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JUNE 16, 2020
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Can Skunks
own smell?
STORY OF
HOW DID AKBAR Why do
THE HEN AND
MEET BIRBAL?
THE LAZY FOX People snore?
FOLKTALE
What's For
Dinner?
There was a little hen that lived on the edge of So the fox told his mother, “I will be catching
a forest. She was friendly and active. She lived that stupid hen for dinner. You keep a pot on
alone and did all her work by herself. Every day, fire and boil water. When I come back, we will
early morning, she would hunt for worms in the cook it and have it together.” Saying this, he left
forest, after which she would clean up the the house.
house, cook for herself, eat and sleep The fox reached the house of the hen. The hen
comfortably. In the evenings she would go out came out to gather wooden sticks to light a fire
and meet her friends and would come back by and left the door open when she went inside.
dawn. Overall, she was leading a peaceful and Slowly and swiftly, the fox entered the house of
comfortable life. the hen. It hid behind the door and waited for
In the same colony, there also lived a lazy fox the hen to come in. As soon as the hen came
with his very old mother. The fox was so lazy inside the house, the fox pounced on her,
that he would hardly go out to hunt. He would captured her and put her inside a sack. He then
simply get hold of the first animal he came tied the mouth of the sack and carried it on his
across and bring it home to eat. One day, the back.
fox family did not have anything to eat. The fox The fox was in such a hurry to run back home
was feeling too lazy to go out and was contem- that he didn’t even notice the movements in
plating how to arrange for food without the sack. Meanwhile, the hen took out a sharp
working hard. Suddenly, he thought of the hen. knife from her pocket. She made a hole in the
He wanted to kill the hen and eat her for dinner. sack and jumped out of it. To avoid arousing the
The animals of the colony where the hen and fox’s suspicion, she immediately put a big rock
the fox lived followed a strict rule. It was that into the sack.
even on being very hungry, you were not The fox reached home happily. “Is the water
allowed to hunt animals within your own boiling, mother? I have caught the hen and we
locality. But it was alright to hunt from other shall have it for dinner,” the fox said, salivating
colonies. with excitement.
The animals living in that area always followed “Yes, the water is boiling hot,” replied the fox’s
the rule very stringently. Earlier, it wasn’t mother.
difficult as the forest was dense and the animals Just then, the fox untied his sack and emptied it
of the neighborhood found plenty of prey in into the water. The big rock fell into the water. A
the other localities. However, of late it had not large quantity of hot and boiling water
been like that. With the cutting down of the splashed out of the pot and fell on both the
trees, the animals started disappearing and it foxes, killing them instantly.
had become more and more difficult to find The hen continued to live peacefully forever.
prey to hunt.
Find the Ten Hidden Objects in the picture
Silly Rhymes
Grandmother Grundy
O Grandmother Grundy,
Now what would you say
If the katydids carried
Your glasses away
Carried them off
To the top of the sky
And used them to watch
The eclipses go by?
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Science explorer
What is Gravity?
Have you seen a magnet? Gravity is a bit like it.
Gravity is a force of attraction between two things.
Anything that has mass, also has gravity.
The earth has gravity, which holds everything
close to it. Do you think we have gravity? Yes, we do! Since we have mass, we also have
gravity. However, since it is much weaker compared to the earth’s gravity, we don’t
notice it. The center of gravity is the point at which an object or person can be bal-
anced.
Gravity is influenced by size and nearness. Sir Isaac Newton realized that the same
force governed objects on earth and objects in space. So, he came up with the Law of
Universal Gravitation.
The Earth’s gravitational force accelerates objects when they fall. This is the same for
every object. So whether you drop a car or a pen, they will gain velocity at the same
rate.
Although the gravitational pull of the earth on both objects is different, so is their
mass. So, the effect that we see, or acceleration, is the same. The earth’s pull makes the
objects speed up by 9.8 meters per second, every second.
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spot ten differences
Engquiry
Questions about the English Language
AMUSING NEWS
Stinky Skunks
Have you ever wondered if
skunks can deal with their own
smell? Research has shown that
despite their reputations, skunks
rarely spray other animals. And
even if they do spray another
skunk, they can tolerate it! How-
ever, they don't really enjoy
being sprayed on their eyes or
faces. Who would?
comic story
Akbar Birbal
At last, they came to a junction of three roads. Akbar was very happy as he
thought that now he could reach his capital, Agra through one of these roads.
He was not sure as to which of the three roads led to Agra.
Just then, they saw a young man Everybody was shocked at the
coming towards them on one of the young man’s audacity. Akbar began
three roads. to get angry.
Wait up young man! Could you tell
us which road goes to Agra?
What
Sir, none of these do you
roads go to Agra. mean?
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The Emperor’s anger vanished on
hearing this clever reply.
Yes, you
People travel, are right. Tell
not roads. Do me, what is My name is
they? your name? Mahesh Das, sir! Who
are you and what is
your name? You are talking
to Emperor Akbar! I need
people like you in my court.
Come to meet me with this
ring and I will recognise you
immediately. Now, show us
the way to reach
Agra.
Mahesh Das pointed towards the road going to Agra, and the King headed
on that road. This is how Emperor Akbar met the future Birbal.
Fun With
WordS T
U N
Take out a pen and
paper and make as I A D
many words as you can
with the letters in the C O
wheel. E
Pondering
Corner
Complete
this rare skunk. One day...
the Story...
fun facts
with Hamlet the Hamster
To know or not to know,
that is the question!
Well, wouldn’t you prefer to know?
Skunks spray sparingly as they sometimes need over a week to reload the glands.
A snake bite does not kill skunks — they are immune to snake venom.
Content
Contributing Writers
Kaniz Fatima Khan Priyanka Garegat
Deepti Raavi Ekta Bhatnagar
Raunaq Amarnani Rituparna Chatterjee
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Sitanshu Bhartiya
Atul Wankhade
Digital Archana Rajagopal
Marketing Bharat Pillai
Dnyanesh Thombre Tushar Rokade
Prashant Kini
Shekhar Ramaiah
Creator
Jesh Krishna Murthy
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