The Autumn Moon Festival is a prominent Asian holiday that signifies the end of the rice harvest on the day of a full moon.

During my summer internship with the Quincy Summer Youth Corps, I created a tour video for Hancock Cemetery, a historical landmark which serves as the final resting place for multiple high profile people.

Over the course of last year, I did extensive research on the history of film and art.

Over the summer, my brother and his soccer team participated in a tournament between teams from all over the state, sponsored by the New England Revolution, a professional soccer team based in Massachusetts.

Working on a high-profile presidential event is a huge honor, responsibility, and privilege which very few people get a chance to participate.

While producing a show is a daunting task, hosting a TV show is a completely different challenge.

Flag Day is a national holiday in the United States, commemorating the day the current American flag was officially adopted – June 14, 1776.

I have been a referee for the past 3 years, and it has taught me many valuable lessons in being a leader and handling people.

As a part of my internship with QATV, I was given a project to make a video commercial for Nut Island, an island in Quincy, MA.

My first project on my internship with QATV was to make a public safety announcement (PSA) advertising Cleaner Greener Quincy, an annual event centered around cleaning up the city and making it a better place.

While the coronavirus pandemic has put a lot of obstacles in the way of resuming regular life, one benefit was that it gave me the time to focus on my physical fitness.

At school, we were asked to make an animation video. It required out-of-the-box thinking, and it dawned upon me to make a stop motion video.

Comets have fascinated mankind for thousands of years. About 2 months ago, we got to witness Neowise – a comet that has been around for over 4,000 years – come into visibility via the naked eye for the first time since 2006.

Over the centuries, history has been preserved through multiple forms and mediums, with one very prominent form being art.

This is a poem I wrote for a writing competition held by Quincy Public Schools.

As the pandemic was shaping the new world, my father was evolving his company and its products.

Coronavirus has had a massive impact on the world, with many major events forced to cancel due to social distancing advisories and fear of spreading the virus.

To begin remote learning for my broadcasting class, our first assignment was to make a video about how the coronavirus has affected our lives and what we are doing now to adapt to this situation.

Over the course of last week, I managed to binge watch all of the series “Sherlock”, directed by Paul McGuigan and Toby Haynes.

One week has passed since school was cancelled. In this period of time, restaurants, gyms, and any non-essential businesses have also been closed down, with grocery stores now the only buildings that remain open.

The recent coronavirus pandemic has had a catastrophic effect on the world, causing mass panic and sending world superpowers into chaos.

Time – It’s a fascinating yet somewhat contradictory concept. It seems to be never ending, slow, and at times goes at a speed mirroring a snail.

Film and broadcasting have been an interest of mine for a long time now. I have always enjoyed making videos, and take pleasure in editing and creating small “movies”.

Often times in school, class can be boring, and a basic wipe board lesson with notes isn’t enough to get the information across to us as students.

To this point in my life, I have been both a soccer player and a soccer referee. However, there was one position that had managed to evade me: being a coach.

Store-brought food is an easy way to get the food you love without having to work for it.

Being an actor is a strenuous job. It requires heart, stamina, and above all, dedication.

As I wake up, the birds greet me with their joyous chirping. “That’s odd, they are not this active in the winter.” I think to myself, as a ray of sunshine hits my face.

Self portraits can often be an artist’s most iconic work. They tend to bring out one’s inner thoughts and ideas, and can provide the viewer an insight into the author’s life.

Wishing you all success in 2020!!!!!!

Creativity can go a long way, especially in the classroom. It has the ability to take boring lessons and topics, and make them fun and enjoyable.

Happy New Year to you and your family! May the year 2019 bring you unparalleled success!

It’s the day every student dreams of. It’s the day every teacher dreads. It’s also the day that signifies the start of a new beginning.

This week, my high school drama club finished our spring production – “Our Town“. It was written by Thornton Wilder in 1938 and follows the life of the people in the fictional town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire.

