In what way is Iswaran an asset to Mahendra?
Iswaran was a nice domestic helper for Mahendra. Apart from cooking and doing household work he was also a great entertainer for his masters. He was expert in the management of resources as he could find vegetables out nowhere and never complained with accompanying his masters.
How does Iswaran describe the uprooted tree on the highway? What effect does he want to create in his listeners?
Can you think of some other ending for the story?
How does he narrate the story of the tusker? Does it appear to be plausible?
Mahendra calls ghosts or spirits a figment of the imagination. What happens to him on a full-moon night?
Why does the author say that Iswaran seemed to more than make up for the absence of a TV in Mahendra’s living quarters?
What are the things the child sees on his way to the fair? Why does he lag behind?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?
What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
Why do the courtiers call the prince ‘the Happy Prince’? Is he really happy? What does he see all around him?
What havoc has the super cyclone wreaked in the life of the people of Orissa?
What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?
What does the author notice one Sunday afternoon? What is his mother’s reaction? What does she do?
Bill Bryson says, “I am, in short, easily confused.” What examples has he given to justify this?
Has Lushkoff become a beggar by circumstance or by choice?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
What is Behrman’s masterpiece? What makes Sue say so?
Why did the swallow not leave the prince and go to Egypt?
Sergei says, “I am happy that my words have taken effect.” 5Why does he say so? Is he right in saying this?
What are the Guru’s words of wisdom? When does the disciple remember them?
In the fair he wants many things. What are they? Why does he move on without waiting for an answer?
What does the swallow see when it flies over the city?
How does Bill Bryson end up in a “crash position” in the aircraft?
Bill Bryson “ached to be suave”. Is he successful in his mis- sion? List his ‘unsuave’ ways.
How has Prashant, a teenager, been able to help the people of his village?
How does Toto come to grandfather’s private zoo?