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WELCOME

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LIBRARY

Kendriya Vidyalaya ,No2

Calicut-16

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MESSAGE

The pace of development in the filed of information technology is unimaginable .Our vidyalaya is always in the forefront to keep abreast with the changes. It is indeed a matter of pride that LEMA-Library E-Magazine is being released. It is a platform for our students to unmask their talent in literary field and can reach out to a wider audience .

Smt:Lalitha Ramachandran

Principal

PAINTING

SILENT SPRING @50 YEARS

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year.It changed the way people looked at the world and their own role in it. The book has been reprinted and translated into numerous languages. In 1963 in a historic five-hour-long debate the British parliament discussed the content of the book. The book created a new awareness on environment and inspired for numerous environment movement in different parts of the world. Due to public opinion American government was forced to ban DDT. Rachel Carson was honoured with America’s highest civilian honour –the Presidential Medal of Freedom ,Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, the Cullum Geographical Medal from the American Geographical Society, the Spirit of Achievement Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine etc. It is undoubtedly one of the landmark books of the twentieth century