GOING PLACES By -A.R. Barton Introduction The chapter Going Places, written by AR Barton, discusses about the teenagers and their dreams The author says that teen age period is all about aspirations. They believe to achieve the …

INDIGO By-Louis Fischer Introduction In the chapter Indigo", the author describes the struggle of Gandhi for the poor peasants of Champaran who had to share their crops with the British planters. This made their life miser…

DEEP WATER By  William Douglas   Introduction Deep Water' is an autobiographical account of the author's childhood misadventure at a swimming pool In this chapter, he tells us how as a young boy, he was nearly drowned in …

LOST SPRING By-Anees Jung Introduction The story, 'Lost Spring' written by Anees Jung revolves around the pitiable condition of poor children who are forced to live in slums and work hard in very dirty conditions. The sto…

The Last lesson  By Alphonse Daudet अल्फोंस दाउडे   Or  दोदे Introduction 'The Last Lesson' is set in the days of the Franco-Prussian War, led by Bismarck Prussia defeated France and the French districts of Alsace and Lor…

The Interview   Summary  The chapter starts with the author introducing us to the method of an interview. We learn that it is pretty common in journalism and its origin dates back to 130 years before. He expresses that unsurpri…

"Don’t ask me for the same love,my sweetheart"   by Faiz Ahmed Faiz                                                                          Don’t ask me for the same love, my sweetheart   I thought that life was…

OBITURY by A K Ramanujan   SUMMARY The speaker in the poem (who is the poet himself) gives us an account of certain happenings connected with the death of his father. When the father died, he left behind him a dusty table ful…

OF MOTHERS AMONG OTHER THINGS  by A K Ramanujan   SUMMARY    The poet visualizes his mother at various times in her life. The speaker makes use of the present tense throughout the poem. But it is easy to judge that he is recall…