Dimdima Magazine - December 2014

In this issue

December issue Highlights • NOBEL PRIZE: Laurel for Peace India’s child rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi, shares the 2014 Nobel Prize for Peace with Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai. • GOLDEN CLASSICS: When God Came Visiting Tolstoy’s touching story brings out the Christmas spirit of giving and sharing. • NATURE WATCH: TAKIN. The takin is an unusual animal with a wildebeest’s horns, a moose’s nose, a bear’s tail and a bison’s shoulders. • STORY: NATURE VERSUS CULTURE: This time, Saraswati helps Detective Imran to solve the riddle set by artist Yahya Mirza to decide the NGO which should inherit the million dollars from the sale of his painting The Pearl. • SPORTING LEGENDS: THE GREAT GAMA: Gama, known as the ‘Champion of India’, was the only wrestler who was never defeated even once in his entire career. • FIRST AND FOREMOST: MADE IN INDIA : Hindustan Ambassador, whose production was suspended in May 2014, has the distinction of being the first car to be wholly made in India. • HALL OF FAME: THE CONQUEST OF POLIO: Jonas Salk, who discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine, was born a hundred years ago. • BATTLES THAT CHANGED HISTORY : BATTLE OF KARNAL: The battle that turned out to be the death knell of the Mughal empire, paved the way for the rise of the Europeans. • COMICS: • Bawri the Witch — Fruits of the Modsiw Tree • Tom Bahadur — In Search of the Yeti • Adventures of Sindbad—Slaves of the Desert • Boomslayer, the Crocodile — Mind Power