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20)Republic Day parade: Before a dance to remember long rehearsals little sleep

India Republic Day -- Together with the Prime Minister and the Leader in the audience 14-year-old Daksh Chopra couldnt have called for a better stage to boogie on. A student of Rohinis Mount Abu school having been one of the 150 students who else performed at the Rajpath with Republic Day. Dressed in striking attire and sporting buns plaits and parted locks the children put up a show representing the 10-member countries of ASEAN whose leaders too were in presence. We were divided into groupings and each group did the dance form of one of the 12 ASEAN countries. I was inside Vietnam group and we did a fan dance. In December most of us researched on the dance observed videos and then devised the choreography said Nandini Madhukar (14). It was with mid-December that the students aged between 12 and 14 began rehearsing for the performance. They spent the night at school on Thursday had dinner there got ready and also reached Rajpath at 7 am on Friday. Many of us watched the event on TV