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A Grim Reminder

A black day in the history of the Indian independence movement that further fuelled the demand for freedom from the British…

…An episode which appears to me to be without precedent or parallel in the modern history of the British Empire. It is an event of an entirely different order from any of those tragical occurrences which take place when troops are brought into collision with the civil population. It is an extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event which stands in singular and sinister isolation. – Winston Churchill in the House of Commons (the U.K.) on July 8, 1920

The event referred to is the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, which occurred on April 13, 1919, in Amritsar. On that day, Colonel Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to open fire on an unarmed group of people. Let’s take a look at what happened.

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Wander and Wonder

Pick up some new words to help you describe the places you visit during the summer holidays! Read on for more.

What are your travel plans for the summer vacations? The seaside for a relaxed time, a hill station to beat the heat, your native town to catch up with cousins, or perhaps a historical city to explore and learn?

Prosperity At Its Peak

Baisakhi, Vishu, Puthandu, Bihu… call it what you will – New Year is reason enough for celebrations. Read on for more.

New Year doesn’t necessarily have to fall on January 1. Sometimes it happens mid-April. Take a look at how people around the country celebrate New Year.

Click on the hotspots.

Image Credits: The Hindu Archives: Baisakhi – Akhilesh Kumar; Gudi Padwa – Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury; Rongali Bihu – Ritu Raj Konwar; Tamil Puthandu – K.V. Srinivasan; Vishu – K.K.Najeeb

Face the Music

Where did the word ‘karaoke’ come from? And is an ‘earworm’ an actual worm? Find out with this set of musical facts!

Music transcends culture, language and geography! Here are some interesting musical facts for you to learn. Scroll through these slides. Did you know that…

Muscle Garage

Which is your strongest muscle? What makes your tongue unique? Find out some fascinating facts about muscles.

Your muscles do a lot of work – from smiling and frowning to lifting your heavy backpack, from helping you chew food to pumping blood all over your body. You control some of your muscles, while others do their work without you even thinking about them.

Connect across Cultures

‘Siesta’, ‘ikebana’, ‘totems’ and ‘babushka dolls’ – let’s discover a little bit about cultures around the world!

Let’s look at different customs, traditions and a few interesting beliefs and superstitions from across the world. Scroll through the slides to learn more.

Hitori

Did you know that ‘Hitori’ is a Japanese puzzle? Find out how to play the game and give it a shot!

Hitori is a Japanese puzzle. The word ‘Hitori’ means ‘Leave me alone’. The objective of this game is to eliminate numbers by shading the boxes containing them, so that the remaining boxes contain numbers that appear only once either in the row or column. In order to solve a Hitori puzzle, you will have to follow the steps given below:

Shade the box where a number appears more than once in any row/column. The shaded boxes cannot be horizontally or vertically adjacent, though they can be diagonally adjacent. The unshaded boxes must form a single continuous area.


Lost in Time – Results

Children around the country sent in stories to the ‘Lost in Time’ contest conducted by Young World Club. Presenting the winners…

Children from around the country got creative and submitted stories to the ‘Lost in Time’ contest conducted by Young World Club in association with Puffin Books. Presenting the winners, in alphabetical order! (Click on the names to read their stories)

Juniors (10 years and below):


Seniors (11 years and above):

If your name is on the above list, you will receive exciting prizes soon!

Here are the participants whose stories did not make it to the final list of winners, but were really impressive:

Juniors (10 years and below):

Aditi Thomas, Mumbai
Akileshwar Ramanakumar, Chennai
Akshath Panicker, Bengaluru
Apuravanshu Sharma, Hounslow
Aritro Ray, Hyderabad
Arpita Bhat, Hyderabad
M. Dinakar, Kalpakkam
Gayathri G, Hosur
Gayatri Anantharaman Iyer, Faridabad
Gayatri Arun, Kottayam
Geetanjali Deepak, Ernakulam
Jeevaa L Biju, Bengaluru
Jiya Goenka, Kolkata
Lavanya, Barnala
Navaneeth Krishnan H, Kochi
Nila Kathir, Chennai
Parvathy Ramprasad, Bengaluru
Prarthana Padmakumar, Thiruvananthapuram
D. Ruppeshwari, Chennai
Sahasra Sridhar, Chennai
Sameer Gandhi, Hyderabad
Shamik Saraswati, Bengaluru
Shrinidhi Srivatsan, Chennai
Tanay Vimal, Bengaluru
S. Tushar, Raebareli
Unnati Kumar, Kolkata
Vedant Anand, Chennai
Vedika Vijay Ramnath, Kochi

Seniors (11 years and above):

Abhyudaya Mishra, Ghaziabad
Aditya N Bharadwaj, Bangalore
Anshika, Hyderabad
Aprameya H Iyengar, Lucknow
Farzana, Thiruvananthapuram
Gokul Ravikrishnan, Thiruvananthapuram
Megha, Mumbai
Michelle Anne George, Bengaluru
Ritu Ranjan, Begusarai
Rohan D, Bengaluru
Shreya Sevelar, Chennai

Congratulations to the winners and participants!

World Health Day

April 7 is World Health Day. Find out what the theme of this year is and what it means for the world.

April 7 is World Health Day. This year is the World Health Organisation’s 70th year, and the theme of the Day is “Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere”.

This means that everyone should have access to quality health services everywhere without facing financial hardship. Access to essential quality care and financial protection not only enhances people’s health and life expectancy, it also protects countries from epidemics, reduces poverty and the risk of hunger, creates jobs, drives economic growth and enhances gender equality.

Watch this video for more.

 

Here are some facts and figures to think about:

  • At least half of the world’s people is currently unable to obtain essential health services.
  • Almost 100 million people are being pushed into extreme poverty, forced to survive on just $1.90 or less a day, because they have to pay for health services out of their own pockets.
  • Over 800 million people (almost 12 percent of the world’s population) spend at least 10 percent of their household budgets on health expenses for themselves, a sick child or other family member. They incur so-called “catastrophic expenditures”.
  • Incurring catastrophic expenses for health care is a global problem. In richer countries in Europe, Latin America and parts of Asia, which have achieved high levels of access to health services, increasing numbers of people are spending at least 10 percent of their household budgets on out-of-pocket health expenses.

Do your part by spreading the word about World Health Day.

Source: who.int