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its final revenge upon the Tiger King. Reading with Insight 1. The story is a satire on the conceit of those in power. How does the author employ t... |
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118/K ALEIDOSCOPE Non-fiction INTRODUCTION Non-fiction is virtually everything that we read as literature but that does not come under the categori... |
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such person. Whether we like it or not, we must all sleep for one third of our lifetime—wash and dress and undress—we must spend a couple of hours ... |
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can be shifted on to your shoulders; and you will find yourself working from eight to fourteen hours a day when, if you had only yourself and your ... |
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to her slaves. If she forces you to eat and drink, she makes eating and drinking so pleasant that when we can afford it we eat and drink too much. ... |
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most desperate efforts to prevent us from realising our slavery. From our earliest years we are taught that our country is the land of the free, an... |
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lends money to the other Powers to join her in forcing the revolutionists restore the slave order. When this combination was successful at Waterloo... |
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systems, and that he should shed his blood, and yours, to the last drop in its defence. But the great mass of our rack-rented, underpaid, treated-a... |
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Ragamala paintings are pictorial interpretations of ragas and raginis. Ragas are traditionally envisioned in divine or human form in romantic or de... |
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ringing a bell and ordering some common person to do it. And this means, of course, that they must be made very rich without any obligation other t... |
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to day. If the earth is cultivated agriculturally in vast farms with motor ploughs and chemical fertilisers, and industrially in huge electrified f... |
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and taxes. If you do not obey these laws the courts will imprison you, and, if you go too far, kill you. If the laws are reasonable and are imparti... |
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a time, with all the other trades working overtime to support it. Now let us put the case in figures. If you have to work for twelve hours a day yo... |
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an honest share of work. And let us stop singing Rule, Britannia! until we make it true. Until we do, let us never vote for a parliamentary candida... |
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ways in which individual freedom gets restricted? Reprint 2026-27 128/KALEIDOSCOPE Understanding Freedom and Discipline Jiddu Krishnamurti was a wo... |
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into being only when you are free to question, free to think out and discover, so that your mind becomes very active, very alert and clear. Then yo... |
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are you so frightened, so concerned about yourself, about your examinations, about your looks, about your saris, that you never pay any attention t... |
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free implies great sensitivity. There is no freedom if you are enclosed by self-interest or by various walls of discipline. As long as your life is... |
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text which explain a statement with examples. Write down the main statement and the examples. Notice how this contributes to the effectiveness of t... |
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In this case (a) and (b) both make sense independent of each other though there is a link. There are two main clauses joined by the conjunction but... |
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won the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar on the playing-fields of Eton—and when, only the other day, they quite unintentionally changed the German... |
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you do not know what is happening around you? Such questions are called rhetorical questions which are used as persuasive devices by public speaker... |
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Journey to the end of the Earth TishaniDoshi Before you read Ifyouwanttoknowmoreabouttheplanet’spast,presentandfuture, the Antarctica is the place ... |
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When How do geologicalyou think about all that can happen in a million years, it can get pretty mind-boggling. Imagine: phenomena help India pushin... |
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burning of fossil fuels has now created a blanket of carbon dioxide around the world, which is slowly but surely increasing the average global temp... |
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