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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 2018India’s GLORIOUS moments... FACTSON INDIA’S REPUBLIC

One of the most fascinatingaspects of the Republic

Day Parade is the 21-gunsalute to the President of

India. 21 cannons are firedafter a gap of about 2.25 seconds to

encompass the 52 seconds of thenational anthem. This happens in three

successive rounds of 7 cannons each

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Indian Constitution came into effect(officially into a legal circulation) onJanuary 26, 1950, at 10.18 am afterwhich India became a Republic

Before the Constitution was drafted,India followed British Government’sGovernment of India Act 1935

Indian Constitution is only cal-ligraphed and not printed. Only 1,000copies are written till date

The first Republic Day Parade wasorganised in 1955 at Rajpath

A song, ‘Abide With Me’, is played atthe Republic Day Parade. It is believedto be one of Mahatma Gandhi’sfavourite songs

The Republic Day celebrations endwith a beating retreat ceremony. It isheld on January 29 at Vijay Chowkwith the Indian Army, Air Force andNavy bands performing.

National Bravery Awards 2017National Bravery Awards 2017

They are young, but their courage will be the stuff of history books. Yes, we are talkingabout the 18 young bravehearts from different regions of the country, who fought dangerto win the National Bravery Award instituted by the Indian Council for Child Welfare(ICCW). They talk about their courageous acts, dreams and aspirations with PALLAVISHANKAR and NITYA SHUKLA...

NAZIA, 17 (AGRA, UP)

BRAVERY ACT: Challenged theillegal business of gambling andbetting in a locality of Mantoladistrict in Agra.

HER STORY: The gutsy teen col-lected evidences related to gambling inher neighbourhood and informed thepolice on July 13, 2016. Consequently,four people were arrested and the ille-gal gambling business came to an end.Nazia’s life was turned upside down

while fighting for this cause; shereceived threats to her life, could-n’t attend school and her familymembers were physicallyassaulted by the miscreants.

But she didn’t give up. Shetweeted to the state CM after

which action was taken and hersafety was ensured. Says Nazia,“I got the inspiration to stand upfrom my mother. I foughtagainst the odds and the restis history.”

Karanbeer Singh, 17(Attari, Punjab)

BRAVERY ACT: Rescued 15children from a school bus thathad plunged into a drain.

HIS STORY: Karanbeer Singhwas heading home along with other stu-dents when the school van carryingthem fell into a drain. Despite beinghurt, Karanbeer wasted no time andbraved the wreckage to pull out andsave 15 children from the flooding bus.A firm believer in God,Karanbeer says,“One should alwayshave faith in Godand do whateverone can to helpothers.”

NETRAVATI MCHAVAN, 14

(KARNATAKA)

BRAVERY ACT: Saved twoyoung boys from drown-ing, but lost her life inthe process. Shereceived the awardposthumously. HER STORY: An empatheticand brave Netravati Chavan

waswashing

clothes at a pondnear a stone quarry on

May 13, 2017, when twoyoung boys, Ganesh

and Muthu, took a dip in thedeep waters of the 30-feetpond. When Netravati noticedthat the boys were drowning,she jumped into the pond andpulled Muthu to safety. Thefearless girl then returned tothe pond to save Ganesh, whoin this chaos grippedNetravati’s neck and she suffo-cated to death. Ganesh also losthis life.

SanjayChopra Award

Bharat Award

Geeta Chopra Award

Betshwa john Peinlang, 12,Meghalaya, for rescuing hisyoung brother’s life from fire. Sebastian Vincent, 12,Kerala, for saving his friendfrom imminent death at a rail-way track. NShangponKonyak, 17, ManshaN, 14 and Yoaknei, 17, Nagalandfor saving the lives of two chil-dren from being hacked todeath by their father. Chingai Wangsa, 17,Nagaland, for saving an oldman from being burnt to

death. Zonuntluanga, 15,Mizoram, for saving his fatherfrom a wild bear’s attack. Pankaj Semwal, 15,Uttarakhand, for saving hismother from being attackedby a leopard. Nadaf EjajAbdul Rauf, 17, Maharashtra,for saving two girls fromdrowning. Pankaj KumarMahanta, 15, Odisha for savingthree women from drowning ina river. Mamta Dalai, 7,Odisha, for rescuing her friendfrom death by fighting a croc-

odile. Laxmi Yadav, 17,Raipur, Chhattisgarh, for foil-ing an assault on her by mis-creants. Samridhi SushilSharma, 17, Gujarat, for fight-ing robbers who had brokeninto her home and chasingthem away. LoukrakpamRajeshwori (Posthumous), 13,Manipur, for sacrificing her lifeto save two people fromdrowning. F. Lalchhandama(Posthumous), 17, Mizoram, forgiving up his life while savinghis two friends from drowning.

