Letter from a Father to his son's teacher

This is the letter believed to be written by Abraham Lincoln to the head master of his son's school.Historians disagree to the fact that he actually had written such a letter to anybody.Whether Lincoln wrote or not does not matter.The true essence of education has been exemplified in this wonderful short writing. He will have to learn,...

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The Creation Hymn

There was neither non-existence nor existence then. There was neither the realm of space nor the sky which is beyond. What stirred? Where? In whose protection? Was there water, bottomless deep? There was neither death nor immortality then. There was no distinguishing sign of night nor of day. That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse. Other...

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Ozymandias-King of Kings

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand...

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The Letter from "The Bet"

 I have many times thought why some people read a lot.As a matter of fact while pondering over this thought I remembered a short story taught to us in my school.The story was ingeniously written by Anton Chekhov who was a master story teller.In his short story "The Bet" he has subtly delivered the answer to my question. The story begins...

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Rainy Season

         "Oh, dear, now the kingly monsoon is onset with its clouds containing raindrops, as its ruttish elephants in its convoy, and with skyey flashes of lighting as its pennants and buntings, and with the thunders of thunderbolts as its percussive drumbeats, thus this rainy season has come to pass, radiately...

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Monsoon

The first drops of rain... Nostalgia embraces me... The melodious sound of raindrops falling near my window as I sit there and gaze at the hills shying like a  newly wed bride hiding under the veil of ..The gentle breeze of air...the fresh aroma of the earth...the lush greenery everywhere that follows it..Nothing rejuvenates more...

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