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Quality of Mercy Poem Summary in English and Kannada

October 24, 2023

10th English Quality of Mercy Poem Summary in English and Kannada

Quality of Mercy Poem Summary in English

“The Quality of Mercy ” is a famous speech by Portia, in disguise as a young lawyer, in Shakespeare’s play “The Merchant of Venice”. She pleads for mercy from the Jewish money lender, Shylock, who holds all of Antonio’s loans and demands a pound of flesh for the default. She hopes to persuade Shylock to accept twice the amount of the loan in lieu of the contracted fee of flesh. Now we can analyse Portia’s speech with regards to the essential differences between mercy and justice in the play.

Mercy is natural. Portia says that the quality of mercy is not strained, it is. not forced effort but something that one already possesses. Mercy cannot be forced by anyone. It is something that one must come up within himself. Like how “gentle rain” can not be created artificially. It is sincere.

Mercy also benefits the merciful. Portia says that “earth power doth then show likest God’s when mercy seasons justice” implying that man can only become like God when he is merciful. Mercy is something powerful. Scepter show the force of temporal power but mercy is above this sceptered sway. It symbolises that mercy is more powerful than mere symbols of earthly power that is the crown and scepter.

Mercy is forgiving. Portia points out that God is merciful and forgives us for our sins and “in the course of justice none of us should see salvation” only with the mercy of God would they be delivered. Mercy is reciprocal and “twice blest” bringing good things to both “him that gives and him that takes”. Mercy is divine as it droppeth from heaven and an attribute to God himself. It is a heavenly quality, a sacred virtue and he who has this characteristic becomes “likest God”. It is like gentle rain from heaven. She tells Shylock that what he should strive for is not justice but rather mercy.

Quality of Mercy Poem Summary in Kannada

Quality of Mercy Poem Summary in English and Kannada

Quality of Mercy Poem About the Author

William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on- Avon. He was regarded as the foremost dramatist of his time. His sonnets were composed between 1593 and 1601.

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The Sonnets of Shakespeare, consists of 154 sonnets, all written in the form of three quatrains and a couplet that is now recognized as Shakespearean. The sonnets fall into two groups: sonnets 1-126, addressed to a beloved friend, a handsome and noble young man, and sonnets 127-152, to a malignant but fascinating “Dark Lady,” whom the poet loves in spite of himself. Nearly all of Shakespeare’s sonnets examine the inevitable decay of time, and the immortalization of beauty and love in poetry.

In his poems and plays, Shakespeare invented thousands of words. His impressive expansion of the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, includes such words as: birthplace, bloodsucking, courtship, dewdrop, downstairs, radiance, schoolboy, stillborn, watchdog etc.

Shakespeare wrote more than 30 plays. These are usually divided into four categories: histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. His earliest plays were primarily comedies and histories such as Henry VI and The Comedy of Errors, but in 1596, Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, his second tragedy, and over the next dozen years he would return to the form, writing the plays for which he is now best known: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. In his final years, Shakespeare turned to the romantic with Cymbeline, A Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest

Quality of Mercy Poem Word Meanings

strain’d : forced, compelled
droppeth: drops
blest: blessed
sceptre : a decorated rod carried by a king or
a queen as a symbol of power
temporal : worldly power
attitude : view point
majesty : royal power
doth : does
dread: threat
enthroned : seated
attribute : quality, character
likest God’s : like that of God
seasons : tempers
ennobles: makes something noble

10th English Notes

The Bird of Happiness Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

October 24, 2023

10th English The Bird of Happiness Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

The Bird of Happiness Lesson Summary in English

An area in Tibet had no natural resources and there was no trees or even green grass. It resulted or caused many problems. The people of this area suffered from hunger and cold. The word “Happiness” was not known to the people. Yet they believed that this happiness existed somewhere in the world and longed to find it.

The old folk believed that happiness was a beautiful bird living on a snowy mountain far, far away in the east. They might find this happiness wherever the bird flew. So some people went in search of this bird but in vain. The people believed that this bird of Happiness was guarded by three old monsters who were very powerful. They could destroy the people by simply blowing through their long beards.

Wangjia was a bright and courageous boy of this area. He was sent to find the bird of happiness. The girl of the village offered barely wine and the mothers spread barely grains on his head. Wangjia set out to the East for many days and found a large mountain. There he saw an old monster with black beard.

