Shishukunj

हिंदी

Siddhant Athwale, IX D

Reflections on The English Literary Fest

Mrs. Latika Pandey, Educator

The air throbbed with creative energy and excitement as the literary geniuses from across the world came to life. Collages materialised out of the surfeit of information and learning found a pattern when the students of Class XI of the school decided to hold a three-day-long literary fest to showcase their researches on authors and poets from around the world. The fest housed the soul of literature in five Kiosks and showcased the life and works of very many literary geniuses across the world.

Translations were skimmed, interviews were browsed, the books were read to discover the joy of reading and to formulate learning experience into meaningful research.

The fest resurrected the artistic calibre and joy of indulgence in books and there was a lot to look forward to. Visitors did not expect what they got to watch.

An Ayn Randish objectivism lay admiring The Brother Karamzov. The Room on the Roof echoed with A Geography Lesson. The American Brat nestled close to Harry Potter and As you Like It. Primo Levi, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino made quite a spectacle in the reading corner neighbouring Pearl S. Buck, Harper Lee, John Grisham. Water, Earth dissolved boundaries in Delhi is Not Far and The Namesake.

What really piqued interest was the number of authors and poets brought under umbrella in holidaying genre of life with folk music and reading stoppages and wisdom tree with books scattered under it.

Whether it was a deep reflection of divinely reclusive artistic sensibility of poetry and imagination triggering fiction or politicking humour or tongue in cheek satire/comedy, children from Classes VI to XII stood for long to take a good read in all.

Math in Art

Inter-House Board Decoration

Dream

Vaidehi Partani, Class X A

(This poem has featured in Kloud9 magazine in its December 2016 issue)

Moon out in the sky

Stars twinkling high

Your eyelashes are down

All left, is black and brown

Mind is at peace

Everything seems to freeze

Something special gets on

Dreams, now they are born.

Night-living buds

Totally different from us

Which can’t be directed

And are forever unlimited

They can’t be seen

But your heart can feel

The presence of a dream

Is like a small stream.

Your communication stops

But these dreams, they talk

They talk to whom?

To you, when they bloom.

Dream is a tiny plot

Which has various slots

But each part of it

Matters a lot

Matters a lot!

Career Guidance

Hridhima Tyagi, Class IX B

As soon as we enter class IX, planning our career becomes the buzz of the town. Though some career options are as common as the rising of the sun, some new or different career options are also available in our society. I would like to bring the attention to one such option available.

We may all not be good at science, math or commerce and our grades would say so. But there is nothing to get demoralized. If we are good at languages, we may have a bright future ahead.

Knowing foreign languages can help you build your career in the following ways:

1. GAME TRANSLATOR: Companies making games always hire ingame translators so that the game sells globally.

2. FLIGHT ATTENDANT: International airlines specially look for people who can speak different languages to communicate with passengers and make them comfortable.

3. BANKING AND FINANCE: A linguist is always an asset to a company as she can be posted anywhere without trouble.

4. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER: He is responsible to hire people for the company. A foreign language expert can help the company in getting good officers from around the world.

5. JOURNALISM: Who can be more important for the media industry than a person who can speak many languages? Global coverage is the core of today’s journalism and it requires a linguist.

6. INTERPRETER: The world is becoming a large family. So translating one language to another instantly is the need of the hour. Though translating softwares are available, they can never beat the lively, spontaneous interpreter who can understand the feeling behind the sentence.

Exam Time

Lakshya Somani, Class VIII E

Exam time, exam time!

Lots of things on our mind.

All night, just reading books;

Brings down the glow from our looks.

So much stress, so much stress;

As, many books pile on our desk.

And, when the day comes;

On the paper, our pen runs.

Finally, the result is heard,

We all enjoy eating desserts.

A New Discovery, A New Revolution

Sahaj Totla, Class X G

Dan is a renowned researched in the year 2080. Five years earlier, humans exhausted all the resources and the pollution caused by man affected water, turning it into acid and leaving a huge cloud of gas all over the earth blocking the rays of the sun.

One day, Dan was on his way to his laboratory. He had heard about a huge meteor crashing near his laboratory. When he reached his laboratory, he saw a neon light and was amazed that a test tube containing Plutonium Carbonate was glowing without being connected to any power source.

He was curious about his finding so he started researching on it and came to the conclusion that the meteor must have some property that was charging the Plutonium ions present in the test tube. This was a source of hope in this dark and energy bereaved world.

After some days of work, he discovered that the nucleons of the metal found in the meteor were fusing with Plutonium to form the plasma state of Plutonium. This was a new discovery in the field of nuclear energy which was certain to bring a revolution. After two years, Dan managed to release the nuclear energy all over the world. The clouds disappeared and the acid turned to water again. The earth was a blue planet once again!

The Old Woman

Riddhi Singhania, Class IX D

The day was dark

No sound of a lark

As I was passing through a meadow

When suddenly I saw a hut

But its door was shut

So I peeped in through the window.

I saw a woman

An old woman

Sitting on a wobbly chair

She was knitting and knitting

And knitting

And for nothing else she did care.

Her face was wrinkled, hair all grey

She was knitting and knitting

As if waiting for May

She would meet her grandchildren

Give them the presents

And cheer all day!

The sky grew black

And I heard a crack

The old lady opened the door

And a wide smile she wore

She gave me a present in a box

And I saw they were a pair of socks!

She pressed the box against my hands

And I couldn’t refuse her

But just said thanks

She smiled again

And I smiled at her

And I started off for home

Carrying an affectionate feeling throughout the room.

A Scary Night

Aditi Tanwar, Class IX C

I was awakened by a storm brewing outside, in the middle of the night. Suddenly, the lights went out and I recalled, to my horror, that I was all alone at home that night. I am always scared when I am alone at home, specially in the night. I tried to call my parents but their number was out of reach. I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn’t. I stopped thinking and closed my eyes.

Suddenly, I felt something poking my eyes. I opened my eyes and saw the curtain shining with white light. I also saw the outline of a person holding a torch and a knife in his hands. I jumped out of the bed in fright and screamed in horror. Just when I screamed, the light and the person disappeared in a flash.

I ran downstairs to use the landline to call my mother but the phone was dead. Had the phone line been disconnected? I ran back towards my room and while running up, I felt I stepped on something eerie. I was not able to see clearly in the dark but I saw red eyes shining at me. I screamed again and ran to my room.

I locked the door and lit a candle for some light. I took the candle towards the window when I saw something written on the wall. The words read ‘Don’t tell this to anyone, otherwise…’ Just when I finished reading it, the text vanished. Lights came back and everything became normal.

I kept thinking and a hundred questions ran through my mind – why did the person scare me, who was he, how did he enter the house? I wanted to tell my mom everything when she returned but I was too scared. I also thought that nobody would believe me. So, I felt forgetting all this would be the best. But now that I have written about it, I cannot think of anything else.