Samrat Mukherjee, a Class V student of Calcutta Boy’s School took home the Junior Male Karateka of the Year at the Zenith’15 Interschool Karate-Do Championship and struck gold at a state-level karate championship as well. Samrat is among one of the karateka who caught everyone’s attention at Zenith’15, a two day event featuring more than 400 participants from 28 schools. Navaneel Rozario, a Class VII student of Don Bosco, Park Circus has his eyes set on participating at a national levelkarate meet. Lavanya Dugar, a Class V student of Apeejay School started learning karate for self-defence. She drew inspiration from her brother Rohit, a Class X student of Apeejay School, Salt Lake who won several medals and trophies in karate.
Apart from focusing their interest on traditional arts such as music, dance and theatre, city schools have turned into martial arts and self-defence classes and seeing the buzz generated at Zenith’15, the interest certainly to grow in the coming years.
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