He asked the boy crying like a crow how he dared to come there. The boy replied that he wanted to look for the bird of paradise. Then the monster told him that if he wanted the bird he must kill Lousang’s mother but the boy (Wangjia) refused. So he was made to walk 900 miles.

The Monster blew his beard and the smooth road became a vast scree. Every stone was as sharp as knife. It was very difficult for Wangjia to walk though his boots were ripped, his feet were cut to pieces, his hands were torn to shreds, yet he was bold enough to face. He remembered his people and they were waiting for his return with the bird of happiness. It gave him a lot of Courage. He lay on the ground and crawled. He didn’t mind his clothes and injuries and completed his journey.

Then he found another monster with a brown beard. The monster told Wangjia to poison old gaffer silong. If not, he would starve him to death and did the same. Sangjia lost his bread bag and did not get water even. He controlled his hunger and the pain and completed his second journey. Then he found a river and drank water but he was reduced to skin and bone.

The third monster with a white beard told him to bring Bhima’s (a girl’s name) eyeballs. If not, he would gouge out his eye balls. As usual, Wangjia refused to do the work of the monster and as a result of this, he lost his eye sight. Yet he didn’t lost hope and went on in the direction of the rising sun. He crawled 900 miles and heard the voice of the Bird of Happiness. When the bird spoke to him lovingly, he was overwhelmed with joy and requested the bird to go back with him.

The bird of happiness touched Wangjia gently with love and sang for him. As a result of this, Wangjia got back his eyes, his wounds healed, and he became stronger. He ate some dried meat and cake and the bird took him to a mountain top in his village. The bird gave three cries. At first the golden sun broke out, then forest appeared, flowers bloomed green rivers and fields came, the rabbits danced and the larks sang. Thus Wangjia put an end to the sufferings of the people with the help of the bird of happiness.

The Bird of Happiness Lesson Summary in Kannada

The Bird of Happiness Lesson About the Author

Liu Jude is a Chinese writer. He has compiled Tibetan Folk tales in English.

The Bird of Happiness Lesson Word Meanings

despite : in spite of
puny : small
rage : anger
will be done for : will be dead
ripped apart: pulled apart
departure : leaving
scree : an area of small loose stones, especially on a mountain
sole : the bottom surface of the foot
shreds : thin torn pieces
Will I ever make it? : Can I succeed?
crawl : move slowly
old gaffer: old man in charge
defiantly : refusing to obey
rumbling with hunger : feeling very hungry
set off: start
howled : cried like a wolf
boundless : having no limit
silong : a Tibetan whom the first monster hated
old gqffer Silong : an enemy of the second monster
not a scrap of food : not a bit of food
bruised : hurt
head swam: felt as if every thing was spinning around
reckless : unmindful of risk
Cood gouge out : to force out the eye of (a person) with one’s thumb Wangjia
ordeal : suffering
overwhelmed : filled with strong emotion
caressed: touched gently with love
Bhima : a girl’s name
at once : with no loss of time
clambered : climbed up
groping: moving as if in the dark
to set foot : to enter into some place
Mountain peach : mountain fruit
larks : a kind of birds

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Grandma Climbs a Tree Poem Summary in English and Kannada

October 24, 2023

10th English Grandma Climbs a Tree Poem Summary in English and Kannada

Grandma Climbs a Tree Poem Summary in English

The poem Grandma Climbs a Tree’ portrays Ruskin Bond’s love for his family. The storyline is as follows: Ruskin Bond, in this poem tells us how his grandmother had a passion for climbing trees from a very young age and how she could climb trees till the age of sixty-two! The only problem was that Bond’s family was scared that one day, she would fall.

Once when everyone except Grandma was out- of town, the old lady climbs a tree but is unable to come down. After being ‘rescued’ as Bond puts it, the doctor advises her rest. However, Grandma is not able to live without a tree, so she tells Bond’s father to build a tree-house.

Accordingly, Bond and his father build a tree-house and this way, Bond and his Grandma spend evenings sitting in the tree- house, drinking sherry. This poem shows the unconditional love Bond has towards his family. It shows his ability to enjoy unusual events and actions.

