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The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan Let’s know the characters .. Taplow .. He is a sixteen-year-old boy waiting for his promotion from Class V Junior to Class V senior. Mr. Crocker-Harris .. He is a senior teacher in the school where Taplow studies. He … Read more
Vocabulary Exercise – 8 English Skill Building – 8 Learn new words and phrases with practical examples Fete [as noun] The girl wanted to stage a dance show in the fete organized in her school to raise money for the widows of the Pulwama CISF … Read more
On The Art Of Living With Others By Sir Arthur Helps About the author … Arthur Helps (1813-1875) was a thinker, and writer of great eminence. He was born in London. He went to the elite Eton for his schooling, and later to Trinity College … Read more
Childhood by Markus Natten .. What the poem is about ….. Markus Natten reminisces about his childhood days when he was so simple, ignorant, naive, and immature. As he grew up, the simplistic ideas of the world vanished and he began to see the world … Read more
Composition – 3 Creative Writing – 17 A short composition on grasshopers Grasshoppers: A Quick Snack or a Disgusting Insect? Written by – Mrida Pradhan, Class 9 Believe it or not, Ugandans have a strange fondness for the (usually) green creepy-crawlies that are grasshoppers. And … Read more
A Piece of Chalk by G.K. Chesterton Complete explanation and analysis of the essay ‘A piece of chalk’ alongside the original text Original Text – 1 I remember one splendid morning, all blue and silver, in the summer holidays when I reluctantly tore myself away … Read more
Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth A word about the poet .. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an ardent lover of Nature. All his life, he remained an avid admirer of the myriad ways Nature unfolds her beauty. He used to go on long … Read more
On The Choice Of A Profession by Robert Louis Stevenson Complete explanation of the Essay Explanation Young students coming out of senior schools or colleges often can’t decide what profession or job they should take up. Total lack of experience and the anxiety resulting from … Read more
A Defence of Nonsense (1902) by G.K. Chesterton Complete explanation of the essay by G.K. Chesterton with additional explanatory notes Original Text – 1 There are two equal and eternal ways of looking at this twilight world of ours: we may see it as the … Read more
All the World’s a Stage by William Shakespeare — Explanation and notes for NCERT CBSE Class 9 students All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays … Read more