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Admin The Dear Departed by Stanley Houghton Complete summary of the drama ‘The Dear Departed’ included in the CBSE Class 10 book Interact in English – Literature Reader. The story centers around the loneliness and neglect many people contend with in their dotage. The subject dealt … Read more
Kapil Dev by Sunil Gavasker In this short biographical account, Sunil Gavaskar, a cricket legend himself, chronicles the rise and rise of Kapil Dev from a budding player to a cricket icon, admired and adored by millions of Indians. The path of Kapil Dev from … Read more
Air pollution : A Hidden Menace Answers to short questions 1. What accident took place at Bhopal in 1984? Ans .. On December 2, 1984, lethal methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal leading to a deadly disaster. Thousands perished … Read more
Developing a story – 1 Creative Writing – 26 Learn how to develop a story skillfully. Important for ISC and ICSE students. Opening lines It was the last class before the summer vacation. We heard the rumbling sound of bulldozers and earth movers approaching our … Read more
George Orwell Bookshop Memories When I worked in a second-hand bookshop — so easily pictured, if you don’t work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios — the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity … Read more
Precis (Summary) Writing – 3 Creative Writing – 25 Write the precis of the following passage The passage [253 words] For centuries, people have been playing kicking games with a ball. The game of soccer developed from some of these early games. The English probably … Read more
Vocabulary Exercise – 14 English Skill Building – 14 Learn six new words and phrases with practical examples Animus After long parleys between the upper and lower caste communities in the presence of the social activist, the animus between the two communities has reduced dramatically. … Read more
Birches by Robert Frost Robert Frost (1874 –1963) was an American poet having his roots in New England. He loved Nature with great passion. He would walk in the countryside for long hours reveling in the small things he saw along his path – the … Read more
Dover Beach -Explanation stanza-wise By Mathew Arnold Introduction .. Mathew Arnold had written this poem possibly some time towards the middle of the nineteenth century. It was published in 1867. The Dover Strait in the English Channel separates the United Kingdom from France. Dover is … Read more
To Build a Fire by Jack London About the author .. Jack London was an outdoor man. Many of us would recall reading ‘The Call of the Wilde’ in our early school days. The brush with the beauty, and the boorishness of Nature that outline … Read more