Grandma Climbs a Tree Poem Summary in Kannada

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Grandma Climbs a Tree Poem About the Author

Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934 in a military hospital in Kasauli, to Edith Clerke and Aubrey Bond. His siblings were Ellen and William. Ruskiri’s father was with the Royal Air Force. When Bond was four years old, his mother separated from his father and married a Punjabi-Hindu, Mr. Hari, who himself had been married once.

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Bond spent his early childhood in Jamnagar and Shimla. At the age of ten Ruskin went to live at his grandmother’s house in Dehradun after his father’s sudden death in 1944 from malaria. Ruskin was raised by his mother. He completed his schooling at Bishop Cotton School in Shimla, from where he graduated in 1952 after winning several writing competitions in the school like the Irwin Divinity Prize and the Hailey Literature Prize.

Following his high school education he went to his aunt’s house in England and stayed there for four years. In London he started writing his first novel, “The Room on the Roof, the semi- autobiographical story of the orphaned Anglo-Indian boy Rusty. It won the 1957 John Llewellyn Rhys prize”, awarded to a British Commonwealth writer under 30.

Bond used the advance money from the book to pay the sea passage to Bombay. He worked for some years as a journalist in Delhi and Dehradun. Since 1963 he has lived as a free-lance writer in Mussoorie, a town in the Himalayan foothills. He wrote Vagrants in the Valley, as a sequel to The Room on the Roof. These two novels were published in one volume by Penguin India in 1993. The following year a collection of his non-fiction writings, The Best of Ruskin Bond was published by Penguin India. His interest in the paranormal led him to write popular titles such as Ghost Stories from the Raj, A Season of Ghosts, and A Face in the Dark and other Hauntings.

Grandma Climbs a Tree Poem Word Meanings

in a trice : very quickly
outcome : what actually happened
hold ones’s peace: keep quiet demise
undaunted : without hesitation
chore : task
sherry : yellow or brown Coloured win
upholding : making clear to the world

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Science and Hope of Survival Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

October 24, 2023

10th English Science and Hope of Survival Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

Science and Hope of Survival Lesson Summary in English

In this thought provoking article, we come to know what a scientist has to say about his profession. Pursuit of science is an exciting adventure. So most of the people prefer to become scientists rather than selecting the profession of businessmen, lawyers and doctors. Other professions fetch lot of money but the profession of scientist surely bring promotions and honours, because it is mainly concerned with one’s capacity or ability. One more exciting benefit of becoming a scientist is that the person gets the overwhelming feeling of uncovering Nature’s Mystery.

F. Press one of the best educators on human nature writes about his stay at Moscow in the year 1960. He was doing research on the theory of seismic waves (tremors generated by an earthquake). He was happy in his research and enjoyed the Mathematical challenge. He didn’t think much about seismic waves having connection with real life. At that time, there was an unfriendly relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Then came the Summons from the president of Russia about Soviet Union, United States and United Kingdom possessing nuclear weapons. So the president of Russian sent him (F. Press) to Geneva.

There was no war going on between U.S. and the U.S.S.R. when the Geneva meeting was called but one could find a cold war going on and everyone lived under the fear of annihilation by nuclear weapons. Each super power had more than enough nuclear bombs to destroy others in the first strike. But in the 20 minutes it took for the rockets to reach their targets, the other side had plenty of time to launch retaliation strikes.

This is the threat called ‘MAD’ (Mutually Assured Destruction) which saved all from the common fatal fate. Realising the future grave effects the three nuclear powers came to an agreement that is putting a ban on the nuclear weapon test. So technical experts were called to solve this fatal problem.

The following problems arose. Suppose if all the three powers signed an agreement to ban nuclear weapons, and if some one secretly makes an underground explosion, how this can be detected, i.e., violation of the agreement. Then the writer got a point that the problem had a direct connection with his research that is seismic waves, because underground nuclear weapons produce earth tremors which are similar to those of the tremors created by Earthquakes. The writer pondered over as to how to distinguish between natural tremors and the tremor caused by underground nuclear weapons. So the research conducted by F. Press came to his help.

