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 Father Returning Home 1. Why does the father travel on the 'late evening train'? Ans. "Father Returning Home" is a poem from "Travelling in a Cage" by Dilip Chitre portrait of  the dull, drab and exhausting daily routine of commuters.      The poem begins with the speaker’s description of his father’s travelling home. The father is travelling in a late evening train after finishing his work for the day. ‘Late evening train’ may indicate how long the father works so that it regularly gets that late for him to return home. 2. What do the words ' silent commuters' signify? Ans.  The father is standing among the silent passengers in the yellow light inside the train compartment. This line is indicative of his sufferings during the journey. After working so hard, he is returning home standing on the foot-board, as he doesn’t get a seat there to relax. The ‘silent commuters’ are not friendly enough to converse with him or among themselves. Th...

  T.Y. B. Sc. Sem-VI    Quality Of Mercy  by William Shakespeare Short Question Answer 1. What is the Mercy compared to in the opening lines of the poem? Ans. "The Quality Of Mercy" is an extract taken from "The Merchant of Venice" Act-IV Scene-1 of William Shakespeare from famous trail scene where Antonio, a merchant, has defaulted on a loan and ask for pound of Antonio's flesh as per the agreement with Shylock. The Heroin Portia ask for mercy disguised as lawyer.    In the very beginning of the poem Portia compared Mercy with 'gentle rain' dropped from the heaven beneath upon  earth which can't be forced.  The poet says that mercy's attribute is something along with which every human being is born with but still very few humans intend to adhere very strictly to it since we can only plead for mercy in our authority for the same. Mercy is like rain that falls off the heaven upon the earth after the scorching heat quenches its thirst. Mercy ...

  My Lost Dollar by Stephen Leacock Introduction: “My Lost Dollar ” is a story narrated in first person by the author Stephen Leacock. The one line summary is that he tries in many ways to get back that one dollar he lent his friend Todd for paying his taxi to go to Bermuda. It is made to be funny by using exaggeration on the amount one dollar and on friendship. There is humour made out in the efforts of the author, all efforts going in vain. The author picked a tale of two friends who are found in common place. The author lends one dollar to Todd in the name of friendship and in kind. After Todd goes to Bermuda, he had not forgotten about it. He expected Todd to return it as soon as he could. But Todd avoids it as if he had forgotten it. After some days, Stephen gets a letter from Todd. He mentioned the temperature in Bermuda but not about the dollar. When Todd returns to the town after three weeks and then Stephen meets Todd at the railway station. The author does not expli...

Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore Introduction:      “ Kabuliwala ” by Tagore is a tale of heart-rending friendship between a 5-year-old Bengali girl Minnie and an Afghan moneylender, Abdur Rahman or Rahamat. The story beautifully ties a bond of mutual affection and the unconventional relationship between the two. Inception of an Odd Friendship      The voice of the story is lent by the father of Minnie. Rahamat, who is a hawker of dry fruits and shawls from Kabul, frequents the Bengali locales where Minnie and her family reside. He was a strapping, turban-clad man and fascinated Minnie.      One day she called him from the window of her house. But as he approached closer she got startled and ran back inside. Minnie’s father talked to Rahmat and learned about his family in Kabul.      He introduced Minnie to him with the title of Kabuliwala. To make her more comfortable Rahmat offered some dry fruits to Minnie. He...

  Speech on Teacher's Day      A very warm welcome to all my respected teachers and everyone present here. Today, I am here to deliver a speech on Teacher's Day. I would like to start my speech by thanking all my beloved teachers for always guiding and bestowing us with all  the teachings, morals and discipline. Teachers' Day in  India is celebrated every year on the 5th of September to make the birthday of our second President, Dr. Sarvpalli Radhakrishnam. Dr. Radhakrishnam was the first  Vice President of India. he was also a great scholar, an ideal teacher and a Bharat Ratna recipient. It was after becoming the President of India, some of his friends and students approached him to celebrate his birthday. To this he replied that instead of celebrating his birthday on this particular date, it would be his privilege if 5th September is celebrated as Teachers' Day  in all over the india. Thereafter this day is celebrated every year in honour to our...

