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Nature at its Best!

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Clicked by Likhit Sethi Take me to the Sky. The only kind of sunsets I don't like are the ones I missed. Sunsets are proof that endings are often beautiful !!! Paint the Sky; Make it Yours !!! Only from the HEART, can you touch the sky !!! Dark clouds become Heaven's flowers when kissed by light !!! - Rabindranath Tagore

Synapse @ Vasant Valley School

By Neel Jadia 'Synapse' was an online quiz organised by Vasant Valley School, New Delhi. Many prestigious schools from across the country participated in it. The quiz was held on the 25th of July, 2020, virtually, on the Zoom platform, wherein, the students of Class X took up a preliminary round a day before, starting 4 p.m. For prelims, one had to qualify 5 levels to participate in the final quiz. For the prelims preparation, all my science teachers gave their valuable time to me, and took many efforts to prepare me for the quiz. I would like to thank all my teachers for this. For the prelims conducted using Google Forms, we had to answer as many MCQ’s as we could, within 20 minutes. The questions varied in their difficulty, and there was negative marking for each wrong answer, and one correct point for each correct answer. Some questions were as basic as giving the formula for washing soda, while some were from Class XII, like combination of concave and convex lenses and do...

Kim Namjoon

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Made by Koshika Jhavar - No one is born ugly. The problem is that we live in a judgemental society. Kim Namjoon ( South Korean rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is the leader of and a rapper in South Korean boy group BTS . )    

Why Phraseology and (Positive) Psychology Should Concur

By Atharv Rangole Let me tell you a story emphasizing upon the necessary instigation of the conventional habitude of affixing oneself to moral grounds, and yet the long-lost practice of not floccinaucinihilipilificating the commonly deprecated masses. The story also focuses its light on the power of having an equitable mindset, along with the indispensable usage of felicitous vocabulary...   “Twenty years ago, I, along with my dad, was waiting for the night bus to come, so that we could finally head home. Dad used to work the afternoon and evening shifts at the Berryman Café, and I used to pack his lunch and take it to him every day after school. We used to spend the evenings together, and would leave for home at eight each night, either by walking, or, if I got lucky, sometimes by the bus.  The pouring rain had been engulfed by the darkness, and I was feeling quite warm, huddled in dad’s oversized coat, standing in the sheltered bus station. On the opposite paveme...

The Shakti Processor

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Tech Feeds by Pranatpal Sharma                                                        Processer Shakti Hello friends! In this series, I will talk about popular technology news from around the world and some great contributions in the tech world made by India. I am sure most of you already know what a processor is but still here’s a little insight into it: A processor as you know is the processing unit of the PC which collects data, converts it into binary data, reads it, apprehends it and gives the output.   The processor in the picture is an Intel Celeron which is a very old processor that I had lying with me. The processor we see is actually just the lid and the pins. Inside the lid is the die which is the main processing unit which contains CORES AND THREADS. Now what are these Cores and Threads? Well, to put it simply, cores are t...

Friendship

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Made by Tarang Jain Best friends make the good times better and the hard times easier.

Remember

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Drawing by Tarang Jain Remember  by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more, day by day, You tell me of our future that you plann’d: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

The Midnight Visitor

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By Pranatpal Sharma This story written by Robert Arthur is about a secret agent named Ausable. He was with a writer named Fowler who was there to experience the thrills in the life of a secret agent. Fowler soon realized that Ausable was exactly the opposite of what he had imagined secret agents were like. Ausable told Fowler that he need not be disappointed and very soon he would be looking at a very important report which could change the country’s future. When they returned to Ausable’s room, they found another agent named Max standing with a gun pointed at them. He asked them to be comfortable until the reports related to missiles arrived. Sketch made by Pranatpal's mother (Thank you ma'am) This was really an adventurous experience for Fowler while meeting a secret agent. Meanwhile, Ausable started weaving a story about a hypothetical balcony outside the window of his room. While this talk was going on, someone knocked at the door. Ausable said that the poli...

God Bless!

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By Manvi Agarwal The bird who dares to fall is the bird who dares to fly May God Bless You!!! If one door closes and another one opens, start worrying because your house is probably haunted.

