Shishukunj

Childhood – The Best Time

Himanshu Agrawal, Class XI

Don’t you remember those days when all of us were the most stress-free persons on this planet? All of us wished that we never become grownups. We’ll not have to worry about jobs, family, etc.

In my opinion, childhood is the best phase of a person’s life. It’s the time when we believe ourselves to be the happiest and luckiest. I still remember those games in which we transformed ourselves into trains, running through the streets; breaking the window of our neighbours while playing cricket; losing track of time while playing football… We used to spend our time playing, eating, running, shouting. It was the time when we had no worries about starting a multi-national or applying for a job in one of those.

Unfortunately, in today’s world, this ‘children’s best time’ is missing. We no more hear the shouts of children in the open fields or parks. Most of them are in their homes alone with gadgets or at tuitions.

I would just say that this more wonderful phase of our life should be enjoyed to its fullest or else we will regret!

My Pet

Naqiya Barnagarwala, Class VII B

I remember the day I got my pet

From then I was never scared to sleep in my bed.

Now that I’ve even given a name to him,

It’s impossible to imagine life without him.

I love to watch him with coffee and tea,

Living with him has become my daily routine.

He loves to walk in the sun’s rays

With him I love to play.

Without him I cannot imagine a day.

With him joy I get,

I just love my pet!

Sisterhood

Anushka Sharma, Class VII B

It’s a wonderful thing you must know,

The best part of life you can’t show.

You’re the luckiest person on earth if you have a sister for a kin,

She’ll stop you from performing any kind of sin.

You’ll not understand this bond quite well,

It’s just like a mysterious shell.

Your sister grows up to become your best friend,

Even though you think it’s not a popular trend.

She will be silly and shall at times irritate you,

Yet, you’ll be sure that she will come to help you, out of the blue.

This love is great,

You’ll just have to treat her like a mate.

Cloud Talk

Ayush Baweja, Class IX G

The thunder shakes me to the bone

Below me sits a man alone,

In no hurry, the man is,

No thoughts of others, in the joy of his.

Cars fleet past,

Like ships of mast,

Waiting for when the rain,

Will stop at last.

I hear birds chirping,

Hidden in disguise,

I feel the smell of the earth,

Slowly rise.

In the sounds,

Voices drown

Never to be heard,

Never to be found.

Wispy air surrounds me

Rain falls soft on the trees

The sun glistens through the dew.

Seven colors through the sky,

The thunder, no longer does it cry,

Quietly, the winds begin to die,

And slowly the Earth starts to dry.

Futuristic Science

Inter House Board Decoration

The Trip

Pranavi Agrawal, Class X C

‘I’ve never ever felt this kind of fury before,’ Professor Humphrey said to his pupils. He was an excellent teacher and all his pupils did really well in exams and scored really nice marks too! But none of them was street smart. So, Professor Humphrey had secretly designed some practical problems for the students to check if they were actually learning and whether they could apply what they were learning.

Part of the test was a field trip to the Forbidden Forest. Everyone had been really excited to go since no one had been to that forest in 101 years and it was believed to be full of mysterious creatures. So, all the students of Professor Humphrey went into the forest and experienced what they would never forget.

‘Shh Amir, don’t go near it’ Meera cried in fear. But Amir didn’t listen and approached the twenty dogs with just a stick in his hand. His palms were sweating. What about the last lesson when they had been taught that these dogs can smell fear? Didn’t Amir claim to be the smartest in his batch? But of course, that lesson was forgotten. No one remembers lessons on a field trip, do they?

Elsewhere in the forest, Stuti was similarly stuck. ‘I want to get out of this dreadful place!’ she said aloud.

‘Then what are you waiting for?’ Saheb shouted in frustration. He had been trying to convince her to move for about ten minutes now. With each second the danger was increasing. She couldn’t move an inch. She, the topper of the incantation class, didn’t know what to do.

Each student in Professor Humphrey’s class had a painful experience like this. After a long pause Professor Humphrey started again, ‘Well. You have been studying all kinds of subjects but don’t know how to apply what you are learning.

Willing is not enough

We must do!

Knowing is not enough

We must apply!

Time Machine

Soumya Tiwari, Class IX B

Sushil and Aditya were enjoying a leisurely walk in the park in the evening. Suddenly, a man came up to them and introduced himself. He was a scientist named Prasang. He told them that he wanted to speak to them privately.

Sushil and Aditya went with the scientist. He told them that he had built a time machine and had checked it completely. He wanted two sturdy companions to accompany him to visit the future.

Sushil and Aditya were excited. The scientist continued, “Would you both like to go with me?”

“Yes, sure!” replied Aditya.

So, the scientist took them to his lab. There in the centre was a boat-like structure covered with a glass sphere. They sat in that ship and the scientist moved the controls. They were on their way to the future!

Soon, the machine stopped moving. The boys looked around and saw, to their surprise, a whole new world! The humans had advanced technology and it seemed most of the technology was devoted to reducing pollution and protecting natural resources. Sushil and Aditya were surprised.

Then, the scientist said, “Dear kids, if you really want to see a happy future, you must start working to protect nature now. Why should we betray the one (nature) who never betrayed us?”

My Experience: USA Trip Shishukunj

Riddhi Singhania, Class X D

Writing about our experiences during this ‘fantabulous’ trip can be quite frustrating for many, but for me…. My mind is overflowing with thoughts and memories…..

This trip to the US was my first international school trip which got me really very excited about it. I knew only a couple of students as my friends, but, well, soon all of us became a family. The journey from India to the US was unexpectedly not at all tiring and we did not even experience jet lag!

