Category Archives: Treasure Chest

The Boy Who Broke The Bank (by Ruskin Bond)

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Night Mail (by W H Auden)

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A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 (by Vikram Seth)

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Bonku babu’s Friend (by Satyajit Roy)

Detailed summary of the story: “Bonku Babu’s Friend” is a short science fiction story that blends satire, fantasy, and human emotion. It follows the life of Bonku Babu, a quiet, simple, and humble schoolteacher in a small Indian town. Bonku Babu is often taken for granted and ridiculed by his colleagues and so-called friends, especially […]

A Work of Artifice (by Marge Piercy)

Full poem: The bonsai treein the attractive potcould have grown eighty feet tallon the side of a mountaintill split by lightning.But a gardenercarefully pruned it.It is nine inches high.Every day as hewhittles back the branchesthe gardener croons,It is your natureto be small and cozy,domestic and weak;how lucky, little tree,to have a pot to grow in.With […]

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