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This essay argues that the cause and effects of reading books are numerous, but will focus on one cause, starting to read books on a regular basis, and two effects, increased comprehension abilities, and the promotion of vocabulary growth. Reading skills are essential to success in society today. The ability to read is highly valued and very important for social and economic advancement. The following paragraphs will try to explain some of the important effects that reading books will have in a person's life. In India today, most children are beginning or trying to talk around the age of two years. This is a time when language skills are just starting to develop. Even though it usually too early of an age to expect a child to read, there is no reason why the parent cannot start the reading process by reading aloud to them. Instilling reading into a child's more...

India is a land of festivals and celebrations. Festivals are an expression of one's joy, appreciation and love, in fact, they are a reason of bringing people of all caste, creed and religion in society together to celebrate in unison. Due to India's vast religious and cultural diversity, too many festivals, festivities and fairs are celebrated regularly every year. Festivals like Holi, Diwall, Moharram, Baisakhi, Christmas, Budh Purnima, Mahavir Jayanti etc are celebrated by people of all communities, classes and religions in India. Among all the festivals, my favourite festival is of course Diwali. It is celebrated just before the onslaught of winter season, at the end of October or many a times in the beginning of November. According to the Hindu calendar, Diwali is celebrated on the 15th of the month of Kartik - when the weather is pleasant, being neither too hot nor too cold. The festival is more...

There is a tradition in every school that the junior students give a farewell to the senior most and outgoing students. Every student who begins a school life must end it one day. I had studied in this school for six years. During my stay in the school I had learnt to respect and love every aspect of my school. My teachers had meant so much as they gave me guidance at the most needed hour. I had been in the company of good and helpful friends. And then, our XII class was given a farewell party by the XI class students. The hour to leave all of them had come. It was indeed with a heavy heart that I thought of the breaking ties. Though this hour is sad, yet the last day in the school is made a memorable occasion for the students who are leaving to take more...

In a patriarchal society such as ours that accords subordinate status to women, the position of a girl child is indeed vulnerable. In case of financial difficulties, it is the girl child whose education is sacrificed in order to manage the household and take care of the younger children at home. The dowry system, deeply rooted in the culture and customs of most communities in India, is a cause of harassment for most women. This has led to a situation where the girl child is treated as a guest in her own home. Dowry means the demand made by the bridegroom's family from the bride's parents for the payment of money as well as other costly gifts like land, house, clothes and jewels, a condition precedent to the alliance. It is basically a Hindu institution, which is now spreading to other communities. Dowry, in fact, is not a recent development. more...

YOU  NEED:

• A bowl
• A Table Tennis ball

  Drop a Table Tennis ball in a soup bowl. With your index finger start rolling the ball in a circular motion around the rim of the bowl. Onlookers would obviously expect the ball to stop rolling and come to rest at the bottom of the soup bowl. Surprisingly the ball will continue in its circular motion along the rim of the bowl for quite some time. Keep moving your finger along the rim of the bowl and it will seem that you have kept the ball in motion with some kind of magic.    HOW DOES IT WORK? Remember to keep your face close to the bowl as you run your index finger around the rim of the soup bowl. As soon as the ball hovers close to your mouth, quietly blow on it. Do it through pursed lips so as not more...

YOU NEED:

• Two bolts

  This one  does not need any apparatus. This experiment  can be done in the head. Just imagine that  bolts are placed together so that their three dimensional spiral structures, called a helix, intermesh with, each other as shown in the illustration. Now move the bolts around each other in your mind. It will be similar to twiddling your thumbs holding each  head so as not rotate it. Move the bolts in the direction of the arrow. Will the heads i)                    Come close to each other ii)                   Move away from each other iii)                 Or be static? Solution : You will be surprised to learn that the answer is iii) .It is comparable to a situation where someone is  up an escalator moving downwards.

“A good teacher must know how to arouse the interest of the pupil in the field of education for which he is responsible. He must ™"1 himself be a master in the field of education and be in touch with the latest developments in the subjects, he must himself be a fellow traveler in the exciting pursuit of knowledge."                                                                                                                                —Sarvepalli Dr. Radhakrishnm   Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born in Tirutani on September 5,18SS inlay poor brahmin family. His father Sarvepalli Veeraswami was employed on a mat salary in the zammdari. His mother's name was Sitamma. It was difficult f« | Radhakrishnan's father to educate him with a meager income and a large family tab care of. Radhakrishnan went through most of his education on scholarships. Bill initially went to school in Tirutani and then to the Lutheran Mission School in Tile for High School. In 1900 he moved to more...

"Lal Bahadur Shastri was born near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. He served as Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966. A follower of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he was imprisoned several times by the British for nationalist activities. When India achieved independence (1947), he became a minister in the State government of Uttar Pradesh, and he later served in the federal cabinet as minister of transport(1952-1956),industry (1957-1961) and home affairs (1961- 1963). Shastri became Prime Minister on the death of Jawaharlal Nehru ill 1964. The principal event of Ills tenure was the undeclared war with Pakistan over the Rann of Kutch that began in April 1965 and subsequently spread to Kashmir. He died immediately after signing a Soviet-mediated ^no-war" agreement with Pakistan in Tashkent, USSR, in January 1966." Lal Bahadur Shastri (born 1904) succeeded Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime minister of India in 1964. Though eclipsed by such stalwarts of the more...

"Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor : Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth."                                                                                                                 —D. Ambani   Mr. Ambani was born in Chorwad, a village in Saurashtra, Gujrat. When he was 17, he went to Aden (now part of Yemen) and worked for A. Besse & Co. Ltd.. the sole selling distributor of Shell products. He returned to Mumbai in 1958 and started his first company. Reliance Commercial Corporation, a commodity trading and export house. In 1966 as a first step in Reliance's highly successful strategy of backward integration he started the textile mill in Naroda, Ahmedabad. In 1975, a technical team from the World Bank certified that the RIL textile plant was "excellent by developed country standards." In 1977, the company went public.  Dhirubhai Ambani - Entrepreneur who built up the only Indian business to feature in the more...

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ranks together with Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaliarlal Neliru as one of the foremost leaders of the Indian National Movement. An erudite scholar of Islamic theology, he had a strong intellectual bent of mind and an inborn flair for literary writing. Making his debut on the Indian political scene as a young journalist with strong Pan-Islamist views, Azad Grew over the years into a front-rank Indian nationalist who steered the destiny of the Indian National Congress as its President twice, first in 1923 and from 1940to 1946 subsequently. Born in 1888, Firoz Bakht (of exalted destiny), commonly called Muhiyuddin Ahmad, was only two years old , when his parents settled at Calcutta; his father, Maulana Khairuddin, became famous here as a spiritual guide. Till in his teens, Muhiyuddin used the pseudonym Abul Kalam Azad acquired a high reputation for his writings on religion and literature in the more...