Friday, 15 July 2011

Hyderabad girl wins Spell Bee

HDFC Life Spell Bee, India Spells 2011, powered by Times of India in association withEveronn Education Limited and flipkart.com, this year witnessed the biggest and toughest competitors from across 25 cities and has finally announced this year's winner, Kaavya Muralidhar, from Hyderabad. Soham Choudhry (Kolkata) and Rhea Rodrigues (Goa) gave her a tough fight. 

Over six weeks, 27 finalists competed for the national winner of Spell Bee India 2011 title. Atmajyoti Mahapatra (Bhubaneswar), Vaswati Das (Guwahati), Soham Chowdhury (Kolkata), Rhea Rodrigues (Goa) and Kaavya were finalists in the last episode. 'Parachutist,' 'schooner' and 'conscientious' were the words that Kaavya spelt in a row to get her the top position. 

She said she got hooked onto words and spellings while watching the movie 'Akeelah and the Bee' four years ago.

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