Scientists and Engineers from the opposite sides of the Iron Curtain started finding a solution. It seemed impossible outwardly. But the scientists were able to work out a common language. Their solution allowed politicians to reach the decision ‘Nuclear Test Ban’. This particular thing made the writer think that he was not alone and science can bring the hope of survival and well-being of humanity.

Knowledge of basic science will give the people a head start in whatever career we choose. It is true that science doesn’t go with practical sense. Yet all research stem from science. So people trained in theoretical physical are head hunted by financial institutions but those trained in frontiers of biological research become founders and directors in the pharmaceutical industry.

Natural and man-made disasters threaten the survival of our civilization. The self-inflicted destruction of mega cities, environmental catastrophes, Economic and social crisis and Earthquakes are examples. Nuclear waste disposal releases radioactivity which can cause up to a million of casualties.

Our world becomes uninhabitable and trigger global economic depression or a war in a ‘hot’ region. We cannot check them though we spend trillions of dollars. We are in a situation in which it sums impossible to come to an agreement or disagreement. To break this, we not only require money but also intellectual resources. Here the author quotes the French proverb “Nobody is satisfied with his wealth, everybody is satisfied with his wisdom”.

To live save and unharmed, we need scientific research and it is the scientists with their tools that are upto the challenge and can ensure that we move on. So science should be used humanly then only it becomes our guardian and caretaker; if not, it becomes destroyer and leads all to destruction. Me George Bundy has rightly said that ‘it is in our hands to bloom or the perish’.

Science and Hope of Survival Lesson Summary in Kannada

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Science and Hope of Survival Lesson About the Author

Keilis- Borok teaches at the University of California. Los Angeles currently. He is the research group leader of the inter-national Institute for Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Science He is also Codirector (and founder) of the Research Programme on non-linear dynamics and earthquake prediction of the Abdus International Centre for Theoretical physics, Trieste.

Science and Hope of Survival Lesson Word Meanings

Leo Tolstoy : A Russian writer, author of the novel War and Peace
merely : only
camaraderie : a feeling of friendship when people work together
promotion : a move to a more important position
draerb overwhelming : a great effect on you that you feel very happy
F.Press : One of the best educators on human nature
the cold war : unfriendly relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after the second world war
mystery : something that people do not know anything about
generated : something produced
annihilation : complete destruction
retaliation : action against someone who has done something bad to you
ominous : making you feel that something bad is going to happen
acronym : a word made from the first letters of the name of any organisation, e.g. MAD
standoff (n) : a situation in which neither side in a battle can gain an advantage
violate : disobey law/ going against agreement
survival : a state that continues to live or exist
Iron Curtain : the name for the socio-political border that was believed to exist between Western Europe and the communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe
obvious : clear
indisputable : known to be true
persistent : continuing to exist or happen
self-criticism : the act of judging one’s own
behaviour or character
lore : knowledge or information about a subject
immersion : being absorbed in an activity
fundamental ; the most basic or important parts of something
forensic : of scientific method of finding out about a crime
headhunt : an act to find people with right 1 skills or experience for a particular iob
self inflict : to cause pain or problem for oneself
trigger : to make something happen very quickly
trillion : the number lakh crores
stalemate (n) : a situation in which it seems impossible to come to an agreement or disagreement
springboard : something that helps one to start doing something
venture (n) : a new activity that involves risk
indispensable : very useful and necessary
Me George Bundy : He was United States National Security Advisor to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson

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A Great Martyr Ever Cherished Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

October 24, 2023

10th English A Great Martyr Ever Cherished Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

A Great Martyr Ever Cherished Lesson Summary in English

We come to know (he profile of a young soldier Hanif lddin who gave Ip his life at the age of twenty five. He fought the Kargil War Turtuk sector in Kargil. It is now renamed as sub-sector Hanif in memory of his bravery.

Hanifuddin lost this father when he was 8 years old. His father was an artist at the National school of drama. Hema Aziz was his mother she was a vocal artiste. She had to leave her three young boys and worked to earn. So all the children became independent at the earliest age.

Nafisuddin was his elder brother who served as teacher. His another brother composed music. Sometimes Hanif used to join hands with him. Hanifuddin helped others. He studied in Kerala school in New Delhi and applied to army. He completed his graduation from Shivaji College in New Delhi. He underwent tough military training.

