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  Homi Jehangir Bhabha  by  Enakshi Chatterjee OU Degree English Semester V  Unit 3 New syllabus with effect from 2024-2025  Summary       Enakshi Chatterjee was a prolific author in both Bengali and English in variety of genres, including humour, popular science and poetry. Her notable b ooks include  Paramanu Jignasa and  Masterminds: Profiles of Eleven Indian Scientists.  The government of West Bengal awarded her the  Rabindra Puraskar in 1974 for her book  Paramanu Jignasa, which she co-written with her husband, the nuclear physicist Santimay Chatterjee.  She also received Bidyasagar Award for her children’s literature  and The Kalidas Nag Award for lifetime achievement in literature. Additionally, she  was a prominent translator of English and Bengali books.  She translated Vikram Seth’s ‘Suitable Boy’ into Bengali.     Enakshi Chatterjee’s essay on Homi Jehangir Bhabha is an excerpt...

  Bury me in a free land Frances Harper Osmania University Degree Sem 5 new syllabus 2024-25 onwards Make me a grave where'er you will, In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;  Make it among earth's humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. I could not rest if around my grave I heard the steps of a trembling slave; His shadow above my silent tomb Would make it a place of fearful gloom. I could not rest if I heard the tread Of a coffle gang to the shambles led, And the mother's shriek of wild despair Rise like a curse on the trembling air. I could not sleep if I saw the lash Drinking her blood at each fearful gash, And I saw her babes torn from her breast, Like trembling doves from their parent nest. I'd shudder and start if I heard the bay Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey, And I heard the captive plead in vain As they bound afresh his galling chain. If I saw young girls from their mother's arms Bartered and sold for their youthful charms, My eye wou...

  The Postmaster Rabindranath Tagore https://youtu.be/xj_AqdcPHGM?si=hgolrVzcTx0g6Bzz Osmania University Degree Sem 5 new syllabus 2024-25 onwards Rabindranath Tagore was born in Kolkata, Bengal on 7th May 1861. He was popularly known as "Vishwa Kavi" or "the universal poet". He was a multifaceted personality- a great writer, music composer, educationist, playwright, essayist and painter. Some of his notable works are Gitanjali, Gora, Ghare-Bhaire and Amar Sonar Bangla.  He wrote and composed the National Anthems of two countries- India and Bangladesh. He received Nobel Prize for literature in the year 1913 ,  the first Asian and the first non-European to receive the award.      The themes of the story are human emotions, loneliness, and the complexities of human relationships. The story revolves around two characters, a postmaster, and Ratan, an orphan girl. The postmaster, a resident of Calcutta city, was posted at the post office in Ulapur, a remote vill...