On January 26, 1950, India announcedits arrival into the world arena as a‘Sovereign, Democratic, Republic’ (theSocialist and Secular attributes wereadded later) when the Constitutionmakers gave us the longest-writtenConstitution of the world - a documentupon which our nation has beenestablished, constituted and governed.From 1950 to 2018, the country hascome a long way. It has evolved into avibrant constitutional democracy,made rapid strides in various sectorsand established its presence on theglobal platform in style. On thisRepublic Day, young India lists thenation’s achievements over the years...

While thewo rl dh a s

been talkingabout NASAand ESA, ourown ISRO hasbeen making rapidstrides silently over theyears. It announced itsarrival in the global are-na by successfully ac-complishing the Man-galyaan mission in thefirst attempt and thattoo, on a shoestring

budget! That’s not all.Thanks to our scien-tists, we have our ownGPS-NavIc. Also, we arehelping other countriesin placing satellites ona small budget. If allgoes well, it won’t belong before India leadsthe world in providinginformation on its nextmission to the sun,through ‘Aditya’.Rahul Ravi, class VII, NPSRajajinagar, Bengaluru

Indian SpaceResearchOrganisation

(ISRO) is set tolaunch the first

solar missionAditya-L1 in 2019. Itwill be our firstdedicated scientificmission to studysun.

The greatestachievementof the Repub-

lic of India is that wehave the Right to

Speak. From the PMof India to the common

man, everyone is treatedequally. Our democracy has

matured over the years, un-like some other nations which werefreed from colonial rule, during thesame time as India but have met witha different fate. Pakistan has be-come a police-state, so hasMyanmar, Afghanistan isin a state of disarray. De-spite voices of dissentand allegations of risingintolerance, India is ashining example of howthe will of a people canunify a vast nation.Rohan Mathur, class X,

Lilavatibai Podar High School,Mumbai

When In-dia gotits inde-

pendence in 1947,critics argued that

the nation woulddisintegrate due to

its various diversities.But WE the PEOPLE of

INDIA made this diver-sity our strength and are reapingthe results. Our economy has

grown from strength tostrength. From the WorldBank to foreign rating agen-cies, everyone has laudedIndia’s economic growth. In-dia is all set to become theworld’s fifth largest econ-omy. Our IT is one of the

biggest achievements.India has today become

the second largest ex-porter of IT services.

Soham Ganguly, class XI, AdamasInternational School, Kolkata

When web e c a -me a

Republic, ourConstitutionmakers ensuredthat women getequal rights just likemen and over theyears, Indian womenhave taken advantageof this right and bro-ken many glass ceil-ings. From politics tosports, armed forces toboard rooms, Indiangirls have made their

presence felt almosteverywhere. While theSainas, Sindhus, Dipasand the Phoghats aremaking us proud inthe sports arena,TessyThomas, India’s mis-sile woman, ChandaKochhar, SushmaSwaraj and many oth-ers are making usproud in other sectors. Kishnika Dhawan, classXI, Bhavan Vidyalaya,Panchkula

T herapid

growth ofmobile phones in

India is arguably thecountry’s greatest

success story.Economical telephoneconnectivity has empow-ered individuals from allwalks of life in myriadways — it has supportedvarious businesses by

reducing communica-tion costs. The service

offers the lowest callcharges in the world andhas the largest sub-scriber base. Smoothcommunication has liber-ated every Indian toprogress at their ownpace and make individualeffort in the nation’sprogress. Aditi Parida, class XII,APS, Ahmedabad

OUR MOBILEPENETRATIONHAS REACHEDEVERY NOOKAND CORNER

India’smobile marketis now biggerthan the US, andsecond only toChina. It is one ofthe fastest-grow-ing mobile marketsfor the next threeyears, according to GSMA

The Indian diaspora is the world’s largest, withmore than 15.6 million people from India livingoverseas. India is the largest cumulative troop

contributor, having provided almost 200,000troops in nearly 50 of the 71 UN peacekeeping missions

INDIA’S DIASPORA, A GLOBAL

ASSET

Despite criticism about the‘brain drain’ in this glob-alised era, India’s diaspora,

from the Nadellas to the Nooyis andthe Pichais have made the coun-trymen proud by showcasing India’stalent in the global arena, which isthe biggest achievement for a coun-try, that was once upon a time calledthe land of snake charmers! Moreimportant, our country has giveneveryone a fair chance to hold po-sitions of power in various fieldslike education, commerce, politicsetc, both in India and abroad.

Madhura Chattopadhyay, class X, MaterDei School, New Delhi

WE HAVEARRIVED...THE FUTURE

BELONGS TO US

FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS

OUR GREATESTSTRENGTH

WE HAVETOUCHED

MARS... SUN ISOUR NEXT TARGET

OUR GIRLS HAVE BROKENMANY GLASS

CEILINGS

WE ARE A POWER TORECKON

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