Description: The Gandhi Jayanti celebration was held in St. Joseph College, Sitapur Road, Lucknow today. The assembly began with the lighting of a lamp, commemorating Gandhiji’s birthday. This was followed by a prayer by the school choir, in the form of an ode to the Father of our nation.Children were shown Gandhi ji’s photographs, his spectacles, his walking stick and the spinning wheel or the charkha. The tiny tots came dressed in khadi and cotton kurta pyjamas as a mark of bapu and the nation. The children were given a taste of cooperation and a sense of involvement when they enacted the Dandi March conducted within the school campus. The assembly wound up with a medley of Bapu’s favourite songs such as Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram.This was followed by a collection of interviews that was put together, highlighting a few of students’ perspectives on Gandhi, as a person, and everything he did for this nation.The assembly was finally concluded with a short song by the choir and a message by the school Director Mr. Anil Agarwal & Principal Mrs. Amita Singh.