Prashant: Prashant is a young boy, just 19 years old. He finds himself in a village devastated by the superstorm in Orissa, in 1999. He visits the storm shelter in his village and decides to help them out. He takes up a leadership role and starts organising the people. For several months, he helps the people to overcome their difficulties and come back to normal life. He becomes a saviour of orphans and widows. Thus we find Prashant to be a born leader who is ready to work hard to help people to solve their problems. The people of his village are grateful for all his efforts. He is a role model for the youth of our country.

In the story, the narrator highlights the emotional bond shared by his wife and their pet bear Bruno. He got the baby bear in an accident and presented it to his wife. She named the bear ‘Bruno’ and treated it like a baby. The bear was fed milk with a bottle and later it started eating different food items. He enjoyed eating and drinking everything and anything. Bruno was attached to everyone including their tenant’s children and their pet Alsatian dogs. It would play, run around the house and even sleep in their bed.
One day, accidentally, it ate a poison - Barium carbonate which had been kept in the library to kill mice and rats. Bruno was under a fit of paralysis and was taken to a veterinary doctor. He was injected twice and finally, revived. After a while, Bruno resumed eating normally. In another incident, he drank a gallon of old engine oil which the narrator had kept to fight a termite attack. This did not have any ill - effect on Bruno.
As days passed, Bruno grew bigger but remained as sweet and playful. The narrator’s wife changed his name to ‘Baba’ which was a Hindustani word for ‘a small boy’. He had learned a few tricks too. When commanded ‘Baba, wrestle’ or ‘Baba, box’, he would tackle and overpower the person. When ordered ‘Baba, hold gun’ he would point a stick at the person. When asked ‘Baba, where’s baby?’ he would take out the piece of wood and would cradle it affectionately like a baby. As he was big now, he had to be chained because he could harm the tenant’s children.
The narrator, his son and their friends advised the narrator’s wife to send Baba to a zoo as he was too big to be kept as a pet. She gave in and finally, after taking consent from the zoo incharge, they packed Baba in a cage and sent him to the zoo at Mysore. Everyone missed him but felt relieved as it was not comfortable to keep him at home. The narrator’s wife missed Baba immensely. She cried and worried about him. She wrote letters to the zoo incharge to ask about Baba’s well - being. They replied that Baba was fine but did not eat and remained sad much like her. She would ask her friends visiting Mysore to visit Baba. Everyone said that he was sad and appeared thin. After three months had passed, the narrator’s wife convinced him to take her to meet Baba. Everyone had predicted that the bear would not recognize her but she had not even reached the cage when Baba recognised her. He stood on his two paws and was delighted to see her. She petted Baba and fed him his favourite food. She spent three hours there until the visiting hours ended and left teary - eyed. She requested the zoo incharge to allow them to take Baba back for which they had to take permission from the Superintendent in Bangalore. As they got the required permission, Baba was put in a cage, the cage kept on top of their car and Baba was brought back home.
They got a special island made for Baba to live on. It was surrounded by a deep dry pit. Baba was provided with his belongings, a box to sleep in, straw to keep him warm, his stick and piece of wood to play with.
The narrator’s wife would visit Baba on the island by swinging on a rope tied to a mango tree. She would make the big bear sit in her lap for hours and would pat him affectionately.

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The author gets a baby bear by chance
‘The Bond of Love’ is the story of love and friendship between a pet bear cub and the author’s wife. He got the bear cub for her by accident. Two years ago, they were passing through the sugarcane fields near Mysore. People were driving away the wild pigs from their fields. Some were shot dead and others escaped. Suddenly a sloth-bear came out of the f fields. She was panting in the hot sun.

The actual incident
The author dfdn’t want to shoot at her. One of his companions shot the bear on the spot. They came near the fallen animal. They saw a baby-bear riding on his mother’s back. The little bear ran around the dead body of his mother. He was making a pitiful noise. Then ‘ he ran away into a sugarcane field.

Author’s present to his wife
At last, the author was able to catch him The little bear struggled to free himself. He tried to scratch him with his long, hooked claws. They put him in a gunny-bag. They brought him to Bangalore. The author presented the little creature to his wife. She was really delighted. The cub was a male. She named it Bruno.