He joined 11 Rajputana Rifles and was posted at Jaipur later at Siachen. It was all before the Kargil War in 1999. He had profound knowledge and was fond of music. He fought bravely and sacrificed his life. Now that a subsector is named after him. Scholarship now exists in his name and a school is under Hanif foundation.

Hanifuddin was brave and served the country round the clock. He has earned his family a glory which is very green. His mother Hema Aziz didn’t accept any compensation. The concluding line of the mother of a martyr is really commendable.

A Great Martyr Ever Cherished Incident Lesson Summary in Kannada

A Great Martyr Ever Cherished Lesson About the Author

We often come to know from the newspaper accounts how our young soldiers aspire to live and die for our country. They are ready to sacrifice everything. Here is a profile of a young soldier who gave up his life at the age of 25. People live him die, but continue to live for even in the hearts of patriots. Read on to know and cherish the memory of such great souls.

A Great Martyr Ever Cherished Lesson Word Meanings

beckon : call, invite
within in the confines of a picture frame : just from a photograph
martyr : a soldier who dies for the sake of his/her country
avert the pain : to get over the sad feeling
mission: goal, objective, purpose
surmise : guess
Casio : a musical instrument
introvert : a person who is interested in his own thoughts
Sifism : a religious philosophy that advocates attainment of Godhood through prayer, meditation, simple and strict way of living
exposure : (here) experience or knowledge
Kargil War : The war between India and Pakistan
dabbled in art : to try to draw, though not seriously bravery does live on
in the air of : his bravery was felt by one and all

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Colours of Silence Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

October 24, 2023

10th English Colours of Silence Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

Colours of Silence Lesson Summary in English

Painter, Sculptor, Muralist, Architect & Writer Satish Gujral is described as a living legend; one of the few who have consistently dominated the art scene in India for entire post-independent era. He has won an equal, if not more, acclaim as an architect.

His building of the Belgium Embassy in New Delhi has been selected by the international Forum of architects as one of the one thousand best built in the 20th century round the world. Citizens of New Delhi had honoured Gujral as one of its 25 citizens who in the last 50 years, brought the city on the world map. The Republic of India honoured him with the second highest National Award, “Padma Vibhushan”.

Satish Gujral was born in the year 1925 in the pre-partition West Punjab. At the tender age of eight, an illness fatally impaired his hearing. In 1939, Satish joined the Mayo School of Art in Lahore to study Applied Arts. In 1944, he moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) and took admission in the Sir J.J. School of Art.

During his stay at the college, which lasted from 1944 to 1947, he came into contact with the Progressive Artists Group. However, he found it difficult to agree with their techniques and started looking for a kind of modernism, with its roots in the Indian traditions. In 1947, a recurring sickness forced Satish Gujral to drop out of J.J. School of Art. He left for Mexico in the year 1952, on a scholarship, for an apprenticeship with Diego Rivera and David Sequeiros.

There, his work got heavily influenced by the suffering of the people who lost their homes and families because of the partition of the country. Slowly, Satish started diversifying his sculptural materials with machined industrialized objects in steel, copper, glass, etc. and even tried junk sculptures.

Since the late 1980s, the paintings and sculptures of Satish Gujral have shown a greater expansion, both in terms of materials as well as content. He started making large murals, mostly in mosaic and ceramic tiles. Later, machined steel elements overtook the tiles. Satish Gujral’s sculptures in burnt wood come across as visceral exposure of human and other forms.

Recognition: Satish Gujral has received the following awards in recognition of his vital contribution in the field of art:

National Award for Painting (twice)
National Award for Sculpture
State Honor from the Government of Punjab
Order of the Crown, Belgium (for Architecture)
Padma Vibhushan
Leonardo Da Vinci Award
International award for Life Time

Achievements (Mexico)
In this inspiring story of Satish Gujral, we come to know his childhood and the problems he faced later his achievement in the field of art and literature. It is suggestive that physical disability is no barrier to success.

In the first part, we come to know that Satish met with an accident when he went hiking with his father. He had multiple fractures and was confined to bed. It affected his hearing so he talks with his friend Surender.

Later the school authorities told Avtar Narain (father of Satish) to take the boy out of school but his father was bent on giving him education but it was in vain. He brought some books for his boy and he read it.

