India is my country, my motherland. I love it and I am proud of it. India is a big country. In population it is second only to China. India has a rich and glorious past. Once it was the seat of learning. Students from all over the world used to come here to study. Indian […]

Gratitude implies thankfulness or an appreciation of benefits conferred together with a desire, when practicable, to return those benefits.It should be distinguished from thanks, which is too often a matter of words, and not accompanied by a feeling of thankfulness or by those actions which indicate a grateful mind. The grateful man feels joy at

Reading makes man perfect. By reading we get information, facts and knowledge of the affairs of the world. The books prescribed for our formal education do not provide pleasure to us. This is an obligation on us to read those books as we have to continue with our education.We are to go through them even

Without oxygen we cannot live for a moment even. Without oxygen, the animal world will die away. Trees make the oxygen and spreads it in the air. While inhaling air we take the oxygen with it into our bodies and live in life.Carbon dioxide makes our atmosphere or rather our environment poisonous for us. Trees

My home is a place of complete peace and harmony. Among all the family members in my home there is such absolute understanding that, I have never had an occasion to wish for better or for more, i.e. I am so very happy and satisfied in my home.My home houses a wonderful family which includes

It was an exhibition showing the recent progress of Maharashtra in various fields. The exhibition took up nearly half a kilometre on the riverside. A strong corrugated-tin sheet fence ran round it. There were long, winding queues near the ticket windows.Our first impression on entering the grounds was that the whole vast area looked like

Summer vacation is the best part of the year. A student can have a couple of months entirely to himself. He is not bothered about books and examinations. He can do whatever he likes. He can go wherever he pleases. He can build his health. He can visit his relations. If he can afford, he

Last Sunday our school arranged a visit to Agra to see the world-famous Taj Mahal. It is one of the wonders of the world. It is called the Mughal Marvel. We reached the station early in the morning to catch the Shatabdi Express.The train started at 6.15 a.m. We reached Agra at 8.05 a.m. The

My grandfather passed away before I was born but my grandmother is still alive. She is seventy-two. She is tall and healthy. She hardly looks sixty. She has preserved her health in a wonderful manner. She is still energetic and works the whole day, I have never seen her idle.She has still all her teeth

My favourite author is Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath’s poetry and short stories appeal to my heart more than anything else. His ‘Gitanjali’ is a famous book of songs, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Truly speaking, I do not fully understand the inner meaning of all those beautiful songs. But I can,

During the last summer vacation, I went to my maternal uncle’s house at Chandannagar to stay there for three days. In the afternoon, I used to go with my two cousins, who were of about my age, to the nearest ghat on the Ganga, and take a boat on hire to row for sometime in

I like playing the guitar. Though I am not very good at it and am still learning, I can play some tunes. I spend quite a lot of time playing the guitar so much so I get scolded sometimes by my mother. I suppose I do tend to spend a bit too much time with

A beautiful day is just enough to cheer one for many days. It gives the feeling of Valentine’s Day flowers.It was July 1995 when I was in Pandveshwar. I had got ten days’ leave from my school. I went to my relative’s house who were residing in Darula Colliery near Pandveshwar. It was a cloudy

Homework is a bitter pill to many a student. Schools, as a rule, set home-tasks. They are given to make the student work at home. It serves another purpose as well. It is to help the student to revise what has been done in the class. All schools set home work for students, some more

To live in a village or town depends on one’s occupation and the facilities one wishes to have. If one is a farmer, he must, of course, live in a countryside or in a village. But if he seeks employment elsewhere, towns offer better chances. Again, living in a village or a town is a