  T Y BCOM SEM 6 Short notes Chapter 1: Professions for women 1.       Novelist's Chief Desire    Speech of “Professions for Women” was given in 1931 to the Women’s Service League by Virginia Woolf. It was also included in Death of a Moth and Other Essays in 1942. Woolf’s main point in this essay was to bring awareness to the phantoms and obstacles women face in their jobs. Virginia Woolf’s ‘Professions for Women’ originally presented as a paper to the Women’s Service League dwells on Woolf’s own professional experiences of female sensibility. Although she is speaking primarily of her own experiences, she feels that women in all professions face the same kind of difficulties and those women starting new courses face greater obstacles than the rest. Here Woolf shows how it is difficult for women to come out of the age-old-prejudices that prevail in the society and also within women themselves.   Woolf shares a strange experience in...

  Facilitating Winners of Youth Festival   Respected dignitaries on the desk, my dear colleagues, participating teams from   varied universities and all gathered over, a very warm Good Evening to one and all!.   First of all I as the cultural Secretary of our State I would like to congratulate all the winners who participated in different activities like dance, music in various forms, painting, modelling ,writing extra and also congratulations to all the participating teams who took part in such activities and give a tuff competition. All of you I am sure got a chance to express yourself in the best spirit of friendly competitiveness. So I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all the participating University teams once again, and let me remind you as you all are the future of our nation "life is made special by memories". And I hope that this year Youth Festival will become a   cherished memory, the kind of Snapshort that you will showcase for ...

  2 . Inauguration of Swachhata Mission   Good morning all ! I hope you all are doing well and all very excited to celebrate the birth anniversary of the father of our nation - Mahatma Gandhi who is dream was to make our country 'India' a   "clean India" or "Swachh Bharat" on October 2nd , which is the birth anniversary of the father of our nation was chosen for the promotion of "Swachata Mission" he said "Some family members keep their own house clean but they are not interested in neighbouring house".   So today we all have gathered here to dedicate this day to the father of our nation by integrating "Swachhata Mission" and becoming a part of this noble mission.     This mission set a lot of objective to achieve. So that India could become clean and better. So in addition, it's not only appeared the sweepers and workers but all including us to become a part of the mission.   Swachhata Mission aims to build faciliti...

1.       SPEECH ON SAVE ENVIRONMENT   Good morning respected principal, teachers and my dear friends. Our topic for today’s assembly is ‘Save Environment’. What is environment? I know we all will have different definition for this single word. In very simple words, I will address environment as the surroundings in which we humans or plants and animals live. Now, let’s just think that will we ever like to live in the surroundings that are bad or unhealthy? No, right..! We always want to live in the surroundings or the environment that is safe for us and others. An ideal environment is the one that does not lead to human diseases and extinction of natural resources, plants and animals. Human beings play a vital role in the conservation of the environment. Good or bad environment depends on our activities. By our unscrupulous actions, we are contributing to the degeneration of the natural environment which in turn negatively affects human life on the...

 Night of the Scorpion  Additional  Questions  1) How was the mother bitten by the scorpion? Ans: The poet remembers the night his mother was stung by a scorpion, which bit the mother because of its predatory impulse, while hiding beneath a bag of rice to escape from the rain. 2) How did the villagers come to the aid of the woman? Ans: They uttered the name of the God to paralyze the Evil One that had entered the mother's body.  3) How did the peasants view the stinging in a positive manner?  Ans: The peasants of the village believe in Karma theory. They believe that the sins committed in the previous birth will be purified if only the  concerned person suffers in this birth. They say that the mother’s suffering by the scorpion burns away her sins in the previous birth. 4) What type of man was the father? How did he treat his wife? Ans: The father was a sceptic. He was a rationalist. So he did not compromise with the beliefs of the villagers. He applie...