How baby bear is brought up
The author’s wife looked after the baby-bear like her own child. Bruno soon took to drinking milk from a bottle. He started eating and drinking a lot of things. He ate porridge, vegetables, fruit, nuts, meat, rice, eggs etc. He drank tea, milk, coffee and even beer and liquor.

How baby bear spends time
They had two Alsatian dogs. The baby bear became friendly with the dogs and all the children. He enjoyed himself freely. He spent his time in playing and running into the kitchen. He also slept in their beds.

A strange incident
One day an accident befell him. The author had put down barium carbonate in the library. It was a poison. It was put down there to kill rats. Bruno entered the library and ate some of the poison. He suffered from a stroke of paralysis. But he dragged himself slowly to the author’s wife. He was weakening rapidly. He was vomiting and breathing heavily.

Taken to a veterinary surgeon
He was taken to a veterinary surgeon. 10 c.c. of anti-dote was given to him. His condition remained unchanged. Another 10 c.c. was injected. Brupo got up and enjoyed a good meal. Another time the little bear drank a gallon of old engine oil. But it had no ill-effects whatever on him.

His joyful feats
Months rolled on. Bruno had grown in size. He had equalled the two dogs in height. He even looked bigger than them. At times, he was playful and mischievous. He was very fond of them all. Above all, he loved the author’s wife. She loved him too. She had changed his name from Bruno to Baba. The baby-bear could also do a few tricks. At her command, Baba could Nvrestle’ or “box’. He would hold a stick like a ‘gun’. But because of the tenants’ children, he had to be chained most of the time.

Bruno sent to Zoo in Mysore
The author, his son and friends advised her to give Baba to the Zoo at Mysore. He had become very big. He couldn’t be kept at home. At last, she consented. A letter was written to the curator of the zoo. The zoo sent a cage from Mysore in a lorry. Baba was packed off.

Bruno missed at home
But all of them missed Bruno greatly. His wife wept and was inconsolable. For a few days she would not eat anything. She wrote a number of letters to the curator of the Zoo. Even Baba was inconsolable there. He refused food too. He was well but looked thin and sad. The author stopped his wife from visiting Mysore for 3 months. She was adamant. At last, he took his wife to Bruno or Baba.

Author’s wife visits Bruno in the Zoo
Friends had guessed that the bear would not recognise her. But the moment Baba saw her he recognised her. He cried with happiness. She ran up to him. She patted him through the bars. He stood in delight. She would not leave the cage for 3 hours. She gave him tea, cakes, ice-cream etc. At last, the ‘closing time’ came. They had to leave now.

Getting Bruno back home
The author’s wife wept bitterly. Baba also cried bitterly. Fven the hard curator was sad and moved. She requested him to send Baba back. He showed his helplessness. Baba was now the government property. Then, they went to the superintendent. She pleaded with tears in her eyes. The superintendent was a kind- hearted man. He consented. He also lent them a cage for transporting Baba back to Bangalore. Baba was driven into a small cage. He was hoisted on the top of the car.

Bruno at home
At home, an island was made for Baba. It was twenty feet long and fifteen feet wide. It was surrounded by a moat. It was six feet wide and seven feet deep. A wooden box was kept for Baba to sleep in at night. Straw was placed inside to keep him warm. In a few days Baba was released in the island: He was delighted. The author’s wife spent hours sitting there. Baba sat on her lap. Baba was fifteen months old and quite heavy now.

Love between man and animals
It is the story of man’s love and friendship with a baby-bear. The baby-bear has many human qualities. He has sense of love, affection and loyalty.

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The legend of Saint Peter and the little woman teaches us to be kind and benevolent.

As the legend goes St. Peter had once been travelling and sermonising all day. This made him tired and hungry. Seeing an old little woman baking cakes he asked her for one. The old woman was mean and miserly. Whenever she baked a cake for St. Peter she found it too big. She kept baking smaller and smaller cakes but still wasn’t satisfied with the size.

This made the Saint very angry. He cursed her, burned all her clothes except for her cap and turned her into a woodpecker who would keep boring into wood all day.  

The legend teaches us to be kind and generous to our fellow beings. We should help all tired travellers, then only will God be happy with us.    

