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Activities 4 u:





      BE wiTH BOOkS!
                                                                CARE AND SHARE YOuR BOOkS
      LiBRARY LEARNiNG                                          Share your books with:
                                                                •  Your friends
      Write about a library in your region.                     •  Your  younger siblings
      Visit the library and write about the
      books that you found there.                               Donate your books to:
                                                                •  Libraries
      Some interesting libraries –                              •  Orphanages
      Anna Centenary Library in Chennai is one of the oldest    •  Needy students
      libraries.                                                Find out more ways in which you can care for and

      Saraswathi Mahal Library  in Thanjavur  has a rare        share your books.
      collection of various palm manuscripts in different
      languages.
      The Connemara Public Library in Chennai has 770,000
      volumes of books and 160 newspapers.
      Rampur Raza Library has an enormous collection of
      17,000 rare manuscripts, 205 handwritten palm leaves,
      and over 5000 miniature paintings.
      david Sassoon Library,  Mumbai  preserves  more  than
      35000 books.
      Mussoorie Library is the oldest literary landmark in this
      hill station founded only 17 years after the town itself.
      Sayajirao  gaekwad Library  in  Varanasi  is  the  Central
      Library of BHU and is patterned on the British Museum.
      Maabia bi, Vi b, sunway sr. sec. school, rampur; syed rizwan Mian, iX   Illustration by: Sneha Singh, VIII A, Scholars Home Sr. Sec. School, Dehradun
      b, greenwood senior secondary school, rahe raza, rampur; s. sumaiya
      Fathima, Xi, royal Park Matric hr. sec. school, salem; g. Poorguthali, Vii C,
      little scholars Matric hr. sec. school, Thanjavur; harshita rai, Vi a, sunbeam
      school, annapurna, Varanasi; P.M. harshini, ii a, Veveaham Prime academy
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      CROSSwORD                                                  3
      Across                                                                              4       5
      1.  Every year on 5th September, you remember me as a                                   6
          great teacher                                            wHO                7
      3.  The first female teacher of India, I worked towards
          women’s education                                        AM i?
      7.  They call me Kautilya and I wrote the Arthashastra
      8.  Called the Missile Man of India, I was a scientist and
          your president
      down                                                          8
      2.  They called me ‘Vidyasagar’ and I am known for my
          Bengali writing                                         I love to bury
                                                                   myself into
      4.  Known for philosophy, my birthday is celebrated as        books!
          National Youth Day
      5.  I founded the Arya Samaj and the Anglo-Vedic schools
      6.  Gitanjali, Santiniketan, and our national anthem will
          remind you of me


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