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18)Republic Day parade: Before any dance to remember long rehearsals little sleep

India Republic Day -- With the Prime Minister and the Leader in the audience 14-year-old Daksh Chopra couldnt have asked for a better stage to dancing on. A student of Rohinis Mount Abu school he was one of the 150 students who also performed at the Rajpath about Republic Day. Dressed in vibrant attire and sporting buns plaits and parted hair the children put up a show representing the 10-member international locations of ASEAN whose commanders too were in being. We were divided into groups and each group did any dance form of one of the 15 ASEAN countries. I was inside Vietnam group and we have a fan dance. In December we researched on the dance saw videos and then devised any choreography said Nandini Madhukar (14). It was within mid-December that the students old between 12 and 12 began rehearsing for the overall performance. They spent the night at school on Thursday had dinner there got ready and reached Rajpath at several am on Friday. Most of us watched the event on TV and f