Category: Essays

This proverb is coined from the well known story entitled, “The Hare and die Tortoise,” from Aesop’s fables. We all remember having read it during our kindergarten days.The hare always quick on his feet challenged a tortoise to a running race! The tortoise who knew that, being a slow animal he was no match for the hare. Yet he accepted the challenge. On the day of the race all the animals assembled at one place and die race commenced. Alas! Like a lightning the hare sprinted across and disappeared from sight. But poor tortoise walked slowly, as usual.The haughty hare, which had gone too far away, paused under a tree. He knew that it would take a long time for the tortoise to reach him. So he stretched and slept.…

I am Hema Agarwal. I am studying in std. VI in Saraswati Vidyalaya. About my school? Well, it is a temple to me. Our school is 125 years old, a prestigious institution where many eminent persons had studied. It has a total strength of 780 students studying from LKG to Plus 2.Some children hate going to school. It happens mostly on Mondays, being the first day after the weekly holiday. Many fake sickness to escape schooling, saying that they have stomach ache or head ache. I call it as ‘Monday Melody!’But none of us in our school ever feel so. To us, going to school is a joy, because that is how the teachers made us feel about it. All our teachers are kind, at the same time strict with…

Safety means protecting ourselves from any danger that may hurt us or endanger to our lives. Unsafe practice is a great peril to both life and property. A two wheeler rider who rides recklessly not only risks his own life, but also the other road users.School children getting run over by their same school vans or getting knocked down while crossing the road or getting drowned in die pond or falling from high places or getting electrocuted and so on; such news appear in the newspapers.This is because of their lack of knowledge about overall safety, be it 011 die road or anywhere. While crossing die road, they must not run across in blind panic. Wait till the traffic policeman or the green ‘Walk’ signal appear. Even then look for…

A train is the most common mode of transport for man to go from any one place to another. It is so exciting and interesting when we go in a train from one town to another in the country.On the way we cross all kinds of terrain like plains, hilly areas, water expanses, and bridges over gorges and rivers. It gives the travellers a beautiful view of the entire gamut of terrain existing in the areas crossed, which is always of a wide variety. All this seen from the distance is really fascinating but, when any one of these beauties causes damage to the train or the passengers, the beauty turns into a nasty appearance. ADVERTISEMENTS: However, when one sits in a train bound to go thousands of kilometers to…

A Zoo is a place where animals are kept and maintained for a look by the common man. Here in a Zoo, birds of different varieties are also maintained. The purpose of a zoo is to show us, common people like varieties of animals and birds that exist the world over people who may never be able to see these creatures get a simple chance to see them.A visit to the zoo, increases general knowledge, and at the same time with an achievement, we also get entertainment. A zoo is a place which children specially like to visit.Last Sunday I visited Delhi zoo to see the animals and birds kept in this place. It is one of the largest Zoos in the country. It covers a vast area of about…

Brahmos, the supersonic anti-ship cruise missile jointly developed by India and Russia, was successfully flight- tested from an undisclosed location in the Bay of Bengal, off Orissa coast on February 12, 2003.The test was conducted from a Naval ship INS Rajput. The missile is marginally over 8 meters in length, 670 mm in diameter and weighs 3000 kg. It combines the propulsion system and self made device of Russia’s missile or onyx system with sophisticated on board computer guidance developed by Indian defence scientists. ADVERTISEMENTS: Brahmos has a target range of about 290 km. with 200-300 kg payload of conventional warhead mass depending on the version. Partially an anti-ship missile, Brahmos has also the ability to engage shore-based radio­contrast targets. It can be fired from multiple platforms ship, land, submarine…

Hi! Mr. Bat, why are you crying? Were you also thrown away by your master?” Mr. Tinman asked me. I burst into tears and narrated him my sad story “Ah! Those were my golden days of childhood.I was born in England. My father was one of the highly prized willow tree. It was seasoned for about a year before it was given to a master craftmen for chiselling into a fine bat.Like sculptor he shaped raw wood into beautiful bats. With streamlined contours and curves, I was born into a beautiful but strong bat. I was well oiled and polished. I was finished with perfection. My head rose with pride when my manufacturer declared that I was one of his best creation, which was fit for a world class cricketer.…

The credit for the birth of the Congress is often given to Allan Octavian Hume, who with the blessings of the Viceroy Lord Dufferin successfully organized the prominent political leaders of the period and founded the Indian National Congress, whose inaugural session was held at Bombay in 1885. Image Source: upload.wikimedia.orgAlthough, the British are said to be the foster parents of the Indian Nationalism, but it is an established fact that the Congress was the natural and inevitable product of various political, economic and social forces of the 19th century. ADVERTISEMENTS: Hume favoured an organization that could undertake constitutional agitation and help in redressal of political demands of the people.He was of the view that the emergence of the educated class in India should be accepted as a political reality…

Some never like to travel. They never like to move an inch from their place. They are too rooted, to visit any other place. Nevertheless journey by a bus or a train can offer wonderful experiences and unforgettable memories. Such journeys can infuse a freshness of life, moments of joy and a feeling of the wondrous nature around.I remember well, a memorable bus journey, I had several years ago. It was a journey from Guwahati to Shillong. I was then studying in Class X, in South Point Secondary School, Guwahati. I got an opportunity to accompany a classmate of mine, who was going to Shillong to visit one of his relatives there. Surprisingly it was my first visit to the state of Meghalaya.I reached the Meghalaya State Transport Bus station…

It was 5th Nov. 2008. The day was Monday. I can never forget the date or the day. The memory of that day is still afresh in my mind like an event of yesterday. On that day, an unforgettable event took place in my life. That was the day when I met Mother Teresa, popularly known as the ‘Saint of the gutters’, face to face at her home in Kolkata. The encounter left behind an indelible imprint, which the waves of time will never erase from my memory.I was then a student of class VIII and had gone for an excursion to Kolkata together with twenty other classmates of mine. We reached Kolkata on 3rd November by train. As soon as we landed in Kolkata, the leader of our excursion…