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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... Understanding a Literary Text Here we meet again to continue discussing a very basic query, - how to appreciate a literary text, be it for some academic reason, or for some non-academic pursuit like leisure-reading and all. This is the second part of the series, and here we will be discussing how the setting of a text helps towards the process of dissemination of meaning. If you intend to look for a discussion only on setting, you are already in the r...

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... Understanding a Literary Text Here we meet again after quite a gap to settle a very basic query, - how to appreciate a literary text , be it for some academic reason , or for some non-academic pursuit like leisure-reading and all. In order to get a good grasp over the entire process, here we would try to discuss and comprehend how meaning is communicated through any literary text. After all, all texts get composed to share some meaning. Appreciat...

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... Here we meet not to study and discuss the original play ' As You Like It ' as written by William Shakespeare . Rather, this is going to be an attempt to help out the young beginners who are attempting to read and grasp the vast world of Shakespeare. They often, at the very beginning, find it very difficult to get a good grip over the entire organisation of the plot of Shakespearean dramas. We might find the strategy of identifying the epis...

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... Here we meet together to read a poem by Emily Bronte . It's quite a short poem as you can see for yourself below. I am quite sure that most of us have already heard of Emily Bronte being the great novelists who wrote Wuthering Heights . Yes, that's how common readers know Emily. However, it's not that many, who are not particularly students of literature, know about her poetic skills. Let's get introduced to Emily as a poet here now...

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... What We Would Study Here Here we meet together to read an adapted version of a 'short story' (as published in Bliss, ESL textbook meant for Class IX, WBBSE) written by Manoj Das, the renowned Indian (Oriya) bilingual author. If you are interested, you may click  here  to know more about him. We also have an  official site in his name on the web.  Though they popularly call this adapted text a 'short story', I'm sure we will agre...