It is celebrated between January 21st and 20th February. Chinese New Year is also known as Spring Festival or Lunar New Year. This festival was traditionally a time to honor their ancestors. The Chinese perform Lion Dances, Dragon Dances, Fireworks etc.
In Thailand, a special three-day water festival on April 13–15 marks Songkran, the Buddhists' celebration of the new year. Parades feature huge statues of Buddha that spray water on passersby. In small villages, young people throw water at each other for fun. People also release fish into rivers as an act of kindness.
At Songkran, people tie strings around each other's wrists to show their respect. A person can have as many as 25 or 30 strings on one wrist, each from a different person. The strings are supposed to be left on until they fall off naturally.
Tet Nguyen Dan is a way of saying Lunar New Year in Vietnam, and it means, “the first morning of the first day of the New Year”. It is one of the most important festivals for the Vietnamese people and is a national holiday as well. The locals in Vietnam usually spend this day having a good time with family and friends.
Tet arrives on the first day of spring in Vietnam and is the busiest time in the country. So, in case you are thinking about travelling to Vietnam during Tet celebrations, you need to make your bookings early! Millions of travellers from all over the world visit Vietnam during Tet, and it’s a kind of reunion time for them meeting their loved ones.
Korean New Year is a festival and national holiday commemorating the first day of the Korean calendar, which originated from the lunisolar calendar. It is one of the most important traditional Korean holidays.
The celebration usually lasts three days: the day before Korean New Year, Korean New Year itself, and the day after Korean New Year. During this time, many Koreans visit family, perform ancestral rites, wear hanbok, eat traditional food, and play folk games. Children also receive money from their elders after performing a formal bow.
In September or October, Jews believe that God opens the Book of Life for 10 days, starting with Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) and ending with Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). During these days, the holiest in the Jewish year, Jews try to atone for any wrongdoing and to forgive others. A ram's horn trumpet, known as the shofar, is blown before and during Rosh Hashanah and also at the conclusion of Yom Kippur.
The small Pacific island nations of Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati are the first countries to welcome the New Year, where January 1 begins at 10 am GMT or 3:30 pm IST on December 31.
The uninhabited islands of Howland and Baker Islands, near the United States, are the last places to welcome the New Year. They ring in the New Year at 12 pm GMT or 5:30 pm IST on January 1.
C. Datta Vardhan Reddy, VIII
International Day of persons with disabilities is celebrated on 3rd December every year to mark the well-being of persons with disabilities from all the society levels and developments, and to spread perception of the situation of persons with disabilities into every aspect of life like political, social, economic and cultural.This day is promoted by the United Nations since 1992.
This day is celebrated in many countries by holding discussions, forums and campaigns related to disabilities and performances are also held in their local areas.
On international Day of persons with disabilities we can take a step forward and start helping people with disabilities by contributing a little, we can contribute few wheelchairs so that it will be helpful for disabled people in our local areas, and we can start encouraging persons with disabilities for what they are, because everyone in this world is unique. Being children we can support our disabled friends/children to come out of the disability and achieve everything for what they are capable because according to the report of UNESCO on 3rd July 2019, it was reported that three – fourth of the children with disabilities, from age 5 to 19 years do not go to any educational institute especially girls.
As the youth of the country, I think we have to make our community understand that such people do not have a disability but have a different ability.
- Prabhleen Kaur, VII
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Srinivasan Ramanujan was one of India’s greatest geniuses who lived his life through hard work. He is well known to the world because of his research work in the field of Mathematics. Ramanujan’s contribution to the theory of numbers has been profound. He was indeed a mathematical phenomenon of the twentieth century.
This legendary genius of India ranks among the all time great like Euler and Jacobi. He was born on December 22nd in the year 1887 in an Iyengar family in Erode, Madras which is known as Tamil Nadu.
His father was a clerk in a saree shop there and his mother was a housewife. Ramanujan suffered from smallpox in December 1889. In that year around 4000 people died due to this disease but Ramanujan recovered , maybe because he had to do such great work in mathematics that the world will always.
December 22 is observed as National Mathematics Day to honour the legendary mathematician.
The story behind the famous Hardy–Ramanujan number:
In Hardy's words -
“I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No", he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
Unbelievable !! Isn’t it ?
- Yashika Aggarwal, VII
The North Pole is located at the Northern end of the Earth.
North Pole’s temperature in winter is minus 40° Fahrenheit and in summer the temperature is minus 32° Fahrenheit.
In summer, the North Pole stays in sunlight all day.
Interestingly,in the North Pole there is no sunlight from early October. This darkness lasts until the beginning of early March.
The North Pole is surrounded by the Arctic ocean where the depth of the water is 13,400 feet deep.
The Polaris or the North star lies 434 light years above the North Pole!!
Only migratory birds such as Small Snow Bunting, Fulmar, Kittiwake and The Arctic Tern live in the North Pole.
Santa also lives there!!!!!
The South Pole is located at the Southern end of the Earth.
South Pole’s temperature in winter is minus 76° Fahrenheit and in summer the temperature is minus 18° Fahrenheit.
In summer the South Pole experiences 24 hours of sunlight.
South Pole winters are long and very cold with long dark nights that may last for weeks.
The South Pole is claimed by seven nations : Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom.
Can you believe that the sun rises and sets only twice every 12 months here!!!!!
Did you know that the South Pole is the best place to study Astronomy and Astrophysics because it has low temperature and humidity and high elevation.
In the South Pole only marine life survives. Some scientists visit the South Pole and conduct research for a short time.
Penguins live in the South Pole!!!!!!!
- Aditi Kripa, VI
Mrs. Sudha Chandran was born on 27th september,1965. She is a famous classical dancer and has participated in various programs. While returning from a program with her parents, she met with an accident. She hurt her leg when she was 16. The doctors discovered that gangrene (loss of tissue) had formed on her right leg and had considered that amputation was required. Sudha remained in a state of shock. However, she gained her confidence and began walking with the help of wooden legs and crutches.
After six months of amputation, she read in a magazine that Dr Sethi has started manufacturing artificial legs. Her confidence and desire for dance were revived by her father when he took her to Jaipur to meet Dr Sethi. He examined Sudha's amputated leg and assured her that she would walk again. An artificial leg made of aluminium was manufactured for her. An arrangement was made so that not only could she walk comfortably but she could also dance. This was a new challenge for her.
She began practising walking with her artificial leg. On meeting success, she tried to dance as well. Dr Sethi was impressed by Sudha's willpower. Observing the requirement of her dance, he arranged for a new leg. Once she had mastered all the dance positions, she waited for an opportunity. After three years of her accident she got a chance to perform on January 2, 1984.
This was important to her because she was considered to be a proficient dancer. When Sudha reached the stage, she forgot that her leg was artificial. The audience was astonished to see her perform on stage once again.
She has won awards such as Nritya Mayuri and Nav Jyothi.
Instead of finding worthlessness in disabled people, let us respect them, love them and support them.
My learning is -
Will power and desire when properly combined makes an irresistible human.
- KEERTHANA, VII