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Days are short whereas nights are long in notherland

Days are very short and extremely long nights

The woodpecker gets her food by boring holes into trees. Woodpeckers drill and drum on trees and extract insects with their long sticky tongues from deep within a hole of a tree.

On his way to the fair the child sees toys, balloons of different colours, garland of gulmohur, a swing and a snake-charmer playing a flute. He gets attracted towards all these things. So, he lags behind.

First of all, the child sees on his way to the fair a toy shop. Then he sees dragon flies in the mustard field. He is attracted by the little insects along the footpath. In a grove, flower petals fall on him and he starts gathering them.

Everytime the child lags behind because his parents keep moving. Everytime they say , “Come , child ,come.”

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• The reporting verb changes according to sense: it may be told, asked, inquired,etc

It is true that a real friend is one who helps you in need. In the story, Sue and Johnsy were good friends and artists. Sue was always with Johnsy who was suffering from pneumonia and had lost her will to live. Johnsy believed that she would die with the falling of the last leaf on the ivy creeper. Sue tried to instil in her a desire to live a happy life. She was optimistic and always remained a constant companion to Johnsy. Sue shared it with Behrman and both of them helped Johnsy in regaining her wish to live in their own ways. Sue proves that a true friend is one who we can turn to in our times of trouble. He/She never disappoints us. Thus, the story “The Last Leaf” supports the given statement.

Yes, I do agree that The Last Leaf is a story of supreme sacrifice by an old artist. Behrman always wished to draw a masterpiece-which he did draw! In the process, he saved a precious young life also-even though he lost his life.

More Than Medicine, the Willingness to Live is More Important to Physical Health More than medicine hope sustains our life on this earth. It is the elixir of life. Hope gives a willingness to live. No medicine can cure us of our problems if we do not have willingness to live our life in full. Even when the condition of our physical health reaches a critical stage, our willingness to live enhances our will power and our body’s resistance to fight against illness. It increases our immunisation power and is even more powerful than any medicine. Doctors become helpless when the patient decides to quit this life. So, hope gives us some extraordinary spiritual grace to control our fears and even to oust them from our lives. The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life.

More Than Medicine, the Willingness to Live is More Important to Physical Health More than medicine hope sustains our life on this earth. It is the elixir of life. Hope gives a willingness to live. No medicine can cure us of our problems if we do not have willingness to live our life in full. Even when the condition of our physical health reaches a critical stage, our willingness to live enhances our will power and our body’s resistance to fight against illness. It increases our immunisation power and is even more powerful than any medicine. Doctors become helpless when the patient decides to quit this life. So, hope gives us some extraordinary spiritual grace to control our fears and even to oust them from our lives. The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life.

The poet requests the wind to blow gently. He asks the wind not to break the shutters of the windows, scatter the papers and throw down the books from the shelf. But the wind does not listen to him and turns violent and destructive. It throws down everything and tears the pages of the books. The poet accuses the wind of bringing rain once again. He tells the wind that it always makes fun of weak people and things. It crumbles down weak houses, weak doors, and weak rafters. It tears down weak bodies and fragile hearts. But does no harm to the strong.

The poet says that it is up to the wind god whether it brings destruction or shows mercy on humanity. The poet suggests the reader that to make friends with the wind we need to build strong homes with firm doors. He also suggests people be strong, both physically and mentally to combat and resist the ill effects of the wind. The last four lines of the poem tell us about the nature of the wind.

It blows out those fires which burn with a weak force, but the strong fires turn stronger by the wind. It means that the wind is supportive of those who are already strong and powerful but crushes the weak. A very significant message is hidden in these four lines-strong people are not affected by adversities but the weak do. So, it is good to be a friend of the wind, which is a symbol of hardships and obstacles, because only then we will be able to face tough times.

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(a)The snake trying To escape the pursuing stick (B) With sudden curvings of thin Long body (c) How beautiful And graceful are his shapes (d) He glides away From the stroke

A. The snake is trying to escape from the pursuing stick. B. He snake look beautiful and graceful C. He moves his thing long body with sudden curving D. The snake goes to hide in the water

A)The snake is trying to escape from the pursuing stick.

