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Editor's Note Contents Dear Friends, 04 Do it Yourself Greetings! 05 Open Page This has been a mixed month. We were 07 Sports – International happy to know about the spread of awareness against plastics, it brought cheer 13 History of Sports to know about the ban of plastics by l Maharashtra Government. 15 History of English On the other hand, it brought us immense 18 Human History sadness to know about the demise of the great scientist Stephen Hawking. It also 20 The Universe brought us a lot of heartache to hear about the scandals at Facebook, and the ball 22 Current Affairs – International tampering issue of the Australian team. 23 Health Food It is a matter of great shame that a team of great repute and undecided supremacy in 24 Science and Technology the world of cricket until a few years ago had to resort to underhand methods to try win a 27 Akbar – Birbal Story losing game. Winning or losing is incidental in a game. The game should always be 29 Health Tips played in its true spirit of sportsmanship. 30 Current Affairs – National Any game teaches the practitioners patience, diligent preparation, teamwork, 33 Thirukkural strategy, people management skills, and above all, instills great values and ethics. 35 Culture of India Another worrisome piece of news that came 37 Mapping India out was the Facebook – Cambridge Analytica scandal that tapped the personal 40 Environment information of millions of people without their knowledge to design opinion shaping 43 Know Your City campaigns. This shows the dark side of the unbridled and mindless usage of social 46 Indian Independence Movement media. Caution should be shown in sharing information in social media. 50 Hitopadesha Tale Put on those thinking caps and ponder on 52 Olympic Games these words. With the exams over and the holidays upon us, nothing can be a better 54 History of Indian Music time to show some concern for the society 57 Panchatantra Tale that we live in, and take on the mantle of the adults to think of the ills plaguing this world. 58 Dance Forms Until we meet again, 60 Travel and Leisure Thank you, 62 Upcoming Sporting Events With warm regards, Anand G Editor pg - 3 We call for student reporters to make a yearly contribution of maximum 3 pages per individual. For every issue, five student reporters will be given an opportunity to contribute content. Students, whose content have been selected for printing, will be paid a stipend. Students can contribute on any of the following topics: · Interesting facts · World around them · Art work · Poems or stories written by them · Any book reviews · Reportage of school events / cultural events · Puzzles and crosswords of their own creation Do It Y This activity is only for our subscribers. 04 ourself In continuation to Origami for beginners, let us do a rabbit face this month. It is easy to make and is fun while doing, as it involves paper folding, drawing, colouring, and a lot of fun in the process. You would require the following: l Regular Origami paper l Scissors l Colouring supplies – markers, ink, crayons, colouring pencils, glitter Now, let go your creativity in making these origami bunnies, and decorating them. Y ou can also use scraps and waste materials found at home to decorate these bunnies. W creative and fun entries. Do not forget toe look share forward your name, to receiving class, someschool along with the image of your bunny [email protected] . You can send the entries to Shri T S Krishnamurthy Former Chief Election Commisioner, Government of India An exclusive interview with the editor, G Anand What are the Fundamental Duties of the citizens of India? Shri T S Krishnamurthy: The Fundamental The Fundamental Duties Duties of citizens were added to the noted in the Constitution Constitution of India by the 42nd Amendment in are as follows: 1976, upon the recommendations of the Swaran Singh Committee that was constituted It shall be the duty of every citizen of India – by the Government earlier that year. Originally l To abide by the Constitution and respect its ideals and ten in number, the Fundamental Duties were institutions, the National Flag, and the National Anthem; increased to eleven by the 86th Amendment in l To cherish and follow the noble ideals which inspired our 2002, which added a duty on every parent or national struggle for freedom; 05 guardian to ensure that their child or ward was l To uphold and protect the sovereignty, unity, and provided opportunities for education between integrity of India; the ages of six and fourteen years. The other l To defend the country and render national service when Fundamental Duties make it obligatory for all called upon to do so; citizens to respect the national symbols of India, including the Constitution, to cherish the l To promote harmony and the spirit of common country's heritage, preserve its composite brotherhood amongst all the people of India transcending culture, and assist in its defense. They also religious, linguistic, and regional or sectional diversities; to renounce practices derogatory to the dignity of women; obligate all Indians to promote the spirit of common brotherhood, protect the environment l To value and preserve the rich heritage of our composite and public property, develop scientific temper, culture; abjure violence, and strive towards excellence l To protect and improve the natural environment in all spheres of life. However, many of these are including forests, lakes, rivers, wildlife, and to have non-justifiable, without any legal sanction in compassion for living creatures; case of their violation or non-compliance. There l To develop the scientific temper, humanism, and the is reference to such duties in international spirit of inquiry and reform; instruments such as the Universal Declaration l To safeguard public property and to abjure violence; of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Article 51A brings l To strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual the Indian Constitution into conformity with and collective activity, so that the nation constantly rises to higher levels of endeavour and achievement; these treaties. l Who is a parent or guardian, to provide opportunities for education to his child, or as the case may be, ward between the ages of six to fourteen years. Shri Kiran Kumar Chairman ISRO An exclusive interview with the editor, G Anand What does ISRO do as an organisation? Shri. Kiran Kumar: ISRO, as an organisation, started if you put it in the correct orbital plane, then the with the prime objective of looking at how a new relative velocity of the two becomes zero. It means, 06 technology can be used for nation's development for a person standing on Earth, he is moving round and societal growth. To put in perspective, in 1957, once in 24 hours, satellite also is moving round the Sputnik was launched by Russia. America and Russia Earth, once in 24 hours, so if the person looks at the were having intense competition to show who is more satellite, that satellite will remain stationary. So, it powerful, who is more militarily capable. But then, in almost looks like a tower at a height of 36000 our country, we had Vikram Sarabai, whose prime kilometers. If you want to see the advantage of a objective was, how we can look at this new tower, when you want to look at large, vast space, technology, technology of satellites moving around what you do is climb a tree or a high-rise building and Earth at different heights and different location, how look. As you go to a higher and higher position, the this object could be used for bringing benefit to the area that you are covering is large. Same way, at country. That was the key objective. As we can easily 36000 kilometers, one-third of the globe can be seen visualise, today, science and technology has brought continuously. So, you can do line-of-sight so many facilities to individual's life – whether it is communication. Line-of-sight communication communication, transportation, or tools available. All means, if two people can see each other, then you this has happened because of science and the can communicate by various means like light, scientific principles adopted in technology and electro-magnetic spectrum. making those tools beneficial, like electricity. ………to be continued. So, when the space technology became available, even Arthur Clarke had told much earlier, “If you can put a satellite in an orbit, such that the orbital period is 24 hours, the relative velocity is zero.” We know that Earth rotates once about its own axis in 24 hours, so if you make a satellite go around Earth in 24 hours, and Sports – International Australia tour of South Africa The Australia cricket team is currently touring South Africa between February and April 2018 to play four Test matches. Prior to the start of the tour, South African fast-bowler Morne Morkel announced that he would retire from international cricket at the end of the series. During the third Test, Morkel became the fifth bowler for South Africa to take 300 Test wickets. During the third Test, Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft was Smith 56 (114), Keshav Maharaj Australia, Second Innings: charged with ball tampering. 33.4-5-123-5, Vernon Philander 239/10, Usman Khawaja 75 (136), Captain Steven Smith and 27-12-59-3 Mitchell Marsh 45 (125), Kagiso Bancroft admitted the ball Rabada 22-9-54-6 tampering to match referee Andy South Africa, First Innings: P y c r o f t a n d t h e m e d i a .