For Beneetta Varghese, a 10th grade student, it was making toys from naturally available materials like leaves, bamboo, areca palm, plantain stem etc.
She used to post their photos on her WhatsApp status, and that caught the attention of her teachers who encouraged her to take part in a national competition, Kala Utsav, organised by the India government's Ministry of Education.
This student of St Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Kallody, Wayanad, Kerala, cleared the block level, the district level and the state level, and reached the national level, where her passion was rewarded with the first prize.
This is the news in today's The Hindu, Thiruvananthapuram edition.
