No one wants war to happen. Nobody likes war. Soldiers too are human beings and do not want fights among the race. One should try to find out other sources and solutions to solve differences between two nations instead of wars. This is a story...
In tsunami Ignesious , the manager of a cooperative society, lost two of his children, wife and father-in-law as he could not get alarmed by the tremor. Sanjeev was a policeman. He jumped into the water to rescue his cook's wife, but they were...
During 18th century, British east India Company was extending its power in worldwide. That time Indian princes were fighting each other. East India Company subdued Indian princes one by one. During the period of 1765 to 1836 India had to witness...
There was a hill near the village. Seen from a distance it resembled a human face. People believed that the Great Stone Face used to bless the village with fertile land and overall happiness.Young Ernest wished the old story to come true. As per...
1. Why did the man stare at Bepin Babu in disbelief?Ans: As per the man, he had met Bepin Babu at Ranchi. The man stared at Bepin Babu in disbelief because Bepin Babu did not recognise him even though he was sure that he knew him and had met...
'The Summit Within' is a story of experiences of Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia, a member of the first successful Indian expedition to Mount Everest. Ahluwalia was full of humility when he stood on the summit of Everest. He thanked God for his physical...
The Great Stone Face, then, was a work of Nature in her mood of majestic playfulness, formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together in such a position as, when viewed at a proper distance, to...
Jody's father was bitten by a rattle snake, A doe was killed to save his life, fawn is left unnoticed, Jody was very concern with the fawn. He decided to bring it at home. He visited the forest when it was left and searched for fawn with facing a...
The monsoon enters India from east and south somewhere around mid of May. It reaches northern part of the country around second week of June. The monsoon ends around September. People take out umbrellas and raincoats, gumboots are repaired....
When normal people meet disabled people they tend to look sympathetic and give advice to have courage. The author was fed up of this attitude of normal people. He was apprehensive that some of the assistants of Professor Hawking may show same...
The Ant and the Cricket is a fable written in the form of a poem by Greek writer Aesop. A fable is a short story in which animals behave like humans and convey a message. The poem The Ant and the Cricket is a story of two insects – a cricket (a...
The Geography Lesson is a Poem that describes the poet’s opinion of the land below when viewed from the sky. He finds the world the less attractive from above and continues going above .
As the poet moves higher, he realizes that the country...
The poem is about a master criminal, who can defy and break any law. The poet calls him a mystery cat and the Hidden Paw. The poet says that he defies law again and again but he is never caught. Even the police and team of England have did not...
When the labourer was walking on the road, then king called the author and said that he would hire him together with his powers but he didn't like his agreement.
At mid-way author was wandering along the crooked lane than an old man came out...
The school boy is a poem which describes the attitude of a young school boy. The boy loves the summer mornings. He loves the singing of the birds on every tree. He listens to the blows and sounds of the clarion by Orion .
But he do not like to...
The poem gives an account of a conversation between a duck and a kangaroo. The duck praises the kangaroo for its ability to hop and visit places. The duck finds the pond boring because it has got to stay there forever. The duck requests the...
As a young architect, the poet visited Lyonnesse to supervise the renovation work of the church. The place was 100 miles away. It was winter and the leaves were covered with snow. He was alone and shaky. His only companion was the...
It may be a symbolic poem during which the grasshopper is a symbol of hot summer and therefore the cricket is of very cold winter.
Every poet has been attracted towards the sweetness of nature. John Keats is no exception to this and finds...
A 11 year old child named Vellu runs from home and reaches Chennai Central in Kanyakumari Express without a ticket. Without any money for ticket, he travels within the train, but luckily the ticket checker doesn't come to the compartment that...
All the animals began to work for Man, but the Camel lived in a desert because he was idle and refused to help. The Dog, the Horse and the Ox all requested him to join them for work, but he always answered “Humph!” The other animals complained...
