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Vol. 18, No. 7, July 2013 o"kZ 18] vad 7] tqykbZ 2013

Editor / laikndManas Ranjan Mahapatraekul jatu egkik=kAssistant Editors / lgk;d laikndx.kDeepak Kumar Guptanhid dqekj xqIrkSurekha Sachdevalqjs[kk lpnsoProduction Officer / mRiknu vf/dkjhNarender KumarujsUæ dqekjIllustrator / fp=kdkjPartha SenguptaikFkZ lsuxqIrPrinted and published by Mr. Satish Kumar, JointDirector (Production), National Book Trust, India,Nehru Bhawan 5, Institutional Area, Phase-II,Vasant Kunj, New Delhi-110070Printed at Pushpak Press Pvt, Ltd. 203-204, DSIDCShed, Ph-I Okhla Ind. Area, New Delhi.Typeset at Nath Graphics, 1/21, Sarvapriya Vihar,New Delhi-110016

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Contents/lwph

/kuh [ksr] jaxhu vk¡xu MkW- vferkHk 'kadj jk; pkS/jh 2Operation Mouth Manoj Das 5

,d oiQknkj fe=k o`{k ,oa lkfcj [kku 7tkfgy nksLr bulkut:jr gS vuU;k eksgu 9A Zoo for Phuki Dash Benhur 10

pyrk iRFkj eqds'k ukSfV;ky 13A Gentle Clock Prabir Kumar Pal 15

A Festival of Reading for Children 16

lisQn dcwrj dkeuk flag 18The Great Indian Bano Sartaj Kazi 20Mathematical Wizard

vuks[kh ltk ckxku ljdkj 22fdlh dks Hkh NksVk u le>ks jf'e dkUMs;kax 24A Trip to Moon R.N. Kobra 25

ikik] dc vkvksxs\ eqds'k 'kekZ 27The Dinosaurs Sudha Puri 28

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Readers’ Club Bulletin July 2013 / 1

India will be the FocusCountry in the AsianFestival of Children’sContent (AFCC) 2014at Singapore. Organisedannually by the NationalBook DevelopmentCouncil of Singapore(NBDCS), this is one ofthe major events ofchildren’s literature inthe world. The decisionto project India as theFocus Country in AFCC 2014 was takenin the Board of Advisors’ Meeting ofAFCC on 28 May 2013 which wasattended by, amongst others, ManasRanjan Mahapatra, Editor of NBT’sNational Centre for Children’s Literature.

Malaysia was the Focus Country forthis year’s AFCC held at the NationalLibrary Board, Singapore from 24- 29May 2013. The Malaysian show includedan Illustrators’ Corner, several interactivesessions and talks by authors, editors andillustrators, book launch programmes,exhibition of children’s books, a RightsTable and a Malaysian Cultural Evening.

The Indian show in 2014 will project

India as the Focus Country at AFCC 2014

the contemporary Indian publishing andauthorship for children as well as the stateof children’s literature in the country ina multi-cultural and multi¬lingualsituation. The AFCC 2014 is scheduledto be held at National Library Board,Singapore from 30 May-4 June 2014 andwill have more than 150 sessions onvarious aspects of publishing ofchildren’s contents. The Indian stand inthis year’s AFCC showcased more than100 select children’s books. Theoverwhelming response for Indianchildren’s books is expected to increasemanifold in the AFCC 2014 with Indiaas the Focus Country.

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Operation MouthManoj Das

Long long ago there was a king who hada good old minister. Never had a kingknown a wiser minister.

But one day the minister told the kingthat it was time for him to retire. He mustdevote his last days to plenty of dozingand snoozing.

It so happened that the minister hadthree young sons, all of whom lookedequally bright and dutiful.

“If retire you must, my dear friend,then let me choose one of your sons tosucceed you. It should be the eldest one,I suppose; what do you say?” the kingasked his minister.

“That depends, my Lord, on whatyou expect of your minister. If you wantdaredevil, my eldest son, no doubt,should serve you well. If you want aclever man for the position, your choiceshould fall on my second son. And if youwish to have a man of truth, my youngestson should suit the post best,” replied theminister.

