Convincing About Studies Early in the morning my father got up and started calling me. When I woke up, he delivered i full speech, not only on early rising and its good effects on the physique, but also on how to utilize my morning hours for my studies, which he thought, I was not attending to, though I was pretty well almost in the subjects. He cited the examples of Rahul...

A Day in The Life of A Bus Driver Maniram gets up wearily at 6 o’clock. It is the start of another day ferrying school kids to and from school. At six-thirty, after a hurried bath, Maniram starts his old mini bus and moves off. He goes along a regular route picking up children to send to various schools. Maniram drives carefully through the busy roads. He stops at four different...

Home Life Better Than Hostel Life  Mohit came home during the Autumn Break for about a week, and met his friends whom he had not been able to meet during the last 2-3 months, as he was staying in the hostel. He was daily surrounded by them, as they were also equally keen to learn from him about his new experiences at the college as well as the playground. One day...

Democracy and Its Needs ‘Democracy,’ defines Bernard Shaw, ‘is a social order aiming at the greatest available welfare for the whole population and not for a class.’ Democracy has many merits. Freedom and equality are its essential concepts. Therefore, there should exist respect for the individual as the supreme motive of power. Perfect democracy can be achieved by educating all people in a country. People should realize about their social and...

Teenagers, Beware of The Pitfalls Teenagers today must be ever vigilant to many distractions and dangers that surround them. First on the list are those distractions that take them away from their studies. Students owe it to themselves and their parents to put in their best efforts in their studies. At all times, therefore, teenagers must make it a point to be conscious of the fact that their studies ought to...

How I Can Stop Wasting Things in The House  We are lucky to live in a country where we have many things at our convenience. However, we tend to be wasteful. Electricity is one thing we waste the most. Lights, fans, radios and other appliances are kept on even when no one is using them. I make it a point to switch them off when I do not need them. It...

Water Supply Disruption Disruptions in the water supply do occur now and then. However, there was one that was the worst. It began one morning when we got up to prepare for the day ahead. All the taps, except one in the bathroom connected to the water tank above the bathroom, were dry. So we had to patiently wait our turn to use the only tap with water. We did not...

A Visit to the Dentist  My tooth hurt through the night. I had to take a painkiller to lessen the pain. Worst of all, I did not get a wink of sleep through the whole night. The next morning, I told my mother about my toothache. She took me to the dentist. At nine o’clock we waited outside the dentist’s clinic. The nurse came and opened the door. She wrote down...