Compulsory English Summary for BBS / BA / BSW student of 1st semester

Table of Contents

1) A 1996 Commencement Speech    Salman Rushdie

2) Shep's Hobby         James Harriot

3) A Sound of Thunder   Ray Bradbury 

4) Telegram on the Table  Parashu Pradhan

5) Stopping by woods on a snowy eveing   Robert Frost

6) Where the Mind is Without Fear  Rabindranath Tagore

7) Piano  D.H. Lawrence

8) The Lunatic  Laxmi Prasad Devkota

9) Gaia     Shreedhar Prasad Lohani

10) The Making of a Scientist  V. S. Ramachandran

11) Third Thoughts By  E.V Lucas

12) The Cabuliwallah  Rabindranath Tagore

13) A Tale  B.P. Koirala

14) The Great Answer  Fulton Oursler

15) King John and the Abbot of Canterbury  Anonymous

16) The Stub Book  Pedro Antonio de Alarcon

17) Why Go To University?  Moti Nissani

18) Marriage is a private affair  Chinua Achebe, Nigeria

19) Arranging  a marriage in  India  Serena Nanda

20) Then and Now: Finding My Voice  Elaine H. Kim

21) TV Can Be a Good Parent  Ariel Gore

22) Life without Chiefs   Marvin Harris

23) The Sword of Damocles  Source: Greek Legend

24) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!  Richard P. Feynman with Ralph Leighton

25) Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu  Abioseh Nicol

26) To Know a Fly  Vincent Dethier

27) Mr. Know All  W. Somerset Maugham

28) Adaptive Failure: Easters End  Jared Diamond

29) The Good Example  Vicent Riva Palacio

30) Swan Song  Anton Chekhov

31) How Sane Are We? Anuradha Chaudhary

32) To His Coy Mistress  Andrew Marvell

33) A painful case  James Joyce

34) “What Is Intelligence, Anyway?”  Isaac Asimov

35) Ethics  Linda Pastan

36) Scientific Inquiry: Invention and Test  Carl Hempel

37) The Wretched Stone  Van Allsburg

38) Curbing the One Eyed Monster  Fiona C. Jenkins

39) Smarter Kids, Brought to You by the letters T and V  Dimitri A Christakis

40) Keeping Errors at Bay  Bertrand Russell

41) Yudhisthira's Wisdom  Source: The Mahabharat

42) The Brave Little Parrot  Buddhist Legend

43) If Not Higher  I.L Peretz

44) Ahab and Naboth  Source: The Holy Bible

45) Phaedo  Plato

46) The Cricket  P' u Sung-Ling

47) The Library Card  Richard Wright

48) The Four Tusked Elephant

49)  Science and the Spirits

50) Nine Puzzles(for self study only, not for exam)