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My Grandmother: A Versatile Lady The thin line between light and darkness

If you see me walking with an old lady with lovely, When Jim boarded the plane, little did he know that this was going to be an amazing adventure. Jim had just got past all the airport
straight, silver hair, then recognise her as my security and like any other teen, he was clicking some pictures to upload on his social media account. He had already made a break-
grandmother, Pallavi. She was born in Surat. She has through and had shattered all records in gaining followers. He had gained 56 million followers in a month!
had several dogs before I was born. She has two With a soft thump, he sat on the seat number '7B' in Business Class. He was lucky to be the son of a rich businessman. He glanced into
children, my father and my aunt. My grandmother the blank screen of a small rectangular device. He watched as a reflection of him stared back at him. He could see his blue eyes, his thin
religiously naps in the afternoon. One look at the lips, and his black hair. He put his phone away as the pilot's voice boomed through the speaker, “Ladies and gentlemen, your plane is
scrumptious food she makes, is enough to make one's about to take off, please buckle up as we might face some turbulence on our way to Miami today.” The plane taxied on the runway. The
mouth water. She enjoys reading, watching television, engines revved to life. Jim found himself, travelling at a hundred and fifty miles an hour. He felt the wheels retract and the plane leaving
and playing board games. She is loving and cares for me. the earth. And, all of a sudden, everything looked small. “Goodbye, New York!” whispered Jim in excitement.
My grandmother was an excellent stage actor and The cars looked like toys, and the building looked like Lego skyscrapers, and the people looked like ants. He giggled and stopped gazing
participated in a very popular play at the time. She loves out of the window and looked at the tiny monitor fixed on the seat ahead of him. Hmmmmm. That was strange. The plane should have
cricket and hates missing a match. She is never strict been at the altitude of fifteen thousand feet, not five thousand feet! Anyway, he decided to ignore it. Seconds later, he felt the plane tilt.
“Oh Blimey!” he heard the bloke seated in front of him say. Jim was pushed back in his seat. The plane was suddenly ascending at a quick
with me, and she is always very kind.
pace and was speeding up too. A few minutes later, the screen showed an altitude of twenty thousand feet. Jim felt the pressure drop,
Ishaan Mody his legs buckled and his eyes closed. The sudden increase in altitude caused him to black out.
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Shivering, Jim got up, hugging himself for warmth. The screen showed a hundred thousand feet - the highest a passenger plane had ever
gone! Suddenly, Jim had a thousand questions. Who was maneuvering this plane? Why were the pilots flying the plane so high? Who
करोना A Futuristic Ford Pinto had approved of this? Was this even legal? The plane suddenly stopped ascending and started onto a steep descend. He was thrown
back. He hobbled to his seat and strapped in. Yet again, he blacked out.
करोना आया, करोना आया Just as they got to the edge of town, the car started making a terrible clunking WHOOSH! He felt as if he was spinning in circles. It was as if someone had put the plane in a blender and had turned the blender on. He
सबको चता म लाया। sound. tried to see his location, but there was no signal. Then the phone screen went blank. He frantically tapped the phone and cursed under
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his breath; he should have charged it when he had the time. There was no time to waste. He glanced at the screen. It was flickering. He
म मी बोल ं हाथ धो, 'What's happened to the car? We had it serviced only two months ago!' Mrs. tried to read the location. He squinted and read out loud, “The Islands of Bermuda”. He read those words in utter horror. He stumbled
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पापा बोल बाहर मत जाओ, Green exclaimed. 'I don't know. Maybe this sound will go away,' Lydia Green back with shock. But before he could make another move, there was a blinding flash and the plane was swallowed by an insidious abyss.
दाद बोल ं गरम पानी पयो। replied. Just then, the car came to an abrupt halt. 'Oh Bother!' Mrs. Green said. That leaves me with a baffling question, 'What was that swirling dark matter and what happened to Jim?'
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सह लय क याद आई पर, The Greens were a family of three - Mrs. Green, and her two daughters, Dorothy, Ranbir Dhall
मल न पाए। and Lydia. Their father had passed away a year after Lydia's birth. Both the girls
कल न जाओ,खलने न जाओ, took after their mother. All three had chestnut brown, wavy hair, and similar
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घर को ल ाउड बनाओ। features. Mrs. Green and Dorothy's eyes were a lovely bright blue, and Lydia's Place value rap
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घर का वा द ट खाना खाओ, were a pale green.
