Santhini Govindan awarded a Lok Sabha Fellowship in October 2018
'Meet the Author' Creative Writing Workshop for students of Std 7 & 8, at the Bombay Scottish School, Powai. February 20th and 22nd, 2018.
Kahani Takbak is hosting a chat with Santhini where she speaks about her experiences in writing and submitting manuscripts to publishers - October 13th 2017
Santhini was Chief Guest at the Inter-School Competition 'The Linguist - A Language Extravaganza' at the Universal School, Ghatkopar on August 5th, 2017.
Santhini was at Dehradun, at the invitation of the WIC literary festival from April 19th to April 22nd 2017. You can read about it here
September 30th 2016 -Santhini was judge at the L ward Elocution competition for teachers and Juniour College students at St.Josephs Hugh School, Kurla West.
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RECENT NEWS Santhini was chief guest of annual day celebrations at the Vellammal Global School, Mambakkam, in Chennai April 1st 2017.
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Santhini facilitating a workshop at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in April. Read more here
OCTOBER 15TH , 2015 - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s birth anniversary, October 15th was declared as Vaachan Prerna Diwas or Reading Day in all schools of Maharashtra, by the state’s Education Minister Vinod Tawde. The state asked all students from class III to class VIII to leave their school bags at home on that day, and read non-academic books at school. Schools were asked to introduce students to well-known authors.
SEPTEMBER,2015 - Santhini conducted workshops with the children of St.Gregorious school, Chembur , Mumbai where she reinforced the concepts of dialogue using Mullah Nassiruddin stories and folk tales as examples. The kids did a story writing exercise (based on a picture showing two characters) where they wrote the dialogue either in a story, or poem form.
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