The Young Chronicle: For 4th Graders 24th May, 2015 | Page 2

Maggi Nahi Chahiye Mujhe Abhi
We all love Maggi noodles, don’t we? In
fact the noodles have
been instrumental in
satisfying our off
time hunger pangs. Be
it in picnics, hostels,
travel to offbeat locations, or just generally after getting
back from play, we
have all savoured these noodles, bothering
little about what they
actually contain.
A test initiated by
the UP government at
Kolkata's National
Food Laboratories, indicates that Maggi
contains Mono-sodium
Glutamate (an Amino
Acid) and 7 times

more lead as it should contain.
Lead is highly toxic and excessive presence of lead in Blood
can lead to lead poisoning,
which can lead to severe physical and mental impairment in
children. Mono Sodium Glutamate is a taste enhancer and is
used in many canned and processed foods. Although it
doesn’t have much of a taste
itself, it overexcites your cells
causing brain damage to varying degrees and potentially
even triggering or worsening
learning disabilities and causing diseases like Alzheimer’s
disease, Parkinson’s disease,
Lou Gehrig’s disease and more.
Many countries, like the US
permit the use of MSG to certain degrees, but it is banned
in India.
A Maggi Packet clearly states
that it contains no Mono-

sodium Glutamate. In fact Nestle India claims that the government pulled
out a near expiry pack of Maggi and
tested it. Such packs are usually recalled by the company so that they are
not circulated in the market. It has
declared that it will investigate the
matter and has already given some
packs for testing too.
Currently, the Mumbai and Gujarat
government has also called for testing
of Maggi packs. While we wait and
watch what happens to our beloved
brand and product, it is strongly sug-

Enclava– The Newest Country
By Angad Madaan

The world welcomes the newest
country which is the size of a backyard. After Yugoslavia broke, several problems arose in various parts.
It was because of the economic, social, political setbacks, the country
got divided into smaller nations. These nations held their
own elections for their individual interests. However, when the
countries broke, a number of
areas between the borders
were left unclaimed, being
termed as ‘No Man’s Land’.
There is an Oscar winning movie by the same name.
Enclava is built on one such unclaimed territory. The founders of
Enclava plan to create a community
from which people would be able to
choose 5 languages. These languages would be English, Polish,

Slovenian, Mandarin
and Croatian. More
than 5000 people have
applied for the honourable citizenship of
this country. However
there are no plans to

accept this country on
the world map. Enclava measures just
100sq mts in area, just
the size of a backyard
or front garden. It has
been proclaimed as

the smallest country. Its founder has
claimed that it has the right to exist because it has been established on the land
claimed by neither Croatia nor Slovenia.
Piotr Wawrzynkiewicz , one of the founders said the idea was to create a place
where everyone would exist regardless of
any sort of discrimination.
I strongly believe that these virtual nations are just posing a threat to the already threatened 'World Peace'. Newer
nations are very small in size, they have
no population and would invite tensions
from the countries they border. Moreover,
creating a system in a virtual nation is by
no means going to be easy. My suggestion would be that such land which is a
discovery of the internet, and is gathering
citizens from across the internet, be rested as a responsibility of the United Nations.