From My Heart -MeghKatha

  25/May/2025 at India International Centre During my summer vacations, I had the opportunity to meet Paul Nurse, a Nobel laureate.  Paul Nurse is an English geneticist, former president of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute.   He was born on  25 January 1949, in Norwich, United Kingdom. Paul Nurse shares the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt. They were given the prize in 2001, for discovering key regulators of the cell cycle. Paul Nurse was also awarded the Copley Medal in 2005. His work also aided in the scientific understanding of cancer. He visited India this summer, and I got the  opportunity to sit through a talk. It was very informative, throughout the talk he tried to answer a vital question : What is life? From his own insights, to fun facts, his talk was an eye-opener to the understanding of life. He explained how genes are  acquired...

                                                My First MUN Experience MUN or Model United Nations is a practice to know more about how the UN or United Nations works. It is a discussion between parties to find solutions on a common problem.  For my first MUN, I took part in the Conference Of The Parties 29 or COP 29. It took place from 9th august 2024 to 11th august 2024. I was very excited but since this was my first time attending a MUN, I had no idea of how to start preparing. I participated in a few training sessions, and got the big idea behind it. Here are some points that can help you understand the MUN process better.  There are three parts to a MUN, which are General Speakers List, Moderated Caucus and the Unmoderated caucus. The General Speakers List or the GSL is a list of delegates (students representing the parties) who wish to give their speec...

For my summer vacations, me and my family went to Darjeeling! It was a joint trip with my mother's school friends along with their families. I made new friends and my mother had fun meeting her old friends. We stayed at Lamahatta for two nights. We saw monasteries and churches. We also visited the famous Ghum station and saw Darjeeling's famous toy train, constructed by the British. This train is called the toy train as it it smaller in size. We also visited The Mall Road of darjeeling and shopped at the stores there. We also saw the Chowrasta, it means four roads. One of the oldest store there is the Oxford Books And Stationary. We had lunch at Glenaries, well known for its baked goods. For three nights we also stayed at a homestay right in the heart of Darjeeling. We visited Loyd Botanical garden and saw different types of cactuses and Orchids.We also visited the Darjeeling Zoo and saw many types of animals such as the great bengal tiger, the Siberian tiger, Firefox/red panda...

  Through different ages and eras, the basic human needs have remained the same, but the way we fulfil  them still changes. In the Indus Valley Civilisation the need of architecture was fulfilled differently than today. 3300-1300 BCE was the time when the Indus Valley Civilisation thrived. They built perpendicular and well-planned streets which ran through the cities. Now we have highways, flyovers, expressways and more. These new forms of roads were probably built as when time passed by, humans became more busy and spread out. They need proper roads and transportation to get to different places, this introduced highways and flyovers, to get around faster. Houses in the Indus Valley were made of interlocking, baked bricks. In the present era we use brick, metal, and even glass! This change occurred as now humans have a abundance of materials like glass and metal, to use it all we started making structures and buildings. As a result this started the classification of modern and...

                                                      The Dancing Girl The statue of the dancing girl is a very interesting artefact made of bronze using the lost-wax method. It is from the Indus Valley Civilisation (3300BCE-1300BCE). This statue could have been made by a craftsperson who did metal work using the lost-wax method. Maybe the craftsperson was fond of dancing or the people of Indus were fond of dancing, and maybe the statue depicts a famous dance step. Maybe bronze was not common in places like Mohenjodaro, Pakistan as only two small figurines were found there. The lost-wax method is still used today in some places of India. Many tribal folk dances have found their way into the present as well. Bronze work today is popular among places like Assam. This statue fulfils the need of self-expression through...

  I love reading books, meeting different authors and illustrators has always been a source of great excitement for me. I had the opportunity to meet Nikkolas Smith, an American contemporary artist, illustrator and activist, who was visiting our school. Murals painted by Nikkolas Smith raise awareness about social issues and promote social change.   One of the most famous books he has written and illustrated is the book "The Artivist". It talks about a small boy solving social issues by paintings.He also helped create pictures in the movie "Black Panther: Wokanda Forever".  When Nikkolas Smith came to our school, he talked about how even us kids can make a change in this world. Then we all made drawings of the social issues we witnessed, and discussed why it is important to stop these issues. I was really inspired by the speech and hoped to make a difference in this world some day as well.