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Dear Students, our young inquisitive explorers, I’m sure you all get excited during the festive Diwali season. This is the special time that we spend with our friends and family, neighbours and loved ones. It is the time to show the world that 'we care.' But caring for others and your Dialogue surroundings is just as important as nurturing oneself. This Diwali, as you shed the darkness around you and light a glow of happiness within your house and family, I urge you to light a candle within yourself. This 19th English edition of Chhatra Prabodhan will enlighten your Diwali. There are many obstacles in the journey of life, quite a few of them are beyond our control. We must learn to see the best in ourselves and use our strengths to fight the hurdles in our path. Our feature 'Master of my Fate' tells astonishing stories of differently abled people, who embraced their differences and steered their lives in the right direction. Their positive energy and determination will fill you with inspiration and help you to rise above your daily trifles. Remember: you cannot control what you get, but you can decide what to do with it. At the same time, I also urge you to look for such people around you, who are differently challenged. Take the initiative to befriend them and become a part of their journey. I assure you that you will also have a lot to learn from them. Together, you can help your differently abled friends explore their potentials to the fullest. Each one of you carries tremendous potential inside you, but very few realise it. What about you? What do you think stops you from exploring your full potential? I think it could be lack of self esteem, fear of failure, low ambition or simply laziness. Which of these fits you? I believe that these excuses that you give yourself could become your biggest hurdles. To help you overcome these obstacles, we have some articles on Self Development written by experts in the field. That includes a skit that you can perform in school. Share these tips with your friends. I certainly hope that these will help you mould your personality. In this edition, you will find names of books at the bottom of the pages. These English books are by authors from different countries and depict various cultures. Challenge yourself and read these by next Diwali - it will be like travelling across the world while sitting in your armchair! There is also a creative gift for you in the last two pages of the magazine. Channel your creativity and make your own lampshade. There are many activities catered to increase your enjoyment in this magazine. Would you like to read an enjoyable English edition every month? If you want this to continue in the form of a monthly magazine, please let us know at 020 24207174. Finally, I hope that this magazine will give you a different perspective on yourself and send you off on a journey of self exploration. Trust me, journeying into yourself will ultimately help you understand Yours Faithfully the world better. And remember, Chhatra Prabodhan is always Priya Dabak there to guide you in your discoveries. Assistant Editor Strike, strike at the root of misery in our hearts Give us the strength CONTENT to rise above daily trifles
Story 5 He Grew Up* – Veeraja Kamthe 18 Time to go High-Tech – Payal Mehta 44 The Valiant Soldier Paramvirchakra Abdul Hamid - Col. (Retd.) Avinash Kelkar 59 Traitor* – Avanti Athawale 85 A Life Redeemed* – Payal Mehta
Narrative 9 Rural Olympics* – Supriya Kumthekar 29 Glimpses of Dwindling Treasure* – Mandar Godbole 67 How I Went Bananas – RamG Vallath 83 Book Review* – The Lost city of Z– Mandar Godbole 95 Film Review* – Inside Out - Madhura Bapat
Poems 8 Yellow Tears – Archis Chinmulgund 23 Nature* – Neeraj Bapat 26 Let us sing to the world* – Anagha Lavalekar 57 Alchemist* – Siddhant Agate 73 Silence – Siddhant Agate 99 Diary* – Natasha Tungare
About Jnana Prabodhini Activities 4 Hindu View of Life 22 Welcome Diwali* – Hema Dhotre 77 Current Scenario 43 Gift Envelope – Hema Dhotre 100 Publications 97 Basket using Paper Plates, Fantastic Flowers – Medha Sudumbarekar 79 Science Project - Organic Toilet Cleaner* Miscellaneous - – Arva Bawkar, Shreya Bhide, 17 Tickle Your Brain Anushka Bhoir, Gayatri Panse 58 Tickle Your Funny Bone 80 Fun with Language 81 How do we decide what is right and wrong?
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Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue Sake 1941 | 2019
Special Feature - Master of my Fate - Chief Editor, Stories of Enabled Lives Publisher & Printer 34 Seeking Light* – Tejaswini Bhalekar Mahendra Sethiya 36 Finding Clarity* – Aaditya Koshe 38 Striving for Integration*- Manasi Salvekar Assistant Editor 40 Aiming for Excellence* – Tushar Nalawade Priya Dabak Editorial Assistance Informative Madhavi Dabak 15 Optical Fibre* – Asmita Sahasrabudhe Proof Reading 27 The Future of Medical Treatment* Tusharika Limaye – Shrinivas Sharangpani 51 Intellectual Property* Cover Design – Dr. Vinita Panchnadikar, Dr Nitin Shukla Abha Bhagvat 75 Urban Design* – Aseem Deodhar Illustrators 91 Natural Polymer* – Dr. Kanchanganga Gandhe Rahul Deshpande Girish Sahasrabuddhe Chitranjali Self Development Rijuta Ghate 13 The Road to Resilience – Bindu Patni Shekhar Pawar 24 Monkey See Monkey Do – Jia Sharangpaani Ramesh Nawadkar 47 An unforgettable Trip* – Dr. Vaishali Deshmukh Aarya Patil 93 Are You Self Aware* – Shoba Mary Jacob DTP & Layout Rupali Bapat Finance Dept. Creative Gift Veda Bhagwat Lampshade Sulabha Kulkarni About the Cover- Shruti Gokhale Our cover page features a tree which is a reflection of society; a society Publicity & that is all-inclusive and integrates Distribution people of diverse abilities. Even the Rahul Dhaygude ground where this tree has taken root is composed of different shades and textures. Jyoti Pawar The white leaves represent the openness to don Aparna Ghate any colour and the blue sky lends them support to Concept & Design - reach the heights of the future.----- Abha Bhagvat Rohit Kokil Address : Chhatra Prabodhan, Jnana Prabodhini, 510, Sadashiv Peth, Pune - 411 030 Phone No. : 020-24207174/175, Website : www.chhatraprabodhan.org Email : [email protected] Date of Publication : Rashtriya Saur 22 Aashwin Sake1941, 14 October 2019 Jnana Prabodhini The Organization that manifests through its work the ideology of Swami Vivekananda! A dynamic organization that enhances the self-esteem of the dormant human energy in the Nation! A movement that triggers everybody’s intellect with motivation for development, leadership and Social Change! The Seven Guiding Principles of Jnana Prabodhini’s Work Culture Excellence, Scientific Attitude, Organizational Solidarity, Development, Seeking God in humanity, Hindu view of life, Building a vibrant society Hindu View of Life Way of life is concretized through of festivals, food, ways of tailoring and wearing clothes and through ways of expressing emotions. Indian way of life is different than that of other countries. Within India too, among different states, there are differences in ways of life. The Indian or Hindu view of life defines its way of life distinctly from that of other countries and builds a common base inspite of differences in way of life within its states. Facets and Expressions of Hindu View of Life Expression of Divine Energy : According to the Hindu view of life, the same Divine Energy manifests itself in different forms in all persons in the society irrespective of caste, denominations and religions. India has seen Great Souls emerge in all these, who led their life with this view. • Jnana Prabodhini encourages study tours to study the impact of this view of life on the society in different parts of India as well as study of biographies of great souls of India Purpose of life : Each person should aspire to lead a life for full hundred years with strength, happiness and fullest engagement with work. • Jnana Prabodhini has conceptualized ‘Vidya-vrat’, ‘Veer-vrat’, ‘Vikas-vrat’, and ‘Seva-vrat’. A ‘Vrat’ is a consistent effort led with a self-chosen purpose. It visualizes vratas for earning knowledge and gaining strength for oneself, while serving and working for development of the society. Freedom of Worship : All different paths of worshipping the Divinity lead to its attainment. These paths are respected equally. There also is freedom of not worshipping or praying publicly or freedom to worship mentally only (i.e. by not performing any rituals) or just introspection and contemplation. • Jnana Prabodhini promotes participation of its members in all kinds of festivals, Worship of great souls, reciting scripts from all religions and worship of our motherland to express the respect for all religions. Two types of Practice : Study of natural phenomena through sciences, expression of the same through diversified art forms and creation of wealth and technology to use natural resources is one practice to be undertaken by any person along with practice of prayerful self-reflection (i.e. Upasana) to make a good use inner resources like mind and intellect. • Jnana Prabodhini promotes achievements, study plans and Upasana while working in any field. Societal order : There should exist a casteless, classless society not believing in any discrimination. • Jnana Prabodhini insists on time-relevant restructuring of various rituals. It also encourages training of priests irrespective of their castes and tribes. It also encourages Self-priesthood. National Attitude : All persons having views like above must organize to build a powerful nation with education, wealth-creation and value systems, which must be a part of Global Society. • Jnana Prabodhini takes effort 1) to help persons awaken their self-respect by identifying their abilities and 2) building up powerful organizations. Areas of Institutional and Organizational Work Education | Research | Rural Development| Health | Leadership Development | Awakening of Women’s Power | National Integration | Social Enterpreneurship Youth is not STORY a time of life; He Grew Up rather, it’s a - Veeraja Kamthe state of mind. Read this story about a young boy named Anay who grew up without letting go of his youth.
The day Anay outgrew me was the worst day of my life. I was sitting beside him, laughing at a joke he had made. We were watching our favourite cartoon - Shin Chan - when he accidentally changed the channel. Suddenly, a huge had changed. We watched The next month, he was green field appeared on the entire match. playing on a ground, with the screen and white and The next day, he a black and white ball that red figures moved around already had a favourite I thought, at first glance, on it. It was a football team - a name I couldn’t could be made of Oreos. match and the crowd was pronounce. A week Oreos were our favourite hysterical. later, he was begging his snack. Until, he was I waited for Anay mother for a jersey of his forbidden to eat them. to return to our usual own. He was so obsessed He completely favourite channel but and so excited, I wouldn’t stopped talking to me his eyes remained have dared to stop him. after a few more days. I glued to the screen, his I began to fade. I was would approach him with mouth dropping with always filled with colours, a new joke I had thought astonishment. I could see but now they started of, but he would ignore me that he was truly amazed to bleach out - making till I gave up. Sometimes, and fascinated. me transparent. Day by I’d be pushed away from I wish I’d told him day, I grew duller until I him by an invisible and that we were missing a remained nothing but an irresistible force that I very important episode. outline, hovering over didn’t understand. But I didn’t, I couldn’t. He Anay’s head. Anay was never a looked as if his entire life He was nine then. sporty boy. He was more
5 If you carry your childhood with you, you never become old.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - A Well wisher, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 of the rare creatures who a perfect goal. When he They play. Anay stayed at home and liked slept, I watched him dream rushes to a goal with to cook, read fantasies about gigantic stadiums the ball at his feet. He’s and make greeting cards and shiny trophies. about to kick when a for every occasion. But I’d wonder whether player blocks his path. He from that day onwards, he he’d ever remember me hesitates only a second, forgot about the things he again. I never got to say glancing at an open used to love. goodbye. I spent hours teammate yelling nearby, All he loved now was thinking about what I’d and kicks the ball anyway. football and the fervour say if I could talk to him It doesn’t reach the of sports, the heat of just one more time. But goal. The game ends. an exciting match, the it was all in vain. He had I watch as Anay thrill of winning and the forgotten me and it was goes red. His teammates satisfaction of mocking as good as trying to talk confront him. I hope he those who lost. He wasn’t to someone gone forever. apologises to them. the Anay whose best He was 13 when he He doesn’t. friend was an imaginary was let into an official He yells at Mom boy. team. He played well. and grunts at Dad and He grew up and I He was cheered by all of storms to his room. He remained the same. I the audience. He was a hits himself in his fury and followed him everywhere hero. I watched all of his I see the tears fall angrily. - from watching him brush victories and stuck with I know that he won’t hear his teeth at the break him through his anger, me. But I have to try. If of dawn to the point disappointment and I don’t, what’s the use where he lay in bed after annoyance. of having me? What are a long day, his eyes only Sportsmen are hard imaginary best friends for, half open, thinking up people to live with, I if not this? new strategies to score realised, as I heard Mom “Anay,” I say. “It’s alright.” and Dad talk about Anay’s I’m sitting next to him attitude problems one on the floor and he looks day. I remained a silent at me. I am hit by surprise watcher. Until, one day… and uncontrollable It’s an extremely happiness as I see important match. The recognition strike his eyes. entire team is on fire, “Ishaan? Is that you?” He only one thought on asks, surprised. their minds. “I’ll get the “Yes, it’s me,” I smile. winning goal!” Anay tells “I’m glad you didn’t his teammates. They nod forget me.” along uncertainly. “Forget you?” Anay
Festival : Andhra Pradesh : Brahmotsavam, Sri Venkateswara 6 Temple, Tirupati, nine days in September-October.
Best Wishes From - Mr. Ulhas Tumane, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 gasps. “How can “It’s a trap, you I forget you? You know. Growing up. were my best Don’t fall for it. As friend! Where long as you believe had you gone?” in me, you’ll never “Where had I get whisked away gone?” I almost with the rest of the choke on my world.” words. “Anay, “Really?” you were the one “Yes. And I’ll always who ignored me, be watching after who pushed me you. Don’t worry. away.” Everything’s going to “Why would I do be alright if you just that? You were believe it will be.” my only friend.” rough and chaotic!” Anay “I’m going to make Anay says, hurt. protests. things right.” Anay tells “Well,” I don’t know how “Maybe that’s where me. to express it. “I guess this you’re going wrong. You And he does. I is what happens to all of don’t have to behave thought he had grown up you. You grow up and harshly and roughly. If you before. But he hadn’t. He the world just takes your want people to care about grew up now. imagination away.” you, you need to care I still hover over his “I missed you, Ishaan.” about them.” I tell him. head, watching over him. “I missed you too, Anay.” Anay sighs. “I used And now, he smiles back “I don’t have any to think that I needed at me, and I know that I’m friends now,” Anay says. to behave a certain way as colourful as an artist’s “Everybody hates me. I just because I was good palette. don’t understand what I at something. But now, I H H H did wrong!” just wish I had friends or - Veeraja Kamthe “Maybe it’s time for you family who would tell me 9 th std, Jnana Prabodhini Prashala , Pune 30 that they still genuinely to remember who you [email protected] were before. You were so care about me.” Illustrator : Rijuta Ghate kind and gentle. Maybe “I can understand, Anay,” you need to be that I say. version of Anay again.” “What if I don’t see you I say. again? I’m going to keep Listen to the “But football is my life! on growing up, Ishaan. author’s point of view on And football isn’t kind What would I do then?” the story or gentle. It’s harsh and Anay asks.
7 It is always good to have your inner child still ageless.
Best Wishes From - C.V.Kand Chhatra Prabodhan Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 Yellow Tears POEM ~a prose poem~
The day came by like any other day.The sun yawned upon the hills. The luscious grass of California flourished. The sky gold, it seemed a perfect day. The call came, conveyed good news: she would recover. The hours passed by with smiles until darkness settled in. As we headed home from our perfect day, a second call came. My aunt had passed; her life flew away. Returning home, we started to pray: prayed her soul would find its way, my uncle would be okay, our family would escape the gray. By lamplight later, I sat alone, my heart empty, my mind in disarray. For a long time I sat with yellow tears inching down my face. H H H - Archis Chinmulgund [email protected] Illustrator - Aarya Patil A prose poem is a kind of poem that is written in the form of paragraphs instead of verse, but has the qualities of poetry – like rhythm, literary devices like metaphors, similes and imagery and even rhyme. This poem describes the emotional rollercoaster our young poet went through. The word yellow is often associated with the season of autumn or fall. The title ‘Yellow Tears’ stands for the transition in the poet’s life.
Festival :Arunachal Pradesh : Losar Festival, Tibetan New 8 year, also known as Losar mainly celebrated for 3 days in late January or February.
Best Wishes From - Mr. Ravindra Gajendragadkar, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Narrative ‘India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters. I love my country and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage.’ Like you, I’ve been reciting the national pledge since my school days. I love travelling and I am keenly interested in seeing the rich and varied heritage of my country. My greatest interest lies in experiencing the real local culture of any area. Rural Olympics My trip to the Rural - Supriya Kumthekar Olympics gave me a unique glimpse into the rich cultural traditions of the state of Punjab. Punjab is one of the I learnt that there is a most attractive states special 3-day event called ‘Rural Olympics.’ Killa in India. I have been to the ‘Rural Olympics’ Raipur is 20 kms away different places in Punjab organized in Killa Raipur, from Ludhiana. I decided earlier and every time, near Ludhiana, which to travel using public I’ve felt like revisiting involves competitions for transportation instead the state. The ‘Sujalam- various Indian games. of booking a cab for Suphalam’ land of India, I searched on this event. It was really Punjab is the largest grain the internet for more a good decision and producer, especially of information on this gave me the chance to wheat. Like all Indians, and found out that interact with the local Punjabis celebrates it is organized every people, the teams coming various festivals and their year sometime in early from smaller villages of expression (the dhang) of February. I looked for different parts of Punjab. celebration is memorable. this year’s date and Everyone we talked to During one of my visits booked my trip to was surprised to hear to this cherished state, Ludhiana to watch the that we were visiting
9 Life is a game - play it. Life is a song - sing it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - M/S Auma Engineers, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 Ludhiana just to watch and 200 meters running is a wooden cylindrical these games. They were competitions, and the piece about 6 inches long curious to know if we age group was above sharpened at both ends. were journalists coming 65. There was a variety The ‘danda’ is a foot-long there to cover this event, of rural sports including wooden stick, with which because two ladies athletic events, rope one has to hit the gilli. coming all the way from pulling (‘rassikhech’), The points awarded are Maharashtra just to watch kabbadi, ‘hututu,’ based on how far off the this was difficult to digest! ‘golaphek.’ The special gilli is thrown, measured The participants of inauguration event was in steps. If the opposing varied ages; enthusiastic kite flying, where there team is able to catch youth as well as seniors, were a number of kites the gilli while it is still in males, females had on the same string, going, air (like a cricket catch), reached Raipur for the one after another, after that team member is out. competition. There are another... I stopped The team with maximum special competitions for counting after 25! points wins the game. seniors and it was really ‘Gilli-danda’ which is The weight-lifting wonderful to experience now rare to see in urban event here was very the energy level of all places was also played different from what we the seniors. For senior in the Olympics event, as expected. The individual citizens, the events a team game. The game game involved raising involved 100 meters requires a ‘gilli’ which a tractor tyre with two hands above the head and stay in that position. The person who could stay in that position the longest was the winner of the game. For team weight lifting, the members of the team had to pick up a heavy duty rope from the ground and raise that on their heads. It required both strength and solid team coordination. Another team event we watched for the first time was to load and unload a truck with sacks filled with wheat in the
Festival : Punjab-Haryana : Baisakhi, celebrations by farmers 10 at the time of harvest of Rabi crops.
Best Wishes From - Mr. Sumedh Phatak, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 shortest duration. We rings of fire, breaking a also witnessed a game tower of 8-10 bricks by The setting of the where one had to run a hand (lohe-ka-haat), riding Rural Olympics is like heavy tractor tyre over a motor bike standing up, that of a rural fair or 100 meters in the shortest hands raising the national ‘mela’ with cultural duration. flag. These were some of dances like ‘bhangra’ If you thought all this the unique sports. Apart being performed by was unique, you wouldn’t from these, there were various groups. Daily believe the other special few shows demonstrating commuting to and fro events: Picking up a traditional war styles! to the venue was a very bicycle with your teeth! Apart from these rural refreshing experience. We Picking up, with your games, conventional would travel along the teeth, 10-12 bricks tied Olympic Games like countryside some times together! Pulling a Maruti hockey, football, and in a local bus, sometimes Suzuki tied up with rope, athletics are also in a tum-tum or on a again, using your teeth! organized. In the past, tractor. It was amazing Performing sports like there used to be events to watch the rolling acrobatics, twisting an like bullock-cart, horse green fields of wheat iron-rod by placing it on riding, dog and camel with yellow mustard, the Adam’s apple, passing races but most of the stretching away till the a tractor over the rib- animal races are banned horizon. The villagers told cage, jumping through now. us the fields are always
11 Sports not only build better athletes but also better people.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mrs. Manjusha Savardekar, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 green either with ‘basmati favourite local Punjabi sports, dances and songs rice’ or ‘wheat’ farming, food: chatpatialu-tikki alive, and pass them on to with canals on river (chaat), gajar ka halwa the new generation. This Sutlej providing water (a dessert made from effort by the organizers throughout the year. carrots), makke-ki-roti, to preserve our culture is Another amazing sarason-ka- saag, fresh commendable. After my thing I noticed there radish with chat masala, return, when I narrated was the produce of cow sugarcane juice, malai my experience of the dung. There were huge lassi and garama garam Rural Olympics of Punjab, dumps of ‘big gowaris’ parathas dipped in pure everyone was surprised in the outer section of ghee. Yum! that such a thing happens every house. I guess they There are no entry in India. Not only does it must be the big suppliers fees for Rural Olympics; take place every year, but of cow dung to Indian participants interested I think it is a must visit! railways for bio-toilets. in showcasing their skills H H H Early February was still come from all over the - Supriya Kumthekar chilly winter in Ludhiana, state. The focus is on [email protected] and we had to wear our this participation, rather jackets throughout the than winning or losing day on the open ground. the game. The motive Enjoy watching Being winter, it was the of the Rural Olympics is Punjabi bhangra. best season to eat my to keep the traditional
DID YOU KNOW?
