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A long-running free international competition of the Children's Book Trust, New Delhi, open to children below 16 (so Class 9-10 students are eligible) who send an original painting, drawing or piece of English writing by post; prizes include the President of India's Gold Medal.
Started in 1949 by cartoonist K. Shankar Pillai under Shankar's Weekly and now about 160,000 entries from over 160 countries. Free choice of theme. Paintings or drawings in any medium, at least 30 x 40 cm, unmounted (no computer printouts, lino-cuts, batiks or scans); written work only in English (poems, plays, short stories, essays, descriptive writing). Prizes: the President of India's Gold Medal for the best painting or drawing, the Shankar's Award for the best written work, 15 Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Gold Medals, about 300 silver medals, about 300 prizes and certificates of merit; best entries are published in Shankar's Children's Art Number and the children's magazine Children's World.