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“The Eyes Have It” is a short story that was written by the Indian Author Ruskin Bond. In this short story, the narrator and his co-passenger were completely blind. They were travelling by a train. The narrator tried to hide his blindness. At the end of the story, he came to know that his co-passenger, … Read more
“On Killing a Tree” is a perfect poem to show the real picture of modern society where trees are being cut down unnecessarily without any hesitation. People are not thinking about their future. They don’t have any sympathy for nature. In the poem “On Killing a Tree”, it is shown how a tree is killed. … Read more
“The Three Questions” is a short story that was written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 1903. In this short story, three questions came to the mind of a certain Tsar. He was longing for the answers to the three questions. To get the answers, he came across a hermit who was famous for his … Read more
Indian author Gieve Patel wrote the poem “On Killing a Tree,” which depicts the cruelty of a tree cutter. Man is forgetting the contribution of Nature in the development of human civilization, which is explicitly shown in the poem “On Killing a Tree“. Some short Questions and answers are given below. On Killing a Tree: … Read more
The poem, ‘On Killing a Tree’, written by Gieve Patel, is a moving description of men’s insensible destruction of trees. Trees are good friends and generous helpers. But, out of selfish greed, man kills trees for temporary gain. Man does not care for its contribution to the growth of human civilization. Nor does Man think … Read more
In his Novel “The Shadow Lines,” Amitav Ghosh discusses at length the mistaken notion of identity. He shows how one’s search for identity on the basis of separate nationalism and geographical demarcation of one country from another turns out to be a futile exercise. The problem becomes much more complex in case of an individual … Read more
Significance of the title of the play “Tara” by Mahesh Dattani The title of Mahesh Dattani’s play “Tara” is very significant. This play is all about the sad tale of an Indian girl named Tara who is born in an Indian middle-class family. She is a Siamese twin, born conjoined as one body with her … Read more
Arundhati Roy is a popular Indian writer, activist. She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006. She was awarded the 1997 Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things. She was born in Shilong, Meghalaya, India. She is an activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. Arundhati Roy : Books, Works … Read more
Arun Joshi was an Indian writer who was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in the year 1939 and he died in 1993 at the age of 54. His famous works are The Strange Case of Billy Biswas (1971) and The Apprentice (1974). He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel The Last Labyrinth in … Read more
Anita Desai is an Indian Novelist who was born on 24th June 1937 at Mussoorie, India, to a German immigrant mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D. N. Majumdar. She was a student at Queen Mary’s Higher Secondary School in Delhi and received her B.A. in English Literature in 1957 from the Miranda House … Read more