Gurtej Sandhu is an Indian-origin inventor who has more patents to his name than Thomas Edison - The Father of Inventions. While Edison had 1,084 patents to his name, the 58-year-old Gurtej Sandhu has secured 1,325 patents and is 7th on the worldwide list of most prolific inventors. Currently residing in the state Idaho, USA, Gurtej Sandhu is the Vice President of Micron Technology, alongside being an inventor. After attaining a degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, Gurtej earned his PhD in physics from the University of North Carolina in 1990. Standing on the cross-roads of choosing from between a top American computer memory maker or a startup, Gurtej chose the then, startup-- Micron Technology. This opportunity would obviously give him more space to grow and venture out. Gurtej got his first few patents while he was working with Micron. He was working to sustain Moore’s Law -- the phenomenon that saw the number of transistors in an area of circuits doubling each year. He figured how many memory units could be accommodated into these chips. Ever since his successful invention, chip manufacturers around the globe have used and benefitted from Gurtej’s patents. Gurtej has also been experimenting and innovating with self-driving cars, Big Data among other big projects, which has bumped his list of patents. Gurtej Sandhu is truly making us all proud by being one of the few Indian inventors to secure so many patents.
Festival : Bihar : Chhat Puja, worship the Sun, 12 in October – November
Best Wishes From - Dr. Abhay Limaye, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Self Development “I have Resilience is a the right to mindset. It does not mean education, I that they did not feel have the right distress, emotional pain, to play, I have stress, fear or anger. They the right to sing, I have exhibit a strength of mind the right to speak” and character which helps These are the words them continue to focus of a young girl who defied on the goal, maintaining the Taliban in Pakistan. She a hopeful outlook without was shot in the head by a losing heart. gunman in 2012 when she Building resilience is a was only 15. She was in a skill that can be practised. coma for 6 days and was It helps one cope better hospitalized for 3 months. with failure, adversity She underwent multiple and to make a success of brain surgery and survived. one’s life. She continued her activism Being a teenager and went on to become in today’s world is not the youngest Nobel prize an easy task. In the fast laureate in 2015. changing world with Her name is Yousafzai competition and demand Malala and her life is for success, life can be an example of extreme pretty tough sometimes. resilience, the ability to The pressure of studies, The springback, thrive no pressure of keeping up matter what. our social image, pressure Road to Resilience is the of proving yourself ability to overcome through academic Resilience negative stressful achievement and living - Bindu Patni situations and be up to the expectations successful in the face of parents and society at of adversity, trauma, large can be very stressful. Resilience is a trait tragedy, threats or Are we equipped to that can be learnt and stress. What enables handle hardships, failures, developed in anyone. people to overcome tragedies or catastrophes? Here are a few tips that setbacks in life and Can you think of an event you can follow to help become extraordinarily in your life which caused a you change your outlook competent, productive lot of frustration, feelings towards adversities in and achieving individuals? of failure and a sense of life.
13 You are not defeated, unless you believe you are.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Vijay Nikam, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 hopelessness? to pursue your goal that good things will It could be events without giving up hope? happen. Try visualising such as failing an exam, By recognising your what you want rather not getting admission to a feelings and emotions you than what you fear. college of your choice or are better able to handle •Take care of yourself. being jilted by a friend. them to your advantage. Engage in activities At such times it is ‘Name it and tame it’ is a that you enjoy and common to think, ‘This is slogan you can follow. Get find relaxing activities. not what I bargained for, your emotions in check by Exercise regularly and this is beyond my capacity taking deep breaths, going keep fit to deal with to deal with, no one goes for a short walk, a drink of stressful situations. through this type of thing water - anything to flush •Make connections and in life, it is not fair, I would out the stress hormone. build positive social rather kill myself.’ By actively managing relationships. It is Do you recognise the your emotions you are important to distinguish emotions you feel at such taking steps towards between building social times? Can you manage becoming more relationships and social those feelings without emotionally resilient. media friends. Sharing allowing them to swamp Resilience is a trait our feelings with you? Can you motivate that can be learnt and another human being is yourself to get back on developed in anyone. far superior to posting your feet and stick to your Here are a few tips that on social media. In fact goal? Do you sense the you can follow to help it will decrease the emotions of others and you change your outlook mind’s resilience factor. respond effectively? towards adversities in life: Take time to cultivate Be a mindful observer •Develop a positive relationship with life and and understand your view of yourself and not a machine. emotions at such times by confidence in your •Be strong and assert following these steps: strengths and abilities. that my strength comes •Describe the event Remember resilience is a not from just lifting •Why did it happen? mind set. weights but from lifting •How does it make you •Develop a capacity to myself up every time I feel? manage strong feelings am knocked down. •What did you want to do and impulses. Do not That is the power of as a result of how you get carried away by resilience!! felt? emotions that make you •Did you feel any urge act impulsively. Stay H H H to do or say things that focused on your goals. Bindu Patni [email protected] you might regret later? •Maintain a hopeful Clinical Psychologist, •How can you continue outlook in life. Expect KEM Hospital, Pune
Festival : Chattisgarh : Bastar Dussehra, longest Dussehra 14 celebrations (75 days) in the world in Bastar, August –October.
Best Wishes From - Mrs. Varsha Jagdale, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Informative You must have heard the words ‘optical fibre’ in reference to the internet or the TV cable network. Let’s learn more about it in an easy and simple way.
Bhuvan’s father presented a box to him as Diwali gift. Bhuvan opened it carefully. There was a lamp with some strands of plastic fibre fixed on its top. OPTICAL FIBRE Asmita Sahasrabudhe He connected the lamp wire to the power material like water. It is a form of energy. supply and switched it on. Bhuvan: Yes, I know. This special fibre Wow! All of them said at once. is called optical fibre. The technology The strands were illuminated with red of transmitting data, voice and images colour and their tips appeared as bright by passing the light through thin, red spots. Mohor, the younger brother, transparent fibre is known as fibre optics. inspected the lamp and pressed another The information to be sent is converted button on the lamp. Its light changed into pulses of light. from red to blue. Mohor again turned Mohor: You didn’t tell me that yesterday. the light red. Thus, the lamp was a new Bhuvan: Because you didn’t ask me! sensation in the house. Mini: Okay. No fights. Bhuvan, now tell us Next day, Mohor showed the lamp about the principle behind its working. to his cousin Mini, a student of B.Sc. Bhuvan: Sure. Let me explain in detail for and always enthusiastic in getting any Mohor. You know that when light falls information using the Google search on an object it bounces back in the same engine. medium. This is known as reflection of Mohor: Tai, where is the light bulb and light. how do these strands get illuminated? When light travels from one medium Mini: The source of light is hidden inside to another its direction changes, this the lamp. It is either a Light Emitting phenomenon is known as refraction of Diode or a Laser Diode. The strands of light. fibre are used to carry light through them, Here the word medium means any just the way water is carried in a flexible material (matter) through which light plastic pipe. But remember, light is not a can pass, for example, air, glass, water,
15 Always question. Always wonder.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Anilrao Deshmukh, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 of incidence and ‘ic’ is the critical angle for air-glass pair.(Fig. 1) There is no loss of light energy in this process. Mini: Good. Now see this diagram of basic optical fibre Fig. 1 cable for its construction and working. (Fig.2) The core material is optically denser than that of the outer cladding (cover or coating). The light beam enters at a Fig. 2 certain angle in the core, undergoes repeated total internal reflections and travels from one end to coconut oil etc. Free space or vacuum another. means a medium where no material Mohor: Tai, which material is used to (matter) is present. Light travels fastest make fibres and where are they used? in free space at a speed of about 3Lakh Mini: The material used depends on the kilometres in one second. In any other type and application of the fibre. It can be medium its speed gets reduced. The highly pure glass (silica),multicomponent refractive index of a given medium is the glass or plastic. The core of an optical ratio between speed of light in the free fibre is slightly thicker than a human hair. space and in that medium. Optical fibres are used in many fields. Let us count.. speed of light in free space R.I. = 1. Fibre optic cables transmit large speed of light in given medium amounts of data at a very high speed, so are used for communication in All media mentioned above are said Cable Television, Internet, Telephone to be optically denser than free space(or and Computer Networking, air for practical purpose). Greater the 2. for Lighting and Decorations, refractive index of a medium, more is its 3. Mechanical Inspections, optical density. 4. Military and Space Applications, When a beam of light travels from 5. Remote Spectrophotometry, Pressure glass to air in a specific direction(i>ic) and Position Sensing, then instead of passing through the 6. Microscopy and Biomedical Research, air, it gets reflected back in the glass. 7. Fibre Optic Sensors and Fibre Lasers, This phenomenon is known as Total 8. Endoscopy i.e. examining internal parts Internal Reflection, where ‘i’ is the angle of the body and so on.
Festival : Assam : Bohag Bihu, spring festival of ushers 1616 in the new year.
Best Wishes From - Mrs. Padmaja Pote, Dombivali Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Bhuvan: I know endoscopy. When my it is expensive to install, easily breaks uncle had severe stomachache for several on bending too much, can only be used weeks, doctor used an endoscope to on the ground and harmful to our skin inspect him. if comes in contact with its broken glass Mini: Oh! is it? Now, I will tell you few portion. advantages of optical fibre. You can find You would be happy to know that some more on your own. the term ‘fibre optics’ was coined by an 1. Optical fibre has greater information Indian-American physicist Narinder Singh carrying capacity at high speed than Kapany. copper cable, Bhuvan: Oh. Great! Thanks Tai, for this 2. It is flexible, lighter and thinner than useful information. the copper cable used to carry same Mohor: Yeah! but now my ‘Bheja’ is full data, and stomach is empty. So, let us have 3. Power loss in transmission is low so, some snacks. H H H it can carry information over a long Asmita Sahasrabudhe [email protected] distance, Jumior College Physics Teacher (Retd.) 4. No interference with signals due to nearby fibres as this conducts light, so no crosstalk. Watch science experiment by Arvind 5. Optical fibres are a very secure medium Gupta about Total Internal Reflection. to carry sensitive data. It has a few disadvantages also, like
3) You have two pots of capacity 5 liters and 4 Tickle liters capacity .Can you measure exactly 2 liters Your using these two pots? 4) Annie is a poor girl working in a coffee shop. Brain She gets her meal there for the evening which Sushama Joshi she has to eat at her place. She does this in candle light . One candle lasts for one evening 1) There is a magic belt . Every time the owner Annie saves the end of the candle . With 7 makes a wish the belt length reduces to half and such ends she can make one new candle. If the width reduces to 1/3 . The owner has made she has 50 such ends and 34 new candles how 3 wishes and the surface area of the belt is many evenings can Annie have the candle light now 4 sq.cms Can you tell what was its original dinners? length if the original width was 9 cms? 5) You have 1gm,3gm,9gm,27 gm weights and 2) A VIP has to be taken to a conference through a balance . Can you weigh 1 to 20 gms in exact a desert . The desert does not have any gas 1 gm accuracy with these weights. Can you go stations and one car can carry petrol to cover any further? only half the distance in the desert . However Hint – example – for weighing 6 gms you can put there are several cars available for the travel. 9 gms on one side and 3 gms on other . Make a travel plan such that the VIP can be taken to the conference in minimum time . Answers elsewhere.
17 Science is simply the word we use to describe a method of organizing our curiosity.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Chaitanya Vaze, Dombivali English Diwali Issue 2019 STORY
I wish Time I could have attended this too. to go Invitation to the Annual General Meeting High-Tech (AGM) of Bird World - Payal Mehta Date: October 30, 2019 Venue: Headquarters, Old Tree at the North East Corner of the Forest Agenda: Day to Day Problems The meeting will be run as per the rules of the BW. Illustrator : Girish Sahasrabudhe Dear Swallows, Welcome to the meeting! we provide you the Let’s share our issues. latest premium sound amplifiers.
All this city noise affects my echolocation ability. Today is the third time I hurt myself!
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Best Wishes From - Mr. Sachin Sahasrabuddhe, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Getting lost in It’s simple. Follow migration? Google maps. The solution Papa, you can is simple. also order food Any guesses? on the way, using apps like Insecto or Fishy or.. FoodMan!
Our population is dwindling due At least you have a to felling of native trees and special day celebrated in your name,“International absence of nesting cavities in this Sparrow Day.” concrete and glass jungle.
What’s the use? We won’t be there any more to celebrate. Have you tried Tweeting about this?
We know, International sparrow day, 2119 let’s invent a superstition about sparrows. Humans will believe anything. And we pigeons are facing population explosion because superstitious humans feed us a lot.
19 Technology can become the wings that will allow the world to fly farther & faster
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Dr. Priyavrat Deshpande, Chennai English Diwali Issue 2019 Mr. Owl was feeling satisfied with the turn of the meeting, when suddenly…
Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Bird World Date Oct. 30, 2019
Sir, what about the plastic in our seas? One of my patients had a surgery Oh, don’t worry, our last week, and I R and D team is removed 20kgs developing a plastic of plastic from recognition sensor to fit his stomach! on the beak.
Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Bird World Date Oct. 30, 2019
Yay! Maybe we can help transport it to the recycling centre then. If humans cannot do it, we will.
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Reached in the nick of time. You won’t believe how I escaped from the poachers.
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Best Wishes From - Mrs. Snehal Parab-Ekambikar Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 “ If nothing changes, we will vanish. Less than 150 Great Indian bustards are left now. ”
Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Bird World All right folks, Date Oct. 30, 2019 I hope I have helped you all.
Alarming! But look, I have a high- tech ballistic helmet recently developed for the army.
Farewell, my friends. I flew into a dazzling glass Our next meeting will skyscraper the other day and be on Skype. So even hurt my wing. But not to worry! Penguins will attend it. I have a Wellness Camp I’m actually glad I got hurt! next week. It gave me the idea of developing light-cancelling goggles. Goodbye.
Why, Sir, what happened to you? Are you OK?
21 It’s not that we use technology, we live technology.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Sharad Palkar, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 Activity Welcome Diwali How do you know it’s time for Diwali? Just look around the house! The air is abuzz with excitement. We welcome the festival with new brightly coloured clothes and lovely decorations around our homes. Here, I’ll tell you two sides. (Dia. No. 5). The flame of the earthen how to prepare a toran or a garland which will lamp is ready. Prepare 6 such flames. 10. Paste beautify your front door to welcome Diwali and these to the lamps. (Dia. No. 6). 11. Now take your guests. the card sheet or tinted paper and prepare the We require crepe paper or paper used to base as shown in Diagram 6 making arches on make kite (latter is preferred, in red, orange, it. Make sure that every arch is bigger than the yellow and brown colours), golden paper, size of the lamp, you have prepared. 12. Paste dark coloured card sheet or tinted paper, scale, the lamps in the arches. Decorate the remaining pencil, scissors. Fevicol and assorted decoration part of the base with golden paper, lace, ribbon material like beads, sparklers, laces, colourful or beads. 13. Put it on the door frame. satin ribbons etc. You can also use these lamps to make wall Now let’s begin: 1. Cut six strips of crepe/kite hangings or show pieces. Use fan fold technique paper of the size 10x50 cm. 2. Paste a 1 cm thick to prepare things other than lamps. Make other border of golden paper on the edges of paper show pieces and send us photographs of your strips. (Dia. No. 1) 3. Make fan folds of these creations. strips. (Dia. No. 2) 4. Fold the strip in the centre H H H and stick it. 5. Open the folds which will give Read Hema Dhotre it the shape of an earthen lamp or panati. (Dia. another [email protected] No. 3) 6. Now you have 6 such lamps. 7. Cut an creative equilateral triangle of 10 cm with red paper, a activity. 9 cm triangle with orange and an 8 cm triangle with yellow paper. 8. Paste the yellow triangle on the orange; and the orange on the red triangle. Make fan folds. (Dia. No. 4) 9. Fold this in the centre and stick the
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Best Wishes From - Mr. Anand Kulkarni, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Nature POEM
School had been boring, all day I had been snoring. I came home in a dirty mood, and threw my bag into my room. Then sat beside the window sill, like a lion does after he has made a kill. Bored as I was, I was certainly awed to see What a beautiful world it was, spread out before me. My mind was flowing with the gushing stream, it was as if I’d walked into a dream. My sight soared with the birds, above the treetops, to the clouds. And with these clouds, my thoughts seemed to drift, my body, my soul, the view seemed to sift. For only the ‘I’ which was true and clear, could witness a thing so real and pure. The tall and wide trees, the creatures all around, not even in a book could such things be found. I thought, “O human! Your imagination can create God and heaven and time machines and tales amusingly woven. But never can your mind see this picture This wonderful, simple thing called nature. Your mind seeks only to solve what is complicated I never do understand why simplicity is hated.” Not a single word could I utter Nature knows how long I sat there Until my Mom called me for supper.