B)The snake looks beautiful and graceful.

C) He moves his thing long body with sudden curvings.

D) The snake goes to hide in the water.

• Bismillah Khan was a great Shehnai Player. He belonged to a family of professional musicians.
• He was attracted towards Shehnai at the age of three and with his hard work he brought it on to the classical stage.
• Pungi a musical instrument was banned by Emperor Aurangzeb for its shrill, unpleasant sound.
• A barber of a family of musicians decided to improve the tonal quality of pungi. He took a hollow pipe longer than pungi and made seven holes on it. When he played on it, sweet and soft sounds were produced. Since it was played in the Shah’s Chamber and was Played by a Nai (barber), it was named Shehnai.
• The sound of Shehnai is considered auspicious. The Shehnai was part of the Warble (a group of nine traditional musical instruments) found in the royal courts. It was played only in temples and weddings.
• listed Bismillah Khan invented many raagas and played them on Shehnai.
• Bismillah Khan was born on March 21, 1916, in a musician family of Rasool Bux Kh Father Paigamber Bin was also great Shehnai player.
• His maternal uncle Ali Bux gave him Shehnai lessons. He practised playing Shehnai’ at Balaji and Mangla Maiya Temple and on the bank of river Ganga.
• At the age of 14, he played Shehnai with his uncle at Allahabad Music Conference and I was appreciated by Ustad Faiyaz Khan.
• Bismillah Khan was the first Indian to greet the nation, with his Shehnai on 15th August 1947 in Raag Kafi.
• Film director Vijay Bhatt named a film `Gunj Uthi Shehnai’. Bismillah Khan composed a hit song “Dil Ka Khilona Hai Toot Gaya

Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie, the internationally renowned percussionist, emerges as an embodiment of unflinching determination, strong self-belief, dedication and courage. Although challenged by severe hearing impairment, this young girl is able to make her way to an enviable position in life. Evelyn was found to have lost her hearing faculty at a very young age of eight years but her strong determination enabled her to encounter the challenge very bravely. Instead of joining the school for the deaf, as suggested by the headmistress of her school, she decided firmly to lead the life as a normal girl. She wanted to play the xylophone but was discouraged by her teachers. However, her resolution was strengthened by the encouragement she got from the percussionist, Ron Forbes. Under his able guidance, Evelyn learnt how to develop sensitivity to musical sounds through different parts of her body. She managed to sense musical notes through her skin, her hair, her fingers, and even her bare feet. Endowed with great confidence, Evelyn was able to get admission to the Royal Academy of Music, London, the most prestigious institution for music. Her confidence and devotion enabled her to receive the highest awards in percussion music. Such is her contribution to the percussion music that it has earned a special place in the orchestra. Despite her deafness, Evelyn gives solo performances and has command over a large number of percussion instruments. A person with a humanitarian spirit, Evelyn even performs in prisons and hospitals. Thus, with her confidence and resolute decision, Evelyn has revealed to the world that disabilities disappear before dedication and determination. Her achievements are a source of inspiration for those who suffer from handicaps.

We defile the earth by considering other human beings as our enemies, outsiders and foreigners; by dividing our earth into countries and by developing enmity against another group of people. We wage wars and the weapons of war pollute the air we breathe, by raising dust and smoke and by piling debris on earth.

Man pollutes the earth by causing death and destruction and by spreading hatred and enmity through wars. The war also causes irreparable damage to the earth's environment by polluting it with dust, debris and smoke caused by war weapons.

A Year After Coronavirus: An Inclusive ‘New Normal’ Six months into a new decade, 2020 has already been earmarked as ‘the worst’ year in the 21st century. The novel coronavirus has given rise to a global pandemic that has destabilized most institutional settings. While we live in times when humankind possesses the most advanced science and technology, a virus invisible to the naked eye has massively disrupted economies, healthcare, and education systems worldwide. This should serve as a reminder that as we keep making progress in science and research, humanity will continue to face challenges in the future, and it is upon us to prioritize those issues that are most relevant in the 21st century.

In the  story Sue informed Mr. Behrman regarding Johnsy diseases and her wish to die when the last leaf falls. This story supports the Statement "A friend in need is a friend indeed" because Sue who shared apartment with Johnsy helped her by informing a neighbor and that neighbor helped her on risk of his life.