One day he saw a bird and observed its movements. He notebook and pencil and sketched the bird. Like this he developed the interest in painting. But his father was not happy initially but the mother supported him. One day he was mixing colors and he was aware of his father standing at the door and continued with his mixing. Then the father understood the real talent of Satish and brought paints, brushes of all shapes and drawing sheets. He encouraged him and the boy was very happy. This boy is none other than Satish Gujral.

Colours of Silence Lesson Summary in Kannada

Colours of Silence Lesson About the Author

“Children who made it big” -Director: National Book Trust India (Delhi)

Colours of Silence Lesson Word Meanings

rickety bridge : weak bridge
bruised : injured
rapids: a dangerous part of a river which flows very fast because it is steep and sometimes narrow
swirling : twisting circular movement Seda
bouts of fever: fit of illness
glistened : shone
snatches : parts
persuasion: act of convincing
bluntly : unfeelingly
shattered : helpless
taunts : remarks intended to hurt somebody’s feelings
expedition: (here) tour
leqfed through the books : read carefully
Garibaldi and Lala Lajpat Rai : Freedom fighters
Munshi PremChand : a great novelist
sensitive mind : tender, responsive mind
voracious : restless, (reader)
crest: top
darting : moving
deft strokes: skillful strokes of an artist
gloomily : with nothing bright or cheerful, dismally
stack of books : pile of books
doodles : to draw pictures or patterns while thinking about something else or when you are bored
pastime : something that one enjoys doing during leisure time
indulge in : involved in
soothing : comforting
calligraphy : the art of producing beautiful writing
solace: comfort
intently: with interest

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On Top of the World Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

October 24, 2023

10th English On Top of the World Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

On Top of the World Lesson Summary in English

In this article, Dicky Dolma narrates her saga of adventure. She climbed Mt. Everest on May 10, 1993 and became the youngest woman in the world to have achieved the awesome feat of scaling the world’s highest peak. The whole article is in the first person narrative. In the end, we find her message for the youngsters to take up adventure sports, if they wish to go for it. We find her adventurous story.

Dicky Dolma was born and brought up in Palchan, Himachal Pradesh. She faced a lot of hardships in her life. She lost her mother when she was eleven years old. Then she lost her elder brother. As a young girl, she was very much interested in skiing and participated in National level competitions and won lot of medals.

During her childhood, she was fascinated by the beauty of snow-covered peaks of the Himalayas. When she woke up, she used to find the beautiful mountain peaks. So she developed a desire to take to mountaineering. She joined the institute at Manali and worked hard and she had the support and encouragement of the members of the family and friends. She secured ‘A’ grade and her name was included in All-India Expedition to Mount Everest. She completed three successful expeditions.

Then she climbed Mount Everest on May 10, 1993. She was overwhelmed with joy, she was only 19 then. She felt that she had the whole world literally at her feet. She had all the most beautiful and delightful experience which was everything than the awards she received.

She worked hard with zest and zeal. She was not idler. She didn’t take back seat. She was not a shirker. She practiced everyday for four hours with hard work and dedication.

She had the grit to face for the hardships had taught her all the lessons. During her final frontier, the economic condition of her family was not encouraging. At the same time, her father was bed ridden and a lot of money was essential for his treatment. So she managed with the little money she got.

Dicky Dolma loved music and was fond of listening old Hindi film songs. Later she lost her father and at present she is teaching mountaineering at the Institute where she learnt. She is serving as coach.

On Top of the World Lesson Summary in Kannada

On Top of the World Lesson About the Author

Dicky Dolma scaled Mt. Everest in 1993 just when she was 19 and became the youngest woman to do so. Born and brought up in Himachal Pradesh, she made a ,concerted effort to reach the summit. Come, let us read this saga of adventure which she penned after that event.

On Top of the World Lesson Word Meanings

profound impact: deep effect
Nationals : National Level Competitions in Skiing
fascinated: lured, attracted
savour : experience and eryoy
one-track mind : mind with determination
stood by : supported
immense : great
expedition : an organized journey with a purpose, (here) scaling Mount Everest
awesome feat : an unbelievable and almost frightening adventure
literally : in the true sense of the term
zeal : enthusiasm, desire
to go to any length : to take any risk
shirker: person running away from the risk or responsibility
quest : search
learnt the ropes: learnt scaling with the help of ropes

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Narayanpur Incident Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

October 24, 2023

10th English Narayanpur Incident Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

Narayanpur Incident Lesson Summary in English

The story is set in 1942 at the time of ‘Quit India Movement’. In the beginning we come to know about a teacher who is arrested, because he had been the follower of Gandhiji.

