If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,And... Continue Reading →
Butcher Shop
Sometimes walking late at nightI stop before a closed butcher shop.There is a single light in the storeLike the light in which the convict digs his tunnel. An apron hangs on the hook:The blood on it smeared into a mapOf the great continents of blood,The great rivers and oceans of blood. There are knives that... Continue Reading →
Imre Kertesz
This interview of Imre Kertesz, which is taken from Imre Kertesz, The Art of Fiction No. 220, Paris Review, features in B.Ed. 1st Year’s General English book (Tribhuvan University). Here follow the key takeaways from the text: 1. An interview of Imre Kertesz, a Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor, taken by Luisa Zielinski. 2. Imre Kertesz (1929-2016):... Continue Reading →
Nelson Mandela
This interview of Nelson Mandela, which is taken from Reader's Digest, April 2005, features in B.Ed. 1st Year’s General English book (Tribhuvan University). Here follow the key takeaways from the text: 1. Interview of Nelson Mandela taken by an American magazine Reader's Digest; published in April 2005 2. Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), a South African political leader and... Continue Reading →
The Boatman’s Gift
This travel account by Pamela Michael, which is taken from A Woman's Passion for Travel with Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael as editors, features in B.Ed. 1st Year’s General English book (Tribhuvan University). Here follow the key takeaways from the text: 1. Travel account of Pamela Michael, an American female traveler and writer 2. Visit... Continue Reading →
Stealing and Atonement
This memoir by Mahatma Gandhi, which is taken from his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth, features in B.Ed. 1st Year’s General English book (Tribhuvan University). Here follow the key takeaways from the text: 1. A memoir of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)], leader of the nationalist movement (non-violent resistance) against the British... Continue Reading →
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