Special children, orphans come together to paint their vision about India, draw logos and motifs

It was a very special day for two groups of children – one afflicted with cerebral palsy, a condition that is caused by a problem in the parts of a baby's brain and the other left destitute by poverty, parents and society, and vulnerable to social exploitation and trafficking.

What bound the two groups together on Friday was the pure joy they had and also the "remarkable maturity" they displayed in "drawing their dreams" about their very own India.

The occasion was the drawing competition organised in separate venues by CII in celebration of the India@75 Week (from 8-14 August).

At Institute of Cerebral Palsy, the venue of the first such competition, some the institute's 30 bold pupils proved that symptoms like difficulty in walking or controlling movement, or speech problems can neither destroy their dream of a swachh and swasth Bharat, nor stale nor impair their creative faculty.

Pooja (16), an inmate of Mother Teresa Missionaries of Charity Orphanage, India of my Dream betokens a fond wish that hers will be a country where "everyone will always smile, and never fight".

Her sister, Pampa, who too suffers from the dreaded congenital disease, is on the same page. Her suggested logo for India is a "smiley".

Nazia Khatoon, a happy little 16-year-old adolescent, endorses. A little chatty, Nazia loves music and she's got a strong personality. Watching IPL matches is her

"passion", and her idol is Virat Kohli. But when she is asked about her Dream India, pat comes the answer: "My country must be healthy, secure and clean."

Incidentally, Nazia Khatoon won the first prize in the competition.

But more than anything what refreshed all was the spectacle of a scream of joy in unison – almost everyone was desperate to "jump up from their wheelchairs or the special chair" to savour Nazia's drawing glory.