My favourite English books

Here’s a list of my favourite english books…they are not jotted down in any particular order…and hope i haven’t forgotten any…if i have, will keep updating the list…
Believe me readers, if you haven’t read any of these, you are surely missing a wonderful treat!! 

The Enchanted Woods trilogy-Enid Blyton
The hound of BaskerVilles- Arthur Connan Doyle
To kill a [...]

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What does one need more?? Knowledge about life or the understanding of life???

After quite a few visits to Eklavya Nyas, we decided that we should now focus on teaching the kids something concrete. So this time round, we went with a map of India, to teach them the states and the capitals, but not in form of lectures; quizzes and games. It was a huge success actually, [...]

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My first (official) experience at social service…

There’s this organization in Pune called  ”Eklavya Nyas” ,  that supports the children of Commercial Sex Workers. Recently, my employer company asked for volunteers to go to this school and interact with the children. I jumped at this opportunity! We were divided into batches which would rotationally go there every weekend, and spend time with the kids [...]

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My answers to a questionnaire circulated on Women’s day…I won the 2nd prize!!!!

1) I am proud to be a woman because: its only a woman who can both rock the cradle and rule the world.
2)If there was one thing that I could change in today’s world, it would be : discrimination against any caste, creed, religion, community, gender, etc., because once we rise above such divisions, and [...]

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No…..There are surely rays of hope!!

As i wrote in my earlier blog, something else soon happened, which made me feel good about life, about others, about myself.
That day i had to walk over the same bridge while going to office. As I passed over it, the snapshots of that day’s incidence kept flashing in my mind. I was really feeling [...]

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