Mrs. Reeta Baruah Class Teacher of 8 A had asked the students to write a three-minute speech on what they wished to be when they were grown up. They need not speak on any particular profession but could speak of someone whom they would want to be...
Sher Singh Bahadur (the father) .. He is the quintessential jungle man - gritty, valiant, defiant, and adventurous. He knew the ways of the jungle animals well. The countless encounters he had with the beasts had left deep scars all over the...
The story is set in Afghanistan. This cursed country has been embroiled in coups, big power rivalry, internecine warfare, internal strife, and religious chauvinism for a very long time. The unending conflict has plagued the country for nearly 50...
Introduction .. This short story bristles with subtle humour. Writing with an intention to amuse the reader, the story mixes comical expressions, moralizing, and self pity to weave a story around a friend's failure to repay a loan of just one...
The story revolves around the enduring friendship bond between Jumman Shaikh and Alagu Chowdhary. The two were very good friends living in the same village. Neither any discord, nor any rancour ever blemished their friendship. When one went out...
To the west of Washington Square, there is a quarter that has a maze of narrow winding streets which can easily confuse a stranger. The streets crisscross so frequently that a bill collector on his errand would curse himself to find that he has...
In the seventeenth chapter of my novel, Pratap Singh was jumping off the high balcony of the jailhouse at this time, with Kanchanmala, into the river below in the dark of night. Stopping her game abruptly, Mini ran to the window which overlooked...
In "The Bet," an idealistic young lawyer bets he can survive fifteen years of imprisonment. A banker bets him two million rubles that he can't. Imprisonment breaks the lawyer, however, and he walks out of his cell early so he can't collect...
I. (i) Tembu is the twelve year old son of Baldeo, a khalasi at a smallwayside signal stop. Tembu is lying in a corner of a hut nearthe station, with his father. He suddenly woke up in the nightand wondered if his father, who used to go every...
The king of Siam had a fecund wife whom he adored greatly. She bore him a good number of children - nine daughters and four sons in all. The daughters were the first to be born. The king had quite an inventive mind in the matter of naming his...
A Pirali Brahmin from Kolkata, his family is said to have emigrated here from its ancestral gentry roots in Jessore. Tagore started writing poetry from the age of 8. At 16 he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha...
No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The Ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flow'd over the Inchcape Rock; So...
The poem In the Bazaars of Hyderabad is a brilliant piece of writing by the Indian Woman poet Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949). To understand the context for writing this poem, you first need to know that Sarojini Naidu was a major political...
DEATH FOLLOWS A SOLDIER AT EVERY STEP OF THE WAY IN THE BATTLEFIELD. YET, A VALIANT SOLDIER LUMBERS ON, BRAVING THE ENEMY BULLETS AND THE INJURIES TO HIS BODY. DEATH OFTEN COMES SLOWLY INFLICTING EXCRUCIATING PAIN ON THE WOUNDED SOLITARY SOLDIER....
"The Professor" is a work of satire to Indian society and Indian English. The poem is a one – way conversation between Professor and a student. After a long time, they met. The Professor boasts about his sound health, his sons who are well...
Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village, though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen...
The poem A Doctor's Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 by Vikram Seth is very poignant. The poem brings out the extremely painful and tragic circumstances surrounding the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. As one reads the...
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say 'I love her for her smile – her look – her way Of speaking gently, – for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A...
The poem celebrates the undying spirit, optimism and the countless possibilities of the human beings' abilities. But, for the miracles of their dreams to happen, they must have the grit, resoluteness, and the will power. Through fantasy the poet...
"A Psalm of Life," by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), was once very widely read and just as widely admired. Today, however, the poem is often mocked for its allegedly incoherent imagery and its supposedly empty rhetoric....