H H H Neeraj Bapat [email protected] th Listen to the poet about his poem 9 std , Jnana Prabodhini Prashala, Pune 30, Illustrator- Ramesh Nawadkar
23 Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Vishwas Harshe, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 Self Development Hi, friends! Do you know the line, “Monkey see, Monkey See monkey do?” This means Monkey Do that we learn everything by - Jia Sharangpaani copying what other people do and say, just like monkeys, whether it’s chain reaction which we have copied right or wrong. Where there is learning, from others. The sub-conscious mind there is our brain. Our brain is the Super knows how to make you behave when Computer which learns and stores huge you are happy or angry or sad. This is amounts of information and makes us because you observe it every day, from behave in a certain way. Now what do we your parents, relatives, elder brothers, know about the brain? elder sisters, friends and teachers. Not There are two amazing parts of our only from people, but you learn it from mind that can’t be touched, but they are YouTube, TV and other such media too! there, just like the air we breathe. Those We are learning machines. are the conscious and the sub-conscious The important thing to notice is that mind. The conscious mind forms the 5% your behaviour may not always be good of the mind, which we use to make daily for you. But there is always the possibility choices, like what dress to wear, what of improvement. You can change your to eat, whom to be friends with and mind and your habits. It’s easy. So I am so on. The sub-conscious mind makes sharing a few fun ways to change your remaining 95% of the mind which controls bad habits or unhappy feelings. heartbeat, walking, language and other I get angry and I yell : Imagine a big red such functions which are repeatedly done balloon of anger over your head. Now every day without thinking. It repeats the put a pin in it and let it blow. same thing, over and over again, until we I get sad when someone teases or laughs die. Your behaviour is stored in this 95% . at me : Imagine that person turning into Ok let’s do a fun experiment! Donald Duck and imagine his quack- Imagine eating a ripe, juicy mango. Did quack. That will instantly make you laugh your mouth water? This magic is possible and be OK again. because of the sub-conscious mind. It I feel upset about something : Talk to is a big storage space inside the brain. someone you love. Tell them how you It remembers everything. Just like the feel and what had made you feel upset. smell and taste of a mango. That’s why I am too embarrassed to talk about my your mouth watered just by thinking of problem : Write it or draw it on a piece of it. Now, just imagine what else our sub- paper till you feel better; then tear that conscious mind remembers. Everything paper and throw it in the dustbin. that happened to you since your birth I am unable to focus on my studies : First is stored in it. This is where behaviour of all, take deep breaths in and out for 3 comes from. Behaviour is a learned minutes. Start studying. Take a 2-3 minute
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Best Wishes From - Mrs. Gunjan Kulkarni, Nashik Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 I have a Problem
break after every 18 minutes of studying. 4. Play outside for at least 30 minutes. This will help you beat the boredom and 5. Say thank you for the food you eat, focus better. clothes you wear, the house you live in I don’t like it when my parents, relatives and the things you own. or friends fight : Tell them politely not to 6. Recognise bad habits and delete them do this, because this upsets you. It is safe from your life. to tell people what you do not like about 7. Develop creative hobbies like painting, their behaviour. Talking openly is the key drawing, dancing, reading, singing or to finding solutions. playing musical instruments to keep your I failed in my exams or got less marks: brain engaged in good feelings. Tell yourself, “It’s OK to feel sad about it 8. Take help. It’s good to ask for help now right now because next time I am going than feel sad later. Taking help means to do better. I am ready to work hard that you are trying harder and everyone and improve. I will seek help to achieve appreciates you trying to be better. a good score.” Then, ask for help from Remember guys, repetition is the teachers or anyone else. key to success. Repeat good things A few ways to make yourself happier: daily and change yourself for the better. 1. After waking up, look in the mirror and Without repetition, there is zero success. tell yourself, “I love you just as you are. Our sub-conscious mind learns only by You are my best friend.” repetition. You already have magic inside 2. Tell your parents, “I love you very you. It’s about time that you start using much. Thank you for taking care of me.” it correctly with goodness in your heart. 3. Tell your teachers how awesome they Always be a happy monkey. H H H are at teaching you interesting things and Jia Sharangpaani, [email protected] Emotional Intelligence Coach helping you become smarter. Illustrator : Rahul Deshpande
25 I am in-charge of how I feel and I am choosing happiness.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Dr. Ravindra Sethiya, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 Let us sing to the world Let us sing to the world That we believe in ourselves Let us be the stars of tommorow To break through the dark waves
Dismissing what is unjust, unfair Let us embrace the needy with love and care Following the vision of the ancient sages Let us worship divine in human faces
Routing the roaring, rainless clouds Forging the ceaseless diligent crowds Dispensing lables of cast and classes A hearty calling to brothern masses
Insolent threats can’t challenge our will No wealth can lure us from our zeal Unyeliding hearts when ride over storms Souls ignite and set new norms
Heart and Science, combining both Creating new paths, let’s take the oath Character so pure and tenderly love Let’s revere the motherland with all the above
Translation of original Marathi song ‘Vishwas ha manicha’. Poet & translator - Anagha L. Lavalekar Listen to the lyrics of original Marathi song ‘Vishwas ha Manicha’
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Best Wishes From - Mr. Hemant Joshi, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Informative Who hasn’t for therapeutic purposes. Sometimes Let us sing to the world experienced the jab of a these methods are used for diagnosis vaccine on their arm? In fact, also. our tryst with the needle For example, radiation (X-rays) is starts within a few days of used to see if the bone is fractured, or if stepping into this world. a child has swallowed something like a We have to undergo vaccinations and coin. Radiation is used to kill cancerous inoculations of all types as newborns. cells too. Ultrasound is used to see the Later in life too, we may have to get condition of the foetus in a pregnant injected with medicines and sometimes, woman or the growth of a tumour deep we undergo surgery too. While doctors inside the body. and other staff try to ensure that the Nowadays, external shock wave treatment is pain-free, some distress is lithotripsy (ESWL) is extensively used to always involved. No one likes pain, even break large kidney stones or gallstones if it is for a good reason. But now, there is and pancreatic stones. With the help hope on the horizon, in the form of non- invasive procedures. Non-Invasive Procedures As the name suggests these procedures do not involve a cut. Thus, a The Future of surgical knife or any other tool which cuts the tissue is not used at all. Then how is Medical treatment the affected portion of the body attacked or removed? A number of ways are used to accomplish non-invasive procedures - Shrinivas Sharangpani
27 What is now proved was once only imagined.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Anil Gopalrao Palkar, Satara English Diwali Issue 2019 of an external source, high frequency ultrasound (about 20 kilohertz) is placed close to the target. The stones vibrate at that high frequency and break into smaller pieces, which are thrown out of the body by natural means. It is a painless procedure and does not involve any cut. Basically, ultrasound is a mechanical wave so it does not harm the tissue in the way that electromagnetic radiation does.
Robotic Drug Delivery and Procedures Have you ever imagined that if a germ can go inside the body and harm Working of Nano Robot Identifier Arm of Nano Robot is designed to find the cancerous tumor and then adhere to it, some tissue a man-made instrument of while the killer Arm is designed to kill the tumor cells the same size can also be made to go In addition to these alternatives, inside and help correct the situation. there are some procedures called This is exactly what is done while using minimally invasive procedures which microscopic robots. This has been require just a bit of insertion or a prick possible because of the advancement in and the rest of the procedure is almost -9 nanotechnology. Nano means 10 and a entirely painless avoiding a major nanometre is one billionth of a metre. operation with deep cuts into the body. The robots are so small that they can Isn’t it wonderful that the science that easily go inside the blood vessels. You you learn in schools is being utilized to rid can imagine how small a few nanometers our bodies from unwanted pain? wide robot can be by comparing it with H H H a human hair, which is approximately Shrinivas Sharangpani 80,000- 100,000 nanometres wide. [email protected] Expert in product development, materials, In the same manner as a crawling processes, value engineering and minimalism worm or a swimming fish, the nano robot can be made to move inside the body.
Another important feature is that from Watch how nanorobots help in outside the body it can be directed to go cancer treatment. to the target or it can self-propel to the target to do the desired task. The desired A photon is going through task can be delivering the drug, applying Ha.. Ha ! airport security. The airport a substance (mainly to inhibit attack from security officer asks if he harmful things) or actually conducting a has any luggage. procedure like cutting and removing a The photon says, tumour. “No, I’m travelling light.”
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Best Wishes From - Mr. Krishnarao Walimbe, Satara Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Narrative Glimpses of a Dwindling Treasure - Mandar Godbole India is packed with biodiversity. Unlike many cultures, our society has grown up co-living with nature. Exploring our natural diversity has lit a spark inside me which makes me want to preserve what we have! I hope, as you read on, that you find this spark too.
♦ The Nightjar torch to the car battery. found such a spot. We A few years ago, We waited till it was stopped at about 25 feet we made a trip to the completely dark. Now from it. Little Rann of Kutch. nothing was visible to the I asked the guide, The geography, the eyes. We knew that we “Can we get any closer?” culture, the people and were on a large ground, He smiled and responded, the wildlife must be with mud on one side “Now you can go as close experienced firsthand by and water beyond. Then as you want, the bird every Indian. A nightjar we started driving. I was believes it is invisible. Just is a tiny nocturnal bird getting more nervous by start crawling, sir, so that found in this region. It the minute. The guide was you get to eye level.” has a super-camouflage holding the torch with Lake. Mud. Rough ground. with its surroundings, so one hand and the steering None of this invited me much so, that you can’t wheel with the other. The to start crawling in the recognize one sitting on jeep was in the first gear pitch dark. Add to that the bark of a tree or on on the rough terrain and the fear of some insect the ground in the day we were tossing up and or a slithering creature! time. Even more than its down like a yo-yo. But I lowered myself to camouflage, I wonder at Nightjars typically the ground and started its confidence. Nightjars roost on the lake bed crawling towards the bird. have supreme confidence around sunset. The bed When I reached about 7 in their ability to blend is warm from the day’s to 8 feet, the bird fitted with the surrounding! If sun and they come and sit my camera frame fully. you’re lucky enough to there to soak in the heat, Imagine this, a grown man spot one in daylight, it before starting to forage crouching in the dark a won’t move an inch, even for food. We had to see few feet away from a tiny if you almost touch it! them in that period. Their bird that couldn’t care Just after sunset, our eyes reflect from the less. As I said earlier, what guide took out a powerful powerful torchlight and supreme self-confidence torchlight and a long that is the way to find the bird must have. cable from the trunk of them. After about 20 When I told my guide the jeep. He attached the minutes of driving, we I was done, he decided
29 To walk in nature is to witness a thousand miracles.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Sushil Masalekar, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 large grasslands to live and forage, tens of square kilometers per pair. Now with population growth in India, where are these grasslands left anymore? Grasslands have been converted to fields. In addition to that, these birds don’t build nests. They just drop their eggs in the middle of anywhere. The egg to take the same shot special? First, it is endemic becomes easy prey to with his mobile phone. to India, which means it crows, stray dogs, jackals What my presence hadn’t is only found here. Once and other wildlife. Plus, managed to do, the it was widespread across they just produce a quivering torch light did. the Indian peninsula. single egg in a season. Our bird flew away. But Sadly, not anymore. Sometimes when there the nightjar gave me a Secondly, it is amongst are no rains, they may unique experience that I the heaviest flying birds not even breed. Can won’t forget in a hurry. of the world, a full grown someone be that choosy ♦ The Great male weighing over 15 when trying to copulate? Indian Bustard kilos. Unfortunately, it is But that is the way their Which is the national almost certain that future nature is, and we have bird of India? Now tell me, generations are not going accelerated the decline. which bird was almost to see this treasure. We Killing the birds has been about to become our will never be able to put a rampant over the last few national bird, but for its value on what we lost. decades. name? It was the Great Bustards have Ever since I heard this Indian Bustard. In 1960s, declined from 2000 birds story, I wanted to see this when the national bird of in 1960 to just about 120 birdie. At least I wanted each country was getting birds now! Not even equal to have that memory decided, the iconic Great to Rohit Sharma’s highest of seeing something Indian Bustard missed out ODI batting total. Why did valuable before it gets on being our winner, for this bird meet this fate? It lost forever. There are the simple scare that its is a combination of human only 4 places in India name might get misspelt influence as well as its where the possibility of into an English foul word! own breeding habits. A seeing these birds exists. So why is the bustard pair of these birds needs Of these only the Desert
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Best Wishes From - A well wisher, Bengaluru Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 National Park in Rajasthan has a confirmed presence of over a 100 birds. So, in January last year, I made a plan to visit that place. When I told my tour leader of my wish to see the bustard, he gave me sensible advice. The birds are few and shy and already under a lot of pressure, so we agreed not to push our luck to near them, not too much was a large bird flying see them. The desert so as not to scare them. straight at us. Without national park terrain is not When we did reach half even thinking, I clicked my just the picturesque sand way around, we decided camera furiously. After dunes that you see in the to make a stop, as only the bird flew past, I asked movies. A large part of one bird was left there; around what it was. “The it consists of grasslands others had already fled. Great Indian Bustard in and shrub forests. The We just switched off the flight!” What a rare sight! government has fenced vehicle and waited. The A moment to cherish around 5% of the area to male bird did walk our forever, for I know, it is provide safe haven for way and I was able to get not going to last. I hope the birds, so that they a decent photo against a you get your moment too! can breed and forage nice background. After a I sincerely hope. peacefully. Mostly, the few minutes, we left the ♦Mount Kanchenjunga bustards stay deep inside bird in peace and drove My last story is not the fence, scared of away. of a treasured animal or vehicles, and one can see Later on, in the same bird, but a place. Mount them only from far away. safari, we were tracking Kanchenjunga holds a After about an hour a falcon and our driver special place amongst us of going around the suddenly stopped. There Indians. It is the highest fences, we spotted a few peak in India and the birds. The excitement 3rd highest in the world! was palpable. On close Most of the times, the observation through peak is surrounded by binoculars, we could see clouds. One of the most that they were close to handsome mountains in the fence. So, we decided the Himalayas doesn’t to ring the fence and go want to reveal its glory to
31 There is no better designer than nature.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Pramod Kulkarni, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 every visitor. It makes you rain cleared all the dust the clouds at the bottom wait and come again and and the air was pure. of the peak started again. However clearing, I told my guide There is an disappointed, I was to leave the bird alone. interesting story about hoping to get a sneak The Kanchenjunga has the Kanchenjunga. Most peek when we went up something special in Sikkimese and Tibetan the hills later that week. mind today. This is rarer people consider that We explored different than any bird. After a few the peak is religious and trails around the forest in minutes of wait, there it should not be touched. search of majestic birds was! In its full majesty, the Every expedition that has and wildlife. We were full range with its white successfully ascended following a redstart, a snowcapped peaks. It to the peak has stopped fancy bird which is only was too wide to fit in the short by a few steps of sighted in the higher camera view but the sight actually scaling the peak altitude, when we was embossed in my mind itself, maintaining its finally began to see the forever. The mountain sanctity. Such a proud Kanchenjunga. It was of the gods had finally custom among the surrounded by clouds. decided to give me a mountaineers! Perhaps the redstart knew ‘Darshan’! When I was planning that the Kanchenjunga There is a place in a visit to the forests at was on our mind, because Singhalila national park the foothills of Sikkim, as we followed it further called Sandakphu, where I certainly wanted a north, surprisingly, the on a few clear days of view of the peak. It can clouds surrounding the the year, you can see the be seen from only one peak were clearing up. entire mountain range place on the plains. A The peak began to from Mount Everest on place called Gajoldoba, appear from the clouds, left to Kanchenjunga on which is a barrage on and now more than half the right. May be some Teesta River near Siliguri. the mountain range was day one of us will get I had seen the pictures visible. Normally in the there at the right time to of the shimmering blue Himalayas, the clouds glimpse it. river against the rising go from bottom of the H H H mountains topped by the peak to the top, but here Mandar Godbole Kanchenjunga. When we they were clearing from [email protected] actually reached there, the top and only a few I couldn’t see it! The remained at the bottom, boatman smiled and told giving the impression of a me it could be seen only floating mountain! Have look at one or two days in the The redstart wasn’t colourful photos of year, in October, after the giving us a break. When birds of Kutch.
World Reads - Brazil: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a 32 spiritual fable about a young boy’s journey to self discovery
Best Wishes From - Mr. Vinay Gadikar, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Master of my Fate Stories of Enabled Lives
“In the clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud… I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” - Invictus by William Ernest Henley Each of us has a unique set of virtues. Yet we’re often led to believe that there is an abstract ideal that we must embody. We feel that we should speak in a certain way, be tall, short, hefty, slim, intelligent or sporty. But is a person simply a list of criteria to be ticked off a checklist? This idea of the right way to be becomes an obstacle in the path of self discovery and acceptance. But, no life comes without its hurdles. It’s how we navigate ourselves past these icebergs in our way that defines who we shall be. When Tejaswini Bhalekar lost her eyesight as a young adult, she chose to redefine herself and embrace the new identity. How she dealt with this twist of fate shows us that we can steer our ships any way we choose. Aaditya Koshe, a mechanical engineer by profession, has shared his experience with a learning disability. With a positivity that is inspiring, he tells us what we can do if life puts us in the same position as him. Manasi Salvekar, who was born deaf, demands that there must be equal access to persons with disability. Her expectations are a reality check for us - are we so different from her that her concerns are not our own? And finally, we have a young boy of 18, Tushar Nalawade detailing his journey of being a para-swimmer, and we can’t help but marvel at his ability to face any challenge that comes his way. Each of these people have ensured that their own judgements, assumptions, society’s expectations don’t stand in the way of progress. Obstacles, as said, are a part of life. But we must become “captains of our identities” if we hope to muster the courage, determination, resilience and optimism required to sail through life.
33 Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Dr. Vishakha Chinchnikar, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 Seeking Light - Tejaswini Bhalekar
to accept the situation life had put me in, I am visually challenged, but I was and face it head-on. Had I given up hope, not born so. I lost hundred percent of my like them, our family would never have vision. Around seven years ago, when I recovered. So instead of crying, I chose wrote my B.Com examination, I still had to sing. my sight, but even before the results I had to face innumerable challenges came out, within two months, everything in my private and social life. From the had changed. moment I got up in the morning right My loss of vision came as a huge up to bedtime, every action brought shock to me and my family. My twin on difficulties. Having lost my vision at brother Tejas, our parents and I – we this age, even the smallest things were form a small, close-knit family. Watching difficult for me. Perhaps children who are their only daughter lose her vision at the born without vision learn these things brink of her youth affected my parents early on in schools for the blind, but I deeply. My mother would often tear up had no such experience. To add to that in those days. My father never cried in was the reaction from society. “Poor front of me, but I could sense his silent girl,” “How will she manage it?” These grief. And the one person who found it constant voices of pity grew tiring. the most difficult to come to terms with To cure my helplessness, I decided my illness was my brother, Tejas Dada. to pursue further studies. I enrolled We’d always been together, studying in in the M.Com course at my college at the same class in school, and I closely felt Camp Education Society, Nigdi. I was the this twist in our lives make him quieter, first blind student. I was not proficient more solemn. in Braille, the script for the blind using We left no stone unturned in my the sense of touch. My college, the treatment. We consulted with the best faculty and all my classmates became my eye specialists across the country, but support system. One of my friends used it was all in vain. Every failed attempt to accompany me to and from college hit my family deeply, and they began to daily. Many recorded the syllabus for me lose hope. Watching them slowly give up and I would listen to their recordings to showed me the right path to follow. I had study. This is how I managed to appear
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Best Wishes From - Mr. Ajit & Mrs. Uma Bapat, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 for my M.Com examination, and to my delight, from all the sighted students in my college, I got the first rank. Along with that, I also completed a special computer course for the blind from the Savitribai Phule Pune University with the Writing in help of Dhananjay Bhole Sir. This course Braille would turn out to be quite useful for me later. Crossing these milestones gave much needed strength and hope to my family. The pity I had grown so tired of now disappeared. Four years ago, I attended a workshop on interview training for visually challenged youth conducted by Parimala Bhat of the Snehankit Helplines of these life lessons not only gave me for Visually Challenged. Life took a new independence, but I could finally help my turn there, when I crossed paths with mother in her chores again. My newly Prachi Gurjar of Yashowani, Rashmi acquired ability to read the Braille script Pandhre from Savi and Swagat Thorat of rekindled my love for books, to an extent. Sparshadnyaan. Sir gave me the lead role in two of his I was not trained in mobility at this plays for the visually challenged – Apoorv time and therefore was not able to go Meghdoot and Teen Paishacha Tamasha. anywhere on my own. Swagat Sir realised He taught me about theatre and how to this in our very first meeting and decided be an effective actor. to provide me and a few other youngsters If you were to ask me who has with mobility training with the help of inspired me in my life – the answer is Savi Foundation in Pune. He would come simple: my parents, and none other than to Pune every weekend specifically for Swagat Sir. My parents have always this. Sir taught us to use the white cane, granted me their full support and stood in a proper scientific manner, and in fact, by me, giving me complete independence even gave us considerable practice of in my experiments with life. They’ve walking with the help of a cane on the nurtured my happiness. And it is because street. He also helped us understand how of Swagat Sir that I can now say with to use the other four of our senses with confidence that each problem has a more efficiency and sensitivity. solution. He has helped me find these Recognising different food grains, solutions on my own. There is ease and vegetables, different fruits and currency comfort between us. He is my mentor, notes – these are some of the skills I philosopher, and also my friend. picked up from him. The combination Life does not stop, when a sense
35 Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. -- Dan Gable
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Atul Kaduskar, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 organ stops working. My other senses are separate lives – one in light and the other fully functioning and enable me to lead a in darkness. My optimism to move ahead simple, happy, joyful life just like anyone helps me confront the darkness and find else. I can use this life and its plentiful sunshine within it. H H H happiness to add joy to others’ lives – this Tejaswini Bhalekar realization is Swagat Sir’s gift to me. It is [email protected] when I lost my sight that I began to really see and understand this thing called life. Most people are given just one life. But I have the unique opportunity to lead two Listen to Tejaswini’s other activities.
Finding Clarity
- Aadiya Koshe
When I was a child, whenever I mad?” With a simple smile on her face, came back from an exam, my mother she said “You are clever. It’s just that used to ask me, “How was your paper?” your hands are slower than your brains, and I always had the same answer, “I so you need to help your hand to work at have written the whole paper but have the speed of your brain.” made some silly mistakes!” In my mind I Even at that age, things started knew that I had written the whole paper becoming clear after this diagnosis. Why correctly but I would have made some the bad handwriting, why skipping words spelling mistakes or in other words ‘typos.’ in sentences, why misspelling of words Till I was ten years old, I would study and many more such things. and finish my exams, writing till the last So what is dyslexia? In medical minute and even asking for supplements, language it is a learning disability. In always feeling confident that I was simple words it means that the connection writing all the correct answers. But I between your hand and the brain is loose. would never score marks. And everyone, If you just Google the word “dyslexia” including me, would wonder why. you will find this definition – “Dyslexia is Finally, in 6th standard, thanks to my a learning disorder that involves difficulty school, I was diagnosed with dyslexia. reading due to problems identifying Initially to me, it sounded like a mental speech sounds and learning how they disorder. So, I asked my mother, “Am I relate to letters and words (decoding).
