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The Bird with Golden Wings 📖

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    BOOK REVIEW : THE BIRD WITH GOLDEN WINGS  "The Bird With Golden Wings" is a collection of some fascinating and consequential stories authored by Sudha Murthy. She mainly write for age groups between six to thirteen but I didn't find it astonishing that thousands from the above age group are also fond of her writings. Her writings are easy to understand, engrossing, purposeful and full of positivity with life lessons. This book also has some pieces of wisdom present in the form of mindful stories which talk about relationships, trust, love, kindness, greed, compassion, hard work, honesty, envy, and more. If you are looking for some of this give it a chance. "The Bird with Golden Wings" is a children’s book of enchanting tales. It has 21 short stories about magical creatures, Kings and ordinary men who sometimes make one laugh and at other times give a lesson on basic human values of being kind and good at heart. Some of my best loved stories from this are the...

VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE 📖

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   BOOK REVIEW : VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE     " Veronika Decides to Die" is a book written by Paulo Coelho, the author of the New York Times best seller, "The Alchemist". This book is a realistic fiction book that follows a woman named Veronika.  It  is a beautiful tale  of hope and happiness. The story revolves  around Veronika, a young Slovenian woman  who has everything that a woman in the prime  of her life would want. She has a good job, a  string of boyfriends and a family that loves  her. However, she is not happy with her life  and decides to commit suicide. After taking  sleeping pills, she awaits her death which does  not arrive. She wakes up in a hospital where  she is told that the pills have shortened her life  span and that she has only a few days to live.  Within the walls of a mental hospital, Veronika  falls in love with a person suffering from  schizophrenia. The head psy...

THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE 📖

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 BOOK REVIEW : THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE Extraordinary tale of love through a Dervishes eyes, bringing Middle Eastern culture and religion to the heartbeat of love. "The Forty Rules of Love", a book I would encourage anyone to read. It gave me a different perspective on the emotions and thoughts of love, experiencing the life of a dervish and his 40 rules, made the story liberating and more intriguing. The beauty of Elif's writing is the reader is always learning as well as feeling engaged within the story. The well rounded characters created are a fan favourite of mine especially Shams of Tabriz. Normally everything we do within reach or actions has something to do with love and that's the message Shams leaves us with. His Sufi religion didn't control him, it freed him from society. He showed others how to love without any restraints or rights and wrongs. Elif writes with conviction, demonstrating that love can change the world and if we take a pause and think abou...

BRIDA 📖

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 BOOK REVIEW  BRIDA           Brida is an Irish girl, who has a quest for knowledge and magic. She meets a teacher, Magus, who knows different magic traditions and promises her that he'll teach all of them to her. He helps her in finding herself, and how she could dance to the rhythm of nature and be fearless. She is totally drawn by his teachings and is torn between herd dreams and realities. This book is about life, and the lessons our nature has for us to learn by our own experiences. The character has been portrayed nicely and the story has been weaved beautifully. Paulo Coelho the writer of the story is a master of words and is proficient in creating a new world for the readers to travel along with the characters of the story. His style of writing is always based on philosophical and spiritual fiction and the story is beautifully structured with the feelings, love, passion, mystery &spiritual elements. The dialogue delivery for all the ch...

AFGHANISTAN

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  It's not the world she,me, him, it, they, them, her, I have known, Not the world in which you and I have grown.  Those seeds that were sown for a world of peace, Seem scattered around, And I look for them as they are nowhere to be found. In every heart beat falls all else and powerful is fear, That the next moment may bring the loss of someone dear When did this hate begin When was it alright under any pretext to shed blood or a kin How low can man go? The splatter of one woman's blood Add to another's glow? How can the pain of any human not hurt? Just because you weren't the one to give him/ her/ it/ them birth ? I look around It doesn't feel the same It's not the world I knew The one where I grew. #ambicauppal 