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This is a beautiful story about Johnsy and Sue. Mr. Behrman , one of their neighbor helped Johnsy to recover from pneumonia by painting a leaf on the wall outside to give her hope. It worked for her but he died of pneumonia while doing so.

In the above story Sue informed Mr. Behrman regarding Johnsy diseases and her wish to die when the last leaf falls.

This story supports the Statement "A friend in need is a friend indeed" because Sue who shared apartment with Johnsy helped her by informing a neighbor and that neighbor helped her on risk of his life.

At the need of Johnsy Sue and Mr. Behrman helped and proved that they are friends in need.

According to the poem the sound of the raindrops falling on the roof echoes in the heart of poet. Here the poet has compared the raindrops with his memories of past which revived after hearing the rain on the roof.

Every raindrop that falls on the tin roof produces an echo in the poet's heart. 2. With every patter sound of raindrops, the poet relives his childhood memories

Tuesday, 03.03.2020

Time: 04:00 p.m.

Dear Diary,

 

           Today I had my Maths examination. I was not well prepared for it. So, I was very much tensed about today's examination. But when I went through the whole question paper, I founded it so easy. I attempted full marks answers and I am expecting to get at least 95 out of 100.

This is a story about Mahendra, a junior supervisor and his cook, Iswaran. Former had to keep moving from place to place as ordered by headed office. But he had fortunately an expert caretaker, Iswaran who cooked his meals, washed his clothes and chatted with him at night. Iswaran was very fond of reading Tamil thrillers during his spare time. As a result he innovated his own thrillers and would tell about it to Mahendra. The latter used to hear patiently without finding any loopholes in the story. Iswaran often in his stories narrated about elephants. For example, he told a story about how he paralyzed a mad elephant that had gone berserk. He told that there were timber logs loaded on trucks. But if an elephant went mad no mahout could control it. The elephant now entered a school ground where children were playing, breaking through the brick wall. Children and teachers ran helter and skelter to save jheir lives. The elephant was stunned when Iswaran then only a little boy took a rod and hit at the elephant’s third toe nail. The secret was if the elephant is hit there, his nervous system gets paralyzed. Finally, one day talking about spirits of the ancestors, Iswaran began to talk of ghosts. He said that the place where they had their shed was once a burial ground. He also had come across ghosts but he was not scared of them. He told Mahendra about a woman ghost seen only on a full moon night. She moaned and carried a foetus in her arms. This terrified Mahendra so much that he finally thought of that woman ghost on a full moon night. He could hear a low moan outside his window. He peeped from his window and there stood the ghost of the woman. He flung himself down and found that he was often dreaming of that woman ghost. Iswaran used to ask grinning at Mahendra, “Sir, you were angry with me the other day when I told you about the ghost but didn’t you see her yourself last night ?” Mahendra never used to listen to Iswaran’s questions and finally decided to resign from his job and leave that haunted place

We can clearly conclude that while going on group-trips, help in the packing of luggage ONLY if you can, if that's not the case, better stay out of it.

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Jerome K. Jerome is the main character of his classical comic novel 'Three ... He sees that Harris will grow as another Uncle Podger. ... Montmorency is after all a dog and a fox-terrier.

Harris and Jerome were discussing about what time they should wake up but George dozed of. They decided to prank him and placed the bathtub near the bed. They wanted George to fall into the bathtub when he would wake up in the morning. 

The entire novel is replete with humour. The packing scene is no exception. The author's description of the bag packing scene is quite humorous. As Harris, George and he are about to begin packing, he volunteers the packing himself. What he had meant was superintending while Harris and George did the actual packing. However he did the packing with great difficulty. He finished it at 10:05. He had hardly finished packing when he was reminded to pack his boots too. He  again had to open up the bag to pack his boots. As he repacked, he was doubtful whether he had packed his tooth brush or not. In order to check, he again unpacked the bag; he could not find his toothbrush though he shook each and every article packed. The tooth brush was ultimately found in the boots. Now he again set to fold all the clothes and pack them again. This packing scene really is quite amusing.