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Best Wishes From - Mr. Shivprasad Aagate Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Also called a reading disability, dyslexia Engineer – and that is what I do till date. I affects areas of the brain that process am a product designer. I design products language.” for the medical field and have also Now that we had the diagnosis, acquired a patent for one of my products. the next step for us was to figure out I realize that it sounds like a the direction to take. The answer to my straightforward journey, but that is in problem was just to modify the way I retrospect. It was never as simple as did things. i.e. relearning from scratch it sounds now. I had to put in a lot of something as simple as spelling. When effort to overcome dyslexia. If you are you learn spellings, you remember the diagnosed with dyslexia, there are a few letters and correlate them to the sound. simple things you can do – For me, it was a little different. I used 1. Do not be disheartened. It is OK. A lot to remember the spelling, not by the of children have it and with proper help, sound of the word, but by the shape of you can overcome the issue. the alphabet or the word. This may seem 2. Play any sport you like. It keeps you fit weird and far-fetched to you, but it made and helps you be competitive in life. sense to me. My parents, with a few initial 3. Meditate for a small period of time. It obstacles, supported me throughout the helps increase your attention span. process of overcoming dyslexia. Even 4. In studies, do not try to learn by with the problems I had, they allowed me memorizing or learning “by-heart.” to make my own decisions. Understand the concept and it will be Normally, the parents and the easier to write exams. dyslexic child both have the assumption 5. And lastly, do things you like and make that a child with dyslexia cannot study for your own mistakes. It will build your long periods of time. But that is not true. confidence and make you think better. Dyslexia may seem to affect focus because To conclude, let me tell you a mantra it makes simple things like writing difficult. that I give everyone who comes to me But if a dyslexic child gets to do what he for advice: if you are dyslexic, you are not likes, he can do it for hours together. Like different, you just do things differently. any regular person, the key to overcoming H H H Aaditya Koshe the problems posed by my diagnosis was [email protected] to find out what I enjoyed the most and make a living out of it. It was clear that I was not good with words and my attention span for “by- hearting” stuff was really short. But I was inquisitive, good at sketching and unlike Know about Shantabai Vaidya Memorial Foundation which helps most children of my age, I loved Maths. students having learning disability. This turned out to be the perfect recipe for my choice of career – a Mechanical
37 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mrs. Vrushali Dilip Advant, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 Striving for Integration Manasi Salvekar I was born deaf. Hearing loss – 100%. When I was seven months old, I would only difference was that I was granted not respond to sounds like the whistle the extra half hour for writing the paper of a pressure cooker, an alarm clock or given to handicapped students. During sound-making toys. Those sounds simply Grades 11 and 12, there were no special couldn’t reach my ears. My family bore educator and I had to join a private this challenge with determination. tuition. Unfortunately, private tuitions I spent my school years from Grade were not available during my engineering 1 to 10 in a regular school. During my degree, and I was completely dependent schooling, there were two teachers, on fellow students. Bapat Ma’am and Vasht Ma’am who Whenever there was a group project, were qualified to provide special training the groups would be made on phone calls for the disabled and they lent me without me ever realizing it. Once, there unimaginable support. I am grateful to was a unit test in college, when it was them, and to my mother and grandfather announced that everyone had to pick who ensured that I studied so well that I their seats. Naturally, I couldn’t hear the never felt I was any less than my regular announcement, but what’s worse is that classmates. I had to write the exam standing up, with When I was in Grade 4, I was in the no seat left for me. These situations could A division. It was mandatory for students be avoided, but no one bothered to help! from this division to appear for the I still remember one of my professors Scholarship examination. We had to stay declaring, “What’s the use of someone in school after hours to study for it. I was like Manasi becoming an engineer?” not able to understand what was taught Finally, in the fourth year, I in school and the teachers said that I was befriended a girl named Shruti Gupta free to leave the A division. But instead, who would frequently lend me her notes I studied hard and wrote the Scholarship and help me study. Placements are a exam with my own effort. I cleared it with milestone that young students look flying colours and was felicitated in the forward to. For me, it turned out to be the school. next challenge. I would clear the written During my Grade 10 board exam, test, but seeing my disability, I would be I did not opt for special subjects. The turned down in the interview. Finally, I
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Best Wishes From - Mrs. Prachi & Mr. Shantanu Patwardhan, Houston, Texas, USA Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 found a job in a private 3. Last year, the company. My father RBI released an told my employers advertisement that I would need for job postings, special training. We which asked for were assured that people with 40- such help would be 70% hearing loss to provided. apply. What should My expectations a person like me – turned sour, when I qualified, but with was given work that a hundred percent was in no way related to my speciality, hearing loss – do in such a scenario? How with no training. Even in this climate, I tried is this fair? to make the most of the opportunity in 4. There is an association for SC/ST castes hand. I appeared for an insurance-related which ensures that the job seats reserved exam provided within the company and for them are filled and they are given got a good 83% score. I participated in a equal access. I believe there should be a group dance at a function in the company. similar committee for the handicapped. For a deaf person, co-ordinating with the It should keep regular track of whether music and the other dancers in a group is persons with disability are given the quite hard. I practised a lot and enjoyed reserved seats, integrated with the the applause I received. I tried to collect regular employees, receive proper positive experiences in the company, training or are facing any difficulties. despite the negative work environment. I wish to use my experience and But finally, I was forced to concede knowledge to create a better environment that a private company was too for people like me. Persons with disability competitive for someone like me. I start out with a disadvantage in society. have recently applied to a government We can’t do anything about that, but you company and now await the result. can. I hope that you, dear readers, help Today, I have certain expectations integrate people like me in society – be from our government for persons with it in your role as parents, family, friends, disability: teachers, co-workers or classmates. 1. To motivate students with disability in H H H Manasi Salvekar education, the government should grant [email protected] annual scholarships to such students. 2. The government has assigned a reservation of 9% to persons with different types of disabilities in jobs. But Watch Manasi performing on the the government must keep track annually stage. She is second last in the left of whether this reservation is filled. row.
39 As soon as you trust yourself, you will know to live.
Best Wishes From - Dr. Geetanjali and Siddharth Chhatra Prabodhan Patwardhan – Sheffield, U.K. English Diwali Issue 2019 Aiming for Excellence Tushar Nalawade I am 18 years old and I am currently was discouraging for some time. There in the first year of computer engineering. I were three sessions of physiotherapy am a para-swimmer. I have Cerebral Palsy in a day during the weekends, which along with Muscular Leukodystrophy, a made my mood cranky and tiresome on condition where the person affected loses Sundays. After those two years, I was much control over body movements. I advised to do physiotherapy daily. encountered this at the meagre age of 11 I continued physiotherapy for the months. It started with a very high fever next fourteen years. I used to go to the and the body was experiencing muscle Deenanaath Mangeshkar Hospital in loosening; it affected both of my legs and Pune. It was at this time that I understood the lower trunk. that to be fit, exercise is mandatory, and We consulted many doctors; some physiotherapy played an important part of them were not positive about my in moulding me into what I am today. health conditions and demoralized us, My journey no doubt had many ups while there were a few that referred and downs. Since I could not walk without to some better doctors. Finally, one of support, many schools declined to admit them diagnosed my condition. It was a me. At the time, I had to be carried condition that would never completely go from place to place. Finally, one school away, although it could get worse if there allowed me admission after an aptitude wasn’t regular movement of the affected test. This was my first lesson - when one parts. So the doctor suggested that I door closes another opens. Eventually should start physiotherapy as exercise. I accepted that to be a part of society, I We started with massages and must not fear it. Being in a regular school, different therapies. When I was about a I didn’t feel awkward or less capable with year and a half old, my grandfather, my the regular students and even they felt mother and I used to travel to Mumbai comfortable with me after the initial on the weekends for physiotherapy. I few months. I made friends throughout was given several Botox injections within my school life. When I moved to a new a span of two years for treatment of the school, I thought it would be difficult muscular dystrophy. Due to that, I was to adjust to a new environment, but it unable to move my lower body, and it wasn’t. My best memories are from the
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Best Wishes From - A Well wisher, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 school concerts and the rehearsals still swimming competitions - one held at remain memorable. Malvan and another at Mumbai. This was I started swimming as part of the a great thrill for me. My grandfather’s exercise for my lower limbs. I was around dream was to see me representing India six years old when I first entered water. in international level tournaments. His I went to Bal Kalyan Sanstha, where my vision proved to be an impetus for my coach Mr. Abhijit Tambe, taught me the motivation and since then, I tried to fulfil basics of swimming. The first challenge his wish. I participated in two international was to walk in water; like most kids I tournaments for differently-abled players used the life-buoy ring and tried to walk (termed as Paralympics). across the breadth of the pool. It took I went to Pasadena, USA, for my me a whole month to walk in the water first international at the age of 13, where confidently. Another three months and I I learned many swimming techniques finally learnt how to float on water. by observing international swimmers. I was enthusiastic to learn new Many of the participating sportspersons strokes and techniques but the coach had disabilities that were very different told me to have patience. I first learnt the from mine. I realized that despite Freestyle stroke which was the easiest. greater problems like mobility and My legs moved quite a little in the water communication, they were leading their so the coach told me pull strongly with lives like normal people, perhaps happier my hands. This needed much power in ones. Seeing them gave me a different the hands and it took my energy away in perspective on life. the beginning. Slowly and steadily I was The next competition where I able to swim with that stroke briskly. I represented INDIA was the Youth Para faced a similar struggle while learning Asian Games held at Dubai, UAE, at the back-stroke, breast-stroke and butterfly age of 16. That competition was a whole stroke; the latter was the most difficult different thing; I improved my stroke as it requires you to pull your whole body timings with a big difference, in the with your hands and move like a dolphin. event - 400m freestyle- I had a timing At the age of 9, I participated in my of 6 minutes at practice which came first competition, which was the start to down to 4 minutes, which I believe is my the greatest phase of my life. I participated biggest achievement in swimming. After in various district level competitions the Dubai games, I gave swimming a organized by Lions club and Rotary club. break due to my HSC board exams. I am I realised that swimming was a great grateful to my family for supporting me activity to develop myself as a person, and providing me the resources by which due to the kind of exposure it provided. I I could gain such amazing experiences. achieved greater heights and participated As a sports-lover, I’d always wanted in state and national level competitions. to play some sport. I liked cricket and I also participated in two sea- developed an interest in football during
4141 Don’t be afraid of being different; be afraid of being the same as everyone else.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Aaditya Modak, Borivali English Diwali Issue 2019 foremost, I played for myself. You make records and then you aim to break them for creating new, bigger ones. Problems are a part of life; what remains up to us is how we handle them and make our life peaceful and happy. Avoiding problems will only make them worse and you will have to deal with them later, when you are not in your best condition. Everything has flaws. Similarly, everyone has a special talent college. But there was not much scope hidden inside them, you just have to in differently-abled cricket or football look. Embracing your flaws will make it training and competitions. Swimming easier to face the world. There will be had that and I was excited by the chance discrimination, (where isn’t!) but you it gave me. But I soon realized that in should not fall for it and focus on living a my swimming category (categories are life you enjoy. Whatever maybe the past, based on level of disability) there weren’t it is already past you; acknowledge it and many competitors; it would always be 2-3 live your present which is the key for the swimmers, so winning medals seemed future you want to have! easy, and when success becomes easy, it ACCEPTING YOUR PROBLEMS IS seems to lose significance. This would de- DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO YOUR motivate me. PEACE OF MIND. Then I would either avoid practice - Tushar Nalawade or not give my hundred percent. But I [email protected] realized soon that the biggest competitor to me is myself. After observing legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, I understood that Listen to Tushar’s dreams.
Did You Know Indian classical dance is an umbrella term for various performance arts rooted in religious Hindu musical theatre styles,whose theory and practice can be traced to the Sanskrit text Natya Shastra. The number of recognized classical dances range from eight to more, depending on the source and scholar. The Sangeet Natak Akademi recognizes eight: Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Kathakali, Sattriya, Manipuri and Mohiniyattam. The Culture Ministry of the Government of India includes Chhau in its classical list. These dances are traditionally regional, all of them include music and recitation in local language or Sanskrit, and they represent a unity of core ideas in a diversity of styles, costumes and expression.
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Best Wishes From - Mr. Vikram Chaphekar, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Activity Gift Envelope
Our parents sometimes need gift envelopes, and so do we. Gift envelopes available in the market are quite costly, so why buy them when you can make them at home. Instead of spending on something that can be easily handmade, we can make gift envelopes as personalised as a gift and in the process, create something great out of waste. In this activity, we will learn how to make envelopes out of old wedding invitation cards. Invitation cards are generally decorated with lace, beads or Ganesh stickers which can be used to make attractive gift envelopes. Materials: Old invitation cards, scissors, scale, fevicol, pencil, material for decorations like beads, sparklers, lace etc. Method: 1. Select a colourful invitation card. 2. Cut a rectangle of 20X22 cm out of it. 3. Draw lines as per given measurements in Figure 1. 4. Cut the shaded part. 5. Fold the paper on dotted lines. 6. Put fevicol on the region showed with dots. 7. Fold the paper on first fold shown in Figure 1 and stick both flaps. Once the envelope is ready, you can decorate it in different ways. Envelopes can be made with chart paper too and the printed paper of invitation cards can be used for decoration. A hole can be punched in the flap and threads or lace can be woven through it. You have a lot of scope to use your creativity. A set of such envelopes also can be gifted to your friends and relatives. The joy of creation is sweetest when shared. H H H Hema Dhotre [email protected]
43 The world is a canvas for your imagination. You are a painter. There are no rules. Get to work.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Satishchandra Gore, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 Story THE VALIANT SOLDIER PARAMVIR CHAKRA ABDUL HAMID - Col (Retd) Avinash Kelkar Every year, on 10 September, India the Indian town of Khem remembers the supreme Karan, five kilometres from sacrifices made by CQMH the international border. the sugarcane field, and Abdul Hamid along with The Indian troops the next morning, the brave officers of the 4 retaliated, and after three Pakistani tanks of the Grenadiers Battalion who days of bitter fighting, 1st Armoured Division, destroyed to smithereens the battle ended with consisting mainly of the evil intentions of the Pakistani forces M-47 and M-48 Patton Pakistan at Khem Karan. repulsed near Asal Uttar. tanks, were lured inside I am privileged to be able War historians regard the the horse-shoe trap. The to serve for a long time Indian resistance near swampy ground slowed with such an outfit. I joined Khem Karan as a key the advance of the 4 Grenadiers, at Ambala, turning point of the war, Pakistani tanks, and many just when they’d returned tilting the balance in favor couldn’t move because from their war glories. of India. of the muddy slush. Their faces glowed with Pakistan’s invading The Indian Armoured pride, satisfaction and force, consisting of the Brigade decimated the bravery. 1st Armoured Division entrapped Pakistani tanks. My mind races and 11th Infantry Division, 100 Pakistani tanks were back to India’s victory crossed the International destroyed or captured. in the Indo-Pak War of Border and captured the Despite the initial 1965. The Indian Armed Indian town. Considering thrust of the Pakistani Forces vowed to keep the the situation, GOC Indian Army into Indian Territory, tricolour flying high then, 4th Mountain Division, the battle ended in a as they do now, whatever Maj. Gen. Gurbaksh Singh decisive Indian victory. the cost. The Battle of immediately ordered The commander of Asal Uttar was one of the the division to fall back Pakistani forces Maj. Gen. largest tank battles fought and assume a horseshoe Nasir Ahmed Khan was during the Indo-Pak War of shaped defensive position killed in action. Pakistan 1965. It was fought from with Asal Uttar as its focal admitted that it lost 165 September 8 through point. tanks during the 1965 war, September 10, 1965, During the night, the more than half of which when Pakistan captured Indian troops flooded were knocked out during
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Best Wishes From - ‘SANTOOL’ Mr. Milind Sant, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 the “debacle” of Asal The battalion had of Pakistani armour Uttar. The Battle of Asal been in combat for more supported by Patton tanks Uttar, between India and than 24 hours when it attacked the 4th Grenadier Pakistan, was one of the began digging trenches positions. The attack largest tank battles since and weapon pits in its was preceded by intense World War II. defensive positions, artillery bombardment to The 4th Battalion of well camouflaged. The soften the target and to the Grenadiers regiment 106mm recoilless guns draw Indian response. By of the Indian Army has were deployed along the 0900 hours, the enemy had a rich tradition of Khem Karan- Amritsar tanks had penetrated displaying bravery and Road. On 8 September, the forward company steely courage in the the enemy made probing positions. The action that face of adversities. Abdul attacks on the 4th followed was incredible. Hamid, hailing from the Grenadiers’ position. Imagine the scene: Ghazipur District of Uttar The battalion’s recoilless Hamid sees a group of Pradesh, was enrolled into weapons and automatics Pattons heading towards the 4 Grenadiers infantry were effectively sighted. his battalion defenses. regiment on 27 December That afternoon, Abdul Seeing the gravity of the 1954. During the Indo- Hamid destroyed two situation, he moves out Pakistani War of 1965, the Patton tanks, one whose to a flank with his gun 4 Grenadiers Battalion commander had asked mounted on a jeep. Taking was entrusted with a vital Hamid for directions just cover behind the tall crop, position before the village before. Hamid points his gun in of Chima on the Khem On 10 September 1965 their direction and waits. Karan–Bhikhiwind line. at 0800 hours, a battalion The Grenadiers hold their fire so as not to warn the enemy. Just as the tanks come within 30 yards, Hamid asks his loader to load the gun and shoot. He watches the shell go up and arch towards the first enemy tank. Even as he picks up
45 Soldiers never die, they just fade away.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Gaurav Modak, Dombivali English Diwali Issue 2019 his binoculars, he hears They are training their gun Uttar and the Theatre the blast. The tank burns on another Patton. They Honour (Punjab). For before his eyes. shoot it down. By now, the first time in military The crew of the two the shelling has started. history, a battalion with following tanks dismounts The enemy tanks have only RCL guns at its and runs away. Hamid noticed the jeeps and they disposal fought off an orders the driver to concentrate machine- armoured division. The reverse and move. Around gun fire on them. Hamid Indian Army’s actions 11.30 am, the battalion is is trying to trick them by tarnished the reputation of subjected to heavy artillery constantly changing his the American made M48 shelling and then they hear position. Another tank Patton. India set up a war the familiar rumble. Hamid lumbers towards him, memorial named “Patton whips out his binoculars. and this time, before he Nagar” (“Patton Town”) Three more tanks are can move, they spot each in the Khem Karan District, heading in their direction. other. where the captured Patton Hamid’s jeep is hidden Both place each tanks are on display. from view, camouflaged other in their sights and The Citation for in the tall sugar cane crop. shoot. Both shells hit their the Param Veer Chakra Positioning his gun, with targets. There is a loud mentions the deeds of bated breath, he waits. blast, fire and smoke. CQMH Abdul Hamid as The tank comes Even as the tank is blown “Havildar Abdul Hamid’s within shooting distance up, its shell hits the jeep. brave action inspired and Hamid signals to the The impact flings it in the his comrades to put up loader. He watches the air. There are screams a gallant fight and to trajectory of the shell. It of pain, a loud crash and beat back the heavy tank hits target. One more tank then complete silence assault by the enemy. His burns, while the remaining intercepted only by the complete disregard of his two are abandoned by crackle of flames. After personal safety during the Pakistanis. By the end blowing up a total of the operation and his of the day, Hamid has seven enemy tanks, even sustained act of bravery destroyed two tanks. Four more than an armoured in the face of constant are abandoned. Intense formation can hope for, enemy fire were a shining enemy shelling and tank Hamid is dead. India has example not only to his fire do not deter him. lost a valiant Jawaan. unit but to the whole He fires continuously, The Government division and were in the knocking out three of India conferred the highest traditions of the Pattons, one after another. Param Veer Chakra on Indian Army.” The brave Grenadiers CQMH Abdul Hamid. The H H H Col (Retd) Avinash Kelkar have moved to another battalion was awarded [email protected] point behind a thicket. the Battle Honour of Asal Illustrator : Rahul Deshpande
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Best Wishes From - Mr. Girish Palaskar, Bengaluru In the memory of Late Sharad Palaskar Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Self Development Characters: Asmi: Let it be. We will adjust when Children(Raju, Vishu, Asmi, everyone is seated. Jitu, Anu, Mita, Chinu), Co- Vishu: (screams) Arrghh! A cockroach! Passenger, Ticket-Checker, Yuck, I am not sitting here! Chinu’s Brother (Dada) (Everyone laughs. All children except SCENE 1 Vishu are now seated.) (Inside a crowded train compartment – 7 Co-passenger: Don’t worry beta, come children are looking for their seats) and sit here. Asmi: Finally! I thought we’d miss the (Vishu reluctantly settles down next to train. the man.) (after some time…) Vishu: Funny you should say that, when Vishu: (screams again) Help, help!! you’re the reason we are late. Who takes Anu: Now what,Vishu? Why are you so much time to get ready! Asmi: Stop it! Raju: OK, guys. Relax. We got the train. Jitu: What’s this, Raju? The seats are An not together. Didn’t you check while booking? Unforgettable Raju: There was no option! Jitu: Are you sure… Trip - Dr.Vaishali Deshmukh