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS 📖

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BOOK REVIEW  THE FAULT IN OUR STARS  The Fault in Our Stars is about sixteen year old Hazel Grace Lancaster who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, at the age of thirteen. Three years later and she is still alive, her life has been temporarily prolonged by a miracle drug, but Hazel feels dead inside and is swimming in clinical depression. She then starts attending the Cancer Support Group and meets the gorgeous, clever Augustus Waters. Lover of life, video games and objects that have a deeper metaphorical meaning. When Hazel felt this was the end of her life...it was actually just the beginning. This book was truly amazing. It produced deep emotions within me and it broke my heart then haphazardly stitched it back up and then mercilessly crushed it again. Even as I think of the beautiful characters that inhabited the story and now my heart, the tears well up. Never before has a book made me so emotional and made me want to laugh and cry and think about the true meaning of life ...

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS 📖

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BOOK REVIEW  A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”.   The novel is set in Afghanistan from the 1960s to the 1990s, spanning from Soviet occupation to the Taliban control, following the lives of two women in their marriages and in their war-torn country. Expecting domestic abuse, graphic war descriptions and a main theme of oppression is depicted on Afghan women. The vivid description of book took me into the Afghan valleys. Heartfelt, moving and stunningly beautiful, wonderfully portrayed the hardship of Afghani women, the essence of their friendship which turns out into a mother-daughter relation. " The writing engrossed me. Hosseini magically puts the reader inside the city, neighbourhood, and house of the characters. I found myself wanting to console Mariam and Laila, and to harshly react, abuse and kick at Rasheed myself - despicable brute. The novel is split in a du...

THE LITTLE PRINCE 📖

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BOOK REVIEW THE LITTLE PRINCE                            - ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY      "It is only with the heart that once can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye."      "The Little Prince" is a well crafted, beautifully written book for children, but I totally disagree on that, as its a book for all ages both children and adult. The book wont even take you a whole day to read. Consider honoring yourself where the child in you still remains within, and read it as a tribute to childhood, the innocence and to you. All it takes is a little imagination and bravery. The adversity, innocence at heart and the thirst for finding answers is what portrayed in this wisely told tale. "The Little Prince" tells the story of a pilot stranded in the desert fixing his aeroplane, until one day he meets a little boy – the Little Prince. The Little Prince tells the pilot many stories of...

COFFEE HOUSE 📖

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BOOK REVIEW COFFEE HOUSE                                              - LAJO JOSE  "à´Žà´²്à´²ാം à´¤ീർന്à´¨ു à´Žà´¨്à´¨് à´•à´°ുà´¤ുà´¨്à´¨ിà´Ÿà´¤്à´¤് à´¨ിà´¨്à´¨് à´¤ുà´Ÿà´™്à´™ാൻ പറ്റണം, à´…à´¤ാà´£് ചലഞ്à´š്!, à´…à´¤ിà´²േ à´µിà´ª്ലവമുà´³്à´³ൂ, à´šà´°ിà´¤്à´°à´®ുà´³്à´³ൂ'. "          Lajo Jose played a major role in waking up the stagnant Malayalam thriller world. Coffee House, a realistic psychological crime thriller, tells the story of five unexpected murders at a coffee house in Kottayam, a rape case, the ensuing investigations, the arrests, the pronouncement of the death sentence and finally a journalist who comes down to prove his innocence. Esther Emmanuel, a journalist, works for a large circulation weekly in Kottayam. There are a lot of things going on around us that come into the life of Esther, who has been living alone for thirty years. Esther was the one who sparked the arrest of Benjamin in that case by creati...

THE ALCHEMIST 📖

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BOOK REVIEW THE ALCHEMIST                                                     - PAULO COELHO              The book depicts the story of a shepherd boy, Santiago from Spain who is getting repeated dreams of treasure lying in the pyramids of Egypt. He embarks on a journey of finding the treasure after meeting an old man . In his journey he met different people namely - a merchant, Englishman, an alchemist, and love of his life. He keeps learning the important lessons of life while on his journey to the Pyramids. The main theme of the book is about finding and fulfilling one's purpose (personal legend) in life.The author has used notions like personal legend, Language of universe, soul of world etc frequently. The storytelling is captivating and interesting. The story tells us to keep faith and hope in all circumstances. Also t...

