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STORY OF

THE PENNY

Fun facts
WISE MONKEY

about
Baboons

WHO WAS

HELEN KELLER?

THE EAST

INDIA COMPANY
FOLKTALE
The Penny
Wise Monkey
Once upon a time, there lived a king who ruled
over a rich and prosperous kingdom. But, the
king was never happy with what he had and
was always on a mission to expand his empire
by conquering other kingdoms. One day, he set
out on a mission to conquer a distant country.
The king and his soldiers walked the entire
morning in the forest. By evening, all of them
were exhausted and thus halted near a lake to
take some rest.
The horses were also tired, so the soldiers fed
them some peas. A monkey living in the forest
was eyeing the delicious peas being fed to the
horses. He jumped down from the tree,
grabbed a handful of peas and scampered back
to the tree.
As he sat down comfortably on a branch and
started to eat the peas, one small pea slipped
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from his hand and fell on the ground. Without
thinking even once, the greedy monkey
dropped all the peas he had in his hands, and
ran down to look for the lost pea.
Unfortunately, the monkey could not find that
pea. He kept looking for the pea for some more
time and then climbed back the tree empty
handed. His greed had made him lose all that
he had.
The king was watching the monkey with great
interest. Wisdom dawned on him and he
realised that his want for more may leave him
with nothing one day. He said to himself, “I will
not be like this foolish monkey, who lost much
to gain a little. I will go back to my own country
and enjoy what I have.” So, the next day he
ordered his men to march back home.
Find the Ten Hidden Wild Animals in the Picture

Silly Rhymes

The King Had

A Platter

The King had a platter

Of brisket and batter,
The Prince had a Bellington bun,
The Queen had a rose
To put to her nose
As soon as the dinner was done.

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 Those Who
Made a
Difference

Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first
hearing and sight impared person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduating from
Radcliffe, she went on to become one of the most influential people in the 20th Century. She
worked for the rights of persons with disabilities, women and under privileged sections of
society.
She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. She lost her hearing and sight at 19
months of age to what is now diagnosed as scarlet fever. Five years later, her parents, on Alex-
ander Graham Bell’s advice, applied to hire a teacher from the Perkins Institute for the Blind,
in Boston.
Anne Mansfield Sullivan was able to bring about an extraordinary transformation in Helen’s
isolated world. She taught Helen to understand and communicate with the world around her.
She went on to acquire an excellent education and become an important spokesperson for
the hearing and sight impared. Anne Sullivan taught Helen to read and write in Braille and
hand signals, which she could understand by touch. Her efforts to speak later on in life, were
not as successful, when she went on to become a public figure, but she was able to make her-
self be understood.
She started attending the Perkins Institute for the Blind in May, 1888. Anne Sullivan and Helen
Keller moved to New York to attend the Wright – Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn
from Sarah Fuller at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. In 1896, they returned to Massachu-
setts and Helen entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance
to Radcliffe in 1900.
She became the first hearing and sight impared person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, at
the age of 24 in 1904.

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spot ten differences

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Tickle
Q: What do you call a flying primate?
A: A hot air baboon!

your Q: What is a baboon's

favorite cookie?

funny A: Chocolate chimp!

bone
Q: Why did the baboon fail English?
A: He had little Ape-titude!

Q: Why do baboons have big nostrils?

A: They have big fingers.

Pondering
Emotions can be defined as a conscious mental reaction
which comes in the form of strong feelings usually felt
towards or because of a particular object. This can cause a

Corner
variety of changes in the body. To study emotions better,
scientists divide these reactions into three categories –
physiological, psychological and behavioural.

Do Animals
Charles Darwin was the first scientist to suggest that
animals had emotions, much like humans, However, his
Feel Emotions? theories were disregarded until recently. Scientists are now
suggesting after extensive research, that animals do feel a
certain range of emotions.
These emotions – such as fear and love influence an
animal’s behaviour and lead them to make decisions. New
research shows that animals can have physiological reacts
to emotions (Example: an increase in heart rate) and
behavioural reactions to emotions (Example: their hair
stands up). Conclusive proof is yet to be discovered that
animals can think deeply into their emotions and have psy-
chological reactions.
Research has shown that social animals like dogs can read
human expressions and react when they see facial expres-
sions depicting extreme emotions such as love, fear and
anger. Hence, dogs are a highly common support animal.
 stories from history

