Category: Essays

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…

Today our world is full of people with ill health, mental tension and psychological disorders. Life for many is a mad rush from one activity to another. Few care about acquiring a healthy body through healthy ways. I believe morning walk is one such means which can bring about a healthy body and thereby reduce the health disorders of our world.The best time to go for morning walk is as soon as one gets up. It is better that one does not drink or eat anything before going for walk. One should also be very careful about the place where one takes walk. Preferably, it should be an open place with plenty of fresh and clean air. Gardens, parks, green belt areas, etc., are therefore, excellent places. Busy roads, congested…

Short Speech on Self Confidence (507 Words).Self Confidence is the key to success, or we can say the first step to success. If a person has self confidence, he has won half the battle. Those people who have self confidence at work, school, and in their daily life always appear on top of world. Everything seems to go right for these people and they always seem to present themselves as calm, collected and successful in everything they do. ADVERTISEMENTS: If you pay attention, you might notice that these self confident people usually are successful in every area of their lives. Is this because they are smarter? Or is it because they have more money? Maybe they are just lucky? The reality is that none of these things are true. Self…

Some journeys can never be forgotten. It reverberates in our mind again and again. I had such an experience – the memory of my first train journey. Last year my school had organised an excursion to Allahabad in U.P. and thus I got the opportunity to travel in a train for the first time.The excursion group consisted of thirty students and three school staff. We reached Guwahati on 14th Oct. as our train reservation was for 15th Oct. by North-East Express from Guwahati. We got accommodation for the night in a hotel close to the railway station. The next morning at about 5.00 a.m., we reached the station.Our train, the North- East Express was already on the main platform. Our guide was quick to find our berths. We boarded the…

India has many wonderful monuments of exquisite beauty and great artistic charm. Among these, the greatest and the most fascinating is the monument called Taj Mahal. It can be regarded as a love story written in marble. Rabindranath Tagore called it, “A Dream in Marble”. For many others, it is a “poem written in marble” and “symphony in stone”. Today, it is reckoned as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.This great monument built in pure white marble was erected by Shahjahan, the Mughal emperor in memory of his beloved queen Mumtaz Mahal. He had loved her deeply while she was alive and when she died he wanted to perpetuate his eternal love for her by erecting a spectacular tomb. ADVERTISEMENTS: He took more than seventeen years to complete…

How to Write an Essay on a Visit to a Hill Station?Introduction — When and Where did we go? Where we stayed? What did we do and see? Our return Conclusion Introduction — When and Where did we go? Last year in the summer vacations I along with my cousin, decided to visit Mussorie a hill station in the Garhwal mountains of UP, also known as the Queen of the hills. We thus boarded the Mussorie express train from Delhi and the next morning we were in Dehradun, a city on the foothill of the mountains. The taxi ride from Dehradun to Mussorie was a two hour drive, with sharp and steep turns. The deep gorges, were enough to send a chill down one’s spine and so we desperately clung…