A Day Without Electricity Of all the inventions during the last two centuries, the invention of electricity has been the most wonderful and useful. Everywhere we find ourselves amid the. various kinds of appliances based on electricity. But seldom do we realize, how much we depend on it for the comfort of our daily life. This is because electricity is easily available to us. We realize its importance only when for...

My Neighbour “Love thy neighbour as thyself,” said Jesus Christ. Yet how many people do really love their neighbours? Usually there prevails a great tension among the neighbours on some point of dispute or the other. Many people just tolerate neighbours because there is no other way to get rid of them. Here and there people change their houses, if they are tenants and cannot pull on with their neighbours. Some...

Floods and Famines Floods and Famines are natural calamities and a common feature of Indian life. Our food depends on the Rain God and monsoons are very tricky. Sometimes we get too much oi rain and sometimes we get no rain at all. When we get no rain, crops cannot grow in large parts of India i.e. Famine takes place and when we get rain in cats and dogs, our crops...

My Most Interesting Dream We all have dreams. Most of the nights we are dreaming. But these dreams are not clear to us. We soon forget them and remember nothing when the day breaks. Now and then we have a dream which is so clear that it becomes like a cinematographic picture on the screen of our imagination. We remember the dream forever and forever as if it was something that...

Beauties of Nature   Mother Nature provides us the biggest and the brightest, the largest and the loveliest beauties. Everything in nature is marvellous. Look at lilies, roses, butterflies and birds! How beautifully they are dressed. Nothing can compare with the glory of the sunrise and the sunset. It is scene that holds a man spell bound for hours. Every time of the day and every season of the year provides...

A Village Fair Every year, in the first week of May, soon after Holi, a big fair is held near our village. It is held in memory of a Hindu saint, who had worked hard for the upliftment of the nearby villages. His Samadhi is just outside our village at a distance of about half a mile. The preparations for the fair began a week or two earlier, under the guidance...