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE 📖

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  BOOK REVIEW TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE                                                         - MITCH ALBOM          "Tuesdays with Morrie” is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about the series of visits he made to his former sociology professor Morrie. This book teaches us common life lessons and leaves it on the reader to interpret it in his own way. It's a book that does leave its impact on you! As Mitch learns of his most loved and favourite professor from university is dying he sets back to find him, and speak to him, relish in his knowledge and wisdom of this world, of this life. They meet every Tuesday, and talk about death, life, love, family, regrets, emotions, money, culture, forgiveness. All lessons that can't be taught in a textbook but instead spoken from years of experience. Morrie, is so inspiring, her...

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS 📖

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 BOOK REVIEW THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS                                            - ARUNDHATI ROY      The story spans over three generations masterfully crafted taking us back and forth the timeline. The attention to detail is in such magnitude that the effects of each incident in the book affect one's, feeble heart profoundly. At least for me, certain events from the book caused so much damage that I had to go days mulling over the tragedies and agonies of it all. It fondles the political standing of the state, castism, untouchability was so panoramic that it was almost unbelievable. It was quite informative to me(who has very little knowledge of past politics) and I had to do some research on the tensions prevailing at that time which the book resonates throughout. However, the essence of such tensions still linger even today its roots running deep and Roy t...

YOU

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ENGLISH DOSE VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT - 1

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PARTS OF SPEECH

PARTS OF SPEECH Parts of Speech- Words are divided into different kinds or classes, called parts of speech. According to their use or the work they do in sentence the parts of speech are divided into eight in number. Thus a name given to a word based on its job in a sentence is defined as parts of speech. They are- Noun Verb Pronoun Adjective Adverb Preposition Conjunction Interjection 1. Noun  is defined as the name of a person, place, animal, thing, feeling, idea etc. In short noun is a naming word. Person-boy girl, teacher, Danish, the President, father etc. Place- Delhi, Ganga, school, playground etc. Thing- pen, car, book, toilet etc. Idea- liberty, bravery, happiness, fear etc.        Eg. Kolkata is on Hooghly .               Akbar was a great king .               Revathi is a good girl . 2. Verb  is the most important word in a sentences. It expr...

WIND

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Wind

DON'T QUIT

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DON'T QUIT  BY, EDGAR A.GUEST When Things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and debts are high, And you want to Smile but have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.    Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won if he'd stuck it out, Don't give up though the pace seems slow, You might succeed with another blow. Often the struggler has given up, When he might capture the victor's cup. And he learned too late, when the night slipped down, How close he was to the golden crown, Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems afar, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem wors...

BE POSITIVE

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BE POSITIVE 

TEACHING- THE NOBLEST PROFESSION

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TEACHING- THE NOBLEST PROFESSION      Teachers have one of the most important roles in our society.  They help mold and shape future citizens that eventually become industry leaders; government officials; medical experts; lawyers; artisans; entertainers and much more—too many to name. “Being a teacher means teaching every child no matter what their needs; educating them to become life-long learners and contributors to society,” said Phyllis Falkenstein, Director of the Learning Center at Valley Christian Elementary School in Dublin. Other than family members, teachers are some of the most influential people in our lives. We are exposed to teachers at a very young age, starting in pre-school and kindergarten and going on through 12th grade. The first few years in elementary school, the school day is shorter, then in middle school and high school students are under the influence of their teachers most of the day.  After high school, college p...

The Annual SPARKZ Competition

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The Annual SPARKZ Competition for the Year 2018 Inter-Collegiate BEd Competition         The annual SPARKZ competition for the year 2018 was held on 4th & 5th October 2018 was held on 4th & 5th October 2018. Our college students participated in inter competition and won the trophy. BROCHURE AJITH, THE BEST SCIENCE TEACHER  QUIZ COMPETITION WINNERS, ABHIJITH AND SHANTHANU  BADMINTON TEAM