47 The first step towards solving a problem is to begin.
Best Wishes From - Mrs. Sarika Sohoni Chhatra Prabodhan In the memory of Late Hema Sohoni, Sangali English Diwali Issue 2019 screaming so much today? Is it another strangers. And this place is so spooky! My cockroach? God! Our trip is ruined. (starts crying.) Vishu: (mumbling) I… I think this uncle Mita: Hey, what are you saying! I don’t has fallen unconscious. agree with you one bit, Asmi. You know Anu: Don’t be ridiculous! He is fast asleep, what, it’s all super exciting! I think this is that’s all. Look, he is snoring. Sorry, THE adventure we were waiting for. Uncle, please go back to sleep. Vishu, we Anu: For once, try to be responsible, are playing cards, come and join us. Mita. This is a disaster, not an adventure. (Everyone is engrossed in the game. They Chinu: Well, whatever it is, we can’t just start munching on the snacks they have wait around. Let’s ask someone. But brought along. They lose track of time. how? There isn’t a soul in sight! Raju, Suddenly…) come on, suggest something. Ticket checker: Tickets please. Vishu: Yes Raju, you were the one to (Raju hands over the tickets. Ticket plan all this. Besides, we can’t even call checker takes a look and his eyes widen.) anyone because Mr. Brainy Raju had this Ticket checker: Kids, didn’t you get down brilliant idea of not carrying cell phones at your stop? The train left your station along! And now we are left stranded in ten minutes ago. this godforsaken place. Jitu: What? Oh no! Why didn’t anybody Chinu: Don’t blame Raju. At least he did tell us? What do we do now? Pull the some planning. What did you do? chain! Raju: Oh Vishu, I am sorry. I just thought Ticket checker: No no, don’t do that, we should have a gadget-free trip. But we are already quite far away from the let us not lose hope. After all, we are at station. You will have to get down at the a railway station, not in some wilderness! next stop now. Anu: Thanks for the hope Raju. I really like Vishu: (screams) No no, stop the train! the way you never lose your cool. Let’s Raju: Please, please. We don’t know how look for the station master and enquire to go back and we don’t have enough about the next train back. money with us to go ahead! What do we Or maybe we can get a bus or something do now? to go home. We can even hitchhike. Ticket checker: I am sorry, but you will Mita: Hitchhike? But then we have to be have to get down. We have almost really careful. Once my cousin requested reached the next station. You will get someone for a ride and he was robbed on some help there. Hurry up, or there will the way. be a fine for travelling without ticket. Jitu: Well, we can go back, but then we SCENE 2 will miss the picnic. I have an idea. Why (The group is standing at the empty, not have a picnic in this place itself? We lonely station now, dejected.) have enough food and water with us. Asmi: Oh no! What to do now? I’m not Let us explore the countryside. It will be comfortable meeting some random exciting. In my opinion, it’s a lot more fun
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Best Wishes From - Mr. Sanjay Bobe, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 when we do something Raju: Great news! There is a return train unplanned. at 4 o’clock. So we have plenty of time to Mita: Exactly! That’s what I meant earlier have fun and be back here by 3.30. The too. Great suggestion, Jitu. stationmaster was also kind enough to Vishu: A picnic? Here? let me use his cell phone, so I called Dad We’re in the middle of nowhere! and told him about our changed plan. He Jitu: I can see an Aamrai there. Lots of said he will inform your parents. mango trees and cool shade. I am sure we Mita: Awesome! Let’s go! Come on, Asmi. will find the owner somewhere who can (Children hop and skip away off the stage. guide us. And we can take his permission A little while later, everyone is back at the to sit in the Aamrai. station. They are in high spirits, laughing Raju: Wow, these are brilliant ideas, and talking) especially the idea of having a picnic here. Chinu: I wish I could doze right here, I But before that, we must find out about am so full of delicious mangoes. I can’t our return travel. We have to reach home believe how generous the owner was! before dark. I can see the station master He actually encouraged us to eat as many over there now. Let me go and check. In mangoes as we wanted. the meantime, can you take stock of how Anu: I know, how can anyone be so nice! much money we have? Oh, my throat hurts from all the laughing (Raju goes off stage and comes back) and singing! But it was great fun! We
49 Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.
Best Wishes From - Mrs. Rupali Bapat Chhatra Prabodhan In the memory of Late Narhar Joshi, Nashik English Diwali Issue 2019 couldn’t click a single picture without have a picnic right there after planning for our phones, but I know I’ll never forget our return journey. Sulking would simply the beautiful Aamrai. And I will forever make us even more unhappy. We would remember the chirping birds and the miss the picnic if we took a return train or buzzing cicadas. bus immediately. Also, hitchhiking might Asmi: Yes, and I have filled my lungs be risky. We could have checked the train with the fragrance of nature. The air was timetable on the internet but we didn’t so fresh and the breeze was so cool! It have cellphones with us. So we chose the was the best picnic ever! I take back my option of having a picnic at the Aamrai, words. Vishu, you should say sorry to where we would be safe and not miss out Raju too. (looks up)Here comes the train. on the fun. Fortunately, we could inform SCENE 3 our parents about the changed plan so (Living Room - after a few days- the group we were less anxious. Also, in the end, is narrating their experience to Chinu’s the decision to not carry the cell phones elder brother, Dada) added to the fun. Dada: This is amazing. Do you know you (Everybody is listening and nodding.) guys actually used the POWER model of Chinu: All in all, when we look back, it ‘problem solving’? appears we did make the right choices. Vishu: We did?! To be honest, we just Our outing was a super duper hit! argued and discussed and fought! Dada: Well done! And don’t forget this Dada: (Laughs) Ok, let me explain this POWER of problem solving. You will be model. P is for defining the Problem. O is able to solve many of your challenges to find out the various Options as possible using this Mantra! Choosing a career? solutions. W stands for Weighing all the Planning for the exams? A fight with your options, meaning to find out the pros best friend? Or even the dilemma of what and cons of each. E means to Elect and to wear for the party! Execute the chosen option. And R means Mita: Amazing! Thanks Dada, we will to Review and Revise, whether your definitely remember this. action was effective or not. Dear Readers, here is a problem for you. You have Raju: Hmm, what you say makes sense! got less marks than expected in the recent exam Let’s see, our problem was that we were and you have to face your friends. Will you tell them stranded at an unknown and unplanned or not? If so, when and how? Use your POWER and place. Each one of us reacted differently. come up with as many brilliant options as you can, Some of us were angry, some were assess the cost of using each option and go ahead! disappointed and some were in fact Do let us know how you used your ‘out of the box’ happy! Naturally, everyone came up with thinking! H H H Dr.VaishaliDeshmukh different options. Some said we should [email protected] stay put at the station and sulk; some said Paediatrician focusing on adolescent health we should find a return train or bus or Illustrator- Rahul Deshpande may be hitchhike; while some wanted to Learn how to overcome complexes.
Festival : Karnataka — Ugadi, marks the beginning of the new Hindu lunar 50 calendar, in the second half of March or in early April.
Best Wishes From - Mrs. Sumedha Arun Kelkar, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Informative
Did you can copy it or use it. know? This is called Intellectual Coca- Property Right. If Cola has protected someone else from your its special taste for class copies your essay more than 130 years. and gets appreciated The recipe was by the teacher, then invented by John it is encroachment on Smith Pemberton who your right, as the essay shared it with only four is the creation of you people. Even today, intellect. You are eligible the formula of Coca- to protect your creation Cola is a trade secret. Intellectual by using your Intellectual According to the Coca- Property Right. Cola Company, only Property We have laws for two employees are -Dr Vinita Panchanadikar, protecting our basic aware of the complete -Dr. Nitin Shukla rights. Similarly, every recipe at any given country has laws for time and they are not permitted to travel protecting the Intellectual Property Rights. together. When one dies, the other The basic purpose of the intellectual choose a successor within the company property law is to promote innovation, and impart the secret to that person. The inspire individuals’ creativity. Apart from identity of the two employees is itself a inventions, other forms of intellectual secret. creations can be protected under group The recipe of the drink is the result of rights called intellectual property (IP). of a thought process made by a human Important categories of Intellectual being, or a human being’s intellect. Property rights: The recipe is therefore this inventor’s I. Patents property, i.e. not a physical property, but All over the world people have intellectual property. Someone using your ingenious ideas for new tools, products, idea or your intellectual property without gadgets. If they invent something your knowledge is the same as entering original they can apply for a patent. A your house without your permission. patent describes an invention, names A house or a piece of land is the owner of the intellectual property protected by the owner by fencing it, so in it and prevents anyone else from that no one else can encroach. Similarly, using, producing or selling it without the the outcome of our thinking ability is also owner’s permission. protected. Any creation of the human One product may be covered by lots mind is protected so that no one else of different patents. For example, Apple
51 Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mrs. Smita Chaware, Navi Mumbai English Diwali Issue 2019 Intellectual Property Rights Patents Trademarks Copyright Trade secret Geographical Indication Inventions Visual Symbols Artistic work Recipe of Coca- Scotch Liquor (Simple devices (McDonalds, (Novels, Musical Cola (Scotland) from a pin to Godrej, Coca- creations) Darjeeling Tea complex products Cola) (India) like TV) holds over 1,000 patents relating to the country. In many countries mathematical iPhone. These patents cover things like methods, computer programs, scientific voice control, camera functionality Theories, method of playing a game and user interface, battery/power technology, plant and animal varieties, discovery and synchronizing data across devices. of natural substances, commercial Imagine that bicycles didn’t exist, methods to do business and method of and that you invented the first bicycle. medical treatment are not considered You wouldn’t patent the entire bicycle. “patentable”. How many parts can you list that might A patent usually lasts for 20 years, need their own patent? after which it becomes public property. An invention patent must fulfil Patents allow inventors to earn money certain criteria to get a patent: from their inventions and be recognized 1. New and therefore novel: It must show for them. They encourage businesses to some new characteristic which is not invest in the research and development known in the body of existing knowledge, of new technologies. Patents ensure “Prior art” in its technical field. that the science and knowledge behind 2. Not-obvious or involve an inventive an invention is recorded and made step: That is it could not be deduced by publicly available, because in order to a person with average knowledge in the get a patent, the inventor has to describe particular technical field. the invention in detail in the patent 3. Useful or capable of having industrial application document. So even during application. the time that the invention is protected, 4. A part of other inventors can still learn from the “Patentable science to invent new things. Subject Did you know? Matter” There are many examples of under inventors who choose not to patent their applicable inventions for various reasons. law in the World Wide Web – Sir Tim Berners- specific Lee invented the Web and built the first
Festival : Kerala :Onam, celebrated to welcome King Mahabali, whose 52 spirit is said to visit Kerala at the time of Onam, popular for Snake Boat Race & Folk performances.
Best Wishes From - Mr. Sameer Chaware, Navi Mumbai Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 website in 1990. It is now used by billions copyright. In that of people around the world every day. But case if someone else Sir Tim never patented the idea because takes a photograph he said it should be “for everyone”. of that painting Matches – Chemist John Walker and starts selling invented matches in the 1820s but did it without the not patent his invention. He realized how consent of painter, useful matches would be to people and that person would wanted the idea to catch on as quickly be violating the as possible. He didn’t make much money painter’s rights. from his idea. Did you know? Karaoke – Where would we be When J.K. without the karaoke machine? It was Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter invented in the 1970s by Japanese book she was poor but she owned the businessman Daisuke Inoue. Again, he copyright of her book. So, she was the didn’t patent the idea and never profited only person allowed to sell copies of the from it. book. She gave permission to a publishing II. Copyright company to do it in return for payment. Authors are people who create Her copyright was not just for the works. Architects, painters, composers, words but also the characters and the photographers and other artists are all story. So she was the only person with authors of their works and make a living the right to produce a film of her story. creating their art. The art they produce Again, she didn’t do this herself but paid is protected by copyright, which means a production company to make a film that only they have the right to decide adaptation of her work. who can make and sell copies of their Did you know? work. In the five years before Michael Works are usually protected by Jackson’s death in 2009, sales of his copyright until at least 50 years after albums were around four million. In the their creator’s death in most countries. In five years after his death sales were over some countries protection lasts for more 13 million. Two of Ian Fleming’s 14 books than that. This means that the creator featuring James Bond were published can pass on the copyright to someone after the author’s death. Because of else, like a family member. copyright law, they are still earning money Copyright does not extend to ideas, after their death! but only to the expression of thoughts. Copyright does NOT protect ideas For example, idea of painting a river is not or mere facts. Copyright protects the protected by copyright. Anyone can paint way in which ideas are expressed. This a river. But a specific painting painted by expression is the unique way in which a particular painter may be protected by words, musical notes, colours, shapes,
53 If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
Best Wishes From - Miss. Rama Sudhir Parkhi, Chhatra Prabodhan c/o Kishor Brahme, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 54
Festival : Manipur : Yaoshang, premier festivals of Manipur, celebrated for five days from the full moon day of Phalguna.
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 etc. are chosen and arranged. It is the from Switzerland or Champagne from a expression that makes a work original. particular part of France. Examples of GI There can be many different works about closer home are: the same idea and all of them will be 1. The Kolhapuri Chappal protected by copyright, as long as they 2. The Puneri Pagadi is a distinctive style express this idea in an original way. of turban, which is considered as a symbol III. Trademarks of pride and honor in the city of Pune. Sometimes, a person, company or 3. The strawberry mainly grown in place has a reputation for producing Mahabaleshwar-Panchagani belt of something valuable. A trademark is a Western Maharashtra region has now distinctive sign that identifies a product or received GI status and will be recognised the company that made it. For example, as “Mahabaleshwar Strawberry,” which Sony created the PlayStation computer serves as a brand name game system and they trademarked the 4. Lonavala Chikki “PlayStation” name and logos. Anyone 5. All mangoes from Konkan region get who produces a computer game system the Hapus/Alphonso tag. The districts in and calls it “PlayStation” without Sony’s Konkan Region include Thane, Palghar, permission would be breaking the law. Sindhudurg, Ratnagiri and Raigad. A trademark is a symbol, name Sometimes more than one type or phrase that identifies a business or of intellectual property can apply to a product. Some well-known signs for single product. Think, for example, of a goods and services are those of DELL, refrigerator. A trademark can protect the APPLE, SAMSUNG, McDonalds, TATA name and logo of the manufacturer. The Sky, etc. parts and processes of the refrigerator Trademarks may consist of a word or that keep food cold may be patented a combination of words, abbreviations, inventions. The design of the refrigerator numerals, drawings, 3-D logo, single or (the style and appearance of its drawers, combination of colours, non-visible signs shelves, handles, etc.) can be protected by such as music and fragrances. A ™ or ® industrial designs. Even the refrigerator symbol next to a logo or word shows that operating manual, an original written it is a trademark. text, is protected by copyright. IV. Geographic Indications H H H Geographical indications tell you Dr Vinita Panchanadikar, Chief Scientist, CSIR-NCL, Dr Nitin Shukla, Senior Scientist, CSIR-NCL where a product comes from. The GI sign [email protected] states that the product originates in a given geographical area and possesses qualities or reputation due to that place of origin. These may be agricultural Know about products or even goods manufactured in ‘Magic of Plant Fragrance.’ the specific place, for instance, watches
55 Success is a science, if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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56 Festival : Meghalaya :Nongkrem Dance Festival, five days long religious festival devoted to appease the Goddess Ka Blei Synshar for a rich bumper harvest and prosperity of the people. Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 POEM
Alchemist
Days were past, I had wandered far and wide To search for the jewel of life I had spent half my life My search led me to an isle Most beautiful I’d ever seen I saw a boy, a young one He jumped from tree to tree His laughter, a note of music He never cried nor mourned But lived to the fullest And from him I found I found the alchemy of life It’s not how long I live, It’s how I live.
- Siddhant Agate 9th std., Jnana Prabodhini Prashala, Pune 30 Illustrator - Aarya Patil, JP Navnagar Vidyalay, Nigadi
Listen to an expression of Love and Trust - Interview with Aruna Sairam, a classical singer
57 Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Dr. Vinayak Desurkar, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 Tickle Your Funny Bone
Teacher : Arjun, name one important thing we have today that we didn’t have twelve years ago. Arjun : Me! Teacher: “If you had ten rupees and you asked your father for another ten, how many rupees would you have?” Prachi: What a pair of strange socks you are wearing, one is green and one is blue with Aryan: “Ten rupees.” red spots! Teacher: “You don’t know Yash: Yes it’s really strange. I’ve got your arithmetic.” another pair of the same at home. Aryan: “You don’t know my father.” A family of mice were surprised by a big cat. Father Mouse jumped and said, “Bow- Teacher : Could you wow!” The cat ran away. “What was that, tell me 2 pronouns? Father?” asked Baby Mouse. “Well, son, Student : Who? Me? that’s why it’s important to learn a second Teacher: Well done language.”
Teacher: Aayush, your composition on “My Dog” is exactly the same as your brother’s. Did u copy his? Ayush: No, teacher, it’s the same dog!
Teacher : Chinmay, why are you not writing? Chinmay : Sir, I don’t has a pen. Teacher : You said a wrong sentence. The correct form is, I don’t have a pen, he does not have a pen and we don’t have a pen. Chinmay: Oh Sir! Who stole all the pens then?
Festival : Mizoram : ChapcharKut, the clearing and readying of 58 hill slopes for jhum or shifting cultivation.
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“Aurelia Watkins, patient number 765-41-933 Traitor has awoken.” - Avanti Athavale I woke up to the sound of buzzing. I turned around to see a tiny I opened the file and saw that it contained every white robot scurrying detail about my life, from the colour of my eyes to the around what seemed like details of my fights with Luna. It was so strange to a hospital bed. I looked have my life broken down into these tiny sections… around and noticed I as if I were a character out of a story. was in a hospital room surrounded by white to my right to see Luna, “What about you?” I robots. There were my best friend! She was screamed back, confused. hundreds of people lying scrambling off a bed onto “You’re more on the beds, asleep. mine and as she did that, important! Now, go!” she Hundreds of white robots she kicked down a white shouted and motioned to were scurrying around the robot that was advancing my left. A boy towered room. Suddenly, alarms on me. over me, a foot taller than sounded. “Go with Sebastian!” me. I hadn’t even seen “Aura!” I looked she screamed. him! He grabbed my hand
59 Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 and pulled me out of the added, “They have taken going about their daily hospital bed. He put a over our world, and lives. Everybody was being necklace around the two they’ve put all humans in watched. My head spun. of us, turned the pendant a virtual reality system. “Everybody, three times, and suddenly That’s the world you were attention please!” Alex we were standing in a living in. We’ve pulled you shouted. Suddenly, there quaint coffee shop. There out of it, into the actual was silence. I couldn’t help was no robot in sight. Earth. You’re saved.” but notice the authority in Perhaps I should “You must be her voice. But she was just have been relieved, yet it joking,” I grinned, though a kid, probably my age, was so odd how real the unsure. I was trapped in a and there were people nightmare was. I started to nightmare. here much older, looking panic. “LUNA?” I shouted “We don’t have time up to her. for the only source of for this. Let’s get to the “Let’s welcome our comfort I had here, “WHY headquarters. We’ll brief new member, Aurelia AM I HERE? WHAT IS…” I her there.” Alex was Watkins. Aura!” Everybody screamed until I felt a hand clearly the leader of this clapped. How did they on my mouth. Someone freak show. know me? Then, Alex was behind me. I shouted “Where’s Luna?” I nodded, and abruptly, and turned around to find asked her. everyone got back to myself looking into a pair “She found you,” she work. The room was abuzz. of green eyes. Their owner said staring at me as if I “Where’s Luna?” had beautiful brown hair was some prize to be won. a couple of boys which was pulled back “You say it like approached us, and into a ponytail. She looked I’m someone special.” hesitated. For the first familiar. I commented. They time, I saw a shadow “Hi, I’m Alex,” she exchanged a glance but of doubt in Alex’s eyes. said. I nodded, silenced by said nothing. She looked at Sebastian my curiosity. Something Alex motioned for almost pleadingly, and about this Alex had me to follow her, so I did. he beckoned the boys eliminated my fear. She pulled back a curtain, to follow him. I watched “Welcome to Planet Earth, and I found myself in a Sebastian console them as Year 2236.” She said and large room. There were they dissolved into tears. paused. It seemed like she computers everywhere, Alex was also watching had told this story before, monitors flashing, and I them, dumbstruck. possibly many times. It saw screens that showed “Luna is important seemed rehearsed and the normal world, my here, is she?” I asked her. rather ridiculous. world. My school, my “Yes. Luna was “The robots that neighbourhood, my friends important,” she said you just saw?” Sebastian were on the screens, shortly.
