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A Journalist's View of Snippets of Life Music

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A good book is a door to a better life. Go in through it and you will see a different world where the sky is clear, the deep green trees wave gently in the breeze, snow-clad summits grace the landscapes, the sea ripple and sparkle, where parks are always full of young lovers, where supermen fight off bad guys and resolve crisis, where the road to success is not much stony, where doubt and uncertainty has no place to lurk around, where no corner is dark. Find a copy of Snippets of Life Music and enjoy a good read.  A review of my book Snippets of Life Music by a renowned journalist and a well known book reviewer, Sri Vinay Prakash Mani. Just Click and see what he says about the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OClNMtdLYCQ

The Student Teacher

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As a storyteller, I entertain you with a new story. Here is one more:  When I was a college student, I fancied teaching my classmates. A few of them would gather and ask me to explain a poem which they said they could not get in the classroom. On a sunny winter morning, we pulled out chairs in a corner of the college park and sat down. It was a free period, so I started to put ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ in plain words at their request. “Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!” “Keats looks at the picture carved on the urn in which a young man under a tree sings a song and another is trying to kiss his beloved....” I went on. In the meantime, a few young women from science faculty secretly came up right be...