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    Lucifer better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

    1. Celebrating Indigenous Judicial System “God Lives In The Panch” was during the rule of Britishers in India. In this story, author is criticising the judicial system of the Britishers saying that Indians already had a rural judicial system (Panchayat) where impartial enquiry and judgments are alreRead more

    1. Celebrating Indigenous Judicial System
    “God Lives In The Panch” was during the rule of Britishers in India. In this story, author is criticising the judicial system of the Britishers saying that Indians already had a rural judicial system (Panchayat) where impartial enquiry and judgments are already prevalent. When one is appointed as a Panch or as the head of the Panch, he forgets his earthly ties and gives judgement in accordance with the norms of morality, legality and ethics.

    2. Friendship & Property Disputes
    The short-story also deals with themes of friendship between Jumman Sheikh and Alagu Chowdhari and property disputes between them. Through these multiple themes, author is trying to present different facets of India but what he intends to champion primarily in this short story is the role of the Head-Panch in a Panchayati system and his responsibilities.

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    Lucifer better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

    Short Story of Frog and Nightingale by Vikram Seth goes as follows. A frog in the jungle keeps croaking the whole night. The animals are quite irritated because of its ugly and noisy croaking. They try a lot but fail to make the frog stop the noise. The frog, on the other hand, having full confidencRead more

    Short Story of Frog and Nightingale by Vikram Seth goes as follows. A frog in the jungle keeps croaking the whole night. The animals are quite irritated because of its ugly and noisy croaking. They try a lot but fail to make the frog stop the noise. The frog, on the other hand, having full confidence itself keeps the animals awake in the night.
    One day a nightingale visits the jungle and starts living there. Her voice is quite sweet and even the frog stops croaking to listen to it. One day frog meets nightingale and finding that the latter lacks self-confidence, frog talks high about himself and offers to help him sing sweeter.

    He also starts charging for tuitions to the nightingale. Doing this the frog earns a reputed status in the jungle. Nightingale soon makes herself better but loses the happiness that it once had.

    As the frog gets more jealous of the nightingale, it makes the latter to practice more. Ultimately, nightingale dies one day and the frog starts croaking again.

    Read the complete summary of the poem here or explore other questions.

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    The Rose That Grew From Concrete is the first line of the poem written by Tupac Shakur. It is a short poem consisting of only 1 stanza and 8 lines. The poet here taking the example of a rose which has come out of a crack in the concrete (which is impossible according to the law of nature), tells theRead more

    The Rose That Grew From Concrete is the first line of the poem written by Tupac Shakur. It is a short poem consisting of only 1 stanza and 8 lines. The poet here taking the example of a rose which has come out of a crack in the concrete (which is impossible according to the law of nature), tells the readers that one should follow his dreams.

    It might seem to be impossible but hard word and consistency leads to success. Just because people say something is impossible does not make it so. If one works hard, everything is possible.

    Read the summary of The Rose That Grew From Concrete here.

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    A poet lives in the imaginary world trying to make something creative out of an ordinary thing. Hence ordinary day-night does not matter for him. He may wake up in the mid of night to jot down something extraordinary he saw in dreams. He may wake up in the early morning to capture the beauty of skyRead more

    A poet lives in the imaginary world trying to make something creative out of an ordinary thing. Hence ordinary day-night does not matter for him.

    1. He may wake up in the mid of night to jot down something extraordinary he saw in dreams.
    2. He may wake up in the early morning to capture the beauty of sky in his words and so on.
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    Meta, in simple words, means something that refers to itself. Thus metafiction is a genre of English Literature which emphasizes the readers to focus on the novel itself. Thus a work of literature which is conscious of its own form, structure and story, it will be known as Metafiction. The term wasRead more

    Meta, in simple words, means something that refers to itself. Thus metafiction is a genre of English Literature which emphasizes the readers to focus on the novel itself. Thus a work of literature which is conscious of its own form, structure and story, it will be known as Metafiction.

    The term was used for the first time by William H. Gass (1970) in his work Fiction and the Figures of Life. However, metafiction existed long before him. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is an example of Metafiction in Literature.

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    The Errors of Santa Claus by Santa Claus is a humorous short story. There are 9 characters and the plot is set on the eve of Christmas day. Two families- The Browns and The Joneses are dining with each other at the house of the later. Jones and Brown Jones and Brown are discussing with each other abRead more

    The Errors of Santa Claus by Santa Claus is a humorous short story. There are 9 characters and the plot is set on the eve of Christmas day. Two families- The Browns and The Joneses are dining with each other at the house of the later.

    Jones and Brown

    Jones and Brown are discussing with each other about the gifts that they are going to give to their children (as Santa Claus). Jones tells Brown that he will gift his son Edwin an automatic train. Brown tells him that he will gift his son Willy an aeroplane.

    Both of them think that their sons believe in Santa Claus. Saying that Jones starts showing Brown how the train moves automatically on the track and thus they start playing with it.

    Mrs Jones and Mrs Brown

    Upstairs, Mrs Jones and Mrs Brown are talking to each other about the gifts that they will be giving to their daughters. Mrs Jones tells that she will gift a beautiful doll to her daughter Clarisse. Mrs Brown also thinks of gifting a doll to her daughter Ulvina.

    Mrs Brown asks Mrs Jones to sew clothes to make doll more beautiful and in a moment both the ladies get busy stitching clothes of the doll. Both of them think that their daughters believe in Santa Claus.

    Edwin Jones and Willie Brown

    In Edwin’s bedroom, he is sitting with Willie. Jones says that he will gift his father hundred rupees with a box. Willie says that he will gift cigars to his father. As both of them too love cigars, they begin smoking. Both of them think that their fathers believe in Santa Claus.

    Clarisse and Ulvina

    Clarisse shows cards to Ulvina which she is going to give as a gift to her mother. Soon they start playing cards as they like it very much. Both of them think that their mothers believe in Santa Claus.

    Grandfather Jones

    Upstairs, Grandfather Jones is looking at whisky that he is going to gift to his son Mr Jones and a big nickel-plated Jew’s harp that he will gift to his grandchild.

    Later on except Grandfather Jones, all others gather and watch Bible which they are going to gift to Grandfather Jones.

    In the night, Santa Claus does everything wrong. He gifts train to Mr Jones and Mr Brown, the doll to Mrs Jones and Mrs Brown, Cigars to Edwin Jones and Willie Brown, cards to Clarisse and Ulvina and whisky and harp to Grandfather Jones and still everything is normal.

    Everybody is busing enjoying their gifts.

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