on of Essays): Edited by
Stephen DaCosta
1. On Saying “Please”: A. G. Gardiner
2. A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of
Married People: Charles Lamb
3. Of Studies: Francis Bacon
4. Principles of Good Writing: L. A. Hill
5. Albert Einstein at School: Patrick Pringle
6. The Future is Now: A Zest for Living: Walter
F. Stromer
7. What India can teach Us: F. Max Muller
8. Environmental Crisis: Edward O. Wilson
9. Ideas that have helped Mankind: Bertrand
Russell
10. Prayer – The Essence of Religion:
M. K. Gandhi
11. Work in the Sun and in the Light: Jawaharlal
Nehru
12. The Awakening of Women: K. M. Panikkar
13. Youth and the Tasks Ahead: Dr. Karan Singh
14. My Struggle for an Education:
Booker T. Washington
15. The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s
Role: Nani Palkhivala
IV. Hues: An Anthology of Short Stories: Barry Antunis,
Anupam Banerjee, S. Thomas & Sumana Saha
The following stories are to be studied:
1. The Portrait of a Lady: Khushwant Singh
2. Growing Up: Joyce Cary
3. The Rattrap: Selma Lagerlof
4. Going Places: A. R. Barton
5. A Devoted Son: Anita Desai
6. What Men Live By: Leo Tolstoy
7. Talking of Space: Report on Planet Three:
Arthur C. Clarke
8. A Village Cricket Match: A. G. Macdonell
9. The Fortune-Teller: Karel Capek
10. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment: Nathaniel
Hawthorne
11. Third Thought: E. V. Lucas
12. The Fly: Katherine Mansfield
13. The Night Train at Deoli: Ruskin Bond
14. Love Across the Salt Desert: K. N. Daruwala
15. The Castaway: Rabindranath Tagore
V. Star Light: Edited by Guy Kenneth Dantes
Only the following poems are to be studied:
1. Tintern Abbey: William Wordsworth
2. Frost at Midnight: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. A Prayer for My Daughter: William Butler
Yeats
4. The Shield of Achilles: W. H. Auden
5. The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe
6. Ode on a Grecian Urn: John Keats
Appendix I