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Letters from India

Here are some of the topics covered by our students in Mumbai, India :

Gandhi

Hello!

Here is a letter from us on Mahatma Gandhi. "Mahatma" means "Great soul". Please share it with all your classmates.

Bharti

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Dear Friends,

Today I am going to tell you about " Father of India " , Mahatma Gandhi . His full name is Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was born on 2nd October ,1869.

From early age, Gandhi was very truthful and honest. After passing his matriculation examination he went to england and became a barrister. Gandhi went to south africa for a legal case.

there he found the Indians being ill-treated by the whites. Gandhi fought against this injustice. He had to bear a lot of hardship and cruelties at the hands of the Europeans. But he bore them no ill will or malice. But at last he was successful. He taught Indians how to fight injustice without creating bitterness. His method was called "Satyagraha". It was the method of non-violent resistance.

Satyagraha means insistance on truth and justice. It demands that injustice should never be tolerated. It means that one should stick to one's just demands and try to persuade the opponent to accept these demands without using any physical force or violence and without losing one's self control.

Then he return to India. He fought against the British government for the freedom for our coutry. At last he won freedom for us. He gave us the message of truth, non-violence and love. He taught us to have complete faith in God. He died on january 30th, 1948. Not only India , but also the whole world lamented over this great loss.

Brinda (girl)

Currency

Dear Friends,

Our currency is in rupees and paise. We have coins and notes as currency. We have coins of 25 paise, 50 paise, 1 rupee coin, 2 rupees coin, 5 rupees coin. In notes we have 1 rupee, 2 rupees, 5 rupees, 10 rupees, 20 rupees, 50 rupees, 100 rupees, 500 rupees notes. The short form of rupees is Rs and of paise is Ps.

1 rupee = 100 paise

1 U.S.A dollar is of Rs 40 in India

We have different colours and shapes of our currency notes and coins . Our 1 Re [Re - rupee, Rs - rupees] note is the smallest & our 500 Rs note is the biggest in size.

Please tell me about your currency.

Bye, Brinda (girl)

School

My school name is Ishwardas Haridas Bhatia English Medium School . In our school there is a big play ground . Our school has many classrooms on the first, second and third floors . On the ground floor there is the madam office, computer room , haed mistres office, hall, canteen, technical work shop .

There are over 3000 studants in our school . In our school we have classes starting from nursery, junior KG, senior KG, standard 1 up to standard 10 . In each standard we have divisions like A,B,C and D .

I am in standard 4 C. In my class room 51 students are there . There are 21 girls and 30 boys .

My school is made up of bricks and cement .

We wear uniform and black shoes to school . Our uniform is cream shirt and brown pant . The girls wear cream blouse and brown pinafore . This is the uniform for english medium school . The gujrati medium students wear white and gray uniform . The pre-primary children wear white with red dots shirts and red shorts or skirts.

Hemang Jesrani (boy)

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Today I am going to tell you about my school .

My school's name is Amulakh Amichand Bhimji Vividkalakshi Vidyalaya - secondary section . We have primary section also. It's name is Ishwardas Haridas Bhatia . We have English medium and also Gujarati medium school.

We have three floors and more than 40 rooms . We have 2 computer rooms , video room , typing room , libary room , fret work room, carpenter room , N.C.C room , Art room ,carft room and music room . We have 6 staff room and we have hall - it's name Samatabai Hall.

Our school staff is more than 50 teacher . We have 6 principals [heads of Eng/Guj Secondary/Primary/Pre-Primary schools] in our school. In our school there are 3000 student. Sunday and saturday we don't have school but 8th to 10th Std we have morning school on Saturday.

Our school time is from 12.30 pm to 5.25 pm of secondary section , and our primary timing is 7.20 am to 11.40 am and our pre-primary timing is 9.00 am to 11.00 am.

We have many subjects in our school like English , Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Maths, Science and History and Civics and Geography . We also have Physical training , Art and Craft and we also have value Education period -in this period we do meditation, we tell news, stories, proverbs and debates .

Our school uinform is brown and cream in colour. For girls there is cream shirt and brown pina form. For boys, cream shirt and brown half pant and from 8th to 10th Std, we have full pant.

Amisha (girl)

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We learn many subjects in the school like Geography, History, Civics, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Maths, Science and English. We learn Hindi because it is our national language. We learn Marathi because we live in Bombay which is in Maharashtra state, and Marathi is the state language. Gujarati is my mother tongue. How many languages do you learn?

We also have to wear uniform that is cream colour shirt and brown colour pinafore. The boys wear brown colour shorts or trousers.

Ruchi (girl)

Cricket

Hello!

Chirag has written all about cricket which is the national sport of India.

Bharti

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Dear Friends,

I am going to tell you about cricket.

In cricket there are two teams and in each team there are 11 players. Their are two normal empire and one third empire.

Then there will be a toss between two captain. The captain who wins the toss will elect batting or bowling, then they will play the match.

For making the batsman out there are many tricks. We can make them out by making them bowled or runout. If the batsman runs for taking a run and if the fielder hits the ball on the stump and if the stumps and bails fall down then it is said that the batsman is out.

If the batsman hits the ball and if a fielder catches the direct ball then also he is said to be out.

There are in total 100 overs in the whole match. Each teams have to do bowling till 50 overs or less than that. In 1 over, there are 6 balls. There should be 5 bowlers and 6 all rounder in each team. Each bowler has to ball for 10 overs.

In cricket they wear white colour uniform and they wear helmet, legpads, gloves and hand pad to protect themselves from season ball.

A seasoned cricket ball is made up of wood and leather. If it hits us it is than very painful.

The most famous country in playing cricket are INDIA, PAKISTAN, SRILANKA, SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, WESTINDIES and ENGLAND.

My favourate batsman and bowler is SACHIN TENDULKAR.

Your friend,
CHIRAG SHAH

Mrs Bharti Shah is Co-ordinator of the Computer Centre.
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