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I have a lot of expectations on you You can reach so high So Don't fall in someone's trap You may see smiling faces,  Hear Things to laugh, But you always thought about your parents and well wishers Now, you have a limit in thought You can' t imagine the harsh realities of life This not life, this not a time to play If you fall in others trap, You'll hate by all, So my dear, do your study, do your duty, This is not your way - This is the path of evils Remember, be true to your parents, Their prayers lead you into happiness. Remember, All smiling faces are not heavenly

                      MODULE :1 Model Questions: Some Examples: I. Multiple Choice Questions : 1. Psychology is a part of: a. Social Science b. Humanities c. Natural Sciences Ans: a 2. Positivism was advocated by: a. Max Weber b. August Comte c. Emile Durkheim Ans: b II. Answer in a sentence or two: 1. What is Max Weber’s contribution to social sciences? Ans: Max Weber championed the cause of value-freedom. In social sciences one has to concentrate on ‘what is probable’ than ‘what it should be’. 2. What is ideology? Ans: It means the science of ideas. The Marxist theory however used the term to imply something that hides reality of the actual material condition of society. III. Answer in a paragraph: 1. The Scientific Method [Hints: Scientific Method must look for probable certainty-human knowledge gives importance to direct experience-social and cultural life subjected to scientific enquiry-caste or gender related prejudices-differ...

      Hard Times                                              Charles Dickens Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, retired merchant in the industrial city of Coketown, England, devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and fact. He raises his oldest children, Louisa and Tom, according to this philosophy and never allows them to engage in fanciful or imaginative pursuits. He founds a school and charitably takes in one of the students, the kindly and imaginative Sissy Jupe, after the disappearance of her father, a circus entertainer. As the Gradgrind children grow older, Tom becomes a dissipated, self-interested hedonist, and Louisa struggles with deep inner confusion, feeling as though she is missing something important in her life. Eventually Louisa marries Gradgrind’s friend Josiah Bounderby, a wealthy factory owner and banker more than twice h...

SHOULD THE ASSASSIN OF GANDHI BE KILLED?                         Pearl S. Buck Introduction       Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries she spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best selling fiction in 1931 and 1932. In 1938 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.” On 30th January 1948 India witnessed the tragic assassination of Mahatma Gandhi at the Birla House in New Delhi. Naturam Vinayak Godse was his assassin. Gandhi’s greatest weapon was non-violence. His life and teachings touched people outside India and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He has inspired people around the world and Pearl S.Buck, the American writer and novelist was one among them. In her words: “Mahatma Gandhi c...

                        TOBA TEK SINGH                       Saadat Hasan Manto Introduction Saadat Hasan Manto is an Urdu short story writer who wrote much about the communal killings of 1947. His stories are best known to have depicted the partition of the sub continent immediately following independence in 1947. He produced 22 collections of short stories, a novel, five series of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of personal sketches. Much of his writings are translated into English. Summary The greatest of Manto’s 1947 stories is ‘Toba Tek Singh’. The madness that has gripped the subcontinent permeates even the lunatic asylums and the great decision makers of the two countries decide that since there has been such a transfer of populations as well as assets, it is only logical that non-Muslim lunatics should be reported to India and Muslim lunati...

CHEMICAL HAPPINESS AND THE MEANING OF LIFE                                    Yuval Noah Harari Introduction Yuval Noah Harari (born 24 February 1976) is an Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the international best sellers, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014) and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2015). His writings examine concepts of free will, consciousness and  definitions of intelligence. The present extract “chemical happiness and meaning of life” is a discourse on the meaning of  life, and his argument against the traditional spiritual perception, that happiness is the result of chemical processes taking place in the human brain. Summary Harari thinks that human happiness is the result of chemical processes taking place in the human brain. Most biologists ma...

                                AMNESTY                            Nadine Gordimer Introduction Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity". Gordimer's writing dealt with themes of love, politics, moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Her works always question power relations and truth, she tells stories of ordinary people, revealing moral ambiguities and choices. Her characterization is nuanced, revealed more through the choices her characters make than through their claimed identities and beliefs. She also weaves in subtle details within th...