Malala Yousafzai - Advita Chauhan

Advita Chauhan, a 7-year-old girl, strongly believes that education is every child’s right. She is a follower of Ms Malala Yousafzai and considers her as her role model. She thinks that with courage, any battle can be won. On the birthday of Malala Yousafzai, she is presenting a short story in her words.

- Courtesy Nibbrati Rathore is an educator at the Gyanshree School, Noida. She is a Life Members and volunteer on the National Training Team of Learning Forward India.

Kindness and Happiness - Laxman Parmar

Within my 17 years of birthday celebrations, I felt like changing my usual way of celebrating this time. Instead of wasting money on cakes and cold drinks, I went to an ashram in Sheoganj, where I found many aged people with some mental issues. I felt pity for them, but I had the last idea about the reason for their mental issues.

Diverting my mind from the sadness, I decided to give them a short phase of joy. I did my cake cutting and served food to all of them, and was overwhelmed on seeing the joy on their faces as it was perhaps their first time they did the birthday cake cutting with someone.

After all the celebration, I received so many expensive gifts from them in the form of kind blessings, then I had to leave them with a goodbye and some beautiful lifetime memories.

Laxman Parmar

Class XI, The Fabindia School

Take Responsibility of Your Actions - Raviraj Singh Sonigara

The pandemic period has forced everyone to stay in their house. Due to this, there is the storage of food materials. So, the price of food materials is also increasing. The poor people cannot buy this expensive food material, their condition is terrible. 

I would like to share an incident that took place with me on 10th March. When I felt bored during the daytime, I came and sat near the window and gazed outside. Suddenly I caught sight of a beggar sitting in the shade. Expressions on his face showed that he was hungry, so I decided to give a food packet and a water bottle to the beggar. After some, sometimes I went outside to give the packet of food and water to the beggar. When the beggar saw me, he tried to cover his face with his clothes and asked me to stand away from him. This thought left me overwhelmed. I put the packet of food and water and watched from my house to see what he was doing. The beggar got up, cleaned the place, washed his hands, took the packet and thanked me. He sat down under the tree and had his food.

I was happy that even he was also showing his responsibility towards his country and maintaining social distancing. I would like to end by quoting, 'The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility he must assume for his welfare and security.’

Raviraj Singh Sonigara

Class IX B

The Fabindia School

Happiness and Me - Susan Marandi

 "All these kids are icebergs; we only see the tip." -a character in the show Castle.

We all are like icebergs; people only see some qualities and a part of us. But how many of us know our real us, our real side? Very few or none of us know 100% of ourselves, but there is nothing wrong with that. If you don't know what you are passionate about, it's ok. If you don't know what your talent is, it's ok. You at least have to give it a try to show the real you to the world and, most importantly, to yourself. Because that is what gives happiness to you. And that's what really matters.

Something I wonder about. . . . .

What if life is a dream and death is the end of that dream. When you wake up, you realize it was all a dream, and you have another chance to live and correct the mistakes you made in your dream. And have another chance to fulfil every dream of yours. It might be wonderful, right? But this won't happen in real life, so fulfil and achieve every dream of yours in this life and live every moment as if it's never gonna come back.

                                                                                                                       

Susan Marandi

Class 8

The Doon Girls' School, Dehradun

Courage - Rishabh Sheikh

I believe that one of the solutions to overcome fear is to develop courage. Courage is the mental and emotional preparedness and ability to deal with difficult, challenging, and sometimes seemingly impossible circumstances. 

Courage is a highly prized virtue, and many famous and respected people have spoken or written about it over the year. We probably all have an idea of what we mean by courage or bravery, as it is sometimes known.

I learned that courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man is not one who does not feel afraid; he is ready to face it.  

Rishab Sheikh

Class III

The Fabindia School 

Don't Judge Me - Rahul Vaishnav

I don't need the army,

I have my sword,

Please don't judge me, 

You are not the lord,

One day I won't have a single but collection of ford,

Your thinking for me won't make me frown,

Your vibes won't let me down,

Beware, I'm coming for my crown.....

Rahul Vaishnav

Class XII

The Fabindia School

कोरोना काल में सेवा - भावेश चौधरी

कोरोना काल में सेवा

मेरा नाम भावेश चौधरी है। 21 मार्च 2020 सम्पूर्ण भारत में लॉकडाउन हो चुका था। धीरे - धीरे कोरोनावायरस देश दुनिया में अपने पैर पसार चुका था।स्काउट गाइड में होने के नाते मैंने अपने गांव में दो महीने ड्यूटी की। सब के घर घर जाकर पैसे इकट्ठे किए और उन पैसों से कपड़े के मास्क बनाए। फिर हमने 5500 मास्क बनाए और घर - घर जाकर मास्क वितरित किए। साथ ही सबको कहा कि जब भी आप घर से बाहर निकलेंगे तो मास्क पहनकर निकलेंगे। हमने कुत्तों के लिए बिस्किट और गायों के लिए चारा की व्यवस्था की। उसके बाद मैंने बैंक में भी ड्यूटी की थी। बैंक में 2 मीटर की दूरी बनवाना, एक-एक करके अंदर जाने देना आदि निर्देश देते थे। हम सुबह 7:00 बजे से लेकर शाम को 5:00 बजे तक ड्यूटी करते थे। मैंने लुणावा ग्राम पंचायत में भी ड्यूटी की और वहां पर भी हमने कोरोना के गाइडलाइन का पालन करवाया। हमने हमारे गांव में सैनिटाइजर का उपयोग करना बताया।

लुणावा में कांटेश्वर महादेव मंदिर के पास एक घर था, वहां पर एक व्यक्ति पॉजिटिव आया था। उनके घर वालों को हमने खाने का सामान, पानी का टैंकर आदि की व्यवस्था करवाई थी। उसके बाद हमने बाली में ' नो मास्क नो एंट्री' की रैली में भाग लिया और सब दुकानों पर कोरोना जागरूकता के पोस्टर लगाए जिससे लोग जागरूक हो सके। हमने आलू और पूरी भोजन की व्यवस्था करवाई और पैकेट बंद करके गरीबों तक पहुंचाया और इस तरह से हमने इस मुश्किल घड़ी में जरूरतमंदों की सेवा की।

Bhavesh Sirvi

Class - X

The Fabindia School