This week, I started taking a culinary class in Freshmen Seminar where we will be learning the basics of cooking, and how to make easy meals… We started off with making a crêpe.

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend to a talk by Sir Richard J. Roberts. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1993, for his work in discovering and demonstrating the division of RNA into their introns and exons.

A few months ago, I got the chance to be a referee in my brother’s soccer game. It was a great experience, and I then went through the process to become a certified referee. Today was my first official day as a certified referee.

Today I presented my project on Viscosity to people at the 5th South Shore Science Festival.

In the English Class, we read Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. As an exercise, we were split into groups, and each made a diorama of one scene from the play.

Every society has its own culture and norms that have been followed for many decades.

In our freshman seminar class, we have one term in which we cover the trades (plumbing, welding, automotive, etc.), and get a first hand experience in these fields.

A referee is one of the most important parts of the game, responsible for controlling and maintaining the safety of the players.

The thoughts of a tree as a lumberjack approaches it….

This past week in art class, we learnt about the different ways artists observe a photo reference. There are many tricks and skills that they use to draw various objects.

After completing my line drawing, I had an abundance of time remaining in class. So, I decided to do one of the other projects available.

Have you ever taken a minute to observe the world around you? If you did, you may have noticed that everything we see is made of lines and shapes.

As I was working today evening, we had an unexpected event just outside our door.

Last week in art class, we learnt about how to make color gradation using color pencils. We were told to implement our learning in a project.

Referees are among the most important part of any sport.

We freshmen are going through Freshmen Seminar – an opportunity to experience the various electives offered at our school.

In today’s day and age, a phone is an essential to survival and success. It allows you to be versatile and efficient.

Rivalries are some of the best parts of sports, for both fans and players alike. Great friends off the pitch become bitter rivals on the pitch.

The past week has been a huge transition for me. It was my first full week of high school. The last transition I have made before going out into the world as an adult.

School is the place where we learn what we need for success in life. It is a place to have fun, make new friends, and prepare for our adult lives.

As you all know, soccer has been my passion in the past few years. While I have been playing in my local league, Quincy Youth Soccer, for the past 3 seasons, I have wanted to step up my game to a new level.

Sometimes in school, it takes more than just a picture and a lesson to learn about a place. In these cases, a field trip can prove useful. That was exactly the case on Wednesday, when me and my classmates traveled on a 3 day trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Thursday, June 1, marked a huge day in my life. It was the day of the Spring Concert, a celebration of the arts, both academic and musical. It would also be my final Spring Concert at Central.

This weekend, I participated in the 2018 Quincy Public Schools Robotics Challenge, a competition between all the middle schools (and some elementary schools). As I move to high school next year, this would be my last year doing LEGO Robotics.

For the annual 8th grade year book cover page challenge, students from the Central Middle School were invited to participate in the challenge to design the cover book.

This year’s South Shore Science Festival in Quincy was unlike any of the others I have done before. I presented Thin Layer Chromatography to the general public.

Wishing all of you a Happy New Year 2018!

As they stood in the cold at Times Square, they started looking back on the year, with all the good things, and not so good things.

This past week, I was a part of Singin’ in the Rain Jr, a spin-off of the original movie Singin’ in the Rain with the Central Middle School (CMS) Drama Club.

On Wednesday, June 14, 2017, me and my classmates went on a trip to Camp Wing, a camp in Duxbury, Massachusetts. We stayed for 3 days and 2 nights, and engaged in many activities.

It stared at the caterpillar resting on the leaf. It seemed to sense it’s every movement, the caterpillar, changes his position with every flinch of it’s beak, fighting back the urge to lash out at the insect.

A few weeks ago, I tried my hand at a new recipe: Skewers. This was the first time I had attempted to make anything like this. Although it did not turn out as planned, I felt it was a good first attempt. Instead of using the stove, I used the grille.

Wishing you and all your family members a happy New Year!