“How can you be so precisely sureabout the characters of your sons? Canyou prove your opinion about each ofthem to be correct?” demanded the king.

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“I hope, I can, my Lord,” replied theminister.

“Really, I would like you to do that!”said the king, growing quite curious.

“Very well, my Lord,” said theminister after a pause. “I will give onesingle instruction to all the three. Let ussee the way each one works it out,” saidthe minister.

He then summoned all his sons intoa room. The king watched them from ahidden alcove.

“Listen, my sons,” said the ministerin a tone that was as grave as a tiger’sgrowl. “At the centre of the royal gardenstands a very special rose plant. I wanteach of you to go and pluck a rose eachfrom it. Take your mission seriously. Ishould warn you of one danger thought.Plucking flowers from that particularplant is strictly forbidden. If you arecaught, you ought to be able to escapepunishment by using your mouths – Irepeat – your mouths only.”

It was twilight. The sons bowed totheir father and took leave of him. Theyentered the garden and stealthily


approached the tree. But no sooner hadthey plucked the roses than they werecaught by some alert guards.

The eldest son at once gave out apiercing cry and bared his teeth in a bidto bite the hand of the guard who caughthim. The frightened guard loosened hisgrip, allowing the young man to makegood his escape.

The second son threw the rose intohis mouth and pretended innocence.

But the youngest son remained calm

and let himself be led to the king.

“I know, my Lord, that it wasforbidden plant. But I had no doubt inmy mind about one thing: when youknow that it was your wise minister whohad asked me to pluck the flower, youwould feel convinced that that there mustbe some very sound reason behind it,”the youngest son told the king.

“See, my Lord,” said the minister,“each of the three, when caught, had usedhis mouth, for I had instructed them to

do so. But each one had doneso in his own way, accordingto his nature. One has usedit violently, one has used itcleverly, and one has used ittruthfully.”

The amused king smiledand said, “Right, my dearminister, but all the three areworthy in their own ways.Your eldest son can becomeofficer in the army and thesecond one can serve as myadviser. But your youngestson, the wise one, shouldstep into the position you arevacating.”

( From NBT Publication:

A Bride inside a Casket andOther Tales)


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A Zoo for PhukiDash Benhur

There was a small kingdom in the middleof an enormous desert, ruled by a kingwith gigantic moustaches. He wore ahuge silk turban on his head; a long,gleaming sword hung at his waist and onhis feet were pointed nagra shoes set withprecious stones. He had a jewelled ringon each of his ten fingers and a long, thickrope of pearls around his neck.

The king had only one child — alittle girl. She was as soft as a flower andas bright as gold. Her eyes sparkled likeglass marbles and her lips were like rosepetals. She was the apple of his eye.

His love had spoilt her and made her

stubborn. Whatever she wanted she hadto have it at once, or she would get into asulk, refusing to eat or speak. She wouldbe bubbling with laughter at one momentand boiling with anger at another. Buther father never wanted to see her sad.He would do anything to make her happy.Her name was Phuki.

The king had got all kinds ofwonderful toys for Phuki from every partof the world. There were piles of bookswith shiny covers for her to read – storybooks, song books, picture books.

Phuki loved to read books.Sometimes she would roll with laughter

as she read a funnystory. She wouldpick up a book andrun to her father andread out to him astory she hadenjoyed. The fatherand daughter wouldthen have a heartylaugh together. Butshe would crybitterly if a storywas sad, or get intoa dark mood and sitquietly.


And so Phuki passed her days –playing, laughing, singing and roamingin her garden. Sometimes she wouldjabber away to her father and he wouldlisten to her fondly.

Among the books that Phuki readwere books about animals. All kinds ofanimals – tigers, lions, giraffes, zebras,chimpanzees; books about birds andfishes and snakes and insects. They allhad beautiful coloured pictures showingthe creatures which were beingdescribed.

Reading these books she fell in lovewith the animals. She wanted to see allthe animals that she had read about, butunfortunately there were no animals inthe desert country where she lived – onlya few rats and lizards.

