him as one of the best-loved chroniclers of contemporary India. Some of his famous stories are The Night Train at Deoli‚ the Blue Umbrella‚ Room on the Roof‚ Our trees still grow in Dehra and many more... In 1992‚ he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing‚ for his short stories collection‚ "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra". He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children’s literature. He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie. THE PLOT
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One of the greatest” degradations that has occurred in our country during the second half of the twentieth century‚ has been in the field of sports and games. The” only major performance of note has been the gold medal in hockey won at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and the triumph at the 1983 & 2011 world cup in cricket‚plus a few individual medals in Olympics and few success in Tennis. But these occasional triumphs do not augur well for the future of Indian sports. A nation of 1.2 billion has not
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release. It does not stop there; this movie has been received well by both the audiences and especially by the critics which some have said it is a good hearted film made on a difficult topic. Moreover‚ this movie has been also nominated for several top awards in the film industry like the Golden Globes. Besides‚ all those things; it also sends out a clear message to all the audiences in the movie itself. The phrase‚ ‘It takes a pair to beat the odds’ which is the highlight of the film‚ generally has a
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the United States and abroad and is Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina since 1981. She has published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations. At the request of President Clinton‚ she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 Presidential Inauguration. She also wrote and delivered a poem in 1995 titled ’A Brave and Startling Truth’ in honor of the 50th anniversary of the United
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This report is based upon the book "Katharine Hepburn: American Women of Achievement." Kathern Hepburn was born on November 8‚ 1909 in Hartford‚ Connecticut. She found her love for acting in college at‚ Bryn Mawr College1. Hepburn was an actress of the 20th century cinema‚ often referred to as a legend. When she was younger she always played roles in plays of strong women who dealt with men as equals. In her family she was one of the 3 girls out of 6 children‚ 3 boys and 3 girls. Katharine tried
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Whilst in Britain‚ Nancy became one of the 39 women and 430 men in the French section of the British Special Operations Executive‚ which worked to sabotage the Germans in occupied territories. She trained at a Defence Camp to learn survival skills‚ silent killing‚ codes‚ radio operation‚ night parachuting‚ plastic explosives‚ Sten rifles‚ pistols‚ and grenades. She and a few other women were assigned to the First Aide Nursing Yeomanry and the illicit nature of their work remained a covert secret
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the bourgeois society. O’Henry’s heroes are various: cowboys‚ writers‚ artists‚ milliners‚ clerks‚ politicians. He doesn’t show psychological side of character’s action‚ so it reinforces unexpectedness of the end. After his death‚ O’Henry Memorial Awards were established to be given annually for the best magazine stories. The plot revolves around two artist girls – Sue and Johnsy - who live together in quaint old Greenwich Village. They have “common tastes in art‚ chicory salad and bishop sleeves”
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14 December 1924 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian Jewish poet‚ playwright‚ editor andart-critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India’s literary history‚ specifically for Indian writing in English. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his Poetry collection‚ "Latter-Day Psalms"‚ by the Sahitya Akademi‚ India’s National Academy of Letters.[1] Ezekiel was born on 16 December 1924 in Mumbai (Maharashtra). His father‚ Moses Ezekiel‚ was a professor of botany at Wilson College
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said for athletes that play a sport. Coach’s always preach practice and more practice for one to improve and better their skill. However‚ I would like to recommend Malcolm Gladwell’s book‚ Outliers‚ as one of the five finalist for the National Book Award because it gives tremendous insight and removes a sometimes negative connotation to the word “Outlier”.Stating that qualities is not all a person needs to become successful. And qualities that make a good athlete include way more then practice and
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Shawshank Redemption Quietly moving‚ yet startlingly beautiful; Shawshank Redemption is one of those movies that gets better every time that I see it. It was directed by Frank Darabond and based on Stephen King’s first non-horror novel. Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins play two convicts serving time in a New England prison named Shawshank in the 1940’s. Tim Robbins plays a man named Andy Dufresne‚ a banker‚ who is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and is sentenced to two life
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