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Spectre Turned Ogre by Vaasamoorti
The writer, like most young men, was in the beginning fascinated by the communist idea. Being a book lover, he went through some literature on the subject. He developed some doubts. He studied deep into the subject. Now he had more questions on the concept of communism itself, materialistic determinism, the bed-rock of communism, Marxist use of the Dialectics, the theory of surplus value, the wide divergence between the theory and practice, and the mouthing of sham and hollow ideals etc. All these questions are placed before the reader along with the factual material that led to these questions for his own judgement.
The present work was actually the third part of a bigger book, ‘The Age of Intelligence’, on the role of intelligence as the main constituent of human progress. The third part was published earlier under the title, Marxism: Relevance and Practice. The present book is an enlarged version with more relevant material.
Spitting at the Sun by Spitting at the Sun
If I die of a lingering illness, nay even by as much as a boil or a pimple, it will be your duty to proclaim to the world, even at the risk of making people angry with you, that I was not the man that I claimed to be. If you do that it will give my spirit peace. Note down this also that if some one were to end my life by putting a bullet through me as someone tried to do with a bomb the other day and I met his bullet without a groan, and breathed my last taking God's name, then alone would I have made good my claim.
—Gandhi
Spoken English Digest by Rashmeet Kaur
भाषा संवाद का माध्यम है। बोलियाँ क्षेत्र-विशेष तक सीमित रहती हैं, वहीं भाषाएँ बढ़ते संचार माध्यम के सहारे अपनी क्षेत्रीय सीमाएँ तोड़कर प्रांतीय, देशीय और अंतरराष्ट्रीय बन जाती हैं। आज अंग्रेजी भाषा को इसी श्रेणी में रखा जा सकता है। यह न केवल अंतरराष्ट्रीय स्तर पर लोगों को परस्पर जोड़ रहीं है, बल्कि बैंक, अस्पताल, स्कूल, कोर्ट, हवाईअड्डों इत्यादि स्थानों पर संचार और संवाद की प्रमुख भाषा के रूप में प्रयुक्त होती है।
इतना ही नहीं अंग्रेजी आज रोजगार की भी प्रमुख भाषा बन गई है। अच्छी अंग्रेजी के ज्ञान के लिए अंग्रेजी बोलने की शुरुआत अपने घर से ही की जाए तो सबसे बढ़िया है, क्योंकि यहाँ बोलचाल का अभ्यास बेझिझक किया जा सकता है।
प्रस्तुत पुस्तक में इसी तरह के अभ्यास से अंग्रेजी सिखाने की शुरुआत की गई है, जो बोलने, सीखने और व्यवहार में बेहद सरल है। छोटे-छोटे सरल वाक्यों द्वारा बैंक, घर, अस्पताल, रेलवे पूछताछ, हवाई अड्डों, दुकानों आदि पर किए जानेवाले संवाद को अंग्रेजी के सरल वार्त्तालाप द्वारा समझाया गया है। इसके नियमित अभ्यास से आप कुछ ही दिनों में ही अंग्रेजी बोलने में सक्षम हो सकते हैं।
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier by James Inglis
I went home in 1875 for a few months, after some twelve years' residence in India. What first suggested the writing of such a book as this, was the amazing ignorance of ordinary Indian life betrayed by people at home. The questions asked me about India, and our daily life there, showed in many cases such an utter want of knowledge, that I thought, surely there is room here for a chatty, familiar, unpretentious book for friends at home, giving an account of our every-day life in India, our labours and amusements, our toils and relaxations, and a few pictures of our ordinary daily surroundings in the far, far East.
