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The ant and the grasshopper

A lazy person cannot get any success in his life. He suffers whole of his life. Read this lesson carefully. When I was a very small boy I was made to learn by heart certain of the fables of la fountain and the moral of each was carefully explained to me. Among those I learn a fable the ant and the grasshopper which  is  devised to bring home to the young the useful lesson that is an imperfect world world industry is rewarded and giddiness punished In this admirable fable I apologies for telling something which everyone is politely but inexactly supposed to know the ant spends a laborious summer gathering its winter store while the grasshopper sits on a blade of grass singing to the sun  comes and ant is comfortably provided for but the grasshopper has an empty larder.

The wettest place on earth 

Deep in Indian northeast villagers use grass for soundproofing their huts from deadening rain clouds are a familiar sight inside homes and a rust sign tells visitors that they are in the wettest place on the earth. 

Oddly enough lifelong residents of mawsynram a small cluster of hamlets in . Meghalaya state have little idea that their scenic home holds a Guinness record for the highest average annual rainfall of  11 , 873 millimetres 467 inches just thirty years ago mawsynram had no paved roads no running  water and no electricity making its six_ months long monsoon an insufferable experience for its mostly impoverished residents. Landslides still occur regularly ocking the only paved road connecting the hillside hamlets. Rainwater still seeps into the mud huts occupied by some villagers. And while most homes have electricity power cuts are quite common in place. Every winter the people of mawsynram spend months preparing for the we season  ahead anticipating non stop rain and no sunshine for several days at a time. They hence repair their bettered roofs. They cut and hoard firewood source of light and fuel for cooking. They buy and store food grains since few will venture out ship  during .

The export quality 

The comparison of the cottage industries to a departmental store makes me smile. Fixed prices, Yes sections for this and that maybe but similarities end there and initial impact is more like entering Aladdin s cave than the purposeful efficiency of a departmental store.

The entrance lobby in keeping with the prevailing sprint of the wedding season is an ostentatious display of gold glitter colour and craftsmanship a mixture of old an new past and present Elaborate wedding sarees in reds and deep pinks and ornate antique palanquin hiding a veied and decked up bride a delicately painted wooden horse with an embroidered saddle bearing bejewelled and brocaded groom brass pots carved wooden chests and more costumes hang in suspended animation.

Stephen Hawking 

Stephen Hawking a British physicist, chase understanding of the universe as his field of study.

He came up with a theory about the origin of the universe. He propounded that the universe began with a big bang. He also declared that the universe would end up as a huge black hole. What is a black hole? A black hole is far out in space. It is dark because it does not reflect light but sucks light in .you can look upon a black hole as a light guzzler. But it is not called by that name. Names often end up as misnomers. Think of a sunayan with a squint or a Sundar who is as ugly as a road. No black hole has a hole. Has a in reality, it is tightly packed with matter and hence very dense. The forecast by Stephen Hawking of the origin and likely end of the universe was truly sensational. Most physicist found much wisdom in the world. A few held other views but even they agreed that the theory projected by Stephen Hawking was worth further study . That was something that pushed him in to the limelight.

Till then very few had seen Hawking fewer still knew of the tremendous odds set in his path the fact is that hawkins is totally incapable of moving on his own and spends most of his time in a wheel chair. He has been devastated by a rare and incurable motor neuron disesy called amyotophic lateral sclerosis or ALS in short.

Peace in time of struggle

On April 15, 1912 one of the deadliest Marutime disasty in history occurred. At 2: 45 am on April 15: 5 days after its original deoaparture from Liverpool, England, the The titanic struck a large iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship titanic was the second in a three ship set the Olympic titanic and Britannica. She was 300 yards long, and weighed several hundreds of thousands of pounds. The great ship, made mostly of metal, was thought to be unsinkable. Then the impossible happened. Captain Edward John Smith had altered the Titanic's course slightly to the south, hoping to avoid the icefields that had been spotted and reported by other ships. Unfortunately the change in course didn' t help much. In the late hours of April 14, the titanic collided with a large iceberg. Upon striking the Beth, the titanic flood compartments made for just such an occasion, began to fill with water. The titanic could have stayed a float if only 4 of the compartments were flooded but the water quickly filled 6 making the bow sink slowly into the 28F degree ( - 2 celscel degree) water. Many passengers were actually spotted playing soccer with the chunks of ice, unaware of the danger posed to them .

