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                                      “ Rethink Your Thinking” by C. L. N. Prakash Introduction: Dr. C.L.N. Prakash is a highly experienced Training Consultant. He has worked with the British Council and Cambridge ESOL. He has served as a teacher, trainer, administrator, and author. In his article "Rethink Your Thinking", he advises people to think in pictures and to use lateral thinking to solve problems in new and better ways. Think Visually Dr. Prakash says that many great thinkers used pictures in their minds instead of only using words. He gives examples of famous people who used visual thinking: Einstein – imagined pictures to explain the Theory of Relativity. William Harvey – used mental images to understand the Circulation of Blood. David Hilbert – explained the Concept of Infinity using mental pictures. These examples show us that thinking visually he...

                                             All the World’s a Stage-William Shakespeare Introduction: William Shakespeare was the greatest English poet-dramatist that the world has ever known. He was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre. He wrote Thirty-eight plays, Two narrative poems, One hundred and Fifty-Four sonnets, and a variety of other poems. William Shakespeare continues to be one of the most important literary figures of the English language. About the Poem: “All the World’s a Stage” has been taken from As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII). The lines are by Jaques. He compares the different stages in a man’s life to a part of a play. According to him, a man begins by being a baby in the first act of the play and ends as an old man facing death in the last act. Comparison- Life and Drama:    ...

                                                     “The Gift of Magi” by O.Henry Introduction to O. Henry O. Henry was a famous short story writer from the United States.  He is known for writing stories with twists at the end . His stories often show the lives of ordinary people and teach lessons about love, kindness, and life. One of his best-known stories is The Gift of the Magi . Introduction to the Story (Theme and Characters) “The Gift of the Magi” is a short story about a poor couple , Jim and Della , who love each other very much. The story’s main theme is love and sacrifice . Even though they have very little money, they want to give special Christmas gifts to each other. Della has long, beautiful hair. Jim has a gold watch, which is his only treasure. The story shows how they give up what they love the most ...

                                         The Conjuror's Revenge by Stephen Leacock About Stephen Leacock Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a renowned Canadian writer who excelled at making people laugh. He wrote funny stories that also made fun of how people act in society. His writing was simple but clever - he could make everyday situations seem funny by pointing out how silly people can be. What the Story is About "The Conjuror's Revenge" is about a magician. During his magic show, there's one person in the audience called the "Quick Man" who keeps ruining everything by shouting out how all the tricks are done. The story illustrates how one annoying person can spoil an entire event for everyone else. It's also about how the magician gets angrier and angrier as his show falls apart. The Magic Tricks “ He had it up his sleeve” 1. The Golden Fish Trick The magici...

                                                       Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Introduction:             Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by some critics as one of the finest lyric poets in the English Language. He was much influenced by the ideals of the French Revolution- Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. He was deeply impressed with the power of the natural scenery. Shelley states that “A Poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one.” About the Poem:             The sonnet “Ozymandias” is regarded as one of Shelley’s most famous works. The structure of an Italian sonnet comprises of two parts: Octave and Sestet. In this sonnet, the octave presents the ...