This is a story of a fast-food lover. The hero of the story is a child named Raj. Fast food was a weak point of Raj. Chips, noodles, pizza, burgers, chocolates, ice-creams, cold drinks, Pani-puri, Bhel-puri, Manchurian, Chinese eatables like lollipops, and chilli were some of his favorite dishes. Raj was very much fond of […]
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I saw Ruskin Bond sitting at the airport. My heart skipped a beat, adrenaline rushed to my cheeks, mind tossed upside down, and I googled him to check whether he was really Ruskin Bond or not. I walked past him craning my neck to see what he was doing. And, oh my god, he was
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My cousin Madhu came running one afternoon, shouting ‘Look, there’s a miracle! A goat is pregnant. She doesn’t lay eggs!’ The elder members laughed and showed no eagerness, but she didn’t care about them. The only one she wanted to show the miracle was me. She grabbed my hand and dragged me to our neighbor’s house. We were on holidays to our native place. It was a village where all people lived
with their cattle.
Something like that happened to me the other day.
I was in the first standard, barely five or six years old and was watching TV at my friend’s house. She was the same age of mine and lived next door.
Never So Perfect … -by Rati J. ‘Oh come on. You have to come with me. We are invited as a happy couple. We are supposed to give inspiration to the audience there.’ Mr. Rakesh Bhandari said to his wife who was standing with a diary in her hand. ‘Don’t you understand that I have
Kanira returned from her husband’s funeral and declared a month’s holiday to all the servants in the mansion. The bankers, car insurance officers and police-men who were waiting for her arrival, took her signatures and left. Loss of her husband at such an early age was a blow to her… After all… car accidents may occur at any time!
It was a Sunday night award function. The lights sparkled like stars everywhere. Red carpet was spread on the floor. Cameras busy in capturing style and posture, attitude and reactions. I was nominated…
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Structure and symbolism in the poem, ‘A Noiseless Patient Spider,’ by Walt Whitman ‘A Noiseless Patient Spider‘ is a descriptive poem composed by Walt Whitman. This poem is short and consists of two stanzas. The first stanza describes the qualities of spider and the second stanza depicts the same qualities but for human soul.
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Ode: Like Sonnet, Ode is one of the types of Lyric. ‘Ode’ is A Greek word which means, ‘song.’ But, in English, it’s meaning deviates and means, a long lyrical poem which addresses someone or something. For example, the poem, ‘Ode to the West Wind’ begins with the line, “O wild west wind” Here, the
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Sonnet: Sonnet is a special kind of Lyrical poem which is bound in certain rules. It is a poem of fourteen lines which expresses a single thought or idea so, it cannot have multiple themes or ideas. It is short and musical. Musical, because certain poetic devices are used to gain rhythm and melody in
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