Our tour chaperon Rocky was a person who took good care of us, but, at the same time he was the one who we couldn’t stop laughing at, when he took us to see the Harry Potter World at Disney! Talking about Disney, I had a very exhausting day there waiting in the long queues. But now I find that worth it, because those queues gave us time to talk and know each other. Our wish to complete all the rides was wholeheartedly fulfilled by the fast passes at the Universal’s, where we had the time of our lives!

The best thing in our trip was the two days’ tour of the Kennedy Space Centre, where we got the chance to talk to and have lunch with an astronaut, have a shuttle launch experience and discover the littleness of our
planet and the vastness of our exploration. However, the most fun-filled were the hours at the cocoa beach. It was not only the waves, but drying ourselves in the bus fumes was the most memorable part.

We had OH MY GOD tours of the dream universities MIT and Harvard by the students studying there, which literally made us feel we were studying there. And the heavenly falls of Niagara got us many pics to make our friends jealous. The cold weather inevitably led us having cold, and we soothed our throat with glasses of hot chocolate. The Broadway Theatre workshop brought out our ‘acting ka keeda’ and we had a nice time at the dazzling Times Square.

A very peculiar habit of the people living in the States is sharing their whole hearts with others, as if they’ve known us all their lives. Many people just casually wave at you, and, you have your friends staring at you, thinking, that you know those people! They are unlike the people we see in India, whose hearts are delighted by the honking sounds and who cross roads considering themselves superman. There I saw people stand patiently even if you break a washroom line at a crowded theme park!

The thing we missed the most was of course our home cooked food. It was now that we realised that the food we make a fuss about every day can be so very scrumptious. One can’t live only on pizzas for days. And French fries, I didn’t touch for at least a month! Heading back to India, we looked forward to a nice Indian meal and to keep safe in our hearts our happy memories together.

Our US Capers

The first day we expected a jet lag

But so high our excitement was

That we set out with our bags on our back.

At Disney World

Even after waiting in long queues

We had mind-blowing fun even if the rides we did were few!

We launched our imagination

Explored galaxies around our shelter

When we spent two cool days

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre

At cocoa beach we came to know

What fun friends can have

In waves high and low

Then at Universal’s we lost ourselves

In fun ‘n frolic ‘n laughter

We did the Hulk, water rides,

And visited ever memorable Harry Potter world!

The tours of MIT and Harvard

Were the dream visits for us

And in the workshop for robotics

We could program a robo without a fuss!!

The visit to Niagara was amazing

It was heavenly what we saw

The beautiful falls forced us to say

We shan’t leave, at least not now!

Our last two days were in New York

We saw the Statue of Liberty and beautiful towers

But after the theatre workshop,

We actually felt like Broadway stars!

Now, after flying back to India

It’s the homework we will meet

But fortunately we will at last get mumma’s roti sabzi to eat!

Handicapped

Debanshi Bansal, Class X D

Rohan, a teenager, would often stand on the terrace of the house and watch the colourful kites flying in the sky, wishing that one of the kites would be his. Alas! That was not possible. Two years ago on ‘Makar Sankranti’, that joy was stolen from him. That day still brought tears to his eyes. The dreadful day he lost his father.

His father, Motilal, was a factory worker, earning just enough to feed his family of three. It was Makar Sankranti and Rohan pleaded his father to buy a kite. Both of them started walking towards the shop when a speeding car hit them. His father died on the spot, leaving Rohan handicapped. Rohan could not accept the fact that his father was dead. If only he hadn’t pleaded his father to buy a kite and ‘charkha’!

So now, instead of having a ‘charkha’ in his hand, he held the saw. Instead of tying the strings of broken kites, he tied wood together to make ends meet for him and his mother. Instead of cutting the kites of other children, he was cutting wood to make furniture.

That day had indeed left him handicapped. Not physically, but mentally and financially. He was robbed of his childhood in a blink. Coming back to the present reality, Rohan wiped his tears and ran towards the factory where his father used to work. Not to revive a memory, but to start his work for the day.

From a Dream to Reality

Amey Choudhary, Class IX D

It was a pleasant Sunday morning and I was as excited as I could be. I could hardly wait to break the news to my grandmother. I left the house and headed straight to my grandmother’s home. As I drove, I remembered how energetic she was when I was young. She used to take care of me and play with me. But now she had arthritis and lived with a helper in her ancestral house. He took care of her, gave her medicines, cleaned the house, cooked food, etc.

Now, as I entered the colony, I was so excited. I found her sitting in a wheelchair in the porch. When she saw me, she was so happy and elated. She had a wide grin. I knew that the news I was going to break to her was quite important. I took her inside in the room so that nobody could hear us. She was a bit surprised but when I told her what I had discovered, she was so happy. I had never seen her so happy in my life. But after all, what I had discovered hadn’t been discovered by three generations.

I had found where the treasure of a Nawab of Lucknow was hidden. I will tell you more about it first: my great grandfather was a close friend of the Nawab. During the freedom struggle, fearing that he may get killed, he had given the treasure to my great grandfather for safekeeping. My great grandfather had hidden it somewhere.

Before my grandfather could tell my grandmother where he had hidden it, he was arrested on false charges of treason. He had left a clue and given it to my grandmother. My grandmother couldn’t decode it. She had then given it to her children and even they were unable to do so. Now when I received the clue, I decoded it and identified the place where it was kept. I told my grandmother where it was. It was under the peepal tree in the garden. My grandmother and I went there. I dug near the tree and found a box. Our eyes shone like crystals. As I opened it, I found a note and some crystals. The note was written by my great grandfather. It asked us to keep the whole thing a secret and protect this treasure with our lives. I saw tears in my grandmother’s eyes. When she looked at me, she didn’t speak but I knew she was very proud of me.

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