The East India Company

With the arrival of the Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama in 1498 at Calicut in
South India, European explorers started arriving on Indian shores. Their prime
purpose was the profitable spice trade.
At the end of 1600, Queen Elizabeth of England allowed a large body of merchants
to form a new trading company to trade with the East Indies, India and Southeast
Asia, which later came to be known as the East India Company. In 1617, Sir Thomas
Roe approached the Mughal Emperor, Jahangir and sought his permission to build
a factory in Surat. In two years, this permission was granted.
Within ten years, another factory opened in Bombay, which became the headquar-
ters of the company. Soon the Indian region was divided into three presidencies;
Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. Each presidency functioned by itself, but was an-
swerable to the Court of Directors in London.
The company cleverly followed a triangular trade. They exchanged English gold
and silver coins for Indian goods. They then utilized these in China to subsidize
the prices of commodities they bought there. With this system, the Company
earned huge profits and became richer.

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The Company however was corrupt and drained their profits. This increased
the need to collect higher revenues. Peasant landowners were forced to pay
their taxes in cash. They in turn approached moneylenders, who seized their
lands on their failure to repay the loans. There was widespread discontent and
anger.
In 1757, a military force led by Robert Clive defeated the army of the Nawab
of Bengal, Siraj-ud-daulah. With this victory, The Company was transformed
from an association of traders into rulers of a large, unknown land. From this
moment the British Raj was born.

By 1765, the Company had taken over Bengal. They also exercised the right to
collect revenues on behalf of the Mughal Emperor in Bihar and Orissa. Warren
Hastings, the Governor General of Bengal, consolidated the military victories
and established the fact that they were not answerable to the Mughals.
The British justified their rule by claims that there was a need for Indians to
be ‘civilized.’ They sought to replace Indian systems with a more reliable
method of justice, law and fair play. There were some religious practices that
the British banned, like ‘Sati.’
Over the next few decades, under the governor-generals, Dalhousie and Cannin,
the British took over even more territories. Their excuse was that the rulers
of these territories were corrupt or incapable or that they had no descen-
dents. Smaller Kingdoms like Sambalpur, Baghat, Jhansi, Nagpur and Awadh fell
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The British could not take over Punjab, as the Sikhs were a dominant force
under King Ranjit Singh. Punjab was safe from British invasion after his death.
After that the British forces started moving in, bringing an end to the Sikh
Empire. In 1839, the British seized Sindh, Karachi, Sukkur and Bukkur (all in
present-day Pakistan).

Fun With
Words
Unscramble
the Letters atsmoemr uaqcaem
to Name aglrilo arlgun
Species of
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Monkeys
Eka was a 4 month old baboon who had finally been allowed to start
coming down to play with the other baboons. She swung down from a tree
and landed with a thump in a bush. She saw something shiny sparkle next
to where she'd landed. What was it? It was
big and square and had all these little
buttons on it. A human must have left it
behind. She poked at a button and
there was a loud "click" followed by a
bright flash of light...

Complete 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?

Facts about Baboons

Groups of baboons are called troops, and a troop
can contain dozens to hundreds of members.
Baboons have loose cheeks which allow them to
gather food while foraging to eat later once they
return to an area of safety.
They are very strong animals and have sharp
canine teeth similar in length to lions.
The Guinea baboon is the smallest baboon species,
while the Chacma baboon is the largest.
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Help the Monkey Get the Fruits
and meet his Friend
 The Team

Editor Assistant and Copy Editor

Aryaa Naik Dalmiya Lavanya Khare

Content
Contributing Writers
Kaniz Fatima Khan Priyanka Garegat
Deepti Raavi Ekta Bhatnagar
Raunaq Amarnani Rituparna Chatterjee
Archana Rajagopal

Layout and Design

Walmik Pawar Artists
Kalpana Siromani Amol Padwal
Shailendra Havane
Sujith VS
Rohini Dusane
Bhavini Damani
Distribution

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Atul Wankhade
Digital Archana Rajagopal
Marketing Bharat Pillai
Dnyanesh Thombre Tushar Rokade

Prashant Kini
Shekhar Ramaiah
Creator
Jesh Krishna Murthy
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