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2., h's School, Nawad, chedule from 18th Nov-27th Not, Teachers' Prayer, Activity, Invigilatotrs' enrty in the Examinat, First Shift Exam Commen, First Shift Exam e, Break, 5., fascinating shadows, You can hear mysterious, sounds of nocturnal creatures. The hooting, of the owl and the croaking of frogs add to, the sound effect. The fragrance of flowers fills, the air. People glide into dreams and wake up, when the first rays of the sun dispel darkness, at dawn. It is a new beginning., Natasha lives in a congested, pollution, whatever the hour of the day, The immensity of the nocturnal sky is lost to, that child. The moon pales into insignificance, as seen through the haze of polluted air. In fact, a child who has lived all its life in an apartment, block, from where all it sees is just a patch, of the grey sky, is unaware of the magic of a, moonlit night. Light is just a switch away, on, a big, part, city, a city that never sleeps. In fact, it comes, the wall. Night is just an extension of the day,, with nothing to differentiate the two. Artificial, illumination invades natural darkness. It is said, that even an ordinary 60 watt bulb reduces, dark-sky visibility by three or four degrees. This, generation has been deprived of the dark, starlit, sky; this generation is subject to light pollution., The seriousness of the problem becomes, evident from the satellite light maps of the, more alive after sunset when the city gets, transformed into a luminous place. Floodlights, eliminate darkness after six o'clock in the, evening. The flavours of city night never ebb;, the sky looks dark but dazzling city lights push, the stars into oblivion; the twinkling little stars, become almost invisible. Instead of shooting, stars, airplanes hoot through the night sky. The, noxious fumes of speeding vehicles pollute, noxious : poisonous, pales : seems less important, illumination : lighting, deprived : prevented from having, subject to : forced to experience, nocturnal : happening or active at night, congested: crowded, luminous: (here) very bright, ebb: decrease, oblivion : (here) the state of being unnoticed, evident : clear