Merril Wirrey

By Likhit Sethi {Merril Wirrey is pronounced as (mae-ril wae-rry) (मेरिल वरि) } “What is done is done but what can be done always stays in our hands.” Not a normal story, I assure you before we start…it might leave you crying (if you are of an emotional type) but it will definitely leave you thinking about those whom you might have wronged in your life. So this story is about a boy named Merril Wirrey, odd his name might be and his skin was as black as a sweep not to forget that he was also shorter than the average boys of his age. Though his family was poor, he went to a rich American school, all credit to his good grades which got him the scholarship to the school. But the school was practically made up of people with a fair skin tone. Being poor and helpless, our Merril couldn’t make friends there…leave alone good friends. There was a child in particular whom he could call his friend; he went by the name of Jacob. Jacob was fair skinned, of average height and happy-go-lucky. He wa...

Racism is Wrong

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Made by Hitanshi Jain

From The Diary of Anne Frank

By Abeer Choubey In this extract from The Diary of a Young Girl written by Anne Frank, she writes how she feels that it is strange and unusual for her to write a diary because it is the first time she is doing it. She feels that in the future no one will read about a young girl’s past experiences. But then she puts these thoughts away and decides to write her thoughts down.    Anne feels very lonely as she has no friends to talk to. She wants to give her need of friend a shape, hence decides to name the diary “Kitty”. She feels that paper has more capacity to absorb thoughts rather than people who have low patience. She has a good time with her friends but cannot share everything with them as they are not true friends. She refers to her father as the most lovable person who presents her the diary on her 13th birthday.   On June 20, 1942, she mentions how her class is nervous about their results. The author says that the only subject she is unsure about is mathemat...

Veganism Is Bliss

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By Advaita Shukla Art: Stuti Rawat Namaste! Dear readers, with much pleasure and excitement I would like to introduce you all to something that has the potential to change your lives. The simple yet powerful lifestyle change that has the potential to prevent numerous diseases, protect the environment, prevent the mass extinction of thousands of species of flora and fauna and prevent the extreme destruction caused by climate change is, as you must have guessed from the title, Veganism. Veganism, for those of you entirely new to the topic, by definition is, and I quote, “a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of and cruelty to animals for food, clothing or any other purpose”. So Veganism is, unlike the usual belief of people, not a diet, it is a lifestyle and philosophy. Firstly, I would like to encourage you to keep aside all prejudices you might possess regarding Veganism and read the posts in this series with an o...

Night and Day

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Made by Hitanshi Jain

The Dawn

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Made by Megha Umahiya

The Midnight Visitor

by Akash Goyal This story written by Robert Arthur is about a detective who defies the stereotype as we know from novels and movies. Ausable is a chubby, short man with a thick American accent who a young writer goes to meet. But, as Ausable says, the young writer must be highly disappointed to see an unassuming person as a detective.  However, when they reach Ausable’s room, an intruder (Max) is already present in the room. Ausable uses his quick thinking and makes up a story of a non-existent balcony and policemen. The fear of the police makes the intruder jump out of the window; only to crash to the ground.  I personally liked the story as it proved how strength is not always important. Our presence of mind and quick decisions can also help us surf on the high tide in life. This lesson is depicted in the story wherein the unconventional detective outwitted the armed stranger (Max) with his presence of mind.

Big B

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Made by Aaditya Shukla Guess who it is ! Yes that is Amitabh Bachchan! It took me four and a half days to bring that handsome face on paper but the effort was totally worth it!

Oh Captain My Captain

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Made by Aarya Goyal You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails.

Poetry in Motion

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Made by Likhit Sethi He that plants trees not for one but for all; loves others more than he loves himself A horse is poetry in motion Beauty is her power; a smile is her sword Its warmth was not heat and its cool was not cold. Love Doodle

Handle with Care

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Made by Hitanshi Jain

Fresh Look 1

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Our latest 'Fresh Look' features a picture clicked by Priyank Surana and logo designed by Pranatpal Sharma.

A New Fresh Look

from Pranatpal Sharma, Chief Editor Hello there! How do you like our blog's new appearance? For some time our blog had looked the same and I felt it was time for a Fresh Feel . W e even had a post from Koshika about "Badlav".  Because everything requires a change and so should our blog! Do leave a comment to tell how you liked it!