The lava was pouring out. People were running for their lives. Houses were being devoured and melted.

As I was going through and organizing the living room, I came upon a paper towel roll (just the inner roll part, no tissues on it).

My latest work “A Bostonian two-masted schooner” is a ship sailing near the Castle Island, Boston. I used the Impressionistic Style, so the faces of the people are blurry and the colors maintain a fairly dark shade to demonstrate the play of light.

People sometimes ask me what plans do I have for the weekend. And what do I say? Do I go shopping? Do I stay at home? Do I go places? Travel? Play? I say, “Nothing.” That’s it. I’ll tell you why. In my opinion, planning is for the weekdays.

About three weeks ago, I added another twist to my previously known Cracker Pizza. The one twist: It’s more like a real pizza. For example, in the old version, I used a cracker as the base and then added sauce and cheese.

Over the summer, I read the autobiography of Sachin Tendulkar, one of the most celebrated Indian cricket players of all time, and one of the best to play the game ever. He talked about his childhood, his strive to make it to the Indian team, and how he became one of the best cricket players

Today, I started my 7th grade year. I was excited to return to school, while at the same time, I wished I had more vacation. Leading up to this day, whenever anyone asked if I was excited to be back in school, I almost always said “No”.

Over the summer, during my two-month long trip to India, I got my first experience of a typical Malayali wedding. It was my uncle’s wedding. In case you do not know what that means, it is a wedding of the people originating from Kerala, a southern state in India. People from Kerala are called Malay

Update: I am proud that this painting received a honorable mention at the Quincy Arts Festival 2016… Before going to India for the summer, my mother and I thought, “Why not we do something exciting?”. So, we decided to both do the same object, but from a different perspective.

On Friday, 17th June, 2016, I finished my sixth grade year. It was a tremendous year at school. I would like to thank my teachers and friends for helping me get through the year, and adapt to the pressure that would occasionally mount. Some of the biggest moments of the school year included Lego Rob

“Here they come, bursting on the counter attack, this might be their last of the match. Mascherano’s ball in for Di Maria, who bursts past Marcello, gets the cross in for Messiiiii……. and a beautiful overhead kick, into the back of the net, beating the helpless Diego Alves!

On June 27, hours after Chile beat Argentina 4-2 on penalties to win the Copa Americá Centenario, the world of international football faced a substantial blow – the retirement announcement from arguably the best player in the world, Lionel Messi. This shocked many, especially because of the fact tha

Yesterday, the whole sixth grade embarked on a journey to Camp Wing. It was my last day in 6th grade and hence it was a great way to end the school year. When we reached Camp Wing in the morning, we were told about the rules. The most important rule was the “Rule of Three”. This […]

Shark Tank was a competition in my school in which we had to create a company, and make a product. One condition was that the company should be in a different country than the USA. You can choose any country of your choice.

This weekend, I participated in the 2016 Quincy Public School Robotics Challenge. My team name was Lego Masterminds and we did well with our highest points being 135. Our team was very consistent, getting more than 100 points in each one of the four rounds. The main theme of the challenge was Senior

On May 14, 2016, The Art Spot hosted the City Wide Kids Art show for the second year in a row. Three of my past paintings were on display (Evening Glaciers, Celebrating the Indian Premier League, and Lionel Messi: Soccer Legend). I thank my teacher, Ms. Sharon Pierce, for displaying them.

On May 5, 2016, I received my black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Even though I had completed the test on April 3rd, the ceremony was held a month later. During this time, we had to refine on the various comments provided by the Grand Master.

Yesterday, there was a science fair by the South Shore Science Team at the Quincy Center for Innovation. I had participated presenting our school Science Fair project called The Self Inflating Balloon. My partner, Adam Manter, and I had worked on this project at my school for a couple of months unde

Welcome to my 100th post, the Killer Whales. It is one of my first paintings on marine animals. I chose to do this painting to add to my collection of animal paintings. Boston Children’s Museum has called for proposals for All Things Animals from different artists and I plan to submit my animal coll

A few days ago, I was playing on the iPad, when I thought to myself, “Why not try to draw something?” So, I went to the paper app and pasted a photo on it. I just scribble something on it when again an idea hit me. “How about tracing the details and the overall face?