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Best Wishes From - Mr. Abhay Aphale, Pune ( In the memory of Late Malti M. Aphale) Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 ‘Was’. That word. virtual reality set She was speaking in the malfunctioned, past tense. As if Luna, and when she my best friend Luna, was woke up she no more. Her voice laced found herself with regret, Alex made it in a world of sound like it was my fault. robots. She As if they had lost Luna fought and while getting me here. I escaped and clutched my throat, trying found this place. not to cry. Alex looked up, Eventually, alarmed. she found “It’s not your fault, out what had Aura.” She said, as if become of reading my mind. “Trust Earth. She me. Luna knew what hacked the she was getting into. We robot’s systems need to get to work,” and analyzed she said. I followed her people and behind curtains, doors, and broke them through rooms. Finally, we out of the entered what looked like a virtual reality you.” she said and I would conference room. if she thought they were have laughed if she wasn’t “The rest of our equipped to fight. That’s so serious. I sank into the council will be here how she met my Dad and chair next to hers. Soon, shortly,” Alex said, taking now here I am. My parents people started filing in. a seat at the head of the are no more and I don’t When they settled down, table. “Meanwhile, let like to talk about them. Alex spoke. me fill in some blanks I’m the only person here “Everyone, meet for you.” I was grateful, who has never been inside Aura Watkins.” She said, but her sad eyes told me that virtual reality. I’m and smiled. “Aura, that’s that it was hard for her safe, because the robots Leo, Oliver, Sebastian, to say this. “We are the have never known my and Gabriel. And here, rebellion. My Mom started system,” Alex said with a we have Anita. We lost this place. Remember the grim look on her face. Luna today,” Alex said, people Sebastian told you “But… Why am I and for a few moments, about? Sleeping in this here?” I asked her. The they all closed their eyes. world, living in their virtual curiosity was plain on my Then Alex spoke up, “Plan reality? Mom was one of face. 71 will be put into action them, one of you. Mom’s “Because we need now. Any questions?”
61 Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t.
Best Wishes From - Mr. Shrikant Karnik- Pune Chhatra Prabodhan ( In the memory of Late Mrs. Sunita S. Karnik) English Diwali Issue 2019 Alex asked. A grim looked Instead, I sneaked out and Aurelia. Dad wasn’t passed between them. and made my way to the the best rebellion fighter. One by one, they left the conference room. I had He grew bitter and tried room. noticed a drawer labelled to separate us. Then, Then, Sebastian came “Recruitment.” There suddenly, one day, he up to me. “You’re stuck were many files, stored left with you. Maybe if with me, Aura,” he flashed alphabetically. Finding my he knew that Mom was me a quick smile. name was easy. I opened pregnant again, he might “I can’t believe what my file and saw that it have stayed, but there’s she said about Luna being contained every detail no changing the past. He gone, she was my best about my life, from the took you to Robot Base 1. friend,” I said. colour of my eyes to the I don’t know what his plan “Yes. Luna was…” details of my fights with was… but they turned Sebastian’s voice Luna. It was so strange to him against us. Now, he’s cracked. Then he became have my life broken down leading the robots. He’s businesslike, “She’s not into these tiny sections as the reason we are fighting. your concern, Aura. Let if I were a character out of We think he put you in the me tell you about us. The a story. Something caught virtual reality system to six of us are the leaders my eye. At the bottom, in keep you away from us. of the rebellion. Most of a messy scrawl, were the But Mom is gone, Aura, us were recruited when words, Alexandra’s Sister? and you’re my only family we were very young. The My stomach dropped. left, so I pulled you out of younger you are, the less “Hey, Aura,” I that world,” she said. the robots know about heard a voice behind me Maybe she wanted you and you have a better and I turned. “I guess me to thank her and chance of fighting. Any the secret’s out.” Alex hug her. But it was all questions so far?” shrugged. “Well… don’t too much for me at “Why am I so stare at me like that. that moment, and I just important?” I asked, trying Guess I owe you the full mumbled a sorry, and ran to catch him off guard. story, sis, but not here…” to my sleeping quarters. I “Not allowed to say.” she said. I gave her a closed my eyes and gave Sebastian said. He gave quizzical look but followed in to the sleep, hoping to me a look that made it her out of the room. We wake up to a normal day, clear that that was the end settled on an abandoned but no longer sure what of the discussion. For the bunk bed outside the was real. rest of the day, he showed sleeping quarters. When I woke up the me around the base. At “So, Mom started next morning, there were night, he led me to the the rebellion. Our Mom. many questions in my sleeping quarters. I was She met our Dad here and mind, and I was desperate tired, but couldn’t sleep. they had us. Alexandra for answers. I found
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Best Wishes From - Miss. Sara Sachin Mahajan, Dombivali Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Sebastian in the coffee After your Mom died, most vulnerable right shop. He was dressed in Alex wanted to enter the now. The target of some sort of black suit of virtual reality set to find our attack is their lead armour with purple light you, but she was our de programmer. My father.” beaming through the facto leader. Putting her She said it with no regret. stitches. “It’s Attack Day,” into the virtual reality “Anita and Gabriel, you he sounded enthusiastic. would jeopardise the will head up the base. Leo “Alex has told rebellion. So, Luna took and Oliver, defense. I’ve me that I’m her sister, up the responsibility. Your got above. Sebastian and Sebastian,” I said to him Dad didn’t even know she Aura, you’ll take center in desperation, “But I existed, so she was the offense,” Alex said. “Suit don’t know what’s real perfect choice. She was up,” she announced. any more. If I am to fight just a kid, and we all loved But before I left the for her, I need to know… her so much. But she room, she held my wrist, I deserve to know the sacrificed herself to save and whispered, “Be safe, details.” you…” Aura. Find our father. Sebastian stared “But why would she If you see him, kill him. at me doubtfully, and do that?” I asked him, You’re the only one who then he said. “It was puzzled. can get close enough. a tough decision to Alex entered the But be careful. We have bring you back. Alex coffee shop just in time lost enough. I cannot lose has been through a lot. to see my expression. She another sister to him.” You need to understand looked from Sebastian to she said, and I saw a tear something about the me and turned furious. roll down her eye. virtual world, Aura. The “You had no right, “What do you virtual world is modelled Sebastian,” she fumed mean?” I asked her, after this world, using the and stormed off, shouting “Another sister?” existing references and behind her shoulder, Her eyes widened as connections here. In short, “Council Room, now.” she whispered, “I thought it’s easier to find someone When we entered, Sebastian told you about in the virtual world if you Alex had already started, Luna. Oh, I’m so sorry. I know them here. “Robot Base 1 is at its couldn’t bear to tell you,
The Simulation Theory is the theory that all reality, including the Earth and the universe as we know it, is actually an artificial model, most likely a computer simulation. A simulation is a model which is a close imitation of the subject. Think of it like a high resolution video game in which we all are characters, we just don’t know it. People have toyed with the idea that a simulation could be so realistic that the people existing in it would think it was their reality. Science fiction has highlighted themes such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence for over fifty years. Interested in more? The first place to start would be the 1999 classic sci-fi movie, Matrix. Watch it to see what would happen if the entire world were virtual!
63 Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Sachin Ulhas Gadgil, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 because I didn’t “Ah. I’ve want you to hold been expecting yourself responsible. you.” The person It wasn’t your fault in the chair spoke. she died. It’s my I was fault, but we had no surprised; I had choice. There is so expected a man’s much to tell, but no voice. A shiver ran time.” She walked down my spine, off before I could say as the voice said, another word. “You know, Aura, Luna had been I don’t know what my sister. It was you’ve been told, too much to digest. but perhaps, you But Sebastian was should hear my waiting for me and side.” I needed to focus My mind on the task. I was went blank and given a suit similar I raised my gun, to Sebastian’s and my hands slippery a laser gun. Soon, with sweat. I was Sebastian flung crawled till I found an almost about to his necklace around our opening. I quietly dropped shoot, when the chair necks and turned it twice. into the room using the swivelled around. My gun We were outside sound absorbing shoes slipped and dropped to what looked like a large built into my suit. I pulled the floor with a clang. aerodrome. Sebastian up my laser gun to follow Even after everything I pointed to a vent the order I’d been given. had heard, I didn’t expect small enough for me There was a person to see a familiar face. to crawl into. “There’s seated at the front Luna. no other way to the of the room in a tall H H H backed chair, facing -Avanti Athavale lead programmer.” He [email protected] attempted to give me away from me. I gripped Illustrator - Rahul Deshpande a reassuring nod, but my gun hard. This was broke into a sigh. Then the moment I’d meet he composed himself, my father and avenge my best friend. Sister, Read about “Remember, shoot to kill.” the evelasting “I’ll be okay, I mentally corrected launguage of myself, the panic Edutainment - Sebastian,” I said. I Cartoon slipped into the vent and beginning to set in.
Festival : Sikkim :Saga Dawa, magnificent carnival famous for 64 masked dances, people especially the Mahayana Buddhists gather in temples and pay due honor to the Lord.
Best Wishes From - Mr. Amit Bagaitkar, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 65 An organisation that draws on the thoughts of Swami Vivekanand that inspire intellect of the people for all- round development of society. – Jnana Prabodhini
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 66 School and College Level Organisation which conducts Leadership Development Activities for the youth with the aim to ‘Transform of Nation’. Youth Wing of Jnana Prabodhini Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Narrative It How I Went happened on one of our daily Bananas visits to the RamG Vallath nearby temple — a routine we found extremely trying, since it meant waking up at 6am, having a bath in cold water and walking a kilometre on an empty stomach. On that fateful day, the gate of one of the houses on the way was partly open, and as we passed in front, out skipped a Pomeranian dog. Having never owned a dog, I was petrified of them. He was vicious and slathering at the mouth, I thought. In reality, he was under the impression that I was in a playful mood and wanted to frisk around with me. I, on the other hand was petrified at having a dog jump at me with no provocation whatsoever. I did what any self respecting 5 year old would do. Shrieking at 110 decibels, I tried to land an uppercut on No, it was not a teacher nor a famous author who the pom. The pom was inspired me to become an author. My inspirations were confused. He was hurt at goats, banana trees and cats. And a dog, of course. In the rejection. Muttering fact, you can say that the inspiration bit me at the curses at me in pure age of five. Literally!! Pomeranian, he bit me on my arm and walked away
67 Jnana Prabodhini’s centre for comprehensive experimentation in conventional education. Pune, Nigdi, Solapur, Salumbre, Harali Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 68
An effective medium of spread of J.P.’s Educational and Organisational Practices and Experiments. Chhatra Prabodhan Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 contemptuously. short and concentrated It required the cat, the My brother and I burst of pent up passion, I banana tree and four were both aghast. In our wrote a series of stories. goats to build sufficient combined 12 years of life, The first story was imagination in my brain we had not come across about a Pomeranian dog to become fit to be an a standard operating that was very hungry. author. Let me explain. procedure for a dog It chased a frog to eat I used to stay in an attack. Nevertheless, it, slipped on the mud, ancestral mansion in a we took a lightning fast fell on its head and died small village from the decision — that to go in agony. The second age of nine to twelve. In ahead with the visit to the story was also about a those days, there was no temple, pray for the early Pomeranian dog that was TV, no internet, no tablets healing of the wound and hungry. It climbed up or mobile phones. In then go back home. the tree to eat the bird, fact, there weren’t even I am sure you must fell down twenty feet friends we — my brother be wondering as to and died in agony. The and I — could play with what the connection is, third story was about… on weekdays. Most of my between this heroic saga a Pomeranian dog, of time was spent reading and my transformation course. It was hungry and books or playing with my into a writer. Let me ran into the sea to catch cat, Namu. And I tried explain. The most fish to eat. It drowned to experience first-hand important ingredient and died in agony. The whatever I read in the required to become a fourth story was about books. writer is passion. The pom — surprise, surprise — a My favourite books incident triggered oodles Pomeranian dog that was were mythological books. of passion in me. In fact, so hungry that it tried to I read Roman mythology, the anger and passion I eat its own tail. It went Greek mythology, felt at the pom for the round and round trying to Egyptian mythology, vicious assault consumed bite its tail, swooned and Nordic mythology, me. In my mind, not only died in agony. and Aztec mythology. this pom, but the entire Thus it was the dog But my favourite was canine world became a that launched me as an Mahabharata. In the tribe of marauding beats author. But this was a Mahabharata, the bent upon the destruction mere start. As you could greatest warriors were of humanity. I, RamG, had see from what I shared, called Maharathis and to scuttle their destructive my stories, though they used to wield bows designs. And to this having the noble intent and arrows and ride horse end, I took up the most of saving humanity from drawn chariots into battle. powerful weapon known destruction, lacked I was obsessed with to man — the pen. In a somewhat in imagination. becoming a Maharathi.
69 We did not realize, we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mrs. Sarika Phatak ,Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 For that, I needed to have all I needed were horses. the stupid cat lay on her the bow, arrows, chariot Horses were slightly back and started playing and horses. Fashioning difficult to come by in my with the rope. All my a bow out of bamboo village. But then my eyes carefully cultivated war sticks and thin ropes was rested on the loyal form cries couldn’t make her a simple task for me. I also of Namu. budge. fashioned arrows with I was sure she But I was an tender bamboo shoots. would have no objection imaginative person. I Of course, I wasn’t sure to helping her master wouldn’t easily give up; how I could kill 40,000 in his quest for glory. I was not going to be opponents in a single day Consequently, Namu stopped by a cat that — or even in a lifetime — found herself tethered to didn’t know horses were with those arrows, but the ‘chariot’ with a piece meant to pull chariots those small technicalities of rope. Then picking up and not lie back and play didn’t stop me. Now I had my bow and arrows, I, with ropes. I applied to find a chariot. Luckily the great Maharathi, sat my mind to solving the for me, there was a four- on the ‘chariot’. It was problem and coming up wheeled wheelbarrow in then that I realised that a with a better solution. our field that was used cat is not exactly a horse. And bingo!! The answer to carry fertiliser from Instead of expending her popped into my head. the shed to the crops. energies to gallop ahead We had four lambs in Having found this chariot, with her lord and master, the farm, whom we had
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Best Wishesh From - Mr. Sanket Hajare – Borivali Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 given the very imaginative with a bruised backside. was light and throwable. names of One, Two, Three This was the end of Most importantly, she was and Four. They would my experiments with my most loyal fried and make the best horses. mythology. wouldn’t let me down — Within ten minutes, I was also a history if one were to ignore the the four lambs found buff and my favourite chariot experiment. themselves tethered to historical character was This was how Namu the ‘chariot’ with ropes. Chhatrapati Shivaji. I found herself with a The Maharathi once again had read, in fascination, sturdy rope tied around picked up his bow and the stories of how he her waist and thrown arrow and climbed on to conquered fort after up on to a low, slanting the chariot. After I parked fort. Apparently he had roof, about 8 feet high. myself cross-legged on a monitor lizard called Having ascertained to the wheelbarrow, Yashwanti. In the middle that Namu had landed I shouted “Giddiyap”, of the night, his troops properly, I, Chhatrapati which is what people do would go to the foot Shivaji Maharaj, started to make horses move. of the fort and throw my upward climb. I The effect on the Yashwanti to the top jumped up to give myself four lambs was electric, of the fort with a rope some momentum and to say the least. They all tied around her waist. then quickly grabbed the simultaneously jumped Monitor lizards have very rope. What transpired about 2 feet each in the powerful claws and they happened too fast for air. Once they landed, cling on to the walls with me to give an exact One decided to run left great strength, allowing detailed description. at full speed. Two, on the troops to climb up the Suffice it to say that I once other hand, decided to go rope without letting again found myself on at equal speed towards go. I pictured myself as the ground with a sore the right side. Enthused Chhatrapati Shivaji. All I backside and even before by such energetic needed was a Yashwanti. I could comprehend what display, Three galloped Monitor lizards were even had happened, Namu had straight ahead and Four more difficult to come by landed on my head with did an about turn and than horses. But I did have an indignant mew! This raced in the opposite Namu. There were many was the official closure to direction. The effect arguments for Namu my history experiments. of these four different being the best substitute Around this time, pulls was to make the for Yashwanti. Namu had I realised that I wanted chariot go up about two no fear of heights and to become a doctor. I feet and overturn. The could easily jump from had plans of inventing great Maharathi found even 15-20 feet height a medicine that could himself on the ground without getting hurt. She cure all diseases. I was
71 Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything but to feel few things twice.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishes From - Mr. Ashok Shamrav Mundhekar, Satara English Diwali Issue 2019 convinced that I 7am sharp, the banana would get the Nobel tree got one dose prize for medicine. of my wonder drug But a doctor needs injected into it. After a syringe. Syringes a week, I noticed that are easier to get than it was looking a little horses or monitor sick. I convinced myself lizards. I convinced that it required two my parents that I injections. For the next was on the verge one week, the tree got of a great scientific two injections a day — discovery and all I at 7am and 5pm. At the needed was a syringe end of the second week, to conduct my final the banana tree started experiments. I was to look like it was about ten years old. I to die. Unfortunately for suppose, my parents my Nobel Prize, I was believed me, because caught by my mother they bought me a giving a double dose to syringe and needle. a rather sickly looking Now I had to create banana tree. What my medicine. This was from me for the next transpired was rather relatively easy, since the whole week. painful — for both my ingredients consisted I was contemplating pride and my backside. of whatever I could whether I could risk Suffice it to say, I gave up easily get: some Crocin poking my brother — a my medical experiments. tablets ground up into foot taller than me — in Today, as I look back fine powder and some the middle of the night upon my life, I realise that cough syrup were mixed when the perfect solution it was this period when well into a glass of water. presented itself. My eyes I could read so much Then, just to give it some happened to rest on a and conduct so many zest, I added a bit of salt banana tree right next experiments that built and pepper. After mixing to our well. I instantly my imagination and my the concoction well, I knew the banana tree creativity. So without a drew it into the syringe. was the perfect patient. doubt, I owe it all to the All that was required was 1. It wouldn’t run away dog, cat, banana tree and to find a patient. Namu, 2. It wouldn’t hit me and lambs. who had been watching 3. It was soft and very H H H me carefully, ran away pokable. Over the next - Ramgopal Vallath one week, everyday at [email protected] and stayed well away Illustrator : Rahul Deshpande
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Best Wishesh From - Miss. Radha Shravan Hardikar, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Silence POEM On a soft mowed lawn Under a starry sky In a gentle breeze Among the whispering trees My friend and I lay on the grass Drenched in sweet moonlight We looked at each other The trees swayed And the grass rustled The stars twinkled And the breeze stopped We neither spoke nor moved I looked, a beatific smile greeted me Even the silence has a story to tell H H H Siddhant Agate 9th std., Jnana Prabodhini Prashala, Pune 30. Illustrator - Rahul Deshpande
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World Reads - Australia: Ice Station by Matthew Reilly, a adventure thriller set in remote Antarctica Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Informative think the space they have Have Urban left is enough and safe? you ever As a matter of principle wondered Design remember that the goal who decides of our roads is to move - Aseem Deodhar how the people and not vehicles. chairs we sit on, houses See the picture below. we live in, or the clothes we wear are This is a very popular image which you made, or look like? These people are may have seen before. See how much called designers, and they don’t stop space is required to transport the same at chairs, houses or roads. Designers number of people in 3 different ways. are everywhere! Furniture, cutlery, Wouldn’t it be great if the leftover electronics, your favorite TV shows and space could be used for a playground, or a movies, books, cars, apps on mobile fountain, or some trees? So, do you think phones, bicycles, shoes, parks, streets, its best if we all had one car for every one footpaths, the list is endless. of us, or if we all used either buses or our In the list above, I design parks, bicycles to get where we want? streets, and footpaths! People who Let us go back to our intersection, design streets, footpaths, parks, and the busy one with too many polluting other public spaces are called Urban cars and two-wheelers. Imagine if there Designers. Think about what Urban is enough space for people to walk and Design might mean. Can you think of ride their bicycles without getting afraid other places and things which an ‘Urban of a car or bus going over them. There Designer’ may design? is also enough space for the vegetable Imagine yourself in the role of and fruit vendors to sell their vegetables an urban designer. Is there a busy and fruits. It will be far away from all the intersection near your house or school? pollution, and your parents will also be Go stand near it and observe a few things: happy to know that. Whether there is a traffic signal, How do you think you would how many people are actually following improve what the rules? Do you you see before think there are too you? What do you many cars and two- think is the main wheelers? Are they purpose of a road? taking up most of Is it to transport the road’s width? cars, or to How much space transport people? is available for A road or street
pedestrians and Amount of space required to transport can also become bicyclists? Do you the same number of passangers by bicycle, car and bus a public space
75 Imagination will carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishesh From - Mrs. Prachi Khisti, Nashik English Diwali Issue 2019 Which street do you think pedestrians and cyclists would feel most safe on? Where would a vegetable vendor feel safe sitting? There is a street in Bangalore called St Mark’s road. The designers decided to reduce the width of the carriageway (the part of the road intended for vehicles) by half. This meant that pedestrians and cyclists got nearly 6 metres of footpath space! There was definitely a huge public outcry over this. Newspapers and TV channels blasted the designers and executers over this decision. But today? Car movement is smooth, senior citizens can easily walk, children from nearby schools are seen running and playing on these ‘street playgrounds’, cyclists can easily get around; all without getting scared of being run over by cars. What is the role of a public space do you think? Is where people go for their evening it to make its users, that is people, more walks, children learn how to ride their comfortable, or just be a pipe through first bicycle, your grandparents sit on which cars go from A to B? a bench and meet their friends, you go Do you think Urban Design is for a jog, office-goers sit and have their important for our cities? India is going lunch break. In fact, if you see all the through a lot of changes, and you activities above, realize that these also are growing up with those changes work in a park! So why can’t our streets happening all around you. Making sure also become like parks? Just that they’ll that the cities and towns you live in are become parks through which you go to healthy and fun is a very important and different places: A big network of parks difficult task, which will definitely become connecting your house to your school, to even more important as you grow upH Hand H the local market, or the mall, or even to finish school. - Aseem Deodhar your parent’s office. I will leave you here [email protected] with another image. Architect, working in Transit Planning This is the same street which the urban designer has redesigned with some changes. Can you identify what the Its time to know and follow Water differences are? Which one do you prefer? Sensitive Urban Design.