Once a selfish giant welcomed the children to his previously forbidden garden and is eventually rewarded by an unusual little child. This magnificent new edition of Oscar Wilde's beloved tale tells the story of the selfish giant who built a wall...
Princess September is a story of a princess of Siam, which is now known as the Thailand. The king of Siam got a strange idea about naming his children. When he had only two daughters, he named them Day and Night, when 2 more were added, he named...
The story is about a boy named Ranji whoshifted to a new place. It was a hot day and he was walking in the forest as usual in his vest and shorts.While walking he discovered a pool in the forest with translucent water, smooth pebbles at the...
Mr. Framton Nuttel has just moved to a replacement town. While visiting one of his sister’s acquaintances, Mrs. Sappleton, he spends a while with the woman’s niece, Vera. Vera recounts a story about how her aunt lost her husband and two brothers...
An honest boy is on his way to school carrying money to pay the school fees. The sight of crisp, syrupy jalebis in the market excites him and the coins in his pocket begin to jingle. He yields to the sweet temptation and buys heaps of jalebis for...
Duttada was neither a scientist nor an astronomer. But star-gazing was his hobby. He used to spend long nights studying the stars. His one ambition in life was to discover a new comet. He longed for enough money to buy a good telescope and also...
Sir John Macpherson proposed to call a meeting of experts from all countries in a week’s time.James agreed with him though he thought it almost impossible to call the meeting at such a short notice.Sir John dropped James at his hotel.The...
Promodini was a little girl-child – attractive, deaf and dumb. Because her parents ran a guest-house, visitors turned to Promodini to talk to her. This caused unpleasantness. The narrator once happened to stay at this guest-house for a while...
'The Solitary Reaper' was written on November 5, 1805, and published in 1807 in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes. This poem is unique because while most of Wordsworth's work is based closely on his own experiences, 'The Solitary Reaper' is...
The story is told from the third-person point of view, limited in the opening paragraphs to the naïve perception of Mr. Nuttel, who is tricked by Vera's mischievous fantasy. Because the fantasy is so bizarre and inventive and totally unexpected...
The ant-lion is a very interesting little creature about a quarter of an inch long, whose principal occupation, as the name suggests, is the trapping of ants. It chooses a patch of soft sand on which to build the trap and then buries itself in it.
Night of the Scorpion is a poem that focuses on a single episode in the life of an Indian family. A scorpion has been forced by persistent rain to seek refuge inside, under a sack of rice. It ends up stinging the mother of the family, which...
Karma is a story of an aristocrat who tries to follow English culture and lifestyle. He feels uneasy about his culture, lifestyle, customs, etc. He has a wife who is an ordinary woman. He dislikes her because she fails to impart foreign culture...
The Tigers of Chowgarh were a pair of man-eating Bengal tigers, consisting of an old tigress and her sub-adult cub, which for over a five-year period killed a reported 64 people in eastern Kumaon. The tigress was attacking humans initially alone,...
As I mentioned in the lecture ive currently been reading an Isaac Asimov collection of short stories dealing with robots called The Complete Robot (I really Recommend it) while reading it I noticed a trend which actually is something that...
"The Inchcape Rock" is a ballad written by English poet Robert Southey. Published in 1802, it tells the story of a 14th-century attempt by the Abbot of Arbroath ("Aberbrothock") to install a warning bell on Inchcape, a notorious sandstone reef...
I’M GOING TO TELL YOU about a funny thing that happened to my motherand me yesterday evening. I am twelve years old and I’m a girl. Mymother is thirty-four but I am nearly as tall as her already.Yesterday afternoon, my mother took me up to London...
The story is about an eight year old Indian girl who is traveling with her pregnant mother and female siblings to her grandmother's house, and is told from the eight year old's perspective. The action of the story is pretty low-key: it tells with...
“Where The Mind Is Without Fear” is a pre-independent poem in which the poet sincerely urges to God to awake his fellow beings for the realization that the essential need to live in a free and united country. He wants his countrymen to awake and...