“Father, I want to see thesewonderful animals that I have beenreading about,” she told her father. Atonce the king summoned his primeminister “Look here!” he ordered theprime minister. “The princess wants tosee all the animals whose picturesappear in her books. Make arrangementsat once for her to see them all!”

Now, what the prime minister woulddo? It wasn’t possible to take the princessto all the countries where these animalswere to be found. Neither were there anyzoos where she could see them. Finally,

he hit upon a plan.

The prime minister sent word to allthe famous artists in the country. Whenthey arrived, he told them to paint largepictures of animals. The pictures were tobe so life-like that one would feel thatone was really looking at animals insidea jungle.

The pictures were painted. The primeminister told his servants to get a longstrip of paper and paste the pictures overit, one after the other — the bear afterthe tiger, the leopard after the bear, andso on. The strip of paper was woundtightly around a big wooden drum.

The drum was placed inside a largewooden box and a handle was fitted tothe box. When the handle was turned, thedrum inside the box would rotate and thepictures pasted on the strip of paperwould appear one by one.

The prime minister’s men made anopening in the front of the wooden boxand fitted a piece of thick glass in theopening. If the viewer put his eyes closeto the opening and turned the handle, hecould see the animals through the glasslens.

The animals would appear one byone, look at the viewer and disappear.They were completely life-like. No onecould imagine that they were looking atpictures, not real animals.


Phuki was delighted and she clappedher hands with joy. “Father!” she asked“How did you get all these animals insidethe box?”

The king looked at the primeminister.

The prime minister said to Phuki,“Your Highness! This is a new kind ofmagic. We call it ‘science’. When youwill read all your books, you will alsolearn this magic!”

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“Your Majesty!” the prime ministersaid to the king when everything wasready. “All the arrangements have beenmade. The princess can see all theanimals that she wants to see, right herein the palace. She need not go anywhere.”

Phuki and the king stood in front ofthe wooden box, close to the lens. Theprime minister himself turned the handle;the wooden drum began to rotate and thepictures of the animals could be seenthrough the glass lens.


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A Gentle ClockPrabir Kumar Pal

A Lock and a Clock lived together in ashop. But the Lock did not like the noisemade by the Clock. One day the Lockgot annoyed with Clock and began toinsult him and said, “You have nomanners. You always make noise. Icannot sleep because of you. Stop makingnoise or I shall kill you with my ironhands.”

The Clock was very gentle. He saidpolitely, “My friend, if I stop working,your life will also stop.”

Hearing this, the Lock grew veryfurious and shouted, “You are a liar. Mylife does not depend on you. On thecontrary, you are born out of me. Youhave taken the four main limbs of mine.They are ‘L’, ‘O’, ‘C’ and ‘K’. You haveonly a curved face of your own. I am thegiver of your life. Now stop yourclamour.”

It was midnight. The gentle Clockstopped running.

So the morning could not come. Themaster of the Lock did not come to openhis shop. He kept on sleeping.

As a result, the Lock becameextremely tired and his iron hands toobecame numb. He was about to die byhanging. He cried pitiously, “O! My dear

friend Clock, please help me, you liveabove my head. Please come down andlift me. Or I shall die.”

Now a lizard peeped out from behindthe Clock. He said to the Lock, “Youinsulted the Clock for nothing. You are abad man. Be tolerant with yourneighbours. His noise is very low.Besides, work is life. The Clock runs tobring rest for you during day-time and Iget food at night because of him.”

The Lock felt sorry for his mis-conduct. Now the Clock ran to save himand once again the morning came and theshopkeeper arrived to open his shop.

The Lock was freed and the threebefriended thereafter.

Purbagopalpur Primary SchoolP.O. Bhadrapur, Birbhum

P.S. Nalhati (West Bengal)


The NBT-Dharmshala Book Fair washeld at Police grounds, Dharmshala,Himachal Pradesh from 8 to 13 May2013 in association with DistrictAdministration, Dharmshala. Shri CPalrasu, Deputy Commissioner ofKangra inaugurated the Fair. He hopedthat the Book Fair would provide anopportunity to people of all segments ofthe society to glance through qualitybooks written by the eminent authors.The inauguration was followed by thecultural show by students of the LowerTibetan School which enthralled theaudience.