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भरपर प रवार क साथ पल बताओ। Their car was a second-hand dark green Ford Pinto, the kind you would find in the Place value has value
करोना भागो, करोना भागो, seventies, which they had bought at an outdoor car sale. It had green plaid seats, So, you better not forget it
दल करता अब बाहर जाओ। and a musky scent. It also had a lot of extra buttons, which the previous owner 42,061
seemed to have somehow added to the model. They had decided to leave those 1s for the ones 6s for the tens 0 for the hundreds
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buttons alone, as they weren't sure what they did. Please don't forget!
'I'm going to check if the problem's outside,' Dorothy said while getting out of 2 for the thousands
the car. Mrs. Green re-started the car, but it didn't move. Dorothy got back in and 4 for the ten thousand
said, 'Nothing looks wrong from the outside'. Then, everything happened in a Put this in your head and don't forget
fraction of a second. EVA GUPTA MYRAH GUPTA Place value has value
And if they ask you what's the place value Remember what we said
Mrs. Green pressed one of those extra buttons and the car lurched forward. It
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made a creaking sound as the wheels turned horizontally to face the ground. Please don't forget!
There was the sound of an airplane taking off, and suddenly the car was air- Place value is important
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'Aaaahhhh!' all the three occupants of the car screamed, as the car shook and Place value has value
rocked around in the air unsteadily. It soon regained its balance, but it didn't go And if they ask you what's the place value Remember what we said
back to the ground. Dorothy who was rather scared of heights, was green, and 42,061
the others were white. 'What did you do mother!' shrieked Lydia, three octaves And that's when we come to an end.
higher than usual. Mrs. Green was busy hitting every button she could. She found
a green one and hit it. As fast as the car had gone up, it went down, hitting the Shanaaya Badani, Sia Agarwal, Swaraj Kurrve, Dev-Arjun
ground with a sickening thud. VRUSHTI JOSHI Bhimjyani, Shourya Mehta, Vrushti Joshi, Vihaan Saxena
'What was that?' Dorothy whispered, still green. Just then Lydia found a piece of
paper tucked away in a little cabinet one of the buttons seemed to have opened.
It read: Prevent Global Warming: Protect the Snow Leopard.
NAVYA THALI ‘I have devoted my entire life to modifying this car. I have always loved cars, and a The Snow Leopard is an elusive animal. However, it is slowly but surely getting extinct. The factors affecting it are climate change, human
car that could fly and swim has been my childhood dream. People thought it was vs animal conflict, poaching, and habitat loss. They are being poached for their fur, which is used to make coats and other items. Also,
आबा impossible, but I found a way to make it happen. I showed my designs to many people lay traps for musk deer, whose musk is effective in treating some diseases. But sometimes, the snow leopard steps into these
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necklaces of death, and the traps snare and kill the poor cats. It would be wrong to say that snow leopards are the ones to blame as we
great engineers, but they all rejected it, saying it was out of the question, so I built
it myself. Alas! I shall never get to test it. I wish that someday, my technology will are the ones who are causing global warming. The ice caps are melting, and it is becoming easier to grow crops at high altitudes. The
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make it into the world, and change it for the better.’ - Benedict Amford Black. snow leopards, very confused with these happenings, don't know what not to hunt. They hunt the villager's livestock, and the villagers
लागत कती गोड. clobber them. The villagers are also hiring gunmen to shoot down the poor and helpless beasts. There are an estimated 4,080 to 6,590
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Immediately the Greens called a tow truck, and the car was carefully led to a
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आह फळांचा तो राजा, snow leopards left in the world. They are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). However,
science center. There, the engineers were amazed by the technology, and its
आ ण आवडता माझा. WWF are making predator-proof pens for livestock. It prevents the retaliatory killing of snow leopards. They are also working with local
mysterious creator, a man who was clearly ahead of his time. The Greens were communities to implement human-snow leopard-friendly habitats. In conclusion, we must try our best to not cause global warming and
खाऊ आमरस – पर , rewarded a handsome sum of money and a brand-new car.
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नाह तर नस याच फोडी. let the snow leopards once again rule the mountains!
Ipshita Somani Vihaan Saxena
Navya Thali
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