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Once there was a cat. She had four new born kittens. They had made a house near a house where a little girl used to live; the girl was only 6 years old.
Once the mamma cat was going around with the kittens, and the girl in the house nearby was out in the garden. A car came in full speed, the girl was just looking at the kittens when she jumped to her feet and ran towards the kittens. She was just in time when she picked up all five of them, the mamma and the kittens. She went back in and put the kittens in the garden, then she asked her parents “can I please keep these 5 cats?” Her parents agreed they said “on one condition, you will have to take care of them”, “sure, why not” replied the little girl.
She made a beautiful home for the cats, and as she cared lots about animals so she did not make a cage or a very small place. As her brother had just gone to college, the cats could have a whole room to themselves and it would be good because it was a big room, and there was absolutely no furniture in the room so they could roll around lots. The girl had properly set up the place, one side there were 5 separate playing areas so that they don’t fight amongst each other, then on another corner there were 5 beds one for each cat, then there were five separate feeding bowels, etc.
Days passed by, the girl was 12 years the kittens which were now cats were 6 years old but even though the girl was 12 she still loved her pets and animals. Then the kittens grew and lived happily ever after!

There were once two birds, the two lived with their whole family. They lived on a tree for about 10 to 15 years and their family had grown very large, so they had made a huge house in this tree house. Every night people would come walking to the tree and look up at the birds. One day their cousin came to visit them. In the evening he asked them “Why are you all glowing?” The birds did not know what he was talking about. So he took a picture and showed them. The birds were shocked. So the next day they went to the bird doctor and the told their doctor about what happened and that we don’t know why but we are glowing. The doctor did some tests but could not figure out the problem so he told them “take me with you for a week and show me what you do, what you eat, where you live etc.”. The birds said “Ok”. So the doctor did his packing and went on his way with the birds to their home.

He stayed at their house for a week, ate what they ate, did what they did. And then at the end of the week, when he too had started glowing in the dark like the rest of them, he said that it is something in your food. We should try shifting to a different place to see if this problem goes away. So they went to another tree for a week. The people stopped coming to watch them in the evening so  then they thought that it was now safe to go back to their former home. So they went back to the yellow tree but then they again started glowing a few days later. It was so strange.

For a day or two they looked around to see what was wrong and they found out that in the house that was near the tree there lived a boy, and he wanted his house walls to glow in the dark. Every day he would go to the hardware store, get glow in the dark paint, put it on his walls then turned on all of the lights and look at it. But glow in the dark paint would glow only when it was dark not with all the lights switched on. The boy thought it was not working and throw all the remaining paint down in the mud and the glow in the dark paint would mix with the birds food and they would eat that food. That was how they started glowing in the dark.

So the birds called their  woodpecker friend and told him what all happened  and then asked him for a little help, the woodpecker replied “I will do anything”. So the two birds told him “could you please break all of the lights in this house over there?”. The woodpecker went and broke all of the light bulbs in the house. That day the boy had put more glow in the dark paint on the walls. At night when the boy tried to turn the lights on they were not turning on so he looked at the walls and they were glowing. He started dancing with joy.

As for the birds they finally turned normal again and lived happily ever after! (Though if you think about it the glow in the dark idea for birds does sound magical)

Ria has often spoken publicly at school functions so this was but obvious.

A couple of days back when I went to pick up Ira at school her class teacher asked me to wait. After all the children had left she told me that Ira had been selected to deliver the speech for Independence day and that I would need to write a few lines as well as prepare her. Ira of course was excited. Here’s the piece I wrote for her

Good morning and a very happy Independence Day to all. My name is Ira Khan and I will speak about Independence day.

1. For 200 years India was ruled by the British
2. We finally got freedom from British rule on 15 August 1947
3. Some of the well known freedom fighters who fought for out freedome were:
   Rani Laxmi Bai
   Mahatma Gandhi
   Sarojini Naidu
   Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
   Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
   Bhagat Singh

   Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Among many many others.

4. Today we are free thanks to the long and hard struggle of our founding fathers
5. Let us all come together to rejoice in this victory and celebrate the unity in diversity of our great nation India

Thank You

I tried shortening Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel to Sardar Patel and got roayally scolded by her “poora naam bol”!!! Lets see she needs to remember all of this as reading is not yet a skill she has.