Tag: Essay in English
God helps those who help themselves Every child knows the old fable of the carter whose wagon struck in the mud, and who prayed to Hercules, the god of …
No man is a Hero to his own Valet A valet is the personal servant of a gentleman. He is what in India is called a “bearer”. He keeps …
Sports and Sportsmanship Games which are played outside in the open air are generally known as ‘sports’. These are of various kinds. In the villages such games as Kabaddi, …
Utopia “Utopia” is the name of a famous book, published in 1516, by St. Thomas More. More was Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII, and was a learned, able, …
Keep the Windows Open Everyone knows that air is essential to life. If we are stopped from breathing for five minutes, we die. But every-one does not seem to …
Recreation Leisure is time at one’s own disposal; time which we can spend as we like. At one extreme are the so-called “leisured classes”, the whole of whose time …
There are two sides to every question There is a story told in verse about that curious kind of lizard called the chameleon. Two friends talking about it almost …
Novel Reading There were, and not so very long ago, some old fashioned and narrowly religious people who actually condemned novel reading as wrong. They argued that novels were …
Repentance “Repentance” is a bigger word than either “regret” or “remorse”. Regret is a mild, and remorse a deep and “biting” sense of sorrow for sin or folly; but …
A Stitch in time Saves Nine You find a little hole in your coat, so small that you do not think it matters. Later, you find it has become …