Gandhi Jayanthi 2020
The 151st birthday of the father of India, Mahatma Gandhi is always marked with celebrations remembering to his principles of life and vision of India. On October 02, 2020, amidst the raging COVID-19 pandemic, the usual festivities of Government College of Teacher Education, Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram, were forsaken for an online celebration. This year’s celebratory activities were a perfect combination of the mind, body and spirit as always envisioned by Gandhi. The programme for the day was fixed and organised under the guidance of the principal Dr. T.K. Jayasree and Dr. Joly S, H.O.D of Malayalam. Four different activities were structured for the students who were given the choice of choosing which activity they wanted to partake in. The activities were a Webinar competition on Gandhian Thoughts, Campus Cleaning, mask making, and soap/lotion making. On Monday, the students presented their papers through Google meet from 10.00am to 1.30 pm. There were 5 st...