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Hubballi: A young school teacher in the backward Hyderabad-Karnataka region has silently been encouraging children to write for the past 10 years by bringing out an in-house magazine. The tabloid was limited to my school for three years and later spread to other schools in the taluk and district. The non-profit magazine is circulated among children and teachers of several schools across the state.‘Mandara Kannada’, a Kannada quarterly, is a 16-page magazine published from Malkapur, a small village in Maski taluk of Raichur district. The teacher’s job is commendable,” he said.Ravichandra said the tabloid has been converted into a magazine. Gurupadayya Swami, a 7th standard student at the school, said he wrote four poems and essays and it encouraged him to be a writer..