The following young literary award winners were felicitated for their entries in the All-India Short Story Contest 2019 conducted by Kloud 9 at the National Children’s Literary Festival held on 9-10 November 2019. President, KIIT and KISS, Mrs Saswati Bal, Chairperson of KiiT International School, Dr Mona Lisa Bal and Principal, Dr Sanjay Suar gave away the prizes to the winners.
Senior Category Winners
First Prize
Sneha Shah
‘Vain Glory’
Class XI, Father Leblond School, Bhimbar, Darjeeling, West Bengal
Second Prize
Lakshita Agarwal
‘The Beauty of Spirit’
Class X-B, Delhi Public International School, Bikaner, Rajasthan
Third Prize
Bhavna Jagnani
‘Just You And Me’
Class XII, Mahadevi Birla World Academy, Kolkata, West Bengal
Junior Category Winners
First Prize
Ananya Gohate
‘The Boy with a Million Dreams’
Class VIII, The Newtown School, Kolkata, West Bengal
Second Prize
Subham Kumar Samal
‘Terror In Shimla’
Class IX ‘C’, D.A.V. Public School, Sector 6, C.D.A., Cuttack, Odisha
Third Prize
Pranavi Prasad Thathineni
‘Studies or Sports?’
Class IX D, New Horizon Gurukul, Bangalore, Karnataka
Certificate of Merit Senior Category
Gayathri. S
‘The Midnight Express’
Class XII, Vidyodaya School, Thevakkal, Ernakaulam, Kerala
Khyati Kiran
‘Tour to ‘P-Land”
Class XII, Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Sukanya Basu Mallik
‘Healing of wounds’
Techno India College, Kolkata, West Bengal
Ishmita Menon
‘Salve Of Patriotism’
Class X, New Horizon Gurukul, Bangalore, Karnataka
Certificate of Merit Junior Category
Pravin Malhotra
‘The Wager’
Class VIII, Hebron School, (Lushington Campus), Nilgiris, Ooty, Tamilnadu
Sanjoy Borthakur
‘Of Proofs And Puns And Printouts’
Class IX, Delhi Public School, Jorhat, Assam
Anupam Srivastava
‘Dreamers’
Class IX, Doon International Public School, Maninagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Vijay Kaushik
‘From An Ideal Citizen’
Class VIII, The British International School, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Ginjupalli Lakshmi
‘A Little Romance’
Class VII, Delhi Public School, Anandapuram Mandal, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh