S1: | Once King Shantnu met a young and beautiful fisher girl. |
P : | He went to the fisherman and asked him for her asked him for her hand in marriage. |
Q : | The King was extremely sad and returned to his palace. |
R : | He fell in love with the fisher girl. |
S : | The fisherman agreed to it condition that the son of his daughter should be heir to the throne of Hastinapur. |
S6: | Devavrata, the King's son, asked him the reason of his sadness. |
S1: | Reliogion is not a matter of mere dogmatic conformity. |
P : | It is not merely going through the ritual prescribed to us. |
Q : | It is not a question of ceremonial piety. |
R : | Unless that kind of transformation occurs, you are not an authentically religious man. |
S : | It is the remarking of your own self, the transformation of your nature. |
S6: | A man of that character is free from fear, free from hatred. |
S1: | We speak today of self-determination in politics. |
P : | So long as one is conscious of a restraint, it is possible to resist it or to near it as a necessary evil and to keep free in spirit. |
Q : | Slavery begins when one ceases to feel that restraint and it depends on if the evil is accepted as good. |
R : | There is, however, a subtler domination exercised in the sphere of ideas by one culture to another. |
S : | Political subjection primarily means restraint on the outer life of people. |
S6: | Cultural subjection is ordinarily of an unconscious character and it implies slavery from the very start. |
S1: | Once upon a time an ant lived on the bank of river. |
P : | The dove saw the ant struggling in water in a helpless condition. |
Q : | All its efforts to come up is failed. |
R : | One day it suddenly slipped in to water. |
S : | A dove lived in the tree on the bank not far from the spot. |
S6: | She was touched. |
S1: | The December dance and music season in Madras is like the annual tropical cyclone. |
P : | A few among the new aspirants dazzle witht he colour of youth, like fresh saplings. |
Q : | It rains an abundance of music for over a fortnight. |
R : | Thick clouds expectation charge the atmosphere with voluminous advertisements. |
S : | At the end of it one is left with the feeling that the music of only those artists seasoned by careful nurturing, stands tall like well-routed trees. |
S6: | Many a hastily planed shrub gets washed away in the storm. |
S1: | There is a touching story of Professor Hardy visiting Ramanujan as he lay desperately ill in hospital at Putney. |
P : | 'No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least. |
Q : | Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress. |
R : | It was 1729. |
S : | The best he could do, as he got to the beside was "I say Ramanujan, I thought the number of taxi I came down in was a very dull number" |
S6: | It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes. |
S1: | Politeness is not a quality possessed by only one nation or race. |
P : | One may observe that a man of one nation will remove his hat or fold his hands by way of greetings when he meets someone he knows. |
Q : | A man of another country will not to do so. |
R : | It is a quality to be found among all peoples and nations in every corner of the earth. |
S : | Obviously, each person follows the custom of his particular country. |
S6: | In any case, we should not mock at others habits. |
S1: | Throughout history man has used energy from the sun. |
P : | Today, when we burn wood or use electric current we are drawing an energy. |
Q : | However we now have a new supply of energy. |
R : | All our ordinary life depends on sun. |
S : | This has come from the sun. |
S6: | This energy comes from inside atoms. |
S1: | This weather-vane often tops a church spire, tower or high building. |
P : | They are only wind-vanes. |
Q : | Neither alone can tell us what the weather will be. |
R : | They are designed to point to direction from which the wind is coming. |
S : | Just as the barometer only tells us the pressure of air, the weather-vane tells us the direction of wind. |
S6: | The weather-vane can, however give us some indication of other. |
S1: | But how does a new word get into the dictionary? |
P : | When a new dictionary is being edited, a lexicographer collects all the alphabetically arranged citation slips for a particular word. |
Q : | The dictionary makers notice it and make a note of it on a citation slip. |
R : | The moment new word is coined, it usually enter the spoken language. |
S : | The word then passes from the realm of hearing to the realm of writing. |
S6: | He sorts them according to their grammatical function, and carefully writes a definition. |
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