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I was born in a stable a few years ago. I was able to walk just after my birth. My mother was very loving to me. She took great care of me. As I grew up, I was allowed to move a few steps outside the stable.Slowly, these steps were allowed farther and farther from of the stable. In this venture, my master, a large burly man, also helped me a lot. My mother was taken out to graze. Then I was also allowed to accompany her. I tried my best to keep close to her. One day, I was sold to my present master. He yoked me to a tonga after getting my hoofs nailed. ADVERTISEMENTS: He took me to several places. Then he started plying me regularly from…

This is the last line in the famous “Ode to the West Wind” written by the renowned Romantic Poet, P.B. Shelley. Shelley was an optimist and despite his depiction of the prevailing gloom, he believed in the final triumph of a glorious future for mankind. In his poem “Hellas,” he says,“The world’s great age begins anew.”Even Tennyson, the representative poet of the Victorian age, says, ADVERTISEMENTS: “Ring out the old, ring in the new.”The same poet says,“Old order changed, yielding place to new.”John Keats, another Romantic poet and a contemporary of Shelley, says, ADVERTISEMENTS: “There is budding morrow in every midnight.”Thus, most of the poets and thinkers agree that darkness and gloom cannot last forever. Even if one takes the meaning of Shelley’s line literally, we have to realize in…

It is said that these days, more people die of accidents on the roads than of any diseases. Some of the accidents on the roads take place because of mechanical failure of vehicles. But in most cases the fault lies with human beings who drive these vehicles.A person can make some error while-making a turn or passing through a crossing and that results in accident of some magnitude, minor or major. Such instances are not many. Most often the cause of an accident is rash driving on the part of the driver of one vehicle or the drivers of both the vehicles that collide. Rash driving some time may not cause an accident by collision.The driver may lose control over the brakes and the vehicle may just slip away downwards…

If I were a cloud, I would be one of the benevolent kinds. I mean I wouldn’t discriminate between places. I would rain equally on all places irrespective of the terrain. That may seem strange and even impossible.It is because a cloud is not an independent agent of nature. It is guided, controlled and even constrained, by laws of nature. The cloud is formed when the summer heat forces water in seas and oceans to evaporate and rise and float in the sky. The cloud keeps floating in the sky till it is compelled by certain reasons to rain.This happens when it strikes a high mountain. This also happens when coolness in temperature in the atmosphere is caused by the abundance of trees, etc. Thus, I can rain only if…

Water is called “the elixir of life”. This is, indeed, the name which the Indian Nobel Laureate, C. V. Raman, has given it in his celebrated essay of the same name. The earth comprises two thirds of water and one third of land. Water is essential for all living beings. There can be no life without water.Human beings, animals and all kinds of plants all need water. Much of the beauty of the earth is because of the presence of plenty of water on it. The main sources of water are rain, rivers, lakes and underground water, besides seas and oceans which are the main store-houses of water. Rains are caused by clouds. This rain helps the forests to grow which in turn also cause rain. Rain also feeds the…

It is sometimes said, ‘If wishes were horses, beggars would ride them.’ I fully agree with those who say this. Still, I do not think anything wrong if I were to run the horses of my imagination.Accordingly, I’m in a mood to imagine myself a bird. Hence, I want to contemplate how I would look and feel and behave if I were a bird. Naturally, if I were a bird, I’d have a small body which would be well-equipped with soft wings and feathers like every bird. I do not here want to go into the intricacies of difference in wings and feathers of various kinds of birds.It is because I do not want to divide the world of birds on any pretext like the artificial division among human beings…

AIDS is a deadly disease for which so far no foolproof treatment has been discovered. Of course, great research is going on in this field. It is said that a vaccine has now been discovered but how far it is successful, is still doubtful. But its efficacy in saving the new born babies is said to have been proved to an acceptable measure.The best safeguard against this devastating disease is the precautions that we should take and bear in mind. The first reason how a man gets AIDS is through infected blood transfused into his body. So, if we need transfusion of blood for any reason, we should make sure that it is AIDS free and has conclusively been tested as such. In is quite understandable that we should use…

In the modern world everybody is busy. Men and women go to their respective places of work and children have to attend school or college. In such a state of affairs, it should not be binding on the mother to prepare meals or tea for everybody every time.Sometimes, she may not be having enough time and at another time, she may be too tired to do any work. Then, anybody who needs a cup of tea must help himself or herself. Such a situation arose yesterday in our house. Mother had just returned from office. She was dead tired. I had come earlier from, school because the school was off for the purpose of making preparations for a school function which was to be held today.I took it not only…

The following important points should be noted by the auditor in the audit of accounts of a banking company: General: 1. He should, first of all, confirm that his appointment is in order. ADVERTISEMENTS: 2. He should see that Annual Accounts of the banking company have been prepared in proper form. 3. He should examine the system of internal check and control and ascertain whether such a system is adequate or not. Generally, banks have a separate audit department for the examination of day-to-day transactions. The efficacy of such a system should be examined. Image Source: accountancyage.com 4. He should visit the bank on the last working day of the year to count the cash himself. If the money has been kept with the Reserve Bank of India or any…

People have different definitions of adversity according to their own experiences. According to my perception, this is another name for misfortune, distress or we often name our bad times as adversity.The effects of adversity depend upon the time span and individuals capacity; the long term anxiety fallout into unusual, upshot and short term results into an entirely different effects.Everybody wants to avoid misfortune. I mean, who wants for tough times to come in his/her life and then keep struggling for the good ones for the entire life? Basically, adversity is the best teacher. Image Source: mormonchannel.org ADVERTISEMENTS: With the know-how of life, you realize the fact that shoddier times teach you a lot. More significantly, worse things that ever strike you from behind meet you as some of the finest…