I was creating this comic character long ago. Unfortunately, I did not complete it and had totally forgotten about it until now. I suddenly found this today and thought of sharing it with you.

A few months ago, in my Geography class, we learnt about the cuisine in different countries in a fun and exciting way. Top Chef was a competition where every kid had to research and present about the cuisine of a country, assigned by spinning what we know as the Wheel of Destiny.

Even though Christmas is over, I can still hear the “Ho, Ho, Ho” of the joly old St. Nick (otherwise known as Santa Claus). But I’m not talking about the Santa that lives in the North Pole. I’m talking about the Santa Claus that lives in my latest painting

Wishing all of you a Happy New Year, 2016!!!!!! Last year I made a New Year’s card using Wordle.net. This year, I learnt to use the Paper app on the iPad and so did my 4 year old brother Nikhil. So together, we made this new year’s card.

Peacock is India’s National Bird and my second painting of an animal after the Cobra and by far, one of the hardest paintings that I have done. It took me more than 2 months to finish this majestic bird. I had to overcome my laziness more than any other technical challenge to complete this work.

Last week, we had “Sounds of the Season – Holiday Concert”, my first concert at Central Middle School. I was one of the band members playing the Clarinet. We started practicing since the end of September and performed the following songs

In Reading class, I had an assignment to read a 250 or more page book and then choose one of the four assignments: Scrapbook, Newspaper Article, Create a Test or Rewrite the Ending. The book that I selected was “Soccer in Sun and Shadow” by Eduardo Galeano (ISBN 978-1-56858-494-2).

Today was the 2015 First Lego League (FLL) Lego Robotics competition at the Newton North High School. The top 6 teams advanced to the State Level Championships to be held in late December.

Although Halloween is over, I’m still enjoying it’s wonders (and by wonders, I mean candy)… I carved a pumpkin, went trick or treating, and got lots of candy.

Hello, and welcome to the UEFA Champions League final. It’s finally here; it’s El Classico, one of the great rivalries in soccer (football) history.

Last Tuesday, I went to the Discover Quincy Arts and Culture. It was a meeting for artists all over Quincy and hosted by one of the City Councilors

Supermoon only occur when the moon reaches the full moon stage when it is closest to the earth. So they are unusually bright and also rare.

On July 27,2015, Bostonians “bid” farewell to Boston’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics. Boston 2024 Partnership chairman Steve Pagluica announced the following statements that day

The first week of school was really exciting, especially because it was my first day at Central Middle school (for the APC program).

On Aug. 28th, 2015, my family and I celebrated Onam, the biggest festival in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

“Evening Scenery” is based on a painting “The Banks of the Oise” by the artist Charles-François Daubigny.

This match didn’t actually take place, although Barcelona have won the Spanish cup before. This painting is all about Lionel Messi, currently the best player in the world.

The old business cards that my father had, put my creative thinking to the test as I tried to make something out of them.

Read the latest from the Barclays Premier league on August 14th, 2015.

Read the latest from the Barclays Premier league on August 9th, 2015.

It’s another normal day in summer, right? WRONG. Today, the final two teams in the Barclays Premier League will play their first game.

Another season of excitement, frustration, and achievement literally “kicks” off as the 2015-2016 English Premier League begins.

The United States population is 320.09 million. But what is its national bird? If you guessed “bald eagle”, you’re right! Its scientific name is “Haliaeetus leucophalus”.

This is my second sports painting and the first on cricket. A cricket bat is in the process of smashing the ball in the air. In this painting, I focused on reflection and use of color.

During the last 9 months of research on Impressionism, I found a lot of words/artist names repeated continuously while talking or reading about Impressionism.