The teacher had two sons and a daughter. Mohan and Babu were his sons. Manju was his daughter. We find another character called Suman who was the friend of Mohan.

We find Babu and Manju waiting for the procession of freedom fighters. They noticed the procession of college students. Who led their march silently. They reached the barred gates holding the photograph of Gandhiji. Mohan was stopped by the DSP who had conversation with him later. Baby and Manju were sad because they didn’t hear any slogans and the march continued peacefully. The police expected a sort of serious revolt but it didn’t take place. The protestors served a notice informing the British to Quit India or to face the further consequences.

During their conversation, Suman and another boy came in with a news paper covered parcel. The mother suggested them to take to puja room and Mohan assigned different duties to others to safeguard them. There was, a cyclostyling machine in the parcel. The boys who gathered there would take away the copies of the speech of Mahatma Gandhiji and distribute them to the people so that every one would strand against the British and send them out.

Mr. Patil, the Sub-Inspector of Police happened to be the friend of the teacher who was arrested but he was a good man. So he came to their house in order to help them. He explained the situation and the police people searching for the machine. He told them to give the machine to him so that they wouldn’t be arrested. The mother believed him and she wanted Mohan to handover the machine. As instructed, Mohan handed over the machine.

Later they heard a knocking sound and when they opened they saw some police people who wanted to search their house for the machine. Through this incident we come to know how the boys and girls led different form of resistance to the British.

Narayanpur Incident Lesson Summary in Kannada

Narayanpur Incident Lesson About the Author

Shashi Deshapande is from Dharwad, Karnataka. She is the noted women novelist and a short story writer. The famous Kannada dramatist called Sri ranga is her father. In 1978, she has published her collection of stories. For her novel “That Long Silence” in 1990, she got Sahitya Academy award. She is also the recipient of ‘Padmashree’ Award.

Narayanpur Incident Lesson Word Meanings

stagger: walk or move unsteadily
reverie : condition of being lost in dreamy, pleasant thoughts
quiver : tremble slightly or vibrate
flicker : burn or shine unsteadily
fizz : become weak
scared : frightened
crestfallen: dejected, disappointed
shrewdly : showing sound judgement and common sense
in bewilderment : in puzzled/confused state
lug : pull or drag roughly and with much effort

10th English Notes

Dr BR Ambedkar Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

October 23, 2023

10th English Dr BR Ambedkar Lesson Summary in English and Kannada

Dr BR Ambedkar Lesson Summary in English

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was a voracious reader. He purchased books by curtailing his daily expenses. He had an insatiable thirst for books. When he was in London, he bought a lot of books and later they were sent to India in 32 boxes.

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The fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Mahatma Pule influenced on Ambedkar. He noticed the parallel of the situation for the Depressed Classes in India. He started Newspapers such as Mooknayaka, Bahishkrit Bharata, and Samata.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly and made outstanding contributions. Then he was requested to serve on the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly and made him its Chairman. The other luminaries on the Committee like Alladi Krishnaswami Ayyar, K.M. Munshi, and N. Gopalswami Ayyangar, Dr. Ambedkar worked hard and became the pilot of the various provisions of the Indian Constitution.

He concentrated on the three pillars of State – the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary. He made a significant observation about the constitution. Jawaharlal Nehru noticed Dr. Ambedkar’s skill in the field of Law and Legislation. So he chose him to be the first Law Minister of Independent India and Dr. Ambedkar became the Law-maker.

Much progress has been achieved in providing equality of opportunities to the people. Members of the Scheduled Castes find doors which had been closed to them for centuries, being opened. He stressed the importance of Constitutional Methods to achieve social objectives. Gandhiji stressed the duties and Ambedkar stressed the rights. Both brought about a veritable revolution. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar passed away in December 1956. Jawaharlal Nehru described him as ‘a symbol of Revolt’.

Dr BR Ambedkar Lesson Summary in Kannada