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This story traces the beginning of the Civil Disobedience against the British authority in India. According to an agreement, the peasants in Muzzafarpur were supposed to grow Indigo in 15 percent of their land. A peasant named Rajkumar Shukla got Gandhi involved in this matter, who in turn negotiated terms with the British officials and… Continue reading Indigo Class 12 Questions and Answers: 2022
About Author- Louis Fischer (29 February 1896 – 15 January 1970) was a Jewish-American journalist. Among his works were a contribution to the ex-Communist treatise. The God that Failed (1949), a Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950), basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (1982), as well as a Life of Lenin, which won the 1965… Continue reading Summary of Indigo by Louis Fischer – Class 12 CBSE: 2022
Going Places Solved Question and Answer Short Questions and Answers Why did Sophie say after returning from the school that Jansie ‘looked doubtful’? On their way to return from school, Sophie and Jansie considered the option of opening up a boutique. But Jansie looked doubtful because she knew it would take lot of money to… Continue reading Going Places Class 12 CBSE Question and Answer: 2022
About the Author – A. R. Barton is a modern writer, who lives in Zurich and Writes in English. His story, “Going Places” is about a adolescent girl living in her fantasy world. Sophie is a hopeless romantic who takes refuge from the harsh monotony of everyday life by creating her own world full of fantasies.… Continue reading Summary of Going Places – Class 12 CBSE: 2022
The story, “Deep Waters” is about how the writer overcame his fear of water and learned swimming. When he was three or four years old the writer had gone to the beach in California with his father. The waves the beach knocked him down and he went underwater. The experience bred a permanent fear of… Continue reading Deep Water Class 12 CBSE Question and Answers: 2022
About the Writer: WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS was born in Maine, Minnesota, on October 16, 1898, and raised in Yakima, Washington. He entered Whitman College in 1916, but his studies were interrupted by military service in World War I. Douglas was graduated from Whitman in 1920 and taught school for two years before attending law school… Continue reading Summary of Deep Water – Class 12 CBSE: 2022
The poem, ‘Oh, I Wish I’dLooked After Me Teeth’ is the most famous poem of Pam Ayres. It was voted as one of the top ten poems of the BBC poll called the‘Nation’s 100 Favourite Comic Poems’. Theme of the Poem Oh! I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth Regret- regret is one of the main… Continue reading Theme and Tone of Oh! I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth by Pam Ayres
Keeping quiet is a poem written by Pablo Neruda in Spanish, which has been translated in English. In this poem, the Nobel Prize winner poet aims to appeal to the readers to take a little time out of their busy schedules and life for a little introspection and retrospection. The title, “Keeping Quiet”, is symbolic… Continue reading Summary of Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
“Endymion”, in many ways signifies a romantic culmination of Keats’s firm belief in the immutability of beauty, and of its claim to a legitimacy vis-à-vis its permanence, and its ability to conjure, or “contextualize” the truth. The poet’s aesthetic view of beauty as an intransient source of pleasure and joy comes in the face of… Continue reading A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Summary and Analysis
