Mohammed Suleman

  Indigo This account by Louis Fischer describes Gandhi’s struggle for the poor peasants of Champaran. In those days most of arable land in the Champaran district was divided into large estate owned by Englishmen and worked by Indian tenants. The chief commercial crop was Indigo. The landlords compelled all tenants to plant 15% of their Indigo and surrender the entire Indigo harvest as rent. This was done by long term contract. The British didn’t need the Indigo crop any more when Germany had developed synthetic Indigo. Just to release the peasants from the 15% agreement they demanded compensation. Some illiterate peasants agreed but the others refused. One of the sharecroppers named Raj Kumar Shukla met Gandhi in this regard and compelled him to visit Champaran because of the long term injustice of landlords. Then the two of them boarded a train for the city of Patna in Bihar. From there Shukla led him to the house of a lawyer named Rajendra Prasad. Mahatma Gandhi’s humble and s...

  A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield Rosemary Fell, a very rich and well off woman, who has been married for two years to a very rich and devoted man Mr. Philips Fell, spends her day out shopping at some west corners of London in the finest of shops. She visits an ingratiating antique dealer’s shop that shows her a beautiful small blue velvet box. Rosemary is taken by the beauty of the creamy piece of art but decides not to buy it and asks the shopkeeper to save it for her. Out she comes from the shop into the rain and as she reaches towards the car a girl approaches her asking her to pay for the price of a cup of tea. Astonished, Rosemary asks the girl to come home with her for tea, finding it an opportunity of adventure and experience, just like she read in books and stories of Dostoevsky. She wanted to show the girl that rich people do posses mercy. The girl agrees apart from her great fears to ride with Rosemary in her car. As they reach the house, Rosemary takes the poo...

A Cup of Tea by Catherine Mansfield A. Answer the following questions in about 15-20 words: (1) Why does Rosemary like shopping at antique store? Answer: Rosemary enjoys shopping at the antique store because she likes things having it to herself and the man who works there dotes on her. She considers buying a lovely little box. It was a little enamel box with a glaze so fine it looked as though it had been baked in cream. (2) What does Rosemary’s response to the shopkeeper’s flattery reveal about her character? Answer: She is vain and self-centered. Even though she knows the flattery might be insincere, she likes it. (3) What plans for Miss Smith does Rosemary have at first? Answer: She did not know about the realities of the world. When a beggar girl came to Rosemary for alms for a cup of tea, she was surprised at the poverty of the girl that she couldn’t even afford a cup of tea. She felt as if this event was a part of some novel and lost in her romantic world, she took the girl that...

  On Reading in Relation to Literature A. Answer the following Questions in about 20-30 words each: Q1. Who are able to read very well even before reaching the age of twenty five years? Some rare men who, through a kind of inherited literary instinct are able to read very well even before reaching the age of twenty five years. Q2. How much is retained in the mind of a reader who reads only for amusement? People who read only for amusement have a vague idea or two about what they have been looking at. Q3. Why most of the persons are are unable to express their original opinion about a book? Most persons are unable to express their original opinion about a book as they have been reading very casually. Q4. What does the author mean by hard reading? According to the author, hard study means reading a book thoroughly, studying all the meanings and bearing of the text, slowly, and thinking about it. Q5. Explain how, according to Lafcadio Hearn, amusement and study are t...

   Very few persons know how to read. Considerable experience with literature is needed before taste and discrimination can possibly be acquired; and without these, it is almost impossible to learn how to read. I say  almost  impossible; since there are some rare men who, through a natural inborn taste, through a kind of inherited literary instinct, are able to read very well even before reaching the age of twenty-five years. But these are great exceptions, and I am speaking of the average. For, to read the characters or the letters of the text does not mean reading in the true sense. You will often find yourselves reading words or characters automatically, even pronouncing them quite correctly, while your minds are occupied with a totally different subject. This mere mechanism of reading becomes altogether automatic at an early period of life, and can be performed irrespective of attention. Neither can I call it reading, to extract the narrative portion of a text...

  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening BY  ROBERT FROST Whose woods these are I think I know.    His house is in the village though;    He will not see me stopping here    To watch his woods fill up with snow.    My little horse must think it queer    To stop without a farmhouse near    Between the woods and frozen lake    The darkest evening of the year.    He gives his harness bells a shake    To ask if there is some mistake.    The only other sound’s the sweep    Of easy wind and downy flake.    The woods are lovely, dark and deep,    But I have promises to keep,    And miles to go before I sleep,    And miles to go before I sleep. Style of the Poem The poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost has four stanzas, all quatrains of iambic tetr...