Children’s Column

Achievement

Master Akash Malla, a Class VI student of Inderprastha Public School, Delhi bagged Ist Prize in the School 

Long long ago, there was a king, who was a very noble man. He looked after his subjects with love and care. He had a counsellor, who was very cunning. He was well paid by the king, yet he would not miss an opportunity to cheat the king for his selfish ends. The Counsellor had a servant, who would perform all the household chores and cook his meals too. The Counsellor always had a five course meal and so did his servant.

 One fine day the king learnt about the misdeeds of his Counsellor and thus terminated him from service. The Counsellor returned home and at dinner time he instructed his servant to switch over to one course meal henceforth. The servant complied with his master's wish. 

  It was a pleasant morning, the counsellor decided to go for an outing to a nearby village. It was lunch time when he returned home. He was very hungry and walked straight to the kitchen. On reaching the kitchen, he was shocked to see his servant relishing a lavish five course meal as usual. The Counsellor lost his head and asked his servant, why he  himself had not followed his instructions for one course meal.  The servant very curtly replied, "Sir, it is you who has lost the job and not me."

Komal Zutshi, New Delhi
Age 12 Years

On the 19th of August, 2001, Sunday, my family and I went for a meeting of Kashmiri Pandits' Association. The purpose of the meeting was to hold a contest for children. The contest was held in a big hall at Kashyap Bhawan. As I was participating the first time, I was very nervous and I had butterflies and worms in my stomach. There were many contests. They were as follows:

• Story Telling and Recitation. 
• Quiz 
• Elocution 
• Reading Devanagari Kashmiri

Ruchika Dhar, Colaba
Age 9 Years.
 
 

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