A number of events aimed atpromoting books, reading habit andcreativity especially among children,young adults and general readers wereconducted by the National Centre for

A Festival of Reading for ChildrenNBT - Dharmshala Book Fair

Children’s Literature, a wing of NBT.These included workshops, discussions,skits, interactive sessions and otherliterary and cultural shows.

A discussion on the topic Educationand Books organized in association withthe H P University Regional StudyCenter. Shri R.C. Kondal Director, H.P.Regional Study Centre was the chiefguest on the occasion. He was of the viewthat books are our best friends. A showon Reading Habit was organized inassociation with Maharishi Vidya Mandirand Lower Tibetan Village School. Adiscussion on the topic Interest in Booksin the Indian Culture was also held inwhich a large number of students frommany schools participated.

On the concluding day, apresentation of folk dance forms


‘Chamba’ and ‘Kulluvi Natti’ by thestudents of Dronacharya College ofNursing added colour to the Book Fairand mesmerised the audience. In theevening, a Poets’ Meet was also held.

Well-known authors, scholars,editors and poets who participated inthese events included Dr Arvind Jha, ShriNorge Teytin, Dr Shekhar Sarkar, ShriSusheel Kumar ‘Phool’, Prof. OmAwasthi, Ms Rekha Dadhwal, Shri Vijay

Kumar Puri, Shri Lalit Mohan Sharma,Shri Trilok Mehra, Ms Kanti Sood, DrGautam Sharma ‘Vyathith’, Dr PiyushGuleri, Dr Pratyush Guleri, Shri ManasRanjan Mahapatra, Dr Sapna, ShriLuvneesh, Shri Pramod Sharma, ShriVasudev Sharma, Ms Poonam Devi, ShriChandra Shekhar Rana, Shri RajeevTrigati, Shri Raj Kumar, Ms Ratna Kaul,Shri Navneet Sharma, Dr Jaya Pande, DrRajeev Sharma, Dr Yogendra Mishra, MsSailabala Mahapatra, Ms Saroj Parmarand Ms Asha Kumari among others.

In spite of bad weather, a largenumber of students, authors, scholars,journalists and people from all walks oflife visited the Fair. Apart from NBT,many other publishers and booksellersexhibited books at the Fair and booklovers showed keen interest in buying agood number of quality books which arenot easily accessible in this part of thecountry.


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The Great Indian Mathematical WizardBano Sartaj Kazi

Shakuntala Devi is known as HumanComputer, Mathematics Wizard etc. Sheis famous for her outstanding talent insolving complex mathematical problemswithout any mechanical help. She hasbeen rated as one in 58 millions for herextraordinary ability by one of thefastests super computers ever invented –the Univac 1108. She herself thought, ‘itis a God’s Gift – a divine quality’.

Shakuntala Devi was born inBengaluru on 4 November 1939 in aBrahmin family.She had no formaleducation but wasinterested in readingand writing.

She receivedlessons of mathe-matics from hergrandfather. Shemade complexmental calculationsas a child prodigy.She started showingher amazing qualityat the age of three,and demonstratedher skills in MysoreUniversity and

Annamalai University when she was five.Her father was a magician. Nobody

in her family was interested inmathematics. Shakuntala Devi used tosay, “None of my family showed anysigns of the same head for figures, noteven remotely.”

Shakuntala Devi was an astrologertoo. She has to her credit a book onastrology. Her passionate interest inexploring and expanding the learningcapacity of the human mind led her to


develop the concept of mind-dynamics.She had an ingenious ability to tell

the day of the week of any given date inthe last century in a short time.

She cast a spell adding a 16-digitnumber with another one and multiplyingthe result with an equal array of numbersfinding the cube root of the resultant andgave an answer in just about the timetaken for a wink.

In January 1977 at MethodistUniversity, Texas, Shakuntala Deviextracted the 23rd root of 201 digitnumber only in 50 seconds while thefastest computer of the world Univactook 62 seconds. Her correct answer was546372891.

