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At IT Kids, children get to score music
Ranit Mukherji
Calcutta, April 28: After cities in the south and west of India, Calcutta parents will get a chance to groom budding AR Rahmans and James Cameroons. At the age of nine and ten, children are mixing tracks to compose the popular scores of "Bombay" or editing rough-cuts to make a new "Titanic". All this courtesy IT Kids, which launched its first centre in Calcutta this week, with a unique education curriculum for children between four and 14 years of age."Having imbibed the necessary technology, children can mix tracks with a paper and a pencil, or remove a track from a score with an eraser," says V Narayan, director. "The idea is to bring out their creative selves and spare them of the horror of mugging up lessons". A joint venture between technocrat experts like Narayan and the Mumbai-based Indchem Group, IT Kids already has over 85 centres in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa and has trained about 10,000 children. Customer satisfaction is about 95 per cent, they claim. Another 300 centres - of them 20 in Calcutta- may be set up in the next one year. "Our uniqueness lies in drawing up an essentially technology-savvy curriculum, with special stress on basic values like honesty and without pedantic overtones," adds Narayan. Copyright © 2000 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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