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The book contains one hundred and eighty one very short prose pieces of less than one page in length, which the author has preferred to call ‘Miscellany’ for lack of a better or more appropriate literary term. These are condensed pieces of thoughts, and so fall naturally in the genre of prose. But they are not strictly essays inasmuch as they do not elaborate in detail the fundamental thought they primarily deal with. One advantage of this kind of ...
In the present book the author presents his experiences of teaching in the colleges of Haryana from1981, when he joined his job as an Assistant Professor, to 2014 when he retired as Principal. The book describes his emotional and intellectual development as a man, a government officer and a teacher. But the narrative is not limited to his individual progress; it delves into many serious issues and problems infesting the present system of education in Haryana and ...
The book contains the latest and unpublished poems of the author. The poems are mature thematically inasmuch as they reflect the strains and hardships of life. That is why most of them deal with the harsh and painful reality of life in general. They seem to lack the romantic streak often seen in his earlier poems where the persona was infatuated with the pursuit of some desires or dreams. Here he is often found in quest for a meaning of the whole drama of life or ...
The book is dedicated to the non-native learners of English and as such is planned to solve the problems they face in learning English pronunciation. It covers the whole of the present curricula followed in various universities and English language teaching institutes. It is specially meant for postgraduate and under-graduate students of phonetics and those undergoing various teacher’s training programmes in English. The book presents the rules of word ...
"Rare Collection with Rare Medicine" by Dr. Balbir Singh & Dr. Satwant Singh, is being published at a time when several books on this subject are flooded in the Homoeopathic literature. However as the old dietum goes "one who dives deep gets the rare gems out of the sea". The team of both the doctors have taken great pains in diving and getting out of it real gems. With the growing fast life style it was felt by several homoeopaths that it ...
Philip Roth is perhaps the most important and popular living writer of America. He is a prolific writer and has written more than twenty three novels besides a play and critical essays. He won National Book Award for Goodbye, Columbus (1959), National Book Critic Circle Award for The Counterlife (1986) and again for Patrimony (1991), the Pen/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater (1995), the Pulitzer prize for ...