By Vimal Kapoor
Young ‘Aryashree’ class v student of 'Welham girls school' had dream in her eyes, celebrities like Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan, Pathan brothers-Yusuf and Irfan were her heroes, larger than life, performing swashbuckling heroics for India on cricket field.
She often wondered whether she would ever see them face to face in real life. Then she got the opportunity of not only meeting these daredevil Knights in person, but also leading them on to the field, and that too in prestigious tournament 'Champions Trophy' taking place in magical, mystical South Africa!
It was opportunities that fell in her lap, like a ripe mango, call it destiny or whatever but young Aryashree was selected as one of the winner of "LG X1 lead your champs contest". LG the electronics giants were promoting young talent, and the 30 sec clipping of Aryashree playing sitar impressed the judges and she was roped in to go to S.A.
This 10 year child prodigy is not only an excellent sitar player but also a skilful 'Bharat Natyam' dancer, this talent she has undoubtedly inherited from her mother 'Mrs Rajlakshmi" who is considered as one of the best 'Guru' of Bharatnatyam in entire Uttarakhand and many girls of Welham school where she instills and hones creative skills in this ancient dance form would vouch for this, her father P.K.Kunhamboo, HR executive in ONGC went with her on this all expenses paid trip. Aryashree led legendry offspinner 'Harbhajan Singh' at 'Centurian cricket stadium' against Pakistan, spinner 'Amit Mishra at 'Wandereres 'and 'Yusuf Pathan (see Pic) at centurian again, she interacted with many Indian and International cricketers, and ended her dream trip by after visiting famous 'nelson Mandela' square, Sun City and Pilanesberg National Park. There is a well known quote-" The dream was always running ahead of me,to catch up to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle!!
She often wondered whether she would ever see them face to face in real life. Then she got the opportunity of not only meeting these daredevil Knights in person, but also leading them on to the field, and that too in prestigious tournament 'Champions Trophy' taking place in magical, mystical South Africa!
It was opportunities that fell in her lap, like a ripe mango, call it destiny or whatever but young Aryashree was selected as one of the winner of "LG X1 lead your champs contest". LG the electronics giants were promoting young talent, and the 30 sec clipping of Aryashree playing sitar impressed the judges and she was roped in to go to S.A.
This 10 year child prodigy is not only an excellent sitar player but also a skilful 'Bharat Natyam' dancer, this talent she has undoubtedly inherited from her mother 'Mrs Rajlakshmi" who is considered as one of the best 'Guru' of Bharatnatyam in entire Uttarakhand and many girls of Welham school where she instills and hones creative skills in this ancient dance form would vouch for this, her father P.K.Kunhamboo, HR executive in ONGC went with her on this all expenses paid trip. Aryashree led legendry offspinner 'Harbhajan Singh' at 'Centurian cricket stadium' against Pakistan, spinner 'Amit Mishra at 'Wandereres 'and 'Yusuf Pathan (see Pic) at centurian again, she interacted with many Indian and International cricketers, and ended her dream trip by after visiting famous 'nelson Mandela' square, Sun City and Pilanesberg National Park. There is a well known quote-" The dream was always running ahead of me,to catch up to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle!!
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