SAMEERAM

  अहं नृत्यामि।  (बहुवचने)   वयं नृत्यामः। त्वं पठसि। (बहुवचने)   यूयं पठथ। युवां गच्छथः।  (एकवचने)   त्वं गच्छसि। अस्माकं पुस्तकानि। (एकवचने)   मम पुस्तकम्।  तव गृहम्। – (द्विवचने)   युवयोः गृहे।

 The Dear Departed - I (One-act Play) CHARACTERS Mrs. Amelia Slater Mrs. Elizabeth Jordan Henry Slater Ben Jordan Victoria Slater - a girl of ten (Amelia's daughter) Abel Merryweather - (father of Amelia and Elizabeth) (When the curtain rises Mrs. Slater is seen laying the table. She is a vigorous, plump, red-faced, vulgar woman prepared to do any amount of straight talking to get her own way. She is in black. She goes to the window, opens it and calls into the street) Mrs. Slater : (sharply) Victoria, Victoria! D'ye hear? Come in, will you? (Victoria a precocious girl often dressed in colours, enters.) Mrs. Slater: I'm amazed at you, Victoria. I really am. Be off now, and change your dress before your Aunt Elizabeth and your Uncle Ben come. It would never do for them to find you in colours with grandfather lying dead, upstairs. Victoria: What are they coming for? They haven't been here for ages. Mrs. Slater: They're coming to talk over poor grandpa's affairs. Y...

 I Will Do It  He was short. He was sharp. He was the brightest boy in his class. His seniors used to ask him to solve their difficulties in science. He could have gone unnoticed in a crowd, but once you asked him a question related to Physics or Maths, there was a spark in his eyes. He could grasp theories of science faster than the speed of light. He came from a poor but educated family. His father was a high-school teacher and an avid reader of English literature. He, like all the boys in his class, was trying to get admission into some engineering college. The brighter ones wanted to study in the Indian Institutes of Technology, or the IITs. There was an entrance test for IIT. This boy, along with his friends, applied to appear for the test. They did not have any special books or coaching. All these IIT aspirants would sit below the shade of a stone mandap close to Chamundi Hills in the sleepy town of Mysore. He was the guide for the others. While the others struggled to s...