Page 10 - Lavender-B-8

Contents

1. Home and Love — Robert Service 11
Theme: Family

2. Amma, What Is Your Duty? — Sudha Murty 16
Theme: Education

3. Chuskit Goes to School — Sujatha Padmanabhan 27
Theme: Childhood

4. Dreams — John Dryden 39

Theme: Childhood
5. The Worth of a Skill — Manoj T Thomas 44

Theme: Community

6. My Financial Career — Stephen Leacock 55
Theme: Humour

7. Song of the Flower XXIII — Khalil Gibran 67
Theme: Nature

8. Ramayana—The Beginning — Maharishi Valmiki 72
Theme: Dedication

9. Where the Mind Is Without Fear — Rabindranath Tagore 89
Theme: Nationalism

10. To the Memory of a Lion — Tara Tiwari 93

Theme: Nationalism

11. Swallows Travel To and Fro — Robert Louis Stevenson 106
Theme: Unity and sacrifice

12. Idgah — Munshi Premchand 111
Theme: Unity and sacrifice

13. The Listeners — Walter de la Mare 127
Theme: Mystery

14. New Teacher on the Block — Cheryl Rao 134
Theme: Mystery

15. The Lighthouse — H W Longfellow 148
Theme: Adventure

16. A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens 155
Theme: Family

Listening Texts 166