World Reads - Canada: Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the journey of 76 a young boy and a tiger trapped on a life boat on the Pacific
Best Wishesh From - Happy Diwali From Master Anjish Amit Parale, Chinchwad Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Jnana Prabodhini - Current Scenario - 2019
Centres - Pune, Nigdi, Solapur, Harali Sub centres - Shivapur, Velhe, Shirval, Salumbre Extension Centres - Ambajogai, Dombivali, Borivali Activity Centres - Ambavane, Chikhali (Dist. Pune) Work Spheres - Education, Research, Rural Development, Health, Leadership Development, Awakening of Women Power, National Integration, Social Entrepreneurship * Education - 1. Natural Resources 1. Jnana Prabodhini School, Pune (Valley based Watershed Development, Solar (A Secondary School for Identified gifted) Energy, Agriculture.) website : prashala.jnanaprabodhini.org 2. Awakening of Women Power 2. Jnana Prabodhini Navnagar Vidyalay, Nigdi (Self help groups, Health, Adolesent & Youth (Pre Primary, Primary, Secondary-Marathi & Development, Self Employment) English Medium, Gurukul, Sports Academy) 3. Technical Training Centre, Shivapur, Salumbre website : jnanaprabodhininigadi.org 4. Comprehensive Rural development Projects 3. Jnana Prabodhini Balvikas Mandir, Solapur Salumbre, Harali, Ambajogai (Pre Primary, Primary, Secondary) * Health 4. Shishu Adhyapika Vidyalay, Solapur 1. Deenanath Hospital Management, Pune 5. Gram Prabodhini, Salumbre, Dist. Pune website : dmhospital.org (Secondary School, Hostel) 2. Eye Care Hospital, Shirval, Dist. Satara 6. Jnana Prabodhini, Harali, Dist. Osmanabad (Secondary School, Hostel) * Leadership Development - 7. Krushi Tantra Padvika Vidyalaya, Harali 1. Youth Wing for Boys & Girls - Pune, Nigadi, 8. Educational Activities Research Centre, Pune Solapur (Nurturing Talent, Teachers Training, Resource Centre) 2. Leadership Development Centre, Pune website : erc-pune.org 3. Camps, Workshop & Regular Courses 9. Chhatra Prabodhan, Pune 11. Competitive Exam Centre, Pune (Magazine, Competitions, Publication, Development Programmes for Youngsters) (Central govt. Services exams guidance) website : chhatraprabodhan.org * Awakening of Women Power 10. Informal Educational Project -Pune, Dombivali, 1. Sanvadini -Pune, Solapur, Dombivbali, Borivali, Borivali, Ambajogai, Harali Bhaindar, Thane, Shirur * Research - (Samatol Periodical, Monthly Events, Group 1. Institute of Psychology & Research, Pune. Discussions etc.) (Research, Training, Mental ability Testing & development, Counselling) website : jpip.org * National Integration 2. Sanskrit Sanskriti Sanshodhika, Pune 1. Slum development study group, Pune (Research, ceremonial Scripts, Priesthood, Lecture 2. North-East India Educational Extension Project Series & Study Group) (study tours, Friendship Compaign, Training) www.santrika.org 3. Gyansetu Project (North-East India, Chhattisgarh, * Rural Development Centre - Jharkhand, Jammu-Kashmir) In 3 Districts of Maharashtra-Pune, * Social Entrepreneurship - Osmanadabad, Beed 1. Entrepreneurship Development Cell, Pune Watch Documentary on Jnana Prabodhini Main office : Jnana Prabodhini, Pune. Ph.: 020-24207000 website : jnanaprabodhini.org
77 Prayer is a state of mind where an amazing exchange happens. We handover worries to God and He hands over peace to us.
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78 World Reads - Zimbabwe: The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, a series of zany detective stories set in Botswana
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 ORGANIC TOILET CLEANER
A clean and hygienic society is poured in the well. Then according to the necessary for today’s world. Hygiene zone of inhibition a mixture of these seven involves public as well as personal hygiene. substances was again tested on the plate. One of the common facilities observed (2)In the second stage, we tested the in both are toilets. Many people use concentrations of the prepared solution chemical toilet cleaners. But chemicals in with citric acid on agar plates as well as on chemical toilet cleaners are harmful to toilet surface. This was done to add anti- the environment and humans. Excessive stain properties to the developing toilet use can cause serious problems related to cleaner. We tested it using a stain shade water and soil pollution, adulteration of scale made by us. crops and killing of aquatic life. We decided (3)The third stage involved testing to make an effective organic ecofriendly of swabs before and after cleaning the alternative for it. toilet with solution in the colorimeter. We gathered info about organic Colorimeter shows the number of bacteria substances showing anti-microbial present on the swab. Testing of swabs properties. This created a base for verified the results obtained on agar plate. the start our project. We also enlisted By conducting these experiments, our variables in the system and represented final organic toilet cleaner was made. This interdependence by drawing mind maps. was the mixture of Eucalyptus oil + Holy This helped us to predict our hypothesis. basil oil + Lemon oil + Ginger oil + Turmeric The hypothesis stated that the prepared oil + Menthol oil + Tobacco extract in the solution containing organic substances like ratio of 5 :5:3:3:2:1 tulsi ( holy basil) , nilgiri ( eucalyptus) , The obtained data was analysed and turmeric, lemon, ginger, menthol and graphs were interpreted. Conclusion was tobacco would be anti-microbial and anti- drawn that the solution acts anti-microbial stain on the toilet microflora and surface and anti-stain on the toilet. It can also be respectively. preserved. The hypothesis was proved right The experiments were designed and and objectives were achieved. Future plans performed in three stages. were made considering the application of (1) Anti-microbial activity was tested the Organic Solution in the society. We see in the school laboratory using well diffusion that the solution made would be helpful in method. In this method solution of each of the development of our country. the substances was first poured into the Project by: Arva Bavkar, Shreya Bhide, Anushka Bhoir, Gayatri Panse , well made into the agar plate. The zone 9th std., Jnana Prabodhini Prashala, Pune 30 of inhibition created by the solution after Guided by: Mrs. Maya Bhanu incubating the plate was calculated as observation. So greater the zone, greater the anti-microbial activity of the solution Watch video of this project
79 Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distant it.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishesh From - Dr. Sukhada Kulkarni, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 Fun with Language
BLACKOUT POETRY A blackout poem is when a new text is made from words already printed on an existing text - like a newspaper or a page from a book. Here the artist uses a marker to create a visual poem by selecting words and blacking out or colouring in the rest of the page. Materials: a sheet of newspaper with text printed on it, pages from an old novel or textbook, black marker, ink pens or colours, scissors Procedure: Take a newspaper or a page from a book. Pick words from different lines, which can be pieced together to make one or multiple sentences. Try to make beautiful meaningful lines and interpret the text in new ways. Put boxes around the selected words. Shade in the rest of the page or use it to create an illustration which fits your blackout poem. Cut the section of the newspaper or page that contains your poem. You can display this on your wall or even use it as a greeting card or bookmark by pasting it on a card sheet. Purpose: Blackout poetry is a mixture of art and creative writing. It helps you look at words in a new way and develop your sense of rhyme, rhythm and writing style. It also encourages a new perspective on existing texts!
Shhhh! We all know that there are silent Use the letters letters in English. However, Marathi is a largely phonetic language, i.e. all the letters and marks in the grid and written are pronounced. This is why English make as many pronunciation is so different from Marathi. Can words as you you guess these English words with silent letters? •This square-shaped piece of cloth has a can. You may silent ‘D.’ use the letters •This statement given as proof of payment in each box only once (The letter ‘I’ twice has a silent ‘P.’ as it is in two boxes.) All words must •This pair of things you use to cut with has contain the letter in the centre. Can you a silent ‘C.’ make a word using all the letters? •This season of the year has a silent ‘N.’
World Reads - Italy: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo 80 Calvino, a strange tale told in second person with “you” as the main character
Best Wishesh From - Mr. Aditya Pramod Karandikar, Pune Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 How do we decide what is right and wrong? Imagine this situation: Grandma gave you a sweater for your birthday and asked you if you like it. You don’t like it and don’t want to wear it. Should you tell her the truth (and hurt her feelings) or should you lie to her? Our value education tells us that dishonesty is wrong, but so is rudeness. Then which would you do? Why? Over the years, philosophers have formulated many ‘thought experiments’ to judge our ideas of right and wrong. A famous one among them is called the ‘trolley problem.’ There is a train trolley coming down the tracks and ahead, there are five people tied to the tracks. They are unable to move. The trolley will continue coming and will hurt the five people. There is nothing you can do to rescue the five people EXCEPT that there is a lever. If you pull the lever, the train will be directed to another track, which has ONE person tied to it. You have two choices: (a) Do nothing and hurt five people (b) Or pull the lever and save the five people, at the cost of one person’s safety Which would you choose and why? Now imagine a slight modification to the trolley problem. Imagine that you are standing on a bridge above the train tracks and you can see the train coming. There is a man standing next to you, who is so enormous and heavy that if he falls onto the tracks, he will stop the train from hurting those five people. Now your choices are: (a) Do nothing and hurt five people (b) Or push the heavy man onto the tracks, at the cost of his safety Our entire legal system and social etiquette are based on such thought experiments, and on our ideas of what is right and what is wrong! What do you think most people choose? Discuss and debate over this thought experiment.
81 It always seems impossble unless it’s done.
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World Reads - Iran: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, an autobiographical illustrated story of a young girl in times of strife and war Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Narrative spears. After Darwin’s Amazon. theory was presented, the The biggest river popular assumption was in the world, with that human civilization the largest forest would be impossible in on the earth such harsh conditions as spread out in its valley. This the Amazon. Then, what forest located in South about those prosperous America is so big that it is cities that the Spanish almost the size of Europe! people talked about? Did The forest is incredibly the early explorers lie to thick and in many parts, cover up their failure to no sunlight reaches the discover anything inside ground! The biggest snake the forest? in the world, poisonous At the beginning frogs, innumerable insects, of the 20th century, an mosquitoes causing all army officer working for kinds of diseases from the Royal Geographical Malaria to Elephantiasis, The Lost Society in London was sent deadly fish like the piranha to this forest to demarcate attacking their prey and City of Z by the border between three such powerful electric David Grann countries. His name was eels that can kill a horse! Mandar Godbole Percy Harrison Fawcett. Innumerable terrors Somehow, he fell in love abound the Amazon forest! The forest is with this hell on the earth. Fawcett so difficult to penetrate that more than started completing expedition after half the people who’ve entered it have expedition successfully. Not just that, he never come back. Ever since man heard completed his missions at a pace no one about this forest, he has felt an urge to believed possible. He befriended most of enter and conquer this place. Why? Is this the local native tribes, who were known the ultimate challenge? to kill all other visitors! Where every other The first people to enter the mission to the Amazon Forest failed, Amazon forest were the Spaniards of Fawcett continuously tasted success for the 16th century. They have written almost two decades! His contributions that they found prosperous cities and to demarcate the boundaries of the wealthy societies, deep inside the forest. South American countries and explore However, recent explorers of the 20th the geography of that region remain century only found half-naked natives who unparalleled. lived like savages. These natives attacked Interestingly, Fawcett started to every visitor with venomous harps and find some very curious things in the
83 Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Best Wishesh From - Chhatra Prabodhan Mr. Ramakant Shivnarayan Bhutada, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 forest, where only savage natives were two decades have entered the forest in supposed to live. He found beautiful search of Percy Harrison Fawcett, but no ceramic vessels, paintings and carvings. one has ever found a sign of him. Did the Some of the traditions of the local tribes lost city of ‘Z’ really exist? were so well thought out that even The story of the disappearance of modern society would be surprised! Who Fawcett inspired an American journalist could have made such intricate pottery named David Grann to find out about and created those paintings? How could him. He set out to find the lost explorer a seemingly savage society have such rich in the year 2000; almost 75 years after traditions? Collecting evidence all over Fawcett had disappeared. Starting from the forest, Fawcett started to wonder Fawcett’s home in England to the Royal whether the 16th Century Spaniards were Geographical society to Brazilian libraries, true in their account. There must have Grann dug out every single available been a prosperous, advanced civilization research paper on Fawcett. Finally, he in the Amazon that had now vanished or realized that to find out what actually was hidden somewhere. If Fawcett could happened he must enter the Amazon indeed find such a civilization, it would forest himself; the same maze where shake the very belief on evolution. It would Fawcett disappeared, and the same place question the idea that human civilization where the most brutal savage tribes still needs a conducive surrounding to grow survive. The Lost City of Z by David Grann into a mature society. is about this search for the truth. Percy Fawcett made several Even though this book is a unsuccessful attempts to find the biographical account, it has been written civilization. Finally, fighting his poverty, like a suspense novel. Every page is putting together pennies, he made a thrilling. An adventure story. To find last ditch attempt in 1925. He wanted to out what happened to an explorer who find that lost civilization, the lost city. He vanished in the forest eight decades called this city the ‘Z’. Fawcett took his ago, our writer left his beautiful wife twenty year old son along to search for and a toddler baby and entered into the the Lost City of Z. After months in the deepest forest on the earth! What did he forest, he disappeared. Fawcett, who find there? Did the ‘Z’ really exist? To find had been to innumerable successful out, do read the book. missions in the Amazon, was suddenly H H H nowhere to be found. Messages coming Mandar Godbole from him stopped. The whole world was [email protected] curious as to what had happened to the indomitable Fawcett of the Amazon. Had he been captured by natives? Did he die? Did he find the ‘Z’ and never want to come Read the experience of budding back? Hundreds of people over the next scientist at BITS, Pilani
84 World Reads - Turkey: The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, the story of a legendary friendship that turned Rumi into the greatest Sufi poet
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 The whole city STORY of Nagpur was in deep A Life Redeemed slumber. A few trucks Payal Mehta could be seen zooming by on the roads and except And now, as Neeti stood in the corridor, she felt for a few day-and-night a sudden alarm. Time was running out! There were just chemist shops, everything thirty three hours for the exam. Neeti knew what she was still and dark. But had to do. There was one way out of this depressing the girls’ hostel of KVGC story of her life. Medical College was abuzz with activity. The taken a toll on her. The too busy to notice her girls obviously could not stress of submissions distress. Her shoulders sleep. Either they were and exams, the bland, drooping and her legs too nervous, had too boring mess food and dragging behind her, much left to study or the homesickness had turned Neeti entered her room, more confident ones were the optimistic, confident only to be greeted by busy helping out their Neeti into a bundle of a tangle of unwashed friends with last minute nerves; a desolate student clothes, bed sheets and cramming, or making a who tried to hide in the torn sheets of papers. late night Maggi snack. last benches for fear of The overpowering smell After 2 days, on the 9th being noticed. of stale coffee made her of November, they would Today, as she walked nauseated. Priya, her be appearing for the first back from the washroom, roommate, lay on her bed paper of the final MBBS Neeti felt especially at the far left end, leafing exams. anxious. Her stomach through a thick On the fourth floor, was a bottomless pit the door of the last room of fear, hunger down the corridor opened and loneliness. and out stepped a tall The few girls girl, her hair tied up tight whom she in a messy top-knot and called her her pyjamas crumpled friends and hanging loose over were her body. Four years ago, those very pyjamas had fit Neeti perfectly; her face had been fuller, her light-brown eyes brighter and her walk sprightlier. But, those four years had
85 A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on her own wings.
Chhatra Prabodhan Best Wishesh From - Mrs. Pushpa Helwade, Pune English Diwali Issue 2019 book. She looked up as when necessary and story of her life. It was Neeti opened the door, avoiding eye-contact with time for the heroine to gave her a dirty look and even her close friends. die. kept on reading. Neeti She even stopped making She ran to her room decided it was better to calls home, till her mother and threw open the door. be roomless than entering came down from Mumbai Her eyes flashed with that dreaded room. and took her home for a a new-found sense of She stood in the month. It was then that purpose, and even Priya corridor, silently cursing she had found out about sat up surprised. Neeti Priya. “If there’s anything Nani’s condition. Neeti’s rummaged through her worse in the hostel than mother had taken her to cupboard and shoved the food,” thought Neeti, visit her grandmother in some clothes into her “it’s Priya!” God had the hospital, and one look backpack. She slammed blessed her with brains, at her lying on the white the door shut behind but apparently forgotten sheets, punctured with her. She could hear the to give her a heart. In the tubes and connected to screams as she fled the one year that they had all sorts of machines, had hostel and down the road, been roommates, Priya made her want to cry. taking short-cuts and had made life hell for Neeti had felt useless. She weaving her way to the Neeti, keeping the room was an MBBS student, nearest auto stand. There, in a disgusting mess, a to-be-doctor, yet she she jumped into an auto, taunting Neeti for her was unable to help her barking instructions to the poor grades and creating grandmother. half-asleep rickshawalla rifts between her and her And now, as Neeti to drive to the railway friends. The last straw stood in the corridor, she station. There she ran to had been when Priya had felt a sudden alarm. Time the ticket counter and driven a wedge between was running out! There bought a second class Neeti and Ketan. Neeti were just thirty three ticket. She was alone, was certain that Priya hours for the exam and so late, but what did it had been responsible Neeti had barely revised matter now! She hurried for her sudden and half the portion. She to the platform and sat devastating break-up with was a failure. She was on a filthy bench, waiting him last year. Neeti had a fool who had wasted for the train to arrive. She plunged into depression her father’s hard-earned closed her eyes, suddenly when Ketan stopped all money on four years of overcome. communication with her. this tragic drama. A drama Memories flashed She’d transformed with a disastrous ending! through her mind. Her after that, attending Neeti knew what she had mother dropping two the minimum required to do. There was one way year old Neeti at her lectures, talking only out of this depressing grandmother’s house
Must Watch: Avatar (2009) – a visually mesmerising movie 86 set in the future about a land called Pandora and the struggle between its native tribes and Earthmen
Best Wishesh From - Mrs. Gunjan Kulkarni, Nashik Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 last stages of leukaemia, ways to end one. With with only a couple of such poisonous thoughts years to live. Tears in her mind, Neeti fell streamed down Neeti’s asleep, till the train pulled face as she thought of in at the last station. how much Nani had loved Hailing a rickshaw her. She longed to hug to the hospital, Neeti
before leaving for her one last time and say imagined Nani lying in office… Neeti crying out sorry. that horrible room, on “Nani! Nani!” as she fell The train chugged the white sheets, weak from her cycle and her in and Neeti pushed past and fragile. She imagined grandma running out… the people in the crowded the pain Nani must go Nani, a social worker, compartment. Settling through, maybe praying taking Neeti along with into her seat, she tried to for a quick end that her on hospital rounds think of the best way to would free her from such to distribute blankets die. She had not been able a life. And she realised to needy patients… to fulfil her Nani’s dream she felt a similar need for Nani crying tears of joy of becoming a doctor and freedom, for escaping when Neeti scored 94% helping poor patients, and the expectations and in her 12th boards and she deserved a terrible responsibilities of life. announced her decision to death as punishment. She Neeti felt there was pursue medicine… Neeti knew what she would nothing more left to live and her grandma both need to do. Four years for, especially when the sobbing uncontrollably of studying medicine, only person she loved as she left for Medical after all! Doctors were with all her heart was on College… And then the supposed to save lives, the death-bed. news that Nani was in the yet she knew so many At the hospital,
