The Mouse and the Snake‚ by VIKRAM SETH One fine morning two small mice‚ Much against their friend’s advice‚ Visited a room where grain Undisturbed for months had lain. Other mice had entered; none Lived to eat and tell--not one. But the two friends‚ unpoliced‚ Broke in and began to feast; And their laughter fell and rose‚ Till their blood with horror froze. Gold and shiny‚ vicious‚ long‚ Venom-fanged‚ hypnotic‚ strong-- Slid a snake towards the pair‚ Swallowed
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Vikram Seth Vikram Seth is a famous Indian poet‚ novelist‚ travel writer‚ librettist‚ children’s writer‚ biographer and memoirist. He was born on June 20‚ 1952 in Calcutta‚ now known as Kolkata. His father‚ Prem Seth‚ was an employee of the Bata India Limited shoe company. His mother was the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court‚ as well as the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court‚ known as Shimla High Court. His childhood was spent in the town of Batanagar near Calcutta
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Vikram Seth (born on 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novel and poetry books. He has received several awards including Padma Shri‚ Pravasi Bharatiya Samman‚ WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Contents 1 Background 1.1 Work themes 1.2 Business acumen 2 Bibliography 2.1 Novels 2.2 Poetry 2.3 Children ’s book 2.4 Libretti 2.5 Others 3 Awards 4 References 5 External links Background Seth was born on 20 June 1952 in a Punjabi family to
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Vikram Seth signing autographs at Bangla Academy‚ Dhaka on 17 November 2012 | Born | 20 June 1952 (age 61) Kolkata‚ India | Occupation | Novelist‚ poet | Nationality | Indian | Alma mater | The Doon School Corpus Christi College‚ Oxford Stanford University | Genres | novels‚ poetry‚ libretto‚ travel writing‚ children ’s literature‚ biography/memoir | Notable work(s) | A Suitable Boy The Golden Gate An Equal Music A Suitable Girl | -------------------------------------------------
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Once upon a time a frog croaked in Bingle Bog all the night beginning from dusk to dawn. All the creatures hated his loud and unpleasant voice but still they did not have any other option. The voice came out from the sumac tree where every night the frog sang till morning. He was so determined and also shameless that neither stones‚ prayers or sticks nor the insults or complaints could divert him from singing. One night‚ a nightingale started casting her melody in the moonlight to which both
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industrialist and owned many textiles mills in Gujarat. Vikram Sarabhai was one of the eight children of Ambalal and Sarla Devi. 6. Sarabhai matriculated from the Gujarat College in Ahmedabad after passing the Intermediate Science examination. 7. After that he moved to England and joined the St. John’s College‚ University of Cambridge. He received the Tripos in Natural Sciences from Cambridge in 1940. [3] 8. In September‚ 1942‚ Vikram Sarabhai married Mrinalini Sarabhai‚ a celebrated classical
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TRIPS and its impact on developing countries Graham Dutfield A contentious agreement Of all the agreements administered by the World Trade Organisation (WTO)‚ the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is undoubtedly the most controversial with respect to its development-related impacts. The agreement requires all WTO member states to establish minimum standards of legal protection and enforcement for a number of different forms of intellectual property rights
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our society are changing all the time. Compared to now‚ towards the end of 20th century‚ some of the ideas introduced in the early century are very different. D.H. Lawrence’s Snake is one of a group of poems entitled Birds‚ Beasts and Flowers written between 1920 and 1923. It tells of how Lawrence reacted when he saw a snake while he was living in Sicily. The poem can be interpreted in three different ways. The first possible theme is the idea that the natural‚ instinctive person is superior to
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mind when I say ‘Slytherin’. Snakes yes? Yes…today‚ we are going to give a presentation about snakes. Some of you might encounter them in real life and some of you may not. But either way‚ sure you guys watch snakes movie such as the popular anaconda and snakes on the plane. So what we going to give you today are some facts that you guys may never heard of about snakes. As a start let me give an introduction about snakes. A slithering‚ legless carnivore‚ the snake is a common creature on nearly
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The story The Snake‚ by John Steinbeck begins with Dr. Phillips leaving the tide pools after collecting specimens and arriving at a building nearby on the cannery street of Monterey. He enters the building and we see a laboratory with rats and snakes‚ a dissecting table and even cats in pens. One would conclude that he is a scientist. He builds a fire and heats up dinner. There is nothing very fancy about his laboratory. In fact‚ it seems like he lives very simply. He lays out his starfish and feeds
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