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KRISHNA RIVER BBC Announcements: Balabhavan Coordinators Namaste BalaBhavan families:

The river is located in the Sangeetha Prahalad states of , , This year’s Bala Bhavan picnic is on June Vidhya Raghunathan , and . It 7. We hope to see you all at the picnic. Shankar Parasaram originates at Mahaballeswar near the Jor Please look out for emails regarding Kumar Gowda village in Maharashtra. It then flows [email protected] summer camps and the field trip. through the state of Karnataka just before entering the Bay of Bengal, in As we head into summer, while kids take Andhra Pradesh. a break from their school, we urge

parents to use this academic down time Class Coordinators Some bridges that are built across to revise the Shlokas and Bhajans with

the river are the Krishna Bridge in Wai, their children. Super-Senior Class: Maharashtra; the Irwin Bridge, in Lavanya Kadiyala Sangali; and the B. Soundatti Bridge in The coordinator team will continue [email protected] Raibag. But, there are many bridges that working during the summer on some cross the , and I do not Senior Class: topics that we discussed during parent have the space to list them all. meetings and on some improvements we Anupama Rajagopalan Sushma Natarajan have planned. The Krishna River has a series of [email protected] dams, in which one of them listed are As discussed in the parent meetings, we under construction: , Amar Junior Class: will be initiating a (mostly online) Dam, Dhom Dam (Maharashtra), Jurala Rajashree Balaji discussion on syllabus writing during the Dam, Kanur Dam, , Venkatesh Krishnan summer. Our goal is to take parents’ Narayanpur Dam, , [email protected] suggestions and complete the syllabus Pulichinthala Dam (under construction) for next year by October/November of and . Toddler Class: 2015. Please look for emails on this

Archana Sampath topic from us and participate in the Below, there is a picture of the Krishna Ashvini Yoganarasimha syllabus planning. River, which was posted on google. [email protected] We would like to augment BB library Registration coordinator: with reading material for children and Kumar Gowda reference material for parents. We request parents visiting to look for Newsletter Coordinator: books that will be useful for BB (topics Krishna Meduri could include Indian history, geography [email protected] (states, rivers, mountains etc.), culture, freedom fighters, poets, saints etc. in ------English as well as in regional languages). Please email us the titles of such books. It would be helpful if parents could buy Newsletter Editors a few books for BB after getting email

The Krishna River has provided confirmation from us. Keshav Tadimeti us with religious spots, agriculture, and Sankaran a series of dams and bridges. I hope you Toddler and Super Senior classes will resume on September 5 and Junior and Ramanarayanan have learned something about the Krishna River in today’s article. Senior classes will resume on September Shreya Shriram 12. BalaBhavan coordinator team wishes

Srinidhi Malavalli everyone a fun filled and safe summer By Atulya Mandyam holidays. - BBC Team

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6-6-2015 ------Also known as the Vetravati (which Match the following qualities Toddler Class: (belonging to the Ashta gunas) in means containing reeds). It is a tributary of the River . The Betwa to something relating to them Story: Ratha Yatra in English. - Nandini Nagraj rises in the Vindhya Range just north of Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh and flows Sloka: Shivapanchakshara 1-5 & 1) Nonexertion revise earlier 6 shlokas north-east through Madhya Pradesh and Orchha to . Nearly half of a) Akaarpanya -Ragini Burra b) Anasuya Bhajan: Jaya , Review its course, which is not navigable, runs over the Malwa Plateau. The confluence of the c) Anayasa Govinda Harey d) Kshanti -Swarna Moorthy Betwa and the Yamuna Rivers is Hamirpur town in Uttar Pradesh, in the 2) Bathing Super Senior Class: vicinity of Orchha. a) Shaanti

b) Daya Story: Gnana Yoga Betwa River was also mentioned in c) Sauca - Lalitha Kodandapani the epic , also The Chedi d) Anayasa Shloka: Dakshinamurthi-varna- Kingdom's capital was on the banks of this maala-stotram (revise 1-25) river. - Vijayalakshmi Ramanarayanan 3) Universal love Bhajan: Kasturi Tilakam (new); a) Daya Govinda Madhava; Madhusudhana b) Latha Aunty Harey Madhava c) Satya Latha Sundar d) Ahimsa

4) Non-desire ------a) Asprha June Birthdays: b) Sprha c) Kama Toddlers: The total length of the river from its d) Lobha Alekhya Boorla origin to its confluence with Yamuna is Anuhya Boorla 370 miles, out of which 144 miles lies in Now match all the gunaas with Arjun Anand Madhya Pradesh and the balance of qualities in people you know, Ashvik Kannan 222 miles in Uttar Pradesh. maybe yourself- and the next Esha Anand time your little sibling breaks Rishab Shyamal In the present, it is linked with the something, try showing Daya!!! Siddharth Krishna (the very first river link to be done Siri Karkera Moorthy India) in Madhya Pradesh, also there is a Vaaruni Shastry Dam being built called the Matalia Dam(but Juniors: there are 3 other dams called the Rajghat Aneesh Devulapalli Dam, Dam, and the Dhurwara Mahathi Amshumanth Dam),and the region is important for its Shriya Venkatesh Krishnan water birds. Seniors: -By Sriman Rajamani Atulya Mandyam ------Pranavi S Maddipatla Topics of the Month Sanjay Magesh Bharadwaj

Super Seniors: Atulya Mandyam Anugraha Panneerselvam Sriman Rajamani 1 C 2 C 3 A 4 A Smayra Ramesh

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Choose the best answer that Identify which character from either the 1. Ravana was a staunch corresponds to each question or Mahabharata is shown in the devotee of which God? pictures below. A. 1) Who is the son of B. 1) among the ? C. A) Yudhisthira D. Kaikeyi B) C) 2. Lakshmana’s wife was D) named: A. Seetha 2) Which character seized B. Urmila by her hair and C. Parvathi dragged her into the court? D. Draupadi

A) (the lady) B) Arjuna 3. Which of the following C) A. Sumitra women were NOT one of B. Shabhari Dasharatha’s wives? D) C. Seetha A. Kausalya

D. Manthara B. Kaikeyi 3) Which quality was known for? 2) C. Sumitra A) upholding dharma D. B) compassion C) miserliness 4. Who is Ravana’s sister? D) patience A. Manthara B. Tataki 4) Who were ’s C. Shoorpanakha daughter’s in law? (Choose all D. Pootana correct answers) A) 5. For how many years was A. Duryodhana exiled to the forest? B) B. C) C. A. 10 D) D. B. 54

C. 13 5) Who was the son of Arjuna D. 14 and Uluchi? 6. Rama’s sons include: A) Ghatodhgaja I. Dhruva B) Iravana II. Lava C) Babruvahana III. Kusha D) 3) A. I only A. Vayu B. B. II only C. Garuda C. I and II only D. Ganesha D. II and III only

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