87 Self confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.
Best Wishesh From - Chhatra Prabodhan Mr. Chandrashekhar Bedekar, Sangli English Diwali Issue 2019 Neeti sought help from up in bed, with a tray her granddaughter! Tears the receptionist. After of food in front of her, brimmed in her sparkling confirming that she was slowly picking pasta with eyes. in fact related to the her fork and bringing “You look good, patient, Mrs. Asha Nair, it to her mouth with a Nani!” Neeti said, laughing she told Neeti that her shaky, wrinkled hand. and crying at the same grandmother would Neeti just stood there, time. “Where are all those be in Room 506. Neeti staring at Nani. Her tubes and machines you managed a weak smile beady eyes were set on were attached to, the last and hurried to the fifth the television in front of time I saw you?” floor. There it was! 506. her. The movie ‘3 Idiots’ Nani gave one of Leaving her belongings played at full volume, and her naughty smiles. “I on the bench outside, she as the song ‘All Izz Well’ blackmailed the doctor pushed open the door to started, Nani’s face lit up into removing all those. the room and peeped in, with a toothless smile. Why be on tubes and hesitant. But what she Finally, Neeti stepped glucose when I can eat all saw was a big surprise! in. Nani’s fork of pasta my favourite food? I want For, there sat her stopped in mid-air and to eat all the possible grandmother, propped she looked stunned to see pastas, pizzas, pani-
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88 Must Watch: Star Wars (1977) – the original classic first movie in a series spanning decades about war and adventures in multiple galaxies in space Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 puris, chocolates and ice unless I see creams, before I die,” she you in a white laughed. coat. I will not “Nani!” cried Neeti. say goodbye “You will never change!” unless I meet “Change? At the age Dr. Neeti!” of 86?” asked Nani with Neeti a hearty laugh. “But, felt a pinch of look at you, you have guilt. Her ailing changed,” said Nani. grandmother Her smile turned into a had the frown. “Are you on a diet? courage to And look at your eyes! fight death, at the age You have dark circles! of 86! How could Neeti Doctors are supposed to think of giving up? She her leave. On the way to look like doctors, not like wanted to kick herself the station, she made a patients!” for even considering quick stop and bought Before Neeti could suicide. What a loser she another copy of ‘Practice reply, Nani suddenly was! Suddenly, she felt a of Medicine’ by Davidson. grew wide-eyed. “Wait!” strange power rise within As Neeti boarded the she shouted, “What’s her - a power to fight all train and settled into her the date today? Isn’t it odds, believe in herself seat, Nani’s parting words 8th November?” She and build a beautiful rang in her ears, “Just squinted at the calendar future! Suddenly, an exam remember… Life is an on her side table. The felt like just a little step exam where the syllabus date 9th November had to Nani’s and her shared is unknown and question been circled in red ink. dream. She would study papers are not set. Take “Doesn’t your exam like crazy! Nothing was each question as it comes. start tomorrow?” she impossible! She would not With confidence and a will said in shock. “What are be a coward. She would to succeed, the questions you doing here? Why save lives, not take her will answer themselves.” aren’t you back at the own life! H H H hostel, studying? Look, Nani gave her a - Payal Mehta I have even marked the mysterious smile, almost [email protected] date your result will be as if she could read her Illustrator : Shekhar Pawar declared,” said Nani, thoughts. “My blessings clumsily turning over a are always with you, few pages of the calendar dear,” Nani said, hugging Learn a powerful and opening it to March. her. lesson about “I will not leave this earth Neeti smiled, taking privilege.
89 Winners are not people who never fail, but people who never quit.
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Tickle Your Brain (From Page 17) - Answers Ans. 1) Magic belt - 1) L × W = original surface area; 2) First wish = 1/2L×1/3 W; 3) Second wish = L/4 × W/9; 4) Third wish = L/8×W/27; Surface area after third wish = L/8× 9/27 = 4 sqcms, L = 4×8×3 = 96 cms; Original length of the belt is 96 cms Ans. 2) Desert crossing - Start with 4 cars with full tanks Go 1/6th distance. All cars will have 2/3rd tank filled. Empty one car petrol in to 2 cars to have full tanks. Leave the empty car. Now we have 3 cars two with full tanks and one with 2/3 rd tank Travel another 1/6th distance. Two cars will have 2/3rd tanks and one car will have 1/3rd tank. Empty the 1/3rd petrol into VIP car so that VIP car is full and other car has 2/3rd tank. Travel another 1/6th distance where you have crossed half the distance . Empty the second car 1/3rd tank into VIP car. Now VIP car is full and can travel remaining half distance . Q3) Measuring Pots - Fill 5 liter pot and pour into 4 liter pot. There will be one liter left in the 5 liter pot. Now empty the 4 liter pot and then pour the one liter liquid into it. Fill 5 liter pot again and pour into 4 liter pot which already has 1 liter liquid in it. So it can hold 3 liters more. What remains in 5 liter pot is 2 liters Q4 ) Annie’s candles - 1) From 34 new candles Annie will have 34 evenings and 34 ends. 2) From total 84 ends Annie can make 12 new candles. 3) From the ends of these 12 candles Annie will have 12 ends from which she can make 1 candle and five ends will remain unused. She will get one more end from the last candle. 4) So Annie can have 34+12+1 = 47 evenings with candles and 6 unused ends Q5) Weights 1,3,9,27,81 gms
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90 Must Watch: Stepmom (1998) - a realistic take on the feelings of everyone involved in a family’s divorce and the father’s remarriage
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Informative
Do you know, how tiny plants or giant trees and their leaves remain erect? This is because of polymers. The cell walls of plant cells are made up of cellulose, which is a natural polymer and consists of long, stretched out strands of glucose (a sugar produced during photosynthesis) Cellulose from cotton and hemp plant can be twisted into threads. Potatoes, corn, rice also contain polymer in form Tusk of Walrus of starch. Starch is also made from same sugar like cellulose. However, both are different because glucose Natural Polymer molecules are joined together - Dr. Kanchanganga Gandhe differently. Starch (polymer) in the food is just a compact way to store components such as hair, skin, nails and lot glucose in a small space. Cellulose and so on. Starch are made up of many molecules of Human skin appears very different sugar and are thus called polysaccharides. from that of other animals though both An eraser, which you use commonly, are made up of a protein called ‘collagen’. is another interesting example of natural It has a fibre like structure which forms an polymer. It is derived from the latex of elastic layer below the skin which makes rubber plants and milkweeds. it smooth and supple. The structure of Our body is also made of many collagen is different in human and other natural polymers like nucleic acids (RNA, animal skin. Collagen in animal skin is DNA), different types of proteins and so tough and can be cross linked into leather on. All these are very important for vital by a process called ‘tanning’, which life processes. Proteins are formed from makes it strong and durable. molecules called amino acids which are Keratin is a type of protein which is linked together to form long or short found in hair, nails and also in teeth of chain called peptide chain. In addition, Baleen Whales. It can be hard or soft. there is a special group of proteins Hard keratin is found in human nails, hair, called ‘Enzymes’. Each enzyme has a animal claws, horns, hoofs etc. However specific job in the body. Enzymes help for its strength in each differs because of chemical reactions inside living organism different amino acids, enzymes etc. and peptides make up the structural Smiling teeth of Baleen whales are made
91 Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, proteins are hardware, cells are factories.
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Find Out : 1. Name some more natural polymers with their functions. 2. Are natural polymers economically important? 3. Is it safe to use natural polymers from point of view of natural balance? 4. Is a chicken burger, natural Teeth of Baleen Whales polymer? from Baleen i.e. strong, durable, flexible of natural polymer, but what exactly type of soft keratin. However, the ivory is natural polymer? ‘Poly’ means many tusk of a walrus is made of a protein, a and ‘mer’ means unit. Thus polymer is polymer, which is the same in our hair a long molecule made from different and finger nails. Tusk of walrus is soft units, known as monomers. (Monomer enough to be carved in any shape, but is single unit.) When the arrangement of it is sturdy, so in the past it was used to monomers changes, different polymers make ornaments. are formed. The monomers unite in two You all know that crabs and lobsters different ways. In the first, the monomers live in or nearby water, but do not wet connect directly i.e. they are added to due to their hard shells. This outer each other like building blocks together shell is made up of waterproof chitin, a and so are called ‘Addition Polymers’. In polysaccharide which is hard, insoluble the second kind of connection, monomers in water and flexible. It is non toxic, release a water molecule, when they biodegradable and structurally similar to link together. These are ‘Condensation cellulose. Polymers’. Most of the natural polymers In addition to crustaceans, octopus, are formed from condensation polymers. squids also have shells but cannot be H H H seen. The shells of these are also made Dr. Kanchanganga Gandhe [email protected] up of chitin but they are slightly different Doctorate in and Professor of Botany. from those of crustaceans. In addition, they have ‘cartilage’, which is a natural polymer. Cartilage is found in all living organisms. Sharks have only cartilage but no bones. Cartilage is tough, flexible and Get to know about learning provides enough structural support. of foreign languages Now, we know many examples
92 Must Watch: Big (1988) – a young boy wishes to be ‘big’ 92 and his wish comes true as he is miraculously turned into an adult.
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Self Development ARE YOU SELF-AWARE? Shoba Mary Jacob
Have you met people who believe and different from others; know what that all the good ideas come only from you are good at and where you have to them? When someone points out your improve to be more successful. It will mistakes are you naturally defensive? also help you to care about what other Do you have difficulty putting yourself people feel, understand them better and in someone else’s shoes? Do you know how to be kind and understanding to someone who discourages people your friends. without even realizing it? Here are some examples. These are traits of people who lack ‘Amit talks very loudly while his Self Awareness. friends are discussing something Self - I, me, myself important for the upcoming class project. Awareness - Understanding of a He is being insensitive to his friends by situation not paying attention to the feelings of Self awareness is a skill that will help the people around him. His friends get you to understand your strengths and angry and they decide to leave. Amit is weaknesses; know why you are unique puzzled!’
93 Art speaks where words are unable to explain.
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 ‘Shweta uses derogatory words it will take you to finish the task, how unknowingly while talking to her friends. difficult it will be and how well you can do Her friends slowly move away from her it. Check the accuracy the next time you and she does not understand why she engage in the same task. does not have any close friends.’ What makes you happy? What When you lack Self Awareness, you makes you sad? Keep track of scenarios are never at fault! If you find it difficult when your emotions are easily triggered. to understand why people around Identifying these will help you understand you are behaving a certain way then and improve yourself. Be honest and perhaps you might have to improve your avoid the temptation to look good in your Self Awareness skills. It will help you own books. Self- deception will block any understand how your words or actions chance to progress. might make other people feel. Decisions. Decisions! Think How can you improve your Self- about a time when you had to make an Awareness skills? important decision. How did you do it? Keep a journal. Journaling is one What factors motivated you to make of the best ways to get in touch with your the decision? How did you come to that inner self. Write about your thoughts and conclusion? Would you follow the same feelings. Ask yourself, “who am I”. Write method to make a decision even now? down everything that comes to your Learning about yourself will help you mind. Write your private thoughts. Don’t become a better person and eventually worry, it is your safe space! have better relationships with the people Make a list of your strengths and around you. It is an ongoing journey. It is weaknesses, ask someone who knows a skill that you can improve on. So do not you well to do the same. Compare the give up! H H H list. Knowing what you lack and have is a Shoba Mary Jacob [email protected] good start. You might just discover some Counseling Psychologist and Play Therapist qualities about yourself which you did not Illustrator - Rahul Deshpande know about. Ask for honest feedback and suggestions and then correct yourself. Next time you spend time with your friends, pay attention to what their interests are and notice the things that Be aware of your you both enjoy. Look for things that are Healthcare - Dental Care common between you and your friend. More than 200 smaller Focus on those when you hang out with DID YOU KNOW - words can be made using the letters from them the next time. It will also help you the word ‘SCRAMBLE,’ using each letter to understand how you are unique and only once. How many can you make? Set different from others. the timer and race your friends! Think of a task. Guess how long
94 Must Watch: Invictus (2009) – an epic story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Narrative When someone gives us a gift, we become very happy. When we get hurt, we cry. If we see something wrong happening, we get angry. This is how we respond to different situations, with the help of our emotions. In every action and reaction of our behavior, emotions are involved. What are these emotions exactly? Why do we need them? Are they all good? INSIDE OUT These questions are answered in the movie A JOURNEY OF OUR Inside Out released in 2015 which won the INNER SELF Best Animation Oscar Award. - Madhura Bapat The main story moves around an eleven year old girl named Riley. Her five animation. One could never think of core emotions – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear a better way to characterize human and Disgust are established as individual emotions and present them as separate characters. Riley’s every action is guided by characters. Joy, the emotion which gives one of these emotions. There is a chamber us happiness. She has a slim body, big in her mind which is the Control room of eyes and always a beautiful smile. She is her emotions and memories. Her memories always enthusiastic and ready to face any are stored in the form of small balls. Every challenge with creative solutions. When we night these balls (memories) are sent to are sad, we say, “I am feeling blue.” And long-term memory section through a pipe. that is the color of sadness. She has a blue, Some unimportant memories are forgotten heavy and round body. Her every action while the very special, core memories are is very slow, lethargic and dull. Anger is kept in the main chamber. presented as a male character to increase Riley has in her mind, a few islands the impact of aggression. Whenever which influence her personality called something inacceptable happens and it is the personality islands, which are Family, time for Riley to get angry, fire comes out Friendship, Honesty, Hockey and Goofball of the head of Anger like a volcano. Fear Island. Joy is the leader of all emotions the character itself is very terrified all the and aims to keep Riley happy all the time. time. He has a violet, thin body. And at last Fear alarms and cautions her in case of Disgust. A female character with green emergency or dangerous situations and body and a disgusted face, always annoyed Disgust protects her health. Anger protects with everything happening around her. And her self-esteem. But the role of sadness not only these characters of emotions but remains unknown and puzzling. a lot of things we cannot even imagine are The best part of the movie is its shown in a splendid manner. For example,
95 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 the Train of Thought, Riley’s memory with her parents, imaginary friend, the scenes a memory from Minnesota. from her dreams etc. With the ‘After her failure in a hockey help of all these characters and match, Riley is sitting with a sad objects, the story of Riley’s life face. She is so disappointed. begins. Then her parents confront her, Riley has to shift to San Francisco with talk to her and support her.’ That is the her parents. Minnesota, her hometown time when Riley understands that in every is very special to her. Her big house, her sad part of her life, her parents were with school, her friends, her Hockey team her and supported her. While Riley realizes and a lot of happy memories are all from how much her family loves her and goes Minnesota. She is very depressed to see back, the emotions realize that a little bit her new home. Everything changes. She of sadness is important for maintaining misses playing Hockey; her parents are also the happiness in our life. Nobody can be busy in work. She starts feeling alone and happy forever. Therefore, the hair of Joy left out. Joy makes all efforts to keep Riley are showed in blue color. happy. She shows Riley’s fantasies and Our emotions are an inevitable part core memories through her dream. But on of our life. Many times we are blamed the other side, Sadness tries to overcome for expressing or feeling some emotions her. She keeps reminding Riley how sad higher than the normal level. Many times she is in her new home. She also tries to our behavior is misunderstood on the turn some of the core memories to sad. basis of how we feel and express these Because of all this, Joy and Sadness get emotions. But every individual has his/ into fight and accidently they get out of the her own way of expressing. Some are too main chamber through the pipe that leads shy, some are short tempered, some are to the long-term memory section. emotional, and some are jolly. But none of With Joy gone happiness vanishes this makes anyone a bad person. There is from Riley’s life. Anger, Fear and Disgust nothing wrong in feeling these emotions. It take over. Her behavior becomes irritating is how we deal with them that makes us the and annoying. She starts to take rash person we are. Some emotions may have a decisions. She decides to run from her negative side, but the system of emotions home and go to Minnesota again. And is for our ultimate happiness. The more we slowly, one by one each of her personality are healthy and pure from our inner side, islands starts breaking apart. And the rest happier we are on the exterior. So let us of the emotions realize that if all of them respect our emotions and embrace our fall down and Joy is not there, Riley could inner self. never be happy again. But somehow Joy and Sadness manage to reach the main H H H Madhura Bapat, [email protected] chamber. And something unexpected happens. Sadness shows Riley her sad Watch the trailer of ‘Inside Out’
96 Must Watch: The Prestige (2006) – the thrilling journey of two rival stage magicians set in London at the end of the 19th century.
Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 Activity Basket using Paper Plates Material: paper plates of the same size, (or chart papers cut out in circles of the same size), sketch pens, colours, scissors, stapler Procedure: Take two paper plates or circles of chart paper. Fold them into halves. Put them one inside the other as shown in the picture. Paste them together with fevicol or staple them. Decorate the outer side of the basket with colours or you can even paste different patterns on it with coloured paper. Cut a strip of chart paper 1cm wide and 10 cm long. Colour it and paste or staple it, to make the handle of the basket. Your paper basket is ready! You can use this to carry gifts or toffees for your friends or relatives.
Fantastic Flowers using Egg Cartons Material: Egg cartons, scissors, metal string, Fevicryl colours, chart paper, crepe paper, etc. Procedure: Separate each cup in the egg carton. Make 4 to 5 cuts on the margin of each cup. Shape the edges of these cuts in a round shape, so that they look like petals. Colour these flowers with different attractive colours. Twist the edge of the metal string into a loop (a ‘P’ shape). Pierce the other end through the flower. Cut small circles of the chart paper and draw a flower-shape on each, with 4-5 petals. Cut it as shown in the picture and insert it in the string underneath the flower. You can colour the string or wrap green crepe paper around it to make the stalk. Put these flowers in a flower pot! H H H Medha Sudumbarekar, [email protected]
97 Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.
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Must Watch: Hugo (2011) – this film follows an orphan boy who loves to experiment with clocks and discovers an antique mechanical treasure Chhatra Prabodhan English Diwali Issue 2019 The delights of my whole day POEM The glooms which I can never convey Oh.. When good listeners aren’t so common Oh my diary, I wish you were human
My Diary When I feel so deeply blue When I cannot get over something new When people are something I can’t summon Oh my diary, I wish you were human
When the world seems a little unfair Biased behaviour causing too much despair When fraudulence is the norm of the moment Oh my diary, I wish you were human
When the world turns its back on you When people overtly replicate whatever you do When you realize the beautification of a demon Oh my diary, I wish you were human
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100 Must Watch: Back to the Future (1985) – the story of a teenager who flies back in time and befriends his future parents due to a failed experiment.
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