Young Novelist of India

We spend our time so hard in studying school books that too we bend, roll back, cry, and carry all types of emotions to study on exam time. For studying school syllabus itself we fight with our books, just imagine on reading other books. Reading or studying is the bitterest part for most of the school going kid. But Harshita Magdum, a 12 years old eccentric Bangalore girl, owns the proud title of Young Novelist in India. She is a student of Delhi public school.

On her twelve years she has released two Novels “Ruby Rush” and “Almost Desperate” which was written by her. On her interviews to media she says that reading a lot of books is her passion she has tremendous collection of books as books are her wealth. She doesn’t forget to visit major book stores at least thrice a month and makes the store owner to call for new releases.

Harshita started writing novels at her eight years. Before that she used to write poems, short stories and all. She loves to write Science fiction novels. And now she is on process in writing a novel on Vampire as she is so crazy to write about vampires a lot.

Her parents supported her and encouraged her to write more. Her dad Basavaraj R Magdum is the backbone of her reading habit. Her mom Shivani motivates in Harshita’s attempt.

To release her 1^st novel “Ruby Rush”, none of the publishers were ready to accept her works as she is too young and hesitated to invest money in publishing her novel. So her parents took risk on their own money and released the book.

So Kids, am writing this article just to motivate you to read more and write more. Learning through your life will not make you down. Studying your school syllabus is to grow up your knowledge, but reading other general books like magazines, novels, General knowledge books will enrich your intelligence. Make it as a habit to buy at least two books a year and let the number of books grow gradually. And gift good and interesting books to your pals so that you can develop the reading habit of them.

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A Bank Owned by Street kids

Kids from most of the family spend money lavishly without knowing the value of money. On the other side street kids from Delhi, India started a private bank on their own. The bank named “Children’s Development Khazana (treasure) was started at 2001, now running successfully with 9000+ homeless clients. The bank was just started to save and protect the hard earned money of vagrant children. No matter on how much money the client has in the account, but the bank follows a very strict regulation of the root cause of the money earned like where and by what source the account bearer earned the money. Cash earned on illegal means like selling drugs and by begging are not allowed in the bank.

The employees in the bank are volunteers who go to school or work on day time and work for the bank at evenings. Two elected volunteers work are managers whose high level responsibility is to main and track the cash record books and to deposit the money in regular bank.

Now it’s a full fledged bank that offers an interest rate of 5% and offers loans for emergency needs like medical use and school fees pay depending on the borrower’s payment record. The bank is running with twelve branches and 12 lakh deposits, and affiliated branches is on other parts of Asia like Nepal, Bangladesh, and Srilanka...  

I am not insisting to start a bank compulsorily; if you wish to start with your friend’s gang you can atleast with small numbers. But my intention of this post is the reader who reads this article can start to save your parents hard earned money.

And Let us give huge cheers for the children who run the bank. 

Symbol of Indian currency

Who designed the symbol for Indian currency?

In our homes daily at least once we ask money from our parents, “Appa 50 ruppees kodu naan notebook vanganum” or “Amma 100 ruppees kodu school functionku kodukanum” like this need for money starts from a school going kid to old age people.

Money floats on everyone’s hand, But children do you know that our Indian money has got a symbol recently? If you know that do you who designed the symbol for Indian currency? Am going to tell you about the details of these things on this post. Ok let’s go on to the topic in depth.

Indian government organized a contest to design the new symbol of Indian currency on March 2009. Then the Finance minister Pranab Mukerjee submitted the designs on 2010 Union Budget. Out of top five shortlisted designs, the symbol designed by Darmalingam Udhay Kumar, post graduate student of IIT Bombay got selected.

Indian currency known as Rupees and code INR and now its new symbol `. This symbol was presented to public by Indian government on 15 July 2010. Before this adoption we used  symbols like Rs, Re like that.

This new sign is a combination of the Devanagari letter "र" (ra) and the Latin capital letter "R", with a double horizontal line at the top.

Some facts about Indian currency:

• The first "rupee" is believed to have been introduced by Sher Shah Suri (1486–1545), based on a ratio of 40 copper pieces (paisa) per rupee.

• Word rupee was derived from Sanskrit “raupya” meaning silver.

• Each banknote has its amount written in 15 languages. On the obverse, the denomination is written in English and Hindi. On the reverse is a language panel which displays the denomination of the note in 15 of the 22 official languages of India. The languages are displayed in alphabetical order.

• Security thread - All notes have a silver security band with inscriptions (visible when held against light) of Bharat in Hindi and "RBI" in English.

• Watermark - White side panel of notes has Mahatma Gandhi watermark.