CMDFW Gita Chanting Competition 2007
Chinmaya Mission Dallas/Fort Worth held its annual Gita Chanting Competition this year at Chinmaya Saaket on Saturday, April 14. The competition is open to all children pre-K through twelfth grade. The participants in this competition have been growing exponentially since the competition was first started at CMDFW. This year we had 72 registered participants, 50% increase from 2006. We even had a team of enthusiastic participants from the San Antonio/Austin area!
The children who took part recited from memory selected slokas (1 through 20) of Chapter III, Karma Yoga, of Srimad Bhagavad Gita. They showcased their ability to chant with little or no accent, the prescribed slokas in Sanskrit, a feat that is difficult for many parents! They were judged by a panel of independent judges based on three criteria – memory and fluency, pronunciation, and presentation.
Every child who participated deserves accolades! Here are the children who were the winners in the different groups:
| Group |
Grade |
Affiliation |
Prize |
| Group 1, Pre K – KG | |||
| Laya Kumar |
Pre-K |
San Antonio/Austin |
I |
| Radhika Rajalal |
KG |
San Antonio/Austin |
II |
| Sindhu Nemana |
KG |
CM/DFW |
III |
| Group 2 – grade 1 – 2 | |||
| Varsha Appaji |
2nd |
CM/DFW |
I |
| Sidarth Subramanian |
2nd |
CM/DFW |
II |
| Kavya Raghavendra |
2nd |
DFW Hindu Temple |
II |
| Archana Murthy |
1st |
DFW Hindu Temple |
III |
| Group 3 – grade 3 | |||
| Utkarsh Kaniyar |
3rd |
DFW Hindu Temple |
I |
| Aditya Murthy |
3rd |
DFW Hindu Temple |
II |
| Shweta Menon |
3rd |
DFW Hindu Temple |
II |
| Sangeeta Kurada |
3rd |
CM/DFW |
II |
| Kriti Narayanan |
3rd |
CM/DFW |
III |
| Shachi Hegde |
3rd |
CM/DFW |
III |
| Group 4 – grade 4 | |||
| Remya Menon |
4th |
CM/DFW |
I |
| Aekta Mouli |
4th |
CM/DFW |
I |
| Sneha Kurada |
4th |
CM/DFW |
II |
| Jay Appaji |
4th |
CM/DFW |
II |
| Hrishikesh Iyer |
4th |
CM/DFW |
III |
| Krishna Vempati |
4th |
CM/DFW |
III |
| Group 5 – grade 5 |
|
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| Shruthi Kumar |
5th |
San Antonio/Austin |
I |
| Visakh Unnikrishnan |
5th |
San Antonio/Austin |
II |
| Brinda Iyer |
5th |
CM/DFW |
II |
| Sudarshan Sridhar |
5th |
CM/DFW |
III |
| Navya Kartha |
5th |
San Antonio/Austin |
III |
| Group 6 – grade 6 – 8 |
|
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| Kaavya Valiveti |
7th |
CM/DFW |
I |
| Nimay Kulkarni |
6th |
CM/DFW |
II |
| Rohitha Kaimal |
6th |
CM/DFW |
III |
| Raaga Vemula |
8th |
CM/DFW |
III |
| Group 7 – grade 9 -12 | |||
| Meghana Bellary |
9th |
CM/DFW |
I |
| Rashmi Kammath |
12th |
CM/DFW |
I |
| Bharathy Sunkara |
10th |
CM/DFW |
II |
| Neethu Krishna Unnikrishnan |
11th |
San Antonio/Austin |
III |