Night of scorpion 

I remember the Night my mother was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours of steady rain had driven him to crawl beneath a sack of right.  Parting  with his poison flash of diabolic tail in the dark room he risked the rain again. The peasants came like swarms of flies and buzzed the name of god a hundred times to paral the evil one . With candles and with lanterns throwing giant scorpion shadows on the sun baked walls they searched for him he was not found. They clicked their tongues. With every movement that that the scorpion made his poison moved in mother blood. They said. May he sit still' the said.may the sins of your previous birth be burned away tonight they said. May your suffering decrease the misfortunes of your new birth they said. May the sun of evil balanced in this unreal world against the sun of good become diminished by your pain, they said May the poison purify your flesh of desire! And your spirit of ambitious they said and they sat around on the floor with my mother in the center, the peace of understand  on each face. More candles, 

Only for reading 

(.  Bhima meets Hanuman)

The Mahabharata one of the oldest epics of india,

Has several small stories. The story bhima meets Hanuman is one such story that comes with a lesson at the end. While stroll in with bhima among the hills and dales, draupadi comes across a flower. Bhima goes off in search of the  flower.

Bhima walks down a mountain path. At a distance, he sees a huge monkey sleeping undes a tree. It's tail blocks the entire path.

The monkey is unpeturbed by bhima' s boastful natural he sits on the side of the path, unmoved.

The path unmoved.

Bhaima bends down to pick up Hanuman,s tail.

Bhima tries his best to lift the tail, but he fails. He understand that the monkey is not a common one. He requests the monkey to reveal his identity. Hanuman stands up to his full height and reveals himself.

One December night a long, long time ago a family sat around the fireplace in their home. Golden light from the fire filled the room. The mother and father laughed at something their oldest daughter had just said. The girl was seventeen, much older than her little brother and sister who were only five and six Years old. A very old woman the family grandmother, sat knitting in the warmest corner of the room. And a baby, the youngest child, smiled at the fire light from its tiny bed.This family had found happiness in the worst place in all of New England. They had built their home high up in the white mountains, where the wind blows violently all year long

The family lived in an unusually cold and dangerous spot. Stones from the top of the mountain above their home would often roll down the mountainside and wake them in the middle of the night. No other family lived near them on the mountain. But this family was never lonely. They enjoyed each other's company and often had visitors.

Mahesh das- birbal 

Emperor Akbar loved to go hunting. Even as a child, he would run away from his lessons and his tutiors in order to go riding and hunting. When he grew up he was a better rider and a more fearless hunter that any of his courtiers. One day chasing a tiger, Akbar and a few brave soldiers rode so fast that they left all the others behind. They had gone a long distance from the royal capital, agre and , as evening fell, they realised that they were lost. They went slowly. They were hot, dusty and tired. Presently, they reached a place where three 

Roads met " AH , at last the emperor exclaimed! 

Then, turning to his men he asked which way shall we go ? Which road goes to Agra? 

The roads all looking the same . It was hard tell which road led to Agra. The men looked at one another. They looked at the road. The looked at the dust on their horses hooves nobody said a word. Just then a young man cam came walking .

How can this road go to akra, or go anywhere else he Agra or go anywhere else he said and he changed delightedly at his own joke.

There was absolute silence. The emperor stared down at yourth. His soldiers held their breath. They knew the emperor temper.no one of them dated to say a single word. 

Our food 

We all need food stay alive.food helps us grow.

It makes us health and strong.we get energy from food to work and play.

Sources of food 

We get most of our food from plants and animals.

Food from plants 

Most of our food comes from plants. We get vegetables, fruits, cereals, pulse, nuts, oils and spices from plants.

Food from animals 

Some of our food comes from animals. We get milk, eggs, meat fish, chicken and honey from animals. We can make many food items from milk like,curd, butter, cheese, icecream, paneer, ghee, etc.

Eggs ?.  Milk    ?. 

Food groups

We eat different types of food and each food item has different quality.

For example, the rice ? and chapattis are made from cereals which gives us a lot energy. On the other hand, dal, egg, milk and soyabean help us to grow.

The food we eat everyday is divided into three major groups .