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Hello Friends...  Sure, we all are doing well... Be careful, we must stay fit and shouldn't fall ill getting our studies affected. We shall eat and drink healthy, exercise regularly, and won't avoid our domestic and social responsibilities. And whatever time we get for ourselves at the end of the day, we must study hard for most of the time, so that we learn to think... and learn. We simply cannot afford to stop thinking, for we are learners, and we are the chosen ones who got the scope to learn...  Let's learn to think first... The Text Today, we meet again to study a poem together. This is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson,- Fable. Does the title ring a bell, friends?  Then why don't we go through the poem once to see if the text reminds us anything more about 'fable'? You may click  here  to listen to a wonderful reading of the same text as well, if you please... Fable Ralph Waldo Emerson The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel; And the former called the lat...

Hello Friends... Sure, we all are doing well... Be careful, we must stay fit and shouldn't fall ill getting our studies affected. We shall eat and drink healthy, exercise regularly, and won't avoid our domestic and social responsibilities. And whatever time we get for ourselves at the end of the day, we must study hard for most of the time, so that we learn to think... and learn. We simply cannot afford to stop thinking, for we are learners, and we are the chosen ones who got the scope to learn...  Let's learn to think first... We meet this time together again to learn how to describe a family-tree. Family-tree A Flowchart Now, what's a family-tree? Certainly it's not a tree as we know trees to be. It's actually a flowchart,- a sort of diagram pointing out the relations between the members of a family. The arrows, or the linking lines look like the branches of a tree, at the end of which we have the members of the family pointed out just like we have flowers or ...

Hello Friends... Sure, we all are doing well... Be careful, we must stay fit and shouldn't fall ill getting our studies affected. We shall eat and drink healthy, exercise regularly, and won't avoid our domestic and social responsibilities. And whatever time we get for ourselves at the end of the day, we must study hard for most of the time, so that we learn to think... and learn. We simply cannot afford to stop thinking, for we are learners, and we are the chosen ones who got the scope to learn... Let's learn to think first... Do we need to write letters at all? Have you ever written a letter to anyone? Have you ever received a letter from anyone either? Maybe your answer to both of the questions is a 'no'. But, if you ask me, I think that you all regularly write to and receive 'letters' from others. Don't you ever write notes on chits of paper and pass them to your friends to continue your 'important' conversation avoiding the interference of th...

Hello Friends... Sure, we all are doing well... Be careful, we must stay fit and shouldn't fall ill getting our studies affected. We shall eat and drink healthy, exercise regularly, and won't avoid our domestic and social responsibilities. And whatever time we get for ourselves at the end of the day, we must study hard for most of the time, so that we learn to think... and learn. We simply cannot afford to stop thinking, for we are learners, and we are the chosen ones who got the scope to learn...  Let's learn to think first... Who May Participate in the Discussion This is a discussion on an adapted version of Father's Help, a story written by R K Narayan. Students of Class X, WBBSE have to study this adapted text for their final examination. So, it is very likely that they may find this discussion helpful for them.  However, this discussion may help any learner to develop a strategy suitable for him/herself to study a short story as a social documentary. Even those who...