In 1980, she multiplied two 13-digitnumbers – 7,686,369,774,870 and2,465,099,745,779, which was pickedat random by the Computer Departmentof Imperial College, London.She answered the question in just 28seconds. Her correct answer was18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730.This extraordinary achievement foundher a place in the Guinness Book ofWorld Records.

Shakuntala Devi has written manybooks. All these have world-wideappreciation. Some of the books are:● Puzzles to Puzzle You● More Puzzles to Puzzle You● Fun with Numbers

● In the Wonderland of Numbers● Mathability● Book on Numbers● Awaken the Genius in Your Child● Astrology for You● Figuring the Joy of Nature● Master of Game● Perfect Murder

Shakuntala Devi travelled around theworld with an aim to motivate the youngminds to discover the world ofmathematics and after that enjoying theworld of mathematics.

Shakuntala Devi’s mathematicaltalent was unique. She was known ashuman computer, but actually she wasmore than a computer. She was thecreation of God, while computer has beenmade by human being.

The great daughter of India, breathedher last on 21 April 2013. Her departurefrom this world to heaven can better bedescribed in the following Urdu couplet:Hazaron Saal Nargis Apni Be-nooriPe Roti HaiBadi Mushkil Se Hota Hai ChamanMein Deeda-var Paida.The couplet resonates the fact that a greatwoman like Shakuntala Devi is born inthousand years.

Former PrincipalJomata College of EducationOpp. Akashwani, Civil Lines

Chandrapur – 442401 (Maharashtra)


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A Trip to MoonR.N. Kobra

Once Neelu and all the pupils of a greatscience teacher asked him, nay, insisted,persisted and forced him to take them tothe moon. The teacher gave in and fundswere raised and NASA of Americaagreed to fulfill the desire of the childrenwho were eager to go to the moon.

The teacher along with his pupils gotinto a rocket. As the rocket launched, thechildren were so happy that they starteddancing with joy and sang songs.

The rocket darted off. They lookedat the earth below which very soonlooked like a map only.

The rocket landed on the moon.They all came out. One of the childrenwanted to speak something but he couldonly move his lips. The same happenedwith others. None could speak or hearanything.

The teacher connected them throughtransmitters and receivers and told them,“Dear children, there is no air, so there isno medium for sound to travel and henceyou can’t speak or hear anything withoutelectronic devices.”

Then the teacher said, “Neelam andRohit, go into the rocket and bring the


Moon Car.” Neelam said, “ Sir that istoo heavy for two of us to lift”. Theteacher said, “Don’t argue, go at onceand do what I say.”

Unwillingly, the children went andit was a big surprise for them that theycould lift and carry the Moon Car easily.

On asking how it could be possible?The teacher said. “Listen, the moon ismuch smaller than the earth. It is onlyone-sixth of the earth, so its gravitationalforce is also one-sixth of the earth. Theweight of the Moon Car is only one-sixthhere as compared to the weight on earth.On earth twelve children were needed tolift the car, whereas only two of you cando this here.” They all understood thephenomenon.

While walking here and there theyreached near a deep ditch. How to jumpover the ditch was a problem. The teacherasked them to jump it over but none coulddare. Then the teacher jumped it overwith almost no effort.

They all wondered at the big longjump of their not so young teacher. Heexplained that “due to less gravitationalforce any one can have a very big or highjump here as you are pulled down withless force.” They understood and all ofthem jumped over the ditch easily.

Sachin asked, “Sir, why is no livingbeing here?” The teacher replied, “there

is no air, no oxygen and no watertherefore no life. Since ozone layer is alsonot present here, the cosmic rays candestroy anything. But don’t worry youare safe in your capsule-suit.”

They also asked about a big planetthat was rising and setting. The teacherexplained that it was their own earthwhich looked so beautiful from themoon. The earth looked blue in colourbecause of big oceans.

The night there, was extremely cold.Even in the shade it was very cold duringthe day. The teacher explained that it wasdue to the fact that there was noconduction or convection of heat. So itwas extremely hot or extremely cold.

