By S. Mayuri
This morning was different from the nature of classes we had so far.
Our 'chief', Vincent D' Souza, wanted us to have a first hand knowledge on getting story leads in the field.
For this purpose we assembled at Annai Velankanni Madha Church, Besant Nagar at 9 am.We missed one of our class mates, Varsha, as we were informed that she was unwell.
We assembled in front of the book store of the church campus. Our first exercise was to make a note of all we had observed around us.Then, we went around the campus with the objective of finding stories.
We regrouped again after 15 minutes, made our presentations and deliberated on the story leads we had gathered.We then walked down Elliots Beach road - the intention was to find story ideas as we looked around.
While we were walking, there was a minor accident - the dupatta of a girl who was on the back seat of a cycle which was used by a girl, got caught in the wheel.
On seeing this we rushed to help her. We successfully removed the dupatta from the chain but the chain system needed some attention. While we were helping the girls, others who passed by just stared and went their way.
Just there, while we were discussing more story ideas near a parked car, some thing dropped on the car - it was a part of a dead rat dropped by a flying crow.
We realised how things just happened if you cared to observe.We were also briefed about the local area, the development over the years and the things that took place on the beach.Each could be a good news story to report.
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