| With her special achievements in academic and extra-curricular activities, multi-faceted talent Jahnavi Prasad, an SSLC student of St Joseph’s College in the city, has shown all potentials of attaining a bright future. | |
| Daughter of B N Prasad, the manager of Canara Bank branch here and C N Thejaswini, Jahnavi has secured several awards in the competitions held at different parts of the State. A budding talent in education, arts and sports field, she is the only student from Madikeri to secure the merit scholarship, given by the State government in 2007-08.
Jahnavi’s mother Thejaswini is a dancer. Hence, the girl has naturally endowed with the talent. She has already given dance performances at different places for the past seven years, and is presently undergoing rigorous training from Vidushi Dr Vidya Muralihar of Madikeri for the senior grade in Bharatanatyam. Jahnavi Prasad has passed the Kannada entrance exam conducted by the Kannada Sahitya Parishat by securing 178 marks out of 200. She has also passed the all India level general knowledge exam with distinction conducted by the Centre for Human Resource Development, Bangalore, in 2005 and secured a scholarship too. The girl has also cleared the national-level scholarship contest conducted by the National Council for Development of Education, Chandigarh, this year. She has the credit of being third in the district in the Bharatantyam junior grade exam (2007-08) by securing 352 marks out of 400. Jahnavi is good at Mathematics too. She surprised the peers by winning the ‘Professor of Maths’ award, clearing an exam conducted by National Educations, Bangalore, as early as 2002. She was the topper at the national-level in a competitive exam on Science conducted by ICETC, Davangere, in 2006-07. Naturally, Jahnavi is a favourite of her teachers and friends. Proving her potentials in sports, she has won the first place in the Bangalore south zonal level table tennis tourney hosted by Bangalore Urban Zilla Panchayat and Public Instructions Department source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Madikeri / DH News Service / Aug 29th, 2009 |
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