The stars looked bright. The teachertold them that it was due to absence ofdust particles and air.

Suddenly, Neelu heard a bigexplosion and was afraid that they wouldall die. In fear, her eyes opened and shefound herself on the bed. A boy hadcracked a fire-work as it was Diwaliseason. Although it was just a dream butNeelu was happy to have learnt about lifeat the moon. She wished, if the dreamhad been a little longer.

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The DinosaursSudha Puri

In the last issue, you read how Chitrabefriends her two stuffed toys, thedinosaurs, and tells them about someof the festivals like Bihu, Hola &Navratras that are celebrated in India.She asks them how they becameextinct. They tell her that due to badweather conditions their herbivorousand carnivorous varieties could notsurvive. Read next ...

“You mean, no photosynthesis ...,” saidChitra intelligently and thanked herscience teacher in her heart.

“ ... and may be, many other animalsmay have lost their habitat later, with thedevelopment of the apes into the man andhis indiscriminate cutting of the forests,”replied Hola in a serious tone.

“Oh, you know quite a lot for suchancient beings ... by the way, seeing youenjoying the fruits, I am guessing thatyou are herbivorous dinosaurs like theSuropods, Ankylosaurs, Stegosaurs,Hardosaurs ...”

“Orinthopods, Ceratopsians,Titanosaurs ...,” Hola added trying tohelp. “Yes and they too, and there is nodanger to me, because I remember

reading about the carnivorous dinosaurs,that they were very vicious and oftenattacked the herbivorous ones, takinggiant leaps or flying with their wing likestructures on their backs ...,” said Chitra.

“You need not be afraid of us...,” saidBihu a little unsurely, glancing at Hola.“Oh, so you are herbivorous?” Chitraasked again.

“Actually, yes and no,” said Bihuwith a naughty smile, “actually, hmm, ...we are ... we are the Orinthomimusvariety ...,” announced Hola assertively.

“But what does that mean?” askedChitra.


“Well, as you can see we do not haveprominent teeth and from a distance welook like your present times Ostrich bird,and our face resembles the beak of a bird...,” Hola’s shrill voice was cut short, asChitra interrupted.

“What do you mean?” asked Chitrafeeling a strange fear creeping up in heras she felt glued to her seat too near thehuge dinosaurs.

“You see we are omnivorous. We eatboth vegetables and the meat,” Bihu’schuckling voice trailed off as if goingvery far away.

Chitra felt as if she was shaking withfear and someone was calling out hername and she was unable to move and

she shut her eyes tightly, thinking doingthis would transform the real dinosaursinto the harmless toys.

She heard her Dadi muttering toherself, “how many times I have told younot to watch that animal programmebefore sleeping ... Chitra! Chitra! wakeup, you are moaning in your sleep ...”

Chitra woke up with a start andsipped the water from the glass that herDadi was holding for her. Her heart wasbeating fast. She got down from the bedand went in the drawing room. Thedinosaurs were in their basket. Sheclapped her hands in delight and theystarted laughing uncontrollably.

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Originally written in Odia, the book withillustrations takes readers to a journeyfrom Bhubaneshwar to Chandipur alongwith the characters — Gungun andThumuri.

Both sisters get excited when theirmother tells them that they will visitChandipur Beach near Balasore. Theirmother also provides them vitalinformation about two rivers that flowin Balasore, historical significance of theMallikashpur Village, KshirachoraGopinath Temple etc.

While travelling towards the beach,they come across cities like Cuttack,Bhadrak and Chandikhol. Gungun andThumuri ask endless questions andadmire the beauty of the nature. The

variety of flowers, trees, animals andbirds that they see on their way, makesthem happy and they finally reach theirdestination.

The author of the book has givendetailed information about the mostfavoured destination of tourists inOdisha. It is a useful guide for readerswho wish to learn about different aspectsof Odisha and visit Chandipur which isfifteen kilometers away from Balasore.

Let’s Visit ChandipurDr. Manorama Biswal Mahapatra

Bibhuddatta Dash (Tr.)

Jantak PressRs. 30.00

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