Essays

During the Christmas of 1998 an interesting football match was played between St. John's College and Government College, Agra. It was the final match of the Inter-college tournament of the year. The two teams were well known for their game. The match began punctually at 4 p.m. in the sunny weather. For the first ten minutes the two teams were evenly balanced. The ball remained mostly in the central area of the field. The Government College team began to press their opponents slowly. Their two forward players made great efforts to take the ball to opponent's side but the St. John's College backs put up a mighty defence. Thus the game grew more exciting. The spectators cheered and clapped loudly at every fine kick the player gave. Neither side was able to score any goal till half time. People began to think that the match might end in a draw more...

There are conflicting views regarding students' participation in politics. There are people who always want to keep students very far from the politics. There are others who hold opposite view. They think that students ought to be well versed in politics because they are the future leaders of the Country. Let us see how far it is desirable or otherwise for  he  students  to be in politics.  It has been seen that the students who actively participate In politics often do not pay attention on their studies. There are exceptions no doubt but most of the time we see that student politicians lose their potentialities in the field of studies. Needless  to say that students' prime duty is to devote much of  their time to studies. If this period is wasted by any reason, they will have to face life long problems. They become burden on  their families because they more...

Formerly people used to write on the leaves of certain trees. Palm leaves were then used for this purpose. Paper is a very useful thing now. It is used for writing letters, bills and legal documents. No office or school can do without paper. It is used in blotting ink, in wrapping up parcels and in decorating the walls of our rooms. Ancient people could not spread knowledge so easily because there was no paper or printing press. Paper is a very useful thing. It is made of rags, old papers, grass etc. These things are reduced to dust in a paper mill. It is then boiled. It becomes something like a thick solution, called pulp. Pulp is then purified. Then it is made white by bleaching. Sometimes, some dye is mixed with pulp and it becomes coloured. Thus we get red, blue, green or yellow paper. Pulp is spread more...

It was a fine day I decided to spend the evening at Connaught Place. I got ten rupees from my father. 1 left my house at 6 p.m. to catch the bus for Odeon. I stood in the queue and waited anxiously for my turn in vain. Joined those who were  struggling on the door of the bus. With a great difficulty I also got my chance to get into the bus. I got a seat. Hardly had I sat on my seat when 1 saw a very old man. He was standing near me. He looked very sad. I looked at him. I got up out of respect. 1 offered my seat to him. But to my great surprise, a fashionable young lady rushed towards the seat. She pressed herself into the seat. The poor old man looked at her helplessly. He had to keep standing. The lady felt more...

Onam is the most typical Kerala festival which has now earned an all-India character. It coincides with harvest season and is an occasion of spontaneous revelry. Onam celebrates home coming of Mahabali, legendary kind, who ruled over Kerala in an age of plenty but was pushed down to infernal regions by Vishnu in the form of Vamana. It is now celebrated as a national festival under government auspices. Onam comes on the Shravan Bhadrapada in the month of Shravan according to the Hindu lunar calendar around August or September. On this occasion, people clean their houses and their surroundings and decorate it beautifully.  They start their preparations a few days before the festival. Two little mounds of earth are placed in the centre to represent king Mahabali and Lord Vishnu.  There is a favour of festivity all around. Ladies prepare floral rangolis with beautiful designs at the entrance of their more...

A persons is rags who pulls a rickshaw is called rickshaw puller. He is often seen here and there on the road, in market complexes, near cinema halls, schools, hospitals etc. He belongs to the poor class of our society and serves to the humanity whether it is rain or its chilli cold or it is scorching heat. He is ready to give his service all the time.  A rickshaw puller leads a very hard life. He earns little to meet two square meals a day for his family. He never cares for his health and pulls his rickshaw for maximum hours in a day. Apart from carrying person or persons, he carries goods like vegetables, tea and other things in the form of packed or unpacked bundles. Nowadays some rickshaw pullers are seen engaged in carrying school children. It gives them a permanent income. And what is more, they more...

I am a good player. Hence I take part in all the out door games. each one has his own choice. Some like hockey, others like football, while many others consider cricket to be their best game. The game I like most is football. Now you can ask me why I prefer football to any other game. It can be easily explained. The main object of all games is to give us some exercise. This is one reason why football is my favourite game. It helps our body to grow. It brings a sense of discipline and a habit of endurance in us. A good football player is sure to succeed in any walk of life. He can make himself a great soldier to defend his country. He can be a clever statesman to run the government. But is there no other game which gives hard exercise ? Surely none more...

Co-education means education of boys and girls together in the same school or college at the same time. In india it has recently become popular. Co-education is not a new thing for us. In the good old days when 'Ashrams' were the seats of learning, co-education was in practice. In the Hindu scriptures, old records and legends we find a number of examples which show that co-education was all over the country. Practice continued till the coming of Muslims in India. The Purdah system put an end to co-education. From the very beginning voices have been raised against co- education. Stephen Lealock, an American educationist declares, "Men cannot read when women are around". There are many charges against Co-education. First, it lowers the tone of discipline. Secondly, it brings about a shift in the minds of students. Learning goes to the background and 'sex attraction reigns supreme'. Thirdly, it creates more...

I live at Shatpura, a small village in Moradabad district. The nearest town is Moradabad, some 25 km away. It is a small village, where about 225 families live. It is located in the midst of vast fields on all sides. Our village is flanked by the national highway on the north and in the south is the River Ganga, barely 1 km from the heart of the village. To go to town, we have to tread about 5 km long kuchcha way to reach the national highway from where we can get a transport. My village has a few graduates, some of whom are school teachers in a high school in the neighboring village.  Others travel by bus to travel by bus to Moradabad or Rampur to earn their living. There is a post office, a charitable dispensary and a health centre nearby. The population of my village is more...

The last two decades (1981-1999) witnessed the emergence of a new fatal disease in short called "AIDS". The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes virus infects the blood stream through sexual intercourse with a person having HIV, by transfusion of blood from a person positive to HIV, sharing injection needle with AIDS positive person or from the infected mother's blood to the child during pregnancy period. Once this deadly virus (HIV) enters the blood of a man or woman, he or she, is bound to die.  At the beginning of disease no one knew what was destroying the immune systems to otherwise healthy men. But after sometimes it was detected as a newly discovered "retrovirus". It was eventually called the "human immune efficiency virus" or HIV. The scientists, a after long researches, mapped out the genes of HIV and discovered which parts of this gene are constant and which are variable. They more...