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  🙏  🙏 Om  namo bagavathe sri aurovindaya 🙏 SRI AUROBINDO. Tales of Prison Life-About the book Dr. Sisir Kumar Ghosh translated this book from its original Karakahini publication in 1909–10 into English. The book includes three essays,a poem 'Invitation'  in English written in Alipore jail and a 'Uttarpara' speech in English, along with the main text.   I read this book twice, as it was very engrossing. I gathered the courage  to write a few lines about the book. (I am not a high calibre person to write about Sri Aurobindo, a world renowned yogi and  an incarnation of Satchitananda.) .This book is an account of  his spiritual experiences in Alipore jail. On May 1, 1908, the British government  arrested him for conspiracy and released him after a year of solitary confinement. The cover photo depicts the Alipore prison room, where Sri Aurobindo found himself locked in seclusion. " God took me to a prison and turned it into a place of meditat...

SRR Govt.Arts& Science College Karimnagar Satavahana University Karimnagar- Degree I year English Semester-1. Unit.3..Academic yr.2020-21onwards englishlanguage-lit.blogspot.com I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little. If suddenly you forget me do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you. If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land. But if eac...

Satavahana University Karimnagar- Degree I Year - Semester 2-English- 2020-21 onwards-Unit 6.  englishlanguage-lit.blogspot.com SRR Govt.Arts& Science College Karimnagar Be The Best It you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the valley – but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush, if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a bush, be a bit of the grass, And some highway happier make; If you can’t be a muskie , then just be a bass - But the liveliest bass in the lake! We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew, There’s something for all of us here. There’s big work to do and there’s lesser to do And the task we must do is the near. If you can’t be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can’t be the sun, be a star; It isn’t by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are! englishlanguage-lit.blogspot.com Questions 1) what is the central theme of the poem? 2) Comment on the imagery used in the poem? 3) Write a summar...

All Roads lead to Ganga review englishlanguage-lit.blogspot.com "  All Roads lead to Ganga " is a fascinating nostalgic travel memoir.  Ruskin Bond records his travel experiences enroute from Dehra to Ganga, depicting rivers,rivulets ,temples and pens the beauty in the smallest things  in a vivid manner. Breathtaking description of landscape,  mist filled hills, crops and culture in the Garwhal HImalyan region are seen in this book. We hear local folk songs, little birds chirping, red headed parakeets singing, cheerful bulbuls,quarrelsome mynas, brain  fever bird nagging cry, mouse-hare sounds and see plants such as pine,deodar(deva daru) rhododendron forests, walnut, oak, jack fruit peepal  found in Garwahal region. The writer draws our attention to history of Dehradun rulers and how Gun hill in musoorie got its name.  Prominent place in the book is given for early plant collectors,who were prepared to risk their health and lives in the pursuit...