature, so in my story, she looks younger and more radiant. But when Covid-19 cases recede and humans start interacting again, she looks haggard...
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