Short Stories – Tulip Series | jandkncert | Colours of Rainbow | Story 3 | English 8th | Tulip Series | (Chanchal Sharma) WORKING WITH THE TEXT (A) Answer the following questions: Q1. What did the narrator observe when he looked out…
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Friday, February 24, 2023
Poems – Tulip Series | jandkncert | Wrinkles | Poem 7|English 8th | Tulip Series | (Arvind) Wrinkles My mother Making bold today I begin to count Wrinkles on your face One wrinkle Of the time When your father Uprooted you Fro…
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Sunday, September 06, 2020
Poems | Class 8th | jandkncert The Bangle-Sellers | Summary, Questions, and Answers Poem 3: The Bangle-Sellers Bangle-sellers are we who bear Our Shining loads to the temple fair… Who will buy these delicate, bright Rainbow-tinted cir…
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
Poems | Class 8th | jandkncert Porus And His Elephant | Summary, Questions, and Answers Poem 2: Porus And His Elephant Hear ye a tale of the days gone by, (Days whose recording is short and scant) This is a tale that can never die, Told o…
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Saturday, August 15, 2020
Poems | Class 8th | jandkncert A Nation’s Strength | Summary, Questions, and Answers Poem 1: A Nation’s Strength What makes a nation’s pillars high? And its foundations strong? What makes it mighty defy? The foes that round it throng …
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Tuesday, November 06, 2018
Short Stories – Tulip Series | jandkncert | Achilles | Story 2 | English 8th | Tulip Series | (Gerald Durrell) WORKING WITH THE TEXT Q1. How was the Rose-Beetle Man dressed? Ans. Rose-Beetle Man was dressed in a wide hat on head, shirt, …
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Short Stories – Tulip Series | jandkncert | Rustum and Sohrab | Story 4 | English 8th | Tulip Series | (An Iranian Story) WORKING WITH THE TEXT A. Answer the following questions: Q1. Why was Rustum not able to live with his wife for a l…
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The Unthankful Man | Story 1 | English 8th | Tulip Series | (From Panchtantra) WORKING WITH THE TEXT Q1. What was Raman’s Wife fed up with? Ans. Raman’s wife was fed up with the poverty of her husband as they had to remain hungry for most…
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Poems – Tulip Series | jandkncert | Summer and Winter | Poem 10 | English 8th | Tulip Series | (P. B. Shelley) Summer and Winter It was a bright and cheerful afternoon, Towards the end of the sunny month of June, When the north win…
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Poems – Tulip Series | jandkncert | Stars Speak to Man | Poem 9 | English 8th | Tulip Series | (Abdul Ahad Azad) Stars Speak to Man You were the light of reason but you chose to be ire. O man! You put humanity to disgrace, how callous of you, O ma…
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Poems – Tulip Series | jandkncert | Meeting Poets | Poem 8 | English 8th | Tulip Series | (Eunice de Souza) Meeting Poets Meeting poets, I am disconcerted sometimes: By the colour of their socks, The suspicion of a wig, The wasp in the voice…
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Poems – Tulip Series | jandkncert | Mercy | Poem 6 | English 8th | Tulip Series | (William Shakespeare) Mercy The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; it ble…
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