Brotherband – Scorpion Mountain was the first big novel that I have read completely. The whole book is 451 pages long. It is the fifth book in the Brotherband series.

A few days ago, on my mom’s birthday, I was thinking of what to make for her. Then it struck… Special “Chocolate Sauce”… Hmmm yum!!!

Last week, at Point Painters, an after school program in our school, I finished making a clay mask. It looked really cool! See the picture… And, it even fit in my face!

I am in the 5th grade Point Webster Robotics Team and will be competing against the other middle schools in Quincy, MA for the President’s Cup on Saturday, May 16, 2015.

We got an hour to work on something that will go in front of our display board. Since the paper paint brush idea failed, I thought of making a brush with clay.

As I was finishing up my display board, I thought why not make some design on the outside to give people a head’s up of what they are going to see inside.

A lot of times it is hard to remember which of the four cardinal directions are pointing where. But I have a weird, yet simple trick that will make it remembering

I extremely enjoyed doing the correspondence because I got to write letters to professionals on my topic. I wrote three letters, and I feel lucky to have gotten responses from all of them.

I was filling my project display board with information about Impressionism. Ah, I notice a huge blank spot on the right side of the display board.

There was once a man named “John Smith”.

This is my own creation which I call the “Nanini” meaning Nandan’s Panini. Although this sandwich originated in Italy

This is a poster which I made for Fire Prevention Week. In it, I wrote different pieces of information that will help in case of fire and also illustrated it with pictures. Hope you enjoy it.

This is a sketch of Vincent Van Gogh. I created this sketch for my ELC project, similar to the sketch of Claude Monet.

Brazil vs Argentina was my first ever soccer painting. The main theme of this painting was to bring Lionel Messi and Neymar Da Silva Santos Jr., two of the greatest soccer players (in my opinion) of the current time together.

What do you do when you have 6 feet of snow outside and locked inside for the past 2 weeks with no school? Well, you could draw something…

This was a sketch which I decided to do for my project on Impressionism for the Elementary Laboratory Center (ELC) Program.

For ELC class at Central Middle School, we were preparing the students newsletter. Everyone was contributing some information.

This painting, similar to my painting The Impressionistic Pear, was done in the art style called Impressionism.

Wishing all of you a Very Happy New Year 2015!!! I created this greeting card using a tool I learnt about from my ELC teacher

I am now a red-stripe blue belt in Tae-Kwon-Do. It was very difficult, but I finally became a red stripe. I am now 2 belts away from being a black belt.

I am glad to inform you about my article on Soccer that was published in the Point Paper, the magazine published

Today, I am very happy that I have achieved something very special: You are reading my 50th blog!

Just yesterday, I managed to combine many different ingredients and crackers to make a big cracker platter.

Just recently I managed to create 3 mouth watering desserts that will have your taste buds go to heaven!!!!!

Last Friday was my first day at School! Now, some of you might be thinking, “Wasn’t my first day three weeks ago?”.

Last Wednesday was a special day for me. The reason was because it was my first day at school. But not just any typical first day at school

Since I recently finished a painting of a Cobra, and I have grown an interest in snakes ,I have decided to write a report on all my research

A McDonald’s made out of a refrigerator box… Enjoy!!!

The Majestic Cobra is my first reptile painting. I am fascinated by Cobra’s and King Cobra’s because of their hood and unique abilities.

This was my second painting on natural disasters. It was also a very challenging painting because I had to add shading to lava as well as the mountains.

Last time, I wrote about my special dish – How to Make Cracker Pizza. Now, with a few odd but different ingredients, I have managed to create “Cracker Pizza – Double Deluxe”.

Yesterday was a very special day for me because not only was it my birthday, but I also turned 10!

Right now, I look back a week ago when I finished 4th grade. It was until now my greatest year at school.

This was my project report on Crocodiles that I made in my 4th grade. Hope you all enjoy reading it.

