Just a thought occurred to my mind Why to have lavish lighting of this kind. Which can never ever supersede the beauty divine Of the wicks smeared in mustard oil shimmer and shine. Earthen lamps transport us back to our roots In pristine eco-system with glistening shoots. Emanating festive fume acts as a deterrent to…
Offbeat Kashmir
Travel Tale June2022 For quite some time it had been in my bucket list to join a group of women travellers. Browsing through the available groups on Facebook I came across Travel Bezzie which has an expertise of exploring unseen and not much treaded sights in different parts of the country. I found its announcement…
Miles to go !
History stands testimony to the ignorance of mankind,The girl child was let go right on birth with no mind. Science progressed but treatment to the daughter deteriorated,How brutally in the womb she was terminated. Gradually crept in transformation ,‘Save the girls’ campaign spread in the nation. Good times came; girls outshone the opposite gender,They even…
Open Up!!
“मुबारक हो लक्ष्मी हुई है!” यह सुनते ही स्नेहा ने आंखें बंद कर ली। खामोशी की लहर सी दौड़ गई। मानों सब की उम्मीदों पर पानी फिर गया हो। एक दूसरे से नजरें चुरा रहे थे। लेकिन स्नेहा के अंदर तो एक जंग ही छिड़ गई थी, “नहीं कभी नही!! कभी भी नही अपनी बेटी…
Keeping Quiet
MCQs A. For once on the face of the Earth let’s not speak in any language, let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines, we would all be together in a sudden strangeness. i. The poet uses the word “let’s” to…
An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
Q1. Multiple Choice Questions based on an extract. A. Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces. Like rootless weeds, the hair torn around their pallor: The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paper- seeming boy, with rat’s eyes. The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease, his lesson, from…
Deep Water
Multiple Choice Questions based on an extract A. My breath was gone. I was frightened. Father laughed, but there was terror in my heart at the overpowering force of the waves. My introduction to the Y.M.CA. swimming pool revived unpleasant memories and stirred childish fears. But in a little while I gathered confidence. I paddled…
The Enemy
Multiple Choice Questions based on an extract. A. The man moaned with pain in his stupor but he did not awaken. “The best thing that we could do would be to put him back in the sea,” Sadao said, answering himself. Now that the bleeding was stopped for the moment he stood up and dusted…
My Mother at Sixty Six
Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last Friday morning, I saw my mother, beside me doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a corpse and realized with pain that she was as old as she looked but soon put that thought away… i. Choose the option that best applies to the given…
Vistas : The Third Level
Multiple Choice Questions based on an extract A. Sometimes I think Grand Central is growing like a tree, pushing out new corridors and staircases like roots. There’s probably a long tunnel that nobody knows about feeling its way under the city right now, on its way to Times Square, and maybe another to Central Park….