KARACHI, Nov 9: To celebrate the 95th year of establishment of the Mama Parsi School, students of the historical educational institution, ably supported by their teachers, put up a very impressive three-day exhibition based on world geography and history.

It was evident from the manner in which the students had put on display the models of various important places (cities, monuments, landmark buildings, watershed events, etc) from different parts of the world that prior to the show they did painstaking research so that when they greeted the visitors to the exhibition they provided them with the correct pieces of information.For example, the room dedicated to Greece had posters on Greek gods and what someone like Zeus or Poseidon symbolised or stood for. And how could they have missed out on the site of Delphi? The models made of plastic and thermopol sheets were aesthetically pleasing as well.

This doesn’t mean that students overlooked contemporary developments in the world. The Brazilian room had all the relevant history of the country but at the same time two young girls could be seen in the famous Brazilian football clothing. One of the t-shirts had footballer Kaka’s name on the back.Turkey was represented, among other things, by Bosphorus Bridge, beautifully made by class VII students.

The Pakistani room perhaps had the most number of visitors, understandably so. All the four provinces were nicely represented, and it was a treat to look at the Bolan Pass (Balochistan) and Jehangir Kothari Parade (Sindh).

Speaking to Dawn, principal of the school Furengeez Darius Tampal said, “This is one of the celebratory events. We started working on it when the school reopened in August for the new academic session. It’s a research-based exhibition in which we’ve tried to cover all disciplines (maths, history, geography) along with a lot of cultural exchange.”

The exhibition concluded on Saturday on the premises of the 95-year-old stone-made school.