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The Need for Excellence by N.R.Narayana Murthy About the lesson .. Having pioneered the IT-based entrepreneurship in India, and taking his venture Infosys to dizzy heights that employs lakhs of young men and women and brings in billions of dollars through IT Exports, Narayanmurthy is … Read more
Decoding the Newspaper About the lesson .. For a vast majority of us, newspapers is the first the port of call we visit each morning as we prepare ourselves to face the world from our homes, offices and work places. The convenience of the newspaper … Read more
A Lesson My Father Taught Me About the author, Abdul Kalam.. It’s doubtful if any other Indian in living memory commands as much adoration as A.P. J Abdul Kalam. He has departed from this world, but in the psyche of every Indian young and old … Read more
Comprehension check …. Q1. What is the difference between English of yesterday and English of today? Answer: The British were the foremost colonial powers in the nineteenth century onwards. To project their imperial power, and to effectively administer the vast swathes of land under their … Read more
Playing the English Gentleman About the author, M. K. Gandhi.. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) had a very modest start in his life. Born in a Gujarati family, he went to an ordinary village school, but made the most of it by not only acquiring modern … Read more
THE PLEASURES OF IGNORANCE A word about the author.. Robert Wilson Lynd (1879-1949) was born in Belfast (Northern Ireland). After his college education, he started his working life as a journalist writing for New Statesman. He was a political activist and was deeply involved in … Read more
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Catherine Earnshaw Linton Character Analysis Miss. Catherine Earnshaw– later, Mrs.Catherine Linton– is the central character in Emily Bronte’s gothic novel Wuthering Heights. From the beginning, she appears as an enigmatic, stubborn and defiant woman, who shreds the readers’ moral sense … Read more
The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao — Story analysis Reading and enjoying The Serpent and the Rope will be an incomplete effort unless the reader gets to know about the fascinating life of Raja Rao, the author. The footprints of his eventful life … Read more
The Drover’s Wife The two-roomed house is built of round timber, slabs, and stringy-bark, and floored with split slabs. A big bark kitchen standing at one end is larger than the house itself, veranda included. Bush all around – bush with no horizon, for the … Read more