Last week, during the Annual 4th Grade Breakfast Ceremony at my school (Clifford Marshall School, Quincy, MA), I was given the

About 2-3 months ago, I took a long test called SAGES-2. I passed both of them and was accepted into a newly rebuilt Central Middle School.

The North River Art Society‘s Festival of the Arts – 2014 was the first art festival that I ever participated in. Before the day of the festival, I sent

“E5 Madness” was the first painting that I did with Ms. Sharon. It is also the first painting that I have made on a natural disaster. In this painting, I made the decisions on what and how to paint.

Just a few weeks ago, I learned how to make Cracker Pizza’s. They are like regular pizza’s, just smaller. They are also easy to make.

The PLEAF6 (Proto-Lego-Electric-Alien-Fighter-6) is the first spaceship I have ever built using Legos.

Please visit Flickr and have a look the photos of my first art show on 15th March. It was a great experience.

Before the art show, I would like to thank the one who got me here, Ms. Sandra. Thank you for all the great moments you’ve given me. There are so many memories I’ve had, I’ve made a timeline of those memories:

This painting, among all my paintings, was my favorite one. The funny thing about this was the fact that even though it was about the biggest canvas in Michaels

“The Swans” is my second painting that I have done on a giant canvas. It is a 5 ft by 4 ft and it is also bigger than my Grand Tree. It is much bigger than I am. While working on this painting,

The Sippy Cup Place is going to have its annual art show on the 15th March, 2014 at 2:00PM. During the last 3 annual art shows, I have enjoyed to put up exhibits with all other kids.

In this picture, I tried to make reflections as the central part of my painting using the impressionistic style.

When I was thinking of Prime and Composite Numbers and also thinking about the TV show “Tom and Jerry”,

This was my first comic art which I created by myself. I also want to thank my friend Sai from my class who helped me create the giant purple zombie robot

Whenever you paint, you always want to make it look realistic with the same color as you may observe it.

On December 5th, 2013, I got a chance to join a few students and staff from my school to attend a band orchestra called “‘Tis the Season… Symphony & Song!”.

During my third art lesson, I learn’t a few more techniques to do the painting. Most of them had to do with how to show reflection.

This is the first time that I have ever made a TV using cardboard. I decided to make this because I saw a cardboard box that had a opening in the front like a TV.

When painting large objects, giving light effects is easy. However, it is tricky to paint thinner objects and show light and shading effects.

I and my family wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving and a great family dinner tonight. Hope all of you have a great holiday season ahead.

I learnt a few sketching tips while starting a scenery painting that I want to share:

This painting was the first painting which I made after coming back from a nice trip from India. This painting, like my first painting – “Lighthouse in the Grasslands”, was painted using the impressionistic painting style.

You can find the pictures of all the Apple products that I created at the following links:

Using my imagination, I created a model of the battle field of American Revolution as shown in the photo.

This was a few weeks ago at my school on a Tuesday. In our Social Studies class, instead of reading and writing in our notebooks, we decided that we would make our own landforms.

Two weeks ago, my fourth grade teacher, Ms. Errichello (Ms. E), gifted everyone in the class with a book.

Many artists paint outside and inside. However getting paint on your hands and face is common for most artists.

Today, I read the book “Fill Your Oil Painting with Light and Color” by Kevin Macpherson.

This painting is an Egyptian Eye. Not only is it an eye, but it is also a hieroglyph.

“The Grand Tree” is one of my most challenging paintings because the canvas was large.

This painting is a forest that is deep in the wild. In this painting, I once again used my imagination and the pallet knife.

This painting was the first painting in which I did not use any photograph, but used my imagination.

The person you see in this painting isn’t just any one, it’s me! This is my self-portrait, only in thermal mode. In this painting, my teacher printed a thermal picture of me and I painted it.

The lighthouse in the grasslands was my first painting when my parents sent me for private art lessons at The Sippy Cup Place, Quincy.