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29)Republic Day parade: Before any dance to remember long rehearsals little sleep

India Republic Day -- With all the Prime Minister and the Director in the audience 14-year-old Daksh Chopra couldnt have asked for a better stage to flow on. A student of Rohinis Mount Abu school he was one of the 150 students who also performed at the Rajpath on Republic Day. Dressed in colorful attire and sporting buns plaits and parted tresses the children put up a show representing the 10-member countries of ASEAN whose leaders too were in work. We were divided into communities and each group did a new dance form of one of the ten ASEAN countries. I was inside the Vietnam group and we have a fan dance. In December we researched on the dance enjoyed videos and then devised a new choreography said Nandini Madhukar (14). It was throughout mid-December that the students older between 12 and 13 began rehearsing for the overall performance. They spent the night at school on Thursday had dinner there got ready along with reached Rajpath at 8 am on Friday. We watched the event on TV al