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The “Everything is easy if you are crazy. Nothing will be easy if you are lazy.” MagazineBe one step ahead Vol. 2 February 2020 Author of the Month Attention Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written Students! several novels and poetry books. Seth has published We invite entries from the eight books of poetry and three novels. In 1980, he wrote students to send us an “Essay”. Mappings, his first book of poetry. The publication of A Our panel of experts will evaluate Suitable Boy, a 1,349-page novel, propelled Seth into the the entries and best one will be public limelight. His second novel An Equal Music deals with the troubled love life of a violinist. A sequel to A Suitable published in the next edition Vikram Seth of our magazine with the Boy, A Suitable Girl was announced in 2009 but has yet to be photograph of the student. published. He has received several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya MyTopic: Aim in Life Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth’s collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon. News zone January-March 2020 Sports Art and Culture Politics Defence November 02, 2019: December 18, 2019: Sahitya December 29, December 30, 2019: Army Wrestler Pooja Gehlot Akademi has announced 2019: Hemant Soren, Chief General Bipin Rawat (53kg) claimed India’s its annual Sahitya Akademi working president of was appointed the country’s second silver medal after Awards in 23 languages. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha first Chief of Defence Staff going down to Japan’s 2017 Politician-writer Shashi (JMM), took oath as the whose mandate will be to world champion Haruna Tharoor and playwright 11th chief minister of bring in convergence in Okuno in the finals of the Nand Kishore Acharya are the state in a swearing-in functioning of the Army, UWW Under-23 World among 23 writers chosen ceremony in Ranchi. This is the Navy and the Indian Air Championships. for the prestigious Sahya the second time that Soren Force. Chief of Defence Staff Akademi Award 2019. has taken oath as the chief (CDS) post will function as Tharoor won the award for minister of the state. a single point of contact for his book ‘An Era of Darkness’ different branches of armed in English and Acharya for forces. his book of Hindi poetry, ‘Chheelatey Hue Apne Ko’. Misc. 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The temple is an important pilgrimage the Bahuda Yatra. A large crowd gathers to witness Lord destination. It was constructed by a famous king of Ganga Jagannath durig this festival. Dynasty Ananta Varman Chodaganga Deva dating back to The temple is sacred to all Hindus and especially 12th century at the seashore. The main temple of Jagannath is those of the Vaishnava traditions. an impressing and amazing structure constructed in Kalinga Many great saints, such as Ramananda architecture, with a height of 65 meters placed on an elevated and Ramanuja, were closely platform. associated with the temple. It is one of the Dhamas (Holiest of the holy places) out of four Dhamas i.e. Puri, Dwarika, Badrinath & Rameswar, in India. Lord Jagannath, Devi Subhadra and their elder brother Balabhadra